American Idol: David and Danny

We've been kind of busy in the evenings a little bit so I haven't watched American Idol for the past week or two. But I saw this kid's first audition and wanted to see how he did yesterday so I looked it up.



A lot of people were saying he was the best performer of the night over at The Woes and Prose of an American Idol Junkie. He has a good voice, he's sweet and he can't stop saying "Thank You" to people, lol

Danny Noriega on the other hand, usually has a good voice, but he's cocky and annoying. He did okay with the Elvis song but not that great... he was better in his audition.

Oh, It Is Love!

Last night I watched an hour and a half of the new Knight Rider. My dad showed me two episodes of the original so I was a little confused as to how this would work out... Turns out the new driver dude is Michael Knight's son. I went to bed before they mentioned how another KITT came along but anyways. The new KITT (Is it one two or two twos?) is a black Mustang Shelby... and the new KITT can change colors. ^_^ I want a car that drives for me and talks to me... lol. that would be AWESOME. passing my drivers test would be a piece of cake. ;)

You're Never Gonna Fit In Much Kid

Me in my natural habitat.
I actually thought that sweater would be ugly but i put it on over a camisole with some jeans and I think i changed my mind x3 its kinda cute. and I got a green one too, w00t.

Self Portraits

Well friday we traded snowboarding for some field trip in Columbus.
It took forever to get there and was not worth it. At all. in the slightest.
Apparently I'm the only one who didn't enjoy myself. But whatever.
I did take a bunch of pictures and I kind of liked how these came out.
SOMETHING SHINEY





Nobody would talk to me except that flamingo..
er. I mean... some of the adults AND the flamingo.

;)

Happy Valentine's Day

This is one of my new favorite MCR songs. Their newer ones are a lot better than their old ones, lol.
Once again Gerard Way's facial expressions never cease to amuse me. Its crazy what that guy can make his face do, but it makes music videos entertaining.

Happy Birthday Indeed!

After most everyone else had gone to bed I was in my room wishing my old lens worked for my camera so that I could take some pictures tomorrow. So I got it out and I was playing around with it. I looked it over and got this great idea. It wouldn't auto focus but maybe I could manually focus it. So i put it on manual focus and put it on my camera and voila. It took a picture. So I decided to try it on auto-focus again. You have no idea how happy I was to see those little red brackets, hear that beep and then the click of the shutter! And you have no idea how happy I was that I didn't send it off and pay $100+ for it to be "fixed."

Sweet Sixteen

Well.
I dont feel any older.
But I got some stuff. :P
And a lot of people both online and off have been telling me happy birthday.
So thats cool.
This is actually the second year in a row that I picked out my own presents. lol. But I guess thats a good way to make sure I actually like what Im getting.


So i got an Elvis balloon because I happen to love Elvis for some unknown reason.

And a skateboard because I want to learn how to skateboard. We tried it out in the hallway, its gonna take a while.I should start with standing up. :P


And last but not least i got a cute bag with animals and stuff on it. It was kind of funny, a while ago I was showing my mom this bag from tokidoki in my Teen Vogue magazine and they're UBER expensive and so we saw these bags and she's like "Hey! These look like those bags you were showing me" and they do actually. They're just about $100 cheaper.

Year 15

“Year 15” as I’ve been calling it was chock full of some awesome stuff. So I decided to look back on all those awesome things to set the standards for year 16. :P Since that starts TOMMOROW. ;)

Last year for my birthday, my favorite radio DJ (Glenn the Funny Song Man) gave me a shout out and they all sang happy birthday to me on the radio. I had my best friend over. Then it started SNOWING and we had about 2 feet of snow and she was stuck at our house for a few days. That was kind of fun.

In February I started noticing how ugly my hair was :P

So I chopped it off.

I got to go to the radio station at the beginning of march and be on the radio. It was a lot of fun.

I had red hair in march! Inspired by Gina Glocksen from American Idol. Unfortunately it all washed out within a few months but it was awesome while it lasted.

Sporting the new red do I went out on a limb and entered a contest to meet the band Daughtry! I worked really hard on it ALL day!

It was exciting and nerve racking. I lost sleep for crying out loud!

I WON. For the first time in my life I really won something worth winning! And I got my first autograph from someone really famous!

I learned that celebrities aren’t always as great as I think they are. But I got over it after awhile.

A week later I made a resolution to come out of my "shy box" and I'm still working on it. :P

In May my dad won tickets to the coolest concert ever. My first rock concert! It was fun and I was introduced to my new favorite bands for the first time: The Academy Is and Cobra Starship.



