No Rest for the...restless...

I really should be trying to sleep right now...but instead I'll blog about my latest photo. That's the reason I made this blog in the firt place...so I can write about how they go.
So recently us ladies have had it up to our ears with the whole 'Tits and ass' mentality. This is our little way of taking a stand.
The first to start was the lovely Allure F, followed by Miss Aniela, then Haggis Chick. And the list will go on!
Now that I have finally thought up a concept it's my turn.

I got the idea at work and was dying to come home and try it out.
I stripped my animal print quilt off my bed and flipped it to expose it's black under belly and used that as my back drop. I pretty much draped it over some bags that I piled up on the end of my bed and on to the floor. The bags were to give the backdrop more height.

Now...I have to let you in on a little secret.
I HATE body paint. It makes me feel sick when it's on my skin. I just want to go mad. I really feel like I will never be clean again.
Anyways I smeared the awful stuff on my skin, set the pot on my paint try and had to beat the 2 second timer.

I don't have a 10 second timer anymore...my camera display is broken and everything I do on it is from memory...and I somehow turned off the 10 second timer and enabled the 2 second one instead. I'm royally pissed but that's the best I can do for now.

I think this one took about 30 tries and then I get tried of throwing myself about so I called it quits.
I think I spent more time getting that stupid paint off of my skin then actually wearing it...
Ew ew ew ewwwwww!

So I was deliberating whether to make this shot black and white or not, but I figured that this is supposed to be a natural shot, and I also have so many sepia/black and white shots recently that it's time to show my 'true colours'.

This is the result of my shoot:

My Middle Name

My mother always said that in our family, our middle names should be 'lateness'.

Now...I HATE being late as equally as I hate other people being late. I usually do my best to be as punctual as possible but today...it just didn't work out.

Got to the airport at 7:40am after a mad rush to get there. 10 minutes late *cringe*
So when I got to the restaurant to be greeted by crickets I was kicking myself quite hard.
So after running up and down the airport I managed to find my breakfast date and see her off to Paris. She was later than I was...
I couldn't even wrap her gift properly because at 7:15 I realize that we have no tape.
*sigh*

So...a pretty uneventful day. During my five loads of laundry I got a new photo idea. Might try it out tomorrow. Wish me luck.

So after one episode of lateness I managed to be 20 minutes late for work. AUGH!!!

You know those moment when your alarm goes off and you tell it 'Five more minutes mom...'
and you set it to go off in five more minutes (my cheap-o alarm has no snooze option)
and well...in five minutes you're as easy to wake as the dead.
I woke up 10 minutes past the time I was supposed to be at work and managed to reach there 10 minutes later.
I think my car can time travel...
Also helps that no one was on the road but...time travel is way more impressive to claim...

Late twice in one day! I hope I got that out of my system!

Lets hope tomorrow I have something more interesting to talk about than tardiness and laundry.

6 hours to go (First post & Intro)

Hello my pretties!
Well...while I am chewing on some new photo ideas I've decided to make a wee blog for you all who'd like to keep an eye on what I'm doing while I'm not posting.

At the moment, I'm at work with 6 hours left to go. Fun fun fun.
I finish work at midnight and I'll have to time warp to my house where I need to get some sleep before I have to be up and at the airport for 7:30 am.
What makes that worse is I'm not actually the one travelling.
*sigh*

It should be alright though. I'll have a coffee and spark up for my uneventful day of doing laundry and cleaning.

Yesterday was quite the opposite!
I went on a zip line tour in the rainforest here!
Now I have to admit that I was really frightened...I was pretty much just jumping off before I had time to think about how high I was and how fast you zip along these lines.
I didn't bother taking my camera because with my luck it would have done a swan dive out of my pocket and then I'd be fit to be tied. Once I get some photos of the event I'll stick one or two up here.
Please keep in mind that I will most likely look like I need to use the bathroom in all of the photos.

I must say though, it was quite thrilling once I adapted to being thrown through trees supported by a couple of wires and a harness. I had a bit of trouble with the breaking due to the fact that I either had my arm too far back or I was putting too much pressure on the line at once which resulted in my chicken wing arm being catapulted repeatedly off the wire every time I tried to break.
In reality, I really didn't even need to break but I wanted to at least know that I could break properly incase a situation arose that I'd need to. So my first three or four lines were a bit more jolting than they should have been, not to mention I managed to travel down sideways once(much to my horror)
I know I am making this experience sound horrible but it really wasn't! It was my first time so I was just nervous. It was totally enjoyable. The scenery, the speed, being so high up in the trees, green everywhere, the group I was with and the courses were extremely fun. The staff were also impressive and understanding.
Needless to say though...my arm is sore :P

After that I went to a friend's house for an exceptionally cooked wahoo burger (yum!), then off for a coffee and then relaxed the rest of the day.
Sundays = the best day of the week.
Any day with 'sun' in it is bound to be a good one!

Well folks, that's all for now! Keep reading and I'll update as much as possible.
Any feedback is appreciated!

Toodles!

AArchibald


P.S. 5 1/2 hours left to go now...