Monday, July 16, 2012
Sorry....
Oh my goodness, you guys!
I am so sorry that I haven't posted anything on here in over 6 months.
I should try and work on that.
Well, Summer is here and half over.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Lightbulb Mobile? Check!
Okay, so today, I finally put my dead lightbulb collectio to use. (Well, only part of it. I only had 5 white lightbulbs, so I had to get one live one....) I made a hanging mobile with lightbulbs and coathangers and plastic necklaces.
It doesn't look that bad, but I haven't taken pictures yet. I love the thrill of accomplishing something on my own, that I figured out by myself, without prior instruction.
Since I don't have a picture of it yet, here is this picture:

Also, I just got back from YW new beginnings. It was doctor Seuss themed, and had amazing decorations. Super fun too!
It doesn't look that bad, but I haven't taken pictures yet. I love the thrill of accomplishing something on my own, that I figured out by myself, without prior instruction.
Since I don't have a picture of it yet, here is this picture:

Also, I just got back from YW new beginnings. It was doctor Seuss themed, and had amazing decorations. Super fun too!
Preparation

Nostalgic dreams
My child hood wish
Commercialized valentines
Is where it exists
A heart shaped box
The guy of my dreams
The details are missing but
It is what it seems
Afterschool drugstore
Valentines week
Shelves of promises
The prospect is bleak
I stand here and sigh
My wish is still true
A box of chocolates
For me, from you.
So when I was little, my dad would always take me to this drugstore to get his perscription filled. It was full of the weirdest stuff, and I loved the chair you could sit in with the armrest that would inflate and squeeze your arm, like at the doctor's. Today we went there again, for the first time in maybe a year or more for me, and I felt very nostalgic. The place looks really different, but they still have an aisle of greeting cards.
They had a display for valentines day, even though it's a month away. I distinctly remember being....maybe 6 or 7 and thinking how nice it would be to get one of those heart-shaped boxes of chocolate. I thought it was so cute and traditional, even though personally I have never seen anyone get one of those for Valentine's day. Looking back and remembering that (And seeing the little heart shaped candies with words on them) made me really nostalgic. And I still sort of wish someone would give me a heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valentine's day. And maybe a rose. :)
Also, I might not get around to writing Valentine's day poetry when it comes around, so now I'm prepared.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
I Am Happy Today
Spoler Alert.
It was a good day today.
My mom recomended this book for me, called "Oceans Apart" (By Karen Kingsbury) and I read it today (Well, started last night, finished today). It was really good, with great charecters (The little boys was so cute!) and a good moral to the story. Some points in the story the charecters were really stubborn (Really unforgiving and such) that it made me really annoyed at them, but you know, that's life. I'm glad the charecters all came to a happy, forgiving conclusion.
It's a little ironic (Or maybe it isn't) because I bore my testimony in church today on forgiveness. Okay, it's probably not ironic, since I was reading the book beofre church. I fasted food today and my family is getting sealed together next week. I just have a really good feeling today. Lot's of peace.
Okay, so it's the third paragraph (I wish my 'tab' button worked so I could indent) and I've already used five sets of parentheses. I'm getting really nervous for Soccer tryouts. My school doesn't have a really big JV girls soccer team (I'm not entirely sure what that means, to be honest) and I don't know if I'm good enough to make varsity. Acctually, I'd feel more confident about it if I had been excersizing the past few months, but I haven't been. The Coach gave me a pre-tryout workout schedule, and I was tired from just the warm-ups. That was yesterday, and I'm in pain today, so I obviously made a mistake by not excersizing for so long.
The cool thing is, soccer tryouts are on my birthday. Which may end up being not as cool as it seems. I'm going to be on edge all day. XD
Umm. So my favorite movie for the past......while has been Megamind ((c) Dreamworks Animation). I just love the idea of it, and it played out really well. It really made me want to work for dreamworks, even though I'm not so sure about that anymore, since I've been getting into more individual artwork. But it's an amazing movie. It always calms me down and makes me happy when I'm sad.
Good movies can do that. At one point I was in love with the Jimmy Neutron movie ((c) Nickelodeon Movies, I belive) and when I was sick and crying, my mom just put in that movie, and even though I only watched it halfway, I felt better. I watched Megemind when I came home from my first day back at school, and I watched it yesterday, just for fun. But what I was leading up to (In a very scattered way) is that I found the instumental soundtrack on Apple's iTunes. Hooray! I can't stop listening to 'Roxanne's Love Theme' (Okay, the title is a little different than that, but I don't remember the correct order of words at this time). It's such a beautiful song!
I watched two more pokemon movies yesterday. (Don't worry, I did productive things too!) Mainly I watched 'Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys' ((c) Nintendo?).
I have to say, I was really impressed. I think It's mainly because all the other Pokemon movies I've watched have taken place in the forest, or on an island, or in a mansion, or even just during a festival. This movie really impressed me by being set in a big big city. They handled it really well. The high-tech scenario set a whole different tone, and completely changed the way the movie played out. I mean, the whole robots going bezerk thing was awesome, and they couldn't have done that in a forest.
I like seeing how Pokemon act in human enviornments, like playgrounds, or cities. Also, the charecter Tory was just adorable. From his apperance to his personality, he was a super cute charecter.
I think my favortire line in the whole movie was at the begining. It went like this:
Sid (To Max): Hey.....your kinda cute.
Max: Heheh. I can also be kinda crazy.
Which, it souds really normal, but the way they presented it made me burst out laughing. (Especially after watching another movie where Max is like a super vulnerable little sweet boy) Anyway, it was a good movie.
I guess I should show you some pictures now.

Here is a hat I made a while ago. I also made a pokeball one, but I haven't taken pictures of it yet. I liked making hats. I'm not as, "I LOVE HAT MAKING' as I was over thanksgiving break, but I do like it. I really like hats in general.

