Not that it really never was, but my gawd, with gas and food prices going up every day, I can hardly pay for bills anymore!

Gas around here is now at the fabulous price of $3.56+ (last time I checked, it changes during the day) and the cost of bread, milk, and even rice has gone up by a dollar! It’s terrible. Just last week, I went to buy just a couple of foods to last us the week, spent $60 dollars buying practically nothing! I bought all the essentials, milk, ham & cheese, bread, chicken, beef (which were both on sale for less then $4 bucks), juice, eggs, and a few more things, that I tried making sure were under the $5 dollar range, but no, in the end it all adds up to $60 dollars!

I put gas in my car this weekend, almost full tank, $35 dollars! Usually I can fill my tank with some leaking out at like $30. This is really sad and already its almost gone, I have like a quarter tank left and have to wait till tomorrow to get my check. Horrible!

Yea, this is basically a rant and rave blog post, just wanted to write out my frustrations and what not…lol. So how are things in your neck of the woods?

I was recently invited to join two advisory boards for my old school, Winter Park Tech. One is for the Web Design program and the other for their Digital Design program. Both were very interesting to go to and learn about all the new trends and happenings within the industry, especially from professionals.

In the Web Design ABM, they had presidents and lead web developers from local design companies around the area, also from local radio stations. We were all able to talk about the new trends and what employers are looking for these days for entry level. I was really surprised by some of the answers.

The Digital Design ABM was a little larger then Web designs and was more informative. Everyone had really outstanding responses to some of the questions that students asked and also that the instructors asked the board members. I felt much more comfortable responding to some of these questions more so then in the Web Design ABM and I feel a little bad for it. In the Digital Design ABM there were presidents, senior art directors/designers and head managers from Disney World, SeaWorld, and local graphic and print companies. I was really impressed and honored to be invited to attend this meeting.

Contacts like these in this industry are highly wanted and I was lucky to be able to meet all of these people and hear what they have they have to say about the industry. Remember, networking is a key feature to success in the multimedia industry. To be able to know people higher up in the scale then you can sometimes get you by in certain aspects in life believe or not.

Yes! Today is the first day of Spring and its raining cats and dogs outside as I write this! How perfect, no? I guess the whole saying “Spring Showers” so applies right now. Real nice. haha. =D

I love and hate Spring. (odd huh?) I love it, because during Spring, flowers are blooming and the weather is not to hot nor too cold, just right. It’s probably the best time to go to the beach too, since you know that you won’t get a bad sun burn. You can also work out better, knowing you won’t die from the blazing heat or frigid cold air. I hate it because pollen is EVERYWHERE! I’ve actually been sniffling since last week. I can barely get to my car from my house without scratching my nose. It really sucks, and I don’t want to be doped up on sinus medicine all day. Ugh, I wish I lived by the ocean, it would be so much better…haha.

Why do you like or dislike Spring? How’s the weather in your neck of the woods?