Sunday, October 31, 2010
Halloween
Hello everyone of the Internet and vast distances! Happy Halloween! Although in my world it's not exactly happy, more depressing. I only had one group of kids, all adorable and greedy for candy (I was tempted to give them change and reward them for their greediness, hehe) and that was it. How depressing! And I love kids! Oh well. Maybe next year I'll be somewhere where there'll be tonnes of kids wanting candy. It's almost better than Christmas, wouldn't you say? Instead of blenders and books and electronics, you get candy. The perfect holiday in my mind!
Anyway, I really came on here to rant about my novel that I'm working on, "Danny" - I finished the first chapter last night and I took it upon myself to revise it before working on the second chapter, and I did not realize whatsoever how much effort had to go into revising a single chapter (although this one is fairly long, it's 26 pages double-spaced, which would otherwise make it approximately 13 pages, 7 pages double-sided)! There were so many things that I had forgotten about my characters that i had to go back and rewrite some sections. Which is why, after my jaw surgery, I'm going to take full advantage of having the 2-week-down time and WRITE WRITE WRITE. I plan to at least finish four more chapters, Lord knowing how long they'll be, but regardless, that extra little boost in this project will help me to determine what happens in the novel. I know for a fact that a death has to take place... But which characters do I take out? I'll have to plan that further.
Which brings me to my next subject: I've found a publishing group that happily takes in gay/lesbian literature, so I'm excited to send them my novel because I have that much of a higher chance to get it going with something; the only concern I have is that I think they're based in the States. But I can always arrange things to make it work; I always do. But I'm highly hopeful of this project as this story is a brainchild of mine and I want to see it through to adulthood (LOL do you like my creative and literal use of "brainchild"?).
Speaking of jaw surgery, I might as well go on a rant about that too: I'm going for jaw surgery TOMORROW MORNING (no! please don't say it so!) and what my surgeon will be doing is moving my lower jaw forward as I have a horrible overbite and not only will the jaw surgery correct my overbite but it will help to prevent my teeth from moving after the braces come off, and if I'm correct I won't have to wear a retainer for an annoying length of time, which will help my moving-out experiences come together more smoothly. Some people don't understand why I'm getting jaw surgery but let's just say this: my entire experiences of orthodontics (braces) have been geared towards this jaw surgery, so the jaw surgery is a vital finalizing part of my ortho. Then it's another six useless and pointless months of visiting my orthodontists in Penticton to get my teeth just that every bit perfect, in which in my opinion they already ARE perfect. But oh well; we'll see what happens.
For those of you who also don't know why I'm moving, I'll make it short as I've got to start getting my room ready for flawless movement in and out of it (it's a bloody pigsty right now): my mother and I have been going at each other's necks again, and one night she got so violent with her words, even stated that I must be jealous of her and her good looks which threw me completely mad, that I said, that's it, I've had it. I cannot do anything around her - the reason why I haven't made any more makeup tutorials is because I absolutely record a tutorial in her presence without her criticizing me for it; I can't even be BOTHERED to fix myself a daily dose of makeup; and I can't spread my wings of creativity around her and the only time I can is during the weekend when she's at work, but I don't like waiting for the weekend. I need to be my own individual, and the closer my mother reels me in, the more it's driving me to a certain point of insanity. But regardless of her inability to accept my COMPLETE homosexuality (yes, I do put makeup under my homosexuality, but I think if I was straight I still would wear makeup regardless) I do still love my mother; the good times that we've shared are the ones that I hold onto the most. I do still want my mother to be in certain parts of my life so that's the other reason why I'm moving out, is so I can save our relationship; besides, every chick has to leave the nest sooner or later, right? So I'll be moving up to Kelowna, staying there until I have enough money to move again to Vancouver or Toronto (I'm still undecided of which one I want to move to) and commence work as well as school in the makeup artistry field. It's going to be a thrilling experience and I'll keep you guys posted as to how it goes!
Okay! Enough ranting! I need to go for a cigarette and clean my room! (I know, right? 10:40pm at night and I'm planning on cleaning my room now?).
Love you all! Stay gold!
