I love to draw (or paint, or colour, or cut things out of paper, or anything in that general genre) It makes me happy.

 

I like to draw people most of all. I think my sister is the prettiest person I know, she's the focus of a lot of my drawings. She has all the right angles and makes the best facial expressions. She also takes more photos of herself then anyone I know. Which means even when we're both at school I have plenty of points of reference. 


I draw my friends too. I drew this of my first serious boyfriend back when he was still my boyfriend. (it's kind of strange looking but it was based off a kind of strange photo of him) He was all musically gifted and wrote me a song. I am definitely NOT musically gifted. So I can't write people songs, but I can draw. 
 

I made this one for a friend. It's currently hanging up in his apartment. I love making things for my friends but I feel like it's pretentious to just do it, like saying "oh my art is so lovely. Don't you want some?." So it makes me feel good when they ask me to make them something.  

I love ballet. My whole life I have always loved it. I used to take ballet but quit a couple years ago because I didn't have time. I was horrible at it. I am a little too tall and not anywhere near as graceful or coordinated as a ballet dancer should be. I pretty much m as far from a ballerina as you can get. So i can't do ballet (and am a wee bit bitter towards anyone who can do ballet) So I get my ballet fix by painting them instead. 

update

It's been a while since I've written here.

My family moved back to Pennsylvania after living for the past 5 years in Mississippi. It's interesting being back. 

 As much as I have mixed feelings on my college, I am glad I picked a college that is bringing me back to the south in the fall. Even though I will still be coming here to go to school it's weird to think I've left  Canton and will no longer have a house in Mississippi. It's weird to think that I won't be spending christmas break hanging out at Cyprus swamp.

I seriously love Mississippi

I love your overly cheerful women and and the fact that complete strangers strike up conversation with you. I love that you have 5,000 stores that sell monogrammed paper napkins, I find your obsession with beauty pageants to be kind of strange, 

I love the way your people pronounce my name Ay-uh-lin and call everyone baby.

I love that I can wear t-shirts in December. 

I love how you divide everyone in to two groups: State fans and Ole Miss fans and how one of the first questions anyone asks when they meet you is "where do you go to church?"

I love Liberty park, the Madison Wal-Mart, the MJCT, Actors Playhouse, the Canton Square, Cyprus swamp, Cups, Keifers, Malco theatre, and Heroes and Dreams. 

I love that people have FINALLY stopped calling me a "damn yankee" 

I love the sense of pride people from Mississippi have about their state and how people who have lived here their whole lives don't realize how nice it is. 

I love that Piggly Wiggly is a real grocery store and that cotton actually grows on plants.

I LOVE Sonic (Seriously, if we don't get one those in Mercersburg one day I don't know how I'll survive)

I love your obsession with show choir

I love how everyone in this state is completely insane and there aren't people like them anywhere else (In good, and bad ways) 

I love your over the top fashion

I love how crawfish are something amazing you eat and not something you just catch in the river at summer camp. 

I love all the people here who have changed my life. 

I love how even though you are ranked so low in everything as a state you still have so many wonderful qualities and you are one of my favourite states. 

I love that no matter how long this note is I will never be able to say what living in Mississippi and knowing the people here has meant to me over the past 5 years. 

So much has changed in the past 365 days it's insane. To all my Mississippi friends, my life would suck without you. 

It's just really lonely here.

Congratulations Andrew

And the rest of the class of 2010

Today is a great day . . .

 . . . This is why: I have a brother, he's about to graduate high school, today he made his final decision on what college he's going to in the fall, it happens to be the same college I currently go to.  My only problem with this is that my brother is way cooler than I am and I will probably forever be known as "Andrew's sister" from this day forward. I'm okay with that though if it means I will be able  eat lunch with him every so often. 

"It's too darn hot"

This is the thermometer outside my house. yes it says 104 degrees. As much as I will miss the south for the next 3 months I will not miss the weather. 

I have done my best to stay inside as much as possible. This is very difficult on days like today when I spend 7 hours with a three year old who doesn't want to stay inside for more than 5 minutes.  It's not that I'm entirely against the outdoors. Just sunburns and heat stroke. I did brave the outside for a bit earlier this week though to go on a days kayaking trip with some friends. It was a really good time and I succeeded in not burning too badly. 

I think at the rate I'm going I'll be done packing by this time next year, unfortunately I only have a little over a week until I have to leave. 

Things that make me happy this week

Converse Shoes and Brick Roads:
Rainy Days:
Flea Markets:
Homemade sushi:

My mother is one of my favourite people. She is from Scotland but came to America when she met my dad. She makes paper mache sculptures and rides horses and sometimes acts in plays. She's overall pretty nifty. Happy Mother's Day to my mummy. :)