Reading and Comparisons

Friday, February 26th, 2010 3 Comments

The Friday Five ~ Reading
1. What’s your favorite magazine?
I have several favorites. Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Allure, Real Simple, and Weight Watchers are the ones I have subscriptions to.

2. What book are you currently reading?
Just wrapped up The Hobbit a couple weeks ago and am working on Fellowship of the Ring. If you can’t tell I’m rereading the whole Lord of the Rings series. I haven’t read the books since the movies came out.

3. What’s the worst book you ever read?
Twilight, mainly because I hated the movies and everyone was making me feel like I wasn’t allowed to hate the movies till I read the book. Well guess what I hate them all now, LOL. At least I can enjoy making fun of them, hah!

4. What makes a book perfect for you?
One that really draws me in to the point where I’ll stay up all night reading. The only book I’ve had that experience with is the Harry Potter series.

5. If you could buy any book right now, which one would it be?
Um… I’m good on books for now. There are a couple of interior design books on my wishlist, but I don’t need to buy anything right now.

The Friday Five ~ Comparisons
1. What’s something you do more quickly than most people?
I’d have to say navigate both the computer and Internet. Drives me nuts how slow people can at that sometimes, especially at my school and it’s a fellow web design major.

2. What’s something you do more carelessly than most people?
Probably posting what’s on my mind via Facebook or Twitter – whether it’s good or bad.

3. What’s something you do more slowly than most people?
Anything I am unfamiliar with or don’t really want to do.

4. What’s something you do more carefully than most people?
Check the spelling and grammar of the things I type on the web. Seriously people, there’s a reason why you have a red squiggly line under your words!

5. In what contexts are you more patient than most people?
Waiting in lines whether it’s at Disneyland or the grocery store. Also dealing with people in general – thanks to my years in customer service!

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I can’t believe in less than 4 weeks I’ll be wrapping up my first quarter at school. Yesterday I registered for next quarter’s classes: Digital Illustration (all about using Adobe Illustrator – yay!), Typography, Fundamentals of Authoring (Flash – meh), and College Algebra (booooo). I’m getting the math over and done with so I don’t have to take it during the summer; I believe that will be the last math class I have to take.

School has kept me super busy – busier than I like at times. What keeps me going is knowing I have a week-long break coming up in between quarters, so hopefully I will have some time to catch up on my web stuff. As for wedding stuff I went to another bridal fair last weekend, and then I have another one to go to next month at the church I’ll be getting married at. Other than that, not much to report on!

How are YOU doing?

A Little About My VDay

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 3 Comments

First off a little about my Valentine’s Day. To start with Joshua’s present was from Shari’s Berries. The set he got included a dozen chocolate dipped berries, 9 chocolate dipped chocolate chip cookies, and 9 chocolate truffles. All this was suppose to show up on Friday the 12th because Saturday we would be gone all day, and Sunday they don’t deliver. Joshua paid $35.98 extra to make sure that order was guaranteed to be delivered on the 12th. It didn’t show up.

Although their customer service is available Monday-Friday, Joshua was able to get on the phone with someone late Saturday afternoon to see what was going on. Turns out UPS never picked up the order. Instead they refunded the shipping, sent it out via Fedex and it showed up yesterday. Well, yesterday they only sent the berries; the cookies and truffles were missing. Joshua called today, and they are resending the entire order and it should be here by Friday. We shall see! All I know is UPS sucks and Fedex wins. Yay.

Aside from the berry fiasco, I had a pretty chill Vday. We went to church and lunch with the family, and then hung out at the house till 5:30pm. During the afternoon Joshua watched Nascar while I worked on my mid-term project. At 6pm Joshua and I met up with my girls Amber, Abby, and Debbie at Chili’s for dinner. Because the wait was super long (about 45mins) we were forced to go see the movie Valentine’s Day at 8:45pm instead of 7:30pm as originally planned.

The movie itself was really cute and funny. My one annoyance is because it’s directed by Gary Marshall he has the same friggin people in all of his movies. Seriously, everyone that was in Princess Diaries, Runaway Bride, and Saving Helen was all in that movie (even the annoying tap-dancing maid and the yelling guy from Princess Diaries 2). Come on Gary Marshall mix things up a bit! Other than that, this is probably the first movie with Ashton Kutcher in it where I don’t hate him! Hooray!

Overall I had a great Valentine’s Day because once again it was spent with the people I love. That’s what it is all about. A day of love. ♥

I Went to Macworld

Sunday, February 14th, 2010 1 Comment

This year I decided to finally go to Macworld. I also dragged along Joshua and we had a nice day in the city.

Joshua and I took the 9:40am Ferry into the city, hopped into a cab, and checked into Macworld by 11am. Overall, it was okay but wasn’t as good as I expected it to be. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that Apple wasn’t there, and we had Expo Only passes. Most of the vendor stuff I wasn’t really interested in. There were only two app booths that really caught my eye:

The FastTrac app. This app creates a customized schedule based on the rides you want to go on at Disneyland and gets you through all of them without super long line waits. Another cool app I discovered is called iKeysToGo for Photoshop CS4. It gives you a list of all the different shortcuts in Photoshop plus definitions. It’s pretty nifty! I also stopped by Joby’s booth to pick up a Gorillapod for Joshua’s brother since he was so enamored with mine the last time I brought it over.

We left the expo shortly after 12 and took a cab back to the Ferry building. Our cab driver on the way back was a bit of a loon who spent the drive ranting and raving about global warming (he was driving a Prius cab ). He even made some comment about Joshua needing to go back to school (Joshua is a bit skeptical on global warming), which I thought was super rude and unprofessional. The only good that came out of that cab ride was he knocked $6 off our cab ride if we downloaded a free new cab app called Cabulous, so our cab ride ended up costing us $2.

All throughout the day I was feeling very run down and exhausted, so I wasn’t at all sad we left the expo so soon. I think the nice part was I got to spend an entire day with Joshua. We stopped for a late lunch at Mary’s Pizza Shack and came home where we spent the remainder of the evening catching up on two weeks worth of unwatched TV in the DVR.

Overall it was a good day. Would I go to Macworld again? Probably not, but it was a cool experience nonetheless.