So as i sit here waiting for my hair to dry after ze shower at night, and eating my cookie crisp, I thought I’d blog!
Today at work was full of the typical banter from boss to underlings…one of my fellow underlings got REALLY frustrated…you can tell when the person puts on their headphones..now this is no wonder with the way things work at the orifice…i mean office.
We, while drawing, figuring out how things go together, how to make it so that the contractors can actually build what we want…come across key things where we COULD make the decisions, and they may be completely what the client wants, or what the project wants, etc..but we know better so we have to run them by the boss, which is fairly typical in an arch office. Now the problem arises when we actually NEED these answers. In the meantime our boss has been too busy to look at any of these things before now, some of which we’ve gotten the typical answer of hrmmm…I’m not sure about that…I’ll have to think about that one… which we all know that the translation on that one is that this answer you wanted? It’s now went DEEEP into outer space where, like us humans, can’t breathe and dies in the vacuum of space…until we ask for it again. Now we’re told that we’re to just ‘design it!’ or ‘pick these finishes! I know you can do it!’ they will say with encouragement…but we all know what happens then… we put the work into it because WE CAN do it and so we do it in an orderly manner, and move on. Nearing the very end of the project, where timelines are CLOSE, what happens is these ‘things’ are finally noticed, and we’re pulled back with a hey hey hey…why did you do it like that!?! who told you to do that!?!? oh i know i said go ahead and design it but i didn’t think you’d do that…I want something different instead…what? you are asking me what I want different about it? Wellllll…I don’t know…I’ll have to think about that one…just do up something different… This process can be done and done again and redone again until one’s blue in the face. In my field this is why you have people like me, just fire out the simplest form of a bad drawing, JUST to try to get direction for it…ANY…that the boss will actually like…so one doesn’t have to draw things up 100 times… ANYWHO…I could go on for days about the intricacies of an arch firm….but these things…are sadly…typical. In the ODD situation where the design IS kept…is’ by sheer elimination of all sanity in the person designing and drafting it…usually it’ll go thru 10 changes as explained above, but then in the last ditch effort, they’ll go back to what YOU had…though it’ll be THEIR design…and if you bring it up that you had that to begin with…they give you a compliment…and say WE did a good job on it…excuse me? WE???
Enough ranting. :)
So I got to draw more tonight after running out to the mall where I didn’t find anything to buy Christmas wise at least… I am redoing a couple characters after I asked a good friend’s advise. This is good! more drawing!
Well I suppose I should get my ass to bed…it’s 11:15…and I sense that I'll be knee deep in office coffee tomorrow…at least I’m all showered and have my lunch all packed…
:)
This weekend’s been pretty good. Drawn some, drawing right now in fact. Just on a little mental break as my eyes are starting to hurt a bit. So I’m still pounding away on this drawing that Ash wanted me to draw, and frankly i needed something TO draw….to practice in photoshop / illustrator, hopefully get my skills up, and so far it has. Bit by bit i ‘m learning new things so that’s a great thing. I put an inspirational dilbert that I ordered from dilbert.com up on my wall for myself. It’s nice!
Ash is busy at home studying for her finals coming up. Stressing but I know she’ll get through them. She always does.
She mentioned something when I said I was drawing… and it went like this…. “too bad it TAKES YOU SO LONG to do drawings…i have TONS of ideas to do…with the characters from this or this or this….” yeah….too….b….a..d….OHNO! Yeah like I’m going to do another drawing ‘for’ her again. Not when it’s treated like this one has been. I need to hone my skills for sure, but I also need to come up with my own characters, not just ‘draw’ someone else’s. Her idea is selling things at conventions…mine is possibly, but NOT of other people’s characters. Copyright and other issues that the others didn’t seem to have a problem with… Sure I’ll draw other people’s characters…but more as practice or in the ‘fan art’ capacity. I won’t sell them though…Yet another area where my morals get in the way….where others seemingly have none. So who knows right?
I suppose I should keep going on it. :D
So I caved and was going to go grab a coffee to continue drawing…but instead I just bought a damn maker at wally world. Now hopefully it won’t cost me as much over the long run.
