Ok, I should first and foremost like to thank Hawaii Pictures for the generous use of their thumbnails to illustrate my forthcoming trip to their gorgeous shores…
I would like to take my own credit for the images I am linking to below however… All my own work from the Major works show last Monday of the 3rd year dancers at SCA the college I graduated from all those years ago… (as a singer… NOT a dancer mind you!).
Click here to go to the Shutterfly Share… (I hope…)
Midweek Malaise
I got fed up with work and a slow network today so I left the office at 3 and came to work at home.
Except I am blogging… not working…
I didn’t get home till 1.45 this morning – the babysitting was a marathon… so I am tired and, as it happens, thoroughly fed up with having to be solely responsible for myself…
I want someone to take one look at me and say “Dee, can I make you a coffee? Would you like to put your feet up for an hour or so while I cook dinner and vacuum the house?” Or better still, “Shall I give you a massage?”
Some days being a single girl is the best thing ever. And on days like today it’s depressing…
The Bigger than Ben Hur Big Thing
Well, given all the Big Thing talk I have been doing lately you might have thought I was all big thinged out…
And you’d be right…
So you would have been very sympathetic this afternoon to see me checking out the venue for our biggest Big Thing ever. I have a new appreciation for Chops and the Big Things he does all the time… I swear it would drive me barking mad…
Today our All Staff Big Day Out was a visit to the Big Thing venue… (a Sydney House of Chops as it were)… we all toddled across town to check out the venue and to catch the vision for the Big Thing and get all inspired (read scared stiff) of all the work that is going to go into this Big Thing…
I had the vision… I swear, before we even left the office, I had lots of much more interesting work to do (no disrespect intended Chops) – but we were compelled to attend… So now, my feet are sore and my work remains undone… However, to their credit the Big Thing Venue people gave us a muffin to restore our flagging spirits at the end of the day which was very nice thank you.
And can you guess where I am now?
I’m sitting on babies… I got an emergency call at 8pm to come and relieve a sitter who needed to go home sick… My agent caught me by surprise and so I said yes. I’m an idiot… the agent didn’t tell me the parents won’t be home till one.
Silly twit…
Dancing Queen
Can you believe it’s a year since the picture taking marathon at the college’s dance recitals?? I was at it again tonight… my annual dose of dance culture.
It would have been a lot greater if I was looking at it from an audience members view but as a photographer you really only see the parts not the sum so, while the content was really impressive, I didn’t get to enjoy the full effect. Hopefully there will be some nice images come out of it. I’ll get them developed tomorrow and show you!!
I did a silly thing at the end of the evening and fell over in the garden.
This is the kind of thing that happens occasionally – I’m not so graceful on my pins as the dancers I had been watching are!!! The funniest thing is that I landed on my face in the garden right in front of Not John… now that’s throwing yourself at someone!!!
I wish the ground had opened up… As it was I leapt up, gave him the thumbs up so he didn’t feel compelled to get back out of his car to offer assistance, shook myself off walked to my car with my head high…climbed in and shrank into my seat… There you have it folks … this chick ain’t so graceful.
Sigh..
Of course it would have been a little bit nice if he had leapt out if his car to see if I were bleeding or dying instead of waiting to see if I was in one piece… (There you have it guys… a little piece of free advice… offer assistance first… even if she might be embarrassed… it would be worth it for the massive leap in estimation she would have of you…). Further proof that I was right not to ask him on a 2nd date!!!
In other news Red is congratulating herself (as am I) for having stumbled across Mr Africa in an online news report… She sends me a casual email … asking, if the hitherto unknown correspondent of mine was in fact a news correspondent as well as an e-mail one??
It seems so…
So, do I tell him I know?