Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls...

Yesterday evening Presbytera and Chaplain to the World were going to the Lipizzaner Stallion Show and thought of me. Sooo they were very nice and took me along. We got front row seats.
It was two hours long and through out the show the narrator gave us some history of the horses and whatnot and then the riders would do fancy stuff that I've always wished I could do. I took a total of 1072 pictures. The lighting was a pain to try and work with but I did get some good pictures. The show was pretty amazing, and if you ever get the chance to go, I say go because you'll never see anything like it...

I *think* according to some comments I saw on YouTube that there are two groups. One is from Florida, which is the one I think we saw, and the other one is from Austria. The Austrians have higher standards and only allow men in their riding school. (i *think*) The Florida group just recently started because it takes so long to train the horses.

For those of you who don't know, Lipizzaner horses are from Austria originally. Most of them are white, and they were specially bred as battle horses. They were taught moves to aid their rider in times of peril and as time wore on these maneuvers became more of an art form than for battle. They're beautiful horses, majestic and absolutely amazing. The moves they perform are from the discipline Dressage, which is like dancing with a horse. Its graceful and smooth and makes the horse and rider appear to be moving as one, with apparently little or no effort on the rider's part. The Lipizzaners are special because they can do things no other horses can do. At least not that I know of, other than their Spanish ancestors, the Andalusians. Some of these things involve standing on their hind feet and kicking their forefeet in the air, or leaping up ward and kicking out their back hooves. It's pretty spectacular.

The lead rider of the evening was Victor. (Viktor? I dont know how to spell it and I forgot his last name. Darn it.) Victor is my hero. x3 This is Victor. He changed like five different times and did different routines, it was pretty awesome.



Here are some moves the Lipizzaners do.



Thats the courbette




thats the capriole, and thats actually Victor, lol. I just looked up "capriole" on youtube and there he was! The capriole is definitely my favorite.



Thats the Levade

So yeah, I havent sorted through my 1072 pictures but i'll be posting more later... it was really slowing down my computer so i'll have to sort through them.
and if they get lost i'll cry.
so there.

Guilty Pleasure

I discovered I have a guilty pleasure...
Its model tv shows. Lol... In particular Make Me A Supermodel and America's Next Top Model. Now, we don't have cable so its not like I watch them all the time, but when I baby sit and I don't have anything better to do but watch tv (like when the kids are napping or playing quietly in the living room with me), lately either or both of the shows has been on. Make Me A Supermodel is ending on Thursday so they were playing all the old episodes for several days. So yeah I've seen a few episodes of each x3 I prefer Make Me A Supermodel over America's Next Top Model because ANTM is a bunch of girls and theres a bunch of girly drama and cat fights but with MMAS its guys and girls so theres more diversity when it comes to the photo shoots and the clothes and stuff.

I think part of it is that I know in every episode the models will have to do something with photographers and I love seeing what the photographers come up with. One day the models had to stand on sleds and stuff, another time they were in a tank of water with a snake, it was pretty cool...
And another part of me is kind of fascinated by the fashion world and how all that stuff works out.


This is Holly and she's awesome. She has really short hair so they always put wigs on her and stuff. In this shoot they were doing the different elements and she was fire. They didnt actually set her head on fire, :P They put a thing over her head and then set a dummy's head on fire and photo shopped it.


Ben, some chic and Perry, this shoot looked like fun because there was a lot of emotion involved. Perry sat by and insulted the chic and got her angry while Ben held her back...


Ronnie, he's one of the finalists. I didnt see the episode with these shots but they dressed up in bright clothes and had New York as the backdrop.

Ben, as the element wind. I thought it was cool they put a veil over him and blew wind at him and then took the picture. It was pretty creative...

One of the winter shots with Holly and Ben


Casey and a snake in the water, these kinds of pictures all came out pretty cool.

So yeah.
I thought I'd blog about that x3
I leave for DC in two days, w00t. ^_^ I cant wait!

Just Beat It

Fall Out Boy did a cover of Michael Jackson's Beat It. I personally think Patrick Stump is amazing and I love this cover. So here's a video. x3 I dont think this song is really on guitar hero, somebody just either made their own song somehow or... something, Im not sure how it works, i tried reading the comments and nobody really answered so. Anyways, here it is :P Its awesome.

