Christmas Eve Dump

Quick dump before I get back to my Christmas Eve shinnannigans.

First 2 are from my last assignment in character design, zombie gas station attendant, and emo cheerleader.
Definitely have a long way to go with character design.



And the second half of my 100 hands.




I will hopefully be uploading a bunch of other stuff this break from school. So stay tuned!

Later days.

Zombie Christmas Character Challenge

My entry for this weeks challenge.

The Pink Nightmare.




Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!

Arms!

It's My Birthday!

Wouldn't you know it?
Another year has come and gone.
For my birthday so far I've received money. It's exactly what I wanted, and I didn't have to tell anyone. I'm very curious how everyone knew? Even my parents got me money.

I'm on my way to another session for my tattoo! I'm super excited about it!
Maybe just after the new year I'll have enough to book an appointment. I'm really itching for some colour.

In other news, Misfits is an awesome show!
I have a baking date with Steph coming up soon.
Christmas music has officially started on the radio.
I have done no homework all weekend, which really sucks.
Walking dead last night was amazing.

I have to work today, then go straight to school to finish an assignment. Fabulous way to spend my birthday, don't you think?

Alright well that's it for now.

Later days.

Blegh

So last night I got home from work, ate dinner and came upstairs to do some homework.
I was so tired from only sleeping about 2 hours the night before, so I decided to take a short nap.
I set my alarm clock and everything!
I woke up to turn off my alarm clock, and went right back to sleep. Good times.

So tonight I need to step it up and finish my story boarding final. Of course I left my illustration board at school, so I'll have to go in Monday night to actually finish it.

I'm starting to fall behind and I don't like it one bit.
This week I really need to get into gear and finish some stuff instead of just leaving it for the next day.
Here are some leg studies.


So tomorrow is my birthday. Having already had a party last weekend, it feels like its come and gone and tomorrow is just another regular day.
Tonight the fam is going to Red Lobster. Should be good.

Feeling kinda 'meh' today. Not sure why.
Hopefully work doesn't make it any worse.

Later days.

PELVI

That's plural for pelvis' right?




An entire 20 of them.

Stay tuned for legs.

Later days

Justin Beiber?

No no...Justin Beiver.

Update!

Alright, finally an update with some work.
Now that it's reading week it seems appropriate to post some pictures of my assignments from first semester so far.

First we start with 50 hands. Half of what I will have to do to complete this first semester. Second batch of 50 will be due before Christmas break. ughhh...
You can tell that I slowly got a bit better as I went, the first hands I drew are in the second image.




We had to do a rotation of half of a pelvis.


This is the first of two 3 views of a torso that we had to do, then re-do.


And finally a Batman challenge for character design. Turning the shapes we were given into Batman's. Fun stuff.


I'll try to update more frequently.

Last few weeks I was going pretty insane with stress. I'm curious to see how the rest of this program will be for me.
I can safely say I'm already seeing a massive improvement in my drawing, and I'm totally loving it.

Later days

hands..? HANDS? HANDS!!!

So...many...HANDS!!!

It's just...

STRESS!

Just keep telling yourself that, and it'll come true.
We'll find out today for sure.

sigh...

Yo

What's up, blog?

It's been a while. I've been pretty busy with school, and work when I'm not at school.

Lots to update, but not when I'm about to leave for work.


Does anyone even read this thing?




Later days.

2 Weeks Down!

As week 2 has come to an end, I try not to cover my computer in pencil lead that is all over my hands that I'm too lazy to wash off right now.

I have just finished my first assignment for Story boarding class. Finally.
Not one of my favourite assignments, Ive basically been putting it off repeatedly until now.

I have work tomorrow and Monday which I'm not looking forward to at all.
I guess the trouble with starting a new job is not knowing how to do everything completely.
I HATE IT!
At least at Blockbuster, I knew how to do almost every function, and I knew how to deal with every situation. Now, I have to re-learn everything and it's a lot more complicated this time around.
I've been going over things in my head, I know the basics of what I'll be facing, but I also feel that when it comes down to it, under the pressure of the line ups and angry customers, I'll forget everything.
Another thing that bugs me about Ikea is how friggin' huge it is. There are SO many people working there, and yet its so hard to ask for help if I need it. Because it's so busy everyone is doing something, and can rarely come help me, or if they do, it takes a little bit in which the customer will be giving me an evil stare.

Here's hoping my first few days of working on my own go smoothly and without problems.

I'm starting to get to know the people in my class more and more each day.

Hockey starts this week. Ive finally paid so now it's official. I have to play. Let's see how this goes with school work and what not. Also having my early day the morning after hockey will be fantastic.

Oh! I wonder if the Rocky movies continue this weekend from last weekend.
I really do enjoy Rocky Balboa thoroughly. What a guy.

As Promised, pictures of my studio.

That's my desk.


The other side of the room.

Colourful eh?


Yo Adrienne. That's for you. ;)

Later days.

Happy Bluestein Day!

Today was 'wear blue day' in honour of one of our teachers, David Bluestein.

