Category: Senior Literary

I’m kidding, obviously, but there’s one way to get someone’s attention, lol. 

No, this blog won’t be about how not fun being a senior is- I just wanted to get that statement out in the open. If it was, it wouldn’t be a blog, it’d be a book. At least for me, it would be, I don’t know about y’all’s experience. If it’s been good and fun for you, may the good lord above keep blessing you like that.

All jokes aside, since it is the Christmas season, it may be good to list what all I’m excited about for this holiday. What kind of traditions am I looking forward to, my gift list(it’s not long), what activities I can’t wait to do, etc. If you’re wondering, yes, this is the only idea I have for a blog that doesn’t involve a bunch of complaining.  To start off, I may as well list what I hope to get for Christmas. 

1.Books

Come on, you should know me by now to figure this would be the first thing I list. Most of the books that I want are those that complete a series I’ve started before with a couple of standalones. 

2. New clothes(specifically sweaters)

Am I the only one who, as a little kid, thought getting clothes was the worst Christmas gift ever? No? Good, I’m not alone. Well, now they’re at the top of my list, and I want to stock up on sweaters(since Mississippi wants to be inconsistent and bipolar with the weather) because it’s getting freezing.

3. Simple jewelry(gold)

The only specifics I have when it comes to jewelry are that I prefer gold jewelry and that it’s something that I can safely wear(sensitive skin problems). But that’s it.

No, seriously, that’s it. That’s my entire list. It doesn’t take much or anything expensive to make me happy. But, anyway, I only shared my list because I’d love to hear what’s on y’all’s. Of course, that’s not the only thing I’m looking forward to. I also can’t wait to see some family and relatives that I don’t normally get to see because they live out of state. One of the things about having a big family is that they tend to scatter all over the place, so I don’t get to see some of my cousins often, so I’m excited. I’m ready for all the hot cocoa and Christmas movie nights. My family likes to watch the classic Christmas movies(the ones that look like little toys and puppets). Since I have a big family, it makes activities like secret Santa and/or dirty Santa really interesting. Normally around the holidays, we have about 30 people come to our house. Or a little more. Is it chaos? Yes. Can it be stressful? Also yes, and I’d be lying if I said that I don’t wish I could skip all the noisy and crazy parts that come along for the holidays. And when you have a Monica amongst the chaos(if you know, you know) it can sometimes add to it. It’s definitely not all bad, though. I genuinely enjoy spending that kind of time with my family; it’s definitely never dull.

So, that’s all I have to say, I hope you’ve enjoyed my rambling. I hope you guys have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Much love<3

hello rockers and freaks. i recently saw queens of the stone age live in dallas for my 18th birthday and i am buzzing with things to say about it. i can’t keep it in any longer or else i’ll explode and there will be a huge mess to clean up so lets get into it.

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i love this band

ok so. it’s actually crazy thinking about how much i’ve loved this band my entire life. like, as a sixth grader, i would write down the lyrics to “go with the flow” all over my notes and get in serious trouble. i would sit in the backseat and blast the album “songs for the deaf” and pretend like i was the coolest little guy ever. well, i pretty much was. still am. anyways. i’ve gotten some of their albums on vinyl and learned so many of their songs on guitar. i’ve been a fan for the longest. well, the weekend of my birthday i went home but had to stop by my dad’s house to pick up my laptop (i fell down in the hallway during cleaning night and broke it and begged him to fix it) and when i walked into the house he showed me what he got me for my 18th. two tickets to see queens of the stone age live in dallas. i didn’t even know they were TOURING so of course i was all over it. i don’t travel much at all and i’ve never been to texas so i was super excited about getting to go to another state. the best part was that the concert wasn’t even that far away: it would be sunday, december 10th. well, it’s three days after the fact and the concert was so damn good that i’m still pretending like i’m still there (and secretly ordering tickets to see them again).

