Member: Reekie
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Reekie is a 22 year-old in Bettendorf, IA.

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MAY 17, 2012 @ 12:13 PM | 8 COMMENTS


I get to see ALYESKA! WEEEE

She is driving a ways, she loves me. lol

BAWK.BAWK.

That is all!


Have a good day

Reekie<3
MAY 14, 2012 @ 12:34 AM | 3 COMMENTS


Thank you everyone for all the birthday wishes. I had a pretty fantastic day!

I woke up around 7am and had breakfast with my father.
After breakfast we went shopping for a bit. I bought my favorite perfume and some shirts.
Then we came home and I asked for a little free time from my dad so that I could chat and skype with Aly but skype was being a butt. It froze her computer, so we never got time to talk. : / I think we are making time to hang out tonight hopefully so that is good.

Anyway later that evening my father and I went to Outback. I had just mixed drinks, because for some reason I wasn't hungry. After I had a few drinks we went home and I watched "Friends with Benefits" OMG I was laughing so hard, and trying hard not to get too turned on, but omg that movie was so much awesome. I am probably gonna buy it. Then after the movie, my dad taught me how to play Chess. Idk why but I have always wanted to learn just to see if it is something I would like. When I was little I would play different types of games that challenged my mind with my dad. So this was just another one to add to my list. I was told that I actually made good moves for my first time playing Chess. I tricked my dad into helping make some pretty awesome moves for me. Basically after that I went to bed, knowing I had to be up early to spend the whole day with my mom the next day.

Today was interesting, I got up and went with my mom to this "Boa Arts Fair". Uh it was kinda neat, but I was so miserably hot. It really wasn't that bad in the shade but a lot of the art tents were in the sun and there was so many people there, which made it 10x worse. I was bored after a while but put up with it since it was what my mom wanted to do. Not gonna lie I wish I could have just went home much earlier.

Later I played Mario Cart with my little sister. I haven't played that game in so long. The last time I played that was when Nintendo64 was popular. lol That was pretty amusing!
Then of course I watched the Yotes game. I was sad they lost, but it is only game one and for a while it was close. I just hope they can work out a few things before the next game.

Again thanks for all the birthday wishes!
until next time
Night.
Reekie
MAY 11, 2012 @ 09:09 PM | 17 COMMENTS


Hey SG world

Guess who is 22 tomorrow( well 1h35min lol)?

Yep, Me

and I cant believe its been a whole year since I have turned 21. At this time last year we had just got home from Ohio shooting with Allissa for Alyeska's set and probably drinking and watching hockey. lol People were right after 21, years will just fly by. This last year has gone insanely fast. I cant believe its we are going through the conference finals pretty soon. I am happy the Coyotes are in still for Alyeska's sake. Hockey is a great distraction. lol

I miss being with Alyeska. Hopefully if I can get everything figured out, we will be able to live together again for a bit. I wish we could be together now, but things just haven't worked out that way. With everything that she has been through, the sooner the better. I just really hope things work out. It's quite a bit of work for both of us, but I think it will be worth it.

Well I will probably write another blog tomorrow and fill you in on my birthday. I am basically spending my birthday with my dad. I think we are going shopping tomorrow and probably going out to eat and then for a drink, then chilling at home.

Early present was the new Adobe suite Cs6, but instead of the traditional way. I am paying for the adobe suite cloud, its actually quite neat. I am really excited to explore the new programs.

Anyway I am told my day is going to be a "big" day tomorrow , so I will say goodnight. lol I hope everyone is doing well. Night. kiss

MAY 4, 2012 @ 10:16 PM | 7 COMMENTS


OK Okay I am writing a blog now.
I am sorry this might be a long one. :/

No, seriously though I apologize for my absence. Especially to Brynnmawr since he paid for my yr membership. I just was super stressed out with school since January. All my classes required me to do huge drawn out projects. Especially my senior portfolio class which was basically an internship class, filled with irrelevant busy work. I didn't like the teachers because they are super unorganized, and very contradictory when dealing with this class together. So we couldn't have that time to work on our project we chose for the community client project. which was the whole point of this class.

Anyway for my project I chose to build a website for tattoo shop in a small town in Iowa. It actually turned out pretty awesome and everything the client wanted, but I went through a whole lot of shit to get there.

Rant:

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Before I go into the shit I went through to get it done, I will fill you in on why I chose this project in the first place.

