Fabulously Fall

Oct 12, 2010 by

Here’s what I’ve been up to….

Working like champ

Lately, I’ve been pushing myself harder at work. The environment is a little more intense lately and we’ve all been working harder. It’s been kind of fun in a weird way. As a unit, we recently went to do a Real Colors seminar to help us work together better. There are four colors, and each color group has it’s own characteristics:

  • Blue- driven by feelings, caring, people person
  • Gold-organized, proud to serve, task oriented, routine
  • Green-analytical, driven by logic, not driven by emotions, complex
  • Orange-spontaneous, creative, adventurous

So do you want to guess what I am? Well I’m a Green primarily, which makes tons of sense. And my second color is orange, which also makes sense. I’m very low on the Blue scale, which absolutely makes sense. I don’t get moved emotionally at work, I certainly don’t cry, and I try to keep it professional. In the seminar they asked how each group would handle hugging a co-worker. Blues would do it sincerely, orange would give a nice pat, orange could be all in, and green’s…well…we all shook our heads. We wouldn’t hug at all.

Knowing this about each other has really helped us work together. Hopefully now people won’t just think I’m a bitch.

A little fall cleaning

So when I signed my new lease, I was offered a complimentary carpet cleaning. I went for it. I’ve had it scheduled for a few weeks now, and it’s really been stressing me out. Something about having people in my house just drives me batty. So I’ve been strategizing and I even rescheduled once to make sure I would have enough time to clean up and get everything in good order and off the floor. It  only took about a half hour for them to come through and do it all. Which was way fast, but it turned out great. It feels fresh and new and that is an awesome feeling.

Nanowrimo is just around the corner

So November is National Novel Writing Month, and there’s a little program called ‘Nanowrimo’. I did it last year and it was so much fun. Even though I feel like my time out of the office and away from work is limited, I still want to give it a shot. The idea is to write 50,000 words in a month. So I’ve been dreaming up what to write and I think I’ve settled on rewriting an older story and seeing if I can write it differently and in a simpler way.

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15 Days

Mar 19, 2010 by

That’s how long it has been since I posted here. That’s simply ridiculous. I apologize dear readers.

The truth is, I’ve been so busy with work that my writing has become an after thought. I hate that! I used to be able to squeeze in a post here or there on my lunch break or between meetings, but essentially, that’s been squashed. I guess that’s how it is supposed to be.

My job is really good right now. I’m feeling recharged and really motivated. I also have been learning so much lately, about web development, collaborative tools, and all kinds of stuff. I’ve embraced the fact that I actually do know what I’m talking about when it comes to technology and that strangely, I’ve become a relatively important person that people from across campus listen to. So strange for the girl that was once a student employee. I’m really happy in my professional life, and that is awesome!

Life outside of work has been pretty good too. I got a haircut yesterday, which is always rare for me so it feels significant.

Last weekend was spent working, but this weekend should be much more relaxing! I’ve once again filled out a bracket for NCAA Tournament. It sure makes those games interesting! I have a feeling there will be a lot of basketball watched this weekend.

Anyway, I hope you all are well!

PS….have you seen the new trailer for Eat, Pray, Love? I’m not the hugest Julia Roberts fan, but I think it looks amazing! I never ever re-read books, but I’m thinking about it for this one.

PPS…James Franco as David is perfect casting.

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Losties

Mar 6, 2010 by

It’s been a long week. I was sick for part of it, but healthy for most of it. While at work, I worked hard, and barely had a free moment to tweet or play or pay a bill.

TV was great this week. Loved The Office, with Jim and Pam’s baby. So adorable. I’ve watched the episode twice already. Also, for the past year, I’ve been trying to catch my friend up on Lost so we could theorize about the show. As of yesterday, he is now completely caught up. It’s fun! We’ve never been on the same page, because I’ve always been so ahead. I’ve now seen every episode twice, which definitely helps. And boy-oh-boy does watching Season Five over again really put things into perspective.

If you haven’t heard, Sunday is the Oscars. Usually, I try my best to see everything that’s nominated, but it’s been hard to do so this year, particularly because of the Olympics. It also doesn’t help that there are 10 freaking Best Picture nominees. I hate that. Before the big show, I’ll be watching “An Education,” “District 9,” “The Hurt Locker,” and “A Serious Man.” Leaving just “Precious” and “Up.” I’m also for the first time ever watching all of the Live Action Shorts that are nominated, because Comcast has them bundled into one movie for $2.99. I always have to guess on my Oscar ballot for that category, this year I can actually make an educated guess!

Anyway, not much else to report. Here’s a couple of new pictures of the kitties.

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Persephone trying to blend in.

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Callie on her favorite red blanket.

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The longest week

Feb 20, 2010 by

Oh my blog, I’ve been away. That’s because it’s been one completely crazy week.

First…I turned 31!

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And here is my birthday portrait, taken with my new lens.

If you look into my eyes you will see that they are actually completely tired. Here’s why…

I tend not to go to work on my birthday. In fact, in most cases, I tend not to be in Colorado on my birthday. But this year, just staying at home and going to work seemed like a great idea. I guess some things were  meant to bed.

