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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

"Me?" "Snape?" "NO! YO MOMMA! UMBRIDGE!"


LOOK WHO GOT IT THE DAY IT CAME OUT! SUCKAHS!
Yeah, basically I'm really excited to read this. In case someone out there is a loser and doesn't know what series this book is from, I'LL BE HAPPY TO INFORM YOU. This is Rick Riordan's newest book. Like, so new that it's pages are fresh and never-been-opened and it's cover still has that little grease mark on its edge where fingers first touched it. It smells so good. But I'm making a furious face cause I can't start it until this other book I started last week is finished. It's called Brides of the Empire. It's really good and everything, I'm just really anxious to know what happens to Percy in book two of the Heroes of Olympus series. The first book left him in a foreign camp with no memory and I'll be forever angry at Riordan and extremely depressed if Percy doesn't remember Annabeth. 


Remember me telling you about my old/but new for me Schwinn Deluxe Hollywood bicycle that I got from a junkyard that I'm helping fix up so I can ride it next summer? The first fix-up session was last weekend, and I helped sand the rims and some other part that I don't know what the technical term is. Everyone always tells me how tedious sanding is, but I actually found it really relaxing. I'd happily do it again. 


Sanding the rims, and then putting masking tape on the bottom of the lines, before spray painting them grey-ish silver-ish flecked other colors. The cat's name is Bob. Compared to my kitty, he's absolutely huge. Actually compared to any kitty, he's absolutely huge. He's super cuddly and soft, and he always looks so sophisticated. The only thing is. His one eye is swollen and has no pupil and its all milky grey and its like, bigger than a golf ball. It's really disgusting, but I try not to look at it too much because I feel like enough people call him ugly. And really when you get past the big eye, he's super adorable and he's super nice. So as I sat there I cuddled him because all I was doing was itching his ear and he was rolling all over the floor purring. I was happy to give him some love.


This is my new friend. He might be wooden, BUT HE STILL HAS A HEART. He does whatever I need, even if they're really girly positions. His name is Aristotle because that means best in Greek. He helps my life be better.
(If you can't tell, he's a drawing manikin. You put him in the position you want so you know the correct anatomy position. It helps my life be better.)
I'm also glad that God makes my life better when it sucks.
And I'm also really psyched that Kurt just gave Blaine flowers on the new episode of Glee. And Kurt also just told Rachel off. Which makes me happy. "When you look back at these times you don't remember what clubs you were in or what leads you got. It's what friends you had and what ones you pushed away."

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

A Perfect Pair.





I'm not much of a painter, more of sketcher, but Tanner is. And if I'm gonna paint at all, only with him.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Αφροδίτη


This is my concept of beauty. This is an ancient statue of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, of love and beauty. I saw on the internet that someone called this statue "overweight" and "too wide," and I was absolutely horrified as to what society is teaching us. The ancient Greeks, some of the smartest people of their age, fit Aphrodite into this size in their statues and paintings. She was the goddess of BEAUTY for heaven's sake.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, society is teaching us nowadays that we all have to be smaller than this. This Aphrodite is gorgeous. Anyone naturally smaller or bigger than this is gorgeous. I hate that we all feel as if we have to be smaller than we are (and when I say "we all" I mean everyone who feels pressured too, I'm not fitting everyone inside a box) because that's what some people's idea of beauty is.
I feel encouraged when I see this statue because it means that everyone is different and we should be proud that we're not all like this, and we're not all twigs, and we're not all bigger than this, or whichever. I feel encouraged when I see this statue, because it's beauty. I'm determined to someday go to Greece and see this statue of Aphrodite for myself, to see this statue of beauty and feel proud for the women of the world. Heck, why not be proud for the men too?