things have settled..

i got my bank account switched around, closed, and a new one open.. i have a new sim card so my phone works.. YAY!! im really relieved.. much less stressed..



now i can move onto things that were important prior to all the crap that happened in the last 7 days of my life.. and one of those things that have sprouted up again is PHOTOGRAPHY.. why, you ask? well ask away and i shall tell.

Jenny and i seem to find that there are certain things in our lives that put us at peace, and calm our nerves after a day.. and the main thing is photography. we both have older style cameras, and enjoy very much to take pictures using manual cameras. so anyways, since we both no longer have digital cameras (mine was stolen and hers broken) the only way to capture our kodak moments are with these older cameras.. i have a pentax k1000 that i am absolutely in LOVE with!! :) and she has an older canon.

So anyways, we have decided that it is in our best interest to start taking more pictures with these cameras, seeing as neither one of us can afford to buy new digital ones. so i have been slaving away online looking up exercises similar to what i did in high school in my photography class. we realize this is our best chance at actually getting better. now we are both experienced photographers, although only in an amateur sort of way. but there is hope. we both have an eye for capturing breath-taking photos, whether that be people or nature.

then we decided, well if we are going to do all this photo-taking and experimenting with these cameras, we should probably develop our own film. not print (yet) cuz its much too expensive. but we can save quite a bit of money by developing the film into the negatives and then taking what negatives we want printed into a store. i mean, we could have an entire roll of film that doesn't turn out, and we spend like $8-$12 getting pretty much NOTHING developed. i figure with what we save there, we can fund the chemicals and equipment needed to do this. and, maybe, eventually, we could start printing our own pics.

Making the darkroom, however, will prove to be our challenge. i mean i have a pretty big garage that we could take part of it and make the room. the only problem with that is all the crap in the garage. my grandma's crap. now she has her own garage, but still, there sits all of HER stuff in OUR garage. i wont even get started on that. lol.

as you can tell, i am in better spirits about this whole thing. things are calming and i am getting ready for a nice quiet weekend. maybe a couple drinks and some park time with konnor. :) i love that little munchkin