IT'S NOT TRUE!!

...But it is totally possible.

MORGAN AND I ARE NOT A COUPLE.

Let me explain. Last night Morgan and I were hanging out in one of our favorite places (the club, of course), and some guy came up to us and said "That's hot." He said he thought we were a lesbian couple...

I will admit, we did go out for about... well, I think we have been for about 8 years now, on and off? haha!

:( I was going to upload various pictures and put somewhat witty caption to them describing our relationship, but Blogger won't let me. :(

But yeah, basically, no, we are not going out or married, we are just friends who happen to live together.

Some Shoots

So over the last few days, Morgan and I have done some awesome shoots. Well, I think they are awesome :) So, for the first shoot, which is actually the cover photo for our latest song with Morgan's boyfriend:

Wooow. If GIF slam exists, this is it. haha! Anyway, this is Morgan, surprisingly. Makeup and lighting ;-)

And here we had a shoot that I uh... well, I don't know what happened. I'm totally cool with rocky beaches, and also being on camera, and nude - Yes, I actually did a nude shoot - but I guess I can't do it all at once. It was awkward. I would post some shots because for the most part it's lit to be just my silouhette, but they aren't actually finished yet. And yes, I could wait until they are, but personally it wasn't a very good shoot.

 I was planning on posting two shoots, and I will, but it's not as new. In fact, it's pretty old, just never released. Remember this shoot?

Well, here's another shot from it:

Maybe next post I'll post something... maybe if I feel like it I'll even do the nude ones?

I'll end on a super-old shot (just don't look too closely at my shirt because uh... well, if you know me at all you know I pretty much never wear bras and a lot of my nicer shirts are... thin...):

Music!!

 

I stole Morgan's camera ;-)

YES! As you can imagine, I am making music! On my piano, to be exact. Well, keyboard, because I don't have room for an actual piano. And yes, I am in fact up at the time of posting, so sorry if I make no sense.

Actually, you won't have to worry about that, because I totally forgot what this post was going to be about. Why am I even blogging? Maybe I should vlog...

BAD IDEA.

So what was I talking about? Oh yeah, nothing.

Ok, I'll pose a question: If you play an instrument (well even if you don't), what's your favorite instrument?

Love,
Claire S.

PS - I've been asked to translate my posts because, well, some of my friends don't know English. Sometimes having friends in places like Russia and Greece is bad. So, if you need translations, I recommend Google :)

http://translate.google.com/ can translate into whatever language you want!
Spanish: se puede traducir en cualquier idioma que quieras!
Croatian: moze prevesti na jezik sto zelite!
Czech: lze prelozit do jakehokoli jazyka chcete!
German: kann in das, was von Ihnen gewunschte Sprache zu ubersetzen!
Italian: si puo tradurre in qualsiasi lingua che vuoi!
Russian: можно перевести на любой язык вы хотите!
Greek: μπορεί να μεταφραστεί σε οποιαδήποτε γλώσσα θέλετε!
Slovak: mozno prelozit do akehokolvek jazyka chcete!
Swedish: kan aversatta till vilket sprak du vill!

Too bad I only know a couple of those languages. But, I think I covered everyone!! haha!

Oh, and PPS: This is just possibly interesting to anyone who doesn't know, my actual name (Veronica, not sure why people call me Claire, but now I do so it's ok) is pronounced Weronica. ;-)

New Zealand shoot

I went to New Zealand Tuesday for a photoshoot. I was hoping to maybe check out Milford Sound...

Or camp in the mountains...

Or maybe even be this guy (except, well, as a girl, of course):

It would have at least been cool to hang on out the beach:

(Not in NZ) . Or at least walk around Auckland or something.

(Not really Auckland) But no. Turns out, I was more or less being sold to do a shoot with a company who just so happens to be in one of my favorite places on earth. Kreteni... At least the actual shoot was okay. I was told that it was for a home and garden kind of magazine, but there was literally no home or garden -- just stone.

