Back from the Long Weekend...

This weekend (friday evening through monday) was really amazing. First of all, I ordered my new camera and it should be in thursday or friday. I'm really looking foreward to it. I found a lens online that I will probably buy soon. It only costs like $13 and it is a wide angle lens that can double as a fisheye lens. I'm super excited. Saturday, I worked on the pinterest craft (see the previous post) and then went on a date with my dearest, which, thanks to a gift won from a lottery done by the 27 dresses project, ended up costing us nothing. Sunday, I went to church and recieved some money in cards from church friends and whatnot. We had the senior recognition ceremony sunday too, so I got a card and a gift card from the church. After church, we went and ate at Texas Roadhouse, then went and bought a suit for my brother. They had a buy one, get one free deal at Men's Warehouse, so my dad got a suit too. On the way home, my mom dropped me off at my dearest's house and we spent about five hours watching movies (okay, we ate too, but not much else). Yesterday, I spent the day cleaning house with my grandmother because we are having my graduation party there. I also managed to finish the aforementioned pinterest projects by painting quotes on them.

This weekend was rather fantastic and surprisingly relaxing.

This morning, I was stressing about the monologue that I had to perform in Drama class, which I finished writing monday night. Seniors had to write their own monologues instead of memorizing one from a play. I did rather fantastic, and I only had to start again once. I think I'll add it to the "Stories and Poems" page after I finish writing this.

Today is actually my last full day at school. I only have to be here for one period tomorrow, check in the next day, and graduation practice and graduation on friday. It doesn't feel real, really. I feel like I'm going to be attending THS for the rest of my life, but I'm not.

I am very much looking forward to this summer though, because I will be able to work with my new camera.

UGH. People are annoying. A girl walking by looked at my screen and exclaimed "Oh My Gosh. Typing a book?!". Imbeciles. One of the reasons I am glad to leave THS behind though.

Love,
Elizabeth W.

A Messy Pinterest Success!

So, I saw this thing on Pinterest the other day, and it was a craft idea using colored bubbles. I did it today and it worked! Now, I just have to finish it and I can give it as a gift.

The idea was to take bubbles and put food coloring in the bubble soap. Then, you blow the bubbles onto a piece of paper and make art with the bubble pop circles.

This was a really simple concept that the source recommended for kindergarteners. I tried it, and ended up modifying it a little. However, I would recommend this for such young children only if you are prepared to clean up a HUGE MESS. I don't really know what that person was thinking. I mean, I'm a senior in high school, and look how much I got on me! I had it all over my hands too.

So, I started out with some food coloring and bubble soap. I poured the bubble soap into several containers, then added a different dye to each container. You have to mix it around a little bit to get the color even. Then, I took the canvas and blew bubbles onto it. However, it wasn't that simple. I had to try really hard to get the bubbles on the canvas due to wind and such. I recommend doing this in a studio or at a time when you have a lot of patience and very little wind.

After about an hour, I came back to check it, but the "paint" designs created by the bubbles had almost completely disappeared. So, I came up with a new plan, thanks to the advice of my boyfriend's mother.

I hunted down some Crayola "washable" colored bubbles, which you can find at any toy store or whatever. They have really dark, vibrant colors. I used them, and it got rather messy, but they turned out really great. I'm planning to paint quotes on these in black, then attach a ribbon to them to hand them. It was a really fun craft and rather easy, just be ready to get messy if you do this. Here's a picture of the finished project (minus the words). I think it would have been better if the pink had showed up more and if I had had more colors of bubbles. It's also best to wait a couple of minutes between colors to prevent crazy color mixing.

Love,
Elizabeth W.

Summer Lists

Well, today I am technically supposed to have my semester exam for this period. However, I have already finished my dual credit class, so there is nothing special about it. There is no exam to take. I have to take fifth and seventh period exams also, but I exempted the exams for those two classes, so I will be in the commons for those parts of the day. Next week, I only have to come to school and check in on Thursday, and I have first period only on wednesday. Friday we have graduation practice, then graduation. Monday we have off because of memorial day.

