Relaxing :)

Not much to say about my Thursday, yesterday. It was pretty mellow. I was going to go to the gym, but then I had to wait for a friend to come get something at my house and ended up waiting all night. So I just had a relaxing night in my sweats on the couch, catching up on all my TV shows and giving myself a mani and pedi. What more could a girl ask for?

A Surreal Dejavu Moment

I am just now writing about my day yesterday because it was so full and exhausting. I have been really busy at work, but also having things to do right after. So I have to work harder faster, which I actually prefer. I don't like when I am sitting around waiting for feedback from clients and scraping to find work to do. I mostly end up helping other people with their projects while I wait for mine to come back.

 

Right now, I am working on a bunch of short animations that are about this gel-like goo that is injected into an artery to stop the blood flow, so that the surgeons can repair whatever needs to be re[aired without constant blood flow and loss. It feels really good to be creating play through animations again. The difference between the play throughs and our interactive modules, is there is so much more effects and cool things you can work with when it comes to play through. You can experiment and figure out what you think looks best compared to being restricted to the gaming engine we use to build our interactive modules. You can kind of compare it to painting verse coloring with crayons, not that our interactive modules seem less mature than our play throughs. They actually are really cool and are based off our main product. You just can't do so much blending and effects you would with a crayon as you would with a paint brush.

 

So after work, Katelynn and I went to midweek early, and I had some time to kill while Katelynn was in her teen d-group. So I decided to grab a bite to eat at the same Subway I worked at all through college. Woah! Talk about flash backs. I walked in and there was a girl there who looked to be as young as I was working her tail off to get the food ready in the back while racing to ring people up as they were ready. I just pictured myself taking the same steps she did and remembered I had the same look on my face as she did, "I have so much homework to do but I'm not looking forward to leaving here smelling like lettuce and mayonaise." *I know, gross* But she did a great job and was really nice. So I sat down to eat my sandwich, and just looked out the window as the people passed by, and I wondered how many people I would recognize from my time there a few years ago. You know, the regulars who would come in everyday, or the school of toddlers filed in a straight line holding onto a rope. It was kind of surreal, I felt like this should be a dejavu moment, yet so many things were new and just a few were the same. The world is moving on, developing and maturing, and frankly, so am I.

Stumbling Upon Life

Last night I was stumbling as I was drowned in boredum. Constantly hitting, the "stumble" button, click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Then, I came across the one website called ohlife.com. The website emails you a question everyday, usually asking how your day was. You, then reply to the email and it automatically posts to your account on OhLife. It's completely private, so if you have an absolutely aweful, achy, boring, stif, cloudy and rainy, lonly day, you can still write about it and not have anyone see all your ugly feelings. It basically helps you record your past so that when you get to the part of your future, where events and names get pretty fuzzy, you can always go back to remind yourself. (Unless you can't even rememeber the name of this website to get to your account. Here, let me help you. O-H-L-I-F-E-.-C-O-M)

I figured it could be a good way to give me the push to blog everyday. I really have a hard time getting the motivation to blog unless asked to about something specific. *I know, pathetic* Here is what I wrote about yesterday, and stay updated later on tonight, about my day today.

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My day was so busy! I've been out the past 2 Fridays, so I've had work waiting for me to come back on Monday. I'm doing a bunch of animations for this one client, who is great at getting us their critique back quickly. But they also want the newest version ASAP. So I've been working hard and fast! So hard in fact that I almost missed my 5:00 bus and I had a yoga class to get to.
Oh yoga... I haven't been in a couple weeks, and boy do I feel it. My body, especially my hips, were killing me! I don't know what the universe is trying to do to me, but the last couple times I've been, the teacher for some reason thinks that everyone taking the class is a level 2 and 3 yogi. This is my 7th class... EVER! I am NOT level 2 or 3, but man, it's an amazing workout. We did this one position where we had to twist and balance on our forearms with our legs stretch out to one side. I just kind of squatted and rested there.

Now, I'm home watching "Castle" with Chantel. I love this show, it's funny and suspenseful and romantic. But my favorite part about it is the quality time I get with Chantel, and the "experience" I have with her. Relationships are based on mutual experiences, that's how people connect with one another. We don't get to hangout much, having different schedules and all, so I'm glad we get this time together. :)

PS. Love "New Girl"

Love is in the air!

This weekend I found out that my little sister is dating, my cousin got engaged and a couple friends of mine, Alexandra and Jesse got engaged as well. Not to mention, everyone else that got engaged in the last couple months. Wow, love is definitely in the air.

I couldn't be more happy for all these people that God has blessed them with a person who thinks the world of them. :)

When I grow up...

I know, I know.... it's been 5 months since my last post. I told you, I'm really bad at blogging, but for some reason I think I may be on my "second" wind. And when I say second wind, I really have no idea how big or small it will be. Could be a giant gust that will finally last, like a tornado where I take you all out by the amount of wind. Or this could be a nice breeze that will only last a post. Slash it defintely could be like when someone blows their bath breath in your face, short and not pleasent. But I'm going to try and be a tornado.
So anyway, this past fall I fell in love with French Vanilla Hot Chocolate. It was perfect. I found our biggest mug in the cubbert, made some Swiss Miss FVHC, then pulled apart a HUGE marshmellow into pieces before dropping them in, and sprinkled some cinnamon on top.

It has become my new "Don't bother me, I'm relaxing" drink. Then some how it turned into an actual dream of mine. Want to know what it is? Ready?

Okay okay. So I want to open up my own hot chocolate shop one day! I got really excited about this because I feel like I am currently in the profession I wanted to do since high school and have been nervous if I was ever going to dream to do anything else.

I daydream a lot about my furture HoCho shop. What it's going to look like or who will be my regular customers. If you read this, I promise to give you a cup of yummy hot chocolate on the house!