2023 Is almost over!

 Well, again I totally forgot about this blog. Tumblr I'm forgetting as well from time to time, but that one still has more up-to-date stuff than this blog does. Good luck finding my Tumblr haha!

Weather:

So this has changed drastically since the last 2 years. We had 2 ice storms and one the whole city of Austin was at a halt. Roads were icy and not able to drive through to them. We had a weeks worth of not able to go anywhere and a couple of days of our power going in and out. We made it, obviously, but we are fearing it might happen this coming winter. We literally had to make or warm up some food by candlelight and stay wrapped up in blankets. Most of us couldn't even work since the power kept going out every 5 minutes or more. After this happened, well the weather went back to normal for Texas... which means heat. Then we had another somewhat ice storm the year after, but not as bad as the last one. Texas has or still is working on "fixing" the power grids since we're only are attached to our state alone and not with another near us. Back home, we never had to go through those type of issues when a blizzard hit, so I found it kind of strange going through it here. Then 2023 summer here was extreme. We're always extreme with our summers or just weather in general, being in the heat. We hit records of consecutive days straight in a row of being over 100 degrees, sometimes even 110 degrees, but that's humidity for you in the mix. My husband is worried we might get another harsh winter and so we have prepared as much as we can.

Work 

Not sure how far back you guys know of this subject with my husband and I. So was working for a call center and in 2019, we got laid off, my whole department. Been there for 5 years and it was a pretty easy job, but it became boring and no calls were coming through from time to time, speaking from my experience though only. Was treated like crap by my supervisor and she kept an eye on me and one time even placed me to sit right next to hers. Talk about very supervised and under the microscope. I think she did it to use me of the information I knew in how to run the team, since she was new to that type and any aspect of it and what we dealt with. Got written up several times for stupid things and I fought for it. When we got the news of laid off, I was happy and yet sad at the same time. Most of the people there were just there for me, not really friends and others were friends. At that point I decided to take some time off and not work for however long it took me to find another job. Took about 6 months honestly and during those 6 months, it was relaxing, but at other times hell since I had to find things to do and keep up with a list of jobs I applied for. Yes, I went into unemployment. 

Currently I work for the same company that let me go, but direct with them. They bought or joined with another pharmaceutical company and became one. I have been with them now for 3 years and under 2 different departments by now. I was happy when I got hired since the pay was way more than I was being given in the last one and yet almost quit this one. There was so many different things to learn and retain that, till today, I am surprised my brain can keep everything in and remember it all. After things were changing in that department and I kept being dismissed with other tasks, I decided that I didn't want to stay there for another year in that same department and my skills and talents being overlooked and so I applied for a different department. A department that I knew of and knew that they took more responsibilities for the company and yet I told myself that I didn't want to go to another department that handled calls. I wanted to be offline and taking emails; there's too many people out there that think they are privileged and should have everything then and there. That's not the case and not how the real world works by the way. So I took a risk, applied, and got the position. I was stunned, but happy. I told myself I will try my best to not snap at people on a call when it came time to do that or how the call went. I got my training and when training was close to the first end of the week of it I got good news. I was going to be in the offline team; I was ecstatic yet again. After training was over and I was handling cases, even more good news, the whole department was going offline. No matter if I got moved to a different team or what I was going to do, it was going to be offline and purely answering email requests. I have been doing this since February of this year and hopefully I will stay here for another 2 years or more.

Projects/Photography

My photography has been steady, if you would like to call it that. With this new position at work and bonuses they were giving us while we were catching up on tons of emails, there were tons of incentives that they were giving us and so I treated myself with a new camera and a drone. I grow nervous when working with the drone, but my husband will be the one using it more since it feels and looks like he can handle it more than I can. Since I bought myself this new DSLR camera I decided to make a project which includes photos of bridges. This project is almost complete and why bridges you may ask, well the first photo of a bridge that I took got me more into photography. Yes, this project includes that first bridge I took in it. I will possibly announce the completion of this project in my Facebook Digital Blu page. Another upgrade I did was that I bought a domain and created a website with GoDaddy. The last provider I was using for that started to become more restricting, lack of storage and I was unable to add more content without removing and buying a plan of theirs. I know I have a blog dedicated to my Digital Blu page and website here in Blogger, but I'm not sure anyone else in the world really keeps up with updating those type of things and I don't think others bother to read/see mine honestly. If you would like to see my new website, go here. I may try to find a 30 challenge that consists of using my drone, but there's very few to none of those type for drones currently. Currently I am only focusing on landscape and automotive photography, but I might dive back into Product photography and my other project I was starting with my The X-Files items I have collected throughout the years, but we shall see when and if I have time for these. Plus I need to figure out how to use a new program my husband bought me to edit my photos with.

