Seventeen

Tomorrow I'll be eighteen, legally an adult. I don't feel like a grown up, haha. Still in school, still taking tests, ect.... I'm just going to make a list of what's been up, in case I ever look back through here later.

1. I'm reading The Girl Who Played With Fire. I'm really liking the Steig Larsson trilogy. 
2. Dad and I are watching a TON of Swedish mysteries. It's ridiculous, but I swear Swedish sound like French.
3. Tennis was good this year. Cierra and I took second at Regionals and fifth at state. Listen to Steve Aoki's "Livin' My Love."
4. Garbing and assistant directing for "Carousel." It's gonna be awesome.
5. Turned out some decent art. Nothing totally wowing, but some stuff I like all right. I'm trying some pieces based off Tamora Pierce covers.
6. Taking AP Psychology was a bad idea haha. At least right now. I am SO behind. Right now it's at a 45% and I need to get it up to have any hope of being salutatorian. I'll work on it. Hard core. Being salutatorian would be legit.
7. It's been pretty good this year.
8. Battlestar Galactica. Still lovin' it. Freaking gahhhh. Also, Rizzoli & Isles is pretty funny. Maura's not Maura, but she's cool. Major Crimes season two is out next summer! YES! haha. 
9. I'm hoping to try fencing at college. Or rowing. I'd still like to play bagpipe.
10. I'd like to got to Virginia Tech for college, but I pretty much have a full ride to UW, so I'll see how the scholarships turn out. Remember to reply by May 1st. 
11. Running. I'd like to take that up this summer. Go for a run or some parcour in Beck Lake. Ride the whole way down Prickly Pear Alley. 
12. Love the dogs and the cats.
13. Brave and Promethius were good. Promethius was my first R-rated movie with Jeff.
14. Jeff and Amanda and I need to hang.
15. The regular gang needs to hang.
16. Hey, there's almost eighteen things here now.
17. Try being vegan for a bit. 
18. Be the shizzle.

I've only got a second...

The cover of Battle Magic was updated. I think my heart started beating faster just looking at it.

I also finished my calculus final today. I loved trig and pre-calc and did just fine with them, but calc just isn't my friend. I suck at calc. Ah well, can't have everything, hmm?

CHS Tennis

I started this blog over two years ago and one of the first things I wrote about was tennis. Today I finished my high school tennis career. It was an incredible 7 seasons. (One spring and one fall, seniors can't play spring.) I played JV every year until this fall, when I finally made varsity. I played part of the season with Katie, a sweet junior with beautiful groundstrokes. We were undefeated and beat KW and NC on what I see as the best day of our season together. Then I was partners with Cierra, a hard-core senior with a signature slam. We had a tough start, but pulled together in time to take second at North Regionals, defeating Sheridan and NC, and losing to Gillette. The last two days we had a good time. We had an absolutely incredible match with Cheyenne Central last night, winning 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 6-4. It was so hard and so beautiful. We were on fire. We were racehorses at the baseline and lionesses at the net. It is such a sweet feeling to have a well-earned victory. We fell today to Laramie and Rock Springs. I won't lie, Laramie smoked us and Rock Springs was better, but we did well. I am SO proud of my team. Jenna, Taylor, Jenny and Sam, Skye and TT, Cierra and myself, Katie and Meg, Shad, Dan, Jordan and Trey, Ethan and Jess, Eric and Tanner, TJ and Angelo, Dawg and Brandt. We had an incredible season and it was the best. Play like a champion forever.

Karma

I seem to be taking a religious streak in my posts, but I don't think that's bad... I don't mean to say I'm promoting my views, though. I think everyone eventually finds their niche, and that's cool. I try to be accepting of others. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but that's okay. As long as you try, that's what matters.

Do you think there's karma? Or is it just in our heads?

Thoughts on life

I think we all need to believe in a higher being. I don't care if you think it's God, Zeus and Hera, or  Buddha, but I think we all need some kind of explanation for what happens in life. Sometimes, it's like karma is just slapping you left and right, and others it's as though you've just had a vial of felix felicis. There must be a motive, right?

