Tuesday’s Truth is another group on Flickr – I’m actually not a member because I just found out about it today, and I don’t want my whole photostream to be shots specifically for certain groups. But maybe one day when I can’t think of anything to take pictures of.
Yes, I just ended a sentence with a preposition, but let’s all just take a deep breath and pretend it’s not there.
So today’s truth is this … I am constantly embarrassing myself, sticking my foot in my mouth, saying inappropriate things at inappropriate times, etc. But I don’t usually blog about it.
Well, I’ve talked about my kid’s poop, so that should earn her about 10 years of therapy – maybe this little story will help even it out.
One day last week, Angie from I ♥ Faces emailed me and asked me, as a contributor, to send a picture to use for the I ♥ Faces Blurb book.
Her exact words were …
If you’re interested, just make sure that you use a photo that really focuses on the face.
So I dressed up a little, put on makeup, fixed my hair, and spent 45 sweltering minutes outside with my camera, tripod and remote taking pictures of myself that I thought could be used in the book. As a contributor, I didn’t want to send in a crappy picture, ya know?
I went through and deleted 99.9% of them, but finally settled on one that wasn’t absolutely horrible and sent it on to Amy to include in the book.
She politely emailed me back and pretty much said, “Um, nice picture. But we just want your best picture of ANY face that you have taken. Dummy.”
No, she didn’t say that. But she should have! I went back and re-read Angie’s email, and sure enough, not once did she say “a picture of you.”
I tried to cover my utter embarrassment by saying something like, “Oh, well I don’t want to use that one unless it’s on the cover. Hahahaha. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I am going to go crawl into a hole.”
I can just imagine Amy getting this email from me expecting a really cute face shot of a kid, and she opens it up to see ME staring back at her. And then she’s thinking, “Now, how am I going to nicely tell Keli that she is a complete moron!?”
She is a gem, I tell ya. I probably would have just chalked the picture up to a mighty big ego and slapped it inside the book.
Or on the cover.
Whichever.
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Oh goodness….all that work that you didn’t need to do!! You poor thing….
But you got a shot at least! Now, send a better shot to her!
But Hey Now you have a pretty Great Pic of yourself!!
I really like your posts. They are really funny.
Such things are happening to me all the time. :)
Just to let you know you are not alone.
I’m cracking up and probably would have done the same thing. Now you have a cute pic of you when the need comes up.
I am laughing so hard right now…my hubby is sitting right next to me and keeps giving me weird looks as I break out in more giggles. ;) This is so something I would have done Keli…I think that’s why it making me laugh so hard!
*snort* Oh my stinkin’ heck – this totally made my day. Hee!
~Angie
co-founder of I ? Faces
Well, now that you’ve intrigued us with this photo of yourself… You need to share it! :) LOL! This would be something I would totally do, then want to crawl in a hole too. LOL!
Haha :-) I totally do that stuff all the time!! but at least you ended up with a good picture of yourself!
Okay…I’m cracking up at that! So funny and I’m so glad you shared it :) The bright side….you got a great shot of you and some highly entertained readers! ?