Random Friday: The Mexican Food Edition

Jun 19, 2009 by

Technology groove

This week flew right by, and I think I can thank having a honest-to-goodness workweek for that. No big fights, no real drama, and no struggles with technology. In fact, I totally hit a groove this week. I didn’t struggle over code, troubleshooted little problems, updated some forms, and even helped a friend out with Facebook. With that groove though, also came my usual “ramp up,” as I call it. Find me on a Monday or Tuesday and I’m slow at everything. I typically use those days to have meetings, establish what I’m supposed to be doing and then the real execution of my work happens on Thursdays and Fridays. By the end of the day on Friday I’m really putting the pedal to the metal on a lot of projects. Regardless, I like how my week works out and I especially like that the weekend got here really quickly.

Father’s Day

I mentioned last week that I was going to build a new website for my dad’s law practice as a Father’s Day present. And that’s exactly what I did last Sunday. I think it turned out all right, and has just enough flashy stuff to catch the eye. I used very toned down and subtle colors. I guess it was just the mood I was in. The next version will be bolder. He’ll be coming up to visit me on Sunday and I can’t wait to show it to him!

Heres the mock up.

Here's the mock up.

Still spendy

A while ago I wrote about how spendy I have been lately. And clearly you can tell by the televisions and Wii that I’ve gotten, that indeed I’ve been spending some of my money. Sadly, I’m still craving more. I want to book my Europe trip so badly, and I might be getting a new car. I must be crazy, but sometimes you just have to pull the trigger. The timing is perfect and that’s harder to come by then money.

The sun and the pond

Minus the tornadoes that have wreaked some havoc here, I must say that I have enjoyed our June immensely. It’s rained almost every day and it’s been quite cool. I love it! Since I spend most of my summer days inside an office working harder than I do the rest of the year, I’ve fallen out of love with hot summer days. And I’m a serious wuss about hot weather. Well this week it’s warmed up here and the sun is out and bright and it’s getting drier and drier. Before everything dies and turns brown like it usually does I wanted to make sure I could capture it. A lot of my co-workers had told me how beautiful the pond on campus is right now, so I took a little stroll there today and snapped a few pictures and sat around people watching for a little while. It was a nice way to take a break today.

Varsity Pond

Varsity Pond

Mexican food

It’s Friday, and if you’re around me on Fridays you will notice a pattern. I want Mexican food. It’s ingrained in me, thanks to eating Mexican food nearly every Friday of my childhood. And even though I had Mexican food a couple of times this week, I will still get it tonight. I just can’t resist. And you should see how I budget points for it. I would rather go all day eating the bare minimum so I can fit it in. Yum!

So on that note, I’m going to wrap this up and get some burritos. This weekend you can expect:

  • A weigh-in post on Saturday
  • A couple of Project 365 postings
  • And hopefully a scrapbook post or two.
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    Random Friday: the technology nuts edition

    Jun 12, 2009 by

    Welcome to an installment of Random Friday!

    Technology madness

    Jun 11 2009: WeaknessAs the week winds down, I can look back and say that, without a doubt, my week was one long dance with technology. Whether it was getting my new TVs set up, launching this new blog, rebuilding my work computer, and installing new software to test and document for my job, it was just all technology, all the time. At some points it was like a perfectly choreographed mambo, at others it was like a mosh pit. It’s looking pretty likely that I’m going to end the week on a slow dance, where I remember how much I love that unreliable, yet irresistible force of nature that rules my life.

    Palladia, Pandora, Persnickety

    I go through music phases. Sometimes I’m all about music and other times it’s background noise. These days I’m all about it. So it shouldn’t be all that surprising that with my brand new cable package and television that I’m mostly watching and listening to music through it. I thought I’d be all about HBO and the other premium channels I got, but what I’ve really enjoyed is concerts on Palladia. For example, the past two mornings I’ve had a Coldplay concert from Japan playing while I get ready for work. It’s been great!

    I also bought a year subscription to Pandora so I could have a desktop client and skip the commercials. I love Pandora. My channels of the week are Death Cab For Cutie, Lady Gaga, and Everything But the Girl.

    Nuts (literally)

    I stupidly keep buying butter crunch cashews. Yeah. Not smart for a girl on a diet. But these things are good! Almost always I keep my portion down, and for a ¼ cup there’s about 3 points. Not exactly good in terms of budgeting points, but definitely worth it in terms of taste.

    Sibby

    My sister, Marissa, is my best friend. I love her more than anything in the world and I love to live vicariously through her. This month and next she’ll be doing an internship at the local newspaper. She’s been assigned to write features stories. This includes exercise features stories. So she’ll be trying out all of these different workouts across the city. Already this week she went up into the foothills for a two-hour yoga session and lunch, and she attended hip-hop aerobics. How fun, right? Maybe if I weren’t in the midst of working out four days a week, I wouldn’t find that nearly as appealing, but I think that’s rad. I was especially jealous of the yoga session. She invited me along, but I had another leadership seminar…booo!

    Father’s Day

    I constantly struggle when it comes to Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. The flowers I got my mom turned out to be a total disaster (long story, and not blog worthy), and my father is even harder to shop for. He’s not very serious about the holiday so we get a lot of slack, but I still want to do something nice for him. So, I decided to redesign his law practice website for him. Now that the blog redesign is done, I’m itching for something new to do in my off hours. So this weekend I’m going to try and get that going. I’ve got some great ideas for it.

    Have a great weekend everyone! Check in on Sunday and you’ll probably see some Project 365 layouts.

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