Pizza Night!

Linda, Justin, Jax, and Violet are back from California again. I am sooooo happy to see them! They ordered pizza from Hungry Howie's tonight. They got BBQ chicken pizza, jalapeño, pepperoni, cheese, gluten free cheese, and some little bread sticks.

I slept in again today, I've been hanging around the family a lot today. Today is Darik and Dylan's birthday as well, but I'll give them their own post later. I've been playing games on my phone like Bejeweled, IMVU which is more social than a game I guess, tetris, and TwoDots. I've also been watching YouTube videos, mostly Kurtjmac, GenerikB, Aureylian, and a few others. GenerikB has been playing this game called Bully about this kid that gets sent to this crazy boarding school. Basically the school is full of crazy people that beat each other up, stereotypical nerds, jocks, preps, mechanics called "greasers" and really weird teachers. Basically the whole place looks run down and you would have to watch some lets play videos to understand.

They each have certain series I like in their channels, but I'll go more in depth with my favorite youtubers later.

For now, here are some pictures and clips from today. If anything else happens tonight I'll edit this.

Paints & Colors

I never really knew how much I loved painting until just a few months ago. I have done a bit of painting all throughout elementary school, and beyond but I never really thought about how enjoyable it is until a few months ago when I was feeling quite stressed. A long time ago when I was 13 I went to a church girls camp and we were given boxes to paint for fun. For the past 11 years or so that box had a rather bad paint job but I never did anything about it because it was out of eye sight for a long time. Around the end of October I was feeling stressed and sad because of troubles with a close friend of mine and the fact that I had to drop out of that semester of school. I had some simple cheap paints in my art box and too much free time so one night I just decided to redo the box. I used the cardboard back of one of my fuzzy posters to paint on top of and to protect the carpet or any other surface from paint.

I wasn't sure what color I was going to paint the box at first, I experimented with colors for a while. After going through various purples, then indigo, and a dark blue I finally decided that I would paint it navy blue. A few weeks previous to deciding to paint the box I had taken another flower shaped box that I had and re-painted it navy blue and silver. I managed to stink up the whole house with nail polish fumes  doing that. Anyway, I had been painting on the floor, but moved to my desk dresser, it was more comfortable.

It didn't take me long after this to realize that I didn't have enough paint to finish the box. I went to Michaels craft store and bought the necessary paints and then went home. I noticed while I was painting that box that painting made me really relaxed and happy. I didn't paint for a while after that because i didn't know what I wanted to paint and at the time I didn't have very much money. I decided to go to Michaels and decide on more stuff to paint. I really enjoy painting wood, so I picked out some wooden boxes. I didn't buy anything right then, but waited until Christmas so i wouldn't have to spend a lot of money on the things I wanted. I got everything I pretty much wanted without naming the exact boxes, it was pretty lucky. I also had asked for a bunch of paints for Christmas as well and I got those too.

So from then until now I've been increasing the amount I paint. The picture at the top shows my latest finished project and one I am working on right now. It took me 3 days to paint that white chest, and I'm doing the smaller one metallic platinum silver. I will make sure to get more pictures when I am done painting everything I have. With all the various paints and brushes I have I really feel like my creativity is growing. I don't think I am quite done with the white chest altogether, just for now until i can find clear iridescent paint.

Anyway, before I painted the wooden chest a few weeks ago my room had been VERY messy. I hadn't cleaned it in probably 2 months. That friend who I briefly mentioned above and i were having more issues and we had a complete fallout. I find that when I am stressed one of the things that makes me feel better other than painting is cleaning, organizing and reducing m possessions. I am a minimalist and prefer to have as little as I can. Getting rid of things, organizing and / or cleaning makes me super relaxed. I did a major purge of my room and organized the whole thing, I got rid of quite a few things and moved others to better parts of the house. My newly cleaned room allowed me to have enough room to paint more.

Anyway, there are different levels of minimalism, I am as minimalist as I can be right now, i would love to get to a higher level some day though. Here is a video of one buy who took it all out. I probably won't ever get this far, I can do my best though.

