I finally started painting my koi fish oil painting. Haven't gotten very far and to me it looks horrible but it has its potential lol. I started while watching Lost with my friend Chloe and put the basic colors down. I was suprisingly not as messy as I usually have been with paints, particularly oil paints.
So hopefully I can motivate myself to paint some more and get 4 canvases of a koi fish up on my living room wall.

Our house still seems pretty empty but we're about to get more stuff on monday when my household goods from Missouri FINALLY get here. But the only things that are really furniture are my heirloom chairs and a desk which is going in the studio. Sadly, only one chair is going to fit in the living room so I have to find a different place for the second one which means it's probably going in our bedroom. We still have another chair that Jeff's mother gave us and I don't know what to do with it either. I like the style but it needs to be reupholstered and I still don't think it'll fit in the living room, though it's pretty small. I wish we didn't have a sliding door on the wall in the living room. We don't need two and I could fit more furniture if there wasn't one.
We still don't have a rug in the living room even though I know which one I want. We're also lacking curtains and pillows to help bring the room together. Right now I just have basic furiture and some really cool koi sculptures sitting on my coffee table Just got those actually. See these [link] ? Yes, those are mine. Lovely little things, I adore them.

As my stuff gets here on monday so does our copy of the P90X workout which Jeff and I are going to start and I'm excited. It's going to be tough and we're going to be sore for a very long time but we will look amazing Lately I've been running and I really suck at it lol. I'll still have to keep up on running but this will help me even more.

Also coming on monday- CHLOE!!!!! I'm excited DDD She'll be here about 10 days or so. We're going to have fun!

I tend to do this a lot actually- I make a list of things for self improvement, act on them for maybe a few days and then turn back into my old slump. Well this time I made a daily routine basis that I hope to follow. I'm starting it tomorrow actually. I do stuff like this when I'm bored and have nothing to do. The routine will help me keep in shape, keep the house clean and possibly get me into drawing a bit more.
When I actually get a job the schedule will change a bit and I'll have to make up a new one. It'll suck if I get a job that has inconsistent hours but I'll work with it.

I kind of want a retail job at a really clothes store like Armani Exchange or Banana Republic so I can get the employee discount, stock up on clothes, land a better job at a desk or something and quit the retail job that probably only pays minimum wage and has me working all sorts of different hours of the day.
and that's my master plan

I should go feed it.

We just got our living room set yesterday and it looks amazing. Still lacking my heirloom chairs that I'm getting from my mom that I'm only going to be able to fit one of in the living room when they get here. We're also lacking the decor like pillows, paintings and the koi sculptures I am having made for me. The living room looks much better though. We're thinking about getting a bowl of goldfish.
Upstairs we have a new mattress which feels heavenly. Not much to say about it because it's not much to look at- just feels great.

I'm being really slow at making the koi pond paintings for the living room. I've sketched up one canvas so far :\

I still need a job. It's really bothering me. I would like to attend college while I'm here and I definitely can't afford it without a job. I want to go to University of Hawaii and Manoa under the Art & Art History program which covers graphic design and visual communications. Then we're probably moving back to Virginia for a while so I'll try to finish up my degree at Virginia Tech, which would be awesome because that's an awesome school.
but I need a job!

I think I will start painting soon
As ideas of how I'm going to decorate my living room poured into my mind and I've decided on a blue and orange color scheme, I thought about what I would paint on the blank canvases I bought the other day, to hang up on my walls. The first thing that came to mind that would fit that color scheme, besides the lame thoughts of tropical flowers, was goldfish. I told this idea to a friend and she said koi would be cool and that is a much better idea. I got a little more creative and decided it would be a 3 or 4 canvas painting of a koi pond with maybe the paw of a little kitty dipping her paw in, spread out on one of my walls. Then I thought of that sculpter I mentioned in a previous journal ([link]) and I thought I might comission her to make 1 or 2 koi fish scultures for the coffee table when I get the chance.
I am very excited

So yeah those are my ideas for the living room. It'll be simple but also cool and energetic.

As for the other rooms... well I'm not sure I'm going to get too crazy with those but I'm going to try for a green and white with dark wood in our bedroom. That's it. I don't really care about the rest of the house. I was thinking about planting a garden in our tiny backyard. I already have some hanging flower pots that I bought today. Some patio furniture would be nice and we're definitely getting a decent grill.

I bought some more oil paint colors for my koi pond idea and some charcoal pencils to sketch it out. I forgot to buy more canvases though. Oh well.