A Baka's Life

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:51:38 GMT

I'm so bad with posting on this thing I guess it is because I don't think about it, but I probably should because it gives me a chance to sit back and ponder a bit. So school started about 2 weeks ago... on my birthday actually (which mind you I did nothing... and no one really did anything... I have a tendancy to hide on my birthday). So my classes:

Advanced Figure Drawing... Well interesting things happened, the poor teacher ended up in the hospital for almost a week and a half, so the class started slow. She came back and the class continued to be slow. I mean I guess I'm surprised and used to my previous teacher who teaches everyday and gives us huge assignments... but it is figure drawing so we draw naked people what more is there to it. So at first I thought the class would be a bit overwhelming but in the end.... an easy class.

Art & Cinema.... bleh this class is about the film type I hate... avant garde and all that random non-narrative stuff... the thing that drives me nuts about this class is all the reading we have to do for it. SO my blow off class became a headache class!

Advanced Character Animation.... I love this class, then again it is cause I my favorite teacher at DePaul is teaching it. I mean this class is basically going to help me make my Demo-reel for GDC in hopes that I would get a job. And it is great it is a night class that ends at 9 and ever time the teacher has stayed until about 10 just talking to a bunch of us. I'm excited about this and my aniamtion skills are improving and I'm sure happy about that.

Capstone... So ya this will kill me... next time I post I'll put the story up so you all can see it. Funny thing is had one before class started and Jeff and I changed it because we wouldn't have been able to finish our previous story. But I'm excited for this and of course need to spend a little additional time on it in order to keep up with my weekly goals :P

So ya those are my classes and they are already keeping me busy as all hell @_@ Also I work in the game labs still and at Harold Washington. Whee... so busy.

But I will say... I have learned that I need to be less stressed... cause last week... FOR A WHOLE WEEK... I had a headache... I was dying... I hated it. I was in a horrible mood... it was visible, I hate being like that. All I can say is since I've been more mello-ed out and to be honest not caring too much about things that I don't need to... I have been good about that and ya it is good so far. But if I have another headache like that I'm going to the doctor right way.

Also this post has been taking forever to write cause I'm doing it while I'm working at Harold Washington. @_@ So I woke up with stuff I wanted to write about and then forgot. But wheee I feel so nice right now and happy.... :) And the nicest part is right now I feel loved and cared for... such a nice feeling to have

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:44:59 GMT

I've realized something. . . I tend to post a lot more on LJ when Jeff is out of town. I guess Jeff is my IRL journal that gets to hear everything that is going on in my life. Also I mean he is kinda always there... so <3.

Anyway... this mornign I got to sleep in... until 8 o_o OH MY! Well I go take my shower, make my self a PB&J to eat, and then turn on the wonderful news. The news has been so depressing the last few weeks. I mean hearing the stock market is falling, jobs are low, bailout this and that... is actually quiet scary. I mean to think I will be graduating this coming spring and to hear that the economy sucks. Well all I can say right now is I'm uber grateful for the job I picked up this summer and have been working at. Sure it is a part time thing, but it does pay the rent and bills. In the end it is great that this job is a part time thing... cause I will be needing to work on my portfolio in hopes of getting a job at either an animation or game studio. So hopefully that all works out.

Enough of all that depressing stuff... I have been working on my senior capstone... primarily the preproduction art stuff. So character design and storyboarding. Which I've realized I throughly enjoy but probably would never get a job in because I don't have enough talent for it... and the fact that a lot of it is being shipped elsewhere. My teacher for that class has already sent out an email with a bunch of due dates already for this quarter. First story and basic writing stuff is due Next Friday... myself and Jeff (we are working on an animation together) have already done that and maybe once it is finialized I will post it up here and see what you guys think. Then on the 20th Rough Storyboards are due... I've said screw that... he is getting the real deal story boards. I'm not just rough sketching things I'm going all out with it. Cause then the first day of class he wants the final storyboards... which at that point for myself will be an animatic. Woot for being ahead. I mean the main character is already concepted out and probably tonight I will start one of the other ones... I mean I'm moving slowly but I will be meeting all of my end goals I'm sure of that.

Also Gmail is the greatest thing in my mind. I mean I have documents flying around and being shared and then the calendar... and everything :)...

