Didn't post last week because we spent a whole lotta time at Brorange's house.
If I am permitted to speak sarcastically, some super fun stuff happened in the past couple weeks! Yaaay finals!!!
Okay, so they actually weren't that bad. I got 92% in College Algebra and 95% in Chemistry (though this one wasn't really a final, just a unit test). It was more stressful getting the projects done, though they did get finished on time (barely).
All I have to worry about left is making up for all the missed classes in seminary over this term. I'm supposed to try to get the rest of them done this week, though I honestly just wanna say "Whatever" and not rush through them. It's not like I really care that much about being in the seminary graduation ceremony. In fact, I think I might prefer to not be there?
Well, let's continue on with proper chronology of the last two weeks! (Or as close as I can get to that, anyway.)
Nothing particularly interesting happened on Monday or Tuesday, I believe, but it was Carter's b-day on Wednesday! I wish I'd got a calendar notification about it at least one day before, so I could think more on a present, but I still did something decent. I usually wouldn't worry too much about presents, but he had to tell me on that day that he wasn't able to do prom anymore, and I wanted to cheer him up.
Okay, I don't think I've mentioned it before, but a long while ago, he had asked me a couple questions to help create a new character for his story (much like I asked him some things to come up with Ben for WFAM). Thus came about a character named Lillian (which is extremely close to my name), who is a girl who wears glasses, and I imagine she tends to have a spring in her step (like I generally have when I'm not stressed)... which are pretty much the only similarities she shares with me. Everything else is super different. But the point wasn't that she was supposed to be based off me, so that's perfectly fine. You be you, Lillian!
Anyway, she's one of the characters I know quite a bit about, even though she's more like a side character, and he hadn't as of yet made an actual drawing for her. So, I made one! (I guess it's okay to post since I was the one I made it, plus I had a tiny part in making her?)
Once all the hard work was done, I added some text above her head wishing him a happy birthday and sent it.
It's not absolutely perfect (and I realized later that the two halves don't match up 100% after all), but he said he could immediately tell who it was, thank goodness, and seemed to appreciate the sentiment. Hopefully, she is indeed close to what he imagined.
The day after, our family took a trip to Leatherby's. Of course, I got a hot fudge brownie (and actually finished most of it!), my parents shared a giant banana split, and my sis shared a raspberry shake with Captain. We all came out of there with way too much ice cream in our bellies.
(Then, we ended up eating a bit of pizza, which just made things worse.)
Earlier that day, Sis and Cap had actually gone to hang out with the animals at the animal shelter, and fell in love with this sweetie of a cat, and ended up adopting her. My sister's friend is taking care of Princess Peanut-Butter Cup (yep, they decided naming her something ridiculous was the right way to go) until after the wedding, when they are moving into their new apartment. They brought me to go meet her a little after we had overstuffed ourselves, and I agreed that this cat was awesome. She was a huge fan of mutual love and affection.
Just a small side-note for this day is that I was temporarily addicted to the song "The Woods" by Hollow Coves throughout. It's a really pretty song that I've recently thought could be mash-uped with some other songs like "Home" by Phillip Phillips and "To Build a Home" by Arrival of the Birds. I'd love to make that happen, if someone wanted to help thoroughly mash them together then perform it with me.
Next day, I was temporarily addicted to "Saturnz Barz" by Gorillaz (clearly one of my favorite songs from their new album; this definitely motivated to try more of their older songs, as well). Also, I had suddenly had the thought, "Wait a minute, what happened to that Disney Fairies game I used to play?" I had honestly not touched it for years, but with Bearville dying back in Alabama, and BK Club long before that, plus the recent killing off of Club Penguin (I watched a couple videos on Youtube about Club Penguin's final minutes, and they're so depressing), I was kinda hoping it wouldn't be yet another game I used to play that shut down. So, I looked it up. I found no traces of it on Disney's website, which was where I was originally able to access it, but I eventually found a Pixie Hollows wiki that had a page talking about when the game died. Turns out, it was in 2013, maybe just 6 months-ish since I last played. *sad sigh* I know it's a game that I started playing more like around 7th and 8th grade (I especially played the app game Fashion Boutique while we lived in Mexico), but still... Where's all my childhood going?
