One Of My Many Odd Collections

The pictures are pretty self-explanatory

Ummm, I started collecting Binder clips a couple of years ago. I am not obsessed, I just pick them up whenever I see them on the ground or under desks. There are a lot more than it seems, I just lined them up in size order. The smallest one is about 1/2 tall (excluding the metal clip part) and so far the smallest one I've ever found.

Enjoy. Or not.

Kristen Stewart aka Bella Swan

Finally! For all you Twilight fans out there, Summit Entertainment has begun casting the movie (yes!) for pre-production begins in February. Isn't this wonderful news? Kristen has been my favorite nominee, so I am thrilled she has the role. Stephenie Meyer optioned for Danielle Panabaker, but I didn't think that Disney needed to take over yet another part of our world of entertainment. Kristen is awesome and totally deserves it.

You know what this means, right? They're going to have to cast Edward pretty soon if they're starting pre-production in two months. Yay! I can't wait. He might be incredibly horrible and painfully wrong, but also amazingly perfect. I don't know what to expect. : [

Life Lesson

I learned a very valuable life lesson just now, and felt the urge to write it down. The lesson is, don't let anyone inside your house unless you know exactly who it is and why they are there. Let me elaborate.

Just now, a single adultish looking kid rang our dorbell and said, "Hi! I'm looking for Andrew. He's here to pick me up." My dad let him in, thinking that our home teacher (a man who comes to visit the familes once a month in the Mormon faith to discuss family matters, gospel truths, etc.) Andy was meeting someone at our house to teach us with him. He let him in, but the boy said something like "Hold on. He's calling me right now." He walked outside and my mom yelled from the computer, "Who was that?" My dad being my dad said "Oh, I don't know." That not only worried me, but amused me. I thought he was joking or distracted and didn't respond correctly so didn't really think about it. Whenever our home teacher comes, we gather the family and sit in the living room to talk with him about whatever is going on in our lives, and then he shares a lesson he's prepared with us. Dad told me to "gather the troops" so I obediently went upstairs to find my brothers. We were all assembled in the living room waiting for Andy's obscure young friend to return. He came back in to say something to us, but then his phone rang again. He was in and out, eventually walking through our house about three times. He finally came to sit down with us, and looked obviously uncomfortable. My dad started introducing himself, assuming this boy was new to the ward or something, and began to ask what the boy's association with Andy was. He said that he was meeting Andy and Brian (coincidentally the name of our home teacher's son) and that they were driving back up to BU tonight. My mom's maternal instincts had told her from the beginning, as she later explained to me, that this man was not supposed to be in our house. She automatically knew from his last comment that he was in the wrong place, and asked him which Andy he was looking for. He said Andy something. Unintelligable. It was not our Andy though! That's about when I started hyperventilating, and Mom stood up and started cautiously ushering him towards the door. I didn't hear much of the conversation afterwards, but apparently he had typed his friend's address incorrectly into his GPS and was taken to our house. For those who know where I live, my house isn't exactly easy to show up at by ACCIDENT.

This just goes to show how people can get the right names of people who are scheduled to be somewhere at the right time.

I have learned something today, and I hope you do too. (For those of you chortling with amusement now, this is not a laughing matter. :0)

SOS! SOS! SOS! SOS!

Now, many people (ehemm...Mary) find the story ABOUT the story to be more pleasurable than the story itself, but I hope this 100% factual retelling will not fall under that category.

My beautiful, smart, athletic, stunning Arabian princess friend has always been worried that nobody likes her (What?) and that she doesn't fit in with anybody. She has on multiple occasions listed her flaws, like a loud laugh and a crooked nose, that she can't possibly fix, so therefore no one will ever like her. Well...actually, wait. This story begins a couple of weeks ago actually. Let me backtrack for you.



A boy that she, Natalie we'll call her, really likes is on the varsity track team, placed 3rd out of 250 high schoolers down in the city last week (which he had to miss half of the school day for), and is extremely smart, cute, and funny. All the works. Anyways, Natalie had been talking to him, Ben, about a field hockey game she was going to be playing in that afternoon.

He said, "I don't think I can make it today 'cause I have track. I'll try though."