It's just been a long day, and I just wonder sometimes. I don't know. Maybe it's all based off how bitchy people feel at a particular time and place, or maybe we're all just pawns in some great chess game. I don't know. I wish I did. I'd love to know why, why, why. But then, I suppose we all do. And I suppose, if we knew the system, we'd hack it and fix it.

Does it sound communist to say that I wish we were all equal? The same stuff, the same access. Everything we fight over is over someone's crap. Land, diamonds, water, nuclear warheads, shit like that. We don't need all this shit. We just need a little house, a garden, some water, and friends. Give me that and I'll show you how to live.

God help us. Bless us, keep us, and help us. 

hahaha

I love it when teachers say funny stuff. There's one I know pretty well, and we were talking and she just yells "dammit" and I laughed and she says "darn it" and it's totally normal. I like being friends.

ps. TENNIS STARTS THIS WEEK!! Frick yeah!

A Year in Review

I was looking at my "most popular" posts, and "BSG" popped up. I read it, and it's from February of last year when I started watching Battlestar. Oh my goodness. To quote myself: "Laura Roslin is really upset because she's just been diagnosed with cancer. Then, all of a sudden,  these bad guy/robots called Cylons come blasting out of nowhere and pretty much blow up Caprica." And then, later on: "Sharon (aka Boomer) and this other guy and they rescue about 50 people from Caprica, including the super-genius scientist, Gaius Baltar. Sadly, to rescue Gaius the "other guy" is left behind on Caprica." 

HAHAHAHA

I've come so far since then! Hahaha, little did I know I'd finish the whole show in a couple months, and then continue to obsess over it, haha I even have a tag for it now.... I love everything sometimes...

It's been about a year now.

It's been about a year since I started watching Battlestar Galactica. It's probably about my favorite show of all time. I don't know how much that means, seeing as the only other thing I really watch is Masterpiece on PBS, haha.

But it's great. The acting, the people, the plot, the effects. Mary McDonnell, playing Laura Roslin is my favorite. She's wonderful, and Roslin's arc through the series is breathtaking. She changes so much.

Is it bad that I still cry when I see her and Adama kiss, or when I watch the Daybreak episodes?

A screen-cap from a SyFy interview.

Watch it if you ever can, it's on Netflix. Listen to the soundtrack, especially the fourth. Bear McCreary does a great job. The drums are absolutely LEGIT. My favorite song is "An Easterly View." Listen.

It was funny; the power in our school was out for two hours today, and the first thing out of my mouth is "OHMYGOSHTHISISLIKEACYLONINVASION!!" Followed by "HASANYONESEENBATTLESTARGALACTICA?!IT'STHEBESTTHINGEVER!!!!NO,IT'SNOTTHENERDYSTUFFIUSUALLYTALKABOUT,IT'SLEGIT!!!"

I'm a bit of a wacko sometimes. We played cards and screamed and told anti-jokes the entire time.

Any good Battlestar anti-jokes?

What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? The Cylons blowing up Caprica.

Why couldn't Laura Roslin shoot a Cylon? Because she was dying.

Haha, these are awful. Help me. :)

New Blogger layout....

I'm not sure what I think about it.... It's very different, rather like Google Docs....

I've come to realize I've really fallen off the ship here about posting. It's sad... I like it.... I just have been tumblring recently. I'm going to start it up again her, everything and anything...

Next up.... The Hunger Games! There's a costume party in March and I'm currently beginning a Katniss costume. Does this sound familiar, haha? Costuming in Wyoming it rather hard.

Here's my current supply list. Tell me if you've got ideas.
-Red glitter glue
-Red glitter fabric paint
-Gold glitter fabric paint
-Orange sheet
-Sparkly red fabric
-Yellow tulle
-Fake tigerlilies
-Yellow spag. strap top
-Red sequin sting elastic stuff

Here's a couple links too.
Claribel Hawkins
LaVictoireDansLaBrume

Dreams?

