Hurray I made it!

Actually I made it the 24th, but I only now sat down to blog anything. Needless to say it was an adventure. Remember how I was kinda scared of Kansas City? Well for good reason! One whole half of the bus terminal was all homeless folks in sleeping bags - and I got robbed. It was only a coat - but still! I had laid my coat across my suitcase and pulled my ticket out of my purse to give to the person at the door. I thought "Weird I thought I sat my coat here." I checked the ground/floor and whatnot and didn't see it so I thought "Oh well maybe I put it in my suitcase since it isn't so cold." WRONG! I'm glad there wasn't anything IN my coat.

I never thought I would be so happy to see huge city buildings piercing through the horizon as I was Sunday. I literally felt lost every time I looked out the window. I was somewhere of course, but where was it?! Everything looked the same. I realized I had hit Oklahoma once I noticed all the dirt was red. WTF is with red dirt? Different minerals or something? I'm going to have to look it up.

Oh and there are these little ... bobbing thingies out in fields too. I guess they're oil derricks? I don't know - and if they are then they are a miniature form. I'll have to take pictures or something.

Keith and I both woke up at o'dark stupid Christmas morning (just like little kids) and opened presents. OMFG I got the most awesome presents EVER! Keith and I have an ongoing joke about how I"m going to grow up and be a crazy lady with 50 million cats ... well he found a Crazy Cat Lady action figure. Oh man I almost pissed myself laughing. So hilarious. He also somehow found me a copy of Anne Rice's trilogy of Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned -- all in ONE book. That stuff isn't even in print anymore! Man he's good. OH OH! He got me an antfarm too! I never had an ant farm as a kid - and he got me one! ROFL. He made my presents look lame though - but he said he liked 'em so it works for me :) Keith also got us a coffee maker which is awesome! I still have to buy his suitmate a present for when he comes back from leave.

So yeah .. I guess that's it. We'll start work on the CF University film on Jan 6th - and all updates pertaining to 'business' will be kept up to date by moi via our 'work' site http://naturalselectionstudios.com/

Hurray its Friday! I've got quite a bit to do today, but its quite early of the morning so I have the ability to type my head off till I actually have to get motivated and get things done.

I had to purchase a bus ticket - and I leave tomorrow night. Even though I'm not exactly looking foward to riding a bus for 15 hours ... I'll still be there by Christmas. That was our big thing. We both really really wanted me to be there for Christmas. Keith and I have been together almost 2 years and we have never spent a holiday together. He was at my house on New Year's - but I had to work. So yeah. The bus part I'm not looking forward to - but everything else? Man as soon as I typed that I took this reflective sigh and just got this really goofy grin on my face. Even though I couldn't -see- the grin ... it just felt as if it looked goofy.

So all that stuff I packed? I have to re-pack it. I have to go through all that and weed out what is necessity and what isn't. This has been a little added pain in my ass ... but the ends meets the means. For the past week I've had to force myself to go to sleep. This kind of sensation gets lost when you 'grow up'. That harnessed excitement that you can't even express to anyone except to jump up and down and squeal "WEEeeEEEe!" This is how I remember feeling on Christmas Eve. That only lasted a day though - this has been almost a month-long. Its worn me out for the most part, but its still great.

I still have to wrap Keith's gifts which will only take me about 30 mins - but still that's just one more thing on my hectic to-do list. I should have already done it, but its somehow gotten overlooked. I randomly recall throughout the day that it has to be done, but it doesn't take presidence over everything else for some reason. I'll get them wrapped tonight.

