stephanie is: 
busy…
there needs to be more hours in a day, yes.
danny and i both had a hard time getting to seep this morning. but that is better than just one of us having trouble, because at least we had someone to talke to. since we got to bed rather late we didn’t wake up until 9 or 10pm. after i showered i started right in on my freelance work for a few hours. i stopped at around 2 or 3am to switch to rebraiding my hair. yes, i still have half of it to redo, ugh. just stopped that and had a bowl of cereal while watching the super early news at 4:30am.
i am going to get in bed as soon as i do some site admin… i’ll watch tv until i am able to get to sleep. i need to be able to get up friday morning around the time i normaly go to sleep, so i need a couple days to adjust. (actually i can do it two ways – stay up 24+ hours till it is a ‘normal’ bedtime or take a few days to go to bed earlier and earlier. i decided on the less painful one this time) since i will likely be awake well before danny tomorrow, i will spend the evening trying to finish up more braids and more freelance work.
recent site updates:
on monday i updated the caption contests. click here to enter the new ones. because there are now 67 contests from the last few years i have changed the script to break them into pages of 10.
there is a new posed self-portrait set for members called “stockings”. click the picture to see it.
monday/tuesday around 1am i drove out to the 24-hour cvs (drug store). since we are going to the beach for my birthday i wanted to get some sunless tanner (i don’t tan naturally) wit a $5 coupon that was expiring that day. i was taking my sweet time reading labels and browsing the store since i didn’t have to worry about danny waiting for me. there were two guys, perhaps age 19-25 (i am extremely bad at judging ages but they seemed younger than me. but i was probably incorrectly basing that on their attitudes and the fact that they both seemed a bit shorter than me). the dark haired one called across an isle that he liked my hair. (no biggie, i get that a lot since my hair is unsual for a blonde gal. though that night it was looking about as sloppy as possible in this huge messy blob on the back of my head. and i was wearing a grungy tee/jeans/brown sweater.) the lighhaired one came over while i was drooling over lip gloss (i managed to not buy any!) and asked if it was my real hair (no, it is plastic) and said he liked it too (thanks). on with the shopping. i was comparing the backs of self-tanners when the dark haired guy appeared beside me. he said something about not wanting to be rude and that he was a nice guy, and did i was to go “chill” with them. (i am standing there thinking ‘am i actually getting hit on in cvs in the sunless-tanner aisle?’. i’m never hit on outside of a club, so i was quite amused. too bad he couldn’t have waited a few minutes – i would have been reading the backs of ‘nair’ bottles and that would have made a better story) i declined and appologized, quite pleased to have such a genuine excuse to give (i’m married…). getting hit on is such a strange thing when you are not used to it. seriously, i’ve had three relationships total and they all started out as close friends so i’ve never done the dating thing.
i did have a minor i’m-walking-to-my-car-alone-at-1am moment when i left cvs. the guys’ car was parked in the fire lane and they were leaning against it. i had already planned to walk next door to the 24-hour grocery (for cake ingredients. i delivered cupcakes to danny’s work later that morning) so i didn’t even look at the them and headed right past. when i was done in the store i walked across the parking lot to my car instead of walking back towards them on the side walk. only the blonde was there and when i was halfway to my car he started hitting the keychain button that makes your car honk once or twice. i was worried he was signaling his friend that i was leaving so they could follow me. i told myself i was being silly and paranoid but i certainly kept my cell phone at hand and watched carefully as i drove away. they did not follow.
this is getting long, the sun is coming up.
after such a let down (being so close to getting the perfect job only to have someone else be chosen) i am so thankful to have things to look forward to this month. on friday i will she some of my local friends (who i don’t see nearly enough of) and have a photoshoot with photo_obscura and azcra. on the 13th danny and i will drive to virginia beach for a two night stay (nearly on) the ocean. beacuse it is 2 nights we won’t have to travel at all on my birthday (the 14th). and later in the month i get to meet persis and have braiding fun with her.
less than 12 days till my birthday (according to my schedule countdown. i will be an old fart, or something. 27, i think… i have been losing track the last few years. if you actually wante to give me a birthday gift (i’ve noticed that once you turn 25, birthday gifts are rare) my preference is money to help pay for our beach stay. i know a lot of people dislike giving dead presidents as gifts though, so there are always ideas of what i like on my amazon.com wishlist. i certainly don’t expect anything of anyone but i doesn’t hurt to give ideas. makes me feel like a kid again… i used to covet the big toys’r’us catalog when i was little and i’d spend days drooling over toys i’d never get, hehe.
i’ve been typing for an hour, yipes!
what are your hoiday (independence day in the u.s.a.) weekend plans?