Tuesday, November 9, 2010

10 on Tuesday



1. Skyler had her first solo audition today. I guess Courtney's agent likes her too. They called me today wondering if she was available for an audition. They were looking for a blonde curly haired little girl. She had to dress in 1950's attire and this is what we came up with. We were trying to think away from the poodle skirt idea. She looked so adorable!! I found those glasses (lenses popped out) and scarf at Savers (thrift store). Everything else we already had. Cutie pie! This audition was for a Charter Satellite national network commercial.

2. Skyler did a great job. She had to recite a line that we memorized while we waited. She answered questions and seemed very proud of herself. I know I was. There were several little blonde curly haired girls there. (IMO Sky's hair was the curliest and cutest. hehe) I'm not biased at all. lol

3. FYI: I don't know how other people feel when I talk about stuff like this and if they are assuming she will get it. I just assume that it's just for fun and good experience. If I thought every time they would get the part, I would be very disappointed. This one at least has a very quick turn around for filming. So we would know fairly quickly if she did or didn't get it.

Kaiser??

4. Scott got his last check today from his job. It's a little scary. He has a good prospect that we are hoping and praying will come through. The last guy who interviewed Scott at Kaiser (and told him they were going with someone internal) called him telling him about a new job opportunity. That's a good sign that the guy was thinking about him. It would be a contractor position (not technically working for Kaiser) and no medical benefits. But it could lead to him getting hired officially for Kaiser down the road. The person he knows who works there got hired the same way and was hired on in 3 months. Scott actually started Chevron that way also, and was an employee in one year. It would be awesome. Especially if he can get hired and start getting paid before we run out of money. Ya, that would be great.



5. Major project going on this week for the soccer team. I need to acquire 4 more paint cans for the project.



6. The Biggest Loser Challenge is coming down to the last 4 weeks. I am doing horribly in comparison to the others. It almost feels like a waste. I need to seriously step it up with the exercise again this week. That worked really well last week when I lost 3.2. (Besides the fact that I gained 1 this week. Too much Halloween candy.)



7. I'm loving that Conan is back on the air. He's cool. When he had that live feed from the stairwell of the offices we were glued to it. They kept coming back doing hilarious things. (We of course had to keep coming back to see what else was going on.) Bring on Coco!!


8. I had my first destination photo shoot this last weekend. My high school friend, Jessica and her family treated us to a wonderful hotel room in Santa Maria. We had so much fun doing the shoots and hanging out with the family. We even did a photo shoot in the rain. (Don't worry. Scott was holding an umbrella over my camera.) I was the driest of them all. :) We ended up going to the beach on the way home and took some photos of the girls. They were so cute. Not matching at all, but still adorable. (They picked their outfits for the day.) hehe Who knew we would end up doing our own photo shoot. Hundreds of pictures were taken over the weekend!

9. I need to get new ZED cards printed for both girls. I have the photos, but need a printer. It's a huge postcard type and very thick. Anyone know a good printer for ZED cards?



10. I did the 30 Day Shred Level 2 yesterday and, of course, Jillian kicked my butt. Almost literally. My butt is killing me from all of those lunges. lol I thought I had been sitting down editing too long then remembered my butt kicking workout.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

While I'm at it


So, while I'm at it, I thought I would ask everyone to go over to my photography blog and follow it. (click the link) Help a friend out! :) Love ya guys!

Long time no post

Hey everyone! It has been quite a while since I posted on my blog. Things are going well.

I am keeping up with the weight loss. The challenge is going well. We are in week 7 now. I am stepping it up by exercising a whole lot more. It's working. It is a miracle that I'm weighing the same right now as Monday though because of the influx of masses of candy over here. I am thankful that my favs are gone. No longer does the candy bowl call my name. (Ok, ok....not as much.)

The photography is going great. I'm continuing to constantly learn new things. Trying new things out and wishing I had better equipment to help in that endeavor. It will happen. :) I'm so excited that I'm doing my first destination photo shoot this weekend!!!!! That's right! One of my friends is paying for us to stay in Santa Maria for the night in a hotel so that I can do her photo shoot. I am so excited. I am loving this process of learning. Wishing I could learn more faster. :) I love finding new locations and seeing the beauty in all of the things around us and how wonderful pictures would look all over the place. It's definitely a learning experience. I'm already cringing at some of the early editing things I tried because I have already improved getting a similar look (but better) on a pic. But some of the first ones have yielded some of my favs as well, so I can't complain. I ordered business cards and cards for free photo sessions to give out for raffles and stuff like that. I'm excited to donate a photo session to our MOPS raffle and our Christmas Presence raffle as well. I am loving this business and so excited that I got out of my comfort zone of imagining the dream and just starting living the dream.

Something exciting happened on Monday. My family was called for an audition for a national commercial for Ford Explorer. They were picked after submitting photos to come to the audition. Courtney, Skyler, my mom, and my in laws were all part of the audition. They wanted real grandparents with their real grandchildren for the commercial. The grandparents were excited and nervous at the thought of it, but went anyway. :)

Here are a few of the kids from Halloween.
Sleeping Beauty
 Ariel