The Happiest Sandwich in the Galaxy

"So how was your day today?"

"Well, my sandwich smiled at me while I was making it, so that was kinda the greatest thing ever."

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Every year on the first Saturday of May, there's a National Free Comic Book Day. The comic stores hand out free comics – usually with a limit of three or five comics per person. 

Anyway, my family went to the comic store and got our free comics, then browsed around the store for a little bit. There were so many people there, and a lot of them were dressed up like superheroes. The best cosplay I saw was a dude dressed up like Tony Stark (with a stunningly accurate beard and Arc Reactor t-shirt) who was there with his daughter. She was dressed up like Iron Man. SO CUTE

Some of the t-shirts and mugs and toys they have there are so. Awesomely. Cool. I am such a Marvel fangirl. xD

My sister pointed this book out to me, and once I started flipping through it I was just like "Nope. I have to have this." It's a really, really cool book. I'm glad I bought it, as I am a huge Guardians of the Galaxy fan. This is my favorite book at the moment just saying

WELLP the bottom line is I ended up buying a book. On Free Comic Book day. Isn't that always how it goes?

Did you guys know about Free Comic Book Day?

*coughs* Are too many of my blog posts featuring sandwiches? Why is this? I honestly don't know

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/Bonjour, Mes Amies/

WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENIN' RECENTLY:

• For no real reason, my sister and I took time-lapse videos of us rolling our eyes. #things sisters come up with It was hilarious. I highly recommend it.

• I was doing watercolor and wanted to test the color before putting it on the page. Naturally, I grabbed the closest bit of paper on my desk and covered it with blue paint tests. A bit later I flipped the paper over. . . aaaand realized it was a half-finished study card for the definition of ribosomal DNA.

#the moment of realization #whoops #I'm a bad student

• Clearly, I am absolutely in love with the French language. It's the best subject in my schooling right now. :D

• I found this brilliant quote:

"'It's always in the last place you look.' Well, DUH! Because you stop looking after you found it! HELLO!"

. . .Which actually pertains to me quite nicely right now because I lost my favorite eraser while drawing about a month ago and I'm still searching for it. XD


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Hi... I Wrote a Poem About a Sandwich

After reading The Piano Girl's poem about a jar of peanut butter, I decided to share a piece of my homework with you. I had to write out a plotted poem (basically just a poem that has rising action, a climax, and falling action) for my Literature class. Naturally, my subject of choice was food. It's a little long and a little embarrassing, but oh well here we go. Hope you like it! XP

I laid out the bread, some cheese, some meat –

vegetables too, onions and beets

Added some green with lettuce and spinach,

For ‘twas lunchtime, and I craved a sandwich.

The cheese curled off the silver knife,

And I had to eat for quality of life

As the ham was layered, thick and moist,

My stomach made sure its hunger was voiced.

All assembled, and all present,

The sandwich I had made

Stood proud and stood scrumptious;

not an onion was mislaid.

As I took hold of the sandwich and breathed in the scent,

I knew my hunger had now reached its peak!

But ah, read on, please do, please do,

For the rest I am too sad to speak

Not my hollow stomach

Did the sandwich fill and restore;

‘Cause I did only what a person like I would –

I dropped it on the floor!

‘Tis good, thought I sadly,

watching the cat enjoy my lunch

That at least a meal went to someone hungry;

I’ll find something else to munch

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Captain America: Civil War sketches!

Hello hello!

Weeeeelllll haha I know I haven't been on since before Christmas *hides* so we'll just breeze past that and glide into the post I hope you had a nice Christmas and all that

I love this movie so much. Seriously. CA: Civil War one of my very favorite Marvel movies. It has fantastic action, good pacing, and I like literally every character in it. So naturally, the other day I was designing some of my favorite characters as dragons. ("It is a weakness with me, but to be fair to myself... it is my only weakness.")

Without further ado, here are the sketches I was doing in my journal. :3 Hope you guys enjoy them!

