wow, it's late.

Yeah it is. It's late. I bought The Sims Mega Deluxe five pack. It has The Sims Deluxe, Livin' Large, Hot Date, and . . . uh . . . House Party in it. It's different from the regular Sims just because it gives you more options of furniture, physical looks, you can take a cab into Downtown and go to the different places there to meet new people . . . it's just different. It keeps me busy when I'd like to be busy. I've got like two good new pictures to put in frames. I drew three others, but they really sucked, so I threw them out.

The one that I really like is on light-blue construction paper, and when I drew it, it was storming really hard here. I was kind of sad on that day, so I'm sure that's why I used the colors that I did. I colored light-grey on the paper, to cover it. Then I went back over it and used dark-grey to seem like rain clouds, I guess. I smeared in some white to add some regular clouds. Then I made a medium-sized red dot in the center. Around it I made black flower petals that are kind of shaped like flames. They're solid black, though. I smeared the petals, and then smeared the red dot in a circular pattern that made an almost auora-like outline around it. I like that a lot. I had to go around the red and black "flower" with light-grey to accent the petals more. I know they're black, but I needed them to stand out, almost coming out of the picture. I'm tired of my drawings being so two-dimensional. I'm starting to feel two-dimensional, so I'll fix that starting with my pictures. Anyway, back to my picture. I went back over my grey background with an extremely light-blue to bring out the fact that it was supposed to be a sky. It looks like it, but it also looks like it could be murky water or something. I like that idea, too. I finally got around to naming it and I decided on "Drowning and Floating." If you don't like it, I don't care.

My second one is pretty simple. It's on black paper, like a portrait, and is called "Burn." Half of it represents the sun. Well, it IS the sun. I used yellows, oranges, and some of the reds; more orange than red, though. I made a lot of flares come out of it, like some kid might draw. They reach up the paper, almost to the top, but then stop. With white, I made little wavy lines coming out of it, like steam. I've been feeling a lot like the flares, lately; like I can almost reach the top, but I know I won't. Whatever. There are my two latest. I want to get rid of one of my pictures. I don't know what to do with it. I was thinking of giving it to someone, but it would have to be someone incredibly special, so I'm not sure if I want to have to sit and think about it.

My nose is all runny. I think I'm sick. I wish I could sleep. Crap, this sucks. I keep having bad dreams. It's weird. I dunno, maybe I just need a harder cigarrette. Heh, that would be cool. I think I might take up the old Lucky Strikes. I liked them. They're expensive and hard to find around here, but I liked them. The next time I but cigs, I'll find some and try it out. If it helps, then HAZZAH I've found it! Also, I'm going to get a skateboard so I can tag along with Donald more often and not have to follow in a car.

I skated at the Y(MCA) here this past week. I can do absolutely nothing, but roll. I can go back and forth on the little half-pipe there a little bit. I want to get better at it, so that I don't just sit around and watch anymore. Dakota and Donald should be good teachers. Dakota laughed at me a lot and I haven't really mentioned to Donald that I want to get a board yet, but I will. I'm sure he'll be okay with it. He's asked me if I wanted to get one before, so he should be on-board with the idea.

We got some late wedding gifts from people so, now, we have a little DVD holding case that looks a lot like a book case, some new frames, wine glasses, a lamp, a crock pot, and some more glasses. I really like the wine glasses. Donald thinks that we should take them back and wait to get crystal wine glasses. I don't know why he thinks we can afford them, but he does. It would be cool to have real crystal. We could make that little "woo" sound they make when you run your finger around the top of the glass. I love that sound. Ever since I heard it on War of the Roses, I've wanted to have those glasses.

School starts August 23. Wow, that's like right around the corner. I hope I'm ready for this semester. I'm sure I'll be fine. If for some reason I turn out to be less than fine, I'll figure something out. I'm good at that, I guess. Well, now that it's later than when I started, I'll stop typing and start playing Sims or I'll go find a cool site to check out. Bye.
Thanks for reading!