Cover This Page With White Things

If you follow me on Instagram you would have seen this picture (although with a hardcore filter over top haha) three weeks ago. This is another Wreck This Journal page that you can see me "wrecking" in the first episode of my Wreck This Journal YouTube series, and you can watch that quick video HERE if you wish. 

The sand and shells on this page are from the beach in Cuba (insert stereotypical "take me back" throwback Thursday Instagram picture) in April of this year. Yes, April. The sand and shells have been sitting in a Ziploc bag on my desk for almost seven months. That, my friends, is procrastination at its finest. Even worse, ninety percent of my motivation for this page was to get the bag off my desk because it wasn't pretty and I would forget about it if I put it anywhere else. Yeah, I know.

So first, I covered the page in a mix of Mod Podge and regular school glue. Mostly because I'm running out of Mod Podge. Mostly because I spilled it. Moving on.

I was worried about how the sand would cover and if it would congeal to the glue and harden in a less attractive greyish blob. For my friend's birthday in July I made her birthday card with some of this sand and it was a nightmare to work with. If you are planning to deal with fine, white sand and glue I recommend covering the entire space you want covered in sand with the glue, putting it on a surface like a drop sheet or a piece of cardboard and dumping all the sand on top so it is completely covered in a thick later. After it dries, dump off the access and "spot treat" any areas that didn't get properly covered. It was easier with this page as it didn't require precise angles and corners and I was covering the majority of it anyway with the shells.

Next, the shells. I started with just using school glue but that was not happening so I pulled out the ol' glue gun. I like glue guns because they are quick and effective but because of them I have very little feeling in the pads of my fingers after burning myself and ripping layers of skin and glue off. Nice, huh?

My least favourite thing about glue guns are the glue threads. You can't see them too much on the picture but they were everywhere. It was like a hairy little animal. I pulled most of them off but they in turn removed patches of sand and even some of the shells. The shells were hard to attach as it had to be a ring of hot glue around the very thin curvature of each shell. I started having the shells very close together but gradually fading down into a shoreline ombre effect. 

My journal now officially doesn't close because of this page and that is an important milestone of Wreck This Journaling. 

I take this way too seriously. 

Thanks so much for reading! If you would like more information about my previous journal, this current one or WTJ in general, please check out my tumblr Journal page, which is a super cool hub of WTJ information. 

Thanks again!

Adrianna.

Crack The Spine // Leave This Page Blank on Purpose

For anyone who has done a Wreck This Journal, the page that asks you to crack the spine of the book creates the first real obstacle. It goes against every instinct of a book lover to purposely bend the spine of the book, but at the same time it's the first page you are presented with after the table of contents and "page numbering" page. It attempts to kill the perfectionist in you right away by this simple but meaningful task.

That being said, cracking the spine is actually the first thing I did in this journal. I actually did in in April and it is part of Episode 1 of my WTJ Series on YouTube.


The page included on the same DPS (double page spread... Yearbook lingo holla) instructs the wrecker to leave that page blank on purpose. This is reminiscent from a page that used to be included in all our provincial exams that said "THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY  BLANK" which made us laugh at the black text on the "blank" page. Anyway, the challenge there is do you actually leave it blank or do something with some degree of devil-may-care-ness? If you scroll through the Wreck This Journal tag on tumblr its filled with various "no" memes plastered on this page. In my completed journal I decided to change it up and placed a sticker that said "beautiful" over blank, and left that page... well, beautiful.

This time around I went a similar route but made both pages go together. One of the movies we watched way too often as kids was the animated movie Babes in Toyland. The villain is Barnaby, who, like most villains in Christmas movies, wants to stop Christmas. Although, unlike the Grinch he is a bit more determined and enlists the goblins (who are absolutely terrifying if you go back and watch) to help. Again on the same track as animated villains, Barnaby also has an epic villain theme song. And of course, it's catchy as heck. You can check it out here!

So after watching that little gem, you'll get my inspiration for this page! Now my journal is as crooked as Barnaby, and I know I didn't follow the instruction to leave that page blank... but I guess maybe I'm morally askew too!

Thanks for reading!
Adrianna.

Trace Your Toes

Wow... summer's over! That went by way too fast. I started this page at the beginning of August and to make things more interesting,  I had a very swollen eye.

Turns out it wasn't an unfortunate bug bite but a super nasty infection called orbital cellulitis. I was on super hard core antibiotics and apparently if they didn't kick in when they did I would be in the hospital right now... or worse.

