Just a ordinary nothing different or special from any other day. I did have to ship some items i sold on ebay though usps. I destest the post office so much. Lucky for me there wasn't to many people there. When i finally got to the counter to ship my boxes the lady ran up the totals to ship though priority mail and the cost was over 70.00. i couldn't believe it. I decided to ship everything parcel post instead. The only problem with that is i packaged everything in priority tape so i had to purchase brown tape from them and repackaged everything. My laziness almost got the better of me and i almost said whatever just send it but i ended up repackaging everything and saved myself 30 bucks by going parcel i just hope the buyers aren't to upset with the delay in getting there items. I still need to ship something to france tomorrow but first i have to find a box big enough. i dont' even want to know how much that is going to cost me. I didn't have many choices for a shot tonight. I was planning on going out and shooting something but lately i just been so lazy after getting home from work. I wonder if stress causes fatigue. I also haven't been to the gym in 2 weeks i canceled my current gym membership and plan on going back to my old gym just as soon as things settle down for me. This is a shot of my homemade beauty dish that i found on strobist.com. Its a pretty cool light modifier but i don't use is often. It gives me a nice soft light but i prefer to use a shoot though umbrella more often. It does give me a different look i could use for certain situations though. I think my next project i would like to try is a diy softbox. the only problem is i like my items to be portable since i do alot of outdoor shooting. The background is a bunch of my pictures printed out on a closet door. im going to miss this collage when i move to my new place. strobist. diy beauty dish shot into the background with an sb-800, sb-600 on the right of camera with a shoot though umbrella, triggered with nikon cls in ttl mode

Maggie and I both work at a gym in Austin - she as a Pilates instructor, yours truly as a massage therapist and Structural Integration practitioner. Neither one of us has the inclination or energy to work at home on our off days anymore; so we're converting her home Pilates studio into our guest bedroom and my massage room into our office. The guest bedroom will be the living room, and the living room will become The Front Room. Much better all around. Except for the having to move everything in the house someplace else and rehanging all our photos part. Maggie sold her Pilates equipment the other day. For some reason this thing you're looking at is called a Cadillac. Using the Cadillac is my least favorite piece of equipment to use when I'm having my weekly Pilates session (with Kristina, not Maggie. We agreed early on Maggie would neither teach me how to drive nor be my regular Pilates instructor). I love doing 'pike' on the Chair, I love doing "100s", I love everything about the mat and the barrel and the Reformer. But I never warmed up to the fucking Cadillac. Someone's coming over Tuesday to get this thing out of our house - yay! Maggie's been teaching Pilates for about 20 years. She's really outstanding at it, but I think she's losing interest in teaching altogether. She'd rather be riding her horses. That's Anna Pavlova as The Dying Swan from "Swan Lake" on the wall. Caught in the act of dying gracefully. We should all be so lucky.