Spider-Man

Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier

Vision

Steve Rogers/Captain America

Oh yeah, all of the text beside them are from songs. In order, the songs are 'Left Hand Free' by Alt-J, 'New Blood' by Zayde Wolf, and 'This is War' by 30 Seconds To Mars. Alright, thanks for looking! Have a good rest of your weekend! :D

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Human Interaction Is Hard, Okay

My family and I went out for the day to go Christmas shopping to eat a nice lunch together. (Yes, we do our shopping approximately 4 days before Christmas. Everyone does, right? Haha ahem anyway....)

We went to this awesome restaurant that serves some of the greatest quesadillas and salads on this planet. I was really excited to eat the meal, which must have led my brain to my first mental fumble of the day, which went something like this:

Waitress: Soup or salad?

Me: *hearing "super salad" and thinking, "yep, I definitely want a super salad hur hur hur"* Yes please.

Waitress: .....So which do you want?

Me: *stares blankly until my mum and sister tell me what she actually said and I start breaking down with laughter* *chokes out the word "Salad."*

We ordered desserts (as seen above) and, well...

Waitress: You guys enjoy your desserts!

Me: *automatically* Thanks! You too!

She was sweet about it though, and laughed along with everyone else as they laughed at me as I laughed at myself.

Stay warm! Eat super salads! Only four more days til Christmas!

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Twinkly Lights and Hard Crunchy Bites

#this is the face of pure happiness #NOT

Merry Christmas! I hope you all are feeling the lovely Christmas spirit and enjoying the smells of cinnamon and gingerbread cookies baking. I sure am, mhuahaha... *cackles as I nom another gingerbread cookie*

Okay, speaking of which, I BURNT THE COOKIES BY ACCIDENT. *cries* Note to self: when your family gets a new oven installed, do NOT bake cookies from a recipe that you have only tried once before in your life. You are still not sure a) how hot the oven gets or b) how long or short of a time the cookies actually need to bake in the oven. Ahem. (It's all good, we covered them in frosting, so you can barely even tell anyway. ;)

Anyway, make snowmen, deck the halls, bake cookies but be careful and have an awesome holiday with your friends/family/loved ones! Merry Christmas once again!

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In Memoriam...Of A Stereo

We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of a mighty fallen soldier.

My beautiful, lovely stereo system, who has officially given up the ghost.

...Yeah. My stereo system died. I received this handsome thing for Christmas a couple years ago, and I have loved it every second it was still working. I used it almost every day whenever I was crafting, drawing, or just being in my room. It had two large, lovely speakers and very useful Bluetooth capabilities.

It basically worked perfectly up until a month ago, when it just wouldn't turn on. This little guy was just done. #reallywhatcanyoudo #technicaltantrum

Yesterday my dad opened it up and checked inside to make sure the problem wasn't fixable before we threw it out. (Sadly, he called it. This Insignia radio was declared officially dead.) I will say, the 'tech surgery' was scary and everything, but it was awesome seeing all of its 'guts'. Seriously, just look at this beautiful chaos. XD

We've been through a lot, this little stereo and I. It's so hard to see him go.

I'll never forget you, little buddy. *presses hand to heart* So long, so long, and thanks for all the music. X)

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I Actually Fell Off a Hill

'Ello mates! :)

Okay. So. Long story short, my friends and I went to a park in search of a good swingset. We found an awesome park that had a sledding hill nearby. It was an arduous climb up, but of course we had to scale it! (There was no snow – we just wanted to check out the view.)

So, I happened to be wearing my Sherlock-y coat, and the sharp angle of the hill just reminded me of a certain shot from (you guessed it!) the Reichenbach Fall. So I did what any decent fangirl would do.

I made my friend take pictures of me being Sherlock. XD

#nailed it

Okay, so it might not look it, but... this hill was really steep.

Really steep.

Aaand I was leaning forward. (I had to get the full Sherlock effect, right?)

Well.
(I'm not kidding, guys. In this shot I am falling. Down a hill. This is what we fangirls do for a photo op.)

