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My Cricut Queen! (MyImaJENNation)

My Cricut Queen


Just a little over a week to spend more time with family and friends being thankful for what life had to offer.  


I am taking this time to be thankful for great talented people in my life.  Today I am thankful for my friend Jenn, whom I have never met personally.  It amazes me the relationships and friendships that can be created from across the miles by sharing the same love for graphic design, crafts, cooking, or gaming or whatever it my be.  


My girlfriend Jenn is amazingly talented and can bring a smile to my face each time she shares another beautiful creation.  She is my Cricut Queen.  this girl 


Feel free to add her page and look at this talented girl. http://www.facebook.com/pages/MyImaJENNation/241220305931188

From MyImaJENNation

Alright guys, up for grabs are these three Christmas tags (pardon my crappy photography, I was in a hurry to get this up this morning before school). These will add that handmade touch to any gift. I will be posting more of these later this week for sale, so get in now to win a FREE set!

All you've got to do to enter is leave a comment on this photo telling me how you like to wrap your presents. Me personally, I love reusing old paper bags and adding a bright colorful bow.

If you'd like a second chance at finding these in your mailbox, simply share this photo/giveaway on your page, then leave me a second comment letting me know you've shared it.

And, for a THIRD entry, for all you bloggers, simply post the link to your blog, then comment here with a link back. I will choose a winner Friday!!!


XOXOXO 


Keep bringing the smiles girl!

Marshall's Birthday

I am sitting here wondering where the time has gone.  In a matter of days this little man will be four, it's amazing to me how quickly it has gone by.  I so enjoy the Halloween festivities for his birthday.  It's neat to see him choose his costume each year...


Year one...no choice really I was born and stuck in a pumpkin costume as Mom and Dad's new pumkpin.  
Year two...I am Yoda, I am not sure why but, ears are big and green, yes.
Year three...I chose my own costume for the first time and Buzz Light year it is.  My jet pack helps me fly really fast.
Year four...I want to be scary, I want to be a Zombie with guts and my Mom is grossed out.  I found a skeleton costume with gloves and feet, my bones are cool.


Pictures of his cuteness to follow.

You know you're a fontaholic when:

(I can relate to this entire list!!)

You know you're a fontaholic when: 

