KEATING-MARIEE

Vacation Day 1

2012-02-24T15:11:00.000-08:00

I've been waiting for this vacation for a few months now and I've worked my ass off so I could take a week off from life and school to go and I'm sitting on the bus feeling sick to my stomach, missing my boyfriend like crazy. Not the best start to my vacation. Hopefully it'll get better tomorrow.

Took the bus from Portland to Boston. Now I'm on a bus to Springfield where I'm meeting up with my dad and sisters. Then I'm off to my grandparent's house in up-state New York for the night. Should be there around 10pm. Leaving for Myrtle Beach sometime tomorrow morning. Hopefully we're driving all the way tomorrow, but I'm not sure what the plan is yet. I think it depends on the weather.

At this point I'm just ready to get to my grandparent's house. I'm dying to skype with the boyfriend....and play League of Legends =P He's got me addicted. haha

I hope everyone is having a good night!

Casual Outfit

2012-02-20T12:50:00.001-08:00

I created this outfit on Polyvore and thought it was beyond cute! I wish all my outfits looked like this haha

Casual Outfit by keating-mariee featuring a knit cardigan

Top
$21 - shoptaintedkiss.com

Knit cardigan
nelly.com

Indigo jeans
$130 - witchery.com.au

Repetto flat
280 CAD - gravitypope.com

Balenciaga vintage style handbag
$1,257 - cultstatus.com.au

Weekend!

2012-02-17T08:50:00.000-08:00

Classes are officially over for the week and it's officially the weekend. This week went by so fast. I feel like it should be Wednesday or something haha Going to do my best not to do much this weekend. Maybe play some League and spend time with the boyfriend. Off to the bus station this afternoon to buy a bus ticket to Springfield for next Friday. One more week and then I'm off to Myrtle Beach! So very excited for it.

So much to do this weekend!

2012-02-16T11:12:00.000-08:00

I have about two weeks worth of assignments to get done this weekend so I can go on vacation next weekend! It's going to be a very long, productive weekend. I hope everyone is having a good day!

Amazing Night

2012-02-15T20:47:00.000-08:00

I have the most amazing boyfriend in the world. He surprised me yesterday by buying me chocolates and a rose for Valentine's Day and then he surprises me tonight by taking me to the semi-formal dance. Definitely needed the me and him time. It was good to get away from work and school and our computers and phones. I'd say it's been a very good week. =]

Very Long Day

2012-02-15T10:52:00.000-08:00

It's going to be a very long day.

Woke up @ 10
Microeconomics @ 11-11:50
Pre-Calculus @ 12-1:15
Lunch @ 1:15-2
Photography @ 3-5:30
Dinner @ 5:30
Wal Mart @ 6
Hair, makeup and getting dressed @ 7:30
Dance with Jeff, Katie and Austin @ 9

Then I have to fit in homework whenever I have the time. Yay. haha

Valentine's Day!

2012-02-14T17:06:00.000-08:00

I had a very good Valentine's Day =] My boyfriend surprised me with chocolate and a rose (wasn't really expecting it) and then tomorrow night he's taking me to the dance. So excited to be able to go out and spend time with him. It'll be fun. Working on homework now. Have a lot to do before Myrtle Beach next weekend. Watching P.S. I Love You with Jeff later tonight before we go to bed.
I hope everyone else had a good Valentine's Day!

Amazing

2012-02-14T12:17:00.001-08:00

It amazes me how people don't pay attention whatsoever. I'm sick of spending the first 20 min of every class going over the same directions over and over again. Why can't people just pay attention the first time? I dont get it. We've gone over the assignments and due dates at least three times now. And being absent isn't an excuse to me. Every professor has an email! Ugh! People drive me insane.

Relaxing Weekend

2012-02-12T11:07:00.000-08:00

I actually did absolutely nothing productive all weekend. I'm pretty proud of myself. I had a list of things I wanted to get done and instead of doing it all, I sat in bed, playing league, sleeping, eating junk food and hanging out with the boyfriend. I'd say it was a very good weekend =] Now today has to be dedicated to homework. And maybe some more league later tonight haha But my top priority is homework today! I'm determined to get a lot of work done!

Weekend!

2012-02-10T15:47:00.000-08:00

So my classes are officially over for the week and normally college students would spend their weekends partying or relaxing and doing absolutely nothing. I, however, am getting work done. I can't just sit on my ass doing nothing all weekend. I wish I could, but I can't. I have to be doing something. So this weekend will consist of playing League of Legends with the boyfriend, touch ups to my website, photography work and a crap load of homework. I have three weeks worth of work to get done in a two week time period. Yay fun. haha I'm very excited for Myrtle Beach. I'm definitely going to need the break!

