Hello world!
School is so not fun. I guess I can be glad that, after this, I won't have English anymore... but that doesn't mean I won't still have to write papers and do group projects. Not even close. *deep sigh*
In other news, a few things happened (more-so in the second half of the week than the first), but not much, so I'll have plenty of space for talking about other things! Yay!
We went out to eat at a Japanese restaurant on... Thursday, I think, with Captain. It was yummy, and they were playing modern Japanese songs there. Not like super kawaii ones, but more like the usual stuff that they actually listen to, I think. I liked a few of them, but some of the others made me remember "Oh yeah, that's why I'm pretty picky about Japanese songs..." I don't know what would've happened if they played something from AKFG or SID... I would've probably tried super hard to not explode from excitement. Whether I would've succeeded or not is up to the imagination.
On Friday, things were gonna get more complicated about bringing me to school because of some events my mom and sis were going to. Since I didn't have classes or seminary that day, my mom was like "Yeah, I'm not gonna bother with that." BUT, I still really wanted to try to get whatever homework I could done outside of the house, so I spent the school-day at the nearby library instead.
I remember how, when I was younger, I'd look at the little tables and couches and stuff, and muse to myself, "I would like to think that I'd take the opportunity to study here a lot when I'm older." This is the very first time I've done that, though.
I have to admit, I let myself get distracted by the people around me a little more than I should've, and it was super hard to not get distracted by all the books around me (oh, so much temptation!), but otherwise, I think it actually went pretty decently.
More than that, though, I would really like to spend a whole day at the library just for reading, not schoolwork. I want to do that at least once this summer!
I was there from around 10 to 5 (I'd taken a 5-minute break outside to eat my lunch around 12), and my dad picked me up. From there, we went to the movies. We went to that one theater that serves fish and chips, and picked The Boss Baby. Man, we loved it! (I feel like the movie's trailers spoiled too many of the jokes, though. I hate when that happens.)
Then yesterday, I tried to get more work done, but... well, I got about half of my part of the group project done, but I couldn't for the life of me get myself to do the second half. I really hope my brain is working tomorrow, and I'll be able to get it done super fast so that I can quickly start getting to work putting everything together. Otherwise, it'll bode really badly for my (and everyone else's) grade...
I guess part of why I was having a harder time concentrating yesterday was because I was tempted to look up GFxDP crossovers. I ended up finding a specific crossover called "Falling Phantom", in which Dani from Danny Phantom ended up making it all the way to Gravity Falls while she's been out traveling on her own, quickly becoming friends with Mabel. By the end of the summer, she's friends with everyone else from the Shack and helps defeat Bill, then ends up permanently staying with Grunkle Stan until adulthood. Apparently, it eventually added Dani and Dipper becoming a couple when they're older. I haven't seen everything for Falling Phantom yet, but there's some great interactions between character (and everyone seems very much in-character). Still not sure how I feel about DanixDipper, but I can agree on it making more sense than a whole lot of other pairings that exist in the world...
Something the writer had said was actually really cool! I'd read this amazing DP fic a few weeks ago that had Danny and Sam getting married and having a half-ghost baby as part of the plot. Falling Phantom's creator, however, made the suggestion that the half-ghost abilities may only be able to be passed down through the half-ghost moms, not dads, since it could have something to do with mtDNA. (I'm not gonna go through the whole explanation, but it sounded really cool and logical!) So, even though it would've made part of that other story's plot obsolete, I still really like the idea.
I've also been thinking about a crossover idea between GF and Bob's Burgers. Both shows have weirdly peppy morticians, so I can imagine both of them going to a mortuary convention, if such a thing existed (which totally could- even if not in real life, I see no reason for there to not be one in shows as weird as GF and BB). If it happens in the town the Belchers live in, then that means there's opportunity for Robby (GF) to end up meeting the Belcher kids. It'd have to be that Robby's parents dragged him along for the convention, and they decided to eat at Bob's Burgers for lunch/dinner. I have a feeling really funny stuff (or, as I said to Carter, "comedy gold") could happen between him and Louise. It's not just me, right? (Oh, and Tina would absolutely try to hit on him!)
I guess pretty much the only thing I can think of to talk about now is that the wedding's drawing closer and closer. It's about 3 weeks, man! I'm excited for it (just about the only wedding I've actually been excited to go to), even with people asking me if I'm gonna miss her afterwards (why do people like asking things like that? Of course I will, and you're not helping me not think about it!), but it's also been making me think of my own special day in the future...
For one, I'm thinking more than ever that I don't want to have a whole party. I mean, I'm an introvert, and I hardly enjoy being in big parties and having all the attention on me. I also don't want to deal with the stress that happens from it, because jeez, these have not been exactly the most carefree months for any of us. So, I'm pretty sure Future Me will avoid having a reception. The ceremony itself will depend on if me and the (un)lucky guy marry in the temple, or take my sister's lead and have a normal ceremony first, then leave the temple for later. In the latter scenario, I desperately hope we go elope.
If we end up with a reception, anyways (I am not gonna be the one planning that thing!), maybe we'd end up with a rather unique choice of song for the first dance. Right now, three songs come up in my head: "Never Close Our Eyes" by Adam Lambert, though an acoustic version; "Cough Syrup" by Young the Giant, also acoustic- not because it's particularly romantic, but it's just one of my favorite songs ever; and "I Wouldn't Mind" by He is We. That last one's probably the one that would fit the most, actually.
