putting it together

I woke up this morning thinking about how many cards I have to catch up to. It seemed like a lot. I haven't played with paint in a very long time... and it seemed like a great idea. I didn't plan on what I would put on those cards, they just happened. It's funny how each one of them became an inspiration to me. It was strange to have all of those ideas come to me... espeically the shoes one. I really didn't know what to put on there. Maybe that's how I had it in my head all along. I don't know. Putting contrasting colors together makes sense to me. When I use them as a backdrop to external ideas they work even better. For some of the prompts I really didn't have any ideas on what to put on the card when it was blank. But after they were painted I was looking for ideas that would stand out from the canvas. It took me about an hour to play around with the colors and painted the cards. It took all of 45 min for me to figure out what to put on each one of them and another 45 to throw them together. Weird isn't it.

Finish What I've Started

I couldn't resist finishing up those 6 cards once I got home tonight. The Acrylic paint from this afternoon was dry. These guys were ready to go... so here they are:



3) "I Am The Center of Attention" Yes I am
4) The symbol I love... Heart
5) "To Have a bottle opener fit snugly around my neck is priceless". I shortened the chain on my ae bottle opener necklace. It's on me all the time
6) "love is unexpected" - I find it in the stranges places
7) "How my shoes looks like after a week of Parisian Spring" - no joke, they were green suede pumas
8) "I Miss... the two of us laying in bed together in a lazy fall afternoon"

Got a light?

color me...

So I decided to "prep" a few cards today for the deck. Went and got some acrylic paint, set of brush, and a tray.



I'm not a good painter... but I love color. The set I got only came with red, blue, yellow, green, white, and black. You can see how much I mixed that up.



I also had the great idea to paint on top a 12X12 cardstock. I am so saving it to use for a layout. Love it. Who knows... maybe I'll start painting my own papers. It would be interesting.

I can't wait until I get my camera. Espcially since Sony already charged it on my card. They said they'll charge it when they ship it.... so logically... it's on its way right? I think I'll hold off on buying any accessories for now. I'll wait like... a week after I get the camera. lol. I just need to learn how to use the basic functions first. Plus I'm still kind of broke. =P We'll see....

I did it!

I ordered the camera! It was a bit of an ordeal since the website really sucks. But I did it! I don't know when it's going to ship, but I hope soon..... Oh and I checked with the IRS, I should get my refund by friday... Good. I need it... lol.

bubble

Got off to a late start today. It was so windy. Took a little drive down to San Jose. Got some goodies from Scrapbook Island. Went to the gym for a little bit. Looked up into the clouds on my way home... and they were moving fast.... that really made me feel like I was in a bubble. It's a werid feeling. I want to go swim.

a little response...

now you tell me eyelets are dead.... *pffft* I'll bring it back to life! Actually I'll have to, since I did get a bunch of it from Jo-Ann... lol. Hey what do you want from me? They were 40% off and I bought a gigantic load of stuff....

Michaels only had the Crop-A-Dile.... it's pretty great... even better when I used my coupon on it... =P It looks pretty intimidaing when I first saw it, but it's actually pretty easy to use... Mighty strong, and the hole punch actually has a depth adjuster so you are punching in the right spot. Pretty cool.

I found this really cool snap that's a head of a screw today. Need to find something to use it on. Soon.

No more buying of things for me! I have all the tools I need for now! At least I think.... I really would like to not touch my savings when it comes time for me to get my camera and other stuff. It's getting close to that point.

Yes I'm a shopaholic.

cards

Pardon the incredibly crappy images. But I did get 2 cards done! yay! Actually they don't look too much better in person, so I don't know what I'm cheering about. Probably just for getting them out of the way.

I tried to be creative with these two... but it's sooo much more difficult when somebody else picked a topic and I have such a small canvas to work with.

The top part is card 1, what I am proud of. The journaling on the right side saids "I am proud to know what I wanted & went for it. No Regrets!". And on the bottom left it saids, "If there's a will, there's a way..." Yes my lettering sucks big time. I'm thinking next time I'm going to print it and paste it. I like to glue things together rather then writing. The title is actually "know what i want", with the first letters of each word composed of metallic brads. It's looks really good... I sware. But again, my scanner is crappy. Oh well. Oh and I tore up a piece of hand made paper with butterfly prints and pasted the strips down as the bottom. Use the thin ribbon from the Heidi Swapp set to carve out the space. Used to blue staples to hold it down cause the glue stick wasn't as strong as I wanted. Anyway. Most everything that can go wrong with this one sort of did. My pen bled all over the paper. Note to self... don't write directly onto the hand made papers... I guess that was ok, since I threw small strips of vellum on it and wrote over the title... hence the pretty cool shadow effect on the title. Need to plan a little better next time... haha... I have a pretty good printer... use it dammit! Last but not least, I threw some cherries on the bottom right just to anchor the picture.... plus I don't know what else to use it for. =P