So enough of that! Luckily they definitely did work so I was able to finish this page. I decided to make the toe shapes look like clouds and after narrowing down several quotes/ song lyrics I went with this line from Taylor Swift's Dear John. 

I hope you enjoy the process I went through for this page!

Adrianna.

Smush Something Colourful Onto This Page

A lot of people wonder why I'm doing another Wreck This Journal (you can see my completed one HERE), especially my friends and family whom I begged for fruit stickers and watched me with pure judgement as I carried around the book doing things that made them question my sanity. As my first WTJ was from early 2012, it is actually different from the ones currently available: the extended edition. This means there are a dozen or so pages that weren't in the original book. One of the challenges for me is going to be doing the original pages a second time without copying the things I did in my first journal.

However, the new "extended" pages are going to be fun because it's brand new and something I didn't have to ponder over the last time around.

This page asks the reader to "smush something colourful onto this page" and some of my ideas were berries or paint. But then when I was packing my stuff to do Color Me Rad the other day, I remembered this page.

Color Me Rad is a Color Run, something that's become popular in the last couple years. In essence you run a 5k route and along the way people throw coloured cornstarch at you and you end up covered from head to toe (including some very awkward places) in a giant rainbow and get stared at like you're personally carrying the plague to spread upon humanity when you walk into Starbucks. 

I've now done three colour runs, The Colour Run (the original) in September 2013, Color Me Rad in May of this year and now a second Color Me Rad. I'm also doing another The Colour Run this September. There is also "Run or Dye" but I believe the date was the same as The Colour Run this year, and I got a discount on the latter from being a "VIP" who ran before. Essentially they're all the same.

For the May 2014 Color Me Rad my friend Erica and I made a vlog of it, which you can watch below.

This time around I decided it would be clever if I pinned the WTJ page to my shirt with my race number and ran through the route and smushing extra colour onto the paper. Unique and a pretty cool idea, I thought!

This is after running the actual course, but what may be deceiving is that you get the majority of the colour from the "after party" where there are colour tosses. You can see that in both the vlog above and quickly in THIS Instagram post. 

On the finished page I pasted some "colour bomb" packaging that I collected off the field afterwards (darn litterers). The colour bombs contain the coloured cornstarch that people throw in the air during the after party.  

Thanks to Erica for running with me and helping me smush colour, and to you for reading this post!

(and yes, that is a fanny pack!)

Adrianna. 

What Makes You Canadian?

Today in my province is BC Day, a statutory holiday for all of British Columbia! To celebrate I did a very patriotic tag video! Check out the video below to hear about my igloo, why Timmies staff writes ST DD on the top of my cup and what animals I see strolling around my town. If you are Canadian, I think this is an awesome tag to do for your YouTube channel or maybe just even in text form for a blog! Enjoy!

The original video was done by Tanya Just Talks and you can find that HERE :)

1. What do you order at Tim Hortons? 
2. Most annoying Canadian stereotype?
3. How many provinces have you been to?
4. Have you ever seen an igloo?
5. How many words do you say that people think you say differently?
6. Favourite YTV show?
7. One thing you wish you could buy in Canada but can't?
8. Have you ever seen a moose, deer or any type of wildlife?
9. Favourite winter product?
10. Favourite Canadian celebrity?
11. Why are you proud to be Canadian?

Adrianna.

Who I Needed

[The quote poster thingy in the picture was made with scrapbook paper, a dollar store canvas and my Silhouette Cameo. The lace vase is from Ikea (actually my church... my mom said I could have it, whoops).]

If you follow me on any social media you'll know I'm obsessed with quotes. I actually made a big long post on this blog that you can find HERE regarding my long-term love of quotes :) 

The way I've discovered quotes has definitely changed throughout the years as social media and the internet in general have grown. If you had told me I would soon be finding quotes that were screenshots of tweets on tumblr I (and anyone else) probably would have thought you were bonkers. Yes, bonkers. 

Yet here we are.

I forget what tumblr blog I found it on but it was in my drafts for about a month. It's one of those quotes that make you think. And it just sounds cool. 

Most of the quotes I collected when I was in elementary and high school were copied and pasted just for that reason, they sounded cool. I never really cared if they applied to me or my life but just enjoyed the way those words were strung together. And if they rhymed, even better.

