Ahahahaha

So I wish I could go back and read everyones’ posts!! But like I have to study really badly because I have NO idea what happened in American history 1830-1929 so that’s kind of bad (APUSH exam tomorrow YEAH)

But I’ve been studying all day so I decided to take a break and make up a little iPod shuffle game for you guys! I don’t know how your end-of-the-year schedules are shaping up, but I know that this is a really stressful time for a LOT of people so hopefully this will help you guys unwind if you need to? And maybe it will be fun? I just don’t know though I haven’t written it yet it might totally stink.

I’m going to try a more loose approach and just define sort of the setting? And then hopefully the music will provide the tone of the scene! Maybe. It is a mystery at this point.

1. Intro/Prologue

2. Preparing for the Big Event

3. The Guests Arrive

4. Who’s That Boy/Girl?

5. The Banquet

6. Well that was… Not what I expected

7. Singing on the Balcony

8. S/He heard me/What’s your name?

9. Interrupted!

10. Morning Search/Does anyone know where I can find (X)?

11. My Sister’s Wedding/Royal Wedding

12. Something’s Stirring

13. The Dance

14. Spying/a New Partner-in-Crime

15. Midnight Expeditions

16. We Shouldn’t Have Done That

17. Running/Did they see us?

18. Omens and Consequences

19. Research in the Library

20. Finding the secret passage/a clue!

21. Cornered

22. Fight Back/Rescued

23. Putting it together/We were right/The Kiss

24. Final Confrontation

25. (Near) Death Scene

26. Avenge the fallen

27. Victory (OR Flight)

28. You’re Alive! (Only if you chose Near Death scene and not just Death Scene)

29. Explanations/Apologies/Resolution

30. What’s next?/Confessions

31. Closing monologue

so ok this probably makes zero sense but it’s a combination of brain deadness and the 56789876543 stories circling in my head right now rhdfjhd

Anyway I hope it’s doable?? But most of all I hope it’s fun!

Sorry for the random like rambly post ok anyway back to studying now

 

*FLAPS ARMS WILDLY*

Ok so I’m supposed to be working on my English paper and studying for my AP Art History exam but it’s REALLY HARD BECAUSE I’m sooo distracted argh!!!

I’m so hyper because I combined excessive quantities of sugar with talking to my friend on facebook about ships, and I kind of have a giant crush on a guy in my class which is such a lost cause but my heart is like a honeybadger it does what it wants
AND ALSO

THE GREAT GATSBY MOVIE

SO we read GG this year in English and it was really good!! I loved how descriptive it was so normally I’d be like, “Oh awesome this movie is going to be totally sick!”

But then

they cast Toby Maguire

as Nick

Like nothing against Toby Maguire, he’s a good actor, but he’s just too… wimpy!!

I thought maybe he just acted wimpy for the Spiderman movies but then I saw one of the trailers and?? It just wasn’t right.

Like in the book, Nick was intentionally reserved in his judgement, but he still stood up for himself and what he thought was right!! And like RHGHG JUST TOBY MAGUIRE IT DOESN”T WORK!?!?!?!

Ok so now that’s out I’m looking forward to everything else about it!!

Also I’m TOTALLY obsessed with the song Lana Del Rey sang/co-wrote for it omg

I’m soooo crazy about this song, I especially love the bell that goes off when she says “Young” and “but” and the whole atmospheric feel–it feels so sweeping and grand and UGH!! It just FEELS like a movie song and I love it!!!

Ok sorry enough freaking out I’m done for now BACK TO PAPERS YAY…

(This paper is never going to get finished omg)

 

Excuses, Excuses

Ok, so in the next two weeks I’ve got a show (costuming for that show, too), two major projects, and lots of homework as my AP classes push towards completion so we can start to prepare for the AP exams!

That, combined with my regular procrastination, doesn’t leave me with much time, so I may not be posting for a while! (Not only because I’m busy, but because these things will probably eat my life and I most likely won’t have much to post about ^^”)  I might hang out on the Chat just because I get bored while working on homework or something, but for the most part if I’m not on it’s not because I’ve left or anything!! I love you guys and I feel bad every time I totally clock out ^^” So I’m not going to do that this time!!

But yes anyway I hope you guys had a good 4/13! And I hope you have a good REST OF FOREVER. In case I never come back (it’s entirely plausible). But I hopefully will!

OK so this post turned into a rambling I can’t even remember what the point was ok bye.

 

Welp.

I think I have officially spent too much time watching the X-Files.

Today I got a “birthday gift” in the mail from some company I don’t even know and never filled out anything for!

Anyway, they sent me one of their “state-of-the-art shaving razors” that “lathers as you shave” ??

