*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.

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 =)

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?

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 ^_^

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!

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. ^_^

College Difficulties

It's 5pm on a Tuesday evening. I've been out of class for 3 hours and what have I gotten accomplished?...I read all the press stuff for the Wizarding World news today (DO EXCITED TO GO FOR INFINITUS!!) and read two more chapters of the Hunger Games. I really, really should not have started this book. Anybody reading this who hasn't read this book should go pick it up now. Every second I'm not reading it I'm thinking about when I'll next be able to pick it up. Not good when I have tons of other reading I should be getting done right now...

I haven't written much since summer ended but I decided to write something now because I was lonely and wanted to type some things out. Talking/typing through things always helps me understand what I need to do. I was reading the Hunger Games because I realized I only had reading stuff to do and I'd be able to get it done tomorrow after work so I was taking advantage of being alone in my dorm room by playing music without headphones and sinking into my bed with my book. Once my roommate got back, however, I started to feel lazy just reading my book when I have things to get done. I hardly ever procrastinate but I just can't help but put off my readings because A) I like having them fresh in my head for the class, especially in my class where we get quizzed every Thursday on them so reading them too far in advance seems silly to me and B) it pains me to be reading something that is not the Hunger Games!

I've never liked being assigned novels for school. It's just irritating when you have to read for school when you could be reading for fun. I'm hoping to be able to finish Hunger Games this week and Catching Fire the next then willing myself not to start reading anything else until I finish my school books. The only thing I'll allow is rereading DH because I can't always be reading for school and I can handle knowing I'm reading for school when I have DH waiting for me than knowing I have a book I have never read before just waiting to be finished.

Aside from my procrastination and current reading frenzy (I've finish 19 Minutes, Key to the Golden Firebird and half of Hunger Games within these 3 weeks of school) I'm liking college and am having a fairly easy time adjusting. I've been going home every weekend which is nice and I'll be going home tonight to watch Big Brother finale (Go Jordan!) and Gossip Girl premier (both myself and my roommate were working all night so I felt to horrible putting the tv on to watch it.) Until then, I would like to say I'm off to be productive but who am I kidding? I'm off to read the Hunger Games!