And it turned into the biggest last minute scheme in the history of last minute schemes. My friend from Indiana came to my house with just a morning’s notice! And we went to the concert together. She ended up staying almost a whole week.

Fell in love with Gabe saporta’s purple hoodie and William Beckett’s crazy moves (and tight pants)

Spent my record high on a t-shirt. :P $25. but I couldnt NOT go to an awesome concert and leave without a t-shirt.
Got to meet the Budweiser Clydesdales later that week!

Foreshadowing? At the end of May I heard about the Nikon D40.

Mid-June I started volunteering at the nature center.

Went to my first Indian Pow Wow, it was kinda neat actually. A fun experience.

Near the end of June I became a Voyageur for a day! Also a fun experience. Thanks to the Nature center, since I was a volunteer I got in for free.

Also at the end of June, I went camping for the first time. Also thanks to the Nature Center.

Continuing on my mission to get out of my shy box, I applied for a job at the Cleveland Orchestra. And I got it! First job ever.

Went to a gig for Mr. Quipper’s cover band and met his brother (who is in a real band) and his girlfriend (now fiancé) who got to meet Jack Bauer. They were really nice.

Early July I was inspired by the The Academy Is’s photographer to be a band photographer for a living. So thats on the list of possible careers now :P

Later that week I entered in an ice cream eating contest where I was the only girl! I was in first for a while but fell behind and came up second.

Two days later I began my Orthodontia Adventure!!

Later I discovered my new favorite band, The Academy Is was coming to Cleveland!! $20 for tickets! Having crossed over to the dark side at Honda Civic Tour, I concocted a plan to go.

Mid July I was still not happy with my hair and so I took a risk (for me anyways) and chopped it all off!

And I’ve had it short ever since.

Apparently I’ve never taken off the Fall Out Boy t-shirt either. ;)

Mid July I went to my first Harry Potter gathering thingy… And stayed up until 2 am, the whole nine yards!

Was re-introduced to the Nikon D40 and decided it was what I wanted to spend all my money on.

A few weeks on the job I was slowly starting to lose my mind.
At work I was also mistaken for a guy for the first time, that was rather funny.

Mid August I took the test to get my driver’s permit. Failed. Ten days later I went back and passed! I drove for the first time and was pretty petrified but its not so bad. Most of the time. ;)

Early September we learned that we were all going to Vegas!! Thanks to my dad’s new job, they were sending him to a conference there and we were allowed to go along too!

The money was burning a hole in my pocket so I bought the Nikon d40.

near the end of September I spent the weekend at a friend’s house. Her dad is a firefighter and they were doing this practice thing. So I got to pretend like I was a victim of a car crash/radioactive materials. It was AWESOME.

VERY LAST DAY OF SEPTEMBER I BROKE MY CAMERA LENS. And a little piece of me died inside.

At the beginning of October I went to an Open House for school, met my teachers and got to dissect a pig! W00t. I also decided to join ski club.

WENT ON VACATION November 1-12^th. Amazing. Best vacation ever. Lets do it again.

Mid-November I went to an awesome concert. Cobra Starship had joined the crew and so it was even more awesome! I almost passed out, which is probably bad xD but it was still fun. I got to meet three guys from Cobra Starship so that was amazing. I got their autographs and pictures taken with them.

What?! I actually made a decision in a reasonable amount of time and got this cute dress for Christmas.

Early January we went for an impromptu appointment at the eye doctor’s. I got rid of my old ones that I’ve had for over 3 years now and got a modern, bold, cute new pair.

Later in January I got my braces on!

And we started Snowboarding! Its so much fun C:

So that’s about it for the excitement of year 15. But this April Im going to washing D.C. with my school, and this summer I’m going to Scranton PA for a conference. So we’ll see how year 16 goes :P

my birthday is in two days...

and i dont know what i want for dinner.
we arent going out but basically i can have "anything I want"
I just cant come up with anything that we dont normally have any other day.
any suggestions?

Survivor Micronesia

I like to read the Academy Is...'s blog and recently the bassist posted that his brother is going to be on survivor. I thought that was pretty awesome. ^_^ So here's a video. The Australian dude is their guitarist and I dont know what in the world he did to his hair but it usually doesnt look that bad. o.o







So in case you weren't sure, Jason is his brother. :P And he seems like a cool guy so far so... we'll see.


