We've recovered from babysitting time. Do you guys remember The Babysitters Club books?

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?userid=bh777bzCUj&pwb=1&ean=9780590227636

OOooohhhh, that one is scary .... Dawn and the phantom phone calls. I'm so glad I didn't read that one again right before baby-time. I would have been so scared in the middle of the night. Every time Marley kicked me in the head while I was sleeping I would have awakened thinking that the phantom was standing over me.

So we've got three potential weddings for this season. Still exclusively word-of-mouth type business. We're not even in the phonebook, so I must be doing something right to be getting these crazy referrals. Thank you to all the NICE brides I've photographed, please only give my name to other NICE people. I'm currently working on an album for one of last season's brides (yes, she's nice). When I get some more of the layout worked out I'll post some sweet pages.
I've been working on the computer all day. It feels like a good change from all the DEMO we've been doing at the renovation house. (You know what I mean, Dad?) I have had a pretty sweet headache for the last four days. I've convinced myself it may be lead poisoning from all the paint stripping I've been doing. For the first few days I thought I was a hotshot or something and I didn't wear a respirator. Oh, the fumes and the paint dust. I hope I haven't done some kind of irreversible lead-damage to myself. I promise I know I'm not a hotshot. I'll wear a mask every time. What a nerd. The professional painter-guy just called to say that we should be receiving a quote in the mail in the next few days. It is going to be so awesome to see things being finished. Already I'm so proud of all the work we've done...and we still have a long way to go. When this house is all new and beautiful and I can show it off, it's going to be so fun to point out all the great changes we've made. Its really exciting to me that the whole operation is going so well. I think this is a huge undertaking and if we can stay on budget, work hard, do quality work and then sell the house for lots of money, I will be very proud of this accomplishment.

Signed, Jen

Peace.



Holy crap I'm crazy silly tired; to City hall this morning to aquire needed permits (this subject could be its own BLOG site), back home to call a rep. from the Art Institute about possible opportunities, to the Haworth outlet store to look for counter top material, over to the Habitat resale store - where we found two solid wood doors for our restoration house ($27 total!), back home for lunch, to the restoration house to work, off to meet with an electrician to ok his quote, home for dinner, off to a friends house to help with a computer problem in exchange for borrowing two industrial sanders (plaster work at resto.) and then back home to discuss via phone with a friend about job opportunities and then work on my evolving portfolio. It's a good thing I dont have a job, how would I possibly get all of this madness done?!

-Jeff