Independence Day Weekend!!!

I decided to finally purge (again) through my crafty up-cycled stuff. I have a lot of “leftovers” that were just hanging around and decided to get rid of them. So that’s what I did Friday-Saturday. So that felt really good! Getting rid of unnecessary junk is a hobby that I get from my mother :)

Speaking of which, I keep forgetting to post pictures of my crafts online! You know about Transformation Tuesday via Instagram? If not, it’s a day where you just post a “before and after” picture (the ‘transformation’). Since most of my pics of my younger self are on paper that need to be scanned/etc., I decided to use it as a place to show off my up cycled stuff - first showing how a shirt looked, for example, until I tore it up and turned it into a necklace! Plus, I’m hoping people will be interested in what I’m making and hopefully buy it :) that would be cool. I’m getting too much stuff again.

I don’t want to call it a waste of time, but I did spend a good deal near the end of the week looking up Star Wars fanfictions. But they’re some REALLY good ones on there! Plus, it gave me ideas for my own fanfics ;) Why do I always do this, though? Everytime I’m supposed to be working on another project, I want to go work on another one! Like, why didn’t I look up these SW fanfics last month, when I was supposed to be editing it? Ugh, whatever Fairley…xD

But NaNoWriMo will hopefully eliminate most of that! Even though July is on a Tuesday, I don’t like starting things on a Tuesday. So I’m going to do it Monday :) I’ve already edited some of my Hyper-Monkey story - I just hope that I can (I will) commit to it for a month. 

Also, I was thinking I should stop going back and forth between my stories, so I’d finally get some edited, but I don’t have much time until July, so I’m sticking to Hyper-Monkey. That’s where my creative juices are flowing, though - unfortunately, I’m getting too bored with Lizard-Man. Both of them, really, aren’t as interesting characters as I’d like them to me, but somehow Todd Rivers (Hyper-Monkey) seems more interesting than Nicholas Westbridge (Lizard-Man). Maybe because I made Todd a little fireball like I am! Lol

Switched At Birth was okay Monday. I wasn't too big on Emmet's story arc, since it doesn't really deal with family issues, but I'm glad she and Emmet didn't get separated from Bay by moving to Wisconsin. I really want to enjoy Bemmet, cause they're a great couple, and the thing about the new baby was interesting, but jeez...they got together by cheating, so I can't :/ ah well, I'm glad she felt bad for cheating on Tank. Poor Tank...

I did like that Regina and Daphne and the Kennishes had the whole drama with paying for college - family drama, yes! It was an interesting dynamic, though Regina got on my nerves. And the race thing was interesting, though, with the Latina vs. White thing since Daphne is white but grew up thinking she was Puerto Rican. 

Travis and Mary Beth are so cute together :) since Bemmet cheated, I think they're my favorite couple. I hate how Travis got all touchy about his family but understand, and at least they came to an understanding...and Mary Beth got Travis to meet his idol! The way Travis hugged him was so sweet I could have cried. So beautiful how he looked up to a deaf football player - we all need role models. Mary Beth is so awesome, I love her :)

But the promo for next week—OMG! Toby’s got a beard (what the heck?), Regina’s got a gun (WHAT THE HECK?), someone goes to the ER (WHAT THE HECK???) WHAT IS GOING ON NEXT WEEEK? WHY DO THESE PROMOS ALWAYS PULL ME IN??? AH I CANNOT WAIT NEXT MONDAY TO FIND OUT!!!

NaNoWriMo officlaiy started Tuesday (!!!), but I did some wiring earlier than that and on Monday, just cause I had a brainstorm and rather would start something knew on a Sunday/Monday rather than Tuesday. This week, so far, has been kind of, well, uneven, on writing count per day. It’s a rewrite, so I don’t know how many words it should be (I will make it to 30,000, but I think I can shoot for 40,000, or maybe even 50,000), and there are places here and there that I want to edit RIGHT NOW! so I’ve gotta figure out a word count per day. Right now I’m doing like chapter per day, since a chapter for me is usually no longer than 2,000 words, and I worked out that I could write a novel in one month by 2,000 words a day. Ah, well, it’s the first week, right? And this is my very first year doing NaNoWriMo, so I’ve still gotta work out the kinks and figure out the site and stuff. It’s so nice that some of my Figgie friends are on and we’re in a cabin, so I have a little support writer’s group there :)

Well, something VERY interesting happened Thursday! So I was at the library volunteering, like I do most Thursdays, right? The day I left it happened to be raining a LOT outside. I think I had heard of storm warnings, or at least wasn't surprised, but I didn't think it was here or would happen yesterday (for some reason I had that in mind.)

Anyway...so I'm done with my volunteering and am about to check out "A Wrinkle In Time" when a voice over the speakers suddenly tells everyone about the tornado warning and how they're taking safety protocols. People are allowed to leave, but they say for everyone who's staying to move into the back hallway. My parents hadn't come back to pick me up yet (I don't have my license), so I followed one of the workers there and went down this room until I reached this old looking hallway with a bunch of other people.

So I waited. I texted my Mom. Sometime after that, another person said that the tornado warning would go on until 12:35pm. And know what's so funny? I read A Wrinkle In Time while I was in the back hallway, and the beginning had someone in the house during a hurricane warning! How ironic is that?

Eventually, they told us that the warning was actually for another county and that though they may have to do this again in ten minutes, we were allowed to leave and resume regular activity. It was so weird, because the lights had been turned off and stuff, but then they turned it back on.

My mom called me, but I couldn't hear her for some rads on, and then I called her back and I actually found out that she had been there too, going to the back hallway but we had missed each other! That was funny! XD Anyway, we got our books and then waited for Dad to pick us up, then left. 

So yeah, that was different. It was actually exciting! Crazy, I know, but I loved how it shook up my day. And although I do not want to be in the vicinity of a tornado for obvious reasons, I would love to see one from a safe view.

Friday was the Fourth of July (or Independence Day!!!) We didn’t do much...My mom’s been doing stuff with all the girls’ hair to make sure it’s healthy, so mine was washed today and I got more yarn braids in :) Also I wanted to watch a patriotic movie like National Treasure, but I couldn’t find it anywhere for free/on instant video on either Amazon or Netflix xD So I just watched some scenes (like the one where Ben’s reading a part of the Declaration of Independence ;) And I watched part of Captain America: The First Avenger on FX.

Well, that’s it for the week! Today we’re having a cookout  (more like “cookin”) with some relatives :) I’ve been cleaning the house a lot, cause, you know, whenever people come over, that’s when the house is the cleanest! xD But in all honestly, Mom reminded us that it was also clean for our own pleasure :) Bye!