Frustrating Losing It All...Again!

So I went to work on Sunday, came home, and Curtis was rebooting the system.  Come to find out, the whole computer was practically crashed and lost just about everything.  Luckily, the computer had given my boyfriend the option of backing up the files.  So, I technically didn't lose anything, I just have to go digging around the back ups to find it.

This is very frustrating to me seeing as I had lost my laptop, lost his laptop, lost the old computer TWICE.  So, it got me a little discouraged.

However, I am feeling much better now and just wanted to say that I am working very hard on all these projects I've been dropping hints about.  Pocketful Of Insight will officially be set up and running as soon as I finish the video footage for the tattoo expo from Vegas.  Then it shall have new posts every other day on products/movies/music/whatever I feel like.

As well, I have been working on my friends and mine's Zazzle account/designs.  A lot of the old ones need retouching and some just need to be deleted, period.  Though, this is also discouraging when your friend sees it as a fun little side thing and you're trying to put your heart into it!  I wish I could draw like him because then I wouldn't to worry about.  I could easily take it over myself when he goes away to doctoring school.  Sigh.

Then there is the money/work issue.  My job is very...well, not well put together and I get about five scheduled hours a week.  Minimum wage + ten hrs every paycheck = me not making enough.  Not to mention, Curtis got demoted at work just so they cut his pay and save a few bucks.  So he's depressed and stressed about bills, I'm stressed about bills and depressed about the computer.  It just equals one big fail of a week.

So you see, whoever you are... I have been very discouraged lately.  But this does not mean I have given up hope on my writing.  In fact, it has put a fire under my bum, moving me into motion!  I have wrote up the rough, rough draft of my book.  I will be working HARD on that.  I have discussed new design ideas with Hugo.  And, I have put most of the Las Vegas footage together and finished the article.  I have been doing a lot, just nothing for the public eye.  This needs to change.

And it will.
Very soon.

♥
Alexis

Woo

Long time no post.

So, Vegas was absolutely amazing!  And I want to go again!  Maybe for my birthday next year.  I want to see Holly Madison's 'Peep Show'.  They showed some of it on The Girls Next Door the other episode, and it looks fantastic!  Seeing as my twenty first birthday totally was not awesome.  All of my friends were under-age/too old to be out late, and we just chilled in Tahoe.  On a Sunday.

So, I was thinking of Vegas-ing it up next year.  Possibly, I don't know.  My two main friends still wont be twenty one until the Fall, so it seems almost pointless yet again?  Minus the fact that I adore Las Vegas.  I do like the idea of going to a show I picked out, drinking with my besties Candice and Curtis, and looking hot!  Also, I do so love Holly.  It was sad when she left Hugh Hefner.  And for what?  A crazy magician who she later dumped as well...

Got off track there.

Anyways, Las Vegas was good fun.  The tattoo expo was alright, I was glad it was free that's for sure.  I need to finish up my article on it and post it.  That would be useful.  I think I'll sign off of Blogger for tonight and go work on that right away.

I have a lot of good feelings for the future right now...
Love and peace
Alexis

Mini-Vacation

Yes, that is right! It is off to another mini-vacation for me!  And here I am, yet again, going to the beautifully popular Las Vegas!  Only this time, I am taking my boyfriend and best friend along for the ride.

I got free tickets to this years Biggest Tattoo Expo on Earth in the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.  Whoot whoot!  I'm super excited because last time me and the bestie went it was more for a future job aspect for her.  This time, we're going for pure fun!  And it's suppose to be a lovely 80 and up the whole time we are there, so my snowboarder boyfriend can't complain about how hot is when it was 80 almost all of September here.  Anyways, back to the expo!  I'm super excited to go because I've always been interested in tattoos.  It runs in my family.  My dad has quite a few jesters (scary ones!) and my mom has a peace sign and a daisy.  Grandpa... Well, he just got his... fifth one, I think.  So, as you can see, my family is really supportive in the whole body art thing and now that I'm old enough to feel like I can make a clean decision on a respectful piece, why not check out all my options at the expo?  They're going to have a historic tattoo museum, booths galore, music, live tattooing and piercing.  It's so amazing.  And I got all of this free!  I just need to pay for gas and maybe some food, and definitely for going out afterwards too.

All thanks to Starlight Tattoo for providing these free tickets.  If you have a myspace, add them!  They're a growing company in Las Vegas.  Even tattoo'd a few celebrities. ;)  And their shop is amazing!  Inside the Mandalay Bay, walls completely made of glass so everyone can see what's going on!  Really hip, really modern, extremely skilled.  I absolutely love that place. <3

Did I mention I'd get a little shopping in?  ;) I want to hit up the Playboy store! Gotta love bunnies.

I will be taking my camera with me!  Hopefully get some footage for my youtube, and then some for my little side projects which will be launching here soon.

So, until next time! PEACE!

Why Hello

Oh, it has been a while hasn't it?
Well, let's see what I've been up to, shall we?

I got a new job.  Don't work very much due to lack of hours for everyone, but the manager says winter will bring about at least a full shift.  It's paying most of the bills, I guess.  I just need to get a few more hours than four a week!  Yikes.  But I think that is just for this week.  Normally it's about eight or twelve hours a week.

I did a photo shoot for a jewelry catalog recently.  The pictures are AMAZING.  I can't wait until the website is updated and the catalog comes out.  It was a lot of fun to do.  Very hard work getting the right angles and poses to compliment the jewelry, though.  I usually ended up passing out every night during movie time.