And, lastly... if we got married in the fall, I'd seriously consider doing it on October 3rd (or super close to that date, at least) because that's one of the only dates I can always remember correctly...
Alrighty, that's everything! Bye!
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Double-Premieres with Dad
Happy Easter, world!
Okay, I probably wouldn't have said that so enthusiastically in real life, since I kinda had the stomach flu yesterday. (Well, I guess I felt a little bit the symptoms the day before- lacked an appetite, for the most part, and my stomach felt a little weird- but DANG did it hit hard yesterday.) I feel so much better today, which I'm sure I can thank getting a blessing for, but I'm still not at 100%. I'll have to do some studying later today for my chem and math tests, nonetheless, since I was too out of it to do earlier in the weekend.
So it was Spring Break for my high school, but I still had concurrent classes, of course. It was a little weird working on the college's computers and printers instead of my high school's, but I think it was a benefit for me to work there, since college students are a lot quieter than high school students, lemme tell ya.
Though I felt like I did pretty decent with making the most out of my time in school, and I found out the deadline for my English assignments is later than I previously thought, I'm still pretty dang worried about finishing everything on time and still maintaining an A in everything. I'd be happy with my grade just barely counting as an A, but it'd be so disappointing if it came out lower than that.
There's some good news, though! I think I said my dad was gonna be back this weekend on the last post? Turns out he was arriving even earlier! He got here on Thursday. We celebrated with going to the African restaurant. The day after, me, Mom, and Dad ended up going to watch a movie, but going to Wienerschnitzel first. (I'd never eaten anything there before except ice cream, so I am happy to report that the normal food wasn't that bad!) We watched Sing! which, as we expected, was really good. Now, what happened next was a new experience for all of us: my dad had said before that, if there weren't enough seats for Sing!, that we could go watch The Lego Batman Movie. When we came out, they were gonna play Lego Batman in approximately 40 minutes, so... we went to grab some things my mom needed from Dollar Tree (along with some snacks), and then came back to watch Lego Batman. (The lady at the ticket counter had said, "So, a double-feature, huh?", clearly as amused as we were by the situation.) So, that was the first time we watched two movies at the theater on the same day, plus the first time I watched the same movie twice in the theater! (Granted, it'd been a while since my dad and I saw The Lego Batman Movie the first time, and this time was at the cheap theater, but it definitely counts still!)
I'm really happy that I got to spend some time with my parents like that, even if that meant that I didn't really do much schoolwork on that day...
Oh! There was more stuff that we did on Friday besides the hot dogs and movies! That morning, I had an appointment at the clinic to get an ultrasound. The doctor doing the ultrasound said he was pretty dang sure that it was a... hold on, lemme see if I can find the word he'd used on Google... I think he called it a "fibroadenoma"? Or something like that? Apparently, those have to do with hormones getting wonky and all that fun stuff women deal with between the start of puberty and start of menopause. *sarcastic* Awww yeeeaaahhh.
Basically, there's a really tiny chance that it'll do anything bad like get really big, and I hardly have anything to worry about. *thumbs up*
After the appointment, my dad wanted to stop by Beyond Glaze for some donuts. As usual, they were delicious.
Something great was that "The First Deal", that longer one-shot I sent to the TAU page, got posted! (And one of the mods said about it "This is really sweet and more than good!" or something like that, which really felt awesome to hear.) I'm still debating whether to post it here or not... I mean, I never intended to use this blog for fanfics (and not just because I wasn't even into them when I first made this blog), but I feel weird about posting them on FFN, and as far as I can tell, things often get deleted from Tumblr... as in whole pages, not single posts. BUT there's so many things that I wrote that I've just kept for myself and didn't really care about sharing, and giving TAU a priority of always being shared doesn't feel right... But, even though it's definitely one of my longer one-shots, I'm pretty sure it's not any longer than my lengthiest posts that I just posted on a regular basis... Agh, I don't know!
Uh... let's go with... no, for now. And I'll just put it up if something happens to the version I sent. How's that sound?
Update on the ask related to Azul's story... it still hasn't been answered. However, I'm no longer so worried about it not getting answered eventually. Someone else sent an ask with the same concerns as I had, and one of the mods replied that most indeed do get answered, it was just that the ones that involving worldbuilding (which I'm sure mine fits in the category of) couldn't always be answered straight-away because the mods themselves don't always know the answers! They have to wait for inspiration to strike in order to know how to answer those. So, that's most likely what's gonna happen to mine. At least I know that I wouldn't really have much of a chance to work on the story now anyways- most of the writing itself would have to done next month and/or in the summer- so it's not like the work is being pushed further than it would be otherwise. As long as they come around to it within the next few months, it won't really be much different than if they'd answered it already.
Since I have the time to get to it, I guess I'll touch on another small project I've wanted to do... This one is drawing instead of writing, though. So, a few nights ago, I'd been reminiscing on last October 3rd, how I'd done my best to dress FMA. As I fell asleep, I was imagining doing a photo shoot with outfits very similar to that and just a traditional Ed cosplay (though just with my normal hair), and even a silly one where I was dressed as Al and my sister as Ed, and we were both wearing appropriate reactions to our difference in height (which, admittedly, is bigger than the difference between Ed and Al in canon, but it's still the same hilarious situation). I'm hardly a good model, so I doubt I'd pull off such good pictures as the ones I was imagining, but that's why I was enjoying looking at the pictures in my head rather than real life! (Technically unrelated, but I forgot to mention that my sis did a bridal shoot, but the pictures were taken by Captain, or by my mom when sis and Cap were posing together. Some of the pictures looked really good!)