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the concert

the concert was at the pavillion at the toyota music factory and me and my dad had two seats together in section 303 (the back section). despite being in the back, we really weren’t far from the stage at all. i could see all of josh homme from where i was (though i wish i could see even more of his face) (he’s my man who isn’t my man but is kinda my man). my only complaint about the venue was the sound wasn’t the best (the bass wasn’t as loud as it should have been in the back) and the crowd wasn’t as energetic as they should have been. me and the people in front of me however were absolutely into it. we did not care. i do think the opener, spiritualized, is part at fault for this though. while i don’t think it was a bad set, it definitely was a mood drainer. he sat down the entire time and lots of his songs were moody and slow, a complete opposite to the composition of queens of the stone age songs. anyways. the doors opened at 5:30, spirtualized was at 7:00, and queens came on around 8:30. i missed half of the opener because me and my dad were outside buying merch (the hoodie i’ve been wearning nonstop this week). still, i got as much as i could handle of that guy. the wait in between the end of the opener and the start of queens absolutely crushed me. my last concert was in 2019, and i have been begging to go to another ever since– and now it was finally happening. i tried not to get sick (in a good way) when i heard the beginning notes of the intro song. the entire concert was so good, i can barely describe it. one of my favorite moments was when someone in the crowd threw josh homme a die with tons of song names on it and he threw it to see what song he would play next. it landed on an unreleased song and he said “not that one” (sadly). then, he looked at the die and settled on “avon”, a song from their first album. i’ll write the setlist later, but basically they played all of my favorites EXCEPT the very two songs i was hoping they’d play: in the fade and sat by the ocean. that’s okay tho, because they played sick sick sick. i could genuinely keep going on and on about this concert, but i’m just going to end it on the fact that i haven’t listened to a single artist BESIDES this band since the concert. i wish i was still there with my entire being.

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the setlist

if you’re a queens fan this is for you, and if you aren’t, well i guess this is a list of songs you need to listen to then.

1. Regular John
2. No One Knows
3. Monsters in the Parasol
4. Smooth Sailing
5. My God Is the Sun
6. Emotion Sickness
7. If I Had a Tail
8. Time & Place
9. Into The Hollow
10. Carnavoyeur
11. Avon
12. Sick, Sick, Sick
13. I Think I Lost My Headache
14. Paper Machete
15. Domesticated Animals
16. Make It Wit Chu
17. Little Sister
18. God Is in the Radio
19. Go With the Flow
20. Song for the Dead

( link to official setlist w/ talking notes: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/queens-of-the-stone-age/2023/the-pavilion-at-toyota-music-factory-irving-tx-2bae2826.html )

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photos

ok here are some photos i took from the show !!

 

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videos

just going to preface this by saying all the videos linked were not taken by me! but i am going to link some moments other people recorded from the show. and yes, i did record my own videos, i just don’t feel like putting them here lol.

here is when a fan threw josh the die with song names on it:

and here’s a couple songs that were played live! 

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yeah so that’s everything !! i’m excited i have an outlet to talk about this concert and how much it meant to me. hope you enjoyed reading !!! rock on

1. Overwatch

I have been playing this game like there’s no tommorow. I played overwatch 1 so long ago and recently installed overwatch 2 on my pc. Basically, Overwatch is a 5v5 online multiplayer. There are different game modes like control, escort, flashpoint, etc. You play as different heroes and I wanted to talk about my favorites to play. Firstly, there are 3 options. You play tank, damage, or support. I play support mostly. I have 3 favorite support heroes. Mercy, Moira, and Kiriko. Mercy can fly and she is the most focused on healing. Not much damage. Mercy has a staff for her healing and her dps (damage) is a pistol.  She can also use her staff to supply damage boost to her teammates. Moira is so fun to use because her dps ability is better than most damage heroes. Her left hand heals, and her right hand damages. She shoots the heals out in a stream, and her left hand sucks the life out of people damaging them. Moira can also throw this ball at teammates or enemies because it can heal or damage. Kiriko is very new and simple. She throws Kunai knives for dps. She throws out paper talismans to heal called her healing ofuda. She also throws a cleanse making herself or teammate invincible for a short second. They all have ultimate abilities as well. Mercy’s ultimate is called Valkyrie and it just allows her to fly for a longer period of time. Moira can shoot a very large consistent beam that damages enemies and heals teammates at the same time. Kiriko throws down a trail that allows health boosts and her teammates to shoot or use their dps 10x’s faster. 

