Jet Ski Kind of a Night

Earlier today I had text my good friend Bryson about doing something tonight. I was expecting movies but then he surprised me with saying wanna Seadoo. Of course with out hesitation I said yes and I called up Jacque as well. After meeting up at his house we headed up to the Oakley Reservoir for some speed and water. I was surprised with how warm the water was and how warm the air was with how late it was getting. Sadly we had started to late and had to load up early. After almost getting stuck and finally realizing an oops we headed up listening to a hilarious song and introduced Mat Kearny to both of them it was time to head home and get into bed  and get warm. Oh how I love summer and I'm not ready for it to be already. And I'm gearing up for Rexburg already. Everyone else has started school including my mom {She's headed for a Dietetics degree} so its me and the dog for the most part. Thank goodness for moonlight jet ski rides with good friends to keep me sane. I can't wait to see my Rexburg friends next week and to get the party started. And to drop off wedding presents to recently and soon to be married friends. Don't worry I plan on hanging with roommates and avoiding marriage like the plague. I have good feelings about the next semester. Its going to be a good one full of good happenings. 

Chloe's Typography Tips For Any Blogger

My family has recently started calling me the font nazi ever since I came home fresh of a typography semester and would name fonts that would show up on TV screen. My mom says I deserve it because I got a hundred percent on my font ID test. That and I'm a wedding announcement critic and only I and family will ever hear about my rants of how wedding announcements sent to our house could be made better. But back to this post. I've wanted to do this for a long time because I read blogs a lot and some blogs are clearly better than others concerning typography. 

Blogging is an excellent form of self expression not only in the writing but also in its design {background, header, buttons, etc.} But lately I'm getting tired of overkill or a.k.a "lets push for so gosh darn cute my reader can't read my blog post." There have been plenty of blogs that I have stumbled upon that sound really interesting and then I get to their blog and I can't read a thing. Sadly I won't stay long to read that blog and they have lost a reader when I have lost interest in trying to decipher what they wrote.  I've kept my blog pretty basic not only because I don't know a lot of coding but also because it keeps my blog functional. 

Tip #1:Post Body

Not all fonts are created equal. Some are meant for reading over a long period of time {books, articles, etc.}, while others are meant for display and grabbing attention{posters, movie titles, announcements, etc.} While blogging you need to constantly keep in mind your readers. Even if you think nobody is reading your blog, your wrong someone is reading {unless you keep it unpublished}. Don't pick a font that you think is super fun and cute because it'll mostly likely be hard to read for a long period of time. It wasn't meant for a body of test. If I have to squint because I can't make the shape of the letters I won't try to read the post. Maybe just one sentence but that's about it. Think about writing a paper for a class. You want your professor to be able to read it and its not some poem for third grade. So you would pick a readable font or use the one the professor has chosen for the assignment. Make your your readers happy by making the test more readable. I recommend Georgia or Veranda {both have been specifically designed for the web} or even Arial{pff what a knock off} or Times New Roman. Never, never, NEVER use script or comic sans or apple chaucery. You will me scoffed at by designers, especially me. 

Tip #2: Color

Not all colors are meant for reading over a long periods of time as well. With color keep it simple. Black text on a white background{ok yes you can't get away with several light colors} or white text on a black background {or some other really dark color}. Yes I may of cheated on this one using navy blue for text color but it still works because it is dark enough. Please do not use yellow or a light color like baby pink or blue. Even teal or lime green or a hot pink can be hard to read. 

Tip #3: Size

Web is very different from print and sometimes that means your text needs to appear bigger. Some cases it will appear smaller and you'll need to make it bigger. Sometimes it will be made bigger already.  For blogger size 12 or 14 is a good size and very readable. Even size 11 can work. Sometimes bigger is better especially when it comes to text and the web. 

Tip #4: Post Title/Blog Title

Go for it! Yes you read my words correctly: Go for it! But when I say go for it don't go completely crazy. Do pick one of those fun fonts that are meant to be for display. Go ahead for a script with your favorite shade of lime green. Remember you reader. Do make it a lot bigger than your body text for some added variation. 

Typography  is important, very important. Don't believe me imagine text on TV giving you information they want to share and its in a script font. Not very useful or helpful. You want people to read your blog--make it easier to read. Your blog can still be cute without bad typography. 

For other design advice or your looking for someone to fill your graphic design needs email me at chloevictoriadesign@gmail.com. 

