Rebel T2i and Movie Mode Issues

I think I've mentioned before that I consider myself a professional photographer at this stage of my progress (9 years of study/training/work).

I recently got a Canon Rebel T2i, which I love working with. However, the Movie Function wasn't working right. First I had trouble figuring out how to record, then when I could record the movie would stop after a few seconds. So here is how you can fix those issues:

Foster Care Nothing

I'm highly annoyed. Has anyone else dealt with CPS to share their own stories on how this nightmare works? I would love some honesty at this point. :P

Are You Dieting?

I feel so bloated with weight since leaving vacation that I wanted to do something. So, here goes nothing I guess!

Direct Marketing Upline Blow Up

This is a video I recorded prior to going on vacation and didn't have the time to upload. To update, there has been no progress, and I'm no longer in contact with my crazy upline as she continually got more and more nasty at me. She began to send me unprovoked, mean little messages about how she wanted to throw me out of her group, so we exchanged some very intense words and blocked her ability to contact me again.

I LOVE Crabby Candle Co. Just Sayin' :)

Let me clarify a few things in the video. I realized I kept saying "former military spouse" when a better choice of words would have been "wife of a veteran." Sorry about that, it didn't occur to me that it sounded weird until hours after I uploaded the video.

CrabbyCandleCo.com also has other products, so if you like good scents and not so much tarts, they still have some goodies you'll love, I'm sure. I just personally love the tarts. <3 And I apologize for the lighting and background for this next series of videos. My husband packed everything up while I was away, and I can't quite get to most of it on my own with the way he stored it. :-/

I have a big stock pile of videos to get uploaded, so I'll have a ton of new posts, and then probably nothing for a while once school starts, lol.

Color Jamz Hair Dye Review

I really wanted to have some fun hair for the Summer and to celebrate my acceptance into art school, so I thought I would try out this hair coloring on a whim.



As promised here is my hair during dying:


I loved how vibrant the colors were, and my hair is very light due to constant bleaching, so I really hoped it would stick to my hair with colors as poppy. However, the dye stuck to my skin a lot better than my hair, and the end result was this:


Even my daughter tried it out to get pink bangs (and of course I didn't bleach her hair first because she's too little), and not a drop of color stuck except for on her forehead.


I reapplied the dye a few days later and it was somewhat thicker. My buddy J Walker took some neat photos where the colors looked amazing, but sadly, that was mostly a lighting and photo editing trick over the dye looking that good on its own.

Love, Sex, and the IRS

Here's some fun for the day (if you have a LOT of time to kill). This is a piece of community theatre that I was a part of back in 2002. I'm the blond one in the show, which was many, many pounds ago, haha. There are so many things I would change about my performance today (like the volume!), but it was my first show so cut me a little bit of slack, okay? :)


This is about an hour and a half long, and has the oldie situation comedy feel to it. Basically, one roommate does the taxes for both himself and his male friend, but he's been lying to the government to get special tax breaks. They get audited and comedy breaks out!

So sorry for the abrupt transition cuts between the videos, I've never worked with VOB files before and they were unfriendly!