Been Awhile...

Yes it has, since I posted last. Not much has been going on, however, and posting just to post is kinda pointless. Still, today was busy - I did a photo shoot with Mallory and Chase for their prom pics. And I'm getting paid to do this!! Yay!!! Also, I took her graduation pics last weekend, (also got paid!!). And tomorrow, I'm doing a shoot with Darwin at his church for a fundraiser - so I only charge them cost of materials. Too bad he doesn't attend a megachurch, then I wouldn't feel so bad about gouging them for money.
Speaking of money, I went to the casino across the river last year - my first ever visit to a casino. I walked away slightly poorer - by about $20 (I don't like to lose). I haven't been back since - it seems kinda silly to throw away money like that. Well, last weekend, after doing Mal's photo graduation photo shoot, I drove around town looking for more pics, cuz I was in a photographic mood. I wound up driving into Oklahoma for a few hours, didn't really find anything that wowed me, so i headed back home. Along the way, I passed by the casino and thought to myself "Why not play $20 just for kicks?" (this is NOT a habit forming, lol). So I went in, fed the money in the machine, and played my $20. It went up a little, down a little, up a little, down, up, down, up, down...you get the idea. After about an hour, I got bored and decided the next time it went over $20 (breaking even) I would cash out and leave. And then the machine hit - hit BIG! It flashed lights, the spinny things spun backwards, bells rang - I was a little worried something had gone wrong. Anyway, I won $550 off of $20 - not a bad night's work, ha ha. I IMMEDIATELY cashed out - the lady to my left (a frequent visitor, from the look of her) said "Honey, ain't you gonna play that down some? You might hit again." Play it down? Play it DOWN??? Why the heck would I do that??? How weird! Anyway, she got on my machine after I left - I hope she won big.
I other news, the trip to Arizona has hit a snag of sorts - it seems I am going by myself. All the other parties involved had to bail (for important reasons, though) - and I have [psyched myself up so much about going that even though going solo will be so very much not fun, not going will be so very much not funner - I'll probably even get a little down about it if I don't go, I've been looking forward to this for so much and for so long. It's going to be hard - a lot of driving, so I need alot of road trip music. I even thought about taking Snickers, but they don't let dogs into the Grand Canyon unless they're service dogs, which would be hard to convince them she is. If there is anyone out there that wants to go (besides maniacal killers and crazies, although if they can drive I might be able to live with that, ha ha) just let me know - leaving May 30 and coming back June 7-10, somewhere around there, whenever I make it back - maybe never, who knows? So any potential traveling buddies out there? Laptops are a huge plus, so I don't have to buy a bunch of CF cards. Actually, going on my own might be interesting - I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, and no one can say otherwise (well, within limits - let's keep everything nice and legal, shall we?)