Also BLEH christmas shopping @_@.... too much of a headache. I think I know what I want to get for a few people then I go.... ahhhhh MONEY... so everything I was maybe thinking to buy myself will have to wait. But Persona 4 is being brought... I need that game :)

What else have I been up to.... OH thanksgiving... I cooked with a cousin of mine... we cooked enough food for well x3 the amount of people there were. I mean there were mess ups and what not but it worked out well. Then I spent that weekend with the family. Got back to the apartment... and had a cleaning frenzy this week. So it looks nice now :)

Ya no add is kicking in here at work :P I'm out

It's been a while...

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:57:18 GMT

... but I've sadly been way too busy. Hence why the lack of updates. So right now I will catch everyone up on like the important things.... which isn't really all that much.

So this quarter started off very quietly. Little did I know it would be a very busy quarter and caught me off guard. I mean I had 4 class.... 2 jobs... and 2 club boards. SO I guess I'll start with the classes this quarter:

First I had a Figure Drawing class, it sucks that I had to wake up for a 8:30 class... but I throughly enjoyed it and learned a lot about the figure. I think this class has improved my drawing skill.... by a ton. I get to take an advanced figure drawing class and I'm excited about that, but I'll talk about upcoming classes after this quarter stuff. I've also learned through this figure drawing class that I would probably go crazy if I were a fine artist. It cost too much to maybe not get paid for stuff I worked on. After having to buy all the materials and everything... it hurt my wallet. Not only that but I will say I dislike a lot of the medium used.

Next class.... I'll go with sociology cause this will be a sentence long. The class was boring.

Now for the harder class first my 3D Modeling class. First, I hated modeling before this class but I will say I learned a ton in this class... and can maybe get by modeling very simple things that don't need to be geometrically correct. But that final is like the one I really don't care about. It is due tonight at 7:00.... so I'll be working on it after I get out of work today. All I really have to do is complete the hand textures, and by hands I mean the mittens I've modeled. If anything I know for sure modeling is something I would not like to do as a job/ for the rest of my life.

Last class this quarter... which has been kicking my ass mentally but I've been doing really well in is the Rigging class. Rigging is basically the building of the skeleton and controls to animate a 3D model. So this stuff get really in depth and can require a shit ton of programing. I mean it takes me a bit to understand what is going on... a lot of repeating and asking Jeff questions (I'm honestly surprised he has hit me yet for asking too much... but I love him for helping me :) ).

So those are my classes... which have been interesting.

Next the two jobs... are well the one at the game lab which I've been working 8 hours a week... and then the one I picked up at Harold Washington where I work for about 18 hours. The oddest thing about the Harold Washington one is... last week they asked me if I wanted to work on Tech... I was like o_O wait... I don't know this stuff. They thought I did, because I checked some computers... which I would think any person who has been using a computer would know. I don't know the serious stuff like swapping hardware out and all that.

That is work. Now I guess the two boards and I will say this ahead of time... no one take anything personally :P

I'll start with JMAC... I've missed JMAC, I really haven't been able to go to a meeting or even many outside events this quarter. Monday became my..."OH SHIT RIGGING DAY." I know next quarter I will be able to because I will be in LPC with a 5:30 ending class and then heading straight there. I'm excited! I mean to be honest I really have no complaints with JMAC...I mean at times the Saturday board meeting has gotten in the way of me being able to work on homework... but I get a smile on my face when I'm at the meetings cause I get to see everyone. So next quarter I'm excited and hope to be able to spend more time and maybe get to know the freshmen.

Now DeFrag.... to be honest... it has been driving me nuts. But I think that is the board meetings and all the circle talks. I mean I feel like there is a lot of .... we should do this and this, but no one wants that responsibility. I mean the emails are... repetitive and I really do not like how people keep responding about the same thing or putting stupid comments that aren't needed. I mean I still love spending time at DeFrag stuff... and working there. Hopefully the board will shape up and I won't go crazy next quarter.

Ya I mean... that is this quarter. I should take pictures of my apartment actually so you all can see what it looks like... well those who haven't seen it :) Oh and I <3 Tales of Vesperia.... and need to pick up Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.

Winter break is even busy for me. First Thanksgiving I get to cook... and will be spending the weekend at home. The first two weeks I work at HWC. Then the weekend of the 12th I will be staying at Elaine's while we have a cosplay-a-thon. The week of christmas I will be staying at home. During all of this I will be working on Project Nightlight (Game project) and Senior Capstone (an animation that Jeff and I are working on). Once the story gets finalized and I bring to work on story boarding I will put it up here and see what you guys think. I've already started on the main character concept art and Jeff has started modeling a bar... which is AMAZING looking. Jeff is too good at everything :P... which is a good thing cause that kid is gonna be crazy successful (and he doesn't realize it). SO that is winter break I think as of right now... but who knows how much more crap I will be doing... I hope to do some rigging reading.

