My Thirteen Cents

Barats and Bereta, and Formspring

Hello, people (person?), I have made a Formspring. I think it's pretty amusing that you can ask yourself a question. Like, really? Are you so friendless that you have nothing better to do than interview yourself? (Then again, I can't really talk since I'm wasting time online writing a blog that only, like, one person reads xD. [Which is fine by me. Although I wouldn't complain if more people read it.]) 

I think this will be a short post...I don't have much to say.

I am worried about a friend, and I hope she's reading this. Hopefully if she is, she'll know that it's her I'm talking about. She has done a few...irresponsible...things, and I'm just worried for her. Something also happened that she wasn't ready for, and I hope she has the strength to prevent anything like that from happening again. I myself am not strong enough to yell at her for what she did, because I don't want her to get angry at ME, but I wanted to yell at her because of how worried she made me. And I hope she doesn't do it again. :(

Aaaaanyway...here's a funny video from one of my favorite YouTube users, Barats & Bereta. 

The House, Cleaning, and Adam Lambert

If you are a FaceBook friend of mine, you will have seen my status on how the house cleaning is going. First of all, the people who lived here last were gigantic DIRTBAGS who left in February. The landlord is super sucky, and said he was going to get the inside of the house all cleaned up for us. Well, he's a liar because...well, let me tell you about my bathroom.

So the bathroom is half-kitchen. It has a kitchen-type sink and a space for a mini-fridge, along with multiple cupboards. Then there's a door that leads into the bathroom, which is just a regular bathroom. I used six Chlorox wipes to clean the top of the door-jamb. A very thin piece of wood took six friggin' Chlorox wipes, and I use as much of the wipe as I can. That is SO not the worst of it.

Underneath the kitchen sink thing, I found a used plunger. Who the hell keeps a plunger under the sink meant to prepare FOOD? There was a second used plunger next to the toilet, also.

So then I moved on to the bathroom sink. Underneath, there was:

• Four almost-used-up toilet paper rolls
• The Charmin bag (empty)
• an empty Chlorox container
• a freakin' NEWSPAPER
• and a MaxiPad wrapper!!

Ugh!!

I felt like showering after that, but I hadn't yet worked on the tub.

Other than the filth, I love the house! I will post pictures soon, but we're very busy. (But not too busy for me to mess around online, muahaha.)

I am obsessed with one of Adam Lambert's songs, Down the Rabbit Hole.

He's pretty funny too :D

Really Quick Update :D

Hola, it's 23:05, and I've gotta get off the computer. But really quick, here are my updates:

We are in Michigan.

We are leaving for Rhode Island tomorrow.

We may get a new house built in 1838 and next to a flippin' cemetery. How awesome is that?!? AND it's got 3 floors plus a basement! And there are two kitchens! And I'd be able to go to my high school of choice! Rhode Island is going to be L.O.V.E.L.Y.

Andrew Garcia, my favorite (ex-) American Idol contestant is gone. :(

TTFN :D

Moving, Alice in Wonderland, DSDS, a New Blog, and a Surprise Get-Together Thing :D Although, Not Necessarily in That Order

I'm working on moving to Rhode Island, and we leave on Thursday.

So last Friday I went to the mall with my friend to see Alice in Wonderland. What she didn't tell me, was that she also invited four friends as a sort of last-goodbye. It was very very very awesome, and I was really glad to be able to see everyone one last time! :D One friend gave me a little music box thing that plays English Country Gardens! :D

Now for the movie review...

One friend already published a review on his Facebook but mine is a bit different. First off, the movie was pretty different from the book. In the beginning, if no one had told me I was watching Alice in Wonderland, I wouldn't have known. It started off with Alice at 20 years old and on her way to a party. There she sees the white rabbit, and follows him down a hole. In the book, she's with her sister, who's reading a book. Alice falls asleep, unknown to the reader till the end of the story, and she goes to Wonderland.

I loved what Burton did to the movie though. It was really cool. Johnny Depp was great as the Mad Hatter, and I loved the Cheshire Cat.

Last week, Manuel Hoffmann was eliminated from DSDS, leaving Kim Debkowski, Thomas Karaoglan, Menowin Froehlich, Mehrzad Marashi, and Helmut Orosz.

NOT.

He was still eliminated, but so was Helmut Orosz! Helmut was eliminated because a video surfaced, in which he and a friend were taped doing cocaine. So now they are down to Kim Debkowski, Thomas Karaoglan, Menowin Froehlich, and Mehrzad Marashi!

Found a really cool blog, written by a teacher at a school who eats the lunch served by the cafeteria. It's called Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project.

PS -- I love poker. And I learned how to play hearts!

I Am in the Deepest Love Anyone Has Ever Experienced.

Hello. I have just read Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick.

A Sacred Oath

A Fallen Angel

Forbidden Love

 
 I love this book so much, that if I could, I would marry it. In fact, I would marry it and then divorce it, just so I could marry it again. It is my literary soul-mate. It is possibly the best book ever written. I could not put it down. And people say that a lot, and don't mean it, but no, I actually read it while I was doing dishes. 

It's about a girl named Nora Grey. She's a sophomore in high school. One day, there's this new kid. His name is Patch. He's tall, dark, and mysteeeeeeriouuuuuus. She hates him. The teacher makes them biology partners. They talk to each other (forced assignment) and he knows everything about her, but they've never met before.

It's full of suspense, terror, supernatural activity, and of course...*sing-song voice* roooomaaance! <3 Hothothot romance too ;D But don't worry. If you're like me, and you're sick of all the vampire-werewolf crap that's taken the literary world by a storm, there are ZERO vampires or werewolves. (And it's about 6035468316 times better than Twilight. Which is a sucky series anyway.)

I'm not telling you anymore, except for the fact that it is (once again) possibly the best book ever written in the history of literature. Seriously. Read it. I can't describe how awesome it is. You know what? I'll even post links to sites where you can buy it, just to make this easier for you. That's how badly I want you to read it. And oh my God, if they ever make this into a movie, it will be the only movie I will watch for the rest of my life. Unless they make it really different from the book...Yeah, no, I'd still be content with it being the only movie I could ever see. And they had better give the role of Patch to a super-hot celebrity, or I'm gonna be really pissed. 

Oh and it's sort of creepy because Nora is: 

Brunette

Not fat

A cellist

A person who has written poetry before

...and those could all be used to describe (hehe) ME. La la la... fun daydreams... hehehe.... ;)

Anyway, here are the links! (I promised! xDD)

(They lead directly to the book.)

Amazon 
$9.99 Kindle
$9.99 Paperback
$10.52 Hardcover -- used from $9.90
$25.54 Audiobook, unabridged  -- used from $4.48

Target

$16.19, only available in hardcover (+tax, and s&h if you buy it online)

Barnes & Noble

$9.99 Paperback
$9.99 eBook 
$11.69 Hardcover
$33.24 CD, unabridged

Borders

$14.39 Hardcover -- used from $10.40

Other good series of the same topic: The Mortal Instruments, by Cassandra Clare

But Hush, Hush is the BEST. 

If you've read the Maximum Ride series, you might find that Patch is a lot like Fang. (But better.)

Alice in Wonderland and My Favorite Song from the Soundtrack!!!

So Alice in Wonderland came out on Friday with Johnny Depp + Tim Burton, Anne Hathaway, and other well-known actors and actresses.... I'm SUPER excited to see it! I love Tim Burton, and his movies with Johnny Depp are always awesome. I just love all of those movies, and the dark, gothic feel to them. I've also been reading the book in both German and English on my Kindle.

Okay, now about my favorite song! "Strange" with Kerli, a rather Gothic singer from Estonia (who I like) and Tokio Hotel (stifles excited screams), a fanTASTic band from Germany! I could go on forever about Tokio Hotel, but I'll save you the fangirl speech. ;D Haha. So here is the B-E-A-U-tiful song:

I'm starting to forget the meaning of the word "strange."

And at the beginning, when I heard it, I was like "Ohmigod, is that seriously Bill?!" because for some reason, he sounds really different at the beginning! But you can really tell it's him in the chorus! And if this is the first time you've heard of Tokio Hotel (read: if you don't actually know me) then yes, haha, Bill looks so girly, are you sure he's a guy, he's gay isn't he, blah blah blah. /rolls eyes/ Just get it out now, because Bill's awesome, and this is so NOT the last time I shall blog about him and his extremely hot twin, Tom.*

Hehe...yum. 

* And their bassist and drummer, Georg Listing and Gustav Schaefer. But they get kind of overlooked since they're standing in the shadow of pure sexiness (Tom.)

On a sort of related, sort of not related note, Bill is freakin' TALL. He's over 6 feet! And Tom is 5'11, but Bill is freakin' TALL.

Orgasmic Birth, and a Death (But Not an Orgasmic Death)

No, the title is not a typo. Welcome to Orgasmic Birth. Apparently birth can feel GOOD. My first reaction: W. T. F. ?!? And then after reading it: ...

I'm still skeptical. Seriously, how can it feel good? Honestly, the only way I see that sex connects to birth is, you know, the whole sex-makes-a-baby thing. An entire living person is coming out of your vagina, along with the freaky-looking placenta (look if you dare) does not seem fun. At all. And the gut-wrenching, heart-stopping screaming? Yeah, that spells "I'm having the time of my life."

But I'm never having kids, so I don't have to worry! :D (My mom says I have to, but she can just adopt grandkids; I don't care.)

Back to the (non-orgasmic) death. Mary Josephine Ray died today, age 114 years, 294 days. She lived to see her great-great-grandchildren! That's crazy!! So, condolences to her family, and hats off to her long life!

Career Choices (Sigh)

Okay, so I've (been forced to have) given some thought towards my future career lately. I mean, I've always thought about it at least a little bit. Like when I was 10, I wanted to be a cellist. I've wanted to be a veterinarian. I've wanted to be an actress. A doctor/psychologist/psychiatrist/neurologist. A translator. I know shows like Scrubs Hollywood-ize the whole thing, but it still makes me want to be a doctor. Even The Office sort of makes me want to sell paper for a living!! But here are some careers I don't want no matter how many shows they make:

Janitor

Garbageman ("waste management")

Plumber

Person who maintains the sewers

Porn star/Stripper

And then after I got really interested in photography, I was like, "Well it'd be really cool to work as a photographer." But 1) my obsession won't last long, and 2) photographers don't make a lot of money unless they're one of The Best.

I wanted to be a translator, but then I realized I'd have to master like five other languages in the next 4-8 years. Hmm. Or I could be a translator for just one or two languages and translate books, but they don't make very much money either.

I have to go; my brothers are being little crap-heads and they won't sleep.

Mall Today

I went to the mall today, and I went to Subway...there was this couple with their kid, and the dad said "Hey, Babe?" to his wife/girlfriend and automatically I looked...I have no idea why. It was so embarrassing. Thankfully I don't think anyone noticed, but it was still really embarrassing. xD

The Library, a New Blog, and More

So I went to the library today. I spent like 30 minutes looking through the non-fiction section, looking for the photography section because I didn't feel like using the card catalog (you have to get one of the librarians, and I had no idea where the hell they were.) And then finally I went through the card catalog and found the section. Unfortunately, all the books on digital photography were written in like 1982, and it's like, "Um...no."

I've been really inspired to go out and shoot, but I can't in this neighborhood! But I've learned so much! I just want to try it out. ARGH.

Also, I learned how to pick bike locks today! :D Mainly because mine was messed up...I somehow accidentally changed the combo when I locked it, and then it didn't work when I tried to undo it, of course. So I had to walk home, get Dad to drive me to the library, and unlock my bike. (I didn't realize what had happened until Dad showed me what I did. Also super cool that I found out how to pick it lol.)

I have created a joint blog with a friend. We haven't written anything yet, but when we do, I'll share the link. I'm pretty excited, it'll be nice to have more than one writer.

I spent a bunch of time just YouTubing today. A bunch of Lion King songs in different languages! Arabic, Cantonese, Croatian, Icelandic, Greek, Hungarian, German, Polish, and Russian. I like "Morning Report" in Croatian, which is apparently "Jutarni Glas." And I found the Russian Winnie the Pooh!!!

CUUUUUUUTE!!!

 

Made a FaceBook Fanpage..."Being Awesome." :D