Friday, November 14, 2014

Cha-Cha-Changes

I have been fumbling around trying to teach myself Photoshop for the past 2 days. It's so frustrating! I wish I had those skills! But I finally came up with a new header. I seriously had to Google every single thing as I tried to make it (which really didn't involve a lot since I purchased the floral wreath as a stock image).

"How do you import an eps image into Photoshop?"

"How do you change text color in Photoshop?"

"How do you save project to PNG format?"

Seriously, it look forever.

I'll probably keep practicing and change things up as I go.

What else....

After almost 9 months of being married, I finally changed my last name. I have sort of been doing it in incremental steps. First my bank, insurance, etc.Then I officially got a new social security card and today went down to the DMV (nothing worse than the DMV, amirite?!) and applied for a new license. I still haven't changed my work email and such.  I'm not sure how to navigate that quite yet.  Do you send out some sort of email announcement? Should I hyphenate at work so people don't get confused? Tricky.

I always figured I would change my name eventually, but I was a little taken back by how I felt about it when the time finally came.  I sort of felt like my identity was changing.  I have been Brianne Olsen my entire life and now I am not. It felt a little sad in a way to give that up. Am I the only one who has felt like that?

Anyway, I am sure I will get used to it. And I really do love being Brianne Bigelow!

1 comment:

suzanne gill said...

I didn't change mine for over a year. I haven't changed it at work and I'm not going to! Too confusing. I felt the same way you did. Just seemed weird to have a different name.