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Wow, that's a beauty, DL! Beautiful cats, too. 
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Wow! Classy looking place! Cleaning it must take up a lot of your time. How do you have time to post on here and collect toys?"Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
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Thanks for the compliment, good buddy! Greatly appreciated!!
Good Question!
The management of TIME is probably the cornerstone of true efficiency in one's life. Everyone manages their time differently, but I prefer to manage mine with rigid (almost military) structure and organization. Its what works for me. And it's what has allowed me to live a lifestyle of quite a bit of free time.
WORK:
I work as a voice-over actor and occasionally as a junior HS music teacher. At night (two nights a week), my wife and I host karaoke shows in restaurants and lounges around NYC.
Typcially, a daytime voice-over gig for me (cartoon character, video game character, radio or TV commercial VO etc.) is literally about 1 hour worth of work, once or twice a week. Sometimes, I'll even record a VO session right out of my home. I have a professional Voice Over mic set-up attached to my computer. My teaching commitments (when I take them on) are usually after-school choirs and what-not, usually 90 minute sessions. The karaoke shows are each 4 hours long usually beginning at about 9:30 PM or so.
In a typical week, even with a teaching commitment, I may "work" a total of 12 hours. That's it.
COLLECTING:
I don't really spend too much time in toy stores, to be honest. I may stop into a TRU after a VO audition or gig in the afternoon. But I generally buy my collectibles on-line (E-bay, amazon, TRU.com etc.). Saves a lot of time and its easier on the environment (one less car on the road going on toy hunts)
HOUSE MAINTAINENCE:
I do all the cleaning in our home personally. And I am VERY thorough (once a week under the refrigerator and stove, etc) My wife does the laundry and grocery shopping (both of which I hate to do).
I manage my housework time, by CONSTANTLY cleaning little things as they need to be. This way, the housework does not become a big, long, chore. And that leaves me MUCH more free time during my day to do whatever I want.
For example, When my wife or I finish a meal, I got into the practice of NOT placing the dirty dishes, silverware, and drinking glasses in the sink. I simply take 30 seconds to wash them and put them away. Therefore they do not accumilate.
If I allowed dishes to accumilate in the sink, then I would regularly have to "do the dishes" which is a CHORE that can take quite a long time.
A dinner dish smeared with fresh spagetti sauce takes about 11 seconds to hand wash and put away. That same dish allowed to sit in the sink for several hours or days now requires "elbow grease" to clean it over about 30 - 60 seconds. Multiply that 30 seconds times the number of other accumilated dishes in the sink, and you've got a bonafide time-consuming house CHORE on your hands.
Believe me. I wasn't always this way. During most of my teenage years and adolesence I was quite the slob: Clothes thrown everywhere (clean and dirty), cluttler, mess, stacked dishes, disorganization, stacks of mail, boxes everywhere, dust...
But then one day (like a lightbulb going off) I realized that if I were going to have any kind of success in my life, that I'd need rigid structure and organization of my environment, thoughts, and personal self.
I found that when my environment was orderly, organized, neat, and non-cluttered, that my thinking process in all areas of my life were far more efficient. I stopped being late for appointments. My personal appearence was neater. And my life improved dramatically.I... am an action figure customizerComment
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I wanna take a massive dump in your awesome bathroom.
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Ummm... O-kay... so long as you flush the toilet, lower the toilet lid, use the air-freshener, and turn on the ceiling vent when you're done.
You can come on over anytime to take your huge dump... er...
May i recommed a very LARGE meal of rice, beans, and beef stew before coming over. This will most effectively MAXIMIZE your crap-age volume.
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wowzers!!!
Nice place sir! WAAAAYYYY to clean...but nice. It needs that lived in look. You know, a trail of exploded goo going from the stove up to the ceiling. 6 month old half uneaten cake that has turned to concrete in the cake holder/server thingie. Those stains on the wall behind the toilet from those late night "OOPS..Shoulda turned the lights on" incidents....And wheres all the stuff the cats broke? my Sister has 1 cat, and he regularily turns her place into a disaster area!
(That table lamp cost more than my house!!!
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Dude you got a beautiful home,I'm moving this month,I think my closing is on monday so i'll post pics as soon as I get settled inHowdy friends!
Ever wonder what the homes of long-time on-line friends look like?
I do. I was bored today and so I decided to start a thread where MEGO friends can post photos of their "pad"... if you got any.
I'll start.
STATS: I personally designed our home, and it's been under construction for about 9 years... beginning as a full gut-job. My wife and I own a three story brownstone in Williamsburg Brooklyn NY. We took the entire first floor space (about 1,000 sq ft. / former bar / saloon), and the two apartments on the second floor (about 490 sq ft each), and combined it all into a two-level duplex living space.