Very Long Day

2012-02-08T10:49:00.000-08:00

I got about 4 hours of sleep last night and I am absolutely exhausted haha woke up around 8, had breakfast, did some homework, microeconomics @ 11, pre-calculus test @ noon, lunch with leeann @ 1:15 and now I'm sitting in my room doing homework. Tonight I have photography II @ 3, dinner @ 5:30 and then off to the library with leeann from 6-8 to get some work more work done. Myrtle Beach is in a couple weeks so I need to get everything done before I leave! It's a lot to do. lol
Hope everyone else is having a good day!

New laptop!

2012-02-08T06:14:00.000-08:00

I'm absolutely in love with this new laptop! It's exactly what I need for school and my photography. I couldn't be happier right now =]

Just had breakfast with the boyfriend. Now hanging out for a while before class at 11. Pre-calculus exam at noon and then photography this afternoon at 3pm. It's going to be a long day. Hopefully I'll go to bed early tonight and get my sleep schedule back on track. No playing league of legends tonight lol

Aries Horoscope

2012-02-07T09:22:00.000-08:00

As much as possible, expect the unexpected. The stars have arranged a particularly surprising day for you. Fortunately, you love surprises.

Compatibility: Gemini

Mood: Surprised

Lucky Color: Copper

Lucky Number: 18

Lucky Time of Day: 8am

10 interesting facts about love

2012-02-07T00:36:00.000-08:00

1. Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love potions.

2. In Bali, men believed a woman would fall in love if her suitor fed her a certain kind of leaf incised with the image of a god who sported a very large penis.

3. The Mexican chief Montezuma considered chocolate a “love drug” and drank 50 cups of chocolate a day before visiting his harem of 600 women.

4. Engagement rings are often worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because the ancient Greeks maintained that that finger contains the "vena amoris", or the “vein of love,” that runs straight to the heart. The first recorded wedding rings appear in ancient Egypt, with the circle representing eternity as well as powerful sun and moon deities.

5. Roses are a traditional symbol of love and, depending on their color, can suggest different nuances of love.

6. For example, red roses indicate passion and true love. Light pink suggests desire, passion, and energy; dark pink suggests gratitude. Yellow roses can mean friendship or jealousy. A lavender or thornless rose can mean love at first sight. White roses mean virtue or devotion. Some roses even combine colors to created more complicated meanings.

7. When a person falls in love, the ventral tegmental area in the brain floods the caudate nucleus with dopamine. The caudate then signals for more dopamine; the more dopamine, the higher a person feels. The same system becomes activated when someone takes cocaine.

8. Men and women with highly symmetrical faces tend to have more lovers to choose from. Additionally, men with symmetrical faces begin to have sex four years earlier, have more sex, and have more affairs than their lopsided peers. Women also tend to have more orgasms with symmetrical men.

9. Timing significantly influences love. Individuals are more likely to fall in love if they are looking for adventure, craving to leave home, lonely, displaced in a foreign country, passing into a new stage of life, or financially and psychologically ready to share themselves or start a family.

10. Men in love show more activity in the visual part of the brain, while women in love show more activity in the part of the brain that governs memory. Scientists speculate that men have to size up a woman visually to see if she can bear babies, while women have to remember aspects of man’s behavior to determine if he would be an adequate provider.

Wtf?!

2012-02-06T14:00:00.000-08:00

This is a photo II class and she's trying to get the computer to work so she can show us how to do basic editing. Ummm....we should all know what ISO is and white balance and how to do basic editing. That's part of photo 1. This is like paying to take the same class twice. What's with this school and their photography professors? They all suck (except Christian...he's awesome) =P

What now?

2012-02-03T16:01:00.000-08:00

So I completed my website and published and now I have no idea what to do. I feel like I have a lot of free time now. I almost feel lost haha Part of me wants to spend tonight and tomorrow relaxing and doing absolutely nothing, but I doubt I could get myself to do that. I'll probably end up doing homework or something. I can get all my work done for the next couple weeks. And I could continue to switch the logo on my photography and re-upload them to my facebook fan page. Yeah...there's no way I can get myself to relax haha taking a break and then back to work!

Please help support World Cancer Day with ACS!

2012-02-03T13:24:00.000-08:00

World Cancer Day is Saturday February 4th and to support it, I'm lighting up my facebook, fan page, twitter and photography twitter with blue and orange. Help support World Cancer Day by doing the same!

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/news/Features/world-cancer-day-2012

Holy Crap I'm Exhausted!

