Why did you say so

I love my job. There are few things in my life that I love more than my job. I have a tremendous amount of freedom in the diversity of the work I do and I have a tremendous amount of freedom when I’m allowed to do it.

I got an e-mail at 2:21AM that I had to respond to immediately so now I’m up. This is the nature of how I work. My biological clock doesn’t usually get me up until at least 4AM so I thought I would kill a little awake time with my news reader.

Have you ever had those people you’re just drawn to? It’s like, despite everything, you can’t help but want to be around them? kRob is one of those people for me. Somebody I’ve known for almost 4 years now. We have the same birthday and despite living in separate states we’ve always managed to remain good friends.

Last week it was making a cup of coffee and virtually sending it to Kristi cause she sucks at making coffee. Last night was letting my friend come over to watch the Jazz game only to have him dump his dog on me so he could go see a Sundance movie. I could go on but I won’t.

So this doesn’t get long I’ll just say that it’s nice to get some words of affirmation for a change. Lately I have been giving so much of myself to my friends and have felt a little lost in doing so. It’s time for a bit more me time.

Aggressively Passive

• I feel so much more at home on a Mac than I do on a PC. I’ve used PCs way more in my life.
• Today seems to be bring your mac to work day
• The only reason I do design for Ferrari Color is because the alternative is horrifying
• Pike’s Place is the only Starbucks Coffee I really like, I ran out of filters so I had to bite the bullet today
• I love my camera beyond words, and my 50mm f1.4 lens.
• Oooh, I love Garamond Pro Open Type too
• Fishing for interest gets a bit old, Forest Gumping your love life does not.
• I wish I would have written the song “Heaven” by Angels and Airwaves, such a beautiful song in a non-conventional way
• I’m going to start keeping track of my recipes on my Kindle
• I wonder if they’ve posted the Grizzlies schedule… hmm.
• I have an e-mail about the graphic design industry that I have to write. To someone’s brother no less. What makes me the expert? I stop designing for a living a long time ago.
• My renewal for chaddock-ind.com comes up next month, I’m seriously considering not registering it again.
• I still don’t want to hook up with your sister
• Found out about the band Beach House last night (a bunch of my friends went in PC). Not too shabby, check them out.
• Good lord have I missed my main music collection, I’m so happy right now. I haven’t heard falling slowly in such a long time
• I love Rod Stewart… and David Duchovny… and your mom.
• Vagabond Heart changed my outlook on music. So did 3EB’s self titled album. So did your mom.
• Affairs aren’t really that funny.
• I stumbled on a shit-ton of old pictures yesterday.
• Jen and I were going to name our kids Aiden and Lola, I sort of wrote a story about them yesterday.
• Is that weird? It feels like it.
• I still like cliche emo lyrics: “We were starring at the stars and we heard a clap of thunder. Then the moon gave away to rain and it tore apart the sky. So we laid flat on our backs, cause in the rain no one knows your crying.” “I swear I’ll give you everything, that is me.”
• Grape juice has more anti-oxidants than Orange Juice
• I should be working right now, if there is one thing I know I’m awesome at it’s procrastinating.
• I pretty much went to work yesterday for 6 hours only to procrastinate doing the work I should have been doing
• I’m hungry. I need to get to work.
• Needing words of affirmation is not the most awesome thing I’ve needed in the last little bit.
• Sometime Later by Alpha is such a sexy song.
• So is Look at Me by Villeneuve. “I know it’s all about the way you feel inside me, keep your eyes wide open and look at me now.”
• He says his body’s too old for workin, his body’s too young to look like his
• My work e-mail hasn’t worked on my phone for almost a week. It’s been rather peaceful.
• I’m excited to watch Steve Nash scurry around EA tonight. I’m also excited to see the jazz win.

funky fresh bits and pieces

I learned how to do a full windsor knot today. Tie fetish is getting out of hand.

I’m starting to toy with the idea of reducing my internet footprint, but my gut is telling me I’d be back sooner or later so there wouldn’t really be any point. I’ve been feeling technologically claustrophobic lately and private posts haven’t been hitting the spot. brownglassbottles.net is totally available!

I got out of my “date” tonight. After I started thinking a little bit about my week long tour in bad-decisionville I decided it was probably a good idea to put a stop to it.

Yesterday I found out I’m an INFJ personality. The good news is that I have the most unique personality (1%). The bad news is that I still don’t like tests like this. I don’t like to be pigeon holed into something. “You must answer yes or no” There was probably about half the questions I could have gone the other way. Where does that put me?

Speaking of which, what ever happened to the band Grey Area. They were cool.

I had such an awesome morning yesterday and it pretty much carried on until the jazz game. I should have gone home after the game, I was so tired. Always listen to your gut, not your friends.

I’m also putting my foot down. People that say they don’t cook bug me. It’s not “I don’t like to cook.” or “I’m not good at cooking.” it’s “I don’t cook” Really? Well I don’t fix things, build things, or get dirty. I keep seeing this theme come up more and more. Fixing things is probably one of my favorite things to do… shit, I spent way too much time fixing my friends computer yesterday… but I got to say what was once broken is now fixed. I couldn’t fathom making such a definitive remark like “I don’t do _______.”

Somebody asked me last night if I would ever get cosmetic surgery on my back. It’s something I haven’t thought about for such a long time. Actually, for a long time I wanted to fix it… basically the whole time I couldn’t fix it. Now, it just seems like part of me. Even if a billion dollars landed in my lap, I don’t think I would.

Lastly, Dr. Pepper makes a better morning drink than it does an any other time of the day drink. I’m glad I’m capping off this tour with some DP and some GTDing. I needed it.

Toppers

Everyone seemed to be down on 2009. I actually quite enjoyed it, and am hoping for 2010 to be just as good. My top moments in 2009 (in order of me remembering them)…

1. Going to lunch and the Beerhive with JenOne.
2. Costa Rica with Emily
3. Hosting a fall party with two home brews and hand made pizza
4. Tearing down my wall, running new electrical, painting, mounting tv
5. Paying off my car
6. Getting a new shower head
7. Learning a ton about coffee and beer
8. Sundance and hiking with great friends
9. The trip to Zion with Emily
10. Snowboarding more than I thought I would

chutes and ladders

2010 is going to be big for me. In many ways it will be bigger than 2007, and that was by far the most transformative year of my life. So many things that I have been working on for over 5 years will come to fruition in a way that will change my life forever. 2010 should end with 6 months to go before my 30th birthday and all the goals I’ve outlined for my life to be completely accomplished. If 2010 goes the way I expect it to, I won’t go into my 30’s with the distain I see on most faces, but with the excitement that I made the most of my 20’s and ultimately came out on top. …and if I don’t succeed? Failure really isn’t an option.