Whoohoo, I received my Wacom Bamboo tablet in the mail today. I must say, I’m really happy with it! I haven’t drawn in a very long time so my drawing skills are far less “pretty” than I would’ve liked or hoped. But eh. With the tablet comes practice and working on my skills!
To be honest I don’t even remember why I stopped drawing. I just know I did and for a very long time. I just didn’t want to draw anymore. But recently I’ve seen reviews on tablets and I thought this would be a great opportunity to start back up again.
A tablet is a pretty neat thing. My twin brother described it quite nicely earlier “Now you have infinite printer paper”. I used to use up like all of our printer paper for drawing, ha! But he’s right, I have unlimited “paper” now and a way to color my paper as well. I was very relieved to find out that Photoshop 7 supports tablets and pen pressure. I had no idea it would, to be honest. I was prepared to have to find some other program (or actually pay for Photoshop CS. no to CS2 or CS3) for my tablet + drawing needs.
I plan to use this tablet to draw my little heart out and have it help me with my web design too. I’m not sure how the web designing bit would work yet, but it works like a dream when it comes to drawing. I had a lot of fun with it earlier. But I haven’t seriously tried anything though, just practicing.
And of course, here are my attempts: Attempt #1 and Attempt #2
I’m no artist but I still have some bite in me. I have full hopes that I can improve in my skills. Any pointers? XD
The tablet works quite well. It’s a lot easier to use than I thought it would be. I especially love the fact that you can use it as a regular mouse for your computer. Now, I’m new to tablets and I don’t know if that’s common. But man. I love it.
Plus it’s gorgeous. Once I get a job I plan to save up for an iMac and then for an Intuos3 6×8. I’m not sure what I’ll do with this tablet. It’s quite lovely and I love the smallness. Hmmm.
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For those of you who aren’t Following me on Twitter (everyone but Mitch, shame on you!) I posted a tweet earlier about a new website I’m starting to work on. It’s titled Happyvenus and you can find it at happyvenus.net. There’s nothing there yet but a quick little splash I made with said domain name but here’s to the future!
I plan to at least attempt at something creative with that site, be it a photo blog of sorts where I post a pic I drew or maybe post up some designs I make. I’m not quite sure yet but I know I want to do something artsy-fartsy with it! I guess this will psych me up some more for my Wacom Bamboo tablet I’m still waiting for in the mail. Can’t wait to get it and practice with it! I haven’t drawn in forever but I plan to get back into it especially with the tablet. I pray this helps my web designing too.
I mentioned in the last post that I’m dumping the college scene and going to get a few medical licenses. College isn’t for me, it isn’t for everyone. I’ve had a tough time lately where my friends and family are split with my decision. A lot of them are telling me “You’re stupid for dropping out of college!” and some support my idea saying things like “It’s not college, but it’ll still earn you money. You’ll still get an education, and your dreams are what’s most important”. Of course I like the second opinion best! I’m in no way going to change my mind about this, but I would like to know what you all think of my plans.
At the end of April I’m going to start classes for four weeks in the field of medical billing and coding. Basically, medical coding entails that said person takes care of patients’ charts, using a universal coding method to mark things like symptoms on a chart and handing it over to a doctor. Medical billing is pretty much collecting money from the patients and insurance companies. It sounds boring, but it’s a steady job and an easy one. Plus it pays pretty well. Once I’m done with the classes I take an exam, and gain my medical billing and coding license that allows me to work in that field.
The second license is an EKG license. EKG experts strap a patient to a machine that prints out heart results like rate and so forth by attaching electrodes to the chest etc etc. This is easier than medical billing and coding, but is more secluded AKA lonely. Plus it pays less. This is also four weeks.
Then from there I’ll see what I do. Obviously look for a job. There are a few clinics really close to home so I’ll try there first.
What do you all think?
Blah. Simba still has fleas. There were dots of blood / black pepper (which are both flea poop. flea drinks Simba’s blood -> poops it out) in the sink this morning. Yeah, he sleeps in the bathroom sink. So I went out around noon and bought flea and tick powder. Supposedly if you rub it in his fur and skin real good, the damn things will die. I don’t have faith in any of these flea cures anymore except for medications like Advantage and Frontline but we can’t afford it. We need to settle for a cheap and quick fix until we can go and pay for his meds monthly.
My poor kitty. He’s an angel, too.
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[update] I gave Simba his shampoo bath. He behaved quite well this time, I was surprised and very pleased! Also vacuumed the stairs to get rid of any flea eggs. The poor thing barely had any fleas. I saw none drop during the bath and I took a good look in his fur and at the skin and nothing. It was when I was drying him that two dead fleas fell out. Win. [/update]
I went out with my grandmother (from Cuba, my mother’s mother), my mother and my aunt. It was interesting, I bought quite a few things for myself (which I’ll post in a special blog post I swear. it will include pictures!) for a very low prices. I rule at being cheap, ha!
“It’s not that I’m racist, I just don’t like black people” as said by my mother during the car ride over to Macy’s.
“God made animals so humans can eat them” quoting my aunt after finding out my older brother Mike is a vegetarian (and has been for about three years now).
Isn’t that just ridiculous stuff? I had to endure crap like that all day. I love my aunt, grandma and my mom even though their close-mindedness really gets on my nerves at times.
Simba has fleas. Even though we tried so hard to prevent them. I gave him medication in his fur and skin once a month (store bought, I must confess. as in, I went to Walmart) and he has a flea collar. But alas, I read up on a lot of cat related articles and neither of those things work.
