Weird...

So this morning before waking up, I had an odd dream...  I was going to join a special military program specializing in HTML.  Yes folks, I was going to be a secret service HTML agent, but first my work had to be okayed.  So I sent it in, and went to Settler's Park to meet with the undercover agents to see how I did.  They were my dance students, you just never know how talented they really are to be in the secret service HTML program!  :D  Especially in Grade school and Middle school...  haha
Anyways, I had made a pretty cool website, but the people who reviewed it and put the review in the envelope informed me that I hadn't done a very good job at all, and had only got a 35% on it.  The forms were covered in red pen, and I had several comments telling me what I should've done instead.  They got one of their secret agents to re-do my website, and I had to admit that they were right, theirs was AMAZING.  It was a bit depressing, but at the same time, really cool!  So then my brother had to give one of his shoes to the people to take back to HQ, and we ran around at the play equipment, then we all started off home eating poptarts and licorice and I think we flew some kites too, and then I woke up... 
But I still remembered the awesome version of the website!  So I kinda sketched it out, and I can't wait to see if I can re-create it!  :D  But yeah. Remember, HTML agent is watching...  uh...  your website...  yeah.

Birthdays!

Odorf and Jiggers had birthdays this July!  How exciting, I love birthdays!  Jiggers got a surprise birthday party, and Odorf got a sweet picture:

Odorf dislikes every character in that picture, so I mashed 'em with a 1 ton weight...  tehe... I promise she got other stuff too, but that was her birthday card.  :D  I have a very patient sister, don't I? 

Bouncing again

There are times I sit in class, and I feel like the words bounce right off of me.  And then the words bounce so much outside of me and against my ears, that they enter and bounce inside my head.  That's an exciting thing that they actually are in my head now, but THEN they have a fun time bouncing off the walls of my head.  So instead of being absorbed as part of my thinking process, they bounce around greeting each other and popping up when I least need them... "Hullo, I'm the DOM." "Hi DOM!  I'm Parsing!"  "Hey look, it's Variable!"  "See ya later Encapsulation"  "Oooooooo Hierarchical... what a snooty whatchamacallit" "Ph34r m3 ! 4m 73h XHTML... mw4 h4 h4 h4 h4......."
And after they have their fun bouncing off the walls, I finally get them all to settle down, and then I get to sort through them all to try to use them.
This just means I have to go to sleep earlier.  :D  haha

Random thoughts for a Tuesday

Here I am waiting at school for my sister to get out of her class.  I think she has another 20 minutes to get out, but it seems like I've already been waiting 30.  But I like sitting here, the table I'm at smells strange though, at first it smelled like fish food, and now it smells like.... I think it's Top Ramen noodles.  Yes, that's the excitement of the table.  :D  While I was homeschooled, for writing we'd write a page of something Pearls before Swine calls "Stream of consciousness" (see below)

And there you have a prime example of stream of consciousness.  So that's what you're being subjected to today, I'm just writing whatever pops into my head to write about next.  Today I made a program in C#, and it was really exciting!  So far, I have Pete, the hero:

Charming, isn't he?  Just dreamy.  He runs around the screen being controlled by the arrow keys.  Then we have his arch nemesis, the bad guy:

Try not to be too afraid, he doesn't do much yet.  So far, he just follows Pete around, but stalking is still pretty creepy... :)  Someday he's probably going to eat Pete, but I don't know how to do that yet.
Exciting stuff!  I think my sister's class is out, but where is she?  So....  I have a sister.......   (end of the mutilated Darth Vader quotes) Perhaps I should go find her...  yeah...  I shall.
Happy June 1st!

Sewing adventures TRIUMPH!

Project 2...  the green dress.
I started this project right after I finished the black dress, and I just finished it yesterday with the help of my wonderful Mother, without whom this never would've been possible, AT ALL.  Thanks, Mom!!!!
So this one started out as this pattern:

I was using the one that got whited out by the flash...  but first I cut out the wrong pattern and ran out of fabric.  So that was the second trip to JoAnn's to get more fabric.
Then I made the bodice, the sleeves were a pain, the bodice was pretty easy, then it looked horrible when I got that part done.  So I looked at it, dragged it to Mom, complained in a loud tone, she totally understood and complained with me, and then we played with the bodice, nothing worked, and we scrapped it.  At least, for a little while.  I went searching through the old patterns to see if there was another bodice that would work, and found this old pattern:

