Look at me!

"Look at me!" says my new mega awesome banner.  Isn't it cool?  Clearly, I did not make it.  I hired (yes, very officially thank you very much) an actual, real Graphic Designer with a capital GD.  His name is Justin and I really enjoyed the back and forth of banner creation with him.  There is a 98% chance he thinks I am totally nuts, but I hope in a good way.  Here are some snippets of our emails back and forth as we created banner extraordinaire:

May 17, 2012 (Initial email):

To: Justin

From: Katie

Subject: Personal services

Hi Justin,
No, "personal services" is not something sicko I'm asking about...  :/  Sounds that way though, doesn't it?  *awkward*

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May 23, 2012:

To: Katie

From: Justin

Subject: Re: Personal services [PS. this subject line never changed throughout the whole process = awesome]

PS. I couldn't get Vanilla Ice out of my head as that was one of the first cassette tapes I had growing up and he kept saying "word to your mother" as I was thinking -- Bastard.

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May 25, 2012:

To: Justin

From: Katie

Subject: Re: Personal services

Any way we could make the baby doing a W with it's fingers?  That would really embrace the level of snark that I'm going for.  Kinda like this (me, not Bucky):

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May 29, 2012:

To: Justin

From: Katie

Subject: (none)

Sorry. I'm pregnant.  As I walked down the stairs I realized I walked past you, didn't say a word, and probably looked crazy.  I was just lost in my own thoughts slash am dumb.

So... hi!

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May 31, 2012:

To: Katie

From: Justin

Subject: Re: Personal Services

I'm hoping this next revision and the banner over all will be something you're happy to have reside at the top of your gross blog.

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June 12, 2012:

To: Katie

From: Justin

Subjet: Re: Personal services

And yes, it's probably wise to not watch a live self-administered caesarean section during which pops out alien milk fluid corpuscle grossness accompanied by strange movements under the skin and finally an angry alien baby.

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And.... that's how my site became so pretty.  Thank you Justin!  You = awesome.

Author's Note:

Looking at this entry as a whole, I realized that Justin is an actual colleague of mine at my real job, who I barely knew when I asked him to do this for me.  Hmmm.... I just had an a-ha moment enlightening me about some of my "professional" mannerisms.