all quiet on the home front

so the downside of having internet issues at work? no blog. blah! and i'm waaaay too productive while there ;-)

so the hubz and i have been having so much fun with nugget lately. she's begun yabbering away and smiling- so fun! we lay her on her back so she can "ride her bike" for a bit while she "ooo's" and "wwaaaaahhh's" and carries on in her own little cute language. i love it! she's starting to get ticklish too, so that just means a bigger smile. daycare has done sooooo many great things for her- she's around kids a few months older than her and years older from her and i like to believe they all love her to death. and i couldn't have asked for a better sitter- she's amazing so i'm lucky to have found her!

here's the blog i had planned for last week...

freshly sharpened pencils... clean, crisp notebooks... aahhhhh school time.

i've been going back and forth with myself about going back to school to get my masters or my MBA or just take some rejuvenation courses. the only real benefit i see to getting my masters is that i can then teach at the college level- pending someone wants me to teach what i know. i could probably get my teaching certificate to teach secondary art as well. i'm not convinced what i would enjoy more. i'd love to teach an entry level drawing course or even a production course at a college, but i don't know if getting my masters is worth it for that.
i thru MBA in there for business purposes and in case i ever wanted to change my career. but then i think, is that even worth it? couldn't i just take some business classes at a community college, get another degree in business and have a similar affect?
then what if i just took some classes for fun at the art academy's community class program? they have a lot of classes i would be interested in, but they wouldn't really be giving me skills i could use everyday or that would benefit me in the long run. they would just be fun classes.

all i know is i need a creative kick in the ass. nothing jolting, now... just stimulation. a lot of the work i do at my day job and some of the stuff that passes over my desk is just slapped together- and rightfully so. no one looks at subscription cards or renewal forms or letter inserts for the design quality. they get recycled immediately. this is part of the reason i wish i would have gone to the stationery show this year. i need the colors, i need the patterns, i need the atmosphere. i need a vacation.

not much to the sneak peek today. in fact, nothing. i'm working on a few things, though and i'm pretty excited about them.