Wednesday, February 2, 2005

   WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got cooooooooooooooooooooooool stuff!!! I haven't gotten more than one little cool thing at a time in a while! At least since Christmas. I grew up spoiled, you see, so I miss getting a stack of books once or twice a week... okay, it's petty, but... hey, I have worse psychological issues to deal with, so I'm not so concerned about it.

Technically, it is 2:45 Wednesday my time, but for me, it's Tuesday. At my house we're all night owls and we always call days by when we sleep, not when midnight hits--even though when no one has to get up early the next day we usually are up until after dawn... *uh-hrm*

Back to the point... I GOT COOL STUFF!!! YAY! Since we're poor now it only worked because I have a fund... that I can't touch, my grandmother (who's an obsessive utilitarian) has it... and it's ONLY for college, including books and school supplies. So I needed a few art supplies for my graphic design class and I got a few extra things I don't really need, per se... but I wanted a few things, like another hard pencil. (my nice hard 6H was so short that when I sharpened it, I was peeling off metal, too...) I needed watercolors for class and I normally use acrylics so I got new brushes just for the watercolors... of course I needed them *uh-hrm* and I got some nice erasers, mine are pretty dead. (I tend to do more erasing than drawing...) And I got a better pencil sharpener. 'Til now I've been using a cheap 15-cent thing from like WalMart or something *gag* that also helped my pencils get chewed far down because it kept breaking the lead. And I got a two pack of these AWESOME erasers that are made like pencils for erasing thin lines! I've never been able to erase thin lines well! It's impossible to do once your eraser's edges are rounded! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! And I got paint remover cuz I'm lazy and don't like scrubbing paint out of my brushes for hours to get the paint out. (for Christmas I got brush restorer which kinda reshapes the brushes to their original shape once they're clean... this's gonna be FUN...) Um... lessee... I got a sketchbook and a watercolor tablet for class, though I already have some I could have used, I thought, my grandmother can just think that I did need it all for class... which isn't normally something we'd do, but we're poor it's kind of almost necessary... not like life-and-death but it's the only way I could get that stuff. I got a whole new set of like 12 pencils of different ranges... including an 8H! Yay! I need a really hard one for my initial sketch because I'm bad at shape, and have to keep retrying. I can go over that with other stuff pretty easy after that, though. Hehe. I also got a kneaded eraser... which could always come in handy. It's really good for picking up excess lead without actually erasing the marks--kinda lightens the shade. I also got a couple of paper blending stumps, which are great. I got little ones because I had a really big one once and it wasn't any good for anything but huge strokes. *Meh* I don't use many big strokes!!! Between my new art supplies and ElvesAteMyRamen-chan's tutorial-in-progress, I'm gonna have SO much fun!!! not to mention that my graphic design teacher believes that everyone can draw, it's just a matter of figuring out how... and I said I've always wanted to draw well but never could and he said "we'll fix that." Awesome, or what?
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