Currency and the future

By Laurie on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Whoa, where have I been! Busy in all sorts of fields of interest. Most of it all good! I mean, my mom made it through surgery and is currently cancer free. Huge load off my mind, of course I can only wish her the best in recovery.

My tattoo healed okay! I need to get the pink touched up - something was amiss and it’s slightly blotchy. No biggy, it still looks awesome and I love reaching down to admire it once in a while. I should definitely get it finished, oy, not enough time in the world sometimes.

Second Life interests have shifted and I’ll be ending a 4 year virtual business this week - and releasing content for free use from here on out. I’m sure some will enjoy it. As far as gaming goes, we’re still doing the WOW thing. We’ll be going to Blizzcon in October. I’m looking forward to it. We’re taking Kris and it’ll be like a little geek vacation. I am really hoping to get an autograph from Samwise while I’m there. Oooh or a picture! That’d be swell. We’re hoping to go in some simple costumes to add to the fun. Mmmmmmm…. shiny.

My mom called me the other day… we ended up talking about DOING something with my life. I always thought that I’d do something artistic if I ever DID something besides be a housewife. I’ve gotten back into art more than I had been in the last 5 years. I have an art piece to post in Projects too! It’s a comic book style piece. I like it, but I’m hung on details and need to finish them. Anyway..

She suggested this or that… it just got me thinking. I don’t want to sit around the house forever. I’m REALLY good at it, but I would like to DO something. So, in a strange twinkle of a moment I decided what I want to do. I’ve bought some books to prepare myself for it. I’m going to do some research. I’m going to speak to others in the same field. The amusing thing about it, is it isn’t a graphic-arts field. It’s something I’ve wanted to do since I was a little kid. In fact, I’d practice at it throughout my life. Hell, I still do.

Get ready to laugh…

Voice acting.

Yeah, I know, it’s not nearly as cool as you thought, right? It’s not going to be easy by any means. I don’t know what to expect. It may take a while to ever GET there. But I have a goal now, and that’s a comfort to me. Part of me is annoyed that it isn’t based on my (pitiful)artistic ability, but that’s okay. I really really do enjoy using my voice. Whether it’s the radio spots I did for GridStream, DJing I’ve done, playing around with my daughter, doing impressions of cartoon characters to amuse myself… I love it. I have to try, at the very least. If it doesn’t work out - great - I still tried.

Wooo!

I’m so lame.