Monday

Still reeling from a fabulous Valentine’s Day and excited about my new lens, Monday started great and stayed great all day. It was a really easy day at work. I got to play with camera and snap some pictures, while having a bagel at the UMC.

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And then Mike’s daughters came by to bring us all the girl scout cookies they had sold us. Oh my gosh, there was a new buzz around the building, probably a sugar high.

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That night at home, I watched massive amounts of Olympic coverage. Man, I love the Winter Olympics. While there, I snapped some pictures of the cats.

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It as my last day of 30 and it was pretty awesome.

Tuesday

Isn’t it always strange to wake up on your birthday? There’s a few seconds when you don’t realize that it’s actually your birthday and then it sets in. That’s exactly what happened. And then I realized that it was almost impossible for me to get up and get going, even though I had an 8:30 meeting. That’s where my tiredness began.

The morning started off a little tense at work with some meetings, after all that I barely had time to sit down at my desk and thank people on Facebook and Twitter for all their birthday wishes before I was being carted off to a fun birthday lunch with some of my co-workers. Right after that, I was in three more meetings, all of which I struggled to stay awake in, and not for a lack of caring. I had no explanation for it.

After work, I rushed off to celebrate some more. I went to see “Up In The Air” right after work, which was quite a strange movie to see regarding work a day before things got strange at my own job. And then with Marissa and Johnny in tow, we went to 3 Margaritas at like 8:00 to eat dinner and so I could wear the big sombrero. Sadly, none of the pictures worked out. Except for this cute one of Johnny and Marissa:

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And then it was back home for cake and presents.

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I could barely stay awake by this point, and so I crashed pretty soon afterwards. It was a good birthday.

Wednesday

As soon as my birthday goodness ends, it begins for my dad. I love that his birthday is the day after mine. My day started out all right, but then things got a little strange. Basically I found out there was a re-org on the horizon and I was somehow part of it, but my part wasn’t revealed until Thursday morning. I was pretty stressed the rest of the day, trying to guess what it could be. That night I went home and got in bed and watched the Olympics.

Thursday

This day was devoted to understanding my part in the reorganization. It was a day of highs and lows. I was confused, depressed, thrilled, curious…everything.

Friday

Another day of re-org attention with lots of meetings interspersed in between. By the end of the day I had much more clarity about the situation and felt so much more hopeful. Change is really hard. But once I could understand the decisions that were made and understand the vision, it was way easier and even exciting! I was able to provide my feedback and recommend tweaks to the situation. And it was nice to be heard.

I came home from work really relieved and quite frankly exhausted. After some scrambled eggs (it is Lent after all…I gave up Soda and of course meat on Fridays), I watched some of the Olympics and fell asleep at like 10, which was way earlier than I’ve gone to bed in days and days and days.

So my long week is over and I have every intention of relaxing this weekend. Monday is a new start, in so many ways.

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Following Up on May 2004

Feb 9, 2010 by

Did you know that I’ve been blogging since 2001?  I used to pore out my heart in those old blog posts. Like the icky private stuff. Then I started a blogspot account in 2004, and developed a blog that I could share with my friends and family. After that I got new ideas and went forward in a different direction. I changed names a couple of times, and then a few years ago I switched to wordpress because of the privacy options available.

Wanting more from WordPress, I looked into domains, and doing a wordpress.org installation that would be give me more flexibility and access to tons of free templates and plug-ins.

It’s been a good ride. And while I’m about to do a little more shifting in the coming months with my template and my domain, I decided to look at some of those 2004 posts, which is where this blog begins, and give you a little update on some of the stuff I was talking about in May 2004.

So here we go……

When I walk into work every morning I always have the feeling that people still perceive me as a student. Perhaps it is my “casual Friday is everyday!” attire or my young demeanor.

Not the case anymore. At 30, people can see that I don’t fit in with the student body. Also…I get ma’am’d like crazy these days.

I hate Quark. If only QuarkXPress wasn’t the frontrunner of desktop publishing.

Good news for me, Quark was surpassed by InDesign a few years ago.

I made the mistake of eating half of a low-carb bagel and now I feel like yakking! So nasty.

Eww! I can’t believe I ever ate low-carb bagels. That was probably the last one I ever had.

I spent most of my weekend designing a new web site. It’s called Nine*Poems Creative Outlet, www.ninepoems.com. It is just for fun, but hey if I make a couple of bucks, that’s cool too.

Ha! Even back then I couldn’t resist new websites. Well as you can see, that old creative outlet was retired and you are currently on ninepoems.com. Funny thing is that I’m actually working on something to transition away from ninepoems.com. More to come on that later.

I wonder if my crafty-ness will ever wear off. That’s all I want to do. I go through phases I guess. This happens every now and again, and then it’s back to books, or some other thing to occupy my time.

No update required. Still the same.

I bought some new fonts today, hooray! Of course I had to pick up stuff for other people too, like a Tungsten C and some canned air.

The key part of that text is the Tungsten C. That’s an old Palm device. We thought it was the bees knees. I’m sure one day, I’ll laugh at my iPhone as archaic.

What’s your blogging story?

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