In Which Glitter Girl Apologizes Prolifically for Not Posting Sooner and Recounts Interesting Things

Hey lovelies!

Ack! I haven't posted since July! Why is it that whenever my life gets boring/busy, I don't post anything?

I am so sorry I haven't posted in a while. I have to say, life got pretty hectic once school started up again and I really don't know what the heck happened in late July.

Anyways, I'm back, and maybe this time I can keep my easily-distracted nature in check just long enough to actually keep this blog going. So without further ado, I'm going to stop apologizing/making excuses about not doing things/rattling on and just tell you what's been up!

I had a fantastic time at the cast party that I mentioned in my previous post. Some friends and I played Frisbee in the rain (a good time, I got kind of wet, covered in grass, and a little muddy, but it was fun), I saw a girl I hadn't seen since the show (many good times), and I bought a rather disturbing-looking Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ice pop from an ice cream truck and got covered in melted ice pop (but the first time I've ever bought something from an ice cream truck so I cannot complain),

I started school again. I'm not dying of schoolwork overload, thank goodness, although I still do have a metric TON of essays to write.

About four days into the school year, I was sitting on the couch and probably watching Star Trek: The Next Generation when I said to my mother, "Hey mom, you know that hair dye I bought? Let's go dye my hair." So we went upstairs and I ended up with emerald green bangs, no bleach needed (Manic Panic's Enchanted Forest, in case you're wondering). These lasted about two weeks, but they were very cool and I felt like the coolest person in every room I walked into. I'm seriously impressed with this dye; it completely dyes my red hair that normally doesn't take dye very well or even at all, and that's no small feat!

My mother and I have finished Star Trek: The Next Generation and have started working our way through the seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager. We're currently only on season 3, so no spoilers please, but I have to say that I absolutely ADORE this series. I love the questions it raises, and I also adore the sheer amount of snark involved with the characters. I've also started growing out my undercut because I am seriously jealous of Captain Janeway's hair!

Coming up next in our Star Trek saga? Probably Deep Space Nine.

Also, about a week ago, I had auditions for Zombie Prom! Yeah, I know I said they were in December, but it turns out that they were actually in October. I actually did really good in the audition (a rare occurrence, let me tell you) and though I didn't get cast as Toffee, the role I was going for, I did get a really, really good role. I'm going to be playing Coco! Coco is such a fun character to read for, especially considering her personality and that I have a tendency to be cast as good-girl characters. I'm seriously looking forward to the read-through on Tuesday!

I've also signed up to take dance lessons because I am low-key a not-so-great dancer and have gotten some pretty bad panic attacks because I've combined that with a really nasty case of perfectionism. I am desperately hoping that dance lessons will either improve my dancing skills, make me more confident in any existing skills I might have, or at least make me okay with saying "I am not a good dancer." I am so-so-so-so excited for dance lessons, which start in November!

Also, I've been working on my Halloween costume this week. I pride myself on having only bought an entire costume once, so I've been sewing and shopping and dyeing fabric like crazy. This year, I'm dressing up as Bulbasaur from Pokemon. Yes, I have fallen in love with Pokemon Go, and I am not afraid to admit it!

The reason I've been so frantic about getting my costume done so early is that I'm going to a Halloween party tonight! Every year, this family my family knows throws a big Halloween party. Everyone dresses up and we eat food and talk and play games. In my honest opinion, these parties are legendary. But then again, I don't really go to parties very often (although I've been invited to like four different birthday parties this year, so I guess I do go to parties now), so I'm not the best judge of that. But I always have a good time there, and though I don't really know what to do at big, big parties like this, I figure it out (and then promptly forget)!

And that's what's rolling. I will post some pictures of my Bulbasaur costume either tonight or tomorrow, once I've finished the bulb!

Ciao for now!

Love,
Glitter Girl

Watermelon Nails, Before-the-Party Ramblings, and the (Hopefully) End of the Vehicular Drama Saga

Hey lovelies!

So things have been pretty quiet here at Love, Glitter Girl HQ (AKA home). I babysat my two sisters last night, which was good (normally they fight like crazy, but were nice just for me), I have a cast party tomorrow night for the play I was in this spring, Little Shop of Horrors. And yeah.

