This is still here?!?!

Haha. I forgot I had this blog. At this point I've been writing in more of a private community, but I'd like to write in this one too, for people to know what I'm up to. I'm also giving this new browser a try... you can click on "write a blog" and it takes you right to a screen to fill in your blog... check it out, there's a lot of other great features having to do with social bookmarking and tagging, etc... www.flock.com

Basic rundown of my life right now....

I'm still working at my awesome web design job... I'm totally enjoying it. We're working on some great sites and some great projects. We're celebrating our year anniversary this month! Yay for a startup company making it through the first year!

I have a new car, got it a couple months ago. Its a Mazda3 and its the most awesomest thing ever. Check out my flickr account for pictures of it.

I'm getting ready to move into an apartment in Meridian, to be closer to work. I have an awesome roommate, who I know from school.

Otherwise I'm just enjoying life, making some new friends... life is good. :D

Driving is... fun?

Well, its time for the post I've been wanting to write for awhile now. I always feel like writing this WHILE I'm driving and then am not so keen on it when I get where I'm going. Plus I know it might take awhile, and I have some time to write since its a weekend... Its was such a long week. I'm hoping this next one goes a bit smoother.

Anyway. Driving. Ever since Driver's Ed, when I had a not good teacher, I've hated to drive. And I'm OK with driving by myself, cause I can do something dumb and not be totally embarrassed. But I really disliked driving with other people, plus its distracting. I guess I don't really know why I hated it so much... definitely had something to do with being nervous because of all the bad drivers out there!

I have never gotten a ticket (pulled over once for expired registration, doh) or been in an accident that was my fault. I have been in 4 or 5 accidents while riding in someone else's car, and that's always scary. The one time I enthusiastically volunteered to drive my best friend and I to Blockbuster, I was thinking, yeah, this'll be fun, look at me, I like to drive. And then some stupid lady hit me. I had a green arrow to turn onto a road that only had one lane going that direction, and she wanted to turn right onto that same road. Problem was, she couldn't decide whether she wanted to go before me, or after. So she started to go, and I slowed my turn so she could just go. Then she slowed down, so I kept going, and when I got onto the road she went and bumped the side of my car. Duh! Ugh. That was an easy one to win with the insurance. My friend made fun of me when I was shaking from it (it wasn't that bad or anything) and she had to help me get things like my insurance together for the cop, but I guess she forgot that when SHE got in an accident, which was admittedly much worse, I helped her. Oh well. :)

Its my best friend's (from high school, we really haven't hung out much since then) birthday today too. I don't know how to get ahold of her. Happy Birthday!!

So. Fast forward, I've been driving on the freeway to work. It just wasn't feasible to go any other way. I've always avoided the freeway cause I didn't like going that fast, and people are nuts (there ARE rules when there are 2 lanes!! If you're going slow, stay on the right! Geez!). But now, once I start driving, I actually feel like I'm having fun! Friday night I was driving and thinking "fun fun!". It was weird. Driving provides me with time that I can just think about whatever, and listen to music.

So the thing I need now is a good car. Mine is alright, but the lack of cruise control gets to me... and its just so little and silly. Its a bright green 1994 Ford Escort hatchback. I have quite a few cars in mind that I'd like to go for. Top of that list are a Mazda 3 or 6, and I'd have to get dark grey. Other ones are: Jetta, Scion TCs are pretty cool, I like the new Honda Civic Hybrid, always liked Imprezas... Yeah, we'll see how that goes. I know that one of my mom's friends would like to have my car (it gets great gas mileage and I have had very few problems with it) so there's a possibility I could actually get something for selling it (I didn't think it would be worth much) and my mom likes driving it too.

I've been feeling kinda down lately, just because I haven't been feeling well and I don't really have friends here in Boise to hang out with. When I move closer to my work in February, I'll be closer to my friends in Caldwell, and that will be good. Last night I was in Caldwell, and really didn't want to leave to come to my apartment and be by myself. But once I started driving, I felt a lot better, and by the time I got to Boise I was happy. And I managed to get a lot done, which is amazing. I've been in that funk where I'm just so tired and I can't get anything done.

I think I had something else in mind to talk about, but this will be it for now. I have a couple ideas for future posts, so look forward to those. And I'm still working on my new site! I really hope I can get that up and running soon!!

Sunrise6

Sunrise6,
originally uploaded by livnginabluewrld.

Beautiful sunrise this morning, and managed to get a picture. Yay!

Tired.

I have been so tired for the past couple weeks. I haven't been able to shake it yet. Hopefully this weekend I can get some rest. My bosses were concerned about me this morning as I stared at my screen for awhile without blinking, or one of them would pass me and I would look blankly at them.

The afternoon is better though. I wake up and get some spunk. It helps to have some good music. I listed to Trance Techno music through Digitally Imported, which is the best internet radio station I've ever come across. The Trance station has just enough of a beat to make me move around, which is good. Otherwise the music is just perfect for background music.

Since I've been tired, its a struggle to get through the days and the weeks. I've been going to my parents' house in the evening just to hang out, have some company, and watch TV. Tonight was my sister's orchestra concert. They sound so good! She's in junior high.

