THE 45 DAY challenge!!!

45 Day Challenge

day 01| belief specific of your childhood
day 02| how you feel about God and religion
day 03| five concerts you wish you attended
day 04| four moments that changed your life
day 05| something that makes you smile
day 06| someone that makes you really happy
day 07| something that turns you on
day 08| favorite fruit
day 09| something you’re looking forward to
day 10| something you want to improve in your life
day 11| a non-academic book you plan to read in the next month
day 12| favorite article of clothing
day 13| a song to describe the weather or your current mood
day 14| favorite book you’ve read academically
day 15| a movie that makes you cry
day 16| something you’ve been putting off— and do it
day 17| a question you hate to be asked
day 18| describe a daily ritual
day 19| ten things you love about your body
day 20| pick something indulgent and treat yourself
day 21| describe your sleeping arrangements: bedding, stuffed animals, whatever
day 22| catharsis time— let something or someone go
day 23| something irrational that you think or do
day 24| pick an album and do nothing but listen to it- no multitasking allowed.
day 25| tell someone something you wouldn’t ordinarily share
day 26| put something in every single formspring/ask on your dashboard
day 27| bake something and share it
day 28| call a grandparent or relative that isn’t expecting your voice
day 29| write a haiku or make a friendship bracelet or start a creative endeavor
day 30| reward yourself with something frivolous.
day 31| jump on a tumblr bandwagon just for today
day 32| photo of yourself at least ten years ago
day 33| list three things you want out of life that you are currently working towards
day 34| most current photo not taken on webcam (play around and dress up if you want!)
day 35| photo of your favorite body part
day 36| photo of one of your scars
day 37| take a flattering photo focusing on something you don’t feel is flattering.
day 38| list five things you’ve lost and wonder where they might be
day 39| most stimulating thing you’ve learned this week
day 40| a question about the world that you can’t figure out
day 41| favorite word
day 43| if you could tell your seven year old self anything, what would it be?
day 44| kill, bang, marry, chill of your choice
day 45| have you any superstitions?

Fourty Five days? Hmm, maybe I can do it. It might get like, a little personal, but I suppose I could just hide those...

Scrapbooking. Yes.

Two words. Hobby hunting. Do you ever do any of that? I found blogging unintentionally; reading was forced on me; and writing started out as an English project, but I've found them all very enjoyable...But do you ever just sit down and think, "I want a new hobby, something better or interesting to do that will take up my time in a healthy and productive way," because I do. I need something better to do than Facebook-ing and watching YouTube videos all day. I mean, literally, all I do is lie on my bed and stare at the screen the entire time.

(Also, as I type, I'm typing in a British accent. Please keep that in mind while you read this. Thank you!)

A while back, I had a proper obsession for Charlie McDonnell. Why? Well, as his YouTube name suggests, he's cool; I mean actually cool and not just cool-like. He's a YouTube vlogger, comedian, director, and musician. ♥ Hehe. ☺He does a lot of vlog projects and stuff, which, got me interested in the world of vlogging or blogging in general and as I said, that interest is most likely the reason why I took up blogging. That, and my friend Nico who spoke the inspiring words, "I don't really write about a universal thing, I just do whatever interests me." (Smile and wave to my currently non-existent readers, Nico!)

That actually isn't my point today. Or er, tonight. (It's past 2:30 AM right now, and it means that I have missed out on 11:11 again, but that's okay! I believe in miracles and I do not rely on the power of magic or wishes.) A while back, I subscribed to the CrayolaTV channel on YouTube. What can I say? I like being inspired, and seeing a bunch of art projects and pretty colors inspires me. Then I started getting suggestions for videos such as "How to color with Prismacolor colored pencils!" (Prismacolor products are actually brilliant...I envy two friends who have the markers. They don't bleed or fade and nor do the tips get dirty!) Basically, through watching these videos, I learned that you spread the colors around with this liquid called Gamsol, and I just found this fascinating. I watched a video by Jennifer McGuire (and she is by far my favorite  scrapbooker, just because I like the way she presents her things) and then I checked the rest of her channel and found that she was a professional scrapbooker.

I've never considered the fact that people actually get to color in images and create things with paper for a living! I mean, kids sitting at a craft table seems perfectly normal, but when you think of grown people coloring things and cutting things and pasting scraps of paper onto stuff, it's just something new and mind-blowing...well, at least for me, it is. I love how they get into so many techniques and products and there's always something new and different to try out. Anyway, scrapbooking is something that I'm actually considering getting into. I might adopt that as a new hobby. I cannot stress enough just how interesting I find it and I need a creative outlet right now besides writing. No one reads my poetry and stuff without me having to ask them to anyway (I am in dire need of comments; comments make me want to live! Mwahahaha!) *sigh* Unfortunately, I have no money to buy some of the amazing things I've seen. No really, I don't even know where to get card-stock...Some of the things I crave for production would be some really fancy stuff to create all these effects, but I don't have the resources for that...