Must’ve been the fact that he’s outside a lot and hangs around strays that did him in.
Later today I’ll be giving him a bath with dog shampoo that kills fleas and ticks (which works on both dogs and cats because we’ve tried it before on him, very potent stuff!). We can’t afford real flea medication like Frontline or Advantage at the moment so we’ll have to make due with randomly pulling socks on our hands and bathing him.
I’ve upgraded my WordPress 2.5 install to the second release candidate. Win.
Waiting for my Wacom Bamboo tablet to arrive in the mail. I purchased the tablet and paid for my Livejournal’s subscription the day before yesterday. My tablet will be arriving any day between Sunday and Wednesday. Mucho thanks to Mitch and Hazel who encouraged and inspired me to buy the same tablet they own. Ha, I’m so original.
I’ll be writing reviews on my site (in other words, ads) to support costs. I’ll try not to spam too much. I’m sorry guys. I already felt like a disappointment with the small little “Check this out” boxes below my entries.
The reason I’m doing this is because my family and I are completely broke and we need to pay bills. I need to pay bills as well and since we’re short on money, it’s kind of hard to do. You know? Can’t pay bills with invisible money.
I’m working on a secondary blog that you guys don’t have to read and suffer through because of ads. Once I get to three months posting on that blog I’ll move all advertisements over. This will NOT be a permanent thing. Posts that are a complete ad (none of it has any thing to do with me, I’m advertising a product or website or something) will have the label “Ad:” following by whatever title I want to give it.
I’m going to start school back up again soon. I’ve decided the whole college thing right now isn’t for me. I’m going to get a license in medical billing and coding and sometime down the line I’ll be getting a license in EKG.
I know it’s stupid to put off college. But my goals in life as soon as I graduated from highschool were to get a decent job for a few years, save up, and travel the world in hopes of finding myself. And by finding myself I mean finding a faith that I truly can connect with.
I’ve been studying a bit about Gnosticism and I’m really interested. My closest female friend (who I’m sure would rather remain anonymous for this) told me all about the ideas concerning Gnostics and it makes amazing sense.
Even if that faith is for me, I’d still like to travel the world and learn (and be surprised!) about the person that I am. Because I like thinking about stuff like that. Humans can do so many amazing things.
My nose itches. Someone scratch it for me? PLZKTHX
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I read this article at Wired and it’s made me think very differently about Apple and especially about Steve Jobs.
I love Apple’s OS and their computers. But Steve’s attitude towards his workers leaves me feeling hollow. Sure, it makes everyone work harder for something amazing, but at the same time hurts the workers’ feelings and has them feeling like they’ll be fired for sneezing.
Steve’s always been a funny guy in my eyes (funny as in weird) and I’ve always felt that the only thing going for him is his charisma. But this just makes me really dislike him as a person. I like his approach to speeches and presentations but blah.
Reading this article makes me think that Apple is the Evil and Microsoft is the Good.
Microsoft treats it’s workers well, likes publicity when people blog about them, Hell. They’ve taken an openness sort of approach to their products as well. They’re the exact opposite.
Yet I find myself wanting the “Evil’s” computer and OS more and more. How the Hell?
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Despite not having any programmer blood or ability in me, I love scripts. Platforms. Software. Whatever you want to call them. I love them.
I especially love reading reviews on blog scripts and CMS software. Not because I have any intention of moving away from WordPress, but because I’m curious. I can’t really say why I like it. But I enjoy reading reviews, I enjoy downloading scripts I haven’t tried before, I enjoy testing them on my computer (mucho thanks to WAMP).
I spend hours a week doing things related to this; Testing, reading reviews, looking up tutorials, comparing scripts. It just makes me happy inside.
As you know (by the title of this post, my WordPress category, and the footer of this site) I run WordPress. I’ve been running WordPress for a little over half a year now and I can’t be any happier. But this wasn’t my first time using WordPress. I actually hated it back in the 1.0 days.
But that’s a long story. WordPress and I have had our hiccups but they weren’t anything drastic, after about two months we moved in together permanently and WordPress and I have had lovely little babies. Yes, I produce children that fast.
So why am I looking at other software behind WordPress’ back? I have no itention of leaving WordPress behind, it does absolutely everything I wanted it to do when I embarked for a holy grail of a script.
Initially half a year ago I got tired of having to manually edit my pages. Some people couldn’t comment on my blog, the comment form of the script I was using didn’t work for everyone. I wanted nice urls instead of everything ending with .php. All in all, I wanted something that was simple, easy to customize, and let me manage my whole website via admin interface.
I went through a lot of scripts and then I “broke down” and used WordPress. Haven’t looked back.
I look at other scripts because I’m curious. I like to see what’s out there. I whole-heartedly believe that, with anything, there is always something out there better than what you’re using. So I’m constantly curious and I like checking out what’s in the wild. But at the end of the day, I come back to trusty WordPress. We cuddle in each other’s arms and watch the kids try to kill each other.
I’ve tried the two big ones (along with dozens of other scripts), ExpressionEngine and MovableType. They were great and fun to use, but I won’t be switching to either of them.
In fact, the only script that I would ever consider to switch to isn’t even a major player but it’s developing very well, it’s called PivotX. I’m keeping my eye on it. I’ve already tried the last two alphas and I’m really impressed. It’ll be going into open beta (it’s been in open alpha) at the end of March / Beginning of April.
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