Still Vacationing Without the Vacation

Guess who? It's me! I'm still alive, though I'm not blogging every day. I am going to be getting my scanner hooked up (really need a new one, maybe Santa will be early this year) so I can scan in some drawings. I really like working on the computer, but there is something to be said about putting pen to paper that I just don't get on the computer. Even if a drawing is finished on the computer, my drawings still look best if I scan a draft in first. I think it will be faster for me. I can draw some things faster on the computer, but I'll sometimes just stare at the computer screen because I spend most of my day staring at a computer screen. I need to get away! I might have not even needed to take this little break if I had been doing more away from the computer. Now it's in the past, so it doesn't matter. Que Sera Sera and all that jazz.

I recently bought a new printer. It's sad, really. I lost the cord for my old one (or it's forever hidden in storage). It's a good five years old and it was out of ink. It was $10 cheaper to buy a printer with the colour and B&W ink cartridges packaged with it, than the two inks in a combined package. It's an energy saver apparently. Not so great for the environment if I were to buy a new printer every time I needed ink. I don't think the old printer will go to waste. My Mother-In-Law could probably use a printer for her computer, or I can always give it to Salvation Army. 

I'm still looking for a job that will keep me out of the house at least half the day. Being a Graphic Designer is great, but it's not really for me. Maybe it's the fact that I do way more layout and fixing of other people's files than I do actual design. Maybe it's the long hours in front of a computer. I do know that I'm not happy where I am right now. I'd rather be at a diner serving burgers right now than doing design work. Fries anyone?

I'd love to get some commission work eventually (or even now, anyone looking?). Commission work and a part-time job. That would be nice. Here's to dreaming!