1. You always check your favorite "font of the day" site (or a.b.f., comp.fonts, etcetera) to see what's new before you check your e-mail.
2. More than two-thirds of your bookmarked URLs are font-related websites.
3. You keep complete backups of your fonts stored in at least two places, off-site.
4. You still worry about losing your fonts when your computer crashes.
5. You download a font you already have just in case the existing copy gets corrupted.
6. You download a clone font as well as the original just in case there are some subtle differences that you might need to take advantage of someday.
7. You have every single font with letters partially covered with snow.
8. You keep all of those snow-covered fonts installed all year long.
9. You post a denial within seconds if you see the phrase too many fonts in any newsgroup. If such a message is posted in a fonts newsgroup, you personally visit the idiot responsible and try to knock some sense into him/her.
10. Your children are named Gill, Stanley, Frederick, Sumner, and Arial.
11. Your dog is named Goudy and your cat is named Baskerville. The stray cat that has started hanging around lately is beginning to answer to New Baskerville.
12. You try to convince those members of your family who, incredibly, don' t even know what a font is, that you want your nickname to be "Uncial" from now on.
13. It takes nearly three full toner cartridges to print sample pages of all of your fonts.
14. You print them all anyway.
15. You can recognize instantly the subtle differences between Helvetica, Swiss, Geneva, and Arial, even on a 14-inch monitor at 72 dpi with font smoothing disabled.
16. You know all of the reasons why Palatino is better than Book Antiqua and Zapf Calligraphic BT, yet you keep Book Antiqua and Zapf Calligraphic BT installed, "just in case".
17. You can discuss for hours the differences between the digitized versions of Garamond, Granjon, Jannon, and Sabon, and whether the TrueType or Type 1 version is more faithful to the original punches. (And don't even get started on whether the Mac or PC versions are better.)
18. You feel pity when some poor newbie mentions in a post that they have "only" 4,000 fonts.
19. You have a bumper sticker that proclaims, "He who dies with the most fonts wins."
20. You spent nearly an hour hand-kerning the above bumper sticker.
21. When you check alt.binaries.fonts more than once a day.
22. When you check alt.binaries.fonts through more than one source, so you'll be sure not to miss anything.
23. When you buy a second hard drive - bigger than 10 GB - so that you can store your font collection "on-line."
24. When you copy fonts to a floppy, you make two copies so that in case one of the floppies goes bad, you won't loose the font (even though you know you have other floppy-copies, and it's on at least one CD-ROM in your collection).
25. When you have trouble getting the kerning just right, on your GROCERY LIST.
26. When you download fonts you don't even like, because they're FONTS 
27. When you buy a commercial four-drawer commercial file cabinet to hold the sample pages you have printed from your font library ... and it's *full*!
28. You spend more time looking at how the name of the car in front of you is written rather than where you're going
29. You have 3 or more fonts on your computer that are fantasy or science fiction languages/symbols that you can't read, but hey... they look cool. "Well it's not my fault, they were posted on a.b.f.!"
30. You're the only one you know who thinks being able to have only a few HUNDRED fonts on Windows 98 is a problem.
31. You agonize for hours over which font to remove from your maxed-out system in order to install the cool new font you found today.
32. You visit a Font-of-the-Day site for two and a half months before finding a font you haven't seen before.
33. You try to explain to your friends why you like fonts so much, and it only makes you sound geekier.
34. You truly believe Ray Larabie [Dieter Steffmann, Apostrophie (\')] is a GOD.
35. You state with conviction that you can never have enough calligraphy fonts.
36. You don't have any outline fonts on your computer when you already have their solid versions because the outline versions would only take space away for other fonts.
37. You can often point out lettering you see in advertisements or logos by their font names; as in "Hey, that's Colonial Uncial!"
38. When you browse the latest T-26 catalog while doing the Stairmaster at 24Hour Fitness. (I'm sure the person next to me wondered why I'd be looking at alphabets).
39. You tell your wife (husband) what font is used in the title or credits at the movies. Like she (he) really cares.... :-)
40. ...someone tells you to get a life ... and you think "I have three in PostScript and five in TrueType ...."
41. And you are *really* addicted if your personalized license plate is "FONTS"!
42. You save the comp.fonts and alt.binaries.fonts postings that begin with the phrase "the top ten signs that you are a fontaholic" in their own special subdirectory.

[Portions Copyright © Jeff Rankin-Lowe/SIRIUS 2000 All Rights Reserved.]

Banterings of Cubicle City

(These are my the random thoughts when provoked by Books on Tape oh yeah and it was Twilight!)

So I am at work in what I call "Cubicle City".  Pretty sure there should be some standard rules and guidelines for working in tight quarters such as these.  Normally you would just expect people to behave with the manners and dare I say...couth that perhaps they where raised with...non the less...this was not the case in Episode 1 of Cubicle City.

I try and sit here keeping an upbeat attitude.  Not letting the idiosyncrasies of a man peck away out my outer shell.  How can people be so rude to the others around them.  Everyday having a comment, something snide to say because they lack something simple as couth?  It’s a book on tape you say, as if a asked?…really…as if I don’t already hear it blaring out of your office just past that neat thing called a door…yes, the joys of cubicle city.  Now we are standing up at our desk trying to see I if actually notice that; YES YOU HAVE YOUR DOOR OPEN AND I CAN HEAR YOUR RETARDED BOOK ON FRIGGIN’ TAPE.  For the love of everything decent in this world close your door before I throw a calculator at your head.

See…the unnecessary violence that is being brought out by selfish ignorance?  

(DISCLAIMER: No violence was actually performed in this episode)

Text Convo between Me and Ali...cause it's just funny.

