I would like to explain the new monthly picture for you three to four few people around the globe that still come to this blog. I'm not really posting about my life anymore. I truly want a place to put my art. That's about it. I've been to Shakespeare Showdown so far, which was a camp where we perform our latest play, Merchant of Venice for the last time and have loads of fun with a whole bunch of crazy people who love to act. I learned a lot up there. More about social aspects. I'm finding myself, ya know?

So, anyway, then school ended. Turns out I have straight A's full around, again. I'm getting my 100$ that my dad pays me for straight A's today, I think. I'm so sad. My first year felt like it began yesterday, and now it's over. I don't know what to do with myself.

Plans for this summer: LAGOON! (For James' birthday party)
Going to Montana for two weeks. (Without my dad! SAAAAD!)
Youth Conference (Camp)
Girl's Camp (Camp)
Simulations Week (Camp)
Theatre Camp (Camp)
Most of these run for more than three days. Looks like I'm going to be busy. In fact, there is one section that I switch straight from one camp to the other without coming home. Summer...

Last night I saw Men in Black lll. It was really good. My dad said that he thought the ending was just a bit too fast, but I enjoyed every moment of it, I thought it was very well done.  Boris was scary...
That night we also had Red Lobster, my favorite. But it was because of a commercial I saw that we went. A four course meal for only 14.99! We were both stuffed before our time! He said it was successful commercializing, which he hates commercials, but he admitted that this one had been a good idea. Our waiter was amazing. His name was Dustin. He was fast, on time, polite and considerate. My dad was telling me that if I become a waitress, that is what I need to be. Don't make conversation, juts get the job done. Keep an eye on your table(s). Know what they need before they can ask.

I also am planning a party that is criminal related. I know that sounds really bad, but it really is going to be fun! I'm excited. I just have to get the right materials, so be prepared.
I also want to make an EPIC movie this summer. I'm going to be hand-picking the actors from my friends. I'm ready for this!!

Also, my friend James, who has been rather a bit of trouble this past year, is now the politest boy I have ever met. My mother once made me blush when she said, "He's rather affectionate with you." It's true. He really is the most respectful kid. I'm amazed sometimes. Like I told him (We're VERY open with each other after what we've been through) "Sometimes I want to hug you, and other times, I want to hit you." But lately, I've wanted to hug him a lot. And even though I said I didn't want him around me last night at the dance and when I spent a short time with him at his house, he kept an eye on me and made sure that I was okay. He stayed with me even when I persisted that he dance. Thank you, James. I really would have liked you to dance and have a good time, but thank you for making my night worth it. I really don't like dances, but I do like to talk to my white friends (Color Code) Which basically include Ymora, James and some of the time, Cheyenne. But she has her own group now. It's all good. I mean, I can talk with anyone, but they are my favorites. (I love you all!!)

Oh! And my friend, er, she still doesn't have a code name, but she invited us over for swimming! I think she really fits in with my sister, Liz and Cheyenne, acting wise. We love to act out scenarios and stories. It's just, we haven't had her as long and we need parts for her. I really love acting with that group though. All three of them are really fun to be around! Once we acted out two couples at a dinner date, and she memorized like, the whole thing! It was so cool to go back and re-read through!

Anyway, so that sums up the last few weeks of my life. I've got to explain the monthly picture. This scene happens to be Oliver and Chris' wedding. I wanted it to be a momentous occasion during while we were playing it, so I decided to make it interesting. Instead of some boring "Do you take so and so...' "I do" 's I decided to change it up. In the game, Chris is the daughter of basically, the richest man on the planet. (Business man wise) and Oliver is now marrying her. He is the prince of Ireland. As you can imagine, this is a big deal and millions of people are there. It is being filmed and put on national television. Oliver sees that his wife is not having a fun time. She can't stand the attention and the publicity and the tediousness of this enormous wedding. So Oliver makes a master move.

