day 78

I've noticed i've gotten very lazy lately, not uploading daily like i said i would, not really feeling the motivation to do good shit, etc.

I've had other shit on my mind, so these little boredom creations i make in the middle of the night is the only thing i can come up with. my dude's been working overnight's and im getting antsy/nervous about big opportunities coming up so i havent been as focused or creative.

Which is really annoying, i keep telling myself to paint something, think of something to paint anything, but i got nothing...

so here's for today:

and here's hoping i find some motivation...

day 77

i decided to try and edit my own photos. i kinda suck at doing "artsy" things to pictures, so here's one attempt with just a filter:

i really only liked how the blue hair turned crazy colors, so i got lazy and left it like that...whatever.

365 - 289 = day 76

i got crazy with a spirograph, haven't seen one of these since i was little, and even then, the girl at my school who had it wouldn't let me play with it...guess it was cuz i was rough?

day 75

seventy 4

day 73

I really need to hit "publish" when i do late night things, anyway, here's actually today's even though last night and right now are back to back...

day 72

just another quick one before i hit the hay. kings sucked and ive watched way too many netflix movies to stay awake anymore.

Day 71

my old man has been going through a bunch in the past couple days. He started out with a pus pocket on his back that i had to lance and squeeze out (disgusting), thought i got it all, but i didn't. Ended up having another one just below the original, so we had to take him to the vet.

I've been dreading this for a long while now, he's 17 and a half (this picture is probably 5 years old). He ended up stressing out the first day we took him in, they had to give him oxygen, but he was fine. we brought him back this morning to finish the testing he needed and the dr informed us that hes got fluid in his lungs and his heart is a tad enlarged and his intestines are "thick" (ew?), but apparently all of these could be associated with hyperthyroidism (which would be a pill daily). She said that these signs (on an old cat) happen quickly (usually) and apparently his has been like this for a while (she said he's adjusted to the breathing with %50 less lung capacity). If its not that, it could be that he's just old and this is his body shutting down. He's got blood work results in the morning and im praying they say he just needs pills.

He's the last of my babies. I had his mother from the time i was around 8, she died a couple years ago. I watched him be born, i've raised him and tried to keep him happy into his old age. I won't let him suffer, but i don't think im ready if tomorrow's it...

Day 70

So yesterday i made a shitty skeleton thing, today, i tried to make a better one. burt wasn't working, so i gave him giant baby eyes :)

Day 69

half-assed attempt at making a skeleton thing on top of a picture...so sue me.

Day 68

I'm all congested, tired, and grumpy...this is what i made today...now i'm going to take a nap

Day 67

before going to sam's to spend the night, i made this :)

Day 66

some old and new brushes together: oh the places you'll go!

it's a little hard on the  eyes, but that's what i get for rushing it today.

Thursday, day 65

we went to disneyland today with henry's mom, his mom's aunt mary, and mary's son zack. they had never been to disney (well mary had, but it had been 30 some odd years, so its basically new shit) and they took all the pictures. i took some on my phone, but i wasn't planning on taking any for myself, so when i got home i downloaded some more brushes and made this.

sixty four

since i still feel like poo and i'm not doing much today, here's a super simple one.

Day 63

So i started to feel like i was getting the flu or something today, had a fever or something, a cough start, my head hurt. So before i go lie in bed for the rest of the night, i thought i'd post this for today first:

it was quick and dirty, but i feel like shit, so there.

Day 62

We went to the LA Kings open skate tonight (took about 100 pictures so I won't be posting them all). We got lucky and scored the free tickets by chance, took the metro blue line up to Staples Center and watched our boys skate for about an hour. It was crazy how close we were sitting, i've never been so close, i've gotten close-ish one other time at staples and 12 rows up from the net at the Pond , but never 6 rows from the glass, on the isle. SO CLOSE! it was awesome and makes me WAY more antsy for this season to start on saturday!

Day 61

today was a small one, i found an awesome picture online, added a filter and some text and brushes, voila!

Day 60 (two months?! that's it?!)

