So today and tomorrow are going to be filled with searching for the perfect place for me to live in. As of now I’m focused in the Glendale, Pasadena, or Eagle Rock area, and I might have actually already found the ideal place, its small and just about a block and a half or so from Nancy’s place. They don’t allow place but it’s really nice. It’s quiet and has a lot of amenities, I sure hope I can grab it before anyone else does. I already talked to the landlord and she seems like she wants me to live there so wish me luck on that venture and into a new chapter of my life.
As for my job hunting, I actually might be able to get my transfer to a Fedex Kinko’s thats in the area so that is going to be great. I’m going to able to keep my current pay rate or maybe even get it a little higher since Im going to be transferring into a position that is higher than what I am right now. Whoo whoo. I also applied for some more design firms as well as best buy and target, haha trying to make as much cheese as possible so I can get this apartment up and running and eventually ask my ms to be a mrs, if you get my drift. Anyways I need to get to bed I went hiking again today and my body is sore, I twisted my ankle nicely so it’s giving me problems.
Allow me to leave you with a song that I think is really great in just because of how much everyone is giving to the piece.
It’s graduation day, 645am and I’m already up and Nancy is already buzzing around. Todays her big day, shes graduating with her BA in English from Mount St. Mary’s College. Her graduation commencement ceremony is going to be held at the Gibson Amphitheater. I’m really proud of her, more than shes thinks/knows. Pretty soon she’s going to be teacher at a school and I really want to design her in class handouts for homework and what not. I think that would be fun. Anyways I’m planning on taking a bunch of photos today of both the graduation and of the gibson and surrounding universal studios.
It’s hard to grasp that she is graduating already. We met when she was was a sophomore and though we had some downtime and some struggles here we are still with on another, it’s a great feeling. I know how lucky I am.
Im in the library of Mount Saint Mary’s Chalon Campus near UCLA. I decided to accompany the ms to her last final today since it was my first night staying at her house. The view up here is beautiful, everything is so green and full of life. From the cafeteria you can see all the way down to the coast. It’s just amazing. The library is also amazing, they have the complete graphis magazine collection and a whole wall dedicated to illustrators and illustration itself. I nearly peed myself when I seen the graphis collection. I never thought I’d be able to hold one of those in my hands. I brought my camera with my but photography was on the lax because we had left this morning at around 630am, so not what I’m used to. I’m usually asleep until 10 or 11.
Talk about random. I now live at my girlfriends house in Downtown Los Angeles, things between my parents and I kind of reached a headway and we both agreed that me being at their house is no longer an option and that my welcome has been overstayed.
Things will be ok, Nancy’s family was nice enough to take me in and I just need to find a job around here so I can get things together and on my own. I really appreciate everything her family has done for me and it has made this transition a lot more easier than me just doing this by myself.
Posting might continue on the minimal level since I will be busier than ever looking for a nice well paying job, that will pay enough that I can get out into a place of my own. Wish me luck, things will be alright. I’m glad I have people in my life that care and that are even happy of the fact that I’m staying with them.
So, latley I’ve been on one hell of a mission trying to find a new job that pays good enough to get me a place of my own. I’ve been checking career builder and monster like a madman for jobs in both the graphic design and web development area. I think I sent out my resume more than thirty times this week alone, hows that for a personal record! I’m looking for a place that’s in the downtown area since that is where I’m planning on moving to. There seems to be a lot of places around too so I hope I won’t be searching for too much longer.
As for personal news, things right now are good for the most part. I’m still stuck at kinkos, but as I stated above I’m trying to get out of there as soon as possible. I’ve really been focusing on my design abilities and have been trying to get all of my contracts and business plan written up and trying to either get my freelance work or a design studio going. I’ve been hard at work reading, writing and studying everything there is to know about starting your own business and shit there is a lot I need to know.
Me and Nancy (The Ms.) have been well too. This weekend we went to santa barbara to hangout at the beach. We had a great time and things are seeming to start to fall into place, and what a relief that is. I think we are both growing to know that between us we have something that isn’t comparable to anyone else and were learning to deal with each others flaws and differences a lot better. So things are good and getting better as each day goes by. She graduates next week so I’ll be posting up pictures from both the santa barbara mini-vacation and her graduation shortly.
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So it’s has been really hot this weekend, and I’m in no way joking about that. It was a good heat though perfect for chillin. We had a subscript studios meeting on sunday and after much deliberation have hammered out the skeleton of the company and the things that we need to get taken care of asap. it was a good meeting too very focused, and quite possibly, ate the best hamburger I’ve had in a long time.
Anyways, I ordered a 100 pack of Obey stickers so I can slap them on this new TV stand I bought from Ikea.
I also stumbled upon this when googling obey to find a desktop background.
This is probably going to another post in which I complain about how unprepared for adulthood I am, so if you’re looking for anything new, you’re probably in the wrong place.
Lately I have been feeling like I’m becoming stagnant. Life my life is coming to some kind of standstill that I can’t get out of the way of. Everything that I’m doing is slowing to a halt and I’m kind of stuck in a limbo of some sort. I guess the only thing I can really do is write about it.
Those of you that haven’t found out, I recently graduated from Brooks College. I guess right now I’m supposed to be searching for jobs and trying to get as entrenched into my feel as I possibly can, but on a real note I don’t feel prepared for it. Maybe it’s my waning confidence, maybe it’s a case of the spring time blues but I look around and constantly find myself thinking. I wish I could do something like that. Basically a lot of comparison and not enough congratulations to myself. Is this what you call a rut? Or do I just need to chill out and take a break and get some much needed rest? Whatever the cure is I hope it comes soon because I feel like I’m flailing.
Another thing that I have been noticing lately is that I have been being really pessimistic about a lot of things. I no longer have the can do attitude that I used to have, what seems like a long time ago. Everything just has been feeling out of reach lately whether it is inspiration, friendships, relationships, etc. I really don’t know what’s going on. I wish I did, I wish I wasn’t so down right now.
So I really need to get a lot of things organized. I haven’t really touched anything of personal work in a long time and I keep telling myself that I’m going to stop with all these plain blog redesigns and sit down and do it right, but I never get around to doing it. I get way to carried away doing other things like playing xbox or watching TV and its really starting to suck. For those who read this are there any tips you guys have for keeping focus that don’t involve medications of any kind? If so leave a comment.
