Fun with Type!

As a graphic designer I am obsessed with typography. I am lucky enough to have studied under an amazing designer who was IN LOVE with typography and taught us all to be "typography snobs." ha! So you can imagine how excited I was to find wordle. You can type in the link to your blog and it will supposedly sift out the most typed words and create a hierarchy of them. It was quite fun...looks like I talk a lot about hair on here..;) Go on over there and try it out.

Rants and Raves

Just a quick rant. Tonight I drove over to Atlanta for practice-just as I always do on Tuesday nights. I left with just under 1/2 a tank of gas. When I got to practice I had about 1/4 of a tank-not so bad. "No probelm" I thought, "I'll just fill up on the way home tonight." WRONG!!! When I got back in the car my gas meter had dropped to E and the gas light was on. Yikes! When did That happen? So I went on my merry way to get gas. There was none in Roswell so I went over to Marietta thinking that I might get lucky and find some there. I did. So I manovered my way into the long line of other cars thirsty for gas. I waited...and waited...and waited.....and finally got up to the pump only to be shooed away by a gas station employee...they had ran out of gas just as it was my turn. AHHH!!! So i cruised around on fumes for what seemed like forever-no one had anything. I decided that I would just get back on the interstate and pray that there would be some near...very near. A hour and a half later I finally found gas at a tucked away cheveron in Smryna for $4.39 a gallon. God must have REALLY heard my prayers-because I drove around for 30 miles on E.

On that note, I would really love to shoutout how wonderful the people in the Atlanta Wind Symphony are. I have never met a group of people that were so nice to one another. I am the only member driving from Alabama and I have had 2 people offer to let me stay at their home for the dress rehearsal. That just really touched me. Also, one member even burned me several copies of past performances. Everyone is just so kind and takes the time to talk to me and tell me that they are so glad that I am performing with them this season. It just really warms my heart that there are still people like this in the world. Just thought that I'd share!:) Have a wonderful day!

Hair DISASTER!!!

I had to blog this before I forget this. {Although I really don't think that I will!}
I love dark hair. My hair is a lighter/medium brown and it's blah. I have always dyed my hair a nice dark brown. The other night Kendall's allergies were horriable and so we went to wal-mart to get some medicine. While we were there I decided that my hair was looking quite brassy and dull so I went to check out the hair color section. Instead of picking up my usual I decided that I would be adventrous and try a new color-so as I was comparing the hair on the boxes Kendall was ready to go. "Which one do you think looks the best?" I asked holding up two boxes with dark haired girls on the front. "That one!" Kendall said. "Now let's go." [his allergies were really bad-poor guy] The next day I was way excited to dye my hair. I looked at the box and to my surprise it said "natural soft black." 'It's ok," I thought,"the girl on the box has dark BROWN hair not BLACK hair." So I dyed it and to my horror it was jet black! The worst part was that I must have royally screwed up putting it in and there were large spots on my hair with my natural hair color blaring through. I looked like a cheata! AHHH! So I called the hairgoddess herself-also known as Leigh. She told me to wash the silliness out of the hair and hope that it fades. I washed it 8 times. It did fade....a little bit. We went on an emergency run for more hair dye and got a darker brown that did the trick filling in those pesky cheta spots. So now it just looks like I have chesnut brown hightlights. Sorry no pictures for this one. Ha! I can laugh at myself now. But from now on I think that I'll stick to hair dye with BROWN on it and not dye it myself anymore...I just don't think that I trust myself after this. LOL.

Happy Birthday to Me!

I really hate birthdays. I think that I started to hate them when I turned 16. Before that I LOVED them. ha! This year's birthday was a lot of fun though. Last Sunday, my parents celebrated with me a little early-[my birthday is on 9.16] they cooked a great lunch for us at their house-complete with a birthday cake. Yummm! They gave me 5 days of their time share. So we are going to Panama City Beach on October 13th! YEA! The place that we are staying is super nice-it's right on the beach and has a huge balcony to sit on! :) We can hardly wait-we've been planning on an anniversary vacation for some time now. Originally we were going to Dauphin Island but we'll go there next time. On Monday Kendall surprised me with a new PINK Nintendo DS. I had one of the older models and LOVED the thing-until about a year and half ago the top screen messed up.:( We are both total nerds and love to play Brain Age on it. ha!
Then on my actual birthday Kendall had to work so Kat celebrated with me by taking me out to lunch. On my way to symphony practice several of my friends called to wish me a happy birthday. It was just so sweet! I have the BEST friends! Then this Sunday we celebrated with Kendall's family. His parents have the same birthday 9.21. So they cooked dinner and his sister brought an awesome bunt cake. I love Kendall's family-I'm such a lucky girl to have great friends and family. So I guess that that concludes my 25th birthday. It just doesn't seem like I should be a quarter of a century old.

bored.

So I'm still up thinking of cute names for my {hopefully} d0ggie! So here they are:

• Dawson
• Lawrence
• Alexander
• Oliver
• Paisley
• Marley

Someone out there, please help me decide!:) Pretty please, I'm terrible at decision making!

Such a Sweet Boy!

This is my dream dog! I have wanted a dog for a very long time now. Kendall isn't very keen on dogs-he' a Cat lover. However, after watching Molly he has definitely begun to warm up to her! It really is cute to see her laying on him! I'm pretty sure that I want a Maltese. Brittany's is so sweet and well tempered. Plus, she LOVES to lay in my lap-my very favorite thing! I was looking online tonight for dogs and came across this sweet face! He's at a shelter in SC-about 5 hours away. Kendall told me to call them tomorrow and get all of the details. I hope that everything works out-I'm absolutely head over heels in love with him. My birthday is in 5 days and this little fellow would be the very best birthday present I ever got. I've had a list of favorite pet names on my computer for awhile and have just about decided on Dawson. Just look at that sweet little face-don't you just love him too?

9.10.2008

it's kinda sad that I haven't posted in such a long time. Sooo, guess this one will just have to recap what I've been up to lately!:)This is my sister's Maltese and I'm absolutely IN LOVE with her! Her name is Molly and I have got to dog sit her a few times over the last couple of weeks. We have had such a great time! We watched a couple of movies, she hung out with me while I edited photos, and of course we did a makeover and a photo shoot!:) (sorry that these are kind of snapshotty)

She's a hello Kitty girl!

She even let me give her some wacky hair!

I also got to have some photo-fun with this sweet little girl! and this sweet boy! He was eating watermelon.

Thanks so much Judy for letting me take pictures of your sweet children!

I was going through my files of Sophie pics when I found this one. I think that I have a new favorite! Just look how much she's grown in these past few months! I'll have the rest of the pics for you soon Judy! My program has decided to be a meanie lately! :(I'm so behind on my photography and graphic design stuff! My computer has decided to start acting up and that has really put me behind. I also had a fun time taking pictures in Gadsden the other night! I contribute pictures to the LongLeaf Magazine and went to take pictures of these great vintage cars! It was so much fun!

In other news,

On Saturday my friend Kat and I went horseback riding with a good friend of ours. More on that and pictures to come soon!

I made the Atlanta Wind Symphony!!!! I found out that they were auditioning a few days before and didn't think that I could make it but Kendall talked me into it. We've had a few rehearsals and I'm having a wonderful time! I'm just so thankful that this ensemble exists! I didn't want to quit playing forever.

Whew! That made me tired just thinking about the last couple of weeks! :) Have a wonderful day!