Poetry

Lately, instead of working on my stories at night or writing in my journal I do one of two thing (1) I draw (I'm getting really good at drawing people *manga style* and then inking the drawings), and (2) writing poetry. Lately I've been doing A LOT of the latter. A couple of nights in a row I've stayed up writing and drawing until almost two in the morning (which I don't know about you, but for me that's rather late). The annoying thing about it is that I can't really show people when they ask me what I'm writing when I write poetry because, well, it's poetry. I generally write free form and occasionally haikus. But yeah, it's sort of weird because I haven't written this much poetry since, like, three years ago.

Beautiful Day...

It's 71% out!!! So awesome...I spent the morning volunteering at Cultivating Community weeding out in the nice, hot, gorgeous sun. I'm a bit tired (due to random inspiration last night that led to me writing and drawing until past one in the morning). I had a fun time last night (before the random writing/drawing) with a couple of my friends and my boyfriend (well, he's my friend too...I'm rambling...must be the lack of sleep) at a game night. It was surprisingly awesomely fun. So now I'm in a tired, good mood.

Movies, Fallen Trees, and Jumbo Cookies

Yesterday we shopped a lot and I got cool stuff (this awesome all natural makeup). It was the first full day with my Dad being back from his business trip, so it was nice just to have him back home (not to mention he brought back neat freebies and Sees Chocolate). Yesterday evening I watched the movie Stranger Than Fiction; it was great! I found it hilarious, being a writer, and I highly recommend it. It’s one of the better movies that I’ve seen lately (along with Jerry MaGuire, About a Boy, and *another movies that’s name is escaping me*). The funny thing that the movie (Stranger Than Fiction) got me craving big chocolate chip cookies (the crispy yet chewy kind you get in bakeries). So, today Mom and I baked biscuits, brownies, HUGE chocolate chip cookies, and HUGE raison chocolate chip cookies. Everything smells really good. Today it has been storming like crazy. My backyard is totally flooded and one of the trees in a neighbor’s yard fell down-into our yard and on top of our fence! So now the fence is just a big tangle of wire and the canoe we keep out back is in questionable shape.

HYPER!!!!!

Yeah, I'm really hyper today, because my mom, brother, and I hung out in the Old Port and were tourists in our own town. So, we shopped, ate lunch at Whole Foods, and had gelato at Maple's Ice Cream. Anyways, I had 'Drinking Chocolate' at Whole Foods and it was like an espresso. Also, I had cappuccino gelato at Maple's. So now I am on a total caffeine high and HYPER!!!

(The image to the left is the Maple's Ice Cream logo).

It's Snowing...In APRIL

Well, it's snowing again, in the middle of April, which really sucks. It wouldn't be so bad, but the play was postponed until tommorrow night because of it. I was really looking forward to the play (well, in all honesty I was more looking forward to the hanging out backstage and whatnot, but whatever). I've been in a pretty good mood in the past week, with the exception of a couple of annoying people being, well, annoying. The one thing that probably won't be so great about the play tommorrow is that most likely certain relatives of mine will show up and then give me a really hard time asking me who I like and whatnot (it's none of their beeswax, and I'd just as soon not tell them that I'm dating, for the same reason). Back to my good week; everything is really awesome...and I'm going to focus on that.

Backstage For the Play...

Well, I'm updating my blog as I wait to go onstage to make a fool of myself with my hair-with-2-tons-of-hairspray and a hideous dress (I get to say 'soap, no bubbles I think'...woohoo). So, I'm bored and James is reading over my shoulder. He was nice and let me stick some texturizing cream in his hair so now it is nice and straight (it's funny, some of the girls asked him if he got a haircut :) ). James is playing Daddy Warbucks and he does a good job of it (unlike me, he can actually *gasp* sing). So yeah, I'm in a pretty good mood just hanging out with my friends, missing classes, and messing with Jame's hair (oh, and I suppose the play is okay too).

Time For A List...

Okay, so as I've posted earlier (and some stuff that I haven't posted) is pretty sucky lately, so I think it's time for me to make a list. Ironically, I originally got idea's for lists like this from the book series where one of the books is Time Stops For No Mouse (pretty weird, isn't it?). It's where you write a list writing things that your grateful for (not just the obvious stuff). I find making lists like this makes me look on the bright side a bit more so...here is goes, in no particular order, the list of things I'm thankful for:
1. My family (I started to list everyone, but then I decided to just keep things simple; they're all totally awesome)
2. My school doesn't suck (as far as middle schools go it's halfway decent)
3. All of my friends...(totally insane, nice, cool, fun to be around, etc)
4. My boyfriend...is awesome
5. Snow days (have one today)
6. High school (the one I'm going to looks pretty cool, even though very few of my friends are going)
7. Teachers...are, for the most part, with a few exceptions, are tolerable and don't hate me :)
8. Blue hair dye that turns out green...gotta love it
9. Diet Mountain Dew...drinking it now *yummy*
10. Random nice people on online forums
11. Cool online forums...most notably the NaNoWriMo Forums and http://www.fullmetal-alchemist.com/forums/ (FMA forums)
12. Modern medicine...for making everything better
13. The internet, and search engines (although I waste lots of time online *see #12* I save equally large amounts of time thanks to all of the information on the internet)
14. Books (as escape, entertainment, thought provoking, informative coolness)
15. Plants (pretty flowering ones)
16. Nail Polish (pretty light pink polish)
17. Writing, as a great way to de-stress, and just because
18. Days when I can sleep in
19. Good Listeners
20. Music (I love to play the piano and listen to music)
21. Second chances
22. Random things
23. Bikes (in the summer I bike everywhere)
24. Good, thought provoking conversations
25. Democracy
26. Laughter
27. Homemade pancakes every morning
28. Being good at academics
29. Fish, and other pets
30. Singing (even though I don't sound good)

Well, that's just a brief list, and I know it's weird and random, but writing lists is something I do to cheer myself up (though I think this is the first time I've let other people read it).