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i started this as part of the Daily Community here on SmugMug. it has morphed into my photoblog, something apart from the rest.

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hoffalady > Monday      Oct 26 '09      day 436

blue

this shot is straight from the camera, zero PP!! i got it using T's black light! 

it was bedtime by the time i remembered my daily. my first thought was screw it- i'm tired! lol! but my second thought arrived a split second later. i'm glad i didn't give into my laziness! it came out pretty cool. :0)

i spent my day cleaning. this week is gonna be full of it as i prepare not only for T's birthday but my parents & Gran's arrival on Friday. not my favorite way to spend my days BUT it keeps my mind off any anxiousness about my father. (what's that saying about not being able to pick your family? that's kinda part of it. lol)

my shoot w/ the Hackers over the weekend has generated a bit of buzz at the hubbys work. the hubby said that Chris was showing off the photos to everyone and that every time the two of them spoke, Chris mentioned how pleased they are w/ their photos. two other have mentioned wanting me to do their portraits as well. 

i'm really excited... i've just gotta wait and see.... and i'm not a fan of waiting... :0p

yay Monday!

** oh and about yesterday's shot- Stevie is a terrible subject! she gets nervous around the camera. i had to go to her, lay on the ground and coax her like crazy to stay- otherwise she would have licked the lens or worse! LOL
hoffalady > Sunday       October 25 '09        day 435

sniffer

what a productive day! i was up before the sun editing. (crazy i know but i get so excited about getting the shots ready for clients! i can't help it!!) i was really surprised at how quickly i got them all done. it was the upload that dragged on.... 4.5 hours.... yikes! thankfully i didn't have any errors cause that would have made me a bit mental. :0)

the hubby did his best to keep busy so that i could fully invest all my attentions to my work by detailing both vehicles. he rocks! i took a late morning break to make brekkie. he and i ate out on the back porch. who doesn't love pancakes?

and then the usual Sunday laundry marathon while i updated my portfolio and it's slideshow settings for my main page.

not too shabby for staying in my jammies all day, huh? :0p
hoffalady > Saturday      October 24 '09      day 434

Hackers

this afternoon i had a family portrait shoot w/ the Hackers. the weather was beautiful and the people were the best! they did a fantastic job and made my job so much fun!! even Pumpkin, their elderly pooch, was a rock star!! i've got gobs of editing to do!! yay!!

thank you Chris, Jennifer, Tyler, Katelynn and Pumpkin for a fantastic afternoon!

here's a sneak peek before i get consumed w/ my editing!! can you tell i'm stoked? LOL :0)
hoffalady > Friday      October 23 '09       day 433

cinnamon

it's a been sucha long week and i'm afraid next week will be a lil bit more jam packed w/ stuff.

so something simple and comforting to end my long week.... hot coca w/ whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon. the shot didn't come out as i'd anticipated but that's alright. 

happy Friday!
hoffalady > Thursday     Oct 22 '09      day 432

violin

first of all lemme say that i hate this shot. 

all day rain and grey skies were uninspiring. tho this evening the wind was picking up and tearing leaves from the trees. that could have been great w/o the rain. this was taken after dinner but by then my idea for the shot was no longer optional. blah.

fotoeffects asked about yesterday's shot. since i was driving at 40 mph at the time, i just had my camera set to auto, w/ no flash. the actual exposure length was 1.6 seconds. i cropped the lower edge of the shot out (tiniest bit of my hood) and adjusted the blacks to smooth out the grain in LR.
hoffalady > Wednesday        Oct 21 '09        day 431

runway

it was a nice lil domestic day! i found some great flannel sheets and new uber fuzzy blankets for the boys. i surprised them w/ washed linens and freshly made beds. my boys get absolutely giddy when i make their beds. it's the cutest thing. 

unfortunately, i got a call from my Mama today. she said she and Daddy won't be going on the turkey day trip at all now. i didn't realize how much stress she was under about the whole thing. she's a financial planner and studying to be a notary. she's got her big test coming up in Dec. so if she's not working at her office, working from home, hosting seminars or off meeting clients- she's studying. the recession has been hard on her business and she's been working her tail off. she and daddy both have to work the day before turkey day and would be driving out on Thanksgiving. that would only give them half a day w/ us. so that's off for this year. 