- Colten.
xoxo
Anyway, I really came on here to rant about my novel that I'm working on, "Danny" - I finished the first chapter last night and I took it upon myself to revise it before working on the second chapter, and I did not realize whatsoever how much effort had to go into revising a single chapter (although this one is fairly long, it's 26 pages double-spaced, which would otherwise make it approximately 13 pages, 7 pages double-sided)! There were so many things that I had forgotten about my characters that i had to go back and rewrite some sections. Which is why, after my jaw surgery, I'm going to take full advantage of having the 2-week-down time and WRITE WRITE WRITE. I plan to at least finish four more chapters, Lord knowing how long they'll be, but regardless, that extra little boost in this project will help me to determine what happens in the novel. I know for a fact that a death has to take place... But which characters do I take out? I'll have to plan that further.
Which brings me to my next subject: I've found a publishing group that happily takes in gay/lesbian literature, so I'm excited to send them my novel because I have that much of a higher chance to get it going with something; the only concern I have is that I think they're based in the States. But I can always arrange things to make it work; I always do. But I'm highly hopeful of this project as this story is a brainchild of mine and I want to see it through to adulthood (LOL do you like my creative and literal use of "brainchild"?).
Speaking of jaw surgery, I might as well go on a rant about that too: I'm going for jaw surgery TOMORROW MORNING (no! please don't say it so!) and what my surgeon will be doing is moving my lower jaw forward as I have a horrible overbite and not only will the jaw surgery correct my overbite but it will help to prevent my teeth from moving after the braces come off, and if I'm correct I won't have to wear a retainer for an annoying length of time, which will help my moving-out experiences come together more smoothly. Some people don't understand why I'm getting jaw surgery but let's just say this: my entire experiences of orthodontics (braces) have been geared towards this jaw surgery, so the jaw surgery is a vital finalizing part of my ortho. Then it's another six useless and pointless months of visiting my orthodontists in Penticton to get my teeth just that every bit perfect, in which in my opinion they already ARE perfect. But oh well; we'll see what happens.
For those of you who also don't know why I'm moving, I'll make it short as I've got to start getting my room ready for flawless movement in and out of it (it's a bloody pigsty right now): my mother and I have been going at each other's necks again, and one night she got so violent with her words, even stated that I must be jealous of her and her good looks which threw me completely mad, that I said, that's it, I've had it. I cannot do anything around her - the reason why I haven't made any more makeup tutorials is because I absolutely record a tutorial in her presence without her criticizing me for it; I can't even be BOTHERED to fix myself a daily dose of makeup; and I can't spread my wings of creativity around her and the only time I can is during the weekend when she's at work, but I don't like waiting for the weekend. I need to be my own individual, and the closer my mother reels me in, the more it's driving me to a certain point of insanity. But regardless of her inability to accept my COMPLETE homosexuality (yes, I do put makeup under my homosexuality, but I think if I was straight I still would wear makeup regardless) I do still love my mother; the good times that we've shared are the ones that I hold onto the most. I do still want my mother to be in certain parts of my life so that's the other reason why I'm moving out, is so I can save our relationship; besides, every chick has to leave the nest sooner or later, right? So I'll be moving up to Kelowna, staying there until I have enough money to move again to Vancouver or Toronto (I'm still undecided of which one I want to move to) and commence work as well as school in the makeup artistry field. It's going to be a thrilling experience and I'll keep you guys posted as to how it goes!
Okay! Enough ranting! I need to go for a cigarette and clean my room! (I know, right? 10:40pm at night and I'm planning on cleaning my room now?).
Love you all! Stay gold!
- Colten.
xoxo
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Happy Happy Joy Joy
Hey guys, I'm back again! I'm currently at the Learning Centre here in Osoyoos and I'm bored! I have nothing else to work on (silly me) so I figured since I have about thirty-five minutes to kill, so why not rant about my wonderful life?
So I've started writing a novel, which I'm going to work hard on to actually finish, called "Danny". Of course, the main theme is that love triumphs over all, and there's a special way about how love triumphs in this novel. Anyway, the story revolves around a boy my age named Danny - duh - who doesn't really talk much. He meets a new student at school and the two soon form a bond and realize that they're both gay. They soon form a relationship and things start to change for Danny, and guess what? He starts talking again! This is going to be an extremely fun novel to write, I think, because Danny is the complete opposite of what I am, which makes it all the more fun!
As well, I just want to tell you that I'll be happily - and hopefully - moving to Kelowna sometime in December! I'll be staying with a friend of mine for awhile and once I have a car and some money stashed away to start fresh, I'll move into my own place and work until I have enough funds to live in either Vancouver or Toronto... I'm leaning more towards Vancouver because that way I don't have to put up with the Toronto smog or mosquitoes. At least I think the mosquitoes are still bad over there. Anyway, the main reason why I'm moving to Kelowna is to first of all get away from my mother - don't get me wrong, I love her to pieces but she can be extremely suffocating at times. Sue me if this is a horrible reason to move out but it's something I feel the need to do. Besides, every bird has to leave the nest sooner or later, don't they?
