Katie Phelps

Last weekend for Mother’s Day, I decided that I wanted to finish decorating my living room.  The last couple of weeks, I have been putting up some pictures from our wedding and a BEAUTIFUL picture of Christ that Bryan bought me for my birthday.  The only thing left was a focal point above the couch. (the Cardon’s next door have this great picture above their couch that I’m totally jealous of, so I needed to find something that would look almost as cute) So, a few weeks earlier, we went to IKEA and found this really cool mirror, and after looking around at a couple of other places, it was the best deal and would look the best — so we went and bought it.  After we bought it, we brought it home and my handsome handsome husband and Jordan moved the couch out of the way and went all “handy men” on Kinsale and I and put it up on the wall. They found the stud, drilled a hole, and measured where the other hole needed to be (only one inch away from the other stud) and put the screws in (surprisingly, it’s really sturdy too).  I was really impressed and I think it really ended up looking great.  What do you think?

Another exciting thing:

The last couple of days at work, I have been creating a special VIP invitation to an event we are putting on for the President of our company and a couple of other important people.  I was talking about the invitation with some of the other designers and we came up with the idea to do a pop up card to invite them.  So with Andrea’s help we came up with some options. We had some big plans for out of control mountains popping up out of the card, but we took a little different route. So today, I finished it and I think it turned out really cool. We only need to make five.  We cut out all the parts today and will put the cards together tomorrow. I’m pretty impressed and was very pleased with the final results. (the pictures aren’t the best… sorry)

Some stories:

Earlier at work, my friends and I were all sitting around talking.  I was showing a friend of mine something on the internet.  I was explaining to him that it was php or javascript based and you just needed to go in and edit the HTML code.  And he looked up at me and said, “I have no idea what you’re talking about. All I heard was WAH WAH WAH.” Then another of my friends turned around and said, “She has to be able to talk like that to communicate with her husband.”  Then we laughed. Oh web people are such dorks.

Another time, during lunch we were sitting in the lunch room eating and some people from the Support Team came in and started talking about the things they were working on. This didn’t work here, and this person was talking about their database and the location of their files.  My friends and I at work just looked at each other amazed.  Support people are such dorks.

Today at lunch, we sat around the table and talked for 20 minutes about this really nice font I found at Veer.com.  “It’s a San Serif font with really straight edges.  It’s kind of like ITC Kabel,” I explained to Ryan and Ian. “But I like it better than Kabel because the S has really small space between it’s lines.”  “You know,” Ryan said, “They should have a pronunciation guide for font names.” I said, “Why because I say Kabel differently than you.” He said, “Yeah, but also…” and then we talked about all the fonts that we weren’t sure how to pronounce.  This conversation went on for quite a few minutes. We finished lunch and went upstairs.

Later as I was sitting, thinking…I realized: we’re all dorks.  It doesn’t matter what we are dorks about. All groups of people have the things that they are dorks about.  It doesn’t matter what it is or who you are, there is something that you think is important and interesting that someone else things is so lame.

Isn’t it great?