Slice of Life

Well, besides the obvious from what I already mentioned above, there's been tons of new things in our lives. We moved out of our first home we bought and are renting it out currently. We moved in with my mother-in-law and then they moved out into another home. I believe we lived with them for 2 years after moving out of our home. The taxes and them fluctuating and the city growing rapidly with meaningless stores just killed it for us to live there any longer. I miss my first home, that's all I can say that. Yes, I did cry when we had the last of our things out of it and into a storage unit, but we do visit it from time to time to check on it and if there's anything of repairs wise to do to it, from the outside of course. I got a new job, liked the department I was in, but rapidly grew to hate it due to seeing others that make mistakes or don't look into the finer details and them getting more tasks or responsibilities that come with being observant and looking into details getting these tasks. I was being overlooked in my opinion and didn't think it was fair and just and so, I decided that I needed to get away from it all and onto another department. That happened and I'm glad I am offline and working from home remotely ever since I got hired by this company.

During that time I finally decided to visit a doctor to check on my health due to a time period, while unemployed and before I got let go, that I wasn't myself and I do believe depression hit me very hard. The hardest it has ever hit me and the last time I felt close to the same way was when I was in high school, but this one wins a trophy. I never want to get back to that moment and feeling the way I did and I haven't since then. Yet due to this episode I decided to visit the Doctor for regular checkup and was told crappy news. This is why I never wanted to visit them by the way; barrels of bad news at times. I have fibroids. I got recommended several doctors which lead me with more recommendations of others and finally, I had the time and guts to do something about it all. I am scheduled for surgery on Oct 13th. There are so many rules and restrictions I need to follow for it prior to the surgery day that I understand why they are in place, but my goodness there's a lot. I fear the surgery since I've never had any general surgery and me being put to sleep, but it has to happen. I need to feel better from it all. Hopefully all goes well that day, for me. I'm just glad my parents will be visiting the week after my surgery to help us since I will not want to be walking around, full of pain.

So, we took over my mother-in-laws house and they moved out. Basically we like to look at it as we kicked them out; just kidding! We bought the house that one of my sister-in-laws was living at and they decided to move back to another state. That did not work out well for them at all and they had to move back home. They moved in with us with the children having their own rooms and their parents in an RV next door to us. That lasted about half a year and well, not well. My husband mainly has PTSD from this experience now and has lost the relationship he had with his nieces. Before that happened, the husband and son decided to go to another state and figure out if living there will be best for the whole family. I think that lasted less than a year and everyone, besides the son, moved back here, but with my mother-in-law this time. The son decided to get his life together by getting an education and degree in Job Corps. At this point, I know the parents both have jobs (miraculously for the mother) and the kids just stay put most of the time. Our relationship with them has been severed and we just don't speak with them cause they don't with us. I just wish this didn't happen for my husband's sake mainly, but it's all we can do, nothing.

During these times living with my in-laws and then gaining their home we added to our family, with furry children. We first found 3 kittens in our property next door during some rainy weather and decided to keep them. Then about a year or 2 later, we gained two more little kittens. They both were in bad shape and with colds and so we decided to keep them as well. The momma now has had 2 litters and this most recent one, she had 4 and they are all running and living around our property. Their older siblings, the first litter, the ones that we rescued from batch, are still coming around as well. At that time she had 5 kittens in that litter. We had other adult cats come and go and some we got enjoy their company with, but we haven't seen anymore and may have passed. We do have a tom cat that comes daily and let's us pet him, we named him Tom. Get it? No, well we're sometimes not clever with names haha. We also seen some racoons and opossums come by; sometimes they are a nuisance since they eat all the cat food we provide. I'm not sure what else has been new to add here besides the obvious, if you have me on Facebook, but I'm just nervous for my surgery and hopefully it goes well. See ya all!

