My day today

K so it's been a month since I last wrote, deal with it. I am. I had an awesome day.

A list:

• To start off, it always helps when it is gorgeous outside.
• Found out I will be teaching a Body Flow class every week. Team teaching to begin, then getting my own class in the fall. Exciting! If anyone happens to read this blog and is interested in trying Body Flow, let me know-- it is a combination of tai-chi, yoga, and pilates set to good music.
  
• Learned about Inbound Marketing University, a way to get a free certification in marketing online.
  
• Met new people. Between some talented candidates for the marketing specialist I am on a search committee for, and the fellow geeks at the Providence Geek Dinner, I met some neat folks. I had been meaning to go to the dinner for months, and even tried to go once before but there was absolutely no parking and it was pouring down rain... so Fraser and I got sushi instead (fail/win or win/fail?)
• Cut open the watermelon I bought to find the reddest, crunchiest, juiciest, bomb-ass melony deliciousness I've ever had the pleasure of slicing and devouring.
• I didn't cook tonight, as Wednesday is usually leftover night. So homeboy and I heated up the 2 Freschetta pizzas I bought as a treat and decided they are probably the best frozen pizzas we've ever had. So thank you, Freschetta, for tasting so fresh you are almost bruschsetta. Luckily I had just eaten my weight* in watermelon so it was impossible to make a complete fatty of myself. *exaggeration
  
• Since I'm going down the food path... I got complimented on my baking. I made some friends cookies last weekend, and she was nice enough to bring up how good they were. Yay! And uh, not to toot my own horn, but I do kind of rock at cookies (tooooooot). You can credit my mother for refusing to buy me the Easy Bake Oven I wanted with all my tiny, excitable heart. She insisted that if her 5-year-old daughter wanted to bake, she would do so in a real oven. And bake I did.
• Fraser's happy because the Bruins are currently beating the "ginger army" in the final of the Stanley cup finals. Just so you know, he's ginger too, so that apparently makes it less racist. Aside from the yelling, I like his enthusiasm.
  
• My optimistic attitude and feeling like I have finally shaken the funk I've been in for a good while. Good things are gonna come. Just gotta hold onto these good days like gold, and keep working toward my goals, whatever those goals may be (see last post). :)
  

I've said it before, and I'll say it again

...but I really need to start writing in a blog. Preferably this blog.

The more I work, the more I come to the realization of how to work, what this all means to me and my "life plan," and where I want to go with my career. Nothing's concrete, but I just know I should really be forming my own ideas about the things I do... if I ever figure out what I do, per se.

Currently I am a designer/developer for a university. I make mockups, create graphic designs and artwork, write code, and put out fires. I am the 5'4" human version of the Adobe Creative Suite, plus Google and a bucket of water.

I'm in the quarter life crisis of "this is not moving fast enough," paradoxically in conjunction with "where am I," "how did I get here" and "where am I going." I don't have a life plan because, really, what the heck does that mean? Is it a bucket list? Is it some sort of almanac of what I'm supposed to fulfill (i.e. marry at age 25.5, birth 1.5 children and bring it/them to our home with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and a 2 car garage)? In some cases, I'm a planner, but as I go through life and relationships with friends, I see from all our experiences that the things we don't plan for impact us just as much as, if not greater than, the ones we expect or plan for.


I think around this age, or maybe not, I haven't asked anyone, but we start realizing life is precious (I made it bold to give the word some cojones, because I don't mean precious in the sense that a teacup poodle sitting inside of an actual teacup is precious), and as much as I feel the need to be in it, live, and do, I feel an equal and almost opposite need to reflect on it, take stake, and count my blessings. Perhaps this will help me lead a better life, and perhaps actually be my best self when that whole life plan starts falling into place.

All I know, and these are the only things I'm sure of for my future, is I want to look back at my life and know that I gave due consideration to my actions, but didn't hesitate to take any out of fear or a lack of confidence. I think those things come with experience and time. But I guess I'll know when I'm old.

Michelle Obama's Speech to GW Grads

I had to repost this after seeing it on the Oprah website.

"You guys can't be stopped. You don't know the meaning of the word 'can't.' And every time someone's tried to say to tell you that, you've replied, 'Oh, yes we can.' In fact, you remind me of something President Wilson once said. He said: 'Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that's the way I know I'm an American.'

"Even so, you've probably also run up against people who love your idealism but warn you to lower your sights, to scale back your ambitions a bit, to settle for something less. And you know their hearts may be in the right place. They may be worried that you're in for a letdown once you realize that it can take years and even decades for your best efforts to bear fruit. See, we live in a culture, after all, that tells us that our lives should be easy, that we can have everything we want without a whole lot of effort. But the truth is, and you know this, creating anything meaningful takes time."

— First lady Michelle Obama, who promised to speak at George Washington if they performed 100,000 hours of community service

Now there's some inspirational words.

New website is up

This is for the Naval ship, USS Detroit AOE-4.

http://www.ussdetroit.org

It's the year 2000... and 10!

So Fraser and I were talking last night, as we tend to do, and decided this year, we're going to invent something.

Now, I am not making any promises/resolutions about this... but I might start using this blob to its full potential as an invention spot. That way, next time we invent something, it will be fully documented and if it gets stolen, we have proof we thought of it first.

Of course this could backfire and someone could simply claim they never saw this blog (highly likely). So probably this is a bad idea... but let it be known, we're thinking.

UPDATE: It is now the year 2011, and we have yet to invent anything. GAH!!! Need to get on this!!

It's done

Here it is!

Now I am just doing a final revision of my paper. Should be done tomorrow. Then resource compilation and disk burning (and testing) to go!