And wouldn't you know it, he wore a bright green shirt today.
Everyone heckled him with 'Greenstein! Greenstein!'

His response, 'I didn't get the email, guys!'

Then he reworked one of my drawings into something awesome. What a guy.
Takes him like 2 mins to draw something amazing, even in just rough it blows my mind.

One day...

Tomorrow is 80's day...I don't know what I'm going to wear...
There is also a soccer game after school, students vs. faculty. Should be fun to watch, because me and running don't mix.

Till tomorrow.

Later days.

P.s. I also have pictures of my animation desk finally, but I have yet to upload them. Tomorrow if I get a chance.

Superman!

And....we watched The Iron Giant.

It was amazing.

The end.

Spirit Week

So this week is Spirit Week in the Animation department.

A new event every day, lots of food, festivities and fun to be had by all.
It's my day off school and I'm still going in! Hows that for dedication?

Today is favourite t-shirt, wacky hat or sports jersey day.
Followed by a secret screening of an animated movie tonight. I want to know what it is!!

Should be fun!

Later days

First week DONE!

One week down, I don't even know how many to go.

As you know, I couldn't stop talking about how excited I was for school to start.
As Tuesday rolled around I felt nothing but butterflies. Well, that was pretty much how every day this week started for me.
Starting something new is always a challenge, even if I am super excited about it. When it comes down to actually doing it, I get really anxious until I'm in the situation.

The beginning of the week was a bit harder than the end, but I must say, by the end of the week I had a permanent smile on my face just knowing where I was. In animation, finally.
Now, instead of being excited about starting school, I'm excited about my art improving, and all the possibilities there are. Each day, our teachers tell us stories about all the amazing adventures their jobs have taken them on. All the people they have met over the years. I want to have that too.

I'm proud of myself for taking everything seriously right from the start.
Ive already stayed for extra life drawing twice, that's once more than I did in all of Art Fundamentals. Tuesday and Wednesday I was at school from 9am to 8 or 9:30pm.
Having my own little studio/desk makes it so much easier to stay and work on assignments.
I'll post some pictures once Ive had a chance to take some.
The people in my class seem nice, and I look forward to the 3 years of getting to know them.

I'm glad I'm not the oldest person in my class!

This blog has kind of been all over the place, but I must end it now so I can go work on some more homework.

Here's a skeleton rotation I did on Wednesday. Kinda sucky, but we still have time to work on them. I like how he gets bigger as he goes on, and his head gets smaller.



Later days.

Schoolz

Omg, blog!

First of all, it's been too long.
So much has happened worthy of blogging about, but I have had no motivation to do so.

School is in 2 days!!!
It's finally here and I'm still just as excited about it as I was before. If not more!

Ok...quick run down of some things that have happened:

-Lost my job at bbv.
-Had 3 weeks 'off'
-3 interviews later, Ikea hired me.
-Couple shifts in, realized how difficult of a job it really is
-Got my new macbook! woot woot!
-Haven't gained any weight!! (haven't lost any either)
-Went to the Ex and watched my friends eat deep fried butter.

Hmm...what else? Cant think of anything.
Anyways, now that school is finally starting, I'm hoping to update this blog with some art as I go.
So we'll see.

Anyways, I've got lots of iTuning to do so I must get back to that.
I'll be back soon.

Later days.

La la laaaaa!

Hello again,

Alright, let me have it. I suck at this blog.
But I don't suck as much as I did with my old blogs! So give me a little credit.
At least I still know this one exists and I visit it once in a while.
Definitely not every day like I said I would try to do, but what evs.

So I'm still excited for school.
Yes I know, same crap every time.

I'm going to go pick up my new back pack some time soon. Not sure when I'm going for my new computer yet. Just waiting on my dad. Knowing him, we'll probably go sometime mid/late August just in case there's a deal.
Oh well..I guess I can survive on this one until then.

I need to order my new Adobe program so I'll get it in time for school. I want to have time to play around with it also, I'm two updates behind! Lots of new stuff to learn.

Today's my Aunts birthday so Happy Birthday Aunt Leslie!

So in about a years time I have the honour of making my cousins wedding cake!
Wow! I'm really excited for it. Her wedding colours are amazing, and its a 50's themed wedding so I feel like the cake has so much potential to be awesome! Super classy. I really want to make something special for them.

There's this new show I started watching on Bravo called Work of Art. Its a reality show about all different kinds of artists who have a new challenge each week to create a piece of art. The first episode was to do a portrait of another one of the artists, the second was to create art out of junk, and the third was to design a book cover for a specific book that they were given.
Watching the show really makes me want to do something! Draw, paint, photoshop...anything!

Lately Ive just wanted to, well, make art! But I find once I get to the paper, I have no idea what to do. I want so badly to make something awesome, maybe I psych myself out. I feel like I'd never actually be able to make something really amazing so there's no point in trying. But if I don't try and practice, how am I going to improve?

Grrrr....

I want to paint.

That's all for now.

