Author name: jade

Australia bound

From September 2020 until now, we’ve been working on a work trip to Australia. Because BF will be working and AU isn’t allowing tourists due to covid, we applied for a permanent resident visa. The application was under the category of distinguished talent. In on the coattails. The first part of the application was demonstrating […]

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Photoshop camera

Photoshop Camera is an Adobe product that was released in 2020. I downloaded it shortly before the Adobe Max conference last October because I knew there would be workshops about this product. At first I wasn’t excited about it since it was sort of like Instagram filters and I couldn’t see the value in the

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Broken pix

This blog was maintained well 2012-2014. Then life filled with surgery recovery, cancer, graduations, and abandonment. As I began my 2021 goal to update all kid reference and pronouns, I found that the Instagram photo links were all broken. Hmmm. Once upon a time, I could trick the browser into telling me the direct link

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Too Darn hot

Pre-menopause, I was always cold. I needed the heater on, several layers of clothes, and flannel sheets. During menopause, I never had classic hot flashes but I did notice that I didn’t need socks for bedtime or long underwear during the day. Post-menopause, I am always warm to sweltering. There are many things that I

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Pandemic Travel

My kids tell me to turn on ad blockers and to turn off all things google e.g. location services. I kinda like location turned on because maps always works, when I google for a paver repair person, I’m shown results that are local, and I get cool monthly/yearly reports about where I’ve been. 2020 sucking

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