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I got bit by a snake today. Don't worry, it wasn't poisonous.

I had a shoot today with two photographers and they had invited some people from the Alabama Reptile Rescue to bring some snakes to pose with. I like snakes and was excited to be using a few of them as "props". Well anywho, one of the pythons they had decided it didn't like me and took a bite out of two of my fingers. She was a smaller snake so the wound is not terribly big or bothersome. It hurt like a bitch though.

The little bastard that bit me.


And we were working together so well.....

I'm wearing it as a badge on honor though, this snake bite. I have been bitten by so many kinds of animals, horses, cats, dogs, various species of rodents, birds, but never a snake.



I had to get back on the horse, or so the saying goes, and they gave me an even larger snake to play with. This one didn't feel like biting my face off. However, the snake handlers noticed that he was getting a little "excited" while posing with me. Perhaps he wanted to create a brood of strange Iggy/Python hybrids.

Now onto less serpentine matters...

I spent the weekend painting furniture black and red. We picked up a dresser at the charity thrift store for $20. It was pretty beat up on the outside, but we could tell that it was a solid piece of furniture and that it just needed a little bit of TLC. We painted it black and the drawers we painted red and now it looks good as new!! And much more hip than before!! After that I went on a little furniture painting spree and re-painted the kitchen table black so it would match the dresser that we now use as a TV stand.

Having things match excites me.

Also, buying things second hand excites me. I like having things that have been used. I like things that have history. I like being able to hold something and feel all the other people that have touched it before me. Also, older furniture tends to be made more from real wood than particle board or plywood and so therefore more durable. Also, recycling is good.

The thrift store that we got the dresser at is the most amazing thrift store on the planet. It has aisles of shoes, rows of old electronics like type writers, VCR's, and computers left behind from the dark ages. Racks as far as the eye can see full of dresses, jeans, old uniforms, sheets, blankets, and pants. It has an entire section for furniture and a small make shift room of televisions. It's like the department store of thrift stores. One could spend a day in there and only cover half the store. That is how amazing this place is.

I like thrift stores, once I get passed the musty dead old people smell that usually accompanies them. I like to have things that have character, and you can usually find things with character at a thrift store.