Sticking an update in here

I just updated 13 days on my other blog after avoiding it forever. All I had to do was upload the pictures to photobucket (a daunting task with my slow internet), then stick them up on blogger and narrate them. Not so bad. However, now I have 36 days to fully update, meaning find all the pictures I took (scattered among three computers), choose the ones I want for each day, bring them up in Paint Shop Pro and size them down to 400 pixels wide, save them with new names in my folder for the month, upload them, then put them in blogger. Ugh. I hate my process, but my ocd won't let it be any different. Oh well.

So since I haven't written in this blog for a long while, I figured I would stick something up here while avoiding everything I have to do for the other blog. Nothing much has happened lately; I still don't have a job, because no one is hiring with the down economy, and so I haven't being doing all that much. Writing-wise, I finally updated my fanfic after eight months (embarrassing), and I just sent in a collection of ten poems for the Utah Arts Council annual writing competition. The first prize is 300 dollars, so here's hoping!

My main laptop still won't charge, so all I have for writing is my little netbook my dad got me. But I did get a new camera recently, which has really good zoom and focus and lots of capabilities, so that's good. And last week I went ghost hunting two days in a row with my family, which was very fun. I got some great shots too, big bright orbs, so I'm very happy with that.

And my sister bought Wii fit recently, so I've actually been exercising somewhat. Apparently I've got good balance. :) But it's kind of hard for me to do it properly, because being a 40DDD it keeps claiming my center of balance needs to be further forward, but if I lean forward as far as it wants, I risk falling over! Bah.

Random post, but at least it's up here.

Avoiding the other blog!

Well I suck with this whole take a picture every day thing. Actually, mostly just with updating. I have a week and a half to put online now, though I first have to track down all the pictures I took for each day. Not an easy task when I realize the camera time and date is messed up so they all say there were taken in 2005. Yep. Bleh. And I still haven't finished my shirt I've been making. Or written anything much. However, I did do a bit of free sketching with pen at the convention I went to the last weekend, which I found to be very freeing, to work with every line rather than erasing and trying to make it perfect. So I'm liking that. Now let's hope my inner critic can stay away from this and not ruin it for me.

So anyway, I'm only updating this because I'm avoiding updating my other blog. :) I haven't really done much of interest, although I did go to Idaho last Thursday and hung out at hot springs for hours. That was pretty great. Plus we got up to 118 mph on the way there. . . I didn't even notice they were trying for a new speed record. Yep. I'm oblivious. I think I was more focused on there being four people in the back of a rather small car than anything else. And the box of wheat thins I had in my hand. :D

Creative Cycles

I think I've mentioned before that I'm too dang creative in too many directions. I've decided that the way my brain has decided to deal with this is making my creativity come in cycles. Back in January it was poetry: I wrote over 40 poems. I also took over 128 pictures, but that was because of my blog. This month I've only written about five poems, but I've crocheted a blanket, a bag, two stuffed animals, and most of a shirt. I think December was a drawing month, but I want another one of those to come around so I can work on my webcomic. I haven't had a writing month since November and NaNoWriMo :( sorry to all my fanfic followers. Bleh, so anyway, I hadn't posted to this blog for a while, so I thought I'd put something up here. I really wish these cycles could be daily or something, so I could get more variety. :P

Haircut and Sweeney Toddness!

I just got a great new haircut today, and I'm so happy! I hadn't cut it since last April (when it was completely shaved), so it feels nice to now have a stylish haircut again. It's kind of a pixie cut, that I can either spike up or leave down, so very low maintenance but still cut. Anyway, the real reason I'm blogging is because of my Sweeney Todd obsession. I will never think of going to the "barber" the same way again. :)

I first thought about Sweeney Todd when the stylist tossed the sheet around me to keep the hair off. I had a quiet chuckle, then put it out of my mind. She shampooed, conditioned, then cut my hair, and I thought we were done, when she said she wanted to razor my ends so they would spike better. She then pulled out a razor that looked almost exactly like the one in Sweeney Todd, and proceeded to start cutting my hair. I nearly lost it. I kept expecting her to reach around and slit my throat. And for some reason this made me very happy. O_o I'm a strange person. . . but anyway, that was my real life Sweeney Todd experience. I shall ask for my ends to be razored every time from now on. :)

Other blog

So if you truly want to know what's going on in my life, I'm posting most of my daily crap along with my photos in my project 365 blog now. I'll still put random individual things in here, or things I want to elaborate on more, but that's where most of my blogging is now. An alternate title for this blog is random and not-so-rarely updated. :)

I really like keeping the other blog, because I'm actually "journaling" for the first time, something that's been my goal for a while now. So. . . yep.