Monday, August 16, 2010

BEDA fail and 30-year-old me

I fail at BEDA...my month has been more stressful than I thought and my endeavors have not been very blog worthy so I just sort of gave up. So, I'll give a brief update. Sinnce the last time I posted I've:

-Started, and finished, Firefly (I adore Kaylee <3)
-Finished rewatching the 5th season of Buffy
-Half way through my reread of Alaska (been failing on the reading front...)
-Dealt with my messed up and ultimately lost financial aid package for college
-Been trying desperately to get ahold of the dean to get stuff together for my thesis (he finally answered today, it took him over a month!)

So that's why I haven't been blogging, not very fun stuff (besides the first 3.)

BUT I am back today after watching both Charlie and Kayley's videos to their 30-year-old selves. I thought this might be fun so I've decided to make a blog post about this. So, to a 30-year-old Sarah hello and how are ya? :)

Dear 30-year-old me,

Right now, you're 11 days from turning 19! You love your birthday and I hope that doesn't change as you get older like it does for some. You're about to start your final year of undergrad and start applying for grad school. Now, I hope you're still a Ravenclaw and love school and learning, but I also want you to be done with school by now...I know now you are(I am?) debating about whether you want to stop at Masters or go on to your PhD or PsyD. I hope whatever decision you(I?) made ends up being the right choice for you/me.

Now hopefully you're bored with talking about that and want to get onto more fun topics! I really hope you still go to HP conferences and wrock concerts (if they are still around.) I also hope you still love to read and watch 5AG and vlogbrothers on YouTube because, right now, the HP fandom and Nerdfighteria and huge parts of your life. I also hope you still adore Buffy and take it as seriously as you do currently. Now, I know I just watched it and discovered it's beauty less than a year ago, but this series really changed your life and the way you think and approach the world.

On this topic, I hope you were able to make your thesis on Buffy work at some point through your educational career because I believe doing so would be something you'd be very proud of yourself for. Right now, you pride yourself, as well as struggle with, being a fan as well as an academic. It seems so clear to you but others don't seem to understand. I hope you remained true to yourself and did what you thought was right.

At this point, I'm guessing you're very focused on your career (hopefully still counselling in gender and sexual identity!) and probably aren't married or have a family. However, I do hope you have had, or currently had, at least one serious girlfriend by the time. You're very jaded and driven now which is not a good combination for creating a relationship but I want you t experience it at least once in you're life.

I hope you have tons of dogs. I hope however that you still remember Noah and how much you loved him. Right now he's 12 and he's your best friend and you can't imagine life without him. I hope you're able to love others dogs as deeply as you loved him but I don't know if you could...

I hope you still are as close with Ryan, Tara, and your sister. They're very important to you know and I hope they remain that way.

Most of all, Sarah, I hope you're happy. You love deeply and feel strongly and I very much hope you still are in essence the same as who you are now. I don't want you to grow up or chain unless you want to. Just recently you've begun to have confidence in yourself and I hope that remains. You've had some hard times but right now you're happy and I hope the same still holds true.

And on one last night, I hope you can still quote every season of Friends! It comes in handy (no it doesn't, but you enjoy doing it.)

Best Wishes,

The 18-year-old you

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

BEDA #4

I'm lazy, today's been a bad day, here's a short survey about my favorite things. Enjoy:

Color: Pastel pink, blue, and purple
Animal: Dogs
Book: Aside from HP, probably a tie between Alaska, Bermudez Triangle, and Huger Games trilogy
Drink: Water or coke
Band: MoM, ALL CAPS, and Moaning Myrtles
TV Show: Buffy and Friends
Holiday: My birthday
Website: currently nerdfightersecrets :)

Hopefully I'll be less irritated tomorrow...

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

BEDA #3

I almost forgot to blog today xD

So I was going to start my Infinitus write up but I ended up doing something better. I started rereading Alaska this afternoon and, while swooning with love for this book, I remembered that I gave my friend a copy for her birthday. So I texted and asked her to start and to my surprise she said okay and 30 minutes later was texting me about different parts she enjoyed. So I spent my day staying caught up with her.

