Ronald: well, I haven't known her as long as you have [my parents], but I do know, a sure fire way to get Maike to do something is to tell her she can't..... Even better, tell her it's because she's a girl.
...
...
...
He's right.
I hate when someone tells me I can't do something.
...
I can do anything I want to.
-mrp-
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
respect
I'm coming to realize more and more that I not only have high standards for people, but also have a low threshold for lack of respect. If I text you, you should text me back.... texting is easy... take half a second and reply.
(Sigh).
High standards = bigger let downs
But manners matter! You should return phone calls and texts, you should write thank you notes, you should be greatful when people help you/change their schedule for you/make you dinner/etc.
How do some people forget that? If you get a gift, freaking send a thank you! Even if it's only through a text!
Meh... end.of.rant.
-mrp-
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
#trainride
The husband and I are headed to New Mexico! The first question, after we tell pleople that is usually, "are you driving or flying?"...
To which I usually smirk a bit and excitedly say, "We're taking the train!"
We have about 25 hours left.
BUT... I'm so excited to see my family! I haven't seen the rents for a year and a half, and I haven't seen my grandma for almost three years.
It's going to be great :).... and we don't have to drive or navigate or worry about traffic.
We did have to carry our big ass backpacker packs a bit through Chicago (like a mile). But all in all, not to shabby of a set up.
We're going to make dinner reservations on the dinning car, and maybe check out the lounge...
So far, the only things I forgot that I wad planning on bringing were my knitting and travel scrabble (Ronald says I have words with friends so.I should be fine).
I'm glad we got out of town :). Sometimes I feel couped up staying in one city too long.
-mrp-
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
shoot.
"if we had more guns, then this wouldn't have happened!"
"if we had more gun control and less guns on the street this wouldn't have happened!"
"if we had better mental health coverage this wouldn't have happened!"
"if we were a more loving people, this wouldn't have happened!"
"if we didn't allow our kids to play violent video games, this wouldn't have happened!"
"if there were two parents in that household raising that boy, this wouldn't have happened!"
and to take the cake, I just read this morning:
"if there were more men in that school.... this wouldn't have happened!"
Here's the thing... you.just.can't.prove.that.
There are thousands of people who have guns, and have never shot up a school/theater/etc.
There are thousands of people who don't have guns, and have never had a time where a gun would have been a useful form of defense.
There are thousands of people who have mental illnesses, who have never gone on a killing rampage.
And I could go on, and on....
I've been following along, and thinking and wondering and thinking some more about this whole Sandy Hook shooting [which is tragic and so sad and wrong].... but the thing I've come to realize is that no one knows.
No.One.Knows.
This isn't like the common cold [remedy = drink plenty of fluids and take some DayQuil/NyQuil]
I think it might be a bit more like cancer [remedy = do something, even if it kills part of your body, 'cause we're just hoping this works!]
I'm probably a bit of downer, because I don't believe that there is a quick fix to any of this. I really think though that pointing fingers at EVERYTHING, and ANYONE associated with this is not helpful [*maybe it was the layout of the school! if the architect had designed it better, then this wouldn't have happened!* [okay, no one has actually said that, but I wouldn't be surprised].
I read somewhere a thing that said something like, "Now is too LATE to be taking about gun control"... and while this may be true, I believe two things when it comes to talking about how to fix this problem right after it was announced... 1. People just lost their people. Grief is hard enough to go through. Why would you push them into anger right away? Why can't you let them be sad for some time, and then move into anger? and 2. What huge big messy problem have you really solved in a couple of hours? You want to band-aid it, okay, go ahead... a band aid is temporary though. You can't put a band aid over a broken bone and hope that it heals. It just covers up a bigger problem.
I really think this is something that does need some thought, and research, and more thought, and more research, because I don't think this sort of stuff should happen!... but causation and correlation have to be considered. And research has to be done so that we're talking about facts.
So, all that to say, I'm tired of getting angry at people who are heartless, and who think, "if we had just, blah, blah blah, this wouldn't have happened"....
You.Don't.Know.That.
-mrp-
"if we had more gun control and less guns on the street this wouldn't have happened!"
