Freelance Avenue

Today I got the go-ahead from my client to press onward and finish freelance project #2 for her! So I finished that tonight (Gift Certificates for grads whom she knows and will be attending parties for. The certificates I then put into frames that she had bought and the rest I placed in nice red envelopes). That should be the end of my projects for her for a little while.

Then, I got an email from a family friend who wants me to help -freelance design- an entire identity package, complete with website layout! I am really excited to get going on this one! It is going to be a lot of fun, and working with her should be a blast! The only downside is the fact that they live pretty far away - Victoria, MN. But she said that she was more than willing to come up here so that I could work on my computer. I could always use my worklaptop some weekends if need be :) yay for Macbook Pros!

This short week has been a really nice change of pace; although my days have been getting a bit messed-up! Tomorrow I am the only one from my team who will be in the office. My boss and co-worker are not going to be in, they both took vacation. I actually tried to take the day off, but settled for leaving a little early.

Tomorrow, the reason for my early deployment from the office, is that I am going to be guest lecturing at Cooper High School in two of Derick's classes of seniors in sort of a "what to expect in college" from two former RAs...that should be interesting. Derick has a pretty funny book that he got while we were in school called The Naked Roommate: And 107 other issues you might run into in college.

Other than that, I have a sample sale at work that my mom, mom's friend from work, her sister and a couple of my friends are going to Saturday morning. Derick is going to go up to my parent's lake place to take an inventory of the new 19' bass fishing boat he just got last weekend, so that means that I won't probably see him for most of the weekend...that boy and fishing...He did buy me my first baitcaster though, which I am excited to try out, get to be like the pros...heh heh...maybe not.

Midwest Gamers United (the website that Derick is starting up) has a go-live date of June 1. That is kind of exciting, as I have been helping design the logo and the layout of the website as far as theme goes. I did purchase a book through Amazon that will help me re-learn Dreamweaver and Flash. Flash is all new to me though. I have never done anything with that in the past at all, so I am excited to learn something new!

Well, I am off to help plan my "lesson plan" with Derick, so we have some idea of what we are going to be talking to them about tomorrow!

Later,
L