Things to do in the summer (without technology!)

Last summer I made a three page (with pictures) list of things that my brothers could do away from their dear, dear screens. Well, few of them noticed or cared, but I'm trying again. I thought I'd share this year's list here, too. Sorry if the formatting is wonky. Copying and pasting from Word doesn't always work as it should.

THINGS TO DO in SUMMER

 (NOT ON THE COMPUTER, IPAD, OR TELEVISION)

Play Ninja

Checkers, but with action figures for game pieces

Board games

Bake desserts

Take a nap

Make paper masks and moustaches

Origami

Learn a guitar chord

Play the piano

Backyard camping

As a superhero, save citizens from certain doom

Write cards and letters to people you haven’t seen in a while

Start a Goodwill box

Swim in the pool

Lay in front of a fan with a book

Obstacle courses

Make up a dance move

Plan a “someday” trip to your favorite country

Invent a joke

Freeze your socks

Who can come up with the craziest outfit?

Eat lunch outside

Paper plane races

Collaborative stories

Telephone Pictionary

Try a new food

Learn a new skill

Describe a color

Use Army Time and party at times like 09:09 or 11:11 or 15:15

Burst out into song

Meet your neighbors

Make your own list

Living Every Day: May

1. Pretty art, interesting words, cheese cubes
2. Great wind, Shadow forbid procrastination
3. Saw Bethany and Emma at the store
4. Tons of chips, salsa, tortillas, milk, ice cream, cake
5. Lunch at park, obstacle course
6. So close to finishing school!
7. Weather is good, watched anime
8. End of school
9. Lots of cleaning
10. Super heavy rain
11. Josh graduated. sauteed onions, ate nearly whole avocado
12. Read a lot, saw amazing movie
13. Bought a wig, took Judah in the car
14. FREE POTS AND PANS! hung out at apartments with besties
15. Cosplay shopping with Bethany
16. Cute crafts
17. Driving with windows down, warm air
18. Productive day!
19. Survived on 2 1/2 hours of sleep
20. Wig came!
21. Signed lease!
22. Spinach tortellini
23. Shakespeare at Zilker
24. Multi-colored potatoes
25. Game night at youth group
26. Computer upgrade
27. Shot a gun, good food
28. More cleaning, ~pasta~
29. Drawing cars is hard. Sunny cool and rainy
30. Taking stuff down.
31. Kim Possible!

Car practice

I had to draw a car for a panel I was working on, and it took such a long time because HOW DO I CAR?
So I decided I needed some practice, and I got some promotional materials from when we were looking for a new minivan, and a bunch of Hot Wheels from the toy bin and just sketched them. Here's the results.

It still remains HOW DO I CAR but at least I'm getting some practice.

Goals Progress

Technically, summer hasn't even started yet. But seeing as I've started my summer goals and it's nearing the end of a month, here I go.

Get a job.
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. :(
I've yet to get any tangible results. The one I applied for online sent me an email that they didn't need me. The two that I've turned in paper applications for... I keep calling them back and they keep saying to check again next week. Who knew people took so long to review applications? When I wrote down that I could start June 12 (2 weeks ago), I thought they'd reject me because I couldn't start for a whole month. June 12 is seeming much more reasonable as a start date now, with only 2 weeks left. I applied for another place this morning.

Practice drawing every day.
Oops? I'm sure I've at least doodled most days, but as for sitting down and learning techniques... I need to GET ON THAT.

Blog 3 times a week.
Seeing as in the almost-three-weeks since I've posted that, I have 11 posts... I'm doing a-ok there.

Move to Austin.
The day approaches! I'm packing things up and paring things down.

Webcomic: 1-2 pages per week.
I regret to inform you that I have failed, sort of. The first week, I finished 30 minutes after midnight on Saturday. The second, I didn't finish until Monday or Tuesday... THIS WEEK. This being the third week, I'm making up for it by doing it early and maybe doing two panels. I have the linework done, still need to color it. Cars are glubbin' hard to draw! By the way, none of these are posted yet, because I want to update in chunks, so I may only get to update about once a month. But I'd rather do that then have readers wait for a week between each panel.

Well, looks like I'm off to a great start, huh?

;-;

Rain Appreciation Post

I am in awe! Here in central Texas, we've had a REAL rainy spring. We didn't have any really hot days until May, and the water tables are up! I've seen so many thunderstorm predictions on my weather app (probably at least one each week I checked)... half the time it doesn't actually rain, but it HAS rained a lot. I'm just repeating myself, but as a person who likes rain and lives in a place threatened by drought, it is a happy occurence.