Lately...

I've been pretty busy. School, setting up Christmas, I even had an interview that LOOKS like its leading to a job! Yesterday I had my interview, tomorrow I'm going in to start the hiring process and if all goes well, Saturday I start training. WOOO! That just means I'll be getting busier, I have an online class for Winter intersession: Multiculturalism in the U.S. It sounds like its really interesting and the teacher seems nice. I see a lot more of me getting home and being exhausted. Sadly, along with this job, I'll also be seeing less of Archimedes :/  C'est la vie.

I promised nails last time... so here are all my fall nails! (all but the fall trees)

Scarves and leaves!

Heres a really cool leaf I found at school

Terrible leaf nails, they didn't work out as well as I hoped

Thumb of blobby leafness

Thanksgiving nails- Right hand

Thanksgiving nails- Right hand, thumb

Thanksgiving nails- Left hand

 Time to go back to working on my project though! Enough stalling! À Bientôt!

Thanksgiving!

Today was so VERY long. I'm pretty sure it actually started yesterday, with all the cleaning and baking pies (an apple and a pumpkin) and brownies (normal and dark chocolate). Woke up early this morning to get breakfast ready and start the turkeys; TWO by the way... two turkeys. I'm stuffed and exhausted. My brother and his girlfriend are spending the night and even at 9pm, my Nana and Uncle are still here. Gahhh.. I love my family, but I'm so sleepy and its Arch's night off.

Archimedes FINALLY got my first package, which had two pumpkin pies in jars and a very cautionary note that said to not eat them if the seal had broken and the top popped up. I used really good canning jars and made sure they were very sanitized and sealed well, put the lids on right out of the oven and made sure they had a really good seal. I made 7 and sent 2 to Arch, my dads been snacking on the ones I've had here. I kept them out on the counter to see how well they lasted to see if Arch's lasted too and they've been doing great. He was actually REALLY excited to hear that they were pumpkin pies, since I had been telling him I don't like pumpkin pie at all.. he told me its very "un-American"... haha. Well at least I eat apple pie. I'm glad he got it, now I need to start getting his Birthday/Christmas package ready. It'll probably end up getting there a week or so after his birthday, but that's okay.

Tomorrow, sleep... so much sleep. Oh, and I'll take pictures of the nails I did for Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all had a great day! À Bientôt!

Sad News

Well, I got some not-so-good news the other day, which is the reason I've maybe been neglecting the blog.

My Airman got a PCS overseas. For those who don't know what that is, it's a Permanent Change of Station, one year overseas. I'd be so very excited for him, except its barely months after he returns from deployment. I completely support him and told him I'd always be there for him, so he shouldn't worry about it :D We started planning things to do after he returned, I think it helps us get over the thought of how long it'll be. He's going to take a month leave to see me between coming back from deployment and getting prepared.
Honestly, a lot of me feels... really really sad. Not being able to see him or spend much time with him, but all will be well. I will do my best at staying patient and looking forward :) I've spent a few days getting used to it and getting my barrings. It's gotten to the point where I'm not sure I can think of much of my future without him being in it automatically.

Anywho, I love watching my Airman get up and get ready for work, even when he's all grumpy. I cant wait until he's back and I can snuggle up with him :)

Apologies for the rambling

Rough Days and Long Nights

Yesterday.... well.. yesterday sucked.

I had an interview that I was VERY confident about, but when I arrived for it, I found out it was a group interview... and in comparison to other people, I get really worried because I lack the job experience most other people have. I tried my best, but I've been feeling really pessimistic about it. Very uncharacteristic of me, but I can't seem to help it.

I had completely forgotten it was Archimedes' day off, which was a great relief! He made silly faces and said silly things to cheer me up. It got a bit frustrating when my internet decided it didn't want to work anymore... over... and over... and it got to the point where I was bawling and he was telling me it was okay. I kept apologizing for being upset over something so little, but he told me "If I can't love you when you're a little sad, I shouldn't be able to love you." <3 He's so wonderful and knows just how to help. I wish I could thank him a thousand times.  