Quite a while back, I had a dream about mice, carrots, laundry, rats, and the color red. Don't ask, haha. I went online to a dream translator, and here's what I came up with.

Mice-To see mice in your dream indicates that you are spending too much time dwelling on minor problems and insignificant matters.


Carrots-To see a carrot in your dream signifies abundance and fertility. It may also symbolize a lure as in the pun "dangle a carrot".


Laundry-To dream that you are doing your laundry suggests that you are cleaning up your act or changing your image. Perhaps, you are too concerned about how you appear to others.
      Except I wasn't actually doing laundry... I just had a laundry basket...

Rats-To see a rat in your dream signifies feelings of doubts, greed, guilt, unworthiness and envy. You are keeping something to yourself that is eating you up inside. Or you have done something that you are not proud of. Alternatively, a rat denotes repulsion, decay, dirtiness, and even death. The dream may also be a pun on someone who is a rat. Are you feeling betrayed?

Red-Red is an indication of raw energy, force, vigor, intense passion, aggression, power, courage, impulsiveness and passion

They didn't appear to know what the appearance of Elizabeth I meant.

I am a feminist. So is Jo.

Has anyone heard JK Rowling’s “Women of Harry Potter” speech yet? It’s amazing. I never realized women were so powerful in her stories. I mean, I knew they were there, and I knew they were just incredible people, but never really thought “Crumbs, they’re such a driving force.” They are.

Hermione, take Hermione, she’s this girl, and that’s quite important, and she’s not stunning, she’s not everyone’s friend, she’s this huge know-everything bookworm. And she’s a heroine.

Ginny. Ginny’s this little girl, and I think that’s how we see her most of the time, and she grows up kind of behind Harry and the crew, and she has a lot of drama, but she ends up being this great person. I’m just like “Wow, where’d she come from?”

Luna is incredible, not for those reasons, but because she is herself. Not what someone else wants her to be. Luna (in the words of Jo) “Doesn’t give a damn.” She believes in herself. I think that is part of the reason why Evanna was so wonderful for Luna. Luna’s here, not giving a damn about how others see her, and Evanna had troubles with self-image. That’s not to smash on her. Who hasn’t looked themself in the mirror and thought something awful? I have. You have. But we can learn.

Even Molly. Molly Weasley is this sweet, nice lady who wants to be the mother of everyone. Wants everyone to have a wonderful family life. But even through that, she’s got some mettel. She is family and love.

Speaking of love, there’s Lily and Narcissa. Lily, we don’t see her much, but she starts this whole story. She loves Harry so much. She saves him and is a force through everything. She’s there for him in the end. Narcissa is much like Lily. A shadow of her, maybe. Narcissa is willing to sacrifice everything on the off-chance Draco is still alive in the castle. She loves him so much that she leaves Voldemort. And runs away. Sometimes you have to know when to run away.

There’s McGonagall. She’s my favorite. I love her. She’s strong, right from the get-go. She sticks to her beliefs, rather like Luna. But unlike Luna, she isn’t holding to the self-image ones. She’s holding to the morals. The rights and wrongs of her life. I don’t think she’s immune to words, like Luna is. I’ve read the Pottermore stuff, but even before that, she’s just had this feeling that was like she cared, and she knows it. She loves people, but she’s hiding it, she’s hiding her great admiration/respect/love for people under her “obey the rules or die” shell. She’s this great rock. She’s always there, after Lily’s gone, Lupin, Sirius, Dumbledore, Snape. She’s ready to go and stand for her right. Not in the “Might is Right” sort of sense, but “Right is Right,” if you understand.

The Potter women are a huge force, and I never really knew. This really raised my respect for Jo, higher than ever before. It brings her on par with Tamora Pierce. In case you don’t know, Tamora Pierce is… well she created the shero, from my view. Her women are strong, kick-arse, and ready for everything. They are a bit more than real maybe, but it’s okay. Now I have real and not real. (Haha, Hunger Games reference!)

Mastiff

I'm sorry for not posting, but time seems to be so short at hand now. There's spoiler code in this post, so just highlight the blacked-out bits with your mouse to read them.

