Day 68

time passes too quickly as you age. events that happened years ago, seemingly only feel like yesterday.

today i caught up with my great mate cat who i met on the first year of my photog course. she left at the end of the first year after being offered a job at a newspaper. and so she was off, to follow her dream of being a photojournalist. cat is a go-getter. she knows what she wants and she goes & gets!!! i wish i could have been like that at 20! 33 and still not quite sure.
i visited cat in her home town at the end of 07, but it wasn't until today that i actually realised it was that long ago....it only seems like six months ago. it was like that when i went to visit my great friend amanda earlier this year and realised it had been over two years since i had seen her.
physically seeing and catching up with people really becomes harder as you all 'grow-up' and move around the world/ country to play house :D

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Day 67

another day or utter nothingness. my blogs seem to be getting shorter and shorter, and full of more and more words about not much. I suppose life can't always be full of interestingness, nor can my brain be full of profound words, or even just words. Bit like the imagery at the moment....nothing....scrambled eggs is what i have for brains right now. the issue is that, the more scrambled they get, the harder it is to produce anything of value for all things of value required. tricky....
i've tried lists to clear the clutter....doesn't work. i've tried to read to inspire......doesn't work. i've watched films.....doesn't work. it's getting too hard, and so so stressful. it's almost halfway though may and i have nothing to show for myself....or do i just feel like that. 66 day's of blog completed... reached the first hurdle. only 298 to go after today - yipee!!! gotta at least try and be positive about that ;)

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Day 66

some days.....

...... it's just about the photo

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Day 65

today i got to do my first commercial shoot. moochi, the shop us kiwi girls all love, has just opened it's first store in christchurch and needed some interior & exterior shots done for promotional purposes and their website.
eeek - why on earth did i say i would do it! what a nutcase! i mean to say, i'm not exactly known for my commercial photography. but in the same breath, i did love creating my lounges last year(ok, slightly dif style of photog....but interiors none the less). i actually sent my lounges to moochi as my portfolio, so was freaking out that they would want that level of photog....50hours of post in some of those - was not going to happen for these!
i actually had fun shooting in the store. it's such a different feel to the way i normally shoot, working in a closed environment. different, but exciting and a great learning opportunity.
i got some great stuff and fingers crossed moochi will be happy! i'm looking forward to some new accessories :)

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Day 64

i am not sure how i managed my life when i used to work on sunday's. ever since i finished working at the redhouse i have been crazy busy on sunday's. today was very.
i was of course looking after caitlyn first thing. she was so funny when she woke up...bribery and corruption were rife...gotta love kids.
then had friends over for lunch, which was very lovely....think that may have to be done every other sunday!
then off to miss saigon this afternoon. megs is playing in it(french horn) and i haven't been to a musical in forever. i have to say, it was quite slow in parts, but the big, big scenes were awesome!

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Day 63

i've mentioned before that i babysit each thursday nite the gorgeous lil caitlyn. today it was her parent's engagement party so i was looking after her and her friend this evening.
they actually went to the engagement party and i picked them up from there. it was out at clearwater, apparently new zealand's 'premier lifestyle resort'. i have to say, you do feel like you are in another world when you drive through the gates. a perfect world, a stepford world, or pleasantville world!
so i got the girls, expecting them to sleep on the way home(it was well after 8 by now), they had got pretty quiet just before i got there, which was a good sign. but not the case....they were obviously conserving energy...chat, chat, chat all the way home....and then little pocket rockets once we were back home!
Figured i needed to wear them out some more, so we turned the stereo up loud and did some dancing, expended some energy! so much fun. i have looked after mainly after boys in my lifetime so having two girls was fun....
they finally crashed.....later.....poor parents tomorrow

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Day 62

today was a friend from school's birthday(leaving the teens - oh that seems like such a lonnnnnnnnng time ago) and us girlies hadn't had a catch up in a while, so thought one was required! cupcakes are always a fav...so we headed down to my local(and my personal fav around town).
i wasn't expecting to be able to have a cupcake coz of the butter icing, but YAY, they do one with rose icing (normal icing and rosewater), so got to enjoy the cupcake goodness!!!
we all had a brilliant time, and were kept well amused by lil d!
gotta love birthdays!

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