On top of that, I can now say that graduation is getting closer and closer... So far I've completed more than 60% of my Studio Arts 11 - a course that I started last year and couldn't finish due to interruptions and the mentality of 15-year-olds - and my Graduation Transitions 12 is almost finished; my Work Experience 12 is done! That just leaves Web Design 12, which I'm slowly but surely working on. (Obviously, writing a new blog post isn't getting the course done any faster but somebody seems to have misplaced the binder I was working out of...) So I'm happy with the way things are going.
In essence, I'm currently living a guilt-free, happy life. I hope it can always stay this way! For a long time, anyway.
Talk to you guys soon! I'll be sure to check in with you guys as soon as possible!
- Colten. xoxo
So I've started writing a novel, which I'm going to work hard on to actually finish, called "Danny". Of course, the main theme is that love triumphs over all, and there's a special way about how love triumphs in this novel. Anyway, the story revolves around a boy my age named Danny - duh - who doesn't really talk much. He meets a new student at school and the two soon form a bond and realize that they're both gay. They soon form a relationship and things start to change for Danny, and guess what? He starts talking again! This is going to be an extremely fun novel to write, I think, because Danny is the complete opposite of what I am, which makes it all the more fun!
As well, I just want to tell you that I'll be happily - and hopefully - moving to Kelowna sometime in December! I'll be staying with a friend of mine for awhile and once I have a car and some money stashed away to start fresh, I'll move into my own place and work until I have enough funds to live in either Vancouver or Toronto... I'm leaning more towards Vancouver because that way I don't have to put up with the Toronto smog or mosquitoes. At least I think the mosquitoes are still bad over there. Anyway, the main reason why I'm moving to Kelowna is to first of all get away from my mother - don't get me wrong, I love her to pieces but she can be extremely suffocating at times. Sue me if this is a horrible reason to move out but it's something I feel the need to do. Besides, every bird has to leave the nest sooner or later, don't they?
On top of that, I can now say that graduation is getting closer and closer... So far I've completed more than 60% of my Studio Arts 11 - a course that I started last year and couldn't finish due to interruptions and the mentality of 15-year-olds - and my Graduation Transitions 12 is almost finished; my Work Experience 12 is done! That just leaves Web Design 12, which I'm slowly but surely working on. (Obviously, writing a new blog post isn't getting the course done any faster but somebody seems to have misplaced the binder I was working out of...) So I'm happy with the way things are going.
In essence, I'm currently living a guilt-free, happy life. I hope it can always stay this way! For a long time, anyway.
Talk to you guys soon! I'll be sure to check in with you guys as soon as possible!
- Colten. xoxo
Monday, October 18, 2010
Accomplishments
Hey everyone! I'm finally back from a weekend of pure boringness. I pretty much did nothing with my 3-day weekend whatsoever (thankfully, every weekend is a 3-day weekend! I love it!) except there were some things I managed to accomplish.
The first thing(s) I have manged to accomplish this weekend are three new makeup tutorial videos on my ColtenDoesMakeupTV channel, which you can go and watch here. The makeup looks that I've done, however, are drag so they're not for everyone! You can if you so choose bring them down to a level that you feel is acceptable. I love makeup too much not to go wild so I think I'll enjoy doing drag looks. The next one I'm doing is one requested by a friend of mine (gothic, she says, not emo.) so I should have a lot of fun doing that. I'll probably do that when I go home today - in case you were wondering, I'm writing this at school to kill some time. I should learn to come better prepared.
The second thing that I worked on was my novel study for English 12 (ooh, how exciting!) which was The Five People You Meet In Heaven, which is a very interesting story in itself. If you haven't read it you must go do that now! It is an amazing read and will open your eyes as it did for me when I first read it when I was fourteen.
The third thing that I managed to accomplish this weekend was staying clean! My mother is always nit-picking me about the way that I don't clean up my messes when I finished making them but I managed to do the exact opposite of the "norm" and even did my laundry! I do love being active in the house, but not when I'm feeling well.