This was actually just in prep. Believe it or not, this is under the dress you're about to see. Here are the actual shots:

My outfit actually fell apart here (synthetic materials... ugh), but I like the pose, so I'll just put a little black box on it ;-) But you know, to be completely honest, It actually felt kind of good to be in front of the camera with an exposed breast, hence the "I'm Hot And You Like It" look.Is that bad? I mean, I did... you know what, I'll just shut up. I have sexual problems, I know!! At least it's legal...

So much for a vacation in New Zealand. But, I think I broke speed records, going from Prague to Auckland, doing a shoot, and going back to Prague in 3 days!!

What's up?

Hey everybody! So, this week I will actually be coming back from Spain! I totally forgot to mention anything about it publicly, but, well, now I'm going back. haha!

Anyway, while I was there there was this bakery, I forget its name but it was probably something like La Tienda de Pan or something (haha). What's cool about this is they were having baking sessions where you could actually go in and bake something. I didn't actually bake anything, and really I just thought that was kind of cool. However, speaking of food, I did find a place that looked almost exactly like an American Diner!!

Anyway, going back to before I left, I've already begun shipping Christmas stuff. Actually, maybe I'm late, some of them are going to Australia. Still, I think it's cool that there is a FedEx in the Czech Republic!!

And, just because I feel like this post needs another picture, here is a shot actually for a friend (long story).

So yeah, nothing really interesting going on here. haha! Maybe that's why I don't blog much! Laska! Claire S.

Hi!

Wow, I haven't posted on this blog in so long Blogger even changed!

Hi any of you 150+ people that read my blog!! I am sorry I have not posted anything in the last... well, very long time. I wouldn't say that I've been busy, but I have had a lot going on. Here are just a few highlights:

First off, I've found that I'm speaking English a lot more than I thought I would be here in the Czech Republic. For example, a few days ago I was actually directing a shoot (more on that later), and I had to speak English the whole time. Of course, being from America, this wasn't much of an issue, but I have been speaking Czech rather heavily and forgot a few things. I still made more sense than the actual director, though.

Anyway, so I did end up getting that house in Dobroviz, Middle Bohemia. I actually got it August 5th... sorry!! We have done a little remodeling, mostly by hiring people because neither Morgan nor I (I think that's right) know what we are doing when it comes to remodeling. I think the neatest thing we've done aside from setting up the studios is a whole-house sound system that I can control with my iPad! We were surprisingly able to get Bose speakers, which if you don't know, Bose is one of the best brands in sound. I guess Bose is like Apple: so good, they are international. Or maybe they were imported, I don't know. Morgan handled most of that, ask her. haha!

When we moved in I posted this on Facebook: "Today's agenda: watch a bunch of hunky guys move my stuff into the new house, drive Ferry for a while, get Morgans' Jeep and get some furniture (because, smarties we are, we don't really have any), test the new kitchen with dinner, and head to Rose's (I think) club where a bunch of my friends are holding a party for Morgan and I. Thanks Carmen!!"

Yes, Rose and Carmen and a few of my other friends actually held a party for Morgan and me! It was really cool. I love my friends ;-) Our living conditions are actually really good. Morgan and I sleep in the same bed, but we're used to doing that anyway. We have found that crime is sort of an issue considering we've already been broken into once. ... ... Sorry, I keep thinking I should elaborate on that, but the real story is kind of sickening. Basically, we were broken into while we were home, we... um... -- I'll keep this PG-13 and say threatened -- the robber with weapons (my gun and Morgan's claws and one of her swords), and the guy was arrested. No major harm was caused to anyone, again keeping things PG-13.

Back on the subject of living conditions, however, we have found jobs and the local friend's houses, clubs, and other things (STARBUCKS!!). I should probably clarify that I don't go to clubs to get drunk and act like an idiot. I just like the atmosphere and the music! ...Ok so I might try to get the bartender to get me a cocktail, but only one. Even one messes me up. haha!

Um, let's see... oh yeah, so we both got jobs! Morgan is doing photography and web design, and I'm with a modeling agency that I've only done like 3 shoots with. Speaking of which...

