Rebecca Claire Photography

Current mood:AVOIDING THE UNENDING ACCOUNTING WORK

These are the rules: The 1st player of this “game” starts with the topic “6 weird habits/things/about yourself” and people who get tagged need to write a blog about their 6 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you are tagged” in their myspace comments and tell them to read yours…:

6 Weird Habits/Things About Me… 

1.)  I have recently begun yelling “aiy-yie-yie!!” when surprised or tickled.

2.)  I occassionally attach a “y” to the end of words along with a non-sense word that may or may not rhyme.

3.)  I am not happy unless everything has a home.  Things don’t have to be in their homes, but they must have one so that in the off chance I decide to clean, everything can be put away.

4.)   I speak to my sis-in-law in “meows”

5.)  I hate to throw things away, including downloaded and backed up files off of memory cards.  I cringe every time I hit the “format” button.

6.)  I have the ability to sing, yet I refuse to do so unless I am using a ridiculous or annoying voice.

People That I Tagged…

EVERYBODY!  MWAHAHAHAHA!  You can read the original (i.e. the place from whence I stole this) and 6 more weird things about me here:  http://www.myspace.com/dkoren  

So I should have posted this blog a while ago, but life isn’t always so cooperative.  I recently had lunch and a tour at Club LeConte downtown.  I met Lindsay and Alyson a few weeks before at a networking event and they offered to show me around their club some time.  Alyson and I had a delicious lunch.  I had New Englad Clam Chowder (one of my favorite foods ever), a Thai Beef Salad, Raspberry Lemonade, and Key Lime Pie for dessert.  I could barely walk the tour after lunch, it was all so good!  I love Clam Chowder, and theirs had this great spice to it that made me want to order another bowl.  The beef was tender and perfectly cooked, and the salad dressing had that sweet and spicy flavor I love about Thai food.  The pie was the real killer.  It came with 2 slices, and I nearly finished both of them.  It was fantastic!

The club itself is beautiful.  They have space for a small intimate dinner (Alyson was telling me about a proposal they had recently) or a huge wedding.  It reminds me of some of the clubs in Atlanta, only their view is of the river rather than a bunch of sky scrapers.  You can see practically forever up there.  It was daytime during my visit, but I bet the lights and the stars are great at night.

One of my favorite parts is the huge staircase with mirrors down the side and a large chandelier above it.  It would be a perfect place to photograph a bride alone or a huge group.  Depending on the size of the wedding, you could get most or all of the guests lined up for a single shot.

Everyone is super nice over there.  Here’s their website if you’re curious: http://www.clubleconte.com  I’ll have to find out when they serve clam chowder and see if I can get another bowl.  🙂

Current mood:  apathetic

So somehow my last blog was posted twice.  I’ve spent the last 15 minutes trying to delete it to no avail.  I keep getting an error message and the notice that this error has been forwarded to the myspace folks.  Well, that’s nice, I suppose.  I hope that problem doesn’t leap ahead of my inability to send out messages.

Anyway, since I couldn’t remove it, I’m “editing” it into this blog.  I really don’t have anything to say, but I have the space, and I can’t remove it.

Current mood:  bored

So I just recorded all of the outgoing message stuff for the folks Nate does a lot of work with (Tantrum).  It was fun.  I used to temp as a receptionist, so I just used my phone answering voice and they liked it.  I was thinking of getting into some voice-over work, but I’m really not certain where to start.  I’ve had people tell me I have the voice for it (I used to do a lot of calling people for APA and some other folks, so I can definitely do the professional receptionist voice).  Anyway, it’s just another thing to do when I’m not doing photography stuff.

On to other things.  Nate’s birthday was Monday.  I made a fabulous dinner (Nate helped) of filet mignon, scallops, skillet corn, and mashed potatoes and baked the yearly angel food cake (well, I make them more than once a year, but I always make one for Nate’s birthday).  We were both stuffed!  It was great, though, because we cleared out the dining area and could set up a “table” (meaning put 2 tv trays together and sit in lawn chairs.  We really need to get some furniture, but we don’t want to fill up the house with nice stuff we have to protect and move around until after most of the construction is done).  It was nice to eat like civilized people rather than in front of the tv.

Right now I’m waiting for lunch time.  I called some friends (Kate and Devon) to see if they wanted to have lunch today or tomorrow, but no one is home.  Maybe they’ll be available tomorrow.  I didn’t really give them much forewarning.  I hope they can meet me tomorrow.  I think they should meet each other too.  Kate is new to Knoxville (sort of) and Devon and I have been friends for forever.  They’re both super cool, and I think they’d like each other.  

Speaking of lunch, I’m meeting a new coordinator in town on Monday (I think.  We’re still in the planning stages)  I’m excited.  I got my new business cards yesterday, and I can’t wait to pass them out.  I also need to get my printer set back up (we took 2 printers down to Atlanta for that shoot, and I mixed up which was the one that had been on my computer already.  Now we’re having some communication issues, so I got my 2nd printer back from Nate and will be sending the other one with him back to work.  It’s way overly complex for a stupid printer.  I have another one attached to my computer already.  It prints cds but not borderless prints.  So I need 2 printers b/c they haven’t figured out how to do both things in one.  It’s lame)

Anyway, I’m getting hungry.  It’s nearing lunch time.  Nate is in the other room working on an edit job, and I’m supposed to be making invoices only I don’t know the amounts or the jobs.  Instead, I suppose I’ll just play here on myspace.  Fun!

