Well, today has been a day of mixed victories and defeats.

So, yeah. I'm back from my trip! It was okay. Saw the family. Twelve minute wedding! :D Best thing ever. My cousin Paul and my new cousin Sara get mucho kudos for the very short wedding.

I DID do some art. And Nicole... authographed one of the pages in my sketchbook. The girl does have a sense of humor, I'll give her that.


I drove alone today! That was very nice. I picked up my sister from her volunteer gig at an elementary school, and picked up our dog Sadie from her stay at the vet's office. Nothing to report there besides the shock of my parents, who probably expected me to be traumatized, or the car to be broken.

And now, the bigger news than that. I gots a car.

:3

Okay, not PRECISELY true. It's another 'family' car. It is not exclusively 'mine'. It was bought, however, exactly BECAUSE I can drive now, and am expected to do a lot of it, and therefore need a car in order to become my parent's personal chauffer/slav- I mean, help with errands.

Either way, TOTALLY a victory. A Tahoe, for anyone who is in the know. For everyone else, think a mini suburban. Silvery-goldy, and a... '98 or a '99. Can't remember which. Looks like new, though.

So, where is the defeat, I am sure my readers are wondering? Well, I was riding my bike this evening. I fell. Scraped up my knee. Palms of my hands hurt. My hip is probably bruised. Duke Sebastian is okay, and my biker-dignity escaped with only minor bruising.

That isn't the defeat.

The crushing defeat that REALLY makes me made is that I had my ZUNE attached to the hip I LANDED on. The music was playing before, during, AND after the crash, so I at first assumed it was a tough little thing and perfectly fine. I got in the house, glanced at the screen, turned it off, and went to go make sure my knee wouldn't bleed on the carpet anymore. I looked at it more closely when I went upstairs again to retire to my computer desk, turned on my Zune, and the minor cracks on the top of the screen hid below it a SPIDER WEB of mini cracks. -.-;; No screen. No picture. NO idea what I'm doing.

It plays music fine, though.

*TOTALLY PISSED OFF FACE HERE*

Both my sister and Court says there is hope, however, and the screen may come back if I leave it alone for a while. I WISH that made me feel better. Mad at myself doesn't even begin to describe it. The thing is practically new!

We'll see in a couple of days. Grr.

Grades came in!! ALL A's FOR SEMESTER! W000!!

Ivy, out.

Vegetation

So, I'M leaving tomorrow!!

Big surprise, non?

My cousin is getting married~ :3 I hardly ever get to see this side of my family, so it'll be interesting to say the least. The conversations usually involved, "Oh, I know you? Yes, I know you! A hug? Already? Okay!"

So, we're driving all day tomorrow, partying Saturday and Sunday, and driving back Monday. LOTS of time in the car. At least we're used to it.

Oh, our blue suburban collapsed! Dad's getting it repaired, though Heaven knows WHY. That this is literally on its last wheels. At this point, the only way we could POSSIBLY make money off that thing is by removing its internal organs and selling them on the black market. At this point, fixing it again is like giving the man without legs stilts so he can deliver your mail for a little longer.

Weird analogy, but I think it gets my point across.

Anyway, this is just a post to say I'll be gone for four days! And I'm leaving you with a doodle. Undoubtedly, I will have more doodles when I return from my journey.

^-^ I haven't even STARTED on my summer homework yet. However, I have made a pretty good dent in Dominic Deegan's archives. :3 GOOD comic. Must... finish... before... I leave....

That is all!

Ivy, out.