life or something like it
thought i would take a sec to give a brief life update… and some random thoughts on the world [rather my world] of graphics
- i moved
- i am in the middle of about 5 huge projects, 21 not so big projects, and about 6 more huge projects on the horizon
- starting to thinking about what in world i am going to say in my breakout session at ministrycom
- oh and i forgot to mention…. I GOT ENGAGED! hooray! and i made a decision and we set a date! (but i haven’t told the whole fam or people at work yet…. so i will post more on that later)
- the soon to be husband is the youth director at our summerville campus so i have been helping plan their summer camp too
so i have been a little bit busy…
but have no fear, i have had time to think about graphics stuff too
- swirls are on the way out (this is old news)
- simplicity is in (new news…unless you work in my office)
- learn new systems while trying to get a million projects done is difficult but i think as soon as i figure out the in’s and out’s of our new project management system it will be the most amazing thing ever
- we are going some new directions as far as reaching new audiences with our marketing… so that should create some fun design challenges in the next few months
- i like children’s ministry because it has caused me to have a new love for illustrator
- i am starting to like fonts
- designing t-shirts is an art form
- as are logos…
- and there are great things on the horizon for the web… and i am way excited
- i love my mac
- and CS3 is pretty awesome too
- oh yes… and annual reports (need i say more)
okay i am going to take some of these design thoughts in blog in detail about some of them over the next week or so
so i promised some pictures
i know you have all been dying to see how beautiful australia is…
the opera house
manley beach
china town
view of city from darling harbor bridge and the cute one
the sydney bridge and oh…the cute one
view from the sky tower and of course the cute one
now on to the serious pictures….
the cute one + the brilliant one =
double trouble
okay so maybe we like to make faces
but seriously don’t tell anyone
and so after a fun filled day
i died
san francisco
i am currently sitting in the san francisco airport trying to stay awake because my body thinks it is 12:30am and it is only 9:30pm and i still have another hour until i leave for sydney. i have made a few observations so far…
1. the san francisco airport needs to hire me to redo all of their signage. talk about not clear. seriously it is an airport, the signage should clearly let a passenger how to get from one terminal to another.
2. i can read a 400 page book in the time it takes to fly from charlotte to san francisco
3. being “the little one” majorly has benifits when flying
4. finally chris richardson got kicked off american idol and sadly i realize i am going to miss the american idol office discussion tomorrow
5. not responding to email is awesome
6. i have a new found appreciation for my bed (which i already thought was the most awesome bed in the world)
the great adventure
so i decided to go in search of the next trend in the graphics world. so no matter how far i need to go, i will search high and wide until i find it. well really i am going on vacation… to australia. HOORAY! i leave in a few hours and haven’t finished packing. my sister keeps emailing asking me to bring her more stuff. apparently in aussie they don’t have marshmellows… weird. and the problem is the getting them them… they don’t want you to bring food into the country.
so this is my first “real” vacation. actually the first time, I have had more than one day off of work at a time since i started [not counting days that everyone else had off too]. it took me an hour to update everyone else on the status of all of our projects. however, we set up a new project tracking system last week that should help with that in the future. hopefully then i can actually remember things unrelated to work. back to the point, i am way excited. a little nervous… but if “the cute one” aka. the little sis and make the trip back and forth… then i aka. “the brilliant one” (as we have so named ourselves in our house) will most definitely be fine. she is much more adventerous than i. really i just wish i had some company for the trip since it takes 24 hours to get there.
i will try to remember to post pictures.. and since i have lots of time traveling with myself, I am sure much brainstorming will be involved so I will post on the details of that.
