Well, the day has come around again as it does every year. The day I was born. I am twenty-friggin-eight years old!
This last year has been quite the whirlwind for me personally. My little universe has taken a quite literal 180-degree turn:
- Most importantly, I am engaged now which actually happened on this very day, one year ago. Kel is the most amazing person I could’ve ever stumbled upon in this crazy world of ours. I cannot even explain how much she means to me. I also cannot explain the excrutiatingly annoying parts of my personality that she is succumbed to on a daily basis. How she keeps her sanity without stabbing me in the face, I may never know — but I will absolutely love her for it (and countless other things) for forever and evers.
- I have also reclaimed my spot in the world of web design! For 3 years I was out of the industry, essentially getting a paycheck. I miss the people at my old job to this day — that was never the problem (95% of the time). But I have missed design in general, for too long and am very appreciative of the opportunity to rejoin the legions and work my ass off.During my absence from the design world I always dabbled in it. I always looked at design sites or talked to buddies still in the industry to try and keep up with things. I worked on a magazine for some freelance work. But you never really can keep up it seems, unless you’re 100% in it all day, every day. I felt like I was always on the outside looking in at the people inside making awesomeness.
Towards the end of my time in the outside world (so to speak), I started realizing the amount of second guessing I was doing about myself was ridiculous. Confidence has never been one of my strong suits but thinking I was so far out of the game that I could never get back in was utterly ridiculous. That’s about when I started looking for an escape from Corporate America.
On a daily basis, I am now being immersed in the industry I’ve wanted to rejoin. CSS is being learned (and browser tested), design skills are getting polished, I am good enough, I am finding a million great resources, friends (who I owe muchas cervezas) are helping me through trouble spots, and I am rediscovering the power of the Internet outside the universe of online payments & ecommerce. It has been utterly fantastic.
Life has been good to me over the last year. It also feels good to finally have some motivation to get moving on personal projects. This blog is the first of many to come. I feel an over-whelming urge to say something motivational (a.k.a. cheesy) and tie this whole birthday blog extravaganza together so :
Life is crazy. If you wait long enough, it’ll get fucking nuts on ya.
And I mean that in the best way possible.
Later Gators.