Hmm

Well isn't that just GREEEEAAATTT!!!!






douchbag

Drawingzzz

Hello there,

It's been a while. I apologize.

I have no excuses other than laziness.

So the past few days I've been getting super excited for school...yet again.

I guess I go through stages of excitement then lulls of not really thinking about school because I'm busy with other stuff. But I'm back to excited!

Thought I'd post some old drawings just to get used to posting more stuff here.

I created this blog intending to use it during school to post my work, so why not start now with some old stuff?

I hope, after everything, I can go through this blog and see some improvement in my work.

I'm already jealous looking through other Seneca student blogs and some of their work, and I REALLY hope I can become as good as some of them.

I really need motivation these next 3 years. I need to push myself to WANT this. After everything Ive taken in school, and everything Ive done in life, I want this to be it. I really do.

I don't want to go into school again and have myself hate art because I'm being forced to produce it. I need to take it as practice and learning, so I can become better.

So don't let me hate art! K good.

So I was googling Disney and Pixar animation studios to see if Id even be able to work there if I was good enough. Turns out they have student programs for graduates, or students about to graduate. I thought that was awesome. BUT! Disney's studios are only in LA. Pixar has a Canadian studio, but it's in Vancouver.

So there goes that. I'm not saying I wouldn't move to do what I want to do, but right now I've got it set in my mind that I want to live here in Toronto.

Who knows. Next is to google Toronto animation studios and see what pops up. I know there are a bunch that do shows for like YTV or even Disney channel shows, so we'll see.

Ok so here are a couple naked girls.

Later days.

Grr

Yesterday I planted 8 tomato plants.

Later that night, Baxter ate one.

Now I have 7 tomato plants.

Grr..


Later days

Wind in my hair...er...pony tail?

Had a very enjoyable bike ride today through the ravine avec Salman and Tony.

Surprised how riding during the hot hours minimized the bugs in your face.
Although I shouldn't be, since it makes perfect sense.
Any how, it was loads of fun and a good workout.
Even if we didn't get to play Pooh sticks.


Later days.

So...

I'm fat.


Later Days

Schooooooool

So here I am, sitting in front of my computer with a cup of coffee and a banana.

It's Monday weigh in, but I'll be honest. I haven't weighed myself yet. Passed by the scale twice already but I feel like nothing is going to have changed.
I'll probably do it before I'm done writing this post so just hang in there.

I've been getting more excited about school lately.
I think it was yesterday I was thinking about it and I actually realized that this program is 3 years. I'll still be in school even after the end of the world in 2012.
Eww, I'll be graduating in the year of 2013. Bad luck? I hope not.

It's so weird to think about what you might be doing in 2 or 3 years time. I wonder how much my art will have improved. I wonder what area I'm going to enjoy the most and specialize in. I wonder if I'll still be working at Blockbuster. I wonder if I'll still be enjoying what I'm doing, or if I'll be sick of it already and take another 'break'(like I did with my photography).

Only 3 and a half months left!
I'm waiting for them to send me my fee information package, then once I've paid my fees, I get my schedule. I hope it's not ridiculous. Having already been in school for 3 years, I wont have to take a gen ed every semester like everyone else, so I'm looking forward to my work load being smaller. I do have to go talk to someone about that just to make sure though, I almost got screwed over last time.

So I'm pretty sure that I'm getting a mac book pro for school. At first, I almost didn't want to because then I'd miss my old computer. But this guy has been giving me trouble lately and would not hold up to the programs I'll need to run, so maybe its a good idea to say goodbye. My mom has already claimed my laptop for herself since her computer is all messed up. I have a feeling she's just going to do the same thing to this one.

I also want to invest in a really good backpack. So I'll have to shop around for that. Lots of research.

I'm not looking forward to the amount of money I'll have to spend on supplies the first semester. I know we have to get an artist drawing animation wheel thingy ma jig. Those are expensies!
Who knows what else.

I'm excited to be able to have a gym to go to! I wont have any excuses anymore. Although, I do want to lose most of the weight before school starts. So doesn't work out too too well.
Alright already! I'll go weigh myself!
.....
I'm even with last week.
No up or down.

Hmm...

Alright, well I guess that's it for me. I wrote way more than I ever thought I would.

Later days

Wow...

...It's been a while.

So as for Monday weigh ins the past 2 weeks, I was down, and then up again.
Just basically circling around the same numbers.
I hate this, but I really have no reason to be upset since I'm not really trying that hard to do anything about it.

I'm going to try to keep this post short.

Some things I thought about that I wanted to blog about:

The other day I was stopped at a red light, and I saw a man on a bike with a pitcher of water in his one hand. And inside that pitcher? Why, there was a goldfish of course!
He was taking his goldfish for a bike ride.
I thought that was amazing.

