hey, that's my bike

Name of the band in Reality Bites. I just have that in my head. And I had no title for today anyway. So there it is. Well, it's Monday. What do you think of that? Excellent! It's my Wednesday. I'm being very random. I felt like a teacher today. (Like a teacher correcting papers or something.) Had to go around dusting and vacuuming in rooms that were already clean. Found a few coffee pots with coffee in them, rooms that needed towels. And I collected a little bag of garbage. All from clean rooms. Being obsessive compulsive as I am, this drove me nuts. No wonder it takes me so long to clean rooms. I have to make every detail perfect. Egads! Found ice growing out of an air conditioner too. 'Twas funny. Can that happen?! Apparently so. Hmm. --Wow. I just spaced out thinking about cleaning. It's like I make things "Monica clean". You know? Friends. Weird.

Ummmm, the other day, the day Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came out, I opened my door at 8:45 a.m. to go to work and found that book in a bag hanging from my doorknob. Whoop! And that was my Monday (Saturday to most people). What a nice way to start the week. I'm assuming it's from the only friend I have who knows I like Harry Potter. I'll see her tonight and then I'll know. Whoop! I haven't had time to read it yet, though, cuz I'm trying to finish up Stephanie Plum #10. That's not the name of it, but uh... you Stephanie Plum fans know what I mean! I forget the name of the book. I guess anyone could have guessed that, no? Not just Stephanie Plum fans. Durr. Lol.

Anyhooo. I saw the trailer for Serenity that's online. Looks good! I can't wait to see that movie. "Oompa loompa doobity doo..." That was random. Ummm. I had a lot more to say when I logged into this here diary. I've been noticing my grammar going all crappy lately. It's like.... I'm trying to be unsnooty. But then in my head I correct my own grammar, so... the snooty is still there! I don't care! I'm a perfectionist! Whoa, down girl.

Hey, no one seems to want to watch my latest video. 18 people have watched it. Or maybe even just one person 18 times, I don't know. Sheesh! One of my older videos got 1200 downloads this month. But that's flukey. That was "My Last Breath". It never gets that much. Somewhere there is a... I don't know what, but for some reason that vid is popular this month. "Not the Red Baron" gets a lot of downloads too. I bet people are sorry they downloaded that one. It's not good.

I am in a damn good mood right now. I don't know why. --Crap, I spaced out again. Hello! Earth to Chris. I ate so much junk food this week. That is so not good. And yet I keep losing weight. Mwahahahaha!!!! It's because I work so hard at work. I worked 9 hours yesterday, and I think I only took a total of 20 minutes of break time. And ate an energy bar somewhere in the middle of that 9 hours, and that's it. You know, besides breakfast. Then came home and had a burrito, cheesy fries, and a lot of cheesy nachos. And like 16 oz. of orange juice. (To somewhat counteract all the cheese, yikes.) That's a lot of calories. Went to bed soon after eating all that. Woke up this morning and weighed myself. I'd lost a pound. Pfft! Weird! Hee hee. But nice. What a weird life.

My ankle hurts. From yesterday. My left one. Usually my right one hurts. The ankle thing is why I quit working at McDonald's. Too much standing up. I was in excruciating pain after about 4 hours. So the days I worked 8, whew! I have this ankle problem. I didn't tell the McD's people that, though! Too embarrassing. I just told them I'd found another job, which is true. But I have -- don't laugh -- "loose ligaments". That's what the podiatrist called it when I was a kid. He made me wear plastic things in my shoes. I've sprained my ankles 5 times (just from walking and tripping on things, etc.), and maybe that damaged them a little in a permanent way, I don't know. But -- and being overweight doesn't help! -- that's why my ankles hurt more than the average person's when I stand for too long. But how embarrassing to try to explain that to a boss without sounding like a whiner. Or lazy. But with my job now, I do a lot of walking and not much standing, and my ankles are fine. Even after 9 hours of housekeeping work they only kinda hurt. Nowhere near what 4 hours of standing can do! Yeeek! Wow, that was a long pointless story. But I kept wanting someone at my last job to ask me why I left so I could explain myself, but it never happened. They don't care. It happens so often they just move on. Argh. So, I had pent up explanations swirling around inside me, lol. (I am sooo into "lol" now. Lol. ) I actually liked the job except for that. And also the uniform made me look even fatter than I actually am. Pfft. GAWD. Oh, and the hours were unpredictable. Okay, there were a few things I didn't like. Shite, I forgot, okay! Yeesh!