sorry Boo!! i would have loved to spend a lil time w/ you too!! maybe next year? we've only got 1 more Thanksgiving after this year and it's an annual family trip. odds are we'll be there! :0)

today's shot is a bit different and a first for me too.i love night time traffic shots but don't really have anywhere close that's safe enough (or interesting enough either) to do it out here in the country. so i put my camera on the dash while i was driving Vernando home tonight and just shot randomly. it was actually really fun to have to wait until i got home to see what i'd ended up with. whatcha think?
hoffalady > Tuesday          October 20 '09            day 430

changeling

not a bad day. the weather was gorgeous! warm, clear and breezy!! such a treat!!

the hubby was feeling well enough to go to work and said he's no longer in any pain, just sore. the boys had good days at school and even discovered that the latest Vladimir Tod book (teen vampire). both boys even agreed to do a lil location scouting with me for this weekends shoot.

the only dark lil rain cloud on the day was find out that the hubby's turkey day leave won't be as long as we'd hoped. we'll drive to South Toledo Bend on Wednesday and drive home on Friday. quick turn around. usually we get more time off but most of his division is taking leave too and they are trying not to have too much overlap. so lame but not unexpected. i'm just thankful to have him home. we've been really lucky throughout his career and he's only missed the birth of 1 son, 3 turkey day's and 2 xmas's. not to shabby over a 14.5 year Naval career.

today's shot is my T. my lil changeling. next week he'll turn 13. it's mindboggling how quickly he's grown.....

thank you so much for all the well wishes for the hubby's recovery. y'all are the best!! and when i told the boys how many people commented on their grades... well, they got a lil embarrassed.
hoffalady > Monday     Oct 19 '09     day 429

honors

the hubby had oral surgery this morning. he ended up being in more pain than he anticipated. so i did my best to keep him entertained, fed (soft food only) and comfortable. poor guy. i'm hoping he'll wake up feeling better tomorrow.

today was report card day! both boys made A's and B's, w/ one C thrown in for T. with all A's and B's, Q made the honor roll.... he also made my daily.
hoffalady > Sunday      October 18 '09      day 428

leggy

another mellow Sunday in the Hoffman house! football, Facebook and family.... or something like that! :0)

how about my Pats? 59-0?? could the Titans be any worse? did they even show up to the game? wow....

the only kink in my day was towards the end (other than not having a daily shot). a couple of my friends on FB, people i grew up with, brought out their political soapboxes. i think my status update expresses how i feel about it all....

"April Hoffman loves that we live in a country where we can have differing points of view... i only wish people would respect your opinion as YOURS not an attack on them or "family values" or some such nonsense... it's an opinion... we don't have to agree or force our views on anyone else.. it's called respect. peace. love. respect."

back to the grind tomorrow.... hope y'all had a great weekend! oh and thanks for the comments on the Bel Air! :0)
hoffalady > Saturday    October 17 '09     day 427

cherry

first of all this shot isn't normally my style. i'm the keep it simple and clean chick... but i really wanted to make this '56 Chevy Bel Air pop. there were a handful of shots that i also liked and did a bit of PP on them. you can check them out in my Americana gallery if you wanna. :0)

i had the bestest day today! we went across town to a tiny lil fall festival here. it wasn't anything super exciting but the weather was beautiful (cool and clear), the sun was shining and the smell of funnel cake lingered in the air. plus deep down i'm a car girl.

i had a meeting w/ clients this afternoon, too. we talked about doing their family fall portraits and scheduled them for next weekend. yay! it feels like forever since i've photographed someone not related to me...... i'm stoked.

did you have a good day?
hoffalady > Friday   Oct 16 '09   day 426

greenies

what a great day! i lazed around this morning, uber unproductive. it was fantastic! :0p

the hubby only had to work a half day. so we got to have some time together w/o the boys, which doesn't happen often during the school year. it was chilly out today and since we might have our first frost of the year this weekend, i went ahead and picked the last of my tomatoes. they'll ripen on the counter.

