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Name: Dani
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
Interests: worshiping God, drawing, painting, Japanese, traveling, music, singing, hockey, football (Steelers!), reading, swords, manga, animation (not just Japanese), friends, being outdoors
Expertise: indecisiveness
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  BarlowGrrl02
Member Since:
5/31/2005
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| How many times a day to a take God's grace and mercy for granted? Every minute of every day. My wonderful mother helped me realize that today. I've been so caught up in deadlines! deadlines! deadlines! that I've let myself get buried and turned into a me!me!me! monster. I've never cursed so much in my life as I have this last week or so, and realizing how much foul language I've allowed to pass through my thoughts (and sometimes through my mouth) makes me ill. I've cursed at God, at myself, at my computer...and all of a sudden, God smacked me across the head and reminded me that I need to give everything to him and not be such a control freak. I was able to take a walk through one of my favorite haunts, and I spent most of the time in prayer. Just looking at His creation was a blessing. I realized (the keyword of this post) that every breath I take is a blessing, and so every breath should be spent glorifying Him. I've forgotten to praise Him these last few months, and turned work into an excuse. I've treated His sacrifice with contempt and tossed aside all of his blessings. I don't deserve anything He has done for me and knowing that makes me all the more thankful to Him and all the more angry at myself. But, I need to stop being angry and start living for Him.
So thank You, Jesus, for this wake up call.
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| At least the Xerxes of 300 could be. Seriously, though, that movie was amazing! Every scene looked like a painting. I was like "oooooh....pretty". So, I've been on spring break since Wednesday, but only got home today. I still have painting to do, but that will be coupled with rest, relaxation, and good, homecooked food. Woohoo:) | | |
| Good day to you, things that aren't my sketchbook! At least, for the time being. I am currently taking a break from working on storyboards for my animation class...storyboards that were supposed to be done last Thursday, but didn't get done then, and didn't get done today, so...Thursday? For those of you who are writers, storyboards are like rough drafts - not the rough draft you bs for a school paper, but the first draft of a novel you would turn in to an editor. Yeah. Every scene has to be worked out in these, and when it is all said and done, I will have about 30 11X14 sketchbook pages drawn, inked, and colored. Woo.
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| Anyone who has seen a lot of my recent drawings has realized that I have been, for the past few years, working on drawing more realistic faces (as opposed to anime/cartoonish faces). Well, for my Animation class, we have to do character designs for our project, to be animated in Flash. My main character is a human girl. So that means that I have to draw a character simple enough to outline and color in Illustrator and then animate in Flash. Which means basically backtracking a few years. Oh, the funny things life brings about... | | |
| Well, as a new year begins, I'm stuck in between looking ahead and looking forward. 2006 brought with it one of the worst semesters at Lock Haven, but it also brought good memories, new friends, and interesting experiences. God has been teaching me so many things, and He continues to show me His awesomeness. 2007 brings with it one final semester at Lock Haven, followed by graduation, which will take me who knows where. I haven't the faintest idea what I will be doing when I enter the "real world", but I know that I want to do something adventurous, something that will take me out of central Pennsylvania and someplace where I can really live and grow. This is the time to do it, because if and when I marry settle down, I will have a family to care for, and those opportunities will go out the window. So, here's to the new year, whatever it brings. | | |
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