with a new city, comes new hobbies...

i've decided to run. (even though i get bored, i know how something to keep me motivated to work out for...half marathon in washington dc in march)

i've decided to stretch. (one day i'll be thankful i'm still flexible. i can already tell a difference)

i've decided to cook chicken. (i burn it everytime but i'll keep trying)

i've decided to paint. (3 blank canvases hanging on my wall screaming for some creativity)

i've decided to make money. (another job, selling my belongings, looking for more jobs)

i've decided to start christmas shopping early this year. (one present down, 9 to go)

more to come...

sigh

today i started a new project. for the past 7 months i've been working on proposal work and have loved (almost) every minute of it. i design, render, make pretty pictures, redo some, but generally i'm creating. the only reason to ever redo something is either a. i didn't like it and wanted to redo it, b. the principal didn't like it and wanted it redone, or c. it's too expensive. none of those options bother me...maybe sometimes option b. like i said earlier, i started a new project today. i'm not a big fan of projects, yet i was semi-thrilled to be working on one that i designed the interior for. i received my instructions late this morning and immediately starting working on setting up the files. it's a complicated organizational system with 4 files; 3 central files linked into 1 composite file. it took me the rest of the morning and into early afternoon to separate and organize everything. task completed. or so i thought. the verbal instructions given to me were wrong. how frustrating. instead of cutting and pasting the sections of the building into the new file, someone else had a 'better' idea to copy everything then start deleting parts of the building. one way or another, it's the same thing. this is precisely why i do not like working on cd's. everything has to be redone because someone else thought it would be a 'better' way. someone higher up. so right now, i'm frustrated. not excited to be on a construction document team anymore. i want to go back to my happy place of designing and making pretty pictures. this is why i hate cd's and the only part about architecture that makes me want to get out of the profession.

costume

this year i'm actually doing something legitimate for halloween. i'm going to a charity fundraiser party. tickets were semi-expensive but the real problem is that now i have to have a legitimate costume. any ideas?

from my new home

going crazy...

i really think i'm going crazy this week. how random is it that jess [http://in-focusdesign.blogspot.com/] just wrote about the first time a bird pooped on me? i'm going crazy, i really am.

oh man or omen?

1. yesterday my car hit 111,111 miles. and i even took a picture of it. i was at the ghetto walmart picking up my new ergonomic kneeling chair i ordered online. maybe i had good luck by not getting shot?

2. a bird poop on my shoulder while walking on the plaza during the lunch hour today. while this usually only happens once in a lifetime, this is indeed the second time in my life that a bird has pooped on my shoulder. the first time was while walking into the pantheon in rome and that mess got in my hair. while this one only saturated my cardigan sweater, it was still gross non the less. so i'm doing a big no-no at work today. i have a tank top dress on without the cardigan. even though i've wiped it off, i still can't get myself to put the cardigan back on. my coworkers will just have to deal with my unprofessional apparel for the day.

3. i'm sure there's more to come...the week isn't over yet.

I (heart) Rendering.

well, this is what i do now. i use revit to model interior spaces then transform them in photoshop. i absolutely love what i'm doing. so far all of the interiors i've designed have been proposals. hopefully i'll get to see one finished someday...

goodwill furniture

this is my new find. $8 at goodwill. i really like the style but hate the color. the color will change, i just need to decide on one first. any ideas? i was almost thinking red and black, but if someone else has a better idea, let me know. as soon as i was done at goodwill, i went over to home depot and bought new sleek brushed aluminum pulls. these are actually the same pulls i put on all of my cabinets in the kitchen of my house. even though i won't be living there anymore, i'm sure seeing these pulls on my new but used cabinet will remind me of home.