Also AHH.... before break I need to reformat my computer. Hopefully I can do that all tomorrow and just get that stuff done... cause that computer is becoming more and more special everyday. It is almost 5 years old now... and hasn't been formated... it needs help is the moral of that story.

Next quarter... I will probably try to keep the same amount of hours at the game lab.... at HWC I'm counting down by 4 hours. And have 4 classes. Which are:

-Advanced Figure Drawing
-Senior Capstone (which is make a film for 2 quarters)
-Advanced 3D Character animation
-Some stupid required class

SO ya... I mean I can't wait for next quarter.

Uhm I guess that sums everything up very simply. So wheeeeeeeeee~

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:28:34 GMT

LOL I haven't posted in ages.... but now that I'm sitting here at work.... I guess I can. :)

I guess update on EVERYTHING!

School
So school has started and I can say I like all of my classes. It kinda sucks that my figure drawing class is at... 8:30 but I can manage :) Drawing naked people is fun! HAHAH! So my classes are:

Figure Drawing -- which like I said I enjoy very much.
Advance Modeling -- I hate modeling but this class has been okay. THe teacher.... says my character has great flow so I am doing something right.
Rigging -- I have been looking forward to this class. AND LOVE IT! Woot gonna learn how to make 3D characters have skeletons and make them move.... and all that jazz.
Sociology -- The teacher for this class has been REALLY good.... I might be convinced to take another sociology class if he teachers it :)

I know.... so much information but that is what comes to mind when I think of this classes right away.

Work

So work... I still work at the Game Labs (8 hours a week and whatever else I pick up) and then I picked up a job at Harold Washington College as a Lab mod/ tutor person (18 hours a week)..... so it keeps me really busy. To be honest I think next quarter I am going to avoid working at 8 am.... just because I am sooo warn out by the time the weekend hits. But ehh... it is money! Actually this new job I really like... cause I get to help people and a lot of times I feel like I'm making a little bit of a difference in their education.

Apartment
I love the new place.... there has been some bumps in the road with it *cough* internet *cough*.... but I really have no time to sit and be on the internet there. The apartment has become a place that I just eat and sleep at.

Other Stuff

I have been watching DBZ from the start.... I am in love with that series. LOL... and I can't wait for October cause Vampire Knight is starting again and there is a Tales of the Abyss anime *fangirls*.... ALso Tales of Vesperia is <3..... and Elaine and I had started my Rita cosplay *thumbs up*

And I have a pretty nasty headache right now! -_-

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:46:13 GMT

One more week... one more week.... @_@

I want out of my house!

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:15:03 GMT

I've decided.... if I had a dog I wouldn't be as overweight as I am :P

I went to a family party... the rich family (so the ones I see rarely). There are only a few people I like to talk to and they are the ones that aren't all that rich. But I mean this house we were at made me feel out of place... 3 floors (including the basement) 5 bedrooms (at least).... 5 bathrooms.... I think but ya huge ass house. Anyway I talked to the few people I enjoy talking to for a long while. But the dog of the house kept looking for attention and I just kept playing with him. We played tug of war for a long while and throw/catch the stuff. I was entertained but that dog was worn out and as was I.... he was a cutie. haha

But ya it is always soooo weird being with the rich side of the family.... I are out of place!

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:57:39 GMT

Wheeee... I just went for the interview.... I think I basically got the job. The guy interviewing me basically wanted to hire me on the spot and said to already start thinking about when I could be scheduled in for work time and that they were looking for someone with a lot of morning availability.

So wheeeeee I'm happy! TeeHee!

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:59:34 GMT

Wheeee.... I am really excited for Tales of Vesperia... and I finally decided to play the demo on the 360. I enjoyed it a ton and can't wait until my team is back in the city and ready to play. Honestly I think the thing with these Tales of games... that I love so much is the fact that I get to play with friends. To be honest my first Tales of game was with Jeff and Mike. Maybe that is why I like them soo much, cause it was like a nice bonding experience.