The second card was simple. I could think of a few things that were powerful to me, but nothing I can form a short sentence with. All I did was threw a piece of pattern paper on, a little mirror, wrote with the brush end of one of my pens (again... bad idea), then threw some stones on the corners. That is all. Took me 5 min to make it. It's not the greatest, but it's simple, and I actually do believe to see your own flaws is powerful.

become

I feel like I become a different person at night. I'm usually really lazy during the day. When I don't have school or work, I just hang about in the house. I don't do anything in particular. In fact, I'm not sure how time passes so quickly when I'm just hanging out at home. But when night falls, I can focus. I am more determined. I seem to know what I'm doing. I feel so much more creative at night. Get a glass of lemonade, put on my shuffle, and I'm good to go. So here I am. I'm thinking about how to do the layout for my first card on the deck.

monday

Woke up today feeling kind of blah. My room is clean. Which is pretty amazing due to the mess I did make last night. Looked at the layout again and am pretty satisfy with it. I need a long hot shower I think. Have some cleaning to do. It actually looks pretty nice outside. Maybe I'll head out for a little. Can't buy anything today. I'm pretty close to maxing out my credit card. Already schedueld a partial payment for today.... so I'll have some room tomorrow. Scheduled another one for tomorrow.... I can get my camera after that. So I'm thinking Wednesday is the day. I'll go order the camera. I'll hold off on all the accessories until I receive it. Don't really want to jump the gun. Then I'll also have to check if the receiver is in stock and get that too. Fun fun... I'm suppose to get my tax return no later then the 4th. I borrowed 300 bucks from my savings to pay off my credit cards. So I'll have to put that back. *sigh* Seriously spent too much last month. Should focus my energy to create. Maybe I'll get one of the cards done today.

Sanctuary

-- Cringed a little when I took out the paper. But yes I did put this on a Marah Johnson Love Struck paper.
-- A few random pictures from my room. I wanted to show my desk really. I'm sitting there all the time... like now.
-- I put the pictures together, punch some holes in it, then looked at the clock. I was going to do eyelets... but I'd probably be strangled by the neighbors downstairs, so I went with brads instead. Which turned out to be a pretty good idea because I had the heart with wings one from the Love Struck collection.
-- I put photo corners on every picture just to make it pop a bit.
-- The title was made from the rub-ons from the same collection. I really don't know what else I can mix with it. I rubbed the hell out of it... you can actually see how the paper is uneven... I almost tore off the 'y'.... *shakes fist at 'y'*
-- Decided to do a bit of journaling on a piece of torn transparent paper. I tear too well with a ruler... haha... I'll have to practice that later. Used a dark maroon sharpie to match the motif. It looks a little darker in person... for some reason it looks way too light after I scan it. Threw a couple of paperclips on there just for fun.

So yeah... that's all for now...

brads

mmm... eyelets gave way to brads... those pesky, but cool, little eyelets will have to wait another day...

eyelets

This whole business of eyelets pisses me off. I live upstairs and the people downstairs can hear me hammer. I only have time to scrap at night. Great. I thought up this great layout with some random photos I'm going to bind together with eyelets and mount on one of the Marah Johnson Love Struck paper. Now I can't finish it before I sleep. *sigh* I guess I'll just go pick some letterings and try to finish it when I get up tomorrow....

maybe

I think I found a use for my shuffle finally. I loaded it up with my favorite songs, mostly Dave, and am listening to it right now. It's so light I don't even notice it there. Well that and I have awesome headphones that has the interchangable rubber thingies so I don't really feel it in my ears. Very useful when I'm trying to be creative and not bother other people. I guess I'll be using this a lot at night working on homework (yeah right) or scrapbooking. =P Speaking of which I got my mom to buy the fiskars rotary paper timmer when we were at costco. wooo.... One thing out of a million I wanted. Oh... there's actually a Michael's Ad this week. Amazing. Still not sure what to pick up yet. But hey... 40% off is very tempting. I'll have to pace myself a little. I went a little crazy the last couple of week. I actually got a little mad on Thursday because I found some really good deals at Jo-Ann's, on stuff I already bought. *sigh* That and I haven't gotten their ad in a while. They also have a 40% off coupon. Damn those people and the luring of me buying stuff.... So what did I say a week ago? MUST RESIST BUYING STUFF! *phew* ok. I need to focus my energy on creation, not acquire more stuff. I wrote them down. And I totally blank out on how to do it when I try to sketch it out. Great. This week will be the week... muahahaha. I think I should sleep.

Where bums like to shop....

We had at least 4 bums come in today.... "shopping". They had some pretty serious questions about products and stuff. But seriously.... why that many bums like to come in? I don't get it.

I had 3 kids steal batteries right under my nose today. They looked fishy. I talked to them and stuff. Long story short... we found battery packaging in the toilet. *sigh* Pisses me off.