I might've watched somewhere around six episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation this afternoon (I have no life in the summer). And while I was watching an obscene amount of Star Trek, I decided to paint my nails and do some nail art.

Summery watermelon nails!

I did watermelons, which was a lot more challenging than some of the other nail art I've done because I've never actually painted French tips before. But it went well, so I'm pretty proud of it. (Apologies for the sloppy paint job in the picture, my aim with the brush isn't always the best and I hadn't had time to scour the skin around my nails yet, I promise a better look soon.)

Also, as you know on Monday, the car broke down. The alternator and the battery both blew (which was icky) and we finally got the car back Wednesday, and we haven't had a problem with it since (but now I've probably jinxed it). Hopefully this is the end, but the car is almost 10 years old, so I doubt it. Our last car blew around 10 or 11 as well.

In addition to all the vehicular drama and nail art, as I said above, I am going to a party tomorrow. It's the cast party for Little Shop of Horrors, which was the play I was in this spring, and I have to make a pasta salad for it but that's okay because I make the best pasta salad. A bunch of us are all going to just go to the park and be weird theatre nerds. It's awesome. Also, some of these people I haven't seen since mid-April when the show closed, so that's going to be double awesome.

Other things that happened; I started wearing my retainer after not wearing it for two weeks (I can't figure out which was the bigger mistake), my sisters fought some more today, and I went to the grocery store. Boring, mundane stuff.

School starts soon, so I might get more interesting as the year progresses. I have auditions for a show called Zombie Prom in December, so that's going to be a thing, and I'm actually remembering to blog so that's good. Good job, me.

Some folks are lighting off fireworks for some strange reason, and I can hear the fweeeee of them launching outside my bedroom window.

That's all for tonight, sorry for the weird posting time.

Love,

Glitter Girl

Car Troubles, Hair Dye, and Day to Day Mundane Stuff

Hey lovelies!

Sorry for not posting lately. I tend to not write when my life is doing normal things, and it's been doing a lot of very normal things recently. So yeah.

So what have I been up to lately?

Well, on Friday night (the 8th, for anyone who's wondering), I went to see a bunch of my amazing theatre friends perform in a show called Godspell. And oh my gosh it was like the greatest thing ever. Now, for some reason, act 1 of a show is always "Sunshine! Rainbows! Happiness! Love!" and then act 2 is always "Blood! Death! Destruction!" and let me just say that Godspell was VERY MUCH like this. I cried at the end, and I have never cried watching a musical before so it was incredibly well written and also incredibly well performed. And no, I'm not just saying that because I love those weirdos (even though I do).

Also, on Monday, I was going out for lunch with my family when the car started having some issues (the alternator broke and took the battery with it). We made it about halfway to lunch before we had to pull into a parking lot and reevaluate. We ended up leaving the car in the parking lot and walking to lunch (which would've been cool, as it's only a short walk from where we ended up, but it was like 90°F out and humid as all heck because this is Georgia), and then by some stroke of magic, my best friend's mom was in the area and she offered to drive us home. So that was good. And then we had to negotiate getting the car towed, and all sorts of lovely stuff, and we should get it back today but who knows.

So that was fun.

In addition, I've been thinking about dyeing my hair. I'm not a hundred percent certain, and I've asked at least two of my best friends to talk me either into it or out of it because I really don't know if I should, but I'm thinking of dyeing it bubblegum pink. I'm a little concerned about it because I am originally a redhead and I don't really want to lose that shade (also because touching up roots is going to be a pain because my hair grows fast), but hopefully I will stop wiffle-waffling (yes, that is a legit word) about it soon and just do it.

Going to be babysitting my sisters for my parents' anniversary (and getting paid). Probably going to sit around and write essays because I'm homeschooled and not done with last year (bad decision on my part). So yeah.

Mundane stuff.

But maybe something interesting will happen soon.

Love,
Glitter Girl

Maybe I Shouldn't Take Year-Long Breaks? Time for Catch-Up

Hello lovelies!

I am so-so-so-so sorry I haven't posted in almost a year. School started back up and my life has been a mad dash ever since (school tends to eat up a lot of my time), so I kind of spaced it (which I often do) and the next thing I know, it's July.

I need to, like, not do that.

Anyway...