At least I know Poptropica's still alive and well... And I'm pretty sure Webkinz is, too. I'll have to check about Shining Star and a couple others. And hey, AQ is surely alive and well (which I also started in middle school)!... right?
We had some Hot Cash, and my dad took me to Hot Topic to see if I could use it. They had this Ariel dress from the same collection as the Lilo & Stitch skirt that I hadn't considered before, but turned out to fit me quite well, and the price basically got cut in half with the Hot Cash. Since it was teal, similar to my sister's wedding color scheme, (and I looked super cuuuuute,) I decided to wear it to her bridal shower the next day.
The shower had been kinda awkward. Well, more like a lotta awkward at the beginning, since the sister who was going to bring the hot dogs, table-cloths, and other decorations got there about half an hour after the party was supposed to start. Not very many people were there at that point, but it was still like "Uh... what do we do until then?" Once she got there, and everything was properly set up, and most of the guests arrived, we began to eat, and it got pretty fun. There were still some weird moments later, but not as bad. The gifts were mostly things for their new apartment, along with a couple pieces of lingerie (Sis, how did you not get why I later said I was kinda uncomfortable with seeing you get lingerie? It's frickin' lingerie). The guests also were supposed to write cards with pieces of advice (or recipes) for her, and I was the only one who didn't say something super thoughtful and sweet (because what kind of serious advice can I give my older sister?). I guess she might've appreciated getting a laugh in the middle of reading them out loud, though, since she started tearing up for the other ones. Getting a random card that says, "Stop twerking in your little sister's face" surely does the trick...
So, as mentioned before, I was hanging out with Broranges on Sunday, mostly playing Pokemon or listening to music together. We also ate some of the leftover brownies from the bridal shower.
Also as mentioned before, it was now time for finals. On Monday, I did my chemistry test, hung out a bit with Marki for the last time, then went with Isaiah to turn in the group project (which wasn't as good as I hoped for, but it's something). Later that day, my sis also wanted me to help her with making these lace barefoot sandals that she planned to wear when dancing at the wedding instead of the giant heels she'll have in the ceremony.
Technically, my last classes for all the semester had been on the previous Thursday, but we had been one class behind in math, which meant we didn't have time for all the final review days the teacher had planned on, and so she tacked on another extra class on the Tuesday after. She only had time to do it at 8 in the morning instead of the usual 10. Nonetheless, I went (thus making it just about the earliest I've gone to school since taking the ACT). I'm glad I did, since we went over some things I was less sure about, and it was one more day that I could be hanging out with one of my favorite teachers ever.
That wasn't enough for me to feel completely confident about taking the final, though, so in the afternoon (after I used my school time to write up the chemistry project), my mom dropped me off at the public library to study. I wish I still had a bit more time, then, but I still got a pretty dang decent amount of mathing done.
I took the math final the morning after, then spent the rest of the school day (just like the day before) finishing up the chem project. As celebration, my mom let me go take the whole afternoon and evening to just read manga at the library. Of the three I read, the one I liked the most was Parasyte. The style was actually a little more different from the movie than I expected (and Shinichi's personality wasn't really the same, either). I hope I can have the chance to read the rest of the manga over the summer. I also took home a thick novel titled Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin. I haven't gotten very far yet, but I'm certainly interested to see how the two sides/perspectives will end up connecting.
K, so I actually drew a character for Azul's story on Thursday, though more in my usual style. I also did it on a sticky-note.
As you can see, I stuck it into my notebook at home.
This is supposed to be the Mizar, who's changed quite a bit from my first concept of her being like Louise from Bob's Burgers. You could say she shares living in a restaurant, and occasionally trying to get away with doing crazy things to the food (and creeping out a customer, a new detail I just barely thought of), but that's not even the Louise aspect I'd been originally looking for. I guess I'm gonna be leaving that idea for some other time, then.
