miss california

beginning my day with soundtracks from the harry potter movies...

today i am trying to fishing what i began creating yesterday in flash. i'm no artist by any means, but i feel that learning about animations in flash and how to utilize them for our website will be a good thing! I just wish all this website stuff would come naturally instead of being like learning a foreign language. i suppose that which tests us only makes us stronger in the end...

lunch times have been so nice and peaceful lately. its just me and a book. right now that book is harry potter and the goblet of fire. (probably why i am so into listening to the soundtracks too) its just a great escape for a half and hour to be able to read a chapter and put aside all of my work duties. to find that one time during the day where my focus can be on something other than camp. and i'm finding that it helps me come back to my afternoons more focused.

sometimes i wish i had the ability to understand why people make the decisions they do... or that they would give explanations and not just the "because i said so" line. i don't mind the decisions if i know the reasoning behind them. i suppose i've always been that way, even as a kid. haha. tell me why and i'm much happier to do it.

the snow is slowly melting and the birds are such a nice sound to hear in the mornings. it looks like spring outside, but the temperatures just aren't quite there yet..

yesterday i received my book of art by tim burton! its been a long time since i got that excited over a book! haha. but its great. and sometimes i think that its what people say about tim in the book that makes it truly wonderful. yes, the art is awesome... but its the man behind the art that makes it what it is. this has sparked me to a tim burton movie marathon, starting back with beetle juice. i noticed i am missing a few movies, so i'll have to work on that, but i was quite pleased to learn that i had most of them.

sweeny todd still stands as one of my favorites. from the music to the costumes and imagery, to the great actors that played the parts so well... its one of the great examples of the collaboration of tim burton and johnny depp. (in my opinion)