Like you care. Ha. I'm just so excitable right now. I don't know why. I think I'm in a good mood, and I don't know why. Aaannnnd.... I already said that. Crap! I have Disney stickers sitting behind me. It's nothing but random from now on. I watched about 20 minutes of Dances With Wolves three weeks ago. I'm not just name dropping for Google. Hee. Really! It just looks like I am. Which I noticed, so I mentioned it. Cuz I'm bored and want to keep writing but have nothing to say. A sentence without commas. My eyeglass cleaner is halfway falling off the table. But not anymore. I have pink tennis shoes that I bought for $12 sitting next to my little phone table unused. Only been worn once or twice. And when I say "tennis shoes", you know I mean "athletic shoes", right? And not shoes made for the purpose of playing tennis. Aren't I cool when I'm manic? Hee.

Shizam! More random. A man from India answered the phone when I called my credit card company tonight and I was afraid we wouldn't understand each other's accents, but all was fine. And a thousand comedy bits I've seen ran through my head at the same time. Comedians really like to do that accent! Oh, and something I read in a book, a Stephanie Plum book, that I kept expecting him to say... it's all a blur in my brain. Darn comedy. Futzing with my reality. Okay, now I'm winding down. Maybe it's too much sunlight. Maybe I really am bored. Why do I keep talking when I have nothing to say? I don't know. It's a luxury. A time luxury. Maybe that's why I'm happy today. I got off work early. Dur. I should have figured that out sooner. Doofus. I mean really, only 4 1/2 hours of work today. Half of what yesterday was. No wonder I'm happy. Eeeeee!!!!!

Okay, I'd better go before I pop a gasket. Sheesh. Bye now.

Chris on 07.18.05 @ 04:50 pm [link]

Bailamos

I have that song in my head. Anyway. I have a half hour to kill, so here I am. Donde esta mis amigos? I don't know if that was proper Spanish. Oh well. And actually I mean donde esta mi amiga, I think. Cuz I'm just waiting for one person to call. Ha! Anyway. I gotta stop saying "anyway."

I just made a video. Well, last week. It took 24 hours. And by that I mean it took 2 12-hour days to create. I had two days off, like most people, and I used them to make a video. Can't believe I finished it in that time. I couldn't let myself linger on anything either. Usually, I do a bunch, then let it sit for a while, then come back to it and do a bunch more. But I knew I had no time, so I crunched it all into two days. It's my longest video too. Six minutes. 24 hours to make 6 minutes of entertainment. Funny! But normal if you consider how much time and work goes into making a one hour episode of fiction. (Notice how I didn't say "reality show". Pfft.) But I love reality shows! Not really. Just Dancing With the Stars, which is why "Bailamos" is in my head right now. Catchy.

Oh, apparently I'm going to Hell. See ya! I made the mistake of letting my mother watch my latest video, and she politely told me I'm going to Hell. And then I suddenly remembered why I don't let her watch my videos usually. Oops. But I wanted to share it with someone! And no one else was around. Still, oops.

I like the video. It has been in my mind for months. And now it's finally finished. And I was soooo happy with it. But now I realize there are very religious - or even moderately religious - people who will hate it. My mother told me it was dark. Which is odd cuz I found it very uplifting. What is up with that? And I love explosions and gunfights and action. Is that weird? For a girl I mean. Pfft. Whatever.

Ha, I also noticed I have a Wesley obsession. In the video it's all "Wesley this" and "Wesley that". Quite funny. A clip of Angel, then one of Wesley, then one of Gunn, then one of Wesley, and on and on like that. Sigh. He's just so dashing, dammit! And crazy. Eeeeeee! Ya gotta love that.

So, how's my life going? I really like cleaning hotel rooms. Call me crazy. You couldn't force me to clean my own house, but for money? Sure. Even though if someone came up to you and said, "Will you clean two single hotel rooms for $6.50?" you'd laugh in their face, right? Yet I do that. Five days a week. Weird! Yawn. Hmm. I was about to go into boring detail. Four minutes to make a bed. If I hurry. Five or six if I don't. How exciting for you to know that! Yeah, I'll move on.

There's just something bitchin' cool about making everything neat and tidy. Especially from a really messy room. (I thought I was going to change the subject?) I had a room so messy today I had to sweep the carpet before I vacuumed. They threw garbage all over the floor and didn't really use the garbage cans at all. And I'm pretty sure they stole the towels? Unless someone already went in there to collect them. So, I had to sweep up the garbage, and dog food. But I like a challenge. I'm crazy, I tell ya!

