Skye Starlight

So, my mum took me out shopping for my prom dress today. I can't say I was looking forward to it, but I knew it had to be done. Prom is in 7 weeks, so we needed it sorted, ASAP. So, we went to a local shop, and we looked at the dresses there. None of them quite suited my taste, but the shop assistant referred us to the store in town, under the same brand-name, because I don't live in town, just near it. There, I spotted a dress which matched what I was looking for, except the color was orange. I mean, I love purple. I really love purple. Purple is the best color. The only other colors I had been thinking about were blue and pink. Call me girly all you want, I like those colors. And I had told myself I was going to avoid green, black, red and orange. But the orange of the dress had to be the prettiest orange I'd ever seen. It was bright too, and it really suited me. I decided to think it over, and I think I'm actually going to go for it. It's fabulous, and I can't wait to wear it. No-one's going to look like me. I mean, who wears orange to a prom? Me, obviously... If you want to stand out, there's nothing like the brightest orange you've ever seen. Seriously, it's kinda neon... And it only took half an hour of looking through dresses, and 1 dress tried on. I guess all my fussiness in style really paid off! So now, I've finally got my dress! Lol... I totally just went all girly on you guys... But that was my day! I was a girly-girl for once in my life! Also, the dress kinda looks like this: Actually... That is the dress... It's going to be my prom dress... It's like, fluro orange, and I love it!

Lol... My mom saw my screensaver, which is Fluttershy dancing, and this occurred: mum: Is that a pony? me: yeah, it's Fluttershy mum: What's it doing? me: dancing... mum: Why is there a pony dancing on your screen? me: It's my screensaver... mum: What? me: Uh, yeah... Didn't you know I liked MLP? mum: ...

So, I'm on a site called Chicken Smoothie. It has these amazing adoptable pets, along with a forums and their Oekaki boards. So, I originally got into this site a few years ago. Before MLP:FiM became a thing. And I fell in love with the pets. Eventually, I branched out to the forums and started drawing on the Oekaki boards. Nowadays, I'm less about the pets. I'm still going to be there, as it's now my platform for digital art. They have a program called Chibipaint, which is better than MS paint, but much more basic than any expensive programs like Photoshop. I like it. So, today, I decided that, since my pets haven't exactly been doing anything, that I'd give most of them away. So I sorted through them and picked out the pets I wanted to keep, before setting up a topic in their free adoptables boards. I also set up a special give away for a set of pirate themed pets, so that I may give them as a group, as that's how they're supposed to be. I've been busy ever since, taking trades and keeping up to date on the give away. So, if you're on there, I'm Skystar9. The topic is here: http://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1993563 My gallery is here: http://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/oekaki/gallery.php?user=184217 You'll be able to see many MLP pics in there. Including ideas for mane 6 dresses from back when I could barely draw. Also, my newest drawing, my current avatar!

I may as well join. I've been thinking about how much better the world could be run under one government, and how the countries of the world aren't likely to give up their individualism easily. Atomic warfare may be the only option, if they fail to surrender peacefully. So, uh... Can I be an adviser or something? I'm not great at technical stuff.

The Japanese don't have as many adjectives as we do, and they're a lot less subtle culturally. We may call something "Frightening" or "Scary" but they only have one word for it. It's partially because the English language is a lot of European languages combined. Also, taking into account the cultural differences, you can kinda understand why the Japanese cultural references are thrown in. Because everyone in Japan knows them and can relate to them. To take them out could easily change the meaning. There's a wide variety of Anime out there. Some are darker (like Code Geass and Death Note) whilst others are girly (Like AKB0048 and Mermaid Melody) and there's some which are goofy, bright and over the top (like Tengen Toppa Gurren Langan!) Anime isn't for everyone. There are different ways of watching it too. I personally prefer to watch it subbed rather than dubbed because it keeps more of the original meaning. It also constantly reminds me that I'm not watching a western cartoon, leaving me to excuse the cultural references. Or maybe I'm just not extremely critical of what I watch, preferring to sit back and enjoy it. Also, I tried Death Note, and I didn't like it, and I watched Mermaid Melody years ago. The rest all have mechas in them, and I loved them. I think I'm onto something here... Note: A lot of the girly anime have songs, but may also contain darker details, like death, apocalypses, attempts to control the world, if not the universe. And the characters tend to be slightly sexualised. This stuff isn't as taboo in Japanese culture as it is in Western countries, which, if you keep in mind, you might be able to enjoy it more.

