Dear Readers. You are wonderful, and I give thanks for you every morning when I wake up. It still fascinates me that people actually read my blog (on a daily basis, no less…) and I am just dumbfounded by your kindness. I declared to Bobby over our Red Robin dinner date this evening, that this week, I’m going be an editing powerhouse. Things WILL get crossed off my To-Do list! Amen….and then I finished my bottomless fries and left my burger untouched (I wasn’t feelin’ the ground beef tonight).

SO, if you are waiting for a CD or prints to be mailed, your gallery information, your blog post… no worries! They are in progress and will be in your hands shortly! Here’s what the month of October looked like for me:

– Photographed 4 weddings

– Took pictures for 15 different shoots (at 2 hours each, not to mention the hours of editing that goes into each one)

– Booked 10 more sessions for the rest of 2010, thus COMPLETELY filling every open date left in the year

– Burned 8 DVD’s for various clients

– Sent 442 e-mails

– Booked 4 weddings for 2011

– Stared at my slow-growing baby bump in the mirror 5 times daily

– Recorded 4,994 hits to my website with 2,803 of those hits being individual visitors

– Deleted a total of 693 SPAM comments from my blog

– Drove a total of 1,299 miles

– Averaged 3.75 bowls of Honey Nut Cheerios every week

– Shot a total of 16,133 actual images

And now, I want to take a nap.

BUT WAIT, there’s more! You wouldn’t want me to announce the winner of the awesome Minted.com giveaway, would you? No? Ok, didn’t think so.

So here it is… using Random.org (which I did last giveaway, I just couldn’t figure out how to do a screen shot on a Mac to post it), the lucky winner is commenter #12!

Congratulations ANDREA P on your win! Looks like you better decide which one you like, since you’ll be ordering them soon!

Thank you to EVERYONE for playing and commenting. I love hearing from frequent readers who sometimes never comment, so thank you again! Andrea P, I will be in touch with you shortly on how to redeem your prize! Thank you especially to Minted.com for sponsoring this giveaway!

Even if you didn’t win, I still encourage you to order your Christmas photo cards through Minted. The quality of the paper is simply delicious (could there be such a thing?!) and is not just the flimsy photo paper you see from other vendors. The card-stock they use is sturdy and will definitely stand out from the crowd! They often run sales for percentages off your card orders, so check back often to get an even better deal! Don’t forget to check out my Storefront HERE!

I have a TON to blog, but in the interest of getting everyone’s pictures back before Christmas timeframe, I will be saving a lot of blogs until my workload decreases a bit. Thank you for being patient and definitely keep checking back often!

Have a great week everyone!