Monday, February 28, 2005

Too much time has passed..

Man, I clearly do not get on the internet often enough...what was that I said earlier about filling this thing up? I think I forgot all about it. I have no website to post it on..To inform people of it, so no one will probably read this but me. Just as well...Who needs a lot of people in my business.
:) anyway...Things are still going great...Husband's still great, although the novelty has worn off a little. Our 6 month-iversary is coming up in a few days. I betcha we won't be doing anything. That's kind of the way it works. My job is going fine. I got somewhat of a promotion. Um..wait. For those who don't know I work for Lifetouch and we take school pictures, like for the yearbook, sport teams, classroom groups, that sort of thing. I've been working there for over a year and a half now, as a photographer. In January I was a offered the position of Assistant to the Photo Manager, along with one other photographer. We still photograph, but we also help maintain the equipment, like replacing broken or missing parts, and we also try to act as example for the other photographers, and do other little odd jobs to help out the photo mang. For making such a sacrifice, we get a nice little pay bonus, and more hours than most of the other photographers, which is great at a job like mine, ya know the hours per week, depend on the schools we get scheduled, and how far away, and how many schools are actually in session, one can get anywhere from 17 to 57 hours a week. But ya know, photographing is such a cool experience. It's not the type of Photography I had planned on doing. I went to school for photojournalism, but I dream of being a performing arts or movie stills photographer. but this type of photography is very gratifying. I mean think about; I'm photographing someone's child, their very own, their angel, their baby. Having a picture is swell, but all the more if it is a good picture, one that captures their smile. For some of these kids, school pictures are the only ones they ever take. Ya know and kids come up to me, and recognize me as their picture lady, and they give me hugs...of course I did run across a little kindergarten booger that refused to smile, made mean faces than yelled out "HA HA SUCKER!!!" as he ran from the camera.....but er....usually the kids are real nice...and they all smile at you. I gotta tell ya...I have more stories from working at lifetouch. If I think of any....I might tell you a few. But...I've been sitting down way too long. My butt hurts.