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When you have friends who are in college, you get really tired of hearing about the various entrance exams they have to take. ACT, SAT, GMAT, whatever. It's about to drive me nuts, because one of my friends is going on and on and on about needing to find GMAT prep classes so she can keep going on her education. Every time she mentions it, I end up rolling my eyes because she just won't stop talking about it. I realize she's excited to be continuing her education, but really? Is this the only topic that she has to speak about? LOL
That isn't to say that I wouldn't love to go back to school. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with the 2 year colleges around here because the 4 year ones won't accept me. I never took the ACT or SAT tests. Yes you read that right. I never took them. So the 4 year schools in this area won't even look at my application once they see there are no scores for those. Oh well. I can go online. ;)
I'm tired for someone who isn't currently employed. LOL I spend a lot of time doing things though. I spend a lot of time playing my Legend of Zelda video game, cooking (weight loss pills anyone?) for my roommates, and messing around on the computer. As stated in previous posts, I've been working in Gimp, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Daz Studio to create graphics and the like for my own amusement. I also create graphic websets for websites (personal sites) and post them up for download on my graphics site, Eternal Stardust Designs.
I looked through our local job seekers paper on Saturday but found absolutely nothing that I am qualified for. It's not that I need a degree, it's more that most of the jobs are for mechanics and the like, and I don't do that stuff. I don't even want to do that stuff. LOL So it's back to the drawing board for me. :/
I am ready to just curl up with a good book and forget everything. I don't plan on searching for a discount cigar, I don't even plan on blogging much. I just want to curl up with one of the six books that have shown up in my mailbox this week and just read and read and read. I have three books to review, three books to read for a challenge, and another that I won in a contest that I want to read as well. I'm wondering if I can get all of these books 7 in total, read by the end of October. I also have a couple books that I won in another contest that should be coming shortly, another book requested from PaperbackSwap and another requested from Book Mooch. So I'll have plenty to read this month. Oh, and at the end of the month, I should be receiving a book for a book blog tour I'm participating in, as well as possibly another depending on if I opt to participate in the Pocket Books Blog Tours this month or not. Yes, I'm a reader, can you tell?
You know, one of the things I love to do is use Photoshop, Gimp, Daz 3D, and Paint Shop Pro to create graphics. But some things are still beyond me. ;) Things like seamless glass tiles and the like still elude me. I've learned a technique for making what looks like velvet and it looks pretty darned good if I do say so myself, but when I import it to Daz 3D to texture clothes with, it comes out looking like satin. *rolls eyes* Although the velvet/satin looks good on what I've put it on, so I can't really complain.
I do have a deviantArt account, ~gothicpeach so if you'd like, you can check out my first couple of scenes using Daz 3D and a few vector/vexel work and some other work I've done there. :)
Do you like to play with graphics programs and if so, which ones do you use?
A friend of mine asked me the other day if this blog gets any traffic. I honestly couldn't tell him, and then he asked if I wanted more traffic. I told him that I personally don't really care one way or the other, but that a couple of my other blogs could definitely use a traffic boost. So he told me I should try website directory submissions - basically start submitting my blogs to blog directories, my websets site to graphics site directories, etc to try and get more traffic to my sites. The thing is, I really don't care if I get any visitors or not. I don't really care if nobody reads my inane ramblings about this, that, or the other thing. It really doesn't matter to me. I think that surprised my friend.
You see, my friend is all about getting traffic to his websites. If he doesn't have traffic, he doesn't see the point in having the websites. It being a hobby or giving him something to do in his spare time is not a good enough reason. He's there specifically to get the people to view his website. Kind of interesting, isn't it? Some people care so much for the traffic they get, others could care less if anyone sees their blogs/websites or not.
Where do you fall? Do you crave the attention you get from people visiting your blog/site or do you not care, its' there because you like to mess with it?
Well, you know, I've been messing around in Gimp and PaintShop Pro Photo X2 lately, but I'm definitely not elite. You won't see me making banners to advertise the best weight loss product any time soon. LOL No one will be hiring me to design graphics for them. Although I do have a website that offers websets for people to use on their websites, and I just updated it tonight. I retired a few sets, am going to re-do a couple of sets, and then I'm going to have a lot of fun creating new sets.
