I'm a Snowball!

Not literally, but not quiet figuratively either. I finished Animal Farm for my Language Arts class today, and I'm surprised to say it was actually quite good! I compared some people to characters in the book, and I came up with Maya as Clover. I would probably be Snowball, but I don't know.

I was rather impressed with the ending. I liked how it was a blend of Russian history and out-in-the-country England. The way everything seemed to dissolve under the power of the aptly named Napoleon was rather interesting, as was Squealer's little rants and raves. Towards the ending (Starting in chapter seven), I was starting to get annoyed, as this were dissolving a little TOO much. However, in the end, it was all good.

All in all, I'd suggest you read this if you haven't! It's interesting, and the characters are all lovable...in their furry, possibly tyrant-like way. (Gotta love them Stupid Sheep, though!)

Rehersal: CANCELLED

Well, I was SUPPOSED to have rehersal for Beauty and the Beast today, but the vocal teacher/pianist wasn't here. It took everyone until about 6:30 to realize there WAS no rehersal, and that we had spent an hour and a half doing nothing.

Mostly nothing. We were supposed to bring a notebook and a pencil, so most people wound up drawing. I didn't do much---just a really bad sketch of Beast and a random drawing of a random person I randomly made up. Surprising, this one girl seemed to really like the way I drew people, and wanted to know if she could copy it to have a replica. I shrugged, and when I finished (I was about to head out the door), I just gave it to her. She can keep it, throw it away, forget about it, whatever: we all win!

Bird Problems

The birds have been getting bigger, and I will admit they're pretty cute now:



There are a few little problems, though.

• The birds are getting too big for the nest, despite the new wing.
• The birds are learning to fly, therefore making it nearly impossible to get them back IN the nest when they fall out
• We're not sure if all the birds are going to accept the new nest we've been preparing for them: a laundry basket with a towel in it.

I just tried to help my mom load the birdies back into their nest, but they just kept flying/falling out the other end. Ugh.

So, if there are any other bird people out there, what would you suggest?

Home again!

Well, we finally made it back from Alabama. IT's weird: the trip back up from somewhere never seems to take as long. Anyway, it's great to be back. What's NOT great is that we still have three weeks of school! Still, it's May, and the end of the year is marked on my lovely Good Charlotte calendar. That's a rather encouraging thought. Still, I just want summer to be here!

Pictures will be coming tomorrow, as my day will be rather boring.

Photos Coming Soon!

I saw one of my best friends, Ally, today. It was great to finally meet her! As expected, we did he usual "Mischa-Gwen-Mark-Danika-Oh-my-gosh!" talk. It was a lot of fun, and I hope we can get together again sometime.

Considering we're still in AL, I can't post photos. Howeverm we have them, and I'l hopefully be able to post them soon.

From the Files in the Dark Office

Yes, I'm still feeling too lazy to turn the lights on. My laptop has NOT had a miracle from the Gods, so it's still not working. Oh well.

Today I did the stupidest thing you can imagine: jumped into the lake. It was about 70 degrees outside and pretty windy, and it was cloudy, too. Not incredibly warm. The water was ALSO about 70 degrees, which a lot of people know isn't very warm.

Still, I decided that my trip wasn't worthwhile unless I went swimming. I wound up staying in the water for about 10 minutes, as it was COLD. Add this as number 3298 on the great list of Stupid Things Alicebelle Has Done.

Headin' Down to Alabama

I'm writing this from the dark office at my grandparent's house. It wouldn't be dark if I turned the lights on, come to think of it, but I'm being lazy. I give myself a little slack: we just drove for 8 hours, and I'm still a little sick.

My stupid laptop isn't working either here or in the car, so I had to go to my last resort: homework. Ew. I officially have a grudge on the continent of Africa, because it has so much freakin' stuff to put in my stupid map! Today was South Africa, and it didn't fail to impress me with its too-much-stuff-in-too-small-a-space-ness.

We're going to be here until Monday, so I'll be having relatively short posts from this dark office. (That is, unless some miracle happens and my laptop begins working again. But that's wishful thinking.)

Concerto Number II

Today was the night of my second band concert. It was a bit shaky at first, but it turned out really well!

First problem was that my oboe decided to go a half step flat. It didn't matter as much in the concert music (I'd be drowned out by 5 clarinets and 4 flutes anyway), but my friend Kari and I were doing an oboe-flute duet. It was going well until today, when WHAM! It sounded horrid.

My band teacher looked a little mortified as I told her that I didn't think I could use oboe for the duet. However, all was not lost. I pointed out that I could also play the flute, and I might be able to play my part of flute. She shrugged, handed me her flute, and we tried it. Behold! It worked.



I did mess up in a few parts, but bear in mind: I practically sight-read that thing. I had played it once on flute before, and that's it. However, my friend Katie was rather impressed, and she's a REALLY GOOD flutist.

After our songs, I was feeling a bit deflated. I had (What I thought) messed up major-time on my duet, and my oboe was STILL freakishly flat. I sort of felt like crawling under a rock and dying. Then again, I also felt like sending the flute over to the Salvation Army's metal collection, but I refrained from both tempting urges.

At the end, Mrs. Redmon was giving out awards. I wasn't really expecting to win Best Woodwind (I didn't), and I wasn't that upset about it. I play three different woodwinds, one of which I taught myself, so I knew I was one heck of a woodwind player, and didn't need a trophy to prove it.

However, Mrs. Redmon also gives out her own awards that aren't voted on by the band students. She gives out awards for Most Improved and Most Outstanding Musician. I think it was two awards for Most Improved (one for seventh grade, one for eighth). The Most Outstanding had four, two for each grade level. Imagine my surprise when she looked in my direction and called me up to receive my award:



THAT, my friends, was a truly awesome night!

Blog365: Day 120

Whoot! My stupid freakin' cold is finally over, and I'm going back to school tomorrow. I thought it was very cool that my social studies teacher trusted me enough to take my big 2-chapter test at home. (In case you're reading this, Mr. Mullins, thanks! I didn't cheat.)

I was able to finish most of my Photoshop project, and have written the rough draft of the dreaded free-verse poem for Language Arts. Usually, I'd raise a little chaos to be allowed to turn in a rhyming one, but my free verse isn't half bad, so I'll just let it be.

Blog365: Day 119

All right, so I didn't suck it through today. I wound up feeling like uber-crap about halfway through frist period, and had to call home. I'm not 100% sure if I'm going tomorrow, but I do know I'm going Thursday. It's my band concert, and I really need to practice with the band at least once before.

Blog365: Day 118

I was home sick today, and you know what that means? (What?) I'm going to have to make up THREE tests tomorrow, along with a lot of other stuff! I'm still not feeling that great, but I'm probably going to force myself to go unless I get a sudden case of hypothermia in the middle of the night.

I spent most of the day doing geek-related things I enjoy: watching Lord of the Rings, spending way too much time on the computer, and writing a bit. All right, so writing isn't geeky, but it sounds better than "Mostly geeky things with one non-geek activity".

I finished chapter one of my book, and so far, I've got about 2700 words written, give or take a few. I also have the prologue done, which isn't nearly as long as the chapters will be/are. Because it's short enough and I have nothing else, I'll post it:

People must have thought I was crazy.

In fact, I probably was. What would a “properly raised” Jewish girl from Russia like myself want to do with someone as harsh, cold, and possibly dangerous as him? Him refers to the street boy who lived about five blocks from my tenement. He had mysterious scars running up and down his arms, untamed and wild brown hair, and gray eyes that were both shallow and deep---for separate reasons, of course. Chances that he was Jewish himself were slim, yet chances that he followed any religion were slimmer.

Yet, despite all that, there was a simple answer to my madness: jealousy. He had everything I had ever wanted. He had freedom, independence, and seemed fearless. He had no rules to follow, nor did he have anyone to obey. He was simply controlled by himself, a power I had wanted for as long as I could remember.

To think that all those predictions turned out to be incredibly wrong. Mama always said that I was quick to make assumptions, and I guess she was right. I, Temira Degan, was completely wrong about the person I had figured lived perfectly. During one agonizing year, I learned about his scars. He turned out to not have all the luxuries I figured living alone brought. In fact, he didn’t even live on his own. I learned that along with many other incredible and horrid truths in the year of 1916. Some of those truths weren’t even about the boy (Who’s name I also discovered: Mikhail Melor, Mischa for short), but were simply about human life.

I learned that neither the Tsar nor the Romanov line would last forever, and would one day fall. On the other hand, I saw that when something falls, something else must take its place. The Soviet Union, lead by a mix of Marxists and Communists, sprang up in the place of my beloved Russia.

Most importantly, I discovered that life goes on, whether you’re ready or not. That’s just part of growing up: facing the world no matter what.

