Michaila's Misadventures

So I have had an interesting summer so far, wrought with many misadventures and random moments of klutziness and awkwardness.  In order to make it even more awkward, I shall share my misadventures with you:

MAY:
I started the summer off with a move from my school year dorm to my summer housing, pretty much clear across campus.  Both my rides that offered to help me drive my stuff over fell through, so I almost had to walk all my stuff over with a dolly.  It's a half mile walk one way. Luckily my new roommate and her friend helped me.

JUNE:
I decided to make book themed cupcakes for the library, starting off with Divergent. 

 
Dauntless chocolate cake with sugar glass flames.
Set off the fire alarm when I burned the sugar glass.  Didn't catch the irony until much later.  I had to call my RA and have her turn the alarm off.  Fun times.

The very next day, I got locked into my own bedroom.  I went in to my room to change to take a shower, shut my door for obvious reasons even though I was home alone, and once I was in my robe, I realized I couldn't open the door.  I had left my phone and computer out on the couch in our living area because I was taking a shower...didn't need them.  I tried to stay calm and jimmy the door open with my TEC cross and any card I could find. Just pretend you're Nancy Drew...she gets locked into rooms all the time.  Basically what had happened was that my door handle no longer controlled the door jam.  I had the sense to change into some clothes and open my window.  I live on the first floor and my bedroom window faces a courtyard between the two townhouse units. The window's at the end of this weird hallway thing in my room that I stuffed my bed into.  I have a bed cave. It's wonderful. Anyway, so I'm on my bed with my window open and I start yelling for help, trying to make my voice sound calm.  I mean, it's not exactly an emergency, but by then it was 7 and my roommate worked until midnight and if I got hungry or bored or needed to pee...I was screwed.  Plus it was scary and I wanted out and needed to shower.
So I yell, "Help?  Is anyone out there?"
This guy who works at the library with me at the library but in a different department so I hardly ever see him because he's hiding on fourth floor came walking by and freaked out-he thought someone was being murdered.  It didn't help that we had recently had a level 3 sex offender move in a five minute's walk from our townhouse.  My front door was unlocked because before I had decided to take a shower, I had been sitting facing the door and didn't feel like it needed to be locked.  So he came in and tried to open the door from the outside.  His friend came in and they start calling the RA (whose number was on my phone from the fire alarm fiasco the day before) who didn't answer...finally the guy suggested I take the screen off my window and climb out.  That worked, and I got back in and then called building services and they took my handle off my door.  They fixed it a few days later.

Also managed to burn my arm real good while making potato sweet potato tart.  I had a burn about the size of a playing card on my right elbow. Evidently the oven in my apartment doesn't have a stop point half way open like the one at home does.  And the tart wasn't even all that delicious. So not worth it.





MORE CUPCAKES!

  Get it?  Little infinities? Saw this movie and looked in my purse for something to stop the bleeding of the scab I just picked, found tissues and it was getting to that part so I just took one and passed it down. Also started ballet lessons.


Had some family issues happen and had to take the train home.  My train was supposed to get in at about 2am.  It didn't get there until 8:15am.  Fun times.
But then this happened:

So there's that.

I had a strange dream apparently on June 22: 

So I had the weirdest dream last night: with so many people I know getting married or engaged, weddings have been on my brain. 

Last night I dreamt of my wedding day, but it was at my house in my backyard (which would never happen in real life because I want a church wedding). They wouldn't do my hair the way I wanted it, but when I finally came out and walked down the aisle, I stood next to my future husband and realized the ridiculousness of it all. (at this point I think I began lucid dreaming) I put my arm around my future husband and announced to the crowd in my yard, "Sorry everyone, the wedding is off. We haven't even met each other yet!"

Yep. Priorities.

So that happened. 

More cupcakes!

 
These are based on a book called A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd.  It's adorable.  Go read it.  Now.

Anyway, there's this ice cream flavor in the book that's really important called Blackberry Sunrise and it helps you remember things. It's magic ice cream.  Seriously, this book is wonderful.

So naturally I made ice cream cone cupcakes with lemon cupcakes with lemon pie filling in them and blackberry cream cheese frosting with blackberries and lemon zest on top. They liked to tip over...but were extremely delicious.

Started watching Doctor Who.

It has now consumed my life.

Doctor Who is wonderful.

Won a contest for a commissioned drawing of my characters Damien and Calista. :) Very exciting stuff. 

JULY:

Started Camp NaNoWriMo with Beauty is Blind.  Wrote some weird stuff.  Got about halfway to my goal and gave up. 

Bumped into a car with my bike on my way home from church and the grocery store.  Basically we were both at a stop sign and I thought he was waiting for me to go but he was waiting to turn right and I didn't see his blinker until it was too late.  We both had just started moving so it was a very low speed collision, but it bent my front wheel and scraped me up pretty bad.  Then I made cupcakes. Very therapeutic.
Doctor Seuss themed!

Sneetches!

Green Eggs and Ham, Cat in the Hat, and McElligot's Pool

Truffula trees and Clover cake pops
from The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who

Thing One and Thing Two

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Me and my clover...

 These were Funfetti strawberry jello cupcakes.  The clovers were chocolate cake pops and the truffula trees were vanilla.

Also had a slightly terrifying conversation at the bus stop Tuesday about my relationship status or lack of with a guy who I now realize was hitting/creeping on me.  Real eye opener.

I dyed my hair!  It now has red highlights.

^ Me losing my "hair virginity" as they called it.  I've never dyed my hair before



<And the red highlights!




Also strangely straight hair.



How I actually look:

 This is a still from a movie I made today...

Joined the Disney Smule Games!  Go Team Cyclone!

Basically, we do all these different challenge.  Number one: ensemble challenge.  We did "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast and I got to be Belle!  I also had to sing my part outside at midnight.  Got some weird looks from a girl walking home, but whatever. 

Our first two rounds.  We placed first and second respectively out of four.  The next round was voice acting-I did the sound effects and the tin whistle bit.
Our next challenge is interpretation - taking a musical (in our case, Les Miserables) and replacing the characters and lyrics with ones pertaining to a Disney movie (in our case, Aladdin) Our song is called "All this for a Loaf of Bread?"
It's wonderful.

Oh, and then I was biking Tuesday and wiped out.

 Fun times.  Very fun times. A tricycle bike was hogging the sidewalk, I got out of the way, tried to get back on the sidewalk and caught the edge of it.  I've apparently made it my life goal to use up the first aid kit at work. 

So that's my summer.