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Today

Today I cut up a credit card and paid off another. The End.
Make that three credit cards, paid off!

It's time to get real

Maybe if I start writing all my goals on my blog I will actually accomplish some of them.
Has anyone had any success in this?
I don't mean to be negative, there are just so many things I want to do....
Read 5 books before the end of the summer.
Finish recovering my chair.
Plant flowers in my pots.
Watch the godfather.
Lose 10 lbs.
Get my Crohn's Disease under control.
Start selling things on ebay/amazon.

Perhaps I should pat myself on the back for some of the things I have accomplished:
1. I recently got to go on a research business trip with my design team, it was tiring, but enlightening.
2. Jared and I have been harvesting some of our garden, which is overflowing with greens - anyone want some arugula? Yellow Pear heirloom maters?
3. We finally finished refinishing our table - it took almost 1 whole year, but mostly because there was an 8-9 month sabbatical from refinishing during the winter. You should come and see it.
4. I finally sent in my camera to get it repaired. Now I will be able to share images - now that the garden is completely grown....  : /
5. Our chair is getting recovered... it's still in the process, but I think I'm going to work on it tomorrow, or maybe even tonight!
6. I am halfway done writing our thank you notes for our wedding - our one year mark is fast approaching. I hope to have them all done by then.
7. A site I designed finally went up - it is for a custom home building site for a construction management firm in Kansas City. You can view it here.
8. I have lost 5-7 lbs.  - we may be able to attribute this to catching a summer cold, however.
9. We finally got our settlement for my injury on my hand and will be using a lot of it to pay off all our credit card debts - YAY!
10. I am starting to do research for a new business idea with my friends from Picture This! Fun fun fun - I love interaction design!

Have a great day - and pat yourself on the back for something you did.

Sam Sam, she's my man

Sorry, it rhymed. I need to shout out to my main mommy blogger, Samantha Kelly. She is doing great, and I enjoy watching her videos and seeing her cute pics on youngpeopleinlove.

Check them out! Follow them, even.

Life never stops moving

Can someone tell me how to make things move any slower? I am having trouble keeping up with my brain - my body is too slow... fat...sick...
I'm pretty excited for:
1. Friends getting married
2. Family Reunions
3. Harry Potter Party
4. Turning 27
5. Going to Harry Potter Land?
6. Reading books on my iPhone
7. Blog/etsy/money?
8. Getting some new design/interaction design work
9. Paying off all my debts in the next month or so
10. Planning for grad school, big moves, life decisions

Thanks be to God for giving me such an exciting life!

google PLUS

So far, I like it.
My opinion is based off of the interaction models that are a little/a lot more interesting and intuitive than those of facebook. Facebook doesn't organize friend groups very interestingly.
Drag and drop functionality of circles is pretty nice - i'm interested to see where google continues to go with the iphone/mobile app for google+. Last night I couldn't get to the app for it, today i can.

Can they keep it up?
only time will tell us.

I really like that it's integrated in with my gmail interface as well...

micromanagement

Sometimes I get itchy when this happens.

A poem for Dr. Moore

I like him,
I hate him,
I feel really mad.
I feel a better today than yesterday
but then I feel really sad.
Maybe I'm too tired,
maybe I'm in pain.
Oh what a world of medicine
It really wracks my brain.
A fistula, infliximab,
a really tiny pill,
injectable, detectable
you may get TB again
can I even learn it all?
I surely don't believe
They don't know me
I don't think
not any more than me
or how much time I cry
Will I have kids? a surgery?
will I die of cancer?
or will it be alright?