I woke up Friday December 4th not in the best of moods.
Actually I wasn't in a mood at all, I was just there barely in existence. Why should I wake at all I thought, seriously I felt like sleeping this day away just so it would NEVER actually happen.
Why should I feel like this you may be thinking, well it was the morning of my 38th Birthday! Can you believe it my 20's and 30's just past by in the blink of an eye! Why, oh why did the years sneak up on me like this?
I'm not one for keeping my birthday a secret or being embarrassed about my age, but this year just felt different. I finally have that feeling many women get when they say "that's it I'm going to be 27 forever!"
So as I peel off the covers and mope on out to the front of the house, I see my beautiful smiling daughter and my cousin Jana who had got her ready for school. Ok so, I guess today is starting not that bad.
Then I jump on my iMac to check my multitude of daily emails. One caught my eye; it was from JustinElements Photography. Just two days earlier, I had met with Justin for an interview he had asked do of me, which had come about because a couple weeks earlier, I had the honor to speak at the Art Institute of OC.
Professor Zachary Drucker emailed me sometime ago asking if I would be a guest lecturer in his class discussing my business as a Lifestyle Wedding Photographer. WOW, I was truly honored and severely nervous! The day had come, I made it through the discussion and surprisingly enough I had possibly effected others' decisions to become Lifestyle Wedding Photographers, because when I spoke that evening there was only ONE person in the class who was considering wedding photography as a career. Which comes to the day of my interview with Justin, during our 3 hour interview and conversation, he divulged to me that the next week they had another wedding photographer visit them and when she asked in the beginning "Who here is interested in Lifestyle Wedding Photography?" 5 more people raised their hands- wow... I may have been a small part of this guidance!
And so, now the morning of my birthday, I read an email that Justin had finished his article and had posted it on his blog! I read it and it was the beginning of fabulous birthday adventure! Please read his article; he is an amazing writer!
So now to the next part of my day...
I asked my cousin if she would go on a walk with me- it was the one thing I really wanted to do that day...just get out and enjoy the day without really thinking about my B-day. Our walk starts at the Belmont Veteran's Memorial Pier, the sky is blue, the air is slightly warmed from the bright sun. We step onto the boardwalk and Jana gets a phone call; it's her lawyer. Unfortunately, my cousin is going through a split with her husband who we like to refer to now as the German version of Tiger Woods.
So this walk was for her as well as me, a much needed walk! Luckily, it was going to start off GREAT because that call she got from her lawyer was to tell her that the "DOUCHE-BAG" was about to get served!!!!!!!! FINALLY- she and the rest of us were waiting (what seemed like years but in reality it as only 2.5 months) for his sorry ass to get those papers that show him you can NOT screw around in this family and get away with it!
OK, so my original desire to not celebrate became a true need, a must to celebrate! So we walked our 38 year old asses to the Long Beach Museum of Art to pop open a bottle of champagne at Claire's.
Check out the iPhone pics of our gorgeous view!
After a bottle of bubbly and cheese plate, we danced (and I mean got groovy and down on the boardwalk dance) the whole way back to Black-Eyed Peas'
Seriously this day just got better and better!
So the day progresses and the only REAL thing I had planned to do that day was go to the ShootSac Opening Holiday Party hosted by Keats Elliott and Jessica Claire
My best friend Charla, my cousin Jana and our fellow photog Alicia joined me for night of mingling with other photogs and buying the coolest lens bag ever!
The party brought all sorts of photogs in such as Becker, Vu Bui, Dane Sanders just to name-drop a few!
So the night was filled photog, camers, shootsacs, hot-totties and sweets! As you can imagine, the topic of discussion was photography which was just a bit boring for my cousin, so after Charla bought me my fabulous ShootSac we headed over to Lola's in Santa Ana for some vino, tapas and good times!!!!
I never thought this day would end up being one of the best!!!!
Thanks everyone for celebrating with me- luv you all!
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