3-30-11

Things to do:

- Learn how to Riverdance

- Finish homework

- Shave cat

- Publish this post

Here's what a pointless post looks like.

Hello, people, look at your nose, now back to me, now back at your nose, now back to me.

Ha! You thought I was going to do the Old Spice commercial? I'm not, and I just made you go cross eyed.

I'm on a raft.

Breathtaking.

I have recently become an addict... over Les Miserables. I remember having it in our home when I was little, but now I can't find it! But I was privileged enough to be able to watch the 25th Anniversary on PBS awhile ago. Ah! It's so cool!

This is one of my favorite songs. Enjoy!

I can't figure out how to put two videos on one post :/ Oh well!

My favorite picture with a purpose.

I was in a rather mellow and deep thinking mood today. As I sat on the couch reading 1 of 6 books I checked out from the library, I thought about purposeful things. As my mind wandered, I started thinking about what pictures I had taken that had a purpose.

I only take pictures of flowers, I thought. But then I remembered that I had tagged along with a couple of picture taking geniuses while they took my sister and her husband's wedding pictures. I was mostly there because my dad had asked me if I wanted to come. He handed me a camera and told me to take pictures of whatever I wanted.  The pictures that I took were mostly of the wedding couple, but they were never looking at my camera because they were focused on the other two cameras. I thought my pictures came out rather well actually.

So, as they were wandering around the temple grounds, I decided to go check out the flowers (I'm obsessed with them) by the visitors center. I decided to try and get a shot of the wedding couple with a flower incorporated in it. And this is what I came up with:

Unfortunately, I didn't know that these were roses. So as I leaned into the flowers and got myself situated practically inside the flower bush (I think the Visitor's Center missionaries were a little miffed that I was laying on top of their roses), I took a couple of pictures. I was satisfied with them, so I started to get out of the bush. Only then did I realize that I was stuck in the thorns! It must have been quite a show, seeing me try to get out of that. It was all worth it though, because this is my favorite picture of all the pictures I've taken. 

You may think it's not that great, but I don't care, I love it.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hey, guess what I have pictures of!

Yup, you guess it. Blossoms! It's all about the blossoms, people. That's all you're gonna get until some other flowers start blooming. But hey, I still have like 3 more blossoming trees to take pictures of. Hang in there!

3.14

I smell like baby spit. But that's okay because we have hyacinths in our yard! These lovely smelling flowers are the highlight of my life. I could spend all day smelling them. But it's been impossible to get what I consider a good picture of them. SIGH. Oh well, I'll just have to wait for good lighting at all that jazz.

I personally love the light pink ones. I'm not a big fan of pink, but these sure are gorgeous!

We also have plum blossoms and lavender in our yard, but the blossoms don't smell like anything, and the lavender hasn't bloomed yet.

I was going to clean my room today, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Instead I'm celebrating Pi Day!

HAPPY PI DAY!

I was a mime for awhile.

I will get to the mime thing in a sec.

I know that I ALWAYS talk about flowers, but hey, I love flowers. I started taking pictures of flowers back in 2009. My goal is to get the prettiest pictures I can. I'm kind of obsessed with flowers and rain, so for two years I have been trying to get a picture like the one below.

This was one of the first pictures that I took. I seriously had a gold streak with my pictures of flowers. But now... I just can't take the right pictures! It's probably because it's winter. Winter throws me off. BUT, flowers are starting are coming back! Yes.

I am so excited for when lilacs finally bloom!

And... the blossoms are here! I absolutely love blossoms. I have like 50 pictures of them. I can't get enough. Anyway, now that I've had my usual say about flowers, onto the mime stuff.

At school, I'm in the FCCLA club. I can never remember what it stands for, but it's something like Family-Consumer-something-Leaders-of-America. Anyway, we were in charge of planning and decorating for the Preference dance. This is the only dance that has a theme, so we had a lot of work ahead of us. The theme was A Night in Paris.

We spent ALL DAY Friday decorating. It took forever, but it turned out really awesome. Since I wasn't old enough to ask anyone to the dance, I didn't really have anything to do, so Veronica and I volunteered to be mimes! We didn't have to paint our faces (phew), but we definitely tried to act the part. I think we actually had more fun being mimes than we would have if we had actually had a date.

We had our own little station where we would blow up balloons for people and act like mimes. I think we were actually the entertainment. People were watching us the whole dance! We were pretty proud of ourselves because we got a lot of compliments on our little act. The DJ was actually playing songs for us so we could dance to them! It was so much fun and I didn't want it to end! I got home really late though. But that's okay! I had fun.

I had a huge Spanish exam today. I PASSED! I thought I was going to fail horribly, but I didn't! Phew. That's a weight off my shoulders. Now all I have to do is pass my Foxtrot test and I'll be done!

Well my friends, love life, love flowers, and it'll be all good.