My First Post to Citizen Orange: Thank You Nezua

I had gotten in touch with Nezua about designing a blog for me a few months ago.  I really wanted to take my blogging to the next level and I knew that Nezua could take me there.  That is if I was lucky enough to be graced with the privilege of having him dedicate some of his busy schedule to it.  Nezua was really nice with me about the whole thing and he negotiated a decent price for me considering I've been living in the negative for sometime now.  I paid half up front and I waited.  Nezua told me to just let him get to it in his own time, that I would have to be patient but that I would be happy with the outcome.  I sat on hosting fees for a little bit, but I can't stress how right was he right about being happy with the outcome.

The first thing he sent me was the quetzal rune (the one pictured above), and that's when I began to get excited.  I loved the rune so much that I've been placing it in all my profiles all over the web.  The quetzal, for those of you that didn't know, is Guatemala's national bird.  I liked the first design that he sent me of the blog, and gave him a little bit of feedback.  He added the pictures of Jacobo Arbenz, and Tomasa Mendez, on either side of the Pacaya volcano that was in the original design, and I noticed for the first time, after Nez told me, that there was Guatemalan fabric in the background.  It looked almost like lava to me at first.  Then he gave me access to the blog.

Ever since that fateful day I haven't been able to take my eyes off the blog.  At first, I liked it.  But ever since Nez gave me the keys to this blog I've just been entranced.  The design just does such an amazing job of conveying who I am and what I'm trying to do.  The pictures of Jacobo Arbenz and Tomasa Mendez just connect so viscerally to reality for me the abstract concept that is citizen orange for me.  The theme of roundness really conveys the idea of a development of a global citizenry that I talk about so much.  The crystal balls are surrounded by a Mayan design that illustrates how much my viewpoint has been characterized by the 18 years that I spent in Guatemala.  All enveloped in an almost space-like theme that is so very Nezua with his aliencholo designs.

Then Nezua put up custom designs for each of the features that are just going to make my blogging so much more effective.  Now, I seriously feel like a kid on Christmas day, who can't stop playing with his toys.  I guess this is just a long way of introducing everyone to Citizen Orange and to thank Nezua who was done work that has surpassed even my wildest dreams.  I hope that I do this blog justice with my writing.