When an enormous cake is presented. Instead of having her feed it to him, he takes a large chunk and splats it straight in Chris' face! She smiles and an all-out cake war begins! Oliver, Chris, Tommie and Allie all begin throwing cake like crazy at each other while the entire public watches! Chris wins of course, but all of them are out of breath and laughing. But Oliver has succesfully made this wedding fun. I will not lie, this is my favorite picture. It is sooo cute!

So Oliver takes Chris to the place where they really are to be married. That is the pope at the bottom. He is embarassed to see them as such. Oliver licks a piece of cake off of Chris. Tommie dabs up Allie who is still having a great time. And behind them (THE ONLY CALENDAR PAGE HE APPEARS IN) is Martin Lewis, Chris's father. The businessman billionaire. He is at their wedding.

They will be at his funeral. (Coming soon actually)

----- Courtesy of Alex Lloyd-----

Hi there! I'm not sure if this is going to look weird, because I got onto my blog this morning and nearly boggled. (Not sure if that's a verb.) It looks way weird and I can hardly maneuver. So help me out a little bit here.

So, sad day. My scanner died. Ka-put. The light just fizzed out and made a popping noise and therefore no more pictures.

JUST KIDDING! My scanner really did die, but it turns out we have an even nicer one in the house. It's about fifteen times faster and I'm not even kidding. I can push the button and the laser'll go over it once and it'll be done. My last scanner had to scan it once really fast and then once really slow. It goes so fast it's hard to keep up with it at times. Exercise I guess. "What do you do for excersize?" (Cocky stretching) "Ah, I scan."

So yeah. Hope is not lost. It's just a little more, exhausting at times.

I should probably explain the new Calendar Page, although there isn't much to explain. Oliver owns a Motorcycle, and he's married to Chris. So here they are out on a relaxing ride together. Tadah.

Don't comment on the terrible motorcycle. I had to base it off a poster I based off of a book, so not the best source. And I didn't put all that much time into it either, to be honest.

I am having so many stories idea, my fingers can't keep up lately. Just saying.

Alright. That's about it blog wise. All else I Think I have to say is that I have only about 19-18 school days left. And I started Driver's Ed! And Next sememster, I'm going to learn the play the SAXOPHONE!!! Hehehehehehehe!

---- Courtesy of Alex Lloyd---

P.S. Go check out pages. I've been trying to get to them and update them with this new fangled stuff. See if I've got there. I've also scanned in my latest sketchbook, and we have a few funny comics that I created off of inside jokes. See if you get any. (I'll try to explain)

The new calendar page! Finally! This one, dissapointingly, is kind of boring. This was at the point in the calendar when I just said to myself, "I just need good scenes." So I just started to draw. This is a scene in geniuses when Tommie and Allie have both gone evil. They both have chips planted in there necks that are controlling them. That would explain the wacked out outfits. I like the fact that they are now evil, but they still are clasping hands. I don't know why. They were boyfriend and girlfriend at that point. The boy with the black hair walking towards us is Roman. He is a genius (Or was in the game, now he's not) of sensitivity, so when Guava issued him these chips, he chose his old teammates, Tommie and Allie. (Yes, he was with Tommie and Allie before Chris was) They are now weapons in process. At this point, the only genius able to save them in the game was Chris. Oliver was not adapted into the game at this point. So, yeah. IT's a long story.

Sorry for the lack of a poll. I guess the names Somebody and Nothing just started to stick. I guess they'll just be called Cutie and Baby and other nicknames for now. But their names ARE Somebody and Nothing.

My friend James really wants me to post more about, apparently, mainly school, so I'll see what I can do. But I seriously think that I have an event I'd like to share.

Have YOU ever been in a hot tub while it is raining? Some of you may say yes. But I had not until I was invited by James Rider to his house. The original reason was because we had missed a FHE with their family up in Snowbird, which we were NOT too happy about. Neither was he, so he was determined to make up for it. We watched Walking with Dinosaurs, which I still have not made a complete opinion on. And then, for the majority of the time, we hung out in the hottub, the sauna and steam shower. The steam shower was like a gas chamber. There WAS NO BREATHING, unless you held a towel to your face, and it was as thic- no, it was way thicker than any pea soup. You could see maybe two feet in front of you in this five foot shower. And that was only if it was at eye level. IT was so awesome!