(It's in its awkward early phase, and I really need to do some historical accuracy-checking. Otherwise, I don't think it's that bad.)

Sick Sunday

I've been sick all day, and will probably be so tomorrow. I took it easy today, mostly spending it on the computer (As usual).

However, I also finished another character piece. I present to you Kiara, Gal's girlfriend:

Blog365: Day 116

Today was rather average: cleaning the house, walking the dog, getting sick, etc.

Seriously: I think I inhaled too many chemicals while cleaning the bathroom, because I feel like absolute crap. I've spent the majority of the day either drawing or on the computer, as there hasn't been much of anything else to do. I did some more Youtube surfing, and that's about it. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a bit more interesting.

Christmas in April

I was bored today, so I wound up searching Youtube. Neil Cicierega has always been one of my favorite video directors (As the creator of Potter Puppet Pals), so I decided to check out some of his non-Harry Potter movies.

They were all funny, but one that really caught me was "Neil Saves Christmas". It's by far the funniest Christmas video I've ever seen, and I think it might even overpower Frosty the Snowman:

Part one:



Part two:

Mike Todd

As you know, Mike dressed up as Beethoven the other day. Here's one of the pictures:



Although he does look an awful lot like dear old Ludwig Van, I thought that with a bit of tweaking, he could look like Johnny Depp's Sweeney Todd:



Boredom and curiousity set in, and soon I found myself in Photoshop. Today, my masterpiece was finished. Presenting Mike Todd, the Demon Barber of Fort Knox:

Bassooning Beethoven

Two-meaning title.

Part one: Something I typically never do; spend the entire afternoon bassooning! I printed out the music to "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and have been all over that. I've also been looking at my two pieces of concert music and plan on asking my band teacher for the other two tomorrow. We're doing a concert a Six flags later in May, and although I can't play bassoon in the school concert (Which is six pieces to learn on seven days) I might be able to to KY Kingdom. That's about three weeks away, and I only have four pieces to learn, two of which I'm working on. Not to mention the fact that I will have a few bassoon lessons between now and then.

Part two: What can I say? Mike is Beethoven:



Sadly, not all things went well for him. Here he is having Composer's Angst:

Bassoon Lessoon

Today was yet another bassoon lesson (Commonly referred to as the 'bassoon lessoon'). We did our usual stuff: did a bit in the method book, mostly worked on tone quality and getting the certain notes out. Towards the end, I asked my teacher what 9-8 time even was, as it was coming up on the next page. He explained rather well, and came up with an example: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice":



As he hummed a few measures, I was sort of in shock: THAT'S the song I heard in fifth grade. I had gone all this time thinking it was "The Heffalump Song", when in reality, it wasn't. He assured that "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is a very common bassoon song, so that probably is what I heard.

Now I know the actual title for the song that I want to play. On to 8 Notes!

Not a place-holder

I've noticed that sometimes, I have to post things that hardly even count as posts. Look at January alone:

Real-posts-tomorrow's: 2
Youtube videos: 10

Well, there are fewer than I thought in January, and some of those videos actually have content. Then again, most of those videos are also not working anymore...

I think that I might go back and actually add something to those posts. I hardly think that "Real post tomorrow" should count as a post...even if I AM guilty of writing them.

I think I might have a lot of LOLcats, too, come to think of it...

Blog365: Day 110

My weekend has been filled with odds and ends. How about yours?

Take yesterday for example. I was talking with Ally on the phone, and we decided we wanted to three-way with Maya. I called Maya on the other line, but alas, she wasn't there. I left a message, went back over to the other line, and continued the conversation.

Imagine my shock when Maya calls back an hour later, saying stuff that Ally and I talked about in our conversation that Maya missed. I told her how deja vu she was being when she broke the news: her answering machine had RECORDED our entire call! She listened to the whole thing! (Thankfully, nobody said anything mean or anything, so it was just a harmless lesson learned: hang up, and then re-call.)

Readers of my mom's blog might know how she's obsessed with the robin nest on our back porch. In fact, she's apparently turned so obsessed, she's gone out and bought a WEB CAM to set up in the backyard to WATCH THE BIRDS 24/7.

Keep in mind that she won't let me use a web cam. Oh, no, I would IM someone weird and then they would be able to track down my address and kill me. She also has signs on the door on both sides requesting, "Please don't disturb the bird!" However, she uses a web cam to SPY on the birds, and if it doesn't work, plans to RETURN THE EQUIPMENT. Therefore, I am very jealous and slightly annoyed that she wants to create the next Pigeon-Kam.

Happy National Orlando Bloom Day!

Ally has decided that we are in need of yet ANOTHER holiday this month, so she and her cousin came up with National Orlando Bloom Day. I suppose it's celebrated about the same way National Johnny Depp Day is: watching Orlando Bloom movies. I've been itching to watch the third Lord of the Rings for some time now, so I'm probably going to be doing that tonight.



Happy Orlando Bloom Day, people...



...but Johnny Depp is still cooler.

Blog365: Day 108

This morning sort of sucked. First, my brother keeps his alarm clock on the heavy metal channel. He also sets it for 5 AM. Imagine my luck as I hear "Job for a Cowboy" or one of those screamo bands he likes blaring in my ear. His door was
OPEN, and apparently he liked the song it was playing. It took several minutes to get it to shut up.

Fast forward 30 minutes. 5:33-ish, I start feeling this weird rattling feeling. First, I think it's my dad sicking Ginger on me. I pulled the covers over my head, mad about the cruel joke. I slowly came to my senses when I realized that my 13-pound dog can't shake the house, so it couldn't be her.

Turns out, it was a 5.4 earthquake: first in Kentucky since 1968! When I told Maya, she was flipping out, asking how scary it was. I told her it wasn't. I was mainly ticked off that I was robbed of 20 minutes of sleep.

Besides that, my day has sort of been like a snowball. It's taken and left good and bad, but right now, I'm just really tired. My day ended on a rather sour note (Long story made short, after and audition, I usually feel really ticked off and consider pulling the plug on the whole theatre deal), so I'll just save my enlightening post about how great the weekend is for tomorrow.

This may become a record...

Today we STILL didn't have homework. Seriously. I've never had no homework this long, but I love it. Of course, I'm going to have to bring home my social studies book tomorrow so I can do my map, but I do that just about every weekend. As long as I don't have anything in literature, science, math, language arts (Then again, there probably will be. My class is SO behind in Animal Farm), I won't have anything besides a map of central Africa.

My mural was turned in today. I found out that colored pencils go on basically every surface, so I wound up coloring about half the surfboard I had to make. It was about sentences and punctuation, to be exact. I wound up using my inner tattoo-artist and coming up with a funky design including stripes, spikes, and flames. The title I gave it? "Punk-tuation".

I had my first day of website-working-on in Computer Aps today. I would have probably gotten more done if my friend Kathy wasn't staring over my shoulder at the marvelous HTML code as I edited pages. However, I got about half a page finished, and it was a LONG page! I think at this rate, I'll be able to finish my site by the end of May. Hooray!

Mini-Wave!

I don't know, but for some reason, this is the third consecutive day that I haven't had homework. I'm not complaining at all, no. It's just weird: before this week, I think I've had about 6 days this year of no homework. Weird, but cool.

Considering my lack of homework (And the lack of Internet---it came back on around 6 or so), I decided to work on my website a bit. I actually got a fair bit accomplished: 18 pages text edited, 6 more. Then I just need to put everything in one order, make sure all the picture/poll choices are right, fill in page anchor links, and give it one last look over.

The purpose of it is still a secret, even though I'm sure half the people who read my blog know what it is. I'm hoping to put it up by the end of May, nevertheless. I don't need to do any more reformatting (I think---maybe just making sure all the div alignments are the same), and besides that, it's really just simple HTML.

Best yet, my Computer Aps teacher is letting me work on it if I have free time. (We usually have about a week to finish assignments, more or less. I tend to finish mine by Tuesday, Wednsday, or Thursday. Then I resort to playing/losing Solitare at the end of the day.)

Whoot whoot!

RIP Gal

On my roleplay site, I've recently been playing a messed-up, perverted gang leader named Gallagher. He usually went by Gal, as it was easier to type and didn't sound as Boarding-School-Preppy as Gallagher did. He was a ton of fun to type, and it was fun to read all the comments about him, most of them simply saying, "Oh, no he didn't!" (Gal was rather unpredictable)

However, all "good" (or at least fun) things must come to an end. Yesterday, to complete a scene, I gave Ally permission to sort of "do Gal in". It was a rather good scene in the end, and it wouldn't be the same if Gal lived.



So long, Gal. Gross and perverted as you were, we're all going to miss you at least a little bit.

