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UGH ALREADY!

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

The word HECTIC doesn’t even begin to describe the last couple of days. Not only am I still dealing with my back issues but I’m so overloaded with numerous different accounts that I can’t get ahead to save my life. I finished three tasks today but that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what’s left to be done – and based on conversations there’s a lot more coming.

Sean and I were out all afternoon yesterday, and later on into the evening so we wound up being at least 7 hours behind on everything. We had a lunch meeting and then had some things to take care of at Microcenter that didn’t pan out too well, we wound up heading over to Best Buy to have the same result. The issue is, a lot more graphics heavy work is coming in and I’m going to be spending more time in Photoshop than I’d personally prefer – based on this I wanted to see if I can get financing for a Macbook Pro being as I’m pretty much stuck in bed and I really need the Mac power behind me to keep things moving. The only other option would be to figure out how to mount my iMac on the wall underneath the TV that’s already mounted (and too big for the room), being as that isn’t an option I went for the Macbook.

The reason for the rush, however, is due to the fact that Mac announced they are no longer making the MacBook Pro 17″ laptops. Knowing that there are only a few left on the shelves I figured it was time to get my hands on one before they’re gone. Upon applying for financing I was really upset with the amount that I was approved for as it didn’t even cover 50%. I made a few phone calls, and looked into things and was basically told that my credit has taken too many hits over the past few months and I absolutely will not be approved for anything until everything is paid down by at least 30%. This isn’t really possible considering the two heavy hits are 5-year auto loans – there’s no way to pay off 30% of those anytime soon.

The way around it would be to cut my credit cards down by 50%, which is actually 100% possible if people would pay Sean and I the money that we’re owed from past accounts. When going through all of our unpaid invoices and factoring in other things, we’re owed upwards of $10,000 right now. A single client is in the $3,500 range and he’s been dodging us for a year claiming he’s bankrupt. Yea well that still doesn’t stop you from using your fucking website every day – doesn’t it buddy?

The only upside to yesterday was the fact that we stopped at Staples on the way home and I picked up a new desk chair in hopes to have something comfortable to work in, instead of the other chair that really doesn’t offer any kind of support whatsoever. I originally thought that the guy gave us the wrong chair, after Sean put it together, but after looking into it and trying to remember all of the 100000 chairs I sat in before I found this one – I think it was actually the right one and it’s now sitting at my desk. I’m not.

I’m exhausted, in pain, and just fricken annoyed. The days keep moving, the work keeps piling up, and now I’m actually laying in bed with the laptop hooked up with the HDMI port to my TV just so I can lay flat to try to take some of the pressure off my back. It’s worked pretty well today but the issue now is the fact that my eyes are totally fucked because the text doesn’t generate quite the same way on the big screen as it does on my laptop. I’ve found that my eyes have crossed more times because of the TV than they ever have on the laptop/iMac before. I’ll fight through it though – I usually do.

It’s about 2:30am now, I know there’s at least another 4 hours to knock out before I can get some sleep. I was doing so well with getting back on track and waking up before 5:30 in the afternoon but now it’s just not happening. Gotta keep moving.

The saving grace for today was when Sean looked at me and told me that they only temporarily discontinued the 17″ Macbook because of the fact that they can’t do the retina display on that size monitor yet. They’re so anal about uniformity that they pulled it from the shelves until they could figure it out. I just don’t understand why they can still offer the 15″ without the retina display but pulled the 17″, you don’t always need to have two options for every size – the size alone is an option itself damn it! Hopefully within the next 2 years they’ll actually get the 17″ back on the shelves. For now, however, I’ll be completely wiping my laptop and installing Mac OSX on it to remove myself from Windows completely. I’m sick of booting this thing up every day and having another fucking security update to figure out. Maybe if Windows wasn’t such a piece of shit there wouldn’t be so many security flaws – duh?

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Kicking ass and taking names…

Thursday, June 7th, 2012

As previously mentioned, my back is beyond fucked. I’ve tried everything I could possibly do to cut down on the pain but nothing is really working.  The only way around it is to pretty much keep myself in bed.  This has given me more time in front of a computer than I really need, but when you’re limited on where you can go, and what you can do, you turn to the internet (in this time period at least).

