Pointless Ramblings and Excuses. Sorry. ,)

I'm writing this mainly because I got tired of my last journal.

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Wellll, I really don't have too terribly much to talk about right now. Life's good. School has a love-hate relationship with me. (I have a really crappy schedule- literally all my electives are on one day and all my core classes are on the other).

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I haven't really uploaded much lately, for a couple reasons: One, my dad isn't happy with my grades (Dad expects all A's and I had like 3 B's on my progress report ) so I'm grounded from the computer- he took away my laptop and put passwords on all the computers so I have to ask before getting on the computer. Whatever. Anyways, i got my grades up in a couple classes, so it's just my two AP classes I have to worry about (but technically, since it's an honors class, a B counts as an A in a regular class and therefore doesn't lower my GPA), so I should (hopefully) be able to fix that within a couple weeks.

However, I still don't have my laptop (which is where i did most of my photo editing schtuff), and Flash Player isn't working on my account on the main computer, so if I want to edit pictures I have to ask to get on my mom's account. As you can imagine, this is kinda a pain in the butt.

Finally, since Picnik is closing next Thursday (as you've probably heard), i've been trying to edit as many pictures as I can before it closes, since I've been editing most of my pictures there since I joined dA, and the only editing program we have on my computer that does any more than rotate, crop, contrast is the Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Editor, which is outdated and doesn't have many (if any) of the features I frequently used in Picnik. Mom's been trying to convince Dad to buy Photoshop, but I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon. (Lol i just realized, anyone reading this who's never met my dad is probably under the impression that he's like, some nazi father who doesn't do anything for me, but he's not like that at all. Just thought i'd better point that out )

Anyways, fortunately for me, I found a new free photo editing website that has a lot of the same stuff as Picnik--- www.picmonkey.com/ So i've also been trying to get used to using it instead of Picnik. Sooo, I have a bunch of pictures edited and ready to go, so I'll start uploading those in a couple days.

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Here's what you can expect from me in the next month or so (this list is more for my benefit than yours. ):


**My shoe drawing from art class

**My 3-Point Perspective from art class (we're still working on this project, but i'll take a picture before I turn it in )

**Pictures I took on my cousin Bunnyhop13's waterproof camera (Imma warn you, her camera sucks so the pictures are kinda crappy, but I figured i'd upload a few of the better ones anyway)

**Pictures from a trip to the zoo a couple weeks ago (Hopefully these will make up for the crappy water ones; Mom let me use her expensive camera with the telephoto lens, so they're higher quality, plus the animals were really cooperative that day )

**Pictures from another zoo trip last weekend; sadly, I only had my point-and-shoot this time so the pictures aren't as good quality, but i still got some good ones so I'll upload those.

**Miscellaneous photography

**I know I've been telling you this for months, but I am very close to finishing a drawing of my cousin Teagan, and I will snap a picture to upload the minute I finish it

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This has gotten waaaay longer than I originally intended, so imma stop now.

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