Tuesday, June 7, 2005

   I'm finally done!
Well, today after work I had to reorganize my room so I could get to my airconditioner...I've been using it as a table all winter. heh. Only problem is in order to make room for the stuff I was storing on it, I had to reorganize the entire place, so four and a half hours later I FINALLY finished...and i made one discovery that cannot be refuted...i have WAY more manga than I have any space for! haha. Well, I'll just have to hope if I want to reread a volume, I REALLY REALLY want to reread it...because i'm going to have to dig through four boxes to find it...

In other news, you know how you "get what you paid for"...yeah, never buy screwdrivers at a dollar store. For my airco I need to screw a board into the windowsill, and, well, I accomplished it...had to go through three screwdrivers to ACCOMPLISH it, but you know, heh. It's not that the things snapped...more like, the handle moved, the actual screwdriver just sorta...didn't. Oy, what a pain. Anyway, now I'm finally done. Tomorrow I can get mike to come visit while I put it in the window, moral support, and to keep me from dropping the damn thing... Uhm...there was something else...I just don't remember what it was...ah well, must not have been that important.
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Sunday, June 5, 2005

   shore traffic and sunburn-argh!
Did I go to the beach? No. I went to visit my parents who live near the beach...and it being the first weekend of june...*cringes* An almost two hour drive took me nearly three hours today to get back home, and we were sitting on the deck with the cat, so my arm got sunburned. I was only outside for like an hour and a half too...and the deck is mostly in shade. Figures I picked the one seat that wasn't. Well, it's okay, it only hurts when I touch it. *poke* 's hot!

Well, mom died my hair though, and I got my new wiper blades, the sashes I need to finish off my pirate costume for the renaissance faire in august, and my car is clean, so I suppose it went well...minus the parents trying to tell me I should come home because surely renting a room is beneath me, or something. Hell no! This room happens to be my happy place! It protects me from the nervous breakdown I almost had when living in that house! Well, we get along pretty well now though, for the most part, since we don't have to see each other all the time, but maybe that's one-sided. I guess they probably miss me and that's why they're so annoying about my choice of lifestyle, but shouldn't they just be satisfied that I've finally found a place where I can be happy? Honestly, I don't really care what they think about my place. It may be cramped, messy, and the most ugly shade of pink I've ever seen, but it's mine and I like it damn it! Okay, I feel better now that I've vented.
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Saturday, June 4, 2005

   bah!
Looking for a decent rp is making my head hurt...so I thought I'd come here and whine about it.

*prepares to 'dumb down'* Well, I guess it can't be helped if I don't want to run one of my own...heh. I may be too literate for my own good. Bad writing is just physically painful for me...
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Friday, June 3, 2005

   screaming children...
At work, and giving my drawing hand a break from almost seven hours of nothing but one picture and designing it...if I don't take a rest I'm gonna start getting the shakes (stupid carpal tunnel...grr...). And outside there are all these little girls screaming on the top of their lungs and running around...where are their mothers anyway? They're practically out playing in traffic...

Well, we know I'd be a crappy mom, hah, annoying kids screaming really irk me. Don't get me wrong, I love kids...as long as I can give them back when they start to act up... Well, fifteen minutes, and I think I've rested enough. I'll get back to my drawing before closing up shop. With luck I can finish sketching in some of the background.

See ya!
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Thursday, June 2, 2005

Killing time...
I drew my coworker's "demon ninja" finally...and my chars for the "Lineage" rpg i wanna start. today was boring as usual. It was a good way to kill time.

Last night mom told me that grandma is off the respirator, so that's good, and then told me to get a card.

Anyway, gotta go to work #2 now.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2005

   another day another dollar...
Well, my boss left...almost an hour ago...my other boss is apparently not going to be in the rest of the week. He's pissed off so I think he may be about to quit, not that that affects me that much, just means that I get to waste my day drawing and the like...but my hand hurts so I'm taking a break. Stupid carpal tunnel.

I think maybe I'll work on a new rp I'm thinking of starting at Gaia. Naruto rpg. I was gonna join one, but the person who started posted the intro and has never been heard from again, so I suppose it's dead before it started.

I read a friend's blog that said he's going without beer for the month, that made me laugh, it doesn't seem like him. I told him good luck, try not to die of soberness, or something. He says he's doing it to lose weight...*rolls eyes*.

In other news, I've noticed my sketches are always a total disaster. I only know what they are because I know what they're supposed to be...is anyone else like that? Until I ink and erase all the crap underneath, it's really difficult to see what the hell is going on.*shrug* Well, whatever works I suppose, but I see some people's sketches that are so neat and cool-looking...and I'm like "no, don't look at it until it's done please!" Well, I posted a sketch today anyway out of boredom. It's my character Rui--ninja-type, naruto based...you know, nothing totally out of the ordinary. I'm hoping to post a different work of rui tonight or tomorrow if i can finish painting it, but I don't know, it might take me a few more days. We shall see.