But post-secondary has ruined me and now I overthink everything.

Who did I need when I was young?

I am not going to lie, I had a pretty great childhood. My family went on amazing vacations, I have a great relationship with my parents who have been married for twenty-five years and I never had to share a bedroom. 

But the whole friend thing was my problem. 

 All my life I was the "mother hen". Maybe it's from being the oldest child or always being a girl that played with dolls- from Barbies to Cabbage Patch and having a beyond creepy porcelain doll collection. When I started school I was a chronic befriender of the weird kids. I liked being nurturing and helping people and, well, being someone's only friend. 

I can trace it through all of my school years. I would make a friend, we'd get really close and then for some reason we couldn't be friends anymore (moving/ changing schools/ her parents fearing I was going to make their daughter into a lesbian... not making that one up, unfortunately). 

I was the weird girl. I always was. I liked Digimon and wore overalls and cornrows and wrote stories for fun.  I didn't listen to the popular music, didn't get clothes from the cool stores and apparently that doesn't get you friends. 

In grade five I made two friends (twins) that I decided were the real deal. We did everything together and even when they moved three hours away we stayed close. We're still best friends after knowing each other for sixteen years and this fall I am a bridesmaid in one's wedding. They were weird too. We played real life Neopets on the playground at recess and researched Ancient Rome for fun. Ten years after we met one of their boyfriends gave me two-hundred Digimon cards because he was told if I didn't like him, he would be single again. 

Theres nothing like meeting people that know you're weird and different and encourage it.

Once I started high school I stopped hiding the things I liked and actively displayed Disney and Digimon and everything else on my binders and in my locker. I figured if people thought that was weird, I didn't need to be their friend.

Acceptance comes in many shades and maybe my flavour seems very first-world-problem to you when there's so much other hate and exclusion based on sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, class and so forth but I figure when people have been told they're not good enough, it doesn't matter why. I know I am a white, middle class, CIS female and so I know I have not faced challenges that many people have and I don't pretend to have done so, but I try to be as accepting of people no matter what may make them different from me.  

It's okay if you like things or are things that everyone else thinks are not normal. If someone is going to give you a hard time for being different, they lost the opportunity to have a freaking awesome lifelong friend.

I wish someone had told me that when I was ten. 

Adrianna.

Close The Journal. Write/ Scribble Something On The Edges.

I'm pretty sure it's a requirement of an English-speaking human being to love Dr. Seuss. I even had a VHS of The ABC's of Dr. Seuss and I can still hear the narrator in my head: "Big A... Little A... What begins with A?" I honestly can't tell you why I watched that as many times as I did. 

For my graduation gift from my godmother I recieved a hardcover copy of "Oh, The Places You'll Go!". As did my boyfriend from his, and pretty much everyone who has graduated ever. It is a pretty perfect gift for graduation. 

It's filled with inspiring goodies and beyond perfect quotes. I think one day I'll have to go to Value Village and see if I can find an old copy and use it for an art project, but in the meantime I did a page of my Wreck This Journal inspired by it.

Something I found out (the hard way) from my first WTJ (which you can find HERE) is to do the page where you have to write on the edges of the book first. Or close to first. I did it early on but when I wrote along the edges the sharpie bled through the pages that were done (and a bit thicker) and were visible on lots of the pages. Now, it is a WRECK This Journal so it's not the biggest deal but I have major control issues. 

So on the edges of this journal I wrote part of Dr. Seuss' book, which you can see in the title picture. One of my favourite lines in the book is "Kid, you'll move mountains!" so both the writing on the edges and the quote shown on the actual page connects to that line.

On the left side of the page(s?) (I'm so tempted to call it a DPS... throwback to my yearbook days!) I just did a quick watercolour drawing of some mountains. Back in the day every picture I ever drew had to have a sun (with sunglasses, of course) in the corner and some stellar mountain ranges, so I was well practiced for this day. The watercolour set I got was from a dollar store, so hurray for being thrifty! 

On the right side page I made the cover of the book that I guess is supposed to be the journal into a quick version of Oh! The Places You'll Go. Both the lettering of the line on the left and the title/ author's name were done with leftovers from my Martha Stewart paper punch that I've kept from previous projects. I love how the mismatched rainbow letters give it a super Dr. Seuss-y look. If you'd like to check out those paper punches (one of my favourite crafting purchases ever!) I found them super cheap on Amazon and made a shopping "playlist" of all the things I used on this page of my Wreck This Journal! You can find it HERE :)

Also on the right side you can kind of see the blue-green writing that goes behind the book. This is one of my favourite techniques that I've used in art projects for almost ten years... and it's not going to be retired any time soon. On this one it's about the first half of all the text in Oh! The Places You'll Go. I think it kinda looks like grass which goes with the picture on the other side. Or something...

