Man, today was a busy but great day! I think I overdid it a little being sick and all.
I woke up at about 9:00 and got ready and had to be over at my sisters house at 10:30 this morning to go down to SC Village Paintball Park for my nephews birthday. I was planning on playing until Friday when my cold not necessarily making me feel that sick but just took a lot out of me. I felt physically and mentally drained all day and night Friday and was left with sheer exhaustion and I didn’t want to overdo it with playing paintball. So I decided to go down and take some pictures with my new camera so I could kind of be involved without playing.
It was a lot warmer then I expected it to be. I got some great shots but by the second game I felt weak and tired. I decided to go back to my brother’s truck and write in my journal. I had already played paintball at this same place with my old company linkLINE last year so I kind of knew how it worked. I knew there were only a couple fields I could get decent shots from outside the boundaries. But when I went to write in my journal I was so physically drained I could barely hold the pen! I wrote about a page and gave up and just enjoyed the solitude and the breeze and went into a partial state of sleep where you’re constantly aware of all the sounds around you.
Everyone took a lot longer then I expected to come back to the cars, and when they did the day was over. So I took some end of the day shots and started to feel revived from my nap. My brother and I drove home; he rushed to take a shower. (I sometimes wished I was a guy, he was done in like 5 minutes!) We had to get back over to my sisters place for Bailey’s birthday party. But being the unprepared aunt and uncle that we’ve always been we had to make a quick stop off to Target to pick up a present.
Side Tangent: So I told Brian I needed to pick up a hairdryer (mine decided to take a dive this morning) so he decided to head to the toy isles while I went to find the hairdryers. I was walking up an isle when I saw this lady and her daughter were taking up the whole end of the isle. I was a little frustrated that even though she saw me making my way down the isle she made no effort to move aside or tell her daughter to move the cart. I pardoned myself and squeezed through. I realized I missed the isle I needed and had to backtrack and sure enough the isle I needed the same lady had just moved into. And what would you guess? She’s again taking up the whole isle allowing her daughter with the cart to wait directly in the middle of the isle while she is on one side. At this point I’m sick, rushed and not in the mood for being polite so I yet again squeezed by her cart but this time without any pardons. As I pick up what I needed she says rather loudly… “Excuse you” and at this point I was so frustrated I replied “No, actually it’s more like excuse you.” Rarely do I give heed to rude people like this. Not sure if it was because I was sick, or tired or just not in the mood to let it go. Either way she continues by saying “you just ran over my daughter” and I turned and faced her slightly chuckling and said “No, I did *not* just run over your daughter” and she then kept going with “no, you were trying to.” HAH! I flat out laughed at this point and repeated again that I did not even *try* to run over her daughter and left the isle. Sure enough as I was walking away with my back to her she called me the “C” word! Can you believe it!?!?!?! I just kept walking and shook my head, laughing. Crazy!
End Side TangentOk so Brian and I get to the party. I started to feel run ragged at this point. I try to eat pizza. It felt like the noise was exploding in my head. I couldn’t seem to get my voice loud enough for people to hear and when I finally did get it loud enough for people to hear I was so exhausted I could barely finish what I had to say. There were lots of people there and lots of kids screaming and running around and everyone wanted me to go and take pictures of this and that. If I had felt more alert and less exhausted I would have jumped at the chance but everything started to become a HUGE chore. I endured as much as I could and got home at about 9pm.
Of course since I had taken so many great shots my sister wanted to see the ones she could post on her myspace. There were a lot and we couldn’t just pick one or two. I really do love my new camera. One thing I noticed with my new camera on the flash shots is the complete lack of red eye that I always seemed to get with my Sony Cybershot. I know it’s only a point and shoot and I’m not quite sure what technology is in the new camera to take that out without doing the triple flash that most point and shoot cameras use to get rid of red eye. Anyways, it was a lot of fun taking pictures with it today. It responds quickly and I still catch myself expecting to have to wait once a shot is taken with a flash before I can shoot again. So far I’m extremely pleased with my investment!
Here are some of my favorites of the day taken with my Nikon D70
My dad is so cute. He is going to have me take pictures of the families at church. I will have from mid-October until early December to complete it and we are going to put together a roster with family pictures included. It will help me with my portraits and who knows some families may really be blessed to have them. I’m looking forward to it. I definitely need to invest in a tripod before that time though.
I also took some pictures of a parade that my sister and her kids were in with Jeff’s family minus Jeff. Tonight I saw a video of that same parade that my dad put together for my sister and her in-laws (at least in-laws until the divorce is final). My dad did a great job of putting the video together and added some of my pictures. I was actually quite proud of how my pictures turned out and felt again the urge to make this photography thing more then just a side hobby. We will have to wait and see what happens.
Here are some pictures of the parade. These were taken with my Sony Cybershot... Still a great camera!
I went to Drew and Heather’s wedding a few weeks ago and one of the many unique ideas she came up with was her sign-in book was a hard cover book of pictures of the two of them in their relationship. I was quite impressed with the book and felt I could really make a cool portfolio book or even a few portfolio books that way. I am going to look into what it takes to do that.
Well it’s late and there is so much more I want to rattle on about but I think this should do it for now. I really need my rest. I am tired and really want to get over being sick.
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posted by Charity at 9/24/2006 12:41:00 AM 
