The Hang Over

So I did end up going out last night.  I went to Heat, a club in Schaumburg.  It used to be called Bamboo Room.  It was so much fun.  Now, it's mainly a straight bar, but me being gay, didn't mind going.  I was with to girl friends of mine and I had a blast.  When we first get there, who gets hit on first?  ME!  haha, I was standing with the girls and this guy comes up and starts hitting on me, and then he introduces me to his friend and we start talking.  They were a couple, so I don't think they were hitting on me, but that's what I thought at first.

Later, we found two guys on the dance floor that were dancing with each other.  Rachel tried dancing with one of the guys, and he gave her a dirty look like, "eww girl, get away."  We kept watching them and they did it to EVERY girl that tried dancing with them.

Shannon was dancing with loser type guys and got them to buy a round of beer for all of us.  I loved it.  I paid for three drinks all night, spent like $15 total (after tipping too) and managed to consume like 6 beers and a shot.  Which is not a good idea when you only have an hour and a half until the bar closes.  I  was really wasted which ended badly.

Woke up today with a really bad hangover, even after throwing up.

Hurt

About a month ago I was invited to a bowling fundraiser for Carrie Burke.  Danielle was going to be my partner.  But... for whatever reason it is, she's upset with me.  Well today is the night of bowling and Danielle never gave me the information of when (what time) or where the bowling was.

The best part of it all: I text messaged her twice today and called her cell phone a couple times.  I then tried to call her house, but it was busy.  I even made an attempt to try calling Lou for the information, but she didn't pick up, and I didn't want to leave a message and have her think "why didn't Danielle just tell him."

It's unfortunate, you know, I've gone to this event annually for the past 3 years, and this year I miss because Danielle is mad/upset/whatever at me.  That's ridiculous.  She could have been mature and come to terms with the fact that tonight was not about her.  It was about Carrie, her cousin.  

http://www.carrieburkefoundation.org/

I found the website for the foundation at 11:00pm, only to have found the flyer that told the time and location of the event.  Had I seen it sooner, should I have gone?  And, since I didn't go, what does her family think of me?  What information was given to them?

I'm done.

I'm sorry

I want to apologize to both my blog and myself.  Mainly, 1. no one in their right mind reads this shit, nor would I expect them to, and 2.  I've been busy with school coming to a closing in a couple weeks, I had many projects to complete before their deadlines arrived.  I made a couple garments, as I've posted in a previous blog.  I made another dress and a leather piece that I showed in one of my YouTube videos... which I included in a different blog.  

Damn!  all of a sudden I have this mood to show off my work.  I don't know what to do with myself.  In the past I kept everything a secret until it needed to be shown.  It's either I have more confidence in my work or I just don't care anymore.  Maybe there's a combination of the two in there.

Anywho... Here's some pictures of the dress I made last Wednesday.  It has to be pressed... I know, but oh well.

I'm done.

T-Shirt Dress!

All semester in my Wearable Art class I've been working on a dress made entirely out of recycled t-shirts.  Tonight I finally finished it.  I absolutely love it and everything is made out of recycled materials.  The dress is knitted together and has wood painted purple and cut to look like knitting needles holding it together

What do you think?

Super Quick

I only have a little time to talk cause I want to take a nap before I get started on my homework, but I really needed to say that I had an amazing time last night on Stickam.  I was chatting with Andy (Nanooboy) and I think the conversations were all over the place.  Besides thinking everyone is just the cutest (StevieProductions, Artteacher, mrhat, etc.) and telling them.  The people there were just crazy wild.  The conversation went all over from super casual to totally inappropriate and I loved every minute of it.

I'm still shocked that Andy spent 8 hours on camera just sitting and chatting with people, but I guess I can understand because, well, besides being in conversation with many people, talking online is quite addicting.  You only want to be one for a little bit, and before you know it, it's 3AM and you have work in a couple hours.

Alright, that's all for now.

I'm done.

Now that I'm 21...

... my friends want to be friends again.  Now that I'm 21, my friends have been texting me to hang out with them.  I've received messages from people that I haven't seen since last summer asking me to meet them at certain bars.  That upsets me that you now want to hang out with me, cause I can meet you at the bar and we can hang out.

Late Night Stitches

Yesterday when I got home from school, I had to make a garment for my leather class which was due today.  Now I've know about this assignment for a couple weeks now, but when do I wait to start it?  The day before it's due.  Fidiot!¹  I ended up staying up all night long sewing away, and that's not a good thing, cause when the tiredness hit, that's NOT a good time to sew.

