Thanksgiving Break!!

Today is my first day of Thanksgiving break. :D I am enjoying it veeeery much! It's so nice to just stay at home in my warm PJ's when it's cold and rainy outside.

My plans for this Thanksgiving are to leave this Wednesday night with Bennie to Houston! We are going to visit my Dad and other family members at his house. ^_^ We won't get to stay long because Ben has to work black Friday. x.x So I guess we will be leaving sometime in the afternoon on Thanksgiving day. As far as the weekend goes, we've got nothing planned... but I believe Ben wants to just chill out at home. :3 He's had a nasty cold lately so he's pretty tired.

I made some new pretty graphics for Aoi Skies. :D I've been staring at my site for awhile trying to figure out what would look good, and I am pleased with what I came up with this morning. <3 I think it looks cute. ^_^

I still have some art projects that I've gotta finish... just haven't had the time till now. :/ I'll probably get something done this week, at least I hope so! Lol.

For now, I will leave you all with a lovely picture of my Zoe... :D



I know Myumi gets a lot of attention on my blog, partly because she takes such good pictures! It's like she's posing for me. XD Zoe... not so much. All her pics are almost always blurry because she can't hold still but for a few seconds! :P

Hello all! ^_^ Enjoying this wonderful cool weather? I think it's great, it's such a nice breather from the intense summer heat we had this year. @_@


So this is what I was up to while I was away for the weekend at Mom's... ^_^



Tie-dye!!! :D



It was so much fun! We made a BUNCH of stuff. My Mom always has a lot of things she wants to tie-dye so it takes several hours to do it all. @_@ She makes a bunch to give away as gifts. I took home some very nice tie-dye skirts. :D

Hmmm... *thinks* what else is new... well, not much. I'm getting ready for next semester already! I'm trying to plan a schedule that will work for the Spring semester but I'm having trouble. @_@ I'm getting to the point where I only have a few classes to choose from and some of them aren't even offered in the Spring. The other classes conflict with each other so it looks like I will have to toss in a couple of electives.

...well Jesse, I may be taking a course in web design after all. XD

One Crazy Morning

So today was very interesting! (I'm talking as if the day has already ended, but it's only 11:38 AM as I am typing this :P)

This morning I was driving in to town to pick up some dog food and a cup of coffee at a local coffee house in Henderson. I decided to take Zoe with me because she LOVES to go riding in the car and the place where I buy dog food allows pets so I thought I'd take her inside. ^_^

Well, on the way to town on this two lane road, I saw this huge utility vehicle swerve into my lane (heading towards me) and then serve back. I slowed down to give him time to get pulled back over, and then I saw a small english bulldog standing in the road! Then a white truck came speeding by and nearly clipped it on its jaw. I quickly pulled up to the little dog and opened my door, "GET IN!" XD Without hesitation, the bulldog walked right up to the car and began to crawl in the floorboard right in front of the gas pedals. Seeing this strange dog crawl into our car, Zoe rears her head around my seat and starts growling. "NOW'S NOT THE TIME ZOE!!" I said, pushing her back into the back seat. Meanwhile, I am still parked in the middle of my lane with no flashers on and a pick-up truck waiting behind me patiently. o_o

So we take off awkwardly with me attempting to drive with this bulldog sitting in my floorboard. I knew I would have to go back home since I had Zoe with me so I turned around and headed back for the house. Then just as I glanced to my left I see a man waving at me standing in a driveway. I then again, manage to turn around and pull up to this guy's driveway thinking I must have picked up his dog.

I rolled down my window and the guy calls out, "IS THIS YOUR DOG!?" pointing to yet another english bulldog that was standing beside him. "Um, no... I was thinking THIS was YOUR dog." I said, speaking of the bulldog I had just picked up. Turns out, the two bulldogs had been traveling together and we didn't know who they belonged to. Then suddenly a guy walked up and said they belonged to him! So with relief, I pulled up into their driveway and opened my door to let the bulldog out - but he wouldn't budge!

