Today’s holiday

Did you know how many holidays we are missing out on every day? We miss so many reasons to celebrate every single day. For instance you may have missed out on National Clean off Your Desk day (which was last week) How can we miss out on these days? Why doesn’t my calendar have these milestone holidays printed for me? I feel so jipped. Well, I don’t want you to feel jipped, so here’s what we should celebrate today.

January 17th

• Get to Know Your Customer Day
• Kid Inventor’s Day
• St. Anthony’s Day (Christian)
• Anniversary – PGA of America
• Liberation Day (Poland)
• Ben Franklin’s Birthday (302 years old today)

Today, anyone who is Polish should should call in sick with Polish Freedom. 

Today, anyone under the age of 9 should fake some clammy palms and a fever and conduct some science experiments in the darkness of their closet.  

Today, when you head through the drive through at the in and out burger and you order a double cheeseburger, fries and a diet coke, complain when they don’t try to understand you, the customer, by offering you a real coke instead. 

Today, if your name is Anthony you should call in sick and remind them that afterall, you are a saint. Just look at the history books people.

Today, if you find yourself traveling around the world in the throws of luxury and riches as a professional golfer, you should keep on golfing Tiger. The rest of you can take a break.  

Today, anyone who invented swim fins, bi-focals, signed the Declaration of Independence and could tame lightning should call in sick today. 

So it looks like I’m going home

New Year’s follow up…

the eye candy will say it all. I told you I would follow up with some rediculous pictures of our “Come as your favorite Rockstar” guitar hero party. I couldn’t come up with anything too clever, so I was my guitar hero character, Casey Lynch, and Kevin was (as if it’s not clear enough) Slash, from Guns and Roses. 

i had more eye make up on that two dollar hooker. complete with glitter bearing fake lashes. sweet.

and i love this one of my rockstar husband rocking out with Erin! (my studio manager)

back from tampa!

It was amazing, inspiring and motivating. The best of the best. The creme de la creme.  I am sponge for learning from everyone I come into contact with and I definitely did learn so much from all the photographers who’s workshop/seminar I attended this year. It was fabulous. And I’m beyond excited that my workshop went extremely well, inspite of my nausea days before. I was very nervous about speaking in front a large group, but I felt that I did it pretty comfortably after a minute or two. My goal for my workshop was to teach photographers the importance of effective graphic design, but also to show them how someone without a natural talent for design, can design quickly and effectively. And it worked. I drove the point home, and the light bulbls were going off. Sweet success. Huge thanks to all the photogs that attended my workshop and to those who made the convention so successful this year. I can’t wait to for next year already!!

Next month (Feb 4th & 5th) I’ll be teaching more in depth about design, but also go into specifics about package design with Lena Hyde at her swanky loft studio in West Palm Beach Florida. I can’t wait for that. 90 minutes in Tampa, versus a full day of all things design will be very helpful indeed. http://jellyfingers.com/registration.pdf we still have just a few spots left for the workshop.

so much and so little time…

Dear Blog,

It’s been a while since I’ve filled you in on all the winter happenings hasn’t it? December 2007 will go down as one of the biggest whirlwind months in the history of my life. Fo’ sho’. As soon as I got home from Paris, 2 days later we were off for a planned vacation in Fiji where we enjoyed 2 weeks of pure rest and relaxation. Of course I did bring my trusted HP companion; Harry the laptop, with me to work on my presentation for DWF Tampa. 

Speaking of which, DWF Tampa is this week! Holy guacamole. Where does the time go. It’s like someone took a clock and just thew it out the window. (comedic drum roll, thank you) Sunday I’m scheduled for my seminar on graphic design. I’m really looking forward to it. I’m getting out of Tahoe in what appears to be, just in the nick of time. According to WinterStormWatch 2008, the storm of the century is predicted to hit our Sierra Nevada mountains Friday. I’m heading down the hill Thursday afternoon to avoid the snow & wind advisorys before they take effect. 6″ of snow per hour is a heavy prediction, where I live we’ll likely see upwards to 10 feet of snow in a day.  So for those of you who love to ski & board, next week is going to be powdery delicious! No snow blowing or shoveling decks for me. Whooopee!! I’ll just enjoy some of the Florida sun while the storm passes. Perfect timing. Thanks God. You’re the best. Really.  

When I get back from this trip to Tampa, I’ll post some eye candy from our trip to Fiji as well as some even better pictures from our New Years Eve Party we hosted this year. This we celebrated at home with our friends. The theme was ”come as your favorite rockstar” complete with a guitar hero rock-a-thon. Let’s just say I have some really good blackmail on lots of people. The pictures are a spectacle.

Preface: If you have an addiction prone prone personality, then you should not play guitar hero. For the record, I am a non-smoker, non-alcoholic, and never done drugs before in my entire life. Yet I cannot stop dreaming about red, green, yellow blue and orange notes. I hear songs on the radio and wonder how I could get them in my Guitar Hero III game. I can almost hear my fingers  pushing those plastic buttons seamlessly to new and more difficult songs. I knew I might have a problem when I couldn’t recall the last time I saw the sun. I think it might have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 days, but I wasn’t really counting. To my credit, I did  beat Lou, the devil. I finished him and it was worth a 2 day fast. I feel my own story can best be expressed in the animated imagery of South Park, the episode appropriately titled, “Heroin Hero” it started off innocent enough, until I was powerless to control myself from putting down the les charles.

it’s a lovely site indeed.