July 27 2008

OLA AMIGOS!!!

GUESS WHO’S BACK FROM MEXICO?

My trip…was just insane. I don’t even know if anyone will believe me.

It started with us getting to the hotel and going though gate after gate until we got to the resort. The place…well let’s just say I had a different definition of “5 stars” in mind. I have a bunch of pictures to show you so you can get an idea of how narrow and claustrophobic the it was. I mean yes, it was TALL and HUGE looking but as soon as you got inside it was such a weird place to be.

The water was amazing, except I went into one of the pools and got REALLY bad sunburn on my face which took like 4 days to recover from since the skin came off. Right now I have a smexy looking dark tan (lmfao bringing sexeh back) and I look perfectly human again. But to anyone who has never been in those under water beds, please be warned that extreme sunburn can result! Tan at your own risk!

Aside from the pools there was of course the main beach were I basically staid non stop for 5 days. At first I almost drowned in a wave (they were just enormous) but within a few days the water calmed down and turned a nice shade of blue/green as more people got the courage to swim in there. Unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to learn how to surf, BUT I learned how to ride on those little foam board thingers, DROVE A JETSKI and DRANK COCANUT MILK STRAIGHT OUT OF THE COCANUT (they had a beach party there) !! I have to tell you, going full blast on a jetski is the funnest thing ever! The worker had to come after us because I lost track of where I was and didn’t come in on time. So I had to get escorted back to the beach by a guy in red shorts who shot at me and made me think that he was on a suicide mission to drown people.

The hotel had 5 restaurants, 4 of which were buffet style with the most food I’ve honestly ever seen. And I don’t care how corny I sound but a cute witer guy being all like “hay senorita” is a definite plus! To stay in shape I went to work out each morning at this cozy gym they had complete with yet another guy who grinned and greeted people. I can do a mean sprint on the treadmill, if I do say so myself.

At night they had different entertainment, and yesterday the people at the restaurant turned off the lights and SET A BUNCH OF COFFEE ON FIRE which we later drank. It was insane, I mean I’d never seen flaming coffee before.

Then today my family lost track of time and we thought we were supposed to leave tomorrow when we were actually due at the airport TODAY. All of our friends knew their flights…but we were left as the idiots. So I ran right off the beach with WET HAIR to the airport only to find that we missed our plane and had no where to go to because we were evacuated from the hotel. Nobody could speak clear English so we were basically stranded until some girl who worked there found my family a flight to Calgary but the bummer was that they couldn’t take credit. Eventually another lady made an acception (since there was no place to find a bank or take out any money, yet alone stay in a foreign country with no food or shelter) and we were able to buy new tickets.

I wish I could tell you that this is where the story ends. But the truth is…the first thing I did when we pulled into the driveway is run to check the mailbox for my exam results. I don’t know how I feel right now, but long story short - I’m at a 79.4 average and I need a clear 80 average to get in. I don’t know if I should laugh or cry but I just need to figure all of this out. It’s a lot to handle at the moment, I don’t know what will happen and…I just really don’t know. Then when I checked my messages I found that there was a call from my hosts saying my site was hacked (I didn’t know who it was at first and thought they got a wrong number) but aparently they were able to restore most of the stuff. When I checked my site e-mail I was overwhelmed by the messages and how apparently some people tried to talk to the hacker? I had no idea people liked this site enough to care and do something like that. I’m very humbled and it’s all quite surprising to me, really. Thank you!

I’ll give the hosts a call tomorrow. Then I’m dropping off work applications.I also need to go to uni and have a long chat about what I’m supposed to do and if I should seek therapy for regection (jk). After I’m going to chill out and get my head back in gear. Until then, I might on something to stop my mind from spinning.

Everything will be fine, I just need some time.

July 17 2008

Oh my gosh, I’m registering for uni courses right now…I mean nobody knows if I’m in for sure or not…but they’re making me register. I didn’t know this until last night so when I found out that I had to be IN MY CLASSES ALREADY by the next few days I almost fainted. I thought that they had to look at my final transcript and THEN let me register. No, apparently they don’t work that way.

So here I am calling the registration office and talking to some lady. Now the lady got sick of me and put an answering machine on…hater.

I’m also going on vacation to Mexico (Puerto Vallarta) on Saturday for a week!! I’m super stolked because my bathing suit finally got shipped from Guam so I can go in style. I had to track it down and call the people because it took so long for it to get here. Apparently they had to get it from some part of the States (or so they say *shfty eyes*) but I’m glad it finally made it…except the price tags freaked me out. Does a Guess bikini really cost about 110 bucks in US? I got it for WAYYY cheaper online but the tags on it made me wonder. I also panicked and got two other suits because I didn’t think this one would come so now  I’m slightly overloaded.

I’m really ready for a vacation, you have no idea. We’ll be staying at this spiffy 5 star hotel that we somehow managed to get a great deal on. They have scuba lessons, tons of beaches, pools and stuff and not to mention SURFING WHICH I HAVE BEEN DYING TO LEARN!!!!!! I’M NEVER GETTING OUT OF THE WATER!! If I have time I’ll ask my mom to find the site so I can show you the pictures, it looks really nice there :]

For now I’ll leave you with a quick update. If I register for classes ok then I’ll try to work on the site. In the mean time, I’ve been working on something else which you’ll hopefully get to see before I leave. Peace!

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July 12 2008

A new vector layout tutorial is here as requested!

I tried to improve the clarity of this one so you can now post comments below the tutorial showing your results or asking any questions that you might have. Hopefully this can load off e-mail (I don’t have time to answer to give any personal help) and allow people to help each other :]

As fas as this tut goes, it’s not very easy but if you’ve had some practise then it’s definitely doable. I purposely didn’t link every identical resource I used to encourage more creativity and less click for click copying, so don’t be afraid to add your own style and have fun with it!

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