2021 say whaaaat?

Well I just would like to say, welcome to 2021 everyone who still reads this. I do apologize that I haven't updated it in such a looooong time. Quite honestly, I forgot about it and well decided to place more personal stuff that I am going through in my tumblr. So if you have one of those or were following me there before, then you have been up to date with my life than in this blog. I will keep the format the same in this blog and no I will not be linking my tumblr here. So if you it or know me and can find a way to get to it, then I bid you good luck on it. A lot has changed since my last post here and no I'm not saying because its a new year, but honestly a lot has changed and happened.

Weather

Since my last post, the weather was decent after. Your typical Texas weather of being hot and dusty were into play. Once we hit close to the New Year, we got the cold weather. Literally a day or two before the new year hit we got rain and cold winds. After the new year, we did get tons of mixed weather. We did get one Snow day here during a weekend and then it left. We accumulated about 6 inches of snow and that hasn't occurred since 2014 or so. I can't recall what the weather channel said, but it was coming down non-stop. Everyone had fun that weekend and making snowmen and snow angels and your typical snowball fights. The next round of snow came in February and it was nothing anyone was expecting, honestly. All of Texas was in a severe Snow Storm warnings and what came first was the sleet with rain. That made all of our roads be very dangerous and almost inaccessible. Then came the snow, a whole bunch of it on top of the already icy snow and sleet. In all technicality, Texas was shut down due to this weather. Everyone's power went out or flickered, to possibly return 3-4 days after or a whole week after, then on top of that many people's water was frozen and inaccessible and under a boiling water notice.

For our household we only experienced was our lights flickering in and out and being gone for more than 5+ hours and increasing that number every time it went out. We never experienced the water issues and we found ways to cook our food and now are trying to prepare in case it happens again by buying supplies and thinking outside the box for these types of situations. I believe that Ercot, the main company for our light source in all of Texas, is going to go through some changes. I believe some people were already fired due to this negligence we all experienced. I know for a fact when I was living in Illinois, we never had this issue occur. Maybe through thunderstorms we did, but that's a whole different story and situation. Alas, it only took us 4 days total to get "back to normal" regarding with this storm. Others weren't so lucky in a short time frame. Even after the storm was over, they had no electricity and no running water. This time I will we will be prepared since my husband hate not being prepared for situations like these. As of right now, we're in a Spring type weather and a couple of rain clouds here and there, but nothing to major like this we had. 

Photography

I definitely put this on pause since last year. I wasn't able to go anywhere nor take any other portrait sessions of anyone. I believe I did have one last year. It was for a family member wanting to have a Senior graduation session. Other than that I haven't been to any conventions or any other events due to Covid still on the rise with numbers. I'm not sure if I will pick this up again or if it'll simply be a hobby for me. I did wanted to expand my business with this hobby or at least my small business with this, but Covid just threw that out the window literally for me. I'll take some of small events or trips my husband and his family might do, but that might be all.

The Corner

So in my last post, I did mention that my husband and I moved into his mother's house. We were able to clean up the house with help, we were able to find a realtor to put our house in the marketplace for leasing and we did find tenants we liked. We did fire our first realtors we were with, company wise, due to fact that they weren't listening to a single word we were saying. So we found another company, got our house fixed and cleaned to their standards for leasing and got a family in there already since October or November. Somewhere in between those months; they moved in a day or so earlier than planned. They signed the lease for 2 years and we've been back in the neighborhood a couple of times to check in on it. Been through bumps on the road with it, but made it through and I miss it so. I did cry most of the times we stepped in it before they moved in, but it will not be sold... ever and that is a guarantee my husband gave me. I did mention that I was going through a depression of sorts in my last post and taking over the counter medicine that I found online. I do believe in fact that I do have PMDD from time to time and the pills that I was taking for it, I stopped taking them. I stopped due to the fact of not seeing any difference with being on them or not. I did start taking Brillia pills that help with anxiety and stress. I believe those pills worked better than the others, but I also did start taking my multivitamin pills daily along with vitamin d3. I figured out a dosage for the vitamin d3 that is working out for me and did start in the highest recommended dosage for Brillia, but then cut back on it as well within time. 