I’ve gotten a lot of work done on numerous different accounts.  There’s still quite a bit to do so that’s a never ending pile of “OMG SHOOT ME!”.  The upside is when I actually get to have some kind of downtime I’ve really been improving my skills on Words with Friends, and living proof would be the scores against almost everyone having anything to do with me.  I’ve kicked Sean‘s ass more times than I can count, Colin’s gone down quite easily, and I even had a rather amusing game with Brandy the other day. I’ll admit that her words had me searching the internet to find out how the hell they actually went through, but when she fessed up to a jail broken iPhone hack – all I could do was laugh.  Knealc? Really?  Too funny.

The biggest downside to everything going on would be the fact that I miss the crap out of my Mac.  It’s 100% fine, but I can’t physically sit at the desk for more than ten seconds to pull files into my thumb drive.  I attempted to get some hefty Photoshop work done the other day and it just wasn’t happening.  Halfway through I had the unfortunate sneeze attack and felt as though my hip was being ripped out of my side.  That put me back in bed for two straight days with a heating pad AND icy hot.   Sean and I then (don’t know why) went grocery shopping last night because we could finally stand and were hungry – today the top my thighs are burning and turning my head to the left is just not a possibility without my lower back screaming at me.

I’m sure that I should see a doctor at this point, lord knows I’ve been dealing with this for the last two and a half weeks, but with the lack of health insurance, and the lack of ability to sit someplace for too long (ie: waiting room), I’m just going to work it out as best as I can and go from there.

I’m really hoping that this doesn’t last too long.  Sean and I are looking to head down to DE in a few weeks in hopes to be there for the 4th of July fireworks.  At this point we’re not sure if that’s even going to happen.  Financially we’re fine, it’s the physical crap we’re both dealing with and lord knows how long it’ll be before we’re both 100% again.  I know for me, before I even get down there, my laptop needs to be wiped and restarted because that will remain the primary machine while I’m down there.  Unless of course I come into a butt load of money where I can just drop $3500 on a MacBook Pro, but since that’s not going to happen – I’ll go with what I’ve got. heh.

Time to get back to work.

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To be or Not to be….Offended?

Monday, June 4th, 2012

So as a new mommy, I admit that I do not have many other mommy friends with children the same age. Most have children 3yrs and up or no children at all. I know that this will all change once my son starts going to some sort of school, but in the meantime, we take what we can get. When my son was first born, I was happy to re-kindle a friendship from past with a new mommy to a little boy only 2 months older than mine. Niether of us were working so we would have playdates almost every day. Once my friend got a job, we really didn’t get to see each other. The phone calls and texts became fewer and longer inbetween, then stopped all together. Not in a bad way, just in a I’m busy kinda way. I never thought that we had become non-friends. So when it was approaching her sons first birthday, I received a random group text about the hosting a party (a tupperware type thing) to help raise funds to throw the party about a month before. Then as usual, I never heard anything else.

Last week it dawned on me that I had not heard anything else, and decided to check her facebook….I was shocked to see that she was posting about getting ready for the partty, and that the invites had gone out, yada yada yada. I simply could not resist, I texted her in a fashion that seemed as if I didn’t see this information: “Someone’s big 1st birthday is coming up! It went so fast, can’t believe we haven’t seen each other, we must have a playdate soon!” her reply: “I thought you hated me or something! Im having a bday bbq on sat u should come! Im so glad 2 hear from u!!!” It seemed she had this feeling, but I did, and don’t, know why? At the same time I was completely offended that she hadn’t picked up a phone, or sent my son an invite. I happen to be one of those people that over analysis a situation, for two reasons. One is that I really do want to be a kind person and see the best in all, and second I want to make sure that I was not going crazy and really did not do something wrong to cause this situation.

