Gus,
Your Weekly news from Shawn
HI!
:D So begins the update of all things I wanted to text you (well not
all, but many of the things) since Wednesday.
I bought two brand new lenses for my
camera. They were almost $500 combined but I am so excited to start
using them! There is just one more on my list of lenses that I want
for now (and then I'll be good for a few years) but it's not out yet.
I'm hoping when Christmas comes around again that it will be out and
possibly on sale. :) I got a smaller lens for portrait photography
and just every day photography (that one was $135 through Walmart)
and then I got a lens with a much longer zoom (my current lens is
18-55mm, this one is 55-300mm so I can actually get a clear close up
picture of the mountains while standing in my backyard) and that one
was $360. I did some research and it is more important to spend the
extra money on the good lenses rather than buying the cheap ones
because the lens is what really makes the quality of the picture.
Joan and I got together on Saturday so I could take pictures for her
(more about that later) but my current lens had to do because the
portrait one won't be available for pickup at Walmart until
valentines day. The one that isn't out yet is for extreme close ups
of small things (which is the kind of photography that I LOVE doing
with my phone) so I can't wait until I can get my hands on it.
I slept through my alarm on Friday
morning and missed Angela's funeral. I felt bad and a little angry
about it but there wasn't anything I could do. I guess I was just so
exhausted I didn't even hear it go off. I had planned on getting up
at 7:30 to get ready and leave by 8:00 so I could catch the tail end
of the meet and greet before the funeral at 9:00 but I woke up at
9:50 and missed everything. I felt so bad. I guess I just wasn't
meant to go to that funeral. For whatever reason, it was better for
me not to. I don't know. So I just got dressed, got my packages ready
to go to the post office, and took my Del Parson picture (the “Lost
Lamb” one) to the craft store to find a frame (something that has
needed to be done for over a year now). The frame looks beautiful. I
also ended up getting a lot of valentines day stuff for the girls I
visit teach. I bought this cookie pan that makes cookies in these
different heart shapes with cool designs pressed into them. I tried
it out using the rest of our frozen chocolate chip cookie dough
because chocolate chip cookies are yummier than sugar cookies. :)
They turned out okay, you can kind of see the designs. I also finally
caught up on Arrow. I was surprised to see yet another actor
from a Sci-Fi I've watched and loved show up. I told you Captain Jack
showed up in it right? Well now the guy who played John Chrichton in
Far Scape showed up too . It was only for one episode but
still...I wonder what other Sci-Fi actors will appear along the way.
:)
I was far too lazy the last few days. I
got to Saturday and I still hadn't done any more hand sewing on those
ponies I started last week (and there were three other ponies ordered
since then that I still hadn't cut out the pieces for). I got all my
chores done but then I sat around for a while and watched MLP and
caught up on some other shows (update, David Anders—Sark in
Alias/Dr Whale in Once Upon a Time/Adam Monroe in
Heroes—also showed up in an episode of Arrow) until
Joan came. She brought me some chocolate. :) I really like how the
pictures turned out too even though it was snowing the entire time we
took photos (just our luck that it started right when Joan came and
ended right after she left). I'll include one of my favorite shots. I
used her photos to update my Deviant Art portfolio. I decided to make
it all photography and not a mix of digital art and other things. So
far I just have her portraits up but I'll mix in other portraits as I
get the chance to take them and when we go to the cabin in May I plan
on taking some landscape, wildlife, and macro photography during our
hike so I can fill in the other sections of my portfolio. I am
excited. :)
Seeing as I have no idea when your MTC
P-day will be, I will send this in on Sunday, making that the last
day in this update letter. I'll start the next one right away and
once we figure out your P-day I'll adjust accordingly. :) So, lets
see...Sunday. Sunday I gave little Valentines gifts to the girls I
visit teach. They each got two of those cookies, some candy, and an
awesome valentine. One of the girls wasn't there but I'll get her
gift to her one way or another. :) I hope that your lessons are going
well and that you are having fun learning the language. I sent you a
letter on Thursday so hopefully it gets to you soon. I am also
putting together something else to send you. :) I love you and keep
up the good work!
<3 Shawn
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