You can watch the entire process of me "wrecking" this page in the following video!

Thanks for reading!

Adrianna.

Who is Most Likely To?

My best friend and I spent the weekend camping (in a trailer... So "camping") and we decided it's about time we do another video! This is the Most Likely To tag, which has several different versions and we just scoured the internet and combined questions to make the best possible one for ourselves (gonna be honest... Neither one of us is most likely to show up to work hungover or have had the most boyfriends) 

And here are the questions:

Who is most likely to...

Get married first?

Want lots of kids? 

Ask a stupid question?

Take control of a serious situation?

Lose their purse?

Meet someone famous?

Take care of the other while they're sick?

Hold their breath the longest?

Write a book?

Have a panic attack?

Fall while walking?

Spend money on things they don't need?

Watch anime?

Watch romantic movies?

Read Steven king?

Fall for a prank?

Steal shampoo bottles and soap from a hotel?

Fall asleep first?

Win big on who wants to be a millionaire?

Get arrested?

I hope you enjoyed this video and these questions if you want to do a tag video too! :)

Adrianna.

The Disney Tag

I love watching and making Tag Videos... I also love Disney movies! So, here is an awesome combination of both! This was one of the first requested videos I've done so that's super exciting!

Questions:

1. A scene in any Disney movie you wish you could experience.
2. An unforgettable experience/moment you've had at the parks.
3. What non-Disney song(s) reminds you/brings back memories of Disney Parks? 
4. When was the first time you went to a Disney park?
5. If you could choose any Disney character to be your best friend, who would you choose? 
6. Who is your favorite Disney princesses?
7. Name a scene/moment in any Disney movie that never fails to make you cry.
8. What is the first Disney movie you remember seeing?
9. What is your favorite Disney movie?
10. Who is your favorite Disney villain?
11. What is your least favorite Disney movie?
12. What is your favorite Disney song?
13. What Disney Character (s) has your personality or has your dream personality?
14. If you could change any scene in a Disney movie, what would it be and why?
15. If you had to get stuck on any ride in any Disney park for more than 30 minutes, what would you want it to be?

Have you done the Disney tag? What were your answers? Check out mine in the YouTube video below! 

Adrianna.

Quote/ Unquote

I'm what you might call a quote-a-holic. Actually, you probably wouldn't because you're obviously way cooler than me and wouldn't use terms like that. But I really, really, REALLY love quotes. My obsession started back in elementary school when chain emails were a big thing. I actually have a few funny ones saved on my computer still, but the majority were cheesy poems that you had to forward to everyone you loved to remind them that you care. And when you were twelve in the early 2000's, it was very serious business. Anyway, I received one (and I honestly couldn't tell you who sent it to me) but instead of the usual cheesy poem it was a bunch of (equally cheesy) short sayings punctuated with emoticons illustrating each saying. And a monster was created.

I printed out the group of sayings on my dad's old black and white printer and pinned it on the little half cork board and half white board that I had in my room. And thus, my new quote obsession spawned my first quote board. These quotes also found their way into my msn messenger screen names more than once.

I had just finished a book report for school and part of the assignment was to include a quote from the book. In grade seven if was that annoying overachiever/ goody good/ teachers pet and of course just one quote wouldn't suffice. So there were three. 

And after getting my book report back, I cut up the part with the quotes and that went on the quote board as well.

Then, one of my first online loves was discovered: http://www.firehotquotes.com (It still exists!). I spent countless hours copying and pasting quotes from and into word documents. I then found quotes from digimon, and at the time I was hiding my obsession in order to appear 'cool' so I altered some of the quotes to be un-digified. 

The collection grew and grew and I began cutting and pasting all these quotes onto my little bulitin board. And then upgraded to a full size bulitin board. And another. And another.

Then I decided the quotes were too spaced out and older quotes were too separate from newer quotes and I wanted there to be more variety on each board as well as an optimal use of space. If you can't tell, I take the weirdest things very seriously. So, an entire summer was spent taking off all the quotes that had been held on with sticky tack, and reapplying them with glue and leaving as little space between them all as possible. I got really good at Tetris that year.

