Not even 24 hours ago, I had still no idea that I’ll get to see all the guys before May of this year. Couples of weeks ago NKOTB announced to all their fans that they get to choose in which three cities they’ll get to do a private screening of their upcoming DVD “COMING HOME” that is going to be released on February 2, 2010 by voting at www.eventful.com/nkotb.
Voting ended on January 21 and results were announced the following day, and I couldn’t believe it myself that we all did it again!!!! Then, all we had to do was to email in our info and wait whether we would get chosen to attend the event. A lot of my friends got their emails the same day or throughout Saturday, so I pretty much told myself that it’s probably better if I don’t get chosen; otherwise my upcoming week would just get slammed with things to do. Nevertheless, I couldn’t help it and kept refreshing my mailbox all throughout the day, but NOTHING…
Every time I would wake up in the middle of night, I would check my e-mail with the same disappointment. But then, on Sunday, at 11:22 AM, I got that e-mail that I have been anticipating all along. The second I saw CONGRATULATIONS! I couldn’t even continue to read any longer…
What will happen tomorrow, only time will tell. All I can say that I can’t wait to hang out with my 5 Brothers and all my WaWoo sisters all over again while eating popcorn and watching part of history that we got to share together over the last 2 years.
It’s been another eventful year for me whether it came to my professional, but mostly personal life. I did some traveling, meeting new people or reconnecting with old ones. I also had to make some life altering decisions & probably for the first time in my life I put myself ahead of everyone else in order to be happy in a long run.
It’s been hard on me in more than one way, but am glad and thankful that I have found the strength to do so. I am so grateful for all the people that helped me through all this or even opened my eyes and gave me strength to follow through. During trying times like these, it always warms your heart to know that there are and always will be people in your life who will love you no matter what… who’ll love you unconditionally, and all that is priceless.
As we all know, we all live our lives the best way we can and have our own hurdles that we need to go through or pass. Unfortunately, my mom had to go through another one less than two weeks ago when she unexpectedly lost her husband. It saddened all of us and took us by surprise. Everyone who knew Jožko, will remember him for his great spirit and always smiling no matter what state of mind he might have been. We all miss him dearly.
I wish it was under different circumstances, but this event brought me to a decision to go home sooner than expected. It might have taken more than a week for my work to approve, but now it’s official that day after Thanksgiving, I will be flying out of Seattle to go home to spend Christmas Holidays with my family and friends in Bratislava.
I will be working during the week, but still will try to mingle with my friends and have some fun. I would love to travel some too but only time will show if any of that will work out.
I’ve been wanting to go to Boston for the next one no matter what the line up of speakers would be, but when I found that for the first time ever that there will be A Day Apart, I knew that I’ll have to be there no matter what. Whether my work will pay for it or not, I had to make sure to be there!!! I mean I would be dumb to miss out on a full day workshop about HTML5 and CSS3 with Dan Cederholm & Jeremy Keith. A full day workshop that I’ve been wanting and even brought it up to Jeffrey Zeldman himself during a lunch at AEA in New Orleans where he sat at my table. Consequently, the second I knew that my wishes came true, it was a no-brainer that I had to be part of this & I will be…
So, besides signing up for two days of geekiness presented by only the best and my mentors in the industry like already mentioned Jeffrey Zeldman, my CSS guru Eric Meyer, always funny but mostly very resourceful Andy Clarke. I will be delighted to see Aaron Walter again, as well as Jared Spool, Jeff Veen. In addition, I will get to listen for the first time to Ethan Marcotte who also co-wrote Handcrafted CSS with Cederholm and Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) with Zeldman, which both I got obviously and read by now.
No need to add anymore as it should be obvious that not only I will get my money worth, I’ll have three days to spend among the best and learn from them as much as I’ll be able to absorb. So, I am happy to say that I’M BACK An Event Apart, so be ready for me!!!!!