And now I think I've decided since this might be my last Acen (cause who knows where I'm going to be next year... maybe it won't be, hopefully I can stay in Chicago), I know I want to do a really cool cosplay, meaning I'm willing to spend a little more than normal. So I think I'm gonna cosplay as Rita from Tales of Vesperia (the other one I'm considering is Anise from Tales of the Abyss)... but I think I want to do Rita just cause I love her outfit more and cause she is the character I will be playing throughout the game, so to actually dress up as the character I play will be awesome. The only thing for sure is that this one is gonna cost me a little more than I have spent on a cosplay in awhile. I'm guessing I'll be spending nearly as much as I did with the Risa cosplay. Ohhhh cooking mama you were a nice 30 dollar cosplay LOL.

But ya.... I just wanted to post about how excited I am.

And
>_>
<_< 13 days until I moooooooove out :P

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:09:54 GMT

So it is weird.... EVERYTHING is in boxes.... well not everything... and you know what I think I'm going to do it. I am ripping my wall apart...;-;.... ALL THE PICTURES! WHY!.... it has to be done and I think that will make me realize I am honestly moving away from my family. Wow... kinda weird.... it was gonna happen, but I remember the days when I used to think I would never be able to leave my family. It is odd.

I'm doing the wall right now..... otherwise I won't :( GOOOD BYE WALL!

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:14:52 GMT

This will be short... but i'm very busy, LOL!

Just one thing I came up with.... I am such a goddamn peace maker it is amazing. And it kinda scares me cause I worry something will happen when I leave my family. Hmm...

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:28:50 GMT

So summer... such an interesting season. I remember when I was younger I couldn't wait for the break and then I would be begging to go back to class. Then my parents opened the restaurant and I would have to work the entire summer and that gave me something to do. I used to complain a bit because I just wanted to relax. But the last two summers I've hated and I have reasons for it. When I say reasons... I mean one reason and that is just cause ya it is a whole 2 1/2 months without Jeff. I know... I shouldn't be complaining but I hit an all time low last night. I mean yes I can hang out with others I'm in Chicago... he is in Houston, with no one but his family. Yet, I feel soo lonely. Kinda sad on my end. Just about a month longer... But ya, I think I've mentally told myself, if all stays as is, this is the last summer I'm going through this. And to be honest that of course might mean bye bye Chicago. It is weird to think about that... but I knew it would happen, just cause of the career I've chosen, hopefully I can make my dream come true and work either at Pixar or Blizzard, but who knows :P

So okay that aside... cause it is depressing and I figured that out first. Ya my summer has been half productive and half useless.

1. I have been eating better... and my body is feeling it. But let me say right now... Rocky Road here in the house at this time of the month... BAD IDEA, I keep just eating it. Actually it is all almost gone.

2. I have watched a lot of GTO in the last like... 4 days, I'll probably be done with the series by this weekend. LOL... Well I needed to catch up on some anime and GTO seemed like a good call. And le sigh Vampire Knight stopped for right now... season 2 come out soon.

3. I have been reading my rigging book and watching videos, just not as often as I should be ;-; I wish my computer could handle Maya better... hopefully by Christmas time I will get enough money to build a new computer, just cause a few things on this one is a little slow.

4. I have 3 months of rent already!~ LOL And hopefully by the end of the summer I will actually have enough for the entire year. I just want to have that money ready so I'm not freaking out month to month.

5. I have gotten a few things for the apartment already and I'm really excited about it :)

6. Project clean my house was put on stop for a little bit cause I was doing a lot of running around with cleaning the labs at the school and working and class. But today my sister and I cleaned our living room on the first floor... I hate dust :P

7. I go to sleep at 11-12 and wake up at 7, on my own. I honestly think I wake up because the light hits my window around then.

8. I just found out they are re-releasing Tales of the Abyss figures... that makes me happy, I might buy them, just cause I love that game soooooo much!

9. I have been lazy =_=.... playing too much Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2, with my sister..... which is odd o_O

10. Maybe that is all. OH NO... my class... ROCKS... I am gonna make some story boards for my character just so I know what I have to film tomorrow.... I can already tell I will probably be there until like 7 at night working on this, just cause I scheduled time... amd I want my scene to be done so I don't have to come in after the class ends :P

But ya.... I don't know why I listed it but what can you do. Basically I need to get out more... even thought I tend to spend 4 days out of the week at CTI... I see people, but I don't know I just feel oddly lonely. Well hopefully once my class ends I can go out a little more while working enough to have rent money.

