Feliz Navidad - Joyeux Noel

Merry Christmas people :)

Random Jabber

Hey. So I'm back and going completely insane. But that's more or less normal for me, isn't it? I mean, aren't I always slightly off the wall? A little out there? A little crazy?

There are sparkles on my keyboard.

Christmas is coming. I suppose I ought to be excited. I mean, it's Christmas, for goodness sake! Presents, family, friends, fun, time off school. Excitement plastered everywhere and people going comepletely mad as they attempt to prepare for the season. Lights go up, balloons go up in yards, people pull out their winter coats...

Or they would, if it would snow.

32 degrees outside, all day long, and no snow in Heber City. We need a massive storm to blow in - I want two feet of powder on my porch when I wake up on Christmas Day. If you're the religious sort, please pray for Heber to get snow. I'll be eternally grateful.

I've come up with an entire line of cartoon characters. It's basically a gang of individuals who rang from 13 to 18 years old, from Gothic to hippie, spoiled to abused, and rich to broke. It's so much fun! I mean, in Graphics all we have to do is come up with a picture to put into the computer, but to me, every face has a story behind it, whether the face be real or imaginary. Of course I had to write up character discriptions for all ten of my perfect little drawings.

Great SCOTT, that Miss Dorthey...

By the way, I'm in a play. As part of the crew. Not the cast... heavens, no, I couldn't act to save my life, but I can sit off to the side of the stage and put up subtitles for when the Chinese people speak. That's not hard for me.

Yet despite all that, I'm going to try out for Fiddler on the Roof. Maybe as the oldest daughter, or the second oldest.

The play I'm in now, at any rate, is called Thoroughly Modern Millie. It's the funniest play on the planet and we have an absolutely astounding actor for Mr. Trevor Graydon. The guy who does it is actually moving to Hollywood to become an actor, and I think he'll make it. He is so good at acting. He's got more talent than anybody I know.

If he doesn't make it I will go find him someday and put him in a movie... I don't care how old he'll be, I will find a part for the guy and I will make him famous. He deserves more than a job being a bartender.

Have you heard that if somebody is thinking about you as you fall asleep, you dream about them? It may be only superstition, but if it were true... well, let's say that I have had dreams about some peculiar characters. Including but not limited to a Goth kid in my biology class.

It was odd.

I think, someday, when I'm an adult, I'll find a company who will publish my blog into a book. And I'll keep a copy of it to remember my teenage years... like a journal, almost, but digital. Something to hold on to and laugh at with my kids when they're teens. This blog holds so much random stuff about my life...

Top Seven List of Favorite Actors:
1. Johnny Depp
2. Robert Downey Jr.
3. Taylor Lautner
4. Orlando Bloom
5. Daniel Radcliffe
6. Jackson Rathbone
7. Peter Facinelli

Peculiar number, I know, but I don't have more than seven favorite actors...

And those guys didn't all make the list simply because they were attractive. Some made it because I admire their talent... actually, they all made it for both. They are all highly talented, and they're all really attractive. And don't anybody argue that Johnny Depp, Peter Facinelli, and Robert Downey are old, because I don't care! They're still massively attractive, and I am perfectly entitled to think so.

So I discovered this band called Heyhihello, and now my list of favorite bands is three. The other two are Owl City (of course!) and The Killers.

So this is what I do in my spare time nowadays:

Go ahead. Say, "Hello, gorgeous."

OMGOSH guitar.

I really love this one. The typography is nice.



One of my favs. Formerly I've kept all my words equally faded out, but I thought the different
opacities suited they message they convey.

These are all done entirely with Picnik, except for the one with the guitar - through much stress, irritation, and improvisation I managed to Photoshop that thing in there. Then I Picniked it :)

So I really love art. Any form. I love to write (stories and poetry), I love to draw, paint, sew, cut, paste, splatter, make music, scan, edit, trace, copy, take pictures, create cartoons, and yes, I think if I tried it, I would love acting. Because, quite simply, art is a way to express yourself, and I love to express myself in abstract ways that often only I can understand. I love to be able to throw elements together and create something astounding, something pleasing to the eye, something my art teacher would buy and hang in her house. It thrills me to finish a project, and it enthralls me when I begin a new one. I love to sit for hours after school and cut tiny objects out of paper, then glue them down again... I love to create art on the computer... I love it when people call me an art nerd because I'm proud of it. I love it when my older brother compliments me and says he couldn'tve done better himself. I love the freedom of art, the lack of guidlines, the ability to do whatever you want, however you want, whenever you want, and be admired for it. I love that.

Art is the wings I've always wanted, the feathers I've never had.

It's Been a While

So I guess I'd better update you on my life. Not that there's much to say.

We got a new house. New ward. It kinda scares me, because I don't know anybody from this ward. At least not that I know of. But what if somebody I know is in this ward? Somebody I'd rather not have in my ward? :P Who knows.

School continues at its regular, dreary pace. I drag myself through even days and go through odd days with only marginally more excitement. Art is pretty fun, but biology and English are boring me to tears. Why, I ask, is my class considered an honors class? Half the kids in there are incapable of using commas correctly.

Idiots.

I'm a bit of a stickler about punctuation. Incorrect periods or apostrophes (especially apostrophes) bug the heck out of me. I get this insane urge to shred papers that have typos. And you should see the arguments I get in with people over commas...

I'm a little obsessive-compulsive. Sorry.

I love music. That was random. I don't care. It's so true. Especially synthesized and electronic music. It's so gorgeous and lyrical. I like it when there's more music than words, when the focus isn't just on the singer but on the actual music, too. You know.

For random referance, these are my top ten favorite songs:

1. Strawberry Avalanche, by Owl City
2. Where You Are, by Heyhihello!
3. Human, by the Killers
4. Bombs Away, by Heyhihello!
5. One Week, by... not gonna say that band's name on here
6. Superman, by Five for Fighting
7. All About Us, by He Is We feat. Owl City
8. Halcyon, by Owl City
9. Plant Life, by Owl City
10. Spaceman, by the Killers

You've got to give me some credit. I'm branching out. It's not all Owl City anymore. Only 4 out of 10... but it's technically only 3 out of 10, because one of them is just featuring Owl City.

So I'm going to speil off on a religious note here for a minute. Bear with me.

There are people who accept Christ as a great morale teacher, but deny his divinity. May I ask for the sense in this? Christ often stated that he was the Son of God. If this statement is false, that makes Christ a liar. If he's a liar, that condradicts his being a moral teacher. So he is either insane or devine. Take your pick.

And that is that.

So I went and got my ears peirced. It was a little painful. Still is. And it's going to be six weeks until I can take out my studs; even longer until I can wear fancy, dangly earrings. Like, no hoops, feathers, wings, or plates... for six months. :P Ridiculous. But that's just the way it is.

So somebody asked me why my blog is called WhoLikesPie. Well, why the heck not?

The Madness that Tends to Characterize my Life

So basically my life is freaking insane. That's just the way it goes.

I have dropped an online class. I couldn't take it... P.E. is just way too hard to do during the school year, online or not, so I'll do it this summer. The rest of my classes are going okay, though. I'm almost done with the first quarter of Financial Literacy, and the second quarter of Health. I'll be able to take those tests, then Health will be over (finally!) and I'll just have three quarters of classes to go - two of Computer Tech and one of Financial Lit.

The in-school classes I have are crazy, too. Honors Algebra II and Honors English, AP Geography, two art classes, seminary, biology, and French (which I am having some small difficulties with). AP Geography is super crazy and hard. Seriously, Mr. Jeppson said it was stressful. If looks could kill he would be so dead. I swear I gave him the glare of mass murder. It was pretty great. Especially since I'd just failed his test four days before.

You know what bugs me, though, is the essays we have to write every freaking night in Honors English. I've got a pretty bad grade in that class. :P

Not that I can't write essays. I just have other things to do with my time. Other things to write. Like the four or five (or six or seven or eight) stories I'm working on.

Speaking of which, the 'new project' is going awesome. I've got it all outlined, broken down simply so I can change it at any given moment. I like it - normally I never outline, but with a really flexible outline, I can still let my story evolve while keeping track of my ideas and the basic plot line. It's been changed and morphed three or four times already, and I'm only eighty pages in. For instance, I needed nine guys cursed and in a certain place, so my main character could find them and get them un-cursed and back to where they were supposed to be. At first, I had no idea how to put that in there, so I left it out. But as I was writing today, I had an idea flash and am now going to go change up my outline so it works. It's awesome. I love the pantsing style of writing, but it's nice sometimes to be a little more organized while still getting that seat-of-your-pants feeling.

Ideas for me are like jewels. They start simple, with just a thought, scene, or even a slip of the tongue. Then they sit in my mind and get hardened, morphed, shaped, and chisled unconsciously. I think on them occasionally, specifically changing up some stuff, but mostly I just let them stew. Then one day, they'll just drop into my lap, almost perfect and sparkling, each unique, each with it's own little twist. I pick them up, admire their beauty, then type them up before they escape my grasp - because they will. Some people just don't understand that ideas will disappear. It's like the jewel has two parts to it's life: creation, which is a long period of time, and then the actual life, where I hold it in my hands and can write it all down. That's such a short amount of time. Then the gem will simply dissolve into dust, and I'll never get it back. I can capture some of the dust and create a ghost or shadow of the jewel, but never, ever again will I be able to get that almost perfect, glittering piece of pure imagination to appear. It was there. I had the chance to put it down. I didn't take the opportunity, and now it's gone forever.

I hate it when I lose ideas.

Dreams may not turn to dust, but ideas certainly do.

Anyway, the 'new project', which I have decided to name Black Moon, is coming along really well. I've actually been working on it for an hour or so tonight; I only paused to blog because I felt like blogging. Blogging is fun. Besides, I actually have four followers who will most likely read this ridiculous blurb on school and jewels. I think it's fun to have people read what I've written because it sort of mentally prepares me for the time when I'll have my books published for anybody to read, you know? I'm training myself to relax at the thought of having my ideas and thoughts read. So please just read this nonsense:) Maybe even comment. I dunno. Author in training here.

I like the bass in music. I actually like it pretty heavy. My favorite music is like, Owl City or The Postal Service with the bass turned all the way up. It sometimes shakes the whole room if the volume is loud enough.

Also I like hugs. Hugs are nice. Especially hugs from boys my age. Can't blame me. I'm a teenage girl.

So I'm going to go type some more. I'll type hard until 8:50, because that's when the internet turns off - then my music is gone and I'm tired enough to go to sleep.

Homework... and a New Project!

Oh, the agony... piles of math and stacks of French, lists of science and pages of art, not to mention incredibly long papers of English. Here I am, having to do stats and learn greetings, all at the same time re-writing the end of a book and wishing I had more time to work on all the projects I wished I was doing, such as documenting all my ideas for books and then writing them, plus cooking and hanging with my friends. Yet here I am, slaving over projects that are due in two days, that would have been month-long 'huge assignments' in middle school. Not to mention the math work that continues to pile higher. Ickyness.

All the things I could be doing, and I'm doing homework. What a sad life I lead. The worst of it is... some of the homework, I don't even mind! I like the art and writing, and learning French is cool, but the math and and Biology just feels too much like busywork, you know? I ought to take that time to learn how to scuba dive or something! Maybe service or extra scripture reading. I could be righteous! Well... more righteous than I already am, of course.

So I've started this new book. I love how I call it a project... haha:) But it looks like it's gonna be really cool. It's set really far back in time, before the dinosaurs, even. It's fantasy/adventure, obviously, and about this girl who's a servant, but her earliest memories are of being a princess. Included in the plot are dragons, bandits, three quarreling kingdoms called Guddar, Amphamaz, and Jaggdron, friendship, and a touch of love, just to make it a little more interesting.

I'm super excited about the names I've come up with for my characters, so indulge me while I list them off to you.

Sparrow a.k.a. Vox: Main Character
Adaz: Sparrow's dad
Miriax: Sparrow's mom
Kyle: a Warlock Sparrow was close to

John: leader of a group of bandits
Vak: (boy) an experianced bandit
Tera: (girl) an experianced bandit
Aric: (boy) an experianced bandit
Agur-Tarresh: (boy) an experianced bandit
Aalyckxandarr: (boy) an experianced bandit
Qiv: (girl) bandit, Sparrow's best friend
Zeke: bandit, Qiv's closest guy friend
Bryer: bandit
Neddy: bandit
Ben: bandit
Zane: (boy) bandit
Taral: (boy) bandit
Ally: young girl bandit

Clearly there are a lot of bandits. They're going to be important to the story, though. It's gonna be epic.

There's also some royalty, and I won't be specific, but some of their names are Amaly, Edvark, Zara, Vaxit, Nedam, and Vanil. I was going to name Vanil Vanity... but I figured that would be a little odd.

So that's one of my current works in progress. Of course there's a whole ginormous list of other ones... including, but not limited to, Emotion, my story, High School Wars (one that I'm co-authoring with two of my friends), and Guardian. So keep posted... I'll post random updates as well as blurbs on my random carzy life.

Just Me Again...

I mean, who else would it be? I don't let any other people be authors on my blog... they might say things I don't want them to. I have many secrets that would prove my eternal embarassment if they were to be revealed.

So, here's the update on the life of Alyce Thacker:

School is pretty cool. I have a good day (odd days, or black days) and a bad day (even days, or gold days). On my good days I go to Graphic Design, Biology, English, and Art. I call it my 'art day' because literally, that's almost what it is. I love it! Biology is boring, but Zierenburg is cool, so I don't mind it much. Bad days are a whole other deal - the schedule is seminary, French, Algebra, and AP Geography. Don't get me wrong, I love seminary, but I feel really disorganized in that class right now. French is super boring. We're just learning the geography (booooring!). Algebra is ridonkulous. We're learning Stats, for heaven's sake! I'm so confuzzled, and I'm just praying that I'll be able to do my homework. AP Geography is crazy - my comic relief class of the year, but one that's going to be in the top two hardest classes.

That's the low-down on my schedule. Fun, isn't it? That's sort of a sarcastic comment... but I am really loving my art classes.

So me and a couple of my bestest friends in the whole wide world have decided to co-author a book. It's about a group of spies from all over the world who are sent to a high school in the United States to spy on the principal, who is believed to be in the Mafia. My character is British, Helen's is French, and Phebe's is Japanese. Their names, respectively, are Luna, Renee, and Katomi. The other spies - hmm. Their names escape me at the moment. Wait! Jackson, Leif, John, and Skye - all boys. I think there were a few others, but I can't remember them at this particular moment. Anyway... it's going to be epic.

Speaking of epic! So Helen and I came up with this super epic idea for an April Fool's joke (or just any old trick any old day). It goes like this... a fake wedding! Wouldn't that be sweet? Then it'd get interrupted in the middle and dissipate. It would be so funny!

Pfft. If Nickleback's Rockstar is an accurate representation of what rockstars are, I never want to be one or even associate with one. Ew.

I love my super random thought process. Don't you? It's pretty great. Just like randomly, I'm like, oh, and I remember this, and this song, which reminds me of this guy, who did this, which makes me think of the Goth kid in Biology class, which makes me think of Halloween, which reminds me of Noah, and thinking of him reminds me of Helen, and that makes me think of this kid who likes her and she likes him and they'd be dating if they were sixteen...

Anyway.

So I've been Picniking like mad, and I've come up with some seriously cool photos. Check these out:

Adam Young... we sort of tattooed his face.

I think that one looks really fancy. And I really like this one and its quote from Kamakaze:

Unicorns!!

It's pretty awesome.

Now... I think I've just about typed the longest post I ever have... I hope you're not bored to death. I just like to write, and when people are reading what I'm writing, it makes it even better. It's like I'm mentally preparing myself for when my works will be available to the whole world... *shivers* That's a scary thought.

School... Funness

I made it. I made it throught the whole entire first day - though in the first hour I thought I might die of sheer boredom and nerves and hunger... basically, I only made it through because just about every boy I like smiled at me. It was pretty great.

You know whats weird? When people stare at you, and stare at you, and won't look away until you meet their eyes, then you both smile awkwardly and look away, both probably wondering what in the name the other person was thinking. I know that when that happens to me I'm thinking, "What? What's wrong? Do I look funny? Is my hair messed up? Why the heck are you staring at me?" And then - this is weirder - when a boy does that to me. I mean, like, what?? Are you staring at me because you like me? Or because I look funny? And then I think, it must be the former, because nobody else is staring at me like that... then I get my hopes all up and they never look at me again the entire school year. Unless, you know, they get more sneaky about their staring.

That's a weird thought... makes me wonder how many people stare at me when I'm turned away...

Anyway, besides all that, school was pretty cool. I mean, basically, Wasatch rocks the world. We have awesome sports teams, a sweet facility, lots of classes, and sleek new technology. I'm totally psyched to begin the year, but totally scared, because I'm not sure I can draw good enough, and I'm afraid the homework will be crazy ridiculous, and I have lots of classes with older students in them - like, as in, scary, freaky, intimidating Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. But I guess if I'm just cool about it, I'll make it through. Nobody'll ever have to know I'm a Freshie - I've been told I look like a Sophomore, so if nobody specifically states that I'm a Fresh I'll be fine. Besides, my school is chock-full of Mormons and we all more or less stand up for each other. You know. 'Cause we're just cool like that.

It was so crazy - I walked into my first class, right? And there were three people in it. Three people! Three little Freshies taking a class with all the scary upperclassmen. It was kinda funny actually. Just us three sitting there chillin while the teacher talked about the fancyness that would be our class. This should be fun, oui?

Haha! French! Bonjour, people. I'm gonna learn it all and be fluent someday! Yeah! Bring it on. I'll write the notes in my pink pie folder and practice every day with my friend and brother and maybe my sister when she calls. I can't wait!

Bring on high school!!

Education Week, Etc.

BYU rocks my socks off!

Heyy. So in case any of you were wondering, which you probably weren't, I'm LDS, or Mormon. And us Mormons have this fancy thing called Education Week, which happens right before school starts. Basically, it goes like this:  zillions of kids from everywhere come and chill at the Y, going to classes and learning all sorts of things about the gospel and dancing and dating and stuff. It's so fun! Which is kinda a weird thing to say - I mean, it's an extra week of school! You wake up early and sit around listening to lectures for hours on end! And every kid there calls it fun?? Haha I love Brad Wilcox. Oh man, he is hilarious. And so is Hank Smith, another awesome teacher there. That's why it's fun! The teachers are funny! And it helps everything that we're being righteous. The church is true! Haha:)

Anyway, it was great. I learned to dance the two-step, foxtrot, and tango. The dance was crazy fun, and it was awesome to hear Fireflies being blasted through the football stadium at a volume dangerous to the human being. Haha! You should've heard me and my bestie scream when that song came on. We were Owl City-deprived! I was suffering from withdrawl, and I'm not even kidding you. The boy we were hanging with thought we were crazy.

I danced every dance. It was pretty awesome. Lots of cute boys asked me and they all told me my name was pretty - every single one. I felt fancy. Thank you to my mom and dad for naming me that awesome name!

So me and my friend were talking after Ed Week finished and it was so funny. We were talking about the things we learned and the spirit we felt, and she said she felt Mormon - haha! I mean, we're always Mormon, and we always keep our standards and stuff, but sometimes we just feel more Mormon than normal, you know? It's like we got a spiritual high for a week and we're feeling awesome, like everything is possible. It feels good. It makes me wish I could go to OYA (Outdoor Youth Adventures) and Ed Week every year, because that's really an awesome dose of spirit. It's reinvigorating.

I'm having fun creating a movie... Movie Maker is a fancy program. Me and my friend wanted to make one, and so we just threw a bunch of random photos together and later we're going to put them to a song. It's gonna be sweet. We've got cupcake photos... sketches I drew and took pics of... and lots of pictures of me and her wearing my older sisters' wedding dresses, which we randomly found in my closet one day and decided to dress up in. I should post a link for it on here when we're done.

I get excited over the tiniest, most random things. Like signatures on emails. I was having way too much fun putting a quote from one of my favorites songs on it. Am I weird? Say yes.

Well... later, then. I'm going to go picniking and movie-making, and maybe I'll do some EHS assignments. Maybe... lol.

Look look! Lol is a drowing person, see:  lol
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...The water is kinda low...but you get the point.    <><  <--Thats a fish.

Oh, Crazy Me, Definitely.

Registration is tomorrow! Wish me luck! I've got to go and change a whole tone of my classes, and I'm wondering whether or not I should take Catalyst. It would mean I'd have to get rid of one of my other electives, but I'm thinking it's worth it. After all, the more I know, the better chance I have of getting into BYU with a scholorship (did I spell that right?) which will be awesome, and besides that, I'll have a lot more of my college classes done with and over before I'm out of high school. Good idea, right? It'll definitely be worth it, and I can just take the animation classes I missed out on in college anyway. The only reason I'm taking so many of them in the first place is because I want to go into my freshie year at college prepared. But maybe I don't need to be so crazy about it. And I've heard Catalyst is really fun.

But in the meantime, enjoy life, right? Have fun because before you know it, you're going to be an adult and life will stink.

Maybe that's a bit of an overstatement. But from what I've seen of it, life as an adult is a lot less fun than that of a teenager. So I'm going to have all the fun I possibly can right now, then make sure I don't turn all boring when I become an adult. (What a scary thought - me an adult.) It's like that one Facebook Flair says - "I shall never grow up, make believe is too much fun." There's another Flair, too, that's one of my favorites. It says:  "We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?" That is a statement that I feel is very true to life. I don't want to be an adult! No matter how annoying my life can be, I love being a carefree teenager. It's too much fun to just want to give it up.

Anyway, now that I've ranted on about how I never want to grow up...

I feel like I'm just dragging myself through Emotion. I don't know how to keep going from the point I'm at. I mean, I know where I want to be eventually, but how to get there?

Aha moment! I'll blow something up! That always works when I'm trying to get a story moving again... lol. Actually, I went to this writer's workshop yesterday where this author came and talked to teenagers who like to write. She said she's writing a crazy, action-packed book right now, and she's blowing stuff up every other page. I like that idea:) Call me a pyro, but I love scenes where things explode. Fire and bangs and smoke curling into the sky, laughing at those who run, trying to escape from the roaring inferno that snaps at their heels and consumes the trees around them in a blaze of fiery red and orange...

Anyway.

Excuse my random indulgance in discriptive language. Just that talking about blowing stuff up reminded me of a scene in my story, where Max and her gang (for lack of a better word) go and blow up an enemy base, then run through the forest trying to escape for all they're worth... not going to say any more. I'll give away something important. Haha! You thought I'd divulge the oh-so-secretive story... well, no such luck, thiefs! You'll find no important ideas here!

Lol. I must be crazy.

Crazy Famous People? Or Crazy Me?

It occurs to me that many of my favorite singers/actors might be slightly crazy. For instance, lets take Adam Young. He's an extreme introvert and one of the funniest people I've heard of, and his blog is so random sometimes I don't even try to make sense of it. Bug zappers to“glockenspiel” to dancing? I don't know.

But perhaps an even better example is Johnny Depp. He plays Edward Scissorhands, Jack Sparrow, and the Mad Hatter. All basically insane, weird, misunderstood, and extreme characters. They're basically my favorites. And, he wants dual French citizenship (which is awesome, I admit) and he's old-fashioned about relationships (which is really abnormal for celebrities).

Actually, truth be told, those are the only two I really know about. I spent a whole day once researching Johnny Depp... call me crazy, but it's true. And I follow Owl City's blog. But most other actors/singers I don't pay much attention to. Except for when I want to disprove myths about them - for instance, I discovered today that Peter Facinelli (Carlisle Cullen in Twilight) is not, in fact, gay. He's married to Jennie Garth. This made me extremely happy because I love his character.

Peter Facinelli

Anyway. He's also Italian, which is pretty much awesome. Italian people are cool.

I must be crazy, putting an entire post on my blog about actors. Am I a girl, or am I a girl? Neither. I'm a crazy fangirl. I also like Jasper from the Twilight Saga, what's his name, Jackson Rathbone. And Daniel Radcliffe, too. He's super cool.

...That's basically my list of favorite actors. Currently my favorite singers list is limited to Adam Young, although I like The Postal Service, too. They're almost exactly the same style - I guess maybe I should expand my horizons a little, lol. I like a lot of other songs, too, but they're just kind of random. A song from this band here, a couple from that band there. Two from Justin Beiber, four from John Mayer, and three from Kelly Clarkson. You know. Just whatever sounds good.

Now that I've gone on and on about nothing in particular for long enough to make someone bored to death, I'll go. I suppose I'll be back in a day or two to talk about even more pointless, random stuff. Maybe I'll go off about my favorite movies, or my favorite books (other than the ones I've written, of course, no book could ever top those). Or maybe I'll have some sort of exciting update on how my book is coming along. Who knows. Tell you what - we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Later!

Ahhhh!

I can't comment on my own posts?? Help me, somebody!

Just in case anybody was wondering, SIS is an online grading system the schools use. Kids can log in and see their grades and classes. It's pretty fancy.

Anyway. So everybody who's read my book has told me it's a page-turner. I was pretty surprised, I have to say - but I guess I've read it so many times, I know what's going to happen next and stuff, so it doesn't hold quite as much suspense and excitment for me anymore. Now, the exciting thing for me is to get it edited and published! I can't wait! It just keeps creeping closer and closer, and as much as I'm scared I'm excited. But it's a good kind of scary - you know? It's the kind of scary that says, 'Oh my gosh, I'm actually going to do this and I'm so excited I'm scared sick!' That sounds confusing... lol.

I made pie today:) Well, actually, I made the crust a few weeks ago and then today, my mom made the filling (chocolate cream, yum) and I whipped the cream. Then we had pie for lunch. It was super yummy. I haven't had chocolate cream pie for forever!

So there's this site called Picnik. It's pretty much the coolest picture editing site in the world (actually, it's the only one I've ever seen). I make some pretty crazy pictures with it. These are a few of my favorites:

An awesom pic from a rodeo I went to in Canada

I sketched this, then took a picture. It's supposed to be the girl from my story.

Uh, this one uploaded sidways. These were some superdelish cupcakes me and my bestest friends made.

Anyway, it's a super duper fun site. Sorry about the sideways cupcakes...

Haha:) I love blogging. This is so fun! I can see why so many people do it. I think right now Blogspot is tweaking their site, so it's hard to do some things, like commenting on my own posts... that is really annoying. But I hope it gets better.

Most of my blog post today was pictures, but that's okay. I'm just having fun experimenting with all the different things I can do, so humor me for now. Eventually I'll get it all figured out.

What kind of school assignment tells you to go out and do six hours of service? That's ridiculous! With school starting soon, school shopping, friends, et cetera nobody would ever have that much time! Especially since it has to be 'a project that you wouldn’t normally do and must be one that you’re not already doing for another class or project'. But I've got to do it to get past my class - any suggestions?? This is my last assignment in this class and I just want to get it done so I can move on to the second quarter.

Anyway. So I can’t for the life of me figure out how to edit my blog posts – is there even a way to do that? But there’s a few things I didn’t post last time that I want to now. This is a link to the song Galaxies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPqqeTxz6Tc

And this is a link to Kamikaze:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJj3mmB37w

And last, a link to Alligator Sky: (this music video is weird, but whatever, right?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tY5RErnakc&ob=av2e

I love these songs. They're so cool! They make no sense to me, but maybe one of you will be able to devine some sort of meaning out of them, lol.

Also, I told you I love Julian Smith. He's hilarious! Let me send you my favorite videos of his:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRuwR2JSXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrmZriAHxhI

Basically that was all I wanted to say. I can't wait for school to start! As it gets closer it gets scarier. I'm pretty much terrified.

I Confess

Okay, so I admit I'm a little obsessive sometimes.

I'm an extreme fan of Owl City... I don't listen to much anything except his music. I like his emo, synth-pop style and some of his newest songs are really cool. Plus, he's Christian and all his songs are really happy and random and none of them swear which is nice. My favorite song is Kamikaze - it's a good song for playing as loud as you can get the volume to go. It's super cool. His Alligator Sky is awesome, too. I love the rap he put in it - it gives his music a fancy, different twist. I normally don't like rap, but put to Owl City's music, it sounds really good. My other favorite is definitely Galaxies. You have to really listen to the words on that one - most of them don't make sense, but the loudest and clearest part of the song might sound bad unless you listen to the rest of the words.

Also I'm a little obsessed with fantasy and science fiction. Two coolest genres in the world, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. I love writing it, reading it, watching it, imagining it. It's even better when they have action, too. Crazy fun. That's why I write - I can't get enough of what the rest of the world has to offer, so I make up my own.

Don't ever ask me what my favorite books are. I'll invariably reply, "The ones I've written."

My favorite food is Mexican food. My closest friend thinks I sound racist when I say Mexican, lol. But I really love their food. If you gave me a choice of anything or Mexican, I'd choose the Mexican. I love Cafe Rio and Don Pedro's. My favorite dish at Cafe Rio is the shredded pork salad with all the toppings and pinto beans. And the nachos and Don Pedro's are amazing. I love Mexican rice, too. It's really yummy.

I really wish school would start. I'm so bored all the time! I can't wait to start high school. It's going to be awesome. I'm taking all these fun classes and I'm going to learn French! But also I need to talk to my counseler before school starts and change up a few of the classes I got. Like, I checked on SIS to see what my classes were and they put me in English 9. I signed up for Honors Engish! And I've decided to drop AP Geography. But anyway. Still totally psyched.

Also I must admit I love to watch Julian Smith. He's hilarious! Mom thinks he's a total waste of time (and he is) but I personally think it's worth it. It's good to waste some time on occasion, especially if it makes you laugh. Laughing is good for the soul:)

I'm readin' a book, man! I'm readin' a book! Don't you ever interrupt me while I'm readin' a book! Haha:) That is such a true statement, though. And it could be tweaked a little too - Don't you ever interrupt me while I'm writin' an book!

Anyway. I sent my story to my older sister a few days ago, and she's reading over it, checking it out, editing a little. I have to admit I'm terrified. The only person I've ever let read my story is my bestie, and I have to wonder if any of it makes any sense at all and if it's as cheesy as it seems. I hope it's good! I wonder if it'll ever get published. I know I've said this before but I'm so scared I can't help but reiterate it. I guess I shouldn't worry, though. But I can't help it...

Anyway. We'll see what happens. In the meantime, I'll continue working on Emotion and this one other story I've started. I'm excited about this idea, too. It'll be awesome.

Some Random Stuff

Like you all know I just set up this blog a little while ago. I'm not sure if I should have it be a private or public blog; any imput? If it were to be private I'd have to get all your emails so I can invite you. But I might just have it be public anyway. Then anybody can follow it, and it'll be nice to not have to invite everybody who ever wanted to see it.

That's about all I had to say that's really important. Other than that, life continues, right?

I got this packet from my school the other day, and the letter from the principal was addressed to "My Beloved WHS Students". Really? Beloved? That's a little much. Our principal is a bit odd.

My brother and I are working on my schedule for high school. I've got a full four years. It's going to be pretty intense. I've got all sorts of Graphic Design and art classes. I've completely switched up my schedule from what it was at the end of the year last year. Basically the only things that are the same are my art class, French, Biology, Honors English, and Algebra 2. I switched out a bunch of classes and tried to compact my schedule. The problem is how much it could change - a lot of the classes I'm taking are going through some course changes and stuff, so everything could drastically change in the next few years. It's going to be so much fun! But totally crazy.

Still madly typing on my stories (when I'm not typing on here) and trying to get up the courage to go through the publishing process. It seems so scary when I think about it! But I've got to do it. I think the scariest part for me is letting other people read it. It seems so cheesy sometimes! When my friend reads it I just want her to skip all these parts that seem so ridiculous. But they're the most important parts of my story sometimes. I wonder a lot if other authors often felt the same way about their work. But I've just got to go on faith that somebody out there is going to like what I spent half my time writing... We'll see.

I feel this crazy urge to blog every day but that's ridiculous. It'd waste so much time. I guess right now I'm just super excited over having this fun new blog that I can type on and have people read. It'll cool off eventually. Then I'll just blog about important stuff, like how far I've gotten in the publishing process or something.

Anyway... until next time.

My Life

So basically my life is pretty crazy right now. Lots of stuff has been happening that's pretty crazy, like, I'm going to be a freshie next year! I can't believe it. It seems like just yesterday that I started middle school... what a sappy thing to say. But let me say I won't miss middle school. Some of the teachers I will miss, and I'll never forget all the crazy memories I made. But I'm so glad to be out of there and heading into high school. I can't wait! But at the same time I'm scared sick.

Along with that, I'm trying to make something out of my life (which might seem weird at this young age but I feel like I should try to do something rather than just like, party). Basically, that means I spend hours on end typing and typing and typing on the stories I'm writing. There's two really big ones right now - one I've finished and am editing, and the other one a work in progress. It's pretty cool. I'm totally psyched for this new story. I haven't been this excited about a new idea since my first story, which is by far my favorite of all the ones I've ever tried to write, have written, or am working on. But this new one, called Emotion, is turning out to be a close second.

My first book, which I'm calling My Story (although I may change that later), is about this girl named Max who is basically the leader of this group of people called Mythics. They're trying to stop the world from basically coming to a dreadful and painful and abrupt end. She has to deal with a bunch of crap and betrayal and demons - it's awesome. If you're reading this you should read it when it gets published. It's really cool. Right now my bestie is the only person besides me who's read it, and she thinks it's the next world-wide best seller (which is cool, but I seriously doubt it's going to be that popular). I'll cross my fingers, right? We'll see. First I have to get it published, lol.

Then the other book, Emotion, is awesomeness. It's about this JD named Shadow (her name is actually Sierra, but she goes by Shadow) who can taste emotions. Her best friend, Jade, can see emotions. That was way fun to describe, by the way. There's this whole group of people who can sense emotion in some way like that. Like, some can taste it, some can see it, some can hear it, some can feel it, and others can smell it. Shadow and her group of friends don't like what's going on with these people and they try to get out and stuff it's sooooo cool. You should read this one when it's published, too.

Anyway, besides writing, I like to read - fantasy, mainly. I also enjoy drawing and am going to take some classes so maybe, someday, I can illustrate my own novels. I know most novels don't have pictures, but some of the things I'm trying to describe just need a little help, you know? I can't get everything down perfectly in words. Eventually I want a movie made out of some of my books...

I love how, for me, everything comes back to writing. It's so important to me. All except, maybe, my future job, which is animation. At least, that's the direction I'm heading. I've got my school classes all lined up so I can get into BYU and maybe work for Pixar someday. I think that would be the coolest thing. And it's another reasson I'm taking drawing classes. I need to know how to draw so I can create the images you see when you watch movies. So that completely packs my school schedule for the next four years. With all the art and digital design classes, I have next to no time for anything else, so I'm going to be taking several classes online and early-morning seminary for half a year one year. All the other classes like singing and band and stuff are just totally pushed aside. It's sad; I'd like to do some of that stuff, but sometimes you have to sacrifice to get what you really want, right?

Other than that, my life is pretty boring. Like most of you out there, I've got irritating siblings and annoying parents. There's church and school and parties and music and writing and boys and every other crazy thing I've tried to pack into my life, including this blog. I decided to make one 'cause when I'm a famous author I want one. Just because. I think it'll be cool for fans to come here and read about what I'm working on, what's happening in my life, which seems weird, but what the heck, right? I think it'll be fun for random people to know that I like Owl City's music and the Artemis Fowl books... whatever.

Now that I've blogged my brains out and irritated the heck out of my sister (I'm on the family computer and she wants on) I think I'll go type on Emotion some. Thanks for being crazy enough to read this!

Hey:)

So this is my new blog. I love how I only have one follower and she's sitting right next to me as I'm typing this... lol:) So I pretty much have no idea what to type cause this is sort of new to me and I've only ever read three other blogs - one was my sister's, one was my best friend's, and the other one was Owl City's (which made no sense at all, by the way.)
So hi:) I'm a fourteen year old girl who likes to write and read. I'm actually writing lots of books and I think I'm going to publish soon. I hope to do it together with my bestie - but you know, whatever. It seems like a sort of daunting thing to do all by myself.
I have long dark auburn hair and blue eyes. I'm sort of tall (some people tell me I'm tall but my brother insists I'm short) and obviously I like pie. It's super yummy:)
Also I like smilies.
And now I have to leave... TTFN (ta ta for now)