Tink Nation

Be kind to me. I want Tink Nation back up.

So, ok, I know.
Yes, I haven't changed the blog design. Well sort of.
Yes, I haven't changed the name of it.
Yes, as I said in a couple of blogs ago I procrastinate. BADLY!
I decided to have the renew blah crap because I was going through crap but I was so knee deep in my crap that I couldn't seem to get with it. Well I'm starting to get a bit clear now of somethings and starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
SO with that said. . .I decided to keep the blog name Tink Nation and eventually I will get to the redesign. I'm going to make Tink Nation into my design blog since it's attached to my porfolio website. But I'm gonna change the tag line to A One Minute World to . . . And Design For All. So I guess I'm back! Hi!

I have found my new name for my blog. Factotum
I feel that I'm a factotum, a person with many responsibilities.

Factotum, I like the sound of that

Now I have to figure out how to change everything, oh JEN???

Well that's what I think the line said in the movie "The World According To Garp". Anyways, that is a problem I have had most of my life. I have a natural frown, so people automatically assume that I'm either a)depressed, b)mad at something and/or c)not having a good time. Look if I'm not smiling it doesn't mean I'm sad or upset, etc, usually, I'm thinking about all the things that I have to do and it doesn't help the fact that I'm shy (sometimes).
The one that I really hate is when they say, smile it's not so bad or smile you are more prettier.

WHAT IF I DON'T WANT TO SMILE.

PEOPLE, worry about yourself.

If you want to come and talk to me, come and introduce yourself and have a conversation. As my roommate says, give me something to smile about!

You know this slimy guy John Mark Karr, who supposedly admited to killing JonBenet Ramsey, just got a free plane ride, paid by tax payers, to the U.S. Never trust a man that used to sport a Mullet.

NASTY!!!

O.K. I'm confused. After 100's of years and billions of science projects, Astromomer's proclaimed Pluto a "non" planet. WOW, it's not like it was making a corporation billions of dollars, it's a Planet! I feel like it's been laid off or outsourced to India or China ! What gives? Does it really make a difference if it's not a "planet", persay. IT's there, it's not moving ( well it is but . .) and it's not like it's gonna pack it's bags and move to another solar system.

If I was living on Pluto, I would be pissed. Just because it's cold and it doesn't have pretty colors or rings around it doesn't make it not a Planet.

I think Astronomers were bored and needed something to do. Maybe textbook lobbyiest were low on sales and needed something for them to re-write.

LONG LIVE PLUTO as the 9th Planet of the Solar System!!!

I'm taking Tink Nation into another direction and I want a new name?
I know I want it based on the graphic design world. Where I can put up images of errors or problems that I'm having in hopes people can help me and make comments, especially html and browser issues.

Here are a few:
design gurl gone bad
The daily art
design exchanges
graphic exchanges

This blog will not be so personal since it is linked to my business/portfolio website. Tink Nation will hopefully be moved to another local.

I now can publish without worrying if my text will partially preview and I have the utility buttons for text style and linking! Yeah!!! And I don't get those error message that some of the pings didn't go through . . ain't life grand again!

My good friend and fellow trouble maker, Muffin, are heading to Memphis and Nashville at the end of Sept to make some trouble and have some fun. Since really getting into Rockabilly music, I've always wanted to go to Memphis to see Sun Studios, where Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis recorded as well as a slew of others. I'm not as excited as much to see Graceland but you have to see Graceland when you are in Memphis. We will be staying at the Heartbreak Hotel and taking a tour in a vintage bus around town. It should be fun. Then we are going to Jackson. Like the song says were going to Jackson to head over to Nashville and go to the Grand Ole Opry.

This past weekend, I went to
Blogher, a conference for woman who blog, in San Jose, CA. And I came away with some new technology (yes, I have to get firefox), some inspiration, that I really need to make some business cards and I really need a laptop and I need to leave the crap at home so I can really enjoy myself.
Before Blogher, I decided that I'm an unhappy camper and I need to really research, find, need, want, a new job.
Before this revelation (technically it's not a revelation. Over the last couple years, I tell myself and others {sometimes a mistake} that I need to look for a new job and this time I really mean it, damn it! So I start and I don't get very far and dive/hide/run back to my comfort zone.
I decided that I wanted to back into the world of design, for being absent for about 4 years. (*Side Note* I wasn't really absent, just went down another road of design and media called Digial Asset Management and also I haven't been too absent, I have had my business and that has given me a creative outlet.)
So I said to myself, after this Blogher weekend till the end of August (taking a wee bit o break around the weekend of the 18th for my 32nd birthday), you buckle down and really get focused of this job search adventure and you go girl.
But I had to put a few obsticles out of the way that was holding me back and that is credit card debt. So I recently paid it off and has made life so much sweeter. Like a ten ton brick was on my sholders.
So my plan is REDO, REDRAW and RENEW. Unfortunatly somethings are going to be pushed aside like family and friends but I will not lose my commitment to my current employer or my clients, I'm just going to be quiet for a bit.
For REDO, my resume needs to be updated and my blog will have a new face and theme. The new blog will have a new name (if I can) and be more directed to design.
For REDRAW, update web and physical portfolio. And for RENEW, renew a commitment to myself that I made a while ago that unfortunatly that got put aside. Can't really explain it but all I can say its RENEW.
So to friends and family, if you don't hear or see much of me in the next few weeks, I'm sorry and I love you and I hope you understand.