I have sixteen more days before I fail my “easy” goal of putting up my newly designed website by the end of this month. It was almost a whole month ago that I set that goal!

Here’s the thing - it had been slow at work. All the design that I had created by that point had been created while there was no billable work to be done. I have to say, I’m pretty happy with the way that the design turned out. If I stop blogging and start cutting up my site, I could at least have a new theme for my blog done by the end of the day. For some reason I find the thought of cutting up my design on my laptop daunting. Maybe it’s because the monitor I’ve been using at work has spoiled me - it’s way bigger.

I’m going to stop complaining and start working.

I am seriously, at this moment, working on a comp for this website! (Not just the blog, the website.) I hope to have my portfolio up and running by the end of next month.

Set easy goals and you’re bound to complete them.

Yesterday, I stuffed my face until I could barely breathe. A few hours later, I ate three slices of pie, watched a movie and went to bed, still full of food.

Today, although I didn’t want to fight the crowd, I decided to go shopping! Scary. It wasn’t so bad, since John and I left around 11:30am-I think all of the crazy people had gone home to sleep.

When we got home from our shopping adventures, I finished painting the box I’d been working on. We went to Michaels last weekend because I had a strong urge to get some canvas so I could paint something for our walls. Along with the canvas, I ended up buying a wooden box to paint so that I could have a place for all of the Yankee Candle Tarts® I’ve been collecting. (These things are addictive!)

I’m pleased with the outcome, especially since I didn’t have a plan for how it should look. It was more of a free-association artistic expression. Something different from the careful planning and analysis that goes into designing a website.