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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.

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.

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!