Okay, here you go.

I've pretty much given up on the idea that this blog will remain my Seekrit Idennity, and finally decided I don't really care. I am not part of Corporate World anymore - love me or hate me, it's me. So that's my extremely fancy professional glammed-up business photo. FDiL cut my hair and used about a pound of expensive "product" on it and spend an eternity blowing it out ever-so-carefully, to get it to not frizz on a humid, rainy afternoon. I actually had a near-meltdown at the amount of product - my hair felt ICKY! ICKY ICKY ICK! I hadn't known until that moment how I can't stand having my hair feel all stiff and styled. I wanted to stick my head in the sink and wash it out, but managed to control myself long enough to stop by the house, pick up my camera, and head over to their house (she was at work at the swank downtown shop when she did my hair; my son was at home to take the photo). So I threw on a now two-sizes-too-large (I hope it doesn't show) professional looking jacket and stood in front of a bush outside his building, and after a little cropping to fit and an iPhoto color adjustment to make me less pasty (not shown here), that's my fancy professional business look. No Vaseline on the lens or Photoshop; but at least my clients will recognize me, though I will not be blown out quite so extremely. It bothers me that my eyes are kinda pink (I'm allergic to something growing in his neighborhood) but I wanted to get business cards turned around FAST, and wasn't about to spend time finding a photographer and figuring out when FDiL could glam me up before a scheduled appointment. We winged it. It's fine.

I liked this one too, but went with the more smiley one.



In the rest I was making a face or had my eyes half shut. My daughter sure as hell didn't get her incredible camera-readiness from me.