Good morning, it is 6:59 a.m., I am blow drying my hair, LET’S MAKE A LIST!

1. Last night, I walked into my kitchen to find this.

I understand why you may be tempted to think I put that puppy there seeing as, um, I’ve done it before, but I promise on my very best set of hot rollers that I DID NOT PUT THAT PUPPY THERE.  He just crawled in all on his own and made himself comfortable.  In fact, he was so comfortable that he stayed there for quite awhile.

2. That is, until he ventured into my bedroom where he located an earring that I must have dropped yesterday.  He began chewing on the earring and, when I walked in and found him and my favorite pink earring in the corner of the room, I was all MOMMY IS NOT HAPPY, SNUGGLES.  The earring is now forever damaged which means that Snuggles is grounded for at least ten minutes.

3. My hair is 43% dry.  Let’s continue!

4. So, a couple of weeks ago I told you my big news about how I’m starting to do photography as a little side thing in 2010. Here’s the back story: I’ve been messing around with it for 1.5 years or so, photographing people in my life just for the fun of it.  Other people, however, have started asking and so… well, the rest is history.

5. When I told you about it, several of you emailed me to ask if I’m going to do photography outside of where I live and the answer is yes.  I’ve had a good bit of interest from several of you about coming to your area, so my rough plan at this point is to take one weekend a month each month in 2010 and use that to travel to areas where there are several people wanting it in that area.  I’m going ahead and working on that schedule now, so if you’re interested, please send me an email to let me know (amybethbullard AT gmail DOT com) and I’ll send you all the details. Most of the time my darling Katie will be traveling with me to help with the shoots so, in other words, IT’S A PARTY IN THE USA.

North Carolina, a little heads up — I’m definitely coming your way in March.  I hope you like big hair.

6. Since I drug y’all through the countdown to the lingerie shower for my mother, I feel it is my duty to inform you that she is now happily married as of about 72 hours ago.  Which is another way of saying that, for the last 72 hours, I have received many texts from the honeymoon because hey, if the lingerie shower didn’t scar me for life, MAYBE MY MOTHER TEXTING ME UPDATES FROM HER HONEYMOON WILL DO THE TRICK.

Oh, I kid.  Kinda.

7. My hair is now 97% dry so I must bid you a fond farewell.