Mo:      For the record, Tori Amos is nuts

Ali:       Uh Cha. But I like her voice

Mo:      Paula Cole

            Jewel

            Poe

Who’s the skinny calista flockhart looking one?

I have skipped though 2 Tori CDs this am

Feel like I ate fruit loops

Ali:       Oh Oh! Fiona Apple. LOL, I was about to say I don’t know, but it popped into my head at the last minute.

Mo:      Big Bowls

Ali:       How does it FEEL to eat fruit loops exactly?

Mo:      Like Tori Amos all soft then getting all rough on the roof of your mouth, good flavor but mostly painful yet you just keep going.  Making my own pretty hate machine…now I get her!

Boys on my left side, boys on my right side, boys in the middle but you are not here.

Ali:       Nice alliteration.  You deserve and award.

Mo:      I knew that you would truly appreciate that

            I am an effing genius

Ali:       Yes you are!

Mo:      Then with moves of a swan I just dumped coffee down both legs and I am freezing.  Damn you Tori, I need to buy pants stat.

Ali:       Brilliant but not graceful. Are you working already?

Mo:      Yep, Marshall’s open?

            Target I guess…man it’s vanilla cold

Ali:       I just bought new pants the other day.  They might still be in the car.  Hold on, I’ll check

Is that like being chocolate wasted?

Mo:      Unless you happen to have pants, yes vanilla pissed.

So I drove to Ali’s work and yes, she saved me, she had this adorable pair of dress slacks in her jeep, so funny, tags still on them.  Steal of a deal oh how we love Ross. 

Leave it to me to have my skull converse on today and get to gussy up a pair of pinstripe slacks.  I feel like Jim Carey in the Mask. I share this with Ali to which she responds…”That’s a Spicy Meat-a-Ball!”  She says I should walk around saying it all day.

The Radio Dilemma

So I have been having problem with my clock on the radio randomly resetting itself.  This is not a huge deal, just a little bit of an annoyance.   About the fifth time this happened I told the hubby and he said take it into get it fixed.  Piece of cake right...


1st trip to the dealership...we thinks it's the battery, we will hook it up and get it checked out.  
Nope not the battery, don't know what it is.  Keep and eye on it and let us know.


2nd trip, wow strange...we can't duplicate the problem.  Sorry, it's just not tipping it's hand to us?  WTF the "TRUCK" is not tipping it's had to you...is that dealership-ese for yeah yeah we can't find it so kindly pound sand?


3rd trip, ding ding ding, we have a winner, let the lovely lady choose a prize...A NEW RADIO.  
WOW was a winner.  Course we have to order it so it could be a few days.


My pessimism drained just knowing the daily routine of resetting the friggin' clock would soon be coming to an end...SO I THOUGHT.


4th trip...yeah that's right good ol' number 4.  Drop of the truck for a radio install...check, call to pick up said truck...check, get in the frame of mind to reset all radio stations....check, wait a minute...new radio, all radio stations ALREADY programmed?


Call me skeptical but since when do you get a new radio installed in a vehicle and you don't have to reprogram all your stations.  Adding to my disbelief, a layer of dust on dash with not one fingerprint in it, the cupholder still in the down position and the papers on the floor remain in a nice clean stack.  This of course prompted my phone call back to the dealership...


"Hi Mona what can I help you with?"
"Tom, are you certain that a new radio was indeed installed in this truck?"
"Well I am billing for it right now." 
"Not what I asked Tom, you see there is still dust in the knobs and all the radio stations are still in the radio."
"Oh well, that is what we do here, our installer is such a thorough man that he writes down all your stations and reprograms them exactly where you had them and sets your radio back up identical.  See the radios can be so technical now that he will even record your satellite information and then set it right back up for you."


Ok...help me out here...does this sound like a load of crap or have a become so jaded by dishonesty and lack of trust that I refuse to believe that this was truly a stand up act of kindness and professionalism?


We'll see, I am hoping not to have a 5th trip, cause I love my Dodge, just not that craptastic radio.