What’s on my camera?

I have a ton of very random pictures I’d like to share with you, so please join me for today’s edition of What’s On My Camera.

This is my super cute niece, L, in the super adorable tutu and shirt I had made for her birthday. The shirt says “Princess L” – don’t you love the zebra? She insisted on wearing her high heel shoes with this ensemble.

Here’s L on Easter Sunday, posing in my sunglasses. She’s taking after her aunt, for sure! Are you wondering why I cut off her head in the picture above? I just don’t feel comfortable featuring other people’s children on my blog, unless I have their permission. I feel safe posting this picture because the sunglasses obscure half her face.

Here’s Jason and I on Easter Sunday. This picture makes me laugh! Jason is such a sorority girl – he thinks we have to be cheek to cheek in each picture. It drives me mad! Apparently I was trying to get away from him when my mom snapped this picture.

I showed you George in his blonde wig but check out JC! By the way, he really hated this. I should have got some audio of his reaction when I was trying to put on the wig.

I am so not a rocker chick, but I seriously want to be. I want to be a girl who can pull off lots of eyeliner and a smoky eye. I picked up Bare Escentual’s Rocker Eye kit at Sephora a few weeks ago, and this is what I came up with. I’ll be showing you a tutorial of this look sometime next week.

Why are these on my camera? Because I randomly take pictures of people on TV when they have cute hair, outfits, or accessories. Crazy, I know. I love Heidi’s hat and Lauren’s headband.

Can you identify this creature? He made an appearance in our pond a few weeks ago. At first, all I could see was the tail, and I totally thought an anaconda was coming to eat JC. Then I saw a glimpse of the head, and was convinced it was an alligator. I’ve since narrowed it down to an otter or a minx. What do you think?

Justine left me this comment on yesterday’s post:

Let me ask you this, since you answered all those other questions. Do you ALWAYS look so put-together? I mean, do you ever just lounge around in a t-shirt and a ripped pair of shorts? Is your hair always done to perfection, in addition to your makeup. 'Cause really? You're starting to piss me off with that shit. I want to see you look nasty!!!!!!!!!

And take me to Edisto with you. That way I can see you first thing in the morning.

Well, Justine, that’s a fair question. No, I don’t look like that all the time. I look put-together 10% of the time – usually on weekends, and usually when we have somewhere to go, like a family event, party, meeting, etc. That 10% of the time, I take pictures, because I need to remind myself and my husband that I have the capacity to look decent, should I choose to do so.

I look a hot mess Monday-Friday. I’m not a morning person, and I’m usually running around like a crazy person because I overslept and am late for work. This results in me going to work in a thrown together, slightly wrinkled outfit, with wet hair (and my hair DOES NOT look cute when it dries naturally), and minimal makeup. In fact, when I do get my act together and dry my hair and properly apply makeup for work, my co-workers say things like “Oh my gosh, you look nice today! What did you do different?”

When I get home, I immediately change my clothes, as George and JC shed terribly and I won’t pick them up or let them sit on my lap if I have on my “good clothes.” My bad clothes, therefore, consist of old white Hanes t-shirts, covered in random stains, and some sort of gym pants or shorts. It is not cute.

I’ve shared before that I’m ruthless about pictures of myself. I take multiple pictures, trying to get a shot that doesn’t show my wonky eyes or my many chins. The bad shots get deleted. Now, if I somehow got access to my mom’s camera – then you’d see what I look like the rest of the time. Although I’ve totally tried to delete pictures off her camera, and she’s banned me from touching her camera in the future as a result.

Some of you probably think this sounds terribly vain. Well, I’ll admit to being vain some of the time. But the truth is that I choose to present my best self on my blog. I can keep it real any time I want, just by looking in the mirror. I don’t claim to be a beautiful girl. I know what I look like, and it isn’t perfection. I’m overweight. My skin has been breaking out lately like I’m back in high school. My cheeks are always red, and my hair only looks decent when I spend 20 minutes fixing it. I know this about myself, and I’m sure you have noticed some of it from the pictures I share. Trying to look as nice as possible with what I have to work with (as far as the pictures I share on my blog) is a pride thing for me, I guess. If that makes me a bad person, so be it.

With that said, here are some less than perfect pictures of myself:

I’m pretty sure we had both been drinking.

The girl with no neck.

Frizzy hair alert

No makeup – thank gosh Jason looks worse than I do. :)