Anyway, it started, as I said, with Ed outfits and similar, but then my brain started drifting more toward Ed-inspired fashion, if that makes any sense? Like, I saw the black pants and combat boots, but then the red coat was lined with a dramatic petticoat, or everything that was originally red was now black and black was red, and the hair was twisted into fancy side-braids rather than a normal braid, and stuff like that made me think, "I so wanna draw that." I still haven't pulled out my notebook to actually do these sketches, but I've kinda been itching to do it. I sorta feel like I shouldn't until all my school stuff is taken care of, though, so I don't know if I'll do that or just draw this anyway and avoid using any more time that day for Facebook and Youtube and whatever else I waste my time with.
I think that's pretty much it. We'll see how everything goes... *crosses fingers*
Okay, I probably wouldn't have said that so enthusiastically in real life, since I kinda had the stomach flu yesterday. (Well, I guess I felt a little bit the symptoms the day before- lacked an appetite, for the most part, and my stomach felt a little weird- but DANG did it hit hard yesterday.) I feel so much better today, which I'm sure I can thank getting a blessing for, but I'm still not at 100%. I'll have to do some studying later today for my chem and math tests, nonetheless, since I was too out of it to do earlier in the weekend.
So it was Spring Break for my high school, but I still had concurrent classes, of course. It was a little weird working on the college's computers and printers instead of my high school's, but I think it was a benefit for me to work there, since college students are a lot quieter than high school students, lemme tell ya.
Though I felt like I did pretty decent with making the most out of my time in school, and I found out the deadline for my English assignments is later than I previously thought, I'm still pretty dang worried about finishing everything on time and still maintaining an A in everything. I'd be happy with my grade just barely counting as an A, but it'd be so disappointing if it came out lower than that.
There's some good news, though! I think I said my dad was gonna be back this weekend on the last post? Turns out he was arriving even earlier! He got here on Thursday. We celebrated with going to the African restaurant. The day after, me, Mom, and Dad ended up going to watch a movie, but going to Wienerschnitzel first. (I'd never eaten anything there before except ice cream, so I am happy to report that the normal food wasn't that bad!) We watched Sing! which, as we expected, was really good. Now, what happened next was a new experience for all of us: my dad had said before that, if there weren't enough seats for Sing!, that we could go watch The Lego Batman Movie. When we came out, they were gonna play Lego Batman in approximately 40 minutes, so... we went to grab some things my mom needed from Dollar Tree (along with some snacks), and then came back to watch Lego Batman. (The lady at the ticket counter had said, "So, a double-feature, huh?", clearly as amused as we were by the situation.) So, that was the first time we watched two movies at the theater on the same day, plus the first time I watched the same movie twice in the theater! (Granted, it'd been a while since my dad and I saw The Lego Batman Movie the first time, and this time was at the cheap theater, but it definitely counts still!)
I'm really happy that I got to spend some time with my parents like that, even if that meant that I didn't really do much schoolwork on that day...
Oh! There was more stuff that we did on Friday besides the hot dogs and movies! That morning, I had an appointment at the clinic to get an ultrasound. The doctor doing the ultrasound said he was pretty dang sure that it was a... hold on, lemme see if I can find the word he'd used on Google... I think he called it a "fibroadenoma"? Or something like that? Apparently, those have to do with hormones getting wonky and all that fun stuff women deal with between the start of puberty and start of menopause. *sarcastic* Awww yeeeaaahhh.
Basically, there's a really tiny chance that it'll do anything bad like get really big, and I hardly have anything to worry about. *thumbs up*
After the appointment, my dad wanted to stop by Beyond Glaze for some donuts. As usual, they were delicious.
Something great was that "The First Deal", that longer one-shot I sent to the TAU page, got posted! (And one of the mods said about it "This is really sweet and more than good!" or something like that, which really felt awesome to hear.) I'm still debating whether to post it here or not... I mean, I never intended to use this blog for fanfics (and not just because I wasn't even into them when I first made this blog), but I feel weird about posting them on FFN, and as far as I can tell, things often get deleted from Tumblr... as in whole pages, not single posts. BUT there's so many things that I wrote that I've just kept for myself and didn't really care about sharing, and giving TAU a priority of always being shared doesn't feel right... But, even though it's definitely one of my longer one-shots, I'm pretty sure it's not any longer than my lengthiest posts that I just posted on a regular basis... Agh, I don't know!
Uh... let's go with... no, for now. And I'll just put it up if something happens to the version I sent. How's that sound?
Update on the ask related to Azul's story... it still hasn't been answered. However, I'm no longer so worried about it not getting answered eventually. Someone else sent an ask with the same concerns as I had, and one of the mods replied that most indeed do get answered, it was just that the ones that involving worldbuilding (which I'm sure mine fits in the category of) couldn't always be answered straight-away because the mods themselves don't always know the answers! They have to wait for inspiration to strike in order to know how to answer those. So, that's most likely what's gonna happen to mine. At least I know that I wouldn't really have much of a chance to work on the story now anyways- most of the writing itself would have to done next month and/or in the summer- so it's not like the work is being pushed further than it would be otherwise. As long as they come around to it within the next few months, it won't really be much different than if they'd answered it already.
