You see that little title up there at the top of this blog post? That's what this paragraph is all about... questions! Pretty simple. Wait, hold your horses, don't start writing up a comment or sending me an email yet. The only condition is you have to be in Vegas for WPPI. Let me explain some details here. A few weeks ago I got an email from Showit about whether or not I'd be interested in being one of the featured Showit Photographers for a Q+A session in the Showit Suite during WPPI week. My stomach literally dropped (is that the right term? not dropped in dissapointment, but dropped in nervousness!) and even though 50% of me didn't want to, I responded back saying, "I'd love to!"

I'm kinda nervous--because I honestly feel like I don't know that much. I just take pictures, have fun doing it, try to smile a lot, and have been blessed with an awesome business. I have NO idea what kind of answers are going to come out of my mouth. This could be entertaining, folks. And when I get nervous, I laugh. And that usually makes other people laugh, so at LEAST you're in for a good time. I've already told my roommates they are required to come and ask questions if we hit some silence. Kristen is all prepped with some great ones: "Why are you so happy in the mornings?" "Why do you act like a grumpy jerk when your room isn't clean?" "Can you please talk about your love of yellow nail polish? That's kinda weird."

I'll be chatting on Monday, March 8th from 10:00AM - 10:45AM--I think there's only room for about 20-30 people? I'm not sure but I do know that you MUST RSVP to wppi@showitfast.com with the words, "I want to ask Jamie a question" in the email. Or something like that. Anything with my name in it will do. If you'd like to see the full Showit WPPI Schedule, CLICK HERE--it's available in a .pdf format too. Hope to see some of you there! Comment if you RSVP'd so I know what faces to look for!

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I found myself awake at seven o' clock Saturday morning, an all-too-common occurance for this early bird. I had breakfast-- oatmeal & almond butter, goat yogurt & honey & strawberries--spent some time reading my bible and praying over my day. Shortly thereafter I got dressed and headed to a cute tea shop with my laptop to continue plugging away at my creative writing homework. After an hour I was sick of staring at Microsoft Word, sick of poetry, and really, really sick of the bad decaf americano I was drinking. Jamie Delaine, it's a tea shop. Shoulda seen that one coming. That evening, I had grand plans of going to another free Olympic concert. I instead found myself alone in an empty house from four o' clock onward with two dogs to keep me company, multiple cups of hot tea to hydrate me and frozen blueberries by the cupful to feed me. I read a book for three hours straight. Then two of my awesome friends came over at ten o'clock as I was about to crawl into bed and we chilled until midnight. It was an awesome night. :)

My Sunday was just as awesome. The Canada vs. USA Gold medal hockey game was electric. My heart was jumping all over the place watching the little puck fly around the arena and I was bursting with pride when Canada won Gold in overtime. Mmmhmm, Americans, it's still our game. After sitting still for almost three hours my bones were jumping for activity.

I get this way sometimes and it's a touch of ADD in me or something. I literally can't sit still. Well, I can. But I have to talk myself through it. And work REALLY hard to fight it. Sometimes I'll turn to a friend and say, "I can't sit here anymore. I can't. I feel like jumping up and running around the block." Usually we leave at that point. ;) I don't like physical inactivity! I fit in almost a four mile run yesterday and felt beautiful after it. And ready to sit in a Sunday night church service, happily not moving.

Running around my house after the Canada Gold win was AWESOME. I'm way in the 'burbs of Vancouver but still there were flags out and people honking and cars waving at me as I ran, everybody was SO PROUD. Man. I'm glad we won. And I'm glad I'm Canadian. And I'm glad the Olympics came to Vancouver and gave us all a healthy dose of patriotism that sometimes we Canadians lack.

My weekend was awesome. The two engagement sessions I shot today were ALSO awesome. Watch for those soon. ;)