My grandma on my moms side passed away this past week, her funeral was on Saturday.
When she passed, I thought about posting something on facebook regarding it. Then I thought, she's not going to log onto afterlifefacebook.com so there's absolutely no point updating my status about this. Then I went on to think about why anyone would update their status regarding someone who just passed, especially saying "goodbye grandma". Like they're ever going to see that. Even if it was "Just to let everyone know, grandma passed away" wouldn't it still be awkward to all the people in your friends list that never knew her? It just seems really inappropriate to post something like that, so personal, on your facebook.
A day later I log onto facebook and see someone post something about a family member passing.
Coincidence? Who knows.

What else?
We're getting new uniforms at work starting June. We can wear jeans! Yes!
I'm pretty excited.

I need to pull out my bike. If it's not raining tomorrow I really should. Of course saying that now means absolutely nothing, because Ive said it before.

Anyways, I think I'm going to leave it at that.
It's 4pm and I haven't eaten a thing since I woke up.

Later days.

Hmm..

Today I bought yellow bed sheets, and a green hibachi BBQ.

I am thoroughly satisfied.

That is all.

Later days

OMG

The final trailer for Eclipse is out.
Looks SOOO good!

That is all.

Not in the mood

I'm really not in the mood to blog at all right now.

Having said that, watch me write a novel.

Monday weigh in...down 2.5lbs.

Having looked through my list of notes, its basically just normal for me to be fluctuating 1 or 2 lbs here and there.

I'm not seeing any solid results as of yet. I kind of stopped trying, like I always do with diets.

I just thought with the amount of hockey I played these past 2 weekends, something would have changed.

Anyways, I'll try to keep up with this whole weight loss business. I'm sick and tired of being chunky.

So I finally slept in today, after waking up at 7am the past 2 days to play 2 or 3 games of hockey each day. I woke up at around 9:30, just as a preliminary wake up, then went back to sleep.

From about 1o to 11 I was basically too tired/lazy to get up so I tried to sleep as best I could but at that point I couldn't fully fall asleep again. You know what I'm talking about right?

Then eventually at 11 when I got up I felt like crap. Of course. I knew it was going to happen.

Anyways, I have my coffee, Ive done my facebooking, after this I'll probably head downstairs for some yogurt and rice cakes(breakfast of champions) and watch an episode of Nurse Jackie.

Then I'll drag my butt over to work...again...for a shift that will last far too long, mainly because of who I'm working with.

BUT THEN! I have all of Tuesday off! And on Tuesday night I start my co-ed hockey league, and I'm SO excited for that.

AND THEN! I have all of Wednesday off! Hurrah! I hope the weather is nice Tuesday and Wednesday, maybe I'll actually go biking this time, or roller blading.

As for my injuries, my ankle isn't swollen anymore, but it still does hurt on the bone like a bruise. My bruise is starting to fade, but the center is still hard and very painful.

I think I will be scheduling a doctors appointment sometime this week. Perhaps on one of my off days. It's just better to know exactly whats wrong than wonder why it's taking 2 months to heal.

Hmm what else....(see? novel) So much for not wanting to blog today.

I'm starting to second guess my tattoo..more for the fact of what my dad/family will say. I know I'll never be interested in a job that wouldn't hire you based on the fact that you're covered in tattoos, so that's not really a big concern, but I don't know.

Ive found I ask myself if this is who I really am. The answer is always yes. I love art, I love being creative, I love being different. I'm getting this tattoo no matter what, I just hope my dad doesn't hate me for it.

So now I'm just waiting for George to call me! It's been almost a month, he said sometime at the end of April, I'm thinking it'll probably be in May. Justin is getting one before me, and he hasn't even been called yet, so who knows how long this will take.

Alright, I should stop talking now..or writing I guess...

Wish me luck on becoming less fat.

Thanks.

Later days

P.s. My team won first place at the Heart and Stroke tournament! Woot woot!

Yea Yea Yea

Monday weigh in....
Ugh, so I'm up 2.5lbs.

Hoorah! Even after 4 games of hockey this weekend!
Well I guess I haven't really been eating that great, and did no other exercise last week at all so.
Hoping this week goes a bit better.

I ended up getting hurt twice this weekend, one slap shot to the calve and another shot to my ankle. Both hurt a lot. Id have to say Ive never been hit that hard in those places before ever. Well we were playing against men so that might have something to do with it.

I have a nice bruise brewing on my calve in the shape of a hockey puck. It's so hot.
I wasn't able to really walk on my right foot yesterday because of the pain in my ankle, and I woke up this morning with absolutely no pain at all. Strange. Sure it hurts on the bone if you touch it, there is a bruise starting to form, but as for general pain in my ankle, its completely gone and I can walk! Although still a little swollen.
So work should be ok tonight, I was kinda dreading have to hobble around.

I just hope the swelling goes down by next weekend, I'm kind of scared to put my hockey skate back on, because I know it's going to kill every time the side touches my ankle bone. Should be nice.

Hmm what else? Well in the tournament, we were the first female team to ever be allowed to play, and we won second place in our division! I bet the guys weren't expecting that!
And they even asked us back for next year! How exciting!
We got t-shirts as prizes and they were nice enough to go through all of them and pick out all the mediums for us. Never fails that girls are always stuck with XL men's shirts. That's just how it works. Even at women's tournaments if you can believe it.