13.1

My dad has been rocking the half and full marathons lately. His determination as kind of got me thinking about training for a half marathon. Maybe. I'm running and biking for now and my running isn't that fair because I need to build up my knee strength. I digress back to my father and his awesomeness. He rocked the Top of the Utah half marathon. Time 1 hour and 33 minutes. His time per mile was faster than his 10K time per mile in July. I have a feeling this man will be qualifying for the coveted Boston Marathon.

And we saw a cute baby horse as we were walking to and from the finish line to my grandma's house. Yeah, my grandma is cool like that. Or we're just lucky that both the half and full marathon route go by our grandma's house. 

And of course no Logan, Utah trip would be complete with out lots of Aggie Ice Cream,{its the best, especially the cookie dough} and some tiny spicy chicken from Mandarin Garden. So delicious, really would not mind moving to Logan after college or the SLC valley. Yeah I would have fun living there. 

Heaven on Earth

This past weekend has been quite exciting. I was glad for a trip to Utah after being home for almost the week of being home working on a logo and sleeping and watching Psych and avoiding my packing that needs to happen. So when it was getting closer to my father's half marathon my mom had the idea to go to the Brigham City Temple Open House. What can I say my mom is a genius and I'm so glad we went. 

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Bride's dressing room. Super Gorgeous and has my favorite painting of Esther in the Room{via}

Where families are sealed for time and eternity. {via}

Brigham City Peach Blossom for some of the window details and various other 

details around the temple. Love.{via}

I was so glad to experience going through the whole temple with my family again. It was a lot different than the Twin Falls temple in regards that the tour was long and you had an actual tour guide. This tour was just a long line through the whole temple looking at everything. It was a gorgeous temple just like the Twin Falls Temple. Knowing that it is Heavenly Father's home makes me apperciate what goes in to building a temple and making it beautiful. It has the most beautiful things inside. I can't wait for the day to where I can go and do other temple ordinances. If you don't fully understand what temples are and why they aren't open to the general public go  here and here. I can't wait until I am sealed to my eternal companion. I really don't care what temple I get married in but Brigham City has become a contender. If you haven't gone to see this temple go see it! Its worth it and the open house will last until September 15th. And if you have questions about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days there are missionaries ready to take your questions at the open house.

Walk like an Egyptian

Well today I got to go enjoy a day with family at the Museum of Idaho. Harvest ended yesterday which made me sad in regards that I won't have a job for the next three weeks. But I definitely will have plenty of projects to get done in the next couple of weeks. Making some paintings for my newly changed room (pictures to come later) and creating a logo for my uncle so it'll be good fun. But back to today. 

Dear old King Tut's exhibit was in Idaho Falls and it was quite a treat. Me and my sisters had good fun taking funny pictures and looking at all of the things found in Tut's tomb. Lots of interesting things and did you know that they put golden caps on his fingers and toes when they buried him? Rather interesting and had lots of fun with la famille. Went to Dickey's for some amazing barbecue {love taking them to new places to eat}. Did some school shopping at target and finally got me a memory foam topper for my bed. 

I'll post more pictures of going ons and the pictures from work. But today was about family and it was a good day for sure. 

makeupless

Yesterday's post and today's post are making up for the lack of Dear Boys post and really this is exciting as my life gets right now. Ha.

Well I never where makeup when I work at the scale. I basically grunge down for the jump to prevent from awkward moments of truck drivers hitting on me. Well apparently it doesn't stop some people and apparently I look decent with out makeup these days. I had another incident today but not with some high school boy. I'm not sure how old this guy was-wanna say mid-twentites-anyway. This guy was f-i-n-e, fine. This guy was a tall glass of water if you know what I mean haha. Anyway this guy was wearing sunglasses and I could just tell he was good looking. Well after he left the first time I turn to Kade exclaim how he's hot. And we laugh. Well the next time he brings in a new load he totally takes his sunglasses off and I can totally see he's looking at me by using my peripherals. Well I give him his bin ticket so he can go dump and we totally eye lock. Oh my goodness it actually felt good even though I know nothing was going to come of it. But just to have a guy check me out when I'm wearing no makeup felt good. To bad that driver is a mechanic and was driving for just a couple of hours and I'll never come back to the scale house again. So lame. But I'm glad to know I'm comfortable with out makeup. Maybe I'll take a picture of myself tomorrow and post it. Hmmm...chances are very unlikely.

Plus I have finally written up Chloe's Typography Advice for any Blogger finally. I've been wanting to do this and finally I got my basic tips narrowed down and school isn't frying my brain. So stay tuned.  And I'll post some pictures of work so you can see how exciting my job is eventually. 

eh...what?!

