I hate being sick. Not only do you miss school assignments, but you also miss dance classes, you feel like poop, and your head feels like it is about to pop out of your skull. Well, that is what I am suffering from right now, and there is pretty much only one way to describe it: it SUCKS!!!! There is, however, an upside to all of this madness; it is giving me quite a lot of time to do stuff that I never have time to do. For example, I finally got around to reorganizing my closet, and putting up a small bulletin board on my wall that I had bought during the summer. But most of all, I had time to sit and do brain-numbing random stuff on my computer. And while doing that task, I came across this absolutely awesome and relate able website: YouKnowYoureADancerWhen.Tumblr.com. Here are a couple of the funny posts that this site is providing:
Ha, this is EXTREMELY relate able if you are a fellow dancer. Have you been to YouKnowYoureADancerWhen.Tumblr.com? What is your favorite out of these posts? As always tell me in the comments!!!!
About a week ago, I found myself in a predicament. I had just come home from my ballet class, and thankfully, was finished with all of my homework. I plopped myself onto the couch and picked up the remote for the TV. I scrolled through our playlist impatiently, looking for a show to watch. “I’ll watch Revolution!!!” I thought excitedly to myself. “Oh, yeah.” I remembered, “Revolution is on a break until March.” I sighed, and continued on my search. “I know!!! I’ll watch a cooking show!!!” I decided, but my hopes were crushed when I noticed that I had watched all of the shows that had been recorded. And then, I remembered. What did I remember? That one of my fave shows Bunheads had its season premiere that very night. I was elated as I clicked play on the remote.
If you’ve seen the show, you know the story line; it features a Michelle, a dancer who gets married and moves to a sleepy coastal town called Paradise. Michelle soon discovers that Paradise isn’t really a paradise; her cranky mother-in-law, Fanny, lives with her and her husband, and owns a dance studio in the town. At the dance studio, Fanny teaches numerous students ballet, including four of the main characters: Boo, Sasha, Melanie, and Ginny. The story basically follows the lives of Michelle, Fanny, Boo, Sasha, Melanie, and Ginny, filled with dance and tons of drama. My love affair with this show all started last year when my ballet teacher announced that her daughter, Kaitlin,(who occasionally was a substitute teacher in some of my classes) was going to be in a new TV show on ABC Family. Each week, she revealed new details about it; she told us that Kaitlin was going to play Boo on the show, and finally, she told us to watch the pilot of the show! I obeyed, and since then, I’ve been hooked! And, naturally, Boo is my absolute favorite character on the show.
That’s her
What do you think of Bunheads? Have you seen it before? Do you like it? Who’s your favorite character? As always, tell me in the comments!
Happy New Year Everyone!!! To start the year off to a good start, check out this: the WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for us!!!!!!
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get that many views.
This year for our blog has been amazing; first of all, we started the blog in September just as a small, fun project for Katrina and I to do over the weekend just before school started. Well, WOW!!! What used to be a little random blog on the internet by two teenage best friends has grown into something that I couldn’t have ever imagined when Katrina and I started the blog. Since the small interval of time since we started this blog, 2716 people have read our pages, many of those people from around the world in places like England and even Japan. This year we also put out our app for Apple, Android, and Windows devices, which you can get here, which exposed our blog to an entire new range of viewers.In addition to that, we created social media pages for you guys to follow us on, such as Facebook and Twitter, and many of you have done just that. In the time that we’ve been blogging, Katrina and I combined have posted over 45 new posts, with much more on the way this year. But, the only reason that our blog has blossomed into what it is now is because of you, the readers. We owe you guys everything! We want to give you all a sincere thank-you for all that you have done for us: you’ve read our posts, downloaded our app, followed us on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, and even written us some of the best comments one could ask for. This year Katrina and I are prepared to give you a very much deserved reward for what you’ve done for us by writing even more awesome posts for you to read. We hope you all have an amazing New Year and are excited for what 2013 has to bring. THANK-YOU 2012… 2013, BRING IT ON!!!!!!!
Wow, I find myself once again, writing a movie review. I’ll admit it, I’ve spent a little bit too much time at the movies lately, but hey, it is Winter break! Anyways, today I will be writing a review for the movie\musical,Les Miserables.
As you might have guessed, Katrina and I have been anticipating this movie VERY much; I mean, who wouldn’t? First of all, the overall plot of the story is possibly one of the best ever written, and when you add Anne Hathaway to it, it HAS to be amazing! And it was; In fact, I almost went to see it again today, but sadly, it was sold out . This movie is one of the, if not the, best movies I have ever seen! It follows the life of Jean Valjean, a former inmate at a jail in France just after the French Revolution. He is thrown into jail for a small amount of time due to the fact that he stole a small amount of bread, but after many failed attempts at trying to break out, he is sentenced to twenty years in prison. The story starts on his last day in jail, when he is put on parole. Eventually, he breaks parole and becomes virtually non-existent by fleeing and using a fake identity. He becomes a better person, as well as very successful; he becomes the mayor of a city. Though, as time goes by, the government reveals his real identity, and begin chasing him down. That is basically the background of the story; if I told you a summary, it would last for all eternity. This is because of the length of the story and therefore, the length of the movie. It is about 3 hours and then some!!!! Now, I understand why when I attempted to read the book of Les Miserables, it took me about five months to finish maybe three chapters; the book is like a thousand pages!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, enough with my raging. The movie, even with its extreme length, is worth every second. The music is AMAZING, especially that done by Anne Hathaway. As many may agree with me, her Oscar is guaranteed. I mean, just listen to this:
(P.S., sorry, I couldn’t find the clip from the movie, just the audio)
Now do you agree with me? Also, not only is her voice amazing, her acting is just as marvelous! In an interview, Hathaway admitted that she almost didn’t receive the role due to her age. The casters thought that she was too young and immature to play the very serious and tragic role of Fantine. In my opinion, as well as numerous others, she nailed it! Though I think Anne Hathaway was the best of the actors, she was not the only amazing one. Amanda Seyfried and Hugh Jackman also did astonishing jobs of playing (and singing) their roles. Out of them all, the only actor that fell slightly short of my expectations was Russel Crowe, and when Russel Crowe is the weakest link of your cast, that makes for a pretty amazing movie. The only reason that he seemed to lag behind the other actors was his singing; he seemed like he was singing a pitch higher than his voice was the entire movie. All in all, this movie was moving, and a real tearjerker, and additionally delivered greatly in the singing and acting department, making for an EPIC movie, and possibly the best I have ever seen.
Here are the pros and cons:
And here is the trailer:
Have you seen the movie? What did you think? Are you as obsessed with Anne Hathaway as Katrina and I are? As always, tell me in the comments!
I have been anticipating the release of this movie greatly since I read the book in September and was amazed at the interesting plot. The story, which is a prequel to the AMAZING Lord of the Rings series, features the small hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. If you don’t know what a hobbit is, click here. Bilbo Baggins is unwillingly thrown into an adventure, very contrary to his usual quiet life. Throughout the story he proves himself to be a formidable opponent, despite everyone’s expectations. If you have read the book, you can probably tell why I wanted to see the movie so desperately. I was, however, concerned about the movie’s quality due to the trailer. The trailer portrays Bilbo as a silly and shallow character, despite the depth of characterization that J.R. Tolkien put into the character, causing you to grow to love the character. I was also worried that, like what happens to many books as they are transformed into movies , that the plot would be completely transformed and made into some stupid and boring story (to me, it doesn’t really make sense why Hollywood does this to legendary books, because obviously people must have liked the story in the first place to buy the books!) Thankfully though, I wasn’t disappointed. The plot was spot on and despite the silly character who appeared in the trailer, Bilbo ended up being a very intriguing character who develops greatly over the course of the story. One thing that I observed that many people disliked about the movie was the 3D. The movie contains a very advanced system of 3D, and many people disliked it for its jarring effect. People thought that it was creepy that you could actually see the slimy skin of Gollum\Smeagle and all of the little details, but I thought it was fabulous! I loved the depth that was put into the movie’s appearance; it makes you feel as if you are experiencing the movie instead of simply watching it. Another aspect of the movie that I thought was interesting was that it is going to be presented in three parts. I thought this was weird, because the story isn’t all that long of a book. This turned out to be a good thing though, because it enabled the story to be presented with great depth. If you liked how Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was presented in two parts, you will most likely like this. All in all, the movie was filled with tons of exciting action, intriguing characters, occasional laughter, and an overall compelling plot. So here is my pros and cons list:
Here is the trailer:
(P.S. Please, if you dislike the trailer, as I did, keep in mind that the trailer is nothing like the movie; the movie is WAAAAAYYYYY better!!!)
What do you think? Have you seen the movie? Are you going to? How do you think it will be? If you already saw it, how was it? Tell me in the comments!
Think of the store Ikea; what do you see in your mind? Bunk beds? Lamps? What about MONKEYS? No? Well, some people living in Toronto will from now on think about monkeys whenever they hear the name of the store. According to yahoo.com, a coat and diaper-wearing monkey was found cruising around Ikea! Don’t believe me? Well, here is the monkey:
Yep, I’m not kidding! There was a monkey in Ikea! Apparently this photo, as well as the story, has gone viral, inspiring the popular Twitter hashtag: #IkeaMonkey. Since then, there have been some pretty hilarious Twitter posts:
“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!” – panicked Ikea employee #ikeamonkey,” tweeted @annetdonahue.
“It is believed that #IkeaMonkey entered Ikea in august to buy a banana split at lunch counter and could not find it’s way out since then,” tweeted @trapdinawrpool.
Additionally, some clever people used photoshop to put the monkey in some other interesting places:
Monkey meets mayor.
Who wore it better?
Ha! Well, what do you think? Have YOU seen the Ikea monkey? What would you do if you did? Tell me in the comments
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This is a continuation of the weekly segment: Fashionable Find of the Week. To read the latest ones, just click here
This week’s fashionable find are these ADORABLE flats from Kohls. I absolutely adore these shoes, in fact, as of today, I own them. In both colors. Ya, that is how cute these shoes are. Enough talking about them though, here they are:
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Now do you see what I mean? Also, did I mention, these shoes feel like you are WALKING ON CLOUDS?!!! They feature a memory foam sole. Yeah, that’s right; it’s like having a TempurPedic mattress on your feet. All the time. In fact, even after I got home, I didn’t take these flats off due to the fact that they were as comfy as my slippers! Anyways, these awesome shoes boast a quirky bow and a perfectly rounded toe that looks elegant (and doesn’t make your toes look fat). Finally, these shoes come in three colors: Pastel Pink (shown above), aquamarine (shown above), and black. I only showed the first two because I liked those the best. But don’t get me wrong, the black ones are pretty amazing too! Here is how I would wear the pink shoes:
In this pretty and pink outfit, it all revolves around the amazing shoe. From that strong foundation, we add a beautiful pink dress with a quirky peter pan collar, adding a winsome sense to the ensemble, and a cozy wool cardigan to add a bit of warmth. Finally, like a cherry on top of a sundae, we add a whimsical binoculars necklace in a beautiful gold color, complimenting the delicate pink.
Here is how I would wear the blue pair:
This dreamy ensemble features, first and most of all, the blue shoes. Secondly, to add an elegant touch, I threw in a beautiful lace dress with a black bow, as a nod to the quirky bow lying on the top of the flats. Next, I added the earrings; the blue bead perfectly matches the shoes in hue and the flower dangling from it draws your eyes to the intricate lace details of the dress. Finally, I finished this outfit with a pair of lady-like herringbone tights.
What do you think about these shoes? Do you love them too? Do you also own them? How would you (or do you) wear them? Tell me, as always, in the comments.
If you have been reading this blog for a while, you surely know, I LOVE BACON!!!! I mean, who doesn’t? Anyways, I told you guys about the global “aporkalypse” that is approaching and I’ve been trying to find some more information about the bacon doomsday. Well, I was browsing online, and I found myself at hackcollege.com where they had posted an informative message about the aporkalypse:
Today has truly been an “adventure” ,if you can even call it that. This madness all started after school today. I had just given my friend a ride home from school and was anxiously waiting to return to my house so I could go shopping with Katrina. We were running low on gas, so naturally, my mom pulled into a Chevron gas station and started filling up the tank. She routinely put the pump in the car and eventually took it out, got in the car, and put the key in the ignition. She turned the key. Nothing happened. Frustrated, she tried again. The sound of an engine slowly groaned and then sighed out, leaving us stranded in our car. After about five angry phone calls to the car company and wasting about three hours sitting cramped up in a car with nothing to do, a AAA truck pulled into the gas station and spent almost another twenty minutes trying to jump-start our car. At that point, it was almost six o’clock (we had pulled into the gas station at about four thirtyish, give or take) and my plans to go shopping were crushed. Exhausted and disappointed, I finally got home and that is where I still am now, trying to enjoy the last bit of this Friday as I can. So, that was my Friday. Underwhelmed? I know, me too. Oh well, at least I have Saturday! What is your Friday horror-story (or fairy-tale) ? Tell me in the comments!!
This is what my face looked like while I was twiddling my thumbs in the car at the gas station.
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