Silly Realization

I'm sitting here chatting with my friend, who happens to be a Marine S.O., and she asked how I was. I responded with "Sleepy", which to anyone who knows me is a very normal answer. Since it was Archimedes day off, I kept myself up as long as I could, until I passed out... like most nights. As I told my friend, "Stay up to late, fall asleep while still on Skype, wake up the next morning and he's still there and he smiles at me and asks if I slept well. Every 4 days, whether I have school or not.. :) but I enjoy it"


The truth is, I really do love it. Spending time with the sweetest and most lovely guy I've ever met... The only thing different would for him to be in my arms, and stay up to ridiculous times with him and being silly <3 Ah, that man...

Fall Nails

I just ADORE Fall! Everything about it, SOOOOOO here are some Fall inspired nails :) I used sharpies and nail polish. Hope you guys like them as much as I do!

The Fall tree

The Sky

The Grass

The River

The Fallen Leaves

Halloween!

A while ago I showed my idea for my WWII AF girl costume looking like this: 

Wellll, it turned out to be a bit more like this: 

Which I liked... a lot. I'm glad it didn't turn out looking TOO uniform-y and ended up turning out a lot more relaxed :) I'm happy with how the skirt turned out, but since it just closes with a bow, sadly, it doesn't stay were I'd like it to. I'm going to work on putting a better fastener on it. 

C'est tout pour maintenant! Bonsoir! Happy Halloween! 

1 Day Until Halloween

Its the day before Halloween and I don't have any plans. I do happen to have a silly thing my French Teacher said though! 

Woman in Class: "Je me faut aller au plage" 

Teacher: "Non... a la, a la, Allah. La plage is Muslim............ I swear I only had a ham sandwich for lunch. I don't know how these things come to mind."

Random giggles from my day that I just had to write down. I also finished another Motion Design project, but I don't know if I want to show it quite yet. Maybe a few finishing touches for it that my teacher suggested today. 

I'm sorry I haven't been posting much, been a bit busy/sleepy :D Yey... now for a nap...

Zombie Nails

Last night, in preparation for going to a Zombie March this evening, I painted my nails. Now, zombies dont have that pretty of nails and they're pretty hard to describe... so I'll just cut to the chase and show you them!

Minecraft Hangout

One of my friends decided to start a Mincraft server with the Tekkit modpack, so Arch and I took full advantage of it. We had the funnest time, building things together and staying up all night (well that was just me, its was day for him). Sadly, something with Amazon's Cloud servers messed up and so we can't get on anymore until they fix it.

To occupy my time.... I MUST LOOK FOR CLOTHES TO ZOMBIFY. My town has an annual Zombie Walk hosted by a comic book store and I decided to go! It shall be fun and interesting! I just have to find some clothes that I can mess up, cover in blood, and wear :D Pictures to come!

It's Been 14 Days Since My Last Confession....

I got busy >.< I will admit though, I don't mind being busy. I actually quite like it, being productive, getting things done. Only my least favorite part about it is that I don't get to talk to Archimedes as much. It makes me really sad, and a bit extra stressed because I don't have his lovely smile to cheer me on or his kind voice that always calms me and lets me know everything is alright. Patience sucks sometimes.... I admittedly get crappy with patience and just sit here annoyed at things I know I have no control over. After my little self-mopey moment, I'm back to life.

A little catch up: I'm working on my second animation for my motion design class. Last weekend I set up and took down a quilt show for the quilt guild my mother and grandmother are in. I got my hair redyed to a pretty purple-y red color. I went to a Halloween fest full of scary mazes and monsters with my best friend.

:) I am quite content, a bit more of Arch would be nice, but I'll take what I can get.

My Inspiration to Write

A single item can tell more about a person than they could ever find the words for. Evidence of their life: their past, their present, their dreams for the future, telling stories only that person knows.  Even the smallest details could tell the biggest stories.