I love you guys :P

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:23:20 GMT

So this past week has been relatively busy which is a good thing if I say so myself. Basically I've been working, cleaning the house, class, and learning some rigging. The only thing I can say is I haven't been doing as much rigging as I should be. I need to start bearthing this thing. :P

But ya, all I can say is I'm surprised how the weather has been her in chicago... :).... all I can say is it has been wonderful. Like anytime I go outside I'm like.... YAY!

woooot so summer is good, I am actually gonna go shopping tonight for some stuff I saw on sell at Kohls for some apartment stuff. So whee.... okay I do not have stuff to write I am done

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:03:49 GMT

Well I can already tell I am going to have a pretty busy summer... which I'm fine with.

From the sounds of my class... these 5 weeks might end up taking more time then just the class time. Class time looks like this:

Wed, Fri, and Sat -- 10am - 4pm with an hour lunch break at some point.

So ya with the possibility of more hours being thrown around I can already tell these first five weeks of break are going to fly and then I'm going to be like where did my poor little summer go. On top of going to class I am once again working at my parents place. With that it means I will be picking up random hours for the first 5 weeks... so ya, my mom was nice enough to let me take this first week easy and I'll be working randomly.

In replacement for not working this week I will be cleaning my room. But here comes the sad part about it. I cleaned about half of it today and then I was told I'm gonna have to pull everything out this week, tear all the pictures off my wall and let it get painted. Oh I'm sure none of you know this, I forgot if I mentioned this in the one quick post. But I'm basically losing my room, which I'm fine with but my father's aunt is gonna be moving in here, her husband passed away and ya she needs people around her. So with that, my room is to be emptied. This means... I'm kicked out of the house :P

My parents are on the mindset that I'm out, which in the end might be very true. From the looks of it who knows if I'm going to be in Chicago to be honest. But who knows... no one is predicting the future.

Anyway with that aside, on top of the school work and just work I have several goals I placed for myself.

Goals:
1. Get through the first art of rigging book. If time allows get through more of them. YAY rigging, I'm fine with working on that... I just need to order those other 2 books soon... especially since they have a 40% off sell.

2. Fix up the one character animation I did... I finally have something I can say is portfolio worthy... yippe

3. Get into shape ;_;... I need to just to, and losing a few pounds will be a good thing

4. Hopefully to start working with Elaine on my Anise cosplay for next year... woot I'm excited about this one and I'm hoping to convince the 3 other people who played the game with me to join in the cosplay fun.

5. Just be able to spend time with people... I was told this by Jeff... haha and I should with people in town I should just hang out, hopefully I can find time @_@.... so ya, you guys, if you want to hang out just call me ^_^

Okay I should probably get to bed cause I have class in the morning -_-

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:51:46 GMT

So ya... I know one million years since I've posted on this thing but I have honestly been too busy and I would be lying if I said I kinda forgot about LJ at times. Well with summer coming around and the school year almost being over I am sure I will be posting even more.

So this past quarter I have realized 2 things, I do not enjoy Motion Builder.... but sometimes I actually do. To be honest if I played more and more with it maybe I would get used to it. Secondly, I learned absolutely nothing in my Mel Scripting class... except for maybe what a for loop does. So now with a final to do in that class... I'm going oooooooooh shit -_-.... thank god for friends who know how to do stuff.

Now for the best news and maybe reason for me writing. Jeff, Kevin, and I found our apartment for next year. It was like a dream place that landed in our laps. So I'm happy as hell that we were able to find something. :P

Uhm... Also I think I've fallen in love with anything to do with a Tales of.... series. These games are sooooo nice :P

Okay that is all.... well a lot has happened, but I figured I should put something.

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:14:01 GMT

LOL... there have been a few times that I was gonna write something and it is always funny to read the saved draft thing. But of course I ignore and then write something completely different.

I'll be short cause I'm not too sure what has been going on myself.

Classes are wonderfully EASY... I haven't been getting much homework, but I should be working on my huge animation project. I made myself a timeline for that to figure out what I should be doing. If I stay on schedule I will finish a week before finals. So that will be nice. But yesh... easy classes for me!

Uhm, what have I been doing with my free time... playing trickster online. It is a nice game let me tell you... I've been enjoying myself and have gotten A LOT of people to play also! -_-;

:P But yesh... that sums up what has been going on, minus all the negative stuff of course cause there is always drama. Do not need to stress you all out with that.