After thinking about it - the whole bus thing kinda freaks me out. I'll have to be sure to bring a couple books so that I have plenty to keep myself occupied with. Most my trip will be spent here in Missouri so its not as if looking out the window will bring any kind of enjoyment as I've probably seen it before (don't get me wrong - Missouri is scenic in a lot of places). I'm only stopping at a couple cities - but I'm still excited about that. Not too keen on Kansas City, but from pictures it looks intimidating. So maybe I'll see something cool and I don't mean a bag lady or anything like that (Oh Gods please don't let me be confronted by a homeless person - I'm such a softie)

Keith just called and is now home from work - so I'm going to flirt with him for a bit before he passes out and then I'm off to get things accomplished. Not sure if I'll be back to blog before I head out on my journey - so if the bus explodes these will be my last words:

When it comes to discussing anime or video games - don't be a spoiler. Don't trade in your uber-geek points for a get out of jail free card.

Ciao!

A few things have gone on, and of course I'm going to post about it.

The second episode of Noob Be Gone is complete and available for public viewing over at me and Keith's site. I'm glad its finally done and out of the way. Sometimes recording audio is a pain. I mean seriously - how many different ways can you say a single paragraph? And to make it worse .. we don't script anything. We shoot a lot of footage - then sit down and talk while watching it. What tends to happen is: we get a lot of great audio ... but one will cut the other off talking and if we actually like it we have to re-record that part. Its really hard to get that spur-of-the-moment innocense out of things when you have to repeat them, I guess.

At any rate Noob Be Gone: Building Tutorials is complete. View, learn, and enjoy. With the hectic week or so ahead, not to mention another huge project - the 3rd episode may be a bit slow going. Here's a rundown of the next few weeks:

• Film a wedding on 12/20
• Get everything packed and ready to go by 12/22
• Finish up Yule shopping by 12/21
• Move
• Begin filming video for BEF

I realize that it doesn't sound like much - but its quite a bit. Oh and once I film that wedding - Keith has to edit the footage once I get moved. There are probably a few things that I'm leaving out but at the moment I just can't seem to remember.

Six contacted me tonight and asked me to write for a SL Fashion blog she and Garbage started called Appearance Mode. I have no idea how my weird-ass fashion sense is going to mingle in with everyone else ... but hey it'll be an adventure of sorts, right? Maybe now I can start showing people stuff that doesn't come from names they already know. That's really what I hope to do. We'll see I guess.

Its almost 4am and I really should go to bed. I have lots more laundry to do so that I can pack but now I'm just exhausted. Procrastinator? Yes. That's me!

Alright. Noob Be Gone II ... we've had to re-record some audio but for the most part everything is done. We have so many ideas for future videos, but things have to be done in order or else it isn't a true tutorial (which is what we're aiming for)

My last day of work was Tuesday, and I already feel like a huge weight has been lifted off me. There's still a lot of stress to come - but this has seriously been a big sigh of relief. People: Never EVER work fast food unless you're in Dire Straits and you just HAVE to in order to feed yourself. Other than that - work retail if it comes down to one or the other.

I think next week is the DEFINATE time I'm leaving to move in with Keith. This week was kind of a no-go due to a lot of factors .. but I'm not bummed about it. I mean in all honesty ... I've waited this long. Another week feels like a day. Seriously. Just KNOWING a day has made me giddy beyond belief. It still seems surreal and the permanence of it hasn't set in at ALL .. but does that matter? Like I said before - I'm just ecstatic to SEE him much less anything else.

This long distance thing has really taught me to never take anything for granted. I think many many MANY people take relationships for granted. They don't pay attention to all the little things that matter. People just settle into that comfort zone way too fast and it just ruins everything. Some get so jealous and possessive. It all seems so immature to me now. Not relationships in general ... but the way people handle them. Moving right along!

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After Yule, Keith and I will start filming on a new project we were contracted for .. and for those that check this: Not only will we be adjusting to our lives together, but we'll be getting accustomed to actually working together so please please -please- have patience. Our creative processes are so totally different that its going to be quite interesting to see how we work when we're face to face. Not that we haven't BEEN face to face before - but when we have been we didn't work. He and I are an awesome team, and we seem to just feed off each other in the creative department - but as I said - our process is different. He's obsessive about things whereas I gogogogo till I'm burnt then I have to walk away. He never seems to get his fill. He's the one that keeps picking my brain when I think I can't come up with anything else.