Since I have the time to get to it, I guess I'll touch on another small project I've wanted to do... This one is drawing instead of writing, though. So, a few nights ago, I'd been reminiscing on last October 3rd, how I'd done my best to dress FMA. As I fell asleep, I was imagining doing a photo shoot with outfits very similar to that and just a traditional Ed cosplay (though just with my normal hair), and even a silly one where I was dressed as Al and my sister as Ed, and we were both wearing appropriate reactions to our difference in height (which, admittedly, is bigger than the difference between Ed and Al in canon, but it's still the same hilarious situation). I'm hardly a good model, so I doubt I'd pull off such good pictures as the ones I was imagining, but that's why I was enjoying looking at the pictures in my head rather than real life! (Technically unrelated, but I forgot to mention that my sis did a bridal shoot, but the pictures were taken by Captain, or by my mom when sis and Cap were posing together. Some of the pictures looked really good!)
Anyway, it started, as I said, with Ed outfits and similar, but then my brain started drifting more toward Ed-inspired fashion, if that makes any sense? Like, I saw the black pants and combat boots, but then the red coat was lined with a dramatic petticoat, or everything that was originally red was now black and black was red, and the hair was twisted into fancy side-braids rather than a normal braid, and stuff like that made me think, "I so wanna draw that." I still haven't pulled out my notebook to actually do these sketches, but I've kinda been itching to do it. I sorta feel like I shouldn't until all my school stuff is taken care of, though, so I don't know if I'll do that or just draw this anyway and avoid using any more time that day for Facebook and Youtube and whatever else I waste my time with.
I think that's pretty much it. We'll see how everything goes... *crosses fingers*
Sunday, April 9, 2017
I Can't English
Hello world!
We did a fast today with some certain things in mind: one, that my sis comes back from that trip she took with Captain and his family fine (and she did); two, that my dad will get here safely once he starts the trip (yep, it's official! He took the job, and is gonna come here next weekend!); three, that I'll turn out to have a good bill of health after all, and that thing that's apparently on my ribs is nothing to worry about or easy to fix; and four, that President Thomas S. Monson will be okay.
Just the day after General Conference, my mom told me that she saw on Facebook that Monson was in the hospital- the leaders said so officially once fake news about the situation started to spread. I haven't heard any new developments about his health, but considering his age and how worn-out he's been the past couple years, we honestly can't hope too much. Really, all I ask for is that he won't be in pain and that he's happy, and if this turns out to be his last moments... that he goes peacefully and with a smile on his face. I don't like thinking about how he might not live through to next Conference, but at least I can think of him being content to the end.
This week had a lot of, yet again, trying to work on English and just not getting much done. I got caught up in chem, and finished the math project yesterday, but English almost entirely alludes me- and I'm 100% sure the fact that it feels like there's so much to do for that class is a major factor as to why I feel like I can't do it. I hate how the world works that way.
And, of course, I'm a little worried about the group project for that class, not just because it's a thing we have to do in relatively little time. We honestly have barely done anything for it beyond trying to decide the topic. We're that pathetic. I have a feeling we're gonna rush it a lot within the last few days before the deadline, which is going to be so super fun!!! (The sarcasm is real!)
One of those days in which I was supposed to be working on English at home and got majorly distracted instead, instead of reading a fic or scrolling through Facebook (why does it haunt me so much once again?) or watching Youtube (stop with the videos, internet!), I ended up looking up a picture that was used for a really good Danny Phantom fic and getting sucked into DeviantArt's DP fanart. Some of it is creepy, some of it is dramatic, or nostalgic, or funny, but it's all awesome. And I had to resort to extreme measures to make the binge go from a potential 13.75 hours straight (random number, but it honestly could've gone that long) to more like 2 hours? 2 hours I definitely could've been doing school stuff in, which made me want to bang my head against a wall thinking about, but at least it wasn't thaaat long? Ugh, the fanart binges are basically inescapable.
Have you ever had a moment where you suddenly got inspiration for an addition or revision to something you wrote a long time ago? I feel like I've been having these moments a little more often lately. Besides thinking of maybe something for WFAM or the Azul story, I thought of a plot-twist for that FMAxEnchanted crossover I wrote quite a bit for a few summers ago, and some things I could do to rewrite the first chapter of "Ed the Cat"- I am proud of that story, but even then, I knew it wasn't exactly the best writing style ever. I'd love to rewrite it someday (which would mean putting scenes about the mystery character much sooner, and pulling together an actual plot more, and all that jazz), and actually finish it! Maybe if I can get more inspiration for this new rendition of my first chapter story online ever, that can be one of the things I can work on over the summer!
My mom and I did some more looking around at yet more stores for potential prom dresses, and none of them seem to compare to the very first one I tried on. (On the upside, we found a dress that my sis might potentially use for her wedding instead of the first plan to wear an all-white Mexican folklore Chiapas dress.) As part of that search, we went to the mall yesterday, and... ended up eating Panda Express and buying some more stuff from Hot Topic. One of those things was this light blue skirt with Stitch from Lilo & Stitch on the bottom as part of a Hawaiian flower and palm tree border. It goes just past my knees, and is light but not see-through at all, so it's gonna be awesome for the summer! We also got a matching plain shirt and some leotards/bodysuits (for some reason, I don't like the second term, so let's just stick to "leotards"?).
