Archive for October, 2009
I must have done something to tick off God, because I have such bad vertigo today it can only the the vengeful smite of an angry god. And I can’t find the Advil anywhere (searching the house while it spins around you is FUN! Not really.).
Just a quick update to pass this funny story to you: I had Pandora Radio on in the background and Manson’s cover of “Sweet Dreams” came on. “Sweet dreams are made of…” when a cotton pop-up ad interrupted “The touch! The feel! The fabric of our lives!”
That’s right, sweet dreams are made of cotton.
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This week we learned our upstairs neighbors (the ones with the dog that bit me, yes) bought a house. The more spacious apartment above us and next door were becoming available! Danielle and I decided to seize this opportunity to join the world of the surface dwellers and forsake our mole-men brethren for good. Yesterday we looked at the two spaces and decided we’d rather take the bigger one, even if it is more money every month.
This leads to two things. Firstly, we will need to budget our money much more efficiently than we did. The extra rent per month is pretty much all the flex we have in our current budget, so we have to stop doing things like buying music, going to the movies or buying pizza when we don’t feel like cooking. Another thing we’re going to do is reduce the cable package we have. We don’t watch ANY of the channels we pay for really (truth be told, we watch more television shows online than on the actual television) so that’s a waste.
The second thing, and the more pertinent to this blog, is the spare bedroom. It’s going to be a studio! This is the most exciting part for me. I’m going to set up workbenches, a makeshift slop sink, throw a muslin down and just go nuts. I’ve been trying to create a workspace separate from a room with a computer in it for a while now, for obvious reasons. Internet access is to our generation what a television was to the kids before us, a constant and almost insurmountable distraction.
Of course the studio won’t belong just to me. Danielle has her own creative endeavors happening at the same time. She’ll have an area to sew and make jewelery without having to run back and forth between the kitchen and office.
In other news: I was cold this morning so I put on a sweater. Turns out I have two collars now. I look ridiculous.
Who dresses like this?
I’ll keep updating while we pack and move, and give you a step by step walk-through of the studio’s creation. Things might be busy around here, but I’m never too busy for my readers, and letting you see where and how I work is what this site is all about.
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“… it’s fair!”
When I began setting up my deck of daily tasks, on the Joker cards I put RELAX. Today I drew a Joker!
I’ve been feeling a little under the weather, so chilling out might help. 24 hour Comic day is nearing, and I”ll need my strength. What is 24 Hour Comics day? This should enlighten you: http://www.24hourcomicsday.com/
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Painted Dragon
Yesterday I pulled the PAINT card, and the DRAW card.
Stumped on what to paint, I started doodling a Tyrannosaurus, but it turned into a dragon. Still in progress as I write this, but it may be finished by the time YOU read it. That’s the beautiful time-travel of writing. I am speaking to you from the past.
In nerdy news, I learned that Icecrown Citadel will be a five man fight. This makes me happy, since getting a swipe at Arthas was kind of my reason to start playing the darn game. I used to go as far north in Winterspring or Eastern Plaguelands as I could and look mournfully at the hills, gripping my mace in frustration. “Someday,” I’d mutter under my breath, “you’re going DOWN.”
Since I have had crap luck with raids in the past, learning the Lich King is a five man fight was a good day.
Pandora.com is going to get real tired of me. I’ve kept a browser window open for about three days straight. When I first typed that last sentence, I wrote “I kept a window open for three days” and I realized someone might think I was talking about a real window. But did you? Have computers become so second nature that when you hear or read the word “window” you think of a screen, or the traditional hole in a wall?
I have a lot more to add, but I’m trying to keep these entries down from novel size. Today, I drew WRITE and DRAW. I’ll be working on Tales of Auli, the new revision, and drawing more of this:
My guildmates and I versus the Lich King
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