So I work at scale house, where I interact with truck drivers on a daily basis. And for the most part most of them can't speak English so they can't really talk to me. Which for the most part is how I like it. All of them are way older than me {granted I should have worn the fake ring in the past two years} and they are pretty respectful. Well today was pretty normal until some 16 year old started hauling for I'm guessing for a grandfather or uncle or somebody in his ward started flirting with me. And of course I'm totally oblivious when I'm actually flirting. The kid seemed to be hitting on me. After that happened and even my co-scale person even agreed with me when I said what just happened there was he hitting on me? So yeah eh...what?! just happened to me today. I don't whether to feel flatter to be some boy's infatuation or feel disgusted because I'm some hormone raged high school boys whatever. I digress.Well my coworker says I should own it and flaunt it. Geez. Boys. Yeah thats as exciting as my days get at Scale House.

a little inspiration.

Here's some inspiration to get through life and this next week. My mom asked me to do this a while ago and I made a version and she didn't like it and it just looked worse to me. So like any designer I took a break, explored some different options and took another break because heck this for my mom.  So this is what I came up with. And I really like it. Granted I'll  keep tweaking it because when I put it into another setting other than in illustrator I see changes that need to be made. So enjoy! {PLEASE: do not copy this without my permission. It's my own work.}

well...

Remember when I said I was going to write blog posts about what I do for work because really my work is quite interesting and I meet quite the characters and people who I can't speak to because they don't understand me. Que Chloe making hand motions and asking her supervisor to speak Spanish for her. Well I've forgotten to charge my camera and work has been pretty slow. Its been a strange harvest that's for sure. Today was intense. Busiest day at Beetville so far this harvest. The best part is I  was by myself. My teammate was asked to go to another scale. So I was all by myself and had 110 trucks and I didn't make any mistakes at all. And normally I get about 1 or 2 mistakes a day with another person helping me with harvest. Impressive I think so. But thats just me and I've been working in a scale house for five years. So truck drivers please shut the scale house door when you leave and get on the scales the correct way. No more of your shinanigans. I'm tired, so ready for some wonderful sleep. But hey can't complain about today got some good hours and dad picked me up and we got some taco bandito to go. YUM! Love me some taco salad burrito and sugar tias!

Progress

Remember how I talked about reading the Book of Mormon in 37 days. Yes 37 days all before Fall 2012 semester. I really don't know where I got the idea but its probably been one of the best ideas I have ever had to actually challenge myself. I'm way a head of schedule and already more than a quarter of the way done (I'm reading more than six chapters a day).

For those who don't know what the Book of Mormon is, it is another Testament of Christ and scripture that was translated by the Prophet Joseph Smith.  Some say that it condriticts the bible but really the Bible and the Book of Mormon are fitted together and help each other.

I know the Book of Mormon to be true. I have read it myself and with my family and every time I am reassured that it is true. Even though I grew up in the LDS faith I still prayed about the Book of Mormon for myself to know if it is true. The Book of Mormon draws me closer to Heavenly Father and Christ. When I read it I feel happy and I don't ever want to do a bad thing again. God speaks to us today and he has provided the world with the Book of Mormon.  It will prepare for what lies a head. I feel God's love when I read the Book of Mormon because I know he prepared it for our day. It is a wonderful book. I know it is the Word of God.

If you are wondering how you can get a Book of Mormon, go to my profile page and send me a message and I will mail you one or you can go to lds.org to read the Book of Mormon online. 

Good Things

Already start working. I'm so lucky to have a a job for this awkward break of seven weeks. What can I say I'm good at what I do and its really not that hard to be a scale operator. 

I found out I'll receive I nice big pell grant this coming school year which will allow me the option to stay and take classes winter semester. Huge blessing! 

My single ward bishopric back home. They are simply amazing and I'm so glad I know they love me!

I quick girls night with Josi. Complete with Sherlock Holmes and fun dip. Just like high school. Really happy she is Provo already but pretty bummed she left so early. That girl is destined for greatness. 

New clothes. What girl isn't excited about new clothes?! Really?

Olympics. I love it. Love watching it and seeing the drive of all the athletes! Gabby Douglus is super cute and I love watching her compete. And I have anew favorite swimmer Nathan Adrian. I'm starting to notice I have a thing for swimmer. They are tall, gorgeous, and have got the muscles. I can't wait for track events to start. 

My new goal. It surprised me. I am going to read the entire Book of Mormon by the time I move back up to school. I figured it out and since starting it on Tuesday I'm schedule.  Read about 6 to 7 chapters a day I'll make. I think I will. I really want to do this.

Reading Lectures on Faith. In a way its mind blowing because I never thought of faith like the book describes and yet it makes sense. Another favorite read right now is However long and hard the road by Elder Jeffery R. Holland.