The App Store is the best invention ever

I'm talking the one for Apps on my Mac, not the itunes one...they're probably called something different. Oh well!

Whenever I go on the App Store I'm like, "Gah, this stuff is expensive" And then I realise that it means I never have to leave my house ever again. I have very little need for disks anymore. I don't have to go out and buy whatever program/game, I can find either the same thing or something similar on the App Store. I just bought Braid and I'm excited. My first App Store purchase.

The only thing is that real money and computer money seem really different. I would (grudgingly) pay $99 for a good drawing program at JBHi-Fi or something, but on the App Store that seems like a huge amount of money for an App...even though it's actually a drawing program. I think Apple has made the mistake of accustoming me to free cute little games on my iPad, and now it seems ridiculous to pay more for something that - seems to me, but I know it isn't - is just a bigger version of that.

BRAID! How adorable is it?

I'm so sick, I'm hanging around in a Snuggy

Eating left over fried rice, feeling sorry for myself. This is the life.
I am comfortably warm, though.

Progression from first day to third week - Japanese

First day - I should study Japanese more. So I will!

Second week - I should really get on that studying Japanese thing.

Third week - Nope. Give up.

Present date - listening to my Pimsleur* in my sleep has now replaced must study Japanese. It's totally good enough.

*Pimsleur are these sweet guys (don't know what gender) that make language tapes (not really tapes) for people to learn different languages from. Generally people are awake listening to them as you're supposed to reply to the questions, but it totally kinda works if you're asleep. At least it kinda somewhat does for me. Good enough!

Ahhhh! Why are you doing this to me?

Sinus infections suck.

So...are you guys going out, or what?

Nope, not about me, sadly. Still eternally single over here.

Two of my friends have started going out and I, of course, was the last to realize, mainly because I don't notice those sorts of things. (What sort? I hear you say, I don't know.) And it's a little strange because they were like best buds and whenever anyone would ask if they were going out they would be very adamant that they're not, and now they are. Strange.

So, I'm not really sure where I'm going with this...I guess I just wanted to write, so I am...

Well, I bought new watercolours! That's mildly exciting. They're all pretty. Link to various things I've painted with my new watercolours here

That's all (more than) I had to say...so I guess I'll just go.

Green Tea Castella

So I've made a fool out of myself once again. I thought I had brought some green tea back from Japan to Australia as my mother and I love green tea. This is not the case. Turns out I brought back a green tea cake. A freaking cake, you guys.

Mum and I opened up the packaging (it looked like green tea packaging) and there was this green sponge-like thing in it. So, thinking it was tea, we assumed it was one of those tea blocks or something and picked off a bit and put it in hot water. It got all weird and wouldn't dissolve so I looked at the packaging, it said Green Tea Castella. I say "What's green tea castella?" Mum googles it. Castella is a sponge cake. No Japanese green tea for us.

The end.

Art makes me happy

I feel like I should be blogging, so that's what I'm doing.


In Art class we're doing observational drawings of trees in the wetlands off our school. It's making me very happy. I sit on my own on a bench near my tree and I just draw it and the surrounding area for the whole class. It's very relaxing, even if it is 32 degrees celsius and like 80% humidity. It is ridiculously hot here, you guys. I'm dying.

Back to art. Tip for overly stressed people, find a tree with not so many leaves and draw it, leaves frustrate me. Even if you're bad at drawing, as my art teacher says "Tell the left side of your brain to shut up." i.e. Draw on the right side of your brain, this can be achieved by:

-Not talking, this brings you back to the left side
-Notice the shape of the tree, not what it should look like, draw what you see, not what should be there
-Give yourself a lot of time to draw it
-No distractions

Tips for general drawing and also things I like to do whilst drawing:
-Use one colour of pencil and use tone to make your work more three dimensional
-Add shadows to make it more three dimensional
-Draw things late at night or when you're tired - I find that's when I'm my most creative. I'm writing this blog post right before I plan on going to bed!
-If you decide to use colours, use crazy bright ones and make all the trees purple. I like purple.
-Draw all the textures you can see
-Nice water colours make me extremely happy

**DRAW A ROBOT**
Automatic way to relieve stress. Or possibly increase it when you realise that the legs are very hard to draw 3D and that the neck has to go after you're drawn the head and body.

Robots are my comfort draw.

I’ll draw a robot and post in sometime soon-ish.