{rant}: photography

I've really put off ranting about this, but I saw yet another blog with yet another photographer who sucks at photography. Now, I am not saying that Rachel and I are the very best photographers on the planet. What I am saying is that we invested A LOT of school, time, money and equipment into what we do. We actually have professional equipment. We actually went to school for photography and digital motion picture production. We took classes in how to do things the right way. We've attended things like WPPI and worked hard to make a break into the wedding industry here in St George by advertising and putting on booths in the wedding show. We competed with the 60 other photographers last year and got voted for the cover of St George's Wedding magazine. Yet business is slow, and everyone is hiring crappy neighbors over us that just have a "cool" camera and learned how to use Photoshop Elements or some other crappy computer program. Why did I bother doing college at all? It makes me so crazy because now that digital has taken over, everyone with an SLR thinks they are a photographer, and they're not. Not at all. Go do the work if you want to charge people money! Pay business license fees, property taxes and sales taxes! Why do we bother doing things the right way??!!? Grrrr. I just get so fed up with it all. And really, not as much anymore because I'm too busy as of yet to even pick up a camera, but really that's what I would like to be busy doing...

Pregnancy Rant

WARNING:  This may be too much information.  Proceed with Caution.

I can no longer see my crotch and it's beginning to weird me out!  If I look down I can't see my feet either but I can peer around my belly to see them.  I simply cannot with my crotch.  I have broken out in a peach fuzz that I never knew was possible.  Everyone I've talked to says that it goes away after you have the baby...I sure hope so.  I've never been so fuzzy.  I always thought that pregnant women could just eat and eat and eat...You Can't!!!  There isn't room!  The most delicious, wonderful food can be sitting right in front of me and I can't even make a dent.  I will eat until I'm filled and be starving hungry 2 hours later only to eat 2 bites more of something.  I only hope I can hang on to this eating pattern after-I'll be sure to lose weight.  I am beginning to go a little crazy-I'm starting to believe that everything that happens to me is a sign of labor.  Ooo, my back hurts-this could be a sign of labor.  Actually, I think that is a sign of pregnancy, I don't remember a time that my back has not hurt.  Oh!!  And I just want to lay down on my back.  It is so hard to explain because I wake up after 5 minutes of sleeping on my back with this feeling of impending doom like I am doing something that is very bad as my hands and feet begin to fall asleep.  So frustrating.  I still have morning sickness.  I know at this point that really makes me a weirdo, but if I don't take my Zofran first thing in the morning I am throwing up bile before I have anything in me to throw up.  I am SO grateful that I live in this day and age with wonderful things like Zofran and Google to calm my labor fears.  One of my bigger pet peeves has definitely been loss of energy lately.  I was doing so much better there for awhile and now if I have even a 4 hour shift at work I'm exhausted.  I feel like such a pregnant women, waddling around with my hands pressed into my lower back.  There's more, but this has gone on long enough.  Thanks for listening...