I also play damage and tank just not even half as often. I only use one tank because i think playing tank SUCKS and if you know anything about this game you know it is probably D.va. It is. She’s a cutie patootie. Anyway, D.va’s tank is a mechanical suit that we call a mech. When she “dies” she is pulled out her mech then your just D.va without the tank part. She just has a pistol in this state. When you are inside the mech, you have 2 abilities besides ultimate. She has a rocket boost and a shield. Now, in my opinion, D.va’s ultimate is one of the best in the game. She can self destruct. Basically, you can throw your mech at the enemy team and its like a giant nuke. It wipes them if they don’t get away in time. 

Damage character time. I play 3 on damage mostly, but honestly I can play any damage. I use Echo, Widowmaker, and Sombra. Echo is a blue robot with wings. Her abilities are pretty good. She can fly for a short time. She has sticky bombs. Then, she has a beam of…energy, I guess, that she shoots out for a few seconds. You have to use combination moves to get kills with her but she’s fun. Widowmaker is a simple but very hard character to play. She’s a sniper. Her sniper charges when you scope in and will let you know when your aiming onto an enemy. She can one shot headshot from a certain distance. One of her abilities is a grappling hook to allow her to get a vantage point as a sniper. Her second is just a little poison trap that she throws own. I don’t see the point. Sombra is my all time favorite because she has so many abilities and she is very over powered honestly. Firstly, she has a small one handed SMG but it can destroy someone’s health if you have good aim.  Her first ability is automatic meaning you don’t press a button to use it. She is invisible. 100% invisible to enemies. When she does anything besides running she comes uninvisible. Two seconds after becoming uninvisible she’s back invisible unless your fighting. Her next ability is an emp. She throws a cube and it deals a decent section of the enemies health. Her next ability is a teleport cube. She throws a cube and it can teleport her very far. Her next ability is a hack. When you get hacked by Sombra, you cannot use any abilities or ultimate for 3 seconds, which is plenty of time for her to combo and kill you. Now, their ultimate abilities. Echo has a replicator for her ultimate. She can replicate herself as any hero on the enemy team and use that against them. Widowmaker’s ultimate makes it where her and her entire team can see the enemy team through walls. Sombra’s ultimate releases a huge wave that can hack the entire enemy team.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