I feel like all I've done so far in this post is just rant about how I don't have anything. It makes me sad that I can't pursue something I will actually enjoy. But thinking about it more reasonably, I don't exactly have the time or space to do any of this. I've got no storage, I'm on my way to school again within the next month, and that means I have to start my off-term assignments and finish my summer reading and all that stuff. I'm thinking that I'd just start with basic essentials. Maybe I'd just start with simple dye inks, some stamps, scissors, applicator tools and some different types of paper. But this hobby actually is very expensive, and I'm pretty sure the pros get free stuff for promoting the products, and I don't actually want to spend my entire life doing this. Maybe I should make it a long-term goal and something just to do whenever an event comes up like a friend's birthday, and that way I can have a reason for not giving them a present, because then I actually put time and effort into my own, personalized birthday card. (By the way, I think that the way I started this paragraph and the way it's ending is very ironic...)

My point is, it's something new, I'd love to try, because in my opinion, hobbies are just really fun stuff to learn about a person. You get to hear about the things people have done and made and be inspired by them, or get a small taste of new experiences and possibly learn things you've never learned before. It's exciting and I feel it just gives person dimension. I mean, more often than not, my friends tell me about a song they've just written, and I'm like, "I wish I knew how to do something interesting like that!" My friends all think travelling is interesting, and it is, but to make something new and tangible out of bits and pieces of things I think is what I most want to get into, because that's art, and it's like taking part in something that is all around us, you know? And to be able to just make something creative can possibly leave someone standing or sitting in awe with their gob hanging open. To just make someone think about something profound by presenting a masterpiece rather than just planting ideas in their head by speaking to them, is what I'm really interested in.

Just a little Hello! :)

This is actually my first blog and such, and I must say, I'm actually quite interested now in the world of blogging. I mean, before, it was sort of a just "eh" idea. I actually thought blogging would be like, keeping a journal or whatever, and it appears that I was quite...dead wrong about that. Hmm. I've been watching a lot of vlogs on YouTube lately. (Any fans of Charlieissocoollike out there? How bout communitychannel? Yes? No? Alright then.) Then there was this one movie called Julie and Julia which was quite interesting, and it revolved around a quest to blog a bunch of recipes (and recipe disasters...).

Huh. Just to introduce myself.

Hi. I'm Vera (Just like how Alex Day is called nerimon, people on the interwebz call me myu or myusikah, but for the numbers out there who dunno how to pronounce "myusikah" just call me "myu." It's a whole lot easier, I guarantee you). I'm starting out in this crazy blogging world like...now. Right now, and you, reader, if there will be anyone here reading this, well, you get to celebrate with me. Word.

Things you must know:
1. I sleep very late. Or quite early. When the sun is starting to come out, and people are up and about already. It's 5 AM right now. I was just about to go to sleep, then hey, I had this idea of blogging.
2. I actually don't know. We'll just see how it comes along in the end.


I don't know how I want to go through with this or how often I want to post but what I wanted to talk about right now was sleep. How early or how late do you sleep? I mean, for me, and I'm actually being quite serious here, it's like I'm on jetlag, even though I haven't been anywhere outside of my time-zone, and I guess I've just adapted to that sort of thing, sleeping in the morning and waking up in the afternoon, like at 2 or 3, which on a shortened day during the school year, I'd be home already.


Also, dreams. I've watched Inception, it's a great movie, I highly recommend. What do you normally dream about? Do you remember them, forget them...(Referring to Inception) Do you, like me (now that I've seen the movie) ever think about how that particular dream started? It was such a strange and unfamiliar concept when it was introduced, that now I like to think about it every now and then.

Well, if I stay up any later, my mom might catch me still awake, so to avoid trouble, I should just probably sleep now, but I have to say, I'm excited about this blog-thing, just because I don't know where it'll lead me.
I'd do video blogging, but a lot of the time I'm concerned about my hair and how crappy it is when I'm just about to sleep, and my mom's worried about "exposing myself on the web" so, yeah... I sort of kind of have strict parents. I mean, I know I'd get more people interested that way, and it'll be like I'm actually talking to them...but you know, this works too...

I'm finding that when I take note of things that I'm interested in, I feel like I'm becoming more of a person, because things like preferences and interests just seem more tangible and easier to grasp, because, during the vacation you become a withered-away shell of a lazy nothingness and you sort of turn into a procrastinating douchebag who has nothing to do all day but go online and kinda troll Facebook and YouTube. Well, I procrastinate anyway...and I feel like I'm sort of ranting to this blog, so I'm just gonna go now.
Is that...is that okay with you?  --Totally just cutting you off there, because you don't need to reply! and just because I can because this is my blog and I have the power to! (Kudos to you if you actually managed to reply before you read that last sentence there, though I don't know why I'm congratulating you; it wouldn't have been a very hard thing to do...)

And you know what some people say about Filipinos? We take 30 minutes just to leave, and I am proving that statement right now, but to rebut, I say, "I BREAK YOU, YOU...STEREOTYPES!" while shaking my fist in the air like an old, angry man. Yes. What a perfect way to end my day...or er...night.

Good night/good morning to you!