happy halloween!

this one's for devo!

this is for joe!

go here to see more http://my.mmoabc.com/article/Nik88/2052/Cool-Halloween-Pumpkins.html?login=n

not from the site but we're BSG fans :)

my mom called and wished me a happy birthday and i wished her one too :) i opened the presents she got for me and i got cool earrings and jerseygirl ocean city stuff that i liked over the summer :)

dave's card was awesome and in it was a picture of the gift that will arrive next week :) i got an appliance! woohoo! i asked for it and it's this:
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Cuisinart-DGB600BC-Grind-and-Brew-Coffee-Maker/703605/product.html

i'm really surprised :D i cannot WAIT for it to come in!

we're seeing the devo family later today for a halloween thing in burbank. dave got the night off, so this is nice for a change :D

yesterday i went to a playdate thing with jayden. i joined the mom club for the mid wilshire area. i actually met them on the MS walk. melissa, one of the members, she has MS too and so she is my main reason for joining. she has 2 kids and is also on copaxone. she has a nanny help her even though she's at home with the kids.

so the playgroup is called frogs and tadpoles, and we met over in koreatown, only a mile away. it was a lot of fun, got to meet the other moms and their kids that were in jayden's age group. she wore her costume and she'll wear again tonight too :) here we are as we were about to leave:

here are yer damn cookies! LOL

my birthday gift..copaxone

so the betaseron was making me like shit every other day or more. plus it left red "chemical" burns on my injection sites and those will take a while to heal and go away.

so dr. orfuss is putting me on copaxone. it's an every day injection and is supposed to be more tolerable than betaseron.
http://www.copaxone.com/

my EEG is actually on monday the 5th. my doc and i talked about it. and he's concerned, very concerned about my seizures, twitching, inability to talk when it's happening, etc. he asked again what kind of falls i had while training for show jumping. some i thought weren't so bad, might be causing these to happen. but we can't be so sure just yet.

ok, i'm tired, i would rather be taking pictures or playing outside with jayden. but the air quality sucks the big one. you can barely make out the downtown skyline from my place and i'm not even half a mile from the center either.....

on turning 35, yet another milestone in life

image courtesy of: http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/rollingacres/1250/nature/nature06.html
image courtesy of: http://www.bostontours.us/tours/tourType.cfm?ttid2=1051
image courtesy of: www.usawaterquality.org

to be perfectly honest, i haven't' really thought much about it recently. i mean, i thought i would have at least 2 kids by now, a well established photo career and owning a house, and have had our student loans paid off.

now, i just hope that dave can get a night off and the 3 of us have a nice halloween day with dinner. i don't even really know where to take jayden. she has the cutest little witch costume:D i cannot wait to put it on her and take pictures!!!!

i just wish the weather was much, much cooler, feeling more like fall. i love to wear sweaters and bundle up with a blanket on the couch and read a good book. this warm weather is just not for me....i do better in the cold :D dave calls me a new england "blue-blood" since my hands and feet run cold ;) my dad's side of the family sleeps with the indoor temps set at 60 degrees in the winter time...ahhhh!

the best was when i was in college in beverly, ma, was after classes to go off to one of the local beaches or take a drive all throughout the cape ann areas. i just enjoyed having my sunroof open, music blaring and just enjoying the crisp air and scenery. the beaches were pretty quiet, no one around so that you could just sit by yourself and listen to mother nature.

i miss that very much....

been busy and this is why

i have been working my ass off revamping my site, if you didn't see the email, and see this first, well yeah :) i'm pretty excited that i can now upload proofs for clients to see and they can also purchase prints directly from the site and they get shipped directly to them from the lab.

Here's what I wrote:

With the holidays coming up, I am taking appts now to shoot, prep and send out work. If you are looking for someone or know of anyone who needs a photographer, please, please, send them my way. I also can work remotely for digital restoration of old family photos:
http://www.deirdreryan.com/portfolios/Pages/digital_restoration.html
http://www.deirdreryan.com/digital_retouching_%26_restoration_faqs.html
and small e-commerce businesses:
http://www.deirdreryan.com/pricing.html

I have added an exciting feature, I can now upload proofs online and the client can view and purchase what they want and the products go directly to them from the photo lab.

http://deirdreryanphotography.PhotoReflect.com

Here are the products I offer so far:
-Prints from wallets up to 24x30 printed on Kodak Glossy or Lustre finishes.
-Raw(not stretched) and Gallery Wrapped Canvas Prints
-Photo mugs, coasters,puzzles,tote bag,Short/long sleeved photo shirts, and ceramic ornaments
-4x8 holiday cards that include envelopes

If you need larger prints or panoramic sized prints, just ask me and I can get that for you :) Your images, once uploaded, are password protected. I will send you an email once they are complete and will also give you the password.

I also have a referral program. If you refer someone, you will receive one 8x10 OR two 5x7 prints free at the completion of their order. Your free print(s) can be used to receive additional print from your past session or you can use them toward your next session. There is no limit to how many free prints you can receive. This is just my way of saying thank you for giving me the honor to photograph you and/or family.

Please, feel free to forward this to other family members, co-workers, friends, whomever :) Help support a working mom :) And keep in mind that the holidays are coming up quickly, so book your appt/send your old photo/send your products over ASAP :) LOL

Now the thing that pains me to say is this:
For my family and friends,
I simply cannot afford to do freebies anymore. This for me sucks as I love you all so much. We offer each other so much love and support. I want you all to have pictures shot by me, but I just cannot afford to give out free stuff anymore. Basically, I need some paying clients before I can afford to do certain things :(

I am so sorry everyone!!!!

Other things have come up with my health. I was visiting with my friend, Kristen and her two sons with Dave and Jayden. I suddenly felt nauseous(and you who know me know that never happens to me) and I started to twitch and shake on my right side and I couldn't talk. Last time this happened i landed myself in the ER.

I have an EEG next week, and I am talking with my neuro tomorrow about switching from Betaseron to either Rebif or Copaxone. betaseron makes me sick this go around. i had to stop it when i was pregt, but now that i am sadly no longer and i have to go back on it, my body appears to be rejecting it. but these seizures are a rare symptom of MS. it depends on the location of the leisions in my brain. so i may also need another MRI. i saw my neuro last week and again this week too.

so yay. if this is happening, that makes TWO rare ms symptoms i will have:( that would mean more drugs to take, which means to really think about getting prgt again all more hard to achieve :( sucks......

so i NEED my business to work, for me, my sanity. i'll be less stressed out once i get work and help dave out with the bills. we want a house and a good education for Jayden, get our bills paid off, you know, normal stuff.

ok, i figured it out and deleted the "bad" post

so since my laptop has a built-in camera, i decided to have some fun, especially since i had my hair cut.

Van Halen SNAFU! Joe, don't watch this it'll be to painful

Trouble on the road for Van Halen. They are using a digital playback system for the synth and additional instruments. The important thing is to make sure the play back is set for 44.1 khz not 48khz otherwise it plays a little faster and a little higher pitch the result can heard here.

thanks to gizmodo.com

ok i have NO idea what the hell happened

but yeah, my code got fracked up. anyone here can help me?