I did take a break around 6:30 cause I had to get ready for work, that's right, I still had to go to work, and at this point I'm almost up for 24 hrs.  YUCK!  I go to work and actually manage to stay awake.²  At 8:30, I call my boss and tell her that I'm not coming in. I didn't finish my assignment yet, and school is more important, and I have to do it.  She understood cause she's AWESOME.  I went home, finished my garment, it's a leather jumper, and went to bed where I slept until I had to wake up to go to class.

Which brings us to my next topic.  Class.  I brought in my garment which is made of awesome³ where I discovered that for the fashion show I need to have a girl with a larger bust⁴.  Ok, so the pattern that I made on our schools CAD program didn't work.  I don't know if it was my fault when creating it or if it was the Bitch's fault when she was printing it.  It was supposed to print in full size and I think it was almost double in size.  UGH!  It was horrible, but of course Jules⁵ came to the rescue and gave me a brilliant idea and I went with it to create the pattern for my dress which is due... Next Thursday⁶

I'm done.

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¹ F***ing idiot

² I had to stay on my feet or I would have fallen asleep

³ You can see part of it in the video below

⁴ Huge boobs

⁵ One of the greatest teachers I have ever had.  Even though we had a little tiff one semester, I am still grateful to have met her and to have been her pupil.

⁶ Ok, this one I only knew about last week.  But, the pattern is done, and it's not leather, so it will be a lot easier/quicker to sew up... no more Late Night Stitches for me.

I'm a sinner, I'm a saint

After work I went to Hobby Lobby and ONLY bought the things that I need (even though I forgot to buy one, VERY IMPORTANT item).  I went home and began my homework, like whoa!  I got my entire pattern cut out of everything and I started sewing it up.  I didn't get very far there, cause after I started sewing it, I realized I didn't put interfacing on it.  UGH!  but that's ok cause I didn't sew any piece of the top yet, yay!

However, once I got on a roll and started getting really far, I stopped.  I got bored with it, and chose (<<---why does that look like it's spelled wrong?) to stop for the night.  Oh, and it was 10pm and I wanted to try and get to bed early because I have school tomorrow and lots of work to get done in class, so I did spend time tonight getting things together so I don't have to run around looking for everything.  WOOT!

I can't wait for school to be over, so that I have more free time for more important things, like... my friends, making videos, going to bars.  haha, ya know, the important stuff in life.  Just kidding.  But I am really looking forward to this summer, cause I know it's going to be a very fun, eventful, exciting one and I plan to document it for "reflection".

Alright, well good night!

Oh, one more thing, I saw a video on YouTube (view below) and I think it's really amazing.  It got me thinking, maybe I want to participate in this and make a video that might get viewed all over the world.  My idea right now is super classified, area 51.  The only clue to this is that I want to make a video that will ultimately become the ultimate collaboration video.  I'll need a lot of people to help out and be part of it.  I hope I can accomplish it.

I'm done.

Work, Court, School, Homework

This blog comes in 4 parts.

Part 1:

This morning I made it into work, ON TIME!  WOOT!  While I was there, I didn't do any work.  Meghan's birthday was yesterday so we celebrated it today.  When I wasn't participating in the festivities, I was doing my homework at my desk.  Shh, don't tell my boss.

Part 2:

I left work this afternoon at noon to drive all the way to Downers Grove. For court.  Ok, so back in December I got pulled over on my way to Shannon's school.  I got a ticket for speeding and not having a front license plate.  My court date was back in February, but I didn't have enough cash to pay the $435 fee.  Oh yea, court fees have gone up RIDICULOUS amounts.  Well, since I didn't have enough money at the time, I had to get a new court date.  I've paid since then, but they never told me I didn't need to show up.  So I sat there for TWO hours.

Part 3:

I went to class, and NOT to my surprise, it was boring.  I ended up falling asleep.  All I can remember was the teacher telling me that I have to redo the assignment.  The other thing is the new assignment, which I doubt I'll have time to do this week, but I'll do it half-assed and I'll get a passing grade on it.

Part 4:

I got home, made dinner, and now I have to start my homework for Thursday.  I have an entire leather outfit to make in three days and I haven't even started it.  Yuck!  Well I have started, I made the pattern for the jumper which is the hardest part to the whole production.  Now I just need to cut it out and sew it up.

I'm done.

My Poor Baby :(

Saturday night I went out for my birthday with my friends in the city and it went really well.  People were giving me Happy Birthday wishes all night long... I love it!

The entire night was just one huge event in my drunk mind.  Unfortunately, since I don't remember it, I can't tell you about it.  damn!  I should have video taped it so we all could know what happened.  Oh well, next time.

