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Serious Communication Lesson: She helped me want to better explain my Squarespace Love

If you:

  • Are considering using Squarespace as your website hosting provider but haven't made a decision yet,
  • Have ever been frustrated with my ranting about this company when I haven't successfully

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Posted on Fri, 07.25.08 at 11:01 AM by Registered CommenterMelody in , , , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Dork much? W'll YEA!!!

Happy Thursday To You, Internet!

After an emotionally draining few days, during which I couldn't completely extract myself from my own over-analytical head, I find myself feeling like Melody. Which is kind of extra-nice, in a familiar kind of way. Although if you were here you'd prolly be

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Posted on Thu, 07.24.08 at 01:55 PM by Registered CommenterMelody in , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Background music of a power sander: work eupohoria?

Updated on Thu, 07.17.08 at 07:46 PM by Registered CommenterMelody

Having moved my laptop and cell phone into my bedroom for the afternoon's work session, I just realized I have the best groove going! Emailing and talking to clients, making rigid notes about who gets this block of time... it's a serious to-do list at my side. There's a need for severity in my note-taking and time-logging to keep up with when I hung up the phone with this client, and when I finished drafting this set of graphics for another. These are exactly the rhythms I craved after a morning spent with my parents, nephew, and nephew's parents - I actually needed the familiarity of my geeky work processes, once we all said our goodbyes.

Not only is the work going well, but I think all the background noise that floods my home is

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Posted on Thu, 07.17.08 at 02:58 PM by Registered CommenterMelody in , , , , | Comments2 Comments

That deer in the headlights is me

For days and days I've been going full-speed-ahead, happily juggling the development and maintenance of more unique website projects than ever before. Have been having a seriously cool time. Working at this pace coordinates nicely with my approach to the world. Multi-taskers-r-us. Yea, that's me.

Only now?

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Posted on Thu, 07.10.08 at 03:58 PM by Registered CommenterMelody in , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

"This is your Coffeemaker Recall Kit"

Updated on Tue, 07.08.08 at 08:34 PM by Registered CommenterMelody

105053-1699519-thumbnail.jpgIt took a couple of days for me to remember the puffy little packet in the stack of mail laying on the table. Then I finally decided to handle my mail and recalled my initial curiosity. I hadn't ordered anything small that required such packaging. Why, then, had someone sent me a padded envelope within my mail? I figured it was some new marketing scheme to

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Posted on Sun, 07.06.08 at 09:19 AM by Registered CommenterMelody in , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Website design angst - again?

Okay, not angst exactly. But still... I turned on my computer this morning and realized I'm tired of the look of my website. Again. It's been a while, of course, but regulars will recognize this declaration. I love, love, love my site for x number of days, weeks, months - even - and then boom. I'm

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Posted on Sun, 06.29.08 at 08:16 AM by Registered CommenterMelody in , , , , | Comments4 Comments
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