josie

Wow. You're really strong to make the decision that you have. You have my sympathy and respect. Distance is tough but not a death sentence. It's a lot about attitude and it sounds to me like you have the right one :) I wish you two the best! My complaint today... I'd done a logo that's going to be on TV on a nickelodeon show. This is a first for me, so I was terrified when I was informed that's where it would be eventually. It had been approved by all here (after days of work and lots of 1 pixel adjustments/insane attention to detail) and sent to nick who had one very tiny minuscule bit of feedback to change on it. Boss insists I start over from scratch and do as many versions as possible. Final is due at end of day (at this point in 2.5 hours). Art director and coworkers advise against it. Boss overrules. He's not wrong- it certainly is a wonderful/necessary thing to do when exploring your best options, but there was just no time. I somehow managed to pull something out of my ass (not literally i swear) and it looks pretty great, but I much preferred the tweaked original. Married myself to an idea, had trouble bleaching my brain and starting over. I think bossman was testing me. I shall now take my ulcerated stomach, brain aneurysm and heart attack home to tear into the next pile of high stress holiday work. Thank god for beer.

Was Darcy Ramsay Bolton then? ehuheuguh I can hardly read those chapters. Halfway through book 5 and dreading the next time I see anything about the matter.

I once was playing the notice on the door game with UPS. On their second attempt, I heard them lightly knock, ran for the door, and the delivery person was already in his truck. There was a foot of snow and ice and I ran up to truck barefoot yelling and waving my arms. He started up the engine, looked right at me, and drove away. Had to drive 30 minutes out of my way to pick the damn thing up.

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zetts AND datsyuk out. My beloved scoring pair. So long, fantasy stats... I hardly knew ye. That being said... ouch. Speedy recovery, zetty the grizzly teddy.

Hey guys n gals! I finally made my christmas card for the year. If any of you guys want me to send you one, pm me your address! Here's a link to it on my blog. It's not hockey themed but it's pretty kid's book-ish, can't make something too weird and offend all my relatives like I did one year... Ask d4rk about the card I sent him once with Lemmy of Motorhead in a sleigh full of demonic reindeer flying over a burning church... http://joanna-eberts.blogspot.com/2013/11/christmas-card.html

The Bills are the only NFL team I've ever actually cared about... Guess I'd have to teach myself to be a Lions fan or something equivalent on the suffering scale. Or just watch a lot of college football. Go Blue.

We just tricked our boss into doing a gravy shot. Gravy and vodka. Absolutely disgusting, apparently tastes like cigarettes. Fridays, man...

Got pulled over tonight. One of those situations where the road was a wider, commercial-ish area, had been there several times that I swore the speed limit was 40. Was going 45 and speeding up because the 55 limit sign was in view. Copper got me as it was actually a 30. Buuuut he was really nice/easy going about the whole deal- village cop in a speed trap. Gave me the option to do some online course thingy to clear it rather than pay etc. Not sure if I can do it, being out of state buuut... better than a big ol' speeding ticket. Still, I rarely get pulled over and nearly have a heart attack every time. Bleh. Night ruiner. Hope the worst for all of you tonight was the flyers/sabres game.

Pretty sure I set back feminism by about a decade with my performance. :( When I actually did do grappling and stuff I never made any noise because well... room full of guys. Good luck with the meds! Ten bucks on her first conversation being about the complexities of the universe, man.

We're doing a wrestling game for Addicting Games and they couldn't give us any sound effects/clear anything for us to use. So we had to do the voice acting ourselves. I just got done helping add to the voice of the one female character- a leather clad dominatrix. I'm embarrassed the whole office had to hear it, but you shoulda heard the boys making voices (taunts, catchphrases, laughs, grunts/grapplin noises) for the psychotic clown and the luchador. Well, when the game comes out, you can!

D'awwwesome. Oh, to be small and able to fit in a wagon again...

This is accurate, but perhaps too lucid. If he finds a comfy spot, be it vertical, horizontal, he'll give me a nyquil tasting smooch and it's immediately ZZZZZ and then he radiates BTUs like some hellish furnace as he literally burns off whatever ails him. It's kind of amazing. If I tried it, there'd be a funeral shortly.

I see your cussing cockatoo and raise you death metal parrot. Meet Hatebeak.

Pardy poopers.

That's not too bad. But they still had to go cut a notch into it. Oddly, I have noticed that Buffalo sports teams apparel is more sane than a certain other city's stuff I frequent. Maybe they know that most Buffalo women are a little more down to earth?

Nothing wrong with it! There's plenty of girly girls out there. I guess we gotta be careful as a culture to not demonize that, either. As an adult, I have a desk full of matchbox cars, but I love my dresses heels and makeup. It's just frustrating to buy anything cut for my body shape to do something outdoorsy/sports related and I have a choice- pink or some other pastel. Want a Sabres/Bills/any sports tshirt cut for my waist/bust? Hope you like deeeeep v necks, sheer material, stupid colors and glitter. Harumph.

Eff. Yes. Yeah, screw the pink thing. I can't even buy mucking boots in a women's size that doesn't somehow have pink or pink camo or ###### RHINESTONES on it. Barf. d4rk is right, huge pet peeve of mine. My thing that is awesome is I finally got paid for 10 weeks of freelance that was overdue. It feels so good. Huge weight off the shoulders. Thanks to those who offered me support in case things got sticky- you know who you are.

That combination could also be quite painful. Careful where you put those skate blades, eh?! New meaning to playing the crease.

Lactating?

I wore a Doug Gilmour Sabres jersey to work today. On the walk in, the UPS delivery guy yelled "Oh hey! Gilmour! Nice! Go Sabres!" Then another guy in an office in the building saw the jersey and also gave a "Go Sabres!" I've worn my Ott jersey several times and no one's ever reacted outside of a "rough times" sort of comment. It's pretty awesome to see some Sabres optimism!

Mister Lahey, I don't want to live a lie anymore. It's okay.

This. I'm the only designer on this massive project. We have the company (companies, plural, actually) believing there's a whole design team. There's not, and whenever the 8 metric tonnes of feedback rolls in from all directions, I have to sift through it. And the main person sending the feedback tlks like ths. thx. Send a massive part of the game- get told "sumthin isnt right. dont know what. plz fix. k thx." I've never had a person with this company speak with anything less than perfect diction and clarity. Good lord. Even if you're on your phone- unless it's not a smart phone and has T9- autocorrect should kick in, right? I'm losing my marbles over here. I can forgive some grammar nazi offenses but the only thing worse would be if the person tYpeD iN th1s mANneR. whew. End rant. I had a scare like this a couple years ago with my mum. They pulled her in on Christmas Eve to do a biopsy. Ruined Christmas for us all. Luckily, nothing, but still. My sister had cancer, I had a brush with it, it's just a horrible thing to face. That's some scary, fast moving times. I feel for anyone who has to face that process of testing.

Good to hear! Give her a huge hug.

Man. What a ###### hit. I hadn't seen the video until this morning- at first glance it looked like he tripped, then I realized he bulled the goalie over then did a ballerina swan dive that culminated in a WWE finishing move. Seriously, what was he thinking? No one even pushed him! I hope Backstrom is ok. Never want to see a goalie lying motionless in the crease. Kadri... Well, I hope justice is served.