too busy

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
~Mignon McLaughlin

So here's to developing character, right? I'm sitting down to prepare dinner & have finally "made" time to open this blog today. Else Cake is spread way too thin...

comic sans criminal

unlike your hateful friend Else, this site schools you on comic sans (spit) in a much more polite & well designed manner: comicsanscriminal (go there now or I will kick you)

and while I'm ranting...

i might as well add that Papyrus should also die a slow and painful death and then be fed to hungry pigs in Italy. This is not ancient Egypt and using this gross font will not make your business, ministry or church logo look any more spiritual so cut it out. Ugh. Spit, spit.

i like mike

Else Cake often writes people or brands she ♥ - usually to tell them what a good thing they are in the world. (I wrote Old Spice when their hot man campaign came out and they sent me free stuff in the mail. I wrote Nair, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, Nestle, I write McDonalds often, etc... I also write brands when they do a ghetto job on delivering on the promise because well, God bless America, that's the beauty of free market: you do a crappy job, I'll go to your competitor who will treat me right. Am I ranting already? this early? Sorry.)

Bla Bla Bla: last week I wrote Mikey Burton a design love letter of appreciation. He wrote back & was really quite sweet which made me ♥ him even more. How lovely. So here goes a few more posts about Mikey. He's good stuff.

spring come soon

it's 3am. kid's sick and woke me up. she is now back asleep next to me in my bed and I can't sleep. As i stare out the window, from my comfy bed, snuggling with my Doodles, i see nothing but a street covered in snow and that makes me all kinds of unhappy. i am powered by sunshine & warmth. winter kills me. so here's a shot stolen last year from my friend ralston. a lovely reminder that soon enough my world is going to bloom. i hope. sigh.

Sunday Sermon

well said, Daily Dawdle. Via Twitter.

too busy + behind on laundry - patience = hot dogs

else bear's kitchen sink/drain is backed up. hubby is currently working on it. i got WAY TOO MANY things to do and not enough time in the day and that's why we end up eating crap like this:

kaitlyn

kaitlyn nicole is a gorgeous, smart and funny girl I know. she lives in a small farm town in western kansas and she's catching a lot of heat for giving herself a semi-mohawk. I thought it was absolutely gorgeous and it wasn't until I saw how much people were picking on her for it (on Facebook) that I decided to write her a note. As it turns out, she had more than a fashion statement in mind, she also did it for her grandfather who passed away. So here's to Kaitlyn - one brave and confident little teenager. I love your new hair. We ♥ you, girl. You're beautiful!

find the dot

While belly aching to an old friend (about folks' disregard for white space), he wrote me:

i had a teacher that had the best example of the power of white space... he had 2 papers. one had a bunch of #$@& on it, the other blank... he held up the junky one for us to look at. then he put a dot on it and showed us again and asked us to find the dot... it was hard.... then he held up the blank one, put a dot on it and said, I defy you to NOT notice the dot... the power of white space!

oh, white space

"The customer isn’t paying us for whitespace. They’re paying us to fit all of their marketing messages on this mailer. Fill it up with more text." - clients from hell

we need to fill the hole

this is one of the directions i received in an email today, regarding a piece i'm working on. just skip to the highlighted portion for maximum (design) pleasure. oy. click to read it:

that's right, i'm one of those

while i hate to jump on the "ooo, she screwed up the national anthem" band wagon of haters, as a proud citizen and lover of this country i can't help it, man. i'm sitting here stewing and I know i won't feel better until i rant: messing up the national anthem is like messing up "happy birthday" and I don't care to hear what her excuse is. nervous? then quit singing and go flip burgers for a living. you are a professional and you're an American - that performance was a total disgrace.

off the soap box now.

ugh

else bear is sick. kinda. in bed. cranky.

disturbed

it's 3am and i can't sleep. had to watch very dear friends lose their jobs today, in a day that i can only describe as overwhelmingly sad. i wish a bright future to those who left and a swift recovery for the ones who stayed.

this is how i feel today

arizona shooting

i pray comfort & peace to the families - what a horrible, horrible ordeal. :(

responsibility

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done." ~Author Unknown

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it. ~Ken Keyes, Jr

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~Albert Ellis

else's ugly gray cube's corner is now decorated w/ the quotes above. :)

Rock that hat.

I love hats. LOVE them. But I also have a peanut shaped big head that makes me look like a circus freak so I rarely wear them. Too bad because this one (below) I love. Grr..

Perspective

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional"

(I butchered this quote earlier this week while telling it to a friend. So here's the correct version, R.)

:| part 2

scratch that. remodeling is gonna make me kill others.