The Artist

I work on the monthly newsletter at work and I usually draw pictures of the people I'm doing a spotlight section on. Due to "issues" with one of my articles, I was forced to re-write a section and I decided that instead of adding simple doodles I would draw some nice pictures in paint. I made one of Ingrid and one of Matt. I was getting a lot of compliments from people saying my drawing were really great. It reminded me of my parents, and how they didn't know until I was in my 20's that I could actually draw.

FLASHBACK
I went to the Art Institute of California in San Diego for a year in 2005-06. One day, I had this idea to draw that one angry Smurf on a shirt and have a word bubble saying, "What the smurf?!" So I got some fabric paints and got to work. I drew the picture free hand on a black shirt and it came out really good. My mom walks past it and asks, "Who drew that?" and I said it was me, she then says "That's really good!" and I was like, you sound surprised and she's all, "I didn't know you could draw." And I was like... REALLY? I'm in art school! And she says, "Well, I didn't know you were THAT good." Needless to say, I was shocked and kind of insulted. It never even crossed my mind that she didn't know I could draw, i thought everyone knew! But I guess I never really showed her any of my drawings. My entire family knew that my sister could draw, that was her thing. In a way her talents overshadowed the rest of our talents because everyone's all "Oh my gosh! Rosanna can draw? What do YOU do?"

Flash forward 4 years, one day I'm at work at the theater in San Marcos and it's a particularly slow day, so I draw Souske holding baby Ponyo in a jar on a post-it note. That day my dad and his GF come to watch a movie. After the movie got out I show my dad the post it note and he was like, "Wow you drew that? That's really good!" He was also surprised I could draw. He seemed really happy and he loved the drawing so I gave it to him. Parents are weird.

I guess my thing has actually always been singing. I remember when I was little my parents would make me perform this one spanish song La Puerta Negra to our relatives cuz I guess I sang it really well. They made me sing it every time someone came over and I sang it all the time when we visited relatives in Mexico. I've loved singing my entire life! This one time in the 2nd grade we did a show for the parents where we had to sing parts of a song and I had to sing about a book and an owl. I don't remember the song. All I remember is that after the show was over TONS of parents came up to me and were all like, "You sang so beautifully! You're voice is so pretty!" I shoved past them to get to the dessert table and stole a bunch of candies and went home! Laaawl.

Now that I'm all grown up, I still love singing (Currently singing Maroon 5 songs) but I think drawing is still my thing. I may not be able to draw anatomically correct pictures, or super cool comic book style pictures, I still can't draw trees, but I'm still an artist!

Marpizzavision

My tummy hurts right now ><

In other news, I was totally sleeping early tonight (11 PM!!!) cuz I was feeling pretty tired and didn't wanna Skyrim, when in the middle of my sleep I wake up. I open my eyes and notice that the light from the hallway is flooding into my room. I lay there, eyes wide opening, knowing that I had shut my door and turned off all the lights before I went to bed. I wasn't afraid, cuz I knew that Vince was probably just being a creeper. I waited a descent amount of time before I looked at the door, thinking Vince had probably walked away, but he was still standing at the door way, being a creeper!!! Then he asks me if I'm still alive and I say yes, he walks away, leaves the door wide open and lets Nimbus into my room, who quickly begins to meow loudly. Gotta love room mates.

SO, Vince got a new TV. I'm gonna go ahead and say that he basically bought it for my enjoyment because he has only really sat in front of it for one movie, and he fell asleep 10 minutes into the movie, so I don't think that counts as watching the awesome new TV. One thing you guys should know is that he is a workaholic. He is constantly working (I think he is addicted) and NOTHING, not even a giant 55 inch 3D TV can pry him away from his work long enough for him to actually have fun. But I guess he IS having fun... working. ANYWAY, Vince has wanted to buy a new TV for as long as I've known him! I was shocked when he said he had actually bought one. I STILL didn't believe him until a rude Mexican dragged the TV into my living room. Needless to say, I have been enjoying the TV very VERY much. Especially now that I'm all into Skyrim! It's cool that I don't have to wear my glasses anymore to read the dialogue in the game lol!!!

In more news, the holiday's are finally over YAY. I'm glad that work isn't busy anymore because I was seriously about to SNAP! Customers were driving me CRAZY! But at least now they're not holiday crazy, they're just normal rich white people crazy. School starts MONDAY! Im both excited and nervous. I hope all my classes are fun! I got an e-mail from my Art history teacher and she addressed her students as precious and beloved LOL art teachers are the best. The only thing that sucks now is that I won't be having a day off until the summer time. But at least with school starting I wont feel like a bum, bumming around the house anymore! Also no more Skyrim :(

The End.