At any rate, I just finished Tamora Pierce's Mastiff Beka Cooper #3. I nearly cried at the end. I can't believe it's over.

So Beka and Tunstall end up going on this huge Hunt to save Prince Gareth, the King's four-year-old son, who's been kidnapped. She and Tunstall join forces with Lady Sabine and a mage named Farmer Cape. They travel all across Tortall, fighting for every step. But then, oh it's terrible! TUNSTALL TAKES A BRIBE!! Seriously. I was like "Tunstall, you sarden looby, what in Mithros' name are you doing?! You're being a total coney! A crooked Dog! A gods' fool, cracknob, scutty, mumpin', new Tom! You need to get your fambles back where they belong afore you get bit! I thought it wasn't for real, that they were smarter than that. And then the sarden looby betrays them all to Prince Baird's men! The end, oh, the end was so tragic! Beka figures the whole thing out and- I'm going to cry- Tunstall attacks her. He says he doesn't want to, but if need be he'll push her over the cliff. Beka asks why he did it, and Tunstall says he did it because they promised him a barony and the Lord Provost's spot. He thought that way he could marry Sabine without her having to be disgraced for marrying a commoner. OH MITHROS! This is beyond Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Aragorn and Arwen, Snape and Lily. *Cries.* Oh, Tunstall, why did you do it? You know she still loved you! You betrayed her! And then, at the end, Beka talks to Goodwin. All that's mentioned of Goodwin is she had a "chill voice." How she must have suffered.

Don't let that get in your way of reading it. This is one of the best books I've ever read. I LOVE IT!!!!

*Cries some more.*

But I still love it. I still love him.

Tumblr

Tumblr is pretty legit, as I've found out. If you want to check mine out, it's http://www.lavictoiredanslabrume.tumblr.com. I'll talk to you later.

PS- Nanowrimo starts soon... ;)

Computers.

I now have my school computer, so- hopefully- I'll post more often.
Just a quick bit, here's what my teachers said about their classes.

Chemistry- "It's going to be glorious. Chemistry is all about linebackers, farts, and burps."

Biology- "Someone needs to say something! Anything! What's your favorite candy? Someone?"

British Literature- "This class is hard. You need to read books. No Markert- Harry Potter does NOT count as British Literature. Yes, the Hobbit is fine."

French- "Hello, I want Techworld. My class can't get online, heeeeelp."

That was about the extent of my day. Haha.

Dreams Not About Flying

So flying was pretty fun. My dad and I held this competition between our two hosts aux aire, Stripes and Nice Sweater. I think stripes was the new guy because he was constantly slightly behind Nice Sweater. ;) Stripes did have a nice smile though....
Last night, when we were at my uncle's house, I had this big long complicated dream. All I remember about it now is that my friend, a runner, had her feet amputated. It was like she had had it done a while ago and I hadn't noticed until she pointed it out. What is a dream like that supposed to mean, eh Professor Trelawney?

Your perspective changes when you grow up.

This post is about two things I thought about when I was little.
a. I hated being slightly bucktoothed, and I imagined being like Hermione and having Madame Pomfrey shrink my teeth.
b. I thought Hot Topic was a "bad" store for weird people.

Now, I was in Billings today, after driving myself up, and I went to the orthodontist and her fixed my braces and then sanded some bits of my teeth off. So I don't have slightly bucktoothed teeth anymore. It's kinda hard for me to take in; the source of so much childhood stress is gone, completely. Wow....

I also went to Hot Topic and bought a Hogwarts flag and a cute sparkly scarf. And I signed up for a points card. I really like that store now, they even have Uglydoll hats. The punky people there are so nice. They're some of the nicest store people I've ever met. I have to admire punks in a way. I think it takes a lot of courage to dye your hair and get pierced and just be yourself, like they are.

Haha, listen to modern-day me....

This is cool!