Such as an unnoticeable name tag, hidden behind an old corsage, mini statues of the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, and the Statue of Liberty; these items show more about me than my five foot tall teddy bear sitting at the end of my bed. It sounds silly for something so simple to be such a big part of my life, a tiny name tag that means almost as much to me as the dog tags around my neck. I've never been in the military, these tags aren't mine, but the name tag is. I wore it when I was in JROTC, similar to military in high school without the commitment. It’s what really fueled my interest in writing, as odd as it sounds. In a place that sees everyone the same, I strived to be different somehow. I knew standing next to everyone else, looking the same as me. It made me want to be MORE than just another person in uniform. I started writing anything I could and even though I knew it really wasn't all that good, I wrote anyways. On the sides of notes and in journals I would write down any idea that came to mind, even if they were terrible ideas.

Even though I was only in JROTC for a year, my need to write grew stronger; it was fuel to a flame that couldn't be put out. The next year I decided to take a creative writing class and my ideas flourished, but were still very juvenile. I learned great techniques on how to motivate my ideas and get them on paper. All the while, my name tag was pinned inside my backpack as small reminder of why I started to write. My last two years of high school I was involved in the Literary Magazine, a publication of student artwork and writing. I fell in love with recognizing people for the art they did and while in the class I was on the design team where I cultivated my skills in graphic design. I never managed to have anything published in it, but I was proud to have my name in the staff pages.

To this day, I jot down story ideas and plots on spare bits of paper. Some of them go into a blog I recently started about my life as an Airman’s significant other, but most go in a drawer unless they’re alluring enough to draw me in and let me explore them. Every time I write I look up at my hidden name tag, the one no one can see except me, and I remember why I love to write. 

Going to Bed Before 11pm!

I've decided to try and fix my sleep schedule! I'm planning on being wonderfully productive tomorrow and refuse to let myself be lazy. I didn't feel so well after coming home and I'm not sure why, but I'm sure rest will help. I have tons I just want to write about and tell about so I have made a bit of a to-do list for tomorrow!




To Do list for tomorrow, at minimum...
1. Write short sample blog and/or creative piece
2. Finish Archimedes project
3. Tidy room
4. Some form of working out, either running or just small things in my room
Other things:
5. Write long sample blog post
6. Super clean room
7. Make cookies

And probably a billion other things, but I'll probably write out a better list tomorrow with more details and probably more items. The real number one thing I need to do is BREATHE, relax, and get stuff done so that I don't feel so stressed by them anymore. :)


Okay, okay I admit, it's a few minutes past 11, BUT I am pretty much tucked in bed and ready to pass out. Until tomorrow! À Bientôt!

Insomnia and Job Opportunities

Lately I haven't been able to sleep well... Even when I'm completely exhausted during the day I can't go to sleep until 2 or 3 in the morning. Its difficult to wake up in the morning knowing I've only gotten 3 or 4 hours of sleep. It's getting to one of those points where suddenly even the easiest tasks feel like extremely heavy work loads. Every night I feel like I sleep less and less, the exhaustion is just piling up and I know some time this weekend I'm just going to crash.

In better news, I went to a job fair at my school yesterday. I dressed up all spiffy, hair all done in a simple, yet old-fashioned hair style. There were a lot of places I'm not in the right major program to go for (such as accounting), career like jobs that weren't in my prospective field, but I did find a few. One in particular really struck my fancy, a  blog company looking for a new in-house writer for the office in my town. Pretty much a dream job, getting to browse the internet all day looking for a cool story or a up-and-coming interest that may change internet pop-culture as we know it. Doing pretty much what I do every day, except in an office, getting paid... which would be epic to say the least.

Just need to get my brain in gear and write up some samples!

I'm excited and confident, but still really nervous. Gahh. 

Day Off Silliness

Archimedes' camera wasn't working well with Skype today so we decided to use Google+ Hangout, which was working much better with his computer. We decided to use the little doodle app and these are the pictures :D

Silliness ensued

I made the tree and he made the leaves, but I told him they look like the tree is on fire. 

