We both really enjoyed it, and yes, it really was Joel's idea we go and see The Proposal, I did not have to drag him there, when I asked him this morning if he wanted to see a movie tonight, the first thing he asked was if the Proposal was at the discount price yet for us to go see it. My husband is just awesome like that.
Wednesday was fun, we had Megan, Laura and Joe over (Megan and Laura work with Joel and Joe is Laura's boyfriend) and we watched some of my So You Think You Can Dance performances from that night's show then put on Meet the Robinson's since that's Megan's favorite movie evidently, and Wednesday was cheer Megan up since she's been going through some hard times having recently lost a cousin she was very close to. After the movie Laura took Joe home and then came right back, and since Megan had never played Apples to Apples we all had to play that, and there were many hilarious times. We played until everyone was too tired to play anymore and then Megan and Laura went home.
Tomorrow I'm off with Cindy to shoot another wedding with her, so that will be a blast. Keep an eye out on my photo blog (http://photoblog.cathoffman.com) for photos...though I may not post until a week after the even since I'll be heading to Tampa this upcoming week from the 13th-17th. Cindy and I are going to try and pound through all our trimming of photos and editing on Sunday since we both have crazy busy weeks that mean we need to do it Sunday and not later.
While I'm in Tampa next week that means I'll be missing seeing the new Harry Potter movie in the IMAX here, so I'm coordinating the next best thing with some of my Tampa co-workers: seeing it in the super high definition digital projection screen at the Channel Side theater down there. We're going to go on Thursday, my last night there before I fly back home on Friday.
After I get back from Tampa Joel and I will be heading up to the Bristol Renaissance faire with
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mama_bec and billwith2js for the weekend. We've never been to that one, and I've not gone to any faire since I was in high school, so I'm very excited to finally get to go to one again... I hear this one is pretty awesome :) look forward to lots more photos from that of course too, as I plan to take a ton of pictures at the faire.So to update everyone:
My mother-in-law had surgery on Monday to get rid of her cancer hopefully, she's recovering nicely and they're hopeful that she may be able to go home either late tonight or early tomorrow morning.
July 3rd my in-laws hung out with us in Valpo and we went to JC Penney's and purchased curtains for the office room and master bedroom, as well as cellular shades for those two room and the guest bedroom. The old style blinds are now gone from our house and the cellulars are much nicer (and provide better insulation) plus they are a lot harder for the cat to accidentally break when she peers out a window to look at the outside world.
July 4th and 5th we spent in Illinois as my in-laws place, the evening of July 5th Alisha, Joel's younger sister, flew in from Florida to be with their mom for the surgery, she is still with them and won't return back to Florida until Saturday this week.
This Saturday I have a wedding that I'm second shooting with Cindy (yay weddings! I didn't have any last month, so I'm really looking forward to this one)
Next Monday I will fly out to Tampa (it's like I'm following Alisha, lol) and work from there through Friday.
Oh and it turns out I'll be missing my first and only god-daughter's baptism due to really bad timing. My sister-in-law will be up with her family the weekend of July 25-26th to baptize my god-daughter, but July 26th is literally the only Sunday this whole year I booked a wedding on, so I will be stuck in Valpo photographing the fabulous wedding of Ashleigh (one of my Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters ^_^) so I'll miss the actual baptism. At least I'll get to be with the family and meet my god-daughter on Saturday though!
So that's the big things I can think of to update right now... and True Blood Season 2 is in full swing so for those of you not watching it yet, I highly recommend it if you like vampires :) (I also highly recommend the books)
- 00:19 Just secured www.facebook.com/cathoffmanphotography for my photography page. If you're not a fan already, please become one! :)
- 19:54 Went to Little Tokyo with a friend for lunch today. I love all things Japanese :)
- 00:04 If you want my google voice phone # send me a facebook PM or twitter DM.
- 00:14 Evidently facebook pushed page userrname selection up 24 hours, have to wait until 11pm CST... disappointing.
- 15:17 Hanging out on the lake at the sand bar with everyone. Watched some silly kids flip their sunfish and not know how to flip it back.
- 00:06 RT @WolfSnap: Win SmugMug Pro! RT FULL TEXT for chance 2 win 7/31/09. Smugization? tr.im/nWd5 Info: tr.im/q5fw #Smugization
- 01:17 Awesome! I have a google voice account phone number now :) And it's a fun number!
