Monthly Archives: November 2009

Christmas

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Shea’s company is trying to push for a contract extension for the crafts. Basically it boils down to $1000 bonus if the extension is accepted, two $0.55 raises and no raising health care over the next two years. While this is not great for the long run it’s good in the short term. Shea beleives that it will get pushed through because of the lack of foresight. While we won’t mind the extra cash and the steady premium for our health care, I hope that a dollar ten pay increase over the next two years will let us survive. They vote on the first to pass it through or not. So we wait on that.

Now that I’m posting this I’m sure to jinx it, but Shea said he wasn’t going to tell me about the contract extension. (I read it online before he told me lol.) But he said he was thinking about getting a puppy for me with that money. So now I’ve pretty much jinxed it I’m sure, but I hope we can get a puppy soon. I’ve a little bit of research to do on the where we get the puppy from but that shouldn’t take too long, we’ve a pretty good idea just need to check on the process and all that.

We are thinking of it as a family Christmas present for me and the girls. I know Kathleen will absolutely love a puppy. Maybe they’ll stop being the puppies and let the puppy be a puppy and play with it. I think they will both enjoy it to death.

The girls are at their Mam and Pawpaw’s. I get a night to myself. And what did I do with it? I cleaned. The kitchen and their toy room. We will be fogging the house again tomorrow so their room had to be picked up so the toys don’t get all yucky from the fogger. While the bug problem is less, it’s still here so we figure another go at it won’t hurt any. So we fog on Thanksgiving.

So I hope that I don’t jinx the puppy but hopefully things will all go well.

Turkey Dinner

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Well our Turkey Dinner went over well, not as well as it could have. My turkey wasn’t completely thawed out so I had to do the water method before throwing it in the oven. I couldn’t find the potato peeler so my mashed potatoes had the skins in there too. I food process them so it’s not such a big deal just something I don’t care for.

The girls must not have been hungry cause they didn’t touch their corn. I bought six ears just for them.

The yeast rolls were eh. They were edible, but they were flat, more like biscuits. They rose nicely the first time, maybe it’s cause I spaced them too far apart they rose out instead of up, dunno. It was also kinda damp outside so I’m sure that didn’t help. A do again but have to see about doing something different.

The pecan pie on the other hand was a major hit! The only thing Shea said could be better was the nuts a little softer, not sure what I can do about that but he loves it so it’s all good. Nothing to change, I can make one more pie with the stuff I bought, so we’ll try again to make sure it’s “perfection” lol.

Right or Left? How about both?

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I was reading the article, Understanding your brain for better design – Left vs Right. I read the descriptions in order, right brain, and felt yep, that’s me. Then I read the left and was confused, yep that’s me too.

I took the first quiz in the article and scored 50%. I took the second quiz and I scored 51% left, 49% right. So does that 1% mean something? I have no clue.

But I guess that they both fit in their own ways. I don’t like verbal instruction, though it’s very helpful. When in college I never looked at my notes again, but if I didn’t take them I didn’t remember what was in the lecture. The physical act of writing it down helped. I find it very difficult for me to pick up completely new things and new concepts with out some sort of instruction and the doing afterwards. Reading a book with out assignments really doesn’t work for me. I need hands on or I won’t remember it. That’s probably why I do so well with my web projects, I continually have hands on time with them.

I also consider myself a programmer more than a designer. I see the code but I know what it’s suppose to look like. I do mostly design work, but I’m always thinking how will I code this. I can code a page with out first doing it in photoshop if I’ve a general idea of how I want to do the layout, however graphics are my down side I am continually trying to improve that aspect. I work on whatever graphics I can and try to insure I learn new techniques all the time.

I don’t know if any of this makes me left or right brained, I’m not sure how it can help me really. But it was interesting. I learn as I know what works best for me. I design and code how it works best for me. I know no other way.