So as you have already probably seen on Facebook I have gotten a new job. It is a photographic editing job for a portrait photographer named Denise Kline. She has been in business for twenty years and is very talented and focuses on family, maternity, and baby portraits. Her website is www.denisekilinephotography.com if you want to check out her work or want some portraits done. It has been difficult to learn such a different way to work Photoshop and to learn her style of photography and editing she likes. Its so completely different then the work I do for Looking Glass Photography and the events I do there. I am learning quickly but I don't feel competent enough yet to do much on my own without a little support and guidance from my boss. But its only been a couple of weeks and so I am confident I will learn it soon enough to go to work by myself and get it done right! So happy for this opportunity because work at Looking Glass has been so slow lately that without this new job, I wouldn't have any work right now. I'm so lucky this happened when it did.
But that's not the only new change in the air. I am moving out of my apartment in two weeks (which I just found out about a couple of day ago) to make room for the new baby which will be here sooner than I know it. April is just around the corner and I know Reina needs to get working on a room for the baby, but up and moving so suddenly has made me very nervous. I am not the kind of person that takes to change that well and this is a major change to get used to. It took me ages to get used to living here in the first place and now that I'm in the grove of it I am now leaving to move back home with my parents. I am unfortunately unable to support myself in one bedroom apartment so I really have no other option unless someone out there reads this and needs a roommate or has a room for rent under $400 a month. Even with the new job I'm still only working about 20 hours a week and it's still hard to make ends meet with what I'm spending now every month. Ahhh! It's all so frustrating! And I'm nervous because I'm a home body and Reina is here a lot of the time by herself and I want to be here for her. It just seems that its too bad we don't have another bedroom, at least while Justin is commuting to New York everyday of the week. Another change. Justin starts his run in the Broadway show "American Idiot" on March 1st in New York. SO excited for him and his new black straight hair and fake tattoo! He's worked so hard and its finally paid off and I'm so proud of his achievements!
Also another change is I have been doing some laid back, non paying photo shoots for friends and I'm very happy with the way the pictures are turning out. I did an engagement shoot for Setphanie and Vinay and a maternity shoot for Erin ( my old fiancée's sister) who I hadn't seen in about 4 years. She is so beautiful and I'm so happy to have taken her pictures of her amazingly gorgeous belly. I have yet to get them into Photoshop but I will and they will be great. It awesome to be behind the camera and to feel good about what I'm doing through that viewfinder. If you know anyone looking for engagement photographers please remember my name. The only money I would charge would be a studio fee for the time in the studio I would have to use from my boss.
I have been rereading one of my favorite fantasy series The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson who took over for Jordan when he died a couple years ago. I think I'm the kind of person who has to read things twice to have them really stick in her mind. Without that second read its all a blur because of how fast I read and how many books I consume in such a short amount of time usually. The next series I am going to reread is even more involved then The Wheel of Time series. Its call The Malazan Book of the Fallen if anyone is interested in a great story to occupy a lot of their time this spring and summer. Both series are amazing! I would love to be able to talk with someone I know about these books I read. I have been resigned to dork it out with other fans on Twitter about these series. So strange to talk to people you only know through a computer screen and of all things about a story you all love. I know that's like something someone would say in the 1990's but it still blows my mind.
Anyway, things are changing and I'm trying to keep up with the craziness life keeps throwing at me. Soon a new baby will be born and then everything will turn upside down. I am so excited for my nephew (MY NEPHEW!!!) to be born. Spring is coming and everything will be changed for the better. Even if you can't credit that yet, it's true. It just might take a while for you to see it clearly. I believe that truly. I hope this blog finds you all happy and healthy and smiling while looking forward to more days like today and sunny skies for more than one day at a time. Hope you all stay dry tomorrow and remember the rain always goes away. Peace and Love
Alia Renee
