Item.  Check it out!!! embodimentis accepting new members until December 31!  I've been watching the community since, about, forever.  And I've been dying to join.  Membership for 2008 is finally open, and I'm so excited (hence, more entries in this sadly neglected journal *grin*).  This past year, in fact, I think I only missed a handful of days out of the year.  And this gives me good motive to cross on of the things on my Life List off - journal everyday for a year. :)  Wish me luck!!

          Item.  Every year, there's a craft sale at school, and this year, the art majors were given two free tables.  I made a bunch of watercolour paintings to sell - and the best thing about it is, because we didn't have to pay to be in the sale, we get to keep every penny of the profit. :) I made $62 at the sale, and I've sold a couple paintings to other people, so in total, a nice $87.  I'm happy.  And I've already spent it. X3 On some books - The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield, Pompeii by Robert Harris, and Warfare in the Classical World by ... John Warry?  I forget at the moment. :P

          Item.  Speaking of books, I recently finished rereading Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield.  Best. Book. Ever.  I love it so much. <3

          Item.  It's about time I started paying more attention to this sad, lil, neglected journal, huh?  Okay.  Will do. *nodnod*  More posts.  I'll try to put up something interesting every couple of days.  Like I used to do in my old journal.  That was fun. :) And I need to redo my user info ... I don't think it's really working out.

          Item.  Shelby coloured my lineart!! I'll post that in a while, I promise.

          Item.  My dear PhantomJustice is baaaack! <3 I love her so much, and I can't begin to tell you just how much I missed her when she wasn't around.  My Phantom friend is back. *smiles*

I explore your smile

How I would
languidly reside as a kiss
and live,
unto forever

You make happiness more than a word
that lingers,
makes you linger
as I linger over yours

You catch me unawares
and tease my soul out through my smile
and implore me to breathe in deep

Let us learn
the language between our smiles
divided, united, undeterred

I explore your smile

dark eyes open
drinking the horizion

I sip the moon
for the sun has my eyes

I have crow feathers in my hair
and oceans behind my eyes

And a heart this heavy
only wonders;
         why
         the whispers of yesterday are more powerful
         than the promises of tomorrow

A piece I did back around the middle of August to prove to myself that I still had some talent left. It didn't really work out. And the finished, coloured piece scanned horribly. I guess that's what happens when you wrinkle the page by applying too much watercolour and pencil crayon on thin paper ... I'll remember that.
*... forgets*


And, look look look!! One of my best friends, the talented Shelby, recently got a tablet, and one of the first things she did was colour my lineart of Queen of Crows! It looks amazingly beautiful, and I'm sooo grateful and flattered that she coloured one of my pieces. *beams* I adore it!!!

Guess who just passed her written driver's test? :D
Hell yes!!  I'm going to validate my Learner's liscense later on today. *beams*