Hello all. To just clear up on what I meant in my last post, I’m not going to stop blogging, I’m just thinking of moving my blog to either sub-domain of urbanroxy, or creating a whole other domain for it, so when I’m ready to start my online clothing line, I can use urbanroxy.com for it instead. No worries, I love blogging way too much to just stop it. =)

As you all can see, I have chosen yet ANOTHER theme, I like this one a lot though. It just screams my style and if you don’t like it, that’s TO BAD! =P Haha, I’m joking, but seriously this is my look and I like it a lot. And I don’t know about you, but it’s really easy on eyes, something that most people usually cannot get right on their websites. So I’m happy.

Well, I’ve been uber busy this past week/weekend. I got an email from Michelle (Desgin4Dot) and she has another project for me to do. So I will be working on that, while also working on some projects I have going on with Surpass Hosting. Wah, I love my job, you have no idea how many times I have stressed this out to people. =) Well it’s about to 9:30 and I want to go to sleep early, since lately I’ve been really tired in work and have been drinking coffee, mochas, and the like at work and Kayla (my boss…sort of) says she is going to buy me a mug…lmao! I’ve never usually been a heavy coffee drinker…but oh well.

EDIT// I changed the theme again! Gawd help me. I liked this one too. Oh well, I’ll stick with this one, so people will appreciate it more. =P

Today I went to Full Sail for their ‘Behind the Scenes Tour’. Basically, it’s an open house to all visitors, students and family. They hold this event once a month and talk about not only the program prospective students are interested in, but also all of their programs and events.

I just have to say; this school is amazing! Everything they own is state-of-the-art. The students, teachers, and staff are all very down-to-earth people with a passion for this industry. This school has everything any undergraduate to even graduate could want and then some. The film department just got me a little to over excited when we visited all the rooms with equipment after equipment. I felt like running over to the cameras and playing with them! And, oh my gawd, their sound editing systems were HUGE! Bigger then what I’ve seen in a recording studio, it was crazy! They also showed us the many graduates and their accomplishments through out the years, and I have to say mostly everything you see out there has at least one Full Sail graduate on board. I love it!

Of course, where there is happiness, sadness is always at toe. Finally we get to the end of the tour, where we are able to meet with admission and financial aid representatives and faculty. Their film department in the span of 21 months comes out to be a whomping $69,175.00 dollars! That’s $23,025.00 dollars every 7 months. My mother, who accompanied me on this event, jaw dropped when we were told this. I mean, I knew it was expensive but not THIS expensive. Do you know how many loans I would/will need to take out for this? I’d be in debt before I could even start my life. A year and nine months till I’d graduate and then six to seven months later, I’d have to start paying my dues.

And even after all of this has been said and done, I am still interested in going to this school! Woe is me. =(

Sadly, I did not get the job as Westgate. The man called me back and told me that at that time they really needed someone with expert skills in Flash and action-scripting. I’m not going to lie, I SUCK in Flash, but I do know the program, since I had to make a mock company website using Flash and made a menu made purely with action-script, but I guess it wasn’t good enough for them. My hopes of finding a well off job in web design are sinking fast and I feel that I should just stick to freelancing and find a part-time job doing something else. In the end, I need money, no matter how I get it. (OK so it DOES matter how I get, if you get my drift…ha ha)

So, for the rest of this week, I will be trying to find as many grants, loans, and scholarships I can find and fill out an application for them. God only knows I will need them.

For a good two weeks now, I have been on a serious job hunt. I’ve applied everywhere that does not involve food and is related to my current field of web design. It’s really not that hard to find web/graphic design companies here in Florida, but to find a job opening is another story!

Even my current client is helping me! He called a few people he knew in the business and recommended me, which I highly appreciate. One company said that since I had just graduated from Winter Park Tech, that maybe the job would be to overwhelming. His website wasn’t that hard to figure out, but I guess since he thinks I’m new to the web design world, that I wouldn’t be able to handle it. It’s alright though, Mr. Pervis had other places (a lot actually) and I’m very great full for it. I just hope I get a call or email soon!

So yesterday I had a little scare with my cat Midnight. I had put him in the garage where his cat litter is so he could do his business. Usually I leave them (I have 2 cats) in there so they run around a bit, since it’s open space. Basically 20 minutes later…I go to the garage and open the door to let him back in, when no Midnight comes trotting back in I go into the garage calling his name. He is no where to be found and I start panicking. I go all around the house calling his name and looking through every nook and cranny in the house.  I decide to look back in the garage and notice that the drier is on, my first thought is that by an ODD mistake my mom was putting clothes in the drier and didn’t see him hop in and BOOM! So I open the drier door and franticly look through the clothes, still no Midnight. Then I think behind the drier and get this eerie feeling that I’m going to find a mangled body or something. Instead of finding that, I see a big round hole in the wall that leads to outside, basically its the hole where that alumna pipe/tail that comes from the drier and to the outside goes and its out of the hole socket.

At this point I’m scared because now I know he’s outside and there are a bunch of nasty street cats who just so happen to live in my backyard. So I go running out there, looking all crazy and what not, calling his name. I still don’t see Midnight and am just thinking the worst. After about 10 minutes of nothing I go back into the house in tears.

My mom is saying that I should wait outside that he would come back eventually. The thing is I’m scared because he doesn’t have his tags on him and doesn’t have a chip in him either, so if a animal catcher were to come around (which they do A LOT) and got Midnight well I would never know anything. So I’m sitting on the couch sobbing my eyes out and my other cat Miss Miss is there licking up my tears (she’s such a sweetheart and nasty…haha) when my father walks in. I tell him everything that happened and he goes outside to look for Midnight again himself and I follow. He goes to the backyard and calls out to him again and they walks to this little patch on the side of our house that leads into the “woods” (you can walk through them and get to the other side on the neighborhood) and guess who we find sitting there like nothing is wrong in the world? MIDNIGHT! Argh, I felt like hitting him…haha and no I don’t hit my babies.

So as I’m writing this, the bum himself is sleeping soundly on top of my desk. Whew, that was on crazy day…haha.

Till next time, or at least something interesting happens…haha. =)