A Little Bit of Heaven...

…is a movie that got a whopping 4% on rotten tomatoes! LOL. That's quite impressive actually, seeing as how Avatar the Last Airbender (quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen) managed to get away with a 6%.  But maybe the saddest part is that… I watched this 4-percenter and actually really enjoyed it.  Some of the reviews called it a "bummerfest" that wasn't sad enough to make someone cry nor funny enough to make them laugh. I cried my face off.  Awkward.  Another one said it was for "people who have a lot of time to waste".  Though they might be on the money with that one haha. But come on, Magic Mike got a 80%! WTF, Channing's abs are not that persuasive are they?  Or maybe I should just accept that I have terrible taste in movies.

Anyway, yesterday I started my first real job! It's mad boring, and I feel like I'm wasting their company's money by being there.  Seriously, I literally did nothing today but play iPhone games (caannddyyy cruuusshhh) and try my best to stay awake.  How sad.  It's probably because it's the beginning of their start-up so they are still getting everything sorted out and organized.  Hopefully I will have stuff to do tomorrow! But what I'm reeaallly looking forward to is….my first paycheck! I have big plans for that thing.  Probably going to spend it on art supplies, some oil painting classes, clothes, art supplies, headphones, and maybe some art supplies.  Lately I've been focusing more on art.  I want to get better! Yesterday I was browsing through some online galleries, and came across an artist that almost made me cry just by looking at his work.  I want to be able to make art like that one day.  So this summer I will do my best to improve!  

I held the left one up in front of my lamp to make it glow! Haha I guess you could call that cheating :) I'm pretty happy with how both came out, although I think there is something wrong with the bun-head's left boob. Too close to the other one? Not the same size? Hmm. 

Some sketches! The hand one is me trying to be clever… I call it "handception" ohoho.  The others are mostly quick sketches of my friends, except for the bottom right. I don't know any manga boys in real life :(

And last but not least… FOOD. So. much. beautiful. food. Been going out to lunch with my mom a lot recently while my sister's at preschool…hehe so relaxing~ 

So there you have it; that's what I've been spending my life doing! Watching movies, drawing, and eating. I also forgot to mention that me and Nicole got Brian to watch the High School Musical trilogy with us.  Except he kept making clever little comments on insignificant parts of the movie and not paying attention. So much in fact, that after we were finished all three, he told us he didn't know what any of the movies were about. -_-

Recently my dad and I managed to run our town's annual 5K!  The whole time we were running I had this raging internal conflict going on between my mind and body. It's pretty sad actually - eventually I made myself keep going because a little kid behind me shouted "Don't stop! You can do it!" I was so moved by his words that it filled me with newfound determination. Lol just kidding - I figured that it'd be way too pathetic if I stopped to walk and have a 8-year-old pass me.  And so, we managed to break 28 minutes! Thank you little kid.

Anyway, I should probably sleep so I can wake up early enough for Kaykay's preschool graduation! They call it "moving-up day". Too cute.  Good night!

Leaving Home for Home

Time is passing way too quickly! I can't believe that I'm done with my freshman year of college already. Seriously, holy crap.  Looking back on everything, it's been a pretty great first year.  Took chances, met a lot of amazing people, and learned things that I'll probably keep with me for a long time.  The end of the semester was really bittersweet.  I was excited to see everyone back home, but reluctant to leave the people I had spent the last year with.

So I've been home for about a week and a half now! Been spending my time with friends and family, applying to internships, and watching movies.  A Walk to Remember was classic, and I really enjoyed the surreal-realness of it (if that makes any sense).  Love Actually was hilarious (man, that British humor) and left me feeling warm, albeit a little confused with the loose ends.  Magic Mike was pretty bad, not gonna lie. I don't understand how it scored a 80% on rotten tomatoes when the only thing it had going was Channing Tatum's naked body....hmm but maybe that's a good enough reason. Haha, anyway, onto the pictures!

Umbrella project - walking around in that huge colorful crowd was so surreal, it made me feel like Martin and Dory in the field of jellyfish....yes i just made a Finding Nemo reference....

Final Review and my 6x6 moving cube! Spent most of finals week slaving away in the woodshop on that beautiful creation. My baby :'D Anyway, the review went really well! Reviewers loved it and my professor got some professional photographer to take pics of it :) I actually got kind of emotional cleaning up my studio space which just goes to show my love-hate relationship with that place.

Our wonderful wonderful room ♥ Cleaning and packing it all up was definitely a challenge lol.  I got pretty nostalgic - I might even miss living in that mess...maybe.

Home! Spending some quality time with family, friends, and my pet giraffe. Atttteempting to eat more healthy so I've been doing some gourmet home cooking. Reckon I'm qualified to start my own restaurant actually.

My parents celebrated their 25th anniversary! (with my sister ever so happily looking on) Also headed down to the shore and experienced my first orange&creme soft serve as well as some intense sunburn that spans my whole backside (yes, I fell asleep on my stomach). In other news, my parents sold my car :'(  I'm really going to miss that squeaky wheel and terribad acceleration ♥ 

These next few days I'm going to try spending some time on art! Finally. My hands have been itching to create something for ages. We will see how that goes :) But for now, gooooood night!