when i was driving home from picking up Vernando, i told him that i thought it was time we used our fire pit for the first time. my mama gave it to me last xmas because she uses her chiminea instead. every time we've gone to use the fire pit, it's either started raining. i swear! every single time!! V's face light up and he asked if i had any hotdog- weenie roast!!

the hubby is sucha good sport. i sprung the fire pit on him when i got home and he went right to it. the boys had a blast! between the weenie roast and then marshmallow smorgasbord..... :0)

happy friday!!
hoffalady > Thursday    October 15 '09    day 425

leafy

i took today "off" and did as little as possible. my whole body was aching. i wanted to give it some time to recover. so far so good on my BP med and none of the side effects, thus far. i am a bit annoyed by the HUNDREDS of drug interactions listed for it but i'll just have to be vigilant... and the sooner i lost the weight, the sooner i can get off these lil pills, hopefully!

i did learn from my aunt that my grandmother (my fathers mother) had heart disease. it wasn't what killed her but it kept her in the hospital more often than not. i'm still waiting to hear if it was the plaque build up kind (my cholesterol is fine) or the rate and rhythm disrupting variety, which is hereditary. 

the boys had a fall festival after school today. i thought i'd head straight over after picking up Vernando and we could all have a lil fun. unfortunately there was a misunderstanding on T & Q's part. instead we came home almost right away w/ neither T nor Q speaking to me. oh well.

i'd wanted to get some shots at the school but it was pretty much mayhem. i wouldn't even say organized chaos because that would be a total lie! LOL!! so today it's leafy lettuce. :0)

btw, thanks for all the comments yesterday. i appreciate you.
hoffalady > Wednesday     October 14 '09       day 424

drenched

i woke up this morning tired and feeling a lil off. not really sick and no pinpointed pain but not right either, but i pushed on. i got the boys off to school, took my walk and even managed to get this shot in the foggy early morning light. i had a quick brekkie by mid morning but still couldn't shake it. so i figured i'd lay down and make a lil power nap would right me.

but i couldn't quiet my body. in the stillness and peace of my bed, i did realize that my heart was racing. i took my resting heart rate and it was 120. i called my FNP's office for an appointment and i was a bit shocked to find that when i spoke my voice was hushed like i was out of breath. they said to come in immediately.

driving the 3 short miles, gave me just enough time to panic making it worse, i'm sure. (just being in the office did calm me a teeny bit because i knew if anything was going to happen, i would be well taken care of.) my BP was 168/113!! i was quietly given an albuteral treatment to dilate everything and by the time i was laying down for an EKG, i could feel my heart slowing a bit. the EKG was normal. during the exam my heart sounded fine, fast, but not off. 

Miss Lisa, who i was seeing for the first time, went back thru my charts and noticed that my blood pressure had been high or borderline the last couple of visits. so she prescribed a med to lower my BP.

thankfully by the time i got home, the hubby was home from his appointment in Memphis. he went and filled my scripts. within an hour of taking my med my resting heart rate was 78, well w/in the normal range. i felt right as rain.... just exhausted.

the moral of the story is:

 1) listen to your body, especially you ladies, heart disease is the #1 killer of women! and since they don't know exactly what causes it- we have to be vigilant to take care of the only heart we heave.

2) my lu is always right! she knew my BP had been high before and she remembered times when i had felt off before.
hoffalady > Tuesday     Oct 12 '09     day 423

onion

normally during the school Monday is my favorite day of the week. this week it was today. i have my routine when everyone is outta the house. i don't have to take anyone else's feelings into account. i can just do my thing. today that included taking my walk (while giving John a hard time on Facebook), eating my brekkie on the couch while i watched last weeks Medium and doing the grocery shopping.

while i was at the commissary, i ran into a co-worker of the hubbys. he's been telling the hubby for ages that he wants me to do some family portraits for them. we got to talk a bit in the produce aisle. we have to get those done in the next few weeks before the trees are naked!

