Day 3 - Food - 27/8/2018

My parents came down with the dogs today. My two beautiful puppies who I absolutly adore, of course, needed a pristine looking flat to run around in and put muddy pawprints everywhere. So, I spent all morning tidying up making the thing spotless. I cleaned up the bathroom, tidied up some loose stuff that had been left on the sides. Organised the kitchen, the list goes on. However, my mum, who I will confess is a bit of a neat freak, bemoaned the floor and the fridge. Oh, boy. The floor needed a quick hoover. Okey, that's fine. But she said the fridge looked very empty :/ She then gave me a 15 minute lecture about how I need to eat more and Aldi sell ham and ready cooked meats and ready meals if I really don't want to cook (ready meals actually make me ill). 

In order to appease the parents, because frankly I don't care so long as I have food. (Even though I'm aware I should probably care). I have a tonne of frozen leftovers I'm going to use for lunch, but I need to stop shopping like a single university student living alone. *cough*

And I need to start shopping like someone who knows what the fuck they're doing. Plus, I got pretty darn ill earlier on in the year and I lost a tonne of weight so diet time? Diet time. (By the literal definition of the word, not the weight-loss variety).

So, that just leaves dinner and I'm probably the worlds worst cook. So... 
Monday - Pasta
Tuesday - Fried salmon salad
Wendnesday - Noodles and steak
Thursday - Stir-fry chicken
Friday - Pizza
Saturday - Ice cream (post-driving lesson) + Spaghetti
Sunday - Soup (use up all the vegetables from during the week)


So, I went out shopping and got all the stuff I need, some of the stuff I already had. I didn't manage to get everything, but I managed to get most things. All said, me and my parents went out for lunch, so I had quite a big meal so it wouldn't take much effort to get some pasta. Normally, I work Mondays, but it was a bank holiday so I got the day off.

With my shopping done it was time to do some C# stuff. After that, it was back to art! And... Oh yeah, the dreaded 100 Loomis heads from different angles! *sigh* I was trying to think of a way I could do this, keep it interesting and still get it done in a reasonble time period. I headed to line of action line-of-action.com/ a figure drawing website, and decided to use that took specifically for drawing the head. I found out that it does indeed have a facial expression section that would serve my purpose nicely. I set the timer to 1 minute and blasted into it. I used a thick B3 pencil to try and encourage myself to draw less tightly and keep it loose. A thicker core encourages me to do this since it allows for less detail. After about 50 I took a break, walked around, had a smoothie and then looked back on what I'd done. The issue was early on I was trying (and failing) to also add in the features and expressions and wow it is a thing of nightmares. Regardless, onwards! At about 71 I started drastically running out of space, that was when I started making use of the margins. Once I finally reached 100 the page was looking very full. 

Next, it was time to work on The 40 Sleep. I needed a better plan for future chapters, otherwise the plot would go on forever and not lead anywhere. My outline had long since vanished out of the window. Since I uploaded yesterday I thought I'd focus today on writing up a decent outline. I wrote up the outline and I'm pretty sure that this will make future chapters easier to write. I won't say anything, you'll just have to see what develops.