OOOOH... and I finally started playing Phoenix Wright.... I love it. And I love Ian for letting me borrow the first 2. WHEE~

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:16:34 GMT

So '08 is already kicking my ass. New Years Day was great and all, but Jan 2nd is when shit hit the fan. I got hit with food poisoning, basically the toilet was my new best friend the entire day. I was just happy that I was able to move and function yesterday for classes, yet I feel bleh today. But the good thing is I started my exercise routine yesterday, 15 minutes on the bikes! First time I've exercised in 3 years now maybe. Yesterday was Jeff and my's 1 year anniversary, but of course with work and classes until 9 at night we weren't able to do anything, oh well at least we got to spend the day together and we might be celebrating it today. But I'm not too sure he wasn't feeling to well last night either and if I keep feeling like something is crawling in my throat I might end up in the sick bed agains.

Anway Stolen from a few people:
1. Who was the first person you talked to in 08?
Jeff and then everyone else at the part :P

2. The first person you hugged?
Jeff

3. The first person you called?
Family

4. The first person you texted?
Jeff (cause I was dying sick -_-)

5. The first thing you drank?
Water? Sounds right

6. The first person that called you?
My Brother

7. The first person that texted you?
Katie

8. Have you talked to all of your top 8 yet?
Huh? *shrugs* Maybe?

9. Any of them?
Sure?

10. Who was the 1st person to hang up on you?
BROTHER... when I was trying to reach home for food needs!

11. What was the first thing you watched on TV?
The thing that was on the tv about new years... ya

12. Who was the first person you thought of?
Everyone at the party and then me family

13. What was the first thing you ate?
Cereal I think

14. What where you wearing at midnight?
My nice shirt and black jeans

15. First kiss?
Jeff

16. First fight?
My brother

17. First laugh?
HAH! ya at midnight with all the kissy noises as Alex said!

18. First person you said 'I love you' to?
Jeff

19. First stupid thing you did?
Started Sanchezing everyone at the party... it ended up like a WAR!

20. First thing you bought?
Uhm.... food? I think... not sure!

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:39:23 GMT

So an update on the Vicka's life.

Monday I made some more carrot cake. The carrot cake was then sold on Tuesday, it was all sold out on Tuesda. WOOTS! SO that was great.

I've had Still Alive from Portal stuck in my head for 5 days. I've decided I'm heavily addicted to Portal and all that is related to it.

Yesterday I had wonderful jury duty.... talk about a waste of time. That isn't an understatement either. I mean I would have enjoyed it better if I was actually put on the case instead sitting around 2 hours, for the guy to pick who should be jurors. Oh well... it was an easy 17.20... HAHA! RIIGHT!

I totally dislike making sugar cookies for some reason. Just someting about them doesn't sit right for me.

What else? I keep watching the simpsons right now.... so I'm distracted while writing this.

I WANT KITCHEN NIGHTMARE TO BE ON!!!!!

Uhm.... so what I have going on:

Dec 14 - Focus Group, Movies with Jamesha and maybe others :P
Dec 16 - Weather be nice here in chicago... or I'm gonna kick someone. But ya sounds like baking cookie in the morning for 200 ppl >_>...... then Woodfield, then pick eh up in ze airport, then foods. WHEE
Dec 17-19 - Baking frenzy... ehhh
Dec 23 - Family Stuff
Dec 28 - Another Party
Dec 31 - And then another
Jan 5 - Me birthday.... yippe.

ya... not too much but more and more as I think about the end of break.

AND MY BOOK.... gooooone... where are you. WHY AREN'T you mailed. Where are you? Every time I pass a fedex or ups.... I yell... 'DO YOU HAVE MY BOOK? WHERE IS MY BOOK????"

I finally emailed them because it has been 2 weeks. -_- WHEEE

<3 you all... I'm mindless with the tv on here.... close to kitchen nightmare time!... ya right

And then there will be cake....

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:17:53 GMT

Well then... I suddenly have a schedule of things to do. Who would've thought :P It isn't much but it will make time go by a little quicker and school will kick in.

Tuesday Dec 11 - Jury Duty.... LAMES! This is my first time doing this, and actually I won't mind it cause it give me the chance to sit around and read something or other. So whee on a day wasted.