Header Rage and a Frustrating Dream

Bah! So please ignore the fact that the header is not centered. Its been bothering me since Thursday and I don't have the ability to fix the image at the moment, please bear with me.

I had a dream this morning where my family threw me a surprise birthday party and Archimedes was there, and out of all the other people and presents I had not expected him and was so shocked. I go to run into his arms, but all the excitement I felt woke me up an I realized I was laying in my bed. It was probably one of the most depressing dream realizations I've ever had... Moop :/


Ah well... On to the rest of the day!

Brain Flood!

Well, I haven't posted anything for a few days and I've REALLY been meaning to. I even took pictures and everything. SO let us start.

Thursday 27th~
I had class and one of the lovely ladies in my French class brought a cookie cake that said "C'est Dégueulasse" Which means "That's Gross". It had a little silly clown on it too and the blue, white, and red of the French flag around the border.

Woops... Accidentally snagged one that said "ass". I didn't realize until I got to my desk.

Later that day, I went to the craft store and bought some patterns for a steampunk costume I've been planning for a while and fabric for my Halloween costume. I don't quite remember if I've shown what I decided I was going to be for Halloween, SO, here's a picture that is inspiration. 

Source

I plan on doing something similar to this, except for the jacket. A high-waisted circle skirt, a blue button up, along with my old uniform pumps and my friends flightcap from when we were in JROTC. I purchased the blue fabric for the circle skirt and soon I'll start working on it :D

These are the patterns I bought. Simplicity 4080 and 2172

Friday 28th~

Um... almost nothing, but watching Youtube videos. 

Saturday 29th~

Well, today consisted of running errands with my mother. I bought a few nail art pens and some Seche Vite (which I've been wanting for quite a while) and after about 30 minutes, this was the result:

Joker inspired nails

BANG! 

The Joker

BANG! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And that concludes my brain dump for the past few days! 

One Month Down

It has been a month since Archimedes has deployed. Time to buckle down and keep goin'! I just set up my calender for October since its just a few days away. My brain is short on words  for the moment, but everything has been going well so far :D So, goodnight!

My Short Animation Project

For my Motion Design class, we had to make a short little animation using little shapes and this was the result! I absolutely love it. I looked at my shape colors and realized they were the colors of the album cover of the song, so the song.. IMMEDIATELY came to mind. :)

Cotton Candy Sunsets

This evening the sky looked gorgeous. Whilst I was watering the garden, I decided to climb up on my hill and take some pictures of it.

I noticed a large amount of my posts end with "I need to go to sleep" sort of things. I tend to end up making posts at crazy hours of the morning, right before I go to bed. I can't usually think of any other way to end it so I go with that. I'll look into getting some more decent sleeping habits. 

On another note, I showed a very large group of my friends this blog... I think they like it.. I was very nervous and cautious to show anyone. Making this like my little diary is okay, but its nice to know someone is actually reading it.. or at least knowing it exists. 

Sleeping with dog tags on tonight.. clang clang clang.. Even though they're noisy, I love keeping my Airman closer to my heart in a more physical way. 

Today in the Mail...

I received something I've been waiting for, for quite a while :D Archimedes's dog tags. I don't know about you, but I'm all kinds of ecstatic! I don't have silencers on them right now so they make all kinds of noise >.<

I made sure they were whited out so none of his personal information showed. Also, one of my favorite shirts with a pin-up girl on it :D

I'll end up posting something later on tonight, but for now, I'm just as happy as can be :D 

Endeavour

Today at 9am, my family and I went to go see the space shuttle Endeavour. The drive wasn't too bad and the temperature was actually quite nice. We waited, patiently, patiently, and then impatiently the more we received updates of its location. We were at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) because we knew they were going to do a low and slow fly by as respect to a fellow NASA field center. It was absolutely graceful. Escorted by two F18 escort jets, it passed RIGHT over our heads and gracefully banked to the South.

Here's some pictures my aunt and I took, they're a bit zoomed in so the quality isn't as great.