If you know me I don't like visiting doctors and such, but I told myself that this year, the new year, that I will be better with that and I have been. I went to see the dentist first and took care of some cavities I had. Then came the OBGYN for the yearly checkups there and all came fine, except of having Fibroids. I have decided to hold off on having any type of surgery for this until after July of this year - for personal reasons. I also got my eyes checked and all is good and went back to the prescription that I had when I first started wearing contacts, which threw me off completely with that, but its good news. I also got hired for a company I used to work for before and have been with them since August and its already been 6 months. I almost felt like quitting due to my anxiety being on the high rise and holidays coming up, but I didn't. I was doing all of my checkups purely because I was thinking of quitting my current job. It gave me anxiety due to so many rules and lines of businesses I still deal with currently, but I have learned to manage it all without my head exploding and my husband being on my side on whatever decision I made, to stay or quit. 

I decided to stay and in the department I'm currently in for a year. I thought to move departments as fast as I could once I hit my 6 month mark and find another department that's more fitting for me and asked to shadow other departments. They were informative, but I decided to stay where I'm at for a year and see how it goes. My supervisor always tells me that I'm doing a good job and I recently got a raise with a bonus. I learn new things every day with this company and department. I'm also taking classes my job offers me regarding with excel and any other program like it and I dont need to pay for them. The company pays for them. I need to figure out what other class I need to take while they're offering them. 

As for the property or land we bought, next to my mother-in-law's house, we have done a bunch of things to it. So far we have cut down a bunch of trees already and there was a storage building that was made and we knocked down most of it as well. We still need to haul a bunch of stuff that was inside the storage, so that's another project in itself. We still have more trees to knock down and deciding to buy a storage building to add to our land and move our items into it to save more money. We currently have our items in a storage place already. My husband wants that to happen soon, like in 2 months, but we need to clear out the land and time to do so. Maybe we can do that this coming weekend or so, who knows. I think so far I have updated this as much as I can here. Hopefully I don't forget to update this one and bring back some more interesting news.

A hyphen in life

Well, the last post on this was on May and boy did a lot of things happen since then. I'm not sure where to begin, besides reading what was on the last blog post. Summaries it is, lets begin!

June - July
I don't think anything memorable happened in June, from what I can recall. We were both just trying to eat healthy, get our or mainly Eric's portions right on a plate and just try out new things. He did loose a lot of weight
June - It seems like we had tons of rain in this month here. Most people were glad and others not. In Memorial Day, we had horrible storms to the point that in some areas there were tornadoes. We did have some warnings in our area, where our house is at, and we did go for cover. So, that is one of the experiences that I don't want to live again, but it will happen again. Our entrance to our neighborhood flooded, but at least we were safe. After that, we just tried out restaurant near our area, saw several movies we wanted to see, and I finally changed my license to a Texan one.
July - I believe at this point I already have been watching The X-Files on Netflix, but the Director or certain X-philes aka fans wanted to create an event regarding watching the whole series again, so when it was over, we started with the new season or revival. I wish I waited, but then again if you're a fan, you would start whenever and can't stop. We still tried out restaurants in the area, I got my hair and makeup trials for my wedding done (it was not an easy task), my X-Files season 10 comics ended the season, and we went to a video game convention. Also, at this point, it got fair at work for me to get an early shift.. which is what I always wanted. Finally, close to the end of the month, we finally got our engagement photos done by a good friend of mine from work.

August
At this point, we were counting down the days to our wedding. We also had our bachelor/bachelorette parties, gathered whatever else we needed for our wedding, and I also got pampered with MAC products before my party paid by a coworker friend at her second job. I had fun with who showed up to my party and Eric got tricked into the location they went to for his. It was fine by me, you only live once... (Yolo). Then finally, my family showed up a week before my wedding. I enjoyed having my family here with us and finally seeing more of Austin, especially our new house. I loved that my family enjoyed Eric's family as well, down to the little ones.

The whole family got makeovers, from hair to nails. I never gotten my nails done, at all, period cause I see it as a waste of money. Then finally, our wedding was here. Everyone who wanted to attend, showed up to state that they cared for us. Nothing really went wrong, I did not turn into a Bridezilla, and just had a great time!

