Lazy

Nothing artistic or creative today. I sat around the house doing absolutely nothing. But I was grateful for my cozy slippers for keeping my toesies warm.

All in a day's work...

Since I don't start work until the 12th, and I've been at home sick with nothing to do, I sewed a blanket today! The sewing was the easy part, clipping all of the little fringes on it took forever. One craft project down!

And it begins...

Today is the Fiesta Bowl! And BSU won! 17-10 vs. TCU! Totally awesome game. In support of the Broncos, I made blue and orange cupcakes. Woo hoo!

Julie and Julia

So last night we rented Julie and Julia. I loved it. In the movie, Julie commits one year of her life to one year of cooking the entire Julia Childs cook book. I've kind of been inspired. I am going to blog a photo a day. I want to find something intriguing, beautiful, out of place, or just something I did that day to photograph and post it here. I just need you all to hold me to it. Deal?

Silver Creek Expedition

Dad wanted to post these for the Lowe Family Here they are.

Barnes & Noble

I am currently sitting in Barnes & Noble, reading, on a Friday night. NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SAY THAT.

Paddling

Last semester I took a canoeing class and at the end of the semester we went on an overnight canoeing and camping trip. And what did I forget? My camera! I was so mad at myself the whole trip. Granted I didn't get to take my own pictures but I still have the memories and luckily I just got some pictures from another student! This trip was probably the most beautiful trips I have ever been on. We canoed across one small lake, portaged to the next lake where we then canoed to our camp spot. We basically camped right beneath the Teton peaks. The pictures do a pretty good job, but it was much more magnificent in person.



Gorgeous! He even put together a panorama photo. I love it! Make sure you click on it to see the picture big!

And there's a picture of me! We were practicing throwing the emergency throw bag.





I'm pretty sure this was the first lake that we canoed across. Right before it got super windy and we were canoeing through 3 foot waves. Fun times.

Oops!

So I changed my blog template...and it deleted all of the contents of my blog list. So if you could all comment with your blog URL address, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

Photography

Since I started working at the portrait studio, I have been craving to go out to play with some portrait photography of my own. I have been learning a lot at work about posing, angles, and lighting. Unfortunately, I do not have a super duper nice camera like the studio, so I have to make due with my point-and-shoot. (Maybe Santa will bring me a sweet camera this year....ahem.) So on Saturday I took my friend Ashlee out in the freezing cold to take some pictures. Oh, and I got a goofy new hat. Haha.








And then Saturday night we made homemade pizza! Yum!
And I just want to let everyone know that I will be returning to Nampa for the winter months. So if you or if you know anyone who is looking for a cheap photographer for engagements, babies, seniors, or whatever, refer them to me! With that said, if anyone wants some family photos taken to make Christmas cards with, I will be home next week for a few days for Thanksgiving and we can take some then! Let me know!

Such is Life

So I completed all of my training hours on Saturday. Now I don't have to get paid minimum wage! Woohoo! Saturday was a really long and frustrating day. Saturdays are pretty busy at the portrait studio, who woulda thought. I showed up for work at opening, at 8:45 and didn't get to leave until 5:30 that night. No lunch break, no sitting down, and mind you I had to drive to Idaho Falls and back. Ugh. And worst of all, I was getting so frustrated because my boss had assigned another associate to kind of watch me do my sales and to make sure I was doing things right. I wouldn't have minded, but when I was being told "No, you need to do it this way," that's when I got frustrated. While I wasn't doing anything wrong, I was getting in trouble because I didn't do it the same way that she does things. Ugh. For example, I placed a clipboard down on the counter, I was then told that I needed to place that clipboard in another place (which was 6 inches over) because that is where she puts it. Wow.

So its been a long week. I worked from 3 until 7 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday...and then all day Saturday. So by the time I get home I am exhausted, I head right to bed, and then I wake up at 5am to do that day's homework. I really like the structure and the time management skills I am learning, but I think I ran myself down a little. This morning I woke up with a sore throat. Not good. There are four girls in my apartment complex who have swine flu so any kind of sickness is not good right now. In addition...its midterms!

I am excited that it is midterms, but not excited for what midterms entails. In fact, I have a test tomorrow. Crap. Well, just wanted to give you all an update. Hope everyone is doing well.

Oh! I almost forgot...on Thursday Mom and Dad came by Rexburg as they were driving home from Salt Lake. We went out to dinner, it was really good to see them. It worked out perfectly that I didn't have to work on Thursday, and Mom didn't have jury duty the next morning. Thanks for coming Mom and Dad! Love you!