ramblings

I am so ridiculously OCD sometimes. Seriously. It's probably a clinical grade level of obsessive compulsive disorder.

When I wash the bottle nipples for my son's bottles, I do them in order of color. I'm addicted to sunflower seeds and when I pour a small pile onto my desk in order to eat them, I actually SORT them into three different piles depending on size and whether or not the shell is cracked already (when the shell has a crack, more salt gets on the inside, and I think those taste better - lol)

Oh, and whenever I open a can of soda (pop? lol) I turn the tab around. Why? No reason. I just do. I do it every time. And if it's not turned around, it drives me insane. But my husband can't stand it when they're turned around because he thinks its crazy, so he messes with me sometimes by coming to my desk and flipping the tab around on my mountain dew when I'm not looking.


Have I ever mentioned that my husband and I both work for Sony at the same game studio? Probably not. And if I have, I doubt anyone has read this blog long enough to know it.

Yeah - anyways, it's all sorts of convenience since we carpool and go to lunch together.

People hear this and they assume that we met here, but we didn't. I met him when I was in 8th grade. Yes, I met my husband when I was only 13 years old. We sat next to each other in a computer programming class.

It was geek love. lol

In highschool, we would go to this local comic book store every Wednesday together, and we volunteered for a local comic & anime convention that was held every year; three years in a row.

We went to the same two colleges; the first one in Iowa, and the second in Washington state. We both loved the Seattle area. Seattle is, and will likely always be, my absolute favorite place I have ever lived. It was beautiful there.

We got married the same week we graduated from college so that parents and friends would only have to take one trip to Washington, and yet still be able to attend both events.

And when I got offered a contract job at Sony, and he was still jobless (well, unless you count pizza delivery, but we don't), we moved to Oregon and got a tiny little apartment and lived off ramen noodles and potatoes.

Two months later the studio was hiring another contract position and they interviewed my husband and the rest is history. Five years later we're both still working here.

I do enjoy my work a fair amount. It really is a pretty awesome job. I get to make art for a living. That is really quite awesome.

I rarely merge my two worlds of interest, but if anyone reading this is ever the least bit curious, you can check out my art over at athey.deviantart.com

Although my DA page has been ridiculously neglected lately.

No twilight stuff up there at all. Although I must admit that there's been an itch in the back of my head to try and model a bust of Robert Pattinson. lol... I just don't know when I'd get the time, and I'm sure my husband would tease me mercilessly if I did.

...still tempted. :P