Plan for Valentine's Day!

I'm working with this great guy and great company on the U.N. World Environment Day Parade and 60th Anniversary celebration coming up in June. Check out www.organicbouquet.com for your sweetheart! They keep their roses priced the same all year 'round and don't jack them up for some commercially-created day, plus, their flowers are organic! My personal favorite is their "Timeless Beauty", but I also think the Valentine's Tulips are gorgeous.

Jumping January

Two years or more of a drought economy, and now I have a ton of little projects to keep me busy. The college up the street needs an on-call scanner, color-corrector, and optimizer. Woo, walk to work and do something totally easy, thanks to an old client!

A colleague of mine is going to see about hiring me to do junk work, which will pay the ancillary bills and maybe allow me to save up some money -- plus, the bonus is that I can work at home in my jammies at any hour I want!

Three contracts signed: two for parades; one for magazine design, layout, and production management.

Two contracts probably still to come in August, for an expo, doing vendor liaison or something more responsible; another small parade contract. I'm gonna be the parade maven of San Francisco and create a city job for myself!

I'll either get a PowerBook (used darn it, they wouldn't blow the bucks for brand new!) which I can probably hijack for the next 7 months, or I'll save up and buy myself a souped-up Macmini, since I have a monitor already. Although... a 17" or 20" cinema display would be very, very nice.

I'm just going to be thankful that this all seems to be coming my way!