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I have not had time to blog in a very long time, partially because the studio has been wonderfully busy and partially because I have been babysitting for Devyn, our granddaughter. I have to say it has been a wonderful experience to be a part of her life and I am very happy to help my son and his wife. I love seeing her grow and develop! We took family portraits of a newborn last night and it surprised me as to how big Devyn is getting in comparison!,

Although free time has become a distant memory, I can be flexible with my deskwork without causing our clients delay in receiving their enlargements and albums. I do, however, have to juggle appointments between Devyn and client appointments, which brings me to the exact reason of this blog: appointments. Defined by the dictionary as an arrangement for a meeting, I take this to mean that if two parties agree to share time at a certain location at a certain place, this is an appointment. Here is another word I find interesting: schedule. A schedule, according to Webster’s dictionary, means to appoint, assign, or designate a fixed time. Some people are very ignorant and selfish to the fact that when you make an appointment or schedule, others have rearranged their time to accommodate your needs. I find it amazing that people think that they can ignore a schedule, re-schedule appointments, do this several times and think it is okay. Well, guess what? It is not okay. It is not right. IT IS WRONG!!! In fact is a narcistic, immature, manipulative individual who cannot keep a scheduled appointment. Of course there are always circumstances: inclement weather, a very good excuse, and usually, because of Doppler radar, the Weather Channel, and other weather forecasters, we can usually have some sort of inclination that appointments might just have to be rescheduled. Another good excuse is a change in your work schedule. Yes, you have to work but unless you have a MD behind your name, you should be notified at least 24 hours before you have to be to work. If you or on call, a manager, or other person of authority, you must know how it feels to be called in because of a “no show” so why would you do that to another scheduled appointment?? Let’s see, what is another good excuse? I forgot? That’s clever. And who does your breathing? A death in the family? Of course, and you have my condolences on your loss, however, it is unusual that a person would die one day and be buried the next so get you act together and call, cancel your appointments as soon as possible so you can get on with your grieving. Seriously, but don’t wait until the morning of the funeral and then change your schedule. Why? Because of the ripple effect. Oh, haven’t heard of that one before? Let me enlighten you! If you choose to change your appointment, then I have an open space in my calendar that I could have filled up with someone else, as could of your doctor, dentist, lawyer, whoever. Those other people who I could of scheduled may not be able to receive the portraits they wanted to take for Christmas because I had to schedule them for another day because you had a funeral and couldn’t get your shit together. Poor you! Boo HOOO! Another thing I find extremely annoying is calling someone one hour before you are scheduled to arrive that you cannot make your appointment. What makes you think that a cell phone call, informing me that you are going to be late, makes it right? Does it make it right for the next client? Does it make it right for me? It only short changes everyone within the ripple, people who you do not even think about so do all of the people and places you make appointments for and grow up. You won’t though because it is always about you. I would suggest you see a psychologist but then you would make the appointment and forget, get sick, have a funeral, call, be late, have to work, sleep, get a flat tire, have an accident……