2. CHEEZE ITZ

i just wanted to talk about overwatch lolz

Hey guys!! Once again, I am back with a blog that allows me to babble in nonsense for 600 words or more. I honestly think I have forgotten how to write them, but it’s only been a month so the routine can’t be too far away in my mind. Today I am going to tell you guys about a favorite character of mine on a favorite show of mine. He is the total opposite of what you would think about in his profession. The show is called House. The name is simple and sweet yet nothing you would expect from the name suggests the show’s content or context. The main character (the person I will be analyzing), his name is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) hence the show’s name. Gregory House is a mockup per say of Sherlock Holmes but the medical version instead of the detective version. He works in a fictional Princeton Plainsboro teaching hospital with handpicked young diagnosticians, Robert Chase played by Jesse Spencer, Allison Cameron played by Jennifer Morrison, and Eric Foreman played by Omar Epps. Dr. House is an infectious disease specialist who solves the medical mysteries with his instinct and unconventional or rapid bipolar thinking. House is so different than any fictional doctor I have ever experienced. He is brutally honest, makes what seems like various false accusations such as patients’ spouses cheating on them, parents not belonging to their children biologically, and overall claiming they are stupid when they do not trust his medical opinion. He is also quite antisocial and has trauma tucked and hidden away from becoming a “crippled” individual as he calls himself. He walks with a cane and has a limp because his blood flow was cut off to his thigh muscle in one of his legs, and he lost that leg. Even though he won’t admit it he deals with the constant looks, stares, and judgement of being a “crippled” person and wants to wreak havoc on the world, because he didn’t have to be this way. He was not born this way and it was fully preventable but his doctors did not know where to look now he makes it his place to take on the most interesting, unimaginable, and unsolvable cases so that people don’t end up like him, but he has a funny way of showing it considering he hates even looking at patients who have rashes, common colds, or back aches so people think he is a bad doctor however he is quite the opposite. House also never visits his patients unless he desperately needs to and that does not include when they start rapidly declining, it only includes when he finds out they are lying. He hates liars, and never lies himself. When heWhen he finds his patients are lying, he usually confronts them, and the lies desperately affect his treatment, so when he figures out the truth, he can properly treat his patients and get them out of his way.s not visit them because he believes it affects his ability to be a doctor, because as he says and I quote to parents “It’s your job to hold his hand, it’s my job to make him better. Getting attached to the patients, forming bonds, and having conversations draws his attention away from the patient’s care and gets them too emotionally involved. People may think you need to care about people or patients to be a good doctor or to help people but that is not true at all. You do what’s best for them by getting them better and you give them the rest of their life to live. That is how House thinks and I fully agree with him. People think he is cold and unworthy of his high stature and medical listen just because he won’t sit around and listen to a patient’s personal life, but he believes that getting too involved with death, analyzing and embracing every death in the hospital will slowly torture and kill him. It won’t allow him to do his job. I love his character, there isn’t a case that goes unsolved and there isn’t anyone who suffers in his hospital but him and I sincerely enjoy that. 

Hey guys, I’m back for September’s bloggg!  

 

This blog is about MY NEWWW CARRRRRRRRRRR. Okay you got me, I haven’t got it yet, but I will, I just haven’t found THE 1 yet. Sooo my family has been and will always be into cars. My stepfather is a fantastic mechanic. I grew up around racing, going to the track, trading, buying, and fixing up cars with him so I’ve always taken a great liking to it.  

I have had about 5 cars in my life, a Hyundai genesis, an Infiniti qx60, a Honda sport coupe, a Chevrolet Malibu, and a Honda Sport which is what I have now. None of these were bought specifically for me but when my mom, dad, sister, or stepdad got a new car I always ended up with what was left. That’s NOT a complaint AT ALL those are terrific cars, and they had no issues whatsoever, but they weren’t bought FOR ME. 

That made it feel like they never completely belonged to me. I have ALWAYS wanted a sports car because when I was growing up that’s all I saw my family driving. The cars above were just daily drivers. I have dreamed of owning a mustang since I could speak, I think. Me, and all 3 of my parents agreed that I could get a sports car when I turned 18, because of my “recklessness.” I’m not reckless at all, I have never had an accident, I don’t pick up my phone while driving or anything else typically dangerous, but they’re concerned about my speed range. I like driving fast, I always have. I’ve been driving since I was 13 or 14 so all the cars, I grew up driving were sports cars with V8 engines, exhaust systems, mufflers, super or turbochargers, had cold air intakes, dark tint, they were lowered, etc,etc. That set my standard for what I wanted to drive. I was driving manual cars by my 15th brithday and the snap crackles, and pops, I heard coming out of the pipes only fueled my desire to have my own someday. I’m a great driver, and I’m very experienced but my mother doesn’t trust my experience, therefore she wants me to keep driving cars she’s bought so that she can have some form of boundary for me, but that’s not what I want.  

