Fall/Winter update!
I have been a busy bee the last.. 6 months or so. I had my annual review at work in July and I now work 40% at reception, which I've come to accept. I was really stressing out about it and mad at my bosses for a while, and then I finally worked up the courage and talked with them. I didn't get to say exactly what I was thinking, but I am satisfied with it now. I am SUPER busy as a result (they gave me a good raise but I want an even better one this year since I've been so stressed!!) and I feel like I don't have a lot of time for family & friends or even just lounging around with by myself.
I've stayed late numerous days and have worked up a lot of OT. That is fine but I get paid with salary, so no double OT for me or anything like that. I just use it up when I go to appointments normally. I might be able to leave early a few times this summer perhaps if I'm going somewhere.
Photography has kept me busy this winter as well. I've done a few maternity sessions as well as I did my friend's son's baptism last weekend! My first one AND my first time renting a lens! So, I only am really getting 2/3 of what she is paying me and 1/3 is for the lens rental, but that's cool. I'm happy I could play with that lens (24-70mm) cause I want to buy it eventually and it just made it more for sure that I want it in my arsenal.
My camera isn't falling apart, except for the rubber part on the view finder. Ugh! I'm not sure if I should take it in or just take it off or something. Or duct tape it.. hahaha I need to take it to my local camera store (which is now a 5 min drive from my work--bad but good! lol) and find out. I bought a light meter (used) in December. I used it at a maternity session and it was great. Instead of putting my big camera in front of her face, I just used the light meter in front of her face! lol I do need to play with it more--I've already forgotten how!
I'm doing a friend's newborn photos next weekend. She is scheduled to have a csection on Wednesday. I hope they go well! She is super critical and so I'm just scared! She wasn't completely happy with her maternity photos, so I really want to please her with the newborn photos. I'm going to be super prepared so I'm not nervous!! lol I am excited to meet her baby though. :)
My Uncle passed away November 5th and it was quite the shock. He never married so he was a bachlor and I guess I knew this would happen eventually--but I just didn't think it would be so soon after my grandpa (4 years after--8 years after my grandma). He would have been 67 this January. :( My mom found him (she didn't see him--he had the chain on his door and she had to call the police)--the cororner said he died probably of a heart attack or a stroke. He had it and fell (hit his head on the wall), and died. I don't know if he spent hours on the floor, slowly dying, or if he died quickly. I hope he died quickly. We didn't find him for a week. :( It was definitely brought one of my younger brothers closer to us all--he wrote a really nice card to us all, and he's never been one to be emotional. That's me and my older brother! We had a small funeral, and luckily we were able to get a burial at the same place of my grandparents, in Fort Langley (where they retired). My parents have now bought their own burial plots there and said if we want to be creamated, we can be buried on top of theirs (8 per plot). It's nice to know that is all taken care of ahead of time. It is weird that my mom's whole immediate family (before marriage) is now passed away. My older brother and I made a slideshow for the funeral, and even though I knew the pictures that were going to be shown, I still balled my eyes out. We got to sit in super comfy chairs at the front of the funeral home. My younger brother forgot about the funeral (his girlfriend's dad found out something bad about his health that week so we understood), but got there for the reception. He felt really bad. His twin and his gf was in New Zealand so they weren't able to make it.
Lots more happened but I'm running out of time--gotta go buy snowshoes for tomorrow! :)
I've stayed late numerous days and have worked up a lot of OT. That is fine but I get paid with salary, so no double OT for me or anything like that. I just use it up when I go to appointments normally. I might be able to leave early a few times this summer perhaps if I'm going somewhere.
Photography has kept me busy this winter as well. I've done a few maternity sessions as well as I did my friend's son's baptism last weekend! My first one AND my first time renting a lens! So, I only am really getting 2/3 of what she is paying me and 1/3 is for the lens rental, but that's cool. I'm happy I could play with that lens (24-70mm) cause I want to buy it eventually and it just made it more for sure that I want it in my arsenal.
My camera isn't falling apart, except for the rubber part on the view finder. Ugh! I'm not sure if I should take it in or just take it off or something. Or duct tape it.. hahaha I need to take it to my local camera store (which is now a 5 min drive from my work--bad but good! lol) and find out. I bought a light meter (used) in December. I used it at a maternity session and it was great. Instead of putting my big camera in front of her face, I just used the light meter in front of her face! lol I do need to play with it more--I've already forgotten how!
I'm doing a friend's newborn photos next weekend. She is scheduled to have a csection on Wednesday. I hope they go well! She is super critical and so I'm just scared! She wasn't completely happy with her maternity photos, so I really want to please her with the newborn photos. I'm going to be super prepared so I'm not nervous!! lol I am excited to meet her baby though. :)
My Uncle passed away November 5th and it was quite the shock. He never married so he was a bachlor and I guess I knew this would happen eventually--but I just didn't think it would be so soon after my grandpa (4 years after--8 years after my grandma). He would have been 67 this January. :( My mom found him (she didn't see him--he had the chain on his door and she had to call the police)--the cororner said he died probably of a heart attack or a stroke. He had it and fell (hit his head on the wall), and died. I don't know if he spent hours on the floor, slowly dying, or if he died quickly. I hope he died quickly. We didn't find him for a week. :( It was definitely brought one of my younger brothers closer to us all--he wrote a really nice card to us all, and he's never been one to be emotional. That's me and my older brother! We had a small funeral, and luckily we were able to get a burial at the same place of my grandparents, in Fort Langley (where they retired). My parents have now bought their own burial plots there and said if we want to be creamated, we can be buried on top of theirs (8 per plot). It's nice to know that is all taken care of ahead of time. It is weird that my mom's whole immediate family (before marriage) is now passed away. My older brother and I made a slideshow for the funeral, and even though I knew the pictures that were going to be shown, I still balled my eyes out. We got to sit in super comfy chairs at the front of the funeral home. My younger brother forgot about the funeral (his girlfriend's dad found out something bad about his health that week so we understood), but got there for the reception. He felt really bad. His twin and his gf was in New Zealand so they weren't able to make it.
Lots more happened but I'm running out of time--gotta go buy snowshoes for tomorrow! :)