More computer woes
Current mood:  annoyed

So we all know that my Rebecca Claire webpage can’t send outgoing messages and hasn’t been able to do this since the end of January.  Well, I’ve been trying my best to get this fixed and continue to get the exact same response from “customer service.”  I give up on technology.  I’m still on hold with the Gateway people (new number.  I think it’ll be the same problem b/c it took me back to the exact same menu.  I’m tired of listening to “Jennifer” the prerecorded lady.  She’s now telling me to restart.  Bleh.

Anyway, here’s my latest communication with the auto responder at myspace tech support.

I cannot send messages.  It doesn’t matter if I am replying to a message I received, or choosing “message me” on a friend’s profile.  I type the message, hit send, and it gives me a choice to return to message, inbox, or profile.  I check the sent folder, my sent message isn’t there.  It isn’t making it to the intended recipient either.  They’re just going away.  I have already received the response below.  It did not help.  I have already tried that.  I’ve been sending messages successfully in that manner since I opened the account.  It stopped sending out messages around the end of January.  Please fix it.

Thanks!

I have received this reply 3-4 times.  It is still not helpful.  This a problem with my actual myspace page not my ability to find and use the message feature.

Hello,

In order to send a message you will need to click on the users profile you wish to send mail to, then below their photo is a box and the first option is send mail, click on that and a mail message box will pop up.

If this does not address your issue completely, please press “Reply” and provide any additional information you feel is relevant.

Thank you,

MySpace.com

Still on hold
Current mood:  annoyed

So, Marcellio came on line and asked me about my problem.  I told him and he asked for the serial number of my computer.  Um, we built it.  Now he doesn’t know what to do since it’s the monitor not the computer that’s the problem and they didn’t build the computer.  I’m surprised he didn’t tell me to restart (which I’ve done several times)

He put me back on hold and the first song playing was “Help” by the Beatles.  Yes, I need help.  I’m now on to tech support.  Oh man, and now I’m back back on hold and the song is “Lean on Me.”  The lady is getting me a phone number and the first phrase that played when I went back on hold was “just call me.”  I’m cracking up.  I hope I have a problem that they’ll understand b/c right now they don’t.  This is dumb.  All I need is a driver.  Give me a link, and I’ll go download it and be happy.

Computers are stupid and evil.  They’re supposed to save time, but I swear between Nate’s problems with computers and periferals over that last 2 weeks and mine, we’ve spent more time running tech support and on hold than actually working.  He was supposed to have last week off but instead spent it trying to figure out why one computer completely died and another one wouldn’t talk to the new periferal so that he wouldn’t be running tech support this week when he had a big edit job.  Guess what he spent yesterday doing.  That’d be tech support.

Now, here’s the deal.  I’m not a huge fan of Macs.  I spent over a year in serious battle with what was supposed to be a super fancy G5.  It continually denied me the “Mac experience” (b/c Macs don’t crash, they simply grey out the screen and give you a nice little note suggesting that you turn off the computer at the power button.  It is in about 5 different languages and has the power icon imposed over it in case you don’t know which button to push.  It also says that it will sit right there and patiently wait for you to do that.  Not to worry, it won’t bother with doing anything else while it waits.)  Nate always gave me crap about that b/c he just hates computers in general.  So do I (I just hated one specific Mac more than all other computers.  Plus I find the Mac attitude distasteful.  It’s a “be different.  Just like everyone else” kind of thing, and I’ve never responded well to that kind of message.)  Anyway, I’m having PC troubles, Nate is having Mac troubles.  All computers are stupid and yucky.

Back to tech support.  Because I bought the monitor at Best Buy, I have to call another number.  They do not have drivers for this monitor on their website (which is dumb) and cannot help me any further.  Thanks Erika (that’s the techsupport lady).  She kept trying to make it all about the computer, but I think I freaked her out with my tech-speak.  I can talk like I know computers, especially when talking to someone who doesn’t, and I don’t think Erika really knows computers.

End of part 2 of the monitor saga.  If this new number doesn’t work, I’m shutting down the machine and waiting for Nate to bring home the driver disks he has at work.  I think one of those might be it.

Current mood:  annoyed

So I stole Nate’s new monitor recently and it’s crashing my computer.  My usb ports are taking turns working which includes the ports on the side of the monitor.  I haven’t installed the drivers because I can’t find the disk (I can find all of the other paper work and the disks for Nate’s other monitors.  This is what I get for cleaning)

Anyway, I went to their website to download the drivers but couldn’t find this particular monitor.  Now I’m on hold with customer support.  This is dumb.  They’re playing really really awful country music while I’m on hold.  It’s something about country boys and girls getting down on the farm.  Bleh.

The voice recorded lady is talking to me like I’m dumb.  She’s saying things like “it’s good to be sitting in front of your computer and have a pen and paper ready to take notes.”  Do people call tech support from their cars?

Ok, we’re on to Bette Midler “Wind Beneath My Wings.”  I suppose that’s an improvement.  All I want to do is go to the bank, post office, Wal-Mart, and Kroger and then come home and clean.  I’m on my old keyboard too b/c the computer currently won’t start with a usb keyboard.  At least it doesn’t require a mouse b/c I don’t currently own one of those.

I can’t believe I’m using cell minutes on this.  I wish my crt didn’t weigh a ton.  I’d switch back in a heartbeat.  At least my computer was working then.  The only thing I’ve changed is it’s place in the room and the monitor.  I can’t print, I can’t read things from any of my periferals.  Bleh bleh bleh.