Blog365: Day 104

Who DOESN'T feel like this on a Monday morning?

I certainly do. I couldn't get to sleep last night, so I probably got a total of 6 hours. Not to mention that I have a science test and 2 things after school today...and bassoon practice for my lesson tomorrow. (I was half tempted to write "lessoon".)

But anyway, hopefully I'll get my "8 hours" tonight. Hopefully.

Blog365: Day 103

First of all: holy crap, I've survived over 100 days of Blog365?

Second of all: 150th post! This is really picking up from the 40-something posts I had before I joined this insanity...

But otherwise, National Johnny Depp Day turned out well. I wasn't able to participate much, but the day before I watched Edward Scissorhands, and tonight I might watch Sweeney Todd. Johnny Depp is cool enough to be celebrated any time of the year.

But for my actual post, let me get one thing straight: I usually don't like stereotypical 'boy bands'. That doesn't include bands like Green Day, Good Charlotte, and Fall Out Boy, in which all members are guys. I mean more like bands/people like Jesse McCartney, Backstreet Boys, and *Shudder* Jonas Brothers.

Recently, though, I've found an exception for that rule. There's a new, rising band in Orlando called "Heartbeat Boys". Karen told me about them, and when I heard the title, I sort of groaned. Still, I went along with her rants and raves about how awesome they were.

Finally, she convinced me to listen to some of their music. I decided that, yes, this definitely IS a boy band that writes a lot of preppy teen romance songs, but they were GOOD preppy teen romance songs. I officially became a fan when I looked at some of their pictures and decided that Emile is downright HOT. He's the one wearing the black hat on the far left:



If only I were still in Florida, I'd be able to see them this coming Saturday...

I was IMing Karen today, and we would up creating a storm with Sweeney Todd parodies about Emile and I (Fellow fangirls know what this is like). We both 'remade' "Johanna", I did "Poor Thing", but she did the real jewel: "Kiss Me".

Remodeling

I've spent the afternoon sprucing up my computer. I started with clearing out some of the junk folders that haven't been opened in who knows how long, which seems to be speeding things up a bit. Once that was done (Or at least as done as I could make it on my own), I decided to change the physical look.

I changed the account name from "Bonnie" to "Alicebelle" (Long story. New nickname given to me by Maya) to start. Then, I changed the icon from a boring chess piece to this:



Still, something seemed to be missing. I figured it was the background, as it hadn't been changed since Summer 2006. I thought this gave it a newer, fresher look:

Mark Your Calendars!

Ally and I have decided that tomorrow is unofficially National Johnny Depp Day! We've recently become Johnny Depp/Tim Burton geeks, so we wanted some day to honor the awesome that is Johnny.

Chances are, festivites include watching movies and not doing much of anything else. Sounds like a good enough holiday for me.

However, I'm doing most of my Depp watching tonight. I have Sweeney Todd and Edward Scissorhands lined up for watching, and chances are I'll be up until midnight or later. I'll keep it quiet.

Slightly off schedule...

...but tomorrow's Friday, so who cares?

I accidently left my science homework at Kari's house (Oops!), and unless she brings it tomorrow, I'm going to have to ask for another copy of the packet to finished between homeroom and 4th period. Of course, I also have recess...but still. Kari, if you're reading this, please bring my science packet to school!

Besides that, I had 1 math problem to do, as well as a little bit of a map. I wasn't able to hit the math problem, but it'll take me about 1 minute at max with a calculator in homeroom, so that's not a problem. I know my 5 vocabulary words, so I'll be good on the test. Other than that, there was no other homework. Whoot!

I was also able to bring out the unicycle for about 10 minutes tonight. It had a flat tire, so it didn't work very well, but it was nice to get back on. It'll probably work better with some air.

I just got off the phone with Maya, telling me yet another memoir-worthy story about what happened in her school. The way she voices everyone and gets every detail perfect, you'd think it was Meg Cabot telling about her middle school career.

However, that was my boring day. I am a bit off schedule (To bed at 10 again), but tomorrow is Friday. It'll be a lot easier to suck it out for 8 hours knowing I won't be going back for at least 42 hours. (In my world, money doesn't make the world go around----weekends do.)

Mini-Wave in celebration of me!

I actually got my homework done before 9! Heck, I actually STARTED my homework before 9, which is a vast improvement. I also didn't just do homework all day. I did a lot of other stuff, too: role playing, drawing, guitaring, piano-ing, watching Anastasia, and, now, blogging!

Now that I think about it, I still do have to practice oboe. Still, it's only 8:15, so I can practice 15 minutes, get my bag packed, clean my room, and still be in bed by 9:15 at latest. SCORE!

Feeling Artsy

I've recently been interested in drawing. I've started with some basic drawings, characters from the wolf roleplay I'm on. Here's a not-very-good drawing of my wolf, Hahnee, that I did without a guide (Bad mistake):



I did one of Maya's characters with a guide. It turned out a bit better:



Finally, we had to do oil pastels of an animal in art. I found the perfect picture for a guide, and then drew my first character and yet another one of Maya's characters: Hahnee & Miakoda:



Once I was finished with wolves, I moved onto humans. With my 1900's roleplay, I have a lot of characters to choose from. To start with, I did a basic sketch of Mischa and Gwen, a character of mine and a character of Ally's:



Finally, last night I got serious. I recently joined as a new character, Gal. He's this really gross and *slightly* perverted guy who is actually a ton of fun to write. I had a very clear picture of dear Galhagger in my mind, and I think I portrayed him well on paper:



I think I'm improving. I want to be able to do pen sketches, but I don't think I'm ready for those yet. For now, I'll just work on shading and proportions. My next 'victim': Danika Elya, my very flirtatious (and slightly stubborn) character.

We're back!

We made it back to Fort Knox about 6:45 tonight, and it's incredible to think it's already 20 till 10. Time seems to go by so quickly now. ("Time goes quickly, see now its past!")

I'm running around trying to get ready to wake up at 6 tomorrow. I'm about to check my board and find my sheet music, pack my bag, then off to bed! I'll try and do a real post tomorrow.

Heading back to Fortress Knox

We're about to head out on our 16-hour, 2-day trip back to Kentucky. I'm the furthest thing from excited, but I hope we can come back in the summer.

Considering absolutely nothing exciting has happened or will happen, here's a video of a song that reminds me of a certain roleplay character:

Back from Karen Kastle

Well, today is our last day in Florida. At around 4, my mom picked me up from Karen's house. It was strange---3 days straight with each other, and we weren't sick of each other! We had a lot of fun hanging out together, and can't wait for summer to come.

We went to the mall on Friday afternoon. We had about an hour before lunch, and we were by ourselves, so we went out by ourselves. We only hit two stores, one for each of us. First, we hit Limited Too for Karen. She's the biggest Joe Jonas geek in the history of the universe, so she had to see if they had any new Jonas stuff. Me, the Jonas Neutral person, was deemed the stuff-holder. It was rather interesting: I was standing in the middle of a pink-and-purple Limited Too, wearing all black, holding all this pink Jonas Brothers gear as Karen rambled on and on about how hot Joe was. Definitely not your average LT customer. In the end, I helped her go from two wallets, five pins, a backpack, three shirts, and two posters to a shirt, backpack, and one poster. Whew!

The second store was of my choosing: Hot Topic. For some reason, my mom doesn't let me buy a lot of stuff from the Hot Topic in E-Town, so I got rebellious and went in. I took about 10 minutes, versus the 30 minutes that it took to sort through all the Jonas Junk. I found the Sweeney Todd shirts, took one of each in a small, and bought the one that my parents might not kill me if I got. (Actually, kill me twice---once for going in, once for getting the razor shirt. I saved four bucks AND one of the killings by choosing the shirt I did. Score!)

We got lost several times in the mall, but it was a lot of fun overall. Besides the mall, we watched Sweeney Todd, role played, listened to Good Charlotte a bit, and I played oboe a little. Karen took some video at about 1:30 AM last night, and I can't wait to see that and the pictures. All in all, I can't wait to (hopefully) come back this summer.

Still at Karen Kastle

We're having a lot of fun, and I'll do my real post tomorrow. Toodleloo!

Posting from Karen Kastle

I'm not really going to be posting today or tomorrow. As I have previously said, I'm at Karen's house, listening to Good Charlotte, watching Law & Order, and role playing. Hooray!

The rest of the week is going to be sort of hectic, but things will be normal again on Tuesday. stay tuned!

Sleepover

Basically what the title says. I'm sleeping over at my friend Karen's house tonight, and I can't wait! We're going to watch movies, listen to come really loud Good Charlotte, and I'm going to teach her to read music if it kills her!

