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I have no idea what I'm doing.
I'll admit it.
Between running an Instagram, online shop business that deals in both online and in person products & services; while running this blog among other things?
I'm not sure how this is going to go, or really what I'm going to be doing with this blog besides posting my art and what's available on my shop as well as maybe some new tips and tricks I've learned along the way.
I hope y'all get something good out of it.
Thank you for being here. 💛
Please allow me to reintroduce myself;
Hi, my name is Lorren.
I'm 29 years old and I'm a multimedia artist.
I have 8 years of previous experience in Hospitality & customer service. (Training since I'd been in high school until I'd finally had an epiphany and realized that I absolutely HATED IT.)
I have 2 years experience in retail where I re-discovered my artistic flair that high school art class had previously all but killed in me; then went back to pursue my hospitality training and tried to cultivate my re-discovered love of art (because retail had killed my passion for anything else just barely within two years) and I was even happy for a while...about four to six months to be exact.
Then I realized when I was just starting either my cert 2, or 3 in Hospitality; I didn't want to do this. I wanted to be the ceo of my own company; I even said so and when I did; it felt 'Right.' Certainly more right than Hospitality & Retail ever did. Those were just what I had been pushed into by the people around me because I was 'somewhat good at them'; but I HATED IT.
I hated how they stunted my creativity; I'd reach a certain level of skill, but then they'd keep me there because I was 'the best at it'. They wouldn't let me try anything new, or push myself; I got bored and everything I had initially liked about it quickly grew stale again. I became dispassionate, anxious and filled with resentment. I did what I was supposed to, but I stopped going above and beyond for them from then on.
It took a pretty serious and personal event (even after my health had already taken a steep dive) to finally see that there was absolutely no future there for me. At least; it wasn't a future that I wanted. I was even going to get a job out of it, but after seeing how they treated me when I was sick and how they treated when I was going through an extremely hard time with a very public, very embarrassing, personal matter; I turned down the position.
I had never felt more liberated, or more nervous, yet calm about where my life would be headed from then on, but more about that at a later time.
My mission is to offer my skills in;
Handcrafts I.e. small scale model scenes, landscapes, events etc, I also dable in making some hair accessories, keyrings as well as home decor.
Painting I.e. hand painted canvas, coasters, trinket boxes etc.
Digital design & printing I.e. digital drawings of my own designs, & some are from collabs, (I mark & credit each one) I also have experience turning hand drawings into digital drawings & we can have whichever design you choose printed on items such as; mugs, wallet flip phonecase, regular back phonecases, etc.(also hoping to expand to t-shirts, journals, stickers & notepads)
I utilize all of these skills to help you celebrate;
~You & Your Loved Ones; birthdays, achievements, experiences, milestones, etc.
~Your pets; birthdays, achievements, experiences, milestones, etc.
~Your Business; anniversaries, achievements, milestones, etc.
~Comemorate that special trip/s to that/those far away place/s you had always wanted to go.
Because you, your Loved ones, your stories, experiences and your life is worth celebrating and should be done so with gifts that are as valuable, meaningful & unique as you are.
It's also my hope to remind you through my work; that in a society that favors mediocrity, in authenticity, copycats & shuns individuality; I challenge you to 'Dare to be different.'
Take care and stay golden.💛
~Lorren
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I gotta say, as much as I normally sympathize more with Reo, reading chapter 13 of epinagi and rereading the main manga at the same time makes me feel for Nagi, too.
Seeing just how often Nagi's thoughts go to Reo, his reasons for snapping at him after the 3v3 makes so much more sense. In Nagi's narration, it's obvious that he holds a lot of respect to Reo as a player, other than a friend. Every time he faces a challenging opponent or sees a great play, his mind always goes to him. When he's not wishing to show Reo all these amazing things, he's reminding himself and others that they must keep challenging strong opponents to justify having left Reo behind. One way or another, their promise is always very present in his mind, and he's giving it his all to make it come true.
But then they run into each other in the baths and Reo is acting suddenly cold. He doesn't want to hear about Nagi's efforts, and he calls him a rival. It would be so easy to take offense to that, to assume—like Reo did—that the other has forgotten about their promise. But it's not here that Nagi's temper snaps. Instead, he takes it in stride, and actually looks kind of fired up for the chance of facing a Reo who will go all out. After all, Nagi understand wanting to take on strong guys, and through this and other subtle details, it's shown that in his mind Reo is still very much one of them. I'd say that he perceives Reo as an equal, if not strictly a teammate at present. This is especially clear when Nagi's first impulse is to still pick him as his first choice when they win. We've established that Nagi doesn't let sentimentality get in the way of having the best shot at achieving his dream (think of the pep talk he gives to Bachira about leaving him behind if he doesn't step up even if he and Isagi are close). So, all of this to say: Nagi speaks with his actions, and he chooses Reo for Reo's skills, not for his attachment to him as a friend. He respects him.
But he respects their dream more, in the end. Just like how he left with Isagi not by any fault of Reo's own, but to examine his own drive for football, Nagi once again makes the choice that would best result in bettering his plays. Not because he doesn't care, but because he's that serious about it, actually.
