summer life

This post is brought to you by request of Katie Rogers. Apologies for my lack of blogging lately.

Well.. school is out and it is summer once again. I was hoping to have some plans set in place before updating, but I'm finding out more and more every day that life pretty much likes to go the opposite of what I had planned for myself. So here I am.. still on operation find a job. Consider yourself fortunate if you've found employment for the summer. In the past week and a half I've been to at least 15 places in Huntington and Fort Wayne, but it keeps coming back to people aren't looking to hire summer help and with my class load and volleyball this fall my schedule is just not going to allow me to keep a job. So this has been frustrating and discouraging, but I'm trusting God has a plan here and just taking it one rejection at a time haha. I'm sure there's something I'm supposed to be learning through this process and I'll be sure to let you know what it is when I figure it out. In the meantime I'll be doing work for the farm... mowing.. painting a house.. the usual. And actually I enjoy that kind of work and they compensate me well for my time, but I just still have my heart on something different. I just want to be around people this summer... I go crazy spending that many hours by myself day after day haha. So that's my job update. I'm currently living with my sister Danielle in Huntington. It's a great setup for me because it's a nice place and I'm close enough to still feel like I'm around home for the summer but I also still get my independence haha. And it's nice living 2 minutes from campus so I still have a place to go workout everyday. Volleyball... it's kind of a love/hate thing in my life right now. Coach has us running 15 miles a week and lifting 3 days so that's been good discipline for me and honestly I enjoy that kind of thing. But I've also been getting together with coach once a week to work on passing and such and that's what has been interesting haha. Apparently after 13 years of playing the game all of my fundamentals are wrong. I understand the logic behind the new ways of doing things I'm being taught and I definitely appreciate the time that they're investing in working with me but it's like I have to completely reteach myself all of these skills after years of doing it a certain way so that becomes quite the frustration. But when it comes game time it's still volleyball and I still love it with everything I have.

I apologize for any lack of optimism expressed in this post.. It's just one of those seasons in my life where I'm being tested against disappointment. Clearly, I am not doing well with my test haha but I am sure trying!

To end on a brighter note though, here is a list of ten happy things about my summer thus far lol..
1. Bachelorette is back! Show em how it's done Allie!
2. I finally got into this Glee craze and it's so good!
3. Caramel coconut latte at Mocha Lounge
4. Getting better at handling rejection lol
5. Sunshine and brown skin! finally!
6. Sex and the city 2 comes out this week!! I've been waiting all my life!
7. We have a new lawn mower...?
8. I think my hair is finally growing.
9. My laptop, ipod, straightener, and hair dryer have all broken in the past two weeks. oh wait.. happy things...
10. I think I just needed to stop at 8.

Friends, I love you all a lot. I hope all is going well for you. Wooo Summer 2010!

finished illustrations!

Well friends, since I've kept you involved in the process this long, I thought I'd go ahead and share my final illustration. Pocahontas and John Smith united at last... what a beautiful thing. That's about all I have for now. More thoughts to follow.

Love.

oh hey john smith

This is John Smith asking wisdom from Grandmother Willow.

2 illustrations down... 1 to go.... (yeah, apparently i lied when i thought these were due Wed. Praise the Lord!)

I've been in the MCA the past 6 straight hours.

I realize Mr. Smith doesn't look his best.

I've done all I can do.

I'm not an illustrator.

It's okay if you want to laugh at my work.

But after 10 hours of working on something...

I'm going to post it regardless.

So enjoy.




Pushing onward... ready to have the stress lifted and return to being a pleasant person..

Thank you all for your patience with me, and best of luck to you in your endeavors, and remember I love you.

paint with all the colors of the wind

Here's one of my illustrations I'm doing for my final project. Even though this looks like a simple enough thing to do, I've probably put a good 6 hours into this thing. This one may or may not be finished and then I've got two more to finish by Wednesday. I don't claim to be an awesome illustrator... I don't even claim to be a decent illustrator.. but I thought I'd share this with you because I just think the concept of digital illustration makes for some pretty visually entertaining images. So there it is. Enjoy. I love Pocahontas.

Side note.. I've given up facebook until both this project and my final drawing project are complete. Therefore, I may be updating this quite frequently in attempt to somehow keep my sanity without wasting quite as much time.

Again, for those of you finishing up your semester.. best wishes. I believe in you.

you okay, jack?

hello friends,

well, like everyone else.. it's been a crazy past week! somewhere between all the projects and presentations and being sick and my ipod dying a slow and yet tramatic death.. it got pretty rough haha. and while i had full intentions of using this weekend to get work done for the upcoming week... that's not quite how it's turned out. i believe i spent a good 16 hours on my couch yesterday and it was marvelous.. watched a lot of boy meets world and just tried to sleep off this cold. and then today kind of turned into a great emotional and mental break for me. i went shopping with my sister laura in fort wayne for bridesmaid's accessories. we bought jewelry and found some potential shoes so we're calling it a success. then i came home for the evening and my whole family ended up watching home videos she had brought back with her for like four hours. it was exactly what my spirit needed.

as for the upcoming weeks.. i'm two big projects, 3 tests, and a few scattered assignments away from being done. I started working on my final drawing project tonight and i'm somewhere in between the stages of being super excited about my idea and wanting to ripe it to shreds. It's an abstract drawing of a girl kind of with a Van Gogh type of flair and it looks really cool in my head but we'll see how well i'm able to execute it haha. I'm also excited about my final computer illustration project. I'm doing the story of Pocahontas and so I'm making three scenes using digital illustration techniques meaning I like scan in all of these different sources to put into shapes I create and it's just really rich in texture and sweet looking. Sometimes.. I love my major. Even though it sucks my life away... it's fun. TWO WEEKS..... WE GOT THIS!!!

My friend Chelsea is on a plane to India right now!! That's going to be a crazy long plane ride! But yeah, she'll be over there for a month just being an amazing woman and servant of our Lord.. If you think of it, say a prayer for her :)

As for my summer plans... still in the making. Stop pressuring me.


Other things you should know...
1. New Dave Barnes cd.. top notch.
2. Eli Young Band.. not sure why I'm just now discovering them because they've been around but yeah it's good stuff.


Friends,
You're great people. I love you all.