I just love my cats. I'm so thankful that I can have them.
Have an awesome week. :)
Pokemon (c) Nintendo
It was a good day today.
My mom recomended this book for me, called "Oceans Apart" (By Karen Kingsbury) and I read it today (Well, started last night, finished today). It was really good, with great charecters (The little boys was so cute!) and a good moral to the story. Some points in the story the charecters were really stubborn (Really unforgiving and such) that it made me really annoyed at them, but you know, that's life. I'm glad the charecters all came to a happy, forgiving conclusion.
It's a little ironic (Or maybe it isn't) because I bore my testimony in church today on forgiveness. Okay, it's probably not ironic, since I was reading the book beofre church. I fasted food today and my family is getting sealed together next week. I just have a really good feeling today. Lot's of peace.
Okay, so it's the third paragraph (I wish my 'tab' button worked so I could indent) and I've already used five sets of parentheses. I'm getting really nervous for Soccer tryouts. My school doesn't have a really big JV girls soccer team (I'm not entirely sure what that means, to be honest) and I don't know if I'm good enough to make varsity. Acctually, I'd feel more confident about it if I had been excersizing the past few months, but I haven't been. The Coach gave me a pre-tryout workout schedule, and I was tired from just the warm-ups. That was yesterday, and I'm in pain today, so I obviously made a mistake by not excersizing for so long.
The cool thing is, soccer tryouts are on my birthday. Which may end up being not as cool as it seems. I'm going to be on edge all day. XD
Umm. So my favorite movie for the past......while has been Megamind ((c) Dreamworks Animation). I just love the idea of it, and it played out really well. It really made me want to work for dreamworks, even though I'm not so sure about that anymore, since I've been getting into more individual artwork. But it's an amazing movie. It always calms me down and makes me happy when I'm sad.
Good movies can do that. At one point I was in love with the Jimmy Neutron movie ((c) Nickelodeon Movies, I belive) and when I was sick and crying, my mom just put in that movie, and even though I only watched it halfway, I felt better. I watched Megemind when I came home from my first day back at school, and I watched it yesterday, just for fun. But what I was leading up to (In a very scattered way) is that I found the instumental soundtrack on Apple's iTunes. Hooray! I can't stop listening to 'Roxanne's Love Theme' (Okay, the title is a little different than that, but I don't remember the correct order of words at this time). It's such a beautiful song!
I watched two more pokemon movies yesterday. (Don't worry, I did productive things too!) Mainly I watched 'Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys' ((c) Nintendo?).
I have to say, I was really impressed. I think It's mainly because all the other Pokemon movies I've watched have taken place in the forest, or on an island, or in a mansion, or even just during a festival. This movie really impressed me by being set in a big big city. They handled it really well. The high-tech scenario set a whole different tone, and completely changed the way the movie played out. I mean, the whole robots going bezerk thing was awesome, and they couldn't have done that in a forest.
I like seeing how Pokemon act in human enviornments, like playgrounds, or cities. Also, the charecter Tory was just adorable. From his apperance to his personality, he was a super cute charecter.
I think my favortire line in the whole movie was at the begining. It went like this:
Sid (To Max): Hey.....your kinda cute.
Max: Heheh. I can also be kinda crazy.
Which, it souds really normal, but the way they presented it made me burst out laughing. (Especially after watching another movie where Max is like a super vulnerable little sweet boy) Anyway, it was a good movie.
I guess I should show you some pictures now.

Here is a hat I made a while ago. I also made a pokeball one, but I haven't taken pictures of it yet. I liked making hats. I'm not as, "I LOVE HAT MAKING' as I was over thanksgiving break, but I do like it. I really like hats in general.

I just love my cats. I'm so thankful that I can have them.
Have an awesome week. :)
Pokemon (c) Nintendo
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Happy New Years!
Well, more like happy new years eve.
I went to a dance last night, and it was pretty cool. Sadly we didn't get home until 1:30. It was pretty crazy because the fog machine set off the fire alarm. The songs were really weird in the way that most of them were remixes and we really didn't know how to dance to them. Thankfully, they did have a lot of slow dances. :)

Also, my new camera has a function where you can edit pictures while they're still on the camera. It's super cool. :D

Pajama Sam (c) Humongous Entertainment
I love these game. :) My friend added on the feet.
I went to a dance last night, and it was pretty cool. Sadly we didn't get home until 1:30. It was pretty crazy because the fog machine set off the fire alarm. The songs were really weird in the way that most of them were remixes and we really didn't know how to dance to them. Thankfully, they did have a lot of slow dances. :)

Also, my new camera has a function where you can edit pictures while they're still on the camera. It's super cool. :D

Pajama Sam (c) Humongous Entertainment
I love these game. :) My friend added on the feet.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Hi again.
So another thing I wanted to say was that I finished the Havest Moon comic I was working on. ((c) Natsume Inc.) It ended up being 32 pages long and I fully painted in watercolors and inked. I'm just doing touch-ups with colored pencils now, and I'm happy to have all of the hard stuff finished. I liked doing it though. It made me feel a sense of commitment, in a way. And I'm glad to finish something I started. I would love to do it again, minus all the coloring and inking.
I think I'm going to make it a plan to post a picture on every one of these posts. So here:

I like to call this 'Cardboard Jungle' because Charlotte had so much time playing in it.

And Here's an awful quality picture of a painting I did of Charlotte. I did painting of two kids at my school as well.
I think I'm going to make it a plan to post a picture on every one of these posts. So here:

I like to call this 'Cardboard Jungle' because Charlotte had so much time playing in it.

And Here's an awful quality picture of a painting I did of Charlotte. I did painting of two kids at my school as well.
Sleepy sleepy sleepy
I think I might be sick, minorly. I've been so tired. Like, if I lean foward to pick up my kitten, when I plop back down all my energy is gone. O_O
Tonight I'm going to go to a dance, and I'm afraid that I'll have no energy to dance. Hopefully that won't be the case and I'll have a comeback. Or my random energy losses can be during the songs I don't like. :)
Here are some photos:



I got a new camera for christmas, so I'll take some pictures with it and upload them soon. Happy December!
I can't wait to get back to school. Staying at home, I'm really sleepy and have nothing to do. I miss some of the kids at my school. you know how when you're buddies with someone, but not good enough friends to really hang out outside school? I like being able to see people at school.
Tonight I'm going to go to a dance, and I'm afraid that I'll have no energy to dance. Hopefully that won't be the case and I'll have a comeback. Or my random energy losses can be during the songs I don't like. :)
Here are some photos:



I got a new camera for christmas, so I'll take some pictures with it and upload them soon. Happy December!
I can't wait to get back to school. Staying at home, I'm really sleepy and have nothing to do. I miss some of the kids at my school. you know how when you're buddies with someone, but not good enough friends to really hang out outside school? I like being able to see people at school.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Winter Break. :)
So, usually on breaks I fall into a pit of boredom and despair.
So this time I made a checklist!
So far today I've colored at least....7 pages in my comic, finished a drawing to submit to a contest:

(Harvest Moon (c) Natsume Inc.)
I've also read a chapter of my school book and....eaten lunch. Amazing. Usually I forget or don't bother to eat anything but junk! :)
Acctually....now that I've written it, it sure sounds like I didn't nothing........
Well. I swear I did. And I'm going to get my comic finished by the end of break!
So this time I made a checklist!
So far today I've colored at least....7 pages in my comic, finished a drawing to submit to a contest:

(Harvest Moon (c) Natsume Inc.)
I've also read a chapter of my school book and....eaten lunch. Amazing. Usually I forget or don't bother to eat anything but junk! :)
Acctually....now that I've written it, it sure sounds like I didn't nothing........
Well. I swear I did. And I'm going to get my comic finished by the end of break!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Time Changes.
So I was just looking through some of my old posts, and I found one where I was complaining about waking up at 7:30.
Well, now I look back and I'm like, "Wow Brooke, you're lame".
I mean, 7:30 seems really late when you wake up at 5:45. Which now I do every day before school for seminary.
It's crazy how people can change.
Well, now I look back and I'm like, "Wow Brooke, you're lame".
I mean, 7:30 seems really late when you wake up at 5:45. Which now I do every day before school for seminary.
It's crazy how people can change.
Whoa, it's been a while!
I have to much to say, and very little motivation to say it.
So, I recently attended National Portfolio Day. (Which is held in Washington D.C., and a whole lot of college representatives are there to review your portfolio and give you college info.)
My school has a trip each year (Since we're an arts school) and I was one of the 3 freshmen who attened (More were invited, but didn't go). It was really cool. I met with 9 colleges (After being in line for one of the for 1 hour.) and I just had a really good time. We also went to the national gallery, and the art there is AMAZING. I saw the "Journey of Life" painting (We had looked at them in english class) and they were so stunning in person. They were just amazing.
I also made friends with one of the student teachers (We were dancing randomly in Ruby Tuesday and Union Station) and there was this crazy McDonald's we went to that had a child play area that all made noise. They had a carpet like a piano, where you'd step on the keys and they would play like a piano. It was super cool.
Apart from that, I've been doing paintings. I've been going around to people and asking for their picture to do an acryllic painting. I've done two so far, and one of my kitten. I've also been making fleece hats (I've had quite a few people ask to buy them) and working on a comic. It's a Harvest Moon fan comic, and for some reason, i decided i would watercolor it. It's sort of driving me crazy, beacause it's SO MUCH work watercoloring every page! We're working in watercolor in school now, so it's works out well that way.
Today in church, i got to hold this beautiful baby, and now I really want to babysit her. They had beautiful talks.
Um, I don't really know what else to write about. Have some random information:
--My mom just bought the cutest soup bowls ever. And now I fell adorable when I eat soup.
--We just had 'Wizard Week' at my school, but.....it didn't really go over well....
--Yesterday I went to a party.
--This music is beautiful: https://lds.org/youth/music?lang=eng
Okay, have a beautiful sunday and week!
Harvest Moon (c) Natsume Inc.
So, I recently attended National Portfolio Day. (Which is held in Washington D.C., and a whole lot of college representatives are there to review your portfolio and give you college info.)
My school has a trip each year (Since we're an arts school) and I was one of the 3 freshmen who attened (More were invited, but didn't go). It was really cool. I met with 9 colleges (After being in line for one of the for 1 hour.) and I just had a really good time. We also went to the national gallery, and the art there is AMAZING. I saw the "Journey of Life" painting (We had looked at them in english class) and they were so stunning in person. They were just amazing.
I also made friends with one of the student teachers (We were dancing randomly in Ruby Tuesday and Union Station) and there was this crazy McDonald's we went to that had a child play area that all made noise. They had a carpet like a piano, where you'd step on the keys and they would play like a piano. It was super cool.
Apart from that, I've been doing paintings. I've been going around to people and asking for their picture to do an acryllic painting. I've done two so far, and one of my kitten. I've also been making fleece hats (I've had quite a few people ask to buy them) and working on a comic. It's a Harvest Moon fan comic, and for some reason, i decided i would watercolor it. It's sort of driving me crazy, beacause it's SO MUCH work watercoloring every page! We're working in watercolor in school now, so it's works out well that way.
Today in church, i got to hold this beautiful baby, and now I really want to babysit her. They had beautiful talks.
Um, I don't really know what else to write about. Have some random information:
--My mom just bought the cutest soup bowls ever. And now I fell adorable when I eat soup.
--We just had 'Wizard Week' at my school, but.....it didn't really go over well....
--Yesterday I went to a party.
--This music is beautiful: https://lds.org/youth/music?lang=eng
Okay, have a beautiful sunday and week!
Harvest Moon (c) Natsume Inc.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving Break!
So I think I had a migrane yesterday. That's what my parents say, anyway.
I left school during 2nd period with a horrible headache. I coudln't concentrate. At one point I raised my hand to say something and had to stop in the middle because I was scared I was going delutional and wouldn't make any sense. (Which I've done before when I've been sick) On the car ride home, My hand went asleep, even though I was using it, and I had the worst, throbbing pain on the left side of my head that I've ever had.
I got sick, and ended up sleeping pretty much all day.
Today I woke up early, super happy and pretty healthy. I only randomly get head pains at sudden movements and such now. I made 2 more hats (One rabbit one for me, one plain one for my mom) and two scarves. I watched movies all day. I could nearly feel myself losing my muscles. O_O
Spoiler alerts*****
My mom brought home the movie "The Princess Bride" ((c) William Goldman), which I've been wanting to see for quite a bit. (Okay, maybe I've been wanting to see it because my crush dressed up as Prince Humperdinck for Halloween, and was disapointed when I had only watched the movie halfway through with less than perfect attention and interest) BUT ANYWAY. The movie was better than I remembered AND THE MOVIE CASE IS SO COOL BECAUSE IF YOU TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN IT STILL SAYS "THE PRINCESS BRIDE" AND I'M NOT GOING TO GET OVER THAT SOOON.
As I was saying, It was very nice, but I grew to like Wesley less and less as the movie went on. He started off heroic and funny and nice and handsome and romantic, and he just ended up....violent and sort of a jerk. I also thought Buttercup (Which I still can't imagine is her real name) and his reunion was a little odd. AND SOME JOKES AND THINGS THEY SAID JUST MADE ME LIKE, "WHOA. WHY WOULD THEY SAY THAT?!?!!?"
It was a very funny film though, and I'm glad they didn't acctually torture the prince.