I've never gotten any of my friend's to read any of John's books so her reading it and loving it to be quoting it on facebook and texting me every few minutes about different parts was awesome! I'm excited for her to finish it and be able to discuss it fully. It makes me happy. :)

Besides Alaska, I've spent the day dong laundry, watched Buffy, and hung out and watched stuff with my mom. So good day overall. Now time to go back to reading, I'll write more tomorrow.

Monday, August 2, 2010

BEDA #2

Today is a going to be a boring day in blogville because I'm being productive IRL. So today I decided to go with the spurt of productivity and make a list of all I want to finish before the end of summer. Then at the end of the month I'll go back and see how much of this list I actually completed. So here is my list:

-Finish rereading Alaska
-Finish rereading DH
-Write review of Infinitus
-Learn how to work my cd drive/DVD creater thing I bought for my laptop
-Finish my proposal for my thesis
-Go eat sushi :)
-Finish cleaning room
-Finish hanging things up in my room
-Finish season 2 of Buffy and take notes for my thesis
-Get on a better sleep schedule
-Hug my dogs a lot

This list many change a but right now this is all I want, and think I can, get done before the end of the month. Tomorrow I should be starting my Indinitus write-up :)

Sunday, August 1, 2010

BEDAugust #1

HELLO WORLD! (not really..) I'm going to be participating in BEDA this year :D. I'm not too busy this August so hopefully I'll be able to make it every day.

I have some plans on what to write about in hopes that I can use this blog to get me to stop procrastinating. I generally like to write up everything I do at HP cons so I can remember everything later on. I've been doing this since Prophecy but unfortunately Azkatraz only got half done. I'm hoping to use the first week of BEDA to slowly write about Infinitus so it doesn't end up unfinished like Azkatraz.

Next, I plan on using my blog some days to write about my thesis. My thesis is on gender and sexual identity within Buffy and I'm starting it this fall. Right now my dean is being kind of stupid with helping me so I really need to get in the habit of helping myself. So someday I'm going to try and discuss some of my thoughts about the series or different academic books about the series so I'll have an easier time fall semester.

Lastly, and probably the only one other people will care to read, I'm going to review Mockingjay and what I thought about the end to the series. I'm very excited to get this book and I plan on finishing it before my birthday (August 27th.)

My blog is mainly for me which is why most of it sounds boring for others to read. But if anyone else is reading this, I'd be happy to take some time to write about other things that interest you or just write a little about who I am since most of you probably don't know me too well. Feel free to also leave a link to your blog so I can at least read it during BEDA (I'll try to make comments too.)

Monday, June 28, 2010

10 Things I'd Save

I haven't actually posted my own responses to the 5AG themes recently, but I decided to start back up with this question =)

I have a ton of stuff. Like, a real whole lot. I collect many different things (HP*, Kelly Clarkson*, Carrie Underwood*, Buffy the Vampire Slayer**, Friends*, Gilmore Girls*, and books. So picking just 10 things will be hard but here is my best attempt at listing what I would choose:

WARNING: I'm probably going to cheat a lot lol

1. Can I say all my HP books? If that's cheating, I'll find another way of cheating and say my midnight DH stuff. This will include my midnight copy; a frame I made with a picture of me crying while holding it, the receipt, wristbands, etc.; my DH poster signed my LeakyMug at Prophecy; and my stand up Harry thing. I adore all of these things and I could never replace them so I definitely would make sure to grab em all.

2. My Buffy collector plates and signed script frame. I can group these together because they are both close to each other on my wall! I could easily replace my collectors box which is actually not in the best condition (I bought it off ebay) but I have four collector plates of Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Spike that took me forever to find and I found very cheap (all four for $100 as opposed to the $60 each plate is worth alone.) And the autograph is amazing. It's signed by everyone including Joss Whedon and I put together a nice frame for it (I like frames...) so these would come with me out of the burning building.

3. My autographs. To make it seem like I'm not cheating as much, I'll list which autographs I'd bring and I promise you it wouldn't just be all my autrographs lol. So I'd bring my personalized ones from Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, obviously. I have a signed Kelly guitar which is amazing and I'd save. A signed Opry poster for Carrie. My signed Hank Green cd. My signed books by Maureen and John. My signed Azkatraz frame. and lastly would be my signed Gilmore Girls cast picture. I've spent years getting all of these and I would not be willing to lose them...