"Look!" I yelled to Mom, "It looks like the lines are SIMILAR!!!"  and Mom was like "Well, this can't get any more messed up, let's go for it!"
And so we went back to JoAnn's and got more fabric.  That was the 3rd trip.  So I made that bodice, and sure enough, it worked pretty well!  Then it was too long, so I took the shoulders up a bit, and that made it fit perfectly.  So I started the sleeves...  and realized I didn't want the ginormous ones belonging to the pattern, and I didn't want to re-make the other sleeves very much at all.  So I looked at the old bodice that turned out so awful, and decided the sleeves could be salvaged.  And they were!  After Mom remade them, that is...
  haha
Then we did the zipper and a few other things, Mom top stitched and used a nifty hemmer attachment on her machine, and this is it!

And now, I'm not making anymore dresses until I get a few skirts done.  I LIKE SKIRTS.  SKIRTS DON'T HAVE SLEEVES.

Updates from a frenzied mind

School:
I'm learning more about the wonderful world of C# programming.  And so the first week, I basically felt like there was this huge, very thick brick wall.  However, the brick walls have been manageable for me in the past, so I ran headlong into it!  BAM!!!!!!  It didn't go so well.  Eh, that was just a fluke, right?  Off I go again!  CLANG CRASH KABOOM!!!!!!  Just as well as the last time.  Well, this time I think to myself, repeated blows, that'll bring the thing down!  So I repeatedly bopped my head against this brick wall, figuring it'd come down eventually.  Finally, the second week was coming to a close.  It was Thursday, when I looked up and realized the brick wall could be climbed over.  So I spent the rest of Thursday looking up and formulating my scaling strategy.  Friday morning, things started clicking for me, and I got my head above the brick wall and looked over.  It was astonishing, the possibilities over the wall were unimaginably amazing.  The different ways of using these skills expanded themselves, and I was extremely excited.  Am I over the brick wall?  Most likely not...  ;)  But I have made a start, and my head is not as sore!  I'll be working on my final project tomorrow, learning how to create a game.  I'm calling it "Don't eat Pete" and it'll be this little square that goes around eating "food" (aka littler squares) while avoiding a large circle intent on eating Pete.  Silly?  Absolutely!  Fun?  Of course!  (I hope...)
As for the other class, it's training us to be a professional and also testing our skills.  I want to get all the homework for the skills complete this week.  I have a simple web page to create, a C# program to send, and a request for purchase of a program which will be used by a bank with 25,000 customers.  The professional aspect is fascinating, and I enjoy it very much.
Sewing:
Another brick wall has been hurdled on the green dress (project #2), and the top of the dress is approaching completion!  Thanks to my amazing Mom, who helped me over the wall.  So the complete dress story is approaching the hopefully happy ending.  ;)  The whole story is quite intense, and will be told another day.
The Garden:
Is failing.  Just kidding, it might be recovering!  :)  At any rate, the homegrown strawberries are so very fantastic that I really can't complain if that's all we get this time around.  And the beets are doing so very well!  So yeah, it's going pretty good!
DANCE!:
The best for last!  :D  Dance is fantastic as always, I love it so much!  Dance camp has been moved to be a month closer, which is pretty sad 'cuz not everyone can make it, but it's happy as well, because it's going to be so much fun and I don't have to wait as long for it.  We're gearing up for the Idaho Shakespeare festival volunteering, and heading out for a Highland Games soon!  Wonderful times, great memories, and I am so excited!!!!
Summary:
I talk too much.  BYE! 

Cake

So the beginning of May has two birthdays in it, and I got to bake the cakes!  It was really fun, my Aunt loves Junior Mints, so I made one cake look like a large Junior Mint with a Junior Mint swirl on top:

It turned out pretty cute, I was excited!
The other one I made in a heart shaped bundt pan:

Mom did some toasted coconut to put on top of that one, and I thought it was pretty cute too!

Here are both of 'em:

So that's another adventure... somehow I think I keep getting new adventures so I don't have to keep sewing...  ;)  hahahahaha
And the best part was that both of the cakes tasted REALLY good!  It was a kind of chocolate cake that doesn't have milk in it, which is pretty cool, it's called "Crazy Cake".