La la la!
I think I'm gonna take my bike out this week, pump up some tires and start going for rides. I found a good route to take last summer that ends up being a pretty good work out. So I shall try that out again, and maybe if I do that every day, or well the days I'm not working..(I hate to get sweaty before work..It's just gross) I'll see some improvement.

AHHH!! Hockey starts next week! Well...resumes I guess I should say.
Ive actually been missing it these past few weeks...even though I played every weekend since the season ended. But still, it's not the same. I start on my summer team from last year called The Ringers, and my new co-ed team called District 5 named after the Mighty Ducks original team. I cant wait. The co-ed team is a brand new league though, so I'm hoping the level is ok.
Get ready for a lot of new injuries from this league. Cant wait.

Hmm....That may be it for now? I know it's been a while so I had a bunch to report on.
Still VERY excited for school.
And I'm hungry...it's lunch time.
Time for foooooods.

Later days

Passion

I guess I haven't fully accepted the fact that I'll be going back to school in September, for Animation of all things.
Every time I think about it, it's like I'm finding out for the first time all over again and I get so excited!
I hate that its 5 months away, but I know that once it comes I'll be wishing for my summer back.

I love feeling excited about something again. I pump myself up by googling anything and everything to do with animation and I just hope one day I can be as good as some of the people out there.
I know it will take a lot of dedication, more than I think I have.
I guess my biggest fear is not being able to really try my hardest, or get bored and give up.
If I take anything seriously in my life, I really want this to be it. I want to be able to stay motivated and still love what I'm doing.
School has ruined my passion for everything I've taken so far. Photography, and before that art. Which is mainly the reason why I didn't want to take Animation in the first place. I had no passion left, I didn't want to ever put pencil to paper again. But here I am. Loving it once more.
I just hope the same thing doesn't happen this time around.

I think being able to see myself improve will keep me motivated. I hate trying to draw something and having it come out like crap. I give up right away. But if I learn, and improve, and can finally be able to get out on paper exactly what I want, it will make me love it that much more.
But again it all comes back to pushing myself to improve. No slacking off this time around, not for the money it's going to cost.

Now speaking of money, why are the tickets for Rock of Ages so friggin expensive?!
Ugh! I wanna go!!

Later Days

Scrandle

It's Monday.
It's weigh in day.
*sigh* Alright, let's get this over with.

After losing the 2.5lbs last week I guess I thought I did really well and started cheating this week thinking it wouldn't really make a big deal.
So here I am.

I'm down 1 lb.

Yay for being down, but boo for being only 1 lb.
I was actually surprised seeing that though. I thought for sure I would be up from last week.
So this is good.
I just have to work extra hard this week.
Let's go me!

Tonight I'm going out to dinner with friends to celebrate getting into school.
(OMG I got into school!)
Hopefully I can control my menu picking and get something sensible.
Should be fun though, haven't seen them in a while. So much to catch up(ketchup) on.

I have a super mega shift tomorrow which I'm not at all looking forward to since my feet still hurt from my last shift.
Eww I slept in till 11:30 today. I feel gross.
Alright, well I think that's all for now.

Later days

I in Team

Last night's shinny was just a bundle of disappointment.

First of all, the game that was on before us was a play off game. So after resulting in a tie, it went to over time which resulted in another tie, so it went to a shoot out, which resulted in yet another tie, so it then went into another over time, can you guess what happened? Yes it went into a final shoot out and was finally over! Half way into our ice time might I add.

Secondly, there were 'I in team' idiots playing. Justin came up with that perfect title for them.
They were on the other team, and always seemed to be on at the same time as each other.
They were in a league of their own, showing off their skills, passing and skating around everyone.
I'm sure they were having an awesome time! Wow perfect chance to work on their skills around pylons.
Ive played shinny with people like this before, and that's why I don't play shinny with them anymore. The first shinny last Saturday was a lot of fun, because these people weren't there, but this time around? I wouldn't play again if they were there.
It's not fun being skated around constantly and made a fool. There was no point in even trying to do anything every time they skated down the ice so I just let them go. Hopefully no challenge is more fun for them.

Don't get me wrong, I like challenging myself by playing with people who have a greater skill than I do, that's how you get better, but not when these people are just being ridiculous and taking it so seriously. There is no room for improvement playing with people like that.

Anyways, the moral of the story was, everyone I talked to had a problem with the 'I in team' guys, so hopefully they wont show up at the next shinny, because I'd really like to play again with the other people.

Later days

So....

I suck at blogging, I know.

Every time I say I'm going to try to be better at all this stuff, I always fail miserably.
But I have done better than previous attempts! So cut me some slack!

Tonight is shinny, at 11pm. Nice and early... :
Hah! First blog emoticon!

I believe there will one be 3 girls tonight, including myself. Should be exciting.