My Hair,

This is my new hair style. I don't know if I'm digging the bangs though... They're not really... me? They used to be, in preschool.







But not anymore xD
So I think I'm gonna let them grow out. It'll be good because I can see how different bang lengths work out and so I can actually decide what I want next time, lol

I was GOING to rant about the snow but it looks like its finally all gone so I'm gonna spare you all since you're probably tired of my complaining anyways.

Movie Review: Transformers

Title: Transformers
Genre: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Rating: R; for some swearing and intense sci-fi scenes
Starring: Shia LeBeouf, Megan Fox, among several familiar faces.
I give this movie ten out of ten stars.

Sam Witwicky is the school loser. He's the kid trying to be cool but he's not quite there. One day his dad goes and buys him his first car. After some bizarre turns of events, the car ends up being an old, beat up Camarro.

Now that he has a cool car, Sam decided to try this "being cool" thing again. He ends up becoming acquainted with Mikaela Banes, the beautiful, newly ex-girlfriend of the leader of the cool kids.

One night Sam wakes up when he hears the engine of his car roaring to life and then disappearing as his car drives away. He thinks somebody stole it so he races out of the house and follows after the car -- only to find out his car is alive.

After a near-death experience with a robot parading as a police car, Sam meets the Autobots. The good guys, Optimus Prime, Jazz, and the rest of the crew. Sam and Mikaela are then filled in on why the robots are there and then they go through the whole fight between good and evil thing.

This movie has everything in it, boys on pink bicycles, soldiers on motorcycles, robots, humor, guns, the desert, everything. I thought it was really really good. Its an awesome movie with awesome special affects and graphics and I really recommend it.

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Movie Review: The Lake House

Title: The Lake House
Genre: Romantic Drama
Rating: PG-13 I think, not sure
Starring: Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves
I give this movie seven out of ten stars.

Kate Forster leaves her beloved lake house to move to the city when she gets a job as a doctor at a hospital. She leaves a letter in the mail box for the next tenant and goes on her way.

After a particularly stressful day, she goes to take a break from life and goes back to the lake house, only to find another letter in the mail box from someone but not who she expected it to be from.

The letter was from Alex Wyler, who lived in the house before Kate did. Alex is living two years in the past. They keep in touch for a long time, eventually falling in love with each other. But the time gap makes Kate uneasy and she decides to cut things off with Alex, telling him never to write her again.

It was a pretty good movie, in my opinion, there were a few inconsistencies that didnt really make sense but I liked it. I would recommend at least seeing it, if you like dramatic, romantic type movies. I dont know if I would watch it over and over though.

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Pleasure Ryland

OMG Ryland I love you ^_^

The Dress

I mentioned this dress earlier...
I wore it on Good Friday after I discovered if i threw my new sweater on over top of it, it would look okay. So with the sweater you cant see how rediculous the top is, lol. Its really weird. It was made for somebody with a skinny middle and a big top I guess... the skinny middle I can manage but... :P

anyways. here it is.







And the shoes of course




Coming soon; two movie reviews and a rant. Yay!

I told you this would happen...

BEFORE

I got a hair cut again! I said I would and I did :P
My mom said if I wanted one I'd have to pay for it so I hunted down pictures yesterday morning and we went.

AFTER

Its short again! lol. And I have bangs. Apparently it was worse than I thought it was because the lady was pretty amazed. In a bad way... Usually we go to Great Clips which is at the other end of the shopping center. Today I tried Best Cuts because I really didnt like the other place. The lady who cut my hair also said they did quite a number on my hair and promised she'd do a better job. So I felt a little better... I think its kind of cute... it'll take a little getting used to...




Then we went to Payless because I wanted some new shoes for church. Once again I had to pay for my own stuff. I found a pair i liked that was on sale for $16 and I found another pair that was on sale for $6. So I got two pairs of shoes for the price of one.






These gold ones are going to hopefully go with a dress my mom found at the thrift store. This dress was hand made and probably from like the '60s or something so... The top was made kind of weird so my mom has to take it in a bit... and I wanted to get some black velvet ribbon or something so it'd match the shoes more. Or maybe just normal black ribbon would be okay, I dunno... So we'll see how it goes. But I loved the shoes and they were only $6 so I got them.

