last day with the parentals for a while

Oh boy, the weekend! I did lots of sleeping in. Tomorrow I'll have to take the parents to the airporter, so no sleeping in. AND I'll be going to Seattle to hang with Cherish, so my sleep schedule will reset and stuff. Or I'll just sleep in even longer on Sunday. Hmm.

Had some oatmeal and tea for breakfast. Two bowls of soup and lots of bread for dinner. I think I ate something between the two, but I forget.

Didn't really do...anything. Bad me. Need to make a finals list, because then I can start crossing things off it and feel good about accomplishments. Actually, just started the list. Whoo.

Pa did shopping for grub to tide me over till they return.

I brushed Holly and she licked my face. I hope this face licking isn't that much of a trend.

Ma and Pa leave for California for the next 10 days. I reckon I'll get lonely a bit, but then I have finals and stuff to keep me occupied.

Todays Portrait Is: Alyson Hannigan.

finals are a coming

Stayed up late and slept in, thankfully I have a nice window of time to sleep in on Thursday. Dad made a poached egg on toast with melted cheese for me. Yumm! In class we reviewed scene and subject motivations and went over the final assignment. We have to do a scene set up thing. Shot list, camera angles, storyboards. That will be fun.

Out of class, I went to the lab and listened to my audiobook and struggled to keep focused on my illustrations. Progressed the animation. Need to think about how I'm taking it to the next level. Got some basic pans and things. I construct the images in Illustrator and copy them into Flash. It is fun. In a way. Still need to work on it tons more. Time is running short.

Got home to a salad and pasta. Mmm. Liked the salad. Watched a hilarious Community and an okay Parks and Recreation. Worked on some portraits. It is suddenly late again. Dang.

Todays Portrait Is: Sarah Michelle Gellar.

website revamping

Today was rainy and gray and sucky. I absorbed all the heat I could from bed. Got up. Had some tea and sausages for breakfast. I WAS planning to leave and go to school and work, but I was warm and stayed home.

However, I did work on revamping and streamlining my website: trilliantrillian.com. Feels good to get that in better order, though it still needs some work. Gotta step up the professionalism and all that. Resume and portfolio are soon to follow.

Had a chicken pot pie for lunch. Drank some soda. Dinner was beans and salmon and...something else. Uhhh. Oh fries.

At 9ish the power cut out, so I watched a DVD on mom's laptop. I was getting prepared to go to sleep, but then the power came back on, so now I'm online again. Whoo! Need to draw some portraits and stuff. Tomorrow, I'll stay at school and work on stuff.

Todays Portrait Is: Arthur Darvill.

ma makes good cookies

Slept all the way in. As it gets cold, who wants to leave a warm bed?

Had cheerios and tea for breakfast. Got to class. We got notes print outs because writing down the notes takes up too much time. So we looked at the notes and watched the videos and got the final project assigned. I shared some cookies. And then I returned home. I put the doggie out when I left, and let her back when when I returned. The house was fairly cold so I put on another sweater. Had a cheese steak. Mmm. Watched the first episode of Homeland because it was highly recommended to me. Quite good pilot.

I made burritos for dinner. They were good. I really need to get some taco specific seasoning. Maybe I'll put it on the Christmas list. Ha. Glee was a good episode. This season is surprisingly linear and has development and good songs. Raising Hope was hilaaarious. So many great moments. Probably one of the best episodes yet.

I don't have class tomorrow, but I probably will head in and work in the labs on my projects and stuff.

Todays Portrait Is: Karen Gillan.

things are good

Back to school, and it wasn't such a hard wake up. Normally Monday's and Wednesday's are.

Dad made me a sandwich for lunch. So great that pa of mine.

Illustrator was a lecture in symbols, then work time. With headphones, I was a lot more productive. Almost finished my chapter 10 work. Flash was a work day. I worked. Got some of the basic background stuff done. Still have a lot more work to do. I'll be parking some long hauls in the lab in these coming weeks I suspect, but that is okay. I'll just get a good audio book and throw myself at the work.

Car brakes are good.

Ma made cookies. Ma's cookies are good. Had a pot pie for dinner. Watched some stuff. Kept warm. Most of my homework needs to happen at school, so I take it easy these nights. Ohh need to do some portraits. I'll do those...in a bit.

Todays Portrait Is: Freema Agyeman.

girl power

Slept in. Gotta stay warm and keep the snuffles away. I'm constantly worried about getting a cold, but so far I have kept them at bay. Super immunity, all thanks to candy!

Had some cheerios and two cups of tea for breakfast. Later on Dad showed me how to take the tire off my car, remove the brake calipers, AND replace the brake pads! Good life skills. Got the tire off no problem. Dad did the handiwork, but I hovered and helped. My fingers got mucky but my manicure still looks good. Cleaned the tires. Put them back on. Lots of learning this afternoon. I like learning stuff from dad. Makes me feel like I'll be more self reliant down the stretch. I don't want to be one of those people who ask their company to pull the chain in the toilet tank, because they can't be bothered to fix the handle.

ANDDD Dad borrowed my car and returned it with a full tank of gas! I suggested he just put a couple bucks in it, but he put, like, a couple bucks time ten! So awesome.

After all that, I remembered I had to do a portrait, so today's portrait came up quite late.

Dinner was cous cous and steamed veggies. Delicious!

I'll try to go to bed at a reasonable hour. Yet another week begins! Ohh I need to scan some stuff...gotta remember to bring head phones to class tomorrow. Yup.

Todays Portrait Is: Catherine Tate.