4. For the first time, I'm not going to cheat =D. I'd save my Friends collectors box. I got a box for like $50 that you can put all the individual seasons in, it's super awesome and not available anymore. If you haven't seen this, here's a picture of it



Awesome, right?!

5. My dogs, Noah and Tiffany. They'd both probably be able to make it on their own but just to make sure...

6. My favorite stuffed animals: Hedwig, Stitch, Carrie the Giraffe, Nemo, and Dog I've Been Trying To Name For Years. I have tons of other stuffed animals, some that I loved so much as a kid, but these are the most sentimental for me now. 2 are from my grandparents (Stitch and DIBTTNFY), Hedwig is the most adorable stuffed animal I have found of her, Nemo is from my friend and is beyond adorable, and Carrie the Giraffe I won the day before I met Carrie Underwood and I actually took her with me when I flew to Reno for the concert (she's pictured on my blog here, too haha.)

7. Again, not cheating! Bobble John because he's irreplacable.

8. My HPEF con name badges. I could never replace those and they remind me of all the good times I've had at these events <3

9. My DH theory notebook and folder. I went through a lot of trouble collecting my thoughts so I'd have them years after the final book came out so I think I'd be sad if, 5 or 10 or 20 years down the line I didn't know all the theories I believed in and all the crap I thought would happen or was being foreshadowed lol.

10. My backpack which includes my iPod, wallet, laptop, and external hard drive (okay the last 2 I'd put in to cheat...) My bag is also awesome; it has a Hogwarts and a Ravenclaw patch =D

This was insanely hard, let's just hope my house never catches on fire. (Let's also hope I didn't just jinx myself >.> )

*I have hundreds of things
**I started freakishly obsessing and have a good number so far
***I basically just have all the seasons, a few posters, some books, and magazine pages...

EDIT: Just looked up to see if I was right about the Friends box. Apparently I only spent $20 and now it's worth hundreds. Go me. To bad I'm never ever selling it haha.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

HP Love

So I was over on the Infinitus boards, obsessing more and more over how little time there is before I'm able to go to my favorite event in the entire world, and I found this little 30 day challenge. It's supposed to be for tumblr but I don't have a tumblr so I've decided to post it here. Now, what's supposed to happen is every day you're supposed to do one but I'm going to do them all at once now because a) I will forget one or multiple days and b) I have time to kill.

If you guys would like to fill this out, go ahead. I'd love to hear everyone's responses =)

And now time for the fun:

Day 1 - Your favorite book: It's a tie between DH and HBP
Day 2 - Your favorite movie: HBP
Day 3 - Is there any of the film adaptations that have made you angry because they’ve ignored important parts of the book? I was very upset when they left the marauders out of PoA (as I'm sure everyone was/is...)
Day 4 - Least favorite female character and why: I. Hate. Ginny. I honestly am not fully sure as to why but she's always bugged me. I just think she's fake and irritating and sdjfgsdjfgds. Don't like her...
Day 5 - Favorite male character and why: This is very hard. I think I'm going to sayyyyy Neville or Dumbledore. Dumbledore is very funny and has an amazing wit and Neville is just adorable and tries so hard and you just can't help but love him.
Day 6 - What house would you want to be in: Ravenclaw through and through <3
Day 7 - Favorite female character and why: Hermione. I felt such a deep connection to her through my first time reading the series and still hold that connection. She never changes who she was for anyone and she always knew what the right thing to do was. She's just amazing.
Day 8 - What do you think would be your favorite lesson? Favorite lesson from a class? I'd probably enjoy learn how to approach a hippogriff because they're beautiful and I love animals.
Day 9 - Least favorite male character: Ugh, hard. Probably Wormtail though, he always manages to piss me off.
Day 10 - Horcruxes or Hallows: Hallows, I couldn't imagine needing to conduct such dark magic and the hallows themselves aren't inherently evil...
Day 11 - What character would you say you are most like? Hermione and Fred/George. Hermione because I enjoy school and reading and doing the "right thing" and the twins because I like being a sarcastic smart ass xD Also, I can probably find a joke in any situation like they can.
Day 12 - Favorite ship: From canon, Ron/Hermione or Lupin/Tonks. From fanfiction, Draco/Harry
Day 13 - Least favorite movie: GoF or OotP
Day 14 - Team Voldemort or Team Harry: Is this really a question?
Day 15 - Who would be your best friends at Hogwarts (Three Only) Hermione, Harry, and Ron. You can't beat the relationship they all share and I'd love to be apart of it.
Day 16 - Who is your favorite Death Eater? Bellatrix
Day 17 - Are you excited about the Deathly Hallows movies or scared they won’t do the book justice? I'm used to them not doing the books justice because you just can't. I'm super excited for them but I think I'm most excited for the wait and build up and opening night more than the aftermath of all the films being out =(
Day 18 - Least favorite book: I always want to say GoF because I always think it is so I've read it the least amount of times but I'm not sure if that or one of the first two are my actual least favorite. Obviously every book is amazing but when it comes to which one I want to reread most, these three are probably last on the list.
Day 19 - Do you prefer the books or the movies: Is this a question, seriously?
Day 20 - If you got to meet one member of the cast, who would it be? Evanna, because she was involved in the fandom first and was star stuck meeting Andrew and Melissa!
Day 21 - Out of all the characters that died, if you could bring one back, who would it be? Probably Fred, I feel insanely bad for George and I think he ended up in the shittiest position by the end of the series and he doesn't deserve that. Losing Fred is like looking a part of himself and he already had them happen when his ear was blown off.
Day 22 - Harry Potter or Twilight: ......Okay, moving on.
Day 23 - Any part of the books or movies that makes you cry? The entire beginning and entire end of DH, everything about it makes me remember the theories and the wait and it just makes me swoon with love for the series and it's so overwhelming.
Day 24 - Any particular scene you wished would have been put in the movie, but wasn’t? I was always a big fan of the St. Mungo's scene and I was upset that wasn't in OotP. I think it is a great Neville scene and what they did in the movie was sorta out of character...
Day 25 - Nineteen years later. Are you happy how it turned out, or do you wish something was different, ie Neville married Luna: I like that they all were happy, though I wish everyone didn't suck so much at picking out names.
Day 26 - If you would be able to work one spell without a wand what would it be? Accio, I'm so lazy lol.
Day 27 - Would you rather own the Invisibility Cloak, The Resurrection Stone or The Elder Wand? Invisibility Cloak, so many things you could do with it...
Day 28 - Do you listen to Wizard Wrock, what do you think about it? I looooooove wrock! I think it's so clever and such a good way to express love for this series. Probably over half my iPod consists of Wrock albums...
Day 29 - Did you enjoy A Very Potter Musical? I still haven't seen it! I've been meaning to but just never got around to it >.>
Day 30 - What affect has Harry Potter made on your life and how much does it mean to you? Words can never express how much Harry Potter or this fandom means to me. I have no idea what my life would be like had I not read or fallen so deeply in love with this series. I never want to know what life would be like without this series or fandom because I get so much joy from everything and everyone within it. And that's why I'm so beyond excited that I have only 28 days left until Infinitus <3 [/sappiness]

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Survey Time

Okay, so I was going to listen to Ariel's suggestion and take my favs from the 5AG vids this week but all of theirs were very specific to them so I just found some random survey online...

Basics

Name: Sarah
Date of Birth: August 27th
Birthplace: Chicago
Current Location: Las Vegas
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'5"?
Heritage: Jewish
Piercings: Ears
Tattoos: Nope

Favourite

Band/Singer: Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood
Song: *currently* Going Through the Motions- Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical
Movie: I guess Finding Nemo?
Disney Movie: Nemo, Lilo & Stitch, or Toy Story 3 (I saw all but the last 20 minutes in a screening and it's great!)
TV show: Friends and Buffy
Color: Pastel pink, blue, and purple
Food: Sushi
Pizza topping: Depends..
Ice-Cream Flavor: Mint chocolate chip?
Soda: Coke
Store: Borders
Clothing Brand: Tour shirts xD
Season: Summer
Month: July (HP cons!)
Holiday/Festival: My birthday

Other Questions:

