Winter Sickness

It's almost as if I've been sick for a month now. The weather has been nice up until today. It started to rain and snow and I'm afraid it's going to stick. I've been coughing with a runny nose and it's endless. Just your usual flu/cold thing, but it's ongoing. It sucks. I've missed some school, but it's not a whole lot to miss. All I have is government and it's nothing I can't read from my text book. I do miss school though and feeling 100% better with all the energy. I haven't been myself lately and so I'm hoping tomorrow will be different and I'll get back to my routine. I still hope I can make my trip to Logan, if no than it will have to be in December. Well, adios for now.

USU Campus Tour

It's set. November 19th. I'm going down to Logan, Utah. I'm pumped! My friends and I are going to check out the campus. It's not my first time, but it's my first time that I will actually remember --> & I'm not going there as the granddaughter of an employee this time, but as a curious incoming freshman ;) It's exciting and I shall have tons of fun along with friends. Money saving time, haha! I'll be taking family portraits here soon so I'm sure I'll have enough to get there and back. I wanted to do it before the Thanksgiving Break just so that I can know for sure if it's the school for me. It's so beautiful there and I want nothing more than to go there. I have a few friends that attend USU, but that's not why I would go there. It's far enough away from home that I can handle it, but not too far that I will freak out. Haha.

Well that's about it for now!

The Perks of Blogging

You can get the word out to those far and near from you who you don't always talk with but would still like them to know what's going on.
You can get everything out on the table with all the trials and live changing events and call it journalism.


It's been a wonderful awful fabulous irritating last few months. I NEED to blog to get it out. I'm really a positive person around friends and whatnot--> but whenever the word FAMILY enters my mind things go up hill and I can't find a fence to jump over or bridge to quietly cross, instead I must endure the nightmare that occurs around them. Ok, so it's not THAT bad, but it isn't too pleasant either.

I've been going to counseling and boy has that been the savior of my sanity.

I'm a photographer. I'm figuring out my future business but right now I'm pretty content with what I've been doing.

I want to be an Aggie. Utah State is my home. Logan, Utah is beautiful and I can't wait to move there (hopefully!!!) That's my goal as of now! I want to get the 100 mile radius scholarship, but either way I'm heading that direction for college with ever fiber of my being if I can help it. It's my only way out! Summer school at ISU then off to Utah State!

I have tons to be thankful for. I don't know if I'm getting into the holiday spirit or if opportunity has arose but either way I'm excited to begin my future today.

Please remind me to blog. It's difficult finding time out of my oh so busy senior year (NOT) but I'll do my best.

THE END .

You wouldn't believe you if I told you myself.

In the last couple of months I've moved into a new place --> watched my dad go to and from S. Africa--> became a live-in-nanny and started getting really into this photography thing. Check out my website www.spaphotographs.com It's legit :) I'm the worst blogger on earth.

Selfish Time of Year

This time of year I am either trying to ignore a feeling in my gut or bursting every five minutes into tears. This year, I've done a little bit of both. I'm always talking about myself. Inside and outside. ME, ME, ME. I don't like it, but it's all bottling up about this time, and I've got to let it out sometime, so I guess I fall back on the excuse that the 20th of February is the anniversary of my mother's death. It will be five years this year and it feels almost a lifetime a way. I guess I wouldn't call it an "Anniversary" that's a more positive thinking. This isn't really positive, but I can't make it all negative. I have to remember her and do what she would do today.I think about how she would be 41 in April and I almost cry. She was so young when she died. I miss her a lot. I miss talking with her, I can't talk to my father about anything. I try, believe me I try, but in the end it never works and I'm back to the beginning trying all over again. I'm stubborn and I fight back. That's the way I am, and if you tell me to me quiet I'll just get louder. I guess I am feeling a little down about expectations. My cat, Scout is missing, and people are just drifting away. I don't know why I allow them to return when they just drift away and ignore me, or I do the same. I guess there is no point. If you can live without a person for a month, then you can live without them forever. That's the way I feel. & WITHOUT, meaning no talking or even existing to them. I guess I am content with just being me, and whoever wants to be with me, hop on board, other than that I can't waste my time begging for their attention. I think I'd rather die then feel that way again. I feel like I always have to please people, well I'm done! It's not that easy, but I'm going to try to just be happy, and include people, but not to the point where I am bleeding to get their attention. Well that's enough selfishness for one night.

-Sam

The Month of Love

Oh boy am I grateful to get to look forward to such a wonderful vacation coming so soon I am going crazy for this month to go by! March will be here before I know it, I guess, but I can't wait any long! I am busy busy busy! Rehearsal, homework, and fitting it shoots as much as possible! I haven't been doing a whole lot other than rehearsal, eat, sleep and work. I haven't had a whole lot of me time, and I'm thrilled that I will be getting just that, along with family and friends in March. Las Vegas and California--> the two places I can go over and over again and never get bored. I'd choose Vegas and Cali over the North any day! I have barely seen my friends, but the other day my best friend and I went to see When in Rome and it was hilarious :] I recommend it, if you're looking for a laugh!

Fantastic Future!

January is almost over! I haven't done any new shoots lately! I have been so busy. I have a few family, personal portraits, and a possible wedding shoot in the future. I am excited. I also have a few set senior portraits for the graduates of 2011 on my calendar! I am thrilled to see people enjoying my portraits. I am going to Las Vegas, Nevada and Long Beach, California for spring break, not to mention Disneyland :) I will hopefully be staying right on the beach where I plan to take tons of photos and I am searching for a new fabulous camera that I have in mind :) It's exciting and I am also going to be a "Live-in-Nanny" starting mid-March. I can't wait, and I'm sure I'll have tons of photos of the girls. They are changing quickly and I enjoy spending time with them. I have my last final year at Upward Bound this summer, although I hope to be a bridge student *fingers crossed* I am thrilled to know I get to go to Africa in August! :) A crap-load of pictures will be coming from that adventure!!!! I am taking my cousin's senior portraits in March and hopefully I can take my other cousins portraits with her and her new baby that is due in February! I am excited for the challenges to come and I hope time will fly, but I too can enjoy my days. :)

I'd love to take portraits whenever and however!
Give me a call/e-mail.

Africa in August

Hello everyone.
I am excited to say that I will be taking at trip to The Safari Lands of Africa. It is a joy to share this with you. I will be bringing back many portraits of all the people and creatures that come along my path as I discover the wonders of Africa. My father will be staying in Africa starting in March of 2010 and I will be a live in Nanny in my little old town of Pocatello, Idaho. I will still be available for photos, don't worry :) But I will be traveling in August not only to Africa but the United States as well. I'd love to discover more of the South part of the US. I haven't traveled any further than New Mexico. I'd love to go to Georgia and Tennessee. I can't wait for March to go to California for Spring Break; including Disneyland :) I am excited for this summer and my last "official" year with Upward Bound as a High School student. I hope to be a Bridge Student "College Student" the following Summer, but it all depends on if whether or not I am selected to be apart of that. I have done pretty well, so I am confident I will be on their list :)
Rehearsals for the musical this years seem slow, only because I am not doing it every night like I did freshman year, but it gives me more time to focus on school work and not get too behind. I am babysitting for Janae on Tuesdays and will be until March 9th. I will be moving in with her, her husband, and two daughters to be A-Live-In-Nanny until August after Spring Break. I am excited and I hope it will be a learning experience. Hope January is going well for all of you, and I hope to keep up on my Calendar :) I've decided since I will be traveling a lot, that this Calendar doesn't have to be just an Idaho Calendar, but whatever I come across. I hope I can accomplish this. Wish me luck and I hope to blog later.

-Samantha Paige Averett