Picture taking is done, we are now waiting to see digital proofs. I hope to be surprised by the result, I feel kinda meh about the poses.

Are you in matching outfits?

I hope they have matching santa sweaters on!

It would be really cute if they had matching santa sweaters, and then Colin Firth, in his matching Santa sweater showed up! It could be the romantic comedy of the decade!

I kid you not, a woman here just asked if she could have her pictures for free because she lost her wallet.

'Tis the season... Lewis was filling out the Sheriff's Dept. pawn forms yesterday for a customer who was selling games at the store (a requirement for all Game Stop stores) and the customer's mother was one of those people who lives to make life hell for everyone. Accused Lewis of being some sort of shyster because "not every store does that and I want the number of your district manager because I want to ask about this and is this legal and..."

And when Lewis said that he would pass along her complaints she said "Good-- you'd better. I spent an hour on the phone with the district manager for Taco Bell yesterday because they have the nerve to be charging twenty-five cents for a cup of water."

I bought size 8 jeans today. Stretch, true, but the 10s I can yank off easily without unbuttoning them after wearing them an hour. These can technically be removed without unbuttoning, but it takes some doing.

I should see if my old size 8 skirts from hs (they are really classic & nice which is the only reason I saved them: linen, long pencil skirts in natural and tobacco) fit yet. Probably not, they were pretty unforgiving.

a woman here just asked if she could have her pictures for free because she lost her wallet.

I'm seriously inspired by this woman. From now on, I'm going to lose my wallet for all the really big painful expenses. Car repairs? Lost my wallet. Home depot? Lost my wallet. Sorry.

We had a lot of doozies when I worked at the bank, but my favorite was the woman who took out a bunch of cash, left and came back an hour + later, saying she was $100 short. Um, yeah, because you spent it??

she said "Good-- you'd better. I spent an hour on the phone with the district manager for Taco Bell yesterday because they have the nerve to be charging twenty-five cents for a cup of water."

This is the kind of parent that drives teachers crazy. I had one parent tell me that if her daughter didn't get a Bright Future's Scholarship, she was going to sue the Gov Crist. Another told me that if her child didn't get into Duke, is was my fault becuase her daughter deserved an 'A' in Drama and I gave her daughter a 'B'. (her daughter earned a B because she kept blowing off my class to study for classes she really struggled with because she "had" to go to Duke and those classes would look good)

Ah yes, the overdeveloped sense of entitlement parent.

I've had to deal with a lot of them, especially with Abby being in the gifted track. Their children are speshul flowers who deserve the very best and to be treated differently, but make sure they're socialized so that they don't feel like outcasts.

::facepalm::