Gobble gobble!

I made sushi for Haiasi's family for Thanksgiving. The rice got so hard :( It was still yummy, but next time I shall make it at their house. We left for Haiasi's family's house on Wednesday night. Class got canceled so I got to stay home and clean up instead of leaving the house a mess. It definitely feels different having Thanksgiving dinner without my family. It was really nice to spend it with Haiasi's family though since they're so nice. I'd like to have my family come up one year for Thanksgiving though. I think it would be really nice :)

I left all my final projects at home. I decided against bringing my plaster project up here cause I didn't want to make a mess. I was planning on working on all of my papers, but I haven't got around to them yet....I want to just relax!!

I did have a nice long chat with Haiasi's mom. Talked about a lot of things. It felt nice to talk to her since I miss my momma so much. I was crying a little on Thanksgiving morning cause I've been feeling so homesick for my family. I can't wait to go home and spend some time with them. I told my mom that I wanna spend most of my time with them and with my girls. I wanna see how big Chason got and hang out with Rose since she'll be home again too. It's nice hanging out with the girls you grew up with since elementary school. I think this is the closest we've been to one another since highschool. It's a nice feeling :)

I am going to rpocrastinate more and then start fixing my print paper :P Maybe....Oh and happy birthday to me!

My Continuous Journey

Since November 8th of my first corrective eating post, I have stuck to working out on the weekdays, resting on the weekends, and eating smaller portions of food, and trying to not eat things with high fructose syrup. I have lost about ~6, give or take the fluctuation. I am really proud of myself and I am happy with the slow results :) I never thought I could do this since I've always had such a hard time maintaining my weight, that I don't want to give up.

The repetitiveness of me working out every night at about 7pm makes me feel like when I don't workout I'm losing out! I've grown accustomed to going to the gym before my favorite shows are playing so I watch whatever is on the tv's and just bike, run, and do some light weight training. I hope that by the time I go back home, I lose another 2 lbs. When I get home I'll start walking the dogs with my mom them since they started taking long walks everyday.

I hope everyone who has school still does well on their finals, it's creeping up pretty fast. I have 3 huge projects that I need to work on, 2 of which are miniatures and 1 silkscreen project. I have yet to find out what the final is for my Theory + Practice class is XD I will most likely be living at school for the next 3 weeks.

Jya!

I'd like to be...

I finally scanned in my last woodbock print from my printmaking class. I only scanned the white paper versions of this varied edition; the other papers were cream colored and black. The registration is off, but this was basically how they came out looking. I grouped them for easier viewing pleasures.

This project took me a long time to complete. Looks pretty simple right? SOOOO WRONG. This was my first reduction print, which basically means that I only use one piece of wood for the entire edition. I did 12 of them which started off with me making one cut into the wood, then printing all 12 of them, making another cut into the wood, printing that mark onto the same 12 pieces of paper, and then so on until you are done. I procrastinated on the printing so it ended up with me printing all within one night for about 7 hours straight. I was soooo exhausted. Maybe that is why I have been putting off my scans for this assignment. It may look like a simple piece, and it was for the first 3 cuts and prints, but when it got down to the text, I had to cut away all the wood around the text so that the text was the only thing raised and then printed it. That alone took me an hour to cut away (record time for me.) I don't think I will EVER again do a reduction print, unless I was for sure gonna sell them all for about $500 bucks a pop.

When I get some scans in of my first silkscreen project I'll post the up as well :) Enjoy!

Cheeeee hoo!!

This weekend has been pretty hectic. Our fridge broke so my landlord had to come up and install a new one, which is much bigger and nicer looking than our last! So Isaiah and I had to take out all our food and go through what needed to be tossed and then reorganized everything.

The next day I went to school and printed my first screen. I came across so many problems trying to get it to print correctly that I ended up just having 6 shitty prints, but at this point I don't care! I also calculated my project wrong with its colors. I thought that we had to do 12, but I only had 6 pieces of paper and then I realized that I was making more work for myself -____-

After printing for what seemed like forever, I rode my bike home, did some homework and then went to Fox Tower and watched Changeling. I must say, I thought it would good, but I ended up REALLY REALLY liking it. It made me sad, mad, revengeful, and happy and I don't usually get like that with most movies. I thought Angelina Jolie did a great job on this film, although Isaiah couldn't even recognize that it was her. I would recommend anyone who likes a more serious film to go see this one. I mean, my boyfriend eve liked it a bunch so that's gotta mean something :P

I am off to school now. I shall update with some new work I've done when I stop being lazy. Jya!

Day 4

Day 4 is not going so well. I was on a steady losing streak of .2 lbs. everyday for the past 3 days (which might not seem like much, but it is huge to me!) and then I wake up, weigh myself this morning and find myself to have gained 1.5 lbs. WTF!? It kind of put me back into depressed mode, but I know my weight won't miraculously change overnight. Meh.

