Okay, huge news this week. I'm seriously hoping that no one I actually know is reading this, because it's on the hush-hush at the moment, but I really want Future Me to know when this happened!
Basically... I'll have to come up with a decent code-name/alias for my sister's boyfriend soon, because he ain't just gonna be her boyfriend for very long.
He hasn't officially proposed yet, but... Yeah. They plan on getting married.
I don't think I've actually talked about him much, because I had no idea if their relationship was even gonna last. Not because he's a bad guy, just... even with Niisan, things didn't work out between her and her boyfriends, in the end. But we found out this week that, yes, things are definitely working out more this time, despite technically dating only for a few months.
He's white, unlike her other more serious boyfriends (though he has gone along with all the exposure to Mexican food and culture my mom and sister had put him through--according to my sis, he actually enjoys all of it quite a bit), and she'd first met him in middle school. They met back up late last year, started dating, and... now we're here.
He definitely seems to care for her--apparently, he's willing to go with her out of the country, when her job moves from here to there, which I admire a lot. My mom said that none of her past boyfriends would have said that. She also pointed out that my sister's been a lot happier with him and doesn't get as anxious/stressed out anymore, even with stuff piling up on us as usual. With all the time that they spend together, I can't imagine them getting sick of each other at some point.
So... this was a little unexpected, but that's how our lives have always been, and this is good unexpected. I think we're all cool with good unexpected.
I consulted with my sister, seeing as I don't personally know her boyfriend very well yet, for what his code-name here should be. (She hadn't known about that, but she didn't show any surprise; she probably remembers that it's technically a blog, so figured that it made sense.) The best we came up with is Captain, since she said it was an old nickname of his, but that may be changing in the future, once we're all officially a family and stuff.
Captain and Sis plan to get married in the spring, and everyone's already starting to work out details. (We went to look at a venue yesterday, and my mom and sis have been making a list of guests and who they will ask to help with food.) And, a few days ago, Captain asked my mom and I for our opinions on the ring. I haven't seen which one he ended up going with, but my mom said it's very pretty.
I think it might be about time to return the subject to what we did during the rest of the week. After the venue, we went to KF class (and I'd gone on Tuesday, too), and it's looking like I'll be testing next week. I'm pretty nervous about that, since these forms were definitely harder to get the hang of.
We made leather bracelets for YW on Thursday, so I'll try to remember to post pics of that next week!
We were assigned our first essay in English this semester, and... the topic's hitting me kinda hard. The assignment preceding it ended up being about the girl who used to bully my sister, and my parents talked about how much that had affected all of us. It had been a little before we moved to Mexico- which we did some months before I started this diary blog thing. I remember how we had been a little "Hey, at least we won't have to deal with her all the way over there, hahaha," but back then, I hadn't considered that as being one of the genuine reasons as to why we left, but my dad admitted that it was. My sister had been so desperate to escape, and be away from our town long enough to recover, and we made that happen. When my dad left the room, my mom also finally explained what was the thing that the girl did to my sis that hurt her the most, which... I don't think I knew until now. I was there, though, when the girl had posted a blog that told the story about how she was "bullied"- and spun a whole tale reversing everything, so it sounded like my sister and her friends were the ones mistreating her, which was the complete opposite of what actually happened. That was kinda awful.
For the actual essay, though, which is supposed to be about a time in your life in which you had to make an ethical decision and what the consequences were... I've ended up returning to the events from 10th grade. The ones that meant that I was rarely alone in that year. Because of one kid. (I looked back at my posts from all the way back then, and I think his code-name had been Dallas.)
I can't remember if I'd ever gone serious-talk about Dallas, since I didn't want to waste time searching through every single post from that period, but I certainly went serious-talk on this essay. By the time I finished splurging as much of the story as I could get down during the weekend, it was about twice as long as the allowed length. I will have to cut a lot of my ramblings out. (I think I'll keep a copy of what I have now, though, anyways... Even though it wasn't fun to think about what Dallas did, I should probably keep a record of it somewhere.)
On a somewhat more positive note, I got a bit of stuff done for WFAM! Not as much real plot, but getting appearances down. Carter is a fan of using Rinmaru, just like a couple of my other writing friends like author, and I decided to try out making some WFAM characters there. Here's my results:
The first pair are alternate colorings of Benji, since I'm having a hard time deciding which fits him more. I wish there had been eyes that fit him better, since his appearance should definitely have eyes that aren't so big, and a grin that had been big but not clearly meant for Jeff the Killer.
The second pair are alternate colorings of Nix, who originally was supposed to have blue eyes and ended up darker-eyed and -skinned instead. He's still got his black hair, at least! Same with the eyes, though, I'm not entirely sure of if one of these looks better for his character? I feel like the first ones look right, but the second are also kinder and more like the shade of the eyes of the animals he shifts into? I just can't even right now.
The third pair is Heart, who is basically Cami's boss. Both of these hairstyles seem to fit her pretty well (though Carter liked the second a bit more), so... if I don't decide on one of them, I figured maybe she could start with one of them, and then later grow it out or cut it to look like the other hairstyle? That might make you roll your eyes at me, but this is what happens when I have to make DECISIONS!
Rinmaru's got more options now, but there's still some stuff that I feel like they need, still, and they make it so hard to choose what to keep for the final look!
I printed out a small version of these and taped them into my drawing notebook, for future reference.
For the Monty Oum commemoration day on February 1, I'm hoping to spend some time to really make some progress in WFAM, and maybe one or two of my other stories. I think it's more important to use it for WFAM, though.
I think the last thing I have left to say is that, exactly one year ago today, I had attended my last day of school in Oregon...
Wish my dad luck as he goes on all his job interviews! And also my sister with her new job and her soon-to-be-bride status!
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