“I’ll be late…”

I think that has to be THE most understated thing I have said so far in this new year. Yesterday’s yesterday was my friend’s birthday but he celebrated it yesterday with a party over at his place. Though I was on the invite list, he never formally invited me but when asked about it, he said that it’s assumed and mutually understood. Ah, so that’s the extent of our friendship. That, I must say, is awesome. I hope he had a good one!
Well, I finally finished that project I was working on and this time around the scanner actually did something, but only because I retraced the light pencil marks with a darker pencil. Okay, not THAT dark, it was an F and that’s not dark. Anyway, I would have finished sooner and earlier if it had not been for the glue. Oh the glue caused me great grief. It says that it “Goes on purple/Dries clear”. My ass, it did. It went on purple and it STAYED purple. Now see here, normally I would have been fine with that. Why? Because your normal printer paper is fairly opaque. But I was working with onionskin paper which, for those of you who don’t know, is onion skin thick. In other words, it’s translucent; it’s “see-through”. So, having applied the glue (which, by the way did not go on evenly) it showed small lumps here and there. Ah! That caused me grief! If I removed the onionskin paper from the heavier cardboard backing I was applying it to, then I would run the risk of ripping the ever so thin paper! Luckily, being a cheap person, I only applied the glue to the edges of the paper and not the entire sheet. Then a thought came to mind, though it would take up even more time. I would pencil a border to cover up the purple glue lump marks. And pencil in the border I did. My friend, the birthday boy, asked me when I was going to show up, and so I told him that I’d be a bit late so I’d probably show up at around 2PM. He said that would be fine, and I continued to work on the border. Alright! Half way done my border and my mom pops in my room bugging me about some school related stuff which brought me more grief and stress. From that point on my head throbbed like crazy. Working as fast as I could to finish the border before two, and then moving on afterward to deal with the school stuff! Drawing a bit, and scanning a bit I made progress little by little. And little by little the clock was ticking and advancing towards the 2PM mark, so it donned upon me that I wouldn’t be arriving at precisely two anymore. But! I managed to finish just minutes shy of the 2PM mark. I quickly went over to my parent’s room to talk to my dad about the school stuff and then, that’s when it hit me, I won’t just be late I’m going to be VERY late. So, that took a long time to fix and solve and when that was all done and said, and said and done, I quickly got changed and got ready to leave the house. By that time it was nearly six. So I popped in a call on my friend to apologize and reassured him that I was still going to show up! Two reasons why I was so adamant about showing up, if I didn’t my time and efforts on that project would have gone to waste, and why would I miss out on an opportunity to party? The party was, as usual, a blast. Despite having planned on showing up at two, I ended up arriving at six. So, next time I say I’m going to arrive at X AM/PM, please do me a favor and add on an extra four to five hours on top of the time I stated. Just to be on the safe side, you know?

By now, I’m sure we all know the game Rockband, right? Well, it seems my friends and I have odd ways of playing the game. Yes, it’s a team game but seriously? Multiple people playing on the same instruments?! No, I’m not talking about different people playing the same but separate and different instruments. I’m talking about three guys playing on the SAME drum set. “Ok you hit red and yellow. You’re in charge of blue and green. And I’ll take the pedal” or “I’ll play the notes, you strum.” or “I’ll sing one section, pass the microphone to you, and you sing the next section.” Our creativity never ceases to amaze me. Oddly enough though, our creativity never seem to manifest itself when it comes to homework.

Although, I really should be studying right now, my friend sent me on a slight guilt trip about the whole blogging thing. “Now you have to blog about yesterday AND today.” At that time, I failed to realize that it was past midnight and therefore he was right about having to blog about yesterday and today. I kept insisting that I had already blogged about yesterday and I’d only have to blog about today. Ah the smart aleck! Well, whatever!

Several nights ago, my friend sent me this link and I thought it was pretty awesome. A house in a cave? Talk about cave dwellers, eh? No offense but honestly, I found it very intriguing! The price tag seems decent too! Well, then again, you may correct me if I’m wrong as I have no experience in buying houses or anything of the sort.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5159911/this-might-be-the-nicest-inhabitable-cave-ever
Another random thing, that I came across was this paintball gun. WOW! (no pun intended) If I had the time and expertise I’d make one just for the sake of making it!

While looking for paper thin enough for me to trace over stuff at the stationary supply store, I came across onionskin paper and tracing paper. The latter ran for about forty-five dollars, whereas a pad onionskin paper was only six dollars! Well, in significantly less quantity and smaller size of course. The tracing paper came in big rolls or big poster-sized sheets about a centimeter thick. Deciding that I didn’t have much use of such large sized pieces of paper, I went with the smaller and more inexpensive onionskin paper, thinking that there wasn’t much of a difference. I checked up the two different types of paper online when I got home and I realized that there IS a difference. Tracing paper is significantly more “see-through” or translucent than onionskin paper. Well, that was a bit of knowledge gained!