A Surprisingly Sane Blog

James has had this dream of running his own business since college.  Particularly, a website design business.

He is nothing short of a genius when it comes down to computer software programming.  For real.  It’s kind of disgusting how good he is at it.

However, the actual programming part is where his brilliance comes to a screeching halt.  He could never become a one-man-web-designer because his visual creativity rivals none other than his three-year-old daughter’s artistic skills.

In plain English, that man could downright offend a stick figure with his, er, lack of ability to draw even a *somewhat* straight line.  And he couldn’t tell you the difference between dark blue and indigo if you had him by the nuts in one hand and a held a gleaming pocketknife in the other.

So luckily (or maybe not so luckily…) for him, he married, well, me.

I am the polar opposite in the scholarly intelligence department.  Whereas I flunked out of college calculus and couldn’t speak ‘computer’ or ‘engineer’ to save my kids’ lives, my journalism photography, layout and design, and writing classes were a piece of cake.  While James was blowing the minds of other computer engineers, I was busy earning an award for my work as Design Chief for a college newspaper.

Together, we have enough of the puzzle pieces to create a somewhat coherent web design team.  We’re admittedly still a little rough around the edges, and we can kind of suck a time management sometimes, however, we do a good job working together.

So after years of talking about starting our own business and a number of freelance website-related jobs later, we finally did it.  We made our website design business official.  Meaning, we are an actual Limited Liability Company now.  Dancing By Design, LLC.  Doesn’t that sound spiffy?

Now, if our website were up and running, this would be much more impressive.  But it’s not, so this is going to be rather anti-climactic in that department.

To be honest, I finished the design for our site ages ago, but we’ve been so busy with other jobs that we just haven’t gotten around to actually making it live.  Now that we’re officially official, though, we’re going to get it up and running sometime *very* soon.  I promise.

And in case you were wondering, no, this is not my nanny-nanny-boo-boo-stick-your-head-in-doo-doo secret that I was teasing the internet world with a couple weeks ago.  In good time, I’ll spill that one.  Just not yet.  And for the second time… NO, I AM NOT PREGNANT AGAIN.  In fact, I’m thinking it’s time for James to get his baby-batter tubes snipped and cauterized.

So anyway, wish us luck in this whole business-owner thing.  We are keeping it small and have no plans of James quitting his job or anything to do this full-time.

However, we are planning on taking over the world from our dance room/workspace.

Muah ha ha haaaaa!

Current Mood: Playful

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