I will be adding more to my gallery shortly, I took a trip to the zoo today and think I got a handful of good shots from it. It was mighty windy though, so it was hard to keep steady.

I haven't gotten many spring flower photos this year, I'm afraid. The ones I added a few weeks ago are about it.

I've been super busy lately, finals week was last week, and this week I'm taking a break from stuff, then I continue working 40 hours a week as a custodian next week. Eh, it pays the rent.

I haven't had the patience to arrange my featured gallery, especially considering I have so many pages of stuff and no subscription. So, you might as well just go to 'browse' when you go to my gallery.

By the way, my apartment doesn't have internet (I'm at my parents house at the moment) and it would cost me an arm and a leg to get it there, so I'm not going to be on nearly as much as I hoped I'd be this summer. In fact, I dont' know exactly where I'm going to access internet over the summer since most places around where I live close for the summer months. :/

I have recently created a facebook fan page. If you have a facebook and are one of my watchers or just a fan, you can add yourself as a fan on my facebook page here: [link]

Summer is almost here! Only 2 more weeks of classes!

2 very busy weeks....

I have a HUGE project to finish this weekend, since it is due Tuesday, but I'm also moving this weekend, so that's gonna be interesting getting things done.

Then next week is all reviews and studying, then FINALS. I only have 2 finals though this time, so it's all good.

Then after that, I have to watch my parents house and my dog for a week while they go on vacation, then I get to live in my own apartment for the first time and start my job.

Woooo.

I have been anxiously awaiting spring. I have gotten so sick and tired of freezing temperatures, gloomy skies, mushy sidewalks, and chilling winds.

But today. Today spring is finally here. And I hope it is here to stay. The majority of April so far has been wrought with rain. And lots...and lots....of rain. But I don't mind rain at all, it's spring. But then it turned to ice, and snow, and sleet. That's not spring. That's winter. And I don't like it.

Today though, today it is absolutely spring. That's the only word to describe it, and yes, to me, spring can be an adjective. It is currently sunny with some white clouds--beautiful skies if I do say so myself--and sixty-five degrees. I love it! I'm wearing bermuda shorts and short sleeve shirt. It's AMAZING. Well, after calculus today (not a very nice place to be) I took my camera for a much deserved and long awaited walk to take photos of flowers. And I'll be uploading them today. Well, at least some of them. I do have other things I need to get done.

Happy spring!

Update:
When I posted this journal earlier today I didn't even realize it was APN week. What a wonderful week for me to actually start catching up on my deviant subscriptions and messages, right? Haha. I love how APN week happens to fall the week that it starts feeling like spring. It makes so much sense (not that there aren't animals, plants, or nature during the rest of the year, mind you) for me. Well, I guess I'll celebrate by submitting a billion flower pictures! I hope I don't overwhelm you today, but I do have to make up for my lack of activity somehow.

Oh, and I am so beyond broke right now, so I'm not going to be buying a new subscription (very sad) anytime soon. I'm very tight on money right now. I might enter some contests for this APN week, since it is my forte, and see if I can win one though! But I'm also a bit tight on time. These next three weeks are going to be brutal. The next two especially. Hopefully this summer I'll make time to be that crazy dA girl who was on all the forums, had a subscription, entered contests, and actually stayed up to date with all the people on her watchlist....

Picture.com is having a contest for $100,000 and guess who is a finalist! That's right, me! Well, you should go vote for my photo:
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Follow that link, click '10' if you like it, and hit submit vote. It loads slowly on some computers, but I would love so much if you voted!

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I almost have 9,000 pageviews on here! Thank you guys so much.

I haven't updated or really been active on here at all, sorry! I just dont' have time, so I didn't buy a subscription/renew mine. Which means, deviantart is slow and going through my watchlist takes forever. It helps me not get on here and spend my life online. Sorry! I'll buy one this summer and hopefully will be uploading some new stuff (finally) this spring.

Tomorrow begins April showers....yes, it is March. Oh well, at least it's getting warmer. I'm all dressed up for spring right now! Pretty flowery skirt and green top.

Thank you for the 7000+ pageviews! And for the favorites! And for watching me! And now for featuring me! I'm so excited!

February 11th, 2008: Since dA doesn't inform us of comments on our main page (which is likely a good thing, or I'd have a ton of messages everyday), I don't see them everyday. I used to reply to each and every one, but I don't have the time to do that anymore. So if you stop by my page and thank me for ing one or more of your pieces, you are very much welcome! You definitely deserved the ! I will try to at least read each message, even if I don't have time to reply. So, from now on, if you see your message 'hidden' on my main page, that means that I have read it! If you stop by and leave me a message besides saying "Thanks for the on ____." I will try to respond to it, but please send that in a note so that I actually see it right away. I only check my main page messages about once every two weeks or so and go through them all!
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It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you this is likely my last, or one of the last, 'fancy' journal for while. The last with CSS, the last with thumbnails, the last with a header and footer.

I will not be renewing my subscription to deviantart when it expires in nine days. I really need to spend my time on school, and I do not have the money for the subscription either. I have a few difficult classes that just keep getting more difficult, I have a lot of studying to do, and I do not have much money. I'm currently jobless and will be until May, at which point I"m buying a car. It will likely be a long time before I am resubscribed to dA. And I know it will drive me INSANE whenever I do have time to sign on. I won't be able to see my watchlist's latest deviations as thumbnails, or scroll through over a hundred thumbnails at once. And I won't be able to preview all my messages. It is going to drive me mad, but I know it'll mean I'll spend less time on here, which is what I need to do. Really.

On a happier note, I have been featured again! This time it was in wazabees' Caturday journal. Yay! I love it when I get seen around dA, and get new people seeing me, commenting me, faving my work, and watching me. It just makes me feel good inside. I'm happy that it isn't just one of my pieces either that keeps circulating around. I don't want only one of my pieces to be considered great, ya know?

And everybody should welcome Jeanna to dA (), I've been trying to convince her to join for a while. She is the Jeanna in all the portrait photos in my gallery. She also takes beautiful flower pictures, hopefully she won't show me up on here :/

Here's some of my latest fav's, so enjoy em while I can post thumbnails in my journals. And this new collections thing, I'm so not going to deal with it right now. I have so many favorites, I know I'd be sitting at my computer for days just sorting my favorites. I'm gonna pretend that feature doesn't even exist for now.





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Thank you now to for featuring in their Caturday journal here: [link] .
Thank you so much to for featuring in her journal here: [link] !

Thank you so much to for featuring in her news article here: [link] !

And thank you to for constantly featuring me in her journal as well! I should be getting some prints to you in the future of your cat!

I would also like to thank for this CSS layout! It's the first one I've ever used Yay for fancy journals! You can find the layout here: [link]