Google Health

So, the other day I was given this really cool new project…. It was called. “Google Health”. Yes, my company is working on a beta version of Google HEALTH! Do you have any idea how fucking COOL this is?!?!?

ANY IDEA?! _I_ got to do all the coding and design for the site, it’s amazing. I LOVE it! Check out the beta below:

Google Health Beta

In other news, apparently they are sending YET ANOTHER person to live in London! Why is it never me!!!

Last night I went out with Ben and Jason to dinner. We had a great time. Nothing much else really going on. So I’m keeping this short.

Later!

A New Company Site….

Well as some of you know, two weeks ago I was given a HUGE project of redesigning our company website. This is a huge undertaking for any graphics designer. And well, since I’m NOT a graphics designer, it’s an even bigger task for me. I was given 8 days to complete the task and handed a book of mock ups from our CEO as to what he wanted it to look like. The first round was in black and white…

I really didn’t like the looks of it. But I’ve learned that when the CEO gives me something like this, I don’t have much ability to change what he wants. When he says to design something new, with no mockups, I can do whatever I want. But when there’s mock-ups. He wants them to look identical.

So I started… I worked two whole days on the layout, the specific div tags, the placement of menus, etc. Then I got the color printouts. I HATED it.

But I followed it. I created the headings, the graphics. Everything. Hating each and every bit of it. I tried changing little bits here and there. It started to look better. Then we got into the review sessions, and they all got changed back. “Trebuchet” size 16 font for the main body, horrible. The placement, etc. I just couldn’t deal with it. But my input was falling on deaf ears.

Two days before it was to go live, the VP came over and asked to see it. He came up with some changes to make it look better, a couple new headers to try out, stuff like that. But it still looked horrible. The giant font on the body tags, etc. I just couldn’t deal.

We’re now 3 days past due, still working on content, etc. People have been working thier asses off on it. Trying to get it to look better.

Today at 1 I was getting ready to leave when some of the developers stopped over and asked how I felt about it. I said I hated it. They said they hated it, we brought in the VP and talked to him. We spent the next hour, the five of us frantically changing things, adding colors and graphics and trying out new headers.

I was amazed at how fast it came together. How quickly such an UGLY site could change to something so much better. Below is the version the CEO likes and the (close to) final product (that everyone else likes). Sadly, it still has to go through the CEO approval. Hopefully with 5 of us in there telling him this is what we like. It’ll get pushed through.

This is a project I would NOT put my name on…

Ugly New WebReach Site

This is a project, I’m happy to place my name on….

New WebReach Site

Some of the other projects I’ve been working my ass off on include a new mock-up site for McKesson… This is a site I was given by the CEO and told to have complete creative control over, yet make it “professional” looking as doctors/pharmacies, etc would be using it:

New McKesson Site

And lastly here’s the other latest website I did. There was a much better looking version of it that I liked better. Sadly it got scrapped. 🙁

New Mirth Appliance Site

Letter to Chiba… Part #2

Blah blah blah… This is all so over… Clearly we’re not going to be talking ever again. So here’s the VERY rough draft of a letter I was working on for him. Eh. Stupid fuck.

 

 

 

 

 

Mayko,

I really hate the way things have happened and I’m sorry that you think I did something to hurt you.

Friendships have thier ups and downs

I made a mistake after the new years saying I didn’t want to be your friend I thoght that it would be too hard to go from what we were doing to being just friends. But I gave it a shot and I really enjoy being your friend.

I know you haven’t known me very long, but I would never do anything to hurt you or any of my friends. I love them all.

End of another…

Well Mayko and I just had the conversation that will completely end our friendship.

Whatever. Lying Asshole. Who needs him. All I’ve ever been to him is nice and caring and what not and given him everything I had to offer, and he doesn’t realize that then he’s got issues.

Goodbye.

I dunno how to feel right now… Part of me just wants to spend the day crying, another part of me just wants to go beat the shit out of something.

His loss, right? Why do I feel so fucking bad!