Again, Reo doesn't make the cut not because he lacks skills, but because his playstyle isn't compatible with the way Nagi's team is evolving. Reo would bring them balance because he's skilled and charismatic enough to singlehandedly whip up their mismatched chaos into a proper team. But being a team would make them worse players individually, and Nagi has enough maturity to know that's a step back for his own skills, not one forward. Not a single moment has passed by so far where he hasn't been putting his all towards fulfilling his end of the promise, or one where he hasn't had full faith in Reo in turn.
And then Reo, who has acted cold and standoffish all this time for seemingly no reason... Reo, who is so skilled but wants to be picked even if it means losing and possibly flunking out of the program, their best chance to get closer to the world cup... The same guy who swore they'd be best in the world, but whose efforts only stopped at winning in the first selection...
that Reo goes and accuses him of not giving a shit about their promise to each other.
I think I would've snapped back too
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can we make jack to the future a copypasta
Hey guys! Very excited about today’s video. A huge thanks to Lenovo for giving me their amazing brand-new phone, the Phab 2 Pro: The world’s first phone with Tango*. Which kinda feels like a piece from the future just dropped right here in the present. And that’s exactly why I decided to make a very special time-travel episode of jackask.
Question 1: “Do you believe in the possibility of time-travel?” I literally just said that this is the time-travel episode of jackask. Please try to keep up. punches ground beef
Question 2: “If you could go back in time, what’s one thing you’d change about your childhood?” Well, I would probably confront my middle school bully and tell him I grew up to be a big YouTube star. Of course, then he’d be all like, “what’s a YouTube?” You know what, that question sucks, next question.
Question 3: “Would you travel to the past of the future?” Listen up, HoOLiGanLLaMA, I’m about to blow your mind. takes bite of burger Mm, that’s good meat. So I’m taking my Phab 2 Pro with me to travel through space and time in my own personalized, home-built time machine. Purple, red… Oh yeah, green one, that’s good, I think that’s good… Lemme measure with my phone real quick. Okay, measuring the dimensions with Tango’s AR measurement tools to make sure everything lines up. Looks good. OPEN! throws chair against tree Let’s go! Just so you know, time travel is not instant. So while we’re waiting, how about I just answer some of your questions?
“How do I tell my parents that I’m goth?” What you can do is travel to the future where, uh, you outgrow your goth phase. Boom, problem solved.
“How many stars are in our galaxy?” Good question. To find out, we’re gonna go all the way back to 1590 to ask the man himself, Galileo. screams Galileo: If only we could see the heavens instead of relying on our mind’s eye. Jack: Whoa, shut up for a sec. I think I can help you guys out. Galileo’s Associate: ¡El diablo! J: No, it’s actually called ‘augmented reality,’ it lets me see a fully scaled model of the solar system. The sun, the Big Dipper, the Little Skipper, the Unicorn, the Unicran, some other ones… Oh, really quick, do you guys know how many stars are in our galaxy? You know what, I’ll just look it up. Thanks anyway, bye! G: He was a bit of a jerk, wasn’t he?
“What is your favorite video game?” Not really a fan of the new ones, I don’t really have the fingers for ‘em, so let’s go all the way back to 1972 to play the first video game.
J: Hey guys! What are we working on?
Guy with Glasses and Mustache: Well, I don’t mean to brag, but we’ve created something revolutionary. You see, this rectangular paddle hits this round circular ball, and then that ball travels across this empty black space where it meets up with… another paddle! Haha!
J: That’s really tight, guys, and you’ll be happy to hear that you helped pave the way for AR games. Check this out
Woman with Glasses: What is it?
J: It’s the future. So, you’re trying to hit this target.
WG: Where are the cords?
J: No cords. Here, look.
WG: Honey, we should get one of these!
“What do you think it will be like in the year 2150?” Ugh, finally! A good question! Let’s go to the future where people can finally wrap their minds around this crazy technology! It’s time to go Jack to the future! record scratch Get it? Uh, Jack to the future, it’s-it’s a pun on a famous movie, uh, where Simba loses his dad, um, wait… yeah, that’s right, yeah.
J: Oh my gosh, you must be my great great grandson!
Jacksfilms Look-Alike with White Hair: Get out of my home.
J: Let’s grab a picture of the handsome boy, huh?
JLAWH:
No. J: Just gotta add a dragon, and boom! It’s pretty cool, right, little dragon popping up and everything. You body language says ‘yes’.
JLAWH: No.
J: Not a little?
JLAWH: Nuh-uh.
J: Not even a little?
JLAWH: …No.
J: Yeah, no, I-I’m busy too, I gotta get back to my time machine. It was really cool catching up, hehe! Call me! Or, you kn- aw, it doesn’t work like that. Uh, call me anyway, man.
All in all, that was a pretty good trip. Oh, and Lenovo, thanks for the free phone, not giving it back, hehe. runs into lighting equipment Not paying for that! Not paying for that! Not my problem!
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