They also had a pair of green and white slip on sneakers that had these cute animals and stuff all over them :P And black and neon blue skate shoes that were awesome. But I decided to stop spending money before it was all gone :P

My Health Book Wont Tell You Not To...

So I will.

somebody's got to. Its really important.

Don't drink cough syrup to get high. Its not cool.

And it makes you look like this.

For the record these dont count as my project 365 self portraits :P
Im getting my hair cut today so I'll see how it goes...

Oh, and for the record again, I was not drinking cough syrup to get high. I had this nasty chest cough so I took some mucinex to get rid of the teen mucus rocking out in my lungs.





it was a joke. :)
ha ha.
funny.

IN OTHER NEWS.

Im getting back into the swing of things and I WILL be posting a picture (at least) a day on my PHOTOGRAPHY blog.

so go check it out! every day!

http://cursedphotographer.blogspot.com/

Deadly

"Marijuana can cause loss of interest" and so can reading pages and pages of the same thing. "This drug is bad. It does this. It could kill you. This other drug here, is also bad. It could kill you Oh and THIS one, this one's bad too. Did you know it could kill you?"
Good old health class.

What I want to know is why they dont have the pronunciation for tetrahydrocannabinol but they have the pronunciation for inhalants. I'm not a moron, I know how to pronounce inhalants, ktnx. Funny, they also dont tell me how to pronounce methylenedioxymethamphetamine. But i figured it out.

Did you know inhalants are sniffed? -gasp- I had no idea.
Oh hey, laughing gas. "Use by physicians and dentists as anesthetics." I wonder if its related to happy masks... I was wondering what was in that stuff. Nitrus oxide apparently.

INHALENTS KILL BRAIN CELLS. Dun dun DUN.

What I want to know is why would they tell kids if you take lots and lots of cough syrup, its like being on PCP? Hellooo. "Drugs are bad but if you drink lots cough syrup..." That just doesnt make sense to me. I'm not stupid, I'm not even interested in trying but what if somebody was? I dunno. Its just crazyyyy. They didn't say not to try it either... Whatever.

And now I know about pretty much every drug there is out there. I feel so much smarter now. Time to read about how great my life will be if I dont abuse drugs. horrible my life will be if i abuse drugs. Because Im such the rebel...

And now i have the song "Hash Pipe" by Weezer stuck in my head.

Assembling The Atomic Jigsaw

I bugged my mom to take me shopping for an easter dress. We tried Target first because they had some cute dresses on sale in their ad.

I HATE Target. I mean they have some cute bags sometimes and some cool t-shirts most of the time, but when it comes to dressy clothes and shoes, they suck. And when do I ever buy bags and t-shirts? Like never. So it doesn't do me any good.

So, frustrated, we headed to Old Navy. Which also sucked. And then we walked down to Dots. Dots is officially my new favorite store. They had awesome clothes all over the place and the lady was SUCH a big help. She asked me what I was looking for, what I liked, and helped me find a few things. I tried on a bunch of cute dresses but none of them really worked for me. But my mom found this one.

Its cute, and the employee chic even helped me find a sweater to go with it.


So yeah, the sweater was $7 and the dress was $20 which is pretty good considering the ugly dresses at Target were $40.



Its all ruffly at the top too...
I was hoping to find something colorful to wear with it... cuz its all black and white... and the shoes are I have that match (from Christmas) are black too.

I especially like the sweater though because I'll be able to wear it with other stuff too so...
yay. lol.

Hopefully we can go back some time... they had some suhweet leggings, and some really awesome shirts so...

Let's Live

Ski club today. In the rain and melting snow. The snow was actually really good. It was the rain that sucked. Everything was soaked.
But since I had to get up early all this week and for some reason half of my siblings were up at freaking six in the morning and woke me up, then after four hours of snowboarding in the rain I was really tired. I still am really tired actually... Luckily tomorrow is Saturday so hopefully I'll sleep in.