Nearly every summer, I have this list of songs that I want to make videos for, books that I want to read, and things that I want to do. This year, I haven't made them yet, so I decided to make them into part of the blog post. Let's go!

Summer Songs

• Summer's Not Hot by Selena Gomez
• Come and Get it by Selena Gomez
• Deathbed by Relient K
• Candlelight by Relient K
• A World Without Danger from Code Lyoko
• It's Time by Imagine Dragons
• Mamacita by Family Force Five
• Tank Top by Family Force Five
• Down at the Twist and Shout by Mary Carpenter

Summer Reading

• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• The Great Gatsby
• Catch 22
• The One That Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Doctor Who/Star Trek (A crossover series that I will have to buy online)
• Some kind of manga series that I haven't determined yet... possible fma or something. I really wish there was a Doctor Who manga series...

Not-Bummer Summer List

• Go to the beach
• Get my drivers liscense
• Make music videos
• Read books
• Make a green screen video
• Cover more songs on the ukulele
• Apply for scholarships
• Make skit/sketch videos
• Have a party
• Dye my hair red
• Spend time with Taylor
• Pre-order This Star Won't Go Out
• Watch Les Miserables (the newest movie)
• Buy one of those "50 movies for $8" sets from walmart and watch all the old, cheesy movies
• Make a short film
• Learn ASL
• Get a new SMASH book and finish the old one
• Watch both the old and new versions of The Great Gatsby
• Get books from Half Price Books
• Screen print more shirts, possibly some with the lizardbreathwalker logo on them
• Paint things
• Sew things
• Get mini business cards from Moo.com
• Get another Snow White gig
• Blog more
• Post 365 nerds vlog (on my birthday, July 29th!)
• Start a bank account
• Start actually getting payed for ads and monetized videos
• Go swimming
• Go adventuring with my friend, Sarah
• Vlog more
• Get a WIDE ANGLE LENSE (maybe)
• Modify tshirts
• Go shopping at a thrift store and modify the clothes I buy
• Make a pikachu hat (or buy one)
• Get in shape by playing Just Dance on the xbox 360
• Work on videos for the Knowledge days channel, and be ready to release them when school starts
• Get a better intro video for my youtube channel that represents what the channel is about
• Go to some sort of concert (I would go to boomin' by the bay, but it is no longer by the bay, but in houston, and I only know about one of the artists that will be there, and I don't even care for him that much)

There are probably more things that I can't currently remember but will put here eventually. I feel like some of these won't happen and some of them are bound to happen no matter what. I think I might post an update about half way through summer about how far I have gotten. I am also not going to blog as often during the summer (sorry!). I haven't figured out the schedule yet, but I'm thinking about once a week. I will be posting videos more often though, so that might be helpful. Oh, and if you have anything that you think that I should do or whatever or if you are doing something interesting this summer, feel free to leave it in the comments. Book reccomendations are highly appreciated also.

Love,
Elizabeth W.

Stuff To Do...

Yesterday, I spent from 6:00 to 10:30 editing a telenovela. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a spanish soap opera, and also one of the most stressful projects that I have ever been in charge of. It is due on friday, and I have the editing done as of last night. However, I went to burn it to a disk, and the program I had to use was a free trial, so it was very glitchy AND it put a watermark on the whole video. So, I have to burn the dvd again tonight using some other program.

My graduation speech is also due tomorrow, and I am almost done. I just need to type it up (which I plan to do within this class period) and edit it before sending it to the counselor. I don't know how long it is though, which worries me. Hopefullyy, I can have a fantastic speech within the time limit of five minutes.

