One Year to GO

So, if you read my blog posts from last year, at all, then you know how much I dislike school. This morning I woke up to the sound of my Howl's Moving Castle alarm on my phone. Then I thought, "Here we go again..." Maybe I'm a pessimist, or I'm lazy? I don't know, haha....

This is my last year of high school. It's hard to let that sink in. A year from now I'll be an adult and I'll be out of the house. My colorful, poster covered walls of my room will be replaced with the blank slate of a dorm. I'll leave my friends behind and have to make new ones. I'll have to start a whole new life which, honestly, kind of scares me.

But it doesn't matter how scary it will be. For now, I'll make the most of going to high school with my friends, and try and forget the reality outside my bubble for a year, until it pops.

One-eyed, one-horned, rambling purple grammar eater

Let me start this out with stating the obvious, that it has been quite awhile since I entered a post. My apologies.

I was in Colorado for a week towards the beginning of this month, and everyone at the camp was from Texas. I felt like my grammar sanity was being threatened by a breed of no-grammar-speaking Texans. No offense towards Texas, just please speak correctly. Please? *whimper *sniff

And then when I got back, I just didn't feel like entering anything in. I have no idea what the new animal hybrid should be. What a mess this is... Whatever shall we do??

Since I know that all of you are just dying to know what I've been up to (all 1 of you), I will give you this picture which sums it all up quite nicely.

Now that everyone feels better, let me tell you something very important. Come closer...still closer....lean in closer.....ok. I'm wearing the shirt that I was wearing in the picture at this very moment, which is weird, because sure, it's a pretty cool shirt. But I don't like it THAT much.

And you know what, I know that I'm rambling. And I know that you know that I'm rambling. And now you know that I know that you know that I'm rambling. Confused yet? Well good, because I'm confused too.

I'm guessing that you have already guessed that I have nothing interesting to talk about, you little smartie pants. No worries, I'm not patronizing you. Just rambling. A common story in these parts.

I drew a purple people eater today. One small problem though, I have no purple markers. Not even one.

So I drew some blood dribbling out of it's mouth instead, but it's just not the same.

Ok...I think it's time to go to bed. Goodnight y'all.

Animal Hybrid #4

WELCOME TO HYBRID MONDAY.

This week's hybrid is a Panda + Pig = Pinda Pag

The picture didn't come out quite the way that I wanted it too, as you can probably tell. I wanted to go for a simple pig body, but it came out looking....pregnanty. Pregalicious? I don't know. I'll try to come up with something better next time, haha...

Beastly

A couple months ago, I went and saw Beastly with my friends. I saw it again yesterday, and I must say, it seemed a lot more superficial and cheesy this time.

I still love it though, and so when I saw a little pot of mini white rosebuds later in the day, I bought it. That's what I'm looking at right now; the pretty rosebuds. I hope I can keep them alive for over a month. The pointsettias I bought last Christmas didn't survive that long. I forgot to water it and put it in the sunshine, and so on. I think white roses are my favorite flower. So if I'm ever in the hospital with a life-threatening disease, send me some white roses and a singing telegram.

Anyways, I still love Beastly which is suprising, because I almost always go for movies that have genuine, 'feel-real' characters, which I'm sad to say, didn't really shine through in this movie. Maybe it's because I like white roses and guys with dead-looking tree tatoos all over their backs. And it was also nice to see Mary Kate Olsen in a movie (finally).

My Review: 3 out of 5 stars. Good message, but no high quality acting or real chemistry between the two of them. Sorry Vanessa Hudgens, but it just felt like High School Musical all over again. However, I give props to Neil Patrick Harris. Maybe a little bit too clean-cut for a "blind" guy, but you made me laugh. 10 sparkle points for you.

The Voice

I watched The Voice tonight for the first time tonight, and I have to say that I enjoyed it more tha I thought I would. Even though a good portion of it was wailing and forced vibrato, the Javier's and Dia's originals were impressive.

I found it amusing how the judges were totally into it when their 'star pupil' performed, but then acted completely indifferent to the other singers (especially Christina, gosh). Since tonight was the finale, the four finalists and the four judges put on a rockin' show.

Suprisingly, I am very interested in finding out the winner. But of course, they will have to have a long show before they announce the winner, because they like to go on and on and on. I probably won't tune in until the last ten minutes.

My Review: 2 out of 5 stars. The two songs that I enjoyed weren't enough to give it a good rating. My main issue is that there's too much hype and not enough talent. These people don't seem to really know how to sing. They don't know technique. They just like to damage their vocal chords and hop around like a little kid that needs to go to the bathroom. I think that is why I enjoyed Dia's song the best. Her performance of her original song was less hype and more talent. I really hope she wins. Fingers crossed!

The King's Speech

I just finished watching The King's Speech, and I have to say, I was very impressed. It was amazing how such a simple plot as a man overcoming his stutter could have such deep meaning. I know that other people think that the film is overrated, but I found it to be a well done, very touching story. Not to mention, the acting was exceptional on Colin Firth's part, as well as an enchanting performance by Geoffrey Rush.

So, my review: 4.5 out of 5 stars. As I mentioned above, the story was good. The acting was good. It was all good. To the people who thought it was a boring movie, shame on you for not listening. If you had listened, perhaps you would have been able to appreciate what a great movie it was. Maybe you think that I praise it too much, but I don't think so.

What made the movie for me was how he overcame emotional problems as well as mechanical problems. It inspires me to look back into my own childhood at the problems I faced there. I won't explain what those problems were, but that's what came to mind after watching this movie. He conquered over his emotions and Colin Firth did an excellent job portraying that here. I would recommend this movie to anyone.

Animal Hybrid #3

This week's animal hybrid is a Bushbaby + Toby Mac = BushMac Baby

I don't think of people as animals, but when I saw my Toby Mac poster on my door, then saw the little, pink bushbaby stuffy, I couldn't resist. I was planning on coloring it, but I never got around to it. I almost forgot to post it entirely. If you look at the time, you'll see how close I cut it. Nevertheless, here is Animal Hybrid #3.