Friday Dec 14 - I have one of those silly survey things to do. So I get paid to sit and answer questions about a gum. I'm not going to complain AT ALL! I actually can't wait for this. Also the lady was really nice about it, she was saying how she can get more of these things for me to do. ;P

Sunday Dec 16 - Pick Jeff up at the airport. Bestest day ^_^

(Some time that week I'm gonna be visiting a close relative of mine who just had surgery. But I was told I couldn't go too soon, cause his wife doesn't want him to be startled... cause we always joke around about everything.

Thursday Dec 20 - Now I have 2 things to do this day which kinda sucks a lot. So at 4 I'm meeting people downtown to do like a little Christmas thing. I was figuring that should be like a 2-3 hour excursion. Right after that I have to head back to my high school for a little reunion dillie. They do this every year and I feel bad for missing it last year, but they had it like Jan. 3 when I started classes up again.... whee Japanese class. Anyway I need to go to it this year. And I've asked a few people how they would feel if I punched a certain someone. :P They said I should. But I will probably go maybe drag someone with me. It should be fun to see everyone again. Well at least the people I talked to.

Sunday Dec 23 - Family Christmas celebration. *parties*

Monday Dec 31 - Should be going to RPG/Alex's party dillie. Whee! Finally a New Year's out and about. Should be fun, and I have a wonderful thing to wear at the event.

And of course school starts the 3rd.... which is gay on numerous levels.

Also between all this I will keep baking, cause it is fun... what can I say, I love being a little baker.

Okay I just did this entry to kinda remind myself what I was doing. hehe

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:06:39 GMT

So.... Gordon Ramsey.... AWESOME!

I want to go to one his restaurants eventually. Even though they are expensive as heck... and in New York.

In other news... Vicka's Amazing baked wonders... go on sell tomorrow. What does this mean, something I baked is actually being sold at my parents place. I'm excited, and actually kinda happy that I can do something so awesome and make people smile. I CAN BAKE! WOOT

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:47:10 GMT

You ever get that feeling that you screwed up...... for some reason it is sitting on my back right now. But this time I'm actually pretty sure I did and in the end the outcome, I probably deserve it :(

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:05:16 GMT

Okay the update. Now while pondering as doing the laundry I decided I'm dividing this post in to two sections. First the positive cause of course those make everyone happy. And then of course following will be some things that have crossed my mind in the last few days that aren't so positive. (side note as I'm writing these I'm doing this thing: http://deathball.net/notpron/ I never understand why I start doing these things in the first place.)

So first le POSITIVES:

- School is done and I actually think I did pretty well this quarter. The class I thought I was going to do the worst in, Psychology, I ended up getting an A. So with that I'm pretty sure I got like straight As this quarter, which makes me really happy. :)

- Also I'm kinda happy that I'm already trying to get Jmac stuff organized. I sent my little email out saying that us officer need to do our meeting cause we have a lot going on during winter quarter. With that we have to get stuff rolling ahead so we can get everything done and awesome. Especially Mr. Jmac which I'm really excited about!

- For Thanksgiving the family and I head to the Wisconsin Dells which was fun for the weekend. Of course things aren't always calm with my family but overall I would like to think we all enjoyed ourselves.

- I've already come up with a storyboard for my Animation 3 project. WOOT WOOT! I've been working on character design and everything for this. Basically it is tied to the Senior Capstone Mike, Jeff, and I have been talking about working on. A lot of the 2D stuff is gonna be my job so wheeeeee! But I like our little main character Shade that I've been working on. I'll scan him as soon as I complete him and decide on a color scheme. And of course the scan will probably be when I'm either at CTI or back at the UCC.. cause I left my scanner there.

- I kinda got an early Christmas gift. The best way to put it is, I was going to buy a 22' monitor on my own but when I went to purchase it my dad was like I got it... don't worry, merry Christmas. I was like o_o Swwwwweeeeet. So that was awesomes!

- Today I ordered The Art of Rigging Vol. 1 book, which is going to keep me busy and learned-ded during break. Cause I'm very interested in rigging and I have actually considered it to be what I might want to do during my life. With ordering that book I decided I wanted to get a new video card. So I have all that coming in this week. Also with buying all this I'm kinda all set on things I needed to get so I won't be buying much of anything for the month most likely.

- Oh now this one came out of no where. I went to deposit money in my bank account and realized I had A LOT of extra money. Hence the two previous purchases going through. This kinda made me realize that I really don't need to do too much work this break but of course I will still work cause I need something to do.