Been busy getting ready for the Freaker's Ball.  It should be really amazing this year.  Or I so I hope.  I've only been dreaming about going for over two years now!  Ever since I started working at Montbleu back in the day, everyone would always tell me to go to Freaker's Ball.  And for the past two years it was, "Hello? I'm not twenty one!"  NOT THIS YEAR, BABY!  I am so excited.  Curtis is excited as well, he has refused to go the whole time we've been dating.  So, this will be his first Freaker's Ball as well.  I will also be attending it with my cousins, two freshly turned twenty-one year olds, and a few other fabulous people to be hanging out with.  Oh, if only Hugo and Frankie weren't twenty!  Those two are the best to party with.

Oh yes! Next weekend should be awesome.  I got free tickets to the Biggest Tattoo Expo on Earth in Las Vegas.  So it will be awesome to visit Vegas AGAIN this year.  And this time have some cool excuse!  Curtis has been looking to get a tattoo, I want one...someday...lol, and Candice is wanting another one on her neck line or something.  So, going to this amazing Expo should be useful.  And then there's all the clubs, too. =3  I want to try that sushi place... Something Pop? in the Mandalay Bay.  It looks really high class awesome!

Anyhow, I've been working on a side project here and hope to have it running fairly soon.  Just working out the kinks and details.  Should be up soon though.  Really soon.  I hope to have it open before this weekends Expo.

Time to go and work on said project...
Toodles!

Hm!

I really do not like my layout...
I need to get back to work on fixing it up to my own likings. I had started a while ago but that's about when I started getting computer problems.

So.

Be aware of blog layout change.

Addicted to Beauty

Oh, so I was watching Oxygen today while doing some sewing and this show about plastic surgery and spa life. I have found it... most amusing. In this episode, the sales manager started a small 'sales challange' for the front desk people and Diane, the Spa manager, had a little talk with everyone about their appearances. Can I just say oh my god. Really? This woman is insane! I don't know how she can legally get away with telling someone they need to get their teeth fixed for that job. Her poor sales manager looked so embarrassed and irritated. She told her assistant that she needed to wear more blush. And the sales challange is so awesome. I strongly believe in good hearted competition like that. It motives people to pay more attention to their customers and to their products. They don't really show much of the plastic surgery side. I suppose it's because this Dr. Lee is just more into his job where as the spa side of the business seems to be in pieces and more entertaining.

Oooh, Gary is so funny and yet so annoying. "How else may I lick your ass today?" And now I am watching one of the worst dates ever. Poor Natasha! Anyhow. This Shannyn person is amazing and seems to be the only one with a business head on her shoulders.

I really like the whole spa/plastic surgery combination they did there. It was smart. They saw a need and filled it. Hey, why not get a facial or a tan before your appointment to get your breast fixed or something? Genius idea.

In my vision, I see me teaming up with a spa and a gym. Buy a new outfit at my store, go work out in the gym, and then relax and cool off at the spa after that long day. Maybe get a Jamba Juice or some local smoothie place to join in the fun of self-empowering, feel good time. Aaah, now to just find the perfect place for this and to finish my schooling. I'm actually looking so forward to being my own boss that it motivates me to no end. And the fact that all of this while I am still young enough to enjoy it motivates me to suck it up and just do it. No matter how nasty, how boring, how intensely insane and radical it may seem.

AAAAH! I just wrote myself into more motivation! Come on store, call me back so I can show you how eager I am in the retail business. Argh, I am so eager and ready for this job.

Ew, The Notebook is on now.

I think I will finish up this blog and get back to my sewing. I finished a dress in two days. I am so proud of myself. It actually looks really cute with the sunflowers and black accents. So, I need to go and practice some more. ;D Especially if I am going to make my Alice dress before Halloween.

Love lots

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs... Concerts

So I recently applied at a place here. And as soon as the lady called me and set up an interview, I was so regretting applying there. It really was not the job for me. It was like on the other universe of what I want to do with my life.

Today in the interview, I decided I would suck it up. Money was money and sooner or later I could leave for what I really desire. Until she said the store manager wanted me to work at Starbucks. Hell to the no. I cannot remember a drink combination to save my life! I barely remember MY favorite combination at Starbucks. So, she insisted I think about it. Even after me explaining I could never remember everything and that job required good memory.

Anyhow!
I already found a job I would like. It's just they said they weren't hiring just yet (even though they have a 'apply now!' sign in the window?) but they would be in a few weeks. So, I'm guessing some of their staff is living for school in California or something. That's what my friend does. Comes home for the summer/Christmas and then goes back. Whatever, as I was saying! It looks like an okay in between job! I just want monies to save up and pay rent while I work on my own real goals. I don't want to level up or anything. Except for a raise. ;D

Homigosh! There are soo many concerts this month I would really love to attend! Nickelback, SoCal festival, Marilyn Manson, GREEN DAY! Although I have seen both Nickelback/Hinder and Green Day before, I would still love to see them all again. Especially seeing as they all have new albums. Except for Linkin Park who is playing at the SoCal festival. So, that's one reason I would like a job really really soon. All of these BIG concerts cost money. I miss the old days when I liked ten dollar concert bands, you know? Ha, ha, ha. I still do, but now I save those ten dollars for the big boys.

Mmm, Chester Bennington!