Almost done! (Pretty sure this is quite a bit shorter than most of my posts nowadays...) We also watched the General Women's Session recording today- I liked the messages a lot!- and... I'm just too lazy to do that General Conference summary I did once, so let's just not. *thumbs up*
The deadline for my official decision as to which college I'll go to is growing ever closer and ever closer... and I think I'm leaning more toward the tiny campus, as much as I'd hated the idea before. I feel like going there is kinda like throwing away a big opportunity that I'd wanted so badly, but it's just gonna be so much easier for everybody if I skip it, and I'm so excited about the idea of going to college with my sis and Captain... Agh, I don't know if I should think about it a bit more? I really don't have much time to think about it anymore, but...
This week is technically Spring Break for my high school, but not my college classes. We'll see how that goes. *deep sigh*
Bye!
We did a fast today with some certain things in mind: one, that my sis comes back from that trip she took with Captain and his family fine (and she did); two, that my dad will get here safely once he starts the trip (yep, it's official! He took the job, and is gonna come here next weekend!); three, that I'll turn out to have a good bill of health after all, and that thing that's apparently on my ribs is nothing to worry about or easy to fix; and four, that President Thomas S. Monson will be okay.
Just the day after General Conference, my mom told me that she saw on Facebook that Monson was in the hospital- the leaders said so officially once fake news about the situation started to spread. I haven't heard any new developments about his health, but considering his age and how worn-out he's been the past couple years, we honestly can't hope too much. Really, all I ask for is that he won't be in pain and that he's happy, and if this turns out to be his last moments... that he goes peacefully and with a smile on his face. I don't like thinking about how he might not live through to next Conference, but at least I can think of him being content to the end.
This week had a lot of, yet again, trying to work on English and just not getting much done. I got caught up in chem, and finished the math project yesterday, but English almost entirely alludes me- and I'm 100% sure the fact that it feels like there's so much to do for that class is a major factor as to why I feel like I can't do it. I hate how the world works that way.
And, of course, I'm a little worried about the group project for that class, not just because it's a thing we have to do in relatively little time. We honestly have barely done anything for it beyond trying to decide the topic. We're that pathetic. I have a feeling we're gonna rush it a lot within the last few days before the deadline, which is going to be so super fun!!! (The sarcasm is real!)
One of those days in which I was supposed to be working on English at home and got majorly distracted instead, instead of reading a fic or scrolling through Facebook (why does it haunt me so much once again?) or watching Youtube (stop with the videos, internet!), I ended up looking up a picture that was used for a really good Danny Phantom fic and getting sucked into DeviantArt's DP fanart. Some of it is creepy, some of it is dramatic, or nostalgic, or funny, but it's all awesome. And I had to resort to extreme measures to make the binge go from a potential 13.75 hours straight (random number, but it honestly could've gone that long) to more like 2 hours? 2 hours I definitely could've been doing school stuff in, which made me want to bang my head against a wall thinking about, but at least it wasn't thaaat long? Ugh, the fanart binges are basically inescapable.
Have you ever had a moment where you suddenly got inspiration for an addition or revision to something you wrote a long time ago? I feel like I've been having these moments a little more often lately. Besides thinking of maybe something for WFAM or the Azul story, I thought of a plot-twist for that FMAxEnchanted crossover I wrote quite a bit for a few summers ago, and some things I could do to rewrite the first chapter of "Ed the Cat"- I am proud of that story, but even then, I knew it wasn't exactly the best writing style ever. I'd love to rewrite it someday (which would mean putting scenes about the mystery character much sooner, and pulling together an actual plot more, and all that jazz), and actually finish it! Maybe if I can get more inspiration for this new rendition of my first chapter story online ever, that can be one of the things I can work on over the summer!
My mom and I did some more looking around at yet more stores for potential prom dresses, and none of them seem to compare to the very first one I tried on. (On the upside, we found a dress that my sis might potentially use for her wedding instead of the first plan to wear an all-white Mexican folklore Chiapas dress.) As part of that search, we went to the mall yesterday, and... ended up eating Panda Express and buying some more stuff from Hot Topic. One of those things was this light blue skirt with Stitch from Lilo & Stitch on the bottom as part of a Hawaiian flower and palm tree border. It goes just past my knees, and is light but not see-through at all, so it's gonna be awesome for the summer! We also got a matching plain shirt and some leotards/bodysuits (for some reason, I don't like the second term, so let's just stick to "leotards"?).
Almost done! (Pretty sure this is quite a bit shorter than most of my posts nowadays...) We also watched the General Women's Session recording today- I liked the messages a lot!- and... I'm just too lazy to do that General Conference summary I did once, so let's just not. *thumbs up*
The deadline for my official decision as to which college I'll go to is growing ever closer and ever closer... and I think I'm leaning more toward the tiny campus, as much as I'd hated the idea before. I feel like going there is kinda like throwing away a big opportunity that I'd wanted so badly, but it's just gonna be so much easier for everybody if I skip it, and I'm so excited about the idea of going to college with my sis and Captain... Agh, I don't know if I should think about it a bit more? I really don't have much time to think about it anymore, but...
This week is technically Spring Break for my high school, but not my college classes. We'll see how that goes. *deep sigh*
Bye!
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Birth-Weeks and many Gravity Falls
Hello world!
Happy Day-After-April-Fool's! I've always sort of wanted to actually do an April Fool's Joke, but I can never think of something in time. At least I'm still doing the texting-trash-memes prank, right?
