I drank coffee today and it has me super super hyper, I feel like I can beat the world. haha. I just finished my work with one of my clients, ONE 55 WATER, A CITY CAFE, and I'm so blessed that I met them and that I had the opportunity to work with them. They're really nice. They're at 155 Water Street in Henderson, Las Vegas if you want to visit them. Their grand opening will be very soon and that place is going to be fabulous!!
IF you want to contact me regarding design work, you can do so by emailing me at candyv@gmail.com and I'll be happy to help you out.
Have a good night everyone!!
I feel that I've really had a great day today so I decided that I should blog. It's been a wonderful Friday. I love being able to be free from my day job and just enjoy designing, going to school and having time for the things that I love the most. I just got my tarot cards read over at facebook and today this is what it said:
Focus - This card reflects a new set of circumstances that are about to or just have presented themselves to you. This is your central issue at this time.
Outcome - This card reflects the outcome of the Focus Card. The results of your problems solving/decision making.
Strength represents the quiet, patient, and confident strength, willpower and determination inherent in us all. It is not as forceful as the Chariot. There is a message being delivered from a higher power but you must have strong character to hear its message.
This is the symbol of greater powers at work; a magical card. This card means that things may just fall into place which before seemed insurmountable. This is a very positive card but be careful and do not abuse the power.
Death is a card of transformation! There is great change coming and some phase of your life is ending. Dont resist it because it is inevitable. It may be painful but make the most out of it because, in the end, it could be the best thing that has happend in your life!
I always have a lot of stuff to take care during my days off and some of these include my list to do's from October 19 so I'm not happy I haven't completed everything. I think I just overwhelmed myself by adding a lot of shit and hopefully within these 2 days I will complete EVERYTHING in this darn list. I want to have free time for myself. I never do though, I'm always doing one thing or another.
Life has been so wonderful to me. I start school fulltime in a few days and I can't tell you how excited I am to finally get to do that most of the time. I don't want to feel like I'm stuck where I'm at. Don't get me wrong, I love the people at my job; that's really the only reason I stay there - I work with wonderful people and that makes it worth the stay. I just hate how my perception of people gets worse everyday. If only I could describe the stupidity; however something really made my day today. An old lady told me that she would get picked up by a Bentley today.. It was hilarious. Anyways, I gotta go. My teacher's back in class and I have to turn my monitor around or I get in trouble. lol :)
See ya!
Who are you dying to see in concert?
Focus - This card reflects a new set of circumstances that are about to or just have presented themselves to you. This is your central issue at this time.
Outcome - This card reflects the outcome of the Focus Card. The results of your problems solving/decision making.
Success is in sight and you have the drive to make it happen. Your Chariot card will take you there. Now obstacles abound but maintain focus and your goal will be in your grasp soon. Be a gracious winner!
This card provides the freedom to follow your heart! Love may be an actual love relationship with someone but it may also mean some THING that you love such as a job, friend, place, a dream. But with the Love card, you are urged to look beyond the surface to the deeper meaning. What something appears on the outside, may not be what it actually is. And also, this card CAN mean a positive love experience.
This card deals with the gestational period. Not necessarily biologically but a time to wait and be patient. It may mean scrapping your old plans so the new will reveal itself. Regardless, a new beginning is ahead.
Which do you prefer? City life or country living?
City! Only because I'm so used to it. I love nature, but I probably couldn't stand be surrounded by it 24/7.
Today is "Evaluate Your Life Day." So, tell us: how do you think you're life's going so far?
I won't say it's "perfect" (because nothing IS perfect in life) but I'm loving life. Of course things could be better in some areas, but in time things will improve. But so far, so good!
I heard this song playing on my i-pod today and it made me wonder what is this?
Then there was wikipedia.org, there you are, I get bored once in a while especially on a day like this.
I love 80's music, always have. Always will. Especially the funk, Supersonic by J.J. Fadd. 80's all the way baby.
I've had a very creative day, got a lot done and still going. Got a beer by my side and I'm still getting my jam on by designing more and more. That is my life now, for real and I love every minute of it. I recently took pictures and here's one of them. I don't post them everywhere because ya know, I'm weird like that, but you get to enjoy it. It's the more recent pic of me.
