Alice Alice Alice!

So yay, it's the weekend! This week went by kinda fast, but then so did Spring Break. Anyways, I saw Alice in Wonderland! I especially liked the Cheshire Cat... he was creepy, but cool.

Our garage is like, an abyss, but we're finally having a garage sale this weekend. (We planned to do so last summer.) I'm just sitting here, avoiding work by blogging and reading social media news on mashable.com.

Did I mention I'm now taking an actual art class? My friend introduced me to it, and I now go there every Wednesday after school with her. I hope it helps me sharpen my art skills. :)

Back to Alice in Wonderland. There's an album on iTunes from various artists that was inspired by the movie, called Almost Alice. Right now I'm debating on whether to buy the songs I know I like individually or to take a chance, save some money, and buy the whole album. Hmmm...


Owl City- The Technicolor Phase:

"if you cut me i suppose i would bleed
the colors of the evening stars
you can go wherever you wish
cause i'll be there
wherever you are"

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yay a drawing!

I felt like drawing today, so I drew this lovely picture of me slowly dying a horrible, painful, cough-full death, although I haven't actually felt that way since Wednesday. I would post the actual picture, but I think it might stretch the blog, so here's the link:

http://dictionary-0.deviantart.com/art/I-feel-like-death-157019858

yes, those are the pajamas i am wearing right now. x)

Not sure what I'm gonna do next.. maybe play Alpha Centauri? Perhaps Civ II: Call To Power.. but then I'd have to drag the comfy chair over there... *ponders*

cough cough

Don't you just hate being sick? I sure do (although I don't quite mind getting out of school.) My siblings and mother have been sick recently and yesterday we discovered that I had a 102 degree fever. I am still coughing and still have a runny nose, but I no longer have a fever or a headache. (Luckily there was never any throwing up involved.) I'm not sure if I'll be going to school tomorrow, but even if I'm not, next week is Spring break so there's not a high chance that I'll miss any more school. Which is good, cause I've already missed a substantial amount due to the Alabama trips.

*the following games I am about to talk about you have probably never heard of

A game I have been playing for many, many years: Heroes of Might and Magic, specifically Heroes III: Armageddon's Blade. It's very old, but it works on our XP (which I have christened the Game Computer, firstly because most of our games are installed there, secondly because a bunch of games worked on it that I didn't expect to. Me and my mom are currently playing a "hotseat" game of this, which we haven't done in a long time.

Another game that works on our two desktop computers (a Vista and an XP) is Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri, one of my favorite computer games (only topped by Civilization II: Call To Power.) It's like Civilization: IN SPACE! but it has a really good storyline and character. Incidentally, it's a game I first started playing one day that I was sick a couple years back. I was bored, on the couch, not feeling like I was going to throw up for once, so I grabbed the Alpha Centauri manual and read it (yes, I know, it's kind of weird) and then moved my blanket to the computer and started playing. I actually tried to play it once at the age of five or six, but the Mind Worms (which use psionic powers to stun their victims and then implant their larvae into.. okay, no need to get gruesome) scared me enough for me to drop it. I'm thinking of starting another game, now..

all we are is dust in the wind

Life has just rushed past me; I'm not sure what to say. February 18th, my grandfather died, so we had to go back to Alabama for his funeral. It was sad, but I guiltily say that I was closer to my other grandfather, who also died a few years ago. My sister even accused me of not being sad just because I wasn't crying. But that was weeks ago, but I still haven't updated, even with my 0n-the-go-update app for my iTouch. Ah well.

The cemetery that my grandfather was buried in is the biggest cemetery I've ever seen. Don't even think about trying to hold your breath as you pass this in the car, or you might pass out. Seriously. You know, there is something that can be said about cemeteries; and that is that when you walk across one to find where your siblings have run off to, you can feel history, on the headstones and footstones and in the bodies of people you never knew six feet under the ground. These people once had friends and families and a life. This kind of thinking is a bit dark, but philosophical.

On a different, but also philosophical subject, my bedroom window faces the right side of my neighbor's house. Every night I can see clearly that the upstairs room has the lights still on and the curtains drew back, but the only thing in the room really visible is an American flag. I wonder about that flag. Are my neighbors trying to honor our country? Or are they honoring a fallen soldier they know, or something? I've never asked. But I plan to someday.

A song that my dad likes by Kansas, called Dust In the Wind, was in my thoughts on the car trip there and back, although it's not really my usual kind of song. So I guess I'll close with this:

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.