The one guy walked up trying to coax the bulldog but he was just as pleased to stay right in my floorboard. Then the owner came out and literally had to drag the bulldog out of my car. And apparently, sometime during the process the bulldog pooped himself and it smeared on my leg!! :O

So the guys thanked me and I left. o_O Like I said, one crazy morning. I headed in to the coffee shop as previously planned with poo on my leg, and used their bathroom to clean it off. When I got to ordering my drink, the man there asked me what I had been up to this morning. I told him the whole story, including the part of the cleaning off the poo using their bathroom. Maybe he won't be so inclined to ask his customers such personal questions in the future. XD

September and Myumi Pics

Hey all! Sorry it's been so long since my last post... I've been kinda sick off and on and school has been keeping me busy. ^_^''

I decided to upload some pictures and make a post about all the interesting stuff that I've been doing lately. :3




^ In the above pic, Myumi has gotten inside the bottom compartment of the cat tree. She usually doesn't do this so I had to take a picture. XD




^ Another pic featuring Myumi... in the car! Doesn't she look a bit nervous? :P Yeah, Myumi and I had to take a break from the house for a bit when we had the house sprayed for bugs a few weeks ago. Normally I wouldn't let a cat ride in the car loose like this but I was in a hurry so I just scooped her up and got in the car! Lol. She was actually far better behaved than I expected her to be, she only meowed a couple of times and mostly just stayed in one spot the whole time.



^ This next pic is of a recent lab project I did this past week. It was for my computer architecture class. ^_^ I made a connection to a LED display that would flash numbers from 0 - 9, much like they use in digital clocks. I thought it was pretty fun, lots of wires to get tangled up though. @_@




^ and of course Myumi is again the center of focus in this last picture. :P I caught her hiding in my school backpack... it was just so cute I couldn't pass up getting a picture of it! She loves to get in bags and things, whatever she can hide in. When someone or another animal walks by she'll pounce on them. :3 I need to get her declawed at some point... she often plays too rough. D:

So there were all the highlights of my September. XD Apparently it was almost all about Myumi... Lol. She is a really fun kitty. <3

August.... almost September!

:O Wow, has it really been that long since my last post?? Well, I have been very occupied with various things here lately! School started last week, and I also went to visit my Mom and Step dad for several days over the weekend. <3

So this semester I have somewhat of a light load. I'm only taking three classes and one lab, which just makes 13 hours total. I would have taken one more, but it was too close to time for me to leave in order to get to church. D:

But, it seems it may be best for me to take it slow during these harder courses since some of them are exceptionally hard for me!


Like my computer architecture class, I have like no idea what I'm doing in there. XD We are supposed to be working with various electronic equipment that I have no prior knowledge of. I'm not the only one struggling though - over half the class in lab yesterday couldn't finish but 1 of 2 parts of our assignment in a two hour period. So we will have to come back on Wednesday. x_x Part of the problem was that the lab assistants just skimmed over the equipment and then expected us to just know how to use it. u__u'' I didn't know how to use that stuff, let alone what that stuff was called! Kinda hard for me to ask for help when I don't even know what I'm working with. :P We were supposed to be measuring frequencies on various wave forms at different speeds. After we were done with that, the second part of the assignment was to get what they call a breadboard (no, it's not made out of bread!) and place chips on it. Most of the chips didn't work so a lot of us didn't make it that far. @_@

