ground control to rachel...earth to rachel...come in...over.

And the hits keep on comin...

After four months of mourning the loss of a relationship, I was finally coming out the other side when I discovered my so called best friend was plotting against me to win the affections of mutual friends. I still cannot believe that in my 30s, I am dealing with this high school drama bullshit. The sad thing for her is the mutual friends she was trying to poison against me are grown ups and her talking about her "best friend" to them in that way just made them doubt her and eventually come to me about it. Stupid. So, relationship gone...best friend gone...better off. Whatever. Took a one week day job and hurt my knees because they said it would be admin but ended up to be an overpaid warehouse position. Eight years of soccer as a teen caught up with me in 4 days of that shit. I had to go on meds for the inflammation and Friday I had to go in for xrays to see what the hell is going on. Hopefully I won't need surgery. My right knee still hurts but things were ok. I had enough shoots booked to get through October and I was happy. Happy that even though I was just making ends meet, I was doing what I love. Until this past Saturday. I spent the weekend at my dear friends house in Hollywood and someone broke in and stole my camera bag which held all my camera gear worth over four thousand dollars. Today he called to tell me his insurance won't cover it but he is going to fight it. Not only did he go through all that for me today but he also called a mutual friend I don't know well who is professional photographer and asked to borrow a camera and a lens. I am beside myself that he is going through all of this for me. I just love them beyond words. So tonight he is coming over with borrowed camera and I get to do my shoots this week...just have to figure out how I am going to replace my gear.

Positives. Glass half full...I can't fall into the negative and go to THAT place again. Even in the face of crisis after crisis, I am supposed to be learning something from all this. I'll get back to you when I finger it out.

posted by Rachel @ 10:06 PM