Posts from ‘Stuff about me’
So what do you wanna know?
Once again I find myself going to the blog post well, only to find it dry without even a deadite to speak of.
I think I’m a little spoilt over at The Coalition of Awesomeness and the Midnight Movie Club as those blogs have themes in which to work around, but out here all I’ve got is me and my stupid brain which hasn’t been playing ball of late. Of course there are the flying monkeys in the QYDJ lab but those little bastards only want to talk about oily versus dry peanut butter. That conversation gets old quickly let me tell you!
This is the reason why there's no point responding to those email notifications...
Once I exhausted all avenues of discourse regarding peanut butter I turned to ol faithful idea machine Google. Unfortunately even though there were blog posts that boasted “101 blog post ideas to get you thinking” the majority (all that I could bring myself to look at) featured helpful ideas such as:
- Write something funny
- Give advice
- Give your opinion on something
- Write about something you know…
And then they got worse, I’m thinking of developing the universal law of writing good blog posts according to these sites: “write about something that people want to read”. Bravo. Great advice. Where’s my cheque?
So I thought I might open it up to you guys and see if there was anything in particular you were interested in reading about? I’ve done this before and people have left really good ideas and then I’ve completely lost track of them and I feel bad about that because they were really great ideas… yeah I know I should really go back and find those posts. Of course if you write your suggestion again maybe the power of repetition will get through to me.
On another note I’m catching up on some commission pieces that are over due, got a bunch of superhero illustrations coming 
So ask away and I’ll try to respond to at least 34% of them in post format.
Letting go
I have a lot of books.
Tracey has a lot of books.
Together we have A LOT OF BOOKS.
It’s just one of those things, when we met we each had a decent collection of books, I’m not talking about comics either – that’s a different kettle of fish completely and one I won’t burden this discussion with. We began with two collections of books and then combined them when we got married. Ten years on we have been adding to it nearly all the time. This has resulted in living in somewhat of a library with a number of books still in storage boxes downstairs.
The removal guys curse us whenever we move home as we end up having far too many book chests that are extremely heavy.
On top of this we add all the ‘stuff’ that we collect, a sizeable CD collection, a large DVD library and for my part a huge collection of figurines and collectibles.
We’ve got a lot of stuff and we’ve identified it as a weight around our necks and now we are shedding all these things to streamline our lives. The hardest part of all this was deciding to let go and making some huge realisations:
- if I’ve read a book and really loved it I don’t need to hang on to it.
- I’m not going back to playing the Playstation 2 despite having a bunch of neat games and some of which I haven’t even played.
- I don’t need X-Files or Independence Day figurines that sit in boxes in the back of my cupboard.
- Not all of my collectibles have significance to me.
- Once I finished playing a game on PS3 history has shown I rarely ever go back to playing them.
- Some stuff is important to me and I won’t sell it but I need to not confuse this with “hanging on”.
- There are more important creative things that I need in my life such as art supplies and equipment and by offloading this makes more room for that!
The other really hard part of this is how slow it takes to get most of this stuff up on eBay which is our online garage sale of choice. It’s not as easy as just saying yeah I’m going to sell all my stuff then you’ve got to systematically go through all of it and get it up there.
But we are slowly doing so.
Anyone else gone through a giant clean up of their lives or considering it?
The new business cards
Remember a little while ago I mentioned that I’d ordered my new business cards from a company called Squiz Cards? Well I said I would post a picture when they arrived because they were a little different from your standard business cards. They are plastic and quite small, small enough to fit into a keyring or in a small pouch on the back of your iPhone. So they were a little experiment, one which was successful because they look great and are surprisingly easy to read despite their stature.
So now I might do another design and get another batch printed up.
* Cards actually arrived the other day but I started writing this that day and only just found the time to finish it today.