What annoys you most in a person? Arrogance
Are you right or left handed? Right
What is your bedtime? Whenever I'm tired
Name three things you can't live without: My obsessions, the internet, and my dogs
What is the color of your room? Some ugly color lol
Do you have any siblings? Older sister, Samantha
Do you have any pets? Two dogs, Noah (12) and Tiffany (2)
Would you kill someone you hate for a million dollars? Probably not.
What is you middle name? Michelle
What are you nicknames? Vegas and Rabies (I was bit by a dog a few years ago xD)
Are you for or against gay marriage? Obviously, being gay, I'm for it lol
What are your thoughts on abortion? Pro-choice
Do you have a crush on anyone? Alyson Hannigan <3
Are you afraid of the dark? Yeah
How do you want to die? Happy
Would you take a bullet for the one you love? Maybe.

I liked this theme a lot. I wish that Hayley would have made a video this week since hers probably would have been hilarious. Anyways, hope ya'll have a great week and don't forget to be awesome =)

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Nerdiness

I've been trying to think all week about what would have made me become as big of a nerd as I am now and I think the answer is when I became obsessed with dogs when I was around six. Now, I know lots of kids like animals and that really isn't a nerdy thing but I made it into one. In elementary school, I checked out EVERY book on dog breeds and learned all I could about breed standards and practiced identifying dog breeds. It was very intense...

I don't think this in itself is very nerdy but I think it got me into the mindset of being extremely nerdy. After dogs, everything I liked was this intense. If I liked something, I needed to know absolutely everything about it. So when I read HP, I obviously became obsessed and needing to start theorizing and listening to MuggleCast religiously and going to cons.

I think being a nerd is the greatest thing ever and I love every minute of it because, John Green is right, being a nerd basically just means that you like stuff and you're allowed to love it a lot.

So, fellow BEDA buddies, what turned you? And what's your favorite part about being a nerdfighter =)

Friday, April 30, 2010

Things I've Missed

FINALLY! A topic i have a response to!!

I'm quite good at missing out on trends, actually. I tend to get into them after the fact. I became obsessed with Friends a few months after the last episode aired. My sister liked the show and I watched the finale and all of the shows they had on around the finale with clips and I loved it and a few months later on a trip to Disneyland we were fighting over what to watch in the car and decided on Friends. Now I am beyond obsessed and have seen every episode a good 10 or so times and have almost the entire series memorized. I dunno whether to be proud of this or feel as if I need more of a life...

Anyways, next was Buffy. Obviously, starting it in November last year when it ended back in 2003. However, again, I have made up for lost time and am head over heels in love with this show <3

Now, as for trends that I just completely missed:

-Pokemon: I just never cared...
-Backstreet Boys: I was an *Nsync girl
-Scooby: I just never watched it and no one ever brought it up to me as if I should haha
-Farmville: I do not understand why everyone is so addicted to this game and I refuse to play. It's actually pretty sad, my friend's mom who I've known since I was about four plays constantly and spent a good few weeks trying to convince my sister and I to play with no luck xD

Now, out of all of these I doubt I would have really enjoyed any of them, though I guess I've never know for sure.

And just for kicks, here are a list of trends I caught onto just in time:
-Harry Potter (!!!)
-Twitter
-American Idol (though I am done with this show now because it's gotten very lame >.> )
-Smart Mouths (from episode 1)
-MuggleCast (from episode 33; so fairly early on)

Okay, now I'm just dragging this out to avoid studying for finals lol. I have three days of testing next week and then I'm doneeeee *thank god.* Though I do start summer school June 1st but we're forgetting that for right now and just celebrating the end of this semester.

Have a good weekend, all three of you who read this xD

Saturday, April 24, 2010

...

Cherry coke and ninja turtles? *sigh*

I enjoy regular coke but that's prettyyyy much it; all the others like vanilla coke or diet coke I hate and I would rather just drink water. And I never watched/cared for the ninja turtles.

Again, this was boring. I would add something not boring but the only things I've done this week besides work, school, and studying is watch 12 hours of Gilmore Girls yesterday and 6 hours of Buffy today so that leaves me with an insanely boring blog. My life is fascinating...