~Endevour atop the modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier passing right over top us~ 

~One of its escort jets~ 

~Endeavour starting to bank and both of it's escort jets~

~Turning South with both jets~

~Heading away, to the South, to eventually land at LAX~

Busy Bee

I've been busy starting up a new quilt and working on a project for Archimedes. I haven't been doing much besides that, relaxing, talking to Arch, trying to work on a header for the blog. :D

Tomorrow morning, I'm going to JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) to watch a low flyover of the space shuttle Endeavour on its way to the California Science Center. The 8am wake-up will not be enjoyable, but the amazing memory will be worth it :D

Better head to bed! Have to get up in a few hours!

If Days Like Today Happened More.....

I'd be a very sad soul. Nothing extremely wrong with today, but if it happened more often I would be very upset. Today was just stressful, filled with a lot of unnecessary drama that I had previously tried to stay out of, but somehow got roped in anyways. Tomorrow is school again and I'm happy. Sometimes, oddly, school seems like a break rather than my days I don't have school.

Too much stress and I really don't want to rant about why sooo... ONWARD!

Talking to Archimedes was minimal, but I shall push through until tomorrow night when I can talk to him again. He woke up a bit late so there was no time to talk before he had to go to work. I wished him a good day with some kisses and then decided to take a few cute pictures and send them to his email that said I missed him in sign language. :D Tomorrow, while he's sleeping I'll start on the projects for his care package.



And with that... I'm heading to bed. T-minus 6 hours until I have to wake up!

Boring Weekend

So, this weekend I haven't really been doing anything of consequence, just household chores and a lot of relaxing. It's nice, but has been horribly hot and recently due to some sort of pipe problem there has been no water :( Going on the second day.. I really want a shower! I shall survive.

Lately, I've had a song stuck in my head that's a cover a girl from my High School did. She's a great independent artist and a WONDERFUL singer named Sara Niemietz. I've been singing this song to Archimedes the past two days, I think I've sufficiently got it stuck in his head. I just love everything about the way she does it. Soooo, here it is!

Un Frappé aux Fruits et Mon Prof de Français

So, this morning I made myself a nice smoothie, sat up in my room enjoying the fact that I didn't have a class until 12:30. I sat the smoothie down and devastation... Smoothie all in my nightstand drawer. What's even worse was a lot of my electronics were RIGHT there. Everything got covered in a thick layer of what now looked very unappetizing so quickly, with the help of my lovely mother, I grabbed a few bathroom towels and started pulling out everything. It's a pretty large drawer, which was now soaked, sitting on various bath towels in my room. This all happened maybe 20 minutes before I had to leave for my French class and though I was able to lightly clean off everything, I had to leave it for over 3 hours to go to my class. What a terrible way to start off a morning.

This brings me to my French class. A little worked up from the smoothie incident, I arrived at class late. My Professor was born and raised in France and moved to the United States when he was 17. He is one of the funniest teachers I've ever had, saying things like:
"It's just hard to shake the 'H' habit." Referring to the fact that the 'H' is silent in French.
"The One Butt, Two Legs theory." When explaining French say Pant (one butt) and in English we say Pants (two legs).
Today, he said "That's not my cup of cake." Thought about it, and realized he had meant tea, but by then we were all laughing already. When we were talking about breads he explained why a croissant is shaped the way it is and why Un Gallette des Rois had a baby Jesus inside, someone then said some point later that they had liked In-N-Out (a hamburger joint). My teacher said "I think its okay, but its not all that great. I know, I'm offending a California institution. First Islam, then Catholicism, now In-N-Out. ~puts on his glasses~ And I'm not done yet. This is like Southpark, everyone will be offended equally!"
They may not mean much to anyone else, but they were absolutely hilarious and cheered up my day.

The cheerfulness was not long lasted though. We've been watching the movie La Haine, we had finally got toward the end today. The whole movie is quite good, about the ghetto just outside of Paris and the lives they lead, the police brutality they had faced. The ending, which I will not tell you because spoilers do not make friends, was VERY shocking. The last line of the movie really stuck with me all day...

"Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land! "

Late Nights and Early Mornings

Its 2 am, I'm watching Amélie, one of my favorite movies and since I know it well enough not to look at the subtitles I'm reading V for Vendetta. Sometimes I'm so very content with my evening, even though my day started out quite rough.

Archimedes had a day off and I ended up staying up until 6am yesterday morning, when it became too difficult to open my eyes any longer having been up since 6am the previous morning. This made me sleep in way too long and I accidentally forgot to do a few unimportant chores I've been putting off for far too long. I don't ever regret the days I stay up until crazy hours in the morning because Arch's off. 

On an exciting note, my mini personal battle of trying to convince him to go to Disneyland with me has been won! He finally said he would go with me, though he had previously said he would never step a foot in there. 

~For now... I am far too sleepy to stay up. 

The Day Starts....

So, today is one of my few days I actually have class this semester. Two classes.. Gah it hits me like a hammer every time I think of it. Its infuriating. That's beside the point though....

I woke up this morning frustratingly missing Archimedes. Every little thing I did reminded me of him. I'm blessed with the ability to talk to him at least twice a day.. but it still gets a bit rough. He's always so lovely and I miss him so much.

Yesterday, before he went to bed his roommate came in and said "You guys are fuckin' cute." We both started to giggle and blush, his roommate then said "Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little honesty!" His roommate is married so he understands us talking so much and I'm glad he was able to room with someone so understanding. I really enjoy meeting his squadmates and saying hello to them. They're so funny and love to joke all the time. ^^ It makes me feel closer to him and though I'm far away, I feel closer to him and his every day life. Lately, he's been bringing breakfast to his room and I enjoy it. A bit of every day normalcy makes things feel better :D

Sadly, I'm in class, and though this next part I could talk about all day, I shall express my feelings in a short bit as best as I can. 

Today is September 11th, 2012... A humbling reminder to everyone, especially those with family members and loved ones in the military. I can never express the thanks I can give to Everyone who was lost, to those who's family members were lost. And the dearest bit, personally, to all the Military members who have given their lives in the war since then, and to all their amazingly strong family. The more years that pass, the more people forget. I also think, like all deaths.. it may not be forgetting, but learning to live with the pain and even when its right in the front of their minds, they can show amazing strength and continue on.

This is what my school did (sorry I know its far away, my phone isn't the best, It looked better in person) Its a huge board with the towers saying Remember 9/11, there was a list of all the names over the top too, Flags lined the walkway... It was lovely :) I'm glad they didn't just pass over it like any other day.

Andddd the Heros!

So, I finally finished the nails on my right hand... Hardest thing ever, but! they turned out great...

I present to youuuuuuu... The Heros!

Batman, Nightwing, Robin, Batgirl and the unsung hero, Alfred.

Nananananananana!! Villains!!!

So I said I was going to do my nails so.... Here's what I ended up doing. I colored them with Sharpies and made awesome Batman villains. They came out much better than I thought I was able to do.

Joker, Harley Quinn, Riddler, Poison Ivy, and Scarecrow.

Sleepy Days

Today, I'm sleepier than I have been in a while. I'm not sure why... I slept tons last night. I did wake up with the sniffles so I may be getting sick.

I feel bad because the whole time I got to talk to my Airman I was too sleepy to talk, my brain wasn't really processing any sort of ideas. When I did try my voice was either too quiet for the microphone to pick up or it cut out. Sometimes the internet where he is really frustrates me, but I'm truly glad he does have it. Without it I think I'd feel much more lost from day to day. The days do feel infinitely long though. The moments I get to talk to him feel like they rush by far too fast and the moments without him feel horribly slow.

WELL! He told me he expects my nails to be painted by the time he wakes up since I've been putting it off for a couple of days now. No idea what I'm going to do.. but.. I'll figure something out and post it on here :D

Air Force Pride Nails

So, a few days before my Airman went to his deployment I decided to attempt to make Air Force Pride Nails.. These are the results..