I want to be free; I want to own a sports car and I will by June 2024. I’ve been saving money for a couple of years now, not necessarily for a sports car but for a car in general. I have the support of my parents now that my birthday is quickly arriving and they’re going to help me find exactly what I want. I’m so excited for what I’m getting. My ultimate dream is the 2022 OR 2023 Chevrolet Camaro ZLE 1LE either black (exterior) on black (interior), white (exterior) on black (interior), or black (exterior) on red (exterior). The price of the car is not an issue, but I did set a limit for myself just so that I don’t go overboard, and I have a healthy down payment prepared. I really have the perfect team, A mechanic (stepdad), a financial advisor (dad), and a facilitator (mom). It sounds so professional that it’s kind of funny. Hehe ? Okay now more about the actual car. The car is new, so it won’t have but about 10-12k miles at the most, and it has top-tier technology, so you get performance with luxury. It has alloy, wheels, cloth seats, Wi-Fi hotspot, cruise control, a rear-view camera, remote start, push to start, ABS brakes, daytime running lights, heating and cooling seats, traction control, and a 4-cylinder v8 4L engine. I’ll most likely get an automatic car for long distance driving purposes, but they come with 10-speed manual paddle shifters on the wheel just in case I want to show out a little bit more. I know people buy sports cars for them to be eye candy and mine will look great, but I want it for the performance! 

Okay now for my favorite part, UPGRADES! First off, I’m probably going to supercharge (gives 50-100 more hp) or turbocharge (gives 70-150 more hp) the engine for more horsepower. I’ll tint it dark on the sides but lighter on the front and back windshield. I want side skirts, a valance, I want it lowered, I want a cool air intake, an oil catch can, an exhaust system, and a wing, but they usually come stock with a wing, valance, and side skirts. It just depends on what it comes stocked with and that’s how I’ll decide what to upgrade. I’ll also try to buy one with rims I like but I’m picky so I may just end up buying those too. 

Anyways thanks for reading my blog, see you next month! 

So, lately I’ve been needing some inspiration for a project whether that just be pencil and paper, watercolor, paint on a canvas, or a digital drawing. So, of course, I go straight to Pinterest and I revisited some artwork by some artists that I absolutely love. They each have very different styles and each one is unique. From what I’ve seen, what they each have in common is that their artwork is mostly character design. I say Pinterest artists even though I know their artwork can be found elsewhere; this is just where I found them. So, for this blog, I thought I’d share some of my favorite artists that I found on Pinterest and their artwork. I hope you enjoy:) 

(Btw: fair warning, I don’t know much about each artist as a person and their growth as an artist. I’m just going based on observations of their pieces. Maybe later on, I’ll do more research on them)

1. Margaret Morales

I have grown very fond of her unique character drawings. Every one of her pieces I’ve seen, they’ve been fantasy characters and she uses a wide range of color palettes and not just either light or dark or bright. Each one of her pieces, in my opinion, is beautifully unique. If I’m not mistaken, her main medium of choice is watercolor, which I love because of the amount of detail in each of her pieces.

 

2. Gretal Lusky

I love their style and various different character drawings and they also do fanart. I have a lot of their drawing saved. From what I understand, they use a wide range of mediums like marker, watercolor, and digital. I like that their style is fun, cool, and mystical all at the same time. I have seen their drawing of Disney princesses, DC characters, Marvel characters, Winx Club characters, and more. They really make them look like their own characters, and I love it.

 

3. Angel Ganev

I have been a fan of their art for a few years now, and I even attempted to redraw some of their pieces in my style(they definitely didn’t do the originals justice). Their pieces consist of mainly character drawing and I believe they’ve done portraits of some of their followers or something like that. Their range of mediums mainly goes from pen and pencil drawings and digital drawings.

Of course, these are not the only artists that I particularly love, but I thought that for this post, these would be great to start the list. I may do another blog later about other artists, but I’m not sure. If any of you can think of other artists that you love, I’d love to hear them. They may end up being a new favorite or favorites. Anyway, I hope you’ve enjoyed this post and I will see you guys next time. Much love<3