I had a full conversation with my new bishop for the first time a little over an hour ago, so that's cool.
I guess one of the biggest things this week is the fact that it was Thanksgiving last Thursday. That means not only a lot of food, but Thanksgiving Break. I tried to not relax too much and get some work done, but it wasn't as much as I was hoping for. (See, I still had quite a bit to do regarding the BYU application's essay questions, and I found out that my last paper for English was due a week earlier than I thought. I'm still wondering if I'll have everything ready for the app's priority deadline, though now I'm wondering if it'd be okay to just wait till the regular deadline... As for the paper, I'm gonna have to dedicate a whole lot of school-time the next few days in order to get it done.)
As per tradition, we ate at Grandma and Grandpa's house at around 3 PM. Cam and Ash were there, along with their mom (my aunt), but no one else from the family showed up. It was still fun, though. (Besides eating, I also got to do turkey coloring pages with them and my sis, and my little cousins showed me how the Poptropica app worked. I got a little mad when I thought you had to make a new account for the app, but then found that you could import the name and appearance of one of your old Poptropica avatars, at least. I'd forgotten what some of mine looked like, so that was neat. I thought it was amusing that all of them still had braces.)
Though I still got pretty full, I was proud of myself for not overdoing it as much as I have in past years... but then we went to Brorange's house, and they offered us more food there. (Broranges didn't get to have Thanksgiving off at his work, so he wasn't there. Mrrrr.) I tried to eat as little as possible, but... with so much food in front of me, I couldn't resist getting a little bit more of something every once in a while.
When we'd finally made it back home, we watched what I believe was called Hearthstone Asylum? *goes to check on Google* Oh, it's actually Stonehearst Asylum. I was pretty dang close, though!
It's based off of "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether", one of my favorite Poe short stories, so the moment I realized that (it was just a minute before the opening credits said it was based on Poe), I knew it had to be a good movie, and it was. Besides being a really good adaptation of the short story while still having a lot of unique aspects, I was also pleased to see more done for the female character (I think her name was Emily in the movie). I think something that had mildly confused/bothered me in the original story is that the narrator expresses an interest in one of the female patients, but then nothing actually happens with her after that... it kinda made it feel pointless that he mentioned her at all. In Stonehearst, though, she has a much bigger role, and it makes much more sense for her to be there, so I liked that. Love Poe, but ya gotta give respect to the people who make their own good work through Poe. Yes, such people exist.
The day after, we had John over for dinner. He absolutely loves my mom's cooking, and he seems to really enjoy hanging out with us. (He didn't have a prosthetic leg this time, but apparently they're making a new one for him, so he was stuck with just crutches.) I felt a little bad that my dad, as usual, dominated every conversation, and sometimes John would start saying something but then my dad would interrupt, as he always does. I feel your pain, John.
I just so happened to be wearing a Popeye shirt (which I don't wear often, due to it being white), and when he noticed, he went into a small rant about how horrible the plot and characters in Popeye are. Though he was rooting for me getting rid of the shirt, I only promised I wouldn't wear it in public. (I mean, it's a perfectly good shirt!) And, well, since I like to keep promises, I'm actually gonna do that, even though he wasn't entirely serious about that. (Even if his request wasn't serious, though, his despise for the sailor-man is very real.)
He hung out on the couch with my dad for quite a while after we ate, and I just stuck around, paying attention when I was intrigued by their conversation. I had the distinct desire to make something for him, like a doodle on a sticky note or something, but I took a while of just staring at paper, deciding what to do. Since I couldn't think of what, exactly, he'd like drawing-wise, I instead folded up a little origami crane. (Apparently, that's my default present to people, like my mom and teachers?) I gave it to him just when he was about to leave, and he seemed to appreciate the sentiment.
Since I still had a pen with me, I proceeded to try just doodling whatever came to mind for myself. It... didn't work out as well as I was hoping. I kinda had a bunch of ideas all at once, and so it's all rather mismatched. (I was too lazy to edit these pics at all. Sorry 'bout that.)
So it started with the legs, then the bottom of the dress, then the top, then the arms, then the head. Basically, the reverse of my usual order. I'd started with thinking both of how I wanted to draw a pose similar to the copy of May Chang I did in the FMA manga a few years ago (though it's also like a typical Powerpuff Girls pose) and I wanted to draw a girl with a white dress paired with white shoes and black tights. (Girls usually have white tights instead of black and black shoes instead of white, so I wanted to try the reverse.) Since May and the PPG have similar shoes, that kinda just happened. But then, I started thinking that I wanted to do a hi-lo dress instead of the cupcake dress I originally intended, and then I accidentally started doing a woman's figure when I moved up instead of just a girl's, and so suddenly she was older, and then... yeah, stuff like that. Now, it looks kinda like a futuristic Chinese woman who also likes shoes and hair accessories for little girls. In my opinion, anyway.