Have a good Thanksgiving!
I left school during 2nd period with a horrible headache. I coudln't concentrate. At one point I raised my hand to say something and had to stop in the middle because I was scared I was going delutional and wouldn't make any sense. (Which I've done before when I've been sick) On the car ride home, My hand went asleep, even though I was using it, and I had the worst, throbbing pain on the left side of my head that I've ever had.
I got sick, and ended up sleeping pretty much all day.
Today I woke up early, super happy and pretty healthy. I only randomly get head pains at sudden movements and such now. I made 2 more hats (One rabbit one for me, one plain one for my mom) and two scarves. I watched movies all day. I could nearly feel myself losing my muscles. O_O
Spoiler alerts*****
My mom brought home the movie "The Princess Bride" ((c) William Goldman), which I've been wanting to see for quite a bit. (Okay, maybe I've been wanting to see it because my crush dressed up as Prince Humperdinck for Halloween, and was disapointed when I had only watched the movie halfway through with less than perfect attention and interest) BUT ANYWAY. The movie was better than I remembered AND THE MOVIE CASE IS SO COOL BECAUSE IF YOU TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN IT STILL SAYS "THE PRINCESS BRIDE" AND I'M NOT GOING TO GET OVER THAT SOOON.
As I was saying, It was very nice, but I grew to like Wesley less and less as the movie went on. He started off heroic and funny and nice and handsome and romantic, and he just ended up....violent and sort of a jerk. I also thought Buttercup (Which I still can't imagine is her real name) and his reunion was a little odd. AND SOME JOKES AND THINGS THEY SAID JUST MADE ME LIKE, "WHOA. WHY WOULD THEY SAY THAT?!?!!?"
It was a very funny film though, and I'm glad they didn't acctually torture the prince.



Have a good Thanksgiving!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Accidentally stupid.
So Brooke, what stupid thing did you do today?
Well, Brooke, I stuck my hair in hot melted wax, if that counts.
YES. My mom and I were waxing leaves (To preserve them for decoration) and when I reach over to set one to dry, my hair fell in our bowl of hot melted wax. And i stood up and it dripped all down my shirt and skirt. We ended up sticking my hair in boiling hot water, then toweling it off. It still feels a little waxy though.
On the brigther side, I had an awesome weekend.
My mum and I went shopping (Always a treat) and got piano music, make-up, and art supplies. We had a lot of fun, and I also had a piano recital.
Everyone played, from the older, more advanced kids, to a 3 year old, who is just beggining. I messed up a couple times, but I felt really good. :) I played 'Think of me' from 'Phantom of the Opera' ((c) Andrew Lloyd Webber) and 'Cristofori's Dream' by David Lans. The second is my favorite piece and I memorized it. It was great. :)
All the youth in our Church stake had a service project, throwing a party for members of the special olympics. It was really fun and I met some really cool people. There was one guy who absolutely loved to dance and gave everyone hugs. :)
I also made my first fleece(And felt) hat. It fits really well, is comfy, and I think it's pretty cute. It's a cat. I think it's pretty good for my first time-the ears are way to big, however, and one is really....weird, and the seem isn't centered on the front, BUT I LIKE IT ANYWAY.
So, farewell!
Well, Brooke, I stuck my hair in hot melted wax, if that counts.
YES. My mom and I were waxing leaves (To preserve them for decoration) and when I reach over to set one to dry, my hair fell in our bowl of hot melted wax. And i stood up and it dripped all down my shirt and skirt. We ended up sticking my hair in boiling hot water, then toweling it off. It still feels a little waxy though.
On the brigther side, I had an awesome weekend.
My mum and I went shopping (Always a treat) and got piano music, make-up, and art supplies. We had a lot of fun, and I also had a piano recital.
Everyone played, from the older, more advanced kids, to a 3 year old, who is just beggining. I messed up a couple times, but I felt really good. :) I played 'Think of me' from 'Phantom of the Opera' ((c) Andrew Lloyd Webber) and 'Cristofori's Dream' by David Lans. The second is my favorite piece and I memorized it. It was great. :)
All the youth in our Church stake had a service project, throwing a party for members of the special olympics. It was really fun and I met some really cool people. There was one guy who absolutely loved to dance and gave everyone hugs. :)
I also made my first fleece(And felt) hat. It fits really well, is comfy, and I think it's pretty cute. It's a cat. I think it's pretty good for my first time-the ears are way to big, however, and one is really....weird, and the seem isn't centered on the front, BUT I LIKE IT ANYWAY.
So, farewell!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Hey you guys!
So, Hi.
Lets jump to the subject today. (There acctually is a main subject, surprisingly.)
I entered this contest for an Autumn themed Harvest moon picture, and this is what I came up with:
My scanner bleached everything out, and my camera took it pretty dark (I didn't want to edit it) so here are two pictures.


So, even though neither of those are great quality, what do you think? I think it looks better in person. XD
Harvest Moon (c) Natsume Inc.
Lets jump to the subject today. (There acctually is a main subject, surprisingly.)
I entered this contest for an Autumn themed Harvest moon picture, and this is what I came up with:
My scanner bleached everything out, and my camera took it pretty dark (I didn't want to edit it) so here are two pictures.


