Yesterday I got the perfect photo of Indy. He's looking straight at the camera, he's in natural light, he's framed well, and overall he looks like he could be a model-dog or something like that. I'm very proud of him. As for me, it's not that I'm proud...I didn't work hard for this, I just got lucky. I tend to just point and shoot, always hoping for the best, especially when it comes to moving targets like these guys.
I need to get out more. I need to take pictures of more than just things around my house, like dogs or family. Not that I don't love those things, it's just that my photo collection feels kind of boring these days.
I feel awkward when I am out somewhere and want to take a picture of something; especially when it's that I want to take a picture of the people I'm hanging out with. I can't explain it, except that I feel weird pulling out the camera and asking people if I can take their picture. It seems unnatural and for whatever reason, it kind of makes me feel like I am a creepy stalker-type who wants photographic memories to cherish on my own for years to come. I don't care if this doesn't make sense, I just know it's my stupid reality. I don't know...is it weird to want to take more photos in general? Am I just picking up on people's fears that I will post their picture on this blog? Do I make people go, "Oh, great...I know this is going to wind up on the blog" when they see me coming? I wonder things like this sometimes. Just sit there, wondering and wondering...
Too much information alert: I woke up today with a cold sore on my upper lip. It's unusual. Not only because I rarely get these sores (usually it's a canker sore in my mouth, not outside of it), but because it is long and thin in shape. It looks like a raised bubbly-area, and it runs from the middle of my lip to just outside the lip line on one side of my mouth. It happens to be in the EXACT place where a glass will meet my lips while I am taking a drink. This is really annoying today. Every time I hold a drink to my lips, it hits that spot. Yuck.
Something of interest: offices don't usually have a lot of straws lying around. I never thought about that, until today. I looked everywhere I could trying to find a straw so I could drink my water -- I finally ended up with a coffee stirrer. FUN. And it turns out, coffee stirrers do not make ideal straws for a can of soda, either. They fizz up and the straw pops free of the can the first chance it gets.
I thought about going somewhere and buying a drink just so I could get the straw. How dumb am I? All I'd need to do is go into any convenience store or fast food place and grab one of the millions of straws they have in their dispensers. But that would require getting up off my ass, driving to a store and doing this. Nahh. Too much effort. I guess I'll just have to sit here like a jerk, sipping water through a coffee stirrer and trying to hide my diseased lip from anyone who stops by to talk to me.
LEAVE ME ALONE...I'm HIDEOUS. I look like Freakshow today.
("I heard every word ya said.")
10 comments:
Those are the best kinds of pictures!
Indy looks GREAT! Nice work!
I agree with every word. Except the cold sore part. Can't be on that train with you today, sorry.
I feel awkward with the camera stuff, too... but I still do it. Drives Ben nuts when I make him take yet another photo. But I believe it's worth it in the long run.
Holla if you need straws!
Only you can write about cold sores and make it interesting. Damn.
I am totally hearing you on the no straws thing at work. I just brought a ziplock freezer bag full of straws last Friday because I was sick of drinking my seltzer with lemon sin straw. My office break room has spoons, forks, knives but no damn straws. W T friggity F?
Great picture of Indy. It looks like he's smirking.
You have a cold sore? But you don't have TIME for cold sores! You don't have TIME to take medicine for cold sores! (That's how they always act on the herpes commercials ... which, I know you don't have THAT KIND of herpes but it's herpes nonetheless and I'm sorry but that still cracks me up about cold sores. It's herpes, yo!)
Oh, and I feel weird taking pictures in public, too! I thought it was just me, because everybody seems to take these really artsy and interesting pictures of signs and old buildings and the like, and I would just feel like such a jackass standing in the middle of the sidewalk aiming my camera at a door.
We don't have straws OR spoons over here! For the past few weeks I've been eating my yogurt with a fork every day. Sucks. I could just bring one from home, but that involved washing it and remembering to bring it home. I don't trust washing it here, we have dish soap but the oldest, crustiest sponge you've ever seen sits by our sink. I'll just use a fork, thanks.
I know how you got that "cold sore", and it ain't goin away with any old ointment, if you know what I'm sayin.
My sister's a dirty bird, that's what I'm sayin.
I have been laughing for 5 straight minutes because I had totally forgotten about FREAKSHOW!
Bravo, Lisa. Bravo.
Shades - Aww, thanks for the compliment! It's a little glare-y, but overall at least he looks like a normal dog. :)
Smackadocious - Maybe we could share straws; that way you can enjoy a lovely cold sore from me, too! How long will the herpes virus live on a straw sent through the mail, anyways?
Naynay - I try, I really do. And it really is weird about the lack of straws. I never thought about it until now. Now I need to start a campaign to get straws into office. (See how witty it could be? Oh man, this is gonna be good.)
Fraulein - You're right! I have NO time for herpes of any sort! My life is hectic enough without the added trouble of the herpes virus. I sort of wish we could call cold sores "face herpes" or "mouth herpes" because it's funny. Or, I guess you could call genital herpes "HOT SORES." OH...!
Trish - Why don't you just buy a new sponge? What do they cost, all of 25 cents or something? Yeah, who's the real dirty bird around here now? Oh...it's still me. I'm the one with herpes on my mouth. I'll get you next time, shitface.
Lani - Harold & Kumar is a great American film. I can't believe that's Christopher Meloni under those oozing boils. (The part where they are watching Freakshow fix the car is my favorite; he's over there singing some Christian song and when he gets to, "Hey Randy! Huh? The devil! What?" Greg and I just lose it every time.)
Where I am, there are straws and plastic spoons, forks, and knives aplenty! Too bad I can't inter-office mail them.
As much as I love you, Chooz so Cruel, I'm not about sharin' the herps with you anytime soon.
Christopher Meloni, on the other hand... now I'd be willing to go halvsies on herps with him so long as he promised to talk to a can of veggies whilst humping a fridge.
That is a great picture! I wish I could take pictures like that but my camera sucks.
I am always looking for straws at work too and many times have had to resort to using the coffee stirrer too. And with soda, they just don't work. I hope your cold sore goes away soon, they are certainly no fun.
How come I had NO IDEA that was Christopher Meloni as Freakshow? Wow! That movie makes me pee I laugh so hard.
Smackadocious - "I'm gonna go fondle my sweaters."
"What?"
"I said I'm gonna...make fondue, with cheddar...for dinner. Forget it, get out of here, leave me alone!"
Vegas Princess - The cold sore's getting a little better. Whew! I'm still drinking through straws though. At least it's not eating through straws, right? No one has beat me up lately.
Now I'll watch Law & Order SVU like the next girl, but it's Mr. Meloni's work in comedy that REALLY impresses me. He is a damn funny man. Damn funny.
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