So I'm pretty sure that even my most closest of relatives have stopped checking this thing due to complete lack of upkeep and care. Though I do have a legitimate reason (isn't there always one?)
I've got to whisper it really really quietly, as I want neither my Dad nor SAIT to know
...........my laptop broke.
In a catastrophic but completely typical moment said toshiba decided to journey to a better place, a fact that I've been ignoring for some time now. The screen managed to crackle straight down the center, and with naive hopes I psychotically attempted to back it up while working with about 3" of screen. Somewhere around 2am on June the 8th it died so completely, that no matter how hard my fingers crossed and how deeply my technology loving heart hoped, there was no rescure.
It has since been gently ushered to the nearest computer store in an attempt to rescue any bits of life that remain inside. Thus, I have been thouroughly unattached to my blog, email, in essence the world (though to keep things honest here, I have glimpsed quick peeks at facebook and Becker's blog at work- so i'm not entirely unaware :)
I have set up our home computer now and am continuing to play through the pain of no laptop, no photoshop, no anything....looks like I'll be crossing off "Buy a Mac" from my list a little earlier than anticipated. Hopefully I'll start to become a little more regular on here again, as I really do love it!! Besides that chaotic twist, work and my photography class are great, will elaborate more in a better and happier post tomorrow :)
Monday, June 30, 2008
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Friday, June 6, 2008
"Just when you think you've got me figured out, the season's already changing"
So I survived the move, basically unscathed. We did it all on the Sunday, crammed into four hours filled with more than a couple scratched walls, blistered fingers, and ache-y tired limbs. When all was said and done and Amanda and me stood upon a literal sea of boxes crowded on any and every available surface I think we came to the conclusion that this place suited us just fine for the next century or so.
And as to what else I’ve been up to besides laundry and setting up our wireless….I got a new job. I had wanted it in that utterly desperate anxious, but pretending to be totally calm kinda way. Which is never really a good place to be. I had given my resignation at my current job on the optimistic hopes that something miraculous would no doubt fall into my life. Though who knows why this philosophy wormed into my brain, since in surveying the past 21 years, I believe there haven’t been a ton of remarkable phenomenons falling from the sky. But I digress…days ticked by and my anxiety was starting to slightly pass the realm of uncomfortable when I found the most incredible position. Though it did come as a bit of a light in a shady career limbo, I went through several phone and in-person interviews before landing it. I start Monday and will bore you all with more details then since this paragraph is already scarily long!!
Besides work, I started one of my photography courses at SAIT. It was a three hour course, and throughout all the talk of f-stops and white balance all I could think was thank god I was sitting in a classroom feeling so overwhelmingly passionate and not overwhelmingly overwhelmed. I really feel like this last little while has been a turning of a new leaf, and I’m so excited for everything to come.
As an ending, and continuation of the whole new leaf tangent, I started this great project I found while randomly surfing the internet. It’s called a 101 in 1001, here’s a link for anyone who wants to read up on it. It’s like a revised set time bucket list, I think it’s brilliant. I started mine May 31st, so my end day is February 26th, 2011. This would have been my Mum’s 45th birthday, I think she would have liked the idea, I know many of these things stem from things she wanted to do, things we wanted to do together. I will accomplish many of them with thoughts of her, and the constant reminder to live each day to the fullest.
Here’s my list for anyone in need of ideas or a good laugh!!
Camille Elise Catherine's 101 in 1001
- Read every Jane Austen book.
- Be able to do 20 pushups in a row
- Attend the training seminar and become a part of the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Organization.
- Own a Mac
- Learn how to play “chelsea” on the piano
- Finish reading Chronicles of Narnia with Layne and Marc (no matter how long it takes!)
- Own my own car, even if it’s a beater
- Be the owner of a 70-200mm f2.8 L IS
- Design my own website
- Go to a Becker Workshop
- Meet Jesh De Rox
- Shoot a wedding completely by myself.
- Live in London for at least a year.
- Go to WPPI.
- Blog everyday for a month
- Finish writing my biography
- Publish said biography
- Shoot a destination wedding
- Pay off my student loans
- Learn to speak Spanish, fluently…then take a holiday and converse with locals, easily.
- Learn to drive standard
- Get my own puppy
- Spread Mum’s ashes
- Learn to play the bass guitar
- Go on a hot air balloon ride
- Visit New York at Christmas time
- Read the bible front to back
- go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
- fall in love
- take a cooking class
- start my own photography business
- re-learn sign language
- pay off every credit card so they’re all at zero
- Ask a couple I know if I can do a shoot with them
- get my celtic/ayn rand tattoo
- Swim in the dead sea
- Watch the sun rise and set
- Have a full on food fight
- go skydiving
- Sing Karoke
- do a maternity/new born session
- Learn to ride a motorcycle
- Build a dirtbike
- have a full body massage at a spa
- spend one week without phone/computer/tv
- take a mixology course
- ride in the kids cancer ride across canada
- go to Disney world-see the harry potter theme park when it’s ready
- send a message in a bottle
- bake an apple pie from scratch
- eat Chinese food out of those cool little containers
- skywrite a message to someone
- make homemade bread
- mail a secret into post secret
- build a vinyl collection
- Read all 200 of the books on the BBC’s Big Read
- Sew an entire quilt by myself
- Finish childhood scrapbooking
- don’t hit the snooze button for an entire week
- watch every episode of sex and the city
- See Phantom of the Opera in a theater
- Write and mail at least one thinking of you card each month
- learn to say I love you in 10 languages
- Get British Dual Citizenship
- Go without chocolate for an entire month
- write a short story
- Go skinny dipping
- Have all homemade Christmas gifts
- Meet Jessica Claire
- Learn how to play poker well
- Learn how to whistle with fingers
- track everything I spend in a month- then design budget
- buy the totally rad action set
- buy Kevin Kubota actions
- pay off library fines-get a new library card
- take a creative writing class
- bicycle to medicine hat
- become a part of the big brother/sister program
- buy the perfect cowboy boots-no matter their cost
- Go to a Jesh De Rox seminar
- Start each day with an apple for an entire month
- buy a piece of art from a local artist
- Go back and visit Cremona
- Take a roadtrip by myself
- Live by myself
- Have a photograph published
- Hold a dinner party-at least three courses
- Keep room clean and organized for a week
- make a gratitude journal and try to write in at everday
- Send Christmas cards on time for pete sake
- Read the Quran in its entirety
- go see a movie by myself
- Organize all of my i-tunes
- No fastfood for six months
- Second shoot a wedding for someone
- learn to surf
- Create my own personal logo-design onto business card
- Give my card out to 10 people in one week
- Throw out custody battle paperwork
- Own a shootsac
- Make a new list.
Oh, and ps, as a variation of #89. I’m going to try to post this here each entry:
June 6th, 2008 – Five Things I Am Grateful For
a. The brave child cancer survivor who spoke today, there is nothing so humbling than the words of a survivor.
b. The brightness of a new opportunity.
c. Realizing that you can survive a week without the internet.
d. Deep belly laughs (see: www.thepioneerwoman.com)
e. That good/bad feeling when someone says they’ll miss you.
And since posts are boring without pictures here's one of my faves from our first weekend out at the cabin. Have I mentioned it's the happiest place on earth?