I forgot to mention in the last post how we went to Pope's house, so I was hanging out with her daughter again. We started with a bit of drawing- I don't know why she thinks I'm so good at drawing, and I wish she'd be a little more confident in her own work- then, after eating some quesadillas and rice proffered by her mom, we watched the majority of The Book of Life. I'd never seen it before, but there was some interesting stuff (and I had to try so hard to not laugh every time Manolo sang things like "Creep" by Radiohead); I also really liked how the style reminded me of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera. (Through Wikipedia, I just found out that the movie's director is also the creator of El Tigre. No wonder! Wikipedia also says that Manny, Frida, and Grandpapi make a small cameo in the movie, but I don't remember seeing that...) I also ended up seeing a bit of the kids show Sarah and Duck before we went home. I found it rather cute, and certainly less annoying than some other shows out there. *glares at Luna*
This week was basically my mom's Birth-Week, which meant a lot of good food and lazing around. *fist-pump* We got Chinese food on Tuesday, and had lots of Mexican food over the weekend (both home-cooked and from Rancho Market's restaurant). When Mom spoils herself, all of us are spoiled. (Brorange's mom had also invited us to get some pupusas with them on the actual birthday. Though Broranges himself wasn't there, I ended up chatting with his cousin quite a bit.)
Besides that, my mom and I ended up doing some shopping- specifically looking for prom dresses, but we ended up trying a bunch of unrelated stuff on, too. We had decided to start at Ross, then see if there was anything available at thrift stores. (Answer: not really.) The very first dress I tried on is actually the one both of us liked the most, though it's also the most expensive. It was about $40, and if I choose to use it, also needs to be hemmed on the bottom, unless I want to use 5-inch heels. I don't.
The top has a fancy black design (if I remember correctly, it could maybe be said that the design was kinda like ivy?) with a little bit of sparkle- certainly an amount I can handle- layered over a nude background. It stops right at the waist (with a small section that would show my skin at my waist, but I'm gonna cover that up), and from there flows out a long black skirt straight down. It emphasizes how I have long legs compared to my torso, and really shows off my figure. I usually don't like wearing clothes that are colored nude (since they usually match my natural skin tone really well, so it indeed makes me feel like I'm in the nude), but this dress just looks so nice on me, and the focus is certainly more on the black than the nude-colored part.
Carter said he already has a suit, since he has to wear it for band performances, and would wear a black bow-tie. If these are indeed what we're gonna wear to prom, we're gonna look so awesome and classy.
On Sunday, we went to Brorange's house for some time again. (We're certainly visiting more often than we have in a long time!)
My mom needed to print out the new little insurance card ASAP, so on Tuesday we'd gone to print it out at the library. Now, the closest library to where we live is the same one that I used to go to back in our old old old house. Just like going to the same ward again, and visiting the houses of friends again, and even just driving through those streets... it's somewhere between disorienting and anxciting and straight-up weird. There were actually some big changes to the area, which I couldn't help but stare at, thinking of how it'd only been 3 years and yet it almost felt like 30.
If you're wondering why she needed the card, I had a doctor's appointment the next day. It was for that disconcerting ball-thing in my chest. As the doctor did her examination, though, she looked pretty confused, and said that she was pretty sure the ball was actually on my ribcage. That... was both a relief and a new kind of worrisome at the same time. They took an X-ray of me after, and there's an appointment for an ultrasound in a couple weeks.
I felt a little guilty about not going to Mutual at this ward yet, so I finally went this week. My mom dropped me off at the church building, and several minutes later, Flower appeared. We both waited together a while for the leaders to show up, but then another girl who was already there said she just received news that the activity was canceled. Apparently, they canceled it an hour previous. (Flower complained that they do this a lot, so I guess the presidency isn't as on-top of things as I'd thought.) Flower called Lala, who was apparently coming to the building, and then offered to bring me to hang out with Lala at her house. I knew I could probably do some homework instead or something equally useful, but also knew I would probably just waste my time with Facebook and Youtube instead, so I agreed to go with them.
Though I felt like I was just kinda sitting there for a while (since I'd thought I could help with their homework, but it turned out to be trig, and I was worried I wouldn't remember that right), I still liked joining in on the conversation every once in a while, and they didn't make me feel shut out or anything. I also ended up dancing randomly with Lala for a couple songs in the period of time between Flower going home and my mom arriving to pick me up, so that was fun.
I saw a video online that was an ad for the recently-published Journal 3, which is supposed to be like the one in the actual show Gravity Falls. Me, being one of those hopeless people who still kinda thinks there may be another season of GF eventually, misunderstood what was happening and thought it was a sign that there'd be a third season, only to get crushed by reality. The video itself was pretty funny, though, and it turned out you would actually get a message from Grunkle Stan if you called the phone number displayed. I don't know if it was just me, but the Stan voice felt a bit weak in comparison to his voice in the actual show- nonetheless, it was an absolute delight to listen to.
I looked at Journal 3 and the other GF books published by Disney afterwards, and I decided that I'd actually like buying the one that was a coloring book the most. As far as I can tell, there's an actual story going on throughout the book? Because I'm having a hard time using my money for things that I just want for myself, I'm thinking maybe I'll just ask for that book for my birthday. And, depending on if I'm living near my sis or not at that point, ask for some coloring pencils, too, or just mooch off of hers.
