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

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!