So, even though neither of those are great quality, what do you think? I think it looks better in person. XD
Harvest Moon (c) Natsume Inc.
Friday, November 11, 2011
100!
Okay, so right now it is 11/11/11 at 11:11 P.M.
By the way, did you know that P.M. stands for Post Meridian?
Also, this is my 100th post. I'd say it's an awesome coincedince, but I sort of planned it...
Darn it. I was so involved timing this that Ii forgot to make a wish. FAIL.
So today I visited a friend who moved to Pennsylvania. She came back for the weekend and threw a party and it was lovely! We were all running down the road (In the forest) to the park, and I'm not sure what happened, but me and this other girl both ended up falling. I might have accidently tripped her, or she might have tripped and I fell over her (I distinctly remember jumping) but anyway, we crashed into the road. She skined her ankle and I skinned my shoulders and sort of my chin. It was a little ironic, because 3 seconds prior, our friend asked, "Why are we running?"
Well, anyway it was lovely. And we had off of school today for veteran's day. So that's nice as well. I got sheet music for "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey, which is one of my favorite christmas songs ever.
Also I've fallen in love with writing comics. Right now I'm making a fan comic for Harvest Moon ((c) Natusme Inc.) and it's interesting. The plot is over done (It's one of the 'girl dates guy1 to get attention from guy2 then falls for guy1" plots) Which, I hate that plot. But some how my story, being writen as I go fell that way.....eh. But it looks okay. I'm watercoloring it. I now have a HUGE watercolor section in my sketchbook, defined by the huge volume of the wrinkley pages. In a fabulous coincedince, my assignment for Beg. 2D this week is to write a comic.
I wish I had something amazing to announce, you know, since this is the 100th post.....but I don't. Ummm....I've been drinking chocolate milk all day. My dad sprayed my kitten with cologne. I'm happy. So..... Yup.
Have a lovely day!
Oh, and if you can, please please comment!
By the way, did you know that P.M. stands for Post Meridian?
Also, this is my 100th post. I'd say it's an awesome coincedince, but I sort of planned it...
Darn it. I was so involved timing this that Ii forgot to make a wish. FAIL.
So today I visited a friend who moved to Pennsylvania. She came back for the weekend and threw a party and it was lovely! We were all running down the road (In the forest) to the park, and I'm not sure what happened, but me and this other girl both ended up falling. I might have accidently tripped her, or she might have tripped and I fell over her (I distinctly remember jumping) but anyway, we crashed into the road. She skined her ankle and I skinned my shoulders and sort of my chin. It was a little ironic, because 3 seconds prior, our friend asked, "Why are we running?"
Well, anyway it was lovely. And we had off of school today for veteran's day. So that's nice as well. I got sheet music for "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey, which is one of my favorite christmas songs ever.
Also I've fallen in love with writing comics. Right now I'm making a fan comic for Harvest Moon ((c) Natusme Inc.) and it's interesting. The plot is over done (It's one of the 'girl dates guy1 to get attention from guy2 then falls for guy1" plots) Which, I hate that plot. But some how my story, being writen as I go fell that way.....eh. But it looks okay. I'm watercoloring it. I now have a HUGE watercolor section in my sketchbook, defined by the huge volume of the wrinkley pages. In a fabulous coincedince, my assignment for Beg. 2D this week is to write a comic.
I wish I had something amazing to announce, you know, since this is the 100th post.....but I don't. Ummm....I've been drinking chocolate milk all day. My dad sprayed my kitten with cologne. I'm happy. So..... Yup.
Have a lovely day!
Oh, and if you can, please please comment!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Recap.
Hi. It's been a while since I've written, and I'm not sure what to start with.
"Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain is a really good book. I'm nearly done with it and it's really amazing.
I did end up telling that boy that I like him. I wrote him a note. I'm sure he read it (I wasn't there if/when he did) and he didn't say anything. Acctually, he probably already knew. Oh well.
I went to figure drawing again this week and it was AMAZING. Well sort of. I didn't have the best patience that day, and our model DID. Our model (One kid's mother, who was awesome by posing and bringing cookies) posed for an hour and a half strait. It was crazy! I didn't care for my picture very much, and I really wanted her to move so I could stop working on mine. But I ended up finishing and having it look pretty great. Even the portfolio kids thought it was good. The teacher said that it was good enough to take on the portfolio trip.
Right. You most likely don't know about the portfolio trip. So every year our school has a trip up to Washington D.C. with the art students (Mainly seniors and Juniors) to get our portfolios reviewed by college boards and go to the musame and such. One of my friends and I are going, (Even though we are freshmen and was behind everyone else) and I'm really looking foward to it. I need to make more art. O_O
Also, I finished writing a fanfiction about Harvest Moon ((c) Natsume Inc.) if you'd like to read it here:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7535601/1/Teach_Me_How_to_Dance
Sadly there are errors in spelling and such.
I went to our schools guitar concert and it was lovely. My crush's class played "Every Breath you Take" by the Police, which is one of my favorite songs. So I was going crazy in my head. SO AWESOME. And everyone was really good too.
Also, have some photos! I've been going crazy with photography lately, and here are some of my favorites:



As always, If you'd like to see more: http://brookiethecookieface.deviantart.com/gallery/
"Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain is a really good book. I'm nearly done with it and it's really amazing.
I did end up telling that boy that I like him. I wrote him a note. I'm sure he read it (I wasn't there if/when he did) and he didn't say anything. Acctually, he probably already knew. Oh well.
I went to figure drawing again this week and it was AMAZING. Well sort of. I didn't have the best patience that day, and our model DID. Our model (One kid's mother, who was awesome by posing and bringing cookies) posed for an hour and a half strait. It was crazy! I didn't care for my picture very much, and I really wanted her to move so I could stop working on mine. But I ended up finishing and having it look pretty great. Even the portfolio kids thought it was good. The teacher said that it was good enough to take on the portfolio trip.
Right. You most likely don't know about the portfolio trip. So every year our school has a trip up to Washington D.C. with the art students (Mainly seniors and Juniors) to get our portfolios reviewed by college boards and go to the musame and such. One of my friends and I are going, (Even though we are freshmen and was behind everyone else) and I'm really looking foward to it. I need to make more art. O_O
Also, I finished writing a fanfiction about Harvest Moon ((c) Natsume Inc.) if you'd like to read it here:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7535601/1/Teach_Me_How_to_Dance
Sadly there are errors in spelling and such.
I went to our schools guitar concert and it was lovely. My crush's class played "Every Breath you Take" by the Police, which is one of my favorite songs. So I was going crazy in my head. SO AWESOME. And everyone was really good too.
Also, have some photos! I've been going crazy with photography lately, and here are some of my favorites:



As always, If you'd like to see more: http://brookiethecookieface.deviantart.com/gallery/
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Happy November
I think today's date is pretty neat. 11-1-11. It's also two of my friends' birthdays, one of which was born at 1:11. Now that's neat.
I got to stay after school of figure drawing class, in which we did super quick watercolor refence pictures. Mine didn't turn out very well, but it was really relaxing. I love watercolors!
One super awkward part of the day:
so today I decided I would tell the guy i like that i like him.
And i failed. Badly. I couldn't say anything.
I went up to him, and said him name, and he was like, "Yes? You said my name."
And I awkwardly changed the subject. XD Before I said anything.
EUGH.
Hope you have a less awkward and awesome day!
I got to stay after school of figure drawing class, in which we did super quick watercolor refence pictures. Mine didn't turn out very well, but it was really relaxing. I love watercolors!
One super awkward part of the day:
so today I decided I would tell the guy i like that i like him.
And i failed. Badly. I couldn't say anything.
I went up to him, and said him name, and he was like, "Yes? You said my name."
And I awkwardly changed the subject. XD Before I said anything.
EUGH.
Hope you have a less awkward and awesome day!
Monday, October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween everyone!
(I'm really tired, so this post is most likely going to be blah.)
So, even though I'm in high school and it's halloween, I didn't go trick or treating. My street isn't really a trick or treat street. Even if I did go, I don't think anyone would have candy to give away. XD
I did face make-up to look like I was bleeding from my mouth. My english teacher thought it was real and came up to me all scared that I was hurt. :)
So I'm just staying home painting and watching "The nightmare before Christmas" ((c) Tim Burton)
We had a tea party in class today. (Since we made teapots--class was a little weird since I don't drink tea) We're also working in scratchboard in my 2D class, which can be a little nerve-wracking. During photography, we went out shooting, which i like. My photo partner is really cool and gave me whole lot of great ideas. I got to watch 8th graders play 4-square (With like, 8 people at once) while she shot.
Um. Yeah. Good night.
(I'm really tired, so this post is most likely going to be blah.)
So, even though I'm in high school and it's halloween, I didn't go trick or treating. My street isn't really a trick or treat street. Even if I did go, I don't think anyone would have candy to give away. XD
I did face make-up to look like I was bleeding from my mouth. My english teacher thought it was real and came up to me all scared that I was hurt. :)
So I'm just staying home painting and watching "The nightmare before Christmas" ((c) Tim Burton)
We had a tea party in class today. (Since we made teapots--class was a little weird since I don't drink tea) We're also working in scratchboard in my 2D class, which can be a little nerve-wracking. During photography, we went out shooting, which i like. My photo partner is really cool and gave me whole lot of great ideas. I got to watch 8th graders play 4-square (With like, 8 people at once) while she shot.
Um. Yeah. Good night.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Evil Genius Review
(I've changed the design of this blog again. Now the rain thing acctually makes sense.)
So I just finished reading the 'Evil Genius' series by Cathrine Jinks.
It's really good. I was hooked on the first book. It was amazing.
SPOILER ALERT
So it's about this boy named Cadel who is a genius computer hacker guy enrolled in an evil college, being trained to do bad things. The first book is really good, and the whole series is full of the craziest plot twists. And even though the plot twists are extreme, the way they are presented is great. It completely works. There is so much....I don't want to say drama, but.....I guess so much mysery? So much mystery, and it's a really gripping series.
The second book changes the atmosphere (Not of plot twists and mystery) when he changes sides. In the first book, he's sort of bad. He plays for the bad guys and is really stuck up. He is trained to think that he is superior to everyone because of his mental ability. He sort of falls for this girl that he meets online (under a fake name) and really befriends her. She turns out to be disabled, with cerebral palsy (That discovery made me so sad, because he had tricked her) and she shows him the good way to think. By the end of the book, he turns around, and realises that his so called 'friends' are really awful, and....yeah. They're all murderers and such, and he realises that he's not comfortable with that.
So in the second book, he joins a group of kids working to take the one villian (Prosper English) down. Two new charecters are introduced, and they end up adopting him at the end of the book.
In the third book, there is a lot of craziness. He finally has a happy life with his new parents and friends, but Propser English keeps appearing to hurt him and his loved ones. He wants to protect them and sort of goes back to his old ways. In order to get away, he uses forged passports, steals a plane tickets, and does a lot of pretty risky stuff. He ends up working for the police most of the book, and.....the ending is odd.
Every book ends sort of the same way. There is a HUGE dramatic climax near the end, involving Prosper English (With a gun, popping out of no where, surprising everyone) and police. In the third book, everyone seems a little crazy. The bad guy is getting a little insane, Cadel going a little crazy, stakes are high, etc, etc.
It's really hard to sumerize this series. The atmosphere changes. Like, how in Harry potter, the first books have this really innocent "we are little kids" sort of air, and by the 7th book, it's suddently REALLY dramatic. It's like that in this series too, but in a different way.
I could also compare it to 'The Hunger Games'. Each book is different, a whole different major problem, with sort of the same basic problem intertwined (Well, I guess that goes for all series) and while the first book is mainly it's own personal issue, the last book gets into the HUGE MAJOR continuous thing, with the bad guy and everything. Some people have said that the ending of the hunger games is bad. I feel like it was a little cut off, and that it definatly could have been expanded. The third book, Genius wars, is just like that. The ending just cuts off.
It sounds like the ending is the middle of the chapter. It's not even the end of a chapter. It feels like the author just randomly stopped writing. Sure, the bad guy is gone, and the hero returns home, but he is still facing mental stress. He has been arguing one point (That Prosper English isn't all that bad) for the duration of the 2nd and 3rd books. He never reaches a conclusion for that thought. It could be wrapped up to say that he starts to believe that Prosper is a bad guy, or it could say that he still believes he is, and one of his friends agrees with his.
But the ending is that he has his idea of Prosper, and no one agrees with him. They all sympasize (How do you spell that) with him and pity him, but they DON'T BELIEVE HIM! The book ends with him crying over his internal turmoil. It feels really cut off.