2012-02-03T01:32:00.000-08:00

It's official. I'm a workaholic. It's 4:30am and I'm laying in bed working on my website. I wanted to be in bed by midnight because I have class at 11am, but that obviously didn't happen haha On the bright side, I got a lot of work done tonight. I got done:

Ch. 14 review questions for oral communications
Ch. 4 review questions for oral communications
Ch. 5 review questions for oral communications
Ch. 1.1 math homework
Ch. 1.2 math homework
Self-introduction speech for oral communications
Anachronism assignment for photography
Changed the font colors on my website
Made changes to each gallery
Added links
Edited links
Went through my entire website to make sure every single link worked

I'd say I've been productive. haha I even made time to put everything down and watch The Vampire Diaries and I spent a good couple hours with the boyfriend without cell phone, computer, friend, homework, and work distractions. It was nice. Definitely a good day.

Now I must pull myself away from my computer and attempt to go to sleep. Hopefully waking up for breakfast in the morning before class. Jeff has a friend coming over for the weekend so I also need to get the room cleaned up at some point. Tomorrow will definitely be another long day!

Good night everyone!

This Class is a Joke

2012-02-01T12:40:00.000-08:00

So I'm sitting in my photography II class and it's seriously a complete waste of my time. Maybe it's just because I'm already a photographer. I don't know. We're just learning things I already know or things that are taught in photo 1. And my professor doesn't really know what she's talking about. She has a very 'blah' personality. It's boring me. And it doesn't help that I'm sick. It makes me not want to be here even more. I'm ready to go to bed. Or go back to my room and work on my website or something. There are so many other things I could be doing with my time right now. And I feel like I'm the one teaching the class. I just had to describe ISO and white balancing and all that. Ugh! Can it be 5:30 already?

Workaholic?

2012-01-31T21:17:00.000-08:00

I'd say I'm a workaholic. I've been in bed, sick with a fever for the past couple days and was planning on going to bed around 9 tonight and here it is, going on midnight and I've now been working on my photography for about six hours. It's a little ridiculous. haha I feel like crap and yet I can't pull myself away from it. On the up side, I don't have class until 11am and I've gotten a lot of work done!

I now have my Relay for Life page!

I also created my homepage:

I also got a couple of the galleries done and fixed up some links so everything's working properly.

More previews will be on my photography blog!

KeatingArmstrongPhotography.blogspot.com

Whoo!

2012-01-31T13:07:00.000-08:00

Hopefully getting a new laptop next week! This one has been pissing me off for a while now. I definitely need a new one for my photography. I'm getting a really nice Lenovo. I can't wait! My computer will be better than Jeff's =P

Crappy Morning

2012-01-31T07:28:00.000-08:00

It's such a crappy morning. I'm ready for it to be over. I'm running off about four hours of sleep, I'm sick, and now I'm stuck in class for another 15 minutes. It sucks very much. I'm ready to go back to bed!

Sick

2012-01-30T06:23:00.001-08:00

Oooof course I'm sick today. This sucks. I hate being sick. Especially on a monday. I have three classes today and I can't skip them because I'm going on vacation for a week next month. This suckssss. I think I'll just suffer through class and then lay in bed watching movies all afternoon/night. Sounds good to me.

Lovee

2012-01-28T23:33:00.001-08:00

Puppy!

2012-01-28T23:22:00.001-08:00

I want this puppy!! =]

Tonight sucks

2012-01-28T19:35:00.001-08:00

I'm so sick of always being the one to give up everything to be with someone. For once I want someone to give up everything to be with me. All I want is to be happy.

Today's Aries Horoscope

2012-01-28T03:11:00.000-08:00

Horoscope: It's finally time for you to think about just one thing: what makes you happy. Fortunately, that happens to be a person who feels the same way. Give yourself the evening off. Refuse to be put in charge of anything.
Compatibility: Gemini (my boyfriend)
Mood: Relaxed
Lucky Color: Orchid
Lucky Number: 88
Lucky Time of Day: 9pm

Love this!

2012-01-28T02:49:00.001-08:00

I absolutely love this outfit! And that bag!

When Harry Met Sally

2012-01-28T02:12:00.000-08:00

"I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

Boyfriend Tag Video!

2012-01-27T19:01:00.000-08:00

Earlier this week, the boyfriend and I made a youtube video of him doing my makeup and everyone ended up loving it. So we decided to do the boyfriend tag video tonight. He's lucky I love him because he didn't take it seriously whatsoever. haha We laughed the whole time. So here's the link to our latest video. Check it out and share it with friends for us!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-WTku9DKPA

To Do Today:

2012-01-25T10:49:00.000-08:00

~~Touch base with Katie and try to set up a time to meet up with her this weekend.~~
~~Put all my school work together into a binder~~
Boyfriend tag video for youtube
~~Oral communications book work (late)~~
Microeconomics homework
Math homework (online)
Social media marketing homework
~~Relay for life t-shirt (post pics)~~
~~Email my wedding photography contract and an invoice to Katie~~

I hate this computer!

