Happy Christmas!

(feeding them hungry reindeers)

finality

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

got my grades back.

WAY better than i anticipated in the whole art/design area (b+!). final gpa? 3.75. (i think, you know, it all depends on my ability to do math... so... you know...)

whoop and hoorah!

next semester? i'm gonna work so hard, it'll blow everyone's MINDS. just you wait, 'enry.

take a ride on the reading railroad!

oh how i love monopoly. it encapsulates all those wonderful mid-western "work your way to the top with perserverance" qualities i mentioned before. there's just such a feeling of accomplishment in going from having 1 dollar to having every piece of property on the board, hotels on all of them, loads of money, and a whole game-table full of people who are terrified to roll the dice for fear of paying rent to you.

oh dear heavens i'm turning into mr. potter what is wrong with me??

you gotta be kind to yourself

semester report! well not everything went as planned... i did really well all semester then at the very end my work for design class fell apart and thing got awful and dramatic and i worked for 36 hours without stopping, and...it was just...bad. anyway, as of thursday i am done for the year, so friday sister and i hopped in edie and popped over to memphis for a graduation and some much needed fun. i haven't really seen anyone since school started...so...ya know...hooray.

also a big part if it for me was a)needing to be around friends to get myself back to being myself, and b) needing a distraction from my scholarly identity crisis.

i feel as though who i am has been asleep for the last few months and i'm just waking up. it's mostly just because I've been busy and adjusting and stressed, but i think also never having a moment that was my own. so. this next semester i am going to actively try to make my life happier by making sure to listen to a happy cd every day, and to make sure to eat right, exercise and wake up early (i'm just happier when i do), and most importantly make sure that every day i make at least 10 minutes my own, by myself... even if it's just sitting drinking a cup of tea and looking out the window.

so. resolutions resolutions.

thanks to a grand old pal and his enheartening words of wisdom, my "i have no talent i'm terrible why do i even try" crisis is over... and i've moved on to the good old mid-western "get there through hard work and perserverance and grit" mindset i love so much. and i will (as against my true nature as it really is) try to stop beating my mind up for every mistake made and every failure and every little thing that wasn't the very best. sometimes we slip and fall, and i suppose thats what makes not falling so beautiful... but i'm going to start being kinder to myself.

art class!

hopefully i'm going to be getting my art projects from this semester back this week, so i'm going to try and post pictures of them... starting with the pieces i just turned in...

winne! i love you! (for those who don't know, i'm obsessed.) the point of this assignment was to replicate the subject of a photograph using different tones of only one hue. and i of course chose yellow. because it's a thing.

this definitely took 10 minutes, and most of it i did during an outside trip with puppy

...and this definitely should have taken longer, if it hadn't been 4 am and if i had had any motivation at all. and so it is horrible. it's crumpled paper. cause you can't tell.

took FOREVER. this was an exercise in paint mixing where on a 4x4 sheet we were supposed to mix all the colors we could with the colors we were given. win! the whole color spectrum. bam-o kablaam-o, i won the assignment.

walk on

yesterday when you were young
everything you needed done was done for you
now you do it on your own
but you find you're all alone, what can you do?

you and me walk on, walk on, walk on
'cause you can't go back now

you know there will be days
when you're so tired
that you can't take another step
the night will have no stars
and you'll think you've gone as far
as you will ever get

aou and me walk on, walk on, walk on
'cause you can't go back now

and yeah, yeah, you go where you want to go
yeah, yeah, be what you want to be
if you ever turn around, you'll see me

i can't really say
why everybody wishes they were somewhere else
but in the end, the only steps that matter
are the ones you take all by yourself

you and me walk on, walk on, walk on
yeah, you and me walk on, walk on, walk on
'cause you can't go back now
walk on, walk on, walk on
you can't go back now

the weepies

in other news

new phone!

cutie palm pixi, making my life soooooo much easier with its fanciness and email and calendars and gps and internet. good grief. love.

bisy bisy little spotted an herbacious baxsons

well well finals week!! aaah! i keep making new lists every few hours to make sure i'm getting everything done... feeling compusive urges now...can't...hold...it...back....

-performance analysis'? check.
-final papers turned in? check.
-ballet final? check
-voice performance? check check check.
-rhetoric final? check.
-psych exam? en la manana... but done studying!

still to do:

-self-portrait
-"flight" painting
-letter-grouping positive/negative experiment painting
-monochrome painting
-technical sketch set of crumpled paper
-technical color exercises, oh so many of them

almost there... just...4... more... days....
i'm alternating between extreme energy and extreme lack of motivation.

blërg.

new friend!

meet Piper Maude

she is adorable
she is 11 weeks old

and i'm pretty sure that, contrary to justin's opinion, she hates slides. SO much.

she loves tummy rubs and playing the first part of fetch (still hasn't quite grasped the "bringing the ball back" part)

she bounces (literally) around all jolly and fun, and she can see pixies because she's magic... she dreams of flying through elfin treehouse cities and bringing baskets of muffins to all her gnomely friends.

oh yes and she bit my camera.

guess whose height just got legit!

guess who else was 5'7?

yes you got it, the loveliest, classiest lady of them all... if i could have half of her class i'd be happy.