Another thing is the charecter of Sonja. Sonja is his friend from the first book with Carebral Palsy. He cares SO DEEPLY for her. They're best friends, and he never wraps things up with her. He doesn't even talk to her in the ending, even though she is RIGHT THERE. He should at least apologize, or kiss her (He says he wants too (As a friend, I believe) but that there are 'too many people around'), or even talk to her, ask her how she is feeling, tell her how he cares for her. But no, he just ignores her!
Sonja has had a crush on him forever. He thinks of her as a friend, and doesn't really seems to care that she feels that way about him. That is especially annoying, seeing as the series ends without any wrap up of that. I feel like the should have a mutual feeling towards eachother, wheather it be friendship or love (Even though he is only 15, and should wait a year before dating).
Cadel (That's the main charecter's name, FYI) does not seem to have any charecter growth. Sure, he learns right from wrong, but by the end of the 3rd book, he still blames himself and sticks to his own way of thinking.
On a better note, i love the charecter of Cadel. He graduates from highschool at the age of 13, and is adorable. He is described as looking really really young, almost feminine, or like a child. He has curly chestnut hair, and big blue eyes. I personally think that he sounds gorgeous. And i can see his point of view for the most part too. I love his charecter design, but I still think more things could have been wrapped up in the ending.
Another point of interest is Gazo. This charecter is sort of...used by Cadel in the first book, (He's not the smartest, but he has a great personality) and for most of the third book too, as Cadel suffers a relapse of his old, controling personality. Even though he manipulates Gazo, he NEVER APOLOGIZES. He seems to drown in apologies for others, like his adoptive father, but he never once considers Gazo. In fact, He and Gazo don't even really talk at the end at all!
I also feel as though the ending had a lot of loose ends. I may just not be getting it all (There is a LOT of informations shoved in these books), but some things i feel were not wrapped up very well. The ending of the last book is also fairly frayed. Did Prosper save Cadel? Is Cadel just deluded? I think if that one question had beed answered, that the ending would have been a lot more resolute.
For example, if we KNEW for certain that Cadel was saved by Prosper, then we could agree that Cadel is in the right. If there is still that uncertainty, then we never can tell if he is just misguided.
I personally think that Cadel was rescued by Prosper, and that Cadel is right. But as I've said before (Sorry for the repitition), no one agrees with him! You can't come up with a resolution, unless there is some agreement among the charecters!
Okay. So I feel like I'm stressing the parts of the book that I don't like.
Please don't take this the wrong way. The series is AMAZING (I mean, the charecters could have cleaner language) and it's extremely deep. I don't want my opinion of the end to stop anyone else from reading the series. The first book, for example is FANTASTIC.
And if there ever turns out to be a 4th book that wraps up the confusion at the end, then I'm sure that everything will be great. The series is amazing.
Okay. This is a sort of awkward way to end this post, but bye.
(Gosh, I feel so bad. I don't want this to be a bad review, I really don't!)
'Evil Genius', 'Genius Squad', and 'The Genius Wars' (c) Catherine Jinks
'Harry Potter' (c) J. K. Rowling
'The Hunger Games' (c) Suzanne Collins
So I just finished reading the 'Evil Genius' series by Cathrine Jinks.
It's really good. I was hooked on the first book. It was amazing.
SPOILER ALERT
So it's about this boy named Cadel who is a genius computer hacker guy enrolled in an evil college, being trained to do bad things. The first book is really good, and the whole series is full of the craziest plot twists. And even though the plot twists are extreme, the way they are presented is great. It completely works. There is so much....I don't want to say drama, but.....I guess so much mysery? So much mystery, and it's a really gripping series.
The second book changes the atmosphere (Not of plot twists and mystery) when he changes sides. In the first book, he's sort of bad. He plays for the bad guys and is really stuck up. He is trained to think that he is superior to everyone because of his mental ability. He sort of falls for this girl that he meets online (under a fake name) and really befriends her. She turns out to be disabled, with cerebral palsy (That discovery made me so sad, because he had tricked her) and she shows him the good way to think. By the end of the book, he turns around, and realises that his so called 'friends' are really awful, and....yeah. They're all murderers and such, and he realises that he's not comfortable with that.
So in the second book, he joins a group of kids working to take the one villian (Prosper English) down. Two new charecters are introduced, and they end up adopting him at the end of the book.
In the third book, there is a lot of craziness. He finally has a happy life with his new parents and friends, but Propser English keeps appearing to hurt him and his loved ones. He wants to protect them and sort of goes back to his old ways. In order to get away, he uses forged passports, steals a plane tickets, and does a lot of pretty risky stuff. He ends up working for the police most of the book, and.....the ending is odd.
Every book ends sort of the same way. There is a HUGE dramatic climax near the end, involving Prosper English (With a gun, popping out of no where, surprising everyone) and police. In the third book, everyone seems a little crazy. The bad guy is getting a little insane, Cadel going a little crazy, stakes are high, etc, etc.
It's really hard to sumerize this series. The atmosphere changes. Like, how in Harry potter, the first books have this really innocent "we are little kids" sort of air, and by the 7th book, it's suddently REALLY dramatic. It's like that in this series too, but in a different way.
I could also compare it to 'The Hunger Games'. Each book is different, a whole different major problem, with sort of the same basic problem intertwined (Well, I guess that goes for all series) and while the first book is mainly it's own personal issue, the last book gets into the HUGE MAJOR continuous thing, with the bad guy and everything. Some people have said that the ending of the hunger games is bad. I feel like it was a little cut off, and that it definatly could have been expanded. The third book, Genius wars, is just like that. The ending just cuts off.
It sounds like the ending is the middle of the chapter. It's not even the end of a chapter. It feels like the author just randomly stopped writing. Sure, the bad guy is gone, and the hero returns home, but he is still facing mental stress. He has been arguing one point (That Prosper English isn't all that bad) for the duration of the 2nd and 3rd books. He never reaches a conclusion for that thought. It could be wrapped up to say that he starts to believe that Prosper is a bad guy, or it could say that he still believes he is, and one of his friends agrees with his.
But the ending is that he has his idea of Prosper, and no one agrees with him. They all sympasize (How do you spell that) with him and pity him, but they DON'T BELIEVE HIM! The book ends with him crying over his internal turmoil. It feels really cut off.
