Pageant Girl Face, Dance, and KF

Hello world...

So, that was awesome. All that pain.

I woke up crazy sore after doing a two-hour KF class yesterday (dude, you should see my knuckles, because all we did was powerful punches and kicks!), and then when we were in church, I also started getting menstrual pain. It got quite bad.

But, with Advil and eventually a hot pad, I now feel better. I actually fell asleep for maybe an hour? I don't feel any less sore, but still a whole lot better because the pain was quite intense before.

Anyway~ let's get on with the post!

I didn't mention last week that... I broke the chain on my pocket watch. *facewalls in disappointment with myself* I seriously need to be more careful. I've never broken something like this twice, as far as I can remember!

This was the... Thursday(?) before, but I finally got to fix it on Monday, so I could return to wearing it to school. ...Did I actually say earlier that I planned to wear it as often as possible? My Chibi Al keychain never got that opportunity, since it broke at the Spring Dance years ago, so I figured at least my pocket watch should have that chance, right?

Since I mainly wear shirts and jeans, it's been pretty easy to keep that habit up. I just have to make sure the length of the shirt and waist of jeans coincide so the chain (and hopefully the pocket itself) are in sight. On the times I've worn a dress, I've instead worn the watch as a necklace (though one day I got annoyed by it being like that and wrapped it around my wrist as a bracelet-ish thing. And I once doubled up the necklace so it was short while wearing this really big Batman shirt that I got at Hot Topic around the same time as the FMA shirt (I think). It's surprisingly cool (as in temperature) considering it's black.

(Speaking of Hot Topic: we went to use our Hot Cash yesterday, and I found a T-shirt for my sister that had a picture from the dancing scene in Labyrinth on the front. As expected, she loved it. There's just the problem that she can't wear that sort of thing to work, so she probably can't put it on very often in general, but I'm sure she'll find days to rock it. We also got a Cartoon Network shirt and one with the photos from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children on it. I haven't taken as good a look at the individual pictures as I would expect myself to do before buying it, honestly, but I'm assuming at least half of them are the creepy photos, since I know I'd already spotted the twins in there. They never really explained what was up with them in the book, huh?)

I'm pretty pleased about keeping up with the watch, cuz it feels like I have a thing now. There's characters on TV or in books that wear a certain necklace all the time, or always have suspenders (like in Austin & Ally) or always wear a hat, and I've always wanted to be like them in that aspect. To have something that becomes part of my description, if I was considered a character in the story of real life, ya know? I guess it sounds kinda stupid, but I really like that idea. It's part of why I like trying to wear hats so often! But now this is something that I can really do something with all the time.

Okay, so things that happened in the week, starting with Tuesday. For one, we hung out with my aunt again, and saw another part of Juan Gabriel's TV special with her. (I believe it was called Hasta que te conocí.) After that, I had my first official KF class. I think it was slightly less tiring than the first, but I still have a long way to go. I also have to make a habit of practicing at home, cuz... I haven't really done that, besides trying to go over the forms mentally.

The day after, the YW activity was doing a bit of FamilySearch stuff (though I was the only girl that showed up). It was nice, since I could get advice on how to handle some of the merges I planned to make and stuff with my one of my leaders, who is a total pro at this sort of thing. I found out two of the names I'd reserved before actually couldn't be done anymore, though, since they'd had duplicates that already had their ordinances done. Dangnabbit.

We did more dancing (plus some practice at home on Monday) on Thursday. Turns out we're doing the little viejitos dance (I was a bit nervous about using it, since to me the music is pretty outdated; everyone else participating seemed to love it, though, so that's good). There was practice on the next day, too, but my sister and I didn't make it there because on Friday...

We were part of my uncle's project to make a video advertising a group on FB (as far as I understood).

It was a professional shoot. So that meant being on camera with all the crazy bright lighting and nervousness galore and all of that.

There were many delays, so we were there for almost 7 hours. And all we had for food was some snacks. (I feel a little bad for my uncle, though, since he didn't even have time for snacks.) We garfed down some pizza when he took us home.

My dislike for wearing makeup really came out that day. My mom put some on my face in the morning, and I was a little... I guess mad that the foundation's color was pretty far off from my actual skin. It was too red. I couldn't help but think I looked like one of those pageant girls from Toddlers & Tiaras since it seemed like I'd put fake tan on my face, plus my sister had curled my hair, so... Yeah. I just looked so pageant, and it made me so uncomfortable. I looked so fake! And I seriously do not like looking fake.

I was self-conscious about my face about the entire day, and I got the most worried about how I looked on the video since that is going on the Internet. My sis said it looked better on camera because the bright lights evened out my skin tone, but my uncle sent me a pic he'd taken then, and... It's not as evened out as I'd hoped for. I feel like I still look a little fake. Like it's not quite me. I'd been against wearing full makeup from the beginning, so I was in a mildly foul mood because of all of this.

Okay, so like I'd said before, I had KF yesterday, and it got my hands looking crazy. Here's the best photo I've been able to get out of my phone, which I actually took tonight. It still doesn't show as much detail as I wish it did, but I guess it will have to do. Mainly, there's a bunch of dots along my knuckles like an intense case of freckles. Can you see them?

(Figured I might as well update on my cat thumb... pretty sure this is one of the smallest ones I've done so far. And I don't think I had put the last one, but I believe it was dark blue, a little bigger, and more on the right than on the left. That's... pretty much it. *sweatdrop*)

I'm actually... Kinda proud of this. I mean, I was intensely punching and kicking and chopping and palm-sticking for two hours. I broke boards! How boss is that?! I think I want my knuckles to stay that way so I can always remember that I'm accomplishing a lot and I can show off my kickbutt-ness to people.

Last thing to mention is that my whole family went to an India Fest at a Krishna temple a few hours later. I had gone to it with my dad years ago- I mean, probably 6 or 7 years ago- so my memories were very vague. Nonetheless... I feel like I might have enjoyed it a bit more back then than this time. That time, it'd been more focused on the actual Hindu religion, for one thing (as far as my memory tells me- I am quite sure there were statues of some of the gods and stuff), while this one was more about Krishna. Well, actually, I think it was pure Krishna this time. We saw several of the people who are actually part of this religion come in to worship, and it was kinda interesting, but also... made me a little uncomfortable. There's a few things that just feel off about all of this to me. I don't intend to bash people who do this, just... I dunno, I felt weird about the things they were doing. I think something that bothered me a lot was the chant. It's a little hard to explain why, and even if I did explain successfully, I feel like people would get really mad at me (as if people actually read my stuff), so I'm just gonna stop here. Probably should've ended this paragraph a lot sooner...

But hey! The food was good this time too (though one portion of it was not exactly warm), we got a mini classical Indian dance lesson, and I have a new bracelet! It's black, gray, white, and gold... if memory serves correctly. (I'm not looking at it right now don'tjudgeme.) Since it's got some of the same colors as that bracelet my friend made for me last Christmas, I guess this is sort of my replacement for it, in a way...? I still feel so bad about losing it. *just gonna go cry for a moment*

Well, that's everything. Let's pretend this was actually posted on Sunday, since it's all from the perspective of Sunday. K bai.