I'm going to be blogging from her house tomorrow, but on Friday I'll probably have a better post. Hopefully. Saturday isn't going to be extravagant, and neither is Sunday, but I'll post. I'm not giving up now!

April Fools!

Funny thing is, although today is April Fool's Day, not many people I know have played pranks of jokes. Maybe that's the new trick: not tricking anyone, driving them mad wondering when someone is going to trick them.

Not a trick #1: My grandma's birthday was today
Not a trick #2: We had Italian food for dinner
Not a trick #3: Sweeney Todd came out on DVD, and it is AWESOME
Not a trick #4: I'm sleeping over at Karen's house tomorrow
Not a trick #5: There's a spider on your shirt

HA! Just because nobody else is tricking anyone doesn't mean I can't be fun.

Happy Tuesday!

Edward Evermore

My mom just saw Edward Scissorhands for the first time tonight. She liked it, and did agree that it was 'sort of' sad at the end, but I don't get something. HOW can Titanic be sadder?! I mean, people know people died on Titanic. A lot of those people were good/cool/hot/Jack Dawson-like. Everybody knows it was a tragic event.

Yet, the end of Titanic almost seemed a bit...expected. It's a great movie, and I'm not dissing it at all, but it is when you come down to it. If it were peachy keen, it wouldn't take place on RMS Titanic. Also, hello, Hollywood! People make things sad so you remember them. If Jack lived and Rose didn't have her little "I won't let go" scene, it wouldn't be the same movie.

Yet, with Edward Scissorhands, nobody but Kim's jerk-faced boyfriend Jim died, and he totally deserved it. Yet, it's STILL freakishly sad. Kim and Edward couldn't be together because of several problems...

• The neighbors were jerks
• Everyone probably wanted Edward's throat
• The neighbors were jerks
• Did I mention the neighbors were jerks?

*Sigh* It's still my favorite movie, and I don't know what my mom is thinking, but it is DEFINITELY sadder.

On a happier note: Sweeney Todd is coming out tomorrow! (That's NOT a trick, either!) I can hardly wait to get it. We watched the Angela Lansbury and George Hearn DVD recording of it today so my grandparents could get an idea of what the movie was like. We also didn't want them to fall into the trap of "Johnny-Depp-is-the-best-Sweeney-because-he's-Johnny-Depp". Johnny Depp did an incredible job, but George Hearn is always going to be the classic Sweeney. Don't even get me started on Mrs. Lovett...

Road Trip

Today was the last/second day of our 2-day voyage to Florida. Not much to say besides that it was pretty long, and we're all happy to be somewhere over 50 degrees in air temperature.

Mike drove about 200 miles for the trip. Let's just say that he didn't drive us off a cliff/the road, so it's all good.

Stay tuned tomorrow for the first real bit of Florida action!

We're Off!

As I said yesterday, I'm about to go check and make sure I have everything. Not much else is going on today besides an 8-hour drive followed by yet another 8-hour drive. Lovely.

For something to tide you over until tomorrow...well, here's a video I really like. (42nd Street members will remember this as the ultimate Gwen/Mischa song)

Goin' Down to Florida

Well, tomorrow we're heading off to Florida. Considering we're leaving early afternoon, we're doing the drive in 2 days rather than one, 8 hours on each side. I'm planning on traveling in my fuzzy penguin pants, reading me some Chris Crutcher, and listening/watching my new iPod stuff (Downloading Pocahontas right now, actually.)

I'll be posting in the morning tomorrow, and it won't be much of a post. Probably just a little thing about how I'm about to double-check and make sure I have everything. However, I'll be back on Sunday, and I'll have a semi-real post then.

Karen and all the other FL peeps---We're coming down! (Karen, make sure you have your oboe, Good Charlotte, and staying-up-until-forever shoes on!)

Official Vampire

As you probably know, Maya is convinced I'm a vampire. She says that she has evidence, as I look/act exactly like Alice Cullen in the vampire saga Twlight. Therefore, she now calls me Alicebelle.

However, today she and I got our biggest proof. I have the...scar to prove it. Basically, my friend Sam was dotting everybody's wrist today at school with a black sharpie and saying they had been bitten by a vampire. When I heard that (Even the sharpie part), I went completely Bella Swann on her and begged her to "bite me". She looked confused for a minute, but then dotted my wrist to give me the bite effect.

When I told Maya the news, she was oddly suspiscious. "Are you writhing in pain?" she asked. I started shaking to look like I was in pain, but asked her a few minutes later, "Does being sore count?" We agreed that it does, and behold, I'm apparently a vampire now.

Only problem is, I haven't found my huge superpower yet...once I find THAT out, then I'll officially be official.

Edwards Everywhere

Recently, I've realized just how popular the name Edward is in books and movies. I've compiled a list of the three Edward's that affect me most:

Prince Edward: That prince from Enchanted. Cute movie. Interesting character.

Edward Cullen: One of the coolest vampires ever from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. This Edward has it all: looks, humor, wit...can't help but fall into the deep abbyss of EdwardLove (Yes, that is one word).

Edward Scissorhands: My favorite Edward ever. I just saw the movie today and totally loved it. I've heard it's sad, but didn't know it was THIS depressing! To put it in proportion, I stayed pretty cool during Titanic, but I was fighting the temptation to burst just as Kim said, "But after he left...it snowed." Probably my new favorite movie. Probably because I'm on a Johnny Depp/Tim Burton film rampage. First Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, then Sweeney Todd, now this...

I Vanna Be A Show-Stopper!

Vith a show-stopping song...

Ever since I saw Cabaret, I've been a Liza Minnelli fan. Ever since I created a role play character who looks/sounds just like Mikhail Baryshnikov did in his early 20's (The character's name, coincidentally, is Mischa. His real name is Mikhail, but don't call him that.), I became a Baryshnikov fan. What would be better than Liza Minnelli teaming up with "Misha" in two shows: Showstoppers, and Baryshnikov on Broadway.

The videos are awesome. Here's the Broadway one:



Sadly, the Showstoppers videos can't be embedded, so if you want to see them search "Showstoppers Meledy" on Youtube. It's worth it.

Blog365: Day 83

Today I stayed home from school because I was sick. Just one of the perks of Spring---cold weather and allergies. The only things that keep me from bursting are a) Florida next week and b) Sweeney Todd coming out on DVD on the first.

Today, while Mike was at swimming, Mom and I had sort of a shopping trip. I had absolutely no shorts or capris, and with the temperature in Florida being like it is, that's not a good thing. However, we managed to walk away with 4 pairs of capris: a khaki pair, a black pair, a gray pair, and the coolest demin pair ever. I also managed to score 3 CD's at Target: Enchanted, Wicked, and Sweeney Todd (Movie soundtrack)

I'm just counting down the days until Spring Break. It can't be getting here any sooner...

Blog365: Day 82

Easter was fairly low-key down here. I got sick (Ugh), and we did the same thing we do just about every year: a little chocolate, some pancakes, and an iTunes gift card. Who's to complain?

Hopefully, your Easter was better than others:

Mean Kitty Song

I had a lazy day at home and feel slightly sick. The only thing of mention is that I've recently become obsessed with Edward Scissorhands. I'm convincing my mom to let me rent it, and I've seen the trailer who knows how many times.

However, here's something non-Edward related that I liked. Meet Sparta:

Tomatoes in Fruit Salad

Well, tomatoes are technically fruits, but they do make a weird addition to your average peaches, grapges, and strawberry fruit salad.

That's what my day was like: a fruit salad with a green tomato. The tomato being the fact that I tripped over my bassoon case this morning because it was near my bed. The fruit salad being the fact that the rest of my day was really good.

Today was the first (and probably last) dress-down day of the year. I knew I probably wasn't getting another opprotunity to wear real clothes for awhile, so I wore more or less all my favorites: my dark-wash slim fit jeans, broken hearts shoes, black quitar earrings, my brown vintage guitar shirt with the gray pirate vest, and my bats-with-bows hoodie. Before the bus came, I also grabbed my gray newsboy hat. I didn't feel like flat-ironing my hair, so I put it in two incredibly short pigtails with my bangs mixed with a little of my regular hair to have a long streak of hair across about a quarter of my face.

People who would never in their right of mind even talk to me liked my outfit. I didn't really spend much time putting it together, so it was interesting. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever really been complimented on my apperance at middle school. Might be because you can't get very creative with polo shirts in 7 colors.

I also spent a great deal of the day roleplaying. My roleplay site really kicked it off today, so a few of my friends and I spent a lot of time acting out of characters in the various situations we put them in.

Tomorrow we have to clean the house, but I'm really excited about having a weekend at home. We're not going to Louisville, so that's a relief. I'm probably going to be busy, but at least I won't be stuck in the car.