I am definitely looking forward to the workout, as I have been cheating all week and spending most of my time as a hermit because of the awful weather. I'm pretty sure my Monday weigh in will result in having gained back the weight I lost, and possible even more. *sigh*

Lots of hockey the next two weeks. Mainly clustered around the weekends. The next two Saturdays I have 3 games each day. Then one or so on either the Friday or Sunday.

I will eventually be adding pictures to my blog, I'm just waiting to see the most practical way to go about doing so.

La la la...

That may be all I have to say right now. I had a taco salad for dinner. Yum.

Later days

Time to stop worrying because...

...I got accepted into Animation!!

Oh man, the letter finally came!
It came in a big envelope so when I saw it I was excited! Then I touched it and noticed it was a lot thinner than my usual acceptance letters were, so I got a little worried.
I heard you can get denied in big envelopes too, so it threw me off.

So there I am, standing in the kitchen, knife in one hand, letter in the other, with my mom staring at me waiting for me to gut it open. I open it up, take a tiny peek inside and see the word 'Congratulations!' and I ran into the hall jumping in the air with a giant smile on my face. My mom is dying to know what it says so I yank out the contents and start reading;
'Dear Ms. Tara Lloyd,
Congratulations!
You have been offered admission into the Animation program.' ...etc...
My mom screamed yay and clapped her hands, because she's cool like that, and I just hugged my letter.

I then ran upstairs to log onto ontariocolleges.com to accept my offer, and then post it all on facebook. Obviously, right?

Then! My mom tells me I also got my GST cheque in the mail!
It was like a double good day.

While I was on Facebook, one of my friends from my old Art Fundamentals class who is now taking Animation messaged me.
We were talking about the program and I was getting even more excited. He did tell me how much work is really involved though, and how I probably will be living at the school and have absolutely no social life. He told me that a lot of people who started with him were gone because they got kicked out for not maintaining a high enough GPA. That kind of freaked me out a bit, but I don't think I could let myself do so poorly in school.

I really want to try hard with this program. I want to be able to see myself improve, and I just want to do good! Especially for the amount of money the tuition is going to be.

I also hope it wont be so demanding that I cant still play hockey once a week, and work 2 days a week so I can afford my car! I cant quit my job no matter what, I wont have any way to pay off my car if I do. I need to figure out a way to make it all work. Hopefully Ill be able to work weekends, because I know during the week I'll be expected to go to extra life drawing after classes.

I think Ive decided the cheapest mode of transportation is bus tokens, vs metro pass and parking. If I get a ride to school every day, I only need tokens for the ride back. Hopefully I'll be able to get a locker this time, so I wont have to lug around a lot of stuff with me, and I wont mind taking the bus.

Anyways, so much to think about and I have 5 months until September rolls around. I really hope I enjoy this program, and I hope it doesn't make me hate drawing like Art Fundamentals did, and the photography course for taking pictures. I just gotta keep thinking about all the things I'll be able to do after it all.

Alright, that's my post for today.
Tonight is my championship game and will determine if we make it to first or second place, each getting a prize! First gets a skate towel and a bath towel, second place gets skate guards....I know..amazing prizes. I'll let you know tomorrow!

Later Days

WooHoo!

Dear Blog,

It's Monday and that means......weigh in!
And guess what...GOOD NEWS!
I am officially down 2.5lbs! What what!

I honestly didn't that Id be able to do it, but so far I'm right on track!
Its really awesome because it makes me want to work harder at this, and really achieve my goals.

I got a lot of sun today which was awesome, although it did make me a bit tired for work.

I neglected to post yesterday, and it seems I'm even too late to have posted for 'today'. Rats.
I'll try to do better!

This post sucks because I'm tired.
At least I did my weigh in, so that's all that really matters.
Hopefully I'll have the drive to post tomorrow before work, so this doesn't happen again.

Gnight Blog.

Quick Update!

Today we had Easter dinner at my house.
I ate ham with pineapple. It was delicious.

I also washed my car today, inside and out. It's shiny.

My legs kill from yesterdays workout. Go me and working out my legs the day before I play hockey. Tonight's shinny should be interesting.

My brother and sister in law promised to come out to a couple of my games in Stouffville this summer, so I'm kind of excited for that.

I still cant find my DVD of Across the Universe that I swear I lent to my brother, but he says he doesn't have.

It's super windy outside right now and I hope I don't get blown over.

That is all.

Later days

La La La

Alright, trying to get an early post in here today.

And with that, I have absolutely nothing to write about.
It's a beautiful day outside today, I can only hope people will be out and about on their day off instead of renting movies and staying in.
I really hope no one comes in tonight, I'm definitely not in the mood.

I also hope I don't get scrutinized by the new manager tonight. I have a feeling I'm going to get yelled at for not asking every single person if they want to pre-order Avatar, or even one single person for that matter. I hate up selling.

