Buckley's, Tastes Awful. Period.

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I'm up... still. It's quarter past five in the morning. Why am I up? HACKING COUGH OF DOOM!!


I have never been a fan of cough syrups as they, to put it bluntly, make me throw up. Very taste sensitive over here *points to self* However, the cough drove me part way to insanity and just before I reached that crazy destination, I bolted out of my chair and on auto-pilot, slammed back two tablespoons full of Buckley's cough syrup. First time for everything. It does taste awful, the commercials are right. It did manage to suppress the cough a bit, for now. I can feel it lurking in my lungs still, the bastard.

Sick Sadie is angry at being sick. Anyone want to buy a hacking cough? Oh and I'm now on antibiotics due to a sinus infection from this virus. WORST VIRUS EVER. Maybe not ever, but I'm mad at it so for now I am allowed to be dramatic ok? Ok.

On a lighter, and much less hissy fitting note, I can see again! Well, almost... longer periods of time are being spent on the computer which is extremely necessary right now. I have things to do... nay, WORK to do! Real honest to goodness 'I'm getting paid for this' work. Thankfully my new freelance boss/friend knows how sick I am and doesn't want me to die before I truly get started.

What do you guys think, should I try to start my own website and actually set up some sort of pricing system for freelance stuff? Would that help? Maybe get some business cards? I never feel good enough to go that far, but you know what... I am dammit! Besides, the only way to improve is by being challenged, and the only way to get challenged is to open yourself up FOR challenges.

So yes? No? Wait a bit? What are your thoughts!

More comprehensive and productive posts coming soon. Less whine for your cheese!

Now, this is me signing off to try and sleep again. GO TEAM BUCKLEY'S!! YOU CAN DO THIS!

Thank you for reading,
♥Sick Sadie

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What Came First, the Job or the Money?

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It's amazing when you fall from your throne how most people scurry away from you like rats in a sewer, but the odd faithful companion remains by your side to help you rebuild.


I have been slowly seeing who my friends are, and even though there is always bitterness in the wake of something like falling from said throne, a slow and steady faith and hope rises from your inner ashes and you start to feel a new beginning. Through those few friends that stuck by me I have been given support and opportunity. Both are very important to me right now as you can imagine!

On top of making posters for Lightburn Productions, another friend has offered to hire me to build her a website and get her business off the ground. This friend has been a friend to me through a lot of things, and she is pulling through for me again. It's going to save my arse!

On top of arse saving, it is going to allow me to build more of a portfolio. Who knows, maybe all these scattered 'talents' I have will provide me with that solo career of being artistic and free after all. This starving artist might actually not starve! See? Hopeful. I have hope again.

This is a bit of a mushy post, but I'm sick as ten dogs and feelin' pretty mushy right about now.

Now, all I have to do is line up a few more projects and I should be ok for a couple of months. This should allow me the time I need to find a job, pay off these ever mounting bills and breath for a while... well, the breathing thing probably will not happen until my face is not plugged from the plague!

Off to rest, have to get better so I can get working again!

Leave me home remedies!! I need to get better!

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Bad Times in Sadie Land!

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The title of this post is a wee bit more dramatic than things in my life actually are. I mean, there -are- some nasty things lurking about, but there are also lots of positive things and mouse sized doors opening up here and there. With a little love from my friend 'TNT' those mouse sized doors will become large enough to fit giants through!


So um, where can I get some TNT?

I will spare you a lot of the negative, because frankly who wants to hear about it and who really cares? The internet is full of griping, whining and woe is me'ing already so I need not add to the pity pile. (I reserve the right to take this back in a future entry when I am feeling especially sorry for myself and feel the need to form my own internet support group)

I will just say that EI sucks and is useless and didn't pan out for me. THAT being said, now I'm pushing harder to find work. This is not whining, this is just fact stating!

I've had to put the blog layout on temporary hiatus as I was working on a few projects and yanno, looking for work. I made a new resume and I've sent it out hither and thither but no bites yet. It really is like fishing, and you really do hope to catch the big one, but so far guys... stagnant waters still.

Maybe the ol' resume isn't attractive enough. I wonder if the colors make it look fat, or if it is wearing the wrong shoes on it's footer. Maybe I'll give it a third makeover today.


Thanks to Jessie Lightburn for giving me my first real shot at freelance work! You rule sista!

