4 posts tagged “work”

White Rose against blue

When Tom leaves for his work trips, he buys me flowers. He also buys me flowers for holidays. Between work trips and holidays, we have an almost steady stream of roses in the house. He's currently in Orlando for a convention until the 13th.

This week is a busy one with all the activities at the kids' school during their final week. This year has gone so fast.

I'm overdue for a vacation but, unfortunately, my in-laws have done what they do best and blown up their own good situations just for the sake of blowing them up, affecting our lives with it. In other words, my father-in-law threw my sister-in-law out of his house over dishes not being done (I shit you not) and she's gone back to Orlando, effectively leaving us babysitterless again. At least we got to go out once.

I'm out of reading material so it looks like I'll be making a visit to Amazon.com on Friday. Any recommendations?

My Birthday Cake

The five is for "I Plead the Fifth".

I took test shots of CCFEMS 8, then did retakes of CCFEMS 2. I stopped by PGFD to discuss photographing Live Fire Training with Assistant Chief Matt Free before going to my attorney appointment. After that, I did the retake for CCFEMS 16 and then shot CCFEMS 9. I did more shots of PGFD 3, because I'm still not happy with what I have. I finished the day with NPFR 83. I don't have any raw shots to share because I'm still sorting through them.

When I got home, the diningroom had been decorated for my birthday and I was greeted with homemade cards and presents, and a beautiful bouquet of roses.

I was out in the sun too long at CCFEMS 16 and got burnt (I'd be upset if this was the first time I'd done it to myself) so I'm content to work on post-production edits today on my final station selections to sell license.

This week, I have to finish up the CD of the stations, get some legal formality junk done for visitations and financial disclosure, photograph Live Fire Training in Punta Gorda on Wednesday, and try to get a babysitter so we can actually go out like normal people do on Saturday.

Both my daughter and my husband are home so life can resume.

Tom now has an updated MCSE, the details of which he could explain more than I could. I'm very proud of him.

I retook station shots of CCFEMS 5, 6, and 7 and PGFD 2 and 3. Tomorrow, I have an attorney appointment after which I'll be able to redo CCFEMS 16, PGFD 1, and all the CCFEMS that are in El Jobean and over that bridge into Englewood. I also have to retake CCFEMS 2 because I just don't like what I have and I'm not selling something I can't put my name on.

At some point, I need to go to Myakkahatchee Creek Nature Park to repair a chewed up geocache that we'd adopted. Some animal gnawed on it a week or so after we adopted it to prevent it from getting archived. I'd scheduled that repair for this week but that was before the hospital gig came up.

I also need to remove some of my waymarks from the directory until I can update coordinates and photos. Many of the "Art About Town" exhibits that were scattered throughout downtown Punta Gorda have been relocated to a park across from Fisherman's Village. This effectively outdates all the information that I have for those waymarks.

Punta Gorda Fire Department Station 3

This is Punta Gorda Fire Department Station 3. My photoshop skills have fallen short for this one. This was the shot I really wanted to sell for PGFD 3 but I cannot fix the hedges to their proper "PGFD" look. I'm really aggravated about it.

Charlotte County Fire/EMS Station 7

CCFEMS 7 always photographs beautifully. It is the station by the Punta Gorda Airport. This is the typical floorplan that's becoming the standard for all new CCFEMS stations, with very little variation from one to another; but, for some reason, Station 7 is always more photogenic. Lucky 7. Once I got done cleaning up the shot, I was very happy with it.

Tomorrow is, of course, my birthday. I am turning 29 (again).

Tom didn't get paid today. Tomorrow is a holiday. This means that when my husband's boss gets off his fatcat ass to actually pay his employees, we will have the money he earned on January 2nd. They never fail to not pay him for the days he's out sick from injuries gotten at work. Can't manage to pay people on time, though, even if it fucks up their holiday.