Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on July 29, 2010
Stay tuned for information on Klutzy Shutterbug Photography. I am trying to get moving on my photography and hope to be able to do something I love for “work”. Post more later 
This is a copy of my business card which should be here today!
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on June 16, 2010
Ok so I’m trying to turn the funk around. Trying to give up on expectations in people and trying to take my life one day at a time. If my mom’s death taught me anything it is to treasure the people around you and never let the people that truly love you and enrich your life go without knowing what they mean to you. There are days that I get so “funky” because I start to count quantity of friends. It is only recently that I’ve figured out quantity doesn’t enrich your life..quality does. Also, with this wonderful thing we call the interwebz and our progress in the smart phone industry (*coughs* Felice did you see that? *cough* haha) I can stay in touch with the wonderful friends I’ve made along my adventures in life. Anyways, on to more…pointless rambling and over my funk. I’m not promising anything but I hope to not have to put my readers through anymore bellyaching about my lack-luster life…instead you get random ramblings courtesy of me being bored and sitting in public not wanting to cut on frontierville in facebook because the music is makes will make me the target of stares I’m sure. (was that the longest run-on sentence known to man?)
I have off this week and so far I’ve done a whole lot of nothing. Lazy days on the couch, some cleaning and lots of sleeping. Sleep is what I do best lately. I excel at it. If I were being scored I would be valedictorian of the Sleeper class o201o. The power is out today at my house. The Public Works Commission of Fayetteville descended on to my neighborhood around 8am and cut power as soon as the clock struck 9. I had recieved notice yesterday and planned accordingly so here I sit at Barnes and Nobles doing oh so important stuff.
There are people on laptops everywhere around me and stacks of books sitting next to them. They look studious or busy at work. I, however am writing on my blog, facebook gaming and twittering about my useless knowledge. I have the urge to cover my screen everytime someone walks by so they will think I am hard at work.
Who knows, maybe they think I’m sitting here writing the next great American novel or organizing my notes on my latest research into the cure for cancer.
Random note: There is getting ready to be a fight. There are like 4 plugs for about 15 people on laptops who are realizing their power only holds for so long. Like The Nerd and I who are keeping a watchful eye on our battery meter to see if we should find another free wifi hotspot with more wall plugs. So we moved. Not tables but places. We’re at Starbucks now but their wifi isn’t free until July 1. Otherwise its 3.99/2hours and we’re only here another 45 minutes. So The Nerd is trying to figure out how to get us on this AT&T network seeing as how we’re AT&T customers I am not paying for wireless access when I have it through them (and when I just left somewhere it was completely free.) I’m meeting a friend in an hour at Olive Garden for soup salad and breadsticks since The Nerd doesn’t really care for OG all that much I go with friends when I can. Although I would trade Olive Garden for my home in Hawaii back…and go back in time 3 years or so, knowing what I know now of course.
Stupid battery ran out and I had to finish this later once at home. Rant coming later about our lunch at Olive Garden. I really should get my name out there as a restaurant reviewer in Fayetteville. haha
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on May 25, 2010
Along with everything else referenced I guess I should update that I have a job. I’m a working woman receiving taxable wages from an actual company for the first time in about 10 years. Well, I held a few odd jobs here and there but they’ve been limited time and/or for individuals–under the table.
I’m working with a company called News America as an in-store ad rep. Thats a fancy way of saying that I screw a screw driver to put up the little thingys that hold ads, fill up and maintain coupon machines and crawl around on my knees putting huge floor stickers down and making sure they have no air bubbles. Glamorous right? (Side note: did anyone else just sing G-L-A-M-OR-OUS? Well, I did…to spell it. Thanks Fergie! Who needs kindergarten when pop stars teach you how to spell? 
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Anyways, excuse my randomness. Back to the topic at hand. My month is schedule by “ad-changes” and sets of stores I go to. In this, I drive all around Fayetteville and beyond putting up ads that, before this job, I barely knew existed. I’ll take pictures one day. Maybe of my dining room or car that have become completely taken over with advertisements.
Today, my glamorous job entailed putting down a floor sticker that said (and I quote) “Wow! Nice Package!” with a man on it with 3 strips of bacon behind him. Seriously? I think it is lame but all I could imagine is some mommy brigade watching me put it down and then chasing me with strollers yelling about their innocent kids being subjected to sexual innuendo.
Also, do me a favor and don’t stand there to pull out those coupons just because you think its “neat” that the machine pops another out. Its really annoying to have to clean up discarded coupons from everywhere around the machine because someone got the giggles from a machine that dispenses paper. I know it isn’t the kids either so don’t try that route! I’ve had at least 4 adults tell me they do it for shits and giggles.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on May 19, 2010
This is my little piece of the interwebz and it the interest of full disclosure (AKA blogging about my life again), I have a rant/review. Before I start, allow me to say that the nerd and I are sort of a walking zagat guide for the “regular” person. We don’t eat at a bunch of 5-star places but we do eat out…a lot especially since we’ve been living back in NC.
Ruby Tuesday was our choice for lunch today. You see, I meet the nerd for lunch most days and considering where he works, there aren’t many choices around. Ruby Tuesday is one of the better but it isn’t far off from pretty bad. When we lived in Hawaii, it was good and we often chose it over other places but here it comes around once in awhile when we are tired of all the other places we’re wearing out.
