Meeting Clients at White Marsh, lunch at the Blue Crab Grill
Friday, August 22 2008
Driving on I-95 South this morning around 9AM I was singing at the top of my lungs. I absolutely love to sing and have probably one of the most terrible voices on the planet. As a result, I don't typically sing in public. In fact, I avoid it. However, for some reason, my self-consciousness about my terrible singing voice fades away in the presence of my hubby Peter or my parents. I guess I figure they have to appreciate my voice (or suffer through the agony as I've been told) because they love me. I sing a lot in the car. But I take my singing to a whole new level during the Christmas season - i.e. the day after Turkey Day until the first of the New Year. Then I'm belting out carols like you would not believe. Sigh, makes me wish for the holidays just thinking about it.
So when Coldplay's Viva La Vida came on, I sang at the top of my lungs - to all the words I knew that is. It totally doesn't stop me from singing if I don't know all of the words - I just keep on signing and hum along when I don't know the words. This makes Peter laugh for some reason. Not sure why. This happens to be my current favorite photo processing song. I crank it up and play it while working in Photoshop and Lightroom, but I digress.
So the reason for me driving on I-95 South this morning was because I was driving to White Marsh, Maryland to meet Alison and Jon at the Panera Bread for coffee. I'm shooting their wedding in Westminster, Maryland in October and I'm so excited about it!
It's really important for me to meet clients in person, so I try really hard to make it happen if possible. I think it's extremely important for couples (together is a plus!) to meet with their photographer prior to their wedding day because it will help them make a better connection before the actual day when so much will be going on. I don't want to be a new face on a couple's wedding day, it's important to me that they know who I am and that they have an idea of my style (from checking out images posted here on my blog and on my photography site) because I think this will put them more at ease for pictures.
I'll save the awesome details about Alison and Jon's day for after the wedding, but suffice it to say that I learned what an Emu is and I'm going to get to shoot some on their wedding day! How cool is that?
After meeting at Panera Bread, I made a quick run over to IKEA to pick up some new lamps for my classroom. I think I've mentioned somewhere on here that I'm a high school teacher? I teach Web Design to 10th and 11th grade students and we started back to work this past week with professional development sessions (i.e. "teacher school"). Students start back this coming Monday. I'm in a new room this year and I prefer to use as little overhead lighting as possible (way too harsh!), so I was thrilled to find a really cool (and cheap!) lamp at IKEA. It's actually two lamps in one that come apart. I can't find a picture online so I'll have to post one once I set them up in my room this coming week.
From IKEA, it was back to I-95, this time North, to meet with my friends Arline and Eva at the Blue Crab Grill off of Elkton Road in Delaware. It was so great so see both of them. I've gotten together with Eva somewhat recently, but haven't seen Arline, so it was a treat to get together with both of them. I hadn't been to the Blue Crab before and found it to be really tasty! I had a Crab Cake sandwich and three of us split an incredibly rich Key Lime Pie for dessert. There went the diet. Again. Oh well, Peter and I will be hitting the gym again this Sunday.
I had an amazing, crazy wonderful thing, happen this afternoon. I'll tell you about it tomorrow!
