Shopping

I finally got paid last Friday 'n' went shopping for the weekend. I guess that's what I wanted to do for my birthday. Crawl thrift stores and bargain bin type places. (Okay, I can't be perfect, I have a few bad habits.) Anyhow... My spouse abandoned me. :/ I thought she was gonna crawl thrift stores too but she elected to call some gamer friend fo hers and hang out with him, leaving me alone. *sulk* She hates to shop. I don't know what's wrong with her. She shops like a man. Then again, I'm weirdo. When I do the thrift store thing, I like to try on at least one TOTALLY AWFUL outfit and see just how bizarre I can make myself look and giggle that someone actually once paid money for this thing.
Anyhow, because of the downer mood, and being dressed way too warm (It was cold and rainy in San Jose so I figured it would be colder and more rainy in Santa Cruz, but it was sunny. Who knew?) I didn't find a single thing I liked and spent most of Saturday afternoon feeling mopey. (A rarity for me. I usually come away with at least one good outfit.) I think Stacey realized she'd blown it and apologized for ditching me.

Then we spent the evening at the drive-in and stuffed ourselves on hotdogs and cheeseburgers. Watched X-Men 2 and Daredevil (well.. I fell asleep during Dare Devil but we'd already seen it in the regular theatre)

Sunday we continued our gluttony and sloth and went to dim sum for lunch, and then to Ross. I got a sleek new leather portfolio type bag to carry all junk in. (Think gigantic purse of doom!) Much mroe stylish and professional-looking than the green hiking back-pack I'd been carrying stuff in. Aso got some jogging clothes. (Uh-oh)

The only other birthday type thingy I got was a present from tigrise and Tanan. A Negativeland CD. Yay! It was a really nice present actually. very well thought out 'n' I like it a lot. Stacey hadn't heard any Negativeland before (my ex sold all of my CDs to support his smoking habit) but she liked it. 'n' I gotta say...
Car Bomb is a GREAT song for driving over H-17! :) Will have to remember to take CD out of car before visiting family in Oklahoma though. I can't imagine some of the songs would go over very well with them.

So... All in all, not a bad birthday weekend type thingy. I tried not to art or work all weekend. Challenging, but I think I needed some relaxation time. All in all, this weekend was much too short. I wasn't really ready to come back to work today. Ohwell. Que sera sera. There's a 3-day weekend at the end of this month. I'll just look forward to that.

Want a real crunch?

Eep. I only have 4 weeks until Film Finals deadline and 4 minutes of movie to animate. O_O I had hoped to have my animation stand set up so that I could do the entire movie on it, but it looks like I probably need to do parts of it on the stand and assemble everything in the computer like I've been doing, just to make deadline.

I mapped it out and it looks like there's about 4 hard parts (parts where I'm not sure how I'll get the motion right) should I try to do them first, or space them one per week, or should I save them for the end and hope my skill level has gone up enough and I've thought about them long enough that they aren't quite as hard? Maybe I should think of some ways to write around them.

Anyhow. That's a minute a week. At 12 frames per second, that's only 720 drawings per week. ;) ... If there weren't a bunch of hold cels and loops. Still Probably 200/week even without and that's not counting inking. So... Letsee... if I can draw about 1 cel every 5 minutes, that's 1000 minutes per week or about 17hrs/week. Doable... But I need to double that for inking time. 34hrs/week, and I have stop-motion work to do for my other class too. Oy! Looks like its back into full-on mad-hermit mode for me. :) See everyone in a month!

Vibrator

Yay! My idea is working! The old air compressor I bought a couple years ago is too bumpy to use for really detailed air-brushing but it's just perfect for vibrating moulds. Wirehead is now slathered in hot melty vasaline and jiggling away in a cool pool of white with a pair of balls that have also been greased.

You naughty people! Stop thinking that! This is totally innocent!