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Hey guys, I wish I can give some comforting news about my upcoming finals and that very soon I will be out for summer to again start focusing on art. But at the moment, I can't be entirely certain.

Just recently, we had a very weather issues. It only started with a big of the usual nasty weather, you know just heavy rain and hailing, but then we got tornado warnings. The first time, not a whole lot of us took it seriously just by the way they handled siren warnings and the usual "The sky is falling!!" attitudes we commonly get when it comes to tornado warnings. If you yourself practically grew up in the Tornado Alley, you often don't take tornados as a huge deal. Here, the weather is very bipolar, so we usually expect as much. Now this isn't to say we are not entirely cautious of tornados, we are, and we understand what they can do. We just do not panic once we get an alert by them, and the news tends to make the warnings VERY exaggerating. However, come the second day we had another storm warning and then a tornado warning. This would be the second time we waited around the television awaiting for the word to move down into the cellars. This time, it was serious. All the news kept repeating was just how massive the tornado was, to the point that my grandmother began to panic. So to ease her nerves we went down into the cellar, me, my grandmother, and my two cousins. Meanwhile my parents stayed up in the house watching the news. For most of the time we just sat down in the cellar, listening to the THUNK of hail hitting the metal chained door as they gradually got louder and louder then suddenly ease up then again loud and mighty. Finally my parents came down with us, and we could hear the 'roar' of the tornado and the higher screech of the sirens. It wasn't exactly in our area, my Dad told me, but it was still close enough to hear it and they would better be safe than sorry. After while later, the hail and rain lighted up and the sirens stopped. We couldn't even hear the tornado anymore, so we got out of the cellar, my father first. He checked the news and we found out that the tornado had passed us. All piling out quickly from the dingy cellar, we listened closely to the news again. We come to find out the tornado has hit an elementary school, full of young students underneath its debris. I felt sick, as the cameraman showed a bunch of parents running towards the crumbled school, and felt somewhat anger when the reporters tried to pull some of them aside to talk when they clearly have more important things on their mind. Then we heard the tornado hit a hospital (one I had to go to once before for surgery), and gave minimal damage to a theatre. The next nearly made my heart jump into my throat, when I heard almost an entire neighborhood, one of plenty of friends families and students attending my same highschool, got critically damaged. When the helicopter's camera hovered over the neighborhood, I was shocked to find most of the houses completely gone. Just...gone!

Finally the tornados vanished, and families started calling left and right, donations quickly began for the suffered families, call on low water supply, and I felt such grief I had to crawl in bed to hopefully sleep away my major growing headache. Later I began making calls to my friends and family, asking if they are alright and if they needed anything to make sure to give my family a text (since most of the lines were busy) if they needed help. Because of this tragedy, my school gave an alert to all students and parents via text telling us that they canceled a school day for the students that lost their homes and families. I am glad they decided this, but worried because that only reassures me that most of the students had lost so much in the tornado. Originally we were going to have today and tomorrow as review days for finals on Thursday and Friday, but now we may only have one day left before finals (maybe not even that they could even cancel tomorrow and delay the finals).

Conclusion? I feel very drained right now. I'm tired, upset, and confused just by all this insanity that went down in just two days. But I am very relieved to hear from some of my family and friends that survived and with minimal damage, although my worry continues for those who had suffered from this event. My friend and I thought about painting for donations and just giving some of our stuff to those who now have very few. I'm sorry if this may be inconvenient for those who had waited a very long period for me to be more active with both art and journals, but there's nothing I can really do at the time. All I can say is to please be patient, my finals will come sooner or later eventually and I will be able to post more artwork over my extended free time. Also please pray for the families that have suffered and lost so much this week.
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AKON- Akon was my very first convention ever and so I didn't know what to really expect, besides videos of other conventions on youtube. I expected the convention to be about a good amount of people or even a smaller amount, however I was proven wrong as soon as I stepped foot into the Sheraton Hotel. The Convention was simply amazing, there was so much to do and I really had a blast seeing all the different kinds of cosplays, and panels. Although since it was my first time, my friend and I didn't really plan out well what events we wanted to go to, and even when we asked some of the staff where some contests and etc panels were they usually seemed like they didn't know or just lead us to another dead end. Even though we got lost alot of times and didn't make it to any of the events held at the convention, we still had alot of fun! Aching feets and all!!