AAAAND Im going on a trip to DC in April with a group from my school :D
How awesome is that?

Ice, Ice, Baby!

Its Friday! Which meeeeaaans ski club! I was getting kind of scared with all the rain we've been having. It was pretty warm the past couple of days too so yeah.

Unfortunately with the rain and whatnot, the snow absolutely sucked today. It was hard and icey and my board kept getting stuck in grooves made by other boards so I kept falling. But I got the turning thing down! I had to work on linking my turns and today I finally got the feel, I know what I'm supposed to do. its all about moving the board with my feet and legs so I think I got it... but like I said, the snow sucked. And the guy wouldn't give me my sticker. I dont know why Jacob got a sticker because he can't do the turns either so... I'm a little confused about that but. Oh well.

Speaking of Jacob, since everyone else had left us to go on the big kid's hill, Jake turned into the social butterfly and is now best friends with everybody. I don't know how he does it really... I can't even ask the one kid what grade he's in. o_O So it was just Timmy and I on the kiddie hill. Which is fine, with that snow I wouldn't have wanted to try the bigger hill anyways. Plus I got some one on one. its really cool to actually get teachers you understand and who actually help you... the guy I ended up with in the end was just kinda... meh. He likes to talk things to death and THEN let you try them. AND he still didnt give me my sticker.

Music Review: Sixx A.M. ;; Life Is Beautiful

Wow. I did a little research on the band Sixx A.M. because I wanted to start posting about some of my new favorite songs. The first single on their album The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, Life Is Beautiful sends a rather powerful message. With the sound of the band I was expecting My Chemical Romance type lyrics but it was just the opposite.

Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes
And see that life is beautiful.
Will you swear on your life,
That no one will cry at my funeral?

Sixx A.M. wasn't originally meant to be a band. The bassist, Nikki Sixx was the bassist for Motley Crue. When he was younger he used to be a big drug addict and he literally died and had to be revived by medics. (Hence the song "Kick Start My Heart") So he realized "life is beautiful" and he had to clean up his own life. Looking back on his journal entries, he decided to publish a book to help kids who may have been feeling the same way he was or in similar situations. He called it the Heroin Diaries. Then he got together with James Michael(vocals) and DJ Ashba (guitar) and wrote a soundtrack to his book.

I haven't heard any of the other songs from the album but I really like Life Is Beautiful. Its just a powerful song and knowing a little history behind it makes it all the more powerful.

You can visit the band's website here: (click me)
And buy the song by clicking on the picture above.

You can’t quit until you try
You can’t live until you die
You can’t learn to tell the truth
Until you learn to lie

You can’t breathe until you choke
You gotta laugh when you’re the joke
There’s nothing like a funeral to make you feel alive

Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes
And see that life is beautiful.
Will you swear on your life,
That no one will cry at my funeral?

I know some things that you don’t
I’ve done things that you won’t
There’s nothing like a trail of blood
to find your way back home

I was waiting for my hearse
What came next was so much worse
It took a funeral to make me feel alive

Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes
And see that life is beautiful.
Will you swear on your life,
That no one will cry at my funeral?

Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes
And see that life is beautiful.
Will you swear on your life,
That no one will cry at my funeral?

Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes
And see that life is beautiful.
Will you swear on your life,
That no one will cry at my funeral?

Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes
And see that life is beautiful.
Will you swear on your life,
That no one will cry at my funeral?

Book Meme

Barb The Evil Genius tagged me for this meme. Here's what you do: grab the nearest book, turn to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence, and post the next three sentences.

I grabbed Eragon!

"When they were ready to leave, he mounted Cadoc and said acidly, "If this keeps up, you're going to batter me to pieces"
"I wouldn't push you so hard if I didn't think you were strong enough"
"For once, I wouldn't mind being thought less of," Muttered Eragon.


I taaaag um.
Emily Rose d:

"I'm more of a jeans and t-shirt kind of girl"

These are my favorite pair of jeans. I got them for free and I looked them up the other day on their website. They were $50, so i got a good deal. ;) Anyways, they're Dollhouse jeans, and I had never heard of the brand before but I like them a lot. Hence them being my favorite. And they SAY that they're a size three but I honestly don't believe that seeing as I'm a 6-8 depending on the style.

I like the color and the fit, (you have no idea how hard this was with a telephoto lens xD but if somebody hadn't dropped her old one .... d:)



I like the little crossing belt loops x3


The studded leather brand thingy on the back and the embroidery on the back pockets,



And this is my favorite part :P