I'm just glad everyone helped, some of my coworkers volunteered their time to set-up our venue, got a coworker to be our DJ and he was great, and I just want to thank everyone for everything.. gifts, well wishes and whoever helped with whatever. So, now I have a hyphenated name or life. Then my family left the next day and all went back to normal and got nothing to worry. 

September 

Thus far, married life is no different, but it hasn't hit me yet. We had a setback recently with Eric going to ER twice, but the 2nd one was the main one.. he got surgery. He got an appendicitis and needed it removed asap. If we waited another 12 hours from last Tuesday , he would've been worse. He is better now and recovered greatly. 

Eric before surgery with HO-HO.

We're just trying to recuperate from all this happening 2 weeks after we got married. At least we caught it on time and nothing else happened. Hopefully within the coming weeks, it hits me that we are married and well he heals as well. I think I need to write in this at least twice a month, vent and let things out more.

Movie review and mini rant...

Movie Review:

"Casa de mi Padre"

So, my parents and I saw this the day after its opening night. I did not pick it to see it nor did I have much interest to see it, so you know how I feel about it a bit already. Its about a character named Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) and his family. He is the one who's looked upon as the dumb one in the family, while his brother is the one being praised for saving the family or making it look and be better. Without giving anything or much away, there are turmoils within the family and Armando is the hero to solve them all in the end. To my surprise, this movie was not funny at all. It got 2-3 laughs out of me and well, the rest was just childish "mishaps" and just proceeding with the movie. Take a Spanish soap opera, with some jokes into it, and add it to a big screen....tadaa, you get this movie. Some jokes are obvious that they're funny, others might take a Hispanic (sadly) to only get it, and others....you just don't get at all. This whole movie is, of course, in Spanish with English subtitles, so I'm sure some translations weren't translated right, especially with the jokes. My parents throughout the movie said it was the dumbest one they've seen, cause of some jokes of the quality of some scenes and whatnot. Ironically, there is a moral in this movie...you know that small story of "The tortoise and the hare"? One being the slow one and the other being the fast one, but course the slow one wins the race, well...yeah, there's the moral or lesson in this movie. I suggest not to see it, unless you really are a Will Ferrell fan or just want to waste your money on a movie, but yeah...don't, your money is not worth being wasted on it.1 star out of....5? Or even half of one star, yup....sadly. Expect Will Ferrell to be on the Conan Show tonight promoting his movie, so be a judge for yourself.

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Weather

Well, the weather has been quite nice around here....record highs even. We've hit the 80s, well, lower 80s since the weekend and until now. We will be getting rain by the end of the week into the weekend, so I'm sure it will lower the temps a bit to 60s or 70s. We shall see what happens.

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School loans and whatnot...

Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012

I recently came upon this link and site through a friend posting it on Facebook. I signed it cause I am need of help with mine. I'm sure everyone who has a school loans needs help with theirs. I will share a remark I read somewhere about this link:

"No denying the price of an education is outrageously expensive. However I crerated my student loan debt in my pursuit of higher education. I signed the documents knowling I had to repay it, as did all others. I am responsible for my debt and it is my job to pay it off. folks need to look at their spending and put meeting financial obligations ahead of iphones, ipads, data plans, dinner out 4 nights a week, etc. Sorry this struck me the wrong way after reading a Bill Cosby piece tooday called 'I'm Tired'".

1.) I really like your grammar in this FB comment, and 2) My response to this crappy comment:

"I like how some people are trying to show that they can pay their loans and know they got debt. Very proud of you *sarcasm*, but others don't have the luxury of a good job that came with the price of the loan/education aka we did NOT get the job we wanted or needed with the education we got. Just cause some people have the money, it doesn't mean we ALL have the money to pay it back. Many of us who are signing this petition and others like it and well just support it is cause we do need the help in it and are either currently unemployed or have a job that well isn't involved with the degree we got from the expensive education we had/got. Don't bother being a prick saying you knew your responsibilities when you signed for the loan and all, we don't care. We care for our own ordeals and need help with them. Don't bother being a smart ass!! I'm sure plenty of other people will agree with this petition cause they are struggling, in one way or another with the school loans. I pay mine, I don't spend my money on "crap" or "luxury items"(ipods/ipads/etc), and know how to manage my money pretty well. >_> Please sign this petition if you know how it feels to struggle with loans; please sign even if you don't owe any...it would help us who do need some help!!! Thanks!!"

