a melting pot

There has been a lot of stuff going on, some bad and some good.

We got our Christmas tree but we haven't decorated it yet, so I'll post pictures once it's nice and beautiful.

We found out that one of my dogs has an autoimmune disease that has a 60% mortality rate when we took him into the vet to check up on his ears, which were bothering him. I expected an ear infection, not this heavy news. I'm still crying about it. Right now we're just grateful that he's acting normally and is happy.

This boy inspires me more than I can say. I am so impressed by him. He is going to make a difference and I hope that I can do the same.

I'm almost done with finals (yay!) and only have to turn in my final short story for fiction writing tomorrow, and then I'm completely done. I was going to go into the lab today, but after hearing about Winston's illness I decided I'm going to spend the day at him with him while I revise this story.

Let us brighten up this post with talk of presents!

I have gotten some Chrimbo shopping done when procrastinating studying for finals, as well as some awesome Christmas creations for my franz! I will avoid posting presents for friends I know read my blog, but here are the pressies I've gotten so far.

Mom



(I've also made the bird's nest necklaces for other females in my family, as well as my graduate student)

Dad



(but it's worth it because I know he'll really enjoy this)

Gabe



Alibus



(I actually got this for her for her birthday this year, but I had it packed away then so it is now here Christmas present!)

Mia



This is what I've gotten done so far. The rest of the week will involve decorating the tree tonight, lab time, turning in my final short story (hurray!), going out dancing and drinking on Friday night, and Christmas shopping with Natal on Sunday. Plus I've cheered up a little thinking about Christmas and getting in the spirit.

welp

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I'm moving up in the Internet world and embracing the 21st century and using BlogLovin' now! I mostly still need to live in finals world though so I can't do a huge update. I turned in two of my biggest papers though and took what I view to be the hardest final on Thursday (which was HARD and I really, truly hope I passed it with all my might). Still got a final on Monday, a take-home final aka a paper due on Tuesday, and a huge short story revision due Thursday. Plus I'm working all next week and have to shop for Christmas gifts even though I don't get paid until the 22nd, AH! As a break tomorrow I'm going to the craft store and the book store to both purchase supplies to make a shit ton of bracelets (Chrimbo gifts and...for me) and books for my parents.

This has been cool. I'll leave you with this Misdreavus I drew for that drawing challenge I started. I have sort of been keeping up with it. I'm bad at finals week.

It's amazing how I become an absolute connoisseur of the arts as soon as finals week rolls around. Guaranteed that as soon as I need to study for some science exam that I will all of a sudden decide some sort of drawing challenge sounds spectacular or that I should really write seven short stories. I spent roughly half the day at a Christmas Tea with my Oma (which was fun and I got carmelitas and wine wassail out of it yessss), a small portion wishing I could die because I was sick to my stomach AGAIN (I have never been this sick consecutively in my LIFE, something is up and it's pissing me off), and then I spent the rest of the day struggling to get ALMOST half a paper done (5 pages out of 12...not bad in 2.5 hours plus a ton of Internet breaks). But today is the first day I've even started in on my finals materials, because the rest of the weekend as been spent doing (wait for it) A DRAWING CHALLENGE.



Because I'm a huge pokemon nerd.

day 1: normal



I chose Cleffa because who wouldn't choose Cleffa?

day 2: fighting



Breloom because it's the only fighting pokemon I like and also it looks like a plant velociraptor I feel.

day 3: flying



So hard to choose, since I love all flying pokemans, but I chose Rufflet in the end because a) they are adorbz and b) easy to draw.

day 4: poison



I did this one ahead of time (sort of, I drew it on 11 PM on Dec 3 which really was only two hours ago) because I shouldn't be doodling pokemon tomorrow/later today since I really REALLY need to write these papers. Seriously. Anyways, I don't really like any poison pokemon a lot (except for the nido evolutionary lines, but they're hard to draw), but Gengar is hardcore. Love him.

So we'll see how this goes. Surely I won't actually draw one every day. I'm sure at the end of finals week I'll have nine or so days to catch up on.

I went to Festival of the Trees with Natal last night and BOY DO I HAVE SUCH STORIES. Well, not truly stories I suppose, but amazing people watching observations. Which can be composed into a story. I'll draw out comics for that probably sometime this week while procrastinating studying for my lab practicum on Thursday.

Also just a quick note before I go to bed, the electricity in my room and my brother's room goes out CONSTANTLY. For awhile everyone was blaming me, because it seemed to only happen whenever I plugged my portable heater in. If you know me, you know that I love nothing more than sitting on the floor in front of my portable heater and surfing the internet/drawing/playing my gameboy/etc. Since my room is FREEZING due to there being no insulation in the walls and my walls essentially being made of concrete, I like my heater. Quite a lot. Just tonight, however, I realized that it is MY BROTHER who has 1325333 things plugged in all around his room. HE can plug in his heater fine and dandy and be warm and cozy while he plays on his desktop computer with its thousands of plug-ins, but when I try to plug in my heater while I have literally ONE other thing plugged into the outlet, THE POWER FLIPS ITS SHIT. I thought I'd fixed it for a couple of days, because I could plug in the heater into a different outlet and keep it on without the power going out, but it just barely went out again like half an hour ago. So once again, I go without heat. I'm getting pretty fucking sick of it, I will tell you that for free.

I wrote in my paper (which is about blogs, btw) that people won't go to a blog where the person just bitches about their life all the time, so I'm sorry I add in my personal woes about the electricity. I am just a little bit infuriated that I can't have TWO THINGS plugged in in my room without the power going out. And yet my brother has 1325333 things plugged in in his room and it's fine. UGH. Also I was looking through my blog and there are far too many sad posts. They make me feel icky, like I'm covered in sad juice. So I'm going to stop doing sad posts and only do happy posts and sometimes perhaps ANGRY POSTS (if they can be viewed as funny, which they usually can).

Guess I'll go to bed now. PEACE.

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