Talked to the girl tonite, and all was good, though she made a crack when I said that I was watching a movie at home about me being soooooooooooOOOOoo busy and that she talked to her mom even and her mom said ‘what does he have to be busy about…’ i told her to shut her mouth lol. I know she has her family to talk to but her mom has got to be a mix of a decent person and a TOTAL 98…and thing is this…um…girlies mom? Yer 55. Do you do the gym? nope. Do you draw? nope. Crochet? nope. Anything? Nope. besides watching dancing with the morons that’s all that you do to keep yourself ‘entertained’. That’s why YOU aren’t busy. I’m actually DOIN shit. lol.
Other than that i’m just continuing to draw and draw and draw…tomorrow i get to go for a coffee (or a tea maybe this time) with dad tomorrow, so that’ll be allright. I’m sure i’ll probably have a few hours afterward to keep drawing.
My mini goal is to have the character i’m working on, inked by end of Saturday. Then it’s on to the next one! i have 3 or 4 more characters to draw up and ink and then a big background scene and then put it alllll together, in illsturator, export to photoshop and then WHAMMO start coloring the whole thing.
I can’t wait until this is done…the good thing is that i’ll have a piece for my OWN portfolio as well as i’ll have a lot more techniques and kinks worked out from using my tablet so much.
So today went rather well at work. Quickly, and a small ‘victory’ at work so that was nice. After work, I made supper and then the girlie called, and it was like i wondered last night…I HAD worried her. I worried her that she’d have NO FREE time to do ANYTHING once she gets out of school…and she said that she looks at her parents as well as when she was working nights and thought…why DOESN’T Jesse have any free time…or so he says… So I cleared that up and said that it is a matter of choices (thanks M) that one makes in their lives, of what to do, etc. I told her that right now she’s in school, and so I have time where I choose to do things too in my own life. I said that if I really wanted to, I could go work out every single night…but I have other things I want to do, and though I am trying to keep up the workouts as much as I can, I’m also doing other things..and choosing to do so. It’s a matter of squeezing everything else around them.
That was a good thing at least to get that all out in the open.
Tonight I drew some more, though didn’t start until later on, as the whole ‘doing other things’ namely dishes, an at home workout with free weights that i own and such got in the way earlier on. I did end up doing some though. I was live streaming a bit and then after a while I started NOT liking the character or the way i drew him…so I needed a new way to do it…He’s supposed to be REACTING to a little girl falling…looking through my reference materials, I didn't’ find any poses that would be a good reference…so I took a camera into a room with a mirror, set it there and videoed myself reacting as if i was the character…came back snap shotted a bunch of jpg’s out of the video and compared which one looked best for linking to that girl character that’s falling and I found one. I went in and overlaid it and started the drawing ‘over’ persay…I still have the rest of the other drawing in the background for reference, but it seems to work! The pose is MUCH more dynamic (something I need to brush up on for sure) now just gotta put the characters features on and it should be good. I really got to cut corners on this drawing as it’s been way too long in the making and also I want to get ma girl off my butt for it. So the more weaselly ways I can figure out things…the better…
I’m staying up later by about an hour or so and am going to attempt this every night…if i have to supplement my day with all day coffee so be it if it helps me get the drawing done.. and hopefully help me transition or at least start drawing more regularly than before.
Is it cheating to use myself as a pose? No one will know but us weasels…and all you out there.. :P all like 4 or 5 of you PLUS my psycho crazy ex’s that most likely still watch my blog. *waves at the psycho bitches*
So it seems like a while since I’ve updated….though I’m not sure if that’s true or not….
Job front. I celebrate each day going into work with singing whatever song is on the radio but changing the lyrics to reflect the absolute loathing I have for certain people in my life. It’s a fun game I’ve done for years…keeps me entertained at least. After work I get out and in my car and yell and scream WOOHOO YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH YOU #@$@#$%@!!! I’M OUT OF HERE YOU PIECES OF !##%r#$%$%^…It makes me feel good and somehow gives me more energy for when I get home.
Lets see….
Drawing front..
I finally got my livestream account working and not crashing so that’s a good thing. I can start streaming my drawing to whomever is bored enough to tune in. I found out by watching others…that it’s not that I can’t draw…it’s that i thought I was taking foreverrrrrrrrr when it just really takes that long to do the process..so that’s totally reassuring..so we’ll see.