What else...oh, my grandma is in intensive care. That's kind of sad. She has colon cancer or something, but considering she only had a 50% chance of living through it, I guess ICU isn't too bad. I don't really think she's going to last much longer anyway. I guess that's not a happy thought and I shouldn't be so mellow about it, my dad's stressing I'll bet, but if you're going to go, you're going to go, ya know? I mean, it's sad, but I just don't know how to deal with grieving and that stuff, so I guess it can't be helped. Anyway, I'm sure it'll all work out for the best.

I'd babble more, but nothing else to say, soo...time to go find something else to do for the next hour and fifteen minutes...
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Monday, May 30, 2005

   fun day...
Today my friend sophie came to visit from Jersey. We don't get to see her much since she lives like an hour away, but when she comes we always have a lot of fun. Mike and I went to meet her at the front door and he just gave her this big hug and spun her around in a big circle. It makes me happy to see them being so silly and happy like that. Then she 'threatened me with affection' and gave me a little hug too. I guess I don't mind it so much anymore, but I still make a fuss, for sake of tradition. We went to the mall so they could see the new star wars movie. Freak that I am, I don't really like star wars, so I went around doing errands while they were there. I had to go to the craft shop to get some more black pencils, I go through those way too fast, and I picked up a new kneaded rubber eraser too, mine was almost done for, so it was a good idea. Then I had to go to one of those accessory shops (I dread them in all their frilly girliness...hehe) because my hair is too damn soft for elastics and scrunchies to really hold them, so I bought a few butterfly clips and chopsticks, they'll actually keep my hair in one place all day. I try headbands sometimes, but my hair flies in my face and irritates me, and I'm too lazy to keep it short, sooo hair bobbles. After that I checked out the new Japanse Bookstore, it's my new happy place. I spent a lot more money there than I should have! But that all only killed about an hour and a half or so, and I wore my flip flops instead of regular shoes, which made my feet hurt, so I went to the food court for the rest of the time and drew and read one of my new manga. I totally had to limp back to the car, and since the mall is always PACKED on the weekends (and during the week actually, around here it's the closest place to get EVERYTHING, so it can't be helped), we were parked really far away, and I stepped in gum and had to sacrifice one of my pencils to rid myself of it. Grr. It was a new pencil too! By that time it was like 8, since we took like an hour to eat...the japanese food place at the mall has the BEST teriyaki chicken, so I have to buy some, and chicken dumplings, everytime I go. They're udon is really good too, and the miso...haha, it's a real dilemma picking food there. Anyway, so by the time we got home it was like 8:30, so after searching for tekken 5 for twenty minutes or so, which I gave up on *wonders where she put it*, sophie left. It was a fun day, even if half of it was spent doing things I don't really like to do. Errands irritate me, like going to the craft store (because it's a crappy craft store, but the other one in my area is a 45 minute drive!), and getting accessories....I'm really not a shopper. I do it all really fast to get out of the store as quickly as possible! But it was still nice. I can't wait to save up some money so that the three of us can move to Albany together and I get to watch them banter and laugh all the time. Well, I'll probably never be a person who can throw myself into the random silliness and stuff like that, but it still makes me really happy to be around my friends who don't mind that I'm like that, and watching them makes me smile. I guess even a stubborn and independent person likes me has to have SOME people they depend upon, after all. But the day was so short! I wanted it to be longer! It felt like I only got to see sophie for like ten minutes before she left. Bah! We probably won't get to see each other for another three months now! And next week I have to go to my parents' house...ugh...well, maybe mom and I can catch a movie though. I hope something good is playing.
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Saturday, May 28, 2005

   stupid obsession...
Yes, I'm obsessed again. I downloaded limewire to replace the crappiness that kazaa has become, so now all I seem to be able to bring myself to do is watch lots and lots of naruto....I am such a bum....

Well, it's okay, tomorrow I get to be a bum with my friends. I can't wait to see Sophie again, it's really been too long! *hops anxiously* oh yeah, and mike too, but I see him EVERY DAY...hee. They're going to watch star wars...i'm going to waste hours and hours in the craft store...yes, I can spend that long looking at paint and stuff...pch! who are you to judge me! heh.
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   just thinking...again
Well, I had a nice two hours of slacking off while I watched John Leguizamo's "Freak". Heh, he's too funny.

Now I'm winding back to reality and thinking about all the projects I've lined up for myself to do and it seems like I'll never be finished, but you know, all about the journey and what-not, and at least I'm having fun.

I've got a book to finish, and another possibly multimedia story that I want to start over again...I can't help but wonder how everything's going to turn out, but I guess I'll know when I get there.

Well, I won't get anywhere if I ramble too much though,and it's still early enough that I can get SOMETHING done, I'm sure....sooo, back to work!
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

scanner
Just felt the need to whine about how my scanner washes out my colors today...actually, I whine about it at least once a day. I scan stuff and adjust and no matter what I do, every line becomes so raw and what shading I do completely disappears... A review I got made me think of it today, suggesting i recolor, smooth out and shade, I couldn't help but think, good advice, except that in the paper version there's nothing wrong with those things...well, I thought it was a crappy drawing anyway, so it doesn't really matter. It was still fun to draw but I wish my scanner didn't make all my pencilwork so...crude. I'd love to do all my painting in photoshop, but I just haven't got time for it, bah. Oh well, can't be helped, and now, I'm done whining.
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