Left Side or Right?

Is the left side of your brain the creative side, or the right? I always get those mixed up. Anyway, whichever it is, I have a creative brain. I like pretty. I don't care how things work really, as long as they do, and I want things to look pretty while we're at it! I'm a little messy, not much, but clean. Does that make sense? (In other words, I don't like dirty, but a bit disorganized is heaven to me.) When I work, I like to spread all my materials out around me. If I'm in the kitchen, I like to gather all my ingredients before I start. I call my creative method "Organized chaos."

That said, I'll tell you what's cooking lately: A new website. A really cool one, with all the bells and whistles, a professional one where customers can see my work AND order stuff right then...an online store! Whoo-hoo.

It's a big production, this new website, so in the meantime, I created an updated website...the in-between site, a bit cleaner, a bit easier to read and navigate. (It's up now, www.chocolatepopsnc.com...let me know what you think!)

Change is icky sometimes. Last night was my first meeting about the new site and I've got to confess, my brain already hurts. I know just enough about computers to make me dangerous, and I'm not ashamed to tell you, I hate this middle part. I like the part where you get the idea, and I like the end result, but the middle part, where you have to talk about formats, and shipping costs, and layout...ick.

My husband, the web-guy, and his sidekick/work-wife sat on the couch. I sat across from them in the easy chair, answering questions and (don't tell Chad) sometimes zoning out. I know this is important, and this change is good, but I'm the creative one, remember? I just wanna get back to creating. (I felt the same way in Advanced Math in high school!) Does this ever happen to any of you?

I think it went okay. I answered their questions, for the most part, well. They shot down a few of my suggestions, Chad gave me some story (supposed to be a metaphor, I guess) about how people want to eat sausage but NOT see how it's made, they laughed about I.T jokes that went right over my head, and I don't think they noticed when I fell asleep for a moment toward the end. All in all, I think we're off to a good start. We'll see...