I think I need to start wearing shoes around the house…My lower back seems to ACHE and I think I narrowed it down to not wearing shoes at work and then at home… I think…stupid body.. *punches*
So of course Ash felt bad, and let down, and so on...and she attributed this to 'her luck'..which I do remember doing that as well...thinking that I was so cursed...and hated...and well everything else negative out there...until I realized it wasn't me but it was EVERYONE ELSE that was fucked up... It may sound like a crazy notion...and you may have come to this conclusion too...but yeah...in my reality this is how it seems...
I have 2 trains of thought with this though...
I really REALLY would like to be wrong...or at least my pessimistic side to be wrong...
First is the OPTOMISTIC side of me..
They could have had something come up, and even though they said they'd email if the plan changed....they didn't.....and so stuff happens and hopefully it was just one of these times...and that the halloween party at their place with the other Anime people will go on as planned....as ash made her costume JUST for that as well...(well mostly for halloween but this is the plan at least so far)...so I assume this was just a hiccup and everything will go as planned...
AND NOW the PESSIMISTIC side....
The girl is a flake...she flaked out...and didn't bother to tell anyone...or at least the NEW member of the group....ash...and although it has nothing to do with ash....this person may just be one of those flakes...that heads up something and never follows thru with it...or puts no effort into it after they create it...and halloween will come around....ash will be SUPER excited...and get all dressed up and assume that it's all on....we'll go over all dressed up..to the door and ................................... there will be nothing.... in that case Ash will be DEVASTATED and what will happen from that point on will be allll 100% shit. We'll go back to her place, her not feelign like goign out since her plans will be RUINED by some MORONS and I'll sit there while she drinks some beers and feels sad and bad and depressed and think it's STILL ALL HER...with her bad luck with EVERYTHING....and not the whole fact that this person is probably a moron and a retard and someone that should NOT start a group if they aren't even willing to fire off an email as to the change of plans...
And I will be left to deal with the massive fallout for weeks to come. And will tihnk...THIS is why I have trouble meeting people...becuase the world is full of THESE types of idiots...
Now which situation do you think is more likely to happen....I'm HOPING I'm wrong but I'd say the pessimistic side will win out...again I hope i'm wrong...but past times of being run over, squashed, hit in the face and beaten (all metaphorically) teach me to have the shields at maximum and my photons torpedos on stand by for yet another ASS..
I am however looking foreward to monday at work..as i've now deemed the best part of my workdays is chatting to my friends online. LOVE catching up and talking. *clinks glass of ____________*
- Music:Nerf Herder - Mr. Spock
Add to that a conversation i had with a girl she went to HS with...one she stopped talking to for one reason or another... in fact I KNOW the reason. She went thru a stage...and didn't come from too rich of a family, lower mid class and she went all goth like for a while and I think Ash just went 'okay that's too much'...and dropped her. It's a total shame becuase this girl has always wondered why ash did that...alwyas wondered why she dropped her like a rock..becuase she's alwyas liked Ash.
Well we've talked quite a bit now and then too, seem to get along great and as per last nights chat see eye to eye on a lot of things in life...NOT regarding ash but just the types of people we like to associate with. There is more to life than drinking and doing nothing..or smoking up and doing nothing, or just talking about crap...
Another area we agreed on was 'PUTTING EFFORT INTO HOW YOU LOOK'...we talked about the huskies jogging pants (type that ash has) and how they are just UGLY...and got onto the LULUlemon pants and such and how they are SO much nicer, better, and make the person feel (AND LOOK) so much better. She's heard the small minded folks say 'oh look i hate people that wear those pants!' its' just pants...and they look good so yeah. small minded sask people. ash has even said that too...need i say more?
Anywho, was a good chat. I should go for a coffee with her sometime. I mean is that overstepping ash? Do I care? Should I? I mean she wants me to meet new people right?
Things are so stupid i swear.
the friends debate... again....
so last nite i was thinking about the whole method of gaining new friends and thought of ash's.
Old high school friends.
she still has her old high school friends yes. most of them are nice but she has little or no contact with them so honestly i have those friends too...collin, anita, robert, etc.
Her coworkers.
why haven't i had coworkers to hang with, to do stuff with..to be friends with... well looking at her coworkers, all i see are people that get together and drink. do they do other activities? not that often if ever. all the times i've went with ash to be 'social' with her coworkers, nothing goes on besides we get there and everyone is pretty tanked and they just yap. no movies, no activities (mostly because all they are doing is drinking and yapping). is this being social?!? to me it's even more sad becuase most of these people are in their 30's and have children too and yet still just sit around and get trashed. to me that's not really being social...so strike her coworkers off her list...