I'm really excited to see what we can accomplish together. He's a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to things, and I'm the easily amused one. He loves nearly every crazy idea I come up with, and I never think its good enough. He's the "go for it" type, whereas I feel I need some kind of approval. Like I said - this will be interesting.



This new venture we've taken on will be taking up a lot of our free time both in and out of simply filming. Its going to take a lot more planning, diagrams and scheduling. I've got total faith that the end result is going to be majorly awesome - but the process is what I'm looking most foward to. Its like putting two monkeys in a cage with a drumset. Its going to get loud, rowdy, and be fun to sit back and watch. *scratches her armpit*

I've really been trying to keep this blog up to date with everything as far as personal life and 'business' life goes but I noticed that I'm a big flaky. I do enjoy going back and reading everything as I never plan or memorize anything I write.

So here I sit with a 710mL can of Full Throttle .. looking at all the stuff I've half packed sitting over by the wall. I plan to spend most of tomorrow going through everything, packing, and wrapping presents. I'm sure Keith doesn't think I can do it - but I can :) And? I will. Oh yes. I will.

I had a lot more stuff to write about - but I started listening to My Quirky Rocker pandora station and its simply slipped my mind.

All the audio has been finished - and Keith has been editing on the 2nd episode for a couple hours now :) So the second episode of Noob Be Gone should be completed in its entirety in a matter of days - if not sooner. I know how Keith gets on an edit spree and gets all obsessive about it and won't stop until its done. I could make a comment here but I'll refrain.

Recently I've found I have an obsession or two. One is checking blogs. There are quite a few that I read - and I check 'em more regularly than I check my own e-mail. I had originally started reading Willow's blog when I used to frequent PXP. Maybe I'm weird in the sense that I like to 'know' about what I'm reading. Anyway - I now check her blog regularly to catch bits n pieces of things I don't know about. Its apparent she's a shopping goddess - and I severly lack in that department. Willow, I'll let you do the shopping for me. I'll just photoshop my av's head onto your av's and it'll be like playing with paper dolls.

I check Six's blog often. Not sure why. She throws hair at me all the time - and I always like her stuff so I don't even have to see it to know I'll like it. Not to mention we've known each other almost 2 years so she pretty much knows what I like and what I don't like.

There are quite a few other blogs I check - but at the moment they escape me. I'm too busy singing along to my trip hop Pandora station :)

Speaking of that .. have you ever noticed how hard it is to type something when you're singing? I don't know if anyone else has that problem or not - but it seems any time I am singing I have to stop, type, then sing again otherwise I'll type what I'm singing and not what I'm thinking. Ugh I'm so weird.

It is official. I am moving in with Keith this month (insert girly giggles and goofy grins here). For the past almost 2 weeks - the days have really drug by :( I figured they would zoom, but no. I've been foiled. I'm sososososososo excited! I know I'm going to end up procrastinating and not getting things packed until the last minute - but that doesn't even matter. I am sick - and nearly lost my voice - so I didn't talk ALL day at work today. Didn't mumble a single word. And within all that quiet time I had time to think. Imagine that.

So I was thinking. I was thinking about how easy this entire relationship has been. Yeah the lack of physicality was a bit frustrating - but it wasn't hard. We haven't had any drama. No one's had a problem with anything. To my knowledge no one's disagreed to us being together. He's genuinely happy with me (even my faults and things that are annoying) and that's awesome. In all actuality this whole thing has been a fairy tale complete with a huge box of love letters, a pressed flower or two .. and a prince whisking his princess away. Could it get any better folks? No. No it can't.

Alright back to obsessions. I bought Elite Beat Agents yesterday .. and I'm so hooked. I've done 2 levels of difficulty so far and I can't stop! I even took the damn DS to work so I could play on my break LOL Its so fun though! Argh!

K I think that's all. I'm really just excited about SEEING Keith that I don't think the whole permanent end of it has set in yet. Does that even make sense? Hurray! Love wins!