2012-01-25T10:39:00.000-08:00

I very much need a new computer. This one is pissing me off so much. The screen keeps getting messed up and the wireless internet doesn't stay connected all the time. It's really fucking annoying. I hate it. I've had this laptop for two years now so I'm very much ready for a new one at this point. I'm getting a $600 Lenovo laptop within the next couple weeks. I can't wait to have it. I need it for school and my photography business. This one just isn't working out anymore!

My Boyfriend Did My Makeup!

2012-01-24T20:16:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAS_ns8zqlY

Relay for Life 2012!

2012-01-24T19:21:00.000-08:00

Keating Armstrong Photography is a strong supporter of Relay for Life. This year we are participating in Relay for Life of Greater Portland. To support the cause, we will be donating 50% of the money we make from each shoot between February 1st and May 1st to Relay for Life 2012.

http://www.facebook.com/events/285695641490117/?ref=ts

Awkward Moment of the Day

2012-01-24T07:05:00.001-08:00

That awkward moment when youre walking to breakfast with your boyfriend and you run into an ex who stops to start a conversation with your boyfriend. Great start to my morning.

Next Tattoo?

2012-01-23T18:49:00.000-08:00

I need an idea for my next tattoo. I'm not entirely sure what I want yet. I have ideas for the tattoos I want, but I don't know what order I want to get them in. I know I want an infinity tattoo, possibly on either my hip or on the inside of my ring finger. I drew this out on my finger and I love it!

I also like the idea of having this one on my hip. I had this one drawn out in henna one time and it looked pretty kewl.

I also love the idea of getting a matching infinity tattoo. I think these are super cute. But then again, I think I'd rather get them matching on the inside of my ring finger. I already have a wrist tattoo and I don't want something on the other wrist right now just in case I decide to do a continuation of my first tattoo onto my other wrist.

Going along with the matching infinity tattoo idea, I like the idea of maybe having the infinity symbol along with our anniversary in roman numerals. I'm not sure where on my body I'd want it though. It'd obviously be way too much to put on my ring finger. And I already explained that I don't entirely want it on my wrist. So I'm not sure where it'd end up being.

Then I also am getting an anchor tattoo with my sister for her 18th birthday for our great grandfather who was in the Navy in World War II. We're not getting these done until October 2012 or later though. Maybe we'll just wait until my other sister turns 18 and the three of us can get them done together. Sister bonding time.

Another idea I have is having birth dates on the back of my neck. I think this looks awesome. I'm not sure who's birth dates I'd want though. I'd have to think about that one. This one has her and her two sisters' birth dates.

So Exhausted

2012-01-23T17:14:00.000-08:00

I only got about three hours of sleep last night. Then I had to go to an 11am class, followed by a 12:15 class. I wanted to sleep in between lunch and my photography class, but instead I decided to go to Portland for five hours with Porscha and Leeann to get my nails done! On the up side, they look awesome, I got to have some girl time and I got to see some friends I haven't seen in a while. On the down side, it was raining, I'm running on no sleep and I had to deal with people who annoyed the crap out of me. So overall, it was a pretty neutral day. Now I'm laying in bed, talking to the boyfriend's mom while the boyfriend skypes and plays video games with his friends. I'm so exhausted, I think I might go to sleep soon. I need to be awake for class in the morning!

Kind of annoyed

2012-01-22T20:30:00.000-08:00

Sooo I very much wanted to come back to the room and hang out with the boyfriend for the rest of the night, but instead he's busy at his computer with his head phones plugged in, talking to his friends and playing video games. I usually don't mind when his head phones aren't plugged in because then I can hear everyone and the game and feel included. Plus I can talk to him if I want to. But when his head phones are plugged in, the room is silent and I cant talk to him and it drives me insane. I should have just stayed at the other residence hall with my friends or something. At least there I was having fun and had people to talk to.
Ugh. Kind of annoyed right now. Whatever. I'll just do homework or something.

Tattoos

2012-01-21T20:36:00.000-08:00

I love these tattoos. I want my next tattoo to be an infinity tattoo. But I think I'm getting it done on the inside of my ring finger.

Finally have a personal blog!

2012-01-21T11:51:00.001-08:00

I've always had a Tumblr blog, but I decided to have a personal blog on blogger as well. =]