That kinda became the catalyst for looking at a lot of other GF videos and fanart and things. I was already investigating a few AUs (this week had Twin Demons AU, Blinded AU, and 3 AM AU- I found the Blinded AU quite interesting, Twin Demons didn't feel like it really fits in GF, and 3 AM made me regret everything), but this was also just canon and things based on canon, and even just looking at screenshots of funny tweets Alex Hirsch has posted. (I've said it to Darkrai and to Carter this week, and I'll say it again: Alex himself is a reason to watch his show. That man is hilarious.)
I got feedback for the fic from that mod/author, and it was super positive! I just freaked so hard at seeing her message! She just made a couple small suggestions (and I really mean just small things), which just... wow. Wow! I can't help but feel so honored when authors who I respect a lot say something nice about my own work.
I used all the little suggestions, then sent in what is now the final product (woohoo!) to the mods. Now to see if that is posted first, or their answer to my question for Azul's story... I feel like they should've gotten to it by now, considering how an ask that I sent just a little bit before that has already been shown. I think they either got super bogged between the asks, they put it off a bit, or just decided to not answer. I'm really hoping it gets answered eventually.
It was General Conference yesterday and today! *confetti cannons and noisemakers* I'm hoping I'll talk a little bit more about what they were talking about next week (it's quite late right now, so probably better to leave it for later), but I guess I'll kinda do a bit of an overview? The sessions sort felt like they all had a set theme. The first one talked a lot about the Plan of Salvation, and the third and fourth said a lot about teaching others in a Christlike way and obedience. (There was a less obvious theme between talks for the second.)
There was this video I watched on Friday night where Vic Mignogna was telling these "Christian" protesters to change their message from one that was trying to scare people into repentance into one of love, just like Christ actually taught. That video already was making me think a lot (and respect Vic even more than I already do), but then there were two talks that made me think of that video as well. I hope to talk a little more about that next week.
The last thing to talk about is that I got the letter yesterday that said I was indeed accepted into that science scholarship/program at the U that I wanted so bad before. (I'm a little relieved and proud of myself that they liked me enough to accept me! With the whole thing with my dad being in Texas and my parents not having much money for my college education, though, I was later ironically kinda hoping I wouldn't be accepted, after all, so I wouldn't feel like I was losing an opportunity if I couldn't actually do the program.) Considering how we learned there's a chance that Dad will get a job that will bring him back to Utah, and so it's a little less urgent for me to go to the tiny campus... that means maybe I can consider that college again. UGH, DECISIONS. At least my mom and sis are being a little more sympathetic with me, because they can see why it'd be so difficult to choose.
We'll find out this week where my dad will be! And hopefully I'll also be able to make a real decision about which college I'll go to. See ya next post!
Happy Day-After-April-Fool's! I've always sort of wanted to actually do an April Fool's Joke, but I can never think of something in time. At least I'm still doing the texting-trash-memes prank, right?
I forgot to mention in the last post how we went to Pope's house, so I was hanging out with her daughter again. We started with a bit of drawing- I don't know why she thinks I'm so good at drawing, and I wish she'd be a little more confident in her own work- then, after eating some quesadillas and rice proffered by her mom, we watched the majority of The Book of Life. I'd never seen it before, but there was some interesting stuff (and I had to try so hard to not laugh every time Manolo sang things like "Creep" by Radiohead); I also really liked how the style reminded me of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera. (Through Wikipedia, I just found out that the movie's director is also the creator of El Tigre. No wonder! Wikipedia also says that Manny, Frida, and Grandpapi make a small cameo in the movie, but I don't remember seeing that...) I also ended up seeing a bit of the kids show Sarah and Duck before we went home. I found it rather cute, and certainly less annoying than some other shows out there. *glares at Luna*
This week was basically my mom's Birth-Week, which meant a lot of good food and lazing around. *fist-pump* We got Chinese food on Tuesday, and had lots of Mexican food over the weekend (both home-cooked and from Rancho Market's restaurant). When Mom spoils herself, all of us are spoiled. (Brorange's mom had also invited us to get some pupusas with them on the actual birthday. Though Broranges himself wasn't there, I ended up chatting with his cousin quite a bit.)
Besides that, my mom and I ended up doing some shopping- specifically looking for prom dresses, but we ended up trying a bunch of unrelated stuff on, too. We had decided to start at Ross, then see if there was anything available at thrift stores. (Answer: not really.) The very first dress I tried on is actually the one both of us liked the most, though it's also the most expensive. It was about $40, and if I choose to use it, also needs to be hemmed on the bottom, unless I want to use 5-inch heels. I don't.
The top has a fancy black design (if I remember correctly, it could maybe be said that the design was kinda like ivy?) with a little bit of sparkle- certainly an amount I can handle- layered over a nude background. It stops right at the waist (with a small section that would show my skin at my waist, but I'm gonna cover that up), and from there flows out a long black skirt straight down. It emphasizes how I have long legs compared to my torso, and really shows off my figure. I usually don't like wearing clothes that are colored nude (since they usually match my natural skin tone really well, so it indeed makes me feel like I'm in the nude), but this dress just looks so nice on me, and the focus is certainly more on the black than the nude-colored part.
Carter said he already has a suit, since he has to wear it for band performances, and would wear a black bow-tie. If these are indeed what we're gonna wear to prom, we're gonna look so awesome and classy.
On Sunday, we went to Brorange's house for some time again. (We're certainly visiting more often than we have in a long time!)
