Headaches

The past few weeks I have had horrible headaches. I’m starting think it’s due to my glasses.

Sadly, I can’t afford to go out and get new glasses every year. One ear piece is broken, yeah and? I don’t care. What I do care about is my head throbbing and being almost in tears in pain. I have indents behind my ears where the ear pieces go. I’m pretty sure they aren’t supposed to be there. My glasses are obviously too tight for what I guess would be my too big of head (which I don’t think is really that big, but that’s besides the point).

Every year or so I start getting these headaches, I change out my glasses when they fall to pieces and the headaches seem to go away. Seems as though that would be the logical answer, but is it? It seems like a cycle. A never ending one.

Would lasik eye surgery help? Would I stop getting headaches? Would the indents behind my ears go away? However, lasik is quite an expensive thing to get.

Is there another option besides getting new glasses? Oh and I don’t have insurance. Score for me, right?

My Biggest Fear

Know that if you read any further you are agreeing to never show me one of these, real OR fake. I do not want a book with a picture shown to me. I do not want to have any jokes made about this. NOTHING! Got it?

Besides myself or someone in my family/friends getting hurt or dying, this is my biggest fear. You can laugh to yourself all you want, but after reading this paragraph, you agree to not make fun. Putting my fear out like this is kinda hard to do, because I know all my smart ass friends will have a ton of things to say. Well, say it in your head and get over it.

I have no idea why I am afraid of what I am afraid of.

No, I do not have any childhood memories of one of these scaring me.

I just think they are utter disgusting and I am deathly afraid of them.

Every time I see one I feel as though I’m going to throw up. No joke. It’s not a good feeling.

Whether they belong in a tree, pond, pre-legs, whatever stage of life. I don’t care. Frogs are gross. Just the word freaks me out.

Ever since I can remember, when I walk to the front door, I stomp. Why? To scare the frogs away. They are horrible things that should just disappear. Forever. Horrible, gross THINGS.

Why do I bring this up tonight?

I always have Jeff go to the door first at night. I figure they will hop away from him, so then I should be in the clear. Not so much. It never happens, so I just learn.

Tonight while getting out of the car, I noticed a frog on the front door the size of my fist. I was back about 20 feet away from the door and I didn’t ever get any closer. Gross. Jeff went to open the door so he could go in and open the garage. Well, opening the door meant that the disgusting thing on the door may hop inside. After screaming and freaking out at 11PM, while the neighbors are outside probably wondering what in the world is going on, Jeff started to throw things at the door in hopes that the thing will hop away. But NO! It was asleep!

Sticks, dirt, soil, Mountain Dew. Everything was thrown at the door. So then, Jeff used a spoon and it fell, which completely grossed me out seeing it all open and it’s gross legs and body flying everywhere. (Please remember, I am still standing by the car, at least 20 feet away.)

I’m then screaming at Jeff to hurry up and open the garage. Well the image started sinking into my head and as I was waiting on the garage to open, I freaked. The tears started flowing and I felt like I needed to wash myself just thinking about this horrible, disgusting thing that was attached to my house.

So there you go. That’s my fear. And yes, this has happened more than once. I had one hop on my foot a year or two ago. Talk about a panic attack. Holy crap, it was a night from hell.

This is why I don’t like being out after dark. I also don’t like rainy nights. Ugh!

Where Does The Time Go?

The past month I have had a lot on my plate. It’s full and I am NOT hungry anymore!

Between taking pictures for Kernel Encore (which are not done) and editing them (which are not done as WELL) and spending all weekend at IZEAFest/SeaWorld, I have been one tired girl.

Tonight starts more craziness, Rock For Hunger VIP Party. Tomorrow, Rock For Hunger Fest concert. 5-12 (Hope you’re there!) Jeff and I will be there running around like crazy people getting video and pictures. Sunday equals sitting at home working on Kernel Encore pictures and RFH pics and vid.

THEN, Patrick from ChefPatrick.com wants to shoot a video, so within the next couple of weeks we’ll be doing that!

But wait, there’s more! October 24th I’ll be working on a shoot with my good friend, Pam. Woohoo!

So, all of this, plus: my house needs to be cleaned like whoa, the old fridge STILL needs to be moved to the garage, scanning in a crap ton of old pictures, digitize some old home movies so they don’t go bad.

Oh and did I mention.. I would like to take a vacation sometime! Maybe next year?

Camera Dilemma

A little over two weeks ago, Jeff plugged my camera into the computer and then it died. Not sure if something happened once it was plugged in or if it was just the camera’s time to go.

I was and am still not a happy camper. Not one bit. I don’t like borrowing things from people nor do I like asking. Thankfully two friends have let me borrow their cameras, yet I have more photography work to do and then have been asked to photograph an event this Saturday coming up. So what do I?

Wing it.

I have no other choice, I don’t have the money to be shelling out $1,700 for a Canon 7D. But I thought I could maybe get some help, but that didn’t go over so well. I was told everything except “F**k no.” Yes, I know I’m not a professional thank you for shoving that in my face, but if I’m going to get a new camera, it’s not going to be a step down or the smallest step forward that I can take.

So what do I do? Pay my bills, it’s all I can do. Put some money aside, but it won’t be enough to get a new camera this year or the next. Thankfully I just started a new job, so I have MORE money coming in than a month ago. But still, not going to happen anytime soon.

Oh and my 300 lens stop working about a week before the camera stopped. Amazing!

On that note, anyone want to donate to the “I Need A Camera” fund?