She and I didn't really know what "I'll try" meant to him, because later that day when we were all set up in our positions on the field I saw Ben in my peripheral vision appear from behind the elementary school building, which was a stone's throw away from our field, taking his iPod out of his ears and talking to a couple of his friends who had come too. I literally jumped up in the air and turned around to show Natalie. The two of us were screaming, quietly screaming, and jumping. She suddenly was very embarrassed that he had actually come, and started feeling queasy. I told her she was a great player and not to loose her head. Right then I also realized something. He had had track practice at the high school earlier, right? Our field was about FOUR MILES away. He had ran the whole way!!! The referee blew the whistle so I wasn't able to start quiet screaming again with Natalie, but knowing he was there gave both her AND I surges of energy at sporadic points in the game.
I think thats enough.

To be continued...

Rah Rah!

My uncle and cousins are going to the BYU game today...URGHHH...And i'm stuck at home watching it. Poo. Pretty intense, however. I'm quite enjoying myself...Dressing up in blue and white and wearing blue makeup can really lift one's spirits. Chips and salsa helps too. :0)

Enchanted by Enchanted...

Amy Adams does a superb job as Giselle, an "other wordly princess" dropped into Times Square. I absolutely loved the fresh twist on the Snow White-Sleeping Beauty type classic tale. She is adorably optimistic and kind, so much so that the down-to-earth "dreams don't come true" Manhattan lawyer decides to take her in and help her in her time of need. Patrick Dempsey, who else, sweeps Giselle offs her feet and realizes ________________. Whoops. Just about to spoil it....Sorry! Anyways, Enchanted s' extremely fun, innocent, and optimistic nature has a Hairspray type feel to it and spontaneous musical numbers all over NYC. Anyone who loves the city, true love or both will love Enchanted!

Happy Turkey Day!

The title says it all! I am so thankful for all of my family and good friends. I am blessed to have such support among all the people I love. :0)

SOS

I have a great SOS coming up and I can't wait to share it!!!! It's not sunday yet, and I really am jumping out of my seat right now because I can' t keep it all in. You guys are in for a treat come Sunday.

Meme alert!

Okay. My new meme has just changed. You can have eleven top characters if you want. Because I just thought of another one.

Laurie from Little Women is incredibly awesome and deserves to be on this list. I read Little Women in fourth grade when everyone around me was reading Junie B. Jones and Goosebumps, but I still fell in love with the story. I haven't read it since then (which I should once I'm done with The Fall of A Kingdom another great novel) but seen the movie enough times. Again, love the movie almost as much as the books because it captures the simple magic of growing up without all of the pressures of MY world that I have to grow up in. I envy Jo March. She can spend her time writing and acting and playing in the snow...while I do everything but that. Urghh. Okay, back to Laurie. He's awesome. That pretty much covers it. And incredibly handsome in the movie. WOW! Incredibly awesome and handsome. He's such a good friend too. I am seriously low on really good friends right now so I'm resorting to fictional characters as if they will some how, I don't know, fill that gap.

Oh well.

That's my new rule. So, ya.

Tagged...

So Mary was pretty annoyed that I didn't tag anyone for my meme. I forgot, ok?

So I will tag Mary, Maite, James, and I think thats it. If I forgot anyone else under 18 (not being discriminating ...just like the happily married thing), consider yourself tagged.

Belated Wordless Wednesday

A new MEME

So I had a revelation for a new meme the other day when I was reading the Top Ten Favorite Characters...Were I Not Happily Married thing. This meme, however, is slightly different. I realized that that meme is discriminating those of us not happily married. I mean not marrried...at all. Not necessarily unhappily married....


OK! Anywho, this meme is called My Top Ten Fictional Characters From Novels That I Am Madly In Love With And Would Gladly Meet, Fall In Love With And Live Happily Ever After Were I Not Under 18 And In No Situation Whatsoever To Begin Any Sort Of Romantic Connections; Fictional Or Otherwise.



