366 Photo Project - Photo 37: Twinsies Blankies

Some of you may recall me mentioning that I have a friend who had twin girls not too long ago. I went to visit her back in March so I made a couple flannel blankets for the girls, Rachel & Rebecca. I had chosen out the yellow fabric a long time ago because toads have a special meaning to her family and I thought it was absolutely perfect! I bought matching boy and girl flannel to pair with it. I'm really loving how these flannels turn out. They are imperfect and I love that about them. They are double layered and extra big so even the girls can even use them when they are toddlers. I had made the labels according to these instructions, but my friend Penny just informed me that the ink does wash out. Boooo. I knew it was too good to be true but I was hoping oh so bad that it would work. I love personalizing the blankets. I will have to look into some permanent fabric inks for future labels. 

366 Photo Project - Photo 36: Snow Play

You know how dogs do the weirdest things sometimes? Like when they decide to roll around in the snow for no apparent reason? Khuno does that a lot, especially on the snow in our front yard. One day Jamie rings the doorbell while I'm downstairs crafting. I wasn't expecting anyone so I creep upstairs and don't see anyone in the window. I head back downstairs and I hear another doorbell. Now I'm all paranoid and I duck down and race to the backdoor to make sure it's locked and the alarm is on. I head back to the living room all hunched over to check things out and I hear someone rummaging through the mailbox. That's when I see that it's flippin' Jamie! All he said when I opened the door (after I ran to turn off the alarm), "Khuno doesn't want to come inside." So we sat there on the front porch, our little family, taking in the gorgeous winter day. 

366 Photo Project - Photo 35: Puppy Date

I've spent my entire day (literally from 9:30-3:00) processing photos from my camera. As I've said before, I may not post a new picture everyday for this 366 Photo Project but that doesn't mean I'm not taking them! I finally got around to processing the past 2 months worth of photos and I'm so happy to finally delete them off my camera. Jamie has this thing for keeping raw files but they are just so darn massive and annoying to keep. Why you might ask? Because I end up deleting a lot of photos while I'm processing them in Lightroom but I don't keep a list of all the ones I delete. So when I go to clear out my memory card, I don't want to have to sort through them to see which ones I've kept and which ones I've dumped. What happens then is that I end up keeping all the raw files! Jamie's rationale, which I totally agree with, is if I ever needed to go back and edit the photo, the raw file would be a lifesaver. But it's just so many photos!!! If you have any suggestions for me on how to improve my workflow and backing up of files (I'm directing this to you Justin), please let me know. 

Anyways this photo is from way back in February. Julie and I decided to have a Project Life night so she packed up a bit of supplies and her puppy for a night of scrapping and doggy fun. It was really funny watching Toffee because she didn't want to play with Khuno at first and when Khuno finally got tired of waiting for Toffee, that's when she decided she'd poke the big white bear. Don't let her size fool you though because she definitely put Khuno in his place whenever he was being inappropriate. We couldn't get Khuno to sit up beside Julie no matter how hard we tried so we just settled on a laying down picture. 

Amazon Ridiculousness

How did I guess that Amazon would get back to me with a stupid response? Just as I suspected, Mr. Jayakumar didn't understand my situation and just decided to throw it over to an account specialist. So now they think I want to order something when I'm trying to tell them that someone else ordered the bloody gift cards! Geez... Amazon I'm disappointed in your suckiness. After reading that useless email, I go onto their live chat again and talk to another agent. 
Live agent, Taylor, was way more helpful. Perhaps it's because I typed a lot of CAPS in my complaint. Either way, Taylor was helpful and had the courtesy to ask if there was anything else I needed and did the decent thing of signing off with "Take care!" 

Amazon Annoyance

While I was in San Fran, I received a confirmation email from Amazon.com for 2 gift card purchases of $115 each sent to an email that I don't know. After attempting to log into Amazon several times, I thought my password was wrong so I reset it again and again, still unable to log in. So I sent them an email saying perhaps I received a phishing email. 3 days later I still haven't heard back from them. So today I contact their live chat help. You can see our little conversation on the left. I am beyond annoyed. If Amazon had put my account on hold, they should have notified me. For me to not even be able to log in to see my account is ridiculous. I wasted a lot of time resetting my password again and again. Amazon should have at least had a prompt that told me my account was on hold and to contact them or they will contact me. It just kept saying it couldn't log in and if I forgot my password, click here. I've used live chat help before for other companies and never did the rep just leave. Mr. Jayakumar, you suck at customer service. Amazon, you also suck at customer service. 

366 Photo Project - Photo 34: Date Night

I just dropped Jamie off at the airport with AI. They're heading to Vegas for AI's stag so it'll be a long weekend of just Khuno and I. I'm looking forward to getting a lot of crap done. The list is massive and it includes: 
1. Finish making 12 more cards for Amanda
2. Process photos from the past 2 months
3. Print photos for Project Life & scrapbooking
4. Work on Project Life & scrapbooking
5. Figure out expenses for San Fran
6. Work on thank you cards (no, we aren't done yet...)
7. Laundry
The rest of the list includes daily tasks like walking Khuno, cooking, lounging and more importantly, TV watching. It's almost 3:30 and all I've done so far is heat up my coffee, throw on my robe and slippers and load a video showing the new features of Lightroom 4... 
Oh right, the point of the post was the photo! Jamie and I decided to go out to Sweet Mango last night for supper because we had a voucher for it and we just realized 2 of our other vouchers either expired or the restaurant shut down. We attempted taking a self portrait with his phone. It took us a good 10 minutes and in the end, we still got a crappy photo but oh well! It's always nice to go out for dinner because it feels like a date night whenever we do it. We ended up ordering tofu fries, green onion cakes, pad thai and singapore noodles. Greasy and delicious. 

366 Photo Project - Photo 33: Blowing His Coat

Sometimes the iPhone really is a lifesaver for photo taking isn't it? I actually used it to document my recent San Fran trip this past weekend. It's absolutely terrible in low light situations but the amount of noise in the photo can only be expected. Onto photo 33! The picture is of Khuno's fur that I managed to comb out after 2 hours of sitting with him while watching The Voice. That was only the fur from his back groin area near his hind legs. He hates being brushed and wasn't impressed at all. That little face of his in the photo... imagine his usual smile turned upside down. He managed to tolerate me for about an hour before Jamie had to hold him for the other hour. He's been pretty smelly with the spring weather so I'm hoping combing out some of his undercoat will help that.