I'm getting so, so, SO frustrated with Adobe Photoshop. You know how all the swatches are supposed to match each other or whatever, so that you don't get mismatched colors in one brush stroke? Well, mine isn't doing that. It's decided that it wants to choose two different colors and give me multicolors in one single brushstroke. Here's what I mean...

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It's just so annoying, and I can't paint my pictures properly until it's fixed! It makes the brush strokes look like the cloud setting that I use on Serif Photoplus, and that's NOT what I want!! Even if I match both colors as closely as I can, (like, if I use black, because it takes too long to find the right match with any other color) the stroke is still painfully blotchy!

Sooo, anyone know what's up??

If today was nice and sunny, I would be in a much better mood, but I have so much to do... and it's the summer! I'm not supposed to have *anything* to do! -sigh-

My grandma keeps bugging me about getting my liscence, but I don't know how to parallel park, so I'm in pretty hot water there. I mean, seriously, why the heck do you have to parallel park for the test? There's no place around where I live to park like that. Usually people just pull in, with no fancy turns or anything like that. They don't even take into account the fact that country folk don't have a place to practice that...

And I really, really, really don't want to go back to the same college next year. I just feel... I dunno, confused. But there's no place closer than that where I can get a music ed degree. The closest college offers nothing of what I want, and I seriously need to rethink my music idea. There's just so much that is required in the music ed degree, and I don't think I can keep up, especially with sight singing and music theory. I will very likely crash next year. Seriously. So, I'm gonna see if I can possibly take music courses over the internet and then take education classes at that college close by where I live, so then I can sort that out a bit easier. But I don't know. I really don't know. If that's so, then I'll need to get a few online colleges in line and whatever... I'm just so confused. >.< And next year, if I end up staying at that school, I'll have classes almost straight from 8-5:30, and I just. can't. handle. that. GRRR!

And then there's the billion pictures that I need/want to do... Ugh. I have no time. And I'm frustrated. Especially about this whole college thing. Blah. It sucks. Yep.

On the upside I got a hundred more views in eight days...

Ha. Veggietales.... Who says they're for little kids?

Anyway, I am quite excited! I've broken 1,200 pageviews, which while it is not a lot, is more than I've ever expected in such a short time. I'm glad that at least some people like my art, especially with the requests that I've been getting. I'd just like to thank everyone for their support and all the faves and all that. Even if it may not be as much as a lot of people, it's still more than I expected. Thank you!!

And now for my to-do list (in order of the requests)...

Requests:

Sugaree => Nia
Sleezy => Kitty
Kaden => Elle
Rosyln => Britt
Fetisha => LilGloomyBear

Gifts:

Tama => CP
Mother's Day Portrait => My mom (a little late -.-)

Contest Entries:

Freeburgfreak's
Thowra's
Horseridinggal's (?)
Kuschelirmel-stock’s (?)
Freespiritmustang’s
Silverglass19's

YAY.

Things are going just peachy, which is a lovely change from last week.

First of all, this is my last week at school, and as of now I've only got 2 days left!! I'm leaving on Friday morning, though I have no idea how I'll fit all of my stuff in my dad's car. But oh well, it's finally almost finished! Of course, the prospect of taking four different exams between now and then is not very helpful, but at least it'll be finished after that! And I'm also absolutely ecstatic that juries AND piano proficiencies are OVER!! I practiced all this weekend like an insane maniac, with my scales, harmonization piece, lead sheet, and classical piece, and I surprisingly passed... so yay! No more keyboard! And juries (which is where they listen to you playing your instrument or whatever and grade you based on how well you did) went equally well, as my grades have skyrocketed since the last one...

Also, the lice problem is gone after only one week, so I'm pleased about that. ^.^ And my roommate's cat, who was very anemic last time I wrot a journal entry, is turning around the other way, so things are looking good there. I mean, I'm kind of jealous, because I wish that Leo could have turned around as well... I wish that I could have known what was wrong with him and that the vet's office was open on Saturday's, cause then I could've taken him in... I just feel so horrible about the whole thing, but at least his suffering is over.

Anyway, I'm pretty surprised to see that I have a hundred more pageviews than I did yesterday... O.O I don't know what happened there, but I'm pretty dang excited. xD And I've got a few more faves and watchers, so YAY! Maybe that means I'm getting better...? I hope.

Anyway, I've got lots to do... studying and all that, and I promise that I'll get all the pictures that I owe finished. Or at least most of them. :-P

Peace out.

Even if you don't believe in God or prayer, please keep my roomates and myself in your thoughts. We are all going through a rough patch in our college career, especially within these last few weeks of school.

One of my roomates just got a call tonight because her cat, Simba, has anemia and they don't know what is causing it. They think it may be FeLV or FIV, but either way it isn't good. Of course, they could be wrong and it could be something like iron deficiency, an infectious disease, or something that is hopefully treatable. But she is very stressed out, and I know exactly how she feels. Just the weekend before last, I lost my dear Leo to an unknown illness. I discovered that he wasn't acting right on either Thursday or Friday, but I didn't think much of it. He was still wandering around and stuff... anyway, we were going to take him to the vets on the following Monday (this was on Saturday or Sunday that we decided this), and on Sunday he passed away. It was horrible, and I still feel terrible about it. I cried and cried, and I know exactly how Marissa feels.

Plus, she and my other roomate went through a horrible bout of head lice, and now they are both way behind on their art projects. And now I'm trying my best to keep away from it. Our room has been sanitized and all, but the girl that gave it too them has had it for who knows how long... possibly two or three months, maybe more. Of course, now everything is as clean as it's going to ever be, and hopefully we don't have to worry about this horrible plight anymore.

...And on top of that, my scheduling is not working out very well. >.< My MW is going to be absolutely packed full, and my TR is going to have maybe one class at 8am. It's horrible. Ugh. And my advisor really isn't doing much about it, sooo yeah. Fun stuff. And then my other roomate is leaving for another college next year, and that's definitely going to be depressing.

Anyway, please pray for us all! We're going through a reaaally stressful time!