Update

Hello, people! I don't really have much to say, I just wanted to let you all know that I am alive and well and it's deep into summertime and I really should post more. I want to post book and movie reviews and more photos, whether they're actual photos or scanned pictures of my drawings.
I need you all to tell me two things, please. 1) What are you looking forward to most this summer? Barbecues, the Olympics, swimming, the 100º heat? 2) I just checked my Audience stats for this blog, and I get kind of a lot of viewers from out of the US, considering I don't know hardly anyone outside of the US and they must just be stumbling upon this at random. If you are a viewer from a country outside of America, please comment!

Bye, thanks for reading! I will leave you with a quote from Titanic, because I just saw it in 3D on Tuesday.

"Look at that thing! You would've gone straight to the bottom." ~ Jack, talking about Rose's engagement ring, saying that she would have sunk had she jumped earlier like she wanted to

New address!

It might have just been me criticizing myself, but I didn't like "teampatrickstar" as my blog address. So I changed it to jilliansbloggy, which is still kind of immature but more ME than the old one. I wish that "teampatrickstar" would redirect to my new blog, but it doesn't, so I'm trying to get the word out. I posted on Google+ about it to my circles, but I think I'll take that down and just email the few people I want to know about it. Going to go do that now. Oh, and happy summer! Mine just started yesterday, today's the first full day.

I feel like a horrible person.

I have been neglecting my blog, and I love writing, so I feel like a horrible person and a bad writer and ARGH spring break is so close but so far...


So, to console myself, I'm doing a special post. You know how I tried to write Ten Things That Make Me Happy Today once a week, every Friday, as a kind of gratitude-feel-good thing? It got to be stressful, worrying that I kept forgetting and that I was letting you guys down (Even though not many people read this blog anyway). Well, this is a sort of special edition of that: Ten Things About the California Trip That Made Me Happy and Very Sad to Leave.

• Seeing my uncle, aunt, cousins and dog-cousin
• Trader Joe's
• Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles
• The beach
• Sleeping in a bunk bed
• Disneyland
• Hotels
• Having so much time to just read, draw, swim, and watch TV
• Grand Canyon
• The memories ♥

Happy Leap Day! Enjoy it, because it only happens every four years. :)

No gratitude thing this week...

... because we had two ♫~AMAZING~♫ performances of our dinner theatre on Thursday and Friday evenings. We find out our musical on Monday after we're completely done striking. I'M SO EXCITED! :-)

Happy Saturday!

Ten Things That Make Me Happy Today: Monday Edition!!

So I keep forgetting/putting it off/being lazy and not posting TTTMMHT (don't you just love acronyms that don't help at all to remember anything?) for the past several Fridays. I feel like a horrible, evil, forgetful person, so I'm doing it now.

• Fresh notebooks
• My graphing calculator (I am such a nerd :3)
• The pens I got for Christmas that are colorful on the outside, but hold bold black ink on the inside
• My wonderful friends on deviantART who always tell me that my writing is great, even if I don't think it is--even if I KNOW it isn't =)
• Homemade cake balls
• Squishy stuffing from a box, with soft, sweet cranberries
• The smell of my mom's vanilla-flavored instant coffee
• Dr. Horrible's amazing soundtrack
• Dr. Horrible's hilarious commentary soundtrack
• My geometry teacher creating a daily list of assignments

Happy Monday!

I literally JUST realized this.

I forgot to do my "ten things that dotdotdot" last Friday. There just won't be another one this week, I guess.

I wouldn'tve been very happy that day anyways. I've been sick for over a week. =_="

Sorry, you guys. Happy Monday? :)

Empty Promises

Am I always promising you guys that I'll do stuff, like post about our trip last summer, and then not doing it?

...

Yes.

Well, THAT is going to CHANGE. I shall START to post as FREQUENTLY as POSSIBLE. Though only if something interesting ARISES. (The capital words are for EMPHASIS.)

There's not really anything interesting happening right now... ^^; It's raining outside. I've got a lot of homework to do. My sketchbook is full of unposted artwork. And I have theatre rehearsal tomorrow until 6:30. I love theatre, but that cuts into my eating time, a.k.a. dinner.

I hope you guys are having a bit more of a fun evening than I am. Au revoir!