About me

I feel like I am constantly moving in 100 different directions. I’m continually trying to find ways to stay organized, get more accomplished, remember things and catalog my ideas. Sometimes I wish I could just file things in my mind and they would come back just when they are supposed to… in a perfect world, there would be 10 of me and I’d get to pick which one of me I wanted to be each day while the rest of me did their jobs just like their supposed to.

But we’re not in any kind of perfect world. I often forget remedial things like “eat lunch” or more important things like “pick up child #2 from school”. It’s not that I’m clueless or overworked or even uninterested. It’s that I am always thinking and one can only thing so much before a fuse blows somewhere.

I have a number of other websites I own, manage, build and use to earn my keep. This is the one place I can go and talk about whatever the heck I want without worrying about what focus I have, because sometimes focusing is over rated and we need to just be able to sit and ponder.. daydream.. and talk out loud to ourselves. It’s good for us. We should do it more.

So this is my space to talk to myself and make notes about the things in life I find interesting or entertaining. Some things may have zero relevance to the rest of the world, but if I don’t write it down it will soon have zero relevance to me as well. Every day is an opportunity to learn something new, so I intend to do my best at documenting what I learn as I go along. You’re welcome to join me.

My Stats:

My name is Jen Goode. I am the owner and doodler in charge of JGoode Designs. I am a mother of 3, wife, daughter, sister, Colorado native (4th generation), artist, geek, social media addict, pack-rat, paper snob, fan of cheesecake and milkshakes and a whole slew of other things.

I like to draw penguins and a whole army of other things… the smell of craft supplies makes me smile.

Some of my apparent weaknesses are actually my some biggest strengths – but I just don’t like dealing with them… like cleaning or organizing or patience.

Some things I wish for:

• Make it to Paris so I can eat real french bread and step foot in the Louvre.
• Own a VW bus I can cover with painted happiness (maybe my family will even help).
• Write a series of childrens books with my children
• …and all the stero-typical wishes like world peace, and end to world hunger, a cure for cancer and more chocolate.

I believe

• not everything has to be done for a reason and not all reasons need to be related to a career or an income. Sometimes we should just do things because it makes us happy and because we can.
• we spend way too much time working, so we better damn well love our work!
• you get what you give so you should give for the shear joy of giving
• everyone deserves a chance – at what, that’s the real key
• everyone has a creative side, try to convince me otherwise, I dare ya
• happiness doesn’t just happen – you make it
• … you deserve a prize for reading this entire page, drop me a note