Fuzzy Blue Lights

Today is the perfect kind of day, the previous night was stormy, damp and cloudy in the morning, and sunny in the afternoon.

I turned in my four paintings for the state fair today! Yay! If you're going to the state fair, go see the paintings in the Home and Family Arts building. ^_^ There was already a lot of cool stuff there when we stopped by to drop off my pieces.

It's hard to believe we have registration for school on the 4th of August. I don't want to think about it, but I can't quite help myself. The summer has gone fast. Middle school has gone fast. Pretty crazy! Hopefully the school year will pass quickly also. I'm mostly looking to enjoy this coming year of education. That's all I can really hope for. ;D

A Potato Day

So, not much going on I suppose. Grandpa came home from the hospital today after having his surgery on Friday, so he's recovering well. Other than that I've been playing with the doggies and painting. This year for the state fair I'm entering four pieces of artwork in the Youth Art section, which are all still somewhat in the midst of creation. Ah, darn you procrastination. Hopefully I can get them done in the four days I have left before taking them over... I suppose we'll find out. I mean, summer is really flying by, I can hardly believe we're already at July 21st. Enjoy every moment people, lest you regret how your summer was spent.

And now for some artwork(if you could call it that):

This first painting is of my cousin Kelsey. (I took the original reference picture when she was asleep on the bus back from Chichen Itza in Mexico) It's sort of pop artsy don't you think? I'm debating whether or not to paint the background another color, if I did it would probably be a very light lime green or light light pink/purple.

This painting, took me a LONG time to make. The heart is a complicated thing you know. ^_^
I quite like how this one has turned out.

Then there is this painting of a house, it's kind of sloppy, but I think it looks cute.

The Icky Variety

The grandparents are nearing! They'll be here this evening, yay! Also, our pool has pink slime. It's kind of gross. All over the bottom of the pool and on the steps and sides there's this pink filmy gunk and I had to use the pool brush to shift it and brush it off of everything. Now that that's done we'll shock the pool, but three times the usual dosage or something like that. Apparently this is a bacteria rather than an algae that is attacking our pool (it's not really attacking, more just getting all over and looking pink) and it's supposed to be difficult to get rid of. Hopefully we won't have too much trouble, although we can still swim in the pool with the slime there.

Beauty Is Pain

I now have braces on my top teeth. Joy. It didn't take too long and I'm starting to get used to the feeling of tightness, but I still feel weird about them. And I'll have them on for 18 months if not more. Fun right? I guess if 18 months is what it stays at I'll be lucky. Spencer was supposed to have his for 22 months and now he's having to continue so he'll end up having them for three years. Of course, the likelihood is that I'll continue longer also because we both have an impacted canine(both of my canines on top are impacted actually) so we both have to have surgery to attach a chain to said teeth to tighten to the braces. Spencer had to get surgery twice, it didn't quite work out the first time. Part of the reason Spencer is going longer is also that his canine tooth is coming in backwards, so the part that should be facing the inside is in front. I may have the same thing. It's really kind of interesting with our teeth, because my mom had an impacted canine as well as her sister, and now Spencer has one, and I have two. :( On another braces related note I chose to have clear opaly elastics rather than having colors because I figured it would be less noticeable and I'm glad I did. I actually kind of don't mind how the braces look.

Stars and Stripes and Storms

Yay! It's the fourth of JULY! Fireworks! Fest! Fun! Oh boy! And, seeing that it is the day we celebrate our independence as a country it is only right to be decked out in red white and blue. Of course, I have no red clothing. Tons of blue and white but no red. Can you believe that? I sure can't. I don't know why I don't have any, but either way I'm wearing a dark pink shirt instead with red mardi gras beads. In other news, it isn't sunny today. In fact, it's rather overcast and somewhat chilly/breezy, incase you hadn't noticed, or are in a different area than I. And it's supposed to rain, how unfortunate. I hope they don't cancel any of the fireworks events going on. In any case, Happy 4th of July!