So here are some pictures that actually came out.

More to follow, hopefully.  I want to send all of my artsy friends all a lomography camera and see what kind of stuff they'd come up with.  Specifically, Tara and Holly.

I also got a Diana F+ camera from my mom, and bought a Diana F+ flash for it with 12 color filters with my Christmas money.  The flash has a hotshoe adapter, so I can fit it onto my black Holga and finish up my roll of Black & White film.  My mom (so awesome) also bought me an instant back for the Diana, so when I'm done with the current roll of film in it, I can try my hand on some instant photographs.

I'm slowly trying to learn the art of lomography.  It's pretty hard since I'm used to looking through a viewfinder, setting up a picture, and taking it.  Getting to see things instantly are what kill me.  With lomography, you don't look, just shoot, and do it.

The next cameras I'm looking at are the lomography fisheye 35 mm camera (about $29.95 on Amazon) and the mini Diana, which takes 35 mm film.  It's about $50 though.  Ambitions will have to wait.  I think I'm okay though, since I have about 3 cameras to play with now.

I can't tell you how much I need this.

Tomorrow morning, I'm going to try and drag Brady out of bed before noon, get his haircut, then fill my cooler with vegan yummies and head off to the beach.

I will be utilizing my iPhone's tethering skills the whole week, so I will not be losing touch.

2. For lunch, I had black beans and rice with veggie crumbles, a "ham and cheese" sandwich on potato bread, and scalloped potatoes made with nutritional yeast. A recipe I found in Peta's College Cookbook.

3. I'm going to finish up Dexter season 3 when I get home from work today. Only 2 more episodes.

4. I need to do some actual work today.

5. My stomach has calmed down from earlier. I was feeling yucky.

6. The next 6 months are going to be awesome. Going to Texas, California, Nevada, and Lewes, Delaware. Not at the same time. My mom is renting a beachouse this summer, I'm hoping to see Holly for hopefully a week also this summer. Then in November for Thanksgiving, I'm flying out to Las Vegas, Nevada with my mom and little sister. We're going to then take the 4.5 hour drive to our destination in California and stay there for a week.

7. I have 1 1/2 hours left of work.

8. Bad things: I noticed that my WordPress blog doesn't know what timezone I'm in.

9. I noticed my new doll's eyebrows don't match her wig.

I went over to my mom's house yesterday. We went to a little play her community was putting on. It was just a few parts of some of Mark Twain's stories. It was cute. It was very difficult to hear a lot of the actors due to lack of enunciation, or they spoke too softly, but it was entertaining. There was this adorable little boy playing one of the parts in Tom Sawyer, and he must've been about 4 or 5. He was begging Tom to paint in this adorable little voice. He even put on a bit of a southern accent. He didn't really like to stay where he was supposed to be. Curtain call was tough because he wanted to stand in the middle of the stage and wave to everybody, but adorable, none the less.

I made dinner for my mom as well, and I'm a little frustrated with how that went down. I cook for Brady all the time, and he doesn't care if it's vegan or not. He loves everything I cook and eats it and gets seconds later. But my mom was picking on the food. She shouldn't care if it's got meat in it or not. If it's delicious, you eat it. I know she was just teasing me because it was "fake" meat, but honestly, if I was cooking that in a pot, with all the taco sauce on it, it smells good, and it looks like meat, so I'm not sure what difference it makes. Frustrations aside, she did end up eating it, and said it was good, but didn't want me to leave the rest of it with her. I took it home, and Brady ate it, and said it was good, so at least I know it wasn't disgusting. My little sister wouldn't eat it because it had corn and onions in it.

I offered to cook for her again, just sans soy cheese and wheat meat. But she doesn't understand that food can legitimately be made vegan. Animal products don't HAVE to be in something for it to be tasty. I'm sure there's plenty of foods that you've eaten that are vegan by nature. Minestrone soup, Oreo cookies, pasta, pancakes (sometimes). And when I told her I was making vegan cupcakes that mysteriously disappear within days of making them, she said that was disgusting too, and couldn't imagine what one would bake with if I left out the butter and eggs. I noted that so many eat margarine, which is a butter replacement, without thinking twice. But the moment I put "soy" in the word it's disgusting. I'll cook something some day that she won't be weirded out by, but I guess until then she'll always be suspicious of my cooking.

In other news, another one of my dolls was repainted recently. To give you a refresher, she used to look like this:

But I had Aileen (frozen wings on DOA) repaint her to be my cute little deadly Zombie/Elf girl:

I'm going to get her these eyes in 12mm spirit dove. Then she'll need a little outfit, and eventually her own body. That's at least exciting.