Chapter 90: Video Phone (Extended Remix)

Oh, fashion. What would I do without you? You may drive me crazy every now and then, but you are always there for me; always on my mind and in my heart. I hate you sometimes, but I love you so much more. If you hadn’t guessed yet, my quest for new clothes to spend my money on has not been accomplished just yet. Not only that, but it is beginning to make me feel bad about myself. Scratch that, it is NOT making me feel bad about myself – it is driving me to work harder. I think the fashion hunt, combined with the fact that the workout routine hasn’t taken place in an entire week, is making me feel a little crazy. Everything I have found that I have been kind of into has either been too expensive or not in my size. What does that mean? That means I have got to get my ass in gear and step up my game with the workout/dietary changes and, you know, figure out a way to get more money. Good thing, then, that the workout regime begins again tomorrow morning and I have completed the full set of pictures to submit to the t-shirt company. There are steps towards both of those goals… then I can be reunited with that filthy, filthy lover named fashion, and we will make mad, passionate love better than ever before and in much more interesting, kinky ways. Oh, I cannot wait.

Stop the presses! I just signed into my Gmail account to write to Eliezer Rivera about scheduling a music lesson, (more on that in a bit,) and thought I’d check in on the tracking status of my Sony Bloggie camera. I wasn’t expecting much because last I checked the estimated delivery date was February 6th, which is still 3 days away. I just wanted to check in because since Sunday it had said it would not give any tracking updates for 3 days, so I figured it would have some type of update at this point… and it was right. It said February 3, 2010 – Delivered. I had an early day at work today, and had been home since right around 4pm and hadn’t noticed anything at the door or anything. I immediately panicked and ran to my first thought: the lanai. I wouldn’t really call it a lanai, just a patio that happens to be screened in. Anyway, we’ve had the experience often with USPS deliverers leaving stuff on the table out there instead of at the door. I’m not sure why they do that, but it was the first thought that came to mind when I realized this was supposed to have been delivered already. Sure enough, there it was. I’m actually kind of glad I didn’t discover it there until now because I already took a pill to go to sleep and don’t have the time or the energy to play with it a lot. I have a really bad habit of immediately using electronics as soon as I open the box and had I discovered this there when I got home this afternoon, I probably would have spent the entire afternoon playing with it and not letting it fully charge and then have to deal with it having crappy battery life for the rest of the time I have it, (like my cell phone does.) So, it worked out kind of perfectly. I have to say, though, it is gorgeous! It is so tiny and adorable and I am totally in love with it. Of course, I haven’t actually used it yet. It has a lot of little intricacies that I have yet to discover. It took me forever just to figure out how to connect it to the computer, thanks to a hidden USB plug on it. Once I did discover this hidden plug I was very impressed with it. I am excited to experiment with this thing and am already thinking of some stuff I could possibly get footage of tomorrow. I’m thinking I may film a little bit of our workout in the morning, or maybe some footage of me getting ready for work, putting on makeup, etc. Okay, so I probably won’t film those things tomorrow, but they are both things that I want to film at some point. There are tons of ideas spinning around my head for things I could film, honestly. As I have said many times before, I am very excited to start experimenting with photography and film. I know myself and I know my mind and, due to those two things, I know that I can come up with something incredible to do with these mediums. It’s all very exciting!

