Unfortunately, I’ve had to postpone the Casting Call contest for now. I’ll keep you updated on the status of that contest when I can but for now, keep an eye out for another exiting contest on the horizon!

Yesterday I headed over to Red Deer to meet with some awesome ladies for a photog get together and learning session! I had so much fun! I got to meet some awesome women and received some great advice and tips! I ended up staying late to absorb as much information as I possible could and got home around 9:45. I headed straight to bed and stared at my ceiling for 45 minutes before I decided to finally shut off the photog business in my head and try to go to sleep. Ha! Yeah right….

When I was pregnant with Carter, I used to imagine him living in my belly inside a little house, instead of the boring water sac he was actually in. Whenever he’d start to get a bit active, I would imagine him in there, changing into a red sweat suit and pulling on rainbow sweat bands. Then he’d push back his little brown couch and oval coffee table, pop in a work out video (VHS), crank up ‘Everybody was Kung Foo Fighting’ and start sweatin’ to the oldies. When he was done his 20 minute mediocre work out (because that’s the kind of ‘working out’ our genetic line is accostomed to) he’d pull off his rainbow head sweat band, grab a juice box and relax on the couch.

The child I am currently carrying picked up his video from the hard core section of the fitness department. He is in there kickboxing to ‘Eye of the Tiger’ after downing 17 Red Bulls and the kid never sleeps. So when I finally decided to take my trip to never-never-land, the little peanut had other plans for me — kicking and rolling and summersaulting around in my bloated belly. After walking around the house for another 45 minutes, drinking some water, humming to myself and trying to refrain from self-induction (ha. ha?), I finally headed back to bed to try my old standby method of falling to sleep — Math.

Go ahead and laugh like my husband does but it really works and I’m not talking about simple addition. The next time you’re laying in bed, unable to fall asleep for whatever reason — thoughts of business, restless foot syndrome, jackie chan has taken up residence in your abdomen — try doing long division in your head. With your eyes closed and sleep slowly creeping in, it gets more and more difficult to remember what numbers went where and you’re always starting over. If you find it’s not working, try harder numbers. Eventually, I guarantee, you will get so bored and so confused that you will fall asleep. Try it tonight!