We lost Cassidy this summer at the very old dog age of nearly 15 years. That left us with one dog, Penny, who was feeling pretty lonely without Cass and the house seemed pretty empty. So in came Charlie, our new puppy. He's been a great pup with lots of personality, and he keeps Penny pretty busy. She's his favorite chew toy.
I recently re-designed my design portfolio, check it out! melo-design.com I'm working on getting a steady stream of freelance work, and so far so good. In the next couple of months I'll be updating it frequently with new projects I'm in the process of wrapping up.
In addition to that, I created a web-business card, melissalorenzen.com which I'm pretty proud of. I was inspired by the new trend in online business cards and gave it a go.
I'm hoping my lack of updates is slightly made up for by the twitter feed I've attached to the page. Silly links that I would originally have posted on here I've been sending to twitter.
Yesterday I turned 29. I feel a little weird about this age. I really enjoyed 28. It was my "golden" year and it was a great year. I moved in with Josh, got engaged, did some traveling, all in all I had a great time. And now I'm not 28 anymore. Its not that I'm pessimistic about being 29, I'm sure it will be another great year. Despite my resistance to planning details, I'm starting to get jazzed up about wedding planning. I'll be doing a lot of that in my 29th year. There's even a little part of me that would rather get married in the spring, rather than in the fall so I can be married when I'm 29, rather than 30.
29 is the age women jokingly say they are when they don't want to give their real age. I'm hoping it's because 29 was so great, not that being older than 29 is such a drag. I have many friends in their 30s who are having a fantastic time, so I'm not that worried about it, but still. Whats the big deal about being 29?
I went to Florida a couple weeks ago and came back engaged :) I'll try to post the photos from my trip soon, I had a lot of fun photographing pelicans and surfacing dolphins.
I've never been the kinda girl who dreamed of her wedding since she was born, so actually planning this wedding may be more difficult than for normal women.. I'm excited about the being-married part, just not the planning and organizing part. I don't care for the logistics or fine details. I woke up in a panic this morning to the realization that we'll need centerpieces for the tables, and I have no idea what "my colors" should be. so how on earth could I create centerpieces without "my colors"? and the wedding isn't for at least another year. i'm starting to understand the appeal of eloping to vegas.
I SHOOK HIS HAND!!! He walked off his bus, walked right to me and shook my hand first! It was amazing. He said 'Its so great to meet you' and I said 'Its my pleasure!' I said real words, a real sentence! I was so convinced Id say something completely garbled and idiotic.
He went to an IU event, came back by us to leave and shook my hand again! I got two handshakes! It was so amazing and surreal to see him, he is so friendly and warm in person, truely, this will be a day I'll never forget.
See the rest of the photos in my picasaweb album
the flowery background was fun, but i got finicky and wanted to change the layout a little more. I may make a couple more changes, little details, but hopefully this will satisfy me for a while.
patience appreciated. bring on the spring. btw - if you're using an old browser that doesn't support .png, this update wont look so good. Upgrade already!
Internet Explorer 7
Firefox 2
There - now you have no excuse!
blogger doesnt really let me test/preview my blog changes until they've been made, so things are gonna look a little weird for a bit, but i promise it will get better :) im going for a spring-inspired theme. i need some spring.
I've come to a place with my portfolio that I feel good about letting other people see it ;) the version i did for class was still a little rough so I wanted to clean it up before I linked to it here.
melo-design.com
I'm excited for 2008, apparently this is the year of my 'golden birthday' because I turn 28 and my birthday is on the 28th. Maybe it will be an especially good one b/c its also 2008, which minus the two 0s in the middle, is also 28. I think I'm stretchin a bit ;)
I'm going to post some of my favorite gifts from christmas soon, I got some great ones from amazon that I highly recommend. I also have resolved and promised to post on here more often. I will do my best.
ive been getting some heat for the lack of updates, but i have a good reason, ok? I've been working on a portfolio website to lure some freelance work my way, and ive been busy with projects for an Adobe Flash class I'm taking. I will post again, just be patient :)
sorry for the hiatus, i will have some new posts soon, with some pics from my recent trip to alabama
anyone who knows me knows that I am terrified of snakes. I love animals*, but something about snakes just completely freaks me out. They have no legs! They have sharp sometimes poisonous teeth! They can slither into your house through little holes and you dont even know it until its strangling you with its giant muscular body.. anyway..
More proof that snakes are evil. They can bite you even when they are DEAD. that's not right...
*honestly, I really do love most animals, and value animal life often times more than human.. but i won't budge on the snakes.. they leave me alone and i leave them alone. its a nice compromise.
I have won BOTD for a second time woo! If only I could use my special BOTD powers for good... let's hope this win isn't as controversial as the last one.. just have to get those vulcans on my side.
I was picked yesterday for Seti@home's user of the day, and judging by my web logs quite a few people checked Seti@home's website. I was going to post something about it yesterday, but given that I was already bestowed the honor of Seti@home Babe of the Day I didn't want to brag about my latest Seti@home accolade. Now if only my computer would find the alien signal and I could get that recognition... Thank you Seti@home (and i'm assuming its random user of the day generator) for the recognition.
i am so tired today, gahh. i wonder if seasonal allergies makes a person sleepy. that person being me. usually i care a lot about american idol, but this year I could really care less. Maybe I've just grown out of it... it doesnt seem like this season was very interesting, yah sanjaya had cra-razy hair, but everyone else has been *dull* im sure jordin will win, blah blahgablah. i didn't really feel like posting anything too heavy or political today, so I hope you enjoyed my ramblings.
Apparently I was named the Seti@home Babe of the Day back in March 2005. Had I known I would have thanked the nerds who voted for me, even the Asst. Chief Science Officer of Vulcan Studies Moderator who debated my win b/c I wasn't actively using Seti@home. For the record, it was starting to burn into my screen, which defeated the purpose of using it as a screensaver. It crashed a lot too, which on a mac, is truely a rare ocurrence.
Looks ain't everything....! >:-/
:)
i'm going to boston next week for a conference, so of course I will take photos. probably not of the conference itself, but of boston. unless of course the conference is very photogenic... i'm currently working on my very first video podcast for work. it has nothing to do with me, and is really only interesting to people who are into brand marketing, but I will post a link to it when it is done b/c i am proud of it ;)
i realized last night that most likely if anyone had bookmarked my site they had it pointed to /pm/weblog.php, not just my domain name. I apologize for forwarding my domain without any heads up.
as you may have noticed, this looks slightly different. just a few things, mainly the horizontal blogger bar at the top. I tried to make it work with godaddy, but I had a problem importing the mysql database for my blog onto their server, and despite repeated attempts to get it to work, it didn't. So I went with blogger. its free, so thats even better. I will try to get as many of my old entries on here as I can. I have archived my old site, and hopefully I will be able to stick it somewhere. But in the meantime, if you just have to read my old entries, you can find them on the web archive from last june. My goal is to at least get a years worth of old entries on this new version of my site. member accounts are no longer necessary, but unfortunately I couldn't keep the old comments. its actually easier for me to post new entries than with my old blogging software, so maybe i'll actually post more frequently, who knows!
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