"if we had better mental health coverage this wouldn't have happened!"
"if we were a more loving people, this wouldn't have happened!"
"if we didn't allow our kids to play violent video games, this wouldn't have happened!"
"if there were two parents in that household raising that boy, this wouldn't have happened!"
and to take the cake, I just read this morning:
"if there were more men in that school.... this wouldn't have happened!"
Here's the thing... you.just.can't.prove.that.
There are thousands of people who have guns, and have never shot up a school/theater/etc.
There are thousands of people who don't have guns, and have never had a time where a gun would have been a useful form of defense.
There are thousands of people who have mental illnesses, who have never gone on a killing rampage.
And I could go on, and on....
I've been following along, and thinking and wondering and thinking some more about this whole Sandy Hook shooting [which is tragic and so sad and wrong].... but the thing I've come to realize is that no one knows.
No.One.Knows.
This isn't like the common cold [remedy = drink plenty of fluids and take some DayQuil/NyQuil]
I think it might be a bit more like cancer [remedy = do something, even if it kills part of your body, 'cause we're just hoping this works!]
I'm probably a bit of downer, because I don't believe that there is a quick fix to any of this. I really think though that pointing fingers at EVERYTHING, and ANYONE associated with this is not helpful [*maybe it was the layout of the school! if the architect had designed it better, then this wouldn't have happened!* [okay, no one has actually said that, but I wouldn't be surprised].
I read somewhere a thing that said something like, "Now is too LATE to be taking about gun control"... and while this may be true, I believe two things when it comes to talking about how to fix this problem right after it was announced... 1. People just lost their people. Grief is hard enough to go through. Why would you push them into anger right away? Why can't you let them be sad for some time, and then move into anger? and 2. What huge big messy problem have you really solved in a couple of hours? You want to band-aid it, okay, go ahead... a band aid is temporary though. You can't put a band aid over a broken bone and hope that it heals. It just covers up a bigger problem.
I really think this is something that does need some thought, and research, and more thought, and more research, because I don't think this sort of stuff should happen!... but causation and correlation have to be considered. And research has to be done so that we're talking about facts.
So, all that to say, I'm tired of getting angry at people who are heartless, and who think, "if we had just, blah, blah blah, this wouldn't have happened"....
You.Don't.Know.That.
-mrp-
Saturday, December 15, 2012
holidays...
Just stayed in the car a bit longer to finish the song on the radio.... Ave Maria by Celine Dion. So beautiful.
-mrp-
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
grinchy blog post....
"Grinchy" might be a little to strong of a word [shut up, "grinchy" IS a word!]. But pretty much I keep having to talk myself down from freaking out... cause my stupid computer has gone ape shit!
Seriously. I move my mouse around to wake it up this morning, to find it completely different than I left it. My desktop background, replaced with some colorful swirlish thing that comes with new computers.
Initially I thought, well, maybe Ronald hooked up his computer to mine, or something... so I look around... nope.
Then I'm like, okay, well, maybe it updated it, and this is not all bad... and as I hold my breath I click open the C drive... whew, still there.
Okay, so it's there, and I've got shit to do! So I open up indesign, get my book exporting, and realize I need to do some photoshop-ing of a few images before I send it off... okay, open up photogshop [ha ha, funny typo that I'm totally leaving in], drag my photo in, and then hit my quick key to run an action... ... ... nothing.happens.oh.shit.
I realize all my actions are missing... [not a huge deal, I can re-load, whatever]... so then I open lightroom... all my presets are missing, and all my catalogues of past work... what.the.hell!
Okay, so for most of you, you have no idea what all that means. It means, that if this happened at any other time, I would be super duper freaking out, but luckily, I've been kickin out all my projects earlier this week, and don't have anything that's REALLY pressing.
Unluckily though, what the hell happened?!?!
I look into my Documents folder. Everything's gone. My Pictures folder, same story.
Right now I'm approaching it with a "I'm gonna go ahead and work on crafts instead until Ronald get's home. Then he can take a look at it and either we fix it or I'll start over again... and look into investing in the cloud backup.
Meh.