Which brings me onto my next topic. I think I'm coming down with something. For some reason, I have been so sleepy lately - you know that stupid feeling that you get when you haven't gotten enough sleep but you have so many things to do and you're trying to wake yourself up and shake off the sleeping dust? Yeah, well, I've been struggling to do that for nearly two weeks, so whatever is trying to take over my body must really be a big one.
Okay! Enough of the blabbiness of my ranting. Who else is excited for Rihanna's new album "Loud"? I am! It will contain my new favorite by her "Only Girl (In The World)" which you can now watch on Youtube of Vevo, where the video was originally posted. I quite like the video and it has, again, inspired me to make Youtube music videos! I'm so excited to get started, but I have to wait until I get my new camera! I hate money! Anyway, RiRi's new album is supposed to rival Michael Jackson's "Thriller", or so says RiRi's producers. So that makes it all the more exciting.
As well, I think Dead Or Alive is coming out with a new greatest-hits compilation called "That's The Way I Like It...The Best Of Dead Or Alive" which I'm interested to see if that doesn't do well. I would love for Pete Burns to keep making music! Although I have to admit ... with the way he looks now (as in today, 2010, not 2003 or 2006 when he was on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK), I can't imagine he'll be recording any new material anytime soon, which makes me sad.
Does anybody else think that the education curriculum in British Columbia is kind of stupid? I was flipping through my Graduation Transitions 12 material when I realized what my next step was (which I have to clear my name right now, I haven't worked very much on my GradTrans12 at all): creating a personal daily wealth plan for a week. What a stupid joke that is - who cares about what I'm going to eat during the week? As long as I eat and drink plenty of water I'll be fine! Urgh. Oh well. Talk about, "just take it like a man." Har har.
Okay lovies! I'll be back soon! Talk to you soon!
Oh, and don't forget to take a look at some of the links I left on the right-hand-size of my blog. You won't be disappointed. c;
- Colten.
xoxo
The first thing(s) I have manged to accomplish this weekend are three new makeup tutorial videos on my ColtenDoesMakeupTV channel, which you can go and watch here. The makeup looks that I've done, however, are drag so they're not for everyone! You can if you so choose bring them down to a level that you feel is acceptable. I love makeup too much not to go wild so I think I'll enjoy doing drag looks. The next one I'm doing is one requested by a friend of mine (gothic, she says, not emo.) so I should have a lot of fun doing that. I'll probably do that when I go home today - in case you were wondering, I'm writing this at school to kill some time. I should learn to come better prepared.
The second thing that I worked on was my novel study for English 12 (ooh, how exciting!) which was The Five People You Meet In Heaven, which is a very interesting story in itself. If you haven't read it you must go do that now! It is an amazing read and will open your eyes as it did for me when I first read it when I was fourteen.
The third thing that I managed to accomplish this weekend was staying clean! My mother is always nit-picking me about the way that I don't clean up my messes when I finished making them but I managed to do the exact opposite of the "norm" and even did my laundry! I do love being active in the house, but not when I'm feeling well.
Which brings me onto my next topic. I think I'm coming down with something. For some reason, I have been so sleepy lately - you know that stupid feeling that you get when you haven't gotten enough sleep but you have so many things to do and you're trying to wake yourself up and shake off the sleeping dust? Yeah, well, I've been struggling to do that for nearly two weeks, so whatever is trying to take over my body must really be a big one.
Okay! Enough of the blabbiness of my ranting. Who else is excited for Rihanna's new album "Loud"? I am! It will contain my new favorite by her "Only Girl (In The World)" which you can now watch on Youtube of Vevo, where the video was originally posted. I quite like the video and it has, again, inspired me to make Youtube music videos! I'm so excited to get started, but I have to wait until I get my new camera! I hate money! Anyway, RiRi's new album is supposed to rival Michael Jackson's "Thriller", or so says RiRi's producers. So that makes it all the more exciting.
As well, I think Dead Or Alive is coming out with a new greatest-hits compilation called "That's The Way I Like It...The Best Of Dead Or Alive" which I'm interested to see if that doesn't do well. I would love for Pete Burns to keep making music! Although I have to admit ... with the way he looks now (as in today, 2010, not 2003 or 2006 when he was on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK), I can't imagine he'll be recording any new material anytime soon, which makes me sad.
Does anybody else think that the education curriculum in British Columbia is kind of stupid? I was flipping through my Graduation Transitions 12 material when I realized what my next step was (which I have to clear my name right now, I haven't worked very much on my GradTrans12 at all): creating a personal daily wealth plan for a week. What a stupid joke that is - who cares about what I'm going to eat during the week? As long as I eat and drink plenty of water I'll be fine! Urgh. Oh well. Talk about, "just take it like a man." Har har.