Blog365: Day 80 (Maybe)

Posting while mom is in class---sorry. Actual post tomorrow.

Blog365: Day 78

Nothing blog-worthy today. Here's Mike shredding guitar last...November:

Bassoon-ery Yet Again

I had my first bassoon lesson today, and it went really well! We only covered 3 notes, but we REALLY covered them, making sure the pitch was right on target and all. Next week, I'm getting my reed all made up perfect, but until then, I'll live using my thick reed.

Next stop: figuring out how to put it together and take it apart really quickly.
Final destination: THE HEFFALUMP SONG!!!

Fast Times at East High: Finale

I can't believe HSM has actually ended. I've had such a great time, and I wanted to smuggle onto their tour bus so badly. However, it's been a great experience, and closing night was probably the best night ever.

It was the birthday of the new Sharpay understudy, so here she is with her mostly-finished cake and the Bleacher Creatures (We were given the remains):



I've been collecting autographs on a poster for my friend Diamond and photos for myself. Overall, I got pretty much the entire cast. Here are some of the pictures:

"Troy"


"Gabriella"


"Ryan"


"Coach Bolton" (He gets extra points, as he played Phantom once)


"James" AKA the Earthworm


A couple of "Zeke"'s


The finished poster


Diamond was incredibly thrilled to receive the poster. She's a huge HSM fan, and I'm not sure if she got to see the show.

Probably the best part of the entire show was at the very end, waiting at the stage door. Some 7-year-old fan came running up, asking, "We're you one of the people on the bleachers???" I told her that yes, I was. She smiled before handing me her playbill and innocently requesting, "Would you sign my playbill?"

Will I sign her playbill? YES I WILL! I've never signed anything bigger than a yearbook! Better yet, her sister soon asked if I would sign HERS. My first two autographs, and I wasn't even in the playbill they wanted me to sign. Here's me giving my autograph to Fan #1:



It was fun onstage, offstage, and backstage. There was a slightly different crowd of bleacher creatures last night, and we all got along really well. One of them was a rabid Sweeney Todd fan, and we spent some time discussing the pros and cons of the different casts. Finally, we came to the conclusion that Angela Lansbury is the best Mrs. Lovett, George Hearn is the best Sweeney, Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony, and Ed Saunders as Toby.

I was on stage right while we were onstage, meaning that for about 3 minutes, Sharpay and Ryan were on our side. As a joke, I motioned Ryan over and told him, "I have to agree with you: every sophisticate dance requires a good jazz square." His face brightened with character, high-fiving me and emphasizing, "THANK you! Fianlly, somebody agress with me!" He then got in Sharpay's face and continued. "See? She agrees with me? Bam!" He snapped his fingers on each 'bam'. "Bam! Bam! Bam!" Laughing, I also got into Sharpay's face and added my own "Bam!"

I was also able to talk to the actor who played James. He looked somewhat familiar, so I asked if he was in the detention scene. He nodded, and I tried to refrain from squealing while saying, "I heart earthworm!"

I also got to see him backstage to get a photo. He apologized for being sweaty, but I could have cared less. I quoted the show, telling him that "I'd never seen an earthworm have so much emotion and depth."

It's nice to be home for the evening, but it was an incredible experience. I can't wait for the next audition---can you say RESUME MATERIAL?!?!

"...and reach for the hiiiiiigheeeeeeest....staaaaaaaar!"

Fast Times at East High ending tomorrow

Well, actually, they ended today, but I'm dog-tired and need to go to bed.

Here's an LOLcat to tide you over until tomorrow:

Sweeney Potter Pals

Nothing happened today. Watch puppets of Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd perform "Little Priest":

Fast Times at East High: Part 3

Wow, I can hardly believe that I only have two shows left. I've been having so much fun, and this is incredible experience. I'm interacting with professional actors, performing in front of a nearly-full house, and gaining better stage presence.

One interesting thing that happened backstage is that the understudy for the teacher chatted with us "bleacher creatures". It was interesting listening to how she's started out living in a radius of 3 states to becoming a cabaret in New York, then performing across the world, and now she's in the national tour. She gave us great advice, and it was really cool listening to somebody who's fairy tale really came true.

I've noticed that most of my nervous energy has converted into dramatic energy. I'm getting more and more into the show each time, and I really got some intereaction with the actors today. I "peaced-out" the mascot and James, got grabbed from the back by a random basketball character, and even finger-waved Ryan (With reply, mind you!)

I keep on losing what it felt like to be on stage in front of all those people, but I know one thing: it feels great. It's so much fun, and it's really going to add something to my resume. Not to mention giving me audition tips, practice for performing on stage, and so much more.

Tomorrow I have the day off, but on Sunday, I'm performing twice. The closing performance is going to be incredible, but I'm definently savoring these last performances.

Part 4 will continue on Sunday, and I'll just post about my boring, un-Wildcat day tomorrow. Until then, you'll see me humming "Breaking Free". (If you said I'd be doing this a year ago, I would have laughed in your face yet again, still giggling over the crazy idea that I'd be performing in it)

Fast Times at East High: Part 2

I just had my second performance tonight, and it was AWESOME.

I turned out to not be the only 7th grader, so my fellow bottom-of-the-food-chain companion and I chatted about theatre, our ideas about High School Musical, and other related things. It really passed the time not just trying to figure out what people mean when talking about their schools. (However, some guy did ask me which high school I had applied for a scholarship at---I bit my lip and told him "Fort Knox High School---right across from the middle school, public, and freakishly small")

I was on Stage Left tonight, and it was so much fun walking backstage. It was weird really realizing how big this thing was. After getting on the bleachers, we were wheeled out on stage and caused quite an uproar (A good thing, by the way).

Ryan, Sharpay, Troy, and Gabriella were usually on the bottom step, so we couldn't see much. However, despite all that, I clapped to the beat, danced in place, chatted random nonsense, and did my best lip-syncing. I'm still iffy on HSM lyrics, so I didn't want to be caught singing the wrong words.

Tomorrow, we have another show, and my mom is being a chaperon. She seems really pumped about holding everybody's stuff---after all, she's going to see backstage!

The best part was the fact that after the show, we all had to meet on stage right. Because I was on the left, I had to get there somehow, so I ended up walking ACROSS THE STAGE. Sure, the curtain was down, nobody could see me, but I was going across a professional stage! How often does the 'audience' (As we are referred to) get to walk across the stage of the Kentucky Center?

Stay tuned tomorrow for another "Wildcats Report"!

*Whistles "Breaking Free"*

Fast Times at East High: Part 1

If a year ago, somebody said that I'd be staying up until around midnight every night for a week to do High school Musical related stuff, I would have probably slapped them and/or called them an idiot, fool, or Raoul DeChangy-clone.

However, now I'll admit something: I'm doing just that. I was 'scouted' as one of about 10 teenagers in and around Louisville to be part of the pep squad for the HSM National Tour while they were in Kentucky. I'm not going to be doing much (I'm onstage for maybe 15 minutes), but anything with the word "National" looks spiffy on a resume, doesn't it?

Yesterday was Opening Night, so I didn't have to perform. I am going onstage tonight, and I'm so excited about going through the stage door and seeing the backstage. I'm half-pumped, half-freaking-out right now about it, even though I'm not really singing, dancing, or acting. I just have to be preppy.

Before the show, I got my hair cut. I only went in for a trim, but sort of changed the style up. I think it looks really nice:



My mom and I also went out for Thai food in celebration of the end of the Famous Thai's project. We had spring rolls, soup, and garlic pork, and it was gooood.

I'm surprised to say that I really enjoyed the show itself. It's a lot better than the movie, and the performers could actually sing, dance, and act, and weren't just chosen because they were 'hot'. Sharpey reminded me a lot of Glinda from Wicked, as she had the same hair color and a really high voice. It was really good.

I can't wait until tonight, and I'm doing a total of (what I think is) 6 shows total. I'm taking Saturday off because of Glod Rush stuff.

GO WILDCATS!!!

Real post tomorrow

Tired. Will really post tomorrow. Need to go to bed.

Entering Girl-World

For the longest time, I've been proud to say I've never been in an American Eagle, Abercrombie, or Aeropostale. When my brother began buying his jeans at AE, that broke that record. Today, I entered Aeropostale.

It was loud. I had no clue who was playing on the radio, but it was loud. It was also bright and full of a ton of Spring stuff. Nevermind that it's currently 30 degrees outside---floral bikinis look so good in Spring!

I left empty-handed, as I had gone in for jeans, and all they had were either too long, too skinny, too low-rise, or they had a huse gap in the back. Just the perks of being in the phase between kid's and junior's.