A Little More About Chiba

So I confronted Chiba about the things that guy said about him the other day…

He says they are all lies and that he never “fucked” anyone off Adam4Adam.. Which I still think is a complete lie. I mean, he wanted to fuck the FIRST time I met him! So I mean just based on that experience he has to have fucked someone else off of there! God damn lying son of a bitch people. He acted really pissed that anyone would say such things about him. But who knows what’s going on. I tried to explain to him that I was just letting him know what people were saying and that there are MUCH worse rumors about me going around the OC.

I also said to him that I should have just listened to Gregory. When I first met Gregory he said, “Would you rather have some fun and just fuck around with him, or have him for a week and get heart broken” or something along those lines. Clearly I should have just fucked around with Mayko and kept it at that.

I never really did like Gregory though, perhaps he had an alternative motive. He always seemed a little creepy to me. Openly admiting he was dating/fucking 3-4 guys at a time, older guy who always had a younger (and very hot) guy on his arm. Constantly trying to get Mayko and I go to back to his place to “just hang out”. Yeah right. I know hanging out would have lead to him trying to get sex.

Also Mayko claims he hardly ever goes out to the bars/clubs. But yet he seems to know EVERYONE there! It’s just strange. How can that possibly be. I don’t get it. Sometimes I wish I could just follow these people around and see what they really do. Mayko always claimed he was up till 3-4 am.. Just “chatting” online. I now feel that that chatting means he was going over to peoples houses and fucking till 3-4am.

Anyways, so we talked yesterday about that… Then at 11:00pm he randomly sent me a txt just to say goodnight. I was still awake, so we sent back and forth about 10 minutes or so. Just talking about his work and my day, etc. I dunno what to do.

I hate the fact that when I start to like a guy. I automatically go into. “What would our future be like” mode. I start thinking out 5,10 years. To see if I could see myself with them. And since Mayko was so close to the holidays. I automatically stated thinking about Christmas and Thanksgiving in the future. I imaginged taking Keira with us to Japan or Brazil for the holidays. I imagined us taking my fall international trip together. I imagined him coming to my parents and grandparents house for the holidays.

We even talked about going places together. Palm Springs, Italy, stuff like that. UGH! I need to just not think about that till later. But it’s how I judge people, it’s one of the main criteria that I think about when I start to like someone. CAN I IMAGINE us together? If it’s a yes, then its good to go!

But you know, just because I think about these things, doesn’t mean that I _love_ these people. It just means that I like them and wonder what if would be like to be with them. Because honestly if I can’t _see_ myself with them, I don’t feel like I can _be_ with them. It really annoys me that people automatically equate these two things.

I think one of the reasons I liked him so much was because he was exotic, he was different, he didn’t fit the mold of people I usually go for. Which was refreshing. He seemed real, seemed honest.

Lastly (on this topic at least), another thing that is really bothering me is that there are a few other guys who I enjoy hanging out with and really like personality wise, but I just can’t find myself sexually attracked to them. It’s a bit annoying really. I guess these are what you call friends. But I don’t want just friends. I don’t do friends well, I can’t balance them. And since most of my friends are in such drastically different social environments they don’t mesh well into groups of friends (Trust me, I’ve tried). I need a socialite for a partner to balance friends and tell me where to go. I’ll balance the financial and business parts of the life.

The other topic I wanted to cover is that I have all these people who tell me I’m so hot, I’m so desirable, I’m so nice, I’m so blah blah blah… I know they are just trying to help and cheer me up and tell me that I’ll find someone right. But it just brings me down so much more. If I really am all these things that they say I am, why can’t I find someone who likes me for who I am and wants to date me. Rather then just fuck me. Yeah, I know there are a LOT of people who would love to fuck me. I’d fuck me! But I want someone who wants to DATE me! I’m turning 25 in a few weeks. My plan was to be getting Engaged/Married by now! Not just dating around and constanty being dumped.

I know I have a full life ahead of me, but this is not what I wanted at this time of my life. I want to settle down and start my family together. I don’t want to wait any longer and continue to be single. Everyone says that you should be able to be happy alone. And in general I _am_ a happy person and I enjoy myself and my life. But what I _want_ out of life is not to be alone right now, I want to have a family and someone to come home to every day, someone to talk to, someone to love and care for.