1. Edward Cullen- I guarrantee that every other girl I send this meme to with have the exact same number one as me. Edward is the unbelievably gorgeous, sensitive, vegetarian vampire that is the star of Stephenie Meyer's genius Twilight. Yes, Jacob is cool, but Edward is........incredible! The whole fictionality of him (is fictionality a word Luisa?) is what makes him so... Do you know that phrase, "You want what you can't have". Well, there you go! Completely fictional and unreachable, even to the main mistress Bella, and completely mysterious and enigmatic.


2. Landen - This the Landen from The Seer and the Sword not A Walk to Remember although I love both. But this Landen is strong and brave and kind and fearless. He is the captured orphan of a conquered land who was taken as a boy to his father's slayer, Kind Kareed's, kingdom. There he meets Kareed's daughter Torina where they fall in love, are secretly seeing each other, all that jazz. Its really a wonderful story and Landen just makes it all the better. He is so understanding about the way Torina lives and helps her through some of the most troubling times of her life. Her father is killed in a plot to steal her kingdom, and her father's throne is taken over...and I'm not spoiling anything, I promise! He helps her ........... oh wait. I was just about to spoil something. Nevermind. Just read it.


3. Link - This character is a favorite of mine because of his simple optimism. He is Melba Patillo's pal in Warriors Don't Cry a memoir of her integration into an all white high school. He is one of the few students who tries to help the nine black students, and tries hard. He risks his life (?)(no not life) by sending them notes about where ambushes are going to be planned and what staircases or hallways to avoid. He wasn't one of the most romantic characters, but his sole bravery is what attracts me to him.


4. Farid - Cornelia Funke writes a great novel, I'll tell you that. Both Inkheart and Inkspell are two of my favorite books. Farid is the teenage boy in these stories that gets read out of his own book and into our world by a powerful reader's voice, and now is trying to convince the reader's daughter, Meggie, to read him back . It's a dangerous business, so she knows she shouldn't try, but all the same she is curious about his world and wants to go with him. Cornelia describes his eyes as "shockingly blue against his dark skin" and as a smart boy with a lot to learn. To watch his transformation from a little boy to a young man is sort of enchanting and intriguing. I like his attitutude and willingness to learn that he portrays through the novels.


5. Harry Potter - I know, I know, he and Ginny are soulmates, BUT a girl can dream can't she? I think Harry is the nicest, smartest, pulled together literary teenager I have ever read about. If any one objects, please let me know. I can't believe everything he did, and at such an early age too. Fiction is still fiction, but Harry is pretty brave. (It seems all of these guys are brave. Go figure, I like a brave guy.)


6. Jesse Tuck - Tuck Everlasting is one of my favorite books, and favorite movies. Only rarely does that work out for me because usually the books rocks my life and the movie sucks. Take Harry Potter...Any way, I love Jesse not because he is BRAVE because there's no real time in the book when theres a need for that, but because he's so romantic and mystical and carefree. I love the serenity and peacefulness that he is. He never worries about being on time to anything or getting anything in on time. I love it.


7. Billy - Now I won't say that I fell in love with him the second I opened Where the Red Fern Grows, because I'm not a liar, but I can say that after I read it a couple of times, he started to grow on me. I like his character, or rather the idea of his character more and more after hearing the story being read to me, reading it myself. This was one of those books that I cried at the end of (just like Twilight) and so when they made the movie, I cried through the whole thing because of how emotionally PAINFUL it was to watch!! Grr.....I hate that move I hate it I hate it.!!


8. I have a question for this one. Does Rich count???? I love him to death!!! Yes...he counts. As of right now.
Rich is a character in the wonderful Luisa's novel-in-progress, The Holly Place. He is so REAL. Not brave, real. Well I guess, given what he's faced he could be considered brave. Oh well. If you haven't read it yet, go check it out. It's pretty much the best unpublished book in the WORLD. WORLD!!! And I love Rich. To death. He's so nice and welcoming and real.

(I just realized that none of these are in order. Just saying)

9. This next one I'm not necessarily in LOVE with, I just like him a lot.
Jonas - The Giver has always been one of my favorite books, actually all of my favorite books are on this list, so the fact that the main character was a boy was just an added plus. I like how different and yet the same (wow that sounds wierd) his world is and our world is. I like how he is the only "normal" one in his alternate universe, and how we can relate to him because he thinks like us.

