8/26/11
Well, I am on vacation but it seems we will be cutting the trip short as a hurricane is headed for our area. woo. we've got to pick up the pets from their various sitters, make sure no windows break, get water out of basement if it floods... fun fun fun. never been in a hurricane before though- not very common on the east coast. i may not have power during ol' Irene, so it may be a bit before i get on here

8/22/11

we didn't go on vacation on the 13th but will be going tomorrow- so no new art most likely but i should be able to check my messages from time to time. i can't believe school is so close to starting! yeesh.

i am slowly chipping away at all my Lilium entries, so you'll be seeing those for awhile... sorry, guys, arabian overload!



8/13/11

potentially going on vacation tomorrow, may be able to check message but no art



7/30/11

I am going to camp tomorrow, and therefore will not be able to be on here to check messages or anything until next Saturday (more likely next Sunday). I'm going with a friend of mine, and my little sister is going for her first time (she's in the younger age groups though).

When I get back I will get right into doing all the art that I desperatley need to get done, notably:
manip for *s1088 in return for donating points, very much like 'The Divide' as far as composition, colors, background, and everything, just with a buckskin horse. Potentially using these stock:
[link] horse&order=9&offset=48#/d3fah6y (would have to turn into buckskin)
[link] horse&order=9&offset=72#/d3l0l7l
[link] horse&order=9&offset=96#/d3l0ckd (need to turn into buckskin)
[link] horse&order=9&offset=120#/d2xzxmf (make buckskin)
[link] horse&order=9&offset=144#/d3klwdj

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[link] with flowers&order=9&offset=72#/d2jh6zu
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Entries to Lilium Arabian Show
-Gwendolyn (driving, halter (?))
-Vintage Design (driving (?), halter (?))
-Belinda Bliss (driving, halter)
-Classic Class (halter, english pleasure (?))
-Mount Briar (halter, anything else (?))
-Battle Cry (halter, driving)
-Tea Time Terror (halter)
-Titanic's Design (halter, anything else(?))



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3 yo refs

So have a great week dears!

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I got my scores back for both my US History AP exam and SAT.

On the AP exam I got a 3 (on a score of 1-5), which is good and I'll get college credit for it, but I still feel a bit disappointed. I wanted a 4 and probably would have gotten it if the DBQ essay hadn't been on a topic we never got to. A little bit disappointed, a lot relieved that I at least get college credit.  

For the SATs I got 1990. Scored in the 98 percentile for critical reading, which is fabulous, but in the 84 percentile and 86 percentile for math and writing. Again, wish I could have broken the 2000 border, but oh well. So, again a bit disappointed and a bit relieved.

Kind of annoying to score just below my goals on both- and frustrating since I studied over 20 hours for the history one. I was coming home from school and then studying until dinner, eating dinner, and then studying until 11 o'clock for weeks. Then darn Richard Nixon and Watergate had to get me, ugh.

Working on my summer reading essay now- on The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Soon I have to do my AP Enviornmental Science project.

Sometimes I wonder if I school really ended, since I am still so drowning in it.

And, more importantly, how are you all?
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I neglected to mention that SCHOOL IS OUT FOR THE SUMMER!! And now I am going away for a week so I shall not be available until the Saturday after the 4th of July.

No more research papers = fabulous

So, darlings, take it easy on the messages, k? I'll try to catch up with everything once I get back Love you all!

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Whoever nabs my 14k pageview, be sure to screenshot it and you get a free piece of artwork from me!

Today is the day of my school's prom, which I am not going to since I am waiting for my senior year prom. But my friends and I are getting all dressed up and going bowling and then out for ice cream I am so excited, I love them so much- but boy described in lower entry can't come (even though he doesn't come to my school, I invited him) since he has army training all weekend That's a downer- but I am still gunna have a blast! You know that feeling when everything is just alright in the world- that's me right now, I am so happy.

And my english research paper is done! whew! now starting the history one.. yeesh, never ending.

How are you all?


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I just might be in love (wow, do I sound like every other hormone crazed teenager...).

Yesterday I went to the play my church is putting on, called The Door, in which many of friends are acting/stage hands, etc.
So I text one boy, who did sound, who I have liked for a long time.

