MY family

I just have to say my family is AMAZING!!!!!!!!! They are so talented and they teach me so much. Sarah just got back from a technology conference and taught me how to better search the internet and other cool things to do with computers. Carren always sends me cards when I need them the most. Raymond helps me with getting my life in order and helps me organize a game plan for move on from college. My parents are always there for me. Sandee started a blog and got megetting onto facebook so I keep apart of their family from so far away. My nephew Evan is way way to smart for his own good! He just too the ACTs and got a 27......which for a 7th grader I think speaks for itself. My niece Natalie writes amazing poems that are filled with heart and soul....which I could only wish to be able to express in word like that. My niece Amy finds the good in everything. And Lauren is such a visual learner that she figure out from pictures how things like family traditions work.

I'm so proud to be in this little family of mine that it just makes me happy. I'm so excited to learn from them and to grow up with them :) I wish them all the best day EVER!

1 Hours until......

Well it is officially a couple of hours until my 22nd birthday so I've decided to reflect on the year and look at what kinds of things I've accomplished in this year of my life. Things I've appreciated and random things I've done. This list is in no particular order.......
1. Gone on a weekend vacation just for the heck of it.
2. Seen my first brawl...from a long long ways away
3. walked on the beach on a star lite night
4. went on my first blind date
5. Got my first professional design work printed.
6. Took a trip of a lifetime to London with my sisters.
7. Did my first professional photo shoot for a hotel in London
8. Mastered the London underground by myself
9. found my way back from a day in London by myself after getting completely lost...lol
10. learned how to read a map.
11. Saw my first protest
12. Went on a couple of road trips with my sisters.
13. went fishing with my dad.
14. Saw my sister get her masters degree.
-And see both sisters get good jobs close together :) I'm so proud of them.
15. Met my Aunt on my Dad's side of the family that I had never met before.
16. Captured thousands of picture of the world around me.
17. Discovered a wonderful restaurant with my good friend Eliza and have enjoyed our weekly outings there to try their whole menu before the end of the year.
18. went to my first concert Micheal Buble
19. Loved and lost but survived triumphantly
20. Got to know my family a little more and still learning more about them.
21. Started to learn the art of managing stress and complications.
22. Learned to cook from my very gifted Aunt.
23. Learned not to take life so seriously all the time from Sam
24. The joy that comes from optimism from Jarrod
25. Learned that gifts from the heart is what makes Christmas the best for both the recipient and the giver.
26. Bought my FIRST CAR!!!!1

Know I know this isn't all of the things that I've learned or have enjoyed this year but for now this list will have to do. I've enjoyed my 21st year....even though I didn't get completely plastered or went to Vegas to gamble my life savings away. The simple things have brought the most joy in my life. I thank all who have added to my life by just being in it :) Here's to another year of opportunities, adventures and life's roller coaster :)

San Diego

So I haven't blogged in a while in which I'm totally sorry about. I've now found a spare moment for an update.

So last weekend during President's Day Sam, my roommate, and a couple of her friends decided to go to San Diego and she convined me that with my college career coming soon to a close I should cease the day and have some fun. I was reluctant at first but then I through caution to the wind and went. I HAD SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!

We got there Saturday morning and played until Monday. We went to the bayfront in San Diego and the gas light district. I didn't take as many pictures and I should have but I took enough to make the trip memorable.

I forgot how good sand was between my toes!!!!! Its been 2 years since I've been on a beach...too long for someone who grew up on the coast her whole life.
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ITS FRIDAY!!!!

Can I tell you how excited I am that its Friday!!!!! This week has been soooo long but not really. That may not make any sense to you but it does for me. I had 5 project due this week and a test. So I've been working like no other so in that respect it has been long. But on the other hand this week has flown by. I'm so ready for a nap its not even funny. This weekend will be more of the same thing though. More projects, more work, but I'm bound and determined to get a nap in there somewhere.

FaceBook

So I got my family to make an account with facebook so that we can all be connected. I thought it would be fun. So if you have a facebook account let me know so I can add you.

Typography

Most people when they hear the work typography have no clue at what I'm talking about....well its the study for type or fonts. Very interesting to you I'm sure but how often have you glanced over signs and billboards. Type is all around us and after taking the first semester of typography and now am in the Advanced typography class I can tell you for real.....There is a forever amount of it. That's the thing about school especially the classes I take, they educate you about something you should be aware of in your surroundings and then they teach you how to evaluate it next thing I know I'm critiquing signs as I'm driving around town. Now type is pretty much an obsession. Random tangent that I thought would be interesting if just to myself :)

The real reason I am writing about typography is to show my new project that i'm working on. On friday...instead of going on my scheduled blind date that has now been postponed I created 50 unique cupcakes to create an unique alphabet for my advanced design class. Thinking up of a really cute idea at work earlier friday I ran to the store to get stuff for the cupcakes. Shelly and I started making cupcakes at 3:30 and ended at 9pm. It was a long long process. But now I have something tangible to make my typeface. I'll show you the results later after I get it all done.

My New Addition

Well I have EXCITING news!!!!!! so exciting news that its unreal. all right... all right..I'll tell you.....I GOT MY VERY FIRST CAR! I just barely paid for it and got the insurance on it and HOLY COW what a rush. Granted I've pretty much purchased 2 cars in the form of computers but still I now don't have to walk around or spend so much time riding the bus when I have to go to the store. Independence is mine! I don't have pictures yet because I'm still at work....but just you wait....well I guess you have to..lol I owe all of my Car Happiness to Kathy and David :) They found me a really good deal etc. I also owe it to scholarships, saving money, and sadly saying no to a lot of electronics that were screaming to buy them. Later today I'll post some pictures hopefully.

~till another blissful, CAR HAPPY moment