Can't Catch a Break

I have seriously had one of the worst days ever today. I don't even know where to begin. I guess it started with my night last night. But, the majority of it is entirely too personal to put up on the WWW.

Anyways, despite my terrible night/day I was certainly very creative today! I went to Hobby Lobby with a good friend of mine and bought origami paper. I also bought two more stained glass bottles to add to my collection. I normally would have walked right past them because they are usually marked pretty high, but today I decided to stop and admire. After I had found two amazing bottles, I couldn't justify buying them. I kept saying things like, "But where am I going to put them?" and "I guess I don't really need them, I need to save money." Then my friend looked up and said, "Hey, Jade, you know these are all half off right?" I died and went to heaven right there in Hobby Lobby. I grabbed them both and practically ran to the cash register and said, "We HAVE to get out of here before I buy ten million more things!"

When I got home, I had every intention of starting a new origami crane project. I sat down at the dining room table and took out all my purchases. Then I ran to put the glass bottles somewhere in my room and to grab my computer so I could pull up YouTube and refresh my memory on how to make the cranes. Upon arriving back at the dining room table my younger brother had sat down at the table. He seemed really down so I asked him what was up. Turns out we both had similar problems today. We decided to go out to eat at a Japanese place called Katana. We had loads of fun and ended up knowing exactly what to say to each other. He is seriously the best brother I could ask for.

Back at home, my dad was frantically searching for my brother because I had forgotten to leave a note saying that he was with me. So, of course, I got the "you-need-to-be-more-responsible" talk from Dad. I was almost positive I was going to be in trouble for the rest of the night because of that. But, he proceeded to tell me that he was going to let me move into the room that we added onto our house, after graduation this saturday. I was ecstatic. I have been asking for this for almost two years now. He said that it was only fair because it was more secluded and private.

You'd think that would have turned my whole night around, but it didn't. I sat back down at the dining room table and started making the origami cranes. I ended up making like 11 or 12 of them. I really enjoyed it but my hands started to cramp up. I just happened to look up at the clock and see that it was 8:15ish and got excited because Pretty Little Liars was coming on at 9. Needless to say, I got on Twitter and realized that it actually started at 8.

So, that brings us to now. I was like, "What can I do to waste an hour of my time?" I immediately thought of my blog. Mainly because I feel guilty that I didn't blog yesterday.

Here are a few pictures of my cranes and bottles! :)

The newest ones are the yellow one on the left and the turquoise on the right.

Yay for cranes!

This one ended up being my favorite!

I bet you're wondering what in world I am going to do with all those cranes. Well, here's your answer. I stole the idea from a really good friend of mine, Sarah. I went to her house one day and in her dining room she had a bunch of cute little origami cranes hanging. So, the idea is that when I move into the new room I'm going to hang 1,000 from the ceiling. I know what you're thinking, "Jade, a thousand cranes! Are you sure about that?!?" Yes, I'm sure! This is why: There's a little Japanese/Chinese saying that if you make 1,000 cranes that your wish will come true. I have a pretty big wish and I want it to come true. I know that's cheesy, but hey, it might work ;)