Anyways, today consisted of waking up late-ish, having my morning cup of coffee whilst internetting. Hanging out in the back yard for a bit with my dad and the pups, finding out the water fountain isn't working(might still be frozen), and yelling at Baxter for eating bird seed, because he's clearly not a bird. I then went on to fold my laundry that I did yesterday and left conveniently in the dryer. Yay clean hockey clothes and jerseys! (I smell)
Then had some lunch, watched 5 mins of Bad Lieutenant and gave up, and now I'm here.

What fun! Maybe I'll get my bike out, put some air in the tires and go for a ride.
I found a video on YouTube of some workouts for strengthening your legs for hockey, so I may do that for a bit. I really don't want to die in my co-ed division.

Anywho, I cant really think of much more to say. So I'll leave it at that.

Later Days

Eeek!

So I forgot to post today.

Some thoughts from the day.

I'm excited to meet my new team and play some shinny this Saturday.

I am not at all looking forward to working a whole shift with the new manager tomorrow night, although it is time and a half.
I'll let you know if it was worth the extra money.

I bought jello today. I havent been this excited about jello before. Dont ask me why, because I have no idea.

I snacked more than I should have today. Grr...

It's april fools and I wasnt fooled once today! HAH!


Easter weekend coming up!
Dont forget to go egg hunting!

Later Days

Pip Pip Cheerio!

Lately I've been day dreaming about far off places where people speak with marvelous accents.
Having just visited England and Scotland, I find myself wanting to go back.
Of course no one can see all that these countries have to offer in only a week each, so it makes sense wanting to go back and experience other things.

I'd love to visit Ireland and even more so Australia/New Zealand. I remember back in the day when I was still in high school, I 'planned' to stay in Australia for a month. I went as far as looking for apartments that offered monthly rates, and even how I could go about maybe getting a small job while I was there.

It's amazing how costly travelling really is, having not travelled much at all. It took me until Christmas to finally pay off everything, which I guess isn't too bad considering it was a 3 week trip to Europe! But I guess, in the end, it was worth it.

But now I'm hooked! And who knows when I'll be able to afford another expedition to some far off place? I'd love to live in a place like England for a small amount of time.
As much as I'm always saying how I always want to live somewhere close to where I grew up, there's a whole other part of me that wants to go on adventures, and experience life in someplace new.
Now, if only I were rich and famous. Then I could just buy a house in each country I love and everything would be 100% easier.

I'd love to visit the southern united states as well. I have some strange fondness for places like Louisiana, or Dallas, maybe its because of all these movies I see and books I read that are set in these places. I just want to visit and see what its all about.

I definitely need to visit New York City, and I also have to go back to Florida and see the new Harry Potter Exhibit in Universal Studios.

Anyway, just a short post today. See you tomorrow!

Later days

Whistle While You Work...

...But really don't, because it's really annoying.

As much as I don't want to talk about work, it's really starting to tick me off.

Basically, without going into too much detail about it all, I am not enjoying any type of management person right now.
We recently changed district leaders to someone who I really do not enjoy at all. And this said person told my assistant manager to tell me(couldn't even tell me himself while I was right there) that I need to go buy new work pants because mine are unacceptable. Ok granted, the policy says 'slacks' and 'no jeans', but my pants aren't jeans! They are black pants. They may be sewn the same way jeans are, but that does not make them jeans!
I don't know why this little thing bothers me so much. Maybe because it is such a little thing to worry about when the company is going bankrupt right under their feet.
Go look at 70% of your employees and then come and tell me to change what I'm wearing.
I just bought new work pants, and I'm not willing to go spend another $30 on new ones because you don't like them.

I'd be glad to go shopping on Blockbuster's dime anytime. You show me the exact pair of pants that I need to buy and give me the money to do so, and I will be happy to.
But since you wont, then just please shut your mouth right now.

Sorry to get so angry Blogger, but it really grinds my gears.

This Monday started our new store manager. I met her for the first time and after meeting her, was not at all entirely impressed. Not looking forward to seeing her again today, I showed up and offered a friendly 'Hello'. We had about a 20 minute overlap in which she seemed really nice and not at all trying to enforce herself as the new 'boss-man' like the day before.
I have a feeling this is going to be a sort of 'wait and see' situation to find out what she's really like.
Already the schedule has not been made in time, and she has failed to give 2 managers their new alarm codes so they can close/open the store. Off to a good start.
But I gotta give her a chance, I can imagine how she must be feeling coming to an entirely new store and having to be the 'boss' when you're the new kid. It's gotta be hard.

Anyways, that's enough steam off my chest. Work is starting to suck and I need new pants. Maybe I'll throw a pants party. Who knows.

Later Days

Here Comes the Sun..

...doo doo doo doo!

Other than being my favourite Beatles song, it also brings with it my favourite season.
Summer! Hurrah!

After getting a taste of spring weather earlier in March, I'm dying for some summer heat.
This coming weekend is supposed to be pretty nice, so says the weather man.
So let's all roll up our sleeves and get dirty! Perhaps it might even be car wash weather.
So now I know what I'll be doing Saturday.