I've always had this really big problem where I can never think of anything to eat at all. Today I am pretty sure 90% of what i ate today was chips. I had some beans and rice and cheese for dinner, and some ice cream. Other than that I have been really bad about food today. Because I am so hopeless about food and I want to get in shape I am going to start drinking Spiru Tein shakes twice a day starting next month. I feel my weight gain has more to do with lack of proper food and water than anything else. It's true that I don't exercise enough, but I think my food and water intake problem is the biggest issue. I can fix the water problem really easy, but I have to be more skillful about my food. I am determined to tackle my issues so i can be really healthy and become stronger. I am planning on walking every day and going to the gym a few times a week. Eventually I ant to start running and possibly swimming more as well. For now I'll take it one day at a time. You can't really rush this kind of thing.

My room has been in a constant state of being cold over the past few weeks, it's like it refuses to contain any kind of heat even when I keep my door shut. Not only does the beginning of spring mean that I can start walking again, but it means that pretty soon this problem will go away. I very much dislike being cold.

Today I went visiting teaching, the person my companion and I went to see is getting married soon and we talked to her for a good 40 minutes probably, though I didn't mind at all. We talked about her getting ready for the wedding and stuff and then we gave a spiritual lesson. Being the way i am I am not surprised that I have forgotten what exactly it was we gave the lessson on. It was nice to get out of the house for a while and see someone.

Because it was a very nice day today, after we left and I was dropped off at my house I decided I wanted to go get my ear buds and walk around the local track. I spent the next half and hour walking 4 times around the track and daydreaming while listening to techno music. I was very warm after the first couple of laps, but it felt very nice to not be cold. I went home after the 4th lap and just spent the rest of the day watching anime, listening to music and playing games on my phone. I was feeling pretty laid back after the walk and wanted to just relax. I am currently working on the Ghost Hunt anime for the second time, and after that I think I am going to try and get back into Detective Conan. I need to catch up on that anime very badly seeing as it is my favorite anime. A few days ago i started watching an anime called BECK. I had forgotten how much it swears in the English version. I quickly abandoned that and decided to watch something else.

Anyway, I've been in a pretty great mood today, besides the stuff I mentioned above I just did a little bit of surfing using the StumbleUpon toolbar. I am nearly to 10k page likes.

I should probably end this here, i think I haven't missed anything. :)

Family Pictures

Today we began taking the bricks off the floor that have been in one corner of the houses basement since before we moved in. There is also a wall too, but we are taking that out tomorrow I think. I won't say too much about it yet until we do the wall other than just taking out thr floor created a ton of dust. We have finally seriously begun remodeling the basement at last.

 That stuff can wait, I will talk more about the remodeling across the next few coming days, but today a few more important things happened that I want to talk about first.

 First of all my cold is going away, I can tell pretty well since my voice was more there today than it has been the past couple of days and my stuffy nose is almost gone. I'm really relieved that I did not catch anything particularly bad this time around.  I'm still coughing a little bit but it isn't that bad, I hardly ever cough now.

 The morning started out normal, I had been working on passing a map in Mario Party 3 that I had been stuck on for a few days. I did pass it later this morning. Nothing much besides me keeping to myself happened to the best of my memory for the first part of the morning. I just stayed in my room reading and playing Rush and Mario Party 3.and a few other things.

 The important part of this day happened around 10:45am. I was playing Rush 2 and my sister came into my room and told me to get ready so we could take family pictures around noon. I kind of wish she had told me earlier than that because I would have washed my hair, but it turned out okay anyway even though I didn't get to wash it. I did my hair to the best of my ability after playing the game for a few more minutes and then got dressed. My hair was a little hard to manage today because my hair was a little bit oily. It did not seem to want to stay the way I wanted it to even with the hairspray. My hair has always been a bit hard to manage because it is so thick. 

