Domestic Geek

Let's see... what have I been up to this week? The shed is up and hopefully Marcus will post his pictures soon so I can link to them. The team he assembled did a fine job. We're now in the process of painting it and making it all purty.

We just now got the tree branches down from the winter storm we had over two weeks ago. Nobody from the park ever came to cut them down and I was tired of having no place to park my car.

Work sucks...'nuff said about that.

I saw "The Matrix Reloaded" with Marcus on Monday. Good flick. Can't wait for the next one. Marcus has become totally obsessed with it. He does a frighteningly good impression of Agent Smith. It's rather unnverving to listen to him do it. I'm thinking I might go buy myself "The Matrix Reloaded" soundtrack tomorrow. I really dig some of the songs on there.

I bought a cute Mary Moo Moos figurine on eBay for my craft room and when it showed up, it was the wrong one! The seller has promised the correct one. I sure hope it comes.

I went to Mama Alvino's (on Chambers/Colfax) with Marcus for dinner tonight. I was doing research for a school project that I need to do thumbnails for tomorrow. We have to design a menu for a restaurant. Unfortunately, they were totally out of take-out menus so that I could have text for my menu. Damn. They have really good spaghetti there, though. I guess I'll have to find a menu from some other Italian restaurant. *sigh*

Speaking of the Chambers/Colfax intersection, I noticed that there is a Starbucks going in there. Can a Starbucks survive in that neighborhood? I guess we'll see.

Well, I have much to do tomorrow: shed painting, dough-making, thumnail drawing, cleaning, BBQing. I guess I'd better get to bed.

Damn, I haven't written in a whole week. I've been kind of down lately. I haven't made much money in the last three weeks at work. I'm really hating being there, especially since I'm really close to having some marketable skills to find some other employment, but not quite. I really hate being around the manager since he screwed me on hours that one week. One bit of good news is that Marcus got me a small job to do some logo work for a friend of his. It's a start. I've got to keep in mind that I'll be moving on sooner than later. I can't wait for the day that I can turn in my key and never work there again.

I'm really digging the computer graphics classes I've been taking. Adobe Illustrator is the bomb! I'm also learning some cool Photoshop stuff. The best part of all of this is that I'm pretty good at it. I posted the latest project we did here. I saved it as a .gif for the web here. It looks much better in person. There's a couple of more things I want to add to it at a later date, but I think it came out pretty neat. I got a 100% (A) on it. My teacher really liked it!

Joey and Rachael finally got together on Friends tonight. Yay!!!

We supposedly had a lunar eclipse tonight. Wouldn't know it because of all the rain and clouds. Dang. Lunar eclipses are cool.

Another thing that has been bumming me is not having a house. I miss having a garden sooooooooo bad. That's another reason I've been so bummed. I'll never have a house if I don't make money. Stupid pizza job.

I can't believe it's been a whole week since that spring snow we had that broke all the trees. They say that since the trees were drought-stressed, they couldn't hold up as they normally would have. We still have huge limbs hanging from the tree where I normally park. Luckily, nothing actually landed on my car. We're not supposed to cut the trees around here, so I've just left them. If nobody has done anything about them by Sunday, I may try to get them down myself. Marcus is having a shed-building party on Saturday. We really need to get out lawn mower and stuff over here. I didn't make it to work in time to make a schedule request last Sunday, so I got stuck working (probably making no money again, *sigh*), and won't be of much help.

Marcus got to go see "The Matrix Reloaded" today with all the techies from work. I hope I can go see it soon. He said it was awesome.

OK, well, that's about it for now. I had better get to bed because I've got thumbnails to do in the morning for a CD cover project. I'm going to do Shadowfax's "The Dreams of Children." It's a cool CD. G'night.

Sorry there have been no posts lately. I've been busy, busy. I'm going to have to find some other part-time job, I'm afraid. I just have not been making any money, lately. I even got the hours this week that I asked for, but the sales haven't been up to snuff. *sigh* Oh, well. I better get to bed. Got lots to do tomorrow!!

Current mood: frustrated
Today has got to be the absolute worst day I've had in a loooooong time. It was one of those days where I woke up feeling out of sorts. Everything was just out of whack. Of course, the weather being totally crappy all day didn't help at all. First I found out that the Avs lost last night, so there goes all the money I was going to make delivering during the games. Then, I lost total track of time at school and didn't get my project finished that was due today. *sigh* Oh, well, grades aren't all that important, right? Then I found a refurbished iMac on Apple.com, but I didn't get the loan I needed to buy it. I spent over an hour on the phone today with the stupid bank after being hung up on yesterday only to be declined. *double sigh* That made me late for work. Then I wiped out in the mud between the house and my car. I landed right on my hip. It hurts like heck. I tried to clean the mud off best as I could as I only have one pair of black jeans that I can wear to work, but I couldn't get it all out and then I had to wear wet, cold jeans to work. Then we were all busy at work because of the rain, but the dumbass customers weren't tipping. I made a whopping $2.50 after my first FIVE runs. So, I'm off to wash some clothes and get my poor hurting body to bed. I just hope I can walk in the morning.

Current mood: busy
I'm a bad girl. I skipped school today to get some things done that have been hanging over me. One was to upgrade my Movabletype so that I can do some of the hacks that I've been wanting to try. I think I've got everything working correctly since the upgrade, but if I don't, please email me and let me know.

I want to figure out how to get my mood icons into some sort of palette like the smilies, but have them post to my entry instead of comments. Right now I just copy code from a Word document that I have on my hard drive, but that doesn't help me if I'm not at home or if I'm using a different computer. I'm following some leads on the internet, but they'll require some major hours of work. Hopefully this weekend. I also want a new layout. If only I didn't have to work...

Well, better get back to business. I have got a TON of boxes to sort through before work!