Her new uni friends.
Most of them are around her age yes. What do they do? they go out and get trashed, or stay at home and get trashed or push each other in a shopping cart they found when drunk and the like... again... is that what's considered being social?!
she does have one friend, a chineese exchange student who is very nice and we've actually DONE things with her, sledding, decorating pumpkins etc. out of all her school friends, shes' the only one that ash has actually done more than 'drink' with.
Other than that though? she's really got no socializing skills in use. none of her friends are social either! yes i do want to find some that like to do things, but not nessessarily 'go drinking' becuase to me THAT IS NOT BEING SOCIAL!!!!!
*waits for 5pm*
When drawing set is left unchecked by Architect and therefore items may not be as they should be.
wouldn't that be...architect bufoonery???
I dont' really k now what the point of my rambling is here, just more or less letting thoughts fall out of my head on the subject.
When i left at least she remarked how she's sorry but school makes her a miserable person. Was glad she realizes this enough to say it. I think before the talk we had, she woudlnt' have said it...would just have BEEN miserable and expect me to just like it.
Ulitimate tests will be coming at each turn, as i'm sure, and for now i'm still in a 'lets see how things work now that we got all that crap on the table' time period.
ON ANOTHER TOPIC...
A great friend of mine came up with a plan of his to order his life..to take control of things more, to take a direction and to help himself emotionally out too. I felt inspired by what he shared with me, and have the want to do it myself as well. I'm not sure how or what but it'll take a lot of thinking. These are the things I k now right now....
-I can only draft for so long. Afterwhile the work is mundane, respect is minimal if any, and raises are low and few the more a person is in the career.
-I know I DO NOT want to be an Architect. I'd rather drink Acid.
-I have to pay off my debts. This will help my freedom as well in this world, and ability to move around becomes easier and more fluid, the more financially free that i can be.
-I have to focus on myself...on my gymmin, and cardio...the bike is really helping me feel better so so far so good.
-I have to draw more and more and more. I mean if i'm horrible now, if i drew for a YEAR lets say..or an hour a nite for a year..what would i be like drawing in a year!? you'd think i'd be more confident in it, less picky, and so on. It's where i'm going to yank my hour extra per nite on.
-As silly as this is....I WANT to find some drawing group in teh city....kind of a group run thing..not really any teachers but ourselves. Maybe there'd be a theme for it...each week...lets draw _________________ and then help each other out. I YEARN for community. Also I want the 'community' to not be 65 and older...there HAS to be young people into the same kind of things..and not just going out to get TANKED.
where to begin....
- Music:Royal Dance - Volume 2 (Classic EuroDance - D I G I T A L L Y - I M P O R T E D - Finest imported c
frakhead.
I love thee Wilma,
with hair like silk,
Lips like cherries,
skin like milk,
Your shell-like ears,
your dainty hands,
And eyes so black,
like frying pans
I hit the gym a couple times, with ash, she's sore as HELL becuase she hasn't gotten to the gym in a while. I never know how hard to work her though it seems to be okay with her as she wants to be stronger and push herself lol. I'm sure she'll be aching until about thursday lol.
Yesterday I bought my excersise bike for home, which i'm really excited about. I'm hoping it helps me tone up a bit, so we'll see. Still gotta move my TV so I can see it on it but yeah good deal at Costco I think. 383 bucks taxes in. Seems to be really sturdy and such too.
My place is in a perpetual state of messy lately, though i've kept on top of the dishes pretty good, its' just the rest that's messy...doesn't help when you uncrate a excersise bike either lol. I'M RUNNING OUT OF ROOM IN MY PLACE!!!! :p
I think I may go have a bit of a horrible supper, ie 2 McCheeseburgers and then bring home a coffee so I can continue to clean and hopefully read or draw or something to that effect.
At the end of last week, I was frustrated with work...moreso than usual, not so much with work but with the project I'm on and the way it seems to be going...I seem to have to back track 400 steps to make sure we tie in with Structural who has been really LATE on the game as they should have been the ones done first so that we could draw with them in mind, but now instead of that, i've been redoing and redoing and redoing everytihng to suit as new information comes in. I just hope that this week, I can find some sense of order and organization to it all and begin setting things up on the pages so that I don't have to move and add more things again and again....