The SAuna reminded me of something off of the NeverHood. It was a strangely shaped room made of a strange material and pattern with a strange smell, strange look, and wacked out music. It was also cool.

But then, in the hottub, the boys got kind of... daredevil-y.

And poor Cooper and Peter Kepp both ended up rolling down the hill, which was covered in snow, in their swimsuits right after coming out of the hottub.

You can bet that stung.

It was a blast.

Plus! I have news for all of those who read TWelve Wild GEese. I finished another awesome comic, written by my friend, Indigo Sterling! She wrote this small folktale for her own novel! And I made a comic out of it! I think it is really awesome! Check it out on the Comic Page!

--- Courtesy of Alex Lloyd---

Big news! And it includes small rodentia!!

I got two small rats! One brown, one white.

Previously, I named them some kind of cool names. The white one's name was Nothing, and the brown one's name is Somebody. But calling them those names just doesn't feel right... So we need help giving them pseudo names or nicknames. Liz and I have been brainstorming lately, and I have a tradition that all mice are to be named after characters or people. So, since Rats look pretty much like giant mice, we decided to theme that after it. Go to the poll next to this post to vote on which one. The first name stated is the one for the brown one, and the next one is for the white.

OH MY HECK! OH MY HECKK!!!! I JUST GOT A TOTAL NEWSFLASH! I AM AS GIDDY AS A SCHOOL BOY! AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER!!! AS FREE AS AN ANGEL!!!! GAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!

I barely figured this fact out as I went to talk to my mom and dad in Mentor Meetings!!! GAHAHAHA!! I'm so happy! One more day! One more chance!!!
Gohohohohoooooo!!!! YEAH!!!

--Courtesy of *ahem* Alex Lloyd-- (In distance: YAHOOOOO!!)

WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE OVER!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

I would like to explain the picture up top. But first, you must know that I created a calendar for Cheyenne. It took most of my time, and therefore I was not able to make my own calendar. (Working on it) So, for now I will have to use the pictures of her calendar. They are all of the game we call Geniuses.

The tall man with the shorter woman are married. That is Oliver and Chris. Cheyenne plays Chris, she is a wealthy English girl, who ran away (She does not speak with an English accent) and is a genius at athletics. Her father's name is Martin Lewis, and he is the richest man in the world. Her husband's name is Oliver. He is an Irish Prince, and did not run away, but was sold. For why, he is still trying to figure out. But he is Irish, and a genius at transportation, meaning he can drive anything. He favors his Honda Goldwing, which is his precious motorcycle.

The little boy that Oliver's hand is placed on his back is Andrew. He is their son. He has enormous multi-colored eyes and white hair. (That's basically what happens when Genius' have kids. They get strange...) He is a genius at data, which is basically the strongest genius known to man. He can watch anything, and repeat it identically. He is too smart for his age. Way too smart.

The man with the strange cowlick on top of his head (BTW, it's called a tikki, never ever call it a cowlick) Is named Tommie. He is Italian, and is not of any wealth. He was raised a poor, poor boy. His genius is mechanics though. He's the gadget man. He has one cyborg eye, but you can't tell, because he programmed it to look and act identical to his other eye. He can hack or build anything. He is married to Allie, who is the red head next to him.

Allie is from New York, but also left when her mother "died." She is a genius at bombs and guns. Tommie and Allie have three kids, but none are ever shown in the calendar. One is an adopted Eckle (A genius raised and created by their archnemesis Dr. Guava.) The other two are their own. Their names are Roger, (who is now a pop star named Tel Dano and has a girlfriend who is of the second richest family in the world, also rivals with the Lewis', the Holbrooks) Erik (Captured once by Dr. Guava and aged to a different age along with Andrew) and Katherine (Their new born who has seen her parents less than ten times, because she is always away from the geniuses, in one way or another)

If you are not confused by now, I congratulate you, because you are insane. If you are, then just remember this: We have been doing Geniuses for years now. It is not a simple game. So, there are many back stories and things you will not understand when I explain the calendar pages, but I will try my best. (It really is the coolest story)

And if you still need a little help, here is it even simpler.

