• 12Dec 06

  Been a long, long time.

  Holy crap on a stick, it's been nearly a year since I last posted on this thing. Man how the lack of time and just plain forgetting really adds up. Anyways I'll just throw out some quickies since I really should be finishing up some projects. As of the 2nd week of January it will be 1 year since I quit smoking, been a hell of a year too since I went cold turkey and still have been getting strong cravings but I've kept them at bay.

  Seems the only games I play anymore are the ones on my DS, I touch the home systems every now and then (except the xbox, still waiting on that replacement cord MS, been nearly a month). And from time to time I can get in some time on the pc in between photoshop and illustrator projects.

  School was going pretty well for me till a few months ago when I had a relapse of my "conditions" and nearly had to check myself in for help but I found some ways to work around it and have some how managed to function again. I may still have to make up a few classes though.

  Still working for chicken scratch at the theater, though somehow I've become head usher and got employee of the month a few times. Don't know how that happened since I do a half-assed job there all the time. Well I gotta get back to these projects, don't wont to be up all night again. I hope I can get the time to start posting again but the looks of it are getting kind of slim. If you have my name on AIM you can get in touch with me anytime now since I also have AIM on my cell phone.

   Anyways later ya'll.
  XG

  • Posted Dec 12, 2006 6:00 pm PT
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• 26Dec 05

  Only one more thing left to do...

    As I mentioned before I needed to find some work to help tide things over and quit smoking. Well as of last week I'll just need to quit smoking. Yep, after a year of searching I finally found a job that wont make my already bad back worse. Granted its not a great job or a good paying one but its easy and I wont have to unload a damn truck. I'm now working at a Regal Cinema here and it's already helping with the last thing on my list. Before I was smoking around a pack to a pack and a half a day. Since I've started working, I've been smoking a pack every two days. So, I'm on my way to giving up the stick.
    One little perk is I now get to see any movie I want for free and as often as I go to the theater this is gonna save me a nice chunk of change. lol Another plus is as much walking as I've been doing, I'm sure to loose some weight and who knows, maybe I might finally get the motivation to start working out nonstop again like the old days. Seems like these final days of 05 are being rather well to the lizard boy.

  XG

  • Posted Dec 26, 2005 6:31 am PT
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• 16Dec 05

  My 1st semester back to college was a success. Yay for me!!!

  As I mentioned earlier it had been 8 years since I dropped out of college and I returned to it at this past fall. Though rough at first I slowly got back into the groove of things and got some pretty good grades.
  
  Drawing I: A (big shocker there eh lol)
  
  Three Dimensional Media: B (missed a few classes in this course and that kept me away from an A)
  
  Algebra I: C (Math is my worst subject and for awhile it looked like I was gonna have to repeat this class, so I'm actually proud of this grade since it was the first time I got anything higher than a D in Algebra without cheating or any other weasel like tricks. For once I did it on my own and actually started understanding some of this crap.)
  
  Next semester I'll be going full time and will be starting up most of my design and Mac classes and also I'll be taking Algebra II (the only other math class I will need, yay!)  and English Comp. That is if I can get the finacial aid I need. But anyways around it I'm happy, especially since I found out how high their job placement rating is and since I've already started making an impression on the advisers and teachers there.
  
  So after a rather depressing year that was 2004 (my mother and uncle both passed away, the dealings with probate court and lawyers and loosing my job as the cover artist/designer for the mag I worked for.) and earlier this year (still dealing with those bloodsucking lawyers, a lengthy fight with the hospital, Insurance and Medicare and giving up the drink), things are finally starting to go well for me. All I have to do now is find some work to help tide things over and quit smoking and my new life will be at full steam on its way.

  • Posted Dec 16, 2005 7:28 am PT
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