But if I know you, I know what you'll do

I thought I'd take a few day hiatus from updating seeing as I was getting a little crazy with it. I think I even posted twice in one day. Geez. Noticing that my cold was getting worse and my asthma got stirred up, I decided to spend this weekend at home. Mainly just resting and stuff. Yesterday I went to see the Incredibles. Whenever I see anything by Pixar, it makes me want to work there again and kinda sad that i don't do more digital animation. I had a lot of fun with 3d animation, even though it can be incredibly frustrating to create. Too bad the job market is so unstable for it. But I give them a lot of credit. They have to have the patience to work for years on one project and spend days on painstakingly small details of the film. Saturday night we had a thanksgiving dinner with my church. It was pretty yummy and there was a lot of food there. The thing I always hate about the holidays though is how it brings back all the food issues I have that kinda get buried during the year. I can't stand watching people eat that much food. All I can think of is clogged arteries and heart attacks that excessive weight can bring and it scares me...not for my sake (im a good weight), but for my family. My grandfather died of a heart attack. I think a lot of my weight issues disappeared when i came to college. I was surrounded by young fit people and I didnt have to worry about it. I've noticed that the problem starts coming back when I'm around my family and I have a harder time controling it. Booo holidays.

Today I spent the day at the doctor's office. Two hours in the waiting room! Luckily, I finally got in and he gave me some prescribed cough medicine and a new inhaler. I should be better in a week or so. My mom and I rented Shrek 2 and watched it this afternoon. Right now, I'm working on my design project which is to create a series of postcards advertising whatever we want. People in the class are doing some pretty cool topics. The muppets, a new hybrid car, the movie Seven, Pharcyde, the marx brothers, the process of jewlelry making. I decided to pretend that the American Ballet Theater is putting on a production of the Nutcracker. I have a series of 13 postcards on which there's a representation of each dance in the nutcracker. I'm having a lot of fun with it, doesn't even feel like homework. I think that's a good sign that I chose the right major for me. I can sit down and work for hours on it, but never feel like I'm being forced to. So now I'm listening to the Nutcracker soundtrack performed by the London Symphony Orchestra because the postcards got me in the mood for it. I really miss ballet around this time of the year, especially pointe. I must have danced that ballet 100 times, well probably more like ten times, but i still really miss it. When I was a little girl, I always wanted to be Clara, but as I got older i realized she didn't actually do much dancing, so then i thought the ideal role would be the Sugarplum fairy. She has a gorgeous dance at the very end of the ballet that segways into a pas de deux with the prince. I was hoping that this year, my mom and I could go up to see the San Francisco Ballet perform the nutcracker over winter break. I think they're probably the 2nd or 3rd best ballet company in the country next to the American Ballet Theater in New York and it would make my year to see their production of it.