Anyways, enough rambling and on with the review…
If you are in or around Spring Lake, NC be advised that while Ruby Tuesday is a nice choice for something other than fast food or mediocre buffet, it isn’t what it used to be. I don’t know if this is a Spring Lake and/or NC problem only…but the service has gone downhill for sure. The prices are outrageous for what you are eating ($9.99 for a chicken strip dinner with mashed potatoes) and the quality is only mediocre at best. Our bill for a lunch today was over $33…granted we had cheese fries but seriously I was disgusted to know we paid $6.99 for some fries that were over cooked, over salted and overly greasy with some cheese melted over them. While I did not have their salad bar today, it is a RT staple and never seems to disappoint. As long as you don’t catch them in between fill ups, the salad bar is sure to please your palate.
So if we were rating on a 5 star scale…Ruby Tuesdays of Spring Lake, NC gets a 3.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on May 19, 2010
And I’ll keep getting back up. My blog started out as a cool idea that life just keeps stepping in the way of. I admire those that can update with any semblance of regularity and still have witty things to say day after day.
Let me fill in some huge gaps from the previous 3 months of my absence. Its likely that everyone that reads here already will be bored to tears as they already know but for anyone that I may reel in with my catchy word salad (or verbal diarrhea as it will probably be) heres the scoop.
Back in January I tried to start this picture a day idea that I’ve seen floating around the interwebz. What I didn’t know is what the month of Jan would hold in store for me. Life had been a little hectic for the previous 6 months or so…The Nerd got out of the military due to medical issues and life began a whirlwind of changes. In those changes meant moving home. Home for us being Fayetteville, NC where most of our family resides in surrounding communities. Home also meant helping take care of my mom. See, she had COPD, Diabetes and a host of other health issues that required use of oxygen 24/7. Our first 6 months of being home were great and I felt like a “whole” family. My parents came to my house to eat, we went and did things and enjoyed being with each other. In the middle of this happiness were lots of stays in hospitals, trips to UNC-Chapel Hill for experimental drugs and days that my mom would barely get out of bed.
We got to spend our first Christmas together in awhile and host it in our home. Christmas eve my parents stayed the night here and we woke up to have a wonderful breakfast and lots of laughs opening presents. However, there was a cloud that hung over our heads. Mom had called Christmas eve to say she wasn’t feeling well and needed some help. Her color was odd, her breathing labored and her energy gone. We tried to get through Christmas thinking this was just a bad couple days for her and she would come out of it. On the 27th of December we admitted her to the hospital where she spent time in ICC and a regular room being given her different options.
Our next weeks were spent keeping her spirits up and hoping that there was an end in sight this time. That brings me to a picture a day for Jan 1-6.
On Jan 16, 2010 at around 2:45am my mother lost her fight. For her last 2 days we stood by her bedside…watching her fight and when she passed it was serene and quiet, her closet friends and family by her side and the nurses letting us have our time to say goodbye.
The days after are sort of a blur. The funeral process is not anything I care to go through again anytime soon and my house was flooded with flowers, food, friends and family. It is honestly times like these that I know things happen for a reason. I spent so much time panicking and stressing about our life changes but in the end, I was here to watch my mom drift out of this world…a bittersweet time I will carry with me forever.
So now you know why I’m so behind…yet again. I have realized there is a possibility that for me, in this moment, blogging could be quite cathartic and hopefully I can become a bit more regular…but don’t hold me to that.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on January 6, 2010
Soon I will get more active…soon life will give me something to write about that might interest….anyone.
For now, you are stuck with pictures of my life.
So, this one is old. It isn’t from today. I’m not cheating, I simply stumbled upon it and it reminds me: TAKE DOWN THE CHRISTMAS DECOEATIONS on the front porch and put back up your flags.
I also want to enter a photo contest that I wonder if this is good enough.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on January 5, 2010
I promised myself I would keep up and I am. However, last night, I was all prepared to photograph my day and I got a call from my dad late to say that my mom was having a bad night at the hospital so I went up there to keep her company through the night. I got the internet…about 2am with no camera in site.
I’ve slept most of the day, so even this won’t be riveting….but I am determined to finish….something.
So, here is my other unfinished “I’m going to get to it” project. Christmas decorations. I got the motivation to take them down, its just the storing them that is the problem now.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on January 3, 2010
So, It is 9:11pm and I almost didn’t get my deadline today but I am stubborn and this is getting done this year! It doesn’t help that my internet is being so completely screwy that I can’t do anything. So here’s hoping that day 2 happens.
Day 2. We purchased a late xmas gift for each other. New laptops. We’ve wanted them for a couple years….being that our last ones went kaput early on so we decided to treat ourselves. *With the promise that the money spending slooooows down soon and we have to eat at home for the next 70 years.
So not a very good picture. But that is one of our new ASUS laptops. More to come later when my internet wants to stop acting like a douche.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on January 2, 2010
So, if you are one of my 3 readers, you know that I tried to no avail to stay on top of my blog. Life was a little crazier than I anticipated and I got a little side-tracked. As Jeff likes to remind me, I am cluttering his RSS feed and not updating. So here goes. My new years resolution is to do this “365 days of pictures”. So, I start today, 01/02/10 and will conclude on 01/02/11.
I start today with the first “outing” of the year. A weekend day used to explore something different. I haven’t shared this with the Nerd yet, but I hope to be able to do at least one exploration “mission” a week as well to help make my 365 days of photos a bit more adventurous as well.
We went to our state capitol, Raleigh, NC today. While there we explored the capitol building and then decided to find some warmth at the Crabtree Valley mall.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on November 2, 2009
Getting this up early so I don’t forget. I took my camera outside for the first time in awhile and took some shots around the yard and the dogs. My favorite is my little furry poser, Echo. She’s a bit of a ham considering she’s not human.
My little furry attention whore
Self proclaimed klutz, amateur photographer, wife, daughter, friend and computer nerd. I ramble a lot and teach myself as much as possible. Passionate debater with many diverse opinions that I like to share....a lot.
