HI what did you guys get??

I got money and slippers and pjs and a shitload of foreign candy from world market!!

I've been waiting to get money for college visits. Now that I HAVE the money I ask my parents about them again and they don't want me to. THEY NEED TO FUCKING LET GO ALREADY.

WELL SO MUCH FOR DOING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. I feel bad. I'll try and get some done when I have time but this week has been filled and I have time but I'm always too tired to draw. And I'm actually pretty uninspired right now anyways q_q Um. I might see Princess and the Frog on Saturday because I haven't gone to the movies in forever and I'd rather do that than go to the mall with my parents. They're like. Hey Stephanie let's do something for your birthday!! And I got excited because we never do anything for my birthday so I asked what and my mom's like we should go to the mall for AFTER CHRISTMAS SALES >:3 ...): ok.

I actually need to save my money for college visits. I just hope my parents let me go. My dad's being a pain about it but my moms ok with it. If I can't go then I'll end up saving my money for a new laptop because holy hell guess what? The laptop I need for school will run me 4 grand (17" macbook pro with all of the good processing and running..features I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CALL THEM but I need it to be fast and have a lot of memory and such for animation and all the programs I'll need to use.) I don't know how much the college student discount will be because LCAD sent me the scholarship package and it came with a thing that said their students' discount code for Macs if I go there but it doesn't say how much.

UM. Today was my sister's birthday. I made her a card. It was sort of funny I thought. A satire of sorts.

It's all in German (too bad she can't speak it) but it adds to it just wait.

It says that happy birthday jazz on the front and on the inside left flap it had a pretty great drawing of Hitler and then on the right flap it said 'keep making good choices' (in german) -Stephanie.

I showed my dad and he said she has no sense of humor and she would cut a bitch so I made her a new one.

This ones 10x as lame because my card creativity skills are lacking.

And it said 'Jenny' on the front and then on the left inside flap it had a drawing of me as an emo and then on the right flap it says 'mi leif sux w/o u. -stef'

Well. Even though it's complete sarcasm, she liked it..so..it all works.

I'M SO EXCITED because today I get to see my aunt/uncle and cousins from California and I NEVER GET TO SEE THEM AND THEY'RE MY FAVORITE I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. My uncle's really cool and always shows me his cool apple technology that I ooze over and my aunt is really fun to talk to and my cousins are theee greatest I wish they were my siblings. We're going out to lunch at some restaurant in Seattle which would never happen except for my Uncle's treating so that's why that's happening. It'll be fun to go to Seattle again. PHOTO OPPS.

And then on Thursday we're basically doing Christmas because my mom works on Christmas this year (she basically works on Christmas every year) and well.. I guess that's ok..but they also want to go shopping then too m_m I hate going places with my family it's such a pain because my parents always end up getting pissed off because my siblings, despite their age, can't behave. When I was their age I was SUCH A GOOD KID. I knew my place and how to act and when and when not to talk because I WAS CONSIDERATE. And I never did the stupid shit they do.

UM AND THEN FRIDAY I'll stay home and maybe write my last college letter for SAIC because I need to get on that (I said I'd do that today. hah. I'll brainstorm for the next few days I guess!!) UM. THEN SATURDAY MOVIE OK.

Why did I write all of that.

FINALLY WINTER BREAK!

I start gallery duty at the Bellevue Arts Museum today GIVIN TOURS. It'll be fun until it gets dark and I take the bus home m_m

I'm excited to finally be able to work on Christmas cards/letters + art to mail my friends and then I'll hopefully send them all out on Monday with super speedy overnight shit so it gets there asap.

I'M STILL PRETTY STOKED ITS BREAK. I'm donee with school for two weeks yessss

..have separate art books for separate things? I have three. Which is all I need. And then I have paper for everything else (aka stuff I know I wont give a shit about so I end up drawing it on paper and losing it somewhere). I have one for school work/my general art (Ib art book) and then I have a concept art book for strictly one story, and then I have a PALETTE book which is just a sketchbook I got as a gift that I'd never use because I only use hardbound spiral sketch books so I used the paperbound ones as palette books meaning when I paint I use that as my..palette AND I SAVE THEM. Unless if they're oils. But all my acrylic ones I have saved lol. They're fun to look back on for inspiration for a new picture just from seeing how colors work together..I guess it's sort of weird. BUT HOW DO YOU WORK?