My 15 Minutes of Fame…Sort Of

As some of you know (or not) I am slightly obsessed with fonts. I love downloading new ones online, using fun fonts in documents, identifying fonts out in public, etc.  In fact, Sam thinks I’m super weird because every now and then we’ll drive past a store and I’ll suddenly yell out, “Tempus Sans!”, or we’ll go to a wedding and I’ll lean over to him and whisper “Scriptina” about the font on the program. (Speaking of Scriptina, it’s the font I found online and used on the top of our wedding invitations in 2006, and I’ve seen it EVERYWHERE since then! I’m not saying I invented the font or anything (we’ll get to that in a minute), but I definitely think I found it before it was a common household font.) All that to say, I love fonts.

SO, you can imagine my excitement when several months ago, a friend at work (Hi Teresa!) told me about a website I could go to submit my own handwriting to possibly be turned into a font. Well, I obviously jumped on the opportunity, submitting not one but TWO different handwriting samples, and lo & behold a few weeks later I got an email back from my new friend Amanda at Fonts For Peas. (Okay, we’re not really FRIENDS, but I’d like to think that our common love for fonts is an instantaneous bond!) She informed me that she was turning BOTH my handwriting samples into fonts and needed to know what I wanted to name them. All the fonts on her site start with “Pea”, so I appropriately named them “Pea Crisby Funky” and “Pea Crisby Neat”. Original, I know. I can’t figure out how to import my own fonts into my blog yet, but I will figure it out one of these days! For now, here is a picture I just took from Microsoft Word of my 2 handwriting fonts:

I love, love, LOVE them. Okay, so skip forward several months. Today my friend Jill (who has informed me will be starting a blog in the very near future…super exciting!), asked me how to set up a cute blog. I referred her to The Cutest Blog on the Block site, where I created the template for this blog. I clicked around a few seconds and my heart nearly stopped beating when I saw this. That’s right folks, my own “Pea Crisby Funky” font is now a title font for THE Cutest Blog On the Block! Don’t believe me? Click the link and compare it with this picture from my very own computer:

Crazy huh!?! I stared it at for a few seconds before realizing that the font looked eerily similar to my own, so I pulled up Microsoft Word, typed out the “Custom Blog Design” line and quickly confirmed that MY font is definitely being used by The Cutest Blog on the Block. I immediately got all giddy and started walking around bragging about my newfound “font fame” to anyone in my office that would listen, and decided that this definitely warranted a new post. So, in sum, I’m blogging about a font I created through a blog that’s now appearing on another blog that helps people’s blogs reach their full blog-potential. Blog blog blog. And now I will wait for the copyright to my font so I can become a multi-millionaire and spend the rest of my days designing new fonts…

Not something you see everyday...

So Sam and I were driving through Edmond yesterday and this guy was stopped right in front of us at a light:

I know it's not really clear (all I had was my iPhone), but if you can't tell, that is definitely a Crockpot strapped to the back of his motorcycle.  Undoubtedly this biker dude was headed home to make some homemade stew in his slow cooker for the mom he honors with the tattoo on his left bicep.  LOVE. IT.

Happy 3rd Birthday Beast!

As you may or may not be aware, our little family would not be complete without our little beagle monster, Zoey.  Zoey just celebrated her 3rd birthday on Wednesday, which means she is now of legal drinking age in dog years.  In lieu of alcohol for this momentous occasion, I took a little trip to Walmart to buy Z some fun new toys (which she promptly de-stuffed) and some new treats.  So, in honor of Zoey's birthday, I am posting in celebration for three years of potty training, walks, barking, hunting squirrels, (click here for an up close and personal look at one of Zoey's favorite pasttimes--WARNING: viewer discretion advised), and stinky, destroyed toys, socks, shoes, and a few other household items.   Here's a cute picture I took the other night of my favorite little animal:

Please ignore the pile of crap in the background...that's just a month's worth of bills, receipts, etc. that I need to file away.  Sam and I have NUMEROUS affectionate names for Zoey, but I'll name the top 5 for your viewing pleasure...

1. Beast

2. Monster

3. Zo-Beast

4. Zo Zo

5. Little Baby Doggie (that's Sam's "pet" name for her...I kid you not)

And here's a sweet picture of that "little baby doggie" and "little baby Sam" from back in December of 2006.  They both look so young!