 Ok, so remember the shoot I was talking about earlier, where I had to speak English and whatever? I would hope so, it wasn't that far ago. Anyway, so their director of modeling (or whatever his title is) read over my portfolio and somehow came to the conclusion that I would be great for co-directing a Thanksgiving photo shoot! Why people trust me with things like this I may never know, but it was fun to be only behind the camera instead of both in front of and behind the camera. Anyway, as it turns out, the shoot had nothing at all to do with Thanksgiving, or food, or really anything I was thinking it would be. Then again, I was envisioning hot models wearing turkey outfits. So glad that didn't happen. What the shoot was actually about was America in general. I'm guessing the Czech are beginning to like the Americans more, I don't know. We ended up having models in pretty much everything American: flags, various store and restaurant chains, and I think for part of it they were trying for the Miss America deal. All in all, it was fun!!

Anyway, other random things:

I drove on the Autobahn to Bijou's place in East Germany and went faster than I should have. I think I went like 192 mph or something crazy like that.

More on the modeling job: they said there would be absolutely no nude or 'suggestive' themes, which is good for me. I really wouldn't mind if there were any, though. They did say I may also have a chance to do some acting, which worries me because my best acting parts have been me sitting around or dancing.

I got to spend a few days with my friend Tanya before she left for New Zealand, too! She taught me a few neat recipes for making various things.

Oh yeah... and then we have Morgan and her favorite place, the hospital! Long story short, she was found on the side of the road, driver's side caved in slightly, her laying in front of her Lamborghini, and said car on fire. We aren't really sure what happened, but thankfully, she's ok. She's short about a quarter million dollars, though, but she likes her Jeep more anyway.

Devin, who if you don't know is one of my best friends, has shown me how awesome woodworking can be! He directed me to this show his dad watches in the USA about this guy who does woodworking using non-power tools. It looks like great stress relief, anyway! He warns me that it's a lot of hard work and practice, but my dad was a metalworker and my grandfather was a metalworker... and I think my brother is being trained in welding... Hm. Maybe I'll be a model who also works with metal. haha!

Oh! And I've already had a boyfriend since I've been here. Only problem is, he, like many others, decided to think with the wrong head and got dumped in front of his friends. I really hate dumping guys, especially like that, but I HATE guys like that. Yet for some reason I'm still more for men than women. Only slightly, though.

I found a store full of just totally random things, and I in that store I found what looks to be a stuffed animal kind of thing in the shape of a sperm cell. And right next to that was a notepad with hearts on it. I'm not sure what the store even was, there was random stuff everywhere!

Anyway, I think that's a pretty good summary of what I've been up to. I'm going to try posting more often, too. Trying to remember everything you've done over several months is hard, haha!

Laska!
Claire S.

More houses!

Well, I still have not heard about my offer on the house here in Naples, but from what I understand they won't accept because I was in the US when I did it. Maybe I should just walk down to the realtor's office...

I did find a really nice place in the Czech Republic, too, though, and it's a lot cheaper. It's a modern, low energy home, 1020 square feet with 2 terraces, on about 2.5 acres of land. Asa for rooms... well... it's a bit absurd.

Cloakroom (probably the equivalent of a entry hall kind of thing), 2 living rooms, a kitchen, dining room, 2 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 car garage, warehouse, and clostes galore. It's... awesome. Oh, and it also has a garden and heated pool and deck.

The brick villa (which I think is what it really would be) is located in the village Dobrovíz, a district west of Prague in the Middle Bohemia region. It is fenced in, with the street side having a brick fence and sliding gate with remote control.

I saw this description and figured it would be a million dollar house. But no, it is selling for 5,780,000 korunas, which is 340,000 dollars. That's it.

I'm going to contact the realtor in the morning to see if I can schedule a tour. I might just totally forget about what the house in Italy.

But of course... I like Spain too. I lived there for about 3 months one summer, so I actually know what it's like to live there! And now I know what it's like to live in Italy, and my friends up in the CR say it's a great place, too. Maybe I can find cheap places in all three and live in all three! haha

Not really.

Amore! Laska! Amor! Love,
Claire S.