SO - I have a lot to tell y'all. but I realized I'd update faster if I spread it all around rather than making it one long post!
This post is to tell you that I decided to get a tattoo!
As you may or may not be able to tell, that is my left wrist (the picture is sideways) and that is the kanji for 'fire'. Currently I'm just drawing it on with a sharpie. I figure if I can keep it on for two years, then I'll be able to stand it for the rest of my life. :)
Anyway, that's all for now. Next time, I'll tell you about my dream house ;D
Oh, later today I get to go on a FIELD TRIP. haha I get to go hear Senator Dan Patrick speak. whoo hoo. (no sarcasm... I think... ;D)
OH And my new txt message alert sound is the kimmunicator beep. My life is complete. Leila rules. :D
Gosh, I love those guys. Haha. Psych is the best show ever - no joke.
So, I had written like half of this post. and then I clicked a button and it all deleted. and so I screamed, went and had a couple giant bites of pudding, and came back to persevere. So if I seem short.... that's why. (I must really love you, P. you better be freaking grateful.)
SO anyways!
"Oh yeah
So scared of breaking it that you won't let it bend
And I wrote two hundred letters I will never send
Sometimes these cut are so much deeper then they seem
You'd rather cover up, I'd rather let them bleed
So let me be and I'll set you free"
Gosh, I love those guys also. ;) Yeah. I bought Maroon5's new album. and it IS freaking amazing. I seriously adore it!
SO. Miss Seraphima A. Stoff (what is your middle name, Ser? May I suggest Alana? orr... Justine. Orrrrrr Marguerite. OR OR OR Isabella (pronounced spanishly), or Isalli (pronouced spanishly)or Rilla (pronounced spanishly)) ANYWAY Sera wants an account of what I've been doing lately. So here goes [accuracy improves as it goes along]
monday the 13th of september
Got HP & the Goblet of Fire. Went to acting, where I had to write a soliloquy and a bio (I hate writing about myself. NOT! haha, but yeah, sorta). Took my friend AnnaMae home, which was fun, cause we got to talk. Came home and read, and read some more, or something.
tuesday the 14th of september
Went to math class. Prof talked about linear equations and word problems. No time for doodles. came home, listened to 'the coffeehouse' a sirius XM radio station. read some more.
wednesday the 15th of september
went to the BEACH!! with my fam and my Oma and Aunt and Cousin [jell]. We went to surfside, and the water was CLEAR. excuse my geeking out - this is a Texas beach we're talking about. I mean, normally you can't see your hand an inch from your face. This time, my cousin took a picture of her leg, and could see it all the way... and more. I mean... WOW. anyways, I acted anti-social when we first got there, laid on the beach and finished my book [sorry cedric, but your death just wasn't that sad when surrounded by the beauty of the ocean. sucks for ya, though.] After I'd finished it I went and boogie-boarded a bit, and then went in and worked on a sandcastle - http://i-amawriter.blogspot.com/2010/9/ruins-of-abalone.html
I applied, applied again, and REAPPLIED my 8spf tanning lotion, but still came away with a nasty sunburn, all down one side of my back, my arms, even the backs of my hands. [which has just started peeling, but more on that later] Ate dinner/lunch in a place that smelled like a bathroom (and the bathroom smelled like an animal shelter) but the food was good. I watched something when I got home, but I can't remember what :/ sry!! oh, and all day I was singing The Only Exception, acoustic version. It was annoying cause I couldn't remember the words. but oh well! I did some math homework, but HP & The Order of the Phoenix was calling me, so I went to bed to read it. Read until 3 in the morning, when I realized I should finish my math homework. So I got out of bed, realized I had actually done all my homework except for one problem I wasn't sure about, and went back to bed.
thursday the sixteenth of september
went to class. prof talked more about word problems, no time for doodles. Came home and crammed all the work I'd missed on wednesday. Ignored my acting homework, which was to find a celebrity who was like me. went to Y&G. was shocked, but pleased, by the giant amount of people there. Went to bed to read. Read until 4 in the morning, when a poem suddenly struck me. Came out of bed, wrote said poem down, and went back, to read until i finished the book.. at 5 in the morning.
