So I would have to say that the biggest project I had within Section One of my 101 List was creating a portfolio website. And it's officially finished. 2.75 years ago when I started this 101 Things extravaganza, I had very minimal web experience. All I really knew was basic HTML you'd need for blogs and such. Like how to make something bold? Haha! So when I finally cracked the whip and decided to buckle down and start this project, it was quite an ordeal. Please refresh your memory at my post "I hate web design." Well, now here I am today and not only is it a major part of my JOB, but I actually set out with a portfolio site design in my head, designed it on paper, and coded it from scratch for screen. If I really sit down and think about it, I can't believe it, especially considering how much trouble I had when I began. So without further ado:
www.katienelsondesign.com
It's simple yes, but it's clean and crisp too. And I'm pretty proud! Um, if you can't tell that from my gushing over here. But I gush in case someone with minimal web experience yearning for more stumbles upon this blog and gets the message: No you CAN do it!!!
In other task completion news, like I mentioned in the last post, I went to the opera Barber of Seville (#36), which was all kinds of entertaining! I threw together some Chicken Curry and Asian Fruit Salad for Chris and I and watched the outdoor double feature of Night of the Living Dead (#16). Very very cool. I switched the "get shoes" "get boots" "splurge on this" "splurge on that" tasks like a million times (#52/53). When all was said and done I bought a $70ish pair of black shoes awhile back, a $100 pair of running shoes last spring, and a $70ish pair of black boots this weekend (actually they were only like $20 on sale!)
There you go! Mostly I'm just buzzing on the whole website deal. I mean I read that old post of mine, and I was seriously ready to give up! I thought I'd never crack the code, pun intended. Between this and running, maybe things AREN'T so impossible :)
Monday, September 28, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
It's the FINAL Countdown!
First of all, I got to cross one more thing off my list! #47 - make sushi! Almost three years in the making jeez. I think I was building it up to be way harder than it was. It's more time intensive than anything...you have to pay attention to each step, but it's not *difficult per se. But I was really proud of myself afterward!
I'm also going to see an opera which I didn't think possible! This morning a coworker sent out an email with two FREE tickets to Barber of Seville! I requested them, but it was too late. Then later this afternoon I find out that a close friend here at work was the one who snagged them and he asked if I wanted to go! Sweet sweet action!!
Other than that, there is plenty on the list that I will NOT accomplish, but in the next month and a half here is a list of things I WILL get done:
1. Put up the web section, as well as the miscellaneous section of my website and call it a day (#2). ...no "calling of days" it is friggin COMPLETE!!
2. Come up with like 25 solid recipes that will be put into a book eventually (I would like to make them all but take really good photos of each recipe...this requires money for each dish which I obviously can't do all at once!) (#3 & #11)
3. Come up with a quick "picnic" to bring to Night of the Living Dead Friday Flick tomorrow night. Random right? But hey, it's by the lakefront and it's with Chris...so there you have it (#16).
4. Go see Barber of Seville next Wednesday (#36).
5. Hook myself up with a pair of boots at Kohls during some mega sale (#53).
6. Get my haircut one last time, but also get it colored, and that'll take care of the one haircut I'll skip out on (#54).
7. Begin the major reOrg/clean job known as MOVING to prepare for the possible Big Move in January (#63).
8. Attempt to give platelets one final time (#69).
9. Get on that AntiParkingNazi biz (#73)!
10. Find all the random mix cds laying around my car and house and just drop 'em off all over town one day when I'm tooling around on errands (#79).
11. Al's Run - Oct 10th! (#97)
12. Starting Oct 1st: on ALL weekdays, get up at 6am no matter what. This will force me NOT to stay out late (drinking) and perhaps get more done! If I run in the morning, I will have more time after work to do other things. This will double as my "give up" for the month (#99 & #51).
So that's what I'll do in the next six weeks! I work best under pressure with a short deadline questionmark???
I'm also going to see an opera which I didn't think possible! This morning a coworker sent out an email with two FREE tickets to Barber of Seville! I requested them, but it was too late. Then later this afternoon I find out that a close friend here at work was the one who snagged them and he asked if I wanted to go! Sweet sweet action!!
Other than that, there is plenty on the list that I will NOT accomplish, but in the next month and a half here is a list of things I WILL get done:
2. Come up with like 25 solid recipes that will be put into a book eventually (I would like to make them all but take really good photos of each recipe...this requires money for each dish which I obviously can't do all at once!) (#3 & #11)
6. Get my haircut one last time, but also get it colored, and that'll take care of the one haircut I'll skip out on (#54).
7. Begin the major reOrg/clean job known as MOVING to prepare for the possible Big Move in January (#63).
8. Attempt to give platelets one final time (#69).
10. Find all the random mix cds laying around my car and house and just drop 'em off all over town one day when I'm tooling around on errands (#79).
So that's what I'll do in the next six weeks! I work best under pressure with a short deadline questionmark???
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