So, I went to Switzerland on the 20th (at least, I think it was the 20th) of June, and we ran around and got jet-lagged as heckity heck and came back on the 5th of July and I might've gotten into the habit of thanking people in German and French instead of English, which really doesn't work when you live in the US. We climbed mountains and didn't die and good stuff like that. :)

Also, I did a theatre thing from February to April. The rehearsal schedule was a little crazy (5 nights a week) and tech week was a nightmare because drama both at home and at rehearsal, but we didn't totally mess up and we did good, so that was a thing. I actually made a few friends and talked to the friends and went out with one of the friends for coffee, which was good.

So that's basically been my life.

I know I haven't finished Summer Camp Shenanigans yet, and I'm going to try to, but the truth is I really don't remember most of what happened on the Friday as it's been, like, a year since we did summer camp.

Also, bad news; not going this year. I wish I was, summer camp is kind of my life, but I went to Switzerland instead. You win some, you lose some.

I may post like, three posts today. Or I may do the thing with the scheduling where I say "Hey blogger, post this post at this time". I dunno

So that's where I'm at.

Love,
Glitter Girl

Aimless Ramblings about Summer Camp

What do you do when you have a packing list, most of the clothes you intend to bring on your trip are clean, and you are practically exploding with anticipation?

I'm going to summer camp in just a smidgemeter under three weeks. This will be my third year there and let me just say, I've been eagerly awaiting this trip for well over a month (when I booked it) because to be honest, I consider the camp to be one of the most beautiful places on earth. And that's saying something, considering I've been to quite a few beautiful places.

I've got every outfit for the seven days I'll be there planned. I'm setting aside clothes I intend to wear while I'm there so that I don't have to do any last minute laundry (because speaking from experience, doing laundry the day before a trip massively sucks). I know already that packing for me is likely to take all day, and I have an event the day before I leave, so I know exactly what day I'm going to use exclusively for packing. Over-planned? Okay, yeah, I tend to overthink everything, so I may-or-may-not have over-planned things just a tiny bit.

And of course, that over-planning has lead to an insane amount of excitement.

I really want to be packing right now. I want to be sitting on my bedroom floor putting my clothes into Ziploc baggies and putting them in a suitcase. But that would be crazy. I still have three weeks to get the last bits of laundry done, obtain bug spray and sunscreen (essentials where I'm going), and just generally prepare. I have three weeks to obsess over which horse I'm going to be riding.

Speaking of horses, I get the feeling that I probably shouldn't be allowed around horses! LOL! Why? For some reason, every time I've ridden a horse at this particular camp, I've injured myself in some way. My first year, I had my toes stepped on multiple times while walking out to the ring because the horse I was on was very food-oriented (read: oh, look! Yummy clover!). And then last year, I actually had to jump off a horse!

Freaked out? Excited?

Good, because I'm about to tell you how it happened.

They split us up into two groups on the first day; the first group would ride, and the second group would do a ground lesson, which involved learning something like tacking a horse, horse colors, basic horse anatomy, etc. Then, the second group would ride and the first group would do a ground lesson. I was in the second group.

Let me just preface the story by saying that my horse and I did not get along, mostly because of my own anxieties (I was so sure that I was going to get the horse I'd ridden the first year I was at camp) and because I was too stubborn to take my counselors up on their offer to let us change horses.

So one day, the first group was washing a horse and the second group was riding. I was riding past where they were washing the horse and then suddenly, my horse spooked and reared up.

I am not a particularly experienced horseback rider, and I certainly don't know what to do with a rearing horse! So somehow, I managed to dig up some information about how to properly jump off a horse in about two seconds and I jumped off as fast as I could.

According to some bystanders, I almost landed on my feet, but not quite.

I didn't hurt myself too badly; I just bruised my tailbone and the fall knocked the wind out of me. But it definitely shook me up! And who doesn't get shaken up after falling/jumping off a horse?

But I managed to get back on about ten minutes later. I'm very grateful that my mom always tells me that if you fall off a horse, you should get back on.

I've cried at closing campfires. I've eaten walking tacos (which are really good, by the way). I've gotten yelled at by my counselors because my cabin talked too much at night. So basically, the rituals of camp.

And now that's coming round again.

I can't wait!

Love,
Glitter Girl