At the moment though, I'm just listening to Rob Zombie, playing Hatchlings on Facebook, and doing a bit of blogging on my various blogs. :) Then it'll be bed time. If I can manage to get to sleep that is. :P Insomnia stinks. Take it from me. Tossing and turning all the time is not a nice way to spend the night, and yet my doctor won't do anything about it except give me suggestions that don't work. Bleh.
All right, well, Hatchlings is back up so I'm off to finish with Hatchlings and then see what else there is to do to get me sleepy. Nite!
Ever wonder how it is that people always have such nice outdoor furniture at the beginning of every summer? How it always seems to be brand new at the beginning of the year and then next year, it's brand new again? I'm thinking I've figured it out. At least I've figured it out in our neighborhood. I think people are taking advantage of the clearance sales at the end of the summer that the stores hold to get rid of their stock of all things summer. Of course, this makes sense, but what gets me is that people seem to do this with no regard for the fact that the furniture they're getting rid of is usually still good and probably could be used for at least another two summers if they keep treating it as well as they did in the first place. But then again, people don't think about that. It's "gotta buy new" all the time even if what people have is still perfectly good.
It sickens me to see how much people toss away when there isn't a need to do so, and how much people buy new things when they don't need them. :(
So I find myself spending a lot of time on the search engines. You know, Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Mostly to see if I can find new plugins for Gimp, new brushes for Gimp, pretty much anything for Gimp. I've been using Gimp lately for making graphics. I'll bet you thought I was going to say I was searching the internet for the best fat burners, didn't you? Nope, sorry. Despite being a rather large person, I am not currently looking for those. ;) Right now, I'm just looking for some things to make my graphics pop. I found a few cool things - some brushes on Deviant Art and some plugins/scripts on both Deviant Art and Gimp's plugin registry. Sometime I'll post some graphics that I've done using the Gimp and the various things I've obtained via my searches. :)
It is time for us to all take off our hats and bow our heads in respect for the death of Summer. This Summer has been an unusually cool and there have been times in which we were all comfortable wearing a hoodie sweatshirt. Very strange. Time to say goodbye to the orlando vacations, swimming pools, pool parties, ability to take your dog to the dog park, and to the leaves on the trees. In a couple short weeks the leaves will begin to turn and fall to the ground. Halloween will soon be upon us, and little munchkins in costumes ranging from Disney princesses to Spiderman and back will be tromping the streets with their parents, begging for candy at every door that has a porch light turned on above it.
Yes my friends, Summer's end is upon us. Soon we shall be turned the clocks back, gaining an hour of sleep, and the kids will truly realize that it will be May or June again before they are free to run around as they please.
We had a better place to put the TV. See, where it is right now, we have to look up at it. Gives you a crick in the neck every time. I usually end up crocheting and listening to programs instead of watching them, because we don't have a decent tv stand and I end up getting headaches from trying to watch the TV. It's a real pain in the neck.
Then again, there are a lot of things we could use around here that we don't have because none of us have the money. Being out of work stinks royally and let me tell you, freelancing isn't going all that great either. People don't want to pay freelancers a decent wage - and one guy even restored to telling me that my website examples were not professional-looking enough to get me to drop my bid price on a freelance project I bid on. He wanted me to do the job, but wouldn't pay me what I asked, and wouldn't tell me what his price range was. I declined to take the job - because frankly, I don't find it very professional of him to state that my example sites "scared" him (his words were "your examples scared me. I don't know if you designed them, but they aren't very professional.) First off, two of them are personal sites, so they're not going to look all that professional. One of them, the client I made it for thinks it is VERY professional. So there. Plus, the guy wouldn't give me the URLs to the sites he wanted me to incorporate WordPress blogs into so I could view them and see what needed to be done first.
But I'm still plugging on and going through options for freelance jobs and hoping I can find a decent freelancing job at some point.
