Literally so so so busy!!!!! I started a real job.... I'm a real life adult now! Yea! Working on a ton of projects and hopefully will finish them soon.

Until then.....

Manda

Ah so I haven't done anything recently because of my new addiction.... Mad Men. I love this show despite the sexism and constant smoking I love it! But I also have any obsession with "vintage." Speaking of vintage for my graduation my grandma bought me a book of old matchbooks.... now I'm not talking like an book from borders I'm talking about a book that somebody spent years compiling of match books that they collected on their travels.... and whoever this was did a lot of traveling. I really want to know who made this book.... I sometimes try to imagine who they were and I've come up with some pretty good things I think:

1) A hoarder.... this person kept everything like you see on and A&E their house was overloaded with junk and craziness and the matchbooks from all around were dumpster dived out. I hope its not this one because that is effing nasty if it is.

2) This person was either a wife of a truck driver or a truck driver because they're are some "dirty" ones in there if you know what I mean.... One of them advertises good food and sanitation... very good to know.

3) The last thing I've come up with this person was a graphic designer before their time and just had an eye for good typography and cool designs. Some of the designs on these matchbooks are amazing! So cool... so inspiring love it. By far one of my favorite gifts that I got for my college graduation... my G-ma is awesome like that.

....oh and one more thing .....they were slightly racist back then as well so you are warned..

Seeing as everybody has realized the downfall of smoking... like it will kill you.....nobody really has a need for matchbooks anymore... I mean a person can only light so many candles... I take that back marijuana is basically legal and so I say matchbooks should make a comeback because they are way more exciting then business cards, what promotional stuff would you rather receive something that lights on fire or something that will light a fire? If you don't hear from me in a while its because I'm sucked into season two of Mad Men... bon voyage.

So I've decided to make a list of things I want to accomplish this summer. I feel like I need to set goals or else I will just work and take naps so here is a "I hope to get off my lazy ass" list:

1)Hike to horsetooth

2) Take and publish a picture everyday!

3) Finish my mom's website (That is a must)

4) Go on a road trip

5) Get a t-shirt design onto threadless

6) Go to the drive in

7) Go to a concert at Misuaka

8) Camping trip!!!!!

.....well on the car ride home from work I had a great list but this one I guess will have to be a work in progress! This isn't a very exciting post because its been a long long week and its wednesday!

I finally graduated from CSU!!!!!! After 3 long hours of listening to names being called I finally got to move my tassel and throw my hat... accidently striking the girl in front of me! So after thinking a lot about it I decided there was a lot of things I learned in college... a lot of important lessons for life and narrowed it down to a few things

1) Shots of Jager= puke on your own shoes

2) Don't let people tell you what to do!

3) Breakups are good for weight loss

4) Don't always judge a book by its cover but sometimes it's a good idea

5) Say Please and Thank you

6) Don't be rude to your servers

7)Disney movies really help teach you life lessons

8) Some times things turn out way better then what you had in mind

9) SPELL CHECK!

10) No matter how mature you are drawing from a live nude model is always uncomfortable

11) Wearing flip flops to parties is never smart

12) Don't put bra's in the dryer

13) Your mom was always right

14) Parallel Parking

15) To laugh at your mistakes because... well there are quite a few of those in college

16) Dream big

Congrats to the class of 2010! Good look on the job hunt!

So after having "one of those weeks" of finding a spelling error on my expensive letter press
business cards, not finding a job and other petty mishaps I came across this magnet at a Walgreens while buying hydrogen peroxide for the cuts on my leg. There was tons of these random little magnets. When I asked Cody who thinks of these things the cashier's reply was "Someone who is on something!" Which made the magnet even better. SO after this week of feeling like life is crap I had to laugh and I realized that at least I didn't get hit in the face with a rake, I'm not a cashier at walgreens and well that I'm not on anything.... so right now I guess things really aren't that bad.

A real Website oh boy!

My Website is finally working! After only 3 months of coding and pulling my hair out it finally is up and running!!! I'm going to actually start blogging now instead of using this as my portfolio site! Now people will believe me when I say that I can make websites! So after learning these last couple weeks that I have a serious issue with spelling I also got to meet Johnny Cupcakes. For those of you who don't know who that is he is literally an accidental t-shirt designer that has developed a cult following. Cody (my bf) doesn't get the big deal about him but I guess its a design thing because he is my hero! Of course when it came time to meeting him all I could say was would you sign this for me? Lame! The four hour wait to meet him and a buy a shirt was totally worth it! So next on the agenda is learn to spell or find somebody to read everything for me to point on the errors! Enjoy my website!!!

www.amandalesh.com