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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged on a serious term. I’ve had some auto-posts that I’ve been keeping but nothing too personal. How has everyone been? I guess you can say I’ve been busy. I’m mostly tired. It gets a bit too hot to do anything here at times. I guess you can say I’m back on the path of wanting to do so many things and not knowing where to start. I hate it when these random bursts of creativity come and take over my life. At the same time I quite love it.

I just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I do recommend it to everyone. I guess it’s an eye-opening book. One of those stories that really make you think about everything you’ve been through.  I question the secrets my family members withhold, and I wonder about them daily. If I can find the movie, I’ll watch it tonight! I’m currently reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, which coincidentally has a movie as well. I’ve been trying to read this book for years so I’m glad to finally caught a copy. I guess you’re wondering what these books have anything to do with my blog. In all honesty, they have nothing to do with it. I just enjoy speaking about the books I’ve read.

However, my fiance is currently reading Bliss: Writing to Find Your True Self by Kathrine Ramsland. I’m not a big fan of books that try to tell me about myself. I guess it’s because I’m stubborn and don’t like others to know more about me than I know myself. I envy the ability some people have to know more about me within a few years of co-existing with me, than I know of myself. I confuse myself.

The book is basically (from what he’s read to me so far) explaining ways to find your true bliss. Your bliss is the thing you enjoy doing in life that makes you happy.  It brings you the ultimate bliss. As I sit and listen to David read random excerpts from the book, I realize something. I have many things that truly make me happy, which all can co-exist in a single multi-functional career.

I’ve been into arts for years. I would write and illustrate my own short stories. I would write pages of literature. I wrote two novels before age sixteen (granted, they probably aren’t any good.). I had sketchbooks and notebooks full of my work. I would spend hours examining things and learning new ways to be inspired. I found inspiration in television, books, magazines, nature, fashion, and just about anything I gazed upon. At a young age, I studied the highest names in fashion and interior design. I would have my mother bring home interior design magazines that I would read from cover to cover.

I guess I’ll skip the entire history lesson, and just get to the basics. I love designing and every aspect of it. I love product design, graphic design, web design, fashion design, and interior design. I’m not too good at technology design but I could probably get into it if I tried. I guess I meant to be a multi-level designer, if this book is speaking some sort of truth. I’m not going to give up my dreams of fulfilling these goals. I’m already doing two of these full time, and I’m studying more on interior design as we speak.

What is your bliss? Have you discovered it yet?

We’re still on the path of design construction. Everything is coming together quickly and Sevenality’s blog should be up soon. As well as the new theme for Static-Romance. I’m very excited to see these two long-term projects come to a close. I’ve been discovering new Flickr groups and have stumbled upon the Graphic Design and Typography group. I’ll share 45 beautiful examples of design and typography from this group with you!

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Fuel Your Creativity has released a free and premium font resources list. I’m addicted to discovering new wonderful fonts so I found this list pretty helpful.

This list of 11 Free Web Apps for Your Daily Work introduced me to quite a few new services for my company. It’s worth checking out if you’re looking for ways to make working at home a bit easier.

The Lost Jacket wrote a hilarious list of 33 Kickass Ways to Get Your Blog Noticed. The list was informative and entertaining. I think my favorite piece of advice was using puppets. Perhaps, I should use puppets in the near future.

The Monster Collection of Moleskin Tips, Tricks, and Hacks made its way onto my browser over the weekend. I’ve been desperately lusting over Moleskine planners for the past few months. Whenever someone is nice enough to purchase an 18-month Hard Cover Large planner for me, I’ll be using this guide.

The recent passing of Director John Hughes left me feeling as if another piece of my childhood had been removed. 2009 has been a year for killing my childhood. However, a fan who became a pen pal and close friend of John posted a wonderful blog about her relationship with the director. It moved me to tears.

Gizmodo posted a well-written review on the upcoming Windows 7 OS. I’ve been following Windows 7 for a while now, and I’m excited for it’s stable release. It’s almost that time for a new laptop as well. I think I’ll invest in Windows 7 in 2010.

These are just a few links that have stood out to me in the past week. Visit my Delicious page for more of my favorite links.

Hello everyone! It’s Friday which means another blissful weekend is upon us. You shall hear no complaints from me. It’s been a long week and I’ve been recovering from my wrist injury. It still gets pretty painful but I’m doing my best to be more ergonomically correct. Since I’ve been blogging, I can honestly say I get more questions about my laptop than I do my site. The most popular question I’ll receive (once or twice a day) is “How did you customize your desktop? Do you have a Dell?” I kid you not, people always ask me if I have a Dell. I don’t know if Dell is viewed upon being the only customizable laptop in terms of PC’s, but I always get asked if I have a Dell. I think people are even more shocked (or disgusted) that I have a Gateway. So I’ve taken this grand opportunity discuss my laptop with you.

Neela (which she is named) was delivered to me in October 2007. She’s a  Gateway MT4322 with a 13″ Ultrabright Widescreen.  I had no idea I was receiving a laptop until my mother came home with it. Of course, it was meant to be for “work purposes” but come on, I needed a computer of my own. Since my old Dell (have no idea what the model was. I got in December 04) had blissfully burned itself out more than four times in the first year of ownership, I had let it collect dust in my room. It didn’t help that at the time, Dell had recalled many laptops because they were exploding. My old Dell actually burned my leg!

Me browsing my site with its old Lily Allen theme back in 07. I know there’s a lot going on in the picture so bare with me! Horse? Krystal? Ketchup? WTF!

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While I prepare for the release of Sevenality’s blog, I’m continuing to honor beautiful inspiring design-work here at Static-Romance. It’s also helping me stay inspired with my own web design, which hopefully will be finished soon. Here’s thirty beautifully designed web sites that inspired me this Friday.

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