Unwinding

With the end of tax season also comes the end of my employment. This is always a difficult week for me as I try to transition out of a normal daily work routine into the looking for work/keeping the house up and honing my photography skills routine. It is one thing to either quit/get fired/laid off/etc from a job and another when the job is a temp kinda deal. One that you dont' love yet don't completely hate. One where you love and adore the people you work with. One that each year with certainty on April 15th or 16/17th you know for a fact will come to a screeching halt. It's like one minute you are working your buns off making frantic calls to people to make sure they get their stuff into you for their taxes to be finished and the next you are waking up at 10 am, forgetting to eat anything until you nearly pass out around 2 in the afternoon, an in general just grasping for what to do next.

Today I devised a somewhat time line of what my days will be filled with until I have one of those 9-5 main stream job things again. I have my days so filled that I dont' know what I am going to do once I get said job. Between learning new photo editing software, taking photos, learning languages (French and Italian), doing the household chores, working out. Gee that all sounds so much fun! hehe :D

Enjoy some of the HDR (high dynamic range) photos that I have been playing with. Be thankful for your days and nights and the people in your life that love you and whom you love in return. In the meantime I will be keeping myself busy, or at least trying! :D

Ok, since blogger is not working properly you can't view my HDR images, you can if you go to my DA page at: http://amy-moore.deviantart.com/

Cupcakes galore

Although it is the end of another week and I have pretty much forgotten about blogging. So, here I am recounting this past weekend.

Saturday I spent most of the day baking cupcakes. First up was gingerbread cupcakes with lemon cream cheese and lemon curd centers (white frosting). Can you say.. YUMMO! Oh my goodness. Not to toot my own horn but for someone who had never made cupcakes before, these turned out to be so good. I would be happy to share the recipe if anyone wants it, just email me. :) Second the most difficult to make by far and from what I am told (seeing as I detest black licorice I refused to try these but made them at the request of others) pretty darn tasty too, were the licorice (black) with orange marshmallow and licorice frosting (blue frosting). Finally I chose to make the easiest recipe... chocolate peanut butter w/ Reese's pb cup centers and a chocolate buttercream frosting.



Can you say pooped?! That is what I was after creating all of those yummy delights. It was worth it though. I realized just how much I enjoy baking. I hope everyone enjoyed the cupcakes. Oh yeah, they were for a friend's baby shower. Let me tell ya, when Miss K sent out the call for us women to make some cupcakes, we responded! Lovely turn out and a lovely shower was thrown. Thank you for opening your house for all of us (you know who you are)! :)





So this was my final week doing taxes. I do have 3 more days left... since the 15th is on tuesday, I have to come back for a couple more days and then our kick ass end of season party. I will write more on that later. For now enjoy the pics of cupcakes! And if anyone is interested in the recipes email me. :)

-Ciao! :)

Airports, hotels, and a wedding

What a whirlwind this past weekend was! M's sister got married (FINALLY!) after being together for 10 years C & C got marries in Boise. I was the "official" photographer for the wedding. I was nervous as all get out as I have never photographed a wedding before. All things considered it went really well! The weather was great, most of the people were cooperative, the day went off without a hitch.

It all started for me last friday which went something like this: Get up at 6:30, went o work 1/2 day (until 1 pm), went home to pick up Maggie and load up the car, drive from Hillsborito to almost Gresham to drop Maggie off at my grandmother's, hussle to the airport, check in, disrobe and walk through security... I forgot my cell phone in my back pocket which nearly caused a security threat, grab a bite to eat since it was nearly 3 and I hadn't eaten since 7 am, get on my flight to Boise at 3:45, fly (only partially miserable due to my ears still having fluid on them), get into Boise and wait for someone to pick me up.. not because he forgot (uh huh sure he didn't!) got to the hotel where the women were having the bachelorette party.... Ok, so have you ever been the late one to party where everyone else is mostly drunk and you just feel out of place? That was me. All I really wanted was to have a good hot meal (not a deli sandwich.. no offense) and go to sleep. I was so tired I felt like all I had been doing was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Anywho, the ladies all wanted to go crash the guys party so on our way out of th hotel we ran into the guys and I ended up having food brought to me so I went back to the room to eat and crash.

Saturday was up early and snapping away. I had so much fun taking the pics. I never thought I could do weddings, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. I learned a lot too. The reception was beautiful, the food was good, and our hosts were wonderful.



Sunday was spent mostly in the airport after having Jon's b-day breakfast at Elmer's. Long story short, M was to take the 2 o'clock flight while I was on the 6:30. His was overbooked, I volunteered him to give up his seat so he could get a free ticket, thus taking the same flight as me. It worked out well even though we spent like 5 hours at the airport. We ended up seeing C & C and the girls again and spending a little more time with them which is always great. Got into PDX around 7:15 waited almost an hour for our bags only to discover that mine had come in on the earlier 2:00 flight and his was lost. Yes, lost as in they (Alaska Airlines) had NO idea where it was. Not good. We finally left the airport had some food then parted ways.

Monday I was tired as all get out. Even tuesday I felt I was still in recovery. M finally got his bag delivered yesterday and STUPID FedEx just left it sitting on the front porch of the house! Idiot... Not like it had a fairly expensive camera sitting in it. Arg! Oh well, so all in all things ended well and we are onto another month.

I can't believe I only have 9 days of work left... YIKES! I am excited and sad all at the same time. What shall I do?!

Happy hump day all!

-Ciao! :)

Wedding pics here:


http://picasaweb.google.com/amymoore.74/Ceramony?authkey=G190nH8FhvA

http://picasaweb.google.com/amymoore.74/Wedding?authkey=p8yrnAO3JCQ

http://picasaweb.google.com/amymoore.74/Reception?authkey=Lc2s_GhSYGI