Fast forward to the morning of the party. I start my over analysis, and question if I should really go to the party. If I don’t go, I would simply text her on Monday to explain that I was offended, and didn’t really feel comfortable attending since we didn’t receive a real invite. Then I cross examined myself and thought, since she extended the invite, even if it was by text, that it would be rude not to make an appearance.  I went back and forth with myself for about an hour n half  before finally deciding I was being silly and to just go. Offended or not, it was proper etiquette  to attend. And figured if it was wierd; we had made our appereance and we could just leave.

When we turned onto her block it was chuck full of cars, I found a spot a block away and headed towards the house. The front yard was covered in a bouncy house, thru to the backyard covered in a huge tent with a dozen tables and chairs, a professional sized grill, five large coolers filled with beer, wine, water, juice boxes, and other adult cocktail mixes. On another table, they served penne al a vodka, sausage n peppers, pulled pork, potato salad, cole slaw, pasta salad, corn on the cobb, hambergers and hot dogs. The tent was decorated with tons of balloons, and there were people EVERYWHERE! This was no ordinary 1st bday, this was for the adults….(in kicked my reasoning for being offended! This was a big affair, and obviously invites had to have been sent, I was offended again!) I immediately called my husband and told him, “get in the shower, you are coming to this party! Im the only one by myself with a baby” I usually don’t make my husband attend such events cause he gets board and annoyed. I wound up having the best time, enjoyed the food, music, and other guests. I didn’t feel wierd at all, and it turned out to be such a fun day for my whole family. So offended or not, I chalk it up to a good time that would never had been if I had kept that negativity of being offended run thru my viens.

Curious though, would you have been offended?

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RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER KIT

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Embrace all the fun that summer has to offer while keeping your skin looking its youthful best with our exclusive Reclaim Your Summer Kit. This collection includes everything you and your Customers need to achieve a “sun-kissed” glow while protecting your body from head to toe.  

Value: $227
Retail Price: $202
Preferred Customer Price: $178

 

 

 

Act now. This collection is available until July 31, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. PDT, or while supplies last.

The first three people to place this order will also receive a R+F Beach Towel, as a gift from ME!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Roll away the signs of SUMMER!

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Roll away the signs of summer!

Step 1 exfoliates the dead skin from the sun.

Step 2 refines the pores and,

Step 3 gives you the perfect sunscreen protection while keeping your skin soft.

Then at night after a long day outdoors, you ROLL!

Message me on how to get started! Give up the caramel look to your summer skin! Be SURE to wear a hat!

Plus for the month of June, anyone who places an order will receive ESSENTIALS SPF 30 Body Sunscreen, a lightweight, non-sticky and non-greasy broad spectrum sunscreen. It contains dimethicone to protect skin’s moisture barrier, antioxidant vitamins C and E to absorb damaging free radicals and anti-inflammatory ingredients to protect skin from environmental stress. I am adding this gift to anyone who places an order starting today 05/29 adding 3 extra days 🙂

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Well…this sucks.

Friday, May 25th, 2012

The past week has been absolute torture for me, and probably everyone around me.  I’m not sure what I did, or even how I did it but I’ve managed to completely throw my back out to a level that I’ve never experienced before.  I’ve always dealt with Sciatica so it’s no surprise to me if I feel a random twinge here and there, but the flare ups have always been the issue that I can’t seem to avoid, no matter what I do.  This past weekend was probably the worst of the worst, even getting up to get myself a glass of water is a half hour event due to the fact that walking is more painful than breathing.

I noticed the twinge on Saturday and figured “Ehh, Rain’s coming – I’m used to this happening”, but waking up on Sunday I was instantly hit with the feeling of “Oh shit, can I even get out of bed?” After a half hour of working on it I was finally able to, but since then things have just been beyond painful.   Standing up straight isn’t possible, I’ve been leaning to cater to the pain, which has sent my entire back and legs out of wack.  As I said, breathing isn’t easy either – especially if I’m laying down cause the pressure on my back is excruciating.  Sleeping isn’t working out too well either as I’m a stomach sleeper and turning onto my stomach is more effort than its worth so I’ve been sleeping flat on my back for the bulk of the week and I feel that’s making things worse.  It’s just too painful to roll over in order to attempt to get comfortable.

