More like Weekly and maybe sometimes by-weekly. In my defense we moved this weekend and the end of last week so I didn’t have much time. I know… excuses, excuses! I am not in much of a blogging or designing mood lately though. I think I found a Wacom Bamboo Tablet that I may try and pick  up tonight if the person messages me back. Maybe that’ll get me in the mood. There is tons of tutorials for drawing with tablets to get me started. I have been trying to do a little photo manipulation and also have put my 2 cameras up on kijiji.ca to see what I could get out of them. I want to either trade the two of them up for a better dSLR or sell them and buy one.

So I said we moved this weekend. We have everything finally in my parents place and guess what? On Saturday while in the middle of moving our water pipe decided to burst flooding the basement and endangering everything we just put down there. Not to mention the fact we spent most of the weekend with the water off while trying to first fix then replace the pipe. Lets just say there was no happy campers in my house this weekend.

I got a raise this pay, plus there was no rent to pay (other then the $50 bi/weekly we promised to pay mom each to live there to help with food and such) so for once I paid everything up a little in advance and still have a little left over. What a nice feeling!

Going to start back on walking every night tonight. Put it off for the weekend figuring that 1) there would be no time and 2) we’d be too tired and 3) we got enough excersise by lifting heavy furniture and sweating in the hot sun while doing it… so back to the daily grind tonight. If Keith won’t come I’ll grab a dog and go for a short walk with them just to get back into the swing of things.

I’ve been kinda slacking on the posts and updates lately. I haven’t been working on simpleillusions.ca either. I just haven’t felt like doing much. I have been playing around with Adobe Illustrator. Right now I am just trying out a couple of tutorials and getting used to using it. I’ve never really used it before. I’ve only ever used Photoshop and a while back I used Paint Shop Pro (years and years ago). But I love Illustrator and the things you can do with it. Once I get the hang of it I am going to try creating a few backgrounds for download.

I’d like to be able to create and use some of my own illustrations and vectors. I’ve been playing around with themes. I found a couple of great tutorials on creating your own themes from scratch and how to mock them up on paper and in Photoshop. I also have Dreamweaver CS4 (the link is for CS5 but you get the idea). I know it’s a powerful tool so I would like to learn how to use it too. When I took webdesign years ago I never really learned anything other then Photoshop. If I had the money I would love to go back to school part-time and take some more web design courses since everything I have and know is so outdated. I can teach myself and have in the past but it would be nice to have some sort of degree behind it. I guess I should start looking into it. I just don’t want to go in one direction and then change my mind again. Since I have a really bad habit of doing that.

It’s not so much that I get side tracked or that I do not know what I really want to do. It’s more that I tend to give up easily and move on. Then I tend to look back and start wondering “what if”. If anyone has been stuck in that cycle it sucks. I have an idea of what I want now. And I know technically how to get it. It’s just all the hurdles in between that seem to deter me. I guess that can be said for all aspects of my life. I know who I want to be with. I know what I want from him, from myself, and from our relationship. I know I love him more then anything in the world. Now if I could just figure out how to get everything in between going in the right direction. I’m really good at panicking and going in the wrong direction now I need to learn how to get back on track I guess.