Mundane Mondays

Nothing too exciting happens on Mondays for me anymore. It just seems to be the day to catch up after the weekend, and since I was gone this weekend, it's nice to be able to sit here and catch up.


I've been here for 4 months now and I still have yet to unpack my coffee pot, which as most of the world knows, is probably the first thing that should be unpacked after moving! So instead of my morning coffee lately it's been whatever is cold in the  fridge - so water. I need to go shopping and maybe get some coffee and some cream, because of course you can't have coffee without a really amazing cream.

So, I'm sitting here, drinking water, and going through some of my photos I took from this weekend at the zoo. We headed down to the cities this weekend to spend my husbands birthday weekend with his family. Since the weather wasn't the greatest for fishing we decided to hit up the Minnesota Zoo. I've been there a few times and now and I've never seen the animals up and so active - except the bears of course. They still dig the holes and take a nap just about every time I've seen them. But they're still incredibly cute and even despite their massive paws (and claws!) I still think it'd be fun to cuddle up with them. Maybe while they're sedated, heavily, more like knocked out...



The coyotes were up and racing around though. I felt like the one was just checking the fences to make sure they were secure, and then posing for pictures. The wolves were up and about as well. I've always witnessed them during nap time - so when they were right up next to the glass it was breathtaking! They are far larger then I remember and just beautiful.





It's always fun to walk around the zoo, and it's even more fun when I actually remember to bring my camera!

Thoughtful Thursday?

Where do you go to get feedback on your designs when you do contract/freelance design work? I'm use to working within a team where I can bounce ideas off of others who know what I'm trying to get across and they'd either say something that sparked a new concept or just sat and listened (or at least pretended too!). Now I find myself going to other websites for inspiration. Unfortunately, I'm addicted to Pinterest now so I lose track of time and before I even realize it I have to get up and leave.

My husband is great at trying to help. But as he's a programmer, asking which shade of red looks better is like asking me to look at code and tell him where the bug is - to me, it's all buggy. For all I know it's a swarm of mosquitoes carrying random symbols around a black and green screen... which I would love to make look better for him! But apparently the whole black and green thing is normal and he enjoys it, I could use a little more color though.

But, as I've nothing too exciting to discuss I'll leave you to whatever it was you were doing until you somehow managed to stumble into my ramblings - which is obviously a work in progress.

I'm Back!

Well, I'm back! Not sure where I was the last few months - somewhere between getting married, moving and trying to find more work I got lost just enjoying my time away from an 8-5 desk job! Now don't get me wrong, I really miss the social aspect of the working in cubbies as I'm in a new location and still working on getting out and networking. Hopefully I'll be able to keep this a little more up to date now that I'm getting settled in to a schedule. Thanks to everyone so far who have helped me get to this point!