Me: Nice job with the sound system- the way you bounded onto that stage, woo, is enough to make a woman feel faint...
Him: Why thank you, I practiced.
Me: Want to join the girls hurdles crew? I could use another decent hurdler to captain over (he knows I run track, and am a hurdlerer, and I am hurdles captain)
Him: You're wicked funny! I would love to! Bet you're a tough captain.
Me: Me? Heartless!? Never! I am very nice to my baby hurdlerers!
Him: Ok, fine, track star- and I bet I couldn't beat you- you're wicked fast. (even though he is over 6 feet and all leg, naw, he definitley can't beat me of course... lies)
Me: Funny, my various injuries (rapidly deteriorating knees, shin splints, permanent hip flexor issues and heart murmur) don't help me too much.
Him: No sympathy for you, missy! And you are still wicked fast!
Me: If you insist... so when are you leaving? (he  joined the military and is waiting to see when he'll be deployed)
Him: I find out tomorrow.
Me: Oh gosh, you must be terrified. I would be!
Him: Are you joining too?!
Me: No, no! I'm going to URI after high school, for pre-vet- then to vet school  after. Or if I go the orthopedic urgeon route, URI for pre-med, then 10 yrs grad med school.
Him: Wow. You are so smart, Shelby.
Me: A lot of it is just hard work, but thanks. I'll be old though when done with all that school.
Him: Old, but still wicked smart, and gorgeous- and rich!
Me: Yeah, 100k starting out helps compensate for oldness a bit.
Him: Very true.
Me: I'll miss seeing you going around with your suit on every Sunday... I am a sucker for a man in a suit.
Him: You hitting on me, Shelby?
Me: Me? Nevvverrrrrr, silly!
Him: Sureeeee
Me: haha, will you tell me when you know when you're leaving tomorrow?
Him: Sure

Then today... I am nervous all day for  him, I don't want him to get deployed!

Him: Aug 16th
-I call him on phone-
Me: Hey!
Him: Hey, Shelby- you got my text?
Me: Yeah- I was nervous all day for you!
Him: Mind if I call you back when I get home? (he was driving home from a big city like an hour  from where he lives)
Me: No prb

-he calls an hour later, i miss it-
-i call 2 min after he'd called, he picks up-
Him: Hey Shelby, sorry I couldn't talk before- was driving home.
Me: It's fine, you nervous?
Him: No
Me: Really??
Him: Yeah... you're crazy being nervous for me!
Me: How can you not be nervous?!
Him: You don't get nervous if you want to do it.
Me: I do get nervous if someone I care about is going to war.
Him: I'm sorry- and sorry that it is 13 days after your birthday...
-we start talking about how i'll be a pro if i loose an arm as i am changing while talking on the phone-

I am so thankful that he is not leaving just yet- it will be hard to see him go. Six months is a long time, and he'll miss Christmas... He's a sweetie, and we have so many good memories together from makig toilet paper tails and parading around a store with them tucked into our pants, to posing on the little kid rides at stores, to jamming to the Lion King soundtrack together...  
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Sorry about stress-induced freak out yesterday (aka entry below).

Today, however, I am much better for a few reasons.

1. Today (April 15th) is the day Abraham Lincoln died 146 years ago, killed by the Southern (incredibly handsome) actor, John Wilkes Booth. Don't get me wrong, I love Lincoln- he is my favorite president. I also love JWB though, I find him fascinating. So today, in honor of this- my friends (Kathryn, Rachel, Christine, Ashley, Madison, and I) all went to the local university (URI) to hear an open-to-the-public lecture about the military court that condemned Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David E. Herold and George Atzerodt to death by hanging, and whether or not it was constitutional. I thoroughly enjoyed that- it was so nice going for a ride  with my friends (only Ashley in my car though), to relax a bit and learn for fun (though I knew pretty much everything the lecturer said) and to hear about my historical men, Lincoln and JWB. Plus, the lecturer was a ex-Chief Justice in my state's Supreme Court, which was pretty exciting, as he is also a Lincoln expert. AND I got home without getting lost, as I dropped my 'navigator' off at her house (even though she got us totally lost at the campus finding somewhere to park where my lovely Pathfinder would not get towed).

2. The Conspirator, a movie I cannot WAIT to see came out today, hopefully I'll be able to go one day either after AP History extra classes (to get extra ready for AP exam my class is going in Mon, Tues, Weds for 3 hours each) or track practice with some friends (Ashley, Kathryn and Madi want to come) to go see it- my friends are such sweeties, as they don't actually care about the Lincoln assassination.

3. April Vacation has begun! Though I literally cannot really sleep in one day, I am excited nonetheless (Sat: Job Shadowing 8-4, Sun: Church at 8, Mon: AP review 9-12, Tues: " ", Weds: " ", Thurs: Track: 8:30-10:30, Fri: " ", Sat: Soccer game (don't know time in the morning off top of my head), Sun: church at 8), then back to school. I have a reasonable amount of hw though, which is ok, just to read The Great Gatsby completely, read The Grapes of Wrath, read Winter Dreams, do vocab cards, study for vocab test, start 'sweded' video plans and that's about it that I can think of right now- but also have to do history AP studying and SAT studying.

