Month: September 2008

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And the hits just keep on a rolling out of the blog, one right after another here, and this time we’ve got a little something for you that we think is totally awesome (and I’m sure tons of other people do too), and this totally awesome thing…well…it’s actually a person, but a person is a thing, but most people don’t like being called things, so let me re-phrase that, and this totally awesome person is the one and only, the talented and lovely, none other than Chelsea!

As I sit here, in my HighTower in the sky thinking of what to write, a poem by Frost comes to mind.  I’m just kidding.  Did you really think that I had a poem by Robert Frost memorized?  Remember, folks, I just have poetry books here and there in my HighTower to make me look learned, and well read.  They’re just props.  If you were to open my walk-in closet (it’s very large), you would find nothing but National Enquirer and Soap Opera Digest.  I used to have a poem memorized, but that was by Shel Silverstein, and I don’t think that anything from Where The Sidewalk Ends would be fitting, even though that book along with The Giving Tree are perhaps two of my favorites of all time (that was when I read books, and my mind wasn’t rotted by TV and the internet.)  But this is neither her or there.

Where we are at is a fantastic place called the sweetlyawesome samplesnaps of Chelsea!  And let me tell you something, if I could recite poetry at the drop of a dime, I would in this instance; because it’s the only way I can think of to describe the awesomenessitude that Chelsea was and is.  You heard me.  Awesomenessitude.  Look it up.  It’s there.  So I’m just gonna leave it at that.  I think my new issue of SOD (that’s what us regulars call it) just showed up, and I’ve got some catching up to do.  Chelsea, you were awesome!  We give you MuchLove & ManyThanks for this, and to all my lovely people out there just randomly stumbling across this in the Land of Blog – Enjoy!

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What if I were to tell you something.  What if I were to tell you something totally awesome.  What if I were to tell you something that was totally awesome and also included pictures.  What if I were to tell you something totally awesome, had pictures to prove it, and then also told you something more.  What if, after telling you something that was totally awesome, showed you pictures to back my statement up, and then told you something more, what if after all that you couldn’t handle the awesomeness and your head exploded.

Did you ever think about that?  That maybe, the awesomeness that I’m about to unleash on you just may be too much for you to take in?  So, for those of you that are under 4′ tall and have any pre-existing heart conditions, or even suffer from anxiety or panic disorders, you may want to just ease into the blog.  Because I’m gonna tell you something totally awesome, show you pics, and then say a little more.  It’s kind of like verse/chorus/verse, except it’s our o&j way of doing it.  So make sure that you’re fully ready for this, because here we go.

On a lovely day in our not all that distant past, into our lives wandered the always wonderful and stunning Mikayla!  The reason for her gracing our presence you are asking?  Let me lay it down on you.  She needed the sweetly SeniorSnaps that she had heard about, and we were lucky enough to be the recipients of her pictographic skillzz in front of the cam (that’s industry lingo for ‘camera’ – just letting you in on that.)

Now, perhaps you’re sitting there thinking, ‘Well, it’s one thing for them to say this…but is there some way that they can prove these statements to us?’, well, for you ‘doubting Thomas’s’ out there, I’m here to tell you yeah – we got the proof.  It’s just a little bit below these words.  And their called the sweetly awesome SampleSnaps.  But before we get to that point, we gotta give MuchLove to Mikayla for being so awesome, and to all my good peeps of blogville out there just hungry for more digital love  – Enjoy!

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It’s me again.  Oh, I suppose why it is that I have come to your digital window and started knocking.  And you would be right for wondering.  I suppose it’s even stranger that I am dressed up like the Easter Bunny, but we don’t really have time to get into that (some things in life are better left unexplained, for the sake of my dignity.)

What I have come to you through your ethernet cables and wireless connections (I have one built into my brain!) to tell you is that at some time, a time in our not too distant past, there was this lady, see, and this lady came into the FunCenter, see, and she had with her a bunch of clothes and stuff.  This lady wasn’t a crazy lady, the kind that stumbles around Main Street with a shopping cart full of clothes and literally just wanders into our studio and starts mumbling something about the government.  And even though situations like that make the day more interesting, this one was even better.

This lady, see, this one that I was talking about a little bit earlier, she came here for superawesome SeniorSnaps, and she called herself Brittany!  Other people call her Brittany too!  So, as if it wasn’t sweet enough that she decided to stop by with her clothes and stuff for the SeniorSnaps, she also had to be dead good at it too [ed.  If you reference your Shoreview, Minnesota slang directory for the early 90’s, you will find that ‘dead good’ means ‘superb’ or ‘excellent’.] 

As I was saying, Brittany was awesome to work with, and we’d like to give her a big ol’ plate of MuchLove & ManyThanks for giving us some of her sweet & precious time!  Oh, and to all my good peeps out there in Land of Blog – Enjoy!

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Oh Anna.

What can I possibly say about you?

So, I think I will write a poem.

Anna.

She’s not from Montana.

Anna.

Perhaps owns a cabana.

Anna.

Has never been to Havana.

Anna.

Why you gotta be so awesome?

Why you gotta be so rulesome?

When you left us,

Why we had to feel so lonesome?

Anna.

Please come back.

I think that sums it all up.  Life is just a little bit less exciting after your session came to an end.  But you know what?  We have something to remind us of the time we spent together.  And it’s called samplesnaps.  And they’re waiting for you just a few more words away.  Before that, we gotta give MuchLove & ManyThanks to Anna for stopping by and being such a ray of sunshine, and to all my good peeps out there keeping blogville safe tonight – Enjoy!

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Check this out.  Like, I used to know this lady named Jenna, and she was from this town called Hutchinson.  We called it ‘Hutch’ for short.  I also know this Jenna that was one of the very first Seniors that we ever shot, and she had blond hair and was really good friends with the brother of Queen James.  And both of these Jenna’s were really cool, and I’m assuming that they’re both still really cool…like…I don’t really know for sure, but it’s hard to lose that much coolness, even if you try (I have, and my babies, I’m here to assure you that I haven’t lost an ounce of cool.) [ed.  Dude, you never had any to begin with.  You can’t lose what you never had.  It’s a simple fact.]

So, check this out now.  If I were a scientist, or something like that, I would come up with this hypothesis about people that are named Jenna.  You see, I would say that based upon my observations, those people in the world that have the name Jenna are pre-determined to be dead cool.  And for those of you that aren’t hip to my lingo, ‘dead-cool’ is the top of the cool chain.  And now you know.

OK.  You got that?  I know you probs didn’t think that you would have to do this much thinking, but when you’re working with a person as wonderful as Jenna, you gotta try to explain it somehow.  Because that’s how we do it.  Alright.  I’m gonna let you soak up my hypothesis, and while you’re doing that, I recommend that you gaze ever so lovingly at the sweetly samplesnaps that await you below.  Before that, gotta give MuchLove & ManyThanks to Jenna for being so awesome, and to all my children of the blog – Enjoy!

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