Holli Rausch

I learned this trick from GoMediaZine on Friday. Tried it yesterday. It will literally change my layout life. Works like a charm and I can’t believe I lined up any other way! I had to share.

In Adobe InDesign, move your cursor right before the first letter of the paragraph on the first line of your bulleted list. Press ctrl + \ and the other lines will fall in directly below that one. You are left with a clean left justified bulleted item. NOTE: When setting your rags by hand on the item, do not use a hard return (Enter) or the trick will not work. If you need to insert a manual break, use a soft return (Shift + Enter) and the list will still line up correctly.

Thank you, GoMediaZine.

Made this little doo-dah tonight after work to send to the whole two people who don’t have email on our people we must tell when we move list.

That being said, anyone moving soon that will need a few of these? Complete with fake “glue leakage”!

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Details are on Scott Meyer Photography’s blog.

When struggling to write a paper defending one side of an issue for Government class in high school, my dad gave me some advice. He told me that the best debaters know how to argue both sides of the issue. It makes sense. Being able to foresee how the other person sees the issue, can help you in defending your side. I assume it’s a fundamental part of debate. But my school didn’t have debate club, or whatever.

Sometimes, I take the other side of an issue, even if it’s not the one I’d side with. And even if it’s not an issue at all. I do it just for the sake of uncovering the possible problems that may arise. I do it to bring up other points. I frequently wonder if that makes me a pessimist. I don’t think so, though sometimes I *am* pessimistic (just as often as optimistic).

I’d like to think of it mostly as realism. I think people, by nature, are disagreeable. Even if you have what could be considered the greatest idea in the world, someone will have a problem with it. Someone will think they have a better way to do it. Someone will think life was better before your idea was realized. Sometimes, these people will be right. Sometimes, these disagreeable people have the knowledge and capability to make your “greatest idea in the world” into something better.

This way of thinking (pessimistic, realistic, argumentative, whatever you want to call it) brings change. From Blu-Ray discs on our shelf to the mighty mouse on my desk, to the “new” Facebook open in a tab in my browser, to browser tabs. And to the cell phone you might be reading this post on. Everything around us exists because someone thought differently from everyone else around them.

And everything around you right now? Right now, someone’s thinking of a better way to do it.

I’ve done some reorganization. Some of it seemed necessary, some really was OK where it was. But sometimes, I just need a project. And I feel like my life is improved because of it.

1. Laundry Room – I kept looking at the walls in my laundry room and think, “This space could be better utilized.” So I forced my husband to spend way too much of his very little free time to install the shelf on the side of the room. Everything that’s on that shelf was on the floor or a small stool on the floor. I can now actually stand directly in front of the washer. And it is SO nice. Still a couple things on the floor, but totally bearable.

2. Master Bathroom – I purchased this stand and put it together myself (handywoman!) Again, I thought “This space could better be utilized.” We have little storage space in the bathroom, so previously, the towels weren’t in here. Which really doesn’t make much sense.

3. Bedroom – The rubbermaid storage container used to be in the bathroom next to the sink and the things on the bottom shelf of the bathroom stand used to be on top of this in there. This could have still remained in the bathroom, but it seemed to work just as good out here. Most of the things in there were mine anyway and are replacement products that just need to be stored somewhere.

4. Closet – This is my side of the closet. Again, it seemed as though that space could be better utilized. Things on the floor, sweaters piled too high on top so I could only wear a couple of them because they were easier to grab. This rubbermaid container used to be next to my dresser and hold the bathroom towels. Now it holds clothes that don’t need to be hung up but need a place – tank tops, zip-up sweaters, and sweatshirts. Which frees up space on top to more evenly store sweaters and leaves more space in my closet for easier viewing of items.

Feels good!