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So it's been almost 2 weeks since I've been back in Orlando and my gawd, is it ever hot. I mean, I knew that it would be but...MY GAWD it's fuckin' hot. The trip back was nice but tiring; we drove the 29 hours in about 2 days making only one stop Athens GA to see a friend of ours about a possible mural job. After that they took us out to a super yummy place called the Vortex and we got to wander around downtown Atlanta for a few minutes. I wanted to see more, but it's not like it would've done much good...it was night time by the time we even got to the restaurant an d all the shops were closed anyway. It sucked though! There were some AMAZING looking shops there! All these neat punky/goth lookin' stuff, stuff that I never found in MN! I guess that's a good thing though...we only had just enough money for gas and some food and we really didn't have much else to spare on my impulsive needs, lol!
We got up early the next day to finish our drive to Orlando. My parents were super happy because they thought we wouldn't be home until like, 3 in the morning on monday and we made it by 7 sunday evening. So, if anyone wants to do marathon driving, you know who to turn to, LOL! My parents laughed their asses off when they saw our PT. The car was packed to the brim with stuff; not including the other 77 boxes we had on the way with a moving company in a week or two. Heck, for the entire trip I had to talk to Dee Jay through the rear view mirror because the 4 slats of our disassembled bookshelves and my piano blocked his entire face, LOL!! we had everything from towels to sneakers crammed into any possible crevice. Sad really...we thought we were doing good this time around *sad face*
Almost as soon as we got here though, I had to start looking for some sort of work. And I found it!! In less than a week I managed to score an interview for this Kaman's art studio doing handimals at Seaworld. I showed the guy my portfolio while I filled out the application and he really liked my work, which totally made my day. He almost felt bad telling me about the job, but I was happy as long as I'd be making SOME kind of money. It's not like this is the only job for me and I'm sure as hell not going to stop filling out applications and looking for animation related gigs. Still, it is nice to say I'll be getting a paycheck! My manager seems real cool, he's an awesome artist. He does some amazing caricature work, and has even won awards in it. I've spent the last couple days going through orientation and training. I start my first full day though next week. I'm really scared but at the same time hella excited. It's just nice to be able to get paid to draw. Oh! The best part? He gave me the OK to bring along a sketchbook so I can doodle on my downtime at my workstation. HOW COOL IS THAT? I never got to do that, even at Waldenbooks!!! I'll finally be able to use my sketch-folio thing, lol! (don't worry Jamie and Heather, as soon as I get some money I'm sending a couple out to you!)
Other than that? Things have been nice. I'm just trying real hard to make sure that I'm not falling into the same rut as I was before I moved up north. I have to really force myself to keep motivated and keep looking. Being here after having a place of my own for 3 years I'm fully aware of how easy it can be to kinda sit back and not have to worry too much about things. I've got a roof over my head, food at the table and besides my own bills, nor really much else to worry about. All that is what I have to watch out for. I know that while I'm here to help out my parents, I am about to hit 30 soon and I need to find a place of my own. I'm married now, I think we deserve it. I need to make enough money to pay our bills now and make sure there's enough money to pay for the school bills we're going to get come november. I don't want to make this my permanent home again, I love my family to death, but I have to support myself. It felt real good getting to do that in MN. I need to keep that up here.
It'll be difficult at the moment though...Dee Jay still hasn't found a job and what I'm going to be doing I'll just barely make enough to pay bills and rent, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he'll find something soon. I hope I hope I hope, LOL.
I'm missing all my friends in Minneapolis horribly. It's sort of hard to see what they're posting on facebook and stuff without going "man, I wish I was there..." I just really hope that I'll be able to go down there to visit at some point. Wait a minute...I kind of have to. I still have things there that I need to get back from Jamie and Heather, LOL! Oh well, that's why I have a job now, lol!!!
Ok I've bothered you guys enough. I should get my ass out of bed so that I could start cleaning this horribly messy room of ours. It looks....REAL bad. *hangs head in shame*
We got up early the next day to finish our drive to Orlando. My parents were super happy because they thought we wouldn't be home until like, 3 in the morning on monday and we made it by 7 sunday evening. So, if anyone wants to do marathon driving, you know who to turn to, LOL! My parents laughed their asses off when they saw our PT. The car was packed to the brim with stuff; not including the other 77 boxes we had on the way with a moving company in a week or two. Heck, for the entire trip I had to talk to Dee Jay through the rear view mirror because the 4 slats of our disassembled bookshelves and my piano blocked his entire face, LOL!! we had everything from towels to sneakers crammed into any possible crevice. Sad really...we thought we were doing good this time around *sad face*
Almost as soon as we got here though, I had to start looking for some sort of work. And I found it!! In less than a week I managed to score an interview for this Kaman's art studio doing handimals at Seaworld. I showed the guy my portfolio while I filled out the application and he really liked my work, which totally made my day. He almost felt bad telling me about the job, but I was happy as long as I'd be making SOME kind of money. It's not like this is the only job for me and I'm sure as hell not going to stop filling out applications and looking for animation related gigs. Still, it is nice to say I'll be getting a paycheck! My manager seems real cool, he's an awesome artist. He does some amazing caricature work, and has even won awards in it. I've spent the last couple days going through orientation and training. I start my first full day though next week. I'm really scared but at the same time hella excited. It's just nice to be able to get paid to draw. Oh! The best part? He gave me the OK to bring along a sketchbook so I can doodle on my downtime at my workstation. HOW COOL IS THAT? I never got to do that, even at Waldenbooks!!! I'll finally be able to use my sketch-folio thing, lol! (don't worry Jamie and Heather, as soon as I get some money I'm sending a couple out to you!)
Other than that? Things have been nice. I'm just trying real hard to make sure that I'm not falling into the same rut as I was before I moved up north. I have to really force myself to keep motivated and keep looking. Being here after having a place of my own for 3 years I'm fully aware of how easy it can be to kinda sit back and not have to worry too much about things. I've got a roof over my head, food at the table and besides my own bills, nor really much else to worry about. All that is what I have to watch out for. I know that while I'm here to help out my parents, I am about to hit 30 soon and I need to find a place of my own. I'm married now, I think we deserve it. I need to make enough money to pay our bills now and make sure there's enough money to pay for the school bills we're going to get come november. I don't want to make this my permanent home again, I love my family to death, but I have to support myself. It felt real good getting to do that in MN. I need to keep that up here.
It'll be difficult at the moment though...Dee Jay still hasn't found a job and what I'm going to be doing I'll just barely make enough to pay bills and rent, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he'll find something soon. I hope I hope I hope, LOL.
I'm missing all my friends in Minneapolis horribly. It's sort of hard to see what they're posting on facebook and stuff without going "man, I wish I was there..." I just really hope that I'll be able to go down there to visit at some point. Wait a minute...I kind of have to. I still have things there that I need to get back from Jamie and Heather, LOL! Oh well, that's why I have a job now, lol!!!
Ok I've bothered you guys enough. I should get my ass out of bed so that I could start cleaning this horribly messy room of ours. It looks....REAL bad. *hangs head in shame*