(Spoiler alert: I was okay. ;D)

Have you ever actually fallen down a hill? Please describe. xD

Do you guys miss swingsets too?

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#I Chose the Fandom Life

AHAAA I finally did it – I carved an apple like Moriarty did in The Reichenbach Fall! 

(I was crazy proud of this thing okay it was ridiculous. I couldn't stop giggling to myself. XD )

If you haven't seen Reichenbach... well, you're lucky. Your heart will most likely still be intact! XD Oh dear. I watched this episode of Sherlock (BBC) with my family a month-ish ago. I was an emotional wreck after watching this episode!! (And still kind of am if I think about it too much.) It's really good – fantastically written, really well-acted... but wow, it hurts. (Why do I still recommend this show to everyone I meet...?)

Anyway, that's all for now. :) Don't be boring, blame Anderson, and have an awesome Thursday!

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Sketch Compilation – Dragons, Star Trek, Sherlock

Hey all! I've been sketching a lot recently and I wanted to share some of the pictures with ya.

I love to design characters from TV shows as dragons, so that's mainly what you'll see here. The two fandoms in the sketches here are Star Trek (which is a very recent fandom for me) and Sherlock. Hope you like them!

First, the Star Trek stuff: 

Jaylah, from the newest Star Trek movie Beyond

Captain Kirk

Spock as a little wrymling!! He's facing a Vulcan elder.

"'You did well, Spock.'

For a half breed, came the unspoken comment."

And now for some Sherlock sketches – the first picture is of Moriarty.

"the reckless king"

Hope you enjoyed! Let me know which one's your favorite! :)

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Purple, Cashew-Scented Fingers || Jammy Dodgers

DO YOU SEE THAT FIRST PICTURE? Notice how both my hands are in the shot? That was a timed option on my iPod. Yes, I was holding my iPod with my chin. XDD

Anyway. In relation to a craft I'm doing right now, I had to cut shapes out of plastic. The closest plastic material I could find was an empty container of cashews. I traced the shapes I needed onto it with – ta-da – yes, a purple marker. Well, the more I cut the plastic and held the container to steady it, the more the ink rubbed off onto my hand (as well as the residual cashew dust!). The result was nutty-smelling purple-Smurf fingers. XP Worth it!

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My friends and I made Jammy Dodgers today! (Find recipe here.) Yes, the Eleventh Doctor inspired this.

Me: Guys wait I want to get a picture of these before we eat them

*They respond by making sure to get their hands into every shot*

To get revenge I decided to post the pictures here. >:D

Have an awesome weekend! :)

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Watercolor Weekend

Watercolor is amazing! I've been using some paints that my grandmother gave me. Above: A Dalek with a Gallifreyan headdress (which has to do with a Doctor Who fanfiction I'm writing) and a peacock! The wrinkly paper that results is one of my favorite parts. X)

Music I'm listening to: Jailbreak by Awolnation, This is the Future by Owl City, Barking at the Moon by Jenny Lewis

What have you been doing over the weekend? Have you ever done watercolor?

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The Saga Continues – My Room

Hey, I never gave you all the update! I bought my bookshelf!

I built it mostly myself *casually brushes off shoulders* (...HAH! let's be real. I had a lot of help from my mum. XD) But look how impressive I am, guys. I even used tools and stuff.

The sonic screwdriver – a vital tool for any workman's belt.

We actually had to move the bookshelf from where it was originally meant to go – when we put it in the original corner, it looked way scary and imposing.

So it was moved to the other wall, taking the vanity's place (and the vanity scooted over in front of the window).

Anyway, I'm very happy with the bookshelf! I'm glad I finally got it. It has very nice, simple paneling detail on the sides, and the whole thing feels very sturdy. Just to give you guys an update!

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In unrelated news, editing is happening on my manuscript!! Whoo! *sighs* Do you ever do the thing where you change the plot of your story at the very last minute?? I DO. It's annoying.