oh rain... you're here again.... *sigh*
hoffalady > Monday       Oct 12 '09          day 422

spoiled

i'm back (again) i took a break from pretty much everything electronical starting last Friday and spent time w/ all my men. nothing too exciting happened... :0)

the hubby had today off and the boys went back to school. so it was almost business as usual for me. the hubby even went w/ me on ly morning walk. he's a good egg.

it sprinkled on and off all day but they are calling for rain every day this week. so, photographically, i'll be focusing on the lil things.

hope y'all have been well! :0)
Monday Oct 26 '09 day 436

blue

this shot is straight from the camera, zero PP!! i got it using T's black light!

it was bedtime by the time i remembered my daily. my first thought was screw it- i'm tired! lol! but my second thought arrived a split second later. i'm glad i didn't give into my laziness! it came out pretty cool. :0)

i spent my day cleaning. this week is gonna be full of it as i prepare not only for T's birthday but my parents & Gran's arrival on Friday. not my favorite way to spend my days BUT it keeps my mind off any anxiousness about my father. (what's that saying about not being able to pick your family? that's kinda part of it. lol)

my shoot w/ the Hackers over the weekend has generated a bit of buzz at the hubbys work. the hubby said that Chris was showing off the photos to everyone and that every time the two of them spoke, Chris mentioned how pleased they are w/ their photos. two other have mentioned wanting me to do their portraits as well.

i'm really excited... i've just gotta wait and see.... and i'm not a fan of waiting... :0p

yay Monday!

** oh and about yesterday's shot- Stevie is a terrible subject! she gets nervous around the camera. i had to go to her, lay on the ground and coax her like crazy to stay- otherwise she would have licked the lens or worse! LOL
hoffalady > Monday      Oct 26 '09      day 436

blue

this shot is straight from the camera, zero PP!! i got it using T's black light! 

it was bedtime by the time i remembered my daily. my first thought was screw it- i'm tired! lol! but my second thought arrived a split second later. i'm glad i didn't give into my laziness! it came out pretty cool. :0)

i spent my day cleaning. this week is gonna be full of it as i prepare not only for T's birthday but my parents & Gran's arrival on Friday. not my favorite way to spend my days BUT it keeps my mind off any anxiousness about my father. (what's that saying about not being able to pick your family? that's kinda part of it. lol)

my shoot w/ the Hackers over the weekend has generated a bit of buzz at the hubbys work. the hubby said that Chris was showing off the photos to everyone and that every time the two of them spoke, Chris mentioned how pleased they are w/ their photos. two other have mentioned wanting me to do their portraits as well. 

i'm really excited... i've just gotta wait and see.... and i'm not a fan of waiting... :0p

yay Monday!

** oh and about yesterday's shot- Stevie is a terrible subject! she gets nervous around the camera. i had to go to her, lay on the ground and coax her like crazy to stay- otherwise she would have licked the lens or worse! LOL
Monday Oct 26 '09 day 436

blue

this shot is straight from the camera, zero PP!! i got it using T's black light!

it was bedtime by the time i remembered my daily. my first thought was screw it- i'm tired! lol! but my second thought arrived a split second later. i'm glad i didn't give into my laziness! it came out pretty cool. :0)

i spent my day cleaning. this week is gonna be full of it as i prepare not only for T's birthday but my parents & Gran's arrival on Friday. not my favorite way to spend my days BUT it keeps my mind off any anxiousness about my father. (what's that saying about not being able to pick your family? that's kinda part of it. lol)

my shoot w/ the Hackers over the weekend has generated a bit of buzz at the hubbys work. the hubby said that Chris was showing off the photos to everyone and that every time the two of them spoke, Chris mentioned how pleased they are w/ their photos. two other have mentioned wanting me to do their portraits as well.

i'm really excited... i've just gotta wait and see.... and i'm not a fan of waiting... :0p

yay Monday!

** oh and about yesterday's shot- Stevie is a terrible subject! she gets nervous around the camera. i had to go to her, lay on the ground and coax her like crazy to stay- otherwise she would have licked the lens or worse! LOL
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