moving to the beach brought criticism

Written by Siotha on November 26, 2009 – 4:14 pm -

Doing anything remotely interesting will bring criticism. Attempting to do anything large-scale and interesting will bring armies of detractors and saboteurs. This is fine – if you are willing to take the heat.

I stole that qoute from Tim Ferriss he has an awesome blog about the art of pissing people off. I really took it to heart today, because it seemed like so many people where critisicing us for moving to the beach in a far off and remote location. We love it here, and often forget that people (our friends and family) haven’t experienced the beach life, they’re stuck in life 101 and only have 2 weeks holiday. We have a beautiful life here. For example, the window’s are open to let the wind blow through the house, the waves are crashing new shells on the shoreline, the iguanas are laying out enjoying the sun, and our children are singing along to Disney songs (ok only Alyssa, Bella is oohing and gooing and laughing today)… It’s like the world that we knew (life 101) has now become life 102. I really wish more of our friends and family could come down and experience life on manana time.

I know what life is to work work work, then give 2nds to family, then 3rds and 4ths to myself and body. In Dallas everyone and everything was negative. If Jeremy or I did anything remotely accomplishing we only heard the negative comments, which in turn changed us to only see the negative impacts while doing great things. This is all fine and dandy, just like Tim’s post – about doing great things brings negative emotions, comments, and no matter what we do – we’ll always hear the bad stuff. I hope to grow as a person and step out of that rut, experience the slow life then apply it as our children get older, and of course when we go back to the states to live.

Take a minute to read Tim’s post It really made me feel better about all the people, things, events that have happened over the last few weeks, and months, and years. It helps me understand why I’m so negative and how used to doing good & great things has turned me into miss negative. Winds of change are blowing those old negative emotions away.


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Beta Testing our favorite software…..

Written by Siotha on June 27, 2008 – 3:57 pm -

There comes a time in your life, when you’ve been at this computer biz for long enough to know better than to work with beta software. Well, i fell for it again. don’t get me wrong, some beta’s are awesome. Others i want to ask the software vendor how a kernal crash is relevant when i click the “edit” button. ya know? i just want to say.. i love testing new software. but can I scream now?

On the other hand. it’s free. what can i say. I earned it by being the guinea pig. now if only the developers like dealing with the purple haired chick who expects perfection – therefore reports the retarded bugs – like typo’s – or they forgot a rollover/flyout or heck my favorite – um – what language is that one in? OH! and another favorite… i pressed the button… and nothing happend…. oooh that really makes my day

If you’ve a software, and you want me to test it, break it, stupid user proof it… drop me a line. I love the thrill of rebooting 6 times in a row until i find a work around… is there a job out there like this, that pays good for me to stay home 4 hours, break a few computers and yell at the developers in user speak instead of code… hah

Oh wait. I’ve done that in a former life. Great job, great company… I forgot where home was though… and I began to know the airline attendants by name… or they just realized i liked giving out the little great job from an elite member coupons when i needed a different flight home

Now if I could only get on the lean cuisine testing team…. or the propel flavor test team… or the paid drive through lunch testing team…. free cell phones, or other every day item.. hey – where the hell is my new mac? I’m still on this uh…. yeah… we won’t even discuss how old this one is..

And that my friends, is the – it’s the friday before the holiday week – unemployed – job seeking – freelancing – smart ass – blog of the day! HAPPY HOLIDAY! Now buy me a beer!


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The secret life of a blogger…

Written by Siotha on June 23, 2008 – 9:15 am -

Yes. We all know that bloggers have a secret life- or a Secret to tell if you want to look at it that way. They can be anonymous, rip off other peoples work, write their very biased views on life, products, situations, people, or anything they want. They don’t even have to be ethical! But what’s the real secret? Well, some bloggers, like myself – aren’t getting published any other way. Now we have a medium that allows us to have typo’s, poor grammer, bad opinions, but freedom of speech so who cares what we right about? So long as we make money at this right? How do you define making money as a blogger? There’s several ways to look at it but for me… I’m not making money off this blog (unless you choose to buy me a beer, and remember – I don’t even like beer so please make it enough so that I can by a fruity beer – like an apple cider, or something of that nature, I’m more of a vodka girl anyway!) I do this, because, there comes a time in life when what we think, dream, love, should be written down. Now If I write it down in my journal – who’s going to read it? Well maybe my snooping husband, or my children after I pass… maybe one day I’d get around to taking excerpts and proposing my writings to a publisher… but more than likely… I couldn’t read my own handwriting and forget what I was thinking when I wrote it, and my husband would ask questions well what did that mean? (I dunno honey I had three margaritas that night!) For me – you know who I am. I’m Siotha. Google me if you must. Or just hit the about tab on the top of this page. In the mean time, I enjoy blogging. One day I might even try to write about products and things that I like for review. In the mean time – writing about life as a designer is my passion and what I will continue to do through this blog. Just remember, i’m very fickle and particular about when and what I do things… so if I don’t write for a few weeks – don’t sweat it! That’s the dramatic life of a Blogger! I’ll get to it when I damned well please!


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