Okay lovies! I'll be back soon! Talk to you soon!
Oh, and don't forget to take a look at some of the links I left on the right-hand-size of my blog. You won't be disappointed. c;
- Colten.
xoxo
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Back From a Long Break...
HELLO ALL AND ONE, and welcome back to my crazy and wacky world! It feels good to be back from a long break of having nothing but fun and breaking down into tears and ... yeah, let me just say, my life is rocky and a wild wild rollercoaster ride. However, things are slowly beginning to change and to say the least, I'm terribly thankful of that. The sun is shining and my hopes are soaring for what I anticipate to happen in both the near future and in the long run.
So first off I would just like to point you to the new layout of my blog, and in case you guys were wondering, my past blog layout that was done by a girl named Jennifer was kind of awesome but it wasn't exactly what I wanted. I like to have things personalized, if you get what I mean. So during the spare time that I had yesterday, which was a total of an hour and twenty minutes, I put together the new design of my own blog layout. The results...? I think you can see for yourself. c:
Second, I would like to explain why it is that I haven't posted any new videos on either my ThisIsJamieHart channel or my thecoltenpighinshow channel. I'm currently saving up money to purchase the Canon EOS Rebel T2i, which is an amazing DSLR that can also record in 1080p HD movies. It's an entry-level camera but it's powerful and (here's the bonus) it's super cheap and there are a lot of sales on it, what with the end-of-the-year seasons coming in fast, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to collect as much money as I can for the purchase of the Canon.
What I plan on doing with this camera is still a little up in the air as the projects I want to commence are quite large in themselves, what with recording videos in a convertible, standing up and singing at the top of my lungs, or going out into the brush and frolicking in un-developed land... There are some major things coming, believe you me, it's just a matter of trying to get the right crew to help along with what I want to do.
Third, I'd like to just briefly mention the point of this blog. This blog will be just for the pure enjoyment of those who want to read about my life and the way that my current projects are going (i.e. Youtube videos, I think, will be the main focus of this as I love creating videos as well as some photos that I've taken/edited, etc.). I'm not going to fill this blog with the negativity and uselessness of venting about things that you all probably don't want to read so I'm going to leave it up to myself to take care of myself and not let anyone stand in the way, and if they do then I'll tell them off. Enough secretive venting! c;
Surprisingly, I think that wraps up everything that I wanted to talk about so I shall end this here, unless of course if I think of other things I wanted to mention.
Have a beautiful day everyone!
-Colten. xoxo
So first off I would just like to point you to the new layout of my blog, and in case you guys were wondering, my past blog layout that was done by a girl named Jennifer was kind of awesome but it wasn't exactly what I wanted. I like to have things personalized, if you get what I mean. So during the spare time that I had yesterday, which was a total of an hour and twenty minutes, I put together the new design of my own blog layout. The results...? I think you can see for yourself. c:
Second, I would like to explain why it is that I haven't posted any new videos on either my ThisIsJamieHart channel or my thecoltenpighinshow channel. I'm currently saving up money to purchase the Canon EOS Rebel T2i, which is an amazing DSLR that can also record in 1080p HD movies. It's an entry-level camera but it's powerful and (here's the bonus) it's super cheap and there are a lot of sales on it, what with the end-of-the-year seasons coming in fast, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to collect as much money as I can for the purchase of the Canon.
What I plan on doing with this camera is still a little up in the air as the projects I want to commence are quite large in themselves, what with recording videos in a convertible, standing up and singing at the top of my lungs, or going out into the brush and frolicking in un-developed land... There are some major things coming, believe you me, it's just a matter of trying to get the right crew to help along with what I want to do.
Third, I'd like to just briefly mention the point of this blog. This blog will be just for the pure enjoyment of those who want to read about my life and the way that my current projects are going (i.e. Youtube videos, I think, will be the main focus of this as I love creating videos as well as some photos that I've taken/edited, etc.). I'm not going to fill this blog with the negativity and uselessness of venting about things that you all probably don't want to read so I'm going to leave it up to myself to take care of myself and not let anyone stand in the way, and if they do then I'll tell them off. Enough secretive venting! c;
Surprisingly, I think that wraps up everything that I wanted to talk about so I shall end this here, unless of course if I think of other things I wanted to mention.
Have a beautiful day everyone!
-Colten. xoxo