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It’s been ages since I’ve blogged.
I’ve honestly just not felt like doing one…I’m pretty much ok with just using twitter.
The weather around here this month has been so lousy! Barely any sun, always gray and humid…usually raining.
I haven’t used the camera in weeks…as the last time I picked it up, the focus had…I dunno. I was trying to get some shots of the kittens playing and I put it on macro, and it wouldn’t focus like it’s supposed to. ((something that had been happening for a while, but just seemed worse at the time)) So, then I take it off macro, and it’s blurry completely, and no on close up shit either. I’m talking, just in regular shooting mode. Complete fucking blur. So, I put it back on macro, and it would focus for far away shots. That might sound confusing…sorry. So, I put the camera down, and hadn’t touched it…save for showing Mike how it was fucked up, and by that time, it had somehow corrected itself :\ I grabbed it for the first time yesterday…and by some amount of good luck, the focus was basically ok. It was semi sunny out, and really warm…and the kids and I were outside…
I’m editing the photos now of what we were doing…and later, I’ll get them in here.
For now, I’m thinking of a way to rig up an even better tent in the living room than the last one I made I hope it works out.

Mmkay. first few done
G. being cute and posing

W. on his bike, after having made a “ramp” with the car ramps….L. and Mac look on

My babies Mac had a mouthful of soda, so she couldn’t really smile.

Mac giving me her “big smile…” so I could see her teeth. ((she also had written on herself with an orange marker))

L., proudly showing off where she lost two teeth!!

W. and his fantastic curls!!

more later…

L. jumping on the trampoline

and Spaceball, of course

oooh!! shiny camera!! HI!!!!!

……and one more of W.’s curls…cause they’re so adorable

That’s all for today
Well, except for the video I’m editing…Hopefully, I’ll get it done today…and if I do, I’ll put it up here

**update**
The video I mentioned…
I don’t want to host it on youtube. So, until I can get it up on my own server, you won’t see it for a little bit. sorry.

My dad and my sister went to the 6/3/09 show at the Comcast Center…featuring StreetSweeper, Nine Inch Nails, and Janes Addiction.
Well, my sister took my ((stupid)) camera and got a bunch of really fucking awesome pictures.
She was nice enough to give me a copy of all of them…and said I could put them online
Here’s a preview:

I’m going to edit more of them later today!!

edit:
Here’s two more:

thanks Kim!!
her site is here: http://www.whoakim.com

Sooooo….
it’s been a while since I’ve blogged…I’m pretty much only on Twitter now.
yay for being boring.
So fucking much has gone on in the past week. omg.
This has been a totally EPIC WIN!! type of week.
First off, last Friday, Mike came home and told me he was transferred!! Instead of traveling 70+ miles a day now, he only travels 2!! He’s now working 2 minutes from our house. I fucking love it. Then, he proceeded to tell me that as of that Friday, at 5pm, he was on vacation!!! ((he just started back to work today))
Holy hell, did we have a good fucking week.
I won’t go over all of it, but think toooooooooooooons of family time….Sat. morning yard sales…A trip to the flea market!! ((Where I found a near perfect copy of ‘The Borrowers’!!! ))

for a fucking dollar, no less
I got the perfect flip flops ((no, not at the flea market)), and new perfume that I think I’ll just wear forever.
I got my first sunburn, and tan…((kids all got sunblock..))
Then came the planning for our themed cookout. We didn’t invite anyone, save for M’s sister, who ended up not showing…however, we had planned to do this anyway, so it wasn’t a big deal…
we decided to go with a ‘redneck’ theme…and shit, it was so funny…I wanted to take pictures all nite, but didn’t take the camera out with me…I don’t care tho. Memory is the best film.
Awesome kick ass food ((which I made all of…tho, I didn’t do the grill-errr…fire pit, I mean)) two 30 packs of Bud Lite, 15 bottles of Molson…((just for the record, we still have beer left over…))
Wow, it was just so much fucking fun…so many neighborhood kids…be-bopping through the yard, grabbing sodas and juices or water out of their own big bin of drinks…
then came the late nite ((semi drunken)) trampoline jumping…
The tramp is new…my dad got it for free from a friend of his, and it’s fucking huge.
Downfall?
We don’t have the net that goes around the outside of it…so, we don’t like the kids on it yet…however, we take 3-4 adults and stake out a post, so the kids can jump a bit…
Friday, tho…we just jumped. Well, the kids got all the supervision…then all the old people decided to jump. My dad is a maniac, and I thought he was gonna kill me and my mom while I was bouncing her…
soooooooo many laughs, and it was just such a fun nite…
Mac fell asleep while Mike was holding her…W. left to sleep over a friends house, and the other two girls eventually wandered into my mum’s house where they got sleepy with spongebob.
Such an awesome nite. Really.
Then, Sat. ((yesterday)), I went out with my cousin Tammy ((of Kami Malia Photography)) to drive around, and shoot…She actually let me touch her new Canon! ::faint:: I only used it for like 3 minutes…I was afraid that I’d drop it. But wow…Awesome camera, no fucking doubt. I thought it would of been heavier tho…the POS camera that I have is heavier than hers…Still, she’s a lucky ass for having that thing
We went to a few different places to shoot…me fucking shit up cause of my tiny ass retarded bladder…((five minutes in leaving my house, I had to pee. so lame))
We went to this cemetery that was the most mismatched thing I’d ever seen, and to Purgatory Chasm. Lots of walking, and so many mosquitos…
((me and nature are NOT friends))
But it was totally super fun…we had dinner afterwards at Wrights…((I’d only ever been there once before…when I was like 16 or 17)) filled with kick ass conversation. The only downside, was I was plagued yet again with my infamous *almost* fainting spells. ((pissing me off. it’s been happening for around 2 weeks now))
Finally basically wore off after two fucking hours…and of course, I did my usual hasty ‘bye’ when I got out of the van. ((anyone who really knows me, know how bad I am at the whole ‘bye’ concept. I’d rather just walk away and say ’see ya…’))
It was a fun time tho…and I hope we get to do it again. She is soooo fun to be around. Seriously.
So, then I got in…W. had to go to bed, and Mac was still up ((for the first half hour of my return)) and the girls were sleeping down at my mum’s…so, Mike and I, with no one for company but each other ((I love when that happens…it’s a rarity)) decided to finish off the beer in the fridge. For once, he got waaaaaaay more drunk than me. We had happy banter, on the sofa…trying to read the titles of movies On Demand ((I couldn’t read them for shit))…and we settled on something, but for the life of me, I don’t remember what. I did some drunk tweeting, which I noticed this morning and promptly deleted…
and then we fell asleep, using L’s. blue pony as a pillow. ((and man, that thing is the most amazing pillow ever))
This morning, I woke up sad that he had to go back to work, a bit hungover, and itchy as fuck from the mosquito bites I got at the waterfall.
I deduced that I will not attempt to clean my house on a Sunday anymore, read some more of ‘The Gun Seller’, which is not my type of story, but I just can’t put it down…and we had dinner for the first time in fucking months without the TV on.
Now, all the kids are in bed.
So, you may ((or may not)) have read all of that…
and heres where the photos come in.
I haven’t done too much computer stuff lately…just updating Twitter and myspace…but I’ve edited a few things non recently..so, here you go.
Not that you care.
Yeah, I already know that
<333

yep, you get two.
I’ll get to the rest…eventually.