Wow, it feels like forever since I have been on this blog. Everything is going great with my photography business and I have been very busy. Traci Steinman Photography is officially up and running and I am so excited to have my first paying photo shoot this weekend!!! The link is to my new business website (blog). I'm still trying to figure out the tabbing section at the top though, so it's not quite all done, but getting there. (If anyone knows how to make the "pages" gadget work like tabs, let me know.) Feel free to come over and "follow me". I also started a facebook page for my business, so you can come like it over there too. The link to the facebook page is in the link above on the blog.
I just did new headshots for Courtney yesterday too so those will go up pretty soon. I also took pictures of both of the girls as well. I had talked to her agent yesterday originally about her Coogan Account, but ended up talking to her about her not being called for auditions. Long story short, she needs new pictures. I just saved us hundreds of dollars (literally) doing them myself.
Speaking of her Coogan Account...oh B of A. How I loath you. She has had her account with them since we started her in her acting school she was in a while ago. I had originally set up the account in the bank branch. It was set up wrong so I went back and asked to have the manager do it. So, they assured me everything was now set up correctly. Then we get statements showing them deducting fees from her account. HELLO! This is a BLOCKED TRUST Account. No one should be able to take any money from it until she is 18. And why the heck would I have her agents deposit the money in the account when it will all just go to the bank. I seriously never would have started this whole process if she wasn't going to eventually get all of her money. So, I have talked to a few agents now on the phone who every time assure me that everything is taken care of and that there will be no more fees until yesterday. This is the first lady to tell me that there is a $300 daily minimum balance for these accounts and I would keep getting fees until there was $300 in there. Thankfully at least they reversed most of the fees but now we still have the same problem down the road. So, we are shopping around for a new bank or credit union that does not have fees. It's looking like the AFTRA-SAG one might be the way to go since they are the experts on this. Oh how I would love for all of this to be taken care of once and for all.
The Biggest Loser Challenge just had our 4th week weigh in and I'm doing ok. Still losing, so that's great. I'm still in 10th (but no ties this time). I have some major work to do. I have been running and going to the gym and doing DVDs lately so I am getting more into the swing of it. But now that I am so busy it's getting harder to fit in the workouts. I will prevail!!
Scott is still looking for a job. He had a phone interview last week so we are waiting to hear back this week about that. We are hoping it can be based out of Pasadena instead of Oakland. Two people told him that they thought it would be able to, but we don't want to get our hopes up too high that he even will get the job. It's for Kaiser so that would mean switching insurances and everything too. But it would all be worth it for the security of a new job. Keep praying.
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