Anyway, my friend called a few minutes ago and left me a message, so I'd better get back to her. Adios, amigos!

Chris on 07.11.05 @ 08:24 pm [link]

Art

Well then. Because I'm scatterbrained and easily distracted, I totally abandoned my plan to edit books and design web pages. Go me. Takes me a while to figure myself out. Pft. I took my idea about creating backgrounds for web pages and turned it into an idea for creating digital art. And... selling posters of it. Calendars, postcards, whatnot. I should be receiving a check today that is just enough to cover my groceries for next week. I hate living like that. Though at least I have enough money. For the moment. Argh.

Oo! I also scanned some of my old actually painted art into the computer. There is some cool stuff in there! But some of my paintings were too big to scan. I have to get a panorama stitching program or something to do that. Whoop! I used to really like painting. I don't know what happened with that. Except there was no way to share one painting with a bunch of people. It was one painting going to one person, and the next one going to one person. Blah. No way. All that work so something fragile could hang on one person's wall? No way! But now I've got it figured out. A way to share art with lots of people. However, my digital art is not as good as my painted art. It needs work. It's very abstract. I should draw things, scan them into the computer, then color them in digitally. I had a friend who used to do that. Hmm.

It's so funny how I keep abandoning my new ideas. I wonder if this one will last. But it has everything I like in it. I get to create stuff, and I don't have to go to the trouble of packing and shipping each individual thing I sell. Cool. I was going to put a gallery of my art on my site. I wonder if I should also make an ebook out of it. I'm completely obsessed with ebooks lately. Hee hee. Now I'm going to have to copyright my art. Weird. My favorite painting of mine is of an eye. It's on my wall. Too big to scan. I'll figure out the big paintings later. Damn, it's hot in here. Oo, I could..... nevermind, I was about to get all technical and boring about my photo software. Hmm....

I'm afraid to work on my novel. Bad things seem to happen when I do. Or I realize I have no money when I work on my novel. It scares the piss out of me. Phew! So, I'm waiting. A little while. 'Til I definitely have enough money to live on. Sheesh. But it was going well. The novel was shaping up nicely. It's funny how hard it is to take something from a blank page to a finished product people can buy or download. So many steps.

Let's list all the things I want in the world. Material things anyway. Bottled water. I miss that. Cable TV. That was nice to have. Shirts without holes in them! Please, I have plenty of shirts without holes in them. Okay, at least one for each day of the week. Man, that's depressing. You want to be a starving artist? Think twice! But do it anyway, it's probably worth it. Next thing on my list: A car where the passenger side window rolls down and the air conditioner doesn't stall the car. An apartment in a non-smoking building. Enough money to quit my job and write and "paint" full time. (And read and watch movies and TV.) Tru Calling DVDs. That's the next show I want to check out. Another bookcase. A faster computer (this one being faster would be fine). Umm... I guess I don't want much. Compared to how much I could want. There's a lot out there in the world to spend money on. Mostly I just want time. I want to buy free time with my future money. And things to do in that free time. Hmm. It's good to dream. It helps make things happen. Imagining things helps bring them into reality.

There's a tree outside that's shaped like an angel. And maybe it just seems that way to me cuz I've been watching a lot of Angel lately. But seriously, I should go take a picture of it. Then you'll know! It's not just in my head. But I'm in my jammies, so I'm not going out there right now. Pft! It's weird that I've been up for hours and it's still daytime. It didn't used to be that way with me. I loooove being a night person. I miss the heck out of it. Booooo. Hey, I've used no smilies today. Weird.

Heh. I am a lunatic, and I'm getting stir crazy. I need to get out of the house! Apartment, whatever. Pft. Mmmm.....? Where to go? What to do? Don't know enough people in this town. Anymore. Or they are working or on vacation. It is the summertime. Oh, hey, it's July. That's my name. Screen name. Whatever. One of my many screen names. It's too hot in here. I should use that handy dandy air conditioning device up in the corner. Alright, I will. Time to go be bored elsewhere. Or watch some more TV. On DVD. None of that silly daytime TV. It all drives me nuts in one way or another. Pettiness or cheeriness or.... hey, that soap actress is doing a really great job on Dancing With the Stars. I love that show! Okay, must go.

Chris on 07.01.05 @ 02:01 pm [link]