I don't think my life is interesting enough for a blog...

But oh well.
Here are some of my prom dress choices.. want to help me pick?

Come on Spring, let's just end Winter early

I think, personally, that we have had enough Winter. It's had a good run. When was the first snow? In November I believe? So that's 5 months of winter. Umm, here's the deal, half a year of winter is just ridiculous. It is time to end all this silliness right this instant. I'm waiting for Spring to reply...

Sorry, I believe that's the cold and the cabin fever talking, haha. I really am ready for a little warmth, though.

I don't have too much to update on. I made dinner tonight, because dad thought it would be good for me to cook (since I'll have to do all my own cooking next year... or because mum was coming home late and he didn't want to cook haha).



So there's nothing else really going. Hopefully I'll have an exciting weekend and have something to update on Sunday. I figured while I had a pretty empty blog, I might as well include pictures of the little boys I babysit. They are super active and funny, and they are great.
Peace and Love,
Olive

A trip South.... sorta.

So on Friday, dad and I played hooky from school, to go to a different school. We headed south! To New Hampshire, where actually, it was surprisingly a lot warmer, (it hit 56 while we were there. Grey skies and a bit of wind, but really nice weather for February!) The point of this trip was to do a tour of NHIA (New Hampshire Institute of Art) as well as to have a portfolio review and interview. The tour took us all over the city of Manchester, because the college is pretty spread out, mostly because they school didn't build their own new complex, but bought old building from the city and created their halls and dorms. The main hall is an old bank, and it is amazing! The dorms are all really nice, except there is one that is an all female dorm, and I couldn't deal with that ever, haha! The YMCA dorm sounds pretty great though. The first floor of the building is the city's YMCA and the rest of the floors are dorm rooms, which all the roomers of get free gym memberships. I could definitely use one of those!
So after the tour, I sat down with Cindy for my review. Cindy actually grew up in Hampden, right near where I live, and she was the counselor at an art camp that I went to every summer as a little kid. She's an extremely talented artist, and very funny, and she made the interview extremely relaxed. She loved that most of my work was on such a large scale, and told me at the end that she would give me the highest score, which either grants me a 1,500 dolalr renewable scholarship or puts me in the running for one (I can't remember). So it went AMAZING. haha. I'm really considering going there. I mean, it's scary, the whole idea of art school, but the area was nice and everyone there was so down to earth and helpful and really great.

Saturday night I cleaned up the kitchen and living room, finished some english homework, and wrote out some scholarships instead of going out to dinner with my friends. BLAH. But luckily, Zoe and Deirdre ended up driving around for like an hour, because the restaurant was so crowded and had a long wait, and then they went to grab starbucks, and by the time they were ready to just give up on going out to dinner and head back to Deirdre's for some british comedy and pizza, I was ready to go out as well. So they swung back for me and Leslianne, and we had a pretty chill, funny evening.

Anyways, that's all!
Olivia

Boredom Strikes!

So I've been working on my Geography takehome test all day, and it's awful. Four essay questions, and 50 multiple choice? Needless to say, I took many breaks and watched parts of the mini House marathon going on tonight.
So it's been a long time since I updated! I pinky promise I'm gonna get better at this, it's just taking some time to get used to the idea. Plus, my life isn't all too exciting. I was going to take super cool pictures of my horrific face post-wisdom teeth removal, but the recovery ended up being pretty nonchalant. A little nausea, a bit of pain, but no chipmunk cheeks or bruising to take pics of. Oh well.
Thursday was the party for my friend Alyssa's birthday. We had a great time, and a bunch of us girls went out to Olive Garden. I did manage to get some pics on this occasion, although I was too cautious to bring my Baby, so I just brought the handheld.






It was an amazing night. There was this poor busboy named Chris who was very cute, and the girls harassed him all night. He was very shy, but eventually he came out to sing with the group who presented the birthday girl with her cake. Our waitress was amazing for putting up with us, and (since it is tourney week, and the restaurant was filled with highschool boys basketball teams) talking about which tables had the cutest boys at them. She was great!

So here are some recent photo projects I felt like sharing. The newest one I'm just starting (actually, haven't started yet...) is going to be candid moments of family, with polaroids! I'm so excited! But here are ones from the past semester in my photo class.



The last two are me trying to really merge my love of painting with my love of photography. I downloaded some spraypaint brushes for photoshop and worked with those to create this image. My art teacher really loved it actually. I've never been a big fan of heavy manipulation, but I really like to take photos that look like paintings, very rich and colorful. So I thought it made sense to be a work that could actually be a painting. :]

I got a chance recently to catch up with my old friend Marshall. It was really wonderful. We talked about the present past and future. It's been hard since he moved to Virginia, I've really missed his presence in my life. He was such a big part of my every day before he moved. I think I'm gonna try to spend at least a week down south this summer and visit with him. But I don't know yet. I don't even know what my plans for next fall are! I'm still really interested in the organic farming program in the Galapagos/Ecuador, but now that I've been accepted to college, I don't want to give up that opportunity. I'm also really excited about my New Hampshire Institue of Art interview and portfolio review next Friday. It's really stressful putting a portfolio together!

So I've finally updated. I'm going to trying for once a week at the very least, from now on.

Peace and love, to everyone.
-Olivia

My first post!

Alright here it goes!
Well, its midterms week and they are actually going pretty wonderfully. I still have so much catching up to do from being sick, but I got a big chunk done these past couple days, and the stress level is slowly sinking. Getting home at 11:30 from school everyday is helping that a lot (plenty of time to catch up on schoolwork AND sleep!). I still have all my arts classes, but I can't wait for my photo teacher to finally see my recent project, which is a series of portraits based on the assignment of scavenger hunt. They are slightly nude, but nothing sexual.

These three scavenger hunt "items" were Scream, Curvaceous, and Words.
What do you think? I think I'm just lucky to have such beautiful friends/models.

This past weekend was subdeb! My last one. I didn't have a real date, but I've always just gone with friends, so its no big deal.

If I do say so myself, my dress was fan-freaking-tastic!


Well, that's it for tonight, back to homework (eep!)

Peace and Love,
Olivia