Quilting underground and other ramblings.

Well, kids, I've decided on my quilt pattern. I think it is going to be great! I have also set up my quilting frame...even though I won't be needing it for quite a while...there are lots of things to do before the quilting part. 

All that to say this: I won't be blogging about this quilt anymore. I'll show a finished product, but from here on...that's all you get. I know you'll all be sitting on the edge of your seats waiting to see, but you'll just have to be patient, won't you?  hehe...

Tri training started on Tuesday with running. IT IS HARD. So far, I'm just trying (or tri-ing...wink) to stay up with Geoffrey. He's in way better shape than I am. Tomorrow we bike five miles...not a long ride in bike world, but next week we'll have further to go...and then more the next week....yikes! This is definitely a day by day thing. Right now, completing a tri in July looks impossible. Fo sho.

I've been kind of freaking out about being 24 years old lately. For some reason, I just don't like the idea of getting old. I know, I know. 24 is not old. I just want to be a kid. Well, a married kid... I'm freaking out about being old because it bothers me that I sit at a desk everyday from 8 to 5. Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting away....no, not wasting away...but not making a difference? Or maybe losing that idea that I had when I was a kid and thinking that I was going to grow up and make a difference in the world? My sister is graduating from high school this year, too. She can't be old enough to graduate from high school! BUT she is. And she's awesome. I think that she could change the world...and I hope that she doesn't lose that hope that she can.

The truth is, I've always had this idea that I was going to change the world through design. Well, not the whole world. It started when I was a teenager, though. I used to read this magazine for Christian girls and it sucked. I'd get my seventeen magazine and spend hours looking at it. I'd get the Christian one and spend 5 minutes. It felt sugar-coated and safe...not very real. But I knew that everything I was reading in seventeen magazine was not a positive influence. I decided one day that I was going to work at the Christian girls magazine and make it cool...make it relevant and real. Cool clothes...real teenager problems...good stories...good design. Something that EVERY teenage girl would want to read. And that was my driving force when I decided to be a graphic designer as a teenager. I'm not sure my desire still lies in designing magazines for teenage girls...but I still want to design things that change peoples lives. That's never really left. I think that translates into how I look at each little thing that I design. Right now, when I'm working on our quarterly magazine, I'm thinking about how this one piece is going to help our organization communicate effectively...and in a way that is relevant to our community. When the piece fails to meet my lofty expectations (and it often does...), it bothers me to the core. That's just one of the reasons that it is hard to do what I do.

This post is why I should not drink three cups of coffee at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night.