My mom needed to print out the new little insurance card ASAP, so on Tuesday we'd gone to print it out at the library. Now, the closest library to where we live is the same one that I used to go to back in our old old old house. Just like going to the same ward again, and visiting the houses of friends again, and even just driving through those streets... it's somewhere between disorienting and anxciting and straight-up weird. There were actually some big changes to the area, which I couldn't help but stare at, thinking of how it'd only been 3 years and yet it almost felt like 30.
If you're wondering why she needed the card, I had a doctor's appointment the next day. It was for that disconcerting ball-thing in my chest. As the doctor did her examination, though, she looked pretty confused, and said that she was pretty sure the ball was actually on my ribcage. That... was both a relief and a new kind of worrisome at the same time. They took an X-ray of me after, and there's an appointment for an ultrasound in a couple weeks.
I felt a little guilty about not going to Mutual at this ward yet, so I finally went this week. My mom dropped me off at the church building, and several minutes later, Flower appeared. We both waited together a while for the leaders to show up, but then another girl who was already there said she just received news that the activity was canceled. Apparently, they canceled it an hour previous. (Flower complained that they do this a lot, so I guess the presidency isn't as on-top of things as I'd thought.) Flower called Lala, who was apparently coming to the building, and then offered to bring me to hang out with Lala at her house. I knew I could probably do some homework instead or something equally useful, but also knew I would probably just waste my time with Facebook and Youtube instead, so I agreed to go with them.
Though I felt like I was just kinda sitting there for a while (since I'd thought I could help with their homework, but it turned out to be trig, and I was worried I wouldn't remember that right), I still liked joining in on the conversation every once in a while, and they didn't make me feel shut out or anything. I also ended up dancing randomly with Lala for a couple songs in the period of time between Flower going home and my mom arriving to pick me up, so that was fun.
I saw a video online that was an ad for the recently-published Journal 3, which is supposed to be like the one in the actual show Gravity Falls. Me, being one of those hopeless people who still kinda thinks there may be another season of GF eventually, misunderstood what was happening and thought it was a sign that there'd be a third season, only to get crushed by reality. The video itself was pretty funny, though, and it turned out you would actually get a message from Grunkle Stan if you called the phone number displayed. I don't know if it was just me, but the Stan voice felt a bit weak in comparison to his voice in the actual show- nonetheless, it was an absolute delight to listen to.
I looked at Journal 3 and the other GF books published by Disney afterwards, and I decided that I'd actually like buying the one that was a coloring book the most. As far as I can tell, there's an actual story going on throughout the book? Because I'm having a hard time using my money for things that I just want for myself, I'm thinking maybe I'll just ask for that book for my birthday. And, depending on if I'm living near my sis or not at that point, ask for some coloring pencils, too, or just mooch off of hers.
That kinda became the catalyst for looking at a lot of other GF videos and fanart and things. I was already investigating a few AUs (this week had Twin Demons AU, Blinded AU, and 3 AM AU- I found the Blinded AU quite interesting, Twin Demons didn't feel like it really fits in GF, and 3 AM made me regret everything), but this was also just canon and things based on canon, and even just looking at screenshots of funny tweets Alex Hirsch has posted. (I've said it to Darkrai and to Carter this week, and I'll say it again: Alex himself is a reason to watch his show. That man is hilarious.)
I got feedback for the fic from that mod/author, and it was super positive! I just freaked so hard at seeing her message! She just made a couple small suggestions (and I really mean just small things), which just... wow. Wow! I can't help but feel so honored when authors who I respect a lot say something nice about my own work.
I used all the little suggestions, then sent in what is now the final product (woohoo!) to the mods. Now to see if that is posted first, or their answer to my question for Azul's story... I feel like they should've gotten to it by now, considering how an ask that I sent just a little bit before that has already been shown. I think they either got super bogged between the asks, they put it off a bit, or just decided to not answer. I'm really hoping it gets answered eventually.
It was General Conference yesterday and today! *confetti cannons and noisemakers* I'm hoping I'll talk a little bit more about what they were talking about next week (it's quite late right now, so probably better to leave it for later), but I guess I'll kinda do a bit of an overview? The sessions sort felt like they all had a set theme. The first one talked a lot about the Plan of Salvation, and the third and fourth said a lot about teaching others in a Christlike way and obedience. (There was a less obvious theme between talks for the second.)
There was this video I watched on Friday night where Vic Mignogna was telling these "Christian" protesters to change their message from one that was trying to scare people into repentance into one of love, just like Christ actually taught. That video already was making me think a lot (and respect Vic even more than I already do), but then there were two talks that made me think of that video as well. I hope to talk a little more about that next week.
The last thing to talk about is that I got the letter yesterday that said I was indeed accepted into that science scholarship/program at the U that I wanted so bad before. (I'm a little relieved and proud of myself that they liked me enough to accept me! With the whole thing with my dad being in Texas and my parents not having much money for my college education, though, I was later ironically kinda hoping I wouldn't be accepted, after all, so I wouldn't feel like I was losing an opportunity if I couldn't actually do the program.) Considering how we learned there's a chance that Dad will get a job that will bring him back to Utah, and so it's a little less urgent for me to go to the tiny campus... that means maybe I can consider that college again. UGH, DECISIONS. At least my mom and sis are being a little more sympathetic with me, because they can see why it'd be so difficult to choose.
We'll find out this week where my dad will be! And hopefully I'll also be able to make a real decision about which college I'll go to. See ya next post!
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