Anyway! I started sketching, not entirely sure where I was going with it, but I was able to pick up more concrete parts of her personality along the way. I was also able to see that, of the different names I'd been considering for her, these two were definitely the ones that fit. Well, Alaia's the one that makes more sense of the two for the place of origin I'd been considering for her (Mexico), but for some reason, I just couldn't bring myself to let go of Phoebe yet. Since Carter- who I'm pretty sure didn't know that she's supposed to be Mexican- said he thought Alaia worked better, then I finally could say that this Mizar is officially named Alaia. (I really wanna try to use the name Phoebe some other time, though.)
Major successes: the proportions are good, and actually more accurate than usual, besides the hands. I'm also pretty happy with the face and apron.
Major flaws: THE HANDS ARE KILLING ME. One is way too small, and the other is a fail at trying to draw a peace sign because I tried to make the hand a bit smaller while penning in the original pencil. It'd looked a little better before then. Also, I really should've been more careful with the bandana. I'm pretty sure I've never really drawn one, plus I didn't want it to look super stiff. Those two things resulted in it looking like... that. But hey, it could be worse?
Also, in case you're wondering, that's a bouquet of kittens on her apron. Because, I mean, we can all imagine some Mizar to have an article of clothing with a bouquet of kittens on it. Come on.
So, there's another character down! I still haven't drawn Lin and Vin (and now that I think about it, maybe I should start trying to draw penguins that aren't like Bob the Penguin that I used to doodle in 6th grade), but I've been slowly getting more and more done in preparation for this story. And, by this point, I'm actually kinda hoping the mods don't publicly answer my question, on the off-chance that someone else will also want to make something out of the idea before I get to post this. *sheepish*
Later that day, we also went to the premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2!!! Turned out I could get cheaper tickets at the college with proof that I was a student (eg. student ID), so I bought tickets for me, my dad, my sis, and Captain. At that point, the only seats left were on the front two rows, so I was a little worried about if it was gonna be way too close. Fortunately, when we got there, it turned out the seats weren't that bad after all. And, man, the movie was awesome! I guess saying I liked it a lot more than the first movie doesn't mean much when I hardly remember the first (partly because we watched it at, like, 3 in the morning), but I do. I hadn't originally been exactly as pumped for this movie as, say, The Lego Batman Movie, but with the prospect of seeing it with Carter (then instead the prospect of seeing it with my family), I'd gotten more excited for it, and I'm so glad I did.
I didn't go to school on Friday, instead using the first part of the day to help my mom move a bunch of our clothes and some other stuff to our new home: Nutella and Flower's basement. I don't even wanna get into how I feel about being in such close proximity to Nutella when I still haven't really gotten over the stuff from 7th grade... So let's leave it for later. After that, my mom dropped me off at the library to try to get some seminary make-up work done (seriously, these assignments are supposed to take 45 minutes? I've almost always ended up using at least double that time, and I don't think it's just me being slow!), while she, my dad, and their dad moved some more stuff in. By the time I had to leave the library (because it turns out they close at 6 on Fridays), my sis and Captain had also showed up to help with the mattresses. I had to walk there from the library, since everyone was too busy. The good thing is that the library's not really that far from this house, just about the equivalence of two or three blocks. The bad thing is that, in order to cross the busy street that the library's situated at safely, I had to take the bridge that they had built over it. It's a little terrifying, because not only did I have to be high up above the ground, but high up above a bunch of fast-moving cars. So, as much as I love knowing I could just walk to the library from here if I needed to, I'd really prefer to not do it, unless I lose my fear of heights and getting run over anytime soon.
With most of the moving already done by the time I returned, I didn't really have much to help with, and we pretty much got the rest of the evening to relax. Since we now live in the basement, and Flower does, too, I'm next-door to her. Turned out I could help her with some of her math and chemistry homework, so we did that for a while. It was fun to hang out with her, just the two of us, which I don't think we've really done before, and I was happy to know I was able to help her. Lala later showed up so she could help Flower with choosing her prom makeup. Both my mom and Flower's mom came in to hang out, as well, and I ended up mostly playing Pokémon Emerald on her bed while the others did makeup stuff.
