i seriously have the most amazing and crafty friends ever. my friend amanda (who abandoned her blog, long ago, otherwise i’d link it) made my “me” drawing up there ^^ (also featured on my new business cards) and makes jewelry . the…

the other day, a friend asked me for help with a simple shell script that was making her angry. and it got me thinking–there are so many people who use linux or unix and don’t use it to anywhere near its full potential. there are so many…

i always think that i want to start doing that whole 365 blog project one-post-a-day thing, and then i completely forget about it until 2 weeks later. i guess it’s just not in the cards. i know i tweet the most random and nonsensical crap…

dude. i… have never been this saddened by a concert. miss willie brown == awesome. josh thompson == awesome. dierks bentley == awesome. the crowd? SUCKAGE. zero movement. hardly any singing. hardly what you could call yelling. brett danced…

sleeping in. spending the afternoon tanning in the sun in the bed of my truck. country music blaring from the garage. brett next to me. cold beers in our hands. cold cut sandwiches, pineapple, and afternoon movies. followed by an afternoon…

if you have a low tolerance for romance, then you might want to skip this post. i used to have a low tolerance, until i met brett. then i quickly realized how nice it is to be spoiled by a man sometimes. truly spoiled. i found this…

i’ve needed new business cards for a while. i forget what website i was on the other day, but it popped up a moo.com advertisement saying, HEY you should make these cards and get a discount through us. so i checked out moo. long story…

1. check yes or no wall hanging 2. weird wall tentacle 3. mason jar night light 4. wooden @ symbol 5. wooden cupcake magnet –this whole shop is awesome 6. glass pearls –i can’t stop staring at it 7. wooden beam shelves –would probably be…

the last 2 weeks feel like they have been just… non stop. red hat training was 9-5 every day. then at night i would go back to the apartment, and either study or work on websites until i finally passed out at midnight or later. last…

i got to work this morning, and immediately, my coworker jesse informed me of this horrendous stretch of storms that was supposed to hit us around lunch time today. the ones that swept through the southeast and absolutely devastated…

this was by far the hardest goal i’ve set for myself so far… pretty much ever. getting my RHCSA and RHCE in one week. i’ve wanted to do this since college. since before i even got into security. basically since i knew what red hat was, i…

i woke up this morning relieved that i did not awake with a swollen face again. my allergies got the best of me yesterday, and ~~it~~ i was not pretty. i guess i’ve been used to sleeping on my pillows with the hypoallergenic cover and uh……

i made it through my first day of red hat training. for those of you unfamiliar with the subject, this is the course i’m taking all week . i am SHOCKED that it went by so quickly today, really. i don’t usually do well in classrooms. in…

a week or 2 ago, i bought tickets for brett and i to go see kevin hart here in charleston. if you’ve never seen any of his stand up, DO IT . anyway, the show was AWESOME. neither of us had ever been to a comedy show before–way better than…

brett and i were walking around the apartment/townhouse complex yesterday and realized we are one of the ‘ugly’ properties around this place. we have nothing that makes our place stand out besides a worn out doormat and the kitchen…

i can’t believe i’m about to write this. this weekend, brett asked me to marry him , and it was everything and nothing like i imagined it would be. mostly because it was completely unexpected. we’ve talked about it on more than one…

i’ve been working on a side project since this weekend, and this side project ended up requiring me to draw my own angry birds because there are no good quality vectors on the internet. at least that i can find. maybe my google-fu is…

i don’t know why i can never convince myself to blog sometimes (on the other hand, sometimes i do it too much). i am one of the most nostalgic people i know. i take pictures of the dumbest things, food included, just to remember everything…

brett came home from oklahoma yesterday afternoon, and his buddies got here about 3 hours later. and i haven’t stopped moving ever since. i took a half day on friday. actually, it ended up being less than that because i started feeling…

brett and i went to georgia last night so he could take his CISSP exam at fort gordon this morning. for whatever reason, that was the closest one to charleston besides the one IN charleston, which was a lot further away than he wanted to…

i have been staring at the stickers i bought online today ever since i pressed the checkout button. redbubble.com is addictive. and i’m (im)patiently waiting for brett to come over here and look at them. it’s going to be entirely too far…

i have sarah to thank for all of this, but last week i signed up for a month of aerial dance/trapeze classes here in charleston. after seeing all her pictures/videos of it, i had to try. i didn’t actually know we had any classes locally,…

that’s what this feels like. in my head, at least. maybe it’s just hormones, but for the last week i keep thinking about how i turn 25 this year. in 5 months, actually. the vast majority of my friends are older than me, and it doesn’t at…

in high school, all i did was code. coded websites–for fun, for my high school, and for the company i worked for. coded for class. i had pascal, c++, and java–one each year. and calculus on top of that. everything was code and numbers… all…

i had my 3rd flight class yesterday. contrary to what i thought was going to happen, like, actual flying, we had an actual class. don’t get me wrong, i learned a lot. but walking around a plane for an hour doing pre-flight checks is not…