It’s really dorky looking:

There’s absolutely NO WAY I’m going to use this thing!! It could be an assassination attempt–maybe the blades are poisoned? Or maybe they’ll just shoot out of the razor and hurl with deadly velocity towards an artery!

But anyway the box told me not to open one end… OF COURSE THAT’S THE END I’M GOING TO OPEN!!

The other one might be rigged with some kind of tracking or timing device! Who knows, it might have sent out a brain-washing radio wave!

So yeah long story short I need to stop watching X-Files.

(But not before I bury this thing under 5 miles of dirt so it can never hurt anyone)

What’s the sketchiest thing you’ve ever gotten in the mail?

 

Victory Lap!!

As of two nights ago…

I HAVE FINISHED MY ILLUSTRATIONS!!

So now I can take mORE drawing assignments (and I promise I’ll actually do them this time)!!

I’ve been on a kind of princess dress obsession kick, so I wanted to draw everyone their own custom princess dress!!

My friends and I had some fun with it when we made a SUPER COMPLEX princess dress generator/M.A.S.H.-type game. And then the fun was trying to make what we got look good!

Anyway, it would help me if you would fill out the (g) items in this form, and there are more options if you want to get really specific!

Read More because of the long form!

 

HOPPY BUNNYMUND DAY!!

EGGS FOR EVERYBUNNY

 

The Croods!!!

So I just got back from seeing The Croods with my Grandparents and I have 2 things I really want to talk about!!

The first thing: the movie.

OH. MY. GOD.

I loooved it ahhhhh!!!!

The animation was FANTASTIC!! You can totally tell that the animators put a lot of thought into the textures and colors and character designs, but mainly the real gritty textures, like rocks and the wiry hair. It was just soooo UGHGHG like I could go on for DAYS about how great Dreamworks is in general about getting detail right! But two things that had the greatest impact on me were the textures in the hair and the canyon they lived in at the start of the movie.

The hair in this movie was just GREAT! I know that most movies have characters with different hair textures all the time–like Brave! Merida’s hair doesn’t look like Elinor’s and Elinor’s doesn’t look like Lord MacIntosh’s, but Merida’s hair looks like her brother’s and (kind of) her father’s.

In The Croods, everyone’s hair is unique! Like Eep’s hair looks like her mother’s, color-wise (Sort of an awesome mix of red and brown–and not of chunks of red hair and chunks of brown hair, it’s like these tiny individual hairs mixed together, but it works amazingly!!), but the textures are so different! You can’t really tell for the most part, but after Ugga lets her hair down you can see that the texture (or at least how well they keep it) is totally different! Ugga’s hair has this smooth, graceful wave to it, while Eep’s hair has this kind of wild, wiry look and it just kind of sticks out crazily!

(This isn’t really a good example, but I couldn’t find any good pictures of her hair down. But you can still tell how shiny and smooth the portion in front of her headband is!)

It’s really interesting because someone thought this all through, and this design applies to their characters! Ugga’s the sort of peace-keeping mother (especially between Grug and Eep) and smoothes down a lot of situations! But Eep’s the one who just won’t do what she’s told, kind of like her unruly hair!

And the people hair is ALSO different from the animals’ hair! And ALL THE ANIMALS’ HAIRS ARE DIFFERENT!!! Like the colorful tiger (if he had a name it escaped me ^^”) has this sort of soft but kind of matted-in-some-places looking hair, and it makes sense! The longer parts are kind of tangly, and the shorter parts are more separated! And of course Belt has this sort of thick, slothy hair that’s completely different from the tiger’s!!

AND THE DIRT TEXTURE!!!! AHHHHH!!

They do such a good job of making the characters look dirty and grimy!! And I think the minute I fell in love with the film in the trailer was when they emerged from the canyon covered in this layer of dust, it just looked SOO GOOD!!

And the canyon they first lived in? Oh my god it was legitimately perfect!

My family took a trip to Canyonlands in Colorado one year and the canyons looked EXACTLY like that one! It was just soo well done, and the characters didn’t look out of place!

But anyway, I could go on about how much I LOVED all these quirky, awesome characters, or how cute Guy and Eep are together (AHH!!), or about how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE Grug (Poor guy, though!), or about how FANTASTIC Sandy is, or about how it made me STINKING CRY LIKE 20X BECAUSE IT WAS SO GOOD, but I feel like this post is already much too long and I still have another thing to talk about!

Although this isn’t… it’s not a good thing.

Subject number 2:

Something that (in my opinion) shouldn’t exist. Because it’s based upon something that wasn’t really that good in the first place. And because it’s being produced by the WONDERFUL animation studio that brought you pretty much all of the horrible Disney sequels.

