taking bridal portraits for my best friend: $0. spending a sunny afternoon riding the trails with my adventurous roomie: $0. curling up on the couch with a beer, watching football with friends: $0. not spending a single dollar on the best weekend i have had in a long time: priceless.
this was a great weekend. one of the best i've had in a long time. and i worked friday night and sunday night, too. it's different now. i'm serving people, but it's different than waiting tables. and while i felt like i was less of a person for being a waitress, so impatient to get into the 'real world,' i am really enjoying the freedom catering provides. and the time to spend with interesting people. i have had some amazing conversations with the people i work with. and have seen some phenomenal homes and events. this is definitely a different charlotte that i am used to. fancy four course, sit down dinners, at a private residence. backyard tents transformed into magic gardens. a fantasy land. a party for capitol boutique. check out the vertical garden. fashion designers and important people from vogue magazine. so beautiful it gives me goose bumps. and decorating ideas. yay.
and i had the privilege of photographing my best friend. she's beautiful. one of those girls you see on the street and you just think how cool they must be. she's got a great style. and she makes it her own. tall and slender, she can pretty much put on anything and she rocks it. but seeing her in her wedding dress...drop dead gorgeous. joel isn't going to know what hit him, when she walks down the aisle. we played uptown, saturday morning. the light was good. the sun was a little high, but it was workable. and getting hair and makeup would have been way too early if we had hit it at an ideal light. a homeless guy acted as art director. posing kelly for each shot on the church stairs. it was adorable. and funny. and made the scene a little more relaxed. it's awkward being in front of the camera. especially when you are used to being the one behind it. kelly and i like to do photo shoots and it's amazing how quickly we freeze up when we switch sides. even though we know what we would want to see and are comfortable with each other. there's just something disconcerting about being the subject. but kelly was perfection. amazingly beautiful. i am so excited.
after a late night catering (i rolled home a little before 2am) and an early morning behind the camera, jeff and i had decided to hit the trails at the whitewater center. make the best of a warm, sunny afternoon. get our butts out side. we were both exhausted and jacked on caffeine but in good spirits. unfortunately we left our skills at home. i took my first spill. slipped on a pile of leaves, tipped down a hill and landed upside down, with my head about two inches from being dunked in the catawba river. i wasn't hurt. barely a scratch. and i laid there for a few seconds laughing hysterically at how ungraceful my maneuvering had been. my spill ended up helping me, though. i was a little more relaxed about the trails after that. which made it easier to get around. i fell, and survived, and that helped me get more comfortable. jeff decided he had to show me up. he had to top my air born stunt. so he hit a tree brach and flew through the air onto a nice pile of rocks, snagging his middle finger, and overextending it, as he rolled to a stop. it was a pretty amazing display. i'd give it a nine point two. the landing was a little rusty. slight deduction for actually getting injured. but he toughed it out and finished the day. and we sat around and watched the rock climbers until his hand throbbed. it was good times. we definitely left our a-game at home, but what we lacked in athleticism we made up for in comedy. good times.
my perfect day was capped off with a little football. i mean seriously, could it get any better. after a long, tiring day, i got to eat yummy food (jeff actually cooked. paybacks for all the pancakes, i think) and curl up on the couch with an amstel light. we watched the gamecocks beat tennessee. a room full of south carolina grads and myself. it's cool to watch football with fans. makes it that much more exciting when they get all into it. makes me wish i had gone to a school with a football team. if i had it to do over i would go to UT. hook 'em horns. but i'll just watch them and wear my orange hoodie and look forward to going to my son's peewee football games someday.
church yesterday. checked out another service at renovatus. the pastor is really passionate. and i like the way he preaches. i've never experienced anything like that before. not at all scripted. very spirit led. authentic. i like authentic. like is too short to waste your time on being fake. and i worked a party at the mint museum. was home by eight and got to hang out with more of jeff's friends. tested our "white-ness". (took the quiz from the book stuff white people like.) i'm pretty white. and watched the marley dog entertain everyone. you should not play ball in the house with him. hilarious. he isn't the brightest dog, but he is wicked cute. i like to think that if dogs are a reflection of their owners, that he got my awesome personality and good looks and that his crazy antics are a separate inheritance. but it's a fine line.
overall, my favorite month started off with a five star weekend. looking forward to this coming saturday. kelly and joel will be tying the knot. gettin' hitched. sayin' i do. and we'll break it down til dawn...or at least til they kick us out of the reception hall. dance party. yee haw!
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