Within these few weeks I have really started to transform and manifest everything good in my life. I try not to think so negative about things anymore and every thought that I have in my head, I try to transform into a good one. I'm going to school and my life feels so complete.
Going through my last journal, I can see that all the goals I wrote down, such as learning to be more spiritual have come true. I only have person to thank for that, and that is my friend Cindy. She has really given me the keys to begin my life which is MAGNIFICENT in every way. I feel that this economy we're in has given us the realization that we're human and that we must accept each other and ourselves to truly becoming a change in this world.
I also wanted to share a very interesting article that can as well change yourself and the way you think. Understand that in order to change the outside, we must change our insides. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I don't have any problems; however, I rather look at them on different light.
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn
Those who think they're unlucky should change their outlook and discover how to generate good fortune, says Richard Wiseman
A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people's lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time. After many experiments, I believe that I now understand why some people are luckier than others and that it is possible to become luckier.
To launch my study, I placed advertisements in national newspapers and magazines, asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me. Over the years, 400 extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research from all walks of life: the youngest is an 18-year-old student, the oldest an 84-year-old retired accountant.
Jessica, a 42-year-old forensic scientist, is typical of the lucky group. As she explained: "I have my dream job, two wonderful children and a great guy whom I love very much. It's amazing; when I look back at my life, I realise I have been lucky in just about every area."
In contrast, Carolyn, a 34-year-old care assistant, is typical of the unlucky group. She is accident-prone. In one week, she twisted her ankle in a pothole, injured her back in another fall and reversed her car into a tree during a driving lesson. She was also unlucky in love and felt she was always in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Over the years, I interviewed these volunteers, asked them to complete diaries, questionnaires and intelligence tests, and invited them to participate in experiments. The findings have revealed that although unlucky people have almost no insight into the real causes of their good and bad luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their fortune.
Take the case of chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not. I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities.
I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. On average, the unlucky people took about two minutes to count the photographs, whereas the lucky people took just seconds. Why? Because the second page of the newspaper contained the message: "Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper." This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than 2in high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.
For fun, I placed a second large message halfway through the newspaper: "Stop counting. Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250." Again, the unlucky people missed the opportunity because they were still too busy looking for photographs.
Personality tests revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people's ability to notice the unexpected. In one experiment, people were asked to watch a moving dot in the centre of a computer screen. Without warning, large dots would occasionally be flashed at the edges of the screen. Nearly all participants noticed these large dots.
The experiment was then repeated with a second group of people, who were offered a large financial reward for accurately watching the centre dot, creating more anxiety. They became focused on the centre dot and more than a third of them missed the large dots when they appeared on the screen. The harder they looked, the less they saw.
And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.
My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
I wondered whether these four principles could be used to increase the amount of good luck that people encounter in their lives. To find out, I created a "luck school" - a simple experiment that examined whether people's luck can be enhanced by getting them to think and behave like a lucky person.
I asked a group of lucky and unlucky volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person. These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck.
One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80 per cent of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier. While lucky people became luckier, the unlucky had become lucky. Take Carolyn, whom I introduced at the start of this article. After graduating from "luck school", she has passed her driving test after three years of trying, was no longer accident-prone and became more confident.
In the wake of these studies, I think there are three easy techniques that can help to maximise good fortune:
- Unlucky people often fail to follow their intuition when making a choice, whereas lucky people tend to respect hunches. Lucky people are interested in how they both think and feel about the various options, rather than simply looking at the rational side of the situation. I think this helps them because gut feelings act as an alarm bell - a reason to consider a decision carefully.
- Unlucky people tend to be creatures of routine. They tend to take the same route to and from work and talk to the same types of people at parties. In contrast, many lucky people try to introduce variety into their lives. For example, one person described how he thought of a colour before arriving at a party and then introduced himself to people wearing that colour. This kind of behaviour boosts the likelihood of chance opportunities by introducing variety.
- Lucky people tend to see the positive side of their ill fortune. They imagine how things could have been worse. In one interview, a lucky volunteer arrived with his leg in a plaster cast and described how he had fallen down a flight of stairs. I asked him whether he still felt lucky and he cheerfully explained that he felt luckier than before. As he pointed out, he could have broken his neck.
OK molars, can you come out now? Mama can't handle this newborn sleeping schedule. *whimpers*
Can y'all tell me what the big deal is about Google Wave? How will it change our lives?
