Relationships @ MindSay

Faith Seekings is scheduled to appear in a panel discussion on June 22nd 2010, 

FAITH SEEKINGS, President and Creative Director at Rapport Inc, a full service marketing firm headquartered in Toronto will be present at: SocialCRM & Business Intelligence: Listen, Take Action, Measure Results
on behalf of SugarCRM 

Tuesday June 22, 2010
at The Cambridge Suites,
15 Richmond Street East
(1/2 block east of Yonge)
Toronto, Ontario

Faith Seekings and other industry experts will share ideas on how shaping and refining web user experiences and gathering feedback can dramatically improve online business.
 
Faith started as a graphic designer in 1996, and then launched her own full service marketing company in 2001. She has grown a great business based on principles of good design, building community and good client relationships.
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Portable Luxury Photo Contest on Lenzr
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In life, portable luxuries are conveniences you can take with you on the run. Your morning cup is probably the best example, although heretofore unrepresented in the index. The Portable Luxury photo contest on Lenzr is looking for just this type of offbeat image that suggests the manners and modalities of human beings moving their comfort zone.

The sponsor is a portable toilet rentals company that supports all manner of Canadian artistic endeavours all over the mega city. The firm gives generously to support the arts on top of all the free equipment and supplies they donate every year to help charities produce world class functions.

I have two stories for you today.

My adventure continued when I returned from my Sydney vacation(which ended with an adventure of its own) and drove down in the afternoon of the Saturday before today, also known as yesterday. I have been getting ambitious with my car project, still a stock by all means however should the project fall through I can at least open up a small-time wrecking business without actually taking apart any cars. Anyways, point being that my intention was to collect a newish engine for my little tank and give it a new heart to go with the rest of the upgrades its getting. My intention was NOT to get anything else, however one cheap set of offroad tyres later proved me wrong.

Strapped to the top of my car the four tyres went, the backseat folded forward for the engine and parts and then there's the gear I had with me. An electric wok (WTF?) to top it all off and I was ready to go.... about 15 minutes before something went almost drastically wrong. See, roof racks are great extra storage for my little zook, however they are only meant to carry so much weight. Short story is that four offroad tyres weigh more then the roof racks can handle. Having heard some scraping and eventually a rather loud clunk (the kind that usually indicates something has gone very FUBAR) I pulled into a local servo and proceeded to investigate the situation on the roof.

Sure enough there it was, the horror and the destruction of absolutely nothing.... The tyres were there, the cords that held the tyres were still there, even the roof racks themselves, whilst a little bent under the weight of awesomness, were still there. As with all good stories, the 'However' part should come next, but I'm a terrible story writer so you'll just have to wait.

After re-attaching the tyres to the roofracks and deciding that I can totally cram the fourth wheel into the rear, ONTOP of my new engine, parts, wok, perso gear and general smallness of space (bring it tetris style), I continued my slow and wobbly journey back to Canberra. It was awesome fun with the whole... death wobble thing going on, btw, fyi, heavy things on top heavy car = brown pant moments.

So having gotten safely home, I inspected the full incident of the loud noise on my roof. Sure enough, everything stayed put, but the reason I had to tie everything down again was the strange fact that the gutters on my roof now have whopping great dents in them thanks to the our tyres on the roof rack. The gutter mounts faired poorly and I now have one good rack and the other one which resembles the leaning tower of piza... on my car. Oops.

The night continues....

So aside from my advenutres in driving some 300k's between cities, my day and evening had only just begun. After geeking it up with some mates at a LAN (yes I am fully capable of complete and utter geekdom) I proceeded to head out to town with tow of my closest friends. The first has become a very close friend and I trust her with everything, she's the kind of person I can goto and never have t worry about judgment or being turned away. She's also the one who helps me get into the most trouble, supports and backs me up and helps me to feel free, you may call her Kitty. The other, I've known for almost 8 years now, she is one of my closest friends, you know, the kind that although there was fire and sparks, nothing ever came of it and having them as friends has been as far as its gone, she's Carrie, if you get bored you'll see her mentioned a number of years ago in previous blogs of mine. Well, combining them, alcohol and myself (the key element here), prooved to be certainly an interesting evening out. See, I've always had a soft spot for both of them. They'd be the girls who could call me from anywhere at anytime if they needed anything and I'd be there, rain, hail, shine or if I had nothing better to do.

I like to people watch and spot nice girls out on the town, Kitty is great for this, w both have the same tastes and enjoy speculating on people of interest. I myself however, am a muppet of the first order when it comes to meeting new people. (Put me in the bush in front of 18 strangers and no worries, 1 girl at a club or bar... no no). Yes I understand any following fail comments, but don't interrupt the story. So there I was, spying me some delightfully dressed girls (the theme seemed to be little red riding hood / alice in wonderland) and speculating on exactly how I was to introduce myself to have some mind out of the gutter fun. (who am I kidding, my aim is to tease and please).

Now, another key to this story is that the music is getting loud, speaking isn't practical so the txting on the phone and showing others is the way to go, so I start writing to kitty, showing her, she responds etc etc. Carrie notices and thinks I'm whispering sweet secrets and tells me that's its okay etc in the "I know you're writing messages and it's okay that you only show her cause she's your friend, you don't have to tell me" kind of way. So of course, not been anything ACTUALLY private, I show her and then Kitty drops the bomb. Instead of typing something along the lines of "She's cute, he's cute or we're just being knobs", she writes "He likes you". For those who are skim reading.... He was not someone else in the bar. He was Me.

