Bless me interweb, for I have sinned. It's been months since my last blog, Christmas to be specific.
The last few months have been out of control busy, even for my out of control, busy life. A rundown:
I took the week between Christmas and New Years off to have some quality time with The Boy before the craziness geared up. That was the last time I saw any peace.
All, I mean all of my clients decided that the first two weeks of 2008 were the best time to start approving projects. I delivered a bunch of projects, and travelled to Indianapolis for a client meeting.
One word: thesis. Once I get this bad boy done, I'll finally be done with my masters. More importantly, I'll be able to cross one major thing off my list.
I also have to finish up a paper for publication. So, essentially, I polish of a 40ish page paper and then immediately jump into another one to deliver by June. The upside is that I will be published in my field, which rocks.
I'm teaching again this semester. Same as before, two sections of the same course. I've made some great enhancements to the class, which I'm really proud of. I love it, but it sure is time consuming!
All of this work and stress has left me extremely burnt out, and with that burnout comes lack of motivation and less than ideal productivity. Something had to give, and in the short term, that has been Sasstastic.
I've been fighting a miserable cold and lingering cough for the past month or so, a direct result of all this stress.
This summer, I hope to have some time to dedicate to working on this site. I've disliked the new design pretty much since I launched it, so I really want to put together a much cooler site. Plus, I'll be teaching a course next semester that deals more with internet technologies, so I need to brush up on my web/Dreamweaver skills. This site is the perfect playground for that.
I'll do my best to keep up with my posting, but quite honestly, I may not see the light of day for the next couple of months. You're all invited to my graduation come May, though!
Okay, Okay... I know I've been neglectful of my blog. There has been so much happening, it's been hard to keep up with my blogful duties. Many thanks to Kelly for a much needed kick in the pants to motivate me.
There's been so much happening, I will resort to the all mighty bulleted list. Oh, how I love me some bullets:
I procrastinated other things I should have been doing to redesign my site, only to decide almost immediately afterwards that I hate it. I took the template code, which was poorly written, and messed it up even further. So, at another time, look forward to a variation of this site, which will hopefully be a lot better than what's here currently.
I wrote a 20 page paper... twice. I was tired and wasn't paying proper attention, and accidentally deleted the contents of my paper. I spent the next 4 solid days rewriting the paper. I still managed an A, and will be developing it so that it can hopefully be published at some point.
We held our first Christmas party at the new house and much fun was had by all and the grab bag reached new, inappropriate levels.
Our first Christmas was fantastic, despite the fact that we both had the flu the whole following week.
We resigned ourselves to a warm winter and even did yardwork the first week of January, only to have the temperature drop 60 degrees and last for weeks on end. We finally had our first big snowstorm on Valentine's Day.
I'm currently in a class to learn Flash... Hopefully, I can make the site more funky. See what I made? It stars the Moose.
The Boy and I have finally settled into our new house and are loving every minute of it.
There has also been a lot going on that has had me incredibly stressed. It's not anything that I can talk about here, but needless to say, I find myself at a crossroads again. It hasn't been easy, and I've been kind of bummed out and a little uninspired to do things like tend to my blog. I promise to try and do better for 2007.
So, work is crazy... I have a 20 page research paper due in two weeks... there's still a ton of stuff in boxes all over the house... What do I do? I redesign my blog of course!
I'm completely adventurous, passionate and neurotic...I have been accused of preferring the company of animals to people...I am a newlywed, married to the most wonderful boy in the world who loves me for who I am...I'm adjusting to my new last name...I cannot take a compliment very well...I worry, and I'm good at it...I love the way snow packs down under your feet when you step on it...