That’s right, I’m talking about Planes.

No. NO. NO.

Like I understand that Disney made a lot of money with Cars, and that’s great!! And I understand that Cars 2 was probably just to make more money, and even though it was kind of lame, it still involved cars. But Planes is about PLANES GOSHDARNIT!!! That’s like… not even the same universe!!

To make things brief:

There are a LOT OF THINGS I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT PLANES.

Going to Read More because I accidentally posted like a super long and unnecessary rant because GOSHDARN IT THIS FRUSTRATES ME!!!!

 

Sorry for the Hiatus!

Ick, sorry!! I’ve had a lot of homework lately (My history teacher is trying to push us through as much material as quickly as possible so we’ll be ready for the AP exam!) and I’ve actually done some sewing for the first time since winter break!!

I’ve also got a bunch of sewing to do, but I’ve got all this weekend to do it! I plan to knock out my homework and just spend the entire weekend crafting, YEAH!!

I’ve got to dye all my fabric first, though, which I plan on doing tomorrow, and after that I can get going!!

My illustration project is also underway; I’ve got all the drawings finished and I’m going to color them and give them to my patron! We had a while where we couldn’t meet, so we’re running a bit behind! He’s really cool and doesn’t mind though.

Also, I went to a Renaissance Fair for the first time!! AND I GOT A NIGHT FURY!!

It was really fun!! I went with a totally AWESOME friend from school (She’s one of my best friends and went dressed as Eilonwy!)

All of the craftsmen were sooo skilled, it was insane! And so were all the performers!! They were perfect, especially this one woman who went around collecting money in a seashell! She had a beautiful singing voice and kept singing awesome songs like the “Misty Mountains” song from The Hobbit! AND SHE EVEN SANG “A NOBLE MAIDEN FAIR” I was cRYING and she like looked at me and I gave her a thumbs up and I started crying!

So anyway, it was awesome!!

Oh, also, the toothless dragon is called a “Dragon Pet”!! Their website is here, they don’t just make night furies!! They had all sorts of sick merch, it was pretty insane!

 

 

Super-Hero and a Smackdown!

My school hosted a blood drive today!! I’d been wanting to donate blood for a while, and today’s being Valentine’s Day just seemed like too much of a coincidence!!

So I gave blood, and it was awesome!! It was pretty cool, actually; my doctor/nurse/I don’t know what to call him?? was really funny! They put little samples of my blood into test tubes, which he called “Vampire Snack-Packs”.

And it didn’t hurt at all!! I mean, I’m really not afraid of needles or blood (and I have a pretty high pain tolerance), so I may not be the best person to hear this from, but it was not at all scary!!

Anyway, I felt like a super hero! But I felt bad for my friend; he couldn’t donate blood because he was born in England when Mad Cow Disease was an issue. He was super pumped about it, too!! (Aha, pumped ^^”)

And then after school, two of my friends, one of whom is a 7th grader (who is very mature for his age), the other of whom is a year older than me, were having a conversation about Pokemon.

Basically, my friend that’s older than me LOVES Pokemon, but my 7th-grade friend doesn’t care much to it. So they had a little smackdown that went something like this:

Older Friend: Do you like Pokemon?

7th Grade Friend: Not really… I don’t play it any more.

Older Friend: Why don’t you play Pokemon?

7th Grade Friend: It’s for children.

Older Friend: You do realize you’re talking to a 17 year old that plays Pokemon?

7th Grade Friend: Yeah…? It was always too easy, even when I was little.

Older Friend: (Lightly slapping 7th grade friend’s head) Come on, everyone plays it! It’s so fun!

7th Grade Friend: (Turning to me, talking about older friend) She’s obviously a Pokemon nut who doesn’t do anything but play Pokemon when she’s not doing homework.

At this point I just about started CRYING I was trying not to laugh so hard!!

And what makes it even better: My seventh grade friend is SUPER tiny–I mean, boys don’t have their growth spurt until 8th-11th grade (And even after that!), so it’s basically this tiny, seventy-two pound kid with a slight speech impediment (his “r”s come out like “w”s) taking on this eleventh grader.

It was REALLY funny, but I had to intervene to keep my older friend from slapping him around, which made me a little upset with her.

BUT ANYWAY YES!! Today was a good day!

How was your Valentine’s Day??

 

Just another day in art class…

So this is going to be a short post, as it is 1:00 am and I have 2 shows tomorrow and also Grandparent’s day and homework!!

Anyway, my art teacher has all these random old toys, one of which is a Jack-in-the-box.