I still haven't found a use for my shuffle. I have the nano for jogging, and I have the 60 vid for everything else. I guess I can load stuff up for when I go shopping? *shrug*

Upgrades

I finally finished the upgrade to my blogs sidebar. I know it doesn't look too differet, but it is a whole lot easier to manage. The only bad things I can think of right now are that I can't really back it up easily, and I can't port my links to another page. That's all. I'm sure they'll think of something eventually.

How To Shower

How To Shower - Men & Women - The most amazing bloopers are here

Super Bowl XLI Commercial -Bud Light Starring: Carlos Mencia

Bud Light Commercial

Mountain Dew

Chuck Norris Facts

creative?

I need more pictures. Or rather, I need to print out more pictures I think it's scrap worthy. I do take some pretty damn good pictures. yeah... with my point and shoot. I think after I print a butt load of them out all my inspiration will come to me.... all at the same time... and I'll get confused... drink a Smitty, and go pass out. ha

Cookies

As per my previous post.

http://www.pacificcookie.com/product/BX144/Boxof144Cookies.aspx

Can you handle it?

p.s. These are the same thing.... for $25 bucks more per dozen... hum... 12X12 sounds good right now...

sarcasm flies over people head sometimes...

Somebody random commented on my previous post. Forgive me that I rejected your comment. Yes I realize I would know it if I truely have OCD. *nod*

First person to figure out my system of blog labels gets a cookie.

OCD

I think I'm have OCD. I can sit there for hours and hours sorting out things so I can access them easily. Then when it comes time for me to use it, I find something I can improve on the system and well.... improve on it. The thing I need to do never gets done, but my stuff looks really organized.

bored to bits....

I feel really guilty when I chill out by myself in my room when the folks are home. So I hung out in the livingroom for the last oh.... 3-4 hours. I'm bored. I watched TV. It was ok. Nothing intereting.

In my half asleep state after school today, I went to JoAnn's and got some stuff there. Some eyelets, a setter, the Pieces of Me and Spring Fun sets from K.I. I'm done shopping for now. I need to stop anyway. I'm going to be out of credits until next Wednesday. It's not like I can buy anymore. I have enough things to last me a few months. If i feel like going out to get things... just sit down and crank a few pages out. Simple as that. I've spent an insane amount of money on this. Enough for now. Nothing more until I get the camera and all the stuff. Next things will be stamps and the Cricut. Done done done. *slaps hand*

I'm staring at my list of pages. Don't feel particularly creative right now. Maybe it's because I'm tired as hell.

I'm working on the side bar on this blog. Apparently when they changed to the new blogger they went ahead and changed the tamplate system too. Damn me and knowing how to use html. Now I have to break them up and put it in their system so I can archive it. *sigh* I'm down to all the scrapbook stuff and all my lists. We shall see.

So my spring break just started. Working all weekend. Fun. Sort of wish I have my camera already. I want to get out and go take pictures. The weather has been so nice on some days I just want to stay out. It was so nice I almost ditched my last class today. I really don't know what is wrong with me on that one. I was half way to the parking structure, then I stopped, turned around, and headed to class. Good thing I did, because we were talking about game theory today. But by the time that was done, there was a bit of overcast again. All I wanted to do today was to home and sleep. Then what did I do? Go buy more stuff. And I've been staying up. I'm bored.

I still haven't decided on where to get the zoom lens. I had my coworker put the last one in the back of the lock up case. I still don't know if I want to pay close to $200 for it. And the other thing is, I don't know if I just want to use my RZ certificates to get it. I will have more then enough points after next week. So that's not a problem. But do I want to bank it up for my monitor? I'm not sure. Dillemma. At any rate, I still have to get the fish eye lens from eBay anyway. The question is, do I want to get a zoom lens from there too.

Did I mention my room is clean? It just feels weird. I have this urge to trash it. Well I still have stuff I need to put away. I don't know. Maybe I'm keeping everything too much in order. I'm too used to organized chaos. Everything is so organized I'm almost afraid to touch it. Plus I can't seem to find things I used to know where they were. It seems logical where to put them. But when I need it, it's not where I thought it is. It's annoying actually. I need to use my things. What is the point of putting everything in order so I can easily find and use them if I don't use it. Seriously.

I realize I get addicted to things pretty easily. Flavor of the month. I do these things to distract myself I think. I want to focus on something. I want to do well in it. It's things just all for myself, nobody else. Maybe I'm still in search of that thing I want to be passionate about. I don't know what it can be. I think I have a vague idea of what I want to be when I grow up. I want to run my own business, be unique, and be creative. Unfortunatly I'm not very well developed in the creativity department. If you give me stuff I can slap them together and make them pretty. I can't come up with things out of nowhere... but I can appreciate things when I see them. Feels like I should own some sort of crafty boutique or something. There is definately a market for it. For people like me.

