Work and financial complications are leaving me pretty emotionally drained, as well as the pain in my back and upper neck that is preventing me from spending the necessary hours at the computer to resolve those complications. I just wanted to vent that out somewhere. Seems like every time I start feeling optimistic, something shitty happens to dash ( Read more... )

We were getting really good at working out every day until we went on our DC shoot and didn't have time to work out for 4 days. Now we are only working out every other day, but hopefully next week we'll get back into a routine ( Read more... )

Ever since Gap tried to pull off that horrible redesign, every single logo change is being compared to it, and everyone feels like they can bitch and moan until the company changes it back. See, Big Ten, and now recently Starbucks... a nice link here to the complaining, if you can stomach it without getting stuck in permanent "eye-roll" position.

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Okayyyyyyy, I decided I would blog again. It's been about a year since my last post. I've been hemming and hawing (who says that?) over whether to pick this back up again, and I may still decide not to keep it up, but I figured it was better than the alternative of "Do nothing and complain about it."

I'm not going to recap the year much, I can't say ( Read more... )

It's been a month since I left my full time job to work for myself. I thought a lot more would have happened, but I underestimated my ability to procrastinate. I can't say I'm entirely satisfied with how things are going, but I'm understanding that it will take some time to get used to. I'm somewhat ashamed of how easily I can let myself slack- I ( Read more... )

Today I purchased the first car I have ever owned- a brand new 2009 Pontiac Vibe in red, with the souped-up audio system and sunroof and all that. There are almost no Pontiac Vibes left on the lots anymore, so the ones left have good deals. To be honest, I had completely written off Pontiac after the whole "we took government money and then killed ( Read more... )

Not updating will generally mean some vague guilt about not updating. I keep asking myself if starting a new blog, at a new location, would help. And I may very well do that, making sure to let whoever may be concerned know where I have moved. But not today. Might be something for January, one of those "fresh start" things. Probably to Wordpress, ( Read more... )

Fear was a useful evolutionary tool- it kept our hunting ancestors cautious in a world where letting down your guard meant certain death. But nowadays I think we apply fear too liberally to our lives. It seems like we trust our fear too much, rather than learning to understand different types of fear. We give "nervous fear of the unknown" the same ( Read more... )

Well, my weekend was pretty awesome, all things considered. Purdue beat #7 Ohio State, we sent the down to #19 and security let the fans rush the field. Chris and I also got to see MuteMath live as VIPs, right up in the front- I got some sweet pics and footage (no cameras allowed, ha). They were epically awesome, plus it was my first time at the ( Read more... )

Went on my honeymoon last week- 3 days in the Disney Parks and 4 days on the Disney Wonder cruise line. I was afraid to leave due to everything that I had going on, but I forgot about all that nearly instantly and had a wonderful time. It all came crashing back to earth yesterday though, but I am surviving pretty well ( Read more... )