I also left feeling like I had after Sweeney Todd. I think I get what it feels like for most of the girls in my school to go into a Hot Topic. After leaving, wide-eyed and ears busted, I glanced a few shops down and whispered to my mom, "Allow me to run into Spencer's and cleanse my soul."

Two stores down. If somebody wants me to go into A&F, they'll need to drag me kicking and screaming, "I don't WANNA go!"

"What Time Is It?"

Seriously, I have no clue. Daylight Savings Time has thrown me way off course. The clocks are all messed up, and I'm not sure if it's 3:30, 4:30, or 5:30. Pretty sure it's 4:30.

Sunday has always been my least favorite day of the week. Sure, you can sleep late, but you also have to go to bed early. It's also "Realization Day", as in realizing that you have homework/a test tomorrow that you planned to study for on Saturday. On Monday, it just seems normal.

After this blogger post, I have decided to come up with a to-do list. However, I'm going to have parts of it in all caps so it'll seem like I'm yelling at myself. Maybe that will convince me to actually do it.

Here's my list so far:

-I HAVE TO clean my room
-I HAVE TO study vocabulary
-I HAVE TO study "Ocean Motion", AKA waves
-I HAVE TO be in bed by 9

I also have a list called "I Should":

-I SHOULD do my discussion question, although it's not due until Tuesday
-I SHOULD read more in New Moon
-I SHOULD vacuum my room
-I SHOULD be trying perspective drawing

And the final list, the "I'd rather" list:

-I'd rather paint my nails
-I'd rather watch Adventure in Babysitting
-I'd rather be roleplaying
-I'd rather be working on my website
-I'd rather call Maya

Wanna guess which list is going to be finished first?

Snow Saturday

Yesterday, it began snowing really hard. It continued snowing off and on all night, but this morning, it was freakishly deep.

Katie and I had an "Epic" snowball fight with her brother, his friend, and a few other guys around the neighborhood. Later, it just turned into a Survival of the Fittest, with snow being blown RIGHT in your face, kicking snow, whipping scarfs, etc.

Besides that, I did...nothing. I'll have to study for 2 tests tomorrow, clean my room, and practice 3 instruments, but today, it was really nice to have a free Saturday. I haven't had one in 6 weeks.

Ginger especially enjoyed the snow. Here she is in her moment:


(Some of the snow mounds looked like they came out of Nightmare Before Christmas---curly tip and all)

Blog365: Day 66

I can't believe that yesterday, we only had 300 more days left. Now we only have 299, tomorrow 298, and so on.

Otherwise, nothing interesting happened today. Matthew and I went sledding at around 6, as it was snowing really hard. I've heard it'll keep snowing, but the blizzard appears to be over with.

This is actually the first weekend I've had in awhile that is free. I'm really excited about sleeping in, staying up late, and actually getting stuff done. Tomorrow, there's no Bootcamp, no hair appointment, no nothing.

I love free weekends.

Blog365: March 6

People say models lower their self esteem. Same goes for cats, apparently:

One Day More

Starting tomorrow, one more day of...

-Testing
-Working on my geography project
-No homework
-Not studying for my science test on Monday

Several more days until...

-The quarter end
-Art as 7th period end
-My practice time sheet is due
-My science test

Several weeks until...
-Spring Break
-April
-Sweeney Todd comes out on DVD

A couple months until....
-The end of the school year

Everything seems to close by when I make a list.

Blog365: Day 63

Nothing major happened today. I had an audition, and it went rather well. I also got to miss a bit of school for it, so yay team!

I also lost a tooth that's been bugging me all day. It feels weird having the gap, and it seems that because I went through a long stretch of time when I didn't lose teeth at all, I'm losing them left and right. Brings a new feeling to when I tell Maya how things are going down in 'Tucky, HAR HAR.

Tomorrow is a short day, and the last day of the quarter is next Thursday. Then, its a three-day weekend, then the fourth quarter! The last day of testing is this Thursday, though. About time.

However, I'm really going to need to cram out my Geography project tomorrow. There's not much I need to do, some cutting and pasting, writing about a page...its convincing myself to do it that's hard.

Spring is Sprining

It hasn't sprung yet, but its getting there. I have proof.

For the first time since October, we had outside recess. It was WARM, but not hot. There was a strong breeze, but it wasn't cold air. Very refreshing, and a million times nicer than the gym.

Secondly, I've noticed that the evenings are getting slightly longer. Of course, this means it will be pitch black in the morning, but it isn't that light anyway. At least it'll be light to walk the dog. It also won't be cold, and everything seems to smell nice in the spring. I don't know why, it just does. Maybe because you have time to notice it, as it isn't 2 degrees outside?

I'm totally ready for winter to be over. It's freakishly cold down here in 'Tucky, and I'm sick of it. On the flip side, I grew out of all my capris, so I'll need new ones. However, I'd go through the spring rolling up my pant legs if it meant being warm enough to do so. I hate the cold.

The best part is, now I'm breaking out my flip-flops to walk Ginger. I used to slip on my fluffy crocs, but they're woolly and too warm for 60 to 70 degree weather. My flip-flops are a bit too small now, but I don't care. I'm good with any sign for "Winter is officially over". (I actually got one today---my friend Katie took off her favorite jacket at recess. I call it "Katie sheading her winter coat".)

Lazy Sunday

I did glorious nothing today. Sure, I did my homework at around 7---but it only took an hour or so. Besides form that, I began putting some music into Finale Notepad for Mike, checked my email, did some roleplays, and chatted on the phone.

I also took the dog out several times. It was a beautiful day, as was yesterday. Very warm, sunny, and pleasent. It's weird, because the 21st of March, which is when Spring really beings, it is always freezing. Yet on the 1st, it is always perfect. I usually go all kingergarten and call it the first day of Spring, and this year in no exception. The nice weather carried on for another day, which was nice. (However, this probably means that the 21st and 22nd are going to suck)

I'm counting down the days until Spring Break now. It's actually only a few weeks until the end of the third quarter, and that's awesome. I see the light at the end of the tunnel coming. 7th grade is going to be over soon.

*Sigh* It just can't come soon enough...

With Thee We Wed

First off---yes, I know I didn't post yesterday. Yesterday was Leap Year, and I'm in Blog365, not Blog366. We had the day off, and I wisely took it.

Secondly: I'm probably one of the biggest Billy Martin geeks in the world. I collect pictures of him, find random facts, and usually, my avatar is a picture of him (Picked out from my 30+ photo collection)

For awhile, I know he's been dating his high school girlfriend, Linzi. I also read on Wikipedia that he said he was getting married on March 1st. I shrugged it off, as it was January or December when I found out. Since then, I haven't thought about it much.

However, today it hit me: it IS March 1st! Naturally, I felt all happy, but fellow fangirls know the disappointment of knowing that your fantasy weddings really are fantasies.

Congradulations, Billy! I hope you're very happy.

Blog365: Day 59

And I thought I was good at flute...

"Inspector Gadget"



"Sesame Street"



"Super Mario Bros"



"Hard Knock Life"

Blast from the Past

I was looking through some of my old notebooks today. I found the first two chapters of a story I wrote back in 3rd grade. Here is chapter one, spelling and punctuated by an 8-year-old:

y me?

Jeeny Hawerd had a terrible day at school evry day. Like on Monday, Her Math book got lost the day befor the big Math test the next day. And on Tuesday She failed the Math test and the teacher thought taht She put gum in MaryAnns hair and got Detchin. But the worstthing of all was her boyfriend brock up with her and evryone on the blacktop stated to lahf becase she was'nt popler anymore. Jeeny felt like she was acting in a movie movie where she gets dumped.

When Jeeny got home she walked the 4 flits of stairs two her apartment room. She did'nt tell her Mom waht happend becase her mom only says ignor it hony and her dad only says you can'nt cange waht happend befor. So she neddid to tell someone so she told her stuffed bunny name babs but she did'nt say eneyfhing so Jeeny closed the windo and jet out her pet rarret Lusy but her parret only said Lusy wna cracker!!! brak! brak! So Jeeny put her back in. Leeny left her room sraching her back took off a sigh on the backof her shirt that said "Kick me".

Leeny desited to go to the soo to spend her aloens So she yelled Mom! her mom siad yes hony! Leeny yelled aging. Can I have my alowens! Jeenys mom yelle back. Sorry Huony I spent it ona ring to show off at my bookclub sorry!!

Leeny yelled back. Mom how could you?! Jennys Mom came up stiars and said Apil fools here yau go! Leeny said Mom its not April fools day.

Oh watever swtty, SO I shod'nt joke and Max liting Lusy fee hu? said Jeenys mom.

