Help Me Jeeves! The Children; they Are Multiplying!!!

We had a fun photo shoot yesterday & D was an active participant!!

I saw these really cool 'cloned' photos on Flickr & just had to try it.

Naturally, I do not want to clone myself, so I wrangled the girls to be my experiments.

I set up a make-shift studio, then I grabbed D first {she was the 1st one up, showered & dressed}. As usual she complained & was not cooperative.

Here is the very first pic I did ~

For some reason my craptastic camera was making the pics all grainy and the color was off. {Although it could have been the photographer. But I prefer to think it was the camera! I did drop it a couple of times at the pool!}

So I did some PhotoShop work on this. Kinda looks grunge. Or is in Emo these days??

I can't keep up....

See how she is lying on the floor like she's in horrible pain? Or being tortured? That's just her tremendous ability in acting when her mother asks her to pose for pictures.

Once she saw what I was doing with the photos, she fixed her hair & wanted to take more pictures!!

Now I know how to get her to pose!! LOL

As I was taking her pictures, then editing them, R & S had a look.

Guess who then wanted in on the act???

That's right. The older two.

Earlier S said I couldn't take her picture unless her hair was done & she had some makeup on. And she wasn't going to do all that unless she was going somewhere.

I guess that didn't matter anymore...

One of Dare's better shots ~

And R ~

I love how R's came out. I let the girls lead in the poses, just gave them some general direction to be sure their pose was in frame. They did a pretty good job.

Well, the younger two did. S's poses were half-assed.

She owes me a real shoot in the next couple of days!!

Some Relief

Well, I went to the office today {they opened at 10 instead of 9} and it turns out we weren't the only ones without AC Friday night. The main unit had some short & shut down. The complex manager had repairmen to the property early Saturday morning to fix it. But because it was so hot Friday & getting hot on Saturday, the unit took some time to catch up & cool all the apartments properly.

I let the guy know that it is still very hot in here, never below 80 if the temp outside goes above 100. I had put up with it the last 2 summers, but it is now unbearable & I won't go through another summer with the apartment not cooling.

He will have the maintenance guy look at it, but said most likely he will have to call in their AC repairman.

We'll see how it goes....

Bugger

The dang, blasted office wasn't open yesterday by noon.

Or just after 2.

Which means if they did open it was just after 12 and just before 2.

So much for posting the office hours as 10-5.

And today the dang, blasted office is closed again, so I can't go down there & give them hell about our crappy AC.

This is only the 2nd or 3rd time I've had to tell them about it not working right. Maybe this time they'll get it right. As long as the temp stays below 100, we're good.

But, hell, we live in AZ. It's over 100 half the year!!

Saturday we woke up to a dead gerbil & a dead gold fish. {They will sure hear about that!}

Lets hope there are no more casualties as a result of the extreme heat....

Ok. It is up to 90-95, is that considered extreme???

So, I will go there first thing tomorrow morning.

Bugger.

Oh, and to make my weekend even better, I have wicked cramps. No fun when you're sweating buckets all night. {Which is a first for me. I usually sweat very little.}

And I lost my camera some where in this hot ass apartment.

Bugger

crappy weekend.

Ick, Yuck, Gross

I woke up this morning at 5:30 in a pool of sweat, got up, took an ice cold shower, dried off with a pre-heated towel, {double ick, yuck, gross} walked across the warm carpet to the sauna like living room to find this...

My Google desktop widget said it was 84 outside.

Looks like the AC is not working. {Or rather, feels like it...}

Now I have to sit directly in front of a fan {one that is not blowing warm air} until 10, when the office opens.

Yup, it's gonna be a great day!!!

Ironic

Yesterday, the younger girls & I went to the pool.

Again.

This nasty, disgusting, God awful humid weather is unbearable.

And don't even get me started on what it's doing to my hair!!

But, I digress.

Anyway, about 20 minutes after getting to the pool, jumping in, cooling off, then settling in on a lounge chair with a good book, some guy arrives with a backpack on & a bike.

He unlocks the gate, then struggles while getting his bike through it.

It was weird. Why would he bring his bike to the pool? But people do really weird things & I've given up on trying to figure out why they do what they do.

Just after he jumps in the pool the maintenance man walks by & asks "You live here?"

Bike Man; "No. I'm visiting my girlfriend."

Maintenance Man; "Yeah. What apartment does she live in?"

{Here is where it gets really funny}

Bike Man; "She lives in apartment 304 {the complex has no 300 numbered apartments}. No, no wait it's upstairs. Number 204."

At that, I put down my book and look at him, stunned. Did he say what I thought he said?

Maintenance Man turns to me; "You live in 204, right?"

Me; "Yup."

Maintenance Man; "He your boyfriend?"

Me; "Hell, no!!"

Maintenance Man kicks him out, all the while Bike Man is yelling "You want me to get my girlfriend? You want me to get her?"

He never came back with his 'girlfriend'.

The irony that he says his girlfriend lives in #204, it just so happens to be our apartment, and I was at the pool was too funny.

I wonder if his luck got any better the rest of the day....