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So Bria and I have a difference of opinion. She thinks that honing her RAZOR sharp teeth on my chest is a good thing.
Alas I do not.
Shes very upset by my decision as that means I am mostly pumping and feeding her by bottle. Only letting her breast feed late nights when shes not thinking about biting and I’m not thinking about bottles.
This I can see is not oging to be the easy thing it was with Cammy. Oh how I miss being rejected by my infant.
so up at the top of this blog is a link for the temporary Pinxit web space.. take a look tell me what you think.. I’m in the air about whether I should blog separately over there or if I should just link to this blog here… take a look around give me your thoughts, I appreciate it…
I’m the chick that you see rockin out in her car to 80’s music and jill scott. I will dance on tables in bars. I don’t wear a watch but I would like to, I miss my bling - I was really into interesting watches. More like Bracelets with a watch involved in some way.
It has taken me seven months to get my insurance company to cover the birth of my second daughter.
yeah. I’ve had THAT kind of day.
But I was really really nice to the lady on the phone , and she really really worked hard to get it fixed for me. shes the third person I talked to, and the only one who callled back when she said she would and really really tired. So it was easy to not blow my top about the whole thing.
So today I hired a designer for the Pinxit logo,(pronunced \piŋk-sit\) picked out a website to have customized, registered for class, still gotta finish the registration process- and get cleared for online school stuff, I plan to finish the business account setup, get set up to post the pentax to craigslist this weekend or ship it off to be priced to be purchased buy an online retailer. I got some nifty books in the mail, got some cool books to start the refresher process. and excitely its all coming back to me. I talked with the professor who teaches the class I want to take and sent him some samples of my work and he said I did good work but he could definately teach me some things, and that makes me very excited.
I’ve banged out the text for the website - have a few friends looking it over giving me some feed back. Going to work on a business card once I get the logo completed.
there are countless gadgets and things - honestly USEFUL things I need to pick up - most of them however are online purchases, and I hate paying for shipping multiple times from the same place.. Totally sucks.
I need to plan some fun time for cammy and me. I had planned on getting some flowers for hte yard - but we start paying for school - for the both of us - next week and florals are the first thing on the budget chopping block, maybe I’ll get some seeds for us.
Crap I bet that includes my herbs for this year.
Being responsible sucks major.
On a way more fun note.
its a beautiful day outside and I am about to get out in it.
Love ya internets!
The whole RISK part is well under way. I’ve started pulling things together. One little thing at a time. Although it didn’t feel like little things, no baby steps at chez henderson - no, I ran a jumped off a cliff.
So as I have mentioned, I am moving forward on the whole “dream a little dream” thing. Funny thing is - I have actual sessions set up, a couple of weddings secured and it looks like May is my offical launch date.
Who’d have thunk it, paid gigs.
This week I’m grabbing a logo and trying to get the site together, although I think I’ll have the blog link back to here - I like my blog and I like who I am, and I think people who hire you to document their lives should see how you document yours. Which means my headers are gonna change, Not TOTALLY change but mostly to include more than just my little wonder Cam and Bri.
Can I also say that my husband is the kind of man girls dream about? The kind of man women push towards their daughters. He has constantly been thinking and helping, being supportive pouring his ideas out, filling in the gaps for me. I don’t think this ever would have gotten past the “man I should be…” stage if not for Jerry. Not that my people who I have let in on this haven’t been AWESOME, they have - Spoken has set up chances for me to shoot people, Nana gave me lighting gifts for my birthday. (they both HAVE blogs but neither of them update often)
I expect I’ll be going to some seminars in the coming months, and I am planning to take a couple courses at the local community college, mostly cause all of my formal training is in Film SLR’s and I want to make sure I am taking full advantage of the equiptment I just sunk a large amount of my retirement into. I know how to USE it, of course I just want to PIMP THAT SHYT OUT!!! I also want to beef up my photoshop knowledge, and a student discount on alot of hte software I want to try would be super duper nifty! I know it seems a bit bassakward, but I really want to be as soild in this as I can be.
I’m joining the associations I think are the most benificial to me. I’m learning as much as I can. Business accounts and fictious names and all manner of things you’d think I should have already known about, since I been shooting as Pinxit photo for about 10 years.
I bought a laptop then promptly gave it to my mother whose computer died a week ago and shes in the middle of a major transistion herself and needs the internet access, so there you go. easy come easy “I better get it back in a week, brudda in law and sister who are supposed to be fixing a laptop and sending it to mom YESTERDAY!!!” (is my hint subtle enough do you think?)
Funny I never actually owned a lap top that I used alot before. I have a Old Mac laptop that I really never used, I bought used from somebody back when I was poeting myself out. I think I may put it on ebay and see what I can get for it. Also trying to decide what to do with the Pentax, I want to upgrade it for backup equiptment - though I am sentimentally attached to it.
I would love to be in a position tha I could just give it to somebody who could love it, alas that is not the case. so things are moving along at a steady clip and I have to hold myself back to keep myself from runnin off half cocked. Will update hopefully upon delivery of my new precious…
I have never really been afraid to shave my head. I’ve done it countless times. A good poet friend Sheba worked for upwards of five or six years with a bald head. They always spoke of strength and freedom to me. When a woman is no longer a slave to her hair and what people think of it, it is truly one of the sexiest things I have ever seen in my life.
But what if that choice is taken away from you?
