Well I really wanted to post something this weekend, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to write about. Then it came to me; puppies. 

I, like my mother, get obsessed with things very easily. The obsession could last for a couple years (my love for One Direction) or a couple days (piercings). Right now, my current obsession is, you guessed it, puppies. Last week my mom decided to foster this bundle of joy for a few weeks. Yes he is wearing a hand-knitted sweater, and yes one arm is out of it.

We call him James and he happens to be the sweetest puppy ever, aside from the fact that he whines all the time and leaves me special presents to pick up throughout the night.

In my family, when we get obsessed with something, we go all in. So on Saturday, my mom got a puppy for herself (She's keeping this one).

He just so happens to be the sweetest and most unique looking German Shepherd pup I've ever seen. We haven't named him yet, but some of the names we've been considering are: Parker, MJ, Max (I hate that name), Henry, and there are a couple more that I can't remember and that's okay.

Her house is so great to be at (on the weekends). There's puppies and kittens, and of course my brother's Shepherd Macy, who's turned up her cuteness to keep up with the pups.

Macy and Puppy

I hope these uploaded properly... Anyway I just wanted to show you what I have to deal with when the pups are actually awake.

I'm An Adult..... what

Okay so a lot has changed since I last posted anything... I could go about sharing everything in a list... or paragraphs... hmmmm. Decisions, decisions. 

For starters, I am now 18 years old! I didn't get a chance to do any 18-esque things yet (like buying lottery tickets, or cigarettes (I don't smoke) or whatever). I thought I might have a better day than I did, but what can ya do? I did, however get some pretty nice gifts...

• A new Ralph Lauren purse... This one was quite controversial because my mother told me she returned it as a punishment (will explain later) but it turns out she didn't return it so now its mine and I'm rambling.
• Photoshop Lightroom 5 and a tablet thing that I can draw with (I don't know how to explain it but its kind of like a huge track pad on a laptop--but more awesome)
• A CD, Animal Collective to be more specific
• Speakers that plug into my phone or iPod or whatever
• A Starbucks mug that is super cute, along with Peppermint Mocha mix and a $10 giftcard
• Last but not least my dad's girlfriend is buying me paint for my new room!

New room?

Ah yes well on Saturday, I moved from my mom's house to my dad's house. It was an imminent event... I just couldn't put it off any longer. This goes a long with the whole taking my present back thing. Anyway, it only took two hours to pack up all my things, but they filled up two cars and a trailer... I have a lot of crap. Anyway this whole moving thing has been quite the emotional roller coaster for me because:

a) I love my mom very much and we are very close. 

But...

b) She has said and done some very mean things that I just can't overlook anymore.

So I know this move was the right thing for me, but my mom is very upset about it and I feel bad for leaving her all alone until my stepdad comes back in March. Which means I miss seeing her on her birthday, Christmas, and New Years. Those are our favorite holidays, and birthdays are a big deal in our (I guess now her) house. Birthdays are your personal holiday and should be treated as such. Point is, no one wants to be alone on any of those occasions. "But you can just go visit her, right?"

Wrong. She said that she no longer has children and that she may as well be dead to us. What a nice thing to tell your kids, huh? So I will not be seeing her for a while. In the mean time, I do plan on calling her on her birthday and sending her a gift.

I thought maybe typing all this out would help me feel better about this whole ordeal... I will end this with a short story for you:

While talking to my dad about this and about my mom,  I told him I was worried about mom and the fact that I could possibly turn out like her/ have a hard time later on in life because of this. He responded with this and I don't think I'll ever forget it:

"Whatever life you live in, you create it."

He probably didn't come up with this on his own or anything, but it's pretty relevant to me right now. I don't know... I could explain it and what not. but it's getting late and I'm finally getting a little tired. I guess just take it for what it is.

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I'm back!

Sorry it's been a while since I posted anything... I've been very busy doing important things. Like going on wonderful adventures and seeing the world through new eyes. Just kidding I've been watching movies and painting and sleeping.

I have been enjoying every second of this lazy start to Thanksgiving Break. 

So what's new? I'll tell you.

I've been trying to rearrange the paintings on my wall so I can fit a new, rather large painting on my wall. It's proving to be more stressful than I thought it would be. 