Sitting at my desk hasn’t been much of an option either, I’ve got a small laptop table for the bedroom that I’ve been using, and laying in bed while working is the only way to go at this point.  I’m about a week behind on EVERYTHING because I wasn’t even able to bring WORK into the equation until last night.  There are clients waiting (very patiently) for me to get things done, and I feel like a complete asshole for not being able to sit down long enough to do it before I break down in tears cause I moved my foot and sent a shooting pain straight up to my shoulder blades.

Last night I was able to knock out about 8 hours of work, but that wasn’t even a ‘catch up’, kind of thing.  There’s much, much more to be completed today and I’m hoping I’ll be able to sit down and knock everything out.  I would say “Thank goodness for Memorial Day weekend” but all of my clients are located overseas at the moment so that doesn’t even help me out in the long run.  It would be nice to sit down for three straight days to catch up on everything and hopefully I’ll be able to do it.

I feel bad that I can’t just get up and go, especially since the annual fireworks are going on in Sea Cliff this weekend.  I really would like to go, but the only way to get anywhere near there would be to park at Muir’s house and walk down and that’s a downhill climb that I can’t even think of accomplishing. I’m lucky I’ve made  it to the sidewalk of my own house to bring the dog out to pee.  To make things worse, I’ve been (somehow) getting to my Aunt’s every day for the past week to throw some food down for her cat as she’s in Myrtle Beach until Saturday and then going out east to spend a long Memorial Day weekend with her friends.  So regardless I’m stuck on the North Shore for this holiday weekend (again) anyway.

Sean was really helping me get around for the past week, like a trooper, but over the last few days we’ve noticed his foot has swelled up to at least 3 times the size and he’s having trouble moving around.  He thinks he stepped wrong, I personally don’t know where or when, but he’s hobbling along much slower than I am.  The two of us look like we should be walking into a hospital when you actually see us outside.  It’s to the point of being comical.

So yea, today’s agenda includes knocking out as much as humanly possible – which will be the theme for the entire weekend.  The only addition that I would like to hold off (but really can’t) is wiping this laptop completely and reinstalling Windows.  I don’t know what the hell happened to this thing but it’s slower than shit and random errors keep popping up.  Figure I’ve had it for about two years, and we all know Laptops under $1,200 can be considered disposable  – especially after two years of Photoshop constantly running.  It wouldn’t be such a big deal considering I have that massive 27-inch iMac on my desk but SITTING at my desk hasn’t been a possibility in almost a week so of course I can’t really count on that just yet.  So I’ll complete what I can, from bed, and then hopefully I can spend some of Monday getting this thing back to where it’s supposed to be – proper working condition.

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I’m right on top of that Rose!

Monday, April 30th, 2012

I wish life would slow the fuck down.   I’ve been meaning to jump on here for well over a week now but haven’t been able to.  The white board next to me is filled with “To-Do’s” and my inbox reflects everything that won’t fit on the damn board.  The option is to either turn things away or go out and purchase a larger board to work with.

I’m up to 8 different sites and I feel horrible that I’m not able to get everything done in the timely manor that it requires.  On top of everything I’ve got Muir working on AGn Designs to get the SEO to the highest it can possibly be so that holds the potential for bringing in even more work.   I’m ten seconds from ripping my hair out, which is in desperate need of a dye job because the grey has over run my entire face and needs to be covered up ASAP.  Is there time for that? Not really.

Today was one of those extremely productive days where I accomplished everything I’d set out to do, but absolutely none of that list was work related.  I took a drive out to Lowes and Home Depot to pick up tile, grout and everything else someone would need to complete a bathroom.  After 10 years I’ve basically said “enough is enough, I want my own shower again” and flat out told my father that I’m paying the bill and having Muir’s awesome husband come in and do all of the plumbing and tile work for me.  Originally I wanted to go with a tan/beige feel like you’d find in some 5 star hotel, but when going through Home Depot a case of mosaic tile really stood out for me and I couldn’t pass it up.  So, I’m going with a 12″x12″ white tile in the shower, with the blue/grey mosaic inlay which is not only pleasing to the eye, but matches the existing tile on the floor giving me some time before I need to worry about upgrading that.