I wanted to do something that I was super interested in, that way I would be more interested to create it and able to just have fun with it, and what better thing to do then a website for a my tattoo shop. I just love the alternative style and I wanted to incorporate that in my project. So after I came up with the idea I talked to the owners of the shop and they were ecstatic, because they didn't have a website and they were thankful I wanted to do something like that for them! So they said "yes, please!"

I was so happy and even though this was going to be a challenge I wanted it and I was determined to do this for them. I mean all they had was a FB and a Myspace and it was missing important information and I wanted to help them give a more professional feel to them, so a detailed website, was my plan. As graphic designer who's track is print for my major, web is still important to know to get hired. So since my web teacher that was suppose to teacher me how to use Adobe Dreamweaver two years ago, doesn't even know what he is talking about and is clueless on web pages. I ( and everyone else ) didn't learn anything in that class. So I basically had to re-teach myself how to use Dreamweaver. Also DREAMWEAVER IS THE DEVIL!

Anyway I wanted to make sure I got there full cooperation if I did this, so I let them know I needed that from them. They were so understanding and nice about that, but when it came later they were lazy and forgetful when it came to getting needed content for the pages. Mind you I was SUPER flexible and I tried to move things around to give them more time, because I understood that they were a business and things happen, but seriously it wasn't that. They just kept forgetting to do what they said they were going to do. THAT GETS FRUSTRATING when you give them from the end of January and they wait to get all the information to you the week before my finals( end of april)! AHHH I wanted to pull my hair out. I gave them 3 months to get that stuff to me and they waited until the last minute. Also I had to do what the class called them as status reports, and my client made it so my status reports rarely changed because I couldnt move on to the next step with out the content. Also meetings with the client and "photo-shoot" kept getting pushed back because of weather and unfortunate events, etc. I tried to be organized but things just kept getting ruined. It was so stressful and it caused me to work until 8am Monday ( first finals) morning. So I had to go to a final with no sleep. That is never a good thing. I am just glad it is over.



So on top of that I didn't have a car either to get parts of the project completed, so I had to work around everyone else's schedule, it seemed. I had other huge class projects to do( 6 classes to worry about), other drama, family members making me feel bad for missing out on events etc. I had no me time except for the forced "me" time I made to watch hockey. I didn't miss a single game of the Avs (except for the few that were on the night of my night class :-/ ,but I still kept updated on my phone) and paid attention to the Bruins games, because that was what made me happy, and released stress. I tried hard to stay calm and collected, other methods I used to release stress was stargazing, which I did that a few times. Also I took a trip to Boston with Alyeska in the beginning of April. WOWIE did I have fun. It was nice to see her again and forget about all my worries for those four days. lol Also the lovely _Indica saved me as well, with her sweet texts and beautiful pics of herself that she sent me. That helped with stress as well. So thanks ladies!

I am just happy to be out for the summer and I only have one semester left and then I can graduate and get my BA! YUS!

I promise my next blog will be happier, but I just wanted to explain my absence because I feel terrible.

APRIL 13, 2012 @ 06:04 PM | 5 COMMENTS


I AM SOO SRY. I WILL WRITE A BLOG VERY SOON. Oh my goodness! I am bad. Uh I have just been stressed out with school projects. Ill explain later. blushkiss
JANUARY 29, 2012 @ 08:14 PM | 12 COMMENTS


SO this month has just been stressful and frustrating, but I am just gonna name a few things, and then I am gonna try to think happy thoughts.

Well since we last talked, some really exciting things happened!

Meet Jazz...

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the new member of the family.
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Ik, Ik, I don't really like that name either, but technically its not my puppy.
She got her name because she hates loud noises, Tv, radio, hockey games( this makes me sad). Except for Jazz music, she is so calm. After the first night, we left for an hour or so to get puppy toys for her, and she didn't even noticed we left. She was just chillin in her kennel, and we put on jazz on to keep her company. Then when we got home.. she was like" Oh hai, there.. You left? hm. I didn't notice." lol
It was adorable. Idk I kinda wish she had a better name.
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First thing she did is crawl into my dads lap. Such a daddy's girl, already :-p
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Aww..
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This was so adorable. I was wearing this sweatshirt all day and while I was cooking supper she crawled up and cuddled with it, because I am assuming it smelled like me and she wanted cuddles from me, but I wasn't there. At least that is what I tell myself. lol
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More cuddles with me ( she did that.) she is super cuddly it makes me tear up a little, thinking about it
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Sleepy time na-nights. lol
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The Back story, on why I wanted a wheaten.
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See when I lived with Alyeska, she had a wheaten Terrier, Bailey. Her and I fell in love, lulz. She was the sweetest dog I have ever met. Goggie kisses all ovars.lulz So when I had to move back home, two years ago, I missed her so much I begged and begged my dad for a "Bailey" (wheaten terrier). I even got my little sister set on that type of dog. Two years later, finally my dad buys a wheaten terrier out of no where.When I am getting ready to start my own life. frown I am almost done with college. I wont be living with my dad for much longer.So i have limited time with her. So this depresses me and I don't really want to get attached to the new puppy, but she is just SO cute. I mean I was with the new puppy for a day and I was feeling so sad when I had to go back to the shit, that is this school. I just have to keep in mind, maybe I can just get a puppy from the same breeder, when I am ready.



