Oh, I also got my Bamboo Splash in the mail exactly on the date it was supposed to arrive :D
I wasn't expecting to become an instant artist, but I wasn't expecting how much it would actually take to get used to drawing with it. I like it for doing lines, but I'm not so sure I want it for more than that. I shade and color better with the track pad. I feel like I have more control that way too. I wish it was a mouse and pen set instead of just that weird thing where it if you hover the pen close to the screen it'll move the mouse to it's approximate location. I'd rather just tell it where to start with my cursor so that I know it'll be exact.
After more use I'll probably get better. Another problem I've run into is me not really liking any of my drawing programs. What I want is literally a nicer version of MS paint. CS4 is way too much for what I do. Even the programs that came with it are too much. I just want to make lines on one layer (or a few) and the color below them on another layer. I don't want to have to group each line together or it to be considered one. I didn't have them touching on the same layer for the hell of it, they're supposed to connect -_-
But woe is me and my 1st world problems. I'll figure it out. I also have SAI but I'm not quite a fan of that either (because I drew my lines on a higher up layer and tried to color them on the lower layer with a different tool and it fucking covered my lines up on the above layer).
I'm learning. I'm get there.
XoXo,
S
November 30, 2012
It's a war on (insert popular belief here)!
I'm going to explain the war on Christmas (God, Jesus, Christianity and any other popular belief)
It's literally the realization that the choices faced by anyone who celebrates or believes a less popular faith and holiday is a really shitty choice. Being forced to say Happy Holidays isn't removing your freedom of speech, it's placing you at the same level of freedom allowed to those who celebrate Yule. Not being able to wear a religious token at work doesn't just apply to people who wear pentacles. It's applies to the people wearing crosses to.
You're choice it to either find a small private business the follows your beliefs and lets you wish people Merry Christmas and lets you tell them about Jesus, or to work for wherever it is you work and be all inclusive in your speech.
It's a shitty choice. It's the choice the rest of us have always had to live with under the guise that this is what freedom is. Apparently what freedom really is is being able to openly celebrate whatever you want wherever you want regardless of how noninclusive the stuff your saying is or how it may make the people around you feel isolated.
Apparently freedom is only for the Majority, because when the majority gets the same freedoms as the rest of us they feel like they're being oppressed. However, when the minorities express their feelings of oppression they're told that they're imagining it and that they're just trying to put the Majority down.
It's like no one realizes how much shit the minorities put up with. How smaller religious beliefs have just learned to deal with keeping their religions to themselves because they'd get treated differently or discriminated against (even if it's against the law). How I have yet to confess my agnostic atheism to my family because I have no idea how they'd react to it. How they have no idea that I go out of my way to follow the teachings of Jesus because his part of the bible was the only part that made sense (love, forgiveness, and kindness to everyone, even those who hurt you). But the Christians who feel like telling me I need to find God are so hateful and hurtful towards people who are different.
I'm off topic now (kinda) but I'll leave the important message bolded. There.
XoXo,
S
It's literally the realization that the choices faced by anyone who celebrates or believes a less popular faith and holiday is a really shitty choice. Being forced to say Happy Holidays isn't removing your freedom of speech, it's placing you at the same level of freedom allowed to those who celebrate Yule. Not being able to wear a religious token at work doesn't just apply to people who wear pentacles. It's applies to the people wearing crosses to.
You're choice it to either find a small private business the follows your beliefs and lets you wish people Merry Christmas and lets you tell them about Jesus, or to work for wherever it is you work and be all inclusive in your speech.
It's a shitty choice. It's the choice the rest of us have always had to live with under the guise that this is what freedom is. Apparently what freedom really is is being able to openly celebrate whatever you want wherever you want regardless of how noninclusive the stuff your saying is or how it may make the people around you feel isolated.
Apparently freedom is only for the Majority, because when the majority gets the same freedoms as the rest of us they feel like they're being oppressed. However, when the minorities express their feelings of oppression they're told that they're imagining it and that they're just trying to put the Majority down.
It's like no one realizes how much shit the minorities put up with. How smaller religious beliefs have just learned to deal with keeping their religions to themselves because they'd get treated differently or discriminated against (even if it's against the law). How I have yet to confess my agnostic atheism to my family because I have no idea how they'd react to it. How they have no idea that I go out of my way to follow the teachings of Jesus because his part of the bible was the only part that made sense (love, forgiveness, and kindness to everyone, even those who hurt you). But the Christians who feel like telling me I need to find God are so hateful and hurtful towards people who are different.
I'm off topic now (kinda) but I'll leave the important message bolded. There.
XoXo,
S
November 24, 2012
Average
I bought myself a bamboo splash drawing tablet.
It'll hopefully be here early next week. I just shipped today.
I'm in that mood where I really want to do roller derby again. Not a new feeling for me, but I feel like it's one of those things I'll never do, because there are so many things that I want to do. And skate and kneepads and all that cost money. I've been wanting that drawing tablet since high school and I just not bought it and it was only $60.
I think I'd be happy if I were at least skating. Nothing serious, just practicing skating because I'm not very coordinated. If I practice I'll hopefully pass the hazy phase I always have when I'm learning something, and hopefully grasp the ability to focus on what I'm doing instead of zoning out. Zoning out is my #1 reason for being average at almost everything I do.
