So here we are…middle of the month of December already and it’s just flying by like mad. It never fails to feel like a crush this time of year. In part because I always try to jam on projects before the 2 upcoming long weekends hits us, and then there’s all the Holiday shopping and craziness that comes along with it.<\/p>\n
Have I done my shopping this year? Bwahahaha. No way. I mean I got my boy and my parents covered. But I still have my wife and my brother to take care of. These two family members are often the toughest for me…my wife never seems to want anything, yet anything practical I can think of getting her (like a Wii Fitness game or fancy kitchen appliance) will just come across the wrong way. (insert dog house here)<\/em><\/p>\n And my brother just about has everything cool that I’d want already. He’s often the guy that gets the vehicles, game consoles, toys, etc that I think is pretty cool and then he applies the pressure on me to get it as well. So buying things for my brother is a bit challenging.<\/p>\n So between the shopping and the projects, I’m always meaning to design fancy Xmas cards each year for my friends and clients. This year I swore to myself that I’d start early like in September…but here we are in December and that TO-DO items still sitting there in my list glaring at me. I don’t think I have time for Xmas. I just might do Chinese New Years cards this year…not too many people get cards around that time of year anyway perhaps it might help. I have a design colleague in Downtown that does annual Chinese New Years cards for his clients…perhaps now I see the reason why.<\/p>\n Well, enough of a break for me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So here we are…middle of the month of December already and it’s just flying by like mad. It never fails to feel like a crush this time of year. In part because I always try to jam on projects before the 2 upcoming long weekends hits us, and then there’s all the Holiday shopping and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}