I have to write a monologue for drama class. I've never written a monologue before, so this is kind of difficult. I also have to perform it on tuesday. I wrote one copy of it, but I hated it because it was very Edgar Allen Poe-ish. I guess I'll have to write another one. Many of my works end up Edgar Allen Poe-ish, for some reason, which is kind of scary (for proof, go to my stories and poems page and look at the poem "Little Moth Of Mine").

My brother has a band concert today at like 6:30, which is going to be a problem with the amount of work that I have to do, but I will somehow make it through. I can hardly believe that graduation is just a little more than a week away!

Love,
Elizabeth W.

Tuesday...

Yesterday was the last monday of my senior year in high school since we have next monday off for memorial day. This is my next to last tuesday.

Yesterday, we managed to finish filming the telenovela, which means that I have a few days to put it all together. However, I also have to finish my speech for graduation and send it to the counselor by friday, so I have two major projects going at the same time. I won't have time to work on it today because I have an award banquet type thing to go to at 6:30, but I also have to get ready for it and I may not be getting home until like 5 or so beforehand. I hope to be able to work on it quite a bit tomorrow. Like, that is the only thing I plan on doing after school on wednesday.

My grandparents on my mom's side gave me my graduation gift yesterday, $500 to help me buy a new camera. After shopping around, I found one for $700 from sams club, but I have to buy it online. It is going to take most of my graduation money, which saddens me, but hopefully there will be more. I hope to order it sometime before the end of the week so that I can use it on the day of and the day after graduation. It is 24 megapixels, which is rather amazing, and it comes with a memory card thats like 16 GB. Its a DSLR camera also, and it comes with two lenses and a carrying case. Its a Nikon, so its a rather fantastic camera. All of the reviews were great.

I bought a book from the dollar store the other day because I needed something to read. Its called "Like Dandelion Dust" and it has been made into a movie. It seems like a pretty good book so far, and it only cost me $3. I'm thinking about making my personal library into a kind of lending library or something or starting a book trade thing with my friends. Because my friends and I have so many books, we borrow from eachother anyway, but this way we could have them at college and send them to eachother via requests on facebook or email. I think it would be cool. Or maybe there could be a whole facebook group. That way, we can read books without having to hunt them down and buy them.

I cannot wait until after graduation, because I want to dye my hair already. I like it blonde, but I really want the change. And its not like its forever, but it will be fun anyway.

Love,
Elizabeth

Last Week That Counts...

This is the next to last week of senior year, and therefore one of the most stressful and craziest. First of all, I had to come to school today (senior skip day) and be in two plays this morning that we performed for the middle school. I wasn't supposed to be in the second one, but one of the main actresses (who was also supposed to be the sound technician for the other play) decided not to show up. So, I went onstage and performed with a script in my hand.

Today we were supposed to film the rest of the telenovela this morning and today after school, however, we will be attempting to film it all after school so that I will have the ability to edit everything before friday. Personally, I am about ready for this to be over with because I am ready to kill all of them.

We have the senior awards ceremony thing tomorrow at like 6:30, so that should be interesting. I hope I get more scholarships than the two that I know about.

I looked online and found the camera that I want yesterday. I should be buying that online within the next week, and then it will be shipped before graduation probably. I cannot wait to get it.

I am sick and tired of doing things for high school, and I would love to get away from all of the underclassmen.

Yesterday, I filmed a green screen test for the telenovela and also helped install a new air conditioner in my living room. Its kind of a must have for southern summers (the ac, not the green screen). I posted the green screen test as a video on youtube, just because I was bored.

I cannot wait to have time to do things that I want to do, like make videos and whatnot. I won't have to worry about high school stuff anymore. It has been a fun time and I've made a bunch of memories and learned stuff, but it has gone on long enough.

Love,
Elizabeth W.

Senior trip

Hello fellow insomniacs! Jk. I'm up early because I'm about to get ready to go on senior trip. I think the first thing I'll do when I get on rhe bus is sleep. 4:30 is too early to leave the school.

Love,
Elizabeth w.