6 weeks in to the school year and I think I'm going prematurely grey.
What on earth made me believe that I could go to school full time and work 38 hours a week?
It wouldn't be too bad if my classes were all lecture based, but I have 2 project based classes. Typography, which I don't think I'm doing very well in, and Computer Graphics 1, which I feel like I've already taken. It's really difficult to make time to do all of my projects when I get out of school, then come home, change, and go to work, then stay at work until midnight so that I can come home and go to sleep and wake up at 7 in the morning...then rinse, lather and repeat.
Anyway...
I have managed to have some sort of a personal life in between the madness of my life, though I'm not quite sure how.
On the 3rd, we celebrated Chris' 26th birthday.
My hubby turned 26!
It feels like just last year he was the one celebrating his 21st birthday, sipping a margarita and realizing how much he disliked alcohol. Now he's 26...and doing the same thing.
Anyway...
I managed to get his birthday off, both from school and work! Thank you labor day for cancelling classes, and thank you boss for scheduling me off on Mondays.
The father and Debbie-in-law took us out for a late lunch at Cattleman's, where we dined on delicious steak and potatoes.
Actually, the steak wasn't anything wonderful for its price, but it was good.
Anyway, after that I took Chris to the movies. Seeing as we had never been upstairs at the theater before (it's a
section you have to be 21 or over to get in to) we went on up and Hubby
enjoyed a cold frosty drink before the movie.
He's been really in to his bike riding (he did a 100k that I'll mention later!) and so we went to see Premium Rush...the bike movie.
I went in having terribly low expectations, but I will admit that I was very pleasantly surprised by it. It was action-ish, sure, but there was enough of a storyline and comedy to keep me interested.
Come the 13th, we celebrated Hubby's youngest sister's birthday with a little tRain concert (Yes, the capitalization was intentional).
We got rained on, but hey...that's what ponchos are for right?!?
We didn't want to have a De Ja Vu incident for little sister, who got rained out of her Sugarland concert because of lightning and thunder (which isn't so great for outdoor arenas)...so we had out fingers crossed.
Even then, it was actually a really great show.
I'd definitely go see Train again, though preferably without the rain. I love rain, but not being stuck in it and having a wet sweater sticking to me. And wet shoes...I hate wet shoes.
Our shoes were soaked and we were shivering, but singing along and dancing around (and huddling together) kept us warm.
The fact that Pat Monahan sang "Calling All Angels" right in front of us was pretty nice too.
The 17th, Chris and I celebrated our one year anniversary.
I can hardly believe I've been married for a year already. Time just flies by when you're not looking, and man did it ever fly!
We had this plan that we were going to take an extended weekend in Texas and go to Six Flags, but my History of Graphic Design teacher planned our first test that day, and she does not give make-up tests. In order to keep from failing the class before I even began, we skipped out on Texas and stayed at home for some dinner and a movie. Hopefully sometime soon we can celebrate late.
We did defrost our wedding cupcakes though and enjoyed the year-old pastries.
MMMmmmm...
Actually they weren't bad. A tad dry, but still pretty good.
And they still made our tongues nice and blue.
As I mentioned, Chris rode his bike in a 100k down in Texas, and I couldn't be more proud of him if I tried!
Originally he wanted to do the 100 mile, but he knew he wasn't ready for it yet. He has come a long way in the short time he's been riding, and it's very inspirational to watch him go. When he first started off, a 10 mile ride was like dragging himself to Hell and back. Now, he's riding in the Hotter 'n' Hell race in Texas and kicking its butt!
Well, okay so it wasn't an easy feat, but he did it and like I said, I'm so proud of him.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get time off to go and cheer him on, but I was thinking about him every second.
Way to go Chris!
My college had a career and internship fair last week and I decided I'd give it a look.
I definitely felt like I wasted my time.
It's unfortunate, but I don't think many job fairs cater towards artistic majors. There was one magazine at the career fair, and that was it as far as artistic jobs, and even then, a magazine isn't where I want to end up.
So I decided that if I want to get noticed or get professional, I need to start kicking it in to high gear. I'ce started to try and create a logo for myself (in between all of my other school projects) so that I can start designing stationary, business cards, and fixing up my portfolio. I want to start getting serious as a designer, because how welse am I going to make it in the world?
The job market seems to be geared more towards business jobs...the stereotypical office jobs...not the artistic ones. It sucks, but it just means I'm going to have to work that much harder to get myself noticed in a world full of starving artists.
Wish me luck!