(I don't even want to talk about what I folded back so you wouldn't be able to see it. *shudder*)
Seeing as that ship crashed and burned, I tried again on the other side, going a little closer to my original intention of reverse-color scheme for a typical girl character. (I was mainly thinking of the Vocaloid Mayu while drawing this.) It went much better, though proportions and stuff are a bit off.
I then tried a side-view for the same girl, and things again went okay-ish, but then her face came out way wrong. Like, it looked like it was for the Wicked Witch of the West. NO.
I then decided to crop out everything but her face... And by the time I'd done that, I realized it would've made more sense to instead just use one picture but black out the face or something instead of what I actually did. Oh, I'm an idiot.
Ignore the black scribbling in front of her neck. That was my attempt to make it look better. Didn't help much.
Besides the horrendous things I did to her poor face, I really only needed to have the legs a bit further back. The proportions are pretty decent, so.
The day after that (yesterday), I had a KF class (my mom had my patches sewn onto my uniform during that, so my uniform's finally complete!), and we later went to a Korean restaurant for sushi. (The wait was long, but the sushi was pretty good.) In between both those things, however, I kinda felt like looking up Wesley Weston fancomics (Wes was mentioned last week), but then a short chain of events led me to instead discovering a Gravity Falls AU called "Transcendence". When I realized just how complicated it was, I wasn't sure I'd have the patience for it; once I found the summary and character bios, though, it became much easier to figure it all out. And now I know I'm gonna spend, like, at least a week going through the entire Transcendence Tumblr page. It is indeed very complicated and more different from canon than any other AU I've found, but it is so far a very cool AU. It's got a lot of feels, but also quite a bit of small headcanons within that are cute and funny. I don't even mind the OCs! Who knows? Maybe I'll find the inspiration to write for the Transcendence!AU myself...
Throughout the week, I'd been keeping "Don't Know How it Goes" by Julian Smith stuck in my head, especially when doing homework, but a few days ago I instead thought of "Just Give Me a Reason" by P!nk and Nate Russ (or whatever his name is), and so I've also been thinking of that "music video" thing I'd come up with for that song a few years ago. I actually remember my ideas very well, but I've mentally been making tiny tweaks to the "choreography". I think I should try to write out everything that happens so that I can't lose any of it when I'm older. Just cuz I remember it now doesn't mean I will in a few years.
Darkrai recommended me to watch a certain Youtuber (8-BitRyan) play Hello Neighbor. I didn't think I'd get hooked, but.. I think I am. For that game, at least. Man, I thought I escaped the "Let's Play" addiction years ago! Hello Neighbor is an absolutely fascinating game, though, so at least it makes more sense for me to be like "I must know what happens next!!!"
It took a while for me to realize, but it's a very pleasant surprise that 8-BitRyan barely swears, and hasn't made any dirty jokes, unlike just about all the most famous Youtubers that I watched a lot back in 8th and 9th grade. He's still funny, but it's the kind of funny I approve much better.
I still keep getting jump-scared, though. Ooooooh, all the jump-scares.
I skipped the first half of the week, so I guess I'll return to that now.
I believe it was on Monday(?) that we realized there were still a few Icelandic foods that my sis had brought with her that we hadn't tried yet. Two of those things were dry fish and pickled shark. The first was a bit weird (and so difficult to eat!), and the second was pretty gross. Just... eugh.
I finally did the Physics presentation... As usual, I could feel myself shaking while talking. I ended up talking really fast because I had a lot of information I wanted to dump, but not the time to do it. Nonetheless, I think our presentation went okay. Man, that was terrifying.
Last thing is that, in Young Women's today... one of the leaders was talking about depression and stuff. She told us how her mom has depression, and how her own YW leaders were very caring, and both of those made me think of how my sis was back in Alabama, and that Sunday after she had left... Though I didn't really get to exactly tell her why, I went to hug her after the class, and we were standing there hugging for, like, 5 whole minutes. I needed the hug, and I felt like she needed it too. She was very heartbroken and teary-eyed she told us about her mom, which I could understand much better than just a few years ago.
Alrighty, that's all! (All of this was written on Sunday except for the last few paragraphs, so pretend I posted this yesterday.) Wish me luck on everything I still have to work on, please! Bye!
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