***I WANT TO PAINT!!!!!***

I've been sacrificing work for painting these past few days and it's about to totally bite me in the ass... and yet I still feel compelled to procrastinate more.. AaaaaaaaaaAAaaAAAAAaaaaGHHH!

I'm totally into infusing my own tea concoctions. I have, since I last counted, 24 cans of different types of tea (I think over 10 is the official "tea fanatic" count), and have been successful at prescribing them to myself and those who will listen for different moods and needs, so it's only natural that I start mixing up herbs and flavours for ( Read more... )

How to make an Alissa
Ingredients:

5 parts intelligence

3 parts humour

5 parts leadership
Method:
Add to a cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Add sadness to taste! Do not overindulge!

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

I won an undergraduate scholarship!! It pays for over half my 4th-year tuition. Holy sh*t. I had straight A's last year, but I never thought anything like this would happen. Nothing like this happens to me! I keep thinking there must be some mistake ( Read more... )

Running and the discipline of drawing are so insanely similar. I get emotional just thinking about it. Yes, I still suck at both, but the act of doing them is emotionally addictive, and I love making progress ( Read more... )

I'm a hopeless techno-geek ( Read more... )

After that last post, we went to play tennis (I lost!), then I went full-out on my work and didn't stop for 3 hours, and finished everything so I could have today off. Phew ( Read more... )

I'm about to explode ( Read more... )

4.8K in the hot, hot sun. Now I have a stupid sportsbra-and-camisole striped tan on my back ( Read more... )

I hate long runs. They're so psychologically damaging. When people write these clever little workout plans up, do they actually realize how far 7K is, in the pouring rain, at a 13 minute mile?! That's like an hour of running straight. Oy. Well, my so-called 'negative self-talk' beat me today and I had to walk a little, but I still made it from ( Read more... )