I think this might be the first time I post on Jan. 1... same with Dec. 25, last week. (I promise I started this post on Jan. 1!)
(It's also my abuelita's birthday today! She's 60 years older, so... I guess she's 77 today. Dang.)
Unlike some other years, I wasn't really anywhere special during the countdown. I mean, it's not like we didn't do any celebrating; Brorange's parents came by (but he couldn't because of work!), along with my aunt and her friend, and then Brorange's aunt and cousin, and there was waaay too much food. But they all left by... I dunno, it was maybe 10 PM. So after that, I just enjoyed a fic (Coraline x Danny Phantom crossover written by one of my favorite TAU authors!) and texted Carter.
It was around 1 in the morning that I considered looking at all the stuff that I'd written in 2016. Looking at all of it, the amount that I did actually isn't as bad as I thought... I mean, there was:
- finishing VH
- starting QQ with my friend
- two published FMA fics ("Fudge You" has 18 reviews now!!! And "Food Fight" is really well-written, thanks to Lynnxrider, and used a bunch of old prompts!)
- the demon story (that is nearing 10,000 words!)
- school assignments (and attempts at college application essays)
- goofing off as a beta for two new friends
- four sort-of fics (more writing ideas than actual storytelling)
- some progress on WFAM worldbuilding and plot-creating
- TAU writing in December
- a few random blurbs that were not fics nor done for school
- "Make Me Unfeeling" and "Oh, Remember I'm Your Everything"
Is that even everything? I'm not sure.
I never really planned to post much fic stuff here- I mean, I have done it before, but I tend to avoid it- but I think I'll still post the first thing I wrote for TAU. Hope I don't regret this.
I agree with the rest of the internet that there was some pretty awful stuff in 2016- especially the fact that, well, Trump managed to make himself president-elect. (It is a small relief that he didn't actually have the majority of the popular vote, so his win doesn't actually indicate that most Americans wanted him to be president.) But, when I think about it, there was some great stuff, too- moving back to my home-state (and actually becoming much closer to Carter even though most of our communication since then has just been by text), getting to live with my sis again (and see her at school!), going to this school and later taking concurrent classes (even if they stressed me out a lot near the end of the semester), going to math camp, going to Comic Con with my sister, getting awesome ACT scores and somehow managing to get my college applications done on time... okay, some of that doesn't sound very exciting, but it was very good stuff indeed. There's probably some stuff I've forgotten, but you get the point.
Like I think I've mentioned, though, I have a good feeling about 2017. Maybe even really good. I mean, I'm a little terrified about going to actual college and having to be a little more independent and not knowing where I'll be living (maybe with my folks, maybe not) and maybe not seeing my sister for a long time and dealing with Trump as President (WHY??). But, I have been making more of a slow switch to college classes, which is certainly helping my confidence a little, and I'm more excited for whatever my sister ends up doing than anything else, and I know things'll work out no matter what, because they always have.
Okay, I guess I'll go to what we did earlier in the week... which actually wasn't much.
We went to Brorange's house on Monday, getting there at 10-something AM, and I had quite a bit of fun with him (thank goodness we agreed to go earlier so that I could hang with him before he went to work). He started with showing me a bit of an online manga, then we watched a bit of RWBY. I then pointed out that, ever since I found out that it existed, I'd wanted to try watching Powerpuff Girls Z.
Dude, we didn't last even half of the first episode.
I don't like saying that "This book/movie/show is absolutely terrible! Nyah!", but... this show was honestly pretty dang terrible. We were both groaning and cringing so hard at it (though I was also laughing my head off part of the time because, oh man, this is terrible!).
To wash our brains of that, Broranges immediately put on Mob Psycho 100, which I liked quite a bit.
After that, I believe we were just chatting and he was playing songs on his guitar before we had to go.
We went to eat lunch at my grandma and grandpa's from there. My aunt and cousins Cam and Ash were there, too, which was fun. (At one point, I was telling Cam about Broranges and I watching Powerpuff Girls Z. Apparently, he didn't believe it could really be that bad, so he looked it up on Youtube. A few minutes in, and he was acting the exact same way as we were. He certainly believed us then.)