Sunday afternoon, when I was getting ready to leave and drive my tired, hung over self home, Sal asked where I parked.  When I told him that I parked on Irving Park Road he immediately jumped onto his computer clicking away at the internet.  oops!  There was a Cubs baseball game today.  Grrrr!

My car was towed because I was parked in game territory.  After several blocks walked, a phone call to a friend, a 20-minute car ride, 30-minute waiting time, and $160 later I got my car back... with window paint writing all over it.

Just my luck.

I'm done.

Tonight's The Big Night

I'm getting all tucked into bed to take a nap before the big night.  Tonight is the celebration night for my birthday (which was actually Wednesday).  I'm going to downtown Chicago to go bar hopping with they boys.  I'm quite excited as I just turned 21 so now I can go out with my friends (cause they're all older than me).

I'll be in Boystown in case anyone wants to come by and visit... Who am I kidding.  No one reads this except myself.  Oh well.

I'm done.

So Far, So Good

I missed a day!  Whoa!  I didn't even realize that I missed a day on here.

My grandma called me on my birthday to wish me a happy 19th birthday.  Luckily before she got on the phone with me, my uncle told her that it was my 21st birthday.

OK, so, what I did...

After going to class, I went home and did a very slight amount of homework and then went to dinner with Steph¹ and Mike² at T.G.I.Friday's where we had burgers and beers.  Then we stopped at another restaurant where we met up with some friends who bought me a shot.  Now here's the best part :)  Steph told me that we had to pick up her friend from the train station.  I didn't think anything of it, just thought her friend was coming out her for a meeting and that she was going to hang out with us for my birthday.  So as we're at the train stop, I'm looking for this short, petite asian woman.  Who do I find?  Sal³ is standing there, with his back pack (he never leaves home without it).  That was such a surprise for me cause I hadn't talked to him in weeks and wasn't expecting to see him until Saturday (oh, I guess that'd be today).

So now it's me, Steph, and Sal in the car.  We go to Hoffman Lanes Bowling, get there at 9pm for some Bowling & Beer and people start showing up.  With gifts.  People were showing up with gifts.  I was not expecting that at all.  "buy me a beer"  is what I said to everyone that asked what I wanted.

The Rest...

12:30am Bowling is over, Bryan's drunk, time for Deny's

2:30am Done with Deny's, time to drive Sal home; to the city. I'm still drunk, Steph drives

3:30am I'm home, finally!

4:30am Finally get to bed after talking to my dad who woke up when I came in.

8:00am Woke up to go to work

I'm Done.

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¹ My boss which whom I've grown so close to that she is a really good friend to me.  We would do anything for each other, that's how well we've bonded.  She hates surprises for herself, but sure knows how to plan good ones for other.

² Mike and I went to the same high school, but we never really talked much back then.  When I got my job with KASPER, that's where we actually started talking.  Him and I become really good friend from work and now we are constantly texting each other and we're both still working for the same program.

³ My boyfriend since Thanksgiving 2007.  He makes me smile at all the right times.

My Birthday

Tomorrow is my birthday.

I'm not the type of person that gets SUPER excited about their birthday.  And I'm not the Emo kid that hates his birthday either.  I'll be turning 21 tomorrow.  I am excited about that; all my friends are over 21 so that makes me happy that I can hang out with them when they want to go to the bars. But, school is coming to an end and all my final projects are starting to come to their due dates.  That adds a lot of stress to me and right now, thinking about fun is not something I can do.  Three months ago, now that's when I was stoked about my birthday.  I was all like, "what am I going to do?" "who am I going out with"  "Let's go out EVERY night"

Now that the day is upon me, I just want to lay in bed, hibernate, and not come out until summer.  When the semester is over and everything has settled down.  Part of that may have to do with being ill, and some of it may have to do with school, but I think my friends scare me the most.

I've always been the youngest person of any group that I've hung out with, and everyone gets so excited for my birthday cause I'm getting closer to the legal drinking age.  Well I'm just scared that I'm going to be pulled in every direction all at once.

UGH!  I don't know.

I'm done.

On the Other Side

I actually got up and went to work today, which is a step FAR in the right direction.  I'm still congested and ache throughout my body, but a half day of work, that's not so bad to go back to.  Right?  :)  

I have loads of homework that I have to catch up on and I return to classes tomorrow.  :/  I hope I can finish it all in time.

When I got home this afternoon, Danielle was in her room, what a shock.  Still sleeping, I woke her up to make sure she was doing ok and it turns out that she was just up laying in bed watching YouTube.  Well, at least she stayed in her room today.  

Alright, I don't have much to say today.

I'm done.