The shower itself is not an upgrade, it was a complete tear down 10 years ago that was never put back together so we’ve been using the shower in my dads room for as long as I can remember. I’m sick of doing it and due to a near future schedule change for him, I’ll have to shower at 2am in order to not be disturbing anyone – while managing to disturb myself at the same time because I do NOT like going to sleep with wet hair.

So, at some point next weekend Muir, munchkin and hubby will be coming over bright and early. I’ll be in the living room putting Muir to work on whatever’s going on with AGn and hubby will be in the bathroom all day helping to give me my champagne-taste-on-rainwater-budget bathroom.  I honestly was really, really surprised with how much the cashier told me the total was when she was done ringing us up.  Cement board, grout, five cases of large tile, case of inlay tile, case of bullnose/trim tile, corner tile, tile adhesive, sponges, caulk and spacers, plus two soda’s (cause that shit was just heavy to lift and I was dying of thirst) was only $300.  Figure if I’d gone to a contractor he’d charge me $3500 at least to take care of the bathroom and wouldn’t even pull a permit because people suck like that (Thanks to Holmes on Homes [HGTV] I’m learning things!).  To top everything off the work is being done for free, I just needed supplies.  I’m just so over excited and can’t wait to just sit down in the tub and soak for a few hours.

When I got back to the house after my 6 hour shopping spree, we all wound up heading out for dinner cause I was running completely on coffee and a breath mint for a good 12 hours today.  Now we’re all pretty much comatose in the living room.  All I know is I have to put in at least 5 hours tonight, and then wake up bright and early for my usual daily visit from Muir and munchkin.

Time to crack the whip on myself and get movin.

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Rodan + Fields – Mother’s Day Deals!

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Rodan & Fields - Mother's Day   So this Mother’s Day, give the gift of beautiful skin! Plus not only am I promoting this limited time offer, I will also pay the one time preferred customer fee for anyone that wants to sign up with there order…..so here is what you get:

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Almost missed it…

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Thank goodness I had to log into my namecheap reseller for a client today, I almost missed the renewal of krissy.nu.  I, thankfully, had everything I needed in Paypal today so a quick ‘add funds, renew now’ knocked that out.

I haven’t had much going on other than work which is the reason for the lack of updates for the past few days, I was doing really well with updating as frequently as possible (typically once a day) but the work load just hasn’t allowed for that.  It’s a lot harder balancing 10 clients at once than I thought it would be.  I feel that no matter how much effort I put into all of them, it seems I’m putting some on the back burner more frequently.

There have also been some issues with my email which has a lot to do with the fact that things aren’t being knocked out as quickly as they should be.  For some reason IMAP isn’t reading right into Thunderbird OR my phone and with that I’ve missed quite a few emails OR my emails aren’t even making it TO the client.  It drives me crazy because that’s a hit on my income when that happens because it seems like I’ve abandoned the project when I really haven’t.

Either way there’s quite a bit on my “to do” list for today.  Muir is over for her usual daily visit, the baby’s been a little cranky today so it’s been tough sitting down and getting everything done. On the upside, for her, I don’t have a lot for her to handle today other than a phone call and whatever is currently on the task manager that Sean’s been throwing work into.

For now I’ll get myself back into photoshop and start knocking things out.

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Absolutely Fricken Fantastic!

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

I woke up in a mood today.  There’s a few things going on around the house that are slowly beginning to take their toll on me and I had a moment this morning where I completely blew up and just couldn’t handle things anymore.  I called Muir and basically said “Get your ass over here, NOW!”.   She showed up, I got to talk things out and we then got everything setup outside so we could work outside for the remainder of the day.  We hung a few tarps up around the gazebo to block out the excess sunlight so the glare on the laptops was almost non existent, it definitely did the charm – that’s for sure.

