11 August, 2010

randomness:

ugh. Don't you hate being sick?
Fortunately, i'm at the end of it - because my nose and lungs feel like they're finally getting back to normal. But enough about that...

I must say that even though i long for social interaction during the day, i am pretty happy with not having a job sometimes. It leaves me free for things like meeting with clients, visiting my friends in Lismore, walking around Cork, and... taking my DRIVING THEORY TEST!! AHH! Tomorrow's the big day. I have to admit that some of the answers to the driving theory questions are completely awkward... i'm glad i have a pre-test so i can practice. So far i've been very close to passing, but haven't yet passed a practice test. It's mainly because they'll show you a photo of a car and a motorcycle driving on the motorway... then ask a question about the situation. Of course, i answer as if i am the person looking at the situation from another vehicle (because they use this photo for another question in which, it's supposed to be answered first person)... alas i got it wrong because (without specifying) they wanted me to answer as if i was the car in front of the photographer.
Blah.

V and i are really starting to bustle in our little photography business. We've got one wedding a month for the next 4 months and one in February. I think it's exciting! We've met with almost every one of the brides so far, and it's been great. In meeting with some of the brides, i've definitely learned a few things about what to do in the future, how to plan some of our packages better, and what to expect. It's not like i'm just starting out in this business, but in a way, i feel like i am. New country, new people, new customs... it's all very interesting. I'm really looking forward to being more involved.
Not to mention, some of the monetary stress we've been having is lifted for the moment with these weddings. It's really nice to have a little bit of money in my hand, even if it's not much. I will certainly not complain. We seem to be digging ourselves out more and more each day.
Word to the wise: Don't do the credit card thing. Just don't do it. I was foolish in my early twenties and i've lived to regret it since. Especially after unemployment for several months and that kind of thing. No good! Stay away from the credit cards (unless you KNOW you can pay them off each month... and DO IT!)

i've been having some minor issues with my landlords. I wont go into too much detail (and for those who read detail previously on my blog, i've unpublished it) - except for the fact that we sat down and smoothed things over. You know those dangerous chasms of ice and cliffs that make it dangerous to climb on glaciers? What happens is during a warm spell, the glacier melts a little and separates, creating a very deep, very sharp, very dangerous chasm/cliff thingie. The snow following the warm spell somehow covers the chasm, so when you go walking along, you just don't notice it... until it's too late. It's this reason that those adventurous types take a pole with them on their glacier hike to poke the snow in front of them. If the snow falls in, there was a chasm that they have happily avoided, and will now walk around it... without this snow poker thing, they could be in serious trouble.
Basically my landlords and V and I sat down and created a snow drift over the top of a chasm. They tried to apologize, but within their apology was a layer of guilt-tripping (we all apologized, and were about to move on, before the landlord decided to go on and on about how disappointing it was for him to see how we hurt his childrens' feelings... and as a result, he doesn't allow them over on our side of the cottage anymore...) and a layer of attempted guile.
They left smiling, but we have begun to count down the days until we move out of this place.

Oh dear. As if i don't have enough things keeping me online lately, i've discovered Gmail allows people to send SMS texts to phones in America. I have been texting one of my besties today, and i must say it's SO wonderful to have that sort of technology.
I love texting my friends. I don't do it often from my phone because A.) i dont have many friends here that enjoy texting as often as me... and B.) texting to the states is HELLA expensive.

I've been working on clearing space on my computer for a little while. I've been backing up photos from the entire year onto an external hard drive, then deleting them from my Lightroom database. I've freed up about 10GB so far, with more to go. WOO! Too bad i'll be putting more photos right back on it when i'm done. V and i have to design some wedding albums tonight and tomorrow to have some samples for clients!
You know that saying "too many cooks in the kitchen"? Haha i'm sure that's how our album designing will end up. It's the "making up" though, that's the best part, right? hehehehe

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