hello, people. this is actually =Tar-Vanimelde (jenn was temporarily insane and gave me her password). jenn just got back into town today, so of course i had to invade her house. her sister was here for a bit as well, so it was a party for a while there. after michelle left, i didn't take the hint and leave jenn alone after her long day. i plopped myself on her couch, accepted her offer of opening a bottle of wine, and proceeded to make a nuisance of myself. par for us.

then, randomly, in the middle of a conversation about her time in the bahamas and crazy people, she goes "OH! My goggles!" and runs over to the pile of luggage sitting by the front door, rooting around madly. when she turned back around, she was wearing her goggles, and the happiest out-and-out GRIN i have seen on her in the 5 years we've known each other. with her new hair cut, her striped long sleeve shirt, the goggles and that expression, she looked like an excited, elated 4 year old.

my reaction? to laugh my ass off and try to get a picture of it that actually captured the intensity of her joy. i failed, of course, but the resulting photoshoot did come up with a couple of stellar shots (and by that i mean her looking retarded and/or crosseyed, usually because she was laughing at my laughing at her). i doubt she'll let me share, sadly.


Edit: Yes I will!

it turns out, the whole point of pulling out the goggles was to show me how, when you take them off, it feels like "sneezing with your eyes open". which, on trying it for myself, i can agree with. the suction is incredible. on off. on off. on off. wheeee! who knew goggles could be so much fun??


=Tar-Vanimelde does look like she's having a lot of fun...

but by this point, i had the camera, and her macro lens really is as fun as it sounded when i read her journal. there are now random pictures on there of her dog, her butt, her bird, the couch, the take-out box from dinner, the wine bottle, her luggage... in short, nothing interesting, but it was still fun as all get out. i love the click!


I'm so glad Lari likes my new lens


I really am quite obnoxious.

THIS PARAGRAPH HAS BEEN DELETED, LARI. YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON.

Apologies to anyone who watches my scraps.