It sickened me when this individual added that type of comment for a petition that will actually help others who need the help. Did I sign it? Yes I did and if you know how it feels to struggle with loans or struggling with money, in general, then I think you should sign it as well. No I am not putting my views on your nor would I like to, but its your choice and if you like to help, this is the way to do it. Please sign it and pass it on, even post it to your Facebook!!

Besides that, paintings have been going well...just lack in white paint now and will get some hopefully this weekend. iPod, psp games, books and psp bookbag will be gone by this weekend since no one claimed them. Hm, that's about it from my end....sadly, no trip for me as I planned *sighs*. Will be playing a game called Ultima Online aka UO, with Eric soon....that is if I can get the files for it to download lol.

Reviews and updates!!

Weather

Lordy Lordy, I can officially say or start off with this topic in a good note!! Well, this whole week, starting off during this past weekend, we hit great numbers!! From 50s during the past weekend, to now..today...a world record for us!! We hit 80 degrees today out and the rest of the week into the weekend it seems we'll be staying in the upper or lower 70s.....FINALLY!!! We will be getting rain, but the weather after it won't be a big deal or problem, since it will stay in the 70s. Today, my family had a BBQ or just grilled outside, which ever term you prefer, and it was deeeelishious!! Anyways, its been a great week weather wise so far and it seems it will continue. I'm just happy that it seems to settle around those digits and hopefully it will stay that way.

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Ooh baby, baby!!

So some little update on my sisters baby, she is doing fine and the baby is also fine!! She got another ultrasound this week and all looks well. She will be continuing getting ultrasounds for I believe 4 plus more weeks or so, just to see if everything is well. Due date? around October or November it seems and let's hope it stays that way!! Will keep this updated and you guys posted on all!!

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Movie:

"Silent House"

So, my parents and I went to see this movie on its opening night. It caught my attention and well read the reviews on it being good, so you know...I just hope its better than "The Woman in Black". So it's basically a girl going through memories, with her getting scared and being utterly confused with what's going on in the house. This was filmed in a one shot deal, according to the directors and reviews and all and of course you can tell right away that it was straight in the beginning of it. If you get queasy due to lot of camera move-age, this is not the movie for you! Sure, it seems like it was a good trick to do with the cameras in order to make it seem and feel more scary, but alas...it wasn't that necessary. The new comer Elizabeth Olsen, is the younger sister to the Olsen twins, yeah...you know where they're from and if you don't, ever heard of "Full House"?. Back to her, her acting was good...mediocre, but childish or just plain ole funny to me. Every time she cried, many a people laughed, not just me. At the end of the movie, one person asked my dad, "Hey did you get it?", dad just shook his head and they went on with their remarks about it in needing to see it again to understand it. I understood it, I guess some people aren't just that bright in the crayon box. Ironically, there was a situation during the movie that happened in the theater. 2 women were escorted out by 4 AMC employee's, for what? I will never know. Between that mishap and the movie, the mishap was more interesting lol! Sure it interrupted a part of my movie, but yeeah 2 ladies being escorted out? really a big wow there. Anyways, I rate this movie a good or 3 1/2 stars if that's your liking on rating. Scary parts are mainly noises and sudden appearances of people or so. Small lesson in it, but of course I won't give that away!!

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Other life and whatnots...

Been thinking since its soo nice out, to start or learn to drive again. Sadly, I chicken out in the last minute of asking dad or letting the idea out of my head, literally, so it doesn't happen. Been wanting to bike ride as well, but sometimes family just doesn't go out early enough, while sun is out, for us to really enjoy it either. Anyways, got 2 more ideas for laptop covers and I'm still continuing on the "Puss in Boots" one. Seriously, if anyone wants one, just tell me what you want and size of your laptop top/screen and I'll give you an estimate on the price!! Hm, I will soon enough sell off my PSP games and PSP bookbag to either Half price books or Disc Replay and compare which will give me more money cause, I need it now. Anyways, planning on going on a trip in April to see Eric and hopefully it will happen. Also been thinking of going to Job Corps here, but my age is the issue there, sooo it sucks. OH and finally, I have paid off one of my school loans in complete!!! Finally, no more issues with them. We'll see what happens from here with loose ends and all.

