okay so i just wrote like two paragraphs and then deleted it all and am currently starting over, so if you're reading this, woo! i made it through! if that tells you anything about me at all, please let me know what it is. thank you.
ahem, hello there. i'm sara. female. 31. married to greg. one child: elizabeth, 9 months(currently napping, woot!). we call her "betsy". one blind dog, who WAS considered my child until i had a real (human)child and is now more considered a carrier of germs: lucky, 12 yrs old. me in a nutshell: i'm kind of like a guy, in a girls body...except my body is kind of boyish too. bummer. i'm 5'8, 115. i'm sarcastic, mechanical, and perceptive. i'm a watcher. i know who's feeling awkward and i can make them feel comfortable. sometimes. i'm a know-it-all, and i have the fatal flaw of being far too quick to judge everything/one. i have a very critical eye/ear, which can be both good and bad. i have very little pride. i love tv. i love to read steinbeck. i do not love to read twilight. i love mcdonald's cheesburgers. i love/d patrick swayze. i don't love noise, commotion, or loud children(unless the child is mine, because of course we are impervious to our own child's flaws, right? even so, i don't really like it when my own kid is loud either. i don't even like to flush the toilet in the middle of the night. way to loud.).
um, what else. we live in poway, ca. it's in san diego county. i don't work. well, unless you count taking care of a 9-month old all day and night work. and of course, i do. toughest job i've ever had. before i got this "job" i went to many, many years of college. i changed my major a bunch of times (music education, field biology, philosophy, english secondary ed.) and finally took the path of least resistance and got a BS in sociology from BYU. then i went to a little 3 month vocational dog grooming school, so i cut dog hair for awhile. i'm a natural with dogs.
i now spend my days finding excuses to leave the house with the little one. we have a network of other non-"working" moms who get together. possible weekly activities: pool, beach, park, zoo, wild animal park, costco, etc. it sounds like vacation, i know, and sometimes it feels that way i guess. mostly it just feels like survival. let's see....i also play soccer once and volleyball thrice weekly. i'm the youngest and only girl in a family of five children, so my mom, already having raised four boys, wanted me to do girl stuff growing up. i did dance and music, but really i should have been playing sports. i'm 5'8 and pretty coordinated. i'm making up for lost time now i guess.
i do all of my more advanced photography with my iphone, but i DO have a canon rebel T1i(EOS 500D...i don't know what any of this means btw) lying around here somewhere(that's a lie. i got it out of the closet today. it's sitting here next to me). i got it before the baby was born, thinking i was going to learn how to use it myself, but have come to terms with the fact that i am merely a pitiable (wo)man, and am far too lazy to figure out how to work the darned thing on my own. yeah, i'm that person who has the awesome equipment(i think...really you could be laughing at me, behind your cupped hand for getting duped into buying a piece of poo) but has no clue how to use it. the lens says canon zoom lens EF-S 18-55mm if that means anything to anyone. i know, i hate me too.
my photo goals: i want to take splendid photographs! duh. mostly i want to take splendid photographs of my family and our life as it develops. i don't know that i really want to "document" stuff though, because i want to be living and enjoying myself, and i don't want to always need to be worried about capturing a moment...because then i won't be living the moment....so there won't really even BE a moment. i've always worried about that. i'm actually pretty nervous as to what i'm going to be able to produce. i've always been more of a critic/manipulator of material....not so much a "creator". i can tell you if something is good or bad, you know? i'm a great editor...but to just come up with something, out of nothing?? this scares me. yikes!
that's about it i suppose. i hope i don't read this later and wonder what the heck i was thinking when i wrote it...this is what happens when the baby naps for an hour and a half.
email me for a blog invite: saradoud@gmail.com, and prepare yourself for photographic GOLD.
byeee!
ps - i know you know that the punctuation/caps/etc in this little intro are WAY off. grammar's so tedious, isn't it? i just need you to know that i know you know. the end, i swear.