Aside from that, I signed up for my Spring 2009 classes. I think I have gone crazy. I am taking...drum roll please...6 classes. Not 4, not 5, but 6 classes. Time arts, T+P: Art and Religion, History of Photography, Intermediate Silkscreen and Woodblock, Special Topics: Letterpress, and English. WHOO. I already know I will prolly put Haiasi through hell and my social life will become non-existent (like it matters anyway...) but hopefully this will let me graduate a semester and then some sooner. And if I wasn't crazy enough, I will be doing this for the entire year of 2009. For summer school I will try to take as many classes as I can at PNCA and do the rest at PCC I suppose. Doing 2 terms of 6 classes and 2 classes or more for summer will hopefully have me graduating by Spring 2010. If I don't do the 6 class extreme, I will be graduating in Fall 2010, waiting a whole semester to fly by with me taking no classes, and then walking in Spring 2011. Yeah I don't want that. I need to get out of school already. I don't know what I'd do after college, but at least I could start paying off my damn loans.

That was an awesome venting session acompanied by tears. I don't feel good. I am going to go play Wario's Woods.

Day 1 Sucked.

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Day 1 of my corrective eating habits SUCKED SO BAD. Being a bit more nocturnal has made it very hard for me to not eat before bed. I took my fat picture polaroids and posted them by my scale and desk. I recorded what I ate down yesterday and cooked a damn good dinner of Lemon Chicken Penne Pasta with Capers. I should've taken a picture, it was so DELISH! I will prolly make smore tonight so I can take it to school tomorrow for lunch. I'll try to remember to take a pic cause it was really really yummy.

After the horrible and painstakingly task of not snacking on some foods while doing my Grotesque paper, I knocked out and then woke up to the same weight, which is good cause it means for my first day of corrective eating I did not gain anymore weight and if I had lost a bunch of weight I would have a weight rebound later on. I am going to try my hardest to stick to this corrective eating plan. I really need to work on my sleep schedule though. I have been sleeping at ~5am for the past few nights. I have class tomorrow at 11am so I need to take my good ol' Tylenol PM!

Off to work out now!

I am going to admit something.

I am on a permanent weight loss plan. Or at least I am attempting it.

I have been consistently gaining weight since last summer and now I have been gaining like crazy for several legitimate reasons. I am writing about this even though it is embarrassing because I feel that I need to vent about it to better myself and help me seriously lose the extra weight I've been gaining.

I know I should feel secure about the way I look, or at least be comfortable about how I look, but it is very hard >___< I have come to terms that I will never have a very skinny body cause my momma gave me curves (and thunder thighs), but being healthier for myself and keeping things up would be overall beneficial. Aside from losing some weight and exercising more, I need to correct my sleeping. I am going to be taking before and after pictures and setting up a log for myself. Hopefully I can setup a meal plan thing for the week so I can calculate my intake of food and such. Phew, lotsa hard work XD If any of you who read my blog is tryna lose weight as well and need some moral support, you should contact me XD Then we can hold each other accountable. I am now gonna go take my before pictures and start my log. I feel good about this. I think writing about and the fact that I am physically declaring myself to work harder for my health is helpful. Ok that is all. Jya!!

Here are some links I found helpful :P These will be my reading motivations.
Weight Loss Tips
CalorieKing

Yummy potatoes, tea, and necklaces galore.

Today is my relax day after my Art History class. Got home early and pretty much bummed around the house till Haiasi left. Ryan and Colin came home and talked for a bit while finishing up my Pushing Daisies episode I missed this week. I started cooking dinner and I am almost done. Spaghetti, garlic bread, and badass potatoes :) YUM!

I have my very first jewelry customer!! After several months no progress and now I have someone interested in buying one of my necklaces :D You can check my jewelry out on my etsy page if you like or view my images I have on the right hand side :P

I am in a good mood and I like it like that.

All I have to say is...

FUCK YES!!

I screamed and cried when Obama won and I am still in shock from last night's election.

I got bored.

While thinking about my next composition piece for Modou, I freaked out cause it's due on Tuesday (btw, I don't even know if I'm going to class because of elections...) and then started to draw and do some watercolors. I am getting into the habit of studying other artists' work to get a feel of what I am comfortable with and what I am not comfortable with within my own work. I have come to realize that I have a thing for miniatures, gestural and well planned out drawings, and things that are not carefully made in a clean cut way (a.k.a. I dig sloppy looking work.)

I am gonna pick up some wood tomorrow at Ace Hardware then head to Ai to steal paper from them, and then work on my project. I feel a bit overwhelmed with the work I am getting in class. I also have a proposal on what I will do for my war project and I am drawing a huge EFFn blank. I just want to get this semester over with. I want to push myself to draw more to hone in my crappy skills so I can portray whats in my head onto my canvas. Bleh.

I also have all these 1.5 inch circle drawings of little girls heads and nothing to do with them. Any ideas?