Wow, I haven't popped in to update recently. ;P Whoops.

The No Doubt concert with Paramore was *amazing*. I absolutely adored it and had a great time. I haven't heard my favorite band play live, so I was hanging on to every word of each song and basically singing at the top of my lungs to the ones I knew (which were many). I was so excited when they played so many of my (and everyone else's ;D) favorites. My only regret is that they didn't play Fences, but it is a very short song not likely to be played in concert, so I'm not too depressed.
Misery Buisness, CrushCrushCrush, Decode, a new song from their album- "Innocence", When It Rains, My Heart, That's What You Get, Let the Flames Begin,  and I've missed/misnamed a couple. D:

In the meanwhile, I've read "Pride and Prejudice", a very magnificent book. I haven't done any drawings recently. But I've been playing my bassoon so much that my lips are very tender on the inside and slighty raw. ^^; It's all good, though- I can play a full Bb concert scale, F#, E natural, and the higher C on command. I can't quite play the basic songs, but I'm doing much better than yesterday. :D

I'm beginning to really miss my friends. I'm taking a computer class in the morning, so I get to see some of them (which is good because the computer course is utterly tedious in the most extreme way imaginable), but I miss some of the people I don't get to see. *sigh*

Well, I'm going to go get some sleep, because I'm completely exhausted. Not getting sleep at a normal time is starting to actually affect me.

And so concludes another day of summer. Again, I find myself pleasantly exhausted.

So far, I've finished the first 6 themes of the 100 theme challenge. I'll post thumbnails or pictures or something when I get to 10, and then I'll tag it at the bottom of that entry. ;P It's quite refreshing to try different pencils and media, I realize.

I've just finished reading "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Wicked Lovely". The first is a re-read, because I hadn't paid very good attention to it during the course of the school reading, and the second was a manga book I was given for my birthday. I'm currently in the midst of reading Doomwyte, of the Redwall genre.

I'm also working on a forum skin in all of its buttons and glory, so I won't be doing any icons or other graphics for a while. I'm actually the Graphic's Mod, so it would be good for me to actually get my first skin done as part of my job. ;P

I finally finished cleaning the top two drawers of my desk and my jewelery boxes. It's amazing how many things I completely miss, even when I pass them every day. o.o Anyways, my room is actually remaining clean, except for the places I have yet to finish organizing. I'm getting there! ^w^

I really miss my friends from school. For crying out loud- it hasn't even been a week and I miss them. How am I going to survive the summer?

Tomorrow I'm going to a concert with my sister. No Doubt with Paramore, I've heard it's awesome. I'm looking forward to finally seeing my favorite band (Paramore) live. ^^

Summer has not 'begun' for me as of now. Rather, I am able to more fully partake in participation in activities only possible over the summer. And I can't wait to get started. *w*

Just because I'm a list person and I enjoy seeing my own pathetic attempts to remain organized, I'm going to list the various goals or, at this point, ideas that I have that I want to try over the summer. My greatest goal and guideline over this summer is along the lines of a quote that my English teacher gave us to think about. I don't remember it exactly, which is a pity, but the general idea was that wasting time is nearly a sin. My plan is to have lots of things to do and think about.

Summer reading - Conquer last summer's goal of 125 books read over the course of the summer. In an attempt to raise my adequacy with English and writing, along with hopefully learning something along the way. ;P
100 Theme Challenge - Deviantart meme that someone suggested to me. I'll be attempting it. I may not finish it, but I will try, it'll be nice to work on my drawing skills.
Roleplaying - Put my writing skills into actual practice at Bleached Souls & Bleach : A New Beginning. Custom & Canon roleplaying sites with two varying difficulties, Advanced/Expert & Anyone Accepted.
Bassoon - Learn Bassoon well enough to get into Symphonic Band at the beginning of the school year.

Also, I'm planning on actually spending time with my friends over this summer as opposed to last, when I didn't do anything. ^^ Those are the only really main things I've thought of so far. Nothing substantial.
I'll be going to Florida & Oregon, going to a computer course, and going to band camp (if it takes place).

Well, good luck to everyone else on their summer plans and vacations! I'm off to practice my lovely new bassoon and my flute~

My weekend has been rather uneventful. I haven't quite finished cleaning my room, I still have some papers, binders, and books to organize and in some cases throw out. My laptop definitely needs more work, but now I can actually get to the sites I generally check, because I've cleaned out my bookmarks, history, and cookies.