So my friend is like, “What happens when you wind it? Does it actually work?” (this is the same friend that I’m writing the Twilight-inspired Loch Ness Monster Romance Novel with)

And then my teacher was like, “Oh, yeah!! Try it!” And she convinced him to shut the Jack-in-the-Box and try to wind it to make the Clown pop out!

So he winds through the entire song (“Pop goes the weasel”) once, and nothing happens. At this point, pretty much the entire class is watching with baited breath!

My art teacher convinces him to wind through it again since he was holding down the lid (She told him to, but she had just meant hold the box to keep it from sliding across the table as he wound it.). He did, and he got to the second to last note and

BOOM!!!

The clown pops out.

I’m pretty sure everyone jumped, but I actually screamed and fell on the floor. I mean, I’m not sure what I was expecting…? But then we all started making jokes about the movie, “Elf”, and how my friend felt like Buddy.

But yes, we really do have some interesting times in art class!! It’s pretty fun!

What is your most amusing class? And why so?

 

Ohmygosh x2

Okay so I should be memorizing this speech I have to give tomorrow, but instead I was taking personality quizzes and:

what KIND of princess are you

Your Result: hyper princess

84%

you eat too much sugar all the time!!!!!!!people think that you have a problem with eating too much sugar and then jumping allover the place!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU NEED TO STOP!!!!!!!

This is possibly the most accurate thing I’ve ever read about myself.

ALSO MY MOM ALMOST SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE

Ok so not quite ^^” But she left a candle without a tray under or glass around it or anything, and it set fire to the bookshelf!

I had to throw water at it to put it out ^^” I felt pretty cool but also VERY lucky!!

And this is the second time that this has happened… HMMMM…

Have you guys ever had any close calls?

 

SCREAMS

GUYS

THE DREAMWORKS STORE HAS RISE OF THE GUARDIANS SHIRTS AND SWEATSHIRTS AND KFJ

I literally screamed and woke up everyone in my entire house!! My mom came in and I was doing this strange dance and she was like, “Go to sleep, ya hippie!!”

BUT GUYS I’M ACTUALLY CRYING

Guys

guys

gUYS

OK just a heads up also I had sugar and I’m not supposed to do that??? So YES ANYWAY SUPPORT DREAMWORKS AND RISE OF THE GUARDIANS WOOOOHOOOO!!! And FINALLY they’ve got Merch!!

 

Confession

i have deceived you all

i am not who you think i am

 

Super Important Stuff!!

So I have like a SUPER important decision to make…

Should I be relatively serious about the Civil War reenactment this Sunday and go in my civil war garb?

OR…

Should I just go as Merida??

I’m afraid I’ll be seen as disrespectful if I go as Merida!! … BUT I LOVE BEING MERIDA AGH

Also I may or may not have broken my music-buying promise AGAIN and bought more music last month ^^” So a December music review is in order!!

Also I filled out the survey thing!!

Also I really like the word also?:

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAY!!

Today is the birthday of that FABULOUS Doctor’s Companion… RAINFALL!!

So be sure to wish her an extra special day! She does a LOT of stuff to help all of us out!!

We love you Rainfall! Thank you for all your dedication and hard work! ^^

(Sorry this is so late, and sorry I don’t have anything awesomely amazing for you! You deserve a THOUSAND years’ worth of adventures in the TARDIS!)

 

FSLKDJFLSKJ:LKDJG:LKJ

Ok now I know I’m probably spamming, and that I’m not supposed to do that, but I JUST CAN”T HELP IT I CSANTLKDJ:FKJ

We went to Disney World this weekend!! Oh my gosh it was so fun! My dad did his Gaston voice and my sister and I sang together!!

But they had this meet-and-greet area where you can meet Merida! It used to be where you could meet Rapunzel, but they changed it thanks to Brave’s popularity!

(And don’t worry, Rapunzel is getting her own place!):

 

BUT ANYWAY… Merida was doing her Meet-and-Greet thing, so I said to my parents, “You have to FORCE me to meet her. When we get to the line, I will say, ‘No, I don’t want to,’ but you have to FORCE me to meet her!”

It took us three or four times of us walking by (And hours of me kicking myself for not getting in line!) until my mom finally said, “Ok, I’m going to stay here and see Merida, I don’t know about you Nireth!”

Of course I INSTANTLY jumped into line behind her and was like, “YESYEYESYESYEYSEYSYEYSE!!!”

And I was so glad I did, because:

SHE WAS SOOO BEAUTIFUL AND SWEET!!

I was talking in my Scottish accent, so she asked if I was actually from Scotland!! (I said no, of course ^^”)

And she signed my sketchbook!!!

