Is It Always Like This

Tomorrow is Friday! This week seems to have gone by fast, but I guess that's just how I've experienced it. Nothing too memorable around to remind me that yesterday wasn't anything more than a Wednesday. So this means the second week of school is almost done! Whooo. Oh yeah, I don't think I've mentioned yet that one of my paintings received honorable mention at the state fair. :) Yay!

There Were Birds In The Sky

What a beautiful day is was today! Hot albeit, but still quite nice. I sat in the sun, swam, went to the library, visited the post office, looked around a furniture store and spotted some pieces I dearly wish I could call my own, had leftover pizza for lunch, went to meijer, got some panda express(yum orange chicken!), and then came home again to relax. Too bad there isn't anything good on tv tonight, at least as far as I know. Maybe we'll have a little campfire.. Either way today is Saturday, and I SURVIVED THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL! Whoo. Claps for Gemma! Yeah, I'm surprised that it's actually going fairly well despite having math homework, map quizzes, and that sort of thing to do already. Also, it seems the school musical tryouts are quickly approaching... Must prepare for that.. :)

One Down

181 to go...
First day of school! How fun.
Today was, an okay day. I mean, it was the first day of school so it can't really get much more than okay. Turns out all my teachers are pretty cool though, and everything is going to be a-ok!
I really don't have much else to report..
The grandparents are leaving tomorrow though :( back to Florida for them!

So Much So

Well folks, I'm overheating for no apparent reason, but don't be alarmed. Meh, surely there is an answer to this problem... The fan I just turned on seems to be helping. But really, I'm melting here. Maybe it's the long hair? ....the office is pretty muggy right now, it also smells like feet.. and dog.. obviously not very pleasant. Anyway, it's off to registration for me tomorrow morning! How very exciting. Hopefully it won't take too long. Truthfully though, I'm quite looking forward to finding out my classes and team this year. All the sooner so that I may complain about them... Nah, really I'm going to try keeping a positive attitude towards this school year. We'll see how long that lasts...

My Inner Waffle

Okay, it seems the time has come to do one of these SoulPancake questionnaires... I mean, it just makes sense! ^_^ I must say they are rather cool. For a first I'll just steal this one from all the other blogs I've seen it on.. you know who you are. ;D

Food

Please list a few favorites.. 1. Fruit 2. vegetable 3. meat 4. cheese 5. drink 6. spice 7. anything else

1. Peaches - oh dear sweet peaches... I love them. Especially when they're so ripe they practically ooze juice when you cut them. Mhmmm. Delicious.

2. Either spuds or yams. Both please me very much. Mmmm baked potato with cheese and bacon bits... Or McAlister's country potato soup... When it comes to sweet potatoes, I usually have those heated and mashed with brown sugar and butter. It's practically dessert!

3. Steak. Hands down.. or maybe ribs.. I could never go vegetarian, I love meat too much. ^_^

4. Sharp Chedder - sliced with crackers? Good snack.

5. 2% Milk - My drink of choice. Milk is my water. Coming in second would be most likely be sweet tea. It's more refreshing I suppose, better for a hot summer day.

6. Cinnamon, I know not very creative, but it's great. Cinnamon sugar on cut up apples, cinnamon toast, cinnamon in chocolate cake, cinnamon rolls, cinnamon cinnamon cinnamon! Such a useful spice.

7. Nutella! Delicious halzenuty chocolatey spread. Of course, we don't spread it on anything at my house, we find nutella is best eaten in spoonfuls. :)

And now, I'm off to take a walk and maybe eat something because this seems to have made me a bit hungry....

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.