Putting out Fires

If you read any bloggers from Arizona, you’ll already know that we had a super freak storm this weekend.  I woke up on Saturday and it was raining for the first time in SIX months.  It rained all day non-stop, my backyard flooded, a well intentioned hairdo was ruined, and the mountains surrounding our desert were blanketed in snow.

Kind of weird with the drought-ridden brown desert at the base, huh?  Ryan and I drove up to 4 Peaks (along with half of Phoenix) to get our hands in some snow.  I discovered that it is near impossible to take a good picture of snowy mountains on a clear day.  It is such a treat for us to have snow all around Phoenix and it makes the mountains look like they are so close!  Just gorgeous.  Its all anyone in the whole state is talking about this week.  Arizonans obsess about their weather.

Ryan and I had a busy weekend.  Saturday night we went to a wine bar in Scottsdale.  This place is the coolest.  They have 180 different kinds of wine, and there’s no sign on the door which is hidden in an alley.  Then it was off to a charity function that africankelli planned.  Thanks to africankelli for scoring us tickets to this open-bar event.  As Bec’s husband Matt said, “There’s just something about an open bar that makes me SO DRUNK.”  Oh man, was I glad to be the driver so I could watch all the stumbling, groping, falling, and dry-humping.  Good lord.  Oh, and I took some pretty interesting pictures of drunkards too, but I’m in a good mood so I didn’t put them on Flickr. 

So I’ve been thinking a lot about what that personal trainer said.  Frankly, if I did what she said and lost 20 pounds, I don’t think I’d be happy.  Sure I’d look like I was ready for the swimsuit edition, but that’s not the point.  I just want to be happy in my skin and its not going to take 20 pounds to do that.  But, I have been sticking to my 1500 calories and if you can believe this…  I’ve lost 2 pounds already!  Cripe.  But tomorrow is my second appointment with the nazi super trainer from hell, so I’m really not looking forward to that.

This week I’m hoping to hear back on that job I interviewed for. Are you all keeping your fingers crossed for me??  I’m taking Thur and Fri off to take Ryan for eye surgery and I’m so glad for the time off.  I’ve totally fallen behind in my photography class, so I’m planning on filling the time he’s recovering with that.  My assignment is 2 parts:  1) take a white object and photograph it in many different light situations (indoors, outdoors, shade, computer glow, etc.) and 2) take that same white object and practice white balance.  Exciting, huh?  Yeah, I’m pretty sure I could take a picture of a green object in complete darkness and the teachers would think it was a work of art, who cares if there was an ACTUAL assignment, eh?  I know, I’ve got to work on that attitude.  See ya!