I've noticed the last couple of weeks my LJ usage go up up up.
I think it's cause i'm so bored at work.
I'm not ready to look for a new job though.
That, or my brain is SUPER active/creative in the morning and there's no other outlet for it.
As the day goes on, and by the time I get home, I'm brain dead so I gotta squeeze those mind grapes while they're still full of juice. (did anyone get that reference by the way?)
Anywho, some odds and ends that are on my mind:
*** I just went on a mini-Amazon shopping spree and bought 2 books and a DVD.
All were carefully thought out purchases, things I've been wanting to buy for a week or 2 now and will be very productive (i.e. not sitting on a shelf collecting dust):
1) 50 Meatless Burger Recipes
2) Wreck This Journal
3)Polyphonic Spree Austin City Limits DVD
*** I got 2 layouts and 2 daily cards done over the weekend. (http://groovcards.blogspot.com for the cards)
I started my "Gone" layout and hopefully will finish that Wednesday - there are pictures on my dead hard drive I wanted to use and tommorrow the Mac tech guy will be in my office and he said he'd look at the hard drive to see if he can get it running. So I'll wait to finish the layout until after that. i do have an alternative plan if I can't get the pics, but scrapbook pages are generally more fun with pictures!
*** There are now 5 challenges i want to particapate in - 4 due by the weekend. I found a new challenge blog last night - inkedscrapbookers! It's a blog community for tattoo'd scrapbookers and layouts about their tattoos!!!!! (http://www.inkedscrapbookers.com) How cool is that?!!! And why didn't *I* think of that? Anyway, I'm excited about that.
*** I keep thinking about Nik from !!! and his face is haunting me. baaaadddddddddddddd. My neck hurts today too - meaning it was a good show :D
*** This weekend is the 2 day Collage class at Binders Art Studio!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAY - I am tooo excited about this. I hope i'm not let down.... I hope I gain skillz and inspiration.
I was working on my "Gone" layout last night and realized it was waayyyy more mixed media collage than scrapbooking. I almost feel like I don't fit in anywhere - not in the scrapbook community, not in the art community - on one level I feel a little lost and desperately want to feel like i'm in an artistic community that appreciates my work and i can share, but on the other hand I think about the artists/musicians i do admire and realize that i admire them because they DID NOT fit into a mold or a community and they still made their own art/music and it's all the more special because it is unique. So, I think i should just keep doing whatever makes me happy and makes me feel fulfilled and it will be awesome, icing on the cake, if I can find others that are inspired and appreciative of it and I can take inspiration from them as well.
Well, wow, that was a ramble.
And now I have to actually work.
BUSTED.
I think it's cause i'm so bored at work.
I'm not ready to look for a new job though.
That, or my brain is SUPER active/creative in the morning and there's no other outlet for it.
As the day goes on, and by the time I get home, I'm brain dead so I gotta squeeze those mind grapes while they're still full of juice. (did anyone get that reference by the way?)
Anywho, some odds and ends that are on my mind:
*** I just went on a mini-Amazon shopping spree and bought 2 books and a DVD.
All were carefully thought out purchases, things I've been wanting to buy for a week or 2 now and will be very productive (i.e. not sitting on a shelf collecting dust):
1) 50 Meatless Burger Recipes
2) Wreck This Journal
3)Polyphonic Spree Austin City Limits DVD
*** I got 2 layouts and 2 daily cards done over the weekend. (http://groovcards.blogspot.com for the cards)
I started my "Gone" layout and hopefully will finish that Wednesday - there are pictures on my dead hard drive I wanted to use and tommorrow the Mac tech guy will be in my office and he said he'd look at the hard drive to see if he can get it running. So I'll wait to finish the layout until after that. i do have an alternative plan if I can't get the pics, but scrapbook pages are generally more fun with pictures!
*** There are now 5 challenges i want to particapate in - 4 due by the weekend. I found a new challenge blog last night - inkedscrapbookers! It's a blog community for tattoo'd scrapbookers and layouts about their tattoos!!!!! (http://www.inkedscrapbookers.com) How cool is that?!!! And why didn't *I* think of that? Anyway, I'm excited about that.
*** I keep thinking about Nik from !!! and his face is haunting me. baaaadddddddddddddd. My neck hurts today too - meaning it was a good show :D
*** This weekend is the 2 day Collage class at Binders Art Studio!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAY - I am tooo excited about this. I hope i'm not let down.... I hope I gain skillz and inspiration.
I was working on my "Gone" layout last night and realized it was waayyyy more mixed media collage than scrapbooking. I almost feel like I don't fit in anywhere - not in the scrapbook community, not in the art community - on one level I feel a little lost and desperately want to feel like i'm in an artistic community that appreciates my work and i can share, but on the other hand I think about the artists/musicians i do admire and realize that i admire them because they DID NOT fit into a mold or a community and they still made their own art/music and it's all the more special because it is unique. So, I think i should just keep doing whatever makes me happy and makes me feel fulfilled and it will be awesome, icing on the cake, if I can find others that are inspired and appreciative of it and I can take inspiration from them as well.
Well, wow, that was a ramble.
And now I have to actually work.
BUSTED.
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