Magnolias: I Love Them.

It was supposed to thunderstorm most terribly today, but it's 5:23 PM right now and the weather has yet to deliver that promised precipitation. In fact, it's actually rather sunny (sun of the watery-yellow, struggling-to-get-out-of-the-clouds sort) and very warm.

Despite the fact that a loud, dark, broody thunderstorm would be extremely fun to watch in a dry, cozy house such as I am in right now (along with hot drinks and various desserts), I think I prefer this sun. It is almost May, after all. Silly rain needs to stop and let the flowers take over.


Speaking of flowers (<-lol another segue*), there is a magnolia tree in my backyard that is really really really really pretty this time of year. It has these beautiful pinky-white flowers and it's right by a little pond and the entire scene is very picturesque. Nearly all the flowers have opened by now, and when the wind blows--like it is doing today--all the long pink petals shake in a most elegant and dignified manner, and it's just so beautiful. (The flowers even smell all right, though it's not my favorite smell.)


Thus, I decided to spend at least a small portion of this lovely thunderstorm-less afternoon drawing some magnolias, because they're very pretty and I need practice drawing plant life anyway. So I come today bearing three (3) drawings. They're not the greatest, because xiy + plant matter + pencil/pen/crayon/Sharpie/coloured pencil/other drawing utensil + inspiration to draw = TERRIBLE THINGS.

(Stupid HTML has at this point decided to add a strikethrough to everything I type. Please wait while I go shout at fix it.)

(Okay, better. Well, obviously. Since not that entire above sentence turned out struck through. Yeah. I just thought I'd point that out. Not that you needed it. I don't think.

. . . Nevermind.)

ANYWAY.

Here come the drawings:

This I coloured with crayons (and a few coloured pencils) before I realised that I have Gimp, which has colours much more suited to the subject matter than a pack of 64 Crayola crayons can ever provide. So then I felt very stupid.

Whee~. This one and the next done in Gimp and slightly Picnik'd.

This one is my favourite, I think.

And now here are some pictures of the real thing, so that you can all laugh at how badly I draw flowers.:

It was actually pretty sunny at the time I took these pictures, but they all look like they were taken on a cloudy day. B|

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This is my last Tuesday post, s-sob. But I trust in Virgil to make Tuesdays even more awesome, and I am quite excited at the prospect of posting on Fridays.

(Also, I get to post the one-year anniversary banner soon. OMG.)

So I hope I ended on a good note (I expressly left out a rant about math class today so that my last Tuesday post wouldn't be angsty; I hope you're proud of my self-restraint, guys**).

See you next-next Friday! :D

xiy

*Yes, House, it's spelled s-e-g-u-e. Just in case you were still confused. 8|a

**Well. I actually plan on ranting a bit in my LJ, but that's not the point, is it.

The First Frappuccino of the Year

Today is possibly the most auspicious day of 2011, because today was the day I got my first frappuccino of the year. This is a very important milestone, because it means that the weather has at last gotten warm enough that I can get an iced drink at Starbucks instead of a hot drink. Up until now, every Starbucks drink I have purchased in the year 2011 has been a hot cafe mocha. Today I got a mocha frappuccino. 

Really, the only difference is the ice, (being in my drink rather than on the ground) but the symbolic difference is really part of what makes this time of year amazing. It's WARM outside. I can look out the window and see blue sky. People around here say that they would like to live and Florida where it's blue sky nearly all the time, but I think people in Florida don't appreciate it as much. When the sun comes out after winter here, everybody rejoices. Because the cold of the winter is bearable, but the fact that the sky is gray for the whole entire season really gets me down. And now SPRING HAS SPRUNG!!!!

I also went to Bruegger's today, but we get the same bagels every week no matter what season it is. 

This weekend is a Harry Potter weekend on ABC family, so that's why I'm in such a good mood. There was an extra-special preview for Deathly Hallows part 2 yesterday AHHH I'M SO PUMPED! I'm actually counting down the days until I get my braces off, but once that's done I'll start counting down until Harry Potter. 

I'm wearing a Ravenclaw shirt today. XD

One more week until spring break!!!! By the way, I probably won't be able to post next Saturday because I'll be at an Episcopal thing called Happening (it's a really exciting one-in-a-lifetime thing) where I will sadly not have access to the internet. I might think to write something up earlier in the week and set it to post automatically on Saturday, but knowing me I'll probably forget, so just letting you know. I'll be busy doing Jesus-y stuff. Hooray!!

I don't really have anything else to say, and I have a ton of stuff to do, so farewell!!! :)

Virgil

sunshine!

Right, so.
This week has actually been pretty good for me. Getting to sleep in every day definitely made it tons better, like omg. Sadly, our nine-day weekend is almost over, since next week is back on the same schedule.* Oh, well.


At least we got to end the week on a high note. It's been soooo freakin warm outside the past couple days. Probably my favourite part of spring coming is witnessing the one specific weekend where the weather peaks just enough. All the girls retreat inside, digging up the old booty shorts and shaving (don't forget moisturising!) legs that are pale and worn from winter. Toenails are painted, tank tops are dug up, and North Faces are shed.


Okay, maybe not quite yet... we still need to get through, like, Easter (which has been rather blizzard-y in the past), but holy cow, it's an exciting idea.


OMG, so today was our [prego] Latin teacher's last day!!! D':
We're all gonna be devastated without her, so don't be surprised if you notice Momo/me/Virgil slipping in a bit of whining in the near future ^.^ (especially around finals... *shudder*) {↓ original artwork by Virgil}

zomg whyyyy?? *sadface*

and... yeah.
I'm gonna go practice my solo thing for this solo/ensemble event [tomorrow] our school has us do every year >.<
With all due respect,
House


P.S. Over thar ---> is a very pretty page that is dedicated to banners we've (i.e. mostly xiy) have doodled out. pretty! you're here, so you might as well go have a look at it :)


*Ewwwww, routine. Back to being injected with Subject A, Subject B, etc. period by period...