Your money or your life! God, that song is such a piece of work, haha. It gets me giggling every time.

Anyway! I finally finished uploading all the photos from my trip to Canada. Well, in a way. I narrowed it down from about 700 to 178, and I imagine I'll end up putting more up later.

Go on over and check it out! [link]

I don't like to put too many photos up on dA because the site is a lot more inclined towards artwork and such than photography. I've managed to find a lot of really talented photographers on here anyway, but I know most of the people following me don't particularly care for it. Consider yourself saved by Flickr. Feel free to browse at your leisure.

In other news, I'm starting to really want to progress my art and photography. I've started reading a book on letting yourself be creative, I have a few other books lined up, and I'm finally taking a crack at my large file of things I've thought to draw but haven't gotten around to.

My problem is every time I start trying to do artwork, I know I'm not up to the level needed to create the image I have in my mind and get frustrated. My current projects have a lot of flaws in them that I can see but can't bring myself to fix. The amount of time needed to do fix the problems would take the same amount to just delete the damned thing and start over. I feel like I'm stuck in a bowl plateau where I can't get enough momentum up to get over the sides.

It makes me restless, but I have to push myself. The key is keeping my energy levels up and interest aroused to stay motivated. All the while I'm weening myself off caffeine and Dr. Pepper. Blargh.