I'm actually sorta bummed i fucked up and didn't take any pictures of my godson, Isaiah's, birthday present. He turned 4 and he's obsessed with cars (and dinosaurs apparently) so I made him a Lightning McQueen and Mater panels :)

I really hate that we (my dude and i) wait so long in between seeing our godson, sometimes it's 6 months to close to a year before we see him, which is terrible on our part. Plus, he forgets us :( and I hate that.

I've seen him about 3 times in the past month though, which i love cuz he started remembering me, and not from when his mom says "it's nina" and he's forced to hug me, i really like that. And now that i'm about to be a bridesmaid in his mom's wedding (coming in nov) i really hope i see him so much, he runs and hugs me and actually likes hanging out with me, here's hoping!

Day 58

I have a (weird) fascination with anatomical hearts. I don't know what it is, but i think they're awesome looking, and i love when super pretty things are

*EDIT* apparently this saved as a draft and i didnt know it (the internet was freaking out and when i hit "publish" it didn't) so when i published day 59, i had to "re-publish" but blogger thought "publish for the first time" #58, so that's why they're out of order...whatever.

DAY 59

So I've been playing around with the layer blending and painting that i can do in PS and i really like this blurry, soft color effect i stumbled upon. Plus, I love eyes, it's my favorite thing. So I ended up pairing pretty ladies, colors, cameras, and eyes and made this thang!

Day 57

Posting this one early since it's technically wednesday (1:46am) and i was playing around with this one and cracked myself up.

Day 56

So i was playing with different layer blending changes with colors and liked the saturated watercolor effect i got with the hard light blending. I titled it "thanks handsome".

FIVE FIVE

Made a little pinup girl the other day surrounded by pretty things and a skeezy guy checkin her out. I thought it was sort of a raunchy surrounded by classy (even though i love pinups and think they're classy as shit).

Fif tee four

I thought i had posted this the other night when i finished it, guess not. so here it is :)

DAY 53

Does this really need an explanation? I made a gif out of photos when i was attempting to catch water drops.

Day 52 or the first day of the new year

So last night, 12.31.2012, my dude and i were trying to figure out a place to go or something to do since neither of us have had new years eve off together in 5 years. The first new years of our relationship was the first time, and then he started working at disneyland and hasn't had a decent holiday schedule since.

So we had a plan to go to one of my friends' house and hang out in fancy, fake furs and drink champagne, but then her man got sick, and plans fell through. We didn't want to go to some giant party or somewhere that was standing room only (his hernia surgery is still freshish and he can't hang for very long).

Now we're sitting in our room, brainstorming, where do we go? what do we do? Everything was expensive and it was getting later and later into events. We finally said, "fuck it, lets just drive somewhere". So i grabbed 3 layers of jackets, some blankets, a beanie, a cooler with a bottle of champagne and 2 glasses, and my camera and we set out.

As we were filling up at the gas station, we were like, "how funny would it be if we drove to Vegas?!" We didn't end up going to Vegas, but we started on the road in that general direction.

Drove for about an hour and a half and ended up in Hesperia/Victorville at a Denny's for food.

Had to get artsy, didn't I?

Hobbit holes!

After we fueled up, we started driving again and ended up driving for maybe another 20 mins, got to Exit 169 and pulled off the highway.

This was the scary part, after pulling off, we couldn't see the road too far in front of us and drove slowly, suddenly the pavement ends, and that's where we ended up! About 15 mins before midnight!

I snapped a couple pictures with long exposures:

Then we looked at the clock and it was midnight! We cheered with a toast from the bottle of champagne we brought (and eventually finished), and danced a little.

Happy New Years!

I snapped a couple more pictures with my fisheye lens:

So it was freezing at this point. Like, below freezing. According to my phone's weather thing, the closest city being Victorville said it was 27 degrees and feels like 17 degrees. Didn't take long for my fingers to start freezing, to a point where i started to not be able to feel my finger tips when i was playing with my camera (almost dropped a lens!).

We started to freeze and decided to call it a night and did the drive home.

The city coming back over the mountain

I'm glad our plans got altered and decided to just drive. We've been wanting to go on a road trip since he got his new car a couple months back, and this was a small taste of what we could do on a moments notice. It also became the best new years i've ever had. Just get out and drive, see the stars, take some photos, and do it all with my best friend :)