It's official

I am a focused, driven, ambitious person- hungry for challenges and success, on a non-stop express train to my many goals.

I finally started a couple days ago. One of my new things is that I'm now shaving every day that I have to work. It used to be that I'd skip a few days and get a little scruffy. Nobody said to be more clean shaven. In fact, two of the managers said they like my "scuffy look", and the owner said I looked "very GQ". My skin gets irriated, but eventually I'd like to start shaving everyday, even my days off.

Something I've been doing for the past two days is cleaning my room. I want it to be organized and use the space better. All of my art supplies need to be at arm's reach and there's gotta be a place to work where I don't have to move shit around before I get started. That's important.

I've got library books that were supposed to go back at theend of march. I'm gonna return them this weekend.

Part of my new system is I'm not going to put things off anymore. That means there's a lot of catching up to do cause I've put off a lot of shit.

I've filled up an entire sheet of paper with money-making plans and schemes. Some things just won't happen, they're bad ideas that wouldn't work, but most of the things on the list are do-able. One example is window displays.

I live in a town with a very popular downtown. There are a lot of businesses on and around Main Street with small-to-medium-sized storefront windows and ever since I moved here I've wanted to design eye-catching visuals. I think I could do some great stuff, especially around Christmastime.

I'm going to choose a few stores that need help. Then I'm going to do some sketches, find the cheapest way to execute things, and then present the blueprints to the business owners.

I'm very excited because things are different now and I'm seeing opportunities everywhere.

Around New Years I cleaned out a pickle jar and put on a label that said Car Jar. At one point there was over $60 inside but I ended up needing the cash for something else. I'm starting over and everything goes in there from now on. Not everything, actually. I'm gonna check out some banks- sometimes they'll put $50 in your new account after the first 60 days. I also got, for Christmas, a change bank that has a digital display and counts your change as you insert it.

But the point is: you reap what you sow. I'm planting seeds (including some basil seeds- both of my original terrariums are back in business) for things to grow in the future.

Terrarium: Part Ten

My lush beautiful terrariums are not so lush anymore. I've got two miniture replicas of Death Valley. The spider plant cuttings got too much moisture and I think it was too soon to plant the basil. Plus they weren't getting enough sun.

Yesterday I threw down a few new basil seeds. Once they sprout I'm going to set the terrariums up in a spot where they'll get more light.

Wish me luck.

Terrarium: Part Eight

If you've seen the terrarium photos you know that I used Christmas tree- shaped cookie jars. I've been alternating between keeping the lids on and keeping the lids off.

For the past couple days I've had the lids on and the basil terrarium had moisture all over the glass; I decide to take the lid off this morning and when I came home ALL of the basil sprouts were withered. I could barely make them out they had withered so badly.

I'm crushed. I dropped in five new seeds and didn't even bother pressing them down. I'm gonna keep the lid off and hope for the best. I'd like for the existing sprouts to bounce back but they look so bad.

The good news is that the spider plants are thriving, as are the artichoke-type plants I added last weekend. By the way, if you happen to know what they're called please let me know. Thanks.

Terrarium: Part Three

There are now 13 sprouts. 13. And today I visited a friend who collects interesting rocks that she finds and we watched Chelsea Lately and she around 20 stones- half I put in my terrarium, half I saved for a future terrarium.


Note: The photo above is not a photo of my basil plants, though I do expect mine to look like that in a couple days.