bloggy face lift!

yes, it's true!  i decided i want to get some blogging done, and i was tired of looking at my old blog (even though it was still pretty cool and i was very proud of it!).  so here's a nice simple theme to hold me over until i mess with it some more.

how goes it in the life of tiffers, you ask?

or you don't ask but i imagine you do in my head?

first off:  50 POUNDS LOST IN ONE YEAR.  how about them apples (them tasty, tasty apples)!?

on our three year anniversary.  <3

it's amazing.  it's like a stopped carrying a travel safe or something.  i can't imagine picking it up again.  and i'm also down about 3 dress sizes.  it's great!  i love it!  

on the down side, i'm sort of plateauing at the moment.  i'm stuck in the 243 - 240 range.  and i want to lose more before the wedding in october!  my treadmill has about had it, but i'm trying to convince chris to take walks with me outside since kentucky finally gifted us with spring weather (after trying to level us with tornadoes).

in other tiffers news:  guess who has two thumbs and is developing anxiety issues just like everybody else on both sides of her family?  this lady!

i went to the urgent care clinic because i kept having these random chest pains and my heart kept beating fast for seeming no reason.  got hooked up for an EKG and was having tiny palpitations, which the doctor who treated me told me he might be concerned about if i was 65, but not at 25.  so then she asked 'what's going on your life?  any stress?'

let's see:

failing several classes.

almost getting kicked out of school.

working overnights and not getting any sleep.

having a day off and sleeping all day because i haven't slept in 4 days.

bosses are bitches with super high expectations for one normal individual.

planning a wedding.

paying for a wedding.

no money no money no money.

keeping my grades up.

not going off on a member of management who wants 12 hours worth of work done in 8.

trying not to be a fatty.

no.  i don't see any stress here.

i left with 20 anxiety pills.

i haven't taken any.  which she told me a lot of her patients rarely take them, with mild anxiety just knowing you have them can be enough to keep the anxiety at bay.  so i keep them in my purse just in case i need them.

i make chris laugh, though,  i was reading the little pamphlet about all the side effects and told him i was scared to take them.

chris:  it's an ANXIETY PILL.  you're too scared to take it.  take one and you'll feel better, that's what it's for!

so yes, anxious tiffers waits anxiously instead of taking her anxiety medication. 

but it's all good.  i haven't had any problems since.

that's the current life of tiffers.

have a picture of my wedding dress, i should be ordering it in the next few days.

peace.

i can't wait to walk down the aisle in this!  <3

graphic designing blog!

just finished working on the two fat girls blog!

if you don't remember, mandy and i started vlogging about our weight loss journey.  it's so fun and we've met some cool people who are working the program along with us.  it's so cool!  

anyway, you know all of my endeavorers need a blog page.  mainly because i like to design things and to have a web page, but i don't have the lovely html experience yet to make a for real one, nor can afford a domain, so blogs are the way to go for me.  the blog page will house all the episodes in a pretty way and probably have better descriptions and notes (the new ones anyway) and will also have the exclusive outtakes and silly videos we make that don't have to do with food and such.  like something we're doing at bug's birthday party tomorrow.  i won't spoil it, but you should definitely follow the blog if you want to see it!

that's all i wanted to tell you.  go look at it!  i'm so proud of it!  maybe even a little more than i am of my this blog (even though i still love this design!  i keep thinking about changing it, but then i look at it and can't do it)!

so yeah.

isn't this a beautiful donut?  it's the picture i used for all the
graphics!  :D

so check out the blog!  do it now!

peace.

more blog stuffage!

finished amber's blog! i'm really glad she likes it! i just kinda took a theme and ran with it, and i'm glad she let me do that, i got to make a lot of things and just play around. it may not seem like much to anybody else, but it's a lot of good experience for me. i'm proud that i could design graphics that somebody liked and i that i was able to work with a friend to create a page that they liked. i love it.

still messin' with mandy's blog. she hasn't actually blogged yet though so i can see what a post would look like in what i'm making (hint hint to mandy to blog), though she did go through and put other stuff on it, it gives me ideas. oh the ideas it gives me!

it makes me want to do more to my blog now! but i've already made promises to other people for blogs, so mine can wait a little bit.

in not blog news, last night i couldn't sleep because i was scared of ticks. yes. ticks. the little bugs that attach to you and suck you dry like buggy vampires. victor (my kitty :3), somehow snuck in last night. and he was just so pitiful i couldn't bring myself to throw him back out. so i was gonna let him sleep with me.

so he's being all snuggly and meow-y and wantin' some love, so i'm pettin' him and pettin' him and then up by his head i feel something that doesn't belong. i immediately know what it is, fly out of bed and grab my tweezers so i can remove it. and this thing must have been suckin' on him for a long time. if it did it much longer i'm sure it would have exploded.

if you see a normal sized tick before it starts suckin', it's flat and very dark brown. this thing was like an inflated dime, like if you attached a tiny air pump to a dime and made it puff up like a mentos (i understand my analogy). and it was so big it was this weird gray color, like there wasn't enough brown to cover it anymore. so i got my tweezers and grabbed it, trying not to actually puncture it because i didn't want to see it's guts and i flushed him down the toilet. it was gross. and after that victor's pitifulness was not enough to make me keep him inside. i was too scared to feel more ticks. i do need to find him tomorrow and clean him up though. this kitty was not built to live outside, so he just looks dirty and sad. D:

bleh just thinking about that tick. it was so gross! and it was full of my kitty's blood! how dare it!? i should have squished him with my tweezers!

oh well. i'll have my revenge on all the ticks nommin' on my kitty. you just wait and see.

peace.

blogs!

i'm having so much fun making graphics for blogs! i'm inspired to make a few more for my own blog, but right now i'm working on my good friend amber's blog. she has the greatest blog title ever (one mommy, two monsters) and it just makes me want to do so much stuff!

found the greatest monster brush and a nice font that looks like little kids writing. i'm having fun, i hope she likes it when it's finished. :3

also working on my sister's blog. we both have kinda similar styles, so i'm trying to make it not look like mine. got lots of rock colors, found an awesome heart brush (to go with her 'mangled heart' theme) and not one but TWO awesome fonts, so i'll need her opinion on which one she likes better some time today. i prefer the simpler one, but i think she'll like the fancier one. we may have to fight about it. we'll see.

i love downloading brushed for photoshop though! i learned how to make brushed in my last course (digital image manipulation, super fun!) so i may have to draw up some cutsey stuff and see if i can't make my own brushes.

i'm totally supposed to be getting ready for work.

honestly, i kinda forgot. i was about to start photoshopping again. but i have to leave in like 30 minutes.

sad face.

peace.