Am I really that interesting? Nah.

I really wonder why I have a blog when nothing really exciting happens in my life to write about. Oh well, at least I try to make my life seem interesting enough to read about. I feel like since I have this blog, I have an obligation to keep updating it, otherwise it is bad "blog etiquette" or something. Or maybe I'm just a nerd :)

Anyways, life is still pretty much the same. Oh, except I am going to the salon on Saturday for my birthday (November 8th *wink wink*) and getting my hair cut and colored. I am so excited. I am such a girl, I love going to get pampered and primped. Right now my hair is just blah, and I don't often take time to make it nice looking, because I don't really care about it, but when I get it cut and colored, then I'll be all excited about it and do something with it more often, and I'm pretty sure this is longest sentence ever. Oh, and today, Jordan and I went to my mom's house and raked leaves. Well, actually, Jordan raked leaves and I did the leaf blower. I have now decided that I hate leaves. Maybe it was the fact that I had the blower and they just kept blowing everywhere, (it was my first time with a leaf blower) and I just got frustrated, or maybe how when we were done with just the front yard, the pile was HUMONGOUS. Either way, I'm not a fan of raking leaves. I never had to do it as a child growing up because it just so happened that the houses that we lived at never had trees. Well, when we lived in St. Paul our neighbor had massive pine trees that would shed it's pine needles into our backyard and then they would get in our shins from crawling around in them. I don't know why we were crawling around in them in the first place, but we did. The house I grew up in the longest (in Andover) had a little baby tree in the front yard that didn't shed any substantial amount of leaves to even consider raking. No, at that house I got to mow the lawn with the push mower until my dad got a ride on mower, then it was magically his chore. Wonder why. Ha. But then in the winter we got to shovel the driveway until my dad got a snow blower, then he did it a few times, but then I was promptly taught how to work the snow blower and the responsibility was so kindly handed back to me (sarcasm). But it was good for me I suppose, every kid has to do stuff like that while they are growing up. Any kid who goes through their childhood not doing things they don't want to do turns out not so good.

Oh, I'm in volleyball, that's new. I'm taking it for a gym class at school because since it is a liberal arts school, we have to do a little bit of everything. I've just put off taking gym and now I have to do it. And I have learned, well, not necessarily learned, I already knew, maybe more just confirmed my thought that I am out of shape. I was sore for 2 days after the 1st class. How sad is that. But it is good for me! I love feeling sore. It makes me feel like I actually did something good for my body (which I did). But it is sort of embarrassing in the class because pretty much everyone can overhand serve, except me and like 1 or 2 other people. I'm not so great at volleyball. But I enjoy playing it! I'm glad I'm taking it, it will at least help my diet along! I'm actually considering taking another gym class next semester, but it's not for sure yet. I definitely want to go snowboarding this winter though! I haven't been able to go for the past 2 winters! Sad I know! So, if you or someone you know wants to go snowboarding, LET ME KNOW! I suppose I could go by myself, but I guess I think that would be a little too weird. I wouldn't have any fun and I'd probably just be there for like half an hour and then leave because I wasn't having any fun. I like to have fun when I go snowboarding.

Well, that's about all I had I guess. I wasn't intending for this to be the most random post ever but I guess I just went on free associating. So...enjoy :)

Yay!

So I went into LA Weight Loss (I joined about 4 weeks ago), and I found out that I have lost 6 pounds and 4 inches so far! I was excited to find out about the inches, I thought I'd share my excitement!

A new me!

So I was inspired by Kristine to go online and find virtual makeover sites and here is what I came up with...I thought it was worth sharing :)

Tag

So...I just found out I have been tagged and need to post 7 true things about myself. Here goes:

1) I am going to graduate in May and it is sort of starting to freak me out.
2) I am so glad and happy to be a mother, even though Hailey wasn't "planned."
3) I love art...good art.
4) I am worried Hailey might need to get tubes put in her ears.
5) I love my friends and family *hug*
6) I am trying to lose weight.
7) I want a tattoo but Jordan doesn't want me to get one.

I would tag 7 people, but I don't know 7 on here to tag...sorry.

Speaking of which...

Speaking of design and school, I have a project coming up and was wondering if I could get some feedback from whoever actually reads this, what do you think?

I can do that.... ?

(((sigh))) life...

Right now I definitely feel like I'm doing something productive, namely going to school. There are so many huge things coming up in my life, the end of a full load of credits, a trip to florida, a senior show, GRADUATING (!), my internship, and then head first into a real life career. Oh man. Sometimes I look at the stuff graphic designers are creating now-a-days and it freaks me out because I don't know how they did it!! So, I went tinkering around online to try to find tutorials to help out poor inexperienced designers like myself out. I found a few and tried some out. I guess once you know the process it's kinda like a slap on the forehead "duh" moment. Pretty simple. Here are some of the ones I did. I'm proud, thought they aren't as great as some of the neat stuff I've seen elsewhere.