-mrp-
ps: it would be some work, but I assure you, as a professional photog, all my picture files are backed up multiple times, so my clients have nothing to worry about. Random documents, and advertising files, not quite as well backed up unfortunately :(.
CRISIS AVERTED: turns out my crazy computer decided that it didn't like me as a user anymore, so created a temporary user... all I had to do was restart it and it started in as user Maike... [sigh]... I sometimes hate technology...
Seriously. I move my mouse around to wake it up this morning, to find it completely different than I left it. My desktop background, replaced with some colorful swirlish thing that comes with new computers.
Initially I thought, well, maybe Ronald hooked up his computer to mine, or something... so I look around... nope.
Then I'm like, okay, well, maybe it updated it, and this is not all bad... and as I hold my breath I click open the C drive... whew, still there.
Okay, so it's there, and I've got shit to do! So I open up indesign, get my book exporting, and realize I need to do some photoshop-ing of a few images before I send it off... okay, open up photogshop [ha ha, funny typo that I'm totally leaving in], drag my photo in, and then hit my quick key to run an action... ... ... nothing.happens.oh.shit.
I realize all my actions are missing... [not a huge deal, I can re-load, whatever]... so then I open lightroom... all my presets are missing, and all my catalogues of past work... what.the.hell!
Okay, so for most of you, you have no idea what all that means. It means, that if this happened at any other time, I would be super duper freaking out, but luckily, I've been kickin out all my projects earlier this week, and don't have anything that's REALLY pressing.
Unluckily though, what the hell happened?!?!
I look into my Documents folder. Everything's gone. My Pictures folder, same story.
Right now I'm approaching it with a "I'm gonna go ahead and work on crafts instead until Ronald get's home. Then he can take a look at it and either we fix it or I'll start over again... and look into investing in the cloud backup.
Meh.
-mrp-
ps: it would be some work, but I assure you, as a professional photog, all my picture files are backed up multiple times, so my clients have nothing to worry about. Random documents, and advertising files, not quite as well backed up unfortunately :(.
CRISIS AVERTED: turns out my crazy computer decided that it didn't like me as a user anymore, so created a temporary user... all I had to do was restart it and it started in as user Maike... [sigh]... I sometimes hate technology...
Friday, December 07, 2012
too many numbers!!!!!
I'm trying to figure out what I owe for my annual sales tax... too.many.numbers.
I need to hire someone to do this crap.
-mrp-
ps: suggestions on accountants are welcome.
I need to hire someone to do this crap.
-mrp-
ps: suggestions on accountants are welcome.
sometimes...
Sometimes it's hard owning your own business... especially when you think you're good, but not getting a TON of business, so wondering what you're doing wrong.
And it's easy to get disheartened. And discouraged. And to start to believe you should get another day job cause some day you would like to be debt free.
And then something like this is sent:
******************
Maike,
This is from the boy's Mom:
XXOO CSL
I was looking at the pictures again and I just can't thank you enough--there are so many great shots of the boys!!! I really like her style of photography, it's like the pictures tell a story, really cool!
***************
How sweet, and awesome, right? And this lady that wrote this, I've met her once before. Which in my mind just means... she truly likes my stuff, not just because she knows me, or whatnot. She likes it. Which is awesome. I hope she puts images all over her house, and sends many clients my way :).
Hopefully :).
-mrp-
And it's easy to get disheartened. And discouraged. And to start to believe you should get another day job cause some day you would like to be debt free.
And then something like this is sent:
******************
Maike,
This is from the boy's Mom:
Mom,
I absolutely LOVE them!!!!! The are awesome! I am going to show them to Chris, he will be so excited, can I order directly from her site?
I was looking at the pictures again and I just can't thank you enough--there are so many great shots of the boys!!! I really like her style of photography, it's like the pictures tell a story, really cool!
***************
How sweet, and awesome, right? And this lady that wrote this, I've met her once before. Which in my mind just means... she truly likes my stuff, not just because she knows me, or whatnot. She likes it. Which is awesome. I hope she puts images all over her house, and sends many clients my way :).
Hopefully :).
-mrp-
Monday, December 03, 2012
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