Another thing is the charecter of Sonja. Sonja is his friend from the first book with Carebral Palsy. He cares SO DEEPLY for her. They're best friends, and he never wraps things up with her. He doesn't even talk to her in the ending, even though she is RIGHT THERE. He should at least apologize, or kiss her (He says he wants too (As a friend, I believe) but that there are 'too many people around'), or even talk to her, ask her how she is feeling, tell her how he cares for her. But no, he just ignores her!
Sonja has had a crush on him forever. He thinks of her as a friend, and doesn't really seems to care that she feels that way about him. That is especially annoying, seeing as the series ends without any wrap up of that. I feel like the should have a mutual feeling towards eachother, wheather it be friendship or love (Even though he is only 15, and should wait a year before dating).
Cadel (That's the main charecter's name, FYI) does not seem to have any charecter growth. Sure, he learns right from wrong, but by the end of the 3rd book, he still blames himself and sticks to his own way of thinking.
On a better note, i love the charecter of Cadel. He graduates from highschool at the age of 13, and is adorable. He is described as looking really really young, almost feminine, or like a child. He has curly chestnut hair, and big blue eyes. I personally think that he sounds gorgeous. And i can see his point of view for the most part too. I love his charecter design, but I still think more things could have been wrapped up in the ending.
Another point of interest is Gazo. This charecter is sort of...used by Cadel in the first book, (He's not the smartest, but he has a great personality) and for most of the third book too, as Cadel suffers a relapse of his old, controling personality. Even though he manipulates Gazo, he NEVER APOLOGIZES. He seems to drown in apologies for others, like his adoptive father, but he never once considers Gazo. In fact, He and Gazo don't even really talk at the end at all!
I also feel as though the ending had a lot of loose ends. I may just not be getting it all (There is a LOT of informations shoved in these books), but some things i feel were not wrapped up very well. The ending of the last book is also fairly frayed. Did Prosper save Cadel? Is Cadel just deluded? I think if that one question had beed answered, that the ending would have been a lot more resolute.
For example, if we KNEW for certain that Cadel was saved by Prosper, then we could agree that Cadel is in the right. If there is still that uncertainty, then we never can tell if he is just misguided.
I personally think that Cadel was rescued by Prosper, and that Cadel is right. But as I've said before (Sorry for the repitition), no one agrees with him! You can't come up with a resolution, unless there is some agreement among the charecters!
Okay. So I feel like I'm stressing the parts of the book that I don't like.
Please don't take this the wrong way. The series is AMAZING (I mean, the charecters could have cleaner language) and it's extremely deep. I don't want my opinion of the end to stop anyone else from reading the series. The first book, for example is FANTASTIC.
And if there ever turns out to be a 4th book that wraps up the confusion at the end, then I'm sure that everything will be great. The series is amazing.
Okay. This is a sort of awkward way to end this post, but bye.
(Gosh, I feel so bad. I don't want this to be a bad review, I really don't!)
'Evil Genius', 'Genius Squad', and 'The Genius Wars' (c) Catherine Jinks
'Harry Potter' (c) J. K. Rowling
'The Hunger Games' (c) Suzanne Collins
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Blue Gatorade
I just wrote a whole long beautiful post and somehow it got deleted.
AFDLAKSJDFALSKJFLSDJFALSKJFDALSDKAJF.
That's a little sad.
I wont retype it perfectly, but the jist was that
We lost the soccer game (No suprise there), but i did OKAY in the second half.
I got to go to the library and read by the lake.
Halloween dance tonight. I made a Toothless Costume (How to Train your Dragon) which included wings made out of clothes hanger, bendy wire, and fabric. And a lot of glue. lots and lots of glue.
Last night i went to a soccer clinic that turned out to be for elementary school kids and awkwardly had to borrow a phone from a stranger to call home.
The wire/tin fish me made in Beg. 3D got hung up in the cafeteria.
Well. That's it.
Have a fabulous weekend.
How to Train your Dragon (c) Dreamworks/Cressida Cowell
AFDLAKSJDFALSKJFLSDJFALSKJFDALSDKAJF.
That's a little sad.
I wont retype it perfectly, but the jist was that
We lost the soccer game (No suprise there), but i did OKAY in the second half.
I got to go to the library and read by the lake.
Halloween dance tonight. I made a Toothless Costume (How to Train your Dragon) which included wings made out of clothes hanger, bendy wire, and fabric. And a lot of glue. lots and lots of glue.
Last night i went to a soccer clinic that turned out to be for elementary school kids and awkwardly had to borrow a phone from a stranger to call home.
The wire/tin fish me made in Beg. 3D got hung up in the cafeteria.
Well. That's it.
Have a fabulous weekend.
How to Train your Dragon (c) Dreamworks/Cressida Cowell
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Vacation and Babies
Ollo!
Okay, so first things first, I went to Florida.
To Orlando.
To Universal Studios.
To The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
It was pretty neat. It was way smaller than I imagined (They could have made a whole theme park if they wanted to) but it was great. It was really well detailed. The food that I ate at the Three Broomsticks however, was AWFUL. and the butterbeer I thought was nasty, but I guess it was like a root beer float? Hmm, I don't know.
Also, my family has decided that we are getting another kitten. My aunt got some kittens from a stray cat, and is giving one to my family and one to my aunt. They are twins. I want to name them either Peanut butter and Jelly or Bonnie and Clyde.
They sort of have siamese patterns. THEY'RE ADORABLE.
I would love to write more on the subject (And other awesome things, Like my huge pile of homework and 3D project) but I'll give it a rest. G'night.
Harry Potter (c) J., K. Rowling
The Wizarding world of harry potter (c) Universal Studios
Okay, so first things first, I went to Florida.
To Orlando.
To Universal Studios.
To The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
It was pretty neat. It was way smaller than I imagined (They could have made a whole theme park if they wanted to) but it was great. It was really well detailed. The food that I ate at the Three Broomsticks however, was AWFUL. and the butterbeer I thought was nasty, but I guess it was like a root beer float? Hmm, I don't know.
Also, my family has decided that we are getting another kitten. My aunt got some kittens from a stray cat, and is giving one to my family and one to my aunt. They are twins. I want to name them either Peanut butter and Jelly or Bonnie and Clyde.
They sort of have siamese patterns. THEY'RE ADORABLE.
I would love to write more on the subject (And other awesome things, Like my huge pile of homework and 3D project) but I'll give it a rest. G'night.
Harry Potter (c) J., K. Rowling
The Wizarding world of harry potter (c) Universal Studios
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