10. EDWARD (again!) - I just love him to death. Sorry, that should probably be illegal in this meme...wait I invented this meme. haHa! You can repeat characters in this meme. No, actually I can repeat characters, but you can't.

The end has come...

A week...

I'm very sorry I haven't posted in A WEEK, but things have happened, and I never find time to just sit at the computer. In some ways that is sort of a good thing, because believe it or not, blogging has taken over my life. I haven't been outside to run around and have fun in a long time, I haven't read any really good books lately. By the way, any good ideas? Anywho, I decided to go a whole week without posting. To tell you the truth, I caved at about Thursday and checked it, but NO POSTING! Wow, I just realized that I am doing exactly the opposite of the NaBloPolala thing. Wow, that's pretty funny. Ha ha ha.

Mary, this is directed at you.
I was thinking about what you told me, about life changing musical paths...and after tonight's Sound of Music which you should have gone to, I think I might accompany you on your new path. I think. Input, input, input.

Chicken Dumplings

Okay.
On Friday night, my mom made us all these delicious-looking chicken dumplings. They were in a soup sort of thing, and had these rice balls in them and all kinds of vegetables...overall complicated and time consuming loooking. I had just come from a little party of my own, so I was pretty full having already eaten three slices of pizza and a cup of Sprite. I thought they looked perfectly fine, but my brothers and sisters didn't think so. I had no problem with them, and had I been in a hungrier mood would have eaten them in 17 seconds. So my mom was completely discouraged and went through one of those "motherhood crisis" moments where she "hates herself, hates her kids"...all that jazz. She quickly recovered herself (wow) and took that whole pot over to the O-----s, a family in our neighborhood. She gave them the pot, of which they were greatful for, and then came home.
Well,
Today was fast day and testimony meeting in my church, so brother O----- got up and bore his testimony. He talked about all the kind service that goes on in our ward, and made some comment on how he couldn't understand why our family's children rejected the dumplings. He said after that, "No matter. I'm glad that you did."
After the block, I had to answer a tsunami of questions about "What was wrong with them? Why didn't you eat them? In my family, its eat it or don't eat". Ya, well...I just wasn't hungry OK??!!?! was usually my response, but it still made me laugh that our chicken dumplings were the subject of the day at our meetings. Oh, there i go .... Ha Ha Ha

Touch Football Part IV

This is going to be the last installment of my SOS story, I think, so I hope it doesn't dissapoint.

M
OH MY GOSH!!! Who is this kid? He's so hot! I've only known him, what, 3 hours? He's so cool, and I feel all queasy and butterfly-ish around him. Ooooohhh, I love it. I've never felt this way before...



Who was I kidding? She would never be mine. I was a fool, and I think I knew that. She was a totally different person in the days that followed my party. Always smiling, eyes always glossy, and it took her an extra two seconds to understand what you were saying before she answered. I hated seeing her like that, but if it made her happy, i was happy. It was with this attitude that I made my way through high school, knowing she never loved me, but that I was happy when she was loved.
My heart eventually moved on, and I was able to tear the part of me away from her that she took. I'm not sure how much longer they were "together". My mom got remarried, and we moved to Boston the summer that followed. That was another very very difficult part of my life, so I sort of forgot about Melissa. Sort of. Not seeing her everyday led to not thinking about her. That then led to not loving her. I guess it was for the best, and I suppose it made me live my life a little more fully and freely than before. I got over her and moved on.

Grown-up Christmas Lisp

*Disclaimer*
(This post is directed specifically at Mary, but anyone can read it, it just won't make as much sense, but still be funny.)

So, I'm not sure if all of you have heard of Michael Buble, but he is a new-ish easy listening music artist. He's pretty good, and my family likes to listen to a lot of his music. BUT, a couple of months ago, we were blasting some of his music and we discovered he has a lisp. A lisp! Yeah. So Mary knows about this and its always our little inside joke. Well, my mom bought me the Michael Buble Christmas album and on it is a the song "Grown-up Christmas List". Of course, my mom turns on the CD and blasts it all the way up to hear his lisp in all of the words. In that song he sings it, "thith ith my grown-up chrithmath lisp"! Incredibly funny!