I am not a great public speaker. I'm not the worst, but usually, what I end up saying is MAYBE 50% what I planned to say. The other 50%, who knows where it comes from. I really am a rabbit chaser. So often times, when I sit down after giving a speech, or whatever it is that I had to say, I think to myself, 'I have no idea what I just said'. It always makes me giggle, and sometimes makes me nervous (what if I said something offensive - haha!) Well... there is a certain person in my life that I encounter a couple of times a month in a lecture setting. I don't want to sound mean, because I can totally relate! But listening to this person talk always makes me think of ME and wonder if that is what I sound like when I start to ramble, because seriously – I can listen for 30 minutes straight and at the end of the meeting I feel like this person has said nothing. How do you talk for 30 minutes without saying ANYTHING? I mean, it's harmless mostly, but it used to drive me crazy! I haven't always been on the greatest terms with this person, and it used to aggravate me because I felt like I was wasting my time listening to 30 minutes of nothing. But now I just giggle and try to supportive. It's not exactly like the "wah wah"s from the teacher on Charlie Brown, but it is close.
New topic.
I, like every serious designer (wink) am a Mac user. There are TONS of things that I love about my mac, but somewhere near the top of the list is a little thing called a widget. I heart my widgets. I don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but I will explain anyways. Widgets are little gadgets that appear on your desktop (sort of... they kind of become a second desktop, called a dashboard, over your actual desktop) when you press a button. Every Mac comes with some standard widgets, a calculator, a weather widget, a dictionary... there are a dozen or so. But you can download however many widgets you would like and the options are very eclectic. From sports trivia, to recipe blogs, to games. My favorite widgets are my Harry Potter news, my Sudoku, my wedding countdown, my trailer widget and my Simpson's quote generator. Up until a few weeks ago, my Harry Potter quote generator was on that list, but it suddenly stopped generating quotes, so someone must have shut it down. That was a sad day.
But my other special widget is a Christmas countdown! I downloaded it last year, and when Christmas day came and went, the countdown started over, so I left it on my dashboard. Well, the way it worked last year was a little tree, with a countdown in the center, started out blank and as Christmas got closer, a new ornament would appear every day. Well, I have been checking for ornaments on my little tree since Halloween. I couldn't remember when the ornaments started to appear last year. I checked every day, and as November started to slip by and no ornaments appeared, I became concerned. My countdown was working, but what if it wasn't going to do the ornaments? Should I un-install this widget and download the new one to make sure that it is properly functioning? I knew it was nothing to worry about, but like a child waiting for Christmas, I was slightly over eager. I checked multiple times a day hoping to see the lights on the tree.
Well, the lights came on the day after Thanksgiving. That's my whole story. The Christmas Countdown widget is working. I didn't have to download the new one. I know it's not much of a story, but I was so relieved when the ornaments started to appear! Isn't that funny? This girl takes her holiday seriously! Widgets and all!
And one more thing: I am dying to create a Christmas header! Hopefully I will find time to do that this week. It shouldn't take too long.
Okay, I think that unjammed a few logs. I will try to be more interesting next time =-)
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