Day 10: A photo of you taken over ten years ago

 

This is Me and Air-Force when we were younger, definitely over 10 years ago!

Gotta love my 101 Dalmatians  sweater! I loved that sweater!  Does anyone else have any old pictures of themselves?

Day 9: A photo you took

 

I LOVE taking Pictures! So today I get to post some of them! Now the ones I am most proud of I took in High School and won some awards on, but I don’t have copies of them on this computer so I am digging through my files for some pretty ones!

 

Penni When I first got her.

 

 

And some Pictures I took In NY!

 

Day 7: A photo that makes you happy

 

So Today I have a picture that makes me happy, its my niece and my Penni Puppy, they were taking a nap together one day sooo cute! Penni woke up when I came in with the camera but my niece was still asleep.

 

The News on Prom is:

Well first of all this post is because I was reading my many favorite blogs and noticed they all were ganging up on me to post about prom. I was going to post a complaint about prom kids and hotels in Tales From The Audit Shift Parts one and two but decided that I would just add it here. In addition to accepting the Challenge from Keely which I will go into in a moment.

It is prom month in Sunny SC, every weekend this past month I have had several adorable little couples in formal wear coming to the hotel to check into rooms. After the first weekend we implemented an over 21 check in. They had their PARENTS check them in!! I will never understand some people.

So on to the Challenge! Keely posted a challenge that she got from two other wonderful bloggers: Jen and Stiletto Mom challenged all of us to post our pictures from prom because that way they wouldn't feel alone.

Now I thought this would be a relatively easy post, put up a few images add a few words and the end. Here's where the drama is, when we moved I decided to keep most of my things in storage because I would be moving again to TN with Kensei. This seemed like a sound plan at the time. sadly this included my prom pictures. Not that there were all that many to begin with. I disliked being in photographs in high school. So I have begged my Dad relentlessly to find a few digital copies of some and send them to me, hopefully he can so in case he can't I will post a few pictures until then.

I went to three proms, sophomore, Jr and Sr. My Sophomore year I went to help and ended up dancing most of the night with my best friend Mark. He was there with one of his girlfriends a friend of mine named Scarlett, she was having a melt down and asked me to pretend to be his date while she did my job. I don't think I have a picture of this prom so I will show you a version of the dress. My mother and I went to a consignment shop called Daff-A-Deals they are no longer in business but I found two of my three dresses there.

The first one was a black version of the Audrey Hepburn dress from My Fair Lady. I saw it and decided that even if it didn't fit i wouldn't eat until it did. Luckily for me it was a perfect fit. For those of you who have never seen the movie ( you should) It was a simple dress but there was a mesh over slip completely covered with sparkling jet beads. I wish I still had this one but my mother took it to be dry cleaned after the prom and I never saw it again.





This is for those of you who don't want to watch the movie, this was my dress only it was black and sleeveless.






Then came Jr. Prom. I went with some friends, and had fun, I guess I had a wonderful dress this time and actually have pictures of it on hand so I can show you. My mother and i fought after this one because my wonderful dress (bought at daff-a-deals for 40 dollars) had been ripped by the beaded purse a friend gave me.

This was my dress. I loved the millions of layers and was amazed we got it so cheap. I didn't have big hair, in fact every prom I went to I had an up do of some sort.









The making faces at the camera moment and the obligatory please get this over with look.










And a Smile.








After this I had Sr. Prom. I went as a friend's chaperon, I didn't do a very good job at it though. I was supposed to go with Kensei, had filled out the "Please please please let my boyfriend come" form and begged the appropriate authority figures, unfortunately Kensei couldn't make it. He didn't tell me until after I had bought his ticket either.

I cannot find any pictures of this as of yet, but I will look even harder when I get off work tonight. I once again had a killer dress this one was bought at Riches and was not black but a Deep Red. I loved it, but I wanted a different one. The dress I wanted I cannot find online anymore but it was basically the more sparkly version of my red dress with a ruffle down the side. Wish me luck finding the pictures!



Kensei still owes me one Formal dress up night because being the wonderful Boyfriend that he was in HS he managed to get into three car accidents, and avoid both Jr, Sr prom and Graduation. (Shows you how much he was determined NOT to come back to SC)

Writer's Workshop: Feelings

Mama Kat's prompts this week kind of caught me by surprise but I knew when I read this one that it was what I would do:

1.) Define goodness...joy...sorrow...and anger using pictures you've taken.

Now because one of my majors is Photography, this was hard for me, also because I lost most of my favorite images when my computer burst into flames but that was another story. So on to the prompt.

Goodness, this was an especially difficult one fore me. Goodness in my mind is not easily defined so I have two images for that one.




This is a church in Charleston, I have taken so many pictures of this particular church over the years to me the deep blue and the steeple are a symbol of the goodness that comes from the world around you. This is always going to be there as a reminder that there is good in the world, and good people who believe.

This was taken at a pier in Charleston as well. the good in nature where everything comes from. The beauty and purity that comes in nature is also only found in babies and not for long either.









Then there was Joy.

Joy to me is an emotion that one can see, so the picture I took was from M's Wedding




This was taken after the wedding took place. M decided that she didn't get enough pictures of the actually ceremony so so ordered everyone back up so that she could stage the pictures, then freaked because people brought drinks, and we had to do it all over again.
this is joy for me, everyone was laughing and grinning and having fun.
















Sorrow and Anger are next these are linked to me, When you have sorrow, you tend to get angry, or at least I do, and when I am angry then it is followed by sorrow. So These are all connected to me

M was very sad one day and that's where this came from










This is another church in Charleston, I think it represents anger and sorrow because it is one of the very few there that they have let become overgrown and stopped caring for it, There is graffiti on the lower walls and the graveyard has been vandalized and it makes me both angry and sad that people would treat others in this way.

This is a Jail in Charleston. It is also very neglected and graffiti all over it. But It is also a sad site because it could have been a powerful piece of architecture.






This is what happened to my car.
It is also what I mean by the two emotions are linked in my mind. Tori, (My Car) was taken from me because of a mistake and broken. I lost my car, and my independence. I was very angry but also couldn't stop crying because of the sorrow I felt as well.








And to end on a lighter note: I did not take this but I reminds me of the squirrel from Ice Age, anyways here is a laugh for you.