Total= Big, Lots of people, Kinda Expensive, Lots to do!!

Tokyo In Tulsa- This convention was alot smaller than AKON but we all sorta suspected it before hand and we were kinda pleased that we didn't have to wait in line very long even if we didn't register before hand. The convention building itself and the majority of people were small but it was still a very fun convention, even my folks got a kick out of it! The only downside I would say is that Vic was there and so it made a HUGE back up in the stairways and other public panels (I was so upset when I realized I missed him!). Although this convention was rather small, Tokyo In Tulsa was still rather fun to attend to.

Total= Small, Sometimes crowded, 'Ok' price

Izumicon- Izumicon was rather an inbetween Tokyo in Tulsa and AKON, the building was rather mid-sized and the amount of people was differing between times, sometimes large groups and sometimes small. Oddly enough on the first day aswell everything seemed to be closed for some reason. This convention however I tried again something new! I attended a cosplay meet up for the first time ever! It was a Homestuck Meet up so again I did not know what to exactly expect or how long it would take. To my surprise the meet up took about 2 or so hours long!! I really do enjoy Homestuck and the meet up was fun and all but man I didn't want to spend ALL my time in the meet up!! I gotta say though, even if the meet up was alittle too long, I meet alot of amazing people which was very reassuring for me since I am a VERY non-social person. What surprised me even more about the convention is that I believe by my memory that it is even cheaper than Tokyo in Tulsa! Although I do suppose it may vary because I was only there for two days. Over all though the convention was just fantastic! (I MISSED YOU AGAIN VIC!! >:U I'LL MEET YOU ONE OF THESE DAYS!!!! >n< )

Total= Mid, Differing people amounts, lots to do, NICE PRICE!

A2M-Before I even attended this convention my sissy/friend :iconholysacredoreo: informed me a little about how the convention was rather small but it was free. Of course I didn’t care if it was small. Free convention? SCORE! Once we finally made it all the way to California, the first thing I noticed was that the convention had a payment for parking, which cost $12.00. (Keep in mind that the convention not be entirely free itself with the parking, but it was a much lower price than any around my location. Plus that is to say you did take the convention’s parking and not a free parking else where.) The parking was rather nice and close to the convention, however that maybe because we were on motorcycle and not car. (but the parking lot looked rather empty anyway.) After parked (and meeting up with sissy and :iconsalemthecat23: <3) we started to walk around. Apparently sissy never exactly got the experience of what truly was a ‘small’ convention. I was completely surprised from the majority of people and the over all size of the convention, it wasn’t too crowded but it was a good amount of people to say the place was up and running! To my knowledge the building had two floors although I never had the chance to go to the 2nd. As far as little shopping stands: there was plenty enough to get your interest, although not a vast amount. While panels and events, I also never really got the chance to take part in any. Over all, the convention was really fun and exciting to attend, though I am not entirely sure if this critique would be considered sufficient for the fact I spent most of my time not even in the convention but on foot trying to find food. (Which take note; I heard most food areas in the convention were packed. I don’t know if that is true though.) I was really jealous of this convention!! I urge anyone that is around that area to try the convention out sometime, you won’t be disappointed!

Total= Mid-big, Perfect amounts of people, lots of cosplay, FREE!!

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*SalemTheCat23 2 days ago  Hobbyist General Artist
Tricky! my parents will be leaving later, so I can be as silly and loud as I want. ^^
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oh okie eve ill be waiting
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*SalemTheCat23 2 days ago  Hobbyist General Artist
Ok they are gone! sorry it took longer then I thought. ^^;
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*HolySacredOreo Apr 27, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
psssssssst~~~ hay e v e
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*HolySacredOreo Apr 28, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
how is you u 7 u
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i is good u w u....but cramping sobu
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*Ommin202 Apr 14, 2013  Professional Writer
Thank you for the fave! There are two more now:
Harden: [link]
Farfetch'd: [link]
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*HolySacredOreo Apr 12, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
psssssst e v e ~~~<3 how yew doing~~
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eve good how are you? <33
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*HolySacredOreo Apr 12, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
gyooood I'm very bored ;; v ;;
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*HolySacredOreo Apr 4, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist

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Look down below. You see that? That is all your shame all wrapped up into one. Shame on ye, fo shaaaame!
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