For those who know what I am talking about, yes… it is that time of the year again when we, thousands of Standardistas, want to show support for accessible, semantic web content. After participating last year, I knew that when the time will come for 3rd Annual – Blue Beanie Day, I will be back again. This will be my second year joining, after the first one that was so successful. I mean, I even got the props from Jeffrey Zeldman himself for my efforts.
This year it will be on November 30. Everyone can attend, regardless where you live or what you do.
It’s easy to show your support for web design done right. Beg, borrow, or buy a Blue Beanie and snap a photo of your mug wearing the blue. (Or get creative with Photoshop). Then on November 30, switch your profile picture in Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, (and any other social network) and post your photo to the Blue Beanie Day group … watch for more information coming soon.
You don’t have a blue beanie or your Photoshop skills aren’t the best? Don’t sweat it! You can download a blue beannie from Jeffrey Zeldman’s blog that was provided Kevin Cornell and create your own avatar.
So, what are you waiting for? If you didn’t know what to do on November 30, 2009…. well, now you do!!!! Join us for 3rd Annual – Blue Beanie Day on Facebook or Flickr.
Yes, you are reading right, Donnie Wahlberg did in fact tweeted me back today. Finally, after trying to get noticed among all his almost 97k followers for the past few months. My chances seemed to get slimmer and slimmer. I was as persistent as I could have been, but had other things to deal with and yes, I still have a full time job that I would like to keep. So at this point in my life, work comes first and then everything else.
Anyway, today was a “I Love You” day. I was actually busy working, so I just sent three tweets… I was in a call meeting, but when I got done…went to check if some of my friends wrote me… Continue Reading »
Still can’t believe that I did in fact got to meet the Luke Perry that I used to watch during my teen years back in ’90s on Beverly Hills 90210!
How did that happen? Well, I came to work like any other day, bright and early before 6:30 A.M. As I was pulling around our office building, I noticed a whole bunch of trailers. Couldn’t tell whether they were unloading or packing after an event that might have taken place over the weekend.
So I just went in, and started to go about my day while here and there tried to figure out as coworkers started to come in, what might be happening. Then I hear that it was a film crew. However, it took almost till lunch time till I found out what it was. One coworker came up to my desk and told me that since I enjoy to stalk celebrities that Ii might care to know that there is Luke Perry outside of our building filming TNT TV Show “The Leverage“. Continue Reading »
I didn’t realize how much I use right-click button on my mouse on daily basis, till it all of a sudden wouldn’t work. At first, I would blame it on my computer, but once I realized that it wouldn’t work only in Firefox, I started to wonder what was really happening…
Firefox 3.5 is not available yet in the Ubuntu repositories for an automatic update.
This made sense, as I just upgraded to its latest version and that was when I noticed the issue. Even though I love my Y! Toolbar, I didn’t have to think twice to ditch it as I can’t live without right-clicking my mouse, the geek I am!!
July 7, 2009 was for a lot of people just another day, or maybe not… but definitely not for me! Not only it was the day of Michael Jackson’s memorial, but it was one more day, one more chance to see my men, but most importantly meet and hug/twug out my man of all times, Mr. Donnie Wahlberg!!!!
Yes, I know… I thought that going on a cruise with the guys this year would be the last thing for me to go to, and then I would just get down to serious business like work… But considering the last couples months and what I have gone through including a divorce, when upgrades to 5* VIP became available for Full Service Tour… I didn’t hesitate and bought one. Even though the show again wasn’t in Portland, especially when I took Donnie’s word from back in Frankfurt that they will be in PDX this summer, I settled for Auburn, WA. And I am soooooooooooooooo glad I did that!
I can’t believe that the day has finally come. The day of my first cruise, the day when I will go to Miami, FL and Bahamas for the very first time with no one else other than NKOTB and some beautiful ladies from all over the place!!!
I have picked out some outfits, but most importantly am bringing with me a lot of energy, which I will need to have a lot of fun for the next few days to create some great memories and meet new people.
I hope to have a lot to share upon my return to PDX on Monday night. Whether it will be through pictures, videos, or just simply through some great stories to tell. I’ll check back as soon as I can.
