Is awesome, indeed it is. I got it last Friday, beat it yesterday with 60 stars. I'm currently slowly collecting the remaining 60 stars. Oh it is good, soooooo good.

I had just entered the Water Temple in OoT on the virtual console when I got a knock on my apartment door yesterday. I checked it so see my dad standing there to my surprise. He and my mother were both in Texas so I wasn't sure what was up. He started off by telling me that my uncle had fallen through the ceiling of his garage while he was getting things out of his attic. He then told me that he didn't make it. This was why my parents had returned to Louisiana on such short notice. I cant say that I could come up with a response. I went home with him after packing a few of my belongings and today we went to get all the arrangements planned. The invitation will by tomorrow from 5 to 9 and then the funeral will be on Friday. I've always taken death well, but this is the closet family member to me that has died so far, so it's an odd sensation that comes and goes. Since his death was accidental and not of natural causes he was sent for an autopsy to determine the cause of death, but we wont get the results until a week or two pass. He may have had a heart attack while in the attack, which caused him to stumble and fall, or he may have lost his footing. We don't know for certain and he was alone at his house at the time. No one found out he had died until roughly 18 hours later, when some of his co-workers went looking for him when he didn't show up for work. He was a generous individual and very kind. All his employees loved working for him and every time he would start up a new business most of his employees would quit their jobs and go to wherever my uncle went. I wouldn't be surprised if he has over 500 people show up at his funeral, maybe more. I don't think there is a man who has met my uncle who didn't like him for one reason or another. It's unfortunate that he died and he will be missed dearly.

Wow, TAGGED!?


I was tagged by ! And Now I Do things!

The rules:
1. Post these rules
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3. Tags should write a journal of these facts
4. At the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged

*FACTS*

1. I enjoy pickles greatly. The sliced dill chips kind, like on hamburgers. I can eat them plain. Dump a bunch into a bowl and MMMMMMMM. I even drink the juice straight.

2. I'm sort of antisocial. I don't try to be, it's just that if I am with other people, and I don't know them and/or the subject of discussion is something I can't discuss then I am very quiet and wont hardly say anything. I get picked on by at least one uncle from each side of my family about it lol

3. I secretly wish I could act in real life the way I act on the internet. I'd like, so have a girlfriend right now if I could...lol

4. I've never had a girlfriend. Nope, not even one.

5. I talk about games too much. My friends tell me that all the time. Like, it's the first thing that comes out of my mouth when I with my buddies. OMG GAMER NERD LOL

6. When I was younger I was insanely into the pokemon card game. There's a box in my parent's garage with about 1000 or more dollars worth of Pokemon cards. I even bought Japanese packs of cards because it made me more 1337 then all the other Pokenerds I knew.

7. I come up with complex stories and plots for novels every day. Most of them will never see the light of day sadly.

8. I've never been tagged before. This is the first one. LA LA LA LA WOOOOOOOOSH

And now I shall tag!

*TAGS*
I've got like, no close DA friends to tag LOL!

August 27th. The Monday after next...

OH MY GOD! *dies*

College is out for summer. HOORAY! Now I can devote my time to absolutely nothing in particular. Pretty good, but I will say that I haven't drawn or done anything artistic lately, or at least not as much as I was doing while in college. I think I work better when there is shit that I HAVE to do, and then put it off to do the stuff I WANT to do. That sort of thing. But I changed my major to 2D Studio Art. I was in Communication Design (aka the new name for Graphic Design at LA Tech). I failed one of the classes for ComDes, too. It was Intro to Communication Design, and I thought I was doing well in it until 2 things happened. 1 was a 85/2 and something score for my "midterm". We really didn't have a midterm...I don't know where that grade comes form to be honest. The other was a sour failing grade on a community poster assignment at the end of the quarter. I could have done better on it, but damn, it had to be about something promoting Lincoln Parish in some way and all I could think of was rabid squirrels. It scored high marks from the class as far as humor is concerned but the Prof. of course thought it lacked in design. Or something. I haven't grabbed my portfolio from the School of Art yet to see how everything panned out. I did good in my History and 2nd art class, Intro to ComDes Software. Sadly; however, I don't think I'll get the painting class I so desired come Fall quarter. That sucks. Might end up taking a math, english, then an art history. I pray it changes to something better before then. Ugh.

I have uploaded a lot of art. YAY! Who da thunk it? Not me, that's for sure. I need to work on faces more, and hands/feet. I've gotten better with them but I still struggle with getting them right. Then I need to practicing coloring in photoshop. I haven't found a method of doing it that I like yet, so I've been looking at other artists and seeing if I can figure out how they do what they do, maybe incorporate multiple techniques into one mutated technique, and then claim it as my own. I can call it the Flack Maneuver. Or something less stupid.

I'm broke as well. About 10 or 20 dollars. I've put in some applications at a handful of stores in Ruston (same town as the college I go to; Ideals place for me to score a job), but so far I haven't heard about any openings. I don't want a summer job, but the parents certainly want me to have one. At least I would get to keep my pay check and have my merry way with it. Oh so many things to buy, and so little money to do it with. I have a massive wishlist I need to polish off. I pretty much use it to store every print I want, then I buy them from there. I have 4 prints in my shopping cart now, but I don't know when I'll get around to buying those. I feel sorry for the 20+ prints in my wishlist.

*sigh* Bored, and a little tired.

PS. To everyone who watches me, looks at my art, gives me comments, and reads my rare and crappy journals, Thank You Very Much! HAVE A NICE DAY EVERYONE!