A bit overwhelmed, but need to keep busy

For some reason, I'm always complaining that I'm so busy and so exhausted because of how busy I am, but whenever I lose everything and have nothing to do, I overwhelm myself with extra work. Like this:

1. Learning French Horn (and working on concert band music, that's tough stuff!)
2. Working on S+E ensemble music for french horn, and a (probably A class) solo for my trumpet
3. Working on S+E musical theater solo (Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Phantom) and an A - Class solo for voice
4. Three Sims 3 contests (Miss World, Miss Italy, Miss Europe)
5. Colorguard auditions at the end of the year, and will be practicing all summer
6. I'll be a senior next year. Senioritis, here I come x.x
7. FINALS THIS WEEK! ><

Anyway, yes, I've joined another contest for Sims (for those of you who care). I had to be accepted into this one.
The images I sent with the accepted application:

Lia is so gorgeous... My beautiful Lia Lee <3


And some photos I have been working on:

 ^Not my best, but I got bored. lol

This was just me playing with the path tool, and the wind and polar coordinate tools. No brushes, everything from scratch, and then a screenshot. She has such an expressive face.


Hope: I haven't been working on it, but I'll get to it. I have other stuff to do too. Still going to do it though!

A bird

I know the stomach looks weird. This took a couple hours. In GIMP. Inspired by Amila. <3!

Hope update

I got into doing GIMP images again, and have been rather bored. Above this post, you may have noticed a picture with some feathers on it. That is one possibility I have for a book cover. I know, I should've paid more attention to the selection around the text. And I probably shouldn't have saved it as a JPEG. Oh, well.

More GIMP'd items:

Inspired by Adele. More posts coming later.

I have been trying to log into L2 lately. It's being mean and won't let me because server traffic is too high. Ban the noobs.

I'm a favorite!

I am... Super-duper proud of myself. The post from last night with my picture on it? With the violin?

It was chosen as favorite by all three judges, meaning I'm safe for the next round.

The next picture assignment is "Just Dance" -
The requirements:
- Must be a form of Dance ( Not something you made up)
- You may use others in your photo
- You must include a short amount of information on the dance. ( Name and how it's preformed)

Since I already had the ballet poses, I was going to go with that, but... That's just so cliche. Instead, I think I'll try a few different things and see what I can come up with. This is my experimental round since I'm safe. Can't wait to get in my game. Just have to find my sticky notes first...

Set Fire to the Rain

Since it's Friday, and even though they haven't taken down the page to post pictures and results yet, I get to post our assignment 2 pictures for the Miss World Sims 3 pageant I'm in. Here goes:

Ryan's:

Zelda makes Zuzia happy. I love his idea. It's so much better than mine.

Mine:

I had to do a lot of editing on this one. There were tons of clipping issues with the hands, and her face was way dark, and you could barely see the violin. I love her eyes.


The theme was, of course, "Joy to the World", and I chose music. Whatever makes them happy. Music makes Lia happy, and Zelda makes Zuzia happy. I loved this assignment.  Can't wait for next week's.

My head hurts too much to be on the computer anymore.

Title story: That song is stuck in my head.

You're a beautiful jellyfish

I have updated Lia's story on that blog, and the link is on the left side of this page if you want to go check it out. I'm on chapter four. I know it seems quite happy right now, but wait for a twist in the plot, eventually. There will be drama. I promise.

I can't wait to post the next assignment pictures. They are much better this time. Ryan's is really fabulous, but you'll only get it if you know what Zelda is. (wink)

I logged into Lineage last night, but I was lagging so bad I couldn't do anything. I'll try again this weekend, and probably do some quest guides, if I'm not busy doing assignment pictures with the sims, and showing Ryan how to use gimp. I'm so proud of everything he's been doing with it so far though.

I want cereal. I'm so hungry, my tummilee hurts, and that's bad, because I have an extremely fast metabolism. I want food. So I should probably go make food.

Title story: Ryan was just watching a youtube video from Toby and he was singing that song, "You're beautiful... You're beautiful... You're beautiful, it's true," but instead of "it's true" he said "jelly-fish"... Yeah. Wow.

Hope: Haven't been able to work on it. Ryan only has a trial of microsoft word, and I need to take the version I have at school and put it on my flash drive because it's better than the one I wrote here. LOL. Go figure.

PG-13 post of Lia Gallagher's Circus photo

Today is the day! We got our results back from the pageant. I think we did very well, considering it's our first time in an actual contest.

The only comment I got on it was that it would be better if I had zoomed in more. I did purposely have this zoomed out this far, but I get the point they were making. They liked the fact that it looks pretty good for an in-game shot.
It's not exactly my first contest, but it's the first one I've done in Sims 3. I'm glad it's my first one, too. I think it's a good thing I'm starting small. (We are definitely growing in numbers)... I kind of know what I'm doing because of my constant lurking in other contests. (tehe)

Ryan's:

His comment was get rid of the glow and work on lighting, otherwise they like it. This is his first contest like this ever. He has good photography skills (and I'm proud of him for it). He has never lurked in a contest. I think that the theme of the circus wasn't that great for him to start with (or for anyone) but hey, at least it was a challenge. It's not fun if it's not challenging, right? (Just like high school!)
I think that the black-on-black on the suit loses a lot of the body. I'll be sure to remind him of that.



The next assignment is "Joy to the World"
(Yes, I have it in already)
The picture has to be black and white, gotta see the face, and have casual, comfy attire. We are allowed to color one part. It's due this Friday, and yes I will be posting it.

I will be working on the next part of Lia's story on the other blog, but that'll be way later tonight. I'm planning on showering after I post this, and then spending some time with Ryan.