Lets begin with Rotny's birthday. We did pretty much nothing and it was perfect. The exception that was "pretty much" was the very rare occurrence that we venture to downtown LA to get Peruvian style rotisserie chicken. In total it was a 1 and a half hour trek, but so worth it. Once we got home we sat our asses down, stuffed our faces, and relaxed all day. Well... I sort of had some stuff to do but it wasn't anything nuts. I did fall asleep early though.
He received his gifts the night before, and love them. Happy Birthday, indeed!
Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelish!! My car still smelled like it the day after on my way to work. ^_^
Ever wondered what two clueless drivers look like?
They both didn't know what lane to be in.
The last few days I've been hanging out with Lauren. She also had a birthday thing on Sunday. But I had also hung out with her Saturday night on a whim. Wasn't planning on going anywhere until she mentioned frozen yogurt ;)
We stayed there until they closed at midnight, just talking about whatever and ranting about bitches who don't know what rape is and just throw the word around as much as they throw around resentment. It was good times. XD Afterwards we went back to her place and hung out until like 3. She was really sweet and let me borrow some dvd sets for me to watch, and even gave me some games she no longer wanted! My brain asploded >_O. What a sweetheart she is.
The next day I had a bunch of errands to do. Yucky! And had to finish my commission.
BUT once I got home I realized that I didn't have any white clay!!! So I had to leave again and head to Michael's. It was totally awesome though because... they had a sale. Unfortunately... I went kinda nuts.
WHAT CAN I SAY? Can never be too prepared! I'm super excited because now I have glow in the dark clay, and some browns, and pretty glittery red, and some more pastels. On my way to the check out counter I realized that I had forgotten to actually get white clay, hahaha. The sale was so exciting that I had forgotten why I was there. I also got silver and gold paints, for more Zelda shields and other shiny thingies! (Light sabers? Swords? Axes? EGYPTIAN SHIT?) And they also had that big storage box thing on sale, which I needed desperately. My acrylics were taking over my work desk. So now they're all mostly in there, and the ones I use more often are out. The smaller one holds my reinforcements and scrap clay. And I have another one on my desk with my 'active' clay.
Ugh that pastel blue on the top left corner under the glow in the dark is so pretty!
Later that evening I headed over to BJ's pizza ... restaurant.. place. for Lauren's birthday thing. It was really nice and intimate. I gave her her gifts and she loved them. Made me glad. Unfortunately I couldn't stay long because I had work super early the next morning, but it was a great time. I met super nice people, and even got to meet the voice of Teen and Adult Gohan; Kyle Herbert! Who actually was also in Madoka Magica as one of the pimps. Jason voiced the other one. What a fun night ^_^
It's Geoff! This time he didn't have his IPad thing for Lilo & Stitch watching, but is hokay.
Work has been nicer. I really like the shifts we have now. One of them cracks me up. He's White, with a Hispanic last name, and is fluent in Japanese. He also played Erik (Phantom) in a few productions, so the other day he kept singing some pieces for me. We've also been doing a lot of coffee tastings. It's like wine tasting, but... with coffee. This last week, work has been nice. I hope it remains this way.
Today I also wrote a small script for a scene in a short story I did several years ago for Rotny. He's basically going to give one of my characters life with his voice (or attempt to!) and I'll try to direct him. He wants to see how he fairs with voice acting, and I want to see how well I can do with assisting him in that. We have nice recording equipment with pop filters and all so it won't sound ugly- just never set it up until today. So we're gonna try that. If he does well, I'm going to see if I can come up with some characters for him and go from there. I'd like to do that for myself, but I feel like that would be bias. Coming up with the characters should be fun. I tried to explain to him that it's not just about having a good voice, but also being able to act and give that voice some life and make the character believable. There are so many fluctuations and ways of saying something to get that perfect pitch for that specific emotion that coming up with it at that second can be a challenge if you're not practiced enough for it. Fun thing to play with either way. ^_^
Tomorrow I finish two more commissions for a co-worker, and later on in the evening I'm going to an ASL class with Lauren.
Life is good. Sky rockets in flight ;)