Christmas Eve

I am fond my my Christmas eve tradition to watch 'White Christmas' every christmas eve at night. I usually end up falling asleep when they start singing the snow song on the train. Haha

This is something I started with my mother and little sister. We would stay away and watch it every year and it just makes me happy to think about spending that time with them.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas.

Holidays 2009

This is my favorite time of the year. There is excitement and happiness around. This year I am spending it the season in a random and weird way. I am house and cat sitting, doggie sitting (at a different house), spending time with family, flying to freezing temps and just the usually working on top of all of it.

The family which I am spending time with ranges from new friends to old friends to actual family members. So I cant say I have a lonely holiday season but an interesting one and busy season. I will be taking a road trip soon traveling across the country again. This time I am excited to see Mount Rushmore and SNOW. This LA girl is totally crushing on some snow time.

Here is to the last day of work for the week. Have a great Holiday and wonderful weekend. May you not get fruitcake and the boring pajamas.

Heartbreak

Recently I had my heart broken. And it was the worse kind. It was the kind of heartbreak that you do to yourself. It is when you build yourself up with excitement for something, anything and then it does not happen.

That something can be love, friendship, a great planned day or any damn thing that you get excited about. I tend to do this often. I get excited about going to a place, or doing things with friends, or basically damn near anything. I love this about myself. I know I can be happy with little but dream for so much more.

Well recently, I applied for a job. Many people would not believe this job to be a dream job but to me I thought it was PERFECT. I would have been able to stretch my wings and soar. I would have been working with amazing people and I would have been building something that I strongly believed in.

Needless to say I was not offered the job, after three rounds of interviews and countless, let me say that again, countless hours of dreaming and planning, and devising my plan of attack for what I would change or what I would hope to improve within myself. For a short while I thought about how bad I felt when I heard this news and I thought about how upset I was, then I thought why do I let myself get so excited about something.

I was ready to trade in my excitement and zest for life because I did not want the pain of disappointment again. Well that lasted for about an hour of self pity and self loathing. then I realized that I would do it all over again because I love how I feel when I am hopeful for a better future, hopeful to expect the best from people and hopeful for life each day. I would never trade any of my dreams and wishes just because a few people did not see what I know I can do or what I know I am worth.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I love this time of year. I enjoy Thanksgiving as the start of the holiday season. I will be bringing out the holiday music and the christmas socks soon. I know there could be a debate about christmas socks.

I am thankful for som many things in my life. I am thankful for my family and friends number one and foremost. I am blessed with the best people in my life from my sister to my girlfriends in LA and my sisters in Ohio. This time of year reminds me of family and great friends and haoppy movies. I'm excited for the ABC count down to Christmas!

Have a great Day!

Interviewing

I recently have been on a few interviews. Interviewing is a fun past time for me. I like to spend time meeting people and learning about how they work. I have found many different ways to do the same thing that I do. I like each different perspective and how others ideas are implemented.

In the interaction design world there are so many different ways to work and to call ourselves and different jobs. There are business analyst, program managers, interaction designer, user experience specialist, human factors engineers, industrial designer, etc. We all do one thing, make sure the human can use technology with ease and making technology work for us in the most efficient way.

I love what I do and I love being a part of this exciting field and ever changing industry. It is really fantastic that we are finally getting world wide recognition.

Feeling Helpless

What to do when you can do nothing? This is a question I am faced with now. I have friends going through a tough situation and I can do nothing to help. I am thousands of miles away and just my positive thoughts and prayers go to them. I am hopeful that brighter days will come and I wish they would have the same faith.

We can always ask why when negative things happen or we can focus on the glimmer of positive in each day. One can hope that there is a reason for everything that happens. Love is hard to give and hard to receive. For my friends to receive the love that I and many others are sending is going to be difficult.

When there is nothing else to do, just love.

LA single scene

Well, I have been single in the city for a while now. There are so many interesting people to meet in this city. There are a ton of fun and "single acceptable" things to do. "Single Acceptable" are events, locations, and places where you feel comfortable being alone.

I technically live in Orange Country in the city of Anaheim Hills, I work in downtown LA and usually hang out in Hollywood. I feel like the entire area has become my home and more recently I have been wondering down to San Diego. I have a larger personal geographical range than I did in Ohio.

I have found that I love doing new things alone and understanding my surroundings. I want to keep you updated on my adventures of life in SoCal.

Time flies

It has been almost two years since my last blog. I now live in Los Angeles and I love every minute of it. I am going to keep this more up to date. I don't know what my topics are going to be dance, single life in LA, and information architecture. Let's see where we can go from there.