First thing that came to mind.
Yeah.
Well, I can't tell you the last time I updated this thing of which I check like, every day. >.>
Very poor manners of me, I know, I know.
And now I will attempt a very poorly covered up excuse for my absence and lack of artwork (which is the only thing I CAN vouch for):
Ahem. Well, family issues. That's a big taboo thing, yeah, well, and lack of artwork...my scanner/printer/awesome machine is gone.
GONE. NOT COMING BACK. D:
Well, until my father decides to buy a new one...which I dunno how long that'll take...*rolls eyes* I've got my sister's stupid camera that hates me and shuts off every two seconds, and my stupid camera phone.
But I'm actually okay about this, you know? It's just something you learn to cope with. ^^
I SWEAR TO THE FREAKING OVERHEAD IF I DON'T GET A FREAKING SCANNER I'M GONNA GO FREAKING CRAZY
But, yeah, well, that's about it. I have a Tablet, but God only knows why that thing hates my guts. It just does. I haven't drawn a half decent picture on that thing since I got it two Christmases ago.
...Holy SNAP. IT's two freaking years old?!
I've been feeling so old lately...how is that so, when I just turned sixteen?
Oh, another thing I forgot to mention/but no one really cares about.
I kinda...sorta...had my...sixteenth b-day. Hoorah. I mean, I don't FEEL like I grew five inches and have the freedom of the world in front of me and is driven by her academics to college and etc. etc. If anything, I realized, 'holy crap, I'm gonna have a crapful of homework this year'. And THAT'S not something you usually want to think of right before you go to school.
By the way, don't EVER procrastinate. Shoving things 'under the carpet', so to speak, will find you and they WILL drag you under the carpet with them. And if that's not a scary thought, I don't know what is.
I've also been writing/drawing/playing guitar a lot. I hate, hate, hate the feeling that my hands are all rough and calloused from washing my hands too much (I feel like Mini Mom/Cinderella all over again) I'm gonna lose my freaking fingerprints, aren't I?! Oh my geesh...and that the steel strings on my wonderful Seagull guitar Lara are cutting into my fingers like I dunno what.
Oh! I got a new guitar for my b-day. Ehehe, I sorta...forgot to say that...too....yeah. Her name is Lara. ^^ I know it's kinda weird that both my guitars I refer to as girls, but I'm not on the girl team, people. My computer's a girl too; I only call them that because they have mood swings that could knock a guy's teeth out. Rise (my old, crappy guitar) can't stay in tune for more then ten seconds--already tried--and Lara seems to enjoy messing with my mind with steel strings. So, yeah. And I keep losing all my gosh darn guitar picks and they randomly show up just when I don't need them. My grandparents in Ten. got me a guitar case; my grandpa's awesome because he played guitar and that got my dad and my uncle into guitar, and now my dad's gotten me into guitar, which is funny because my other grandpa and uncle play guitar too.
Yeah. I think I was like, SUPPOSED to play guitar to like, carry down the bloodline or something like that. Ugh, pressure. >.>
Anyway, sorry about this huge gigantic rant, I got the case, nice heavy case, the one you can drop on the ground and have someone jump on and it won't hurt the guitar (which took forever to find a case because my Seagull has hips that nearly made me have to get a gig bag, grr) but I keep bumping the case into walls, doors, people, the floor, myself, etc. My case probably hates my guts and it's only been like, a month. D:
But I love it. ^^
I've been working on that 100 Challenge thing, and sheesh, is that thing hard. I've gotten sidetracked more than a few times, drawing random things while I should be drawing challenges, but I'm just too...distracted.
By the way, Rachel, I've like, fallen in love with Owl City (Adam Young, right?) and that new song that was free on iTunes a few weeks back, Fireflies (By the way, you should ALL listen to it. It kicks ALL mega butt. It has become one of my new Nostalgia songs! ^^ ) I made my dad listen to it and he ADORES it. He blasts it every time he hears the song, and he made his friend listen to it and SHE loves it, so she wrote it down to tell her son about it too. We are SO spreading the love of Owl City. It's like, super great. I love him, geez.
Well, that's all I can really think of. I feel absolutely terrible for having dropped off the face of the earth while actually secretly stalking you guys (...okay, that sounded REALLY creepy...) so I'm going to put something I wrote yesterday up here. I beg of you, do not steal. I don't like people who steal, and if you need proof what happens to them, just ask Koii-sempai. Just know that it's REALLY BAD.
^^
On the Other Side of the Wall
On the other side of the wall
The huge big brick wall
There’s a little house made of sticks and hay
That the big bad wolf cannot blow down today
On the other side of the wall
On the other side of the wall
That far off huge wall
There’s a little stream running wide and free
A little stream, waiting for me
But only on the other side of the wall
On the other side of the wall
The big wall no one can get over
There’s a beautiful field covered in baby breath and larkspur
As thick and plenty as a dog’s long fur
Unfortunately, only on the other side of the wall
On the other side of the wall
The big wall that holds in this city
There’s a sky that reaches with both hands towards time
A sky full of clouds that pass over the wall and leaves it behind
But only on the other side of the wall
On the other side of the wall
That my father and father before helped to create
Where I wish I was, there’s a forest forever that will prate
About what’s on their other side of the wall
Somewhere I wish I was, on the other side of the wall
On the other side of the wall
The one lined with floating barbs
There’s a billion other people with dreams just like me
And one day I will forever be
On the other side of the wall
On this side of the wall
This big, big wall
A hundred different almond trees rest
Resting in anger at these times we detest
Sadly, on this side of the wall
On the other side of the wall
Which will crumble one day
All our flowers will float away
As free as we were and with minds set free
To the other side of the wall
It was meant to represent like the Japanese internment camps during World War 2, if you don't know about those, it's right after Pearl Harbor when Japan bombed the USA and they freaked out that every single Japanese person in the USA was actually a spy and Kennedy, I think it was, sent them to these internment camps where they stayed for several months. It wasn't like the Holocaust; none of them died, which is a very, very good thing, but it was very crowded and they weren't allowed to leave. All their property and businesses were sold--when they got out, they had nothing. It was one of the worst things the USA has ever, ever done. Eventually though, by Reagen (sp? Darn it) the Japanese were paid small sums as an apology. So yeah. There you go, History 101 lesson.
Well then, haha, this has gone on long enough. I appreciate every single one of you who didn't scroll down to get to the end that thank you for reading my huge, long rant. It means more to me than you know. ^^
Have a great day, ya'll! And don't forget your Nostalgia songs!
~Choco