- 16:35 Animals I've seen in Michigan today: bald eagle, chipmunk, snapping turtle, horse, cardinal, and other assorted fish and birds.
- 16:54 Getting ice cream in Southaven, Michigan at Sherman Dairy Bar, I'm told its amazing ice cream, will know soon!
- 08:19 Heading out to the oral surgeon for my wisdom teeth consultation
- 11:36 I wonder if the Spectrum trucks that had Comcast logos on them who were parked outside a little bit ago have to do with these outtages...
- 17:01 Productive lunch break today. Met with wedding client, booked her for May 2010 (w/ e-session), then dropped car off for 4 tire replacement.
- 23:08 Hanging out in Michigan for the weekend
- 09:06 Comcast you are not on my happy list today. Modem keeps going out and I'm trying to work here...
- 09:13 Transformers 2 "broke the Wednesday opening record previously held by Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix in '07: $55M to 44.2M."
- 17:13 Not sure what articles / tweets / facebook status' to trust. Michael Jackson was at least hospitalized, but is he actually dead?
- 17:58 Now all the gossip and regular news are in sync, Michael Jackson is indeed dead. bit.ly/j4Kvg and bit.ly/o4GRc
- 23:44 Happy with the dancers that made it through SYTYCD. Going to bed now, meeting w/ oral surgeon in the morning for wisdom teeth consultation
- 08:42 Adobe released Lightroom 2.4 and Camera Raw 5.4 today, get them here: www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/
- 09:58 Today is Joel and my 3 year wedding anniversary! <3 Tonight's plans: go out for dinner then see Transformers 2 in IMAX :)
- 16:48 WOW. A hummingbird just hovered next to the window I sit right next to. I'd never seen one in person (or that close) before! So cool!
- 19:58 Heading out to Applebee's followed by the 9:40 showing of Transformers 2 in the IMAX to celebrate 3 years of marriage w/ the hubby :)
- 07:26 At carx helping my husband drop his car off since it is having coolant problems again
- 08:50 Rumor has it that Evan Rachel Wood will be playing Queen Sophie Ann on True Blood in the last two episodes this season :) #trueblood
- 09:24 Car-X just called back, they are going to replace the reservoir tank and cap, hopefully that should fix our Achieva coolant problems.
- 09:30 RT @Pogue: Oh man, oh man... FUNNIEST darn ad in a long, long time... (Helps if you saw the Tom Hanks movie "Castaway") bit.ly/11UNeI
- 16:40 My September 2010 bride just called me to confirm that they do want to book me, will be meeting w/ her tomorrow to sign the contract :)
- 12:55 lol RT @dansoltzberg: Flight attendant on SWA this AM: "If u leave something behind, look for it on eBay or Craigslist tomorrow"
- 17:42 Off to meet with a potential wedding client for September 2010 :)
- 21:00 Not surprised that Jon and Kate from the show of their name dissolved their marriage. Reality TV is not healthy for family life.
- 00:21 Just finished getting Palo Alto and PHL trip photos off p&s onto computer and edited. Will upload tomorrow. Pics are ok but not my DSLR...
- 14:48 Folding the laundry & watching Music Man (just finished watching Grease) while Joel mows the lawn. Going to the movies after he finishes.
- 15:03 LMAO, had laundry on the bed, was sorting it, and discovered that kitty was sleeping *under* the covers. Didn't expect that!
- 16:35 Pidgin was updated to 2.5.7 to fix the Yahoo problem (new protocol) that was plaguing many a couple days ago.
- 18:08 Heading out to the theater with Joel to go see Night at the Museum 2 since it's on the FMG discount price list this week :)
- 20:31 Just got home from the movies, watching the new episode of True Blood on HBO now
- 10:32 Unlocking more songs in Dance Dance Revolution X and getting a nice workout at the same time.
- 16:16 Cleaned a bunch of the house while Joel was getting groceries. Not sure what to do this afternoon, that's still up for debate.
- 19:58 I love mafia / mob genre movies, re-watching American Gangster while eating some more left over pasta for dinner.