She got a lot done out of her task manager, the big one was getting Dreamweaver setup on her MacBook.  After 40 minutes of transferring it to her off our in-house server and then installing it – we found that it wasn’t acting right.  Sean did a quick assessment of it and came to the conclusion that her hard drive is corrupt.  We thought of the numerous different ways that this could happen and settled on the diaper bag.  There’s a magnet on the front pocket and we think that the laptop may have gotten to close to it and now we need to work on fixing everything.  From there we also were able to figure out why her cellphone is so screwed up – magnet strikes again.

Needless to say, minus the fact that Sean, Muir and I enjoyed our time working today – when you include my morning bull shit and her laptop – it’s just absolutely fricken fantastic.

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Finally!

Monday, April 16th, 2012

So after knocking out a few mockups, Sean and I finally left the house to seal the deal on the sense of accomplishment.

We wound up hitting up Big Lots first.  While it was a somewhat successful shopping experience, I was extremely annoyed by a few of the employee’s as one in particular was going up and down the isles saying “All these people with carts need to know we’re fucking closing soon, I ain’t waiting around.”  Meanwhile, it was like 8pm, and they close at 9.  So instantly I thought “Kiss my fat ass”.  We finally make our way up to the register and spent $70 on I-have-no-idea-what.  It took a good 15 minutes to check out considering the same asshole with the mouth has made her way to the front to bull shit with the cashier about some fucking outfit she’s wearing NEXT WEEKEND to the club.  (Do people SERIOUSLY pick shit out the week before? Come on now!). 

We load up the car and then attempt to knock out our second ‘to-do’ – Dinner.  We were both starving and the usual same old shit just wasn’t going to cut it.  We wound up going to this place in Garden City called the Tin Alley Grill. I’d always driven past but NEVER went into it for some reason or another and decided tonight that I didn’t want the Texas Roadhouse or Bertucci’s.  I want something DIFFERENT.  You can imagine my surprise when I actually can say that I ENJOYED my dinner, something that doesn’t happen very often.  I picked up the grilled chicken caesar wrap and upgraded to the sweet potato fries and it goes without saying but I was definitely in heaven.

After our little dinner trip we took a ride over to Pathmark to finally get grocery shopping off of my ‘to-do’ list. $300 later…Sean’s in a mood cause we spent so much and I’m going through my internal list for the week trying to figure out what I’m cooking on what night to keep things moving.

We get home and unload everything from the car, which admittedly took quite a bit longer than anticipated but when you factor in the Big Lots shopping, plus Pathmark AND the stuff that I didn’t take out of the trunk from last weeks Home Depot adventure, the six to seven trips up the stairs (each) was kicking our asses.  And to any of you whom have been to my house, you know those stairs are a bitch – worse with packages that’s for damn sure.

So we’re unpacking everything and I’m trying to figure out how to play Tetris with the freezer (you know we all do it) and then a looser version of Tetris in the fridge.  I got to the point that I was so completely fucking frustrated that I said “Fuck this” and wound up cleaning the damn thing out anyway.  There was really nothing more that I could do other than that, honestly.

Upon unpacking everything we realized that we’re missing a bag and had to retrace our steps to figure out what the hell happened.  Originally we thought it was going to be in the car and just wedged under the seat, then it turned into check the porch cause we were dumping bags there.  Then we realized that the TWO things we went to Big Lots for (in the fricken first place) weren’t even there!  So tomorrow Sean or I are going to give them a call and ask if they have the bag that we left behind.  Considering the attitude of the cashier – I don’t count on that one happening.

So things are calming down, and after spending a good hour outside just to enjoy the cool breeze (since the house is boiling), I’m sitting down at the computer going through email and all I hear is “Psst, get down here quick”.  I head to the bedroom, Sean points to his new desktop and says “smell that”. I hesitated thinking it was a cruel “I farted HAHA” move, but it wasn’t.  It smelled of burning plastic and he’s like “Yea, I turned it on and then something flashed and now it doesn’t work anymore”.  He can’t even turn it on for the initial boot so who knows what happened.  He’s thinking power supply, I’m thinking it’s a kill switch because a power supply doesn’t randomly blow up after 2 weeks of use!  So that’s going to turn into a second phone call for the day.

