Category: BlahBlahBabble

At 2:45am, the home phone rang. Immediately giving me a heart attack, because it could have only meant something bad had happened to someone. Mike answered; no one there.

Then my cell phone started to ring. I didn’t get it answered in time.

Then the house phone rang again. I answer. It is some guy, who knows that I am Christine, and tells me that he is Paul … you know, who I met at the bar tonight. You know, I gave him my business card. You know, Paul. (He kept saying, “you know” over and over – ignoring my very obvious confusion.)

Whathuh? I went to dinner with my parents, my husband & my son. I came home and finished editing a wedding. No bar was involved in any of this.

So he hangs up – and calls back on my cell phone to prove that I really did give him my business card. Otherwise, how would he have both numbers? I told him – AGAIN – that my HUSBAND and I were HOME and I was not at a bar. He told me to *bleep* off and hung up on me.

Of course, now I’m wide awake. It is 3:15am. And I am REALLY annoyed that some chick out there claimed to be me and gave out my business card. WTF? Grrrrrr….

From the Flickr Blog:

“Stats, stats, baby!

We’ve introduced a new feature for our pro members: stats!

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We’ve designed stats on Flickr to give you all sorts of insight into how people arrive at your photos. If you’re a pro member you can activate your stats now.”

If you haven’t done it already, you can head on over to here to activate them!

I truly, truly, value your feedback. Right now, I have my portfolio site set up using the a template that I really like. However, it is limited on the number of galleries I can have, and it doesn’t have a calendar on it. I really want unlimited galleries and a calendar. Just recently, a new template was released. I love it. It is called George, which always amuses me.

But just because *I* like it doesn’t mean that the end user would like it. So I want YOUR opinion. Which one do you like better? Why?

As always, your help is GREATLY appreciated!

Jenn sent me a link the other day that I finally got to read today about Kyle David Miller, a 3 year old who was riding in a booster seat in a car and the seatbelt failed during a major crash. He was thrown from the car and died due to the crash. I strongly encourage every parent with a toddler to consider a safe 5 point harness car seat – full car seat, rated for a child up to 80 pounds – over a booster seat after what I read today.

Minutes after I read that site, I visited Mercedes’ (the bride in the slideshow below) Xanga site to leave her a comment to let her know the slideshow was online. When I went to leave my comment, I saw other comments about her accident. Accident? I had a strange sinking feeling and called her right away. I got her voicemail and left her a message that probably sounded a bit odd, but I was very concerned.

Tonight, one of her friends (Becky) sent me the link to Mercedes’ mom’s blog post with the photos of her car after the accident. Or what used to be a car. It is truly, truly a miracle that she is alive. More than that, alive and without major injuries or broken bones. Just looking at those car photos made me cry. I mean … whoa. It really is a miracle. Especially when I read the most recent post and saw that she doesn’t always wear her seatbelt – and it is what saved her (before it failed) on Friday night.

I said earlier that Mercedes & Tim impressed me with their strong faith. I believe it will carry them through this difficult time. Please keep them in your thoughts & prayers! No matter what your faith is, I know all the positive, healing thoughts we can send her way will help her.

I have a confession. I’m addicted to the first dance wedding videos. I love it when couples do really crazy things during their first dance. This one totally cracked me up!