I believe it was the day after that I finally got the guts to send the TAU thing mentioned earlier (where I said "the first thing I wrote for TAU"), along with an ask. (I sent a second ask a day or two later, one that I think was actually more interesting.) I know that the mods for the TAU page have actual lives, and they apparently receive a ton of stuff every day, but... man, I'm really hoping at least one thing that I sent actually gets posted.
As for the one-shot that I think I mentioned two weeks ago? I technically finished it, but I'm not completely happy with it. I eventually came up with the plan to ask directly one of my favorite TAU authors to help me out. I've gotten help from other authors before for my fics (prime example in "Food Fight"), but it was always because I accepted their prompts. This is a different dealio, so I was pretty nervous about it. Worse, I had sent the message via FFN to this author, but I'm not sure if they still actually look at their FFN account (seeing as her most recent story was in 2014 or something). I don't want to go send an ask on their Tumblr and seem really annoying unless I'm absolutely desperate, but... well... I'm pretty close to absolutely desperate, honestly. I guess I'll leave the message alone for a week or so before trying her Tumblr?
Considering that I'm trying to interact a little more with a Tumblr page (and the people who post on that page) when I don't have a Tumblr account myself is probably making things more complicated for everybody... but I just feel like it's a terrible idea to give in and make an account. So, I'm just gonna keep trying roundabout stuff for now, as weird as it might seem to everyone else.
I haven't just done TAU writing, though. I got further in the demon story- much further than I did last week! I'm this much closer to actually finishing! (The part I'm at has gone slightly different than I originally imagined, but I ain't complaining.)
Though I think there's some cool stuff in this story, though, I don't know if I have the guts to show it to anybody... not even my writer buddies... and some of them have seen some pretty awful stuff from me. How can I get myself to be less embarrassed about it? I mean, I probably need someone else's feedback to make it better and less embarrassing for other people to read it!
I'm pretty sure I forgot to mention that, late last week, I received an email that told me that I was accepted into BYU-I. I'm... not that excited about it, seeing as that school was gonna be more like my Plan C or D, and it is much easier to get into there than BYU-Provo, but it was still cool to know that hey, I made it in!
Since I had been told that, I started on my scholarship application for that school and the one for BYU. (I'm kinda annoyed that they didn't just make it part of the normal application.) I managed to get them done this week, so I don't have to be worried about those.
Though I wish I could spend the second half of Winter Break unconcerned about anything college-related, I seriously need to do more with outside scholarships- and, as my mom said, perhaps applying for one more college that's more likely to give me heavy academic scholarships. I wouldn't be able to go to college unless I had nothing or very little to pay for it. My parents barely have any money they could spare for my higher education, and I have even less to give for it.
My dad took me to see Moana, which was really great! I'm quite a fan of two of the songs in it, and I'm hoping that they'll become classic Disney songs.
Around the time that we had been buying Christmas presents, my sister decided to get herself a sewing machine. She started on her first project yesterday, which was using a cheap dress and rearranging its pieces into a new dress. Since she'd wanted it for that night, we had quite a bit of work to do. Seeing as I had some experience with sewing machines, I was the one that got it to work and showed her how to use it and stuff. My mom and I ended up giving her a hand for quite a bit of it. Though it wasn't 100% by the time people were coming to the house, meaning that we had to stop, it was done enough for her to go out dancing. Though there's still a few things to do, I'm kinda proud of what we managed to accomplish!
I mentioned that people came over yesterday and there was a lot of food. The two major items were my mom's pozole and the buñuelos that my aunt made. Quite a bit of both remained (especially the pozole, cuz my mom made a LOT), which were served for some more people today- a lady from our ward that has participated in all the dance classes my mom put on, and the bishop's first counselor and his family. (There is still a ton of pozole left over.) He has three boys- ages 5, 10, and 12- and I ended up playing random games and stuff with them after they ate. They were all rather savage at Uno, lemme tell you.
I've been coming up with a few ideas for my New Year's Resolutions, but I'll leave the official list for next week.
All that's left is to show what my friend from school made me! (I mean, she made one for all her friends and teachers, but I still love mine.) She'd given it to me before our seminary class's Christmas party, so I'm disappointed that I forgot to put a picture of it last week!
Isn't it so cute? Yep, I'm keeping this forever and ever. Thank you, Karina!
Alrighty then. It's now Jan. 2, so no longer New Year's. Hope this year is awesome for everybody! K bai! (Maybe one of my resolutions should be to stop talking like that...)
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