"Pikaboo"

Super super happy with this great commission by my coworker, Arvin :D Check out the rest of his awesome work at: arvenasaur.tumblr.com #pokemon #pikachu #art

A photo posted by sheila antonio (@sajcfan) on May 14, 2015 at 1:40pm PDT

I like art. What I like about it is that there are so many styles and directions an artist can take to make a piece. Take this commission of Pikachu I paid for by my coworker. He did it as a traditional watercolor piece and in his unique style, which he had to ask if I was ok with. I said I wouldn't have asked if I didn't like the style.

When I got the completed work, he wasn't sure what to charge me and sort of lowballed the cost. I was shocked and insisted on paying more than what he asked because it's an original piece. I suggested to charge a lower price for copies but go higher for original work. He did say he was starting out after all.

I know I could've asked him to make anything but I went with something simple; Pikachu with his goggles from Super Smash Bros. I've seen Pokemon fanart all the time and it's mostly cute, glossy, and shiny. Or it can be scarily realistic. This style was loose yet recognizeable; like you know it's Pikachu without it obviously looking like Pikachu. And I said to him that it looks very cute :D

Check out his stuff. It's seriously good!

http://arvenasaur.tumblr.com/

Thank you, Daniel

Daniel Bryan officially relinquished the IC belt on a semi-disappointing episode of Raw, saying that the belt should not be sitting on a chair in a physical therapist's office. He said that it belongs in the ring and that Wade Barrett, Dolph Ziggler, and Dean Ambrose should be fighting for it.

He's out indefinitely :(

May 4, 2015: The Day Ambrose Fans Collectively Lost Their Sh*t

I can't stop smiling. Last night's Monday Night RAW was the most enjoyable show I've seen in a long time.

To recap:

• Dean Ambrose pinned Seth Rollins to get into the main event at Payback for the WWE Championship.
  
• The New Day apparently celebrated for two hours straight after beating Reigns and Orton in a 3-vs-2 match. "We did it Kane!"
  
• Cesaro uppercutting Victor of The Ascension nonstop for a minute at the turnbuckles.
  
• Lana showing personality and Fandango'ed with Fandango.
  
• Bret Hart came out and was about to introduce a great wrestler until Heath Slater interrupted. Hart bonked him with a mic and resumed to introduce NXT favorite and native son Sami Zayn to accept John Cena's open challenge.
  
• Stardust won against R-Truth with a bag of plastic spiders.
  
• Naomi and Tamina established themselves as the new heel Divas since the Bellas are faces again.
  
• DEAN FUCKING AMBROSE closed the show.

It was just incredible to not only see Ambrose fight Rollins again but to see Ambrose do SOMETHING.Their white-hot feud was ruined by a stupid hologram at Hell In A Cell last year and his matches since then has been marred with stupid endings (like the exploding TV end with Bray Wyatt) and disappointing losses. To see him get added to a main event PPV shows that WWE is listening and pushing Ambrose again.

I'm just interested to see what Ambrose will do next. Does Ambrose still see Reigns as his brethren or competitor? Will he continue to torment Rollins again, like he did with the hot dog cart, rigging the MITB suitcase, and most famously, the ice bucket challenge? There's rumors that he'll probably turn heel, considering that he's one of 3 faces against a heel. Even though Ambrose retaliated at Orton for RKO-ing Reigns, he looked genuinely conflicted on wanting to help Reigns up. At this point, I would welcome any new development with Ambrose, just as long as it makes sense.

Free Comic Book Day + Mayweather/Pacquiao Fight

Yeah... we're early for Avengers.

A video posted by sheila antonio (@sajcfan) on May 2, 2015 at 8:44am PDT

We started off our day by watching the "Early Bird" showing of Avengers: Age of Ultron at the Santa Fe theater. The movie was great, even though we ended up nitpicking on small things at the end. It just makes it more exciting on what to expect for more of the Avengers' solo films and the major Infinity War story arc.

Afterwards, we met up with our friends at Maximum Comics nearby. I was pretty disappointed because they had such a limited selection. We only went to one of the 4 stores, so you have to check their other stores to get ALL of the free comics. I didn't get Doctor Who or Pokemon U_U

After watching "Avengers: Age of Ultron", we went to #MaximumComics for #freecomicbookday. Didn't get the free comics that we wanted since they had a limited selection - limit 5 per person - so we bought our single issues!

A photo posted by sheila antonio (@sajcfan) on May 2, 2015 at 3:31pm PDT

Free Comic Book Day at #MaximumComics store 3.0! Always a good time 😊❤️ #FCBD #maximumcomics #comics #graphicnovels #toys #fun @sajcfan @pentact

A photo posted by Xtiners (@jesuisminako) on May 2, 2015 at 4:04pm PDT

We grabbed lunch at Red Robin and went home to rest for a bit. Vince started playing P.T. and after reading so many walkthrus and posts, we finally beat the game and unlocked the trailer. This is the first and last Kojima/del Toro game collaboration we'll ever play O_O

After that, we went over to Vince's parent's place to have dinner and watch the fight. Personally, I was not excited about the fight at all because I was so turned off by the fact that every Filipino made this into a holiday. Every Filipino had a Pacquiao shirt or was happily posting, tweeting, instagramming, and blogging their TV screens before the fight. It turned out to be a boring match to watch, despite this being hyped for 5 years. I honestly couldn't tell who won the fight, although I should blame (or thank?) prowrestling to make me less interested in boxing. It was funny to see how quiet it got on social media towards the end of the match, followed by posts like "Pacquiao was the true winner" or "Mayweather kept hugging and dancing." Whatever; it's over.

Lunatic Retaliation

http://vince-sheila.tumblr.com/post/117805834917/so-continuing-with-my-unhealthy-obsession-with

No Regrats

I came home to this. He finally got a PS4!

A video posted by sheila antonio (@sajcfan) on Apr 28, 2015 at 6:57pm PDT

Becoming a fangirl

CONTEXT: Many months ago, I bought tickets for Vince and I to go to Wizard World Las Vegas Con 2015. I also bought a photo op with WWE Diva Paige because I know Vince LOVES her. I got an email 2 weeks before the event mentioning that Paige cancelled. She was replaced with another WWE Superstar... DEAN AMBROSE. Needless to say, I was super excited because he's currently my favorite wrestler and Vince was pretty bummed out about not being able to see her (she was pulled to shoot a movie).

Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns were the first photo ops on Saturday. When we were waiting in line, Vince and I observed that Reigns line was full of big families and a lot of older women. Ambrose's line was full of smaller families, guys, and young women. When we got closer to his area and I got to see him past the curtain, I thought, "Wow, he's really tall." Then when it was finally our turn to pose next to him, I went into fangirl mode; I was all giddy and smiling. Vince said, "Good luck tomorrow on Extreme Rules" and he replied cooly, "Thanks, man. Appreciate it." All I could muster was, "Yeah... good luck." 

In under a minute, I went from liking Ambrose to falling stupidly in love with him. 

I kept taking out our print and smiling at it, completely ignoring that Vince was in the picture too. To be fair, Vince said he didn't like how he looked in the pic and asked to be cropped or edited out. After that, I was debating on whether or not I wanted to pay again for an autographed 8x10 from him and wait in line. We ended up walking around some more and swinging by the celebrity area to catch a glimpse of them.

So now I'm obsessed with Dean Ambrose.