I have so many ideas floating in my head. Sometimes I feel like I'm being trapped in my own head. I want to let it out. I have this need to create. I am really really excited about the camera. I've always wanted something I can use to capture the way I see the world. I want to share it. I want to capture it. Pictures with a point and shoot camera is so unforgiving. With what I'm getting I feel like I can capture only the things I choose to include, or to exclude.

I just want to appreciate the little things.

I'm a Stroller

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/273715530.html

Am I too early or what?

No hangover. Good sign. Walked into the classroom about 5 min early (what?! when was the last time that happened?), only 2 other people in the room. Great. I guess that's what happens the class after the exam. Whatever.

I had too much to drink last night I think. It's once again dry season. If I really want to lose those extra pounds then I'll have to skip on the drinks. Doesn't make me feel particularly good anyway. Plus if I want to drink, then I'd rather drink good beer. I have those at home for a much lower price. Again, the money thing.

I don't know what it was this morning, I wanted to listen to the radio. It makes me giggle.
1) Last night around 8 pm, a woman was scratching some scratchers at the Scotts Valley Safeway when she found one that shows she won $5000. Elated, she threw her hands up in the air (scratcher in hand) and shouted "I WON!". At exact same time, some white guy on a red cruiser style bike passed by and snatched the ticket out of her hand. I'd put my money on he's also wearing a wife-beater.
2) They were talking about people speeding and road rage. Somebody had written in some days ago about how a neighbor of his tried to back out of his driveway to make the guy who was speeding down the street swerve. Then both anchors (I can see them shake their heads) went oh nooo noooo noooo.... don't be stupid! That made me laugh. How would you like to be that dumb ass they call out on radio during the time of day when the most amount of people are listening?
Yes... I love the radio.

Ok I guess I failed in posting about all the stuff I bought yesterday. But now that I have them nicely sorted and tucked away I'm too lazy to pull them out to scan/take pictures. Not all of it are on their site. Here's what I can find online.




I got a gold Big Vintage Circle overlay and the Pirates and Journaling Rub-ons. there was a cherry blossom print paper too. Then I pulled a bunch of other papers and vellums. Their stuff are so frigging cool... must get more.... Man I can't wait to use them! Then I can really show what I got.... haha. I was actually constructive yesterday before I headed out. I got the big ArtBin the other day.

I used it to separate out my embellishments. Now I can find stuff! wow! what a concept! Hopefully this is going to help me on being more creative.

I think I have a revised shopping list. I think I'll actually start posting that on my side bar.
1) Sony Alpha A100k
2) Zoom lens
3) Fish eye lens
4) Alpha kit
5) Tripod
6) Filters
7) Gigantic order of rubber stamps from Purple Onion
8) The Cricut
9) Cartridges for The Cricut and maybe accessories.
10) 24" Monitor
11) Wii + games and accessories
12) 360 + games and accessories
13) Speakers

others:
- other scrapbook supplies
- flickr pro account
- have to join the warehouse before they announce the summer tour (yes... addicted to dmb)

The IRS tells me I should get my refund by April 4th. Good. Right on time ^_^. I really can't wait. So my credit card statement should close on Monday. It'll be paid off by Wednesday. My order will be placed that afternoon. I got some advise yesterday on lenses. I think I might get some Minolta and Tamron lenses from eBay. It'll be a lot cheaper. Which brings me to a realization of why my obnoxious coworker objected to me buying the Alpha. He was looking at the OFFICIAL lenses from Sony. Of course they'll be a helluva lot more expensive. Rich little brat. The only reason why he works is because his dad is making learn the value of work. Which he doesn't much care for. Anyway that's another story.

One of the major reasons why I choose not to upgrade my system this year is because I'm not using the equipments I bought last year to its full potential anyway. My box is awesome with the upgraded video and sound card. Unfortunately my monitor doesn't have DVI, is 17", and my speakers are... ok. I really don't think it's fair for me to upgrade the internal hardware before I do the external. Plus I made money off the package. So there. Having an extra $240 to spend is pretty nice.

I don't really need more game systems. Seriously. I don't even play the ones I have. I have the wireless controller for Guitar Hero. And I've only used it once. Seriously. I have a PSP I rarely touch. My Game Cube is buried somewhere in the storage unit. I guess I just don't really feel like it. It'll be nice to have a couple more systems just to have them. But why bother if I'm not going to touch it? I'm putting them on my list just for giggles.

I need to close up a few credit cards in the next couple of weeks. Just because I have to. I want to use up my Sony points before I do it. Sony card, Victoria's Secret, Discover, Starbucks.... I think that's about it. Yes I'm closing my Starbucks card, just because the return rate isn't as good as my Reward Zone card. I'm keeping the Reward Zone card and my American Express card. Keeping the Amex just because Costco only accepts it. I've had the RZMC card since the program started... and I have about $190 banked up in certificates. What am I going to get with it you ask? Probably the 24" monitor.

mmmm.... I wrote a lot. I'm still not entirely awake.

