I am blushing! Michelle from Sage Wedding Pros (my FAVE industry blog!) featured an interview with me on her blog :) I am so honored! Thanks Michelle! I have mentioned Michelle's blog before in one of my resource room posts because it truly is my favorite industry blog for all wedding professionals...Sage Wedding Pros always offers insightful interviews, organizing tips (you know my OCD self loves these) and probably the most beneficial tip I've learned from her blog is her business plan tips (every business owner needs to know this!).
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I have a confession. I am a hoarder. OK, not like one of those hoarders, but I am a hoarder of sticky notes. I am guilty of covering desktops, fridges and Mike's forehead with every color under the rainbow of sticky notes. Finally, I realized it was time to face my problem head-on. It got so bad that I couldn't find sticky notes from yesterday under sticky notes written from today. What to do? What to do? I kept hearing my photographer friends talk about "Things" and how awesome it was. But, I just wasn't sure. I wasn't sure if I was ready to leave paper behind. But I did and I LOVE IT!

Things is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! It's the perfect solution to uberly-annoying organized folks like myself. You can break down tasks and projects by hour, day, week and divide tasks amongst different categories (home, work, etc) and you can assign tasks to different people (my personal fave...delegating is a skill!) It also does tons more but I've been using Things for about two weeks and I can't sing it's praises enough. I do find myself reaching for sticky notes much less since I've been using Things...all my tasks and "things" are actually getting done because I can see what's needs to be completed. Go check it out...if you sit near a computer for as much as I do then you may want to consider Things!
And it wouldn't be a blog post without...

Carol says:
Aww.....!! what a sweet picture of you and Bear!! Sounds like you guys had an awesome time on your trip!!
(10.12.09 @ 09:43 AM)
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So far I've gotten great feedback on my resource room posts...if anyone has anything they would like to contribute, please feel free to comment in the comment section below and let me know if there is anything in particular you would like to see from the resource room!


Today I am sharing With This Ring and I adore today's post (ahem, it's about an Etsy store!) I'm telling you, I could spend hours browsing Etsy...but anyway, back to With This Ring! Be sure to go check out their blog-it's super cute and has the latest and greatest wedding ideas!

Next up isn't just for photographers...it's for everyone, but I've been wanting to share this blog because I think it gets back down to the basics. Day in and day out we all work and get bogged down with the minute details of life and sometimes reading this blog is just a fresh of breath air reminding me to chill out and appreciate everything that is going on!
Check out Zen Habits:

Enjoy!
Michelle Loretta says:
Love the ZEN HABITS!!! Added it to my reader. Ohhhh... inspiration!
(10.08.09 @ 08:52 PM)
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I'm still hanging out in Monterey this week, working and doing the tourist thing, and thoroughly enjoying it all! Monterey and Pacific Grove are just so stinkin' cute! I love that Monterey is very dog friendly (Santa Barbara is too, but we're always pleasantly surprised when other cities are). Monday we lunched at an outdoor mall where everyone just made the biggest fuss over Bear (oh, you know he enjoyed it!). To get to the delicious little cafe we wanted to try out, we had to take an escalator...being the proud parents we are, I had the camera ready for Bear's first escalator ride! And then we dined on clam chowder and sandwiches...I love me some clam chowder!



Bear was hesitant at first...



And then he balked at the idea...

And then he decided "now or never!"

Whew! He got on :)

I love this place...it's called Archie's American Diner and they put American flags on all the sandwiches :)

heidi says:
You never fail to make me laugh, Whitney...glad Bear got on the escalator so you guys could have a great lunch!
(10.07.09 @ 12:32 PM)
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Well, it's not really summer any more...in fact it's beginning to get quite chilly at night along the central coast, but whatever, that's another blog post!






So I'll just come out and say it: I am obsessed with major league baseball. Since.like.FOREVER! I constantly check stats on my phone, I edit while listening to SportsCenter...it's a sickness, really. Growing up, we were a painstakingly four hour drive from Turner Field where the Atlanta Braves play, but now that Mike and I live anywhere between 1 1/2 to 4 hours away (depending on the traffic!) from Dodgers Stadium, we make it a point to go to as many games as we can---which is basically whenever I'm in town! You could even go as far to say that October is my favorite month...no, not because of the pretty fall leaves and pumpkin lattes, etc, but because of the postseason and world series!
I'm not quite sure why I love baseball so much. I like to think that my Nana had something to do with it. My Nana was an amazing woman (I could write an entire blog about her) and she just loved college basketball and major leage baseball. I used to spend the night with her with I was little and I remember her pulling rocking chairs in front of the television so we could watch the Braves. She was a HUGE Braves fan and it was much to her dismay when I started pulling for the Yankees (Joe Torre y'all, enough said!). Nana used to tell me stories about when she was a little girl and would listen to the Boston Braves on the radio (no TV's!). Pretty cool story :)
This past weekend was the last of the regular season games and we went down to LA to see them play one last for this year (can you see my tears of sorrow on your computer screen?!) All I have to say is that if the Dodgers go to the World Series I am SO.THERE. I'm not sure what I will pawn off to buy tickets, but I'll find something ;)
Here are a few pictures from this past weekend...we had such a great time...seriously, is there anything better than a good ball game and some greasy food? :)





I remember when Rafael Furcal was a rookie with the Braves...wow, I feel old for knowing that!

Also, I cannot believe that this is my 100th blog post!!!!! How exciting! I didn't even realize it until my last blog post, when it reminded me that I was at 99 posts. This little blog has come a long way since February when Into The Darkroom launched it for me (thanks, guys!). Several readers of my blog are photographers and I just wanted to take a quick second and mention how awesome ITDR is. If you're in the market for a new photo blog they have stellar customer service and their designs, well, they just rock!
I want to thank everyone for reading along this far and I hope that you will continue following my journey as a photographer for the next 100 posts! :) I think I'm going to go celebrate with a cupcake!
Happy Monday!!!
Annemarie says:
How fun!!! If they go, let us know, we might be up for joining you for a game!! Btw, did you get your hair cut? Looks cute. Love the hat! :)
(10.05.09 @ 04:15 PM)
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Very insightful interview Whitney and wonderful advice for any business person (great picture, too by the way)!!
(10.12.09 @ 02:42 PM)