People can be silly sometimes, the end.

Grape Juice City is a great song, too.

SO


I donated blood today! Usually I feel nauseous or at least a little dizzy, but today I felt fantastic! Until I had to go run a bunch of errands with my father, which is when I started to feel so incredibly tired that I was fighting sleep while trying to pick out conditioner! I took a nap & felt better, and there's really no point to this story except
DONATING BLOOD IS GREAT,
I always feel super-awesome afterwards because I have O neg and I know at least one of my friends is also O neg so if either of us is ever in an accident I sincerely hope that our hard work will come in handy! Not that I ever want to be in an accident, nor would I ever wish that on anyone I know, but still. O neg is the universal donor, but we can only receive O neg blood.
Enough about blood.

 

The thing I'm most proud of here is that I chose the colors myself...? Usually I pick out a color palette that's already been made, so I feel accomplished in this one small step.

dose of optimism

I couldn't decide whether or not to load these separately, but they fit so well together! I think so, at least. It's fun to look at these when I'm feeling down, because sometimes it's hard to remember that life is actually really fantastic! These are like doses of instant optimism. Yeah!!! I'm going to try really hard to be cheerful!
In other news-
UGH THIS SONG IS MY FAVORITE EVER,
whenever I hear it I'm reminded of these small golden moments where I'd lay in a patch of sunlight and listen to one of my friends play piano,
it's just
really beautiful.

Also,
WOW I REALLY WANT TO SEE THE AVENGERS AGAIN,
and also
LEGEND OF KORRA IS PERFECT (mostly Bolin, he is the most perfect perfect person on the entire fictional perfect planet).

I don't know if you've noticed, but I really like cool colors when it comes to these things.
Also I'm kinda proud of myself because I've been drawing more often and I can actually see improvement in some things? Like that previous post, I kinda just stared at that drawing for a while because I am still blown away by how proud I am of that hand. Like, the colors and the lines and just everything about it, I think I'll always be happy when I draw hands that look like how I actually imagined them looking. These hands up there don't really count because (shh don't tell) I kinda traced them from a photo that I took for reference but gosh darnit I learned a few things about hands in the process, right? I'll just keep telling myself that!
In other news,
I've been having problems sleeping again, and it's really annoying because I'm starting to notice these dark half circles under my eyes and they aren't that great! Also the nightmares, those are getting more strange and vague and I don't really know what's going on there but it's not good.
In more optimistic news!
Um!
I'm still really excited about summer!
My friend DJ will be in Ohio for a few days before he goes to Italy for a month & I leave for Missouri, so we're totally going to hang out then! And HEY DJ if you're reading this I had a dream the other night where I saw you drive up in the parking lot and I gave you the best sneak-attack-hug ever! And that's basically where the dream ended, because I woke up, but still!
Also my friend Kristy is hopefully visiting before I leave, and I haven't seen her for a really long time so that should be really fun also! Yay! So many cool people and adventures!

I'm really
excited for
this summer!!

(the song is actually called "whirl y reel"? I don't know why it's spelled funny in the video)

I'm almost deliriously happy with the colors of this, I am officially in love with this color palette site, it's like a candy store of beautiful colors. (also ack her left eye is way out there, I know, ack ack [n]ak)

I'm listening to this CD I just picked up from the library, it's pretty trippy. It's Afro-Celt? That's what the album says, and it's pretty self-explanatory. My thought when I picked up the album was, "What do African music and Celtic music sound like when they're put together? Let's find out!" Good idea, past self.

Here's one of the songs, if you're feeling adventurous.

In other news, MAY IS GOING TO BE AWESOME AND NO ONE CAN STOP IT.

FF # 1

This is a thing I'm going to start?
Question mark?

Yeah...
?
So anyways, this was the first one that came to mind because the people that I work with are so amazing, and I shared something with one of my managers tonight and he was just, so, cool about it, and then my throat started to close up a little and I thought, "Oh no, oh no, no no no," so I had to go to the bathroom and do some deep breathing and staring myself down in the mirror to calm down. I guess I was feeling especially grateful because before work I had just read a really great book, and Meg just keeps making my summer brighter and brighter, and I took a walk out in the beautiful weather, and someone I didn't know waved at me as I was walking, and the music I was listening to was really awesome, and then I went to work and made tips and it just all built up into a big pile of warm fuzzy things.
Hehe.
Yeah!