Today, I'm feeling a little bit sick- not enough to mention or take medicine, but enough to make me wonder if I might get a migraine later this week. Well, hopefully that won't be the case, because those are never fun. ;P In the meanwhile, I think I'm going to go rest for a while so I can wake up at a decent time tomorrow.

I was surprised, quite unexpectedly, by a gift of a beautiful poem from my significant other yesterday, and I still find myself feeling in good spirits because of it. This reminds me also of the writer's block question yesterday: Which would you choose- your friends or significant other? I considered answering it, but found quite quickly that I couldn't. I suppose that if you really think about it, your significant other is also your very best friend, so answering that one would choose his or her friends can't be too offending. I believe that I might attempt to make a gift for him over the summer. I still want to think about his birthday present, too...

I finished my layout changes today, and created my own header for my updated Livejournal, as well as changed each of the individual colors. I realize just too late that I uploaded userpics to match the previous one, and now they don't quite fit. It would appear that I'll be finding a couple others to add later. The next thing I plan on doing is making a header for my profile so I can update that appropriately as well.

Continuing in the path of my internet life, I'm beginning to make a new roleplaying character. I'm also moving my Quincy character to my favorite Bleach website, and then I'm becoming more active in the more advanced site that I've taken a vice-captain shinigami position in. So I'm planning on having a lot of things to do over the summer. ^^

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."
-Benjamin Disraeli

Finals have passed for me peacefully, but as for successfully, we'll see about that later. Tuesday will be my last day of school, and then I'll be free to proceed with my summer activities. In all honesty, I'm not very much looking forward to being isolated over the summer and away from all of my friends, even if it means I have a little more time to do random activities that aren't possible during the school year.

I'll be going to Florida with a friend during the beginning of June, so that should be quite fun. I'm not sure if my school will be hosting its summer music program due to the lack of people signing up, but if it does, that will be what I'm looking forward to. I've been branching out a little and trying new art ideas, in real life and in computer art, so I'll have more time to work on that. Also a part of my practice is writing. One of the main reasons that I'm returning to Livejournal and planning on updating more often is to work on my writing skills, even if it is just elaborating on the dull everyday life I live. (Which means I'm going to be limiting myself on smileys, in an attempt to force myself to practice conveying emotions without their aid. D: Yes, I am pained by the fact I can't use my favorite happy smiley, it calls out to me in its dying lack of use.)

I'm going to be doing another attempt at breaking my summer reading streak. For three years running I've tried and succeeded in breaking my last summer's reading total. Last summer I managed exactly 125 books, which leaves me needing at least tha many to keep my streak going. The only problem is, last year I had several manga series that I had to read and catch up on. The number of those types of books on my list of desired reads is a lot less this time around. I'm not so certain I'll be able to break my previous record, but we'll see. This year, I'll be updating every time I read a book, so expect my journal entries to pile up. ;P

Today was dedicated entirely to summer cleaning. No spring cleaning for me, I prefer to clean at the end of the school year. I've thrown numberous old assignments and old papers and books. I've also entirely rearraged the furniture in my room and actually straightened things up, leaving me so much space to put my random items that I've run out of items to put. My room is about halfway cleaned, so I took the chance to find a stopping point and proceed to cleaning out my laptop. The poor thing is frankly choking on school documents, but more so on random pictures, icons, and little bits of interesting things I've stored haphazardly in random folders I made in the spur of the moment. I have to say that I'm not even an eighth of the way finished with it, and I've already spent and hour and a half cleaning it. It might take me several days before everything's organized. My goodness, it's going to take me longer to clean out my computer than it will take me on my entire living space. o.O

To go with all of the changes I've made in my life, along with organizing everything so I can think clearly, I'm also reorganizing my LJ. ^^ I've decided to attempt to use a css layout made by someone else, namely berserk_reality , and I'm also updating my profile layout. Both are actually shifting to be much more simple, since I no longer have a need for all of the extra links and tags to be visible. Besides, simple is easier on my mind, and helps me drop my almost OCD habit of keeping things in list format.

So there's my massive summer and livejournal update. I'll be coming onto this journal more frequently, and I'm also going to be mentioning any updates in terms of graphics here. Have a good evening, everyone~