lately - exhausted

Hello hello everyone.. what a crazy last few weeks I have had. But first I need to take you back to last year.. Last year I had been asked to be one of the speakers for a women's event in our local mosque. The topic was photography and how the elements of a good photograph can tie into our daily life.

Thankfully the rest of the year went by quietly until a few months ago I was asked to take photos for a three day event taking place in early October.

Our community hosted a medical conference where doctors from all across North America flew in to participate. There were over 200 people who joined the event. I was to be one of the two photographers to take photos of the event. Now here's the funny part.. I don't do events. I don't like dealing with people. I am not good at instructing people about their poses. But you do what you gotta do for the community. It was an exhausting weekend leaving me with 1000's of photos to edit. 

There were multiple demonstrations showing the innovations in ultrasound technology and a station to brush up on your suturing technique and a lot more. I even learned a few things. 

Word spread and I ended up getting hired to shoot two other events on the next weekend.. also within the community and I know I know.. yay work but I now have another 800 pictures to edit and I have had no time to do anything else.. 

I have kids and meals and sports and M was out last week and I am exhausted. And after shooting all these events I am even firmer in my opinion that I do not enjoy photographing events. 

On top of all this is the incompetency of people around us.. 

D picked up bowling in high school.. it was time to upgrade his ball. So we got him one from the local pro shop.. all the man had to do was drill the hole. He didn't smooth out the thumb hole properly and it scraped the skin right off his thumb. Everytime it heals and we think he can bowl again the thumb becomes inflamed again. One hole and we are still dealing with the repercussions months later. 

Last week I had a doctors appointment.. there was a glitch with our insurance and I chose to self pay.. I couldn't afford to cancel the appointment (more on that later).. I asked for an itemized bill so I could get a reimbursement from the insurance company. The insurance company required three things mentioned on the bill and I have requested the bill three times and it never has all three things on it. When your job is billing wouldn't you think you would know how to create a bill the insurance companies will accept?

Okay.. enough complaining.. 

H loves to help me in the kitchen.. he has been asking to make full meals more independently.. so a few Sundays ago he made chili. Since then he has baked two batches of browning.. made a thai curry.. and I think a few more things but I forget.

and I am trying to encourage D to improve his kitchen skills.. currently he can make eggs and boxed mac n cheese and airfryer premade things.. so while he can survive but I want him to be better than just survival cooking. 

 He choose to make pakoras (potato fritters).

and I tired the viral lazy dumplings. They were very very easy.. and I would definitely make them again. 

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