On Peter's Pride today, the next hill up from Buttermilk, experience wise, they had these GIANT jumps set up and rails and stuff it was pretty sweet. I am not insane, nor stupid enough to even try them. But it was cool to watch the people who actually have experience going over them. Those jumps were huge... Like 10-20 feet high. It was insane.

Today I played around with speed. I'm more comfortable now going fast and I dont feel like I'm out of control as much. When I do start to feel out of control I slow down... AND I rode switch (aka: fakie) a little bit today. Its not as confusing as it was at first but then again when we just started out I was pretty okay with it too... so. Its all good. Unfortunately the snow is melting, slowly but surely, and the rain isn't helping. So there's only a couple more weeks, if that.

I'm gonna miss it. But I won't miss the cold... if only there was a way to snowboard without the cold weather :P
I guess that would be called skateboarding huh? Thats gonna take forever... snow hurts less than cement does. And my feet arent connected, lol.

Lucky 13

Today was the Science test. There were a couple I had to guess on and a couple I was unsure about but other than that it went okay. After the test we went to Lake Farm Park to see the lambs.

Tuesday we watched a ewe give birth... it was kind of gross but such is life right? :P It was also kind of fascinating. Obviously, what isn't fascinating about bringing new life into the world? One of the ladies who worked there had to help out, the lamb's shoulder was caught against the pelvis or something like that so she pulled on the tiny hooves and out came this little lamb. Today when we went to visit we found out that the ewe had another lamb after we had gone.



Both times we've visited the farm park there have been a group of retarded people there. I guess its like a class or something... but groups of retarded people make me sad. Mostly probably because I feel bad for them. One of the retarded guys blew me a kiss as he passed me in the hallway. I smiled at him. Lol, when I'm feeling down I just have to remember the retarded guy things I'm pretty :P Thats a real moral booster.

Anyways, moving on.

They had the two Clydesdales out in the arena today. The arena is right next to where the sheep pens are. So after I was done looking at the lambs I went over and hung out with them for a while. Clydesdales are amazing. Bigger horses are usually calmer and nicer in general I guess but I've always loved the clydesdales and shires especially. Then Sarah wasnt feeling well so we went home.


Lambs are so fun to take pictures of, I wish the lighting had been better inside...

Education Beyond Grammar

This week I have to take the OGT tests. They started on Monday and I didn't blog about them because I forgot and then didn't feel like it. So I'm blogging now.

The Ohio Graduation Tests are a group of five tests some old people came up with because they want to make sure teachers are actually doing their jobs in Ohio. Basically there's a test for each subject: reading, math, writing, science, and social studies. In that order. Most of the tests have around 44 questions except for the writing one so far. It had 13 questions but two essay questions. So, since I go to school online and not in a building, administering these tests taking them is kind of hard. (As apposed to sitting down in a class room and taking them, the teachers go someplace and some kids go to that place and then we take the tests and go home)

Basically they send a small group of teachers to locations across the state and have kids go to those locations. We didn't know where I was going until three days before the test... No one mailed me anything, no one called me, no one emailed me. My mom just happened to hear that theres a link on the school website. So we checked it out... three days before the first test. But its about a half an hour away. Some little Holiday Inn right off the freeway.

So they set up some tables in a small conference room and every day we get there at 9 am. (which involves waking up between 7:45 and 8, or 6:45 and 7 if my body is still not ready for daylight savings) Then they read the instructions, we take the test and go home until the next day.

Surprisingly enough I wasn't stressing out over these. The amount of classes they crammed in for these in the past month was quite overwhelming and I think I missed most of them. But Monday rolled around and I'm pretty calm about the whole thing. No butterflies, no worries, just annoyed that my hair is impossible these days, and daylight savings time just happened to be the day before i have to start getting up earlier.

The tests that I've taken so far have been pretty easy. The math one had some crazy problems on it that I had absolutely no clue about but I didn't freak out when I saw them. I knew they'd be there. I'm a little concerned about science. I loved physical science but I am not digging biology. And chemistry was just a disaster. But I'm still not gonna freak out and get all excited. Hopefully I'll pass and never have to take them again, if not I have six more chances. So I don't think I have anything to worry about.