XoXo,
S
It'll hopefully be here early next week. I just shipped today.
I'm in that mood where I really want to do roller derby again. Not a new feeling for me, but I feel like it's one of those things I'll never do, because there are so many things that I want to do. And skate and kneepads and all that cost money. I've been wanting that drawing tablet since high school and I just not bought it and it was only $60.
I think I'd be happy if I were at least skating. Nothing serious, just practicing skating because I'm not very coordinated. If I practice I'll hopefully pass the hazy phase I always have when I'm learning something, and hopefully grasp the ability to focus on what I'm doing instead of zoning out. Zoning out is my #1 reason for being average at almost everything I do.
XoXo,
S
November 21, 2012
Me and My eBay problem
Have you ever bid for something on ebay and immediately gone "shit shit shit I didn't think that'd be the highest bid, please someone outbid me I don't want it that badly!"
Doing that right now. I don't want a Wacom Bamboo Connect, I want a Splash or a capture or a create. SHIT. I figured it'd be like all the other tablets where I bid $5 more than the current bid and it wouldn't be enough. Sure, $50 for that gently used tablet isn't much, but I want a different one damn it (and I'm also the highest bid on a Wacom Intuos3 Large for $150 which I'd much rather get, but it's not likely as there are 30 some bids and a few days left, whereas the Connect only has 11 hours. Fuck, I may actually win that shit. Fuck)
If I do get it, I'll still try for a better one for a similar price. I'll just sell it or trade it or something. -_- why am I so fucking dumb?
WHY.
XoXo,
S
Doing that right now. I don't want a Wacom Bamboo Connect, I want a Splash or a capture or a create. SHIT. I figured it'd be like all the other tablets where I bid $5 more than the current bid and it wouldn't be enough. Sure, $50 for that gently used tablet isn't much, but I want a different one damn it (and I'm also the highest bid on a Wacom Intuos3 Large for $150 which I'd much rather get, but it's not likely as there are 30 some bids and a few days left, whereas the Connect only has 11 hours. Fuck, I may actually win that shit. Fuck)
If I do get it, I'll still try for a better one for a similar price. I'll just sell it or trade it or something. -_- why am I so fucking dumb?
WHY.
XoXo,
S
November 10, 2012
hookah and bills
It's REALLY weird that my hair dye blog that has less than 20 posts has like 900 views. Then I looked through my stats and found out that if you google "splat blue envy results" that blog is the FIRST non-video link. And two of my pictures are on the first 3 pages of the search results (one of which isn't even that color). Fuckin crazy. I have no followers, no comments and I barely post but i get all that? The only post on this blog with a lot of views has a picture of Leeloo Dallas on it.
Whatevs. I'm saving my money to buy a hookah. Legit. I want to play more WoW SO BADLY but I know that the $15 I'd pay for a month of wow is me being halfway to an okay hookah. I go a whole nice set-up on Amazon and it was only going to be $30 for a two hose hookah (all little crap included), 100 tips, box of 100 or so coals, and 2 50g boxes of shisha, but after shipping it was $30. Because fuck you, that's why.
I figured I could probably still buy the tips and coals from the internet since they were cheap as hell. And I found coals that were natural and less likely to cause headaches (which I've been prone to from hookah). They weren't too pricey either.
I'll probably check out the 2 or 3 smoke shops we have in town to see what their hookah and shisha prices look like. I don't want to spend more than $25 for the hookah because I'm a cheap ass. And I don't want more than 2 hoses. If anything I'd rather have one but then I can't invite tons of people over to smoke.
But I'm saving money. And I'm keeping my bills down as best I can. Trying not to stress over it.
XoXo,
S
Whatevs. I'm saving my money to buy a hookah. Legit. I want to play more WoW SO BADLY but I know that the $15 I'd pay for a month of wow is me being halfway to an okay hookah. I go a whole nice set-up on Amazon and it was only going to be $30 for a two hose hookah (all little crap included), 100 tips, box of 100 or so coals, and 2 50g boxes of shisha, but after shipping it was $30. Because fuck you, that's why.
I figured I could probably still buy the tips and coals from the internet since they were cheap as hell. And I found coals that were natural and less likely to cause headaches (which I've been prone to from hookah). They weren't too pricey either.
I'll probably check out the 2 or 3 smoke shops we have in town to see what their hookah and shisha prices look like. I don't want to spend more than $25 for the hookah because I'm a cheap ass. And I don't want more than 2 hoses. If anything I'd rather have one but then I can't invite tons of people over to smoke.
But I'm saving money. And I'm keeping my bills down as best I can. Trying not to stress over it.
XoXo,
S
November 08, 2012
updated other blog!
I updated my other blog today. My Dying Wish: A DIY Hair dyers blog. :)
http://color-me-stunned.blogspot.com/
Reading my old posts... The things I say that I think make me sound hilarious. I still find hilarious. I trucking love myself.
I didn't actually mean trucking, but I spelled "fucking" wrong and that's what google suggested and that made me laugh.
Everything has been going so super lovely. :)
XoXo,
S
http://color-me-stunned.blogspot.com/
Reading my old posts... The things I say that I think make me sound hilarious. I still find hilarious. I trucking love myself.
I didn't actually mean trucking, but I spelled "fucking" wrong and that's what google suggested and that made me laugh.
Everything has been going so super lovely. :)
XoXo,
S
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