Lacey Leigh Lovell
January 2, 2006 - Monday

All Signs Point to Yes
Current mood: determined

So it’s all over. No more holiday season. My New Years Eve was AWSOME!!!! I met a great guy a few days ago, whom I adore. He doesn’t live in Phoenix, but he’s cool enough that I will continue to pursue a relationship with him. Not necessarily a romantic one (although who knows). He’s fabulous. Kind of the male version of me. I am trying to stop being so sad that he’s leaving, since I knew pretty much from the very beginning that he was going to. I promised myself not to like him enough to miss him, but such is life.

Things at the studio we very interesting today. I had a sitting today that included a group of extraordinarily interesting people. They were so much fun. At first I was ENTIRELY creeped out by the whole thing. See, this boy and his mother are taking pictures together. Ok…that’s fine, that’s normal. But then the boy whose name is Ryan says…OK, this is going to get kind of weird….and I am thinking, maybe this lady, who is beautiful, but obviously quite a bit older than the boy is not his mother….awkward… But no. She is his mother. He name is “scout” and they are doing some weird Halloween thing, in which Ryan has a huge wound on his stomach made up of latex, makeup and stage blood, and mom will be sticking her had in it, and they will be posing like they are just taking a normal family photo, but the stuff I just mentioned is taking place…..Yeah, I was thinking the same thing that you are all thinking now….That’s fucking nuts!!!!! Well, it turns out that Ryan is an artist and this is part of his work and his mother is helping him out.

These people were so cool, that it was *almost* worth leaving to go to work on New Year ’s Day. If I wouldn’t have been leaving Aaron, it would have TOTALLY been worth it. They were so nice, and really appreciated my suggestions, and they were genuinely good people. One of them, I think her name was Mary Kay (I am trying so hard to remember her name because she was one of the sweetest people that I have ever met. She kept helping Ryan with his latex and assisting David, a very nice boy…Ryan “Friend” I think, with the stage blood. She said that they were great full that I was there today, because I was so good at what I was doing. Then there were the tattoos. They all had tattoos of Ryan’s grandparents on their arms. Temporary ones that they had made. I don’t know why they were there, but the sentiment seemed incredibly sweet. Then she said…I brought one for you, don’t worry. And it might have been because I was so emotional about the departure of Aaron, but it made me feel so good. Funny how strangers can sometimes have such a positive affect. I put them on straight away, and they are still there. Sweet looking people too.

There was another woman there too. I never learned her name which I am kind of glad for, because I feel so terrible about not remembering the name of the lady before. She was sitting in the back, casually adding comments and stuff, and it turns out that she was writing down things that I said. So those of you who read my “Things you might hear at Sears Portrait Studio” blog, you can imagine my instant fondness for her. Like at some point they asked me if this was the weirdest sitting that I had ever had, and I thought about it for a second, and I said “Um…All Signs Point to Yes.” She wrote that down, along with some other things. It was great. They said, are you going to tell who ever you talk to about this? And I said, Hell, I’ll probably blog about it. They got my myspace URL, and I hope that they use it, because I would love to keep in touch with them.

I told them that I had been meeting a lot of interesting people at work, and they wanted to know what I meant by that, so I told them about Aaron, and that I met him at work when he came in to get family pictures with his Parents, and his brother and sister in law who are regulars, and they said that the way that we met was beautiful, the way that we met, and Mary Kay said “Ahhh, we love Aaron.” And I said, yeah, I think we might. Then when I told them that he was leaving, Mary Kay said that she would be sure to keep him in her thoughts. God, what beautiful people. I wish that everyone was like them. Because maybe it would be a little bit more of a strange place, but it would be strange in a good way, and it would be a lot better of a place. Peaceful. I really needed to meet them. I think that it was kind of fate, because I was beginning to get so cynical and jaded that people in general suck ass, and it turns out that even though the good ones are few and far between, they are out there, and I should try to find them…. Incidentally I found Ryan’s website (Turns out I was right about her name….YAY for me. It’s kind of neat, you should check it out.
YAY for Ryan's Art

Currently listening:
Ropin' the Wind
By Garth Brooks
Release date: 21 November, 2000