Enjoy your weekend, guys =)

Saturday, April 17, 2010

*Sigh*

Seriously man this blog idea is going to be hard if I keep having nothing to say about the 5AG theme each week!

I hate musicals. I'm the black sheep in my family since they all really enjoy musicals and I never want to watch any musical ever.

As for my city, I live in Las Vegas so it's pretty well known to all. The Strip is nice; I don't go there often. It's fun sometimes during the day to walk around because it's beautiful but ugh tourists and drunk people and naked girls on billboards...all of that stuff is not beautiful.



This is the beauty I mean. Every year I try and go to the ACM orange carpet and meet celebrities because I enjoy country music. Back in 2008 my friend was stupid and didn't listen to me so we ended up being way late to the carpet. For those of you who haven't been to red carpets, when you are going to be late you might as well not go at all.

Now, as it turns out, the ACMs that year were May 18th and I was going to a Carrie Underwood concert the next day where I won a Meet & Greet pass from her fan club. Since I mainly go for Carrie, because I adore her, and we were late, we ended up walking around and going to an arcade. I won this giraffe (whom I named Carrie lol) and took this picture of her outside of the Excalibur.

I don't know why I thought you cared about this story at all but whatever. This is the Vegas strip I like.

Btw, I don't think anyone is reading this at all but if you are just leave a brief comment maybe? I'm going to continue doing this regardless because it's fun for me to do but it will make it easier for me to write if I don't feel like it's completely to myself lol.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Shakespeare?

....I seriously have nothing to say about Shakespeare. I don't enjoy plays so I never really enjoyed anything of his. The only thing I remember reading and liking was Wishbone's version of Romeo and Juliet and that was mainly because Wishbone was(is) awesome. Also right now this is just coming into my mind, in Harriet the Spy didn't they read Hamlet? Who the heck reach Hamlet in 6th grade?! Anyways, this is literally all I have to say about Shakespeare. Sorry to any lit/Shakespeare nerds who are not reading this and are offended by my answer but I don't enjoy reading him at all. I respect that many people like him, but I'd much rather read something else (like Will Grayson, Will Grayson which was a super awesome book!)

Hopefully next week's topic is better for me to blog about =)

Friday, April 2, 2010

Nick Names

So I'm following Ariel's lead and I'm going to (try) and post a blog each week with my response to the 5AG's theme of the week. And let me just say, I am probably more excited than I should be about this idea.

Every time I watch a 5AG video, I want to respond so badly with my answer and now, I CAN! I may even go back and write responses to past weeks' themes if I get bored...

ANYWAYS this week's theme: Nick Names!

One thing most people don't know about me is that I love shortening names. Like I had this friend named Rayneen and it literally killed me that I couldn't call her Rain because I thought it was such a pretty nick name and she did not agree. However, with my name being Sarah, shortening is sorta kinda impossible =/

Since that doesn't work with my name, when I was a kid my parents called my Sarah Beara or Sarbear. I once actually got confused in elementary school and when they asked for nick names on information sheets I thought they just meant in general so sometimes I'd put Sarah Beara. It would be hilarious if right now I could say I had a teacher that called me that but, sadly, no one did.

My friends have some nick names for me, most don't stick though. A group of friends I had called me Rabies after I told them a story about how I got bit by a dog and had to go to the ER to make sure I didn't have rabies. My other friend called me Ed for a while because while IMing her one night instead of writing "I'm going to bed" I wrote "I'm going to b ed" so she responded by saying "okay Ed" and thus the nick name began.

That same friend calls me Vegas since she knows a lot of Sarahs and I'm her only friend that lives in Vegas. She also calls me Bitsy because of a running joke we have with a Friends quote (the one where Phoebe meets Mike's parents and puts on that irritating high pitch voice and says "Theodore, Bitsy, it's such a delight.")

When I was in high school, some classmates and teachers used to call me Kelly since I was so obsessed with Kelly Clarkson (I don't know why I said was, I still am very obsessed...)

I've never realized until name how many nick names I have had in my life. As I said before though, when people are talking to me, they mainly refer to me as Sarah or Vegas for my friends out of state. The rest were just apart of jokes or have stopped being used.

What are your nick names?

