Movin' On Up....

Hey, Guys and Gals...

Well, we got a lot to go through, so let's get started.

First off, I got a new phone...a Samsung Alias...just like Rose's! She put me on her family plan, so now I have a GOOD phone. With that, I also have a new number, so if you'd like to keep in touch via the wireless airwaves, just shoot me an email and I'll send it to ya.

Secondly, I shall be moving in with Rose come November. That's right, I'm finally getting out on my own (sort of) with a very special lady. We've been talking about it for a while now and we decided on it this past weekend. Then, come April, we're gonna look for a new place, probably a house to rent. I'm just gonna be moving a few items over there...clothes, computer, desk, table, movies, etc. I'm not taking most of my tubs in the garage. I'm just gonna leave them here.
I think it'll be good. It's time for me to get the heck outta Dodge and set up roots somewhere new.
Now, I just have to not lose my job.

School's going well. Just plugging along.

Work is going well now that we've gotten all that backstock outta the store. They had people from other stores helping this past weekend. Tomorrow, the store unofficially opens. It's a special day for employees and their friends and families to come shop and then Wednesday, people are coming in. Our official grand opening is October 12th, so come and shop! You'll be helping to pay my salary...

That's about it for now...I need to get some drawing done...

Lataz...

It's Full of Stars...

Well, I figured I'd take a break from homework to write a new blog. I think it's well overdue, we have lots to talk about. Let's get started, shall we?

I've been plowing away at my job at Target. I've been there for about a month now and I think it's going well. I'm learning the job and I'm getting a lot of recognition for the work that I do, which is good. That was one problem in my previous jobs, that I would work my ass off and not get any credit for it.
It's a little frustrating at work right now, however, because we have too much product and not enough room for it all. They push everything they can on the sales floor, then whatever is left over gets sent back to us. Well, the problem is that we're not equipped to store that amount of volume and now we're starting to overflow. Then the powers-that-be complain that we're not stocking fast enough. It seems to me that they're a little out of touch with how it is back there. That's really my only complaint at the moment. It's only temporary, hopefully. Once customers start buying stuff we'll get a lot of it out of there and we can stock the way we're supposed to.

A couple weeks ago, I took Rose to the fair. She'd never been there, but she had a good time. We only got to go on two rides cuz the tickets are so friggin' expensive and each ride is about 5 or 6 tickets. We looked at all the exhibits, bought some stuff, split an earthquake burger and had a darn good time. We took the bus, so we didn't have to deal with parking. We'll probably just do the bus from now on.

School is going well. I'm doing my best to keep up while working. I'm contemplating taking 3 classes, but I dunno if I'll be spreading myself too thin.

Now that I'm working regularly, I wanna try and work on my freelance work. Doing simple things like illustrations, business cards, tattoo designs, etc. just to make a little extra money on the side. So, if you or anyone is interested, let me know. I'm not quite ready to do websites yet, but hopefully I will be soon. I still have to work on my own site.

Well, I guess that's it for now. Time to get back to the homework.

Until we meet again...

Tales of a Workin' Man...

So, today was my first day of my new job at Target. Overall, I think it well. Got myself all settled. I got a little confused on the break schedule since most of the new people were there at 4am and I didn't have to come in til 6am. But, we figured it out for tomorrow...
Basically, we just pull out all the merch that sold yesterday first...that gets priority...then after that, we put everything away in their appropriate area...it's all pretty straightforward.
Later in the day, we had to put away some stuff that is to be sent back to the manufacturer, but we put it in a weird place, so tomorrow, I gotta fix it...that oughta be fun...
I think I'll probably enjoy the job...everyone seems pretty nice, even after my relatively minor screw up...we'll see how the rest of training goes...

I did start getting a headache about 11-ish and I forgot my medicine...I think I just need to carry a little water bottle with me or something...

That's about it...it's not exactly brain surgery...I think I'll get the hang of it before training is done...

In other news, I saw a cool idea I wanna do...drawing pictures on long box lids...for those who aren't geeks such as myself, a long box is the big, long, white box that geeks store their comic books in...I think I'm gonna draw cool characters on top of mine and perhaps see if other geeks want the same thing...I think it'd be cool...

That's it for today, my darlings...

Check in for next time...

Rainy Day Fun With Republicans...

So, yesterday, Rose and I went to Key Arena for this business motivation seminar thing...which actually was more like a religious, republican, sales gathering. There were some pretty cool speakers...Terry Bradshaw, Colin Powell, Suze Orman, Rudy Guiliani...they had some cool things to say...of course, Guiliani had to bust out with the anti-left rhetoric as Republicans tend to do...oh, and someone heckled Colin Powell...
Suze Orman had some good financial advice...and she didn't even try to sell me anything...there were a couple of guys there who were hocking financial seminars after a big fundamental demonstration of what you really need to get started...which I may use.
The seminars, of course, were on sale...they were like a 500% discount...that's an exaggeration, of course...I didn't bother to do the math...it was quite a price cut though...One seminar was marked down from $5,000 to $99...and the other was about $1,500 down to $49...and the suckers poured from the stands...
Oh, and they spouted Jesus and how much they love America and the military...because, as you know, Democrats don't love America or the military because they want to change things...
Anyway, I think that's enough of the rant...I didn't hate it or anything...it was quite entertaining and I got some good info...

Rose and I cut out early because I think they were about to sell us something else...so we went to the Fun Forest and rode the roller coaster in the rain...that was exhilarating and frightening all at the same time...
Then, we were gonna go see the X-Files at a theater downtown, but I got confused about which theater to go to, so we just headed home...