Get things going....

I woke up this morning wanting to get things done. I was soooo ready to go. It was already 10:30. Hahah... I guess I slept really well last night. Which also explained my huge amount of energy. I just need a focus. I found a scrapbook store near Saratoga. Memories Live On is on the corner of Prospect and Lawrence. Good selection of papers, I even found some Hambly stuff. *note - still have no idea what to do with the Pirate rubon* I got the last pack of hand made paper I didn't get earlier from Costco. I realize I missed the 5th set when I saw it online. Just wanted to get it before the $5 off instant rebate expires. So my buddy suggested I check out Purple Onion. I'm going to have to wait a little bit because of my spending. I think I will end up with everything from there. I kid you not. I looked through the catelogue and was like... like it, love it, need it, want it.... Yeah. So I'll do that after I get my camera and all that crap. Next month then? I want want want! haha. Ok I think it's time again for me to do something more constructive. Like separating my tools and emblishments so I can find stuff. Yup. I think that's a pretty good idea.

Humph....

I just walked passed 3 guys on skateboards. Head to toe spandex. Green, silver, magenta. Completed with eye bands like the ninja turtles. They skated pass me. the guy in green was crouching on his board and looked at me for any sort of reaction. One of those things that makes you go.... mmm... okaaaaay......

There's only so much....

I can't find anything else interesting on the internet for me to read. No really... there's only so much I want to see. I seriously have just spent an hour an a half looking at scrap book stuff, camera stuff, myspace, and other shopping stuff. Seriously. I'm about to fall asleep here. I have another hour and 15 min before my next class. I don't know if I can stay awake for it. I seriously don't know how I can get sooooooo bored. I didn't go to sleep that late last night. I shouldn't be this tired. The only conclusion is I'm bored out of my mind. I even brought two text books with me today to look at. Come on now.... I can't bring myself to go get it from my car. Especially because it's kind of rainy outside. If it wasn't that rainy then I probably would have gone out to take pictures.

Deck of Me?

I found this link a little while back. I have plenty of playing cards, and this idea is very appealing to me. I just have uh.... many many weeks I have to catch up to. Good thing they're posting prompts and samples, or this will take more then 52 weeks... lol. See if I can get one going tonight.

I'm starting a new blog just for my art projects.

macchiato arts

note: I'm actually finding it hard to label my posts with my little system... I'm now including song lyrics and album titles... lol

Let me get through the day....

Got up this morning about 5 min late.... I think my phone is going a little weird. The alarm didn't go off. Time for another update I guess. Good thing I still have my extremely loud alarm clock. It works out. I'm just lazy. Made lunch and all. Was in class about 2 min late, as usual. The midterm was pretty easy. Didn't really study for it. I better know this stuff. I've repeated other Statistics courses so many times... *sigh*.

It's spring break next week. I don't really have much planned. Working on the weekends, writing a couple of papers, catching up on some readings, and review my notes. That is all. Not much.

Made my first page last night. I'm pretty addicted to it now I think. I need more inspiration. I have a few ideas of my own on what to make and stuff. I'll go ahead and make those first. Then I'll really start looking at what other people are doing. The fun thing is, I will probably never run out of ideas as long as people are posting up challenges. I did a little bit of shopping yesterday. Got a few things from Target, Michaels, and Aaron Brothers. I think I will make good use of the 40% coupon from now on. If I can't find anything to feed my scrapbook needs, I can always get a ball of yarn... haha. I did get to use that for the vertical paper organizer yesterday. Saved 10 bucks, that's better then the sale prices couple of weeks ago. The Cricut is on sale this week for $199 at Michaels. Tempted... but this morning I found a reason to wait. Costco.com sells it for $199 with free shipping and handling. Yeah I totally can wait. I did some tracing and cutting last night, and I already can see how the Cricut would be useful. Needful things. I have a lot of supplies I should get through for now. I'll try to hold off on buying anything. If I'm creative enough, then I don't need anything else. In theory at least.

Part of the reason I'm trying to save up is to get my new camera. Despite the loud and very obnoxious objection from a coworker who aspires to be a photojournalist, I am going to get the Sony Alpha. I guess complaining to Sony really works. I don't think I've ever been so happy about spending $500 bucks on something. I have until the end of May to get it, but I'm hoping to have my hands on it in about 3 weeks. With that, a zoom lens, tripod, bag, filters, other random stuff I can find for it... I'm looking at about $900 to $1000 for it. I'm going to look around ebay for a few things. Other then that, I think I can get them cheaper at work.

First Post!... of a kind....

I did it! I just went to hell with it and made a page. It kind of sucks... but hey... it's my first page! so there...



... yes... my handwriting sucks.