The next morning, I read fanfics until my phone died (ah, how refreshing!), then tried to get a bit more done of seminary make-up. Apparently, I'd been oblivious enough while hiding in my room that I hadn't realized more people had come and gone from the house than I thought, including Lala being in Flower's room for a few hours to help her get ready for prom.
I haven't actually mentioned why Carter couldn't do prom anymore, huh? I didn't want to, before, on the chance that it would all work out anyway, but, well... no. The thing is, both he and Coatrack are in the choir at their school. Their choir qualified to go to State. Since a lot of the boys weren't allowed to go because they didn't keep up enough with their grades, and Carter has good grades... he pretty much had to go so there would still be enough boys. And it was on the same day as my school's prom. So, like said earlier in this post, he had to tell me that he wouldn't be able to come anymore. Of course I'm sad that it didn't work out, but more-so for the fact that I wanted to see him than that I wanted to go to prom. Before he'd asked if I wanted to go, I would've said "To heck with prom!", because I'm just not really the kind of girl who finds prom super important, and I really didn't have the desire to just go to prom without him, or with someone else. That didn't feel right.
Though my sister's upset about me not going, and she apparently said to my mom that she thinks I'll regret it in the future, I don't think I will. The part I really cared about was going with Carter, not just going. As long as we get the chance to meet up some other time, then I'm going to be happy.
I hadn't seen Lala earlier that day, but I ended up hanging out with her later while everyone else was at prom (and my family decided to go for sushi). She took me and Elenita to see La La Land at the dollar theater, then we got some ice cream at the Baskin-Robbins next door (though I got the smallest portion of ice cream available). Her parents had dropped us off at the theater, and they also picked us up again to go hang out in their room. I helped her a bit with her own math homework, but we mostly spent the time just chilling and listening to music. The oldest sister, Lia, later came in to hang out as well, and she was the one to bring me home once it got to 11 PM.
Though I'd already known that I wouldn't be going to prom anymore at that point, I still wanted to participate in nominating people for Prom King/Queen. I put a bunch of my friends' names in, and three of them actually made it to the official list! (One of them seemed to be kinda mad with me for doing that. Sorrynotsorry, girl.) Rubik also made it to the list, which I was happy to see (but I hadn't nominated him since I wasn't sure which grade he was in), and he was hilariously shocked to hear that when I told him. I'm curious to see who won all the different titles when I go to school tomorrow. Hopefully, some of my friends became Prom Royalty!
Last thing I'm gonna talk about is that, at some point these past weeks, I thought of a nice gesture that could be done at my funeral (not because I'm expecting it to be sometime soon or anything): passing out a Book of Mormon to every person/family who arrives. It would be a chance to be a missionary, even after death, and say something about how much I appreciated having it while alive. Upon thinking of it, though, I realized... as I currently stand in life, it doesn't make much sense to do that. I mean, I've given a couple BOMs in my lifetime, but not enough to exactly be known for doing such a thing. And who would care about the effort being put in by whoever plans this funeral to commemorate me in this way if I wasn't much of a missionary before then? I'm honestly quite a bit of a coward, and though I've done my best to take the opportunities when I see them, it's done extremely cautiously, and I guess I've probably hardly taken all the opportunities, and I don't think I really made my own opportunities, either. I feel like my excuses for why I've tried to limit it with my friends are pretty legitimate, but it's clear that the people from the scriptures had all the same reasons and more, and they still did way more than I've ever done.
So... the thought resulted in me thinking more on what sort of legacy I want to leave behind, and whether I'm truly as much of one of Christ's disciples as I want to be, and whether I'm really helping the Church grow and help more people be happy than I could be.
I hope I can fix that soon.
Alrighty, I should be getting ready for bed now! Man, the wedding is this week... We'll have to see what the week has in store before that, and I desperately hope everything goes as planned! *crosses as many fingers as possible* Bye!
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