The thing I don't get is that they have three hours for testing. Usually it takes me anywhere between an hour and and hour and forty five minutes to finish a test and i know that its not possible any kid could spend three hours on one of those tests. So I think they should have like a half hour hang out time or something... Maybe I've seen some of these kids in my classes before but in class they're just a name on a screen. I'd like to meet other kids and hang out with them so I think that would be a cool idea. Because right now we just sit in silence for a few hours and then leave. But maybe thats just me... I have a weird thing about socializing.

My mom rescheduled Friday's test (social studies) so i can go snowboarding. I'll just have to take it on Monday.

So that's about it.
I was gonna say something else but I forgot what it was.

High Rise In Fashion

Well I'm not an expert when it comes to fashion stuff... I like it, I like matching up outfits, shopping, and reading about the latest trends but everybody has their own views and opinions on it. This is just what I've noticed though... high waisted pants, shorts, and skirts are "in" now. Low-rise is still popular but the high waists are making a comeback.

I guess this is good news for modesty's sake but what in the world do you wear them with??
I personally think the jeans look kind of weird. The skirt could work with the right kind of shirt, but I don't really like the jeans much. They just look kind of awkward I guess. Is that the right word? And then you have to wear them with some kind of pump or boot or they just look weird. :P






Also in: florals and animal prints.

Movie Review: Knocked Up

Title: Knocked Up
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl,
I give this movie four out of ten stars.


Alison goes out clubbing with her older sister and has a couple drinks... She meets Ben and has a couple more. And some more. And she eventually ends up sleeping with the guy. Eight weeks later, while interviewing someone for the tv show she works for, she starts getting morning sickness. Alison discovers much to her horror, that she is pregnant.

So she hunts down Ben, who turns out to be living in a house with his druggie friends, a total low-life with nothing to offer. She wants to make it work though and so they both try.

Ben starts cleaning up his act, as he gets closer and closer to Alison. Eventually she wants to give up and just have the baby by herself but after nearly having the baby in her house, the only person she can turn to is Ben.

I liked that in this movie both of the parents decided to keep the baby and they tried their best to make it work between them. And despite all the problems they came across, it worked out for them. What I didn't like was the continuous swearing and the occasional "scenes". There were some funny parts but it wasn't my favorite movie, and I wouldn't recommend it. Don't watch this movie with kids around.

Caaaarving

Today I walked out the door and the first thing I did was slip and fall on some ice. Smooth. The snow was kind of weird today, at the bottom and tops of the slopes it was like sand almost. It was bizarre. But the slopes were still pretty good today, just fast enough but not completely ice. We went down a couple times before we had a lesson at 11:30.

The instructor was nice, he said he didnt know if we'd get our sticker that day... not to discourage us but he just didn't want to give us false hope... and I was okay with that. To get the next sticker, which is blue four, we have to be able to do J-turns, fakie. Meaning with our opposite foot forward. So Jake and I figured it out relatively quickly. The instructor had to keep reminding me to be patient and wait for my board so I worked on that. We got it eventually. Timmy had a little trouble. Then after we mastered the fakie stuff, we had to work on carving. He said it was kind of hard and thats why we might not get our sticker that day... he told us to try it and so we did. Then at the bottom of the hill he said "You guys were carving!" he was pretty surprised. So we got our sticker, except Timmy. He was having a bad day and not quite getting the J-turns down... the guy did some one on one with him while Jake and I practiced a little bit.

So then we went out on our own... the snow was falling and it hurt a lot, like little tiny grains of ice, so that was pretty painful. I also managed to get the rail almost every time i went for it... I just have to work on not falling at the end. I also managed to go over the jump but I kept falling too. So... we have to work on our fakie stuff and I want to work on not falling off the rails or the jump.

The guy was impressed that it was our first season snowboarding and we had as many stickers as we did so that was kind of cool. I have noticed I havent been falling as much and Im more comfortable going fast so... Im up for one more friday of cold weather, at least... :P Then it can start warming up...

move over orlando bloom

Milo Ventimiglia plays Peter Petrelli on Heroes. I wasn't a huge fan or anything at first but he grew on me. He's awesome in Heroes, and I was looking at pictures today... this is the second picture I've seen of him wearing a Volcom shirt.

He can't get much more awesome than that right?