Where have we been?

Soooooo, sorry I’ve been such a putz lately. Although, if Jason updated, I’m sure you’d never hear from us again. ; ) Things have been busy around here, at least for me because since last week through next week it’s finals time! Wahoo! (Not really, that was the internet-cloaked sarcasm.) However, I did complete my second to last assignment for my web design level 2 class, and I feel that I just have to gloat. Basically the project was to research different “Web Development” jobs, and due to the fact that it is such a broad term used for so many things, list what I needed to learn, and what I already knew. I feel like I always half-ass these assignments, but my teacher just seems to love to feed my ego. Here’s what she said this time:

Assignment completed per instruction.
Amanda...this is an interesting combo of jobs and I don't agree with you. I think you probably are qualified for more of these jobs than you think. While they list an entire string of qualifications, most applicants don't have them. I think you might consider applying for some of these jobs. You have the core understanding of the field. You actually have limited to very basic knowledge of css, so I think you could do that. While you said you didn't have PHP, JavaScript, and MY SQL Server, you could learn those by the time you got an interview. This made me smile...."the rest of this made me basically go, huh?" Sometimes those lists seem endless, don't they?

You did a really good job researching all of this. Your skills may be broader than you give yourself credit for. Your writing skills for this lesson are above class average. I really liked your set up for this one and it was very easy for me to read. I liked the narrative. A+ for this lesson. Joanie.

Anyway, I have finally gotten Jason to help me with some ideas for the wedding: cake toppers! (Hey, it’s a start.) A few days ago, one of his friends, bought him the expansion pack for World of Warcraft, and with the packs comes catalogs with lots of cool crap. On one of the pages, we stumbled across FigurePrints. Basically they take your actual World of Warcraft character, and turn it into a 3-D model, that’s about 8 inches tall. We both got super hyped and super excited because seriously, how cool would it be to have the original Fendicano and Emocube as our cake topers? A bald old man in a dress and a purple elf! Seriously, HOW COOL? We could even get the White Wedding Dress and Black Tuxedo that you can create in-game for them to wear. However, this soon became a thing of the past as we learned a few things. First, you basically get entered into a drawing on a monthly basis. My guess is that you’re probably competing against at least 75% of the ten million other players who play World of Warcraft (yes, we’re not the only geeks out there… there’s plenty of us) but then, it also takes a month or more to create, and you can only do one of your own characters. Another thing is that they are made of some sort of plaster like material from a printer and then sealed, placed in a glass case. Wouldn’t that be lovely? While we were really excited to do this, I doubt we’d get the chance to even make one in time, much less two. : ( Total bummer on that note. Another thing that Jason suggested is this lovely mess of a cake. If you know us, neither one of us can be serious ever, which makes this cake all the more funny, but I don’t think I could do it. And, last but not least, I would never, ever, make a cake like that… haha I’m not that crazy. Man, there are some uuuuuuugly cakes out there.

In other news, we decided to fix our sink the other night. Jason took it apart (well the small area that we were told needs to be fixed) and we took it over to ace, just to find out that whoever installed the sink did a nice little jerry-rig to make it “work” and that left us pretty much screwed. Even the guy at ace was confused, but I think he may have also been a little high, which is scary. I found a box of miscellaneous pipes, told Jason to get it, and he ended up re-piping (is that even a term?) the entire thing under the sink. He is so handy, even when he doesn’t know what he’s doing. So far he’s rebuilt our flushing system thing in our broken toilet, and now underneath our sink. He could be a plumber without even trying! : P (He’s not too keen on the idea though.) Anyway, it’s late, and tomorrow is our cleaning day, so I better get to bed.