The Master bedroom, Master Bath, Office/Guest room, and Walk-In Closets are going to be on the second floor. We hope to finish the second floor over the next 2 years.
The basement will feature our laundry room and recreation / workout space.
The (finished) first floor features the Entry Foyer, Dining Room, Living Room/Home Theater, Kitchen, and General bath.
here are some pics:
DINING ROOM (Photographed just before completion)
ENTRY FOYER
LIVING ROOM / HOME THEATER
KITCHEN
GENERAL BATH:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...VanityMail.jpg
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Like I'm even going to post pics of my dump after seeing that awesome home!
Great place, darklord! I'm just going to pretend that I live in your house. You don't mind, do you?
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Dude, no offense, but you don't exactly need military type precision to manage your time when you work 12 hours a week. Nice house though. You are welcome to come clean mine anytime.
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Um... yes... good point!
wowzers!!!
Nice place sir! WAAAAYYYY to clean...but nice. It needs that lived in look. You know, a trail of exploded goo going from the stove up to the ceiling. 6 month old half uneaten cake that has turned to concrete in the cake holder/server thingie. Those stains on the wall behind the toilet from those late night "OOPS..Shoulda turned the lights on" incidents....And wheres all the stuff the cats broke? my Sister has 1 cat, and he regularily turns her place into a disaster area!
(That table lamp cost more than my house!!!)
"Too Clean??" No such thing!
"...a trail of exploded goo going from the stove up to the ceiling???"
"...6 month old half uneaten cake that has turned to concrete???"
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! I get queasy just thinkin' about it!!
As for the cats breakin' any stuff: They're not allowed to! They all signed waivers before moving in that states they are responsible for any breakage, and it would come out of their pay!
Actually, candle stick holders and vases and whatnot throughout the apartment are held down with clear museum putty to minimize those little accidents.
Thanks a million for the compliment, pal! And hearty congratulations on the closing of your home! If this is your first one, you've entered into a most exciting phase of your life!! Can't wait to see pics of your kingdom!
One o' these days, Alice, POW right in the kisser!!!
Thanks for the nice compliment, good buddy! But, uh... no need to pretend. When can you move in?
Thanks for the compliment Hulk. And no offense taken. But believe me when I tell you, it is SO easy to fall into the trap of thinking that strict time-management is NOT required when your work schedule is like mine. But I can assure you, I find that it most certainly is.
You see, it's not the number of hours in the week spent working so much as it is WHICH hours of the week are spent working.
For example: I'll typically end one of our weekly karaoke shows at about 2:00 AM. By the time my wife and I pack up our speakers, mics, mixing board, cables and other audio equipment and store them at the lounge or restaurant's store room, it is easily 3:00 AM.
Next, we'll hail a taxi and get home by about 3:35 AM. We're in bed at about 4:00 AM. And we're up again at about 8:00 AM. My wife gets herself ready for work (She works in TV editing for a music channel), and I'll usually be up making the bed, feeding cats, cleaning cat litter boxes and getting myself showered and dressed to go to either an audition or voice-over session in the city. We try to leave the house together so that we can ride the subway together.
If my audition or voice over session is scheduled for 11:00 AM or so (typical), then I'm usually back home by 1:00 PM.
Once home, I'll workout for 45 minutes and then have a light lunch.
Afterward, I'll get on my computer, and THAT'S where the real time-consumption begins!
I'll answer work-related (karaoke) e-mails, I'll accept telephone calls for weekend bookings for private parties or weddings, I'll write proposals for new clients, or post promotional ads for our shows, and of course visit Mego Museum.
All of that accounts for about the next 5-6 hours or so of my time.
In addition, about 3 times a week, I'll have to take time to record a voice-over audition from home that is sent to me by my agent. There goes another 90 minutes or so.
I could go on. But the point is, a CONSIDERABLE amount of my time (on a daily basis) is spent doing tasks where I'm NOT earning income, therefore I don't refer to them as "work".
But these are essential time-consuming tasks that keep the house in order, maintain my physical fitness, maintain our financial stability, maintain the health and happiness of our 3 furry little friends, etc.
I find that I'd be overwhelmed if I didn't maintain some sort of strict, regimented management of my time, despite the relatively light schedule of my income-earning activities.I... am an action figure customizerComment
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what's the point of this again?Fresh, not from concentrate.Comment
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Originally posted by starbuk
Well then... I guess you are both wrong then, aren't you?
I'll quote my first three lines from my first post in this thread:
"Howdy friends!
Ever wonder what the homes of long-time on-line friends look like?
I do. I was bored today and so I decided to start a thread where MEGO friends can post photos of their "pad"... if you got any."
I'm still hoping and waiting to see if other friends on here will post photos of their pads...Last edited by darklord1967; Jun 14, '08, 10:06 AM.I... am an action figure customizerComment
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