Post by lust on Feb 13, 2005 11:32:36 GMT -5
"Inspiration for me doesn't come easy. But there is one thing that I use as a kind of inspiration. When I watch the news or my experience I've had with people, I use those as guidelines to keep myself better and in check. Like, when you deal with bad personalities, or hear things people say, or see things people do.......well, when I see and hear all those things, my mission is to NEVER act or be like that. With my girls and my family, I do what's right. At ALL times. So, seeing and hearing bad things just inspires me to be better than that and never stoop to that level because I despise awful things like that. Now as far as inspiration on a creative level, THAT doesn't come easy. Nothing really inspires me. Just when I have an idea I do it. I don't care if people think it's dumb or retarded or whatever. If I like it, then that's all that matters. I'm not out to keep others happy. I'm only out to keep myself happy. And as long as I am happy, then my family is happy.....You dig?" ;D
*sips coffee and lights a smoke*
"Hobbies to keep me creative.............Well, my creativeness comes out from time to time. Like, I love to paint and draw. I've taken a wooden table and chairs fit for Kayla and painted her name on the table with lil designs around the edges and I put the alphabet on it. Then on the chairs I painted different things like a sun and rainbow and smiling clouds and stuff. Then one day I took her lil plastic picnic table and painted Spongebob on the top and the seats. She LOVED it. And then recently for my car, I printed out some pictures of Arcee (the transformer) and then I took two cereal boxes and cut the boxes in pieces to fit the pictures and glued the pictures to them then I took some string and beads and made a small necklace and I punched holes in the corners of the pictures and strung the pictures on the beads and then hung them up on the rearview mirror in the car. They look really cool there. And I make my own bracelets and ankle bracelets with colored and lettered beads. At one time I was going to make a bunch to sell at the flea market. I was going to make stretchie bracelets for the babies and children and then clasp ones for adults. But I haven't done it yet. One day I will though. We used to drink Red Dog beer and under the caps of the bottles would be a saying of some sort. Something funny or something just all out cool. Like say, "Break off your leash and RUN!" or something, well, one day I collected all the caps from all the bottles we drank then I took an old CD case and took the box from a 12 pack I bought and cut out the red dog then I cut out the words "red dog" then I glued those to the back of the CD case so you could see them through the front, then I took all the bottle caps and glued them on the front showing all the sayings on them. Then I took some tacks and hung it on the wall. It looked like a picture and frame type thing. It was really cool and funny if you read all the sayings on the caps. But that's how I'm creative. I do my own lil things. I have my own lil way of decorating things and adding my personal touch. But aside from that, I don't really have any hobbies. I DO cross stitch. At the moment I have a project I'm doing for the girls which is a 13x15 pattern with teddy bears and at the top the child's name is there then there's a place for their birthdate and at the bottom a place for their birthweight and stuff. So, I'm doing one for each of the girls and framing it for them. I like arts and crafts. When the girls get old enough, I shall teach them some stuff and pass my skill on to them. lol."
"Not many know of this because for one, I don't have any real life friends and I don't really tell people this, but when I'm feeling lonely or depressed or just in a dumpy mood, I like to listen to music. I listen to music constantly, but the type of music I listen to is associated with what mood that I am in. For instance, If I'm happy, I listen to more upbeat music or rock alternative. But when I'm feeling down, and to help pick myself up, I listen to really slow melodic depressing music. Now you would think being depressed listening to depressing music would get you even more depressed, but not for me. I like the slow soft sounds of the music but when I listen to the words, it makes me realise that my life isn't really like that so I'm thankful for what I have and thankful that things aren't going as bad. But once I sit and listen for about an hour I turn it off and I feel myself rejuvenated and go about my day. Now, if I don't listen to the slow songs, what usually does the trick is to put in a CD equipped with the heavyiest and hardest bass boosting rave music. I turn my subwoofers as high as they go and turn the music up real loud and then I just sit and close my eyes and just feel the bass boom right through my body. The hard pound of the bass seems to calm me. Even when I'm angry it helps. I don't know why, but it does. It is the most calm and relaxing feeling to me. Most people resort to eating or drinking or drugs or something that's not really healthy for them. But me.....Just throw in some techno/rave with hard bass and turn it up real loud and I'm good as gold." ;D
*sips coffee and lights a smoke*
"Hobbies to keep me creative.............Well, my creativeness comes out from time to time. Like, I love to paint and draw. I've taken a wooden table and chairs fit for Kayla and painted her name on the table with lil designs around the edges and I put the alphabet on it. Then on the chairs I painted different things like a sun and rainbow and smiling clouds and stuff. Then one day I took her lil plastic picnic table and painted Spongebob on the top and the seats. She LOVED it. And then recently for my car, I printed out some pictures of Arcee (the transformer) and then I took two cereal boxes and cut the boxes in pieces to fit the pictures and glued the pictures to them then I took some string and beads and made a small necklace and I punched holes in the corners of the pictures and strung the pictures on the beads and then hung them up on the rearview mirror in the car. They look really cool there. And I make my own bracelets and ankle bracelets with colored and lettered beads. At one time I was going to make a bunch to sell at the flea market. I was going to make stretchie bracelets for the babies and children and then clasp ones for adults. But I haven't done it yet. One day I will though. We used to drink Red Dog beer and under the caps of the bottles would be a saying of some sort. Something funny or something just all out cool. Like say, "Break off your leash and RUN!" or something, well, one day I collected all the caps from all the bottles we drank then I took an old CD case and took the box from a 12 pack I bought and cut out the red dog then I cut out the words "red dog" then I glued those to the back of the CD case so you could see them through the front, then I took all the bottle caps and glued them on the front showing all the sayings on them. Then I took some tacks and hung it on the wall. It looked like a picture and frame type thing. It was really cool and funny if you read all the sayings on the caps. But that's how I'm creative. I do my own lil things. I have my own lil way of decorating things and adding my personal touch. But aside from that, I don't really have any hobbies. I DO cross stitch. At the moment I have a project I'm doing for the girls which is a 13x15 pattern with teddy bears and at the top the child's name is there then there's a place for their birthdate and at the bottom a place for their birthweight and stuff. So, I'm doing one for each of the girls and framing it for them. I like arts and crafts. When the girls get old enough, I shall teach them some stuff and pass my skill on to them. lol."
"Not many know of this because for one, I don't have any real life friends and I don't really tell people this, but when I'm feeling lonely or depressed or just in a dumpy mood, I like to listen to music. I listen to music constantly, but the type of music I listen to is associated with what mood that I am in. For instance, If I'm happy, I listen to more upbeat music or rock alternative. But when I'm feeling down, and to help pick myself up, I listen to really slow melodic depressing music. Now you would think being depressed listening to depressing music would get you even more depressed, but not for me. I like the slow soft sounds of the music but when I listen to the words, it makes me realise that my life isn't really like that so I'm thankful for what I have and thankful that things aren't going as bad. But once I sit and listen for about an hour I turn it off and I feel myself rejuvenated and go about my day. Now, if I don't listen to the slow songs, what usually does the trick is to put in a CD equipped with the heavyiest and hardest bass boosting rave music. I turn my subwoofers as high as they go and turn the music up real loud and then I just sit and close my eyes and just feel the bass boom right through my body. The hard pound of the bass seems to calm me. Even when I'm angry it helps. I don't know why, but it does. It is the most calm and relaxing feeling to me. Most people resort to eating or drinking or drugs or something that's not really healthy for them. But me.....Just throw in some techno/rave with hard bass and turn it up real loud and I'm good as gold." ;D