... and panorama maker rocks!

[edited 3/19/2007: I started writing a reply to the comment... then I realize I probably should just include it in the post =P]

Yeah that's really my first page. I think it's a little rough still. I laid out my card and the pictures and was like... crap, there's a hole in the middle on the right side. So I just slap a sticker in it... hahaha...

As for the ribbon I'm not sure where I got it from. It's either from the dollar bin at Michaels or the gigantic box of ribbons from Costco.

The background is a purple card stock, laid with about half a piece of handmade paper cut into strips and separated. The note is a beige small card stock cut with craft scissors on the border and highlighted with a sharpie. It is shadowed with a green card stock I embossed with a textured plate. The letters on the "Ready, Set, Go" and the little flower on the bottom I traced from stencils in the Heidi Swapp set from Costco.

I like how the typewriter keys stamps look with the brown ink. It's kind of rustic. Slap a sticker and a ribbon on it... and that's it ^_^

I love Dottos.

A Latin American Pot Luck

Just enough time....

It's 11:38 pm on St. Patty's Day.... just enough time for one of these....



Bottoms Up!

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!

Don't get to drink today, but I did get around to run 3 miles this morning. Going to work in half an hour with green ribbons in my hair.


It's Floggin Molly all day today!

Taxes and such

Co-worker of mine wanted to get rid of his Alpha for $500. I expressed interest.

Get home, wanted to see if the rest of my Sony Rewards point will cover the zoom lens. To my amazement they actually gave me back my points. I can get a brand new Alpha, no tax or shipping, for $503.... no brainer.

Checked my credit card. I'll get pretty close to my limit if I use it. Decide to wait until I pay off my next statement. 2 more weeks.

Started to look at accessories. Need zoom lens, bag and battery kit, tripod. Again, wait until the next statment ends to cash out some of my Reward Zone certificate to get the zoom lens practically free. Mom can get me a compact flash card for cheap.

Decided to finish up my taxes tonight so I can pay for all of this. Just remember because I don't make much money I can file for free. $680 Federal, $60 State. More then enough for my stuff.... I hope. e-file for free on both. I will get the money in about 2-3 weeks max. Good timing.

So now I wait. The Alpha it is ^_^

A few more changes

Yes, I changed my layout around a little bit. The new layout arranging thing is actually pretty cool. I have to work with the lists I have on the side later, probably tonight. Looks good I think. I still want to get my own domain though. Soon. I've been talking about that for a little while.

I put more stuff in order last night.


Yup, that's where all my scrapbook stuff resides. Maybe now I'll have time to actually throw all those ideas in my head together? lol

I also started adding labels to my posts. Since I lack imagination, they're all going to be titles of DMB songs.... yeah I'm a dork.

Anyway... off to work

A little package by my door

Look at my boobs! mmm.... yeah

My shirt came! *cheer* I was so excited I forgot to peel off the sticker. Had to shoot from that angle because it seriously is too long... and my hips are wide... you do the math. Anyway... yay!

Changed my mind again

I want a DSLR.... couple of friends have the Sony Alpha.... suggestions?

Tuesday Randoms

I did a lot yesterday. At least I seem to think so. I emptied out so much stuff in my room, there's actually.... room. Imagine that. I feel a little bad about piling up more boxes actually... right after my folks decided to put all the random boxes from the garage in the storage. Now I'm going to put more in there. Yeah....

I don't recall the last time I was this relaxed at school. I think it's the weather change, lack of quizzes and homework due, and my coffee. I think it's possible to change my attitude in just one week. But of course it can change back just as quickly. Last week I was complaining about how my life is boring. Today I'm thinking how nice it is I have things to look forward to. I have plans and things to accomplish. I'm so positive today I almost can't stand it. I think it's the weather. Walking to class this morning in the cool spring pre-dawn weather with Foo Fighters in my ear really changes my perspective.

What is morning without coffee...


I'm all for irony... and love to pick up random t-shirts from AE....

It reads, "You Caught Me at a Bad Time ... I'm Awake" I'm generally a morning person really... that is if I can wake myself up. Which I have been for the last few days amazingly enough, with the time change and all. I like wearing this shirt to sleep. The other one I have is "I'm Not A Morning Person". I wear that one at my 7:30 am class.

I know I talk about this a lot, it doesn't seem very important but it's a big deal to me. My whole life is drown by a big pile of crap. It's incredibly satisfying to throw things away and put things into boxes. If I can centralize my stuff and only keep only the things I need on hand I'd be a lot happier. With that in mind, I packed away 6 boxes of stuff yesterday. Storage totes. I also threw away 2 bags of magazines, and 6 bags of trash mainly consisting of old school papers and product packing (meaning game boxes). I put more DVDs, CDs, and games into the black storage boxes, then put all 9 of them (so far) to my top shelf.