ahem, hello there. i'm sara. female. 31. married to greg. one child: elizabeth, 9 months(currently napping, woot!). we call her "betsy". one blind dog, who WAS considered my child until i had a real (human)child and is now more considered a carrier of germs: lucky, 12 yrs old. me in a nutshell: i'm kind of like a guy, in a girls body...except my body is kind of boyish too. bummer. i'm 5'8, 115. i'm sarcastic, mechanical, and perceptive. i'm a watcher. i know who's feeling awkward and i can make them feel comfortable. sometimes. i'm a know-it-all, and i have the fatal flaw of being far too quick to judge everything/one. i have a very critical eye/ear, which can be both good and bad. i have very little pride. i love tv. i love to read steinbeck. i do not love to read twilight. i love mcdonald's cheesburgers. i love/d patrick swayze. i don't love noise, commotion, or loud children(unless the child is mine, because of course we are impervious to our own child's flaws, right? even so, i don't really like it when my own kid is loud either. i don't even like to flush the toilet in the middle of the night. way to loud.).
um, what else. we live in poway, ca. it's in san diego county. i don't work. well, unless you count taking care of a 9-month old all day and night work. and of course, i do. toughest job i've ever had. before i got this "job" i went to many, many years of college. i changed my major a bunch of times (music education, field biology, philosophy, english secondary ed.) and finally took the path of least resistance and got a BS in sociology from BYU. then i went to a little 3 month vocational dog grooming school, so i cut dog hair for awhile. i'm a natural with dogs.
i now spend my days finding excuses to leave the house with the little one. we have a network of other non-"working" moms who get together. possible weekly activities: pool, beach, park, zoo, wild animal park, costco, etc. it sounds like vacation, i know, and sometimes it feels that way i guess. mostly it just feels like survival. let's see....i also play soccer once and volleyball thrice weekly. i'm the youngest and only girl in a family of five children, so my mom, already having raised four boys, wanted me to do girl stuff growing up. i did dance and music, but really i should have been playing sports. i'm 5'8 and pretty coordinated. i'm making up for lost time now i guess.
i do all of my more advanced photography with my iphone, but i DO have a canon rebel T1i(EOS 500D...i don't know what any of this means btw) lying around here somewhere(that's a lie. i got it out of the closet today. it's sitting here next to me). i got it before the baby was born, thinking i was going to learn how to use it myself, but have come to terms with the fact that i am merely a pitiable (wo)man, and am far too lazy to figure out how to work the darned thing on my own. yeah, i'm that person who has the awesome equipment(i think...really you could be laughing at me, behind your cupped hand for getting duped into buying a piece of poo) but has no clue how to use it. the lens says canon zoom lens EF-S 18-55mm if that means anything to anyone. i know, i hate me too.
my photo goals: i want to take splendid photographs! duh. mostly i want to take splendid photographs of my family and our life as it develops. i don't know that i really want to "document" stuff though, because i want to be living and enjoying myself, and i don't want to always need to be worried about capturing a moment...because then i won't be living the moment....so there won't really even BE a moment. i've always worried about that. i'm actually pretty nervous as to what i'm going to be able to produce. i've always been more of a critic/manipulator of material....not so much a "creator". i can tell you if something is good or bad, you know? i'm a great editor...but to just come up with something, out of nothing?? this scares me. yikes!
that's about it i suppose. i hope i don't read this later and wonder what the heck i was thinking when i wrote it...this is what happens when the baby naps for an hour and a half.
email me for a blog invite: saradoud@gmail.com, and prepare yourself for photographic GOLD.
byeee!
ps - i know you know that the punctuation/caps/etc in this little intro are WAY off. grammar's so tedious, isn't it? i just need you to know that i know you know. the end, i swear.
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Canon Rebel T1i, Canon Zoom EF-S 18-55mm?
Now that's an intro, and I'm sure you are going to be the teacher's favorite, no one else will have that much personality
ReplyDeleteAwesome!!! Can't wait to see your pics!
ReplyDeletecan't wait to hear more about this class; love the intro, we have a lot in common (but seriously Patrick Swayze?)
ReplyDeleteI love it!!! You are awesome!
ReplyDeleteThanks guys! My self esteem so through the roof! And look. I watched dirty dancing at a very pivotal, pre-pubesent(sp?) time in my life. Patrick swayze left a mark on my tender, tender heart.
ReplyDeletePatrick Swayze??
ReplyDeleteI'm going to make this quick, cause I have a screaming baby waiting for me to get him from his crib... But, Love that you are NOT a Twilight fan. I Too have a thing with noise, and toilets in the middle of the night.
ReplyDeleteI am dying of laughter. Except that now I am terrified upon finding out that you like to judge people (I mean, not that I don't. Everyone does. But you are upfront about it, so I am scared one day you might tell me off.)
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