He didn'nt rihgt? Jeeny asked. Of course he did'nt her mom said. OKiedokie I will be at the soo! bye Mom! Lenny called from behind her. When Jeeny got home she was holding a soda and a stuffed fox pup, it was a friend for Babs named Robin. It was a little late so Jeeny decided to wahch T.V. until bed hoping she would be popler tomoroww.

Beware of Dog Doctor

I've recently made a roleplay site about 1900's New York City. Nobody was posting recently, and my character (Who is a mix of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Johnny Depp's Sweeney Todd) was always a rather depressing person, so I added a little plot to get something going.

Of course, with every major injury comes the hospital scene. Maya offered to play the insane French Doctor, and she does a rather good job at making him pretty darn insane:

The French doctor snorted at Mischa. “HUH…zeez immeeegrants…always bleeding…stop! Stop bleeding at us! You, boy, you need to ztop bleeding, you’re staining zee car-pets! Zeez man vill not ztop bleeding, ee eez RUINING zee CAR-PETS!” The doctor roughly said. He started cleaning some instruments. “Vondering vat zeez are?”
He waited for Mischa to reply.

“Zeez vill hurt a lot.” he simply said, before painfully preparing to tear the bullet out of Mischa’s shoulder.

He's a rather interesting character. As you can guess, Mischa is currently trying to escape from the hospital without looking obvious.

Depressing and greusome as it may seem, it grabbed a lot of attention from posters.

"Terror-Nova"

OK, so TerraNova doesn't suck that badly. I still don't like it. I don't like tests, so the fact that we're spreading it over two weeks isn't really helping.

Probably the only good part is that if we look like we're working hard, we won't get homework during those two weeks. So far, that isn't a possibility, as I have 3 things due it Social Studies by Friday. Ugh.

Tomorrow is the ELA section of the test. It's always been my 'favorite' (Meaning the one I dislike the least), as I'm good with reading. Next comes Math (Which at least is logical), then science (Not looking forward to at all) and social studies (So-so).

On a brighter side---we had a pep rally during 6th and 7th period, depending if you were a 7th or 8th grader. My drama coach selected a few of us to do testing-related improvs, and I was one of them, as well as being the only 7th grader. Katie and I paired up yet again, and we did quite a performance. I played somebody who could care less about my future and tests (The first thing I said in my intro was, "Yo, sup dawgs") while Katie played a test-freak. The result was hilarious, and we got to miss 3 out of 7 classes to do it---one practicing, two performing.

Triple Crown

Triple news, one of which is, well, tripled!

Item the First- I'm blogging this as the Oscars are going on. Go Jon Stewart! Hoping Sweeney Todd will win something...

Item the Second- Speaking of Sweeney Todd, I finally saw the movie today. IT WAS INCREDIBLE. Jamie Campbell Bower and Ed Saunders are incredible actors/singers, and they pulled of Anthony and Toby better than almost anybody else I've seen.

The actual killing parts weren't too awful. To be truthful, the most intense part of Judge Turpin's death was the reprise of "Pretty Women" before hand and the whole "BENJAMIN BARKER!!!" thing. Still not a good choice for young audiences, but as an avid Sweeney Todd fan, I survived it. As for Mrs. Lovett's death...*Shudder* don't even get me started. SCARY.

It was incredible, though. I can't wait until it comes out---April 1! The orchestra was incredible and full, Johnny Depp proved himself to be somewhat of a singer, and much more. I can't say more good things about it.

Item the Third- This is my 100th post! I'm now entering the wonderful world of Triple Digits...(I'll never catch up with my mom, though; she has over 300 posts)

I'm going back to watch the Oscars and root on Sweeney. Toodeloo 'till tomorrow.

Going "Old School"

Today, I dug out some stuff I hadn't touched in awhile: the DVD of Maya and I, a random PS2 game, and my brother's old hoodie. It's a very comfy hoodie, very warm, too.

As for the video game, it deleted all my data, so I've spent about half an hour or so trying to catch back up to where I was (I might be a fifteenth of the way there). However, its stupid and addictive. I like it.

Watching Maya's movie is almost as if Syracuse was yesterday. "Il Muto" and "Hannibal" were hilarious (Quinn was having a plastic nutcracker breakdance in the background of Maya singing "Think of Me"). I "landed" pretty much all the guy's parts (I wonder why...), so played Reyer, Firmin, Serofimo, Piangi, and Boquet. The hanging scene was especially fun---I had to make a lasso that would look choking, but wouldn't kill me. I was also the one who had to hold the rope up. With one hand up and tounge out, you could photoshop some makeup on me and post me as somebody from KISS or something.

It's about 5 minutes until post deadline, so I'll wrap this up. Toodleloo!

Snow Cancellation Delay

Today, we had a two-hour delay before school. I was hoping for a cancellation, but figured that a delay would be good enough. I woke up 90 minutes later than usual, wasn't in any rush to get ready, and even waited for the bus when it was light outside!

Off topic: I finally found a good audition song:



Any guesses?

Burning Ring of Fire

For the past few weeks, I've been reading Firestarter by Stephen King. I was mildly disappointed that it was mainly a weird, freaky sob-story instead of the sleep-with-the-covers-up-to-your-chin thriller my mom says is in Carrie and Salem's Lot. However, it was a nice introduction into Stephen King.

However, I'm sort of burnt out on difficult reading, so I'm planning on reading something a bit "fluffier", like Meg Cabot or Chris Crutcher. "Fluffy" meaning semi-easy to understand, not entirely depressing, and text that is a little bigger.

I can't wait to read Night Shift when I get back into Stephen King. I need some quicker-paced stories to deal with my unpatient-ness. Hmm...anyone have any other reading suggestions?

On Time

Considering today was a short day, I got out of school about an hour early. I had a fair bit of homework, and it takes a lot of effort to pull me into homework mode after being in school for so long.

Tonight, I actually finished my homework before dinner. That's right: after dinner, I didn't have to head back to my desk to try and cram out 20 cornell notes or finish some worksheet on the solar system. It was all DONE.

I'm probably going to be in bed rather early, even though tonight is a lunar eclipse. After all that work, I don't want to give it all up by staying up to say, "Yup, that's the moon".

Tomorrow, I'm going to do everything in my power to finish all my homework before I get home. There's a book I need and want to finish by tomorrow, and I want to fit in some serious reading time. I think I can manage it...its easier to convince myself to read than to do cornell notes. Much easier.

I feel all special now. Maybe I can keep up like this. Next goal---stop cramming for tests!

"Drama Club"

Today would usually be drama (Which I love---even though I didn't go to State, all the better for doing random improvs, my dear). However, considering everyone thought it was Monday or had a Spanish test to take, I was the only one who showed up. I was slightly annoyed that the people who made State weren't there, but I know people have lives...

Considering I didn't have a solo and improv is short for "improv duo", there wasn't anything I could do. I had an entire hour to myself---at school.

I used it as a sort of study hall. It was nice to do my homework, and this afternoon, I didn't have any. I came into the car at 3:38 with my social studies book, but didn't have any work to do with it.

I know I'll have a lot of homework tomorrow, but today...it was really nice to be able to kick back and relax on a TUESDAY. Only 3 more days, and it's the weekend. 3 days. Just three days...just keep go-ing, just keep go-ing, just keep go-ing, go-ing, go-ing, go-ing...

(Mainly)Never Forget, Never Forgive

Well, ignore the "never forgive" part. That's there because Sondheim put it there. Have to follow the lyrics.

Well, anyway, my totally awesome Great Aunt Suzie (AKA Photoshop Goddess) took the pictures my mom took yesterday and put them into a slideshow using some of the music from the show. Here's the finished product:



I can't believe she took 11 images and stretched them over 1 minutes and 50 seconds. It's such a cool slideshow!

Thank you, Aunt Suzie!

Swing Your Razor Wide

Today was Sweeney, and it was totally AWESOME! The cast was superb, and their singing was incredible. "Ballad of Sweeney Todd" and "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir" were probably my two favorite parts. However, I liked it all. Johanna was incredible, and I never thought somebody would beat Jane Wisener. I also think that Judy Kaye and David Hess put up a good competition with Angela Lansbury and George Hearn. Both pairs were really different, but really good.

Probably the best part of the day was waiting at the stage door. The weather was really nice, so we weren't standing out in the rain or cold. Out of the 10 cast members, we only missed three: Mr. Fogg, Judge Turpin, and Beggar Woman.

I wore my Lovett Pies apron and brought my plastic cleaver from Halloween for autographs, and it's pretty much filled up. I got pictures with everyone who gave autographs, and it was amazing. Here are the pictures from the day:

Benjamin Eakeley (The Beadle)


David Hess (Sweeney Todd)


Edmund Bagnell (Toby---I was totally thrilled when taking this picture. Toby is probably my favorite character ever!!!)


