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I honestly could not think of any other title to give this post. I've never been good at keeping up with writing things, which is quite worrisome considering that I'm majoring in English, and now I've managed to forget about my blog for a whole month... Oops... There actually were a LOT of interesting events that occurred in the month of October, and I'm going to try to blog about them within the next couple of weeks. I did tech work for a show, participated in the Ribbon Run, went to a masquerade ball, helped paint the set for my high school's competition show, and Halloween happened! At least that's all of the stuff I managed to get pictures during. I will write more in-depth posts about those things soon!
Even though I haven't been blogging, I have still been writing! Well, I've been writing essays for English class... But that counts! We wrote 4 papers in a row. Most of them were easy, but the last one we wrote happened to be the hardest and the ONE paper that I procrastinated on. The instructor seemed to really like the bits of it that she read in class, but her grading is extremely unpredictable. She gave me a B on an essay which I felt deserved a much better grade, and an A on another essay that wasn't any better than the other. I know that a B isn't bad, and I wasn't upset about getting a B. I was upset that this particular paper was given a B without any good explanation. Oh well.

I've been doing some more art recently thanks to Michaela needing help with making a business card. I did some hand lettering for that and then got addicted to it again. I even started a new banner for this blog! I'll finish that when I get the chance and then make a few updates to the look of my blog. I don't plan on moving any important buttons or anything, so don't worry. It'll be set up the same, just with different colors and backgrounds and fonts.

Last night I did some painting! It was a really quick project on a piece of scrap wood.

The picture of it isn't very great, but you get the idea. I'm very pleased with how my birds turned out. 

So yeah, I guess that's a little update! I don't think I'll be doing "Wordy Wednesdays" weekly anymore, because they started to become a struggle. I can't force myself to think "Oh crap, I need a quote. What quote should I use? What should I say about it?" It's much easier to write about a quote when I have inspiration from something in my life that relates to it. I'll most likely be blogging on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and weekends for the rest of this semester.

Sorry for disappearing, but I'm back now! 

Wordy Wednedsay: A Life Worth Writing About

I've always loved writing. When I was little, I wrote short stories all the time. I have a couple binders full of them. I wanted to be a writer. My stories were imaginative and kind of silly, full of talking animals, magic trees, fairies and pegasuses and lots of wild adventures. 

When I got a little older, say 4th through 6th grade, I thought being a journalist for a newspaper or something was more reasonable. I was on the newspaper club at my school and wrote a lot of articles for it. I realized around that time that I didn't particularly enjoy writing about current events. I wanted adventures.

In middle school, I didn't think much about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was in art club, drew a lot, and loved all of my English classes. Freshman Composition was my favorite (9th graders were at the middle school at this time), partially because I love the teacher. I had her for two other English classes during my time in middle school.

High school is where everyone starts thinking about college and what they really want to do with their lives. My thought process went a little like this:

"Maybe I'll just be a teacher. I have to do something with my life. It wouldn't be that bad... Teaching?? Lydia, you hate kids of all ages! What are you thinking? Okay, maybe I'll be a graphic designer. I'm kinda good at art... I've lost all my artistic ability somehow, so maybe I'll just major in music and play piano all the time... No no no no, I don't even know how to read sheet music properly, I just play by ear 80% of the time. *joins drama* DRAMA???!!!?!? DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA THEATRE ACTING TECH TECH TECH TECH TECH I WANT TO DO THIS FOREVER I LOVE THIS GIVE ME ALL THE THEATRE FOREVER!!!!!! .....chill, Lydia. You can't major in theatre. That's not a very smart idea. BUT I LOVE IT!!! No, do something smart. You can do theatre on the side... I hate school. Maybe I'll just stop after high school and go be a professional model. Everyone says I'd be a good model anyway... You idiot, you know you hate the thought of being a model. Sure it'll get you a pretty nice paycheck, but have you seen how clumsy you are when you walk? And have you seen the crazy things they put models in? C'mon, you can handle 4 more years of school, you're smarter than you think... Okay, maybe I'll major in technical theatre. That's not as risky as acting. And I have so much fun being a techie... Hmm forensics class is fun. Maybe I'll do something with that... Nahh... Psych? Psychology seems cool. I have psychological issues and maybe in the future I can help people with theirs! *takes psych class* Nahh... *edits a paper for a friend* *edits a paper for a girl I babysit* *edits everything anyone ever says or writes or types* .....You know what? I should be an editor. It's always come naturally to me. And with a job like that, I could easily do theatre on the side every now and then. I could even write a book at some point! I've always wanted to be a writer! Yep! That's what I'm going to do. Wow I'm so happy I've finally figured it out!!!"

And I've been happy with that decision ever since. 

But in relation to the quote, I've always wanted to go on the adventures that my brain thinks up. I want to write about adventures, but I want to write about the adventures that I've experienced first-hand. Maybe there are some stories in my memory worth writing about, and maybe someday I will write them. But for now, I think my "What the heck am I going to do with my life?" story is worth writing about. And it's funny that I've come full circle. I think all the way back to my childhood days of writing, and now here I am, going to start college to major in English and edit and write. Little me would be so proud. In the next few years, I hope to create even more memories worth writing about, and maybe even make up some more mini adventures. 

What is Blogging?

Maybe it's just because this is all new to me, but I have so many questions about this whole "blogging" thing. Ever since I set this up I've wanted to write another blog post, but I've had no idea how often or how not often I should be writing them! And I have no idea how to follow other blogs, so if someone could help me out with that I'd appreciate it. I saw something on Pinterest about blogging, and blogging was literally this lady's job. I don't understand how that works at all. 

I changed my URL again so it's a bit shorter because typing "letterswordsandprettybirds" was a pain in the butt, so now it's simply "letterswordsbirds" and I think I can live with that. I just had such a hard time coming up with a cute title that wasn't "lydiawearsjeans." That one was easy to think of because my middle name is Jean and I wear jeans a lot. 

"Letters, Words, and Pretty Birds" came from my obsession with hand lettering, the fact that this is a blog and I will be writing a lot, and my love of all things pretty and in nature. Not to mention it rhymes. My mom said I should write a post about how I've been bird watching my whole life, but when I think of "bird watching" I think of old people in floppy hats sitting on lawn chairs with binoculars. My parents are big bird fans, so I guess it kind of rubbed off on me. I mean, not many other 5th graders would get excited to see a bluebird sitting on a fence. I guess you could say I'm somewhat of a bird watcher, but not the kind with binoculars. Floppy hats, sure, but I don't need binoculars. 

I'm going to try not to blog every day, but if it just so happens that I have something to write about a few days in a row, then I won't wait to post them. I'll try to make sure I post at least once a week during my busy times just so I don't end up dropping this as I do with so many other things. I guess those are my blogging rules for myself! I'm not going to write boring filler posts; if I absolutely HAVE to write something I'll probably tell an old story or go on a deep rant about something. Okay that is all~