Courtney: Crayooooooonnnnssss!
Brianna: O_O Really?
Courtney: Yes.
Well okay.
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I was going to make this a free writing bit of prose, but I'm not really feeling the prose right now. And I could write poetically, but my brain has decided to blaaaaaah. Melt inside my skull and ooze out my nose. Which is totally fine, since I really don't have to speak intelligently again until tomorrow. And even that is debatable.
I really enjoy crayons. A lot. Before I went off to school for my freshman year, my mother bought me a gigantic box of crayons. 120 crayons, to be precise. At least, I think that's when I got them. Coloring has got to be the best stress reliever that I can ever think of. For Christmas that same year of college, my friend got me a set of High School Musical crayons. Now you would think that these crayons would have something special about them. Like they would sing while you colored with them or yelled about "Wildcats" when you open the box. But no. The boxes have characters from High School Musical on them, and that's about it. Less than stellar coloring ability as well.
I'm very picky when it comes to crayons. But maybe it's not so much "picky" as the fact that I have standards when it comes to crayons. None of those Rose Art crayons, give me Crayola, and that's it.
A couple years ago, I asked for a "crayon tower" for Christmas, and I got it. BEST Christmas present EVER. It has these glitter crayons and metallic crayons in addition to the classic colored crayons. I'm a little upset that I got multiple white crayons and only one black crayon, because it's a fact that black is the crayon that's used up the quickest, and white...well, not so much. So that's just silly.
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| Crayon Tower FTW! :^D |
Basic gist of this post? I love crayons. A lot. I also may or may not have stolen a coloring book from the closet of an organization I'm no longer the president of. I figured I deserved something to remind me of that wonderful, wonderful year. It's a Magical Creatures coloring AND activity book! I could hardly resist.
I've been coloring for a really long time. My most vivid memories about coloring all take place at my grandmother's lake house. Well, my grandparents'. They used to have this house hours about 4 hours away from my home, and it was always a big deal when we went there because we had to stay for a long time to make it worth the drive. The reason for having the house was so we had a vacation place, and then my grandpa really likes to fish, so he would go out on the pier and fish. On bad days, little Brianna would color on the dining room table. It was always SO cool because sometimes I could get my mom or my grandma to color with me. They were REALLY good at coloring, I remember. Grandma would always shade with weird combinations of colors, and Mom always gave the Disney princesses weird colored hair. If I'm not mistaken, she put Belle in black and purple and gave her gray hair. SO good. We also played a game where you had to close your eyes and pick a color and then you had to use that color in your picture. We always ended up with really weird looking pictures, but it was so much fun!
I still color now. I may be a senior in college, but you know...I need a stress reliever if I can ever force myself to take time for it! My coloring books and crayons are just within reach of my desk, so I should get on that...
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| A picture from November 2010. Because I date my colorings. :^P |
"We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live in the same box."
- Unknown
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