Good Advice

Here is some good advice. Not just for the past YouTube gathering but also for anyone during this or last summer.

Typical August Day....

Drinking: Herbal Peppermint Tea
Listening to: We Built this city: Starship, Mrs. Robinson : Lemon Heads, Feel good times : Pink, The Zehpre Song :Red Chillie Peppers.
Watching: Beijing Olympics
Playing: DDR

So here I am in another typical day of August. I guess you could say I have had a rather interesting past few weeks. First of all I went home to visit my family! I had a great time. My mum had bought me some nice art supplies and gotten me some rather large flat rocks to
do calligraphy on. Altough even now... a couple weeks after I still feel pretty home sick. As in I mean the amount of bullshit here vs. the amount of bullshit in Canada makes Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania/The United States looks like a big old shit hole of crap. I'm not saying that there are no assholes in Canada/Ontario/Clinton but compared to Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania/The United States there are a hell of a lot less.

Anyways, here are a few pictures from my trip!

Here's Adam walking around the rock quarry. Helping me to find some nice flat printable rocks.








A wide shot of the rock quarry. And I do believe that, that boulder there is the biggest one that I have ever seen. I mean it's just massive. (in my opinion)







My cousins (Janice's) baby pony called Lilly from last August (2007) She is now a year old. :D






The three miniature ponies together. I really love this shot of their mains. The contrast between the grey/blue, brown and white.







I show this shot only for the fact that you can all see what it is like in the area around my home town. Very country like, very flat and very relaxing.





Here is my cousin Janice feeding her sheep. It was kind of fun to visit her because I haven't gotten to visit her for a while. I did really have a great visit home. O and before I forget.... I also sold 3 very nice paintings when I was at home. Yes and you can view these paintings and more at DeviantArt.com





Next well the Monday after a got home from Canada I got my Nintendo Wii! And let me tell you I absolutely love it. It is such a sweet gamming system. I love Wii sports. My fav's being the baseball and the bowling. I have already logged so many hours on those two games. And then the following weekend I got DDR for the Wii. It is pretty fun. Only thing is that I am just not that coordinated yet. I love the music and the graphics. The next game I will buy for it will be Mario and and Sonic at the Olympic games. From what I've seen in the commercials it's all the major sports from the summer Olympics. :D Total win for me.

Last week I met with my new personal trained named Jamie. He's great! Talking about my goals at the gym, doing new and different routines, examing how I eat etc etc....

This past Saturday I had kind of a busy day. First of all got up and headed off to the gym for the bootcamp. I felt really good but tired after. Then Adam and I got our new cell phones. I got the new Virgin Mobile "Wild Card" It looks like I can have a lot of fun with this new phone, texting, camera phone etc...... It anyone wants my new cell number just let me know. Later in the day Anthony, George, Colin, Jon and Chris cam over to visit for a pizza/Video games night. Here are a couple photo's from that night!


Us Cheering on adam as he makes a strip in Wii Bowling








Colin joining in!









And finally. A treat for all us Star Trek fans and a sad truth for the Star Wars Fans. Star Trek Vs. Star Wars!


What do I think? Well I agree with Blunty on this one.

Mid Summer Heat

Finally enough time to update this thing! *lol* This summer has been both interesting, fun and busy. First of all there has been work. I have been at CSE for at least a year (although I try to not think of that as it can be a little depressing). I am happy for the small cash flow.. actually that’s the only reason I stick around sometimes I think.

Second, the gym. As of lately I have been going there at least 6 days a week,, mostly 7 days a week actually. My personal trainer as of lately has given me a diet/eating plan. I am sticking to it pretty good. Plus I’ve noticed that I’ve been toning up a lot more. Also, I sleep better at night and that is always good.

Thirdly, doing more commission work. Yup, I have defiantly been busy doing the art work. The amount of art work has steadily been going up. Here are a couple of paintings that I just finished for a woman in my hometown.

I am pretty proud of them. Next I think I will be doing a couple of bookmarks and a sign for a local bar. I will post them here when I finish them.

Of course I have been doing other things too. Last weekend me and my friend Becky went out for an afternoon on Walnut Street that in located in Shady Side. I had so much fun. First store we hit was Kwaii Gifts It was so cute in there I thought my head would explode! (well not really) One item I got in there was a stainless steal Badtz-Maru mug. It likes mixes my love of kwaii things and penguins! It’s so sweet. Then we visited random stores. I had a blast. We got Crapes’ for lunch and then visited an art store (my fav store) A&C I got a couple things that I had really needed.

Next we plan on going to the Contemporary Craft show Looks pretty interesting. I’m stoked.

And finally this upcoming week… I will be taking off Thursday to go to IdleWild park with Adam and his family. Then on Friday I will be taking off to go to visit my parents! I am very excited about visiting my parents!

Anyways, that’s all for now… Hope you all have a great week!!

Welcome to Summer 2008

Well here we start another fun filled summer! (we can only hope) This summer brings me in to a great year of more art commissions/recognition, more fit than ever and just more fun. First of all as I have mentioned I recently went away to Nags Head North Carolina! It was soo beautiful. I didn’t want to leave. I had never been that far South or spent that much time near the ocean before. Well, here are some pictures!

Our Room was really nice. We had an ocean view, Jacuzzi and just all the basic stuff.

It also came with a bottle of Champaign.

On the first full day we went to the Nags Head Aquarium http://www.ncaquariums.com/ri/rent.htm I got to see all sorts of sea creatures. It was very fascinating and cool. Then we went next door to the Elizabethan Gardens http://www.outerbanks.com/elizabethangardens/. Also very beautiful. I love gardens and flowers. Than we kind of relaxed, had a great fish dinner and then relaxed the rest of the night. Walked on the beach and stuff.

The Next day we visited the Cape Hatteras Light House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Hatteras_Lighthouse It was so tall. We walked up the whole thing. We got some great views from the top. You can see a lot of the coast line. It was pretty windy too. I was kind of glad thought cause after a while it was so muggy and humid.

Walking the stairs was like walking up 12 floors we were told. I didn’t feel it until the next day!

On the way home we stopped by a civil wr marker. And there was an civil war cemetery near by. I always find cemetery’s to be calm and serine. So here a couple photo’s of that.

When we returned we went to the beach. Here are a couple photo’s of that!

Later after dinner (a dinner of snow crab Mmmm) Thanks Deadliest Catch guys! We went to the Christmas shop. It was half Christmas and half antique. It was a real treat to visit.

Later that night we had to get all read to go. Here are a couple pics of me and Adam relaxing.

I have tons of other things planned for the summer month’s. Visiting my parents, IdleWild amusement park, more art commissions, catching up with old friends, watching bad horror movies, and of course going to the gym.

Not too much more to update on right now but I hope that everyone has a Great CANADA DAY! I know I will be celebrating it in some small way. Here is a picture that I think both Canadians and anime fans will like!