I want sham-wows.

I apologize to all of you 7 ½ faithful readers of dominiquerose.blogspot.com- I know I haven’t kept up my blogging, but it’s because things have been a little koo-koo the last few weeks…Chance and I moved and we are wildly excited. For those of you who don’t know…after we were married for a year, Chance and I moved out of our apartment, and into my parent’s house around 3 months ago. It was something we did for many reasons, but that’s neither here nor there…we finally have our own place again! We are blessed beyond blessed. The house we moved into is going to serve as our photography studio as well. We still have a LOT to do in preparation for all of it, but it’s gonna be worth it. We are so excited to have people over to hang out and now we get to meet with clients in our own home! EEEEEE!!!!! In a month or two, (when we have most of it up and running) we are going to have an open house slash party. I love dress up and theme parties so I was thinking we should have a 50s dress up party or something in honor of how old our house is. I’m pretty sure it was BUILT in 1950. Actually I don’t know when it was built, maybe 60s, 70s? Whatever…we are going to be doing something off the chain and it’s gonna be sweet. I will post some pictures soon.

Web Cammin' it

Since Chance got his Mac, I've been really excited about the webcam. I don't know why though because i don't really have anyone to chat with, but i still have fun watching my big, round face talk to myself on the computer. I think I'm going to be blogging with the web-cam for a few posts now and then. I was thinking i would ask a random question over web-cam and hopefully get some conversations going in the comment section. it sounds fun, or it might be a huge failure, either way...i'm doin' it. I look forward to do this web-cam-periment.

A leap of film.

I'm trying to start something here and take a leap of faith, and it's gonna be big. Well, not really...I don't have any equipment or anything yet, but that's why I need your help.

Ever since I can remember I’ve loved film. Making videos and seeing the live motion through a camera and being able to tweak it with music, REALLY excites me. I mean, I do love photography, but I’ve always wanted to do something with film (live motion). I took a film class in college and I LOVED it. I'm pretty sure I got a D in the class because I didn't write some huge paper or something, but I still LOVED that class. I found the journal I used to write in that year and I wrote about my film class. After reading that I got really excited again.

I've talked to Chance about me doing SOMETHING with it for the business and I go back and forth on the subject because (like most people), I start to doubt myself. Chance has wanted me to do it from the beginning though. So to make a long story of my dream shorter...I'm just asking for someone to do something illegal and let me download their final cut software for Mac. I don't even know if that's something that can be shared or not, but if it is and you have it...I’d love to get to play around with it. Also...I don't really have money right now, but when I DO I would like to get some kind of a HD video camera. So any good recommendations?

Thanks for your help. email me at dominiquerosejames@gmail.com to help me out.

I like this.

This one time someone told me I shouldn’t blog about my personal life. This one time I told them they shouldn’t be in my personal life. We don’t really talk anymore.

This one time I got really, really mad because some people stole my ideas. That one time I didn’t really have great ideas.

This one time I had an anger problem. But this one time I realized I still have an anger problem.

This one time at band camp…I never went to band camp.

Like a long time ago I almost peed my pants. Last weekend at Six Flags I kinda peed my pants.

One time someone didn't get my humor. I didn't think they were funny.

This one time I got hit by a car.

This one time my body got hit by a car.

A few months ago I told someone I liked their outfit. I really didn’t like it.

This one time Chance and I drew faces on each other’s chin and talked upside down. That one time was really funny.



This one time someone told me I was going to be a weird cat lady. I said thank you sincerely.

I once told someone they had a good voice. I really didn’t like it.

Once I told someone I wanted to get really drunk to see what it would be like. But I never did get really drunk to know what it would be like.

This one person really annoys me. This one time I told them.

Once I tried to figure out why people are so lame. I guess I'll never know.

God paid my bills

I cried tonight. I didn’t cry because I was sad or angry, or frustrated. It wasn’t because I was PMSing or because I felt fat. I cried tears of joy and I haven’t experienced that in quite a long time. I know I’ve shared before on my blog that Chance and I have encountered many hardships in our first year of marriage. I know people probably don‘t even like reading my posts anymore because I’ve become a negative Nancy and Debbie downer. But I think I should just lay out some of the issues we have dealt with because I want someone to be encouraged through our struggle.

Chance and I have been married for one year and 3 months. In that short time I lost my job due to cut backs, we had to put our precious cat to sleep, we faced major marital issues, tried to fulfill a dream and move to Hawaii, (but God kept us here), started a photography business from scratch with NO help, received unexpected medical bills because insurance suddenly didn’t cover my tests, we went from looking to purchase a house to being told that Chance’s job of 6 years would end in January. We had to move into my parents house because we were both unemployed, and trying to survive on what we had. We now had NO savings. We ended paying over 1000 dollars in vet bills because the animals we rescued were basically infested with every sort of disease imaginable, and in the month that our car insurance was suppose to go down, I received a speeding ticket for going 5 miles over which of course, raised it again. We received bills, bills and more bills that we didn’t even know existed…really.. And we were dealt many more things that would just make me depressed if I wrote about them. Last but not least, we had no one to connect with. We didn’t know how to reach out to people that weren’t reaching out to us. We both felt alone and stressed to the max.

This might not sound like a lot to deal with if you’ve also experienced pain this year, but it was a heavy load for a newly married couple like us. But I wouldn’t change it because God has been glorified. We really have been trying our best to trust Him with our hearts as well as our wallets. Just to give you some insight…even though we had no money, God took care of us. We were NEVER late on our payments! We’ve actually been able to pay down debt and on top of that we even had money to buy some stuff we needed for the business. How? I don’t know. Seriously…I don’t know. God just keeps sending people our way. We’ve received more emails regarding photography now more than ever. Just last weekend our friends took us on a mini vacation to six flags for free! Last month a family member secretly gave us 250 dollars, and today a friend slipped Chance a check for 500 dollars. Just like that. The friend told us “God put it on my heart, you can’t give it back. It‘s God‘s money, not mine.” We just started crying after our friend left. I love seeing other people be faithful, because it reminds me why I should continue to be faithful. Seriously…I don’t get you God, but I love you.

I want someone out there to be encouraged by our struggles because we know in the mist of the little we’ve dealt with, God has truly given us peace. Not just peace financially, but peace because we realize that He is God and He is in control no matter what the circumstance. And we should at LEAST honor that.