So when you factor in work, shopping and dinner – my Sunday was as productive as my Saturday was supposed to be. Though, I probably should be exhausted being it’s 3am, but I guess my random two-part 12 hours of sleep has got me all wired up.

Thinking I’ll check on my Words with Friends to see how badly my one girlfriend is kicking my ass right now lol.

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Absolutely Beautiful!

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

I don’t know what happened last night, but even though it was no where near a productive day…I wound up crashing at like 9:30 while watching TV in the bedroom.  I woke up around 12, and then got back to sleep somewhere around 5am, then sleeping until about 1:30.  I don’t know what happened, how it happened, or why it happened. I wasn’t even tired when I went to lay down so I can say that my entire evening was completely fucked.

It was my goal yesterday to finally go grocery shopping, and get some cleaning done around the house.  Needless to say, due to freakishly long nap I took – none of it was accomplished.

Today I’m trying to do everything on overload.  I blew through all of my emails, I’m sitting in Photoshop to get a few mock-ups knocked out and hopefully will be able to clean up the bedroom AND go grocery shopping today. Thank God Pathmark is 24 hours, I don’t see that happening until much, much later this evening at the rate that everything else needs to be taken care of.

On the upside – it’s an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day outside.  It’s in the upper 70’s but there’s a nice enough breeze to keep it comfortable.  When I woke up today I made it a point to roll up my sleeves outside to hopefully remove this horrible case of farmer arm that I’ve been dealing with.  While I greatly appreciated the lack of a winter, and love that it got very warm much earlier than usual – I’m still an outdoor person regardless OF the weather at hand. So of course if it’s March and 80*F you’re going to make it a point to be outside as much as possible – even if its more so than usual.  With the heat came UV, and since it was technically “Winter”, I don’t exactly have tank tops at easy access so I went with T-shirts.  Due to this, my lower arms are to the point of making me look like I’ve been on a cruise ship for a month, but my upper arms are my true Irish side shining through.  So I’m making it a point to load up on the sun stop giving me the ability to NOT tan anymore and then bumped up the darkener on the are that’s in desperate need of some color.

Hopefully by the time it truly IS Summer, everything will have evened itself out.

In any event, time to get moving.  Lots to do and almost no time to do it.  If the darn roof was on the Gazebo I’d probably be outside working in Photoshop but you can’t see anything with the massive glare that the suns giving off right now. :hmph:

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Hi Saturday! I’ve waited for you all week!

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

I’m always excited for Saturday, even if I really don’t have anything planned. It’s by no means a ‘day of rest’ for me, but I’m happy when email slows down and I get the chance to sit down and close things up for the week.  This is one of the benefits to working with clients overseas, considering in some cases it’s already Sunday for them, and who wants to work on Sunday?

I’ll admit to getting a very, very late start today.  Last night we had our friend Colin over to hang out for a bit and we all spent quite a few hours playing Words with Friends on our phones (our newest addiction) so we wound up ending the night around 4am, and with some other issues going on around the house I didn’t actually get to sleep until about 5:30, so waking up around 1-ish really wasn’t much of a surprise to me.  Thankfully the dog wasn’t pawing at us to get out the door.  Upon finally realizing I was awake she did her usual “pounce on Mommy cause her eyes are open” morning routine.  So of course it was time to walk her while my coffee brewed and then sit down and relax outside with a cig to soak up the sun, that vitamin B really does help to wake you up – that’s for sure.

It’s in the low 70’s today which is surprising considering it was in the low 40’s when I went to sleep this morning.  Tomorrow’s going to be even warmer, and possibly over 80 on Monday so my only issue is trying to figure out how to get some cool air to my little corner of the living room so I don’t wind up shooting myself based on the heat coming off of the Mac AND the overall heat in the house. I don’t know if it’s the size of the screen or just iMac’s in general but if anyone else has the 27″ iMac and wonders why they’re sweating their ass off – know that you’re NOT alone by any means LOL.