Now, I have nine quote boards. They have travelled with me from old house to new house, some to four different bedrooms and multiple room reorganizations. Each one has some kind of mini tribute to Canada as well as random things, pictures and of course... So many quotes. 

Of all the things I own and have made, my quote boards are the most special to me. It was something I came up with all on my own and they grew and evolved with me. Yes there are the cheesy quotes I found when I was twelve, and the digi-sensored ones as well as the later added actual digimon quotes. They are still incomplete and I have a drawer of 'to be pasted' quotes as well as a document of 'to be printed' ones. After ten years of an obsession I have over a thousand pages worth of quote related word documents and have depleted Canada's supply of sticky tack and glue sticks. 

There are very few things I treasure to the same standards as these boards and I'm only half joking when I tell my mom that they can't go into storage because they're going with me to every room I ever occupy, including my grave. They can be cremated with me, right? 

Adrianna.

Impressed with ImPress?

For the past few years I have tried out multiple "survey" sites. A chance to get free stuff and/ or money AND tell people what I think of their products? Score! Over the past few years I've got cheques, gift cards, and toothpaste. It was good toothpaste.

The latest site I discovered was Influenster.com. Their program is unique as it offers surveys in order to build your profile and gain points, and through learning about you and the products you enjoy (and others that you don't), when you reach a certain amount of points you may be accepted into a VoxBox program. The VoxBox will be sent to you with free stuff that you then have to review through a survey and social media. (A link to the Influenster/ VoxBox program will be at the end of this post.)

After binge-taking surveys one day while watching TV, I later qualified for my first VoxBox. I took the "do-you-qualify" survey which was pretty vague. It asked if I had heard of certain brands, notably Sally Hansen and L'oreal. A couple days later I received an e-mail saying the VoxBox was on it's way with Broadway's ImPress Press-On Manicure.

My reaction: What?

I have had acrylic nails for over a year and a half, so I was optimistically hoping the product that was now in the mail for me were nail stickers or nail wraps, something that could go over the existing artificial nails I have.

I headed to the Instagram tag to see what these things were all about. Bold prints, colours and cute packaging. Most of the patterns I saw were a bit... flamboyant for my taste but I figured all but two would be okay and if they turned out to be press on nails, (I was too hopeful to actually research the product) I'd give them to my friend.

When I received my VoxBox, I was in for some surprises.

Surprise 1: They came literally three days after I received the notification e-mail.
Surprise 2: Definitely fake press-on nails.
Surprise 3: They were the two patterns I had hoped they wouldn't be.

Over the Moon is a hot pink and red ombre with speckled leopard print.

Dancing Queen is plain black and white zebra print.

Firstly, I'm just not an animal print kind of person. I say that even though I had a complete animal print bedroom from the ages of 12-16. But on my person as anything other than a pair of simple leopard print flats or MAYBE an infinity scarf, I just can't do it. Both of these prints are extremely loud and borderline gaudy to me to have on every single nail. Maybe if I had received just one of these packages and a plain colour (which apparently retail for two dollars less than the patterns) it wouldn't have been as overwhelming to have as an accent nail. 

So the box sat under my desk for weeks. Influenster sent me e-mails reminding me that I had to complete the surveys to be eligible for future programs, but I wasn't going to use these and I had no friends that were any more adventurous than me.

But I do have a ten-year-old neighbour.

I've been painting her nails since I moved across the street from her family when she was three. Every so often I'll get a text from her mom's phone:

And today was one of those days. Since I work tomorrow, she came over after dinner and I brought up the conversation we had a few months ago about how fake nails aren't appropriate for girls her age. She had been disappointed... but today me and ImPress Manicure had come up with a solution.

I had been hoping that, as this is the girl whose dream prom dress is this little number:

She would find the crazy nail patterns perfectly delightful. However, her taste is aligned more with mine when it comes to acceptable nail patterns. I had kind of assumed that would be the case. So, our solution would be to put on the "fake nails" and paint over top with the nail polish of her choice. Yay for compromise.

These are the contents of the two separate packages. The packaging is really cute with having the nails inside plastic nail polish bottles. Each one came with a little alcohol towelette to clean the nails before application, and one package came with a baby nail file (the little pink oval on the middle-right). Not sure if that was because they knew I'd be receiving both "bottles" or one was just not included with the zebra print one. Weird.

