Ending on a Good Note

I have decided to adopt a new life philosophy. Ending on a good note. My friend and I were talking the other day and she explained to me how she always likes to end things at their high point so you don't feel disappointed when they are over.

I tend to milk happy moments until they're dry and then afterwards I feel empty, like those happy moments are so rare that I never want them to end. But i realized that if I just let things be and try not to control situations things always turn out better. And for the summer so far it has worked great! If I want to find my friend at work, instead of trying to "accidentally" find them, I just follow my instincts and I find them! I have always been a controlling person, and I am starting to really hate that part of myself. I don't want to know what I am going to do, I want to find things out when they come and feel free.

Wannabe-Renaissance Girl

I just watched Angels and Demons (with Tom Hanks) and it made me think about all the beautiful artwork and history in Italy and all the amazing minds who lived in the Renaissance. My History teacher this year is a total Renaissance geek and it was an awesome year going to class everyday and hearing him tell us these stories about the mind-blowing things that happened and came into existence during that time. Well, that year ended in June and so did those once-a-day Renaissance lectures. Watching this movie made me so jealous of him, he is a young guy with lots more to learn but he already knows so much. The places and things he has seen... I know I still have plenty of time to go to Rome and see these marvelous pieces of art that are hidden all over Europe, but I can't help but be jealous of him. He has an amazing memory so he can remember all of these things and spout them back out to us, his students, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to do the same. I want to learn and become someone, like him, who can use history to change the present. I want to influence the now so I can become part of the past who people in future generations will learn about in their own classes and leanr from. I want to be able to appreciate the past with enough knowledge to understand the past! Right now I just wish I could grab him and hop on a plane to Italy so I could learn all of these things!!! I hate having to wait around for school to start again in the Fall, knowing that I won't be learning about the Renaissance anymore. I wish I could have more of a choice in what I learn year-to-year in school. I guess that is what college is for, and my oh my am I excited!!!

Made a Dress!

I am so excited!!! I am almost finished with the first dress I have made in over a year!!! ^_^ It is a dark red velvet 30's style dress. I just have to sew on the straps and I'm all done!! I'll post pictures later when I'm done. I forgot how great it feels to make something, it's been so long...

Ferraris Make Me Happpy

For some reason every time I see a Ferrari it makes me happy, especially those cherry red ones. I wonder why... maybe it is the chicness of the car, or the symbolism it holds of money and glamour. It's like that object or place that you feel you can reach once you have obtained the ultimate happiness, that place you will be when you reach the top. You don't know if you will ever ascend to that level, but you can see it and you can touch it so you know it is possible to obtain.

Six Items or Less

This really got me thinking... it's a cool idea. I really treasure those "staple items" in my closet :).

Couture Lover

A few years ago I got really into fashion, it started after I began the phase every teenage girl gets at one point: the "clothes" phase. I saw so many beautiful things that I wanted to get and WEAR. I couldn't afford all these clothes, so before a party I decided to make my own dress. This was the beginning of my first love...

I also have a passion for protecting the environment so I decided that it would be even cooler if I could design my dress out of plastic recycled materials like... bubble wrap!!! So began my firs creation... I don't have any pictures but it was a blue fabric strapless dress that stopped a little above my knees. It had a bubble wrap belt and a tier of bubble wrap on the lower half of the skirt that shaped it into a bell design. On the bodice I placed bits and pieces of bubble wrap to complete the image. And I finished off the outfit with a little drawstring purse made of bubble wrap and the same blue fabric used in the dress. I didn't have a sewing machine at this point so I sewed it all by hand.

For the record, I didn't use a design, or at least I meant not to. When working on the bodice I had to borrow my friend's sewing machine just to make sure the stitching would rip (the would be embarrassing!) and her mother got uptight because I wasn't using a pattern and she made me change my own design to fit the pattern she gave me. Which, in turn screwed up the whole design of the dress.

At the party all my friends kept popping the bubble wrap on the dress ^_^ lol

After this, I felt proud of myself for accomplishing something that I thought was worth doing, and I began to be more and more interested in the fashion world. After this, I designed another two collections and showed them in two eco-fashion shows (one that was organized by me and the rest of the student council at my school). The quirky thing that got a lot of people interested in my work was the fact that my dresses and other clothing items were made out of... wait for it... garbage bags!!!

I had a good run, but this past year I couldn't manage to get my designs to work and after enough frustration I gave up and I haven't made anything new for months. I was never taught the proper way to design clothes so taking a class might help me a lot... But a few weeks ago I realized something else, I never actually followed the patterns I made while sewing. I would also make a small change here or a bigger change there. So, maybe if I actually followed my pattern for once I could make it work! I just wish I had more time to work on sewing and my designs...

I just saw this on StumbleUpon and I thought it was adorable. I am one of those girls who no boys are ever interested in, I'm not saying I consider myself a special girl because I doubt that I am, but this was just so sweet...