These things are insanely amazing. They cost me so little that I feel like I'm cheating. I love my discount. haha. Another thing I used yesterday was something I never considered before.

I got a pack of 2 Bankers Box at Target for $4.99. I got some folders to go with it too. My intention was to clear out some of my old bills and paperworks I have to keep, from my room. I then discovered how well they fit on my shelf... I got 4 more of those, and reorganized my bookshelf. Now I can find all my filler paper, legal pads and such. I even found 2 more packages of scantron. I think that's my whole goal now... package up my room so I can actually find things. It feels so strange to have room. I also moved the clutter in front of my books. I find that already sorted and organized. How good is that.

For those of you who doesn't believe in service plans.... I got myself a new green shuffle yesterday.

Isn't it pretty? I don't know what I'm going to use it for... considering I have a 60GB black iPod and a white 1st Gen Nano. I'm planning on getting my old 15GB 3rd gen back and send it to service. I'm hoping they'll junk it out and I can just get myself a 80GB video.

I'm all for irony. Anybody who has a sense of humor needs to teach an ethics class in here...

Viva Miyamoto!

Tetris

Travelers insurance - Katamari Damacy style

Mega 64 Katamari Damacy

James Bond - Visa commercial

interesting....

Bill Clinton DDRing

yay! it's not just me!

A motion story / Deyan Parouchev / Nikola Mihov

Exactly why I need a new camera

iPad

Delicious!

iRack

Speed Painting with Ketchup and French Fries

mmm... interesting....

Early

I woke up pretty early this morning. I don't even have school. Maybe I'm suppose to get things done. Orighty then.....

Mellow

Had a store meeting this morning at 8. Did I mention it's daylight savings time? Yeah. Joyous. Surprisingly most everybody made it on time. The rest of the day was mellow. Nothing too frustrating. It was hot when I got out, in the 80's.

I've been experimenting with my printer the last few days. I think I've got the hang of it. I got my hands on a copy of Photoshop CS2 last night. I learned how to merge photos. That would be cool. But I'll check out some other software my friends mentioned.

I'm making space. Trying to get things out of the way so I have a real space for my scrap stuff. I noted down some ideas on pages. I'm going to go through some websites for sketch ideas. I happen to have a sketchbook... ha.... I'll do some sketching of my own.

Printed some more pictures. This is going to be fun ^_^

Trumped

Sat down in class two days ago, looking up something on my laptop. Guy next to me goes...
Him: Hey how do you like that notebook?
Me: Yeah I like it, works out pretty well.
Him: Cool, it has 2 "gig" of ram and stuff right?
Me: uh... no, it only has one. The new 240 series has 2 and bluetooth.
Him: I don't think those guys have bluetooth... I work at Fry's, I sell these things.
Me: Oh yeah? well whatever (don't care really... but it's in the specs, so I'm right) I work at Best Buy, I sell these things.
Him: Oh wow, rivals (like I care) How much was this? pretty expensive huh.
Me: I paid $799 for it at Best Buy (ok just it, excluding my service plan)
Him: Oh wow that's pretty good. I bought a laptop a few years back from them too, it's in service right now, I think they'll just scrap it though.
Me: mmm hum...
Him: So what department are you in?
Me: Geek Squad
Him: Oh.... cool.... *turns back to lecture*

Entitled

Once again I'm in one of those funky moods. I got up at 5 this morning and did some homework. Got to class, not listening, did more homework. Why you ask? Because I'm lazy. Yesterday was not motivating at all. I got up early and took my piggie to the vet. Went to lunch with my buddy who I didn't even know it was his fricking birthday. Got home and pretty much did nothing. Mind you I had a lot of homework. Papers, labs, midterm to study for. So why didn't I get on that? I don't know. Motivation? There is certainly enough incentive to do them, mainly my grade. I think this morning I finally made the connection that there is some sort of relation between the amount of effort I make, and my grade. Go figure. I have got this whole procrastination thing down to an art. I didn't sleep well last night. Because I didn't know how to get the things I need to do done with the amount of time I have alloted for myself. I even looked on the grading sheet to see if I can wiggle out of it. No such luck. I have only 1 thing left to do, which is a gigantic paper. It's due tonight. I sort of started it. Fun huh. Maybe I do work well under pressure. It's just dumb that I tend to generate pressure for myself. Haven't I learned to prioritize? I am the most organized person I know, and I am a mess because I don't follow through. It really doesn't sit well with me and I don't have the motivation to change. I know what the results can look like if I'm willing to change. I will be better for it. But it seems I have hit some sort of plateau where I just don't feel like moving on. I'm taking an extended break I feel like I'm entitled to. What is there for me to look forward to if I were to proceed with added efforts? I'm not quite sure. It really isn't all that much that I have to do in order to move my life forward. Do homework, exercise, eat less, organize and throw things out from my room/house/storage. That's all. Then why am I stuck? I don't feel like doing homework a majority of time. I'm too lazy to make time to exercise. Don't want to make an extra effort to cook for myself when it's all done for me. Everything seems organized enough for the time being. I think I'm at a point where I'm more comfortable then before. I like having this comfort, but I would also like to improve. But I think I need a reason. A greater reason. True that all of these little things will improve my quality of life, but will it make me happy? Maybe I'm afraid that it will not. Doing those things may not be enough for me. After I do those things I would want more. And I'm afraid that I won't know what it is that I need to do to make me happy. It's true that I have been feeling very empty for quite some time now. I don't know what will fill that void. I have friends, my family, my health, financial stability, somebody I care for. But what? What else do I need? What am I passionate for? I don't think I'm passionate for any of the hobbies I current part take in. I have lived a quarter of a century and I don't know the meaning of my life.

