August 15, 2007

TAYLOR SWIFT: TEARDROPS ON MY GUITAR

have recently discovered the singer Taylor Swift. She is played on the country station, but she doesn’t sound like country to me…maybe the instruments. Kind of a Faith Hill confusion thing going on. (Faith Hill is considered country, but has some songs that edge out of it…)

This doesn’t usually happen, but I fell in love with her most popular song. Usually I just want to hear the rest of their music, but I love this song too. It is actually a pretty depressing song, and the video is just more depressing, but I like it, in all of its depressingness.

Just Hanging On August 15, 2007

There are less than 3 weeks until school starts. I know. Depressing thought. Don’t get me wrong, I love school (weird kid) but I love the sunshine and I am just hanging on to my last few days of summer.

 

I hooked up YouTube so that I can post videos. Make blogging a little more interesting…

Flash Back August 8, 2007

I think I was born in the wrong era. It would be so amazing to live in the 1940’s (the Great Depression is a minor set back prior to that…) or much earlier, 360 BC, the times that Alexander the Great lived in. Or the years of the setting for the theatre/movie Tristan and Isolde. Everything was much truer in those earlier times, yes, women were treated terribly, but there was still some justice. Jobs meant hardly nothing to them, there weren’t computer programmers, or cell phone companies, there were blacksmiths and herbalists. Everything was much simpler, but raw and unshapen. Wars were erupting all over, to claim what little land was known of, but they were fought with swords and tomahawks and bow and arrows, not guns and missiles. Everything took skill, to be a leader you had to act like one, you had to earn your place, not people with lots of money bribing their way to the top. Those who won the wars either had lots of people or skill. People lived for love, without that, there was just monotonous fights and living on the land. There were no supermarkets, there were outdoor markets where you bought from your neighbors, or imported from somewhere close by. In the 1940s there was glamour and hope for better times. The music and movies are fantastic from then, all revolving around this one concept; love. Nowadays there are ‘chick flicks’ or ‘romantic comedies’ that don’t have the same truth that reverberated in other times. The best romance movies, in my opinion are always set in other times, times that had more romance, that people came across, not desperately searching for on the Internet, or blind dates. Even the books I am mildly obsessed with, Twilight, New Moon, and recently added, Eclipse, they are based in our time, but all of the fantastic characters come from past times, that have lived through the world as it has changed. There was a certain something that made the glamour these days stand to shame when compared to those times, or the love stories we hear. It is a pity that technology and freedom have replaced the trueness of love and a way of life.

WOW! August 2, 2007

Today I spent the majority of the day playing WOW-World of Warcraft. Another one of my ‘quirks,’ I do enjoy playing it, though it does get somewhat monotonous after a while. I suppose I won’t be one of those that sells their house and divorces their spouses in order to play some more…I am a level 46 Paladin (called a “Pally” by savvy players…) which says something about my personality. Pallys’ are the healers, they don’t have as many fighting skills, like warriors, but they heal and I like to think of them as the nicer ones…There are 70 levels, so 46 is getting up there…there used to be 60, but we got the update. Basically, you go around gathering quests (different ideas for excuses to kill things) and then fulfilling those quests. Along the way you get experience points (XP) and reputation points. XP goes towards leveling up, and reputation points make you a more honored citizen or whatnot of the cities you have a good rep with. I like playing WOW, because you can play with other people, and there isn’t a set sequence. You can go wherever you want, unlike some computer games where you have to follow a set path, and there really isn’t an ‘end.’ Even when you hit level 70, you can still go around and get better armor and weapons and stuff. It’s fun, but it’s better when you play it, rather than listen about it.

 

Eclipse comes out in 5 DAYS!! I am so excited, but I won’t give anything away, don’t worry. I also expect ALL of you to read it, and read Twilight and New Moon if you haven’t already.

 

Happy Summer!

Martial Arts Princess August 1, 2007

HAPPY AUGUST

Today I returned to Martial Arts for the first time in over a month. It is so good to be back, I forgot how much I enjoy it. We did kicks today for most of class, I love showing off my front snap kick…hehe. I used to be terrible at them, you have to have this foot position, like standing on your toes, but I used to always point my toes. Great way to break them off. Anyways, I had to work and work to train myself to get them to do the right thing (don’t always like to cooperate…) and now (according to my instructor) I have the best foot position in the class. HA. So now I love doing them, especially half-time front snap kicks, which are jumping kicks. I can’t jump very high, it’s just something I have never really figured out how to do, but I love doing this kick. It’s also a great way to vent, pretending you are kicking that…special…somebody…Well, I know you are all VERY excited to hear me ramble about kicking.

WARNING: Lots of Disney Princess Alert

A while ago I splurged and bought some Disney Princess plates. ($8! I’m normally broke…) They have 2 sections, so I can divide my food (cool.) and I like to use them to get different types of food for my meal. So for my breakfast today, I had a peach (one section), 2 jumbo tofu dogs (cut in half, in another section), a handful of Rainer cherries (YUM! in another section) and a handful of edamame. Fun fun.

Ah yes. My Disney Princess obsession/collection. I have recently acquired a princess water bottle, which I am absolutely in love with. I also have 2 flashlights, a backpack, complete with lunchbox, purse, 2 pillows and more that I can’t think of right now…There is actually somewhat of a science surrounding the Disney Princesses. There are 6 true princesses, Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves), Jasmine (Aladdin), Belle (Beauty and the Beast), and Cinderella (Cinderella..duh.). Then, there are 2 additional “princesses” that don’t really count, but are the leading women in Disney, Pocahontas and Mulan.

 My favorite princess is Belle, because she definitely deserves her title. Ariel ran off with a guy when she was 16, and she abandoned her family, and the whole, “wanting legs” is just rubbish. I would rather be a mermaid, although Prince Eric is probably my favorite prince… Aurora has really pretty hair, but she doesn’t do much, just follows a green light and stabs her finger. Snow White is cool because she can mesmerize/hypnotize (poor and innocent) little animals, but she has this horrible, high-pitched voice that throws all of her songs in the garbage. Jasmine takes a close second to Belle, because she has a very cool pet, who wouldn’t want a pet tiger? (Raja) And she also scores Aladdin who isn’t too bad, very real. Cinderella also deserved to be a princess, because of the hard life she lived, but for some unknown reason I never liked her much. Maybe it’s because she is the most well-known, and I am being rebellious…Belle showed true compassion and befriended one that would normally have been ignored friendship. She is also very intelligent, after reading all of those books…I was Belle for Halloween actually…

Sorry I don’t have many pictures…:)