Friday, January 29, 2010

Tag Game

So Kayley's new blog featured a fun little tag game so, while I wait for my friend to pick me up, I shall fill it out:

Favorite Band/Artist: Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood for artists, ALL CAPS and Ministry of Magic for bands. Though Lauren Fairweather and The Moaning Myrtles are a close 3rd in each category.
Favorite Video: Ummm I dunno quite how to take this question but I'll go with fiveawesomegirls and the vlogbrothers channels.
Favorite Movie: Hmm I'm not a huge movie person but I love Lilo & Stitch, The Little Rascals, Finding Nemo, and HBP
Favorite Book: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Favorite Designer/Label: Hahaha like I care
Favorite Festival: I'm changing this to con and sayinggggg Portus, I think. But ever HPEF con I've been to has been amazingly awesome, Portus was just at the perfect time when I needed it most and I got to know the MuggleCasters much more =)
Favorite TV-Show: Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Gilmore Girls (and reality tv shows and Medium)
Favorite Person/Icon: Hmmm I have a lot but I'd say Jo is the biggest along with Kelly. They both changed who I am entirely and without either, I have no idea where I'd be now.
Favorite City/Country: I don't travel much so I'll just say my hometown of Vegas xD
Favorite Moment Ever: Ugh, god. The entire DH release experience, meeting Kelly, meeting Carrie, hanging out with the MuggleCasters at Portus and Azkatraz, etc.

If any of you guys wish to play along, consider yourself tagged ^_^

Monday, January 18, 2010

Playlist

Ariel is apparently just full of good ideas for blogs so I'm copying her again xD

I've actually been considering making myself a new playlist for the past few days because I normally just listen to my big playlist with most my songs and just skip whatever I don't feel like listening to but my playlist is 700-something songs and I've really only felt like listening to a few different artists, albums, and songs. To make this easier on myself to write and you to read, I will shorten my preferred songs at the moment to my top 10 songs, top 5 albums, and top 3 groups/artists

SONGS:
1. Crime Dramas Suck- Hank Green
2. It's Too Hot- Hank Green
3. What Can I Say- Carrie Underwood
4. The Bravest Man I Ever Knew- Ministry of Magic
5. Snow Day- ALL CAPS
6. Everything I Have- Lauren Fairweather
7. My Life Would Suck Without You- Kelly Clarkson
8. Be Still- Kelly Clarkson
9. Undo It- Carrie Underwood
10. You're My iPod- ALL CAPS
11. Goodbye Privet Drive- Ministry of Magic (I couldn't not have this song!)

ALBUMS:
1. I'm Saying Nothing- Lauren Fairweather
2. This Machine Pwns Noobs- Hank Green
3. Play On- Carrie Underwood
4. Songs in the Key of E-mail- ALL CAPS
5. Goodbye Privet Drive- Ministry of Magic

ARTISTS:
1. Hank Green
2. ALL CAPS
3. Lauren Fairweather
4. Ministry of Magic
5. Carrie Underwood/Kelly Clarkson

Apparently, I can't follow my own guidelines. I think I'm in a very nerdy mood because that's normally when I obsess more over Hank and Lauren than Carrie and Kelly, who(m?) I basically always obsess over.

Anyways, this was a fun little break. Now back to my mounds of reading; being an upperclassman psych major is hard...I have to read so much and all I really want to read is Suite Scarlett!

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Meh Hanukkah Gifts =D

As a response to Ariel's blog, I have decided to show off as well. I actually didn't really get gifts BUT I did buy myself some stuff and get one VERY awesome gift from my mom.

During winter break, Sarah was introduced to Buffy the Vampire Slayer by a friend and she finished the entire series within 2 weeks and became obsesseddddd. Sooooo mom was nice and bought me THIS:



It's the Chosen Collection which, if you are unaware, is the complete series on DVD in a really spiffy box =D. I haven't received it yet but I am beyond excited to get it!

Going along with this new obsession, I purchased a few things for myself because one gift made me feel kinda sad so I was nice to myself haha. I bought both of these things:





I got the shirt in the mail today and plan to wear it on my first day back to school on Monday and the calendar should arrive soon.

Overall, I am very happy with my gifts. ^_^