Dude...

Now I appreciate a bit of trouble and mischief.... but this just got to a whole new level. 7 years of friendship and suppressed feelings and "should I shouldn't I" came boiling back with a txt statement and the comment, "why not, don't be a chicken shit." Thanks Kitty, Love you too.

The question remains... now what?

-- Lory

PS. This is not a rant against Kitty, I'd be a different person without her and I'll always love how she messes with my reality.

I'm not sure if you guys remember this. I wrote a blog sometime a couple months ago about my sister Sarah and her boyfriend Austin who have been together for about four years. Then he left for basic, she went to college and met up with a guy named Andrew, who I used to like. Austin and Andrew are 101% different from each other. Yet she was in love with both. She ended up staying with Austin.

 

I was going to write this long blog about Sarah. Recently her and Austin have been having problems instead of fixing them, she was the one making it worse. Which included being with Andrew more than Austin. It sort of pissed me off, the way she was handling it all. Afterall, she is the one who changed, not Austin.

 

But instead of writing the long blog about what's been going on between them, I'll leave it like this: They broke up last night.

 

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I know that for a while now she's been thinking to herself that she just wasted 4 years of her life on one guy. I keep telling her, if you loved him (for however long), if you had fun with him, if being together made you smile, then it was worth it. Thinking that your time was wasted isn't right.

 

Yes, I guess she would have had the chance to be with someone else over these 4 years, but she never liked anyone else during that time anyway. She only started liking Andrew a couple months ago.

 

She's been moping around the house all day long, heard her crying in the shower this morning. I'm sure she doesn't know if she's made the right choice. I'm sure she still has feelings for him. But if she's not happy with him, then why keep putting yourself through this?

 

For his birthday (which was two days ago) Sarah got him tickets to a Nickelback/Shinedown concert. The concert is this Thursday. They're still going.

so today's been a good day... no more of that looming horror that happened these last few days... everything is normal again... i'm feeling good just being alive again... and it reflects cause i enjoy life more, and get things done!

it was like one of those moments of awakening, where i was living in a dream i created, and then i realized what was going on, and put a stop to it... it definitely happened for a reason... and i'll accept it as one more experience that i've managed to live through and learn from...

so Goodie came over today... first random occurrence of an associate to happen in some time now... which it was welcome... talking to him helped to motivate me to finish cleaning up, and listening to him ramble off about damn near everything, it all sort of made me think and enjoy it... i didnt have much to say, mainly cause he was taking control of the conversation, but the things he talked about inspired many thoughts, and it really helped me to sort somethings out in my own life... plus he helped me clean, so his company wasnt bad at all... he's a good guy, just sort of a block head at times...

art is one thing that i know i'm good at... pictures, drawings, designs, i can do it all half way decently... save music, but i think that i might can learn that with enough practice... but my focus has been on visual arts recently... i was also good with writing... never a dull moment in my over dramatized stories, and crude and sarcastic reviews... but here i am rambling again... anyway, i'm taking much more interest into career as some sort of artist... i just want to learn more right now... touch more, feel more, make more, see more... i want to learn more about whats out there... after seeing the 2 artists from ODU, it really made me think... and seeing how their works looked, the ones they are famous for, the ones people pay them to make... damn... i could totally do this job...

so here instead of letting my drift in to a negative space, i think i'll draw the negative space around the tree in front of my house... its quite a beautiful day, and i've enjoyed living it... good days come, and they go... hearts break, but they still beat... we bleed and heal... and we live on...

7:00PM

here's the negative space sketch i did... its crude, but thats what sketches are... i'll work extra careful on the big one, i've got the ideas planned already... what i really need is drawing board, that way i can sit in the chair and look back out at those trees i was drawing... i had to abstract them a little bit, but thats a given with me... nothing ever comes out as it looks, so i dont even bother now... the point is to make the drawing interesting, not realistic for me... what i started to like during the sketch was when i was filling in the negative space with the larger end of the marker, it made an interesting pattern in it, like an abstracted night sky would look... one thing i didnt like was how i used the marker to draw the outline of the trees... what i'm going to do to make this better is to draw the outlines softly in pencil as a guild, and then use the wide end or the marker to make the whole drawing without a solid trace around the shapes of the tree... the page i'm going to be working on is 18in x 24in so i'm going to include a lot more, maybe even expand the sizes of it a little more to keep the picture interesting, and not having tooooo much negative space... even tho the drawing is a study of that...

this is my requiem for a certain someone i used to enjoy playing this game with... i knew i'd make it eventually...

push play, scroll down, listen to the song, read the lyrics, enjoy the pictures...



This was a triumph.

I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science,
We do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done, and you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.

I'm not even angry.
I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart and killed me. 

And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!

 

Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time.
So I'm GLaD. I got burned. Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are still alive.

Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa...
THAT WAS A JOKE, HA HA, FAT CHANCE.
Anyway this cake is great, it's so delicious and moist.

Look at me still talking when there's Science to do.
When I look out there it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done
on the people who are still alive.

And believe me I am still alive.
I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive
Still alive.
Still alive. 

mwhahaha, i was always the better hunter! SUCK IT!!!

(i do not take credit for any of these pictures, they were found by google)