So as I said, it’s time to clear things out for the week.  I’ll be in Photoshop for the next couple of hours but may wind up completing scratching that idea until later tonight because I really, really need to go grocery shopping.  We’re down to almost no food in the house, and even the leftovers are almost completely gone.  And I don’t know about you but when an Italian house hold has bare shelves – something is seriously wrong. LOL

I guess I’ll finish going through email so I can finish listing to the new Halestorm release and then get my butt in gear to get to the store.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

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Whew! I did it!

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

I was able to get the bulk of my list accomplished yesterday.  There’s still a lot to be done, but at least the heavy hitting was completed.  I still have a slew of emails to get to, and that can take upwards of an hour depending on how many require an immediate response.  I almost feel like I’m back at the appraisal office.  The only thing I really took away from that job was to follow up on things as soon as they come in.  It’s a little annoying when I have to actually wait on things as far as the other end is concerned, but I’ll continue to crank things out as quickly as possible to keep it moving.

Muir just left, if you notice she posted earlier today about Rodan + Fields.  She’ll be posting more often here, as well as on acidgloss.net about her life and the products.  I’ve mentioned before but we brought her on as a Lead Consultant for AGn Designs as well.  Things have been so hectic lately, plus she has a strong background with project management considering everything she’s got going on, so of course we thought she’d be a perfect fit for the AGn team.

In any event, time to change into some more comfy clothing and sit down for the rest of the night with my iPod and a buttload of work.

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Hittin the fan!

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

So far things have been relatively productive today, I’ve gone through all of my email, drew up about five mock-ups and now I’m sitting here with a huge list of things to do beside me.  Sean and I are both in the living room this afternoon because we’re watching season 1 of “Shameless”.  It’s one of our newest addictions and unfortunately we were only able to watch it from the beginning of Season 2 on Showtime.  So since there are numerous questions that needed answers, we’re going to watch everything from the beginning so we can catch ourselves up.  By the time we’re in the mood to move forward we can watch Season 2 all over again, in anticipation for Season 3 (which they’ll be filming soon anyway).

Anyhoo… you’ll notice on the sidebar that Muir’s widget has been added to the blog pages, she’ll be posting here soon, so for now her link obviously goes to a dead page, but it’ll be active soon enough.  She just left here a little while ago, the little munchkin was fussy this afternoon but after a nice half hour nap on the couch, and a ten minute doze on auntie Krissy’s shoulder – it mellowed out quite a bit.

Dinner went very well last night.  The lamb tasted pretty good, my only complaint was the fact that I can’t – for the life of me – get the garlic smell off of my hands, no matter how hard I try. I’ve watched my hands constantly with numerous different variations of soaps and wives-tale tricks but nothings really worked.  I’m hoping within the next few days it just goes away naturally.  I can honestly say that the reason us Italians talk with our hands is nothing to do with a social tick, it’s children watching their grandparents constantly try to air out their hands.

So I’m looking over my list and there’s at least 15 tasks to complete (or at least put a dent in today).  Guess the next few hours are gonna be busy as hell.

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Holy Wind Batman!!

Monday, April 9th, 2012

When I went to sleep last night I knew it was going to be relatively windy, but I certainly did not expect the extreme zipping that was going on while I was asleep.  I woke up this morning and went outside with my cup of coffee to start my day and noticed that the gazebo now has a huge hole where the support bar was supposed to be.  Other than the initial “Oh shit” reaction, I jumped back in the house and was trying to figure out ways to fix it.  Dad’s idea was to drill holes through, the bar that’s still there and brace it, but of course the drill is half-dead so now we’re kind of waiting for it to charge.  In the meantime, the roof and the cap are completely off and inside, I don’t need those blowing down the street considering we just bought them a few weeks ago as replacements to the ones that originally came with the unit 3 years ago.  I’m also thankful that all of my outdoor lighting and table torches are still in tact.  I don’t know where all of this wind came from, but mother nature can gladly take it back.

On today’s agenda there’s plenty of emails to follow up with.  I’m still waiting on responses from the actual ongoing work, but getting the potential clients out of the way is always a good idea.. gotta bring in the benjamins after all.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Monday!

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