My other two classes are Algorithm design and Analysis and Database Management Concepts. The Algorithm class seems very challenging, but I believe by God's grace I will manage. ^__^'' After all, I thought the same thing about Data Structures class and I pulled a B! (I prayed a lot, ;3) I also just need to study more than some people. I tend to forget that I do have a learning disability and often times I try to ignore that. <_< Maybe it's because the one time I tried to speak up about it the teacher got mad... but that was back in junior college. D: They can't afford good teachers a lot of times at junior colleges. (that's mostly my opinion, but I have experience to believe that I am correct)

aaaaaaanyways.... aside from school stuff and visiting my Mom, I recently purchased a *gasp* a tablet! *gasp*
Now you are probably wondering, why on earth do I need a tablet when I already have a tablet PC? That's a very good question. XD Well, it's not like I ever wanted one... but it worked out that it would actually save me money if I could just download all my textbooks on it (essentially using it as a e-reader) mostly for free, instead of paying nearly $400 in books every semester. This way it's just a one time fee of $380 (in the case of my Acer Iconia Tablet) and then I can download whatever books I need for school on it for the rest of my days at college! I am enjoying it very much, I think it actually motivates me to study more because I like using it. :P That should be a good thing.

So that's about the jist of what's happened since my last post, other than me being another year older now. :D I had a great birthday, Bennie bought me a delicious mint chocolate chip ice cream cake! <3

Some Thoughts

As you can see, I'm doing more art this year than I've done since... since.. since, well since I started getting a life. XD Lol. That doesn't mean that I don't have a life anymore, tho! ^__~

This week was VBS at our church. It only lasted three nights but it was long enough. @.@ I got stuck working in the sound booth which was incredibly boring to do since I had to be alone most of the time. I really wanted to be more involved with what the kids were doing and get to know them better since I hardly know any of the children at our church. u__u'' I really don't "know" many people at our church, for that matter, but I am working on that! ^^'' Mostly my fault... I am kinda awkward with social situations. Hence the reason for me not actually getting a life till a few years ago, Lol.

But... thinking back to the olden days when my life was mostly online does bring back some fond memories. I miss my old friends, some of which I don't have anyway of getting in touch with anymore. .___. There are some people out in this world that I really do miss, that if I had the ability to go back in time and spend one day online again with them I would totally do it. Moving out to the woods in the middle of nowhere just makes me feel even more isolated. Blah, I don't mean to get emotional on you people... that's just how I feel. x.x

Hmmmm, I guess I should talk about something more meaningful. Here lately I've been listening to the Christian Radio and I'm LOVING that song called "Reach". I thought it was by Newsboys but it's actually a single by Peter Furler (The singer from Newsboys). I didn't know he was making his own music... so anyways, I started listening to some of his other songs on YouTube and now he is one of my favorite Christian artists. @__@ I really like his music because the majority of what he sings about is actually CHRISTIAN related in some way... not just singing about loosing a cellphone on a batman ride, Lol. *gets bricked by all the Relient K fans* Hey I like Relient K too! It's just much of their lyrics are a bit vague and aren't as spiritually meaningful. :X

I shuddup now. *poof*

July News

Hello again. :3

Just thought I would make a post here since it has been awhile... not much has been going on lately. The main thing I've been doing this past week has been commission work. @.@ I'm finally pretty much done with the children's book commission. (I only have one background to put together for a scene already drawn, and then I'll be done <3) And I'm already scheduled for two more commissions and one art trade!

July 9th was this past Saturday. :3 (my independence day from the military, Lol) It was that very day some four years ago that I was medically discharged from the Air Force.... hmmm, didn't I mention this before? Oh well! :P Anyways, we had some fun that day... we ordered pizza, watched a movie, and went swimming. <3 It wasn't as good as the past July 9th celebrations, but still fun.

and yes, in case you are wondering... that is a my little pony up there. o__o and yes again, I have been brainwashed... dun dun duuuuuuunnnn! Just a heads up, there will be some pony art surfacing on Aoi Skies. XD The art trade I have is with a MLP fan of her ponysona. (Y'know...like fursona!) I joined a MLP forum after I started watching the new series on YouTube. ^o^ Maybe kinda weird to everyone else, but it's fun. I'm hoping to make some artsy friends at the pony forum. I even created my own ponysona!

I'm going to stop talking now. XD