This day, on the other hand, was not all that exciting. I didn’t wake up until after 7am, even though my alarm went off at 6:15am. Not a big deal, of course, but a minor inconvenience. I still had plenty of time to get ready. I ate some strawberry yogurt for breakfast since we were out of cereal and got myself dressed, ready and out the door in just enough time to get to work within the seven-minute window we have before we get an issue for being late. It was a pretty quiet day, despite a few random spurts of business. I was able to complete coloring the “So Happy I Could Die” drawing and managed to vastly improve it with color. I also worked on the fourth and final of the drawings I plan to submit, “Crying At The Disco.” I almost finished it before leaving work at 3:30pm, so I decided I could just devote some of the extra time I had this afternoon/evening to finishing it, then getting them scanned and sent off. Aside from that, my only other goals for the evening were to email Eliezer to schedule an actual date for my first lesson, and to figure out something fabulous to buy with my remaining income tax money. One out of three isn’t THAT bad, I suppose. I completed the drawings, but found that our printer/scanner combo happens to be missing a very important piece – the chord that connects it to the power source. I talked to my Mom about it and we decided that it would probably be best just to take them to Kinko’s and scan them there and get it done that way. Sure, I’ll have to pay for the whole process but it will work out better than the scanner we have would have anyway. These drawings are on legal sized paper, so our scanner wouldn’t have gotten the entire picture, anyway. Plus, it works out even better because for some reason I am really not happy with the way “Crying At The Disco” turned out and can work on trying again with another of the copies tomorrow at work. We are planning to go to Kinko’s with them tomorrow night and finish off the whole process. I feel like I may be becoming a bit of a broken record on the blog lately, but I have to say that I am very excited to finish off this project… then it is on to the next thing that pops up for me. I figure if this company is willing to actually purchase any of these designs, I can assume then that my work is decent enough to try working a little harder at it and eventually submitting to Threadless, who pay big bucks for these things. We’ll see, though. If they don’t select anything, then I will still continue working at it to eventually submit to Threadless. I also really want to figure out a way to get Photoshop back on my computer. I miss working in Photoshop and was actually pretty damn good at it back when I had it. It could wind up coming in really handy if I am considering working more with photography, as well. I’ll have to see if I can figure out how to get it again. I tried searching for it online to purchase, but the only one I could find was like $499, which is considerably more than I am willing to pay right now and it was really a professional version. For some reason, I couldn’t seem to find the regular version anywhere. I’ll just have to keep looking, I suppose.

After spending a good hour and a half or two hours this evening scouring the internet for fashion, I am pretty sure I have decided to just leave it alone at this point and hang on to the money until something absolutely perfect pops out at me. Or perhaps I will wind up spending it on makeup. I need to pick up some eyeshadow primer because that stuff is supposed to really work and my eyeshadow always seems to wear off throughout the day, which really irritates me. Aside from that, I would also like to pick up some fun new colors. I am really into the color green right now and would like to try experimenting with that a bit further. I don’t know, though. I may just buy makeup out of my regular paycheck money and save the little bit that is left of my income tax. I don’t know what it is, but I just have this feeling like there may be something coming up that I will absolutely be dying for that this money can go for. We’ll see. What I do with that part of the money isn’t as important right now as what I am doing with the other $100 of my income tax. What is that? Why, that is paying for my first two weeks of lessons with Eliezer Rivera. I emailed him a little earlier this evening saying that I wanted to schedule my first lesson for Tuesday of next week, from 7pm-8pm, which will work out kind of perfectly for me because I can ask my sister to drive me there and if I am getting out at 8pm, I can just have my Mom come pick me up when she gets out of work. After sending that email I was bouncing and giddy for a good ten minutes. I am just extremely excited to start working with this guy. As I have mentioned before, I have a really good feeling about this guy and I really think beautiful things are going to come of our working together. What beautiful things could come of it? MUSIC! That is the most important, beautiful thing of all. I just can’t wait to get started on this and start taking actual steps towards being able to write a record once this blog is finished. I’m already thinking of a million different things to do once this blog is completed to correspond with that record. I have an entire multimedia experience planned for after this blog. It is going to be brilliant! How do I know? Because I am going to make it brilliant! Am I sounding too conceited at this point? I don’t care! It’s the truth!

I’d better get to bed, though. It is 12:53am, and I need to get up at 7:30am and get back to my regular routine. I’m already anticipating a rough workout tomorrow morning since it’s been an entire week. Best not to make it any harder by not getting enough rest tonight. I don’t really have any plans for tomorrow, aside from experimenting with the camera after work. I am going to use my work time tomorrow to try to work on doing another version of “Crying At The Disco” in time to get to Kinko’s and get them scanned tomorrow night. Hopefully something good comes from all of the effort I am putting into these drawings. We’ll see, I suppose. I have a pretty decent feeling about the whole thing, though, and am really excited about getting things off and running! For now, though, it is time for bed!