So- besides saving everything over again, hunting down all my old favorites and gimp brushes, and loosing whole iTunes library (and hoping I have most of it backed up on some flashdrive), all is well right now.
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Why no art you say? I hear your cry.

Welllll not only do I have a large research paper to do for english (on the romanticized American view of the Civil War and glorification of 'the Cause'), a large history research paper starting up (on John Wilkes Booth and how he is NOT insane), track practices and meets way more than necessary, studying for History AP exam and the SAT, and a million other things to do- along with stressing out that all deadlines for all the contests I have said I would do on deviantart approaching...

the computer decides to crash.

This includes lovely things like ERASING THE HARD DRIVE to get it back up and running. It is only 10 months old, it should not be crashing.

So, as I write this- my dad is on the phone with hp, trying to get it going, and as I type everything I had partially done, every song I didn't back up, EVERYTHING is erasing. Darn. This includes the drawing I did of Shelby in her wedding dress for the HARPG wedding- it was one human drawing of mine that I liked and the dress was killer gorgeous. Well that's gone now.

I am sorry if I am taking a long time to do your commission (I will draw Impala as soon as I can, I swear!), or you are annoyed that I am doing only literature the last few days, or if you are annoyed I am not getting my entries in for various auctions and shows, please forgive me.

I will do them as soon as possible, but I am going to be cutting back on all these promises I make in the future (aka less HARPG shows, slower seasons= more time for leisure art of my choice). I will still be doing commissions though, as I really want to save up some coins. But deviantart to do lists are becoming more stress to me than stress relief- and this isn't helping- so I will cut this to-do list down like you never seen before, and will never make another one this long again.
Though the likelihood of that is slim...

Anyway, love you all, and I am sorry!

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However, I did get a car today. My mom and dad are such sweeties My dad is nice enough to pay for insurance, the car and gas for nonrecreational things for me. So generous! The car is 2000 Nissan Pathfinder in silver. So exciting!

It was also the first day of track today. Wasn't super horrible, but defintiley not fun. Did some intense running, intense core (ab workouts) and the such. Didn't get home until like 6. But since I told my Mom that I needed more food since I would be afterschool so late (she packs my lunch still, told you she was a sweetie), she made me the cutest homemade trail mix out of cheerios, rice chex and craisins. So cute! I love my parents so much And my dad came to pick me up after track in my new car so I could pratcice driving it back with him there (since I have to get used to where all the gadgets are).

The car has a sun roof and leather seats. Super nice for a first car! I'm sooo thankful!
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Hello all my darlings,

On Monday (14th of March) track season starts up for me. I have practices from 3-5 pm, which is incredibly obnoxious because that means I am at the school building from 7 am to 5 pm every week day. Ew. It's like a I never get to do anything fun.

I've got mixed feelings about this season because my coach is brutal, he is why I have hip flexor problems, and because I have so many other problems going on (stress fracture in arch of my landing foot, mitralvale prolapse (heart murmur)) and fun stuff like that. My shoulder is also messed up and liable to dislocate. Woo!

Beyond all the physical pain, I'm nervous about trying to fit in my crazy amounts of homework (Spanish 4 Honors, US History AP, Anatomy and English 11 Honors makes for lots of homework), and the fact that my two huge research papers for History and Ebglish will be during track season (one on literary movements, one on any US history topic- I am without a doubt doing it on John Wilkes Booth, because I am facinated by him. I'll be proving that he is sane or that his killing of Lincoln did have reason behind it). I also have to go to all my other school stuff, like National Honors Society (which has way more meetings that is reasonable at all), National Art Honors Society (that has tons of events to go to), CRANG (which is every Thursday recycling club thing) and I'm going to be joining a Rachel's Challenge Welcoming New Students board (that makes for meetings every Monday).

And I am playing rec. soccer this season too. That means practices once or twice a week and one game per week. No way I am missing this soccer season though, it is my last seaosn before I am too old to play in this league (Ive played in it since I was 5). So it'll be a nostalgic season.

And I have my church youthgroup every Thursday.


I'm a bit stressed needless to say.

Sooo you can expect lots less art from me in future days. I will try to nget on when I can. HARPG will be a slow process this season. No adoptables except the ones I just put out (horse foals), I will do the adults of the cats I realeased awhile ago at some point.
Love you all!

-SunnyBlueDay/Shelby