There weren't really many different events that fit into different topics this week, but there's a whole lotta pics because I got a little too excite about photo-editing.
See, what happens is that I usually don't bother with editing my pictures, unless it could be done really easily and I know it would definitely make it look better. But editing for the sake of editing, not much.
But you know how awesome some of my drawings looked on my old phone, right? It would do all that cool stuff by itself. My new one actually has more editing stuff, and I've been figuring them out more. Now I'm seeing that I can actually have the same or similar effects now like I use to, though it takes a bit more effort.
So, all the way back to when I went May Chang to school. I had to shower so my hair was ready to be cut the next day, right? I was a little disappointed to take the buns out, but oh well. Anyway, I let down the buns and what remained was the two high pigtails and braids. Hair tends to come out in huge curls when in buns for a long time, which is what happened here. But then I got curious, and loosely wrapped the tiny braids around the ponytails, and I was suddenly like "This could look so killer on an anime girl."
From that day, I've wanted to sit down and attempt to draw it (SO glad I took a pic of the resulting hairstyle before showering), along with how my hair looks now. I finally got myself to do it yesterday.
See? Editing with my new phone has been improving since the Ruby costume drawing. Otherwise, it looked like this:
I started with my current hair first. I stared at my hair a bit and then tried to draw it (or at least something similar to it) and ended up with this:
I fixed the front piece a bit when I realized I messed up on my bangs. It looks a little closer now.
I started realizing at this point that I had subconsciously gave Guinn hair similar to my own. Like, I used to have a slightly angled bob like what she has and why I have now, plus it had similar texture to my natural hair (though I'm embarrassed to say I forgot just how curly-wavy my hair is naturally because my mom used to brush my hair straight every day). But yeah, maybe Guinn's looks more like this without the long piece at the bottom.
I then moved on to the fancy pigtails. I had a few troubles trying to make them symmetrical, but I think overall I did a pretty good job of making them look the same now.
This is when I realized pressing a certain button made the pic look really dramatic, like my old phone would do.
From there I went effects-happy.
Cool, right?!
That last little doodle was an attempt to retry the hair with bangs more similar to how I've been having them lately (though it's been the result of my sis curling the front piece). I generally don't like it as much as the first attempt, though.
But still more effects! *flashes grin*
So, I'm gonna try playing around more with drawing hair and hope I get better at it.
Now on with the rest of this post!
I landed myself a job as a beta once again! I haven't done any besides for myself in a while... or at least it felt like it. I'm now a beta for a new FMA story that is gonna crossover with a bunch of series, starting with How to Train Your Dragon. (Upon Carter's suggestion, I watched what was available of that franchise in Netflix. It was the second movie and two shorts. I'd mildly forgotten how much I loved the series! I hope maybe the first will be on Hulu? And maybe I could read the books again? I remember that I liked them, though they're quite different from the movies.)
I also volunteered to beta a Ninjago one-shot, which makes me a little more nervous. I mean, I haven't seen it in quite a while, and only once have I attempted to write for it but didn't like the result enough to put it online. I find it a good idea to watch at least the later seasons again (though I heard there's been, like, 2 more seasons since I last watched?! The girl writing the one-shot had said she hasn't seen those yet either, but I hope I can see them over the summer or something!). I can hopefully be of more use once I get that done.
We ended up seeing a surprising amount of family and family friends within the week. When we went to my aunt's so my sister could have her eyebrows done (I still think it's weird), we met up for a few minutes with a girl I don't think I've mentioned yet? Since she had gone to her mission in France, maybe I'll just call her Frenchie (hehe). Anyway, it was her and her mom, both of whom we haven't seen in quite a while- not since the farewell when Frenchie was about to leave on said mission. I think I was in 8th grade then...? So she was crazy surprised by us, especially me. Yanno, since I'm now 16 and tall and stuff. But it was equally weird for us since she's 20-something and married and about to get her associate's degree! So it was a mind-blowing visit all around.
We also got to hang out with an ex-missionary that we knew for a long time. I asked him when it was he first met us, and turns out it was April-something 6 years ago. I was 9. I barely even remember the events my family likes to talk about from that point, just pretty much vaguely remember he ate at our house a lot. But he's quite cool, even if he's more nervous to try to talk in Spanish nowadays since he's out of practice. Like usual, I spoke the least since that's generally how I am with guests, but I did get the chance to talk with him privately when we were waiting for the concert to start (as we brought him along to a MoTab choir and orchestra concert that my teacher was going to sing in- "From Death to Life" and "The Prodigal" were particularly beautiful, and a very special treat since the first had never been played in the US before, and the second had only ever been played once since it was finished last year). My sis actually ended up accompanying him to a wedding yesterday, which was the reason why he had been in Utah in the first place.
Lastly, we had seen Cuncle. The poor guy had been cooking French fries for a stand at a Cinco de Mayo fair for 5 hours. And he only had one a T-shirt, flip-flops, and I think shorts when there was wind blowing all day, so he was also freezing. We ate from their stand, which was good but took a while. The wind really wasn't doing us any favors, especially since, with mine being short but still long enough to get all over my face... yeah.
Final topic is registrations. I finally got to put in the classes I wanted to take next semester, and I was out into each of my first picks with no problems! So next year will be started off with Chemistry 1010, English 1010, and Math 1060!
We also got to finish the paperwork for the summer math program, so I guess it's even more official that I'm going. Woot!
Sadly, that mean that I can't go to the Youth Conference this stake is having this year, and it'd most likely be stupid to try to fit in girls camp in, too, since I might be going to Mexico with my mom after June... I'm really concerned about that, since I don't know if I could handle my relatives without my sister there. I feel pretty sure I'd be overwhelmed. I mean, I already get overwhelmed every once in a while when we're in Mexico, and I'm thinking it'd surely be worse this year if she isn't there.
It's times like these that I wonder if I really do have at least a small amount of some sort of anxiety. I've never been diagnosed, but sometimes I just think it's a possibility... Or it's just a lot of introversion. I don't know.
My sister's going on her own trip. In just a week or so, she's going to China for a month and a half! That'd been something she's wanted to do since Alabama, so I'm happy for her. We fasted today and we've been praying a lot that she'll be safe there and have some awesome experiences.
I just remembered two things to mention!
One, MY DRUM SET IS ALL SET UP SO I CAN START PRACTICING AGAIN! ... Once I have somewhere to sit.
Two, I read part of a post here from Dec. 2013, where Past Me was saying how excited she was for the day her future self came up with an original story, which actually happened approximately 2 years later. I'm still working on it, but it makes me want to go back and pat my old self's head and tell her that yes, it really happens, and WFAM's gonna be awesome once I actually write it. There's still more actually planning I want to do before that, though. I might actually end up waiting until not this November, but next year's to write it... unless I manage to get a lot further ahead in planning during the summer, I guess.
Wow, you made it all the way through this post! As fic writers love to do, here's an Internet cookie for reading! *hands you an internet cookie*
[Gah, I forgot until right now! Due to mentioning to a girl on FFN the funny running gag in "Adventure Time with Ed and Al", she suggested making a one-shot out of the idea, which resulted in "Fudge You", which has been my most popular one-shot ever! Within just a few hours of it being online it got 3 or 4 reviews from strangers, then my friends and others pitched in, and it's now at 11 reviews and 9 favorites (or at least last I checked)!!! That's really surprising but awesome! My confidence writing-wise has been boosted up a little bit, I think, which is a good thing since I'm starting to write the final chapter for VH and am technically still working on QQ and WFAM... oh, the acronyms.]
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