Maybe now that I am finished with that poster I'll get back to finishing the blog layout. Things that pay before things that let me play, you know how it is. I do think I should deal with this cold I've got brewing first though as it is making my eyes run as if they were in a marathon, and they are starting to cross at random... you know when you are about to have a REALLY big sneeze and your face contorts in to a shape you never knew was possible? Yeah it's like that, but then no sneeze comes, just a flood of watering eyeballs.

My face is art, very very abstract art.

Thank you for reading!
♥Sadie

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Freelancin'

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What's up party people!?... or non-party people?


How has everyone been enjoying the lovely cold weather we've been having?! I, personally, have been hating it! I have icicles forming all over me and my nose is always cold. It's the worst.

This nasty time of year hampers my desire to take photos, so I can't wait for Spring. Green popping up through all of the grey colors, flowers blooming... mmm yes please. It feels like it's been almost a year since I last saw Spring. Wait... nevermind.

I am in desperate need of a hair color and an eyebrow wax, time to hit up my girls April and Staysea from Roots and see if they can squeeze me in sometime. One look at me and you can tell I don't work in a Salon anymore.

I've been working out though, getting my fitness on! It doesn't show yet... I'm waiting patiently for my pants to start being too big. The patiently part was a total like, I'm actually not very patient at all.

I've been doing posters for Jessie Lightburn and her promoting. Just spent the past couple of days working on one for a big project she has coming up in March. Once she has given the poster the final 'OK' I will show ya and fill you in on all the details.

She is throwing a show at The Bridge Lounge tomorrow with one of my favorite bands, Ninjaspy. If you have nothing better to do tomorrow night (and you wont, trust me!! there is nothing better than Ninjaspy!) come on down around 9pm. It's 10 bucks to get in, which is a sweet deal for being able to throw down with these boys from Vancouver.

I have a good friend who might hook me up with some side work too, so if that pans out then I'll actually be making a little bit of my own money with this freelancing idea. It would be a first, and a very welcome change! Ultimately I'd love to just be a freelancer... not freeloader, freeLANCER. Don't confuse the two!

I may drunk post tomorrow night... I tend to get home from events where alcohol is involved and unleash myself on the internet for a few hours. It should be good times, good times indeed.

Now it's off to work out, stalk help wanted ads and whore myself out online for more freelance work.

This post can be considered whoring... if you have any graphics you need done, writing you need done, alien invasions that need to be stopped or even sheep that need herding do let me know!

Thank you for reading,
♥Sadie

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Adventures of... mucus?

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You may be wondering 'Sadie, where have the posts been? Have you been off having crazy fun adventures that you want to tell us about?!'... or you may not... but if you are, well the crazy adventures took place on my sofa with blankets and a lot of movies/Prison Break. I've been coming down with a flu, some of you if you are unfortunate enough may already have said flu, it's going around. The 'coming down with' part apparently revolves around sleeping as if you are in hibernation, and feeling nauseous. People were calling 'pregnant!' and to that I say 'HA! hahaha! FLU!'


Apparently people want me to reproduce. If I could reproduce several clones of myself RIGHT NOW that would be amazing. I could send them out to continue searching for a job for me while I lay on the sofa and moan... and sleep. mmmm sleep. So good when you're sick.

Between couch hibernation I've done a few things towards my projects, but it's hard to think and be creative when your head feels like it's underwater. Maybe I could convert that feeling in to a fish theme? Blue colors? Maybe green for seaweed?

The 'coming down with' part seems to be over as I woke up today with a head full of mucus and a slight cough. Isn't that the most attractive sounding thing EVER guys?! I know, you wish you were me.

I might be collaborating with a good friend of mine, once this flu passes, and helping her set up a website for her crafty little self. Step one: Find friends that will let you freelance for them. It's nice when people come to me for things when they know I need the help right now. Thanks darlin!

My mom bought me a new pair of slippers yesterday, in celebration of flu season. They are pretty cute... super fuzzy baby blue with a yellow and white moon/clouds all care bear like and sparkly. They somehow make the flue a little more 'bear'able if ya'know what I'm sayin. Nothing like new warm fuzzies on your feet.

On another note... WTF IS WITH THIS SNOW?! I demand answers. I know it's still technically winter, but we were teased with warmer weather, sun and the odd spring like rain. Then I woke up to a white out and thought I was going blind or that my vision was severely impaired. After a few blinks, some eye rubbing and a head shake, I realized it was that nasty white stuff. I saw some Facebook statuses this morning saying 'more snow' so I now refuse to look outside.

If I ignore it, it isn't true... right?

I hope you all don't have the flu, but if you do, go get yourself some new slippers and watch Prison Break... pretty good cure, or rather, nurse, if you ask me.

