"The Voyeur Magazine: Urban Heat" issue is out now!

Photo Credit to Matthew Lane of Zazen Photo.
Well, she's done it again! Dreama put out another issue of The Voyeur Magazine, this issue is called "Urban Heat" - please check out the photography section (done by my hubby), and the models are myself and the mysterious Etrain. We did a shoot inspired by Gil Elvgren's Pin-up style art. Please note, the photographer in this shoot did NOT use Photoshop to alter the images, these were taken directly as-is, in the studio. GO MATT!
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Also featured, an interview with Mikamy Meadows Owner Amy Mattingly, and a section on my top 3 Political issues (mentioned in a previous blog.
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I'm so very excited today, because we are also doing a Photoshoot with our long-time friend Kymry (we call her KY), who has returned home from Norway (aka she calls it Borway) for a vacation in the USA. Next week KY leaves ATL and travels to NYC where our group is meeting up for Lauren and Torrey's wedding. WOO HOO!. I can't wait. Matt has never been to the big city, so he is in for a treat. All he can talk about tho, is the BNH Camera store. LOL. uh oh. I'm more excited about the trippy hotel we are staying in. More to come later.

Tubbin' & Rollin' the Dice

YAY, we finally finished the Mikamy Meadows photo shoot. Amy had requested that we use more body parts (aka Abbie's hands/feet/etc) in the photos. We did the best we could in the studio, but there were 2 products that we felt needed a "tub" in the background, with a tastefully blurred out body in it. Thus, we trekked over to Erika & Holly's to borrow their bathtub. They have one of those fabulously old, standalone claw-footed bathtubs - perfect for a photoshoot!
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In other news, we went to a "car club party" way the hell out in BFE Marietta (geez why do people live so damn FAR away?) on Saturday night. It was a fun party though for shizzle. I had almost an entire bottle of Red wine to myself, but split it out over several several hours though. We also shared a nice Monte Cristo Cigar, and had some lovely chats with old friends we hadn't seen in forever. It was a nice evening.
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Sunday, I was invited to a "Pure Romance" Party - which just happened to be in Canton (an even FARTHER drive than Marietta). Oh well. What's another tank of gas for a friend? We did have a great time. I won one of the games, and got the sex-dice. woo hoo! But then I had to leave early to get home in time for the Tubbin' shoot. Goodness the day flies by faster as you get older!
I did order me a little somethin' but then I found out later that the saleslady charged me $5 for shipping (even though the item was There at the party and I didn't have to have it shipped to me). I do not appreciate that kinda thing! I even wrote the saleslady an email to ask about it and if she could refund me the $5, but she wrote back that it was her "standard practice" to charge that fee to everyone regardless of if the product was shipped or not. I think it's crap. Oh well it's $5. I will let this go - for now.
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Mad Men Season 2 started last night. We haven't had a chance to watch it, but it's probably the first thing we'll do after dinner. WOO HOO!
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The House Drama

I don't think my nerves can take this anymore.
We had our house on the market listed for sale from September to April this year. No offers, so we took it off the market (it's a crappy market anyhoo). We had put about 1/2 or stuff into storage during this timeframe, because we had "Staged" the house professionally.
when we "unlisted" the house, I moved all that stuff back IN and then unpacked. We figured we'd be stuck there a while. and we did love our house so it wasn't a bad situation.
HOWEVER
during this last Thursday daytime - (our realtor), called me at work. She said there was a couple who was house-hunting in our neighborhood. They said they loved the neighborhood but were not liking the houses they saw so far. Their realtor (another lady) pulled up our old listing, and they were wanting to know if Matt & I were interested in selling again - and that is why they had contacted our realtor to call us.
I was very much in shock, we couldn't just answer that, we needed to think about it and discuss it first. I was at WORK for heaven's sake. I said we needed to discuss it, could we tell them tomorrow or something?
Then my realtor called me later and said the couple's realtor asked if they could "show" the house to her clients today.
I figured it could not hurt, but only if it was later in the evening, like 6pm. I wanted to get the house cleaned up. I went home by 4pm, and cleaned like a madwoman, and then they came by to see the house promptly at 6pm. They were there for almost 1 hour - and they loved the house!
Matt came home shortly thereafter, and we had a big discussion about it. We do still want to live in-town, and cut our cost of living, but it would all depend on how much the offer was. We finally decided that we would listen to whatever offer they could come up with, but we weren't going to "relist" the house on the market. Our Realtor said if they had a good offer, we could just go straight to contract and not have to relist it. If the offer was crap then we didn't have to sell did we? no.
so …
Friday our realtor calls, she says the couple's realtor informed her that they LOVED our house, and they were scripting the offer right then. We should know something by that evening.
but
we didn't hear ANYTHING all day Friday, all day Saturday, etc.
So, Matt and I basically proceeded as normal . . .
then
Sunday - in the middle of the MikamyMeadows Party, our realtor calls me.
She says the couple had narrowed their choices down to 2 houses, and ours was one of the 2. BUT
they put an offer on the OTHER house, and it was immediately accepted.
so
all of that drama for nothing.
sigh.
I hate getting my hopes up and then BLAH.
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In other news, the MikamyMeadows Party, was a success! It wasn't quite the turnout I was expecting - but we still had about 10 people show up over the day. Also, our dear friend Erika was offering free foot massages - using the Mikamy Meadows Foot products. Everybody partook(is that a word?), and it was a relaxing party. Everybody had a good time!
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