 My sister put some studio makeup on me after I got my hair ready and my clothes on. I usually don't wear as much makeup as she put on me, but I guess it was fun to have makeup on for once.  I don't really like makeup that much usually, it makes me feel self conscious, fake, and weird. When I do put it on it is extremely light and usually you can't even tell at all. Despite my usual objections to makeup I let my sister put it on me anyway.  I think I looked fine, can't really tell for sure thought until I actually see the pictures we took today.  When everyone was dressed and ready to go and after I had made a few tweaks to my makeup like eye shadow and different lip gloss we headed out to our local track so we could take the family photos in front of the mountains.

 We ended up not taking photos at the track because we couldn’t get the whole view of the mountains, and the sun was in our eyes. We experimented with a few different angles and stuff before we concluded that we should try and move a little further away so we could possibly get a shot with us all in it with the view of the mountains as well.

 We movied to another field near my old junior high, but it wasn’t far enough away from the mountains to get them all in the background. We gave up on this idea and just took the pcitures in front of the mountains anyway once we concluded that we just lived too close  to the mountains to get a full view of them. We would have had to drive miles for that to happen. We decided to just photoshop them in when we did the editing.

 The sun was still in our eyes when we did the photos but I think that it turned out quite well. We took a lot of different pictures. We took some pictures with just the babies, and just my brothers family, and my sisters families. It was pretty fun all around.

We played at a nearby playground and took more photos there as well. I really hope I looked okay in the photos. It was pretty fun to play with my nieces and nephew on the playground. We don’t get to play together, all of us like that very often. We are all usually doing our own thing a lot of the time and don’t see each other very often.

 We went back home after doing stuff on the playground. Some people drove, and some people just walked, I just walked. One of my friends Sydney texted me and told me that she saw my family and thought it was cute, this made me smile, I really love it when I get messages like that from people.

 I went back into my room and played games and stuff when I got home. We just played a lot of games in general today.

 I don’t think I need to mention anything more than this today.

Wedding!

 

That's a picture of my brother's wedding cake, I'm not going to put pictures of them up for privacy purposes though.

The wedding was held in an LDS temple so i didn't get to see them get sealed (married), I'm not allowed to enter that part of the temple yet. 
Anyway so I sat there for an hour or so then they came out, we took a ton of pictures! It was a lot of fun but it was a little cold. After we took pictures we went out to eat at "Los Harmonos" a very popular Mexican restaurant in our area. I had a chicken burrito with rice and beans, and a tropical drink, it was great!. 
My sister, her fiance, and my brother (other one), went out to the party store after the lunch and we got stuff to decorate my brothers car with after the reception. 
I was home after that for a bout 2 hours.
I went to the reception, basically its just a bunch of people stand in line and greet the bride and groom, have cake, and other refreshments, get to talk to each other, etc. I don't really remember what kind of cake and ice cream they had there but it was pretty good! OH! look I have a picture  


 

 

 

the drink was limeade (I love that stuff)



From left to right:
chocolate candies with raisins in the middle
nuts
various chocolate candies.

it was great as you can see

My feet hurt so badly by the end of the reception from wearing my annoying shoes all day. I'll take a picture of the dress I was wearing later. It was pretty fun, my sister's purple hair went well with the colors ha ha. 
I  am so glad I brought my camera so I could show you.

After  the reception we got to say goodbye to them, blow bubble,s pop balloons, and stuff like that. 
After we got home we got undressed and got into more casual clothes.
We went and saw the new Star Trek movie after. It was pretty nice.
After I got home i finished some of my leftover food from "Los Harmonos" and played Destiny Online for a while.

We're going to be opening their presents today. I'm excited.

Camera Happy

So today I went camera happy and took like 200 pictures in a half an hour. Have you ever just gone outside with your camera and took random pictures of things that you thought were cool just for fun?

I have this cool digital camera and I haven't been using it very often but today I got this sudden urge to just take it out and snap a picture of tons of things. I took a picture of breakfast , some scenery outside and some people in my family doing things I was really loving it. I went like everywhere. =3
(Mmm pancakes)

 

 

today was so much fun I also went to the store and stuff but this was definitely the best part of my day. =3