GMA’s co-host Robin Roberts is my Katie Courick. Shes the person I like to see delivering my news when I can be bothered to watch news casts, which honestly isn’t often. Robin, who lost her hair undergoing breast cancer treatment, stripped off her wig on this morning’s broadcast, and vowed it’s never coming back.
I so admire her strength and courage while going thru such a personal thing in such a public way. I can see how hard it is for her to take this step, the tremmor in her voice speaks not of fear to me - but of strength. And yes it is still one of the sexiest things a woman can do - embrace this type of change and tell the world that it still doesn’t define you. Congratulations again Robin on this step. You so rock.
So we had another meet up -
Dana was in the house, clearly. 
Bill I think won the award for social butterfly he was everywhere and ended up in more pictures I took than anybody i think. My favorite Blogger Jaelithe was there with her hunky husband John, who blogs by the way. Their adorable son hung out with Cammy while we were at Atomic cowboy.
BOO to the arsehole who broke into her car while we were having good times. St Louis City is making strides but we still got a little ways to go. The Grove has alot more nice businesses than it used to, and is on the verge of become a Lacledes Landing type atmosphere, we just gotta stick with it. If the city, the patrons, police and business owners keep at it, it will get where we want it to be.
It was nice to see everyone out again. Particularly J. Spagetti who I hadn’t seen in a while. And Farrell, who I LOVE. We are gonna have to Hang out girl, bring your girl to hang with my girl, maybe science center or magic house soon?!? Irony, I spent most of the evening talking to Walljm, who is a photographer as well, and he gave me some nice meat to chew. Jerry too on the compter side of my new start up. I like sitting with him and Tojosan. Craig gave me a great peice of advice as well, and it was nice to meet his wife. He should meet Joe, they could have alot in common I think.
I swear I thought we’d only been there a few mintues when I looked up and it was time to go! Time flies. I think our next meet up happens in June or July, we’ll be posting information soon!
*the goal is to update my blog rolls today so I’m not going to link to people who I should always link to - I’m gonna get this done today…
** you guys know how the picture tool works below right, click a thumbnail and it should blow it up
I met a whole slew of bloggers I have never met before. I went to this function because I really wanted to meet three bloggers in particular. I got two out of three. I was like SCORE! There was Angela from Fluid Pudding who I have been DYING to meet. She rocks in real life. Mocha Momma who brought her daughter who has a kick arse tattoo.
THe only person I didn’t get to meet that I wanted to was Melissa from Sugared Harpy. But not to worry there were many very cool bloggers there in her stead, including MP from My Second Journal, who was super sweet with awesome sauce. Bri from Under the Arch, we’re the same age she was sweeter than red kool aid, and helped me finish off my blondie, and she loves photography too… Might have to discuss asking her to second shoot for me… hmm instant idea there, making mental note to follow up. Heather from Three Boys and Me, J from Mommymae (not to be confused with muthamae) L from Tempered Woman and Sonrie from 1017 who were on the other end of the table so I didn’t get to chat much with and there there is the ever lovely Bossy.I must thank her for bringing such a new group of bloggers out for me to meet- it was most excelent. Even when I got cursed out by my best friend for going to the chocolate bar with out her - perhaps this is the motivation she needs to BLOG MORE OFTEN!?!?! maybe? not?
Cammy and I have a good time together. She is very much my girl, and shes adjusted pretty well to the whole baby thing, she still has her days wher she has to be the center of attention - particularly center of MY attention. and on those days the best way to acheive that is through baking.
We spend a good thrity minutes mixing and pouring while I pretend I do see her sneaking cookie dough. we wear matching blue aprons. And all is right with her world for a few days. I don’t know what she id gonna do when Bri is big enough that hse wants to help. She looked so put out when I suggested that one day she would have to SHARE the sppon or the paddle from mixing hte dough with her sister. as if I had suggested she cut of her ARM or something!
We have made oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies this week, although most of the oatmeal went to J’s job and most of the chocolate chip we served up at the blogger meet up - post coming soon. I am trying to decide if I should post recipes on the blog - there are soo many bloggers who do the recipe thing better and more regularly than I do so I’m taking votes in the comments. To post recipes or not?
It is offically spring time and Bris is just as much an outdoor baby as her sister was. We have taken to putting her swing in the door so she can see the outside. Or putting on the porch while we watch Cam play with the neighborhood kids.
everday when I get home from work Bri and I go on a little walk of our block, we look at the flowers and all the colors in the yards (not mine I need to garden soooo bad) and we get to see how the street is changing and getting better. Most posting to come…
And I like mine dirty with extra olives… So there was an earthquake.
Fun times I’m tellin ya. Thus being I’ve been up since 4:40 this morning, which while not that much earlier than my alarm rings out - it is earlier than I wanted to be up.
I am well on my way in the photography realm. I’m pulling the peices together one thing at a time. Think I am gonna sell my old kit, put it on craigs list, see how that goes.
Working on pricing lists and wording for the site. Do you have any idea how hard it is to put a price on what you do?!?! Where is the balance between a good honest wage and DAMN ARE YOU CRAZY LADY?!?! I found a web site where the local in our area photographer charges $400 just to come take the photos of your family,… Got more than five people in your family? its an extra thirty bucks person. I was like GET THE &#$$*! OUTTA HERE! I shoulda been doin this YEARS ago.
Do not worry my chicadees, even if I did think I COULD charge 400 bucks per session I don’t think I could. People should be able to afford their memories.
THis is just a drive by posting I shall write again..
my photography site…
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