skills...?

I'm not the world's best artist. I mean, I'm pretty good at doodling and I've taken art classes before. But I have a tendency to disproportion things or make them look fairly unrealistic. There's a reason why I prefer photography and music as my artistic mediums. But when I'm bored at work and have nothing to do towards the end of the day, I draw on sticky notes.

Yesterday was a weird work day with what I had to do in the office. But towards the end of the day, as per usual, I began to get bored. I'd already drawn my phone and I needed something else to draw. So I went through the few pictures I've taken on my phone and landed on this one:

And this is what happened (please don't laugh too hard...):

There are some imperfections (I can't do hands to save my life, so they end up blobby and malformed...), but overall you can see the resemblances... sorta. I'm gonna go with artistic interpretation on this one and be happy that I didn't make our faces short and fat, even though my brother's is a bit off kilter... I feel like it's a bit like the picture from Napoleon Dynamite that he draws to ask a girl to the dance... "It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip."

Anyway! Can you see the family resemblance between my brother and I in the original?? We have the same eyes (the reason for the original picture). He and I look the most alike in our family, but my brothers and I actually have very similar noses and eye and brow shapes (my older brother has brown eyes instead of green though). We're not sure about my little sister, but she hasn't fully grown into her face yet to see big similarities. It took until a few years ago to see them between my older brother and me, after all.

tall girl

Guess who had to use hairspray today to keep her hair together?? My bangs weren't being very happy this morning... so i busted out the giant can of Aquanet I bought to tease my hair 80s style for my last high school choir concert (which was 80s-themed and required costumes) and conquered them!

On another note, I normally don't wear heels. Like ever. Even though I'm incredibly short by most people's standards (including my own), I tend to stick with flats. I'm a student. I walk all to classes every day during the school year. Wearing three-inch heels is just unrealistic! But I decided to dig these ones out for work today. I'm sitting down most of the day, so I figured 'why not?' So I was a "tall" person today!

The main reason behind wearing these shoes is because I got this dress in the mail yesterday. On an average-height person, it would be a bit long. On me, however, my legs look even shorter than they normally are. Or at least that's what my sister told me the minute I put it on last night. Apparently, I need to hem it really soon... I kinda like it longer though. So we'll see!
I felt like I should've been at a Fourth of July picnic instead of sitting in an office today. Put me in a park with friends and give me some watermelon, lemonade, and something barbecued (like ribs or a burger or something) and it'd be a perfect afternoon right now! I'll probably take this up to the lake when we go on vacation next week.

Modcloth dress

Forever 21 cardigan

old wedges I've had forever and can't remember where they're from...

lady sing the blues

When I was little, my mum always had a tendency to buy me mainly blue pieces of clothing. I don't really know why, but as I got older, I got annoyed that I didn't have more of a variety of colors. But as I've been going through my clothes this summer and getting rid of stuff I don't wear very much anymore, I've realized that the clothes that I wear the most nowadays just so happen to be... blue. I have blue skirts, blouses, dresses, sweaters... The only thing I don't own in blue are shoes, I think. Oh wait. I have blue sneakers... haha!

After my exciting day yesterday (I went to the finale of Last Comic Standing and met Kathy Griffin afterwards!), going into work earlier to make up for the hours I lost by not going yesterday was incredibly boring. I wish I didn't have to work...

top & sweater - Forever 21

"skirt" - Urban Outfitters

belt - Target

shoes - Modcloth

back to life

So... Ta-dah! New hair cut! I'm back to full bangs and it's quite a bit shorter (at least it feels that way because of the layers...).

This is not my skirt either. I borrowed it from my sister for the day. I think it looks better on her though because it's her size and flares out a bit more for her. And it's terribly short on me! I'm really not that much taller than her, but I don't remember it being this short on her! Weird. I wish she wore this skirt more. I think it might be one of the only skirts that she owns. She's more of a shorts and jeans kind of girl.

Check out my new baby! I don't think it's left my side since it came in the mail on Tuesday... Heh... I'm really not one of those people who can't live without their phone though. I actually don't text people very much at all. And I don't like calling people unless I really have to... Although I might be using this baby a lot more than my past phones now. It's certainly worth all the use I can get out of it! And I text a lot more when I'm at school.

Speaking of school! I go back up to Washington in about a month! I'll be sad to leave my family and friends down here, but I'm incredibly excited to go back!

top & skirt - Forever 21

belt - Target

flats - Modcloth

I'm trying to take more photos these days. At least intentionally. Although it's really awkward taking pictures in a parking lot in the car. People think you're taking pictures of them...

a moment to indulge my selfish teenager side...

I kinda wish I could trade in my vacation time with my family in two weeks for this week so I could counsel at camp again this year... mainly because I miss my counselor and staff friends from the past three years and would probably enjoy it much more than the girl who is going this year. But I can't because my mum would kill me for ditching family vacation time and being wishy-washy with work... I hate life after high school...

This is me last year at camp. (I didn't take a lot of pictures that year, and there certainly weren't very many of me since I was the one with the camera...)

Okay I'm done. No more whining. There's nothing I can do about it now.

life as an only child

Just some things from the past few weeks. The first three are from when we went to the Science Center and downtown for the afternoon. The fourth is from a Shakespeare in the Park event that I went to with my Mum and brother that quite a few friends were in. And the last is on the freeway on the way... somewhere. There was a blimp and the city was really clear that evening.

This week's been pretty good so far. I got paid, so obviously I have clothes coming in the mail... But I've also been an "only child" since Tuesday (my younger siblings are at church camp withe the youth group), so it's been really quite and relaxing. And I've gone and seen movies with my parents the past few nights. My new phone came the other day too! I am now the proud new owner of a shiny Blackberry Curve and I adore it! So much better than my last phone! I'm also getting a well-overdue hair cut tomorrow. I'm getting a trim and going back to full bangs. So ready for another hair change. I'm probably going to dye it back to brown before the month's up too. I want to go back to as close to my natural hair color as I possibly can before school. Although it might be a richer, darker brown than before. We'll see. It's still a few weeks off before I make the final decision.