For years I have found a way to avoid April Fools, except with my daughter, because I simply can't stand the crap that people pull. There was one person who got the bunch of us who talked online really well. He took it way more than just losing his job because of a stupid mistake he made with a girl but to the point that he was so angry and upset with himself that he got into a car acccident as well and totaled his vehicle.

Obviously we all fell for it. Down to the very last line: April Fools!

I have even taken April 1st off from work as a vacation day in order to avoid all the crap that coworkers try to do to each other. Always I am hoping to come back to a desk that hasn't been messed with and have because when you are the receptionist bad things can't happen to your desk that would cause a customer to leave.

Yesterday I didn't even pull a joke on my daughter and normally I do. To be completely honest I forgot. I remember seeing the date being March 31st and then yesterday it did not occur to me that it was April 1st. Hell, I had to keep reminding myself that it was TUESDAY and not Wednesday all day long. I felt 'wrong' yesterday as well. I don't know why, though. I don't have a headache and I'm not sore but I feel as if there is something off with me. Hopefully I'll figure it out. A hot shower didn't get rid of the feeling and neither did an extra cup of coffee.

Well, I've got to jump on the spring cleaning. I'm late, I'm late! For a very important cleaning session. Laters.

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So I posted my recreated resume that I did for school up on Careerbuilder and Monster and applied for a job in Santa Rosa through CB and through Manpower. It's a marketing/web design job and I'm not entirely sure that I'd be fit for the position but I'm applying anyway. I added the information for my portfolio site and decided that I am going to do all of the tutorials in the Photoshop Classroom in a Book for CS3 since we didn't touch it in class and do all the tutorials in the Flash 8 book I have since we only did a few in that class so that I can create a new portfolio. I also plan to do a bunch of tutorials that I found at Planet Photoshop. They have a ton of great video and text tutorials for Photoshop and some in Illustrator. I have watched all of the video tutorials but I haven't done any of them as of yet.

Then I'll create myself a new portfolio site (I have the final portfolio up at the site I got in order to display work) so that I can display everything I have done. I don't know what else to do regarding showing work. I plan to work on a personal intranet to assist me in keeping track of things (chores, accounts, passwords, birthdays, etc) in order to get myself organized.

So far I have gotten done two loads of laundry, which need to be put away, and the dishes, which I plan to have the Little Lady do the ones we used during the day (I did the dishes from yesterday and last night's cake baking). I also added more of the coconut bark stuff and fresh water to Jack's tank. She's in reptile utopia, I hope. The bark was still a bit moist, but we put it in there like that before so it shouldn't pose any issues. It does a great job of increasing the humidity in there for a few days. I have her pool completely filled almost to the rim and the fountain running to clean out the nasty stuff she drags in there.

Which reminds me, we need to get filters for the fountain or clean them. Either way, it needs to be done and I will probably end up doing it.

So I am going to go back to working on getting laundry put away and probably start doing those tutorials. Laters.

Before I go... (I know, I keep doing this.) For those of you who are interested in seeing the new website that is going to be displaying my work when it's officially done (since you've already seen the final portfolio I submitted for school) please leave a comment and let me know you want the url. Enter your email address and I will send it to you. For obvious reasons I don't want the new site related to this site. Ok, now I am off.