Cookie Clicker... I have no idea why it's enraptured many people. I haven't been one of them... After a while, I began to find it boring.

True moral of the story: STOP QUESTIONING AND START DOING! Right? Because I'm sick of people asking questions. They're getting no-where, even when they think they are. The only way to get anywhere in life is to do something. SOMETHING. Anything. Why are you doing this? Why are you not? I believe that everyone should be able to think for themselves.

So this will be a weekly thing... These post probably won't be long, but I figured some of you would like to see my progress, and maybe make your own! So, this week was the beginning. I was alone in my apartment on Saturday, somewhat bored. I had been thinking about movement 2 of Area 11's song Bosozoku symphonic, which was title Senbazuru. I had googled what it was. It was the thousand paper cranes I remembered hearing about when I was in primary school. I decided, being bored, that I'd learn to make paper cranes. I started here Step 6 was difficult to get... It's kind of hard to explain though... After the 4th I'd figured it out. I could now make one without looking. I'd officially learnt how to make a paper crane! But something about them was so amazing that I couldn't stop making them. I listened to area 11 whilst making them, resulting in a somewhat relaxing experience. By the time I went to bed on Sunday, 22 had been made. I then decided that I was going to make 1000, and hang them somewhere. It is now one of my goals in life... Pretty lame (and easy, though tedious) goal, but whatever. Unfortunately, progress had slowed when my family got home. Through the week, I made a further 8, bringing my total to 30. Well, I had made another one, but I gave it to my best friend as a gift. So I've technically made 31, but only 30 thus far are going to the Senbazuru. I'm probably going to make many more over the course of the next 2 weeks, as Queensland's school holidays have just officially started! Also, if using A4 paper like I am, the excess is the perfect size for shopping lists... Oh, and fold diagonally to get a square with the A4 sheet and cut off the excess I just mentioned! Also, make sure you have the space to place all your cranes somewhere. Once you get 40, you can thread them together to make your first chain! The average Senbazuru consists of 25 chains of 40 cranes! And then you can hang it somewhere out of sight and start again! And hope they don't rot or anything... So yeah... Boredom brings forth the most peculiar impulses... See you next week! ~Skye

I'm not dying, I'm still young... Why would I need a bucket list? I don't... But there are things I want to do in my lifetime. Now, these aren't necessarily easy tasks, nor may they quick to achieve. Most of these, however, aren't all that risky or thrill seeking. In fact, many of these things are quite safe, although not easy things to do. So, let's get onto my list! 1. Create a Senbazuru (Thousand Paper Cranes) 2. Go to a Convention (Gaming or Ponies, either would be awesome!) 3. Travel the world (Europe, America and Japan!) 4. See Area 11 live (*Insert me squeeing over Sparkles* here*) ... What? I'm still working on it! Okay, so these four small thing are just the little parts of life I want to achieve. I feel like I can rest easy having done them. I've already calculated that it only takes about 5 minutes per crane, which totals 12 an hour. 1 hour each weekday + 3 hours on weekends = 132 a week, 528 a month. It would only take 2 months! Going to a convention is obviously going to happen. All I need is money now! Same with seeing Area 11! In fact, I may end up doing both at the same time! Travelling the world is what I'm really going to have to work for. That's a lot of money to spend! Although I don't need to visit them all in one trip, and I have a long life ahead of me, it's still going to be a challenge. Lucky I'm good with money... I'll report back when I've completed one of these tasks. I'll be reporting back anyway so... Whatever!

