‘Sup

I’m off work this afternoon to go home and wait for several house-related work people to show up and do house-related work (some guy is coming by to check out the broken fence, and some other guy is coming by to measure the couch, and the exterminator is coming because mice keep getting stuck in the wall next to the bathroom (and nowhere else)).  Before they arrive, I will have to do some cleaning up and start some laundry, and I’m looking forward to opening the windows and airing out the house, which I love to do on warm days like this.  Our house is especially great to open up because of the sets of sliding glass doors (with screens) and all the windows.

It’s funny, isn’t it?  It’s such an adult thing to look forward to going home early from work for mundane reasons.  When you’re a teenager, you never expect that your big Friday afternoon off on a gorgeous spring day might be made pleasant because you get a head start on cleaning for the weekend, and you might get a couple of things knocked off your to-do list.  But it is pleasant- it’s very pleasant.

I’m supposed to go to Warrensburg tomorrow to do engagement photos for a couple whose wedding I’m supposed to shoot in June.  However, apparently the forecast is for rain all weekend.  (Another great reason to go home early today!)  Things aren’t set in stone yet, but I do intend to go over there and try to do some shooting.  Other photographers make the weather work, so I should definitely figure out a way to do it.

Not much else is on tap for the weekend.  Tracy is working to sand down and paint some of the chairs and bookshelves that she has bought this spring, but the rain might hamper any new developments there.  One of the bookshelves was a cheap but recently repainted in a shabby chic kind of style, which Tracy (because she’s oblivious to styles like that) assumed was just a really bad refinishing job.  And, yes, shabby chic is a pretty terrible refinishing job by definition, but someone had gone to some work to make it look like that.  Tracy sanded it down last night and I think she intends to paint it purple or bright yellow.

It’s been a reasonable week- lots of photography, like I thought there would be.  The wedding last Saturday went well, I think, and I took some photos at Easter.  I’m participating in a fourth rotation with the Columbia Art League, and hung work on Wednesday with the help of my mom, sister, and Tracy.  They’ll be up in the administration hall at Columbia Regional Hospital until the end of June.  I worked on some old photos this week, and with the rain, I should be able to work on engagement photos all weekend.