Archive for September 4th, 2003


Alcohoroscopes :)

Find your sign

Leos
Leo likes to drink and dance — they’re often fabulous dancers, and usually pretty good drinkers as well, losing their commanding dignity and turning kittenish. Of course, they’re quite aware they’re darling — Leos will be Leos, after all. They generally know their limit, probably because they loathe losing self-control. When they get over-refreshed, expect flirting to ensue — and perhaps not with the one what brung them. But Leo’s not the type to break rules even when drunk, so just try to ignore it (try harder, Cancer) and expect a sheepish (and hung over) Lion to make it up to you the next day.

Trademark cocktails
Leos like flashy drinks, be they complicated tropical concoctions festooned with umbrellas, like a Bahama mama or the more common strawberry daiquiri or mai tai. Indeed, they often have a taste for the fruity — try a screwdriver, or add an extra cherry to the next Manhattan. Their sense of drama lends itself to a kir royale, of course.

Drinking buddies
Ben Affleck, Gillian Anderson, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Debra Messing, Kevin Spacey, Martha Stewart, Andy Warhol

Also find on that page, a drink finder and tips for beating that hangover.

Collar Series ~ Self Portraits

I did some of these for Photo Friday’s theme “Heat”. After going through the images, I decided that I simply didn’t do enough of them.. So I sat down with the Canon on Tuesday and filled my compact flash card twice.. 510 photos later, I have at least 10*L* that I am working with. Eventually this series will be on miaouphoto proper, in the self portraits gallery. While doing this series.. I took in mind, some comments an online associate of mine made about my self portraits.. that my eyes never reflect my smile.. and I thought about it and well it’s usually because I do not fully smile.

Taking care that I opened my eyes, made myself laugh and smile while doing these, I found.. that the landscape that is my face.. changes amazingly so between being serious and being silly.. it’s somewhat interesting for me to see these photos, because I do not see these changes of face very often. I think it’s because of how different I am seeing myself, that I am comfortable in showing them.. as Gert once asked me if my critique on myself and photography is to further and better myself.. I think this time around.. it really was.

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my hosting company

with some obvious pointing out to them tuesday about the errors of their ways, they fixed the problem with no arguing. they tried to slink around what obviously had happened.. and i let them.. i really have no problems with them.. and everyone else that i know that hosts (about 6 other people in “my blogging circle”) with them hasn’t really either.. as far as miaouphoto goes, it’s not a personal site.. it’s a buisness account. i pay for the priveledge of one day being able to sell shit and not get my account suspended. along with that priveledge, i get the normal crap, 10gigs of transfers, 200mb of space, 5 emails, subdomain, my domain name is free, i don’t pay maintenence on it, registration, all that domain hoopla.. .. and while the amount has gone up in the past year, i fall under the old pricing scheme.. so i won’t quite feel the pinch till the fall of 2005. to some this $60 USD/year may seem pricey.. but the company is well established, their tech support when answer most emails within minutes or at the latest by the end of the day, i’ve only had maybe 3 instances of downtime that never lasted more than a few minutes.. and they’ve always been willing to fix things with no fuss.. so that’s good enough for me.

Theme Thursday

Picturing Reality has this weeks’ entry up.. The theme this time around was bubbles.

Bubbles ~ Theme Thursday

A joint effort between me and the husband.. mucking about with water and the camera was not something I felt comfortable doing, so I asked K to help me out…

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hi :)

so… i had another picture day yesterday… i redid the photos i did last week.. in an effort to get more what i did.. i was of course not satisfied with the few i took.. so i filled my 256mb compact flash card yesterday twice.. 510 photos later, i cleaned it up to 153.. i now am working through 36 for a solid 10, to work with.. so give me about a week.. and there will be some new photos to peek through..

i’m also giving the photo galleries at miaouphoto a bit of a face lift.. i’m generally unhappy about the images i have there.. there are lots of just blah things wrong with a lot of images.. overfiltered, compression, the © stamp is HUGE or too dark/light, plus there are too many photos in each gallery. So i’m going to go through, pick out the good, or that i want to keep from that go round… possibly add in some new things, fix my viewing problems.. I never really noticed how terrible some of hte images looked because of my monitor.. with my new one.. i’m seeing a lot of things i never saw before*L*

and speaking of photos, i’d like to point out that karen and bryan over at marriedgeeks have switched hosting places and bloggie formats.. they’ll be doing more of a photolog/album deal now… which i can’t wait for.. i have missed seeing karen’s photos.. she does a fabulous job. some of my best memories with her, are at the studio, with an old pack of marlboros and free afternoon…. (more…)