Marketing... A Bad Word!

Marketing. I hate that word. Its a very important word that has very large shoes. Even with wearing a size 12... yes, I wear size 12 in shoes... I can't compare to the vastness of the shoes that Marketing wears and struts around with just to mock me I'm sure. I can't do it.

Scratch that. can’t.

Not that I can't, it's just a very difficult undertaking for someone like me who has never really embarrassed the talking about oneself. Hence the really sucking at the blog posts! haha

This is worse though, much worse.

I want to improve... no, I Need to improve. To do that, I need to take pictures. I haven't been able to get out there and take as many portrait photos as I want and its eating me up inside!! I'm traveling backwards and its making me a tad crazy to where I am actually a lil' worried for my sanity. You get where I'm going with this?

I had the privilege to take pictures at the YMCA's Healthy Kids Day (a.k.a. HKD) a week ago this Saturday. I brought with me to the Y, for HKD, a couple of pictures that I had packed and moved down with me, while leaving the majority (99%) of my display photos back at home in PA. Clear as mud? Right. Anywho. I brought the pictures, my business cards and made impromptu raffle tickets to win 25% off a print order. I guess I did alright.

Marketing. It laughs in my face and sometimes I can actually feel the hot air coming from the outbursts of hysterics. I try. As much as I can push myself to, I try. But I need to push harder, and I need to take more pictures. That is the only way I can improve and save my sanity. The two go hand in hand.

HKD was a good day overall and the best part is, is that it couldn't have hurt anything and couldn't have made my business any less marketed. There's always an upside to things, right? A silver lining? Well I need a lil more silver. A lil more up to the side.

I need to actually get my butt out there and start talking to people you say? Do you know me??? Apparently not unless you want to put me out of my misery.

Ok, a little extreme yes, I'm not in misery. But goodness gracious I need to be slapped. Someone slap me.

I guess I am writing this for a little motivation within myself and to share that I might be horrific and sluggish on the marketing aspect, but I am not giving up. Reading and looking at photographers blogs is so inspiring and I just feel it inside that this is the right path I am going down. I have made it this far and I am not going to let the enormous shoes of the lil word called Marketing get in my way!

This is what I want to do. I want to take pictures. And by golly Lord willing I will take pictures. Lord willing.... Lord... please enable me to get out there and give it the best I got, to be the best I can and share the talent you have given me to the best of my ability.

Amen.

So I Wont Forget...

One of the best weekends to date. Going home and being surrounded with people I love, who shared their love and how much I was missed, is the best feeling ever! Easter is one of my favorite times of the year anyway...

Maunday Thursday started it off. I went to church where I have been going for a few Sundays now with a friend who's a member, and was asked to stay afterward to speak with the pastor. After service I hung back and waited to see if my thinking of why I was being held after church, feeling almost like a detention, was correct. The pastor found me and told me that I have been highly recommended to be the leader in the upcoming National LCMS Youth Gathering in New Orleans this summer. That was what I was expecting and really hoping to hear and what the "detention" was all about. How exciting!!! He proposed it as a question and I dont think I could have gotten a "YES of Course" out fast enough. I had gone to the youth gathering before when it was in New Orleans as a youth. I had an amazing time and still remember it like it was last summer, even though 7 years has past. I also will never forget the fact that I was in a wheelchair while there due to a really bad knee and a game of tennis the day before I was to leave. This time, Lord willing, I will not be in a wheelchair and will be a leader of 4 girls! I cant wait! I will leave July 16 and return July 22.

Then Friday after work I drove straight home, surprised Donella at work :) did some errands, and went to the Good Friday service at my home church. Good Friday is one of my favorite, if not thee favorite, services of the year! It leads up to Easter. We wouldn't have an Easter if Good Friday didnt come. The Lord spared our lives with His as He died on the cross. Nothing can be more powerful than the that act of love.

Saturday was a really busy day. I had several people I wanted to see, a family photoshoot (the one I posted last) and then spent the evening at Donella and Jeff's! Busy, but fantastic!

Sunday I was to play my trumpet at church. I hadn't gotten an official call asking me to, but I suggested it a while before and heard that everyone had heard and that I was expected to play. Making sure I brought my trumpet with me, I was not sure how I was going to sound. The last time sadly enough I had played, was last Easter. We got to the brunch before church and was so glad to see everyone! The lil guy that I missed the most I think is the pastors son Ryan! Such a sweetheart!

It was a great service and playing the trumpet for several songs throughout, went off with just a couple notes outa of tune! haha An amazing ending to a sad and solemn Good Friday! He has risen! He has risen indeed!

After my church service, I went to Jamie's church who was having a potluck after their service. I went to Jamie's house afterwards where we hung out and watched a movie. Then headed back home to finish packing what was left of my things....

I had NO idea how much stuff I own! Its insane, it really is. I jammed my car as full as I could, with things still left behind.

Monday morning I left early and met Donella for coffee and cribbage, our old routine which I thoroughly miss. When it was time for her to head to work, we said goodbye, and I was on my way back down to my new home away from home to be at work by 2pm.

It was a whirlwind of a weekend as I mentioned in my last post, but it definitely did the heart good :) The best Easter weekend to date!

Why am I blogging it now you ask? Well... I didnt have time right afterward, and I wanted to be sure I wrote it down, so I can come back and recall everything I had done and how great it truly was.

I know its not Easter anymore, but its still true today...

He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! :)

Happy Family!!!

Ok Ok Ok Ok!

This is going to be a really really super duper SHORT blog so Karen can Breathe and not die on me! lol

I'm at the Library... this no internet SUCKS... and they close in like 15 min!! Yikes!

I had the BEST whirlwind of a weekend!! I could not have asked for a better Easter home at my church and seeing friends and family was SO nice!!! I do love living here in Vancouver but I just wish I could bring everyone and everything with me! I got the chance to take family pictures of the Tagg family AND... Karen! Here ya go!! lol

AH! they are turning the lights out on me!!! hahah See Ya!! :)