With summer comes shorts, dresses, tank tops, and dare I say, bathing suits...all things I loath since gaining my graduationmen 30. (get it? freshmen 15?)
Since leaving school, my routines haven't changed at all, other than leaving school. I still work at the same place, approximately the same amount of hours, and spend my leisure time at home..sitting on the couch, and eating.
And it's all led me to here. 30 lbs heavier than I was 3 years ago. 20 of those pounds all joining me as graduation gifts.
So Ive decided to FINALLY(I'm pretty good at emphasizing finally eh?) put my foot down!
No more saying I'm on a diet and not keeping to it. This time it's for serious.
I'd love to lose all 30 of it in 2 months, but I don't think that's realistic for me. So I'm going to aim for 20 by the end of May. Then I'll concentrate on getting to exactly where I want to be after that, but for now, it's crunch time!

Maybe I'll turn Mondays into updates on how everything is progressing. Will I ever post my weight? Probably not, until I get to my goal, then you can know how fat I actually was. Key word, was. Should I do pictures? We'll see. And again, probably wont show until I get to where I want to be.

So how does one motivate ones self into taking on such a huge challenge? I don't know. Perhaps YouTube 'thinspiration'? NO! That stuff is ridiculous. If you have time, you should check out what girls do to themselves by watching that crap. They're videos consisting of pictures of anorexic/bulimic girls showing off their rib cages and skeletons. It's disgusting. But it's supposed to 'thinspire' you to lose weight. Because OMG I wish I looked like Skeletor.

Anyways, I have joined 2 hockey teams this summer, so here's hoping that helps me out with things.
My 2 big problems are portion control, and what time I eat. So I really need to work on them.
I'm proud of myself for completely switching from pop to water, and pretty much not eating junk food anymore. I find that after a while, you don't crave these foods anymore, and when you have them once in a while, it's really not that hard to eat just a bit.
I haven't had fast food(McDonald's, Harvey's..)in a REALLY long time, which is awesome!
But I do want to cut someone every time they send me McDonald's coupons.

So what have we learned today? That even my Wii Fit thinks I'm overweight and it's time to make some changes! So here goes nothing!

Later Days

Fearing the Postman

Ah yes, can you smell that?
It smells like school application responses.
That old familiar scent.

It's about that time again folks, the time for actually being afriad to look at the mail that has just been dropped through the mail slot. And not because it could contain anthrax, that was so 2001.

Yes it's true. I have applied to school yet again. For the third time.
Why cant I figure out what I want to do with my life? I guess that's who I am.
I love doing so many things, I dont think I could pick just one!
I mean take this past year for example.
First I finish photography school, let's go take some awesome pictures! OR...we could get really interested in baking and decorating cakes. Yea! That sounds like more fun, so lets take some courses on that. I could look into finding a job at a bakery, OR...I could get kind of excited about animation! Yea! So lets apply for that! Man it's taking a while for news to come as to whether I've been accepted. Im excited to get my next tattoo...Oh man! I want to become a tattoo artist!

It never ends! My mind keeps racing with things I want to do, things I want to try, places I want to go, people I want to meet!
I cant keep track of myself anymore. I feel like one day I could wake up and I'll want to change everything in my life.
What's even more strange is, change usually scares the crud out of me.

But maybe in a way, I applied to school to keep things the same. I dont want to have to look for a 'real' job yet, that means commitment, and potentially moving out. Where as, if I go back to school, I'll be at the same job, still living at home, with the same routine. Safe.

Who knows what the real deep down reason is that I applied for school, to get my mom to stop bugging me about Animation school, to become a better artist for myself, because drawing for a living might actually be fun, because it could take me in so many directions i.e. tattooing?

I dont know for sure, but what I do know is that Im actually excited.
After so much denial and fighting with my mom about animation school for so long, I actually thought about it. It would be pretty awesome to be able to do what they do. After applying and going in for my orientation and FINALLY being able to see inside the animation studio at Seneca, I knew this was what I wanted to do for the next 3 years.

So this is the part where the postman is scaring the heck out of me. I dread hearing the slot click every day at 1pm. I walk to the door with fingers crossed that there will be a big letter from Seneca waiting for me beside my shoes. So far, false hope. But it's still too early. So Im working myself up for nothing.

Anyways, long story short. I applied for Animation at Seneca College, and when, not if, but when my acceptance package arrives, you better believe I'll let you know it.

Later days.

Ok, Let's get serious...

...Do I actually think it's possible to start a blog and keep up with it? Now, after 2 failed blogs in the last 3 years?

Maybe...

I was pretty good at the whole 'blogging' thing in highschool with livejournal. But of course back then it was worth it to post about boys, drama between best friends, and what I may have happened to eat that day.

Now I feel as though, if I dont have something absolutely spectacular to write about, then what's the point?

This is exactly what I hope to change about myself with this blog. I want to try to write every day, about ANYTHING! My problem with past blogs was that I tried to make them specific to what I was going through during that time in my life(photography blog).

All that changes today.

Welcome to my life. I hope I can find the courage to share my secrets with you.