I think that's all for now....:)
I'm really getting serious with my food intake lately, i think it's thrown ash off guard lol. i'm not getting slurpees, trying to NOT eat donuts and crap at work (that starts more this week lol), eating more veggies, and not just JUNK. last year i bought like a bag of SIX giant spudnut donuts for myself...this year i still managed 2, and ONLY becuase it's the fair...but yeah. I'm goign to attempt what my dad does in a couple things...1..i'm going to try to do a nice brisk walk in the evenings before i shower and hit bed. nothing wrong with a little extra cardio, and 2, i'm going to have a 'sweets day' - though this rule WILL be broken on holidays, especially on trips to the states. :P. if i get sweets, they will be for that ONE day, and then i can pig out and get sick on as much CRAP as i want to. also then maybe i won't want any the rest of the week lol.
didn't get to hit the gym yesterday, but will today for sure in a while after i eat some breakfast and shower a bit.
I have made up a little home / office / drawing space kinda area at home here, and so far i like it. i even like how the little partition wall just filters the light thru in the mornings instead of just blinding ones self. here are a couple pics of the area.


My couch and coffee table and such is on the other side in a cozy 'tv/watching movie' area.
time to get ready for ze day!
heh. Fun after them screwing me again and again...
So had a great talk with Anita tonight, alwyas enjoy our conversations. Also had a nightly talk wiht Ash while she's at her job. We talked for a little bit, but dind't have a whole lot to say, though we just saw each ohter yesterday lol so that makes sense. :D
- Music:Heather Headley - In my mind (Freemasons Mix) * Rate The Music at www.m1live.com/music * (Music One
We'll see how it goes. I just wish i could listen to my own music there. the crap that they play on the radio is causing me and my other coworker to go MAD.
anywho.
tonite i finally hit the gym. it's been a while and man did i feel it. was nice to get in there and do it though. slow and steady and with less weights. that is also good as it will allow me to work tomorrow nite without feeling guilty of not going to work out. :)
hrmm what else is new....
can't think of anything!
nite!
My hunch is that it's (also) probably not covered by their bumper to bumper warranty and that I'm most likely screwed to pay for a windsheild. Goodbye $500 at least.
I SWEAR...I'm never buying a new car ever EVER again. My question is how the HELL do i get rid of the car yet come out ahead..or am I stuck paying this thing off until the end of time... Basically, since GMAC put the interest rate of 7.9% on it from the start, in over 3 years, I've basically paid 338 bucks every month...and only paid the 'cars price' down a grand...
ANY IDEAS ARE WELCOME....I really don't know what to do. If i sell the car, i'd still end up owing like 6 grand on a car that I don't even have since they sell for about 8 grand used. I still owe like 14...Do I pay as much as I can on it??? What do I do....
Sigh..
It makes me feel lucky that I can afford a little of this and a little of that. I feel pretty good that i'm doing okay in life. People want to do better than their parents usually though it's not by any means a requirement. I know that is one thing Ash seems set on, but it's more a 'rub it in your face' way than anything. I think my brothers are headed on the same path too. It's a shame really as it's not a 'i'm better than you are' thing but more a 'i CAN make it' kinda thing.
I've been having a pretty lazy week so far, though more just 'not going to the gym' lazy, so i can sit and relax this week and go back to the gym and such next. I think i'm going to start doing that system...have one week of crazy busy, next dull and blissful. We'll see how that works. So far the week has been good being a bit lazier, as last was a blast thru a cannon. Either that or I remain semi busy for eternity lol...i'd rather take one than the other and so on.
Tomorrow I get go to a going away supper for one of her 'drunky' friends, which should be allright, moreso in teh fact that she's got plans to go to a movie with one of ther 'not drunky' friends at 8pm, so that's good. I may go to a movie solo since I probably won't go with them. OR I may just have a nice blissful friday evening...hrmm sounds like I know what i want lol.
I haven't done much drawing, but been reading thru my books, so that's also something I enjoy. I suppose I'm just rambling here but it's all good.
I wanna give shoutouts to all the ex girlfriends, and ex others (for one reason or another) that still stalk me on my 3rd or 4th blog...I've lost count lol.
FRIDAY TOMORROW YAY!