Large guy in green hoodie with brown hair: Oliver McMintire

Smaller skinny girl with blonde hair and blue eyes: Christina Lewis McMintire

Oliver is married to Chris.

Chris is married to Oliver.

Small boy with white hair and enormous strange colored eyes: Andrew Oliver McMintire

Andrew is Oliver and Chris' son.

Skinny man with tikki on top of black hair and brown eyes: Thomas Jean Giambattista (Tommie)

Lady with bright red hair and brown eyes: Allison Collins Giambattista (Allie)

Tommie is married to Allie

Allie is married to Tommie

They have three children, but none are shown.

What will be shown on the Calendar's pages are moments the geniuses have voted the best. They are NOT in chronological order.

Here in the picture above, Oliver and Chris are obviously already married. The pictures that Tommie and Allie are ogling over are when Martin Lewis, Chris' father, found publicity in his daughter, and an Irish prince being together. So he made a deal. I can't remember what he gave them in return, but he had them pose in certain romantic pictures so he could sell them out to the internet and so forth. The photographer insisted on a kiss picture, so Oliver said, (In Irish accent, which means A's are Ah's, and R's are RR's.)

"I'm only doin this once, so get yourr cahmerah ready."

And he kissed her right on the cheek. So there. That was the biggest hulla balloo all over the internet for a while. And so, walking through the mall, the geniuses see a calendar with the pictures on them. Tommie and Allie are happy, but Oliver and Chris are sickened.

We never actually played any mall scene, but we did do the photographer man scene, which was one of the scenes that we voted coolest.

As for my title of my post (As I have not talked NEARLY enough about Geniuses)

CHRISTMAS BREAK IS OVER!!! AND I CANNOT BELIEVE ALL THAT I DID NOT DO!!! I HATE SCHOOL! NO! I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK! I NEVER WANT TO GO BACK!!!! GRRRR!!!

Sometimes I just have to vent. This sucks, like bad sucks. Oh well. That was all I have to say. Other than that, New Years was fun. We had a big party with the Riders and Keps at the Riders house. It was fun. If you want details, I'm going to need some comments or responses here.

--- Courtesy of Alex Lloyd ---

P.S. And as I am an honest comic artist, and will not betray my readers, I would like to warn all that September's calendar page will be the most romantic. So please do not say you were not warned.

Only for you James. Only for you I am doing this.

Hi, I have some friends who like to bug me about getting down and writing on my blog.

I'll make this fast (Pssh, Impossible, I know) Just to get this over with.

Christmas is coming! I am very excited! I am on break! I am free! But yet have sooo much to do. I have homework I brought back from school, and I have two presents that are going to take a LOT of time. Screw money. If a present takes TIME, then it is worth WAAAAY more. I will tell you what they are after Christmas (Like I'll ever get back on after then) In fact, one of them will show up on this blog personally. (you'll see)

Also, check out my Comic Page! I am now in the process of putting on this comic that I drew about an Irish tale. (Oliver tells it, no duh) It took me a LOT of time. I am previously working on one that a friend at school wrote up for me. It is fun, but a lot of work. My largest fear is that I won't get it done in time. (It's supposed to be her late birthday gift)

I went to my first Surprise Party! I have now completed that from off my Bucket List! I got to surprise a kid in our carpool, and his reaction was awesome! See, I think I'll call him... C.C. He was really upset because the day before had been his ACTUAL birthday, and his family had said they would take him out. But they didn't. (Because they had an actual party planned for the next day) But man, was he dissapointed. In fact, his mom promised that she would "take him out for food," the next night, but they stopped by a hotel, and supposedly (This was the pieces of the story I gathered.) His mom had him go in to "meet his aunt"

SURPRISE!!!