Anyway, I should get to bed. Tomorrow is Friday. Phew. Thank goodness.

Quite a view

Quite a view,
originally uploaded by livnginabluewrld.

OK maybe three posts. Wanted to try out this photo share type thing from Flickr. Fun!

Unheard of!

Two posts in one day, that is.

Put up a picture or two from my trip I went on this weekend. Kicking myself for not taking more than TWO pictures the whole time. I'll add some others of other trips I've taken, and maybe I'll remember next time I'm in Atlanta to take a picture of the cool schoolhouse they have in town. And I'll take a picture of the town, because, yeah, it would fit in one camera phone picture. Teehee. :) Its interesting to see on my page that my sister's photo (Kelsey's) has gotten the most views. 14, to be exact. No comments though. I have some nice comments on a couple of my sunset pictures. Plus, right now it says "98 views" for my page so I'm excited to see it go above 100! Yeah, real milestone there. Hehe.

Should be in bed... that's what I say every night. There's just so much to do, and it doesn't help when I hang out at my parent's house and watch My Name is Earl and The Office!!!

I got started reading the second book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which one of my coworkers so kindly lent to me. He gave me a book that has all 5 books in it!! Geez!

Alright. That's all for today. I think of all these things to write about as I'm driving home... I drive a lot. That, however, is a subject for another day.

Beautiful Sunrise

This morning there was the most beautiful sunrise. And I had to drive down the freeway for the whole duration of it. I couldn't just stop and take a picture. Plus, for that sunrise, my camera phone would NOT cut it. Hopefully this winter, when the sun starts rising later, I'll be able to take those pictures before I start driving, and I'll have a better (actual) camera. We can all hope.

This sunrise lit up the whole sky. At first, it was bright red, in streaks in the east and lighting up the storm clouds in the west. Slowly it mixed with gold, and then turned all gold. The mountains in the east were all misty and that made them look like they were from a fairytale.

There's the little bit of my drive where I go through downtown (before I get on the freeway), and I could see it between the buildings. When I passed the Capitol building, the sunrise was behind it and it almost made me cry to think that no one was taking a picture of that. It was the most amazing thing.

I guess I'm lucky I get to experience these sunrises, that's what life's all about anyway. Experiencing things.

Speaking of experiencing, a group of us made it up to some hot springs in Atlanta. We've had mixed luck getting up there because its high in the mountains, and the road we've taken before goes through a pass that's pretty high, and this time of year its starting to get snowy. This time we took a different way, and it was not only much easier, but even more beautiful. The Boise River is along the road the whole time, and there's some neat waterfalls and things. There's part of the river where it all got washed out a couple years ago, and there's this eerie small lake with full grown trees in the middle of it.

The hot springs were great, except that Andrew got visited by some biting bugs and I'm sure that's not the most pleasant thing in the world!

That's about it for now! Probably should get to work. :D

Sad!

For some reason this makes me SO sad!!! I just can't even think about it. I guess its because all the work they've done through the years is just lost. As he says in the article, compared to other tragedies its nothing, but in its own way its just terrible.

Sorry I haven't posted lately, I haven't been feeling well. Hopefully soon I can get back into the swing of things. I'm working on my new site, slowly but surely. That will be so cool to get that put together.

Comments, and more photos

Posted a whole bunch of new photos on my Flickr page! Some new sunsets and sunrises, and I started a new set for my various sky photos that aren't in the morning or evening. :) I wanted to go through and get all my photos off my phone, so I don't always have to delete one before I can take a new one! I found a site with suggestions for using your phone camera, and one was to take pictures of your car if you happen to be in an accident. Genius! Not that I plan on getting in an accident, I really hope I don't of course, but I don't want to be like "oh, wait a minute, do I really want that picture of my cat? No, I should keep that... oh hold on! I'll be done in a minute!" as people honk at us to get the cars out of the way or whatever. :)

And in the process, I'm racking up like $15 on my phone bill, since sending each one of these to my email address is like 25 cents. That's OK. I am enjoying this!

Anyway!

In regards to the comments for this blog, after getting a grand total of two (yes, two) spam comments, I decided to change it so only registered Blogger users can comment. I hope that doesn't pose a problem, but honestly, the only people who read this are on blogger anyway, so it should be OK. I got tired of email spam, enough that I abandoned my old email address, and then while working at Holland I would get fax spam (how did they get that number?!), so I really like to minimize it whenever I can. Frankly, seeing "1 comment" on a post makes me excited to see what someone had to say about my post, but when its something about... job recruitment, or something, that just crushes my spirits. Sob! ;)

I'm leaving my Flickr comments wide open right now, so please comment on those photos. I don't think I have 1 comment yet, besides the 1 from myself!!

I'm off to doodle and do some collage journaling!

Flickr Photos

I have been taking photos with the camera on my cell phone, and while the resolution isn't that great, and they mostly come out grainy, I think they've been turning out pretty good. Its been really fun! Now that I know I would use it if I were to buy an actual digital camera, I might end up doing that soon.

So check out my Flickr page. I'm taking a lot of sunset pictures, so look at that set.

I'm hanging out at my parent's house this weekend, so I won't be able to get anything done on my site that I'm working on!! I really wish I could get that done and put up. Its exciting!!