Please visit my tenant, I don’t want him to get lonely (plus it reflects badly on me if no one clicks on his little room!).
Jeepers! Last night I really couldn’t sleep. I think I lay for hours before going to sleep at all and then later I woke up and one of my nostrils kept getting all blocked so I had to keep getting up to blow my nose and then when my hubby got up to go to work today I didn’t go back to sleep. When he left I actually got up because I couldn’t sleep! There is something wrong with me! Actually there probably isn’t, my mind is just too active and there’s all this stuff I want to do. None of it is particularly important but I want to do it anyway.
I really want an easy way to make cartoons. I just want to make portrait type things. Like that cutesy one I showed you yesterday. Or there’s a fairly spunky one here. I found this site which once upon a time made a cartoon somewhere by just picking eyes and face shape etc. That site doesn’t seem to exist anymore though – I’m not quite sure, it was in German but I think it said it couldn’t find the site I was looking for.
I’m downloading the new Photoshop trial. I don’t have any version of Photoshop. I think my brother had v6. I used to use a program called Corel Photopaint. It was actually way cool and I realise now that it is better than The Gimp, which is what I’m using for imaging now – Photopaint had a lot more scripts and filters than The Gimp has. I’m assuming that Photoshop will have those things and more, since it’s so darn expensive! It will probably still require at least an hour of work on my part to get what I want. I’m not saying that I hate working to get what I want, it’s just that the cartoon itself is such a small part of what I’m doing. This download is taking a long time though! I started it at about 8:45 this morning and it got to 12% and seemed to die so I had to restart it. Now it’s at 24% Ugh, at this rate it might take all day!
I tried sketching on paper to make some cute pic and then colour it in on the computer but unfortunately I’m not a very good artist!
Hmmm, I’m hungry, I might go have another crumpet. Finally I have crumpets that aren’t mouldy! Last time I bought crumpets they were 2 for $3 so I thought, “Oooh, cool, I’ll put one pack in the freezer.” So I did that but the packet not in the freezer got mouldy very quickly all the way through when it was unopened! Mel suggested to me that they were on special because they were nearly at their use by date. That might have been true, I don’t know. Anyway I checked these ones for their use by date because they were n special too. They supposedly don’t go off until Sunday. Don’t you think they could produce food in a slightly cleaner environment though – they were unopened!