Edwin Cahill (Anthony, I think)


Judy Kaye (Mrs. Lovett)


Judy signing my cleaver


Katrina Yaukey (Pirelli)


Lauren Molina (Johanna)


The finished product: a signed butchery tool!


Waiting in the lobby


At the end of Little Priest, I was pretty close to creating a Rocky Horror experience. I was just about to get up and begin belting, "We'll serve ANYONE, meaning ANYONE, and to ANYONE, AT AAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!" when I realized I wasn't watching the performance DVD with Maya. I managed to constrain myself, but the urge was so huge!

I can hardly wait to see the movie when it comes out on DVD. Then my Sweeney Todd experience will be finished. However, I don't think anything will measure up to this.

And yes, today I gave a nod to Sweeney Todd. (THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET!)

We're seeing Sweeney on Sunday...

Ever since August, I've been an avid Sweeney Todd fan. I was Mrs. Lovett for Halloween, convinced Matthew to go as Sweeney, read the movie book well over a dozen times, and have watched as many movies clips as possible on YouTube. However, I haven't had a chance to really see it yet. I've seen the DVD recording with George Hearn and Angela Lansbury, but it isn't the same. Close, but not the same.

However, for Christmas, as a family gift, my mom bought 4 tickets to go see the demon barber himself on stage. I've been waiting for this for a few months, and I can't believe it's actually time.

One of the Broadway Bootcamp instructor's friend is actually playing Anthony. We got directions to the stage door, so we're probably going to haunt around there after the show to try and score autographs. Maya got pictures and autographs with some of the Phantom cast members, so I'm hoping to be able to get some Sweeney memorobilia.

However, autographs or not, I'm ready to really Attend the Tale!

Broken Hearts Parade Shoes

These are my awesome new shoes I wore yesterday:

Valentine's Day

So today was Valentine's Day.

Ever since 6th grade (When it wasn't required to bring a valentine for everybody in the class), I've pieced together what Valentine's Day is like in the "real world". As quoted from Mean Girls, "It was living proof that the more people who are afraid of you, the more flowers you get."

My day was actually rather nice. I got a "Rodents through the Ages" Shutterfly book from my parents, a little thing of Hershey's kisses from my friend Katie, and a few little critters the chrus was selling as Valentine's grams. Maya coordinated with my mom and got me a little pink monkey (His name is Alfred Jamie, after Jamie Campbell Bower), and a pink pig named Herbert from my friend (Not boyfriend!) Matthew.

I think I'm going to try and be more in-the-spirit next year. I know it sucks walking down the hall empty-handed while Miss Popularity trudges to her locker, overflowing with flowers, chocolates, cards, balloons, and teddy bears. Even though I was "spared" the embarassment this year, I know some of my other friends weren't. I just need to get over the stress it brings.

I wore my new broken-hearts shoes to school. I don't have a picture yet, but I'll post one later. I also wore all black, as a sort of joke. We're not allowed to wear pink or red at my school, so I decided to go a bit, ahem, contrasted.

Next year, I'm totally going to remember to spread the love (And chocolate). But this year...well, I survived. That ought to count for something.

Ice, No Delay

After yesterday's snow day, we were left with a ton of ice. It isn't causing any cancellations, so you can imagine the joy walking the dog is.

Getting to the band room is also a daring task. I was running late, so I was "speed-walking". I thought it was safe because of the roof, but there was a hudden patch of ice that I had missed. You don't have to have a Harvard degree to figure out what happened. I ened up on the ground, my stuff everywhere, and possibly-broken tailbone.

It's just plain cold outside, and it isn't the fun kind of ice you can skate on. You can slide on it enough to make you fall, but then it cracks and breaks. Fun, fun.

However, it's a 4-day weekend coming up. I just need to survive Valentine's Day and I'll be good. Still, does my butt ever hurt...

Snow Delay Day!

Today was supposed to be a 2-hour snow delay, but around 4 or 6 this morning, it turned into a cancellation of school. It was truly icky outside, but I slept in an hour later and did glorious nothingness. I played piano (Johanna, to be exact), did some online stuff, and "sledded". Most of the snow had turned to ice, so it was just muddy and gross.

Still, today was a perfect day for a snow day. No homework, no due dates...just staying-in-pajamas-until-noon. My kind of day.

Burnt Out

I am totally tired.

I didn't get to bed until 11 last night, to waking up at 6 to my alarm clock blasting wasn't what you would call ideal. My room is a complete mess, and my homework isn't done.

I just spent about an hour outside with Katie. It was really fun, but cold and tiring. We walked all over creation to find a decent sledding hill, and I came home about 15 minutes ago. Still: homework not done, room not clean.

I have to re-write my entire Personal Narrative for English, as well as doing this surfboard thing. I have to do some project about sentences, and originally, everybody was supposed to make part of a wall mural. Well, about halfway through, right as my group was finishing our piece, it was decided that the gray wall looked boring, and wouldn't we love to make a tropical theme? Sure, it sounds interesting, but my group had to pretty much tear our wall up so we could each make a surfboard. I'm doing "Punk-tuation", and my design isn't even done. Considering I was being stupid, I picked black paper out, without realizing that I can't decorate it. While my other teammates are decorating their boards with flowers, stripes, dots, and flames, I'm over here gluing question marks to a black piece of paper cut like an orange slice.

I also have cornell notes in 2 classes, a practice test I need to take, a 9-paragraph practice test I need to write, 9 words I have to define, a 5-page report, and a surfboard on my hands. It's not all due tomorrow but then again, I have no clue when everything's due.

I would have had time in the lab to work on my surfboard and narrative, but my drama coach pulled me out of 6th period for the past 2 weeks to work on my 5-minute skit. I loved watching all the other performances and performing mine every day, but it came with strings attached: I'm waaaaaay behind.

Lets forget about school for awhile. Let's talk about something else, like theatre. Broadway at Iroquois recently posted its summer season along with audition notices. Imagine my delight to see that teens can audition for CATS, one of the musicals they're doing. Imagine my frustration when I saw that I'm 8 months too young to audition. I COULD be able to audition for Willy Wonka and strut my inner Oompa Loompa, but really...

CATS has been one of my favorite musicals for forever. This is probably the first and only time I'm going to be able to audition for it without waiting until I'm 20, when it might not still be playing, and audition in proffesional theatre. Although competition at BAI is big, I know that there is a bigger chance of being told, "Eh, get lost, sucker" in the big leauges.

If I offened anyone with this, sorry. I'm incredibly frustrated right now, and need to seriously vent off some steam. I don't feel much better, but feel slightly satasfied that I was able to post this and ended up pretty much screaming it.

Nine paragraphs. Probably my longest post ever. (Or close to, although this makes paragraph 10.)

Stupidspacebar is back!

Well, my computer is finally working again. I'm really happy that my brother isn't constantly asking me to get off, and it's really comfy up in my room.

Nothing else happened today, but now you know where I'm posting from again.

Drama Regionals

I had Drama Regionals today. I didn't make State, so I'm not really going into detail about the day. (I really wanted to make it to State---I worked my butt off on my duo act).

One funny of the day, though, was a judge that will remain nameless. One of my said she seemed sort of mean and didn't appear to like her very much, so for the rest of the day, I refered to her as "Judge Turpin".

Here's a picture my mom took of me and my duo partner, Katie (Along with my friend, Jayden, popping in for the heck of it):

Real post tomorrow

See title.

Blog365: Day 38 (I think)

Today had actually been rather nice. I have no homework, my science test seemed to go well, and I've recently added a rather suspenceful character to my roleplay. I think he's going to really add on to the plot, as he totally contrasts Hahnee.

However, I'm still writing this on a time limit. Not to complain, but once my brother gets home, I'm not going be be able to get on at all until tomorrow. It's probably best that I'm not spending all my time on the computer, but I really want to work on my website. It's coming along really well, and I want to perfect it.

Nothing exciting happened today, and nothing will happen. If it does, then I'll probably blog it tomorrow, as that will be boring, too.

Missing the Stupidspacebar

Last night, there was this big storm. Smart me left the laptop plug in the wall, and woke up this morning to find that the laptop had pretty much fried.

Now everbody's back to sharing one computer. I've never really thought about it, but things seem to go easier when we're not really under a time constraint. Mike is usually on his laptop, Mom's doing work/homework/email on the desktop, and I'm either walking the dog or on the old laptop that I moved upstairs.

I sort of feel guilty for complaining about the spcaebar, but probably shouldn't. It was a very annoying problem, but I'd rather have to spend 5 seconds using the spacebar than have "5 minutes left".

Imissmyspacebar.