Right now it’s crunch time at work. It’s super busy. I shouldn’t be in here blogging considering there are a million (and one) things on my to-do. But who am I kidding, my priorities are all jacked up. I’m a professional procrastinator among other things. It’s a sickness people, seriously it is. Oddly enough though, that’s when my best stuff gets created, when I’m under pressure.

Yesterday I was on the ball with this album I had to finished for a proof today. My brother calls me to inform me he just bought guitar hero. Well, bye-bye deadline. . . I wanted to play guitar hero! And I did, which meant I was up until 3 a.m. working on my album.  I’m fucking smart, let me tell you. Can you say GENIUS?!

For some reason, I don’t feel tired right now. In fact, I’m at that point where my body is using this inner stored energy and I’ll probably crash tonight, but for now I’m good.

So anyways, I finished the album for this lady I work with. She loved it. In fact she was in tears when she saw it. I have minor edits and adds to make today, but it has to be done by tomorrow to have printed and make a deadline so it can be book bind and returned before Christmas.

She’s going through each layout (I created 21 layouts last night, that’s 42 pages) and I’m in awe that I did that much between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. last night. Go me! Well as many of you know, I work for a photography studio, we specialize in family photography, not weddings. She loved my album so much she blurted out, “I swear Claudia if you wanted to do this on the side I’d so help you start a business. A lot of our clients are always talking about how they don’t even have their pictures from their wedding in an album.”

The fact that she even thought that highly of my work really meant a lot to me. I may just take her up on her offer. Some extra cash wouldn’t hurt one bit. Layout and editing are my specialty. I use to be in yearbook in HS and in college I volunteered with the newspaper just so I could work with layout. All these great opportunities that come up lately really just satisfy the inner career/work part of me. It’s such a fulfilling feeling. I really cant describe it, but man do I feel proud of myself. Getting paid to do what I love, shit any day baby! I’ll take it!

Instant gratification is so freakin’ awesome!

I just love what I do. I don’t care too much for my procrastinating personality to be honest and I’m working hard to change that and get with it just because at the end I’ll benefit greatly from that.

I’m working on it, I’m working on it!