PurpleHello98

It's a long weekend! My college very graciously gave us today off, so I'm sitting back in my room at home having a swell old time. So far this morning I read a book on how to write a romance novel (which I plan to do one day--a Regency romance in the style of Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer) and surfed the Net for a while. Specifically I was looking at "IndieWeb" sites I found on Marginalia, which is one of my favourite hot spots for finding new sites. I think a lot of those sites are pretty cool! Even if some of them still have corporate-ish modern-ish design, which feels a bit ironic to me somehow. I don't like that modern, corporate style (you know the kind--think Weebly/Wix/Squarespace) anyhow--it's so soulless, it makes me sick to look at.

But I digress. I don't really have much planned for today, except that I have a club meeting to lead around 7:00. My mum and I thought we might have some pasta for lunch, but beside that I'm totally free! I think I might play some Splatoon and watch a little YouTube, given that since Lent is over, I no longer have to restrict my non-necessary YouTube-watching to one day per week. Although I'm still going to dry to watch much more conservatively--I like actually getting out there and surfing the Net, or even better, getting off the computer and reading a book/watching TV/crocheting (which I need to pick back up)/etc. I was crocheting a scarf with some cool, multi-coloured (a lot of neon mixed with some black--it's almost MySpace scene-styled!) yarn, but at some point I kind of fell off it. It's pretty lop-sided, anyways--my first crochet project that's not a square--but I still want to finish it for next winter, and hope people won't noticed the many places where I somehow lost a stitch on the end and tried to lengthen it back out a few rows later.

Easter was yesterday! Quite fun. I helped my cousin's kids (I find it inexplicably weird that I'm old enough to have cousins that are old enough to be married and have kids, but that's what happens when siblings are born far apart) with organizing their candy post-Easter egg hunt (which was indoors, because Missouri got some fierce rain yesterday, and I think even tornado warnings in some places) and very profitable for the kids, considering there were only a couple kids and something like a hundred eggs.

In other news, downstairs my cousins and I recounted family drama like a reality show reunion episode, and one of my cousin's asked me, of all people what the sitch is on the bars in my college town. Now I don't know how I come across to you, dear reader, but do I really seem like the kind to know an in-depth laydown on all the bars in a town? I've never even been to a bar! Except during the day, when they serve subpar food that takes an hour and a half to get to you even though there are only four other people in the entire place. When I told my mum about that later, she was cackling incredulously, just like when a teacher falsely accused me of talking about drug use at school in front of impressionable young minds. Part two of today I feel like Rory Gilmore.

But beside that, I got to stuff my face and all, and it was pretty good. Now I'm just looking forward to today! Already, TWS had their comeback with Countdown, and I really like it!! From the beginning, the chorus seemed very reminiscent of "If I'm S, Will You Be My N?" from last year, which got a lot of playtime on my iPod, especially during the fall semester, so I really liked it. This song is good, just like all of their title tracks so far! (Although Last Festival wasn't nearly as good as the others--it felt like a weird yet enjoyable misstep) It doesn't reach the heights of "Hey! Hey!" for me, which was probably my favourite new song of last year, along with dearALICE's Made in Korea soundtrack songs, and it could use a bridge to take it up to a 10/10, but for me it's already a solid 8.5 or 9 out of 10.

And that's about it for today! I'm off to get dressed and have a splendid day. Toodles!

So I had a double-dip of cool stuff to do today. First, this afternoon, I did a cool little Bob Ross art class with a local organization. I have three more classes this week, and we're making one painting per day, so that'll be super cool! Second, I volunteered with some other people my age to make meals for the Ronald McDonald House and it was super fun! There were lots of jokes amongst us and stuff, plus we got to taste test bits/eat excess bread that couldn't fit in the pan when we made garlic bread. I'm doing it with the same organization one week from today, and I'm super excited. Plus, as a bonus Shut Up and Dance and Total Eclipse of the Heart, two pretty good songs, came on the radio on the way home, so I had a nice time jamming to those.

Also, yesterday, my mother and I travelled to her hometown for my grandfather's family reunion and we stopped off at my grandparents' house for a bit afterward. My little cousins showed me their paddleboat thing and my uncle showed me how to drive my grandpa's golf cart-like thing. I even got to drive it on the gravel roads that my grandparents and uncle live on. It was technically my second time doing that, but I'd rather count it as my first official time driving on real roads for some reason. The only side effect was that between driving the golf cart, plus like an hour and a half each way to get there/get home, and probably half an hour on the merry-go-round thing thanks to my cousins make me spin them, my head was spinning slightly all day.

On the annoying side, though, apparently my grade has to go on a "team-building" day retreat this autumn, which I'm dreading. At least we don't have to spend the night there and sleep in weird, uncomfortable beds like the last retreat, though.

Anyways, that's pretty much all that I have to talk about right now, so I'll talk to you all later. Bye!