Yaaay, I'm an aunt!!! (plus other updates)

She calls it Peanut, for now lol!!

Well, its official!! My sister is finally going to be a mom!! After numerous tries with help or not, she is going to be a mom and finally me an aunt!! I'm super excited for her since she's been through a lot of hell to become a mother in the first place. I told her before, I will spoil her kid rotten, so I will keep my word on that. Ironically, this happened somewhat in the oddest time for me, since I totally got to save up money and help around the house at the same time. It totally leaves me in the negative level of spending any of my money on myself for wants. It means, I can only get what I need or necessities, totally no more shoes, possibly some to no purchase on clothes, and well stretch my money with entertainment and the alike. I have been using/cutting coupons from newspapers and online, so that's a plus there for food and necessities of mine or for the family.

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Paintings

So I started to paint again. I love painting and well wanted to get back into it somehow and decided to do something for my laptop!

Pink Floyd ahoy!!

Behold, a Pink Floyd laptop cover!! I hated my laptop not having one and well basically having a clear one that came with it and kept it on my laptop (soo ghetto lol), but I hated it and decided to paint a "cover" for it. Used acrylic paints and bristol sheet for it and ta-daaaa!! At the moment, I am in the process of making another one, completely different from theme of course.

No, its not Carmen SanDiego!!

Ta-daaa, its Puss in Boots!! Why him? Cause he is quite popular nowadays because of his new movie out on dvd!! I bought it, of course, and well decided to do him 'cause of it. I started off with the basic colors that I was able to do quickly. Ironically, I picked to do his eyes and well the blue background. There was a lot of mixing in colors to do with both and I kind of succeeded with the sky, the eyes...I loved doing. I always loved drawing/painting the eyes first on anyone or any animal. The eyes have their own personality and well lots of detail, they stand out!! I will add both of these to my art blog, since they are art (duh lol) and will continue to show the progress of it here and on my facebook as well!! If anyone wants one for their laptop, let me know....message me!!

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Collections

 

My awesome X-Files comic book collection!!

I finally found my other X-files comic books and on time!! Last year I went to C2E2 here and bought some X-files comics for only 1$ each, without knowing or remembering which I had already. I guess I got a great memory since I didn't double any of them!! I believe I got 4 different sets of them: the ones on the right, middle, and left top and left bottom. I got the old Topps ones, the more recent ish ones on the left by WildStorm, but 2 different versions by WildStorm "30 Days of Night" and well the other version they took out before "30 Days of Night". I also collected the trading cards relating to the 8th season, but must find my binder of it. Only ones I got from the latest movie are the ones shown in the middle bottom there. This coming April, C2E2 is coming back and I'm determined to get the rest that I need and well see that I like there. At least they are 1$ each, that won't break my budget much to at all. I do collect other stuff, like movie ticket stubs, but that's another story lol!!

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Why only in PS3/Xbox??!?!

Why in the heck did they decide to make it ONLY for PS3 or Xbox 360 nowadays?? Seriously, make it at least for the PS2 and I'll be a happy camper. In all honesty it looks badass and they have improved totally in textures, colors......everything!! I sooo wanna play it and well own it, but...it sucks. Guess I need to think of when to get a PS3 honestly. I believe it comes out this coming Friday, if not this coming week. This....bites D<!! (I have yet to finish the wii one btw lol!)

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Life, weather, etc...

Well, besides the loads of updates I just did above, life isn't going too well. I believe I hit 2 depression modes/moods this past week or two, the fact that I need to help out money wise in the amount that I mainly get through unemployment, the fact that the unemployment money was for bills, and well the fact that I just don't have a freaking job. I almost feel like going to Job Corps here in Chicago, but what sucks is that I'm already 25 and they only take 16-24 yr olds. I found 2 careers in it that I would like to take, but...my age is the issue. I'll see what I can do, with getting training one way or another. As for the weather, finally we have gotten into the 50s-60s. Tuesday and today we hit lower to mid 60s and both days I was in doors.....which totally bites. Seems during the weekend we will hit lower 50s and the beginning of next week the 60s. If it stays that way next week, I will definitely take my bike out and ride it around the block. I need to get out of this hell...I mean, house, once in awhile. Life was better when you were in grammar school, heck even high school....this bites!!