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bizzy bizzy bizzy I'm tarred out. Mom actually remarked last night that I hadn't been feeling well for "some time now" had I? Bleh ...I'm not sick or anything (at least, I don't think I am), just kind of bone-weary maybe. My brother & his wife picked up their much later on Monday than they had originally stated ...unless they just ate lunch after 5 (which is entirely possible I guess). Just when it seemed Boo-boo was starting to reach some kind of equilibrium being here, he went fucking berserk when they arrived and it took a couple of hours for him to finally settle down. I really couldn't tell if he was mad at them, or if his excitement was just a little on the odder side of most dogs I've been around. He's an "only " now, and this was far different than any of the times I've kept him in the past with the other dogs. Next weekend is the same brothers birthday and I've been put in charge of making a slide-show for a "surprise" birthday party (that he knows about but doesn't really know about). This year is his BIG FIVE OH (EM GEE!!!), so we want to kind of do it up nicely for him; I haven't decided about black<b> balloons </font></b>and such and have to be careful since I'm next and all (I'm the youngest of four ...and any gag gifts will most certainly be returned to me in three years time, so prudence is in my own best interest  ). I've been pretty busy going through the old family albums, scanning pictures and cleaning them up with photoshop.I'm starting to think that delegating this project to such an OCD person as myself may not have been such a swell idea with only a week left to go. I'm pretty good with cleaning up old pictures (lol ...in one of my bro's high school pictures, I took out all of his acne just to see if he'll notice; we share a somewhat weird sense of humor, so it'll probably drive him nuts trying to figure out what's wrong with the picture) ...after spending a few hours using the older tools that I'm familiar with, I figured out (a few hours later than I had wished) that the included filters in the newer software automatically does a lot of what I'd been doing manually (I remember paying through the nose for equivalent plug-ins that didn't work half as well 13 years ago). It has become obvious that I need to start learning how to be a bit less of a perfectionist in the face of time limits. Doing before and after save's using the filters compared to spending too much time doing it manually has been interesting, you really can tell a difference though (but only if you are looking really close ...which nobody will be doing in this instance). We had some scanner issues that I didn't get resolved until Tuesday, so I've been pretty busy. I took a break yesterday and ran to visit an old friend for the day, but I'm going to have to get busy again here in a few. I'm on the third album, and I really have no idea how many I'm going to have to go through (there are over 40 albums, but we will only be in about half of them). It complicates things a little since my bro is on his third wife, and pictures of JUST him were pretty few during the first two marriages. I've already done two really sweet edit's on pictures during his number two, editing her out. I really do have fun with this sort of thing, but it's just exhausting for me after a few too many hours (and I never recognize "too many" until it's "too late" as a rule). Family pictures ...well, mostly I just have to go with the "love you bro, but fuck you if you don't like it" with exes. He's been with his current wife for nearly fifteen years and he (and she) got their feelings a little bruised when my Dad died. The project of putting all the pictures of Dad together was delegated to me when he died three years ago (yes, there is definitely a pattern there), and I got an earful about how there weren't many pictures of his current wife in the pictures of my father ...but I had a lot of pictures with the previous two wives. ...when he confronted me (he and I are VERY good friends, and I was less than thrilled with him over the incident even now), I found myself in the position of explaining a few facts to him. I politely left the part out about his current wife being certifiable (literally ...I strongly suspect she's schizophrenic; at bare minimum she's extreme bi-polar), but had to explain that since his current wife HATED our Dad and used every excuse to dodge as many family gatherings as possible ...there weren't any fucking pictures because she wasn't fucking there to have them fucking taken. I don't begrudge her not being there (my dad could be a real prick) ...but I fucking well did begrudge them complaining about me not using pictures that didn't fucking exist. fuckity-fuck-fuck (and one of two more fucks thrown in just for good measure)! Okay ...and to admit to one other little detail. As much as I heard about it with that event ...she's only been around for three or four events in the three years since, so odds are pretty good I'll be getting more shit about the lack of pictures of her THIS time as well. Oh ...but at least she decided to help a little bit this time (there's sarcasm just dripping from that sentence). When they dropped off the dog, she left me a flash drive with some of their pictures; when she first brought up using their pictures, I was honestly relieved. She said that "some of them" were pictures that HE took and really liked, so she thought it would be good for me to go through them and have a greater selection. I went through the flash drive on the weekend and there were probably a bit more than two hundred pictures. Almost all pictures of her. There may be five pictures of him out of the two hundred or so that are usable for a slideshow about HIM for HIS birthday. Now am I being slightly off-base over my aggravation about this, or does it seem even remotely normal that when asked by his wife to put together a slide-show for my brother's birthday that she gives me over a hundred pictures of her and only four or five of my brother?! *le sigh* Enough ranting ...guess writing is a good form of procrastination, but it sure isn't going to get much work on the pictures done. wish me luck! |
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