i got all my hairs cut!

summer is here and my thick black mane turns into an instant attached sauna on my head. awesome? not really. got it all chopped off. kinda miss the long hair but that's the good thing about hair...it always grows back!

movies movies movies

saw the movie no reservations tonite. the cooking movie with catherine zeta jones, aaron eckhart (super cute), and abigail breslin. good movie. first movie ive seen in a while where i didnt want part of my money back. and let's be honest, a movie centered around food cant really go wrong with me.

but what i really want to talk about is the movie august rush. saw a preview for it and although i feel it would be fitting for it to come out in august, imdb says october which makes me sad. this movie looks really great and the cast is probably the main pull for me. the lead actress is keri russell whom we all know and love as felicity - one of my favorite tv shows ever. add freddie highmore, the cute little boy from finding neverland and terrence howard, a fantastic actor in my opinion, and you have a strong cast already. so check out this link and watch the trailer. and get excited, i think it's gonna be a good one.

news bittles

well on a rather disappointing note i am calling it quits on the virtual tours job idea. business is booming, but just not in austin unfortunately. it might eventually come around and if it does then i'm on the call list however until then i'm just going to put it on the back burner. i was always a little skeptical about the whole thing although i believe it did have the potential to be pretty great and little false hopes kept me going. but the reality is that it hasn't come along yet and if i keep waiting for it to then i might just end up frustrated and broke.

but God has proved himself faithful as always. ive been a little restless about the whole unemployment situation lately and asking God for some direction. with the virtual tours deal done with i decided i needed to look into other jobs, perhaps even just part time gigs to provide some steady income while i let my photography supplement the rest. and im blessed that i'm getting enough photography jobs to actually supplement. well, i already have 3 job interviews next week for various jobs that all have some unique advantages to them. of course, none of them have been offered yet so i'm not necessarily going to get my hopes up, but the fact that they are there in the first place is great. i will keep you posted.

and in even more exciting news, my latest venture is to get some of my photography up in any local austin coffee shop or restaurant that will have me. i have a growing list of over 30 places and have so far only contacted about 10 of them and 1 already booked me! yes, in jan and feb of 08 (yes i realize thats quite a ways away but they book their art way in advance and this was the first available opening) i will be displaying my photography on the walls of satellite cafe in south austin. pretty awesome. i told myself that if i could just get one place out of all that i tried i would be happy. and not that im going to stop now though. i still have 20 places to contact and hopefully some of them will like my stuff as well!

life is good. God is good.

for sale by owner...

alright, it's official. im unemployed, running out of money, and selling my body. wait..no...not my body. just my pictures. so if you are interested, check this out:

For Sale - Kate McCoy Photography

twiddling my thumbs...

well heres an update on life. talked to virtual tours guy. the good news: all the other people originally interested have since backed out meaning that all business for austin comes to me. bad news: who knows if we'll get any business. there's 4 or so big cities that the company works out of and so far they've all done well; austin is just the slowest to get going. so...i wait. im going to stay hopeful. my fear now isn't that it's not legit or that i'm gonna slip between the cracks and be forgotten. the fear is that there just won't be enough work.

so, in the meanwhile, what do i do? hmmm. good question. ive spent the last couple of days working on projects. yes, i like to call them that b/c it sounds productive. and these are pics of my labor. they're photo collages. i think i posted a while back of another one i had done. you might not be able to tell well from the pics but it's actually made up of many different pics strategically put together to make the original pic. my ultimate goal is to sell them and maybe make some money. or at least get them up in a coffee shop or something. anyone know anything about that? anyone think anyone would be interested in owning something like this? would you? give me some money and we'll make it happen. ;)

so yeah, that's my life. work on 'projects,' work out, and read. oh, and watch my money slowly disappear as i continue to not make any. sweeeet.

in more exciting news, God brought me my mailbox key back. well first i should give you the full story. i have a key chain dillybopper where you can detach a part of the ring holding a separate set of keys and then easily reattach it using a little push and pull mechanism. anyways, about 2 weeks ago i evidently didnt reattach the dillybopper correctly and to my great dismay my mailbox key was lost. and to give you more background info: i love getting the mail. like a fat kid in a candy shop type of love. even though 85% of my mail is complete junk i still kinda get this small feeling of excitement like one would on christmas morning when i get the mail. thus, the inability to get the mail has caused great distress. i had basically given up on the fact that i would ever be reunited with the key. UNTIL TODAY. im walking up my steps and what do i see just laying on the step glistening in all its glory?? yes, my mail key. and no, it hasnt been there for the past two weeks. i know this bc for one, it's rained about a bazillion times and no way could it withstand some of the flooding. two, my roommates and i walk up and down those stairs everyday and no way would all 3 us miss it for 2 weeks. 3, i swept those stairs last weekend after i weed eatered the crap outta my yard and no way would i sweep my key. so...ive just decided that God brought it back. really there's no other explanation in my book. God knows i love getting the mail and decided He didn't want to deprive me of it anymore. plain and simple. thanks, God. appreciate ya.

highlight of my day tomorrow? yep. getting the mail.

wedding pics, a couple weeks late

me and my boys. the scenery was real pretty and we
aren't half bad looking either, right?

ck & me. soon enough it will be her turn to get married!

the boys
patin paid a buck to dance with eileen...introducing mr. & mrs. pankake!! yes, pronounced as it looks...

the girls and the beautiful bride!

and then the dancing began...bye mr & mrs pankake!

snippets in a completely unrelated manner

been a bad blogger. sorry for that. unemployment will do that to you. yes, still unemployed but doing alright. hoping to start that virtual tour thing. yeah i said that 2 months ago but now i really do mean it. mean it as in, im running out of money and it better dang well work out otherwise starbucks here i come.

got a new toy recently - a macbook pro. it's real fun although i know basically nothing about macs and the transition has been tricky. any well versed mac user interested in giving me some pointers ill gladly accept.

been reading a lot lately. read marley and me and ps i love you and currently on kite runner. and yeah, i actually finished those first 2 books which is a shocker since i finish about 20% of the books i start. trying to work on that.

been trying to cook more. watching a lot of the food network which really only just makes me hungry and doesnt teach me much about cooking. i guess it would if i took notes or something while i watched but thats too similiar to school and im just not down with that.

cooking more...eating more....needing to work out more. still enjoying the bike. havent gotten too many rides in as of late bc of el nino. wet ground is not optimal riding conditions for me so once noah's flood stops then ill bring it out of retirement again.

speaking of noah...saw evan almighty. it was ok. saw die hard 42 or whatever number it's on. decent. saw ocean's 13. liked it. better than 12, not as good as 11. saw once, a sundance film probably not on tons of theaters. LOVED it. highly recommend it. it's about some singer songwriters and the music is fantastic in it.

it needs to stop raining. of course last year we were complaining of no rain and then we get this this year. never satisfied. i will say that ill take rain over 100 degree weather. however a couple of sunny days here and there wouldnt hurt. plus, i wanna float the river and i dont think it's quite safe to do that right now. and i really want to go to schlitterbahn...really, really, want to...

well thats really all i got for now. check out my other website - www.katemccoy.net - i've updated it recently!