Traffic was friggin' horrid...I don't think I've ever seen it that bad...

In other news, tomorrow is my first day of training for my new Target job...I'm looking forward to it, but also nervous as hell...I hope it doesn't suck and that I don't let myself down...

I'm working on some stuff to start my new art blog...so, keep an eye out for that...

I guess that's it for now...

So, until Dr. Doom sells face cream door-to-door, Make Mine Marvel!

W-O-R-D Up!

Hello, my sweet ones...

It's been a long-o while since I last posted...I can only attribute that to part busyness and part just being a lazy sod.

Quite a bit has happened since last we saw each other...I've been doing school stuff...that's going not too shabbily...and the big news...

I GOT A JOB!

That's right...I have acquired employment with the Target corporation. I'm a day stocker...a very early day stocker. My day will begin at 4am and conclude around noon. I had my orientation on Thursday and I start my training on Wednesday bright and early 6am in Federal Way...I was kinda hoping they'd give me Bonney Lake since that one's only about 5 minutes from my house.
So, yes, I'll be a workin' man...I'll be able to get some bills paid, save up to move out, buy comics regularly again, buy DVD's and keep up on my Star Wars figures.
Speaking of which, I think I may start a Star Wars figure blog just for shits and giggles...I know, I have trouble keeping up on my regular ones, how am I gonna handle 3 or 4? Very carefully, that's how.

I'm gonna start doing my art blog and then I'll work on the action figure blog a little bit later. I'll keep ya posted...

I saw The Clone Wars the other day. All in all, I liked it. Granted, it was geared more towards kids, but that doesn't bother me as it does some other asshat fanboys who seem to have taken it as a personal affront to them that Lucas would have the audacity to make a cartoon for kids...imagine that.
Some of it kinda bugged me a bit, but not enough to take away from the enjoyment of it. That's just a little extreme...
Anyway, I won't rant about Star Wars here...that shall be for another more deserving time...I'm always open to a discussion though if anyone wants to email me...

Anyway, that's about it for now...I shall keep you posted on how it goes with the new job, my countless blogs and any other developments that should happen to cross my path...

Until we meet again....

Busy Little Bee...

I have been one lately. School, friends, girlfriend, home, other stuff...it keeps you on your toes. I'm just trying to maintain some composure and to avoid flipping my proverbial lid.
School is going ok. I got a little behind last week, but I think I can make up the difference. Last weekend was busy...I didn't get to do everything I had planned. I won't go into any details, but I was stressed out.
I did, however, manage to get to see The Dark Knight...holee shit, that movie rocks hard. I won't lay out a review here right now. Partly because I'm lazy and partly because I can't really say anything about the film that you probably haven't heard already. Yes, it's the best Batman film. Yes, Heath Ledger deserves an Oscar.

I got commissioned to do some artwork. I guess the guy is some eccentric millionaire comic geek or something. He has a blog where he posts all these multi-verse team pictures that he's had other artists do for him. I got an email from the guy the other day saying that he wanted to pay me to do one and gave me the link to his site...I told him I could do it for $100 and he said "Let's do!" So, I just gotta pick some different characters from different comic companies from this list he made and do an homage to a classic team cover, also on the list. He didn't give me a deadline or anything, so I guess I just do it at my liesure. I think I should ask for a down payment first, just to make sure the guy is legit.

On a semi-related note, I have a job interview tomorrow at Kits Cameras in Federal Way. It's just for a sales associate position, but it's something. I think I have enough knowledge of and interest in photography to do well. We'll see how it goes.

So, I'm thinking of starting an art blog. Just showcasing the stuff I've done in the past and also new stuff as I make it available. Let's see a show of hands...should I start a whole new blog just for that or should I just do it here, mingled in with my regular blog posts? Lemme know what you think...

Welp, that's all for now, meine kleine lieblings.

Until we meet again...

Where You At, Foo'?

It's been a while since I posted last. I've just been so friggin' busy lately that I haven't had much time to do much of anything.
We went to a couple of baseball games...The Tacoma Rainiers at the end of June, which I think I already wrote about, and Seattle Mariners on July 5...they played the Detroit Tigers...which I think is kind of ironic since the last major league baseball game I went to was a Detroit Tigers game when I was about 10 or so...and this was my first Mariners game ever and my first major league game since that trip to Tiger Stadium oh so many moons ago...just kind of an odd coincidence I thought was worth mentioning...

My 4th of July was pretty fun...we went to Rose's uncle's lake house near Shelton...we hung out by the fire...I kept getting smoke blown in my face...and had some yummy bbq...Rose and I went swimming...we wanted to go out on the inner tube things and dragged behind a boat at 50 or 60 miles per hour, but they didn't have any life jackets big enough...but I got to ride in the boats, so that was fun...
Oh, and their neighbor owns a real life steamboat and he took us for a ride...that was pretty cool...I posted a few pictures on my myspace page, so feel free to check them out...
We were gonna stay for fireworks, but we had a busy day the next day, so we left early...we got all the way to Puyallup (Rose had another Slurpee and jalapeno taquito craving) and realized that she left her purse...so, we had to drive all the way back and then come home...we didn't get home til around 2 am...but, it was a fun day...

So, that was my holiday...other than that, I've just been doing school and still looking for work...I've put in a ton of applications, but no luck so far...I'm getting quite stressed out...I'm ready to get on with my life, but to do that without any money is nigh impossible...just gotta keep chuggin' away, I guess...

Anyway, that's about it for now...I'll try to find more time to post more often...

Until next time, my pets....