AND THEN SHE LOOKED AT MY SKETCHES!!! AND SHE SAID THEY WERE GOOD!!!!

And then she suggested we cross our arms and strike a brave pose!!

So we did!! (Although I wish I hadn’t made such an awful face UGKDJHFSLKDJFHK TT_TT I have to learn how to do it like Merida does in all the merchandise:

)

But then she GAVE ME A HUG!!!

And it was her idea, too!! She stretched out her arms for a hug and I was like, 8 OOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And then she said that ONE DAY WE SHOULD GO TO SCOTLAND TOGETHER!!!!!!

Of course afterwards I broke down crying and couldn’t stop for like half an hour ^^”

But OHHH MY GOSHH!! She was just so wonderful and Merida is my absolute favorite at it just meant so much ashhJSHDKGJHSDLKFJH!!!

I mean, I LOVE Rapunzel, but I could associate so much more with Merida! The movie came out right after I had a spectacularly tough year with my mom, and the story hit really close to home! Plus, I loved how they showed the strong family bonds that held everyone together!

Anyway, if you could go to Disney, which character would you like to meet most? What would you say to them??

 

 

WHAT

So I was reading the Art of How to Train Your Dragon again and I found this snippet about Gothi/the village elder.

You know, this lady!

It was talking about her in the book, and it said something about her being with the young models of Hiccup and Astrid in the scene where Stoick is setting off to find the Dragon Nest with Toothless. So I looked it up, and LOOK!!

 

The coloring is different, but it’s them!! AHH!! I can’t believe I never noticed this before!!!

But anyway, yes! I hope you all have a FANTASTIC NEW YEAR!! Best of luck to you all!!

 

 

Two New Lanyards and a New Friend

OK SO I FOUND A BLOCKBUSTER YESTERDAY!!!

And I was SUPER excited because they had Rise of the Guardians Merchandise!! Dreamworks sold the rights to Blockbuster for… some reason?? I LOVE Dreamworks, but their marketing is, uh… WAY sub-par! (But it’s kind of hard when you’re comparing it to the Disney Machine!)

But we went to the mall and met this man with a young (maybe five- or four-year old) daughter, and they had NO IDEA AT ALL that Rise of the Guardians existed! My mom was talking to him about it because his daughter sounded EXACTLY like Sophie! She ran by laughing and I was like, “That sounds like Sophie!”

We were shopping for my sister at Aeropostale, so I was really bored. So I started playing around with the little girl! She had a crown on, so I bowed and was like, “Oh, it’s a princess!”

And then we went on a TON of adventures! I fought off a monster, got a squirrel an acorn that he couldn’t reach, and rescued a baby tiger! And THEN we caught her cat that was loose in the store and restored all the colors to the rainbow (A star on one of the shirts had stolen them!). It was really fun!

But ANYWAY, we were at the mall because we were waiting for my sister to finish shopping with her friend. My mom and I WERE going to see Lincoln, but it was completely sold out! So we had a TON of time to kill.

In that time, we went… BLOCKBUSTER HUNTING!! I wanted to get something super special for my friend because she got me this MEGA AWESOME GIFT:

 

So I got her a Jack Frost Lanyard!! But I couldn’t help but get some more stuff for myself ^^”

A Tooth Lanyard and Card!

 

And a Jack Lanyard and Card!

And I though the gift cards they had were SOOO COOOL! So we got one and only put five dollars on it (There aren’t any Blockbusters near us!)

 

Yes yes yes it was a VERY good day! ^^

 

Graceful

Today I learned the hard way not to run in a parking lot!!

It went down kind of like this:

I skinned both my elbows and one of my knees THROUGH MY JEANS AND SWEATSHIRT!!!

But it was actually pretty fun!! ^^”

Also Poptropica is like 500% cooler now, LOOK!!!

THEY HAD A QUESTION ABOUT HTTYD!!! DKFJLSKJ

Also I just got back from seeing Rise of the Guardians again and my friend told me I’d be A GREAT TOOTH!!! And she’s like the fifth person that told me that!! I’m sorry, I’m just REALLY EXCITED because she’s AWESOME 8D (I get a lot of “You look like Merida!”s, too!!)

Has anyone ever told you you look like a cartoon character? If so, which one?

 

 

 

Happy Holidays!!

Yay!! I hope you guys are having a wonderful winter break!

And I hope Santa visits all of you, whether you’re religious, Christian, or not! Or maybe one of the other Guardians!! (PLEASE BE JACK FROST!! No, seriously, Jack. Florida needs you!)
Best wishes to all!! ^^ I hope you have wonderful dreams and wonderful nights/days!