Girls are like
apples on trees. The best
ones are at the top of the tree.
The boys don't want to reach for
the good ones because they are afraid
of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they
just get the rotten apples from the ground
that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples
at the top think something is wrong with
them, when in reality, they're amazing.
They just have to wait for the right
boy to come along, the one
who's brave enough
to climb
all the way
to the top
of the tree.

Rain and Rainbows

It's been thundering where I live for the past hour with torrential rain. I have always found thunder comforting, I don't know why... no matter where I am, even if it's a place I hate I always feel better when I hear thunder. A lot of people find it terrifying, and I guess it does sound dangerous, but that could be why I love it so much. I used to find it unnerving but over the years it just became familiar. Nothing bad has ever happened to me when it thunders, it means I get to sit inside all warm and cozy and listen to that familiar rumbling in the sky.

And then there is what comes after the rain... rainbows!! I have only seen a few, I just never found them as intriguing as everyone else did. But this video made me like them even more: double rainbow. I'm pretty sure this guy was on something when he filmed this video, he had to be. And then someone turned it into a song, which is almost as great as the original film.

4 visitors!

YAY! as of today 4 people have looked at my blog ^_^

So far no feedback, but I'm going to stay positive and hope that someone comments or sends me an email sometime soon. I'm just curious if anything I write is the least bit interesting to people, so if you are reading this please contact me with feedback! I want to know what you would like to see on my blog.

Am I Still Dreaming?

whoa.

I have to say, I have seen quite a few amazing movies in my day (which doesn't count for much) but Inception just might top them all. I went into the theater not really expecting much from the movie, I had heard mixed reviews so I didn't know what to think. Let's just say I left the theater with a very distinct review of the movie in my head, which was "genius..." or in other words "HOLY SHIT that was very possibly the best movie I have seen in my short, but i think adequately cultured, life"

There were points in the movie where I had to remind myself that I was, in fact, in a movie theater and I wasn't going to be stuck in dream-limbo if the unnaturally good-looking guys/girl on the screen failed and/or died. With the cinematography and the pace of the movie, I felt like I was in it. The suspense and the thrill I got from scene after scene had me on the edge of my seat from the first few moments of the film to the last second.

I don't want to ruin the film for anyone but I just want to add that I thought the last few moments of the movie were a work of art. The emotions bottled up into just a few minutes of footage really made my mind tick and the second the screen turned black one word popped into my head "genius." I have taken film classes and I have analyzed multiple films and everything that one would want to achieve with their film was there, in those last minutes.

So to anyone that has been doubting whether this movie is worth spending $10 on, it is. Go see it, just in case it blows your mind like it did mine.

Toy Story 3

Omg, Okay so I just got home from seeing Toy Story 3 and I have got to say the most noteworthy part of the movie was the very beginning when all the toys are having their battle-royale! I had this huge goofy smile on my face the entire time, I was filled with nostalgia it was so great!!!!

Now I know why I felt so bad for putting my stuffed animals away, thinking they would be sad if I did. it must be a "Toy Story" generation thing.

Immigration list in Utah

Ok, so whatever happened to "nothing bad ever happens in Utah"!? I just heard about this list and honestly I'm outraged. The fact that this country would let something like this happen is the definition of outrageous. This is how the Holocaust began! I don't know if everyone has forgotten but unless you are a native american or a californian Latino (they were the original population of the west coast and the people who voted for California to be a state!) than YOU are the immigrant.

I met a girl a few weeks ago who stated that "all immigrants should be thrown out of the country", and she meant ALL immigrants not just illegal ones. Well in that case I hope she is willing to go pack her bags and move to Europe or Australia because that includes her too (she definitely wasn't native american). This country was created by immigrants, no one could have fathomed the amount of immigrants that would end up coming to this country but if we just shut them out than we are going against our own Constitution, therefore being un-American.

All of this just angers me. And if it doesn't anger you too, I would really like to hear your opinion.

raaWWrrr

Hello to the 2-3 strangers that might come across this blog as you are looking for better things to do with your time. I created this blog so I could have a way of expressing myself. This first post is about some things I like.

A Very Potter Musical:

If any of you reading this are familiar with Harry Potter, or like the series even a little bit, I would recommend going onto YouTube and looking up "A Very Potter Musical" as it could quite possibly be the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life. I watched it for the first time today and made one of my friends want to kill me because of my excessive quoting. The silliness and pure hilariousness of the twists on Harry Potter characters is absolute genius. Especially Draco Malfoy's twisting and rolling on the ground as the actress casually says the lines, it's hard to even hear the lines when your laughing so hard!!!

I am attaching a link to Act 1 Part 2 because even though it is the second scene I find it the funniest with the introduction of Cho Chang and Draco. If you enjoy laughing until your tummy hurts, at least watch this clip. I'd like to hear your feedback if you do watch it, just curious if this post made any impact on you, the reader, at all.

Thus concludes my first post.

sincerely,

raspberry