Today has been good.
I took pictures of a bunch of my furniture and posted it on Craig’s list. A side cabinet that I have used as a nightstand for years sold. I think it is going to a good home. I have two people interested in my reclining love seat, which was the one thing I was hoping to sell the most.
There are a handful of other things that I didn’t take pictures of like the chest of drawers that I got from Alex and some collapsible tables that I’ve used for my arts and crafts. But I’m working on cutting everything down.
I went to the gym and had a light workout. Only 4 miles on the bike and a mile worth of walking, not running. I can’t remember the last time that I only walked. My legs are thanking me right now though. I have no pain at all.
Relaxed in the sauna again for a little while which was nice. My own personal dragon den of awesome. <3
I went through all of my cloths again, since I got new stuff from Lio. I don’t like having a lot of stuff like clothing and shoes. It makes me feel vain. I feel I shouldn’t have anything more than what I need.
Pillows on the other hand are amazing and you can never have too many of them. They are my weakness.
I got a fair amount of work done on the dragon of fire. I love the way the reds and oranges pop on the tan fabric. The colors make the right side of my brain happy.
I currently have $500 dollars in my account. And that’s after all expenses have been paid, and money for food has been withdrawn. I can’t remember a time in the last year where I’ve had that much extra.
There’s a lot of confusing emotions that go with that.
I’m happy that I have the money. I’m sad that I’m happy about that. Frustrated that I’ve put myself in all of the situations I have to get me to this point in my life financially. Angry at myself that I had to fall so low to realize how good I had it in the beginning and how I messed it up with not smart choices. Hopeful because things are turning around. Worried that I’ll mess up again.
Why couldn’t it just stop at happy? Maybe leave hopeful in there since he’s pretty chill. But all the others?
Does everything always have to be a party (read cluckerfuck) of emotions inside my brain all the time?
I guess if it wasn’t I wouldn’t be me… But still… This is one of those times where I realize it’s 11:30 at night, I’m hungry, sort of tired, and still feeling all of these crazy deep feelings… and I just want to put my head down on my keyboard and quite.
Somewhere there is an off switch, and one day I will find it. Then those pesky emotions shall no longer have power over me.
I came to work to stitch for a bit. Joshua doesn’t like running the AC, and it’s Florida so it’s 80 degrees outside. Which means it’s pretty warm in the apartment. Which is lame.
My body stays plenty warm on its own thanks to the gym. I don’t need any help.
There’s no one here, which I like, and it’s freezing, which at the moment is awesome.
The only person I saw was Tyron, my old art director actually. We chatted for a bit, but he left a while ago, leaving me all to myself.
I finally set up my calendar for next month.
I have CRI1 lab from 5pm until 1am Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. SAL labs are going to be 9pm to 1am Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
People may think that’s a super awful schedule, but I love it. I’ll be able to go to the gym in the morning. I won’t have to set my alarm at all. Both of the labs are in the evening, rather than one being am and the other being pm. And SAL only has one lab, so it will give me admin time to do grading.
Andy, lucky me, SAL doesn’t have their first lecture until Wednesday, so I have Monday for admin hours. Which means I can get a jump-start on my new class. I’ll be taking Design and Art Theory, which shouldn’t be too rough for me since I’ve been exposed to design concepts already through Computer Animation.
On top of that, if I’m diligent and get done working out before 1, then that will leave me with four hours every day that I can work on schoolwork or the personal projects that I have mapped out.
I plan on making a new demo reel this year. The one I made as a student can be viewed here.
I still am proud of it, but it has been so long since I’ve updated anything. Mostly because the projects I’ve been working on are podcasts, scripts, class content, running events, or freelance work that I’m not allowed to display.
So while I have been ‘doing’ things, I don’t really have much content to show for it.
I want to change that this year.
I spent most of tonight working through all of my music, trying to find a new song that I wanted to use. And I think I’ve got it. Since I have the song picked out now, I’ll be better able to figure out what I want to do animation wise, and the time frame I have to complete the action.
Some people don’t work well that way, but for me, I need the song first so I can picture what is going to happen while it is playing.
So major task done. Yay.
I’ve even narrowed it down to the models that I’m going to be rigging. There’s five new models I want to work with. I haven’t really figured out what actions I want them to be doing, but I plan to map that out tomorrow maybe. Within the week at last.
I also need to assess what state my scripts are in. My workflow has changed and my scripts haven’t kept up with it. I also haven’t posted any new content in a while. It would be good to revamp my stuff and to create the ones I never got around to before the breakup with Jarrett.
It feels good to have energy and drive to work on my stuff again. I know it’s not where it used to be, but it’s a lot higher than what it has been recently.
I think finding the song really helped.
That was one of the hardest parts, and now that I have something solid and that I like, it makes it easier to want to keep going.
I have a purpose for rigging the characters. Because I will be rigging I have a purpose to update my scripts and make better ones. Because I’m updating my scripts I have a purpose for posting content, which will increase my followers.
There’s a lot of good that can come out of this if I keep with it.
Tomorrow I would like to create a few podcasts for a new series I want to do.
Since rigging eyes can be sort of annoying I want to do a set of tutorials about tips and tricks that I’ve learned. I think it will be fun, and most of them should be fairly short.
We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
I’ve been listening to Eragon more. I have about 6 hours left in the audio book, out of 16, so I’m over halfway through. I might go back home and listen to more since I didn’t bring food with me.
I’m also having a hard time remembering that tomorrow is Sunday, not Monday. For some reason my brain wants me to have one less day of vacation.
Bad, brain. Bad.
I’m about to try scanning my cross stitchings again before I head back home. If it works I’ll most likely be spamming WordPress and Facebook with new pictures.
Other than that my night is pretty much over. I’m ok with that.