Showing posts with label i should be sleeping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label i should be sleeping. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

So busy.

I don't really know what else to say. I'm kind of overwhelmed with school and dance and honors and things right now but I am still writing my creative projects as I can find the time to so hopefully I'll post more soon. Book reviews will have to wait until things are more settled I think; I've hardly had time to read any this year so far anyway. Let's see, I know I can recommend "No Country For Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy and "In the Night Garden" by Catherynne M Valente (the former for February and the latter for January). I can also tell you to avoid the novel "Shiver" like the plague.

Oh, wait! I know what more I can say! Happy Ash Wednesday!

. . . sort of inappropriate to say 'happy' Ash Wednesday I suppose but how else do you wish someone well at the beginning of Lent? Oh well, whatever. Have a blessed Lenten season; I'm looking forward to Easter already.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Why I Shouldn't Procrastinate

I'm busily working on my little brother's birthday card. Since it's in the wee hours of the morning now, it is already his birthday. This is why I should not put off making cards and things until the last minute; I always end up losing sleep. To make things extra difficult, he asked that his card be butterfly themed. I don't know why. He assigned each sibling a theme: Dragons, Dinosaurs, and so on. I got the butterfly card. Problem is, butterflies are just about my least favorite things to draw. That might sound silly, but I mean it. I've just got a block when it comes to drawing butterflies. Even back in first grade, I remember being frustrated with them. I simply cannot draw a good butterfly.

So now I'm painstakingly trying to copy butterfly shapes and colors from various reference pictures online and having a ridiculously difficult time of it. He had better like this card when he gets it tomorrow ^_^

I'm listening to the "Inception" score while drawing. This helps a little bit.

The blisters on my feet, especially on my right foot, are really, really nasty and painful, but I'm trying to do everything I can to speed-heal them so I can compete this weekend without making an utter fool of myself onstage, eg., limping around instead of dancing. This is, scarily enough, a very real possibility, since I was not even able to put my soft shoe on my right foot at class today, let alone a hard shoe! I tried looking up tips online about how to heal blisters quickly, but I just ended up finding a bunch of articles warning me to take blisters easily because if they get infected they can lead to death or amputation. I'm paranoid enough without reading stuff like that, thank you kindly.

I think I'll finish this card tomorrow morning. I mean, today morning. Later. When the sun is up. Right.

'Night! Or . . . Morning! Whatever you like.