Thank you for reading,
♥Sadie

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Flu Pest!

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Hello out there internet land!


I have been 'hermitting' again with this layout and coding thing I've been working on. I swear it is like going back to school, only I feel like I am sitting in an empty class room devoid of a teacher! Self teaching is hard work kids, don't try this at home. Especially not with a flu, which is something that has been trying to drag me down the last couple of days! BAD FLU!! BAD! Go to the corner and think about what you have done!

I swear I went to sleep last night and saw CSS and HTML codes forming in to shapes and getting personalities. You know you have been doing something too long when you start humanizing things like coding. However, said humanized coding is both friend and foe at the moment. What started as trying to simply do a quick and painless makeover on this blog layout has become a long and complicated 'me being a perfectionist' marathon. I can't just let it go... can't just ignore things and leave them alone, oh no no no.

So, dissecting codes has been the name of the game for about a week now. It has been interesting and mind numbing with equal parts maddening. But with every battle comes a new victory, and I -have- been learning. If it were not for the temporary blindness and headaches from reading too much, I would probably be done by now.

It is coming closer to a reveal.

The good thing is I've been paying a lot more attention to the things you will not see (well, technically you will see, but you know what I mean) and less time on the actual graphics part. This is good why? Well because once I nail the coding I can freely and a lot more quickly play with the pretty shiny graphics of layouts from now on.

I would not be spending SO much time on things like this if it were not for two things; 1: I need to know this stuff to appease my own creative OCD and 2: I want to make layouts and freelance some cash flow in to my empty and very much starving pockets.

My pockets are starting to grumble like an empty stomach. I think I have heard rumblings here and there, and they are starting to grow restless. I have to find a way to feed them, and soon!

So ladies and gentlemanlies, once I am done hermitting and torturing my eyeballs, I will have this done.

PS: Newspaper and online job postings are still being meanies. Nothing new on that front.

If you guys happen to be nerds like me, share your bookmarks from your fave design sites! I would love some new reading material to torture my eyeballs even more!

Alright, back to the grind...

Thank you for reading,
♥Sadie

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A Rainy Story

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It was 10:35 on a rain soaked Saturday morning. Sadie the unemployed Receptionist sat at her computer, staring at a blinking cursor, wondering what words would fill the empty space. She stared at her coffee cup for a second, wrinkling her nose at the realization that her coffee was cold. Had it been that long spent in contemplation? Not even a moment of thought broken to take one small sip from her delicious morning crutch?


Sighing she pushed the cup aside, shaking her head and resting her finger tips on her keyboard. 'Just start typing' she thought to herself, 'the words will come'

A gust of wind blew through her open window, forcing the curtains back. She turned her head and caught a brief glimpse of the outside world through the window before the curtains scrambled back to their respective place.

She pondered going out there, to feel the rain, to feel the wind, but she had to write something first. It had to happen, it was part of routine. So much had happened in the past few weeks to throw her routine off kilter, she could not let this be another thing thrown to the wind, literally.

Frustrated, she hammered out a paragraph. Pure and utter gibberish. She held down her backspace key until all the words vanished, and with each one that was erased, she grew more frustrated.

A second attempt at writing something meaningful was attempted, this time it almost formed in to something that had substance... almost. The only thing missing was honesty. She had to be honest with her readers, nothing less would suffice, and thus, once again the backspace key got a daily dose of exercise.

She sat there staring, once again, at an empty white space on the computer screen. The blinking cursor was taunting her now, almost like a slow and visual 'ha, ha, ha, ha' and she wanted so badly to show it up and pound out several paragraphs of pure gold, but it just wasn't her morning. She glanced at her coffee cup once more, 'Ok, I get it' she said to the cup, 'you and this cursor are trying to tell me something. You want attention and the cursor wants to sleep. It's a master plan you both have concocted and you will stop at nothing until you win'

Looking back at the cursor, it no longer was laughing. It was blinking with a slow and steady 'coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee' and she nodded back at it in agreeance. 'For today, you win. But rest well cursor, for tomorrow you are going to sink down that text box under the pressure of a thousand words, and I will be ready for you with a giant mug of steaming hot coffee.'

With that, she pressed the glowing blue button on her monitor to turn it off. Sometimes, as the saying goes, you gotta know when to hold em' and know when to fold em' and know when to walk away and turn the coffee pot on.

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Good morning lovelies, hope you are doing what I am doing and that is restfully enjoying your Saturday morning with a hot cup of coffee :)

Thank you for reading,
♥Sadie


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