So Kristina, one of two people in this band I like, met Evanna Freaking Lynch. Isn't that cool! I would love to meet her. Both hers again actually. Then I got to thinking, "someone I met met Luna Lovegood." You can't tell me that's not kinda cool. Because it is. To finish this post off, here's another of my cousin's great photos, and a few of mine.

I think this would be a great one for Symposium.

Makes them look like normal people going to Snowcoming or something.

:)

Cute photoshop, ya?

:'|

Lol. This is Alasse's.

More Exciting Things

This weekend I attended a quincenera. It was incredible, nearly as fancy as a wedding. The girl who's party it was looked spectacular. She had a white dress for the Mass and a violet one for the dance. She recieved a corona, ring, bracelet, a "medal" (apparently a necklace with a saint on it), a rosary, and a Bible. After that, she renewed her vows to be "pure" until marriage and dedicate her life in honor of Christ. At the dance, she received her last doll, changed her shoes, and had a last dance with her father. It was cool.
Switching subjects, I'm thinking of getting feather extensions. What do you think of them?
And lastly, a few photos I like.

Bonnie Wright at the premier. One of my friends mistook her for my cousin. Which my cousin loved.

the cast

Emma!

Like those heels.

Doesn't get much better than this does it?

She looks like a Barbie, yes? Nicki Minaj.

Wink, wink.

This was soo incredible.

Professor McBadass. "I always wanted to use that spell."

Ohh.

This is amazing!

Part Two = !!!!

So I've just spent nearly six hours at the local movie theater. I was dressed in a green striped cloak, round glasses, lightning bolt scar, star spangled leggings, Gryffindor shirt, time turner. In short, I was obviously a Pottermanic. But oh heavens, it was incredible. The pyrotechnics, effects, the humor and darkness. I heard they actually blew up parts of the sets and props to make it look even better. It was interesting, how despite being very dark, there was a lot of humor and comic relief. For example, McGonagall (I love her!) tells Seamus Finningan to blow up part of castle with his fireworks. He says "Blow it up, like 'boom?'" McGonagall says "Yes Finnigan, boom!" Oh it was great! At during the fight, the Malfoys just leave, Narcissa and Draco hand in hand. The odd thing was that aside from Harry, the size of the parts were nearly equal for most people. Luna was probably in there about as much as Ron or Hermione. She probably said more than Ron. There were a lot of characters who were there just to show that they were still alive, ie: no speaking, on screen for a moment. Trelawney, Aberforth, Greyback, Lupin, Tonks, Crabbe, Goyle, Malfoy, Fleur, Bill, Hagrid. Lily actually had a pretty decent part. You get to see what happens in the Potter house after Voldemort attacks. Snape is the first one there, and he's just sitting and cradling Lily. Snape, well Alan Rickman really, did a great job with the acting. He was amazing. The King's Cross scene was great, I thought. Several people said it was too bright, but I thought it was perfect. The movie was quite canon too, very few disrepencies. At one point Luna expresses that she likes Neville, and it's implied that she wants to tell him she loves him, but she never does, and later she and Neville sit together after the fight. However, nothing ever comes of it, as neither oneis in the epilouge. I loved it though. As for the post-potter kids, it showed Rose, Lily, Albus Severus, and you see James for a brief moment. Hugo is seen but unnamed. Victoire and Teddy aren't shown. One of the thigs I loved most was how they ended the movie and rolled the credits with "Leaving Hogwarts" and what I think was "Hedwig's Theme." Go see it. Go love it. It's now 3:16 and I need to be up and functioning in a few hours so.... have fun and don't get too carried away with "boom"-ing stuff.

Hi!

So, I know I haven't been keeping up. I'm sorry, and I'll try to say something once in a while. In the meantime, head over to Claribel Hawkins to read what I'm writing. I've been primarily fanfiction for my Fanfiction.net account, because I didn't keep up with my stories. I feel I own my friends over there a bit and I  know you can entertain yourselves without me.
By the way, has anyone cut their thumb on a bread knife before? I did, but I can find anyone else who has.

PS, If you load the fanfiction thing and it says there's no such page, try reloading. I don't know why it says that because it is the correct link.