So, I cleaned T's nails with the (very strong smelling) towelette and as instructed, began to find plastic nails that matched the size of each of her nail-beds. T selected the zebra print one (good call, I think). Each package contained 24 nails which covered 12 different sizes. They were a good range and the smallest ones fit her little baby nails perfectly. Then, as instructed, I laid out the ten nails before applying them.

(Ignore the two-week nail growth on my own nails...)

Application was easier than I thought. Given, I had full use of my dominant hand for all ten fingers and was holding T's hand steady with each nail application. But even still, I'd give a solid 9/10 for application process... losing one point just because one of the plastic protectors came off weird on one and in an attempt to get it completely off, most of the stickiness wore off as well. This is probably my own fault, but I digress. There is no glue and the process is as simple as peel-stick-push. 

Here you can see T's hands with all ten nails. They look more than a little ridiculous, even without the pattern. I knew I'd have to file them anyway for a more age-appropriate length, but I felt they were a little long even for adult fingers. Maybe on Pebbles Flinstone at age 19... but otherwise... not a fan.

And here are fully filed down, kid friendly length. The little pink nail file was all but useless so I used mine that is for my acrylics. I had to admit that once the nails were shorter the pattern wasn't as overwhelming and was almost cute on her. But we definitely agreed that nail polish was necessary.

And here's the finished look! T picked my China Glaze polish in Custom Kicks, and it's actually much more turquoise than the picture shows. I'm definitely not the best at painting nails, but the smoothness of the plastic underneath really helped and the polish went on perfectly. Also, shoutout to China Glaze because the polish covered the zebra print almost completely with just two coats! 

Thanks so much to Influenster for sending me this VoxBox, T for being my guinea pig and to you for reading this post! If you're looking for something with a bit more permanence than a basic manicure without the cost/ commitment of shellac or acrylic/ gel nails: I recommend giving these a try! I personally wouldn't give up my acrylics, but these seem like a more cost effective (and gentler! I had to take off some of the nails that didn't set right and T said it didn't hurt, plus no residue on her nail!) way to get a professional looking manicure. But maybe skip the crazy animal print. Or don't... it's your life, man.

According to the insert, the nails are said to last a week and will retail at Walmart, Target, London Drugs (and a couple stores I've never heard of) for $8.99 (colour) and $10.00 (pattern).

You can check out this product (along with some actually really awesome alternative colour and pattern choices) on their website: http://impressmanicure.com

For more information on Influenster and the VoxBox, you can click this handy little button:



Thanks so much for reading this post and I hope you have an awesome day! :)

Adrianna.

So, I guess this is a blog?

I am a social media junkie.

I started in grade five when the new girl, Hannah, told me about this website they used to play at her old school. And thus, digigirl91 was the newest user on Neopets.com.

Then came MSN Messenger, VirtualZoo, a terrifying stint in the chat site world (boy, do I have stories to tell!), Maple Story (not really social media but we'll slide it in here), GaiaOnline, Deviantart, Livejournal, a very confused day of MySpace, Nexopia, YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest...

The list goes on.

Ever since I made my first online digital pet (Cuddley21358 is still dying somewhere in Neopia), I've been chronically looking for a space. I used the forums on Neopets more than the giant omelette, was given a hard time by my brothers for trying to make friends instead of killing slime bubbles on Maple Story, and discovered that not everyone was using the 'Girls Only' online chat room to talk to their friends that lived three blocks away. I like talking to people. I like talking. Hopefully someone is listening, but usually I'll just talk anyway.

My first blog was on Nexopia. It was a little function on the side of everyone's profile where the majority of people did those quizzes... You know:
1. What is your favourite colour?
2. What is the first pink object you see?
3. Who is your best friend?

And so forth. Nexopia later became banned at our high school and then slowly but surely everyone joined the Facebook bandwagon instead. I later made a Tumblr to transfer all my quizzes over onto something kind of relevant. A monster was created.

So no, my Nexopia blog was not a true blog aside from the occasional rant post. Now, my fandom-overrun Tumblr is probably even less so.

It's now twelve years since I faxed in my parent permission form to Neopets and I'm still glued to a screen, wanting to talk to strangers that are interested in what I have to say. I'm still not quite sure what exactly that is, but I'll figure it out as I go along. Hopefully you'll be along for the ride in case I figure it out.

Adrianna.