Surfing USA!

I did my first big job Saturday night where I actually printed the photos myself! This was my prop Katherine is standing on in the picture. I ordered the backdrop, Lana made the surfboard for me and I burned the mid-night oil Friday night painting it. It seemed to be a pretty big hit. I hired Teresa to go with me and after the night was over I think she would have preferred to have her finger nails pulled off one by one than to ever go with me again to do a job. There was IMMENSE pressure to get the pictures printed and since it seemed to be the main objective of everyone there to get pictures- we were SLAMMED. (In a good way!) Teresa's face was literally red. At the end of the evening she said she liked her job in orthopedics and would run the other way if I even mentioned another photo job again! -SAY CHEESE!- I said, "So what if I call you and ask you to do a job with me and your broke?" She replied, " I'll go to a CASH ADVANCE."
Have any of you ever heard the term "IN THE WEEDS"? When servers at restaurants get slammed with a bunch of tables and get behind (with people whining for their drinks ect...) They say, "I'M IN THE WEEDS!!!" Well that is what we were- IN THE TALL, TALL WEEDS!
In the end, Katherine sold $45 in her bracelets and we packed up everything and I paid Teresa. I guess she wasn't expecting me to pay her so much and she said, "I didn't do it for the money-BUT next time I will!"
SPRINGBREAK at CLEARWATER HERE WE COME!!!