Diddy

http://www.hecklerspray.com/diddy-sued-for-punching-guy-setting-his-ass-on-fire/20067315.php/

Read on... 'nuff said

class essay

I am not a person for chaos, but my life has become a lot more predictable then I would like it to be. There is an order to everything I do, my whole life is scheduled. My week typically starts on Monday when I have my day off. It is not a bad start, but it turns out to be the only time in the week when I can relax a little. Tuesdays I have class from 7:30 until 8:45. That is Am to Pm. Little more then 13 hours on campus is not what I call easy. Wednesdays are my “freak out” days. I typically spend the day doing whole weeks worth of laundry and catch up on homework. I usually cap off the day with bowling. Thursdays I am back to school again. I work on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Then my whole week starts all over again.

In the last few weeks I have started a few hobbies that had me spending more and more time at the local crafts store. The two things I have always considered to be domesticating activities, crocheting blankets and scrapbooks, have become my obsession. I love making huge blankets that are typically two colored king size blankets that can double as bed covers. These blankets and throws became very handy during the recent cold spell. I love photography. I have more photographs then I know what to do with. A good friend of mine suggested that I scrap. I have always been reserved about scrapping because of how much money I can potentially spend. I tried to tell myself how I can conserve and not go crazy on buying supplies. I was right all along; this is going to be one of the biggest money drainers I have ever touched. For both of these things, I don’t think I started them because I truly love doing it. I wanted to do something out of the ordinary of my life and have something to show for it.

I think I am still trying to find something I can be passionate for. Work is work. School is school. Killing time is killing time. I can’t seem to find the meaning of my life through any of those things. I feel like everything is a distraction. I have been doing things to try to make other people happy. I’m not quite sure what makes me truly happy.

Britney

... tried to kill herself. Yeah... great. I think she's pissed off that Anna Nicole Smith died and took all her news space.

Difficult People

I think I attract them when I'm at work. Fun fun.

Photo Ink cost less then Color?

*boggled* There's 6 bucks difference here.... somebody tell me I can just use photo ink? lol

Happy March!

Well other then the fact that I've only had about 3 hours of sleep last night, I think it's going pretty well so far. Ask me again in 3 hours when I bomb the test I had to study for but opted for bowling....

Hey I bowled a 119-112-152. Slight improvement I think. I figured it out last night towards the end. Look down when I start walking, so I'm walking straight. Keep by body low, so I'm laying my ball down instead of dropping it. Try to follow through to my ear instead of my forehead. I've been pulling left a lot lately. If I follow through correctly it shouldn't be a problem.

I slept well for the little amount of time that I was sleeping. I woke up about 6 minutes before my alarm went off. Curse my internal clock. I am so frigging sleepy right now. I debated on if I wanted to go to class. I don't have much of a choice but to go to campus on time, because I had to leave before my parents do. Kind of sucks. Then I remember the Union doesn't open for another half hour. *sigh* Now I'm sitting in class. Yes, I'm blogging instead of paying attention.

I have roughly an hour and a half after this class to study and answer an essay question. I have to make a note sheet too. I'm glad I type up my notes on a regular basis, that really helps. I guess I do have to go to all my classes today. There's something significant in every one of them. All I really want to do is to sleep. That is going to be the first thing I do when I get home. Go to bed and sleep until I wake up. Just set the alarm for work tomorrow. yeah...

I just looked at my schedule and there is so much stuff I have to do for school.

The weather has been... cold. I know I don't live in the coldest place in the world. Not like I live where there's snow. Walking around when the temp is in the 40's is still not my idea of fun. I'm wearing a hoodie and a down jacket with hats, gloves, and scarf, and I'm still cold.

I brought my gym bag. I wonder if I'll be alive enough to go run this afternoon. I'm not sore anymore. I really should get some mileage in. I think I'm doing ok with my calories intake right now. What I really need to do is to burn it off. Portion control is what I need to work on. For the most part the things I pick to eat are pretty healthy, I just need to eat less of it.

I am so sleepy right now. Think I can sneak a half hour nap in before class is over....