Hey all!
It feels really nice to be back. I would be lying if I said this was an easy week for me. I had been looking forward to getting a new place for so long but I never thought it would be so hard to say goodbye to my first place. I’m not a huge change person but I am looking forward to finally being able to decorate and paint walls the color I want to. But unfortunately, that is still on hold as we are now living in a small apartment. There are boxes everywhere! Sigh. The apartment is just dark. I go home at lunch and turn on every light and open every blind and I still don’t feel like there is enough light. It’s just strange. So I’m going to have to figure that one out. I can at least put personal pictures out which will be nice! 
We still haven’t closed on my house yet, and everyday that passes, I get a little more stressed and of course, I hate paying the mortgage for an empty house.
Enough about my house and moving woes! I can’t remember if I mentioned it, but classed started back up last week. Good timing, eh? This quarter’s class is Digital Visualization for Interior Design. I can tell I’m going to like it! So far we’ve used a lot of Photoshop (Okay, which I’m not a big fan of as I don’t know how to use it) and then Google Sketch (Never played with it). This is what I did last night. I didn’t draw the layout, just filled in the colors and textures. It’s suppose to be for a modern couple. So I tried to keep that in mind when I picked my colors. But you know I had to put a pop of pink in there! 
Don’t mind the shadows if they look odd, I was nodding off when I was doing this last night! Oops.
So I can’t really wait to see what else we learn in class!
I am officially in love with my Nook. I have learned how to check out library books on it, so I have started reading Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc) series by Stieg Larsson. I’ve gotten to the third book and they are really good! And of course, I keep downloading all the free books I can. I thought I would never like reading on it, but now that I have it, I think going forward I’m going to think books are too bulky. Lol. And it fits right in my purse, so when I go to the Doc’s office, I throw it in there and read it while I’m waiting. What a great way to kill time. And it never loses your page. It stays on your page when you shut it down and it’s there when you boot up. Check it out!
I’m a little on edge because when I left this morning from the apartment, I saw a yellow lab walking around by himself. I was hoping he would go home. But when I came back for lunch, he was lying in the hot sun. I tried to check for tags but he didn’t have any. I tried to get him to come towards my apartment so I could get him some water at least but once I got him up and walking, he headed towards another building. And I didn’t want to follow him if he was going home. I checked on my way out after lunch and didn’t see him. I’m just worried. He doesn’t need to be left out in the heat with no water and food. :-/ So I’ll check again when I get home this afternoon…
As I mentioned in one of my ‘tweets’ this week, a wise man told me that he knows I know what kind of life I want to live, I just have to let go and grab it. So that’s been on my mind a lot this week. I know I’m not 100% happy in the life I have right now, so there are changes to be made and I think in some steps I am making them. But am I letting go? I love the song from Howie Day, ‘Collide’, and it’s suppose to be a romantic song but the words that always stick in my mind are “Even the best fall down sometimes…Even the wrong words seem to rhyme”. It reminds me that I’m not the only one to let go and fall. Sometimes it might take falling to learn where we actually need to be. Pain only makes us stronger. Scary, though. Something to think about.
I’m so excited – I might get to see Andy Roddick tomorrow night! He’s in town playing at the Atlanta Tennis Championship! So if he makes it through the Quarters today (which he should) and if he’s slotted to play at night (which I hope so since he’s the main draw!), then I’ll get to see him! One of my friends and I went on Sunday to see the qualifying and it was pretty fun. Of course the weather was horrid. It started raining as soon as we got there. But we decided it wasn’t too bad, so we still went it figuring it would pass over. Wrong. We got drenched! So we left and went and got some frozen yogurt (yum!) and then headed back since it had slacked off and it finally passed. We waited for them to dry off the courts and then watched some tennis. The main court wasn’t as good as the side courts were. We did see one of the players get badly injured. I’m not sure how he did it, I think he got caught on the scoreboard, but he had a huge slice in his thigh (pretty much the whole thigh) and you can just tell it would require surgery. Poor guy! I hope he gets better soon. He’s at the level were he needs to be playing to get the money/sponsorship. I was happy to see a few of the guys we saw on Sunday in the Quarters today.
And to send you off in a good mood –
Hope you all have a great weekend!!!
Image from: ICanHasCheezBurger
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Brigitte says:
July 23, 2010 at 5:17 pm (UTC -5 )
Let’s let go together! If only it weren’t for those crazy mortgages…
Anna says:
July 26, 2010 at 10:14 am (UTC -5 )
WHEW! Your post made me exhausted. I don’t know how you do it, moving and going to school. I did that 2 years ago and never will I move while in school. I got so behind in school.
The pic is so cute. It made me laugh. We don’t officially have casual Friday’s but I do. Last Friday, I was wearing capris, Tshirt and flip flops and one of my colleagues mentioned I was too casual. I said Oh well.
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Piper says:
July 26, 2010 at 12:19 pm (UTC -5 )
Phew, what a week for sure!!! I’ve been there…living in an in between place and it’s so rough! But just think it’ll be over soon
btw…LOVE andy roddick (and tennis in general!) did you get to see him?
hang in there – it’s hard when you’re doing a million things like moving and school to name a few
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Ginger says:
July 26, 2010 at 4:55 pm (UTC -5 )
I love your drawing! I am going to learn interior design skills vicariously through you! I am so happy you took the plunge and are learning something new. I have learned in my life (much longer than yours:-) that everything we do or experience, whether we feel it’s been a success or failure, becomes something postive. We grow in our character, become stronger, more interesting, curious and empathetic towards others. Hang in there – keep the drapes open, let the light in, leave a little water out for the lost dogs. Breath deeply and get enough sleep!
Now, the library book issue. How are you choosing a book? I love to go to the library, look at the covers, read the inside “snippet”, check out the size, read about the author – before I check it out. Many times I do judge the book by it’s cover – how does that work with a Nook???
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August 9, 2010 at 12:08 am (UTC -5 )
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