Anyway, Reality is hitting pretty hard lately. Its time to grow up, people are going on with their lives, and I should do the same. Part of me wants to, but part of me doesn't want to. I love being independent don't get me wrong, but cant we just get past to the point of not knowing whats gonna happen.Normally I like surprises, but cant I just push "fast forward" to the point where I am all settled, with a good job and living on my own in peace with my own little puppy friend. I mean going through this last bit of school dealing with my best friend moving away. Yeah ... Kinda just want to get past this part.

One thing I am excited for is I AM forsure working on a website for the tattoo shop I go to. This will be good portfolio piece for me. I am a little nervous to do this, but that is kinda why I picked my tattoo shop. I wanted something challenging and something I am interested in. My current tattoo shop does not have a website yet, so this is a good chance to show off so skill. Plus its practice for the work I will be doing this summer for my internship.

Well then my tattoo guy surprised me with an offer to do a tattoo for free. Since I was doing the website for free. lol This was crazy news because I was planning on getting my Tattoo for my dad very soon, but since he offered. I was like maybe I get it sooner then I thought. lol


Well it was supposed to happen on last Thursday, but that didn't exactly happen like planned. When I got there he explained to me that he hasn't really done filigree that much and if that is what I wanted then its gonna take him a bit. He is the one that suggested filigree when we talked about what I wanted exactly. So that made me think he was skilled at it. Nope, it ended up taking the whole time and so we had to reschedule for this Saturday. He told me to go home and try and figure out what exactly I wanted for filigree. I know this tattoo is for free and he really doesn't want spend his time working on a free job, but its frustrates me because I am not good at drawing filigree or knowing where to put it to make it come together as a piece. Its a new concept for me. I didn't even know what it was called until he said something. lol

So I have gotten to the point where I think I am just gonna wait for that project, until I can go somewhere and pay to have it designed. I might just ask for a raincheck and think of something less complicated for the free tattoo. lol

I will show you the design and maybe I can get some help from you guys on what I should do to give the words more of a design feel. so its not just words on my foot. with a border around it. So any suggestions?

This was my idea

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Back story:
I thought I would get a tattoo in tribute to memory of growing up with my dad. Since I will be moving away soon. As a child there were two musicians that that make me think of memories with my dad. Queen and Billy Joel. Billy Joel was more appropriate, because even tho my dad introduced me to Queen, I think I am more of a fan then he is. lol So Billy Joel is the winner. The song that stuck out to me the most was "Only the good die young." I like the message. So I wanted to get that tattooed on my foot because my dad and I are really close and I used to dance on his feet with him to billy Joel. It reminds me of the closeness we have. Also I will look at that message every time I take a " step" into my future.wink



And boooobies!

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Sry about the really long blog, I feel bad. So I hope boobs help, a bit. lol



Thinking happy thoughts.... lol
Have a good week
Reekie

JANUARY 16, 2012 @ 05:28 PM | 7 COMMENTS


Hi,
I was going to write this blog way earlier, but I am kinda glad I didn't, because a lot more happened in that time. I will start off by saying. I am at least getting some sleep now-I am still restless with weird dreams, but I am at least getting some sleep now. So thank you, for all that was concerned.

It snowed last Thursday and since I don't have class on Thursdays. I was in the mood to color. So yes, of course I colored in the nude, like I promised.


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The two awesome Lisa Frank coloring books Alyeska got me for xmas. So Entertaining.

Idk. Silly me.

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I had to color the unicorn with the vagina on its chest. lolol
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School is going pretty good, some of my teachers are ignorant, and this worries me. Some times I feel like I am not really getting the education I am paying for, but right now I have no other options. I have to get through this last year and hope for the best.

