Flickr

Check out my attempt at photography on Flickr.



http://www.flickr.com/heypixie

Virgin Suicide

Finished this morning :)

F My Life

http://www.fmylife.com

My new favorite website.

Blackberry vs iPhone

Blackberry Bold or iPhone?

Humble Voice

I found this awesome social networking site for the creative side of the spectrum. It's called Humble Voice, and it's where artists share their work with each other and socialize with others that have similar interests and visions. I've been really into graphic design since I was 13... and since ES has been down for me so much lately, I'm going through withdrawal, so I'm pretty stoked to find HV. There's so many inspiring works and people on there! It's still beta though, so it's testing- the final site has not been launched yet.

PS. My profile is up, but I haven't finished uploading. I have so much junk on my computer to go through to pick out what I want to add. If you feel so inclined to check the site out and join, help me out by listing me as your referrer!

Pumpkin carvings

I've been at a loss of what kind of pattern I want to carve our pumpkin this year for Halloween. It's almost here! We got this gorgeous, big pumpkin yesterday and I can't wait to carve it and put it out on the porch. We have a tradition of baking the pumpkin seeds afterward too. While I was looking up patterns online, I found this really cool photo editorial of some really awesome pumpkin carvings. I wish I were able to do that, but I don't have a steady hand, and I'm only armed with a butcher knife. (What kind of idiot let me handle a butcher knife by myself anyway?)

I really wanted a Karen Cooper (Night of the Living Dead) pumpkin, but we're not pros. Who knows though, we might end up trying to attempt it anyway. There's a nice pattern at ZombiePumpkins, but I don't have the money to pay for it.

Two cool Karen pumpkins I found (the 2nd one is obviously far more advanced than I'm even willing to attempt, but worth mentioning nonetheless):



Edit: We ended up carving this pattern. It's the pumpkin that appears on the porch in the original Halloween film. Wahooo!

End of the year resolutions

A few things I hope to get accomplished before the end of the year:

- Lose 10lbs
- More coffee and water, less soda
- Write more
- Be more optimistic, less pessimistic
- More independent, less dependent
- Stop over-thinking and over-analyzing
- Less fast food
- More exercise
- Save more money
- Be more comfortable driving
- Stop procrastinating so much on laundry, cleaning

That's a lot, but I'm up for the challenge.