for the perpetual kid in us all

thanks to my subscription of relevant magazine, i discovered an amazing site selling all sorts of fun stuff - perpetualkid.com. the following are a few items that made me laugh... click on each for more info on the aforementioned website. enjoy!!

"tattoos for the elderly" (BAhahaha...)

"equal measures" measuring cup ("next time you make brownies, use a tyrannosaur's brain of flour, or sugar equal to the water in a cumulus cloud the size of the bus")

"dress for dinner" napkin (for classy men everywhere)

fridge locker - "the personal snack-urity system" (for coworkers or terrible roommates)

"equalizer" t-shirt (actually responds to noise in the room... geektastic!!)

"world's largest gummy bear" (more gummy than any human should ever consume...)

"sandwich" coasters (i would play with these instead of using them...)

"effervescent cupcake drink tabs" (what the...??)

"i heart the office" stickers (i just want the marker smell ones)

"great ideas" napkin sketchbook (yes please!! :)

"stuck!" bathtub drain plug

you're welcome, friends.

thanks, perpetualkid.com.

much love,

thehoddy

12 Days of Christmas

last saturday, i attended the Hobby Lobby Corporate Christmas party at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage museum. the food was AMAZING and it was tons of fun. the entertainment was entirely entertaining as well. Comprised of employees from Hobby Lobby's corporate office, the group Shaken Not Stirred performed their own rendition of Straight No Chaser's 12 Days of Christmas:

here's Straight No Chaser's original performance:

much love,

thehoddy

full sail ad fail

dear full sail "university":

you may want to consider a different advertising campaign to promote your online graphic design degrees. farting birds will get you nowhere. i prefer to release my creativity in more productive ways.

sincerely,

thehoddy

i dreamed a dream

"I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung no wine untasted"

i so often feel ancient at the ripe old age of 24. i am young, but very afraid.

my dreams are often wasted because i'm too afraid to take the risks because risking means i may fail... it seems i'm still buying into the lie that failure is the end of the world. am i really willing to let opportunities pass me by just because i may fail?

am i already so jaded that i no longer believe that love can last? while my past hurts have a habit of creeping into focus at the most inopportune times, i refuse to let them govern me any longer.

i'm aiming to leave "no song unsung", so to speak... however, most wine can go untasted. i prefer Kopparberg pear cider. :)

serenading myself

there are few things giving me so much joy at this juncture in my life than the music from glee. it's reminding me how much i love to sing and how badly out of practice i am.

the powerful prowess of paramore

blue again

from the middle of my sophomore year in college, up until a few months ago... my hair looked like this:

this spring, when the dress code changed at Love's, i had to change my hair. after nearly 5 years of blue, it felt so WRONG to have brown hair... like part of my identity had been stripped away. it was like someone had suddenly outlawed my eye color or skin tone. for so many reasons i can't explain, it was pretty devastating.

luckily, my new job brought new opportunities and my cousin shannon was totally willing to help me out...

...my heart is so happy :)

BLUE FOREVER!!

abc's of hoddy... in photos

A - Age:


B - Best coffee:


C - Crazy habit:


D - Dog's Name:


E - Essential start to your day:


F - Favorite color:


G - Gift you love getting:


H - Height:


I - Instruments you wish you could play:


J - Job title:


K - Kid(s):


L - Last CD listened to:


M - Most memorable Christmas present:


N - Nicknames:


O - Optical Enhancements:


P - Pet Peeve:


Q - Quote from a book:


R - Right or left handed:


S - Siblings:


T - Time you wake up:


U- Ultimate vacation destination:


V - Vegetable you dislike:


W - Ways you run late:


X - X-rays you've had:


Y - Yummy food you make:


Z - Zoo favorite:

have fun guessing what some of those are...

much love,
thehoddy

marcel the shell

being the newbie

greetings friends and fam,

as most of you know, i recently started a new job as a graphic designer on the "card & party" team in Hobby Lobby's creative department. (my team designs greeting cards, journals, gift wrap, gift bags, party supplies, wedding supplies, seasonal party stuff, etc.) my first two days were a whirlwind of new faces. after my cinnamon roll 'reception', i was introduced to the workflow organization and given my first three projects. it was a barrage of new information but i'll settle in soon enough. :) i set up my cubicle right next door to my friend Kristen "Priddy" Baucum, who was in Pi Zeta Phi with me at OC. i'm so happy to have a good friend at work already, and now we're cubicle neighbors and we work on the same team!!

its definitely a different work environment for me - first of all, the office is a massive complex. when the office manager's secretary took me to get my I.D. badge made, we had to drive there!! the work day is much more structured than i'm used to, with everyone in the department taking morning and afternoon breaks and lunch at relatively the same time. no one gets to the office very early and everyone leaves on time. it's definitely an adjustment for me, but i like it - it creates a sense of community.

after two days, i've remembered what its like to pack a lunch, spent two hours commuting, and finished my first project proof. i'm already looking forward to monday!!

much love,
thehoddy

for a semi-gray day

10-10-10

usually i would attempt to place some kind of significance on a date like today's, but there's really no reason to do so. perhaps i just like things to feel more important than they are. perhaps this gives me a feeling of dramatic eminence, as though i hold more sway over my circumstances than i actually do.

or perhaps i'm just dramatic enough to want everything to be significant in some small way. i'm betting on the latter.

google searches: insight into the human condition

just for funsies, i started typing some queries into google to see what the most common searches were. have a look: