*Yawn*

My weekends aren't long enough. The week back from a long vacation feels like an eternity. Doesn't help that along with piles of homework, I stay after school for another 2 and 1/2 hours to help build the set for the upcoming musical. I'm so tired I forget to do the fun stuff that I want to do like finish writing and finish reading The Hunger Games.

Speaking of while I'm on the topic, I am barely finished with The Hunger Games and I already love it so much! It has just everything I love in a book: suspense, action, romance and awesome characters. I hope to get it finished before the movie comes out.

For anyone who has no clue what this book is about, here's a plot synopsis:

In the ruins of a place known as North America, there exists a nation known as Panem. In this country, there is a great Capitol with twelve districts. Previously, there were thirteen but the thirteenth district led a rebellion against the Capitol and was destroyed. As punishment to keep the remaining districts in line, each of the twelve must send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a great game which pitches the twenty four competitors against each other in a battle of survival (on live TV) where the winner receives glory and fame forever. Our focus is on Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen-year-old girl from District Twelve who takes her sister's place in the games. As the story progresses, we read her struggles of survival in these horrid games and what she deems is right and wrong of her country.

A very suspenseful novel that keeps you wondering what's gonna happen next with characters you get attached to and love. Highly recommend it if you have nothing to read.

Now on top of reading The Hunger Games, I'm also starting to read Fahrenheit 451 for my English class as we begin to focus on Modernism. Hopefully it's as good as it sounds.

I've actually been thinking of a plot for my own original dystopia idea. Maybe after I finish this one story, I can start writing it out. I know it's gonna be a good story.

I may forget to update this blog for a while since starting next weekend the musical director wants people to come in during the weekend for rehearsal for God knows how long. So I will be too tired to remember to do stuff (Hopefully I won't forget any upcoming homework...)

Before I go I thought I'd share this to my manga artists out there. My darling friend Kelly told me to look up a guy named Mark Crilley who is a manga artist and has many videos on Youtube giving out tips on how to draw in the manga/anime style. Here's just one of his videos. Enjoy!

Chim Chiminy Chim Chiminy Chim Chim Cheree

So I was watching Mary Poppins yesterday and this came to me as I was watching the Step in Time dance scene. What if it was done as a flash mob?! I looked up on Youtube and the only Mary Poppins flash mob I've seen was in Germany or something to the Broadway version of Supercalifragilisticexpialidoscious. But here's the full scene if no one has memory of the Step in Time scene.



Now would that be a cool flash mob or what?! You'd just need the perfect time and place to do it since quite a number of people would be needed to dance to this particular song. But it'd be amazing and fun!

Anyway my vacation is drawing to a close and it's mostly just been pure laziness. I still have Algebra 2 homework to do which is super easy anyway and I finished my Spanish stuff.

My mom's birthday party was yesterday and I still find it hard to believe that she is turning 41 on Tuesday. We had friends over and we gorged ourselves with cake and tacos. And boy that was some good cake! I will be enjoying the sweetness of that cake tonight.

And today we had a rehearsal though everyone went to the band room because some people were still working with lights. That didn't keep me from helping with set building... sorta. I was left for an hour and half with no help because the two guys I'm working with forgot and slept in. Luckily I spent that time painting a palm tree since I can't do much else. Add on to that, we're running out of plywood and some of the paint we have is as old as time itself and we can't use it. It doesn't help that we're falling behind because there are only 19 rehearsal days left, barely anyone else shows up and the two guys I do work with mess around which is slowly decreasing my patience with them... Hopefully the people I call tonight will actually show up to help us, or maybe this week the guys I'm working with will pick up the slack and stop goofing off. Ugh, I can dream can't I?

Well that's all for now folks. Keeping my fingers crossed that this will be a good week.

XOXO,

Liz

Lazy Summer Days

So obviously my days have been as uneventful as they could be. Just sitting in the house playing Super Smash Brothers Melee hoping to unlock Mewtwo. And by the way if anyone can help me with that task that doesn't involve leaving the Gamecube on all night (Cause I will get caught and possibly in trouble), leave a comment below for some help. Not that I mind too much being inside cause we got a nice little heatwave right now. It's one of the few things I don't like about summer: extreme heat. Luckily with California weather there's no humidity in the summer cause it's the dry season. So thank God it isn't smoldering hot.

Finished reading Animal Farm today. My work with that book isn't over yet though. I still have to look for seven quotes for my assignment. Won't be too much trouble since someone had the book before me and pencil marked some quotes. Hahahaha. I probably would've used those quotes anyway. It was a pretty good book summing up the Soviet Union.

Going to Yosemite in a few days. Going to store tomorrow to get myself a new camera chip. Gonna be so happy to take tons of pics! Only downside about going to Yosemite is... Well let's just say Mother Nature isn't nice to me sometimes... Yeah

Anyway, so I'll be gone for a few days and be back with possibly tons of pictures to show!

XOXO,
Liz

P.S. Yo momma's so hairy the only language she speaks is Wookie!

Lazy Days

Not much has been going on for the past couple days. Had a dentist's appointment yesterday for a regular checkup and cleaning. I apparently need to wait a few months for my molars to grow in so I can get the stuff you need to prevent any cavities in between the teeth(I have no memory of what it's called). Yes, I'm fourteen and all of my molars aren't fully grown in yet but whatever; as long as I have no need for fillings or braces, I'm good.

Tomorrow, we're going out to invite some neighbors for dinner. Apparently there are people with a son that's gonna be a senior and there are other neighbors with a fifteen year old daughter that's going to be a sophomore and it's her first year here so that's a big plus with the new social life thing. But other than that nothing else too eventful going on. See you next time!

Love and Kisses,
Liz