So I guess this is kind of like my blog world or something. This is actually where my Share the Love world used to be, but I never used it for what I intended it to be. So now it's gone, and I've changed my blog title to The Labyrinth because I feel like life can be a lot like the Labyrinth in legends. It's a giant maze and we're all just people stumbling through it. Sometimes we mess up and make wrong turns because we can't clearly see what we should do, and sometimes we can clearly see that path we must take. Sometimes we do take that path, other times we are led astray by tricks and temptations. I'm trying to learn to navigate the Labyrinth of my life, to find beauty and reasons to smile, and to keep my eyes on the constants, the rise of the moon and sun, the continuity of change, the way time pushes forward and one minute melts into another, allowing us to eventually leave all the bad times in the past where they belong.

So, um...

Name: Sara. (Hate my boring name. And my boring middle name. In fact, only like my last name)

Personality: It really depends. I am a very strongly emotional person and the way I am really depends on my current emotions.

Age: 17 (Senior in high school)

Favorite color: I love all colors and see them as potentially artistic and beautiful...but if I had to choose, blue.

Favorite numbers: 4, 16, 394.

Likes: Reading, writing, drawing, painting, art, listening to music, complaining, skiing, ice skating, making up stories in my head, laughing, making people laugh, cool/wild clothes, inspirational quotes, good friends, Harry Potter.

Hates: any sort of stinging insect, judgmental people.

Religion: tolerance. Well, actually, I am a Christian, but my point is that I don't care if you're not. I am so sick of people using their religion as an excuse to hate others. As long as you're a good person I don't care if you don't believe the same thing as I do. In fact, one of my favorite quotes: "What a coincidence that God hates all the same people you do!"

People I admire: J.K. Rowling (of course), Suzanne Collins, Dr. Seuss, Luna Lovegood (she's real to me!), Barack Obama (No haters please, I'm not here for a political debate), Adele.

My current obsession: looking up videos for songs with Harry Potter clips in them. A good one for this world, I believe, is this.

Welcome to my blog.

Ink-stained hands

I feel very relieved. After a few days of mounting depression and frustration, I spent my entire study hall and math class writing a four-page (back and front) rant directed mainly at a person I'm frustrated with but also expressing a lot of the frustration I've felt with myself and my life. I felt a lot better after writing it. Honestly, while my hand was racing across the page I almost went into a kind of trance. It felt kind of good to be writing on paper again too. I do a lot by computer nowadays, but the truth is that it isn't the same as a pen for me. Ink-stained hands have always been a part of my identity. When I was done I didn't feel as mad at her anymore either, although I think this is probably going to bug me for a long time.

Update-ifying

So it's that time, the time when I need to update ALL my worlds. Why? Because soon is MY BIRTHDAY! And...HOLY PLATYPUS I'M GOING TO BE 18! It's so weird...i definitely don't feel like a grown-up. I'M SCARED!!! anyways...my worlds...they'll be new and improved, soon. Oh, and I made 2 more, which i'm still working on. So, yeah...

New art stuffs

So yesterday my dad and I went out and he got me some calligraphy ink. I got the standard black and also blue, green, and purple. He got me some parchment as well because the ink tends to get blotchy on regular paper. My teacher gave me a pen and a set of nibs as a graduation present so now I can make more craft stuff! Yay! I tested out the purple ink making my mom a mother's day card and it came out all right.

Also I got some new outdoor spray paints and stencils so I can decorate our lawn chairs. We usually just paint them white because we live out in the middle of nowehere and our house isn't too big. We don't really hold a lot of gatherings; our neighborhood is a very private and isolated place those who choose to live here do so because they like nature, peace, and privacy. However, all the relatives are coming up for my graduation and we're going to have a party, so we're trying to spruce the place up a bit. We're repainting and replanting everything. I don't know what can be done about repainting the tree fort though...it would take so much time. My dad insisted on painting it brown years ago to match the house, but then we had the house re-sided blue and now we just have this giant brown box up there. I'd like to paint it some other color...oh well.

I'm actually really psyched to paint these chairs, guys. Oh, and also I HAVE CUTE STICKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had to get some of those too...

Blah

So I uploaded my calligraphy art to theO but....then I realized that most of it has my full name written on it. I try to be more careful than that on the internet, so I had to delete it. I promise I'll put more up sometime...I'll just have to use Photoshop or something and blur out my name.

Job idea

So I'm going to need a way to bring in a little extra money...and my teacher gave me one. I'm in my second Calligraphy class at school and I'm pretty good at it. I may start posting my calligraphy art projects here, possibly, or writing calligraphy quotes on my fanart rather than using computer texts. My teacher told me that one of her former students makes good money doing calligraphy for other people, especially for weddings since lots of people want their invitations done in calligraphy fonts. That would actually be an awesome job, and not too difficult for me. I like to write and I like art. It could be perfect.