Changes

Changes. That's what has been going on. 

My blog looks a but different these days. It's probably just a temporary change since I'm permanently dissatisfied with the look, but never committed enough to really fix what I want. Life goes on.

I'm a college graduate now, and have been living with my parents for nearly a month. I've returned to the house I grew up in, cats & few selected possessions in tow, to figure out where to go. To use this as an opportunity to be a floater, to be without a lease and rent to hold me down, to let the right job be an anchor. Find a job, then plant some roots.

This all sounds like a splendid plan, except for the fact that I am  impatient. Three weeks has felt like an eternity. I know I'm being dramatic, but I will continue to hope that every single day will be the day that the perfect job and the new apartment will all fall into place. So, fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Charlie and I spent a couple days in Milwaukee, walking around, pondering if it is a place we could call home. We stayed with Charlie's brother Jeremy and his girlfriend Vanessa. I wish I would have taken more photos during the visit. The above photo of Charlie was taken in their home. There is a comforting and all around pleasant feeling I get whenever we spend time with those two. Though I'm not sure if Milwaukee will be our future home, I sure do like spending time with the people I know there.

So for now I am spending my days working a few hours here and there, helping a friend decorate her apartment (living vicariously), doing odd chores around my parents home, and job & apartment hunting like it is my job.

On that note, I am done with college now, so send your design and/or photographic projects over to me. My doors are open for business. You can even see my website by clicking the portfolio link on the right side bar.

Love,

Lu

P.S. fun fact: it's a saturday night. I'm watching You've Got Mail, and am making serious plans to take a bath. Welcome to my life.

These Days

Hey friends,

Something wild happened today, in the blink of an eye my life suddenly became very very busy. I woke up and began my day disconnected with the reality of my life. I thought this week would breeze by and I would float through my three day school week, and find my pleasantly eventful weekend at the end.

Well, what a joke those thoughts were.

As of today these things became parts of my life:

- I am a hostess to an out of town friend, who is visiting for us to tie up loose ends of some design work, which means trying to make my apartment look cleaner, and actually devoting some time to organizing this design project.

- Homework is real in my life. I've spent the last three weeks mainly ignoring it, and now it's here at my doorstep, needing to be worked on, and there's a lot of it. Naturally this is difficult to accept, since my mentality is three months ahead of my reality, waiting for graduation.

- I got a new job, that involves a commute to a neighboring city. I am very very thrilled by this opportunity, but for the next week or so it will be a bit complicated while I finish up my last shifts at my previous job, which usually takes over my weekend.

- A vet appointment snuck up on me, so I will be driving to a suburb to take my cat to a low-cost clinic for vaccine updates.

- I will also be making a day trip to Oshkosh on Sunday to meet with my favorite bride Dani to map out a design plan for invitations.

- Aside from these bigger things worth noting, there is also a never ending list of small tasks, chores, and errands that need to be taken care of this week. I won't list them all, because that would be annoying, but knowing they are hanging around each corner might be most stressful.

Ok now it's all out in words, and even that makes me feel a bit better, sort of like list making therapy I guess. Hopefully I make this week successful, and can stay more put together in weeks to come. 

Oh, happy Valentines Day! This is a small clipping from a digital collage type of shoe advertisement assignment I am working on for the Valentines Day season.

Lu