- 20:00 RT @UberTwiter We just pushed out version 0.78 which resolves the timeline update issues that some users have seen. bit.ly/3oLpY
- 08:14 RT @UberTwiter: Beta-3 of UberTwitter is now available! Download here www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php (blackberry app)
- 11:27 RT @WolfSnap: Pixar grants dying girls' wish to see "Up". Flies DVD to girl in hospital. She dies 7 hours later. tr.im/p4x6
- 13:26 Uploaded photos and videos from Joel's last martial arts promotion test here: bit.ly/woxaM
- 16:49 RT @TrueBloodHBO: Prepare for Sunday, dig around on Sookie, Sam and MaryAnn's pages. Find the clues? tinyurl.com/ldo42z #trueblood
- 17:01 Just pre-purchased Joel and my IMAX tickets for Transformers for our 3rd anniversary June 24th :) What a great movie release date!
- 09:53 Got caught up on episode 1 of season 2 of True Blood as soon as I came home last night, some big book changes should make this interesting
- 18:14 Heading out to martial arts, hopefully Joel gets his purple belt tonight
- 21:38 Joel ended up getting his blue belt tonight, evidentally he did an extra good job on his promotion test saturday.
- 08:03 Chilling in the ballroom eating breakfast and waiting for the first presentation of the day to being. Last day of #nanog46 today.
- 09:26 Interesting, a lot of the Europeans pronounce router as "rooter"
- 09:50 Wireshark 1.2.0 was recently released as the latest stable version ::goes and updates her wireshark::
- 11:41 #nanog46 just ended, sadness, but going out to eat w/ some of the folks before I fly back at 5 tonight
- 14:26 At PHL going through security
- 15:58 My 5:25 flight home is oversold so I volunteered to take the 7:05 one, if they need me to give up my seat I get about $200 SWA credit :)
- 16:39 Just boarded SWA flight 1217 PHL to MDW, looking at the moment like I don't need to give up my seat after all.
- 19:42 Chilling outside at midway since my flight being 20 minutes late meant I just missed the 7:15 bus. Eating dinner I grabbed in the terminal
- 01:19 Nanog is lots of fun, meeting great people, but it also equals exhaustion! Finally escaped back to my room, good times but I need some sleep
- 10:09 and another day of nanog is off to a good start so far :) plus it sounds like a handful of us may be going to chinatown for lunch
- 10:11 RT @wendilynnmakeup: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: June 16, 1884 The 1st Roller Coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York.
- 15:38 At the #nanog46 peering bof, good times.
- 19:06 Listening to jazz at the equinix party for nanog
- 08:23 Sitting in the ballroom at the Loews Hotel for the NANOG opening remarks.
- 10:01 RT @bryanbrinkman: Photo: UP in Real Life tumblr.com/xo821t70a
- 13:49 Went to a really good Mexican place for lunch, now sitting in on more exciting nanog talks.
- 19:18 Nanog bowling event tonight :)
- 04:52 On the coach USA bus to take me from Portage to Midway airport. NANOG, I am on my way!
- 07:30 At MDW waiting for my flight to PHL. Looking forward to seeing @letmebegreat for lunch in PHL. Also someone else w/ a Kindle 2 today :)
- 08:40 Boarding southwest flight 3240 from mdw to phl. Can't wait for NANOG!
- 10:44 Just landed in Philly, need to get my luggage, then taking the r1 train to the hotel, then lunch with a friend before nanog chaos kicks in.
- 13:41 At Reading Terminal Market getting lunch with a friend
- 17:34 Getting ready for the party switch and data is throwing for nanog
- 08:14 Heading out to Tiger Martial Arts to assist with the promotion test and take some photos as well. Joel is going for purple belt today.
- 15:59 Just watched Changeling on demand with Joel, very well done movie!
- 22:09 Just about all packed up for NANOG, flying out tomorrow morning. Going to pack the laptop up so it's ready for the early morning trip.
- 00:56 Still awake, still working on a hot cut with a customer. Later I stay up tonight for work, later I sleep in tomorrow morning.
- 10:23 Made appt for oral surgeon to look at wisdom teeth on 6/26. His office is just down the road from martial arts, that's easy to find.
- 22:20 Poor Joel, his beloved red wings lost.
- 23:02 Victory! www.facebook.com/shima is my new username on facebook :) got what I wanted!
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