Cute huh?  Someday I'm sure I'll post lots of pictures on my blog of our actual children who are not of the canine species.  Until then, this is what you get from a 20-something girl who is not yet a mama :)  You asked for a blog, people, so you get what you get.  Have a good weekend!!

Newsflash...

I would just like to take a quick minute to let the world know that H1N1 is not a long-term illness and you are not going to get Swine Flu from talking to someone who had it a week ago. Not only am I no longer contagious, but I HAVEN'T been for almost 5 days now. I have gotten the weirdest looks/comments from people ever since I returned to work on Wednesday. People, do you really think I'm ignorant or inconsiderate enough to expose you to my illness? I stayed in my house (quarantined, might I add) longer than the time my doctor said I would be contagious just to make SURE I didn't infect anyone else. When I chose to return to the outside world, I only did so because I was certain I was NOT contagious or sick anymore. In fact, today I...

• Slept until 11 (not because I've been sick, I just LOVE sleeping in...)
• Ate brunch at my mom's with Sam and the fam
• Changed the sheets on both beds in the house
• Switched my summer clothes out from my main closet to replace with the winter clothes from my back-up closet (yes, I accidentally have 2 closets right now. That will definitely change someday when we have a baby...I'm not pregnant, by the way)
• Washed every item of clothing that has been used/worn/looked at in the past week
• Swept, dusted, mopped, disinfected, Windexed, and gathered trash from every room in the house
• Balanced the good ol' checkbook
• Went to dinner with the hubby
• Got 2 different baby gifts, a new dress, and 2 pairs of shoes (I love clearance!) at Target
• Went to Starbucks and edited a paper for my brother
• Watched the Office wedding from Thursday (and LOVED it!)
• Updated my blog...that's TWICE in one week!

Now does that sound like someone who is sick to you? No way, Jose. Oh crap. I just realized I've turned into one of those lame bloggers who lists everything they do each day. My point is, I'm healthy, I'm happy, I'm alive. So if you see me in my public, just know that the Scarlet S has been removed!

The Scarlet S...

Hello friends. Without further explanation, let's take a look at the past 5 days of my life...

This picture was taken on Friday when I was happily leaving work, ready for the weekend, and super excited to realize that since I upgraded my iPhone, it now allows me to send pictures in text messages . (Please ignore the fact that I took AND texted this picture to Sam while driving. I think I may have been at a stoplight for part of it, at least...)

These are a few of the FOUR DOZEN homemade chocolate chip cookies that I baked on Saturday night, with full intentions of giving the majority away to various people this week (Sam's classmates, our neighbors, my co-workers, etc.)



This is a picture I took of myself when I walked into the doctor's office on Monday morning for what I thought to be an appointment to get some medicine for a sinus infection. Apparently when you call and complain of "flu-like" symptoms, they decide it's imperative that you slap on a degrading mask and shamefully march through a waiting room full of people NOT wearing masks. The least I could do to keep from crying was to take a picture of myself in the waiting room and email it to my mom. (Insert picture below). And yes, my glasses kept fogging up repeatedly...and a small child kept pointing and laughing at me. It was one of my more dignified moments...

This is me looking disgustingly (and disgusting) at the camera when I took another self-portrait, only this time AFTER finding out that I, indeed, tested positive for H1N1. I feel like a lousy, pathetic excuse of a human-being for contracting a virus originating from pigs. It's gross. Just gross.

And this is where I've been spending the last 2 days in quarantined solitude while I wait out the required 48 hours for the Tamiflu to make me uncontagious to the outside world.

Here's a close-up of my "sick station". Please note the essentials: Kleenex, 3 remote controls (for 3 different entertainment devices), my MacBook, headphones, RedBox DVD's, TamiFlu, my inhaler, and Purel. Yeah, that Purel has obviously been working SO well for the past few weeks...

At the moment I'm starting to feel a little more alive, so I decided to blog about my experience with the dreaded Swine Flu for the rest of you healthy people out there. I'm anxiously awaiting my re-emergence into the outside world of life, hopefully tomorrow. Until then, I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the 44 Swine-flu infested chocolate chip cookies I baked a few days ago. Any takers??