I am in the process of painting a deer skull (not as morbid or creepy as it sounds)

I have been enjoying hot drinks of all kinds... tea, coffee, hot chocolate, apple cider... It's one of the many perks of late fall. I love cold weather so much. A surprising amount of people have told me they hate the cold months because it makes them feel sad or unmotivated. I couldn't disagree more. Cold weather means sweaters and boots every day, hot drinks, and never shaving your legs (unless you have a boyfriend). Most importantly it's acceptable to wear pants every day. I don't like my legs very much... I'm not insecure about them or anything, I just don't like the way they look; so I wear long pants year-round (fun fact).


Here's my current dilemma...

I have two walls to fill:

And these paintings to fill them with:

So instead of trying to arrange them, I'm blogging. I have a feeling my walls will be unfinished for a while...

Have a happy Thanksgiving!

Research Paper Research Paper Research Paper

Please pray to the research paper gods to help me get through this terrible time. Or you could just pray to the normal God... Either is fine by me.

I've always been pretty bad about procrastinating, but I've never felt this much pressure before. There's just something about having to write a paper of any kind that makes me want to run away from it as fast as I can. I do not like to write (I say as I type yet another blog post) about topics that are assigned to me for a minimum number of pages. Even though my current research paper topic was one that I chose... But that's not my point right now. Do I even have a point right now? I don't think so. 

Anyways here are the knowns:
-I have a research paper to write
-It is due tonight at midnight
-I have 3 out of 5 pages written
-I have yet to include my sources in this paper
-I HAVE LOTS OF WORK TO DO

Well I guess I'm off to bed so I can at least get in a few hours of sleep before enduring a full day of typing.

Good.... Morning?

It's officially Saturday... and I was thinking

I love feather blankets. Oh my goodness they are so fabulous. It's basically impossible to feel uncomfortable when you have a feather blanket. Only downside is they make me sneeze incessantly. Very unfortunate. Sad. Makes Remi unhappy. Wow what am I even saying.

Another thing...I hate bad WiFi. So much. I was ever so peacefully trying to watch Gossip Girl (my latest obsession, I only talk about it all the time), when the wifi decided to go all wonky and mess up so the sound didn't match the picture. That makes me angry.

So here I am... unable to watch Gossip Girl and get all comfy with my favorite feather (actually I think it's down) blanket, writing about feather blankets and wifi. What a slammin' Friday night this has been. 

Sorry for the mini rant. I sincerely hope your Friday was better than mine.

To make things happy again, I found these really cute paintings on Tumblr. I'm thinking about transferring them to canvases and giving them as Christmas gifts.

I mean come on look how cute these are!! I'm in love.

It's The Little Things

I can honestly say today was the best day I've had in a while. Not that I've been having bad days or anything, but none of them have been anything special.

Things that went well today:

1. I got a 94 on my Phase 2 presentation for Senior Project! I know, you're probably thinking "That's nothing special..." and that may be true, but I have been stressing about that grade since last Friday. As a matter of fact, I checked out of school early Friday because I thought I did that terrible on that presentation and couldn't stop crying (sorry, I'm a child some times). So yay me!

2. I got to spend the evening with my dad and brother; just my dad and brother. We went out to dinner, then to Staples (wow so exciting), and then to TSYS to see my dad's work- he just got a new job so he wanted us to see where he's working now. Needless to say it was a nice time.

3. I FOUND THE MATCH TO TWO PAIRS OF MY FAVORITE SOCKS

4. I applied for a job at Chill. I've been talking about getting a job for a couple months now and I've yet to apply anywhere. Until today. Considering how unmotivated I am most of the time this was a big feat.

Okay... So my day wasn't super fabulous or anything, but you gotta admit, finding the match to two pairs of socks in one day is pretty impressive. 

Hi?

Wow what am I doing here?

Since I just love social networking so much (and I read Jessie's blog all the time and it looks pretty fun) I thought why not get another blog? I'm not really a writer and I don't like to elaborate on things, so maybe this will help me a little bit in those departments.

I guess I could start this off by introducing myself...

I'm a 17 year old senior in high school. I have absolutely no idea where I want to go to college or what I want to be, but if you ask me, "I want to go to Furman University and I want to be an orthodontist." I have a hard time actually listening to what people are saying to me and I get distracted easily (although I'm usually pretty good at hiding it). I love listening to music and painting, but I usually don't have time for the latter. I love wolves. And mountains. And the outdoors in general, but I don't travel all that much. My favorite song right now is I am the Lion King by Papa. I put the link to the video there in case you were wondering. Moving on. I have long red hair (that's not something I'm necessarily proud of, but my brother says that his friends know me as "the girl with long red hair," so there you have it). Alright, that's all I feel like writing for today.

Hi, I'm Remi. Nice to meet you.