Enough of that depressing stuff, I have good news! I get to design a website for the tattoo shop that I have been going to! I have to do a "Senior Portfolio" project for a class. So I figure this would be a great project. This tattoo shop needs a website to promote it's awesomeness. One of the only things good in this shitty town. Friday, I had the meeting with them and they are very interested in this offer. This will be awesome to put on my resume. I was just planning on doing this for free and just use this as experience, but when I asked what the cost of getting a tattoo that I have been planning months would be, he said he would do it for free! He wanted to do this for me, because I was gonna design the website for them. I am so excited to get started, I hope I can give them everything they wanted and maybe even more.

This weekend I spent some time with my sister. Had a little sister bonding time. We don't' get that really that often. We watched Burlesque, went shopping and I colored her hair and cut her bangs. She did my hair and make-up. Its crazy what 12 year olds can learn from Youtube tutorials. lol

Talking about Youtube videos..

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I found this awesome video. I love the skinny Billy mays on the end.( its kinda creepy) and the voices of the guy's raspy voices.

Then after I was over that. I started to like the song, so I went on a search for the original.

they faces the guy makes is heartbreaking. Also I think the girl kinda reminds me of Jessie J.



Oh and I listened to the hockey game tonight.. Yeah yeah, the Avs lost against the Yotes. We'll get um' next time.

Have a great week.

JANUARY 9, 2012 @ 01:16 PM | 7 COMMENTS


Hello, SG friends

Okay, so today was the first day back to class. It went pretty good. I am taking 6 classes, 4 of them in one room right in a row. Four hours, Same room. Lucky me.whatever I guess the upside is, I get a good spot in class for all of those classes. Bad part is, I get no reception in that building what so ever. I cant communicate with the outside world, unless I use twitter. Oh well, I guess. My last two classes are in the same class too, but I at least have a four hour break between them. lol

Also I went to the book store today, and looked up all the prices for my books the total for them was $396. 50. Um No. Fuck that. I went online to amazon.com, found the same books with a total of $222. 50. This, of course made me happy. Even if I don't "sell" them back. I still will be saving money. So I think I definitively won that battle.

Anyway other then that, I am doing okay. Not sure why I cant fall asleep through the night. I am tired and then when I lay down. I CANT GET TO SLEEP. I know you know what I am talking about. It is so frustrating. I haven't had caffeine lately. Even when I fall asleep I wake up like an hour later and go through that whole process of not being able to sleep right away again. So I read a little last night to make my eyes/ mind tired- whenever I would wake up. That seems to work for now, but I don't know how much longer I can do that. Good thing is, I don't have class tomorrow.

I wish everyone a good week.
Reekie
JANUARY 2, 2012 @ 09:54 AM | 8 COMMENTS


ho hum..

I not sure what to do with myself now that Alyeska, went back home. She left yesterday around lunch and I basically just slept and cuddled all day with Harley ( my mom's dog, that I am dog sitting). He can be such a sweet heart and I have a feeling he missed Aly's dog too. He barely ate anything yesterday, just moped around yeasterday. All I have to say about that is: "STOP COPIES ME"( Metalocalypse quote). lol

Yesterday was hard and I tried really hard not to cry, and I failed. She tried to make me feel better and explain that if she is held back from going to germany when her husband does, she wants to make sure we see each other one more time. Which dont get me wrong, I am really excited for anytime with her, because it is just epic. It's just hard to feel better when I know we are just pushing back the inevitable. That is three years of seeing her at least once. I dont know if I can do that. I guess I have to.

Even though our time was short. I had fun with Alyeska like aways. She cooked and made more epic drinks. One of the drinks involved soaking honeydew in cucumber vodka. It was delicious. Along with pumpkin bread pudding. which I ate some for breakfast this morning. lol We got in the hot tub, and we drank and played wii.

Just dance 2 on the wii is a lot of fun. It was fun doing the duets with her. Some of the dances are really silly and kinda ruin the song, but it still can be a lot of fun.

I will update with pictures very soon, and if I dont Aly will.

Dog sitting is going okay. In the beginning harley was peeing in the house out of spite. Now he is at least being some what sweet. basically just laying around and sleeping though. So he doesnt have the energy to do bad. lol

My mom and her boyfriend come home tomorrow from their cruise. So it will be nice to finally be able to leave.

I have a week left until I start my new semester in college. I have this semester and next fall semester left. so basically this time next year I will have finally graduated. Part of me is ready to be fucking done, especially dealing with this college, I am at now. Part of me is scared out of my fucking mind.

Well I think that is all I have for now
I hope everybody has a wonderful new year and makes the most of it.
Reekie.
DECEMBER 27, 2011 @ 10:43 PM | 6 COMMENTS


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