The rest of the party was kind of weird. The only people I knew there were James, Cooper and Peter. And some boys from my ward. But naturally, I didn't hang out with them, I don't know them as well. (I remember a few of them from when I had crushes on them...) So James and I decided to go walking down the hall a few times, but Cooper wouldn't let us be "alone" when we went up to the second floor, and I was glad. I enjoy Cooper: Correction. I enjoy Cooper when he's not crazy, which is basically always. Hm...

James and I left early because, first off, I had another party to go to, and James didn't want to stay here. He had no other friends, same as me. Cooper tried to persuade him to stay, but Cooper was only staying for the swimming, and plus he knew other people. We dropped James off at his house and then drove all the way out to wherever. The people there were ones I didn't know that well. I mean, Liz and Ivy and Yroma were there, oh, and .... James' little sister... (No name for her yet) But other than that, it was people I had no clue about. There was one girl who wouldn't stop talking, and when I say wouldn't, I mean WOULD NOT. I walked in the door, and she randomly said, "Ooh, here comes the beast." Oh... kay? Then she grabbed my shoulder and started yelling at me, "What's her name?! What's her name?!" I replied, "WHO!?" She pointed to my mom. I told her.
Oh... kay?

We watched the Smurfs. And then we left. *Shrug* Atleast the Smurfs was decent.

What else.. What else...
I dunno. Ooh! We had a choir concert, well, the homeschoolers did. Us Public schoolers sat in the crowd, wishing we were up there. (At least I did, I miss homeschool. I'd explain why, but I'm afraid I can't here.) They sung lots of songs. My dad's only complaint on the way back, was they do have one kid who was terribly off pitch. He said it's fine to be off pitch, but be off pitch QUIETLY, so it doesn't ruin the entire song. Liz has a song that she auditioned for, and gets to scream at the very end of. It was very interesting. Is it too weird to say that my sister has a good scream?

I had another party yesterday (Hey, on break, why not? Have fifty partys a weekend? Psssh, no big) It was a Shakespeare Elite. Once again, my only friends were basically James, Midge and James' little brother. We played some dumb game called "Awkward Twister." It was so stupid, I refused to play. Who thinks up dumb games like that? C'mon. Then we played Human Knot, which is basically just another version of Awkward Twister, but I think a lot better. It's funner. Then we did a White Elephant. It was awesome, except for the fact that I HAD the item I had wanted earlier, and then it got stolen LAST person!! Graaarah!!! James proposed a strategy that WOULD'VE worked. Grrr...

That was my third White Elephant this season! A record! One was for my mutual. I ended up with one of those boxes of chocolates that show the deliscious caramel and fudge on the front and then end up actually being a plastic bag full of balls of cocoa powder covered in chocolate. Blech.
The next White Elephant was the TriFamily Annual (Or whatever name James called it (I see him too much....)) That was between the Lloyds, Keps and... Riders. (Your name is now James Rider, James, okay?) We ate good food, played Christmas Jeopardy, and then did the White Elephant. James' little sister brought a package OBVIOUSLY wrapped as a lamp (The picture above.) It was awesome. Cheyenne Kepp ended up with the lamp. It wasn't until the end that she realized she didn't have anywhere to put it. Oh gees. At first I had a rustic metallic frame with a Symphony bar that JAmes' little brother stole (For the candy, not the frame) So I stole this awesome coon skin hat that My mom had, WITH a Crunch Bar. but believe it or not, The LAST person to go was Cheyenne's littlest sister, and she STOLE my hat!!! So I ended up with a backscratcher that is pretty awesome. It has a snake twisting around it.

I think that's enough. Happy James? I mentioned you as much as possible. (I see you a LOT)

And Thank you. I should get on my blog more often. This is too all that bug me to blog! Thank you!

--- Courtesy of Alex Lloyd--- (CHECK OUT COMIC PAGE!!)