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That was the sound of my creativity being all over the place. And evidently undocumented. I’ve just had so many ideas for different posts that I then got overwhelmed and did none of them. Which is the dumbest excuse for inaction ever. Well.

anyways.

Also, as my mom is testament, whenever I get distracted I make myself ‘productive’ in some of the most useless things. Some of which, this past week (as the stress about finalizing my videos for my summer videography job) has escalated dangerously for my actual work demands, but has proved pretty excellent as far as everything else goes. It’d be worse if I was being terribly unproductive in my procrastination, but in fact, I’d like to think I’m a littttttttle bit less irresponsible and lazy than that.

Thus, I term myself a professional procrastinator. When I've not been doing everything I’m supposed to be doing, I’ve instead been doing everything but.

1. embarking on my journey to learn perfect pitch (and browsing songs to audition to for mayhaps auditioning for a capella groups this Fall) and practicing relearning sight-reading music

which has actually been fun. Revisiting my piano music to Billy Joel’s Summer Highland Falls and Coldplay’s Clocks, I’ve been trying to not play from memory as usual. Which I’ve found is difficult, but… hey. It’s work, right?

I took the perfect pitch test at around 1am and got 8 out of 12 after briefly browsing through “The Basics of Reading Music”, and the next day decided that the lawnmowers outside hummed a resounding C. I think I’m the luckiest duck in that my ear has already put me far ahead of the curve in terms of learning this musicality stuff (clearly made up for in my lack of athletic talent….so…my abilities balance out). Clearly, I have a lot of work though to make it more than short term memory.

But the music musings didn’t stop there…

2. keyboarding and recording in garageband to my classic Mae jams and singing my covers to Crush by Jennifer Paige and Human by Darren Criss. 

And also on my trip with my dear friend French and her two other close friends to the Poconos, we tried using the Cups-style-beat with plastic cups along to a variety of other songs in 4/4. My favorite was our rendition of Kiss the Girl. Sadly I have no recording. It was pretty awesome though. They all have lovely voices. Fronch is in an a capella group at Barnard/Columbia. Cause bauss.

Andddd then I got onto a kick of hair things.

3. exploring hair colors and cuts and styles for various face shapes and skin tones.

Since of course I’m thinking about my end-of-summer-back-to-school haircut prospects. Which then qualifies ogling some gorgeous looking celebrities and hairstyles and realizing that my coarse, thick, half-asian mane will never be as wonderfully cooperative as theirs no matter how I cut it or which products I use. But I can still be like

wow Heidi you’re super gorg.

or

I see your sneaky blonde tactics tryna make yourself look like a genetic anomaly of a fairskinned, blue-eyed, brunette pixie. YOU’RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE.

or

if only I could add in sunny splashes and not look like a freak.

ughhhhGIRLCRUSH.

Yeah, I know. I’ve jumped on the train of people who think Jennifer Lawrence is perfection.

and then I took a long break to explore shampoo brands and whether using red-head shampoo would bring out my natural red highlights [update: turns out the answer to this question is 'it won’t because you have a coarse, thick, half-asian mane that cloaks all colorful brilliance, duhh’. Sigh.]

But my beauty explorations didn’t stop there.

4. venturing into the realm of makeup styles and watching videos on application and layering

Specifically Mila Kunis (more girlcrush alert). And tutorials.

imsuchagirlwowww

Because clearly all of this was important.

And since I’m actually getting to post this AFTER my videos were due, I did in fact finish them. And they are in fact passable. I’ll post links when they put them up on their websites. I’m looking forward to seeing how many views they get and have fingers crossed that the response is positive.

YAY FOR PROFESSIONAL PROCRASTINATION.

If you think of time in terms of baking endeavors like I do, I was a whole year younger the last time I created something delicious with my oven.

And surprisingly, I still haven’t. Baked anything, I mean. But I haven’t put creativity on hold by any means. 

Thank you notes are a lost…art? practice? People rarely send them, and they are, in my opinion, hugely underrated.

Much like regular cards, I rarely buy stationary and never buy stationary with writing inside. The value of a card is not made up of the cost of the paper, stamp and envelope.

It’s the earnest acknowledgement that someone actually cares enough about you to do something so inane and elaborate.

It’s like a gift back. Returning the favor [of sorts] in the form of your time.

So to

it’s the least I can do.

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Cups, by Anna Kendrick was first introduced to me when I watched Pitch Perfect on my laptop one night at school instead of sleeping. It’s a pretty cool audition (it’s her audition song) but maybe that’s because Anna Kendrick is just sort of a bauss and a half.

So I had to teach it to myself (since I like teaching myself songs on the piano…)

…but the biggest challenge at first seemed to be figuring out how to do the rhythm on the cup and sing simultaneously. Because I have that issue often when singing and playing piano. Where I just mess myself up and can’t seem to get notes out of either my fingers or my throat. Like musical dyslexia.

Which is (in the least obnoxious way possible) really abnormal and frustrating for me.

So I sat down and figured it out.

Aaaaand then, in usual me-fashion, I harmonized to it.

I’ll post those after this so you can listen if you want.