- I get to bake again! YESH... first baking project chocolate cake for ppl at the restaurant and for my adventure on Friday.

- I get to visit Elaine's, which is my adventure on Friday. That will be VERY nice. *huggles Elaine*

- I love my Jeff... thought I'd throw that in here... cause it is always a positive thing :P

Now I guess the stuff that crosses the Vicka's mind... you all can ignore this if you want cause ya:

- My brother... *le sigh* At times I feel like he is a completely different person. He has become cruel and unkind. It surprises me and it did frustrate me a few times during the trip. I mean he thinks he should have everything his way and that no one listens to him. Basically a spoiled brat. Hopefully he will be the little wayne I used to know and love and I hope that he will become nicer. But I can't hope for everything.

- So why was I sick this morning. Well the only thing I can think of is that I ate old Sushi yesterday and/or I had too much salt leading to my headache. But I think with both combined my body wasn't really happy with me. SO with all that happening I think I'm going to be watching what I'm eating for the next few weeks. This isn't really negative but this is the plan, oatmeal in the morning, salad for lunch, and something light for dinner... also lots of fruit. I just kinda want my body to be happier. With that I know and hope next year I will be motivated to go downstairs to the gym at the UCC and work out just a little... it will make a difference I'm sure.

- The internet doesn't want to be my friend when I want it to be. But I think it is tolerable. I mean I don't plan on doing anything crazy on the computer. I doubt while here I'm even going to touch TF2, unless ppl ask for me to get on and play with them.

- This is general to all people I guess, I sometimes worry if I'm stumbling and just showing a side that people do not want to deal with. This side coming out and making people maybe not love me as much as they used to. Like with this post I realized sometimes I put the negative first before the positives. Which was a huge part of my life, but I've slowly been changing that. Actually I'm changing that a lot quicker then I realize.

- I've realized I'm more stressed at home than at the dorm. I don't know why I guess there is just a lot of tension in my house. It is weird. But I've gone through most of that crap before. I love my family and care for them, I will say that!

- Finally, I just miss everyone. Break to me just seem to be a time where people are hard to reach. While in school I feel like I can just call people and poof there they are. Now I look around and I see the four walls of my room. Of course I especially miss Jeff... but I know this break won't be as hard as the summer was. It is shorter but still I miss him. But that is why I keep myself busy.

Okay all that out of the way... I LOVE YOU ALL! <3

The few who aren't even in this ring like Alexis and Kristyn who read this wheneva, I really miss you guys cause I haven't seen you in sooo long!

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:50:44 GMT

Something has kicked my ass and I'm not feeling well at all. My head is spinning and I'm cramping like crazy. Yet I play the nice daughter and called saying I could go to work. I'm calling it I'm lasting maybe an hour with the way I'm feeling right now.

I'll update for real later on today.

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:01:52 GMT

*hates self*

and for the record I just want to go home... I'm mentally done with everything....!

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:06:25 GMT

Well the Vicka is basically done with finals. I have one more to sit in but I'm completely done working on stuff. That makes me happy and of course I'm sitting here after finishing my 3D project being completed (which mind you all I will be uploading when I get a chance at home).

I think I did awesomes this quarter which makes me happies.

So for break, yup I told my parents 100 hours no more no less... and they were fine with it, which makes me happy. Which mean I would technically work 25 hrs a week while there, but I'll probably do like 40 one week and then 30 another and then another 30 another week knowing me. But besides that I will be baking again. Also I will be coming downtown a few times hopefully in order to work on animation stuffs. What stuff might that be, well I'm thinking fixing up my bat and pitch thing and make it portfolio worthie. Also I'll probably be picking up this book on rigging in maya and probably do a few things with that.

So that will be break for SURE!

Also I will be picking up a new monitor *squees*

I'm forcing myself to get this by leaving my currently small monitor at the dorm but taking my computer. Meaning I need a monitor anyway.

Okay that is all I'm bored sitting here... Whee *flies away*

Stolen from Kristyn :P

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:24:02 GMT

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year:

3 Facts:
1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres. (le sigh... and it still exist... doesn't it O_o)
1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.

2 Births:
1941 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
1956 - Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef (WOOT WOOT IRON CHEF!!!)

1 Death:
1951 - Andrei Platonov, Russian write

Whee... I should be doing homework...