2 amazing weekends in a row... This is awesome! I know, this one isn't done yet, but there's no-one around to disturb my peace... I'll get back to that later. So, last weekend was my best friend's birthday party! I shall separate it into parts so that you don't get confused... I'll just give all of us really weird names which aren't our own so that you don't know who we are... Skye (me), Wendy (My best friend who's birthday we were celebrating), Hazel, Zoe, Jade, Casey (My best friend's boyfriend), Kelly, James (Kelly's boyfriend), Karen, Gilbert, Mitch and Max. Along with my mum (who shall be referenced as such) That's everyone who's going to be mentioned in this tale. Friday Night: Movie Night. I arrive at my best friend's house, ready for a night of fun with her and a few other friends. It was a celebration of her 17th birthday, which was really going to happen on Tuesday. So I turn up and Zoe is already there helping Wendy prepare the food for the evening. I join in making homemade spring rolls, the last thing on the menu left to prepare. Once that's done, we chill for a while. Hazel and Jade turn up eventually and they end up deciding that we're going to do James and Casey's make up. They were also going to do mine... So Casey turns up with his gifts, a cute teapot and a cake. We have dinner (The spring rolls were awesome!) then we start the first movie of the night! Mean Girls! Which, being a 17 year old girl, I hadn't seen! The girls just stared at me in disbelief. It wasn't a bad movie... I found it quite hilarious actually, how well it depicts real high-school. Or, at least, how high-school girls act towards each other. After the movie ends, James arrives. I'd met him once before, but I'd not actually talked to him. At this point the girls manage to whisk Casey off to the bathroom. They didn't give him a full blown makeover, really only working on his eyebrows. In the mean time, James and I talked, mostly about how much we didn't want to have makeovers. So, after a brief period of tension, we attempt to start the second movie... It doesn't work so we look through the channels for a horror movie... We find one, called and watch it... It's gory and confusing. After that, the boys go home and us girls decide that we need some nightmare retardant. Cue us watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! Jade fell asleep early during the movie and towards the end Hazel couldn't stop laughing. Something about a chicken? After that we all went to bed... Saturday: Beach gathering Hazel and Zoe headed home before Jade, Wendy and I all went to the beach. We grabbed some food from the store for a barbecue and soon arrived at our destination. We waited a while before Gilbert showed up, followed soon after by Casey, Mitch, James and Kelly! Everyone except Casey, Jade and I go for a swim before we fire up the barbie and get cooking! Or so we thought. We'd forgotten the oil, so we used lemonade instead... It worked at least. Karen was the last to turn up. It had been a while since I'd seen her as she'd left my current school at the end of last year. She'd been in my Biology class. It was nice to catch up. So after hanging with them all day, I went home. That's where all interesting occurrences ceased so I'll leave it at that. It was awesome actually doing something on the weekend rather than my normal routine... Friday the 13th: Not so unlucky Mum and Max leave for my cousin's wedding. I'm left to fend for myself for 3 nights, and I couldn't be happier about it. School was great too, so I have nothing to complain about this day! Added bonus of having one of the Yogscast staff reply to me on twitter (I need to update my profile) so... Yeah... Everyone must have drawn the bad luck away from me! Also, Butter Chicken for dinner! Yum! Saturday: Origami Cranes All this peace for me to exert my own presence over. I can sing and dance without anyone complaining. I couldn't be happier! Boredom set in quickly... Which is what caused me to turn the volume up on my computer and dance to some of my favorite songs... And then I found inspiration. Area 11's song Bosozoku Symphonic has 5 movements. My favorite happens to be movement 2, named Senbuzaru. A senbuzaru is a thousand paper cranes... So I started making paper cranes, for no reason other than I wanted to make paper cranes... Now I can't stop! They're amazing little things! I have 4 now but they're going to multiply... I'll take one to school on Monday and show my friends. Maybe I'll give Wendy one as a gift! Because I still haven't given her a gift... And that concludes my amazing twin weekends thus far... I doubt it could get much better, but we'll see! Skye Starlight Out! Note: Didn't mean for it to be so long... Wow... Just wow... I don't doubt that people stopped reading part way through...

Twas very amusing... I was half dying of embarrassment, half dying of laughter...