Shalista Blog

If you’ve stopped by the studio on a Monday, we are closed. I get a lot of questions about that, so let me explain the reasons. I work every Saturday. Sometimes for HOURS, and hours, and hours. For example, this past Saturday started on Friday. Lynsey and I left Pierre at 9:30 to trek to Nebraska to shoot Theresa and Everett’s wedding. It’s a 7 hour drive.
So, we drove 3 hours, crashed at a hotel halfway, then headed out at 7 am to be ready to start at 11:30. We got there, scoped out the town, made it to the wedding, shot for 8 hours+, then drove 7 hours straight back home. We got in about 2 am on Sunday. Both dedicated to being home for Father’s Day, but we were exhausted. Unfortunately for Lynsey, she works a “real” job during the week, so she rests up good on Sunday (I hope)

Me, I do laundry, clean house, whatever, and Monday I hang with the kiddos. I try to avoid the studio, and we try to go do fun things together, but I take Mondays off.

It’s one of the parts about this job that’s not so fun, but the other perks make up for it.

It’s a good thing Lynsey and I have so much fun together.

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Nebraska might be lacking a lot of things, (I did live there so I do speak from experience) but they also have a lot of good things, like Amigos. Amigos is like Mexican Food Heaven. It’s greasy and far from gourmet, but damn it’s SO GOOD. A few years ago, ok, like 13 or something, I worked at Amigos in Norfolk, NE (yes, when I lived there) It was my first real job. That really helped us get through the first hour or so of the drive home on Saturday. The girl working the window thought we were crazy, but that’s ok, we kind of are.

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