friday the seventeenth of september
Finished the tiny bit of school I had left. cleaned the house a bit, or something. Don't really remember. :D :D went to the mall for a friend's bday at 6. got an amazing parking spot, thanks to my aunt who saved it for me. ate delicious Taco Bell, and then went to Bible study. Bible study was awesome. at one point we had to write three things we were afraid of, and my name was on the top of my brother's and another friend's lists. I love it. :D after that I went back to the same friend's sleepover. ha. it was... interesting. we played a very boring truth or dare game, I, naturally, was the only one who did a dare. I ended up with ranch all over my face, and celery in my hand. *nods* played 'freeze' and the ABC game. Had an hour long politics and religon debate. Did a little 'talent show' thing :D went to bed at about 4:30 or so.
saturday the eighteenth of september
came home and cleaned. managed to finish all my chores before I went to a skit rehearsal thing at one. got cast and all that fun stuff, came home and talked to my dad for five minutes, went to blockbuster in the shooting rain and was afraid I was going to go flying across the road, but I didn't! :) watched HP & the Goblet of Fire with Oms, Auntie D, & J, but didn't have time for OotP. went home and discovered the Netflix app... not so great ;) entered NHHS members into a spreadsheet while watching bones. sunday the nineteenth of september
went to church! forgot how much my sequined dress scratched me! good sermon. came home, thought I was going somewhere with my mom but we ended up not going cause it was raining again. changed into a much more comfortable outfit and watched a couple episodes of bones, and then went over to Oma's to watch Order of the Phoenix with all of them. Watched that, ate a yummy steak dinner, complete with WONDERFUL AMAZING CARBS (in potato AND bread form. GOSH carbs are GOOD)
anyways. Came home, watched another bones while finishing the NHHS stuff.
monday the twentieth of september
woke up at about noon. attempted to do school, got SOME math homework done, and then gave in and read HP & the Half Blood Prince all afternoon. Was almost done with it when I realized I was about to need to leave for acting and I had no idea where my solliloquy was PLUS i hadn't taken a shower and my hair was grody. SO i stopped RIGHT after Snape killed Dumbly and ran around looking for my soliloquy saying over and over again in my head 'I thought Snape was good, I thought snape was good' [SERAPHIMA JUSTINE STOFF DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS I HAVENT FINISHED DEATHLY HALLOWS YET AND IF YOU SPOIL IT... INCIPIO MORTALITIS!) didn;t find my soliloquy, decided to finish the book instead of write a new soliloquy ccause I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in acting otehrwise. finshed it, ran to the car, jetted of to acting, mentally writing a soliloquy all the way.got to acting, wrote it all down in my notebook and went in, only to find out we didn't really need it this week. We studied the way people lead (walking wise.) and that - pretty cool. I found out I was cast as the mother in The Nutcracker! I came home and watched last week's project runway, then skyped leiler, halfway through she decided she wanted to hear a show, so she three-way called me and her other friend Olivia, who is a rabid Kataanger. She [leila] would go, 'say something Kataang guys, say something Zutara' so I would say 'well, aang needs to die' and Olivia would go 'How can you think that, that's not right,' and leila would just be dying laughing. we had a nice little conversation though, while I finished the NHHS stuff. Until my mom came and told me it was time for beddie. started deathly hallows
tuesday the twenty-first of september
went to math. prof was just going over the problems I'd already done, so I had time to doodle two Azulas, one awful sokka, half a katara, hermoine, luna, and little ginny. :Dgot home and did some school. went to rehearsal and had a lot of fun. glitterfied our bake sale posters :D got home and went to bed, got to leila's fave chapters and sorta understood why they were her favorites (harry finally does something realistic, for one!) stopped just before the hogwarts invasion, cause i knew it was fairly late already.
wednesday the twenty-second of september
did school. and school. and school. :D burned my old paper license, which was satisfying. Got the new Maroon 5 album, which is amazing. started to write this blog post and got distracted writing a story, accidentely deleted this post, cussed, made and ate pudding, started to write this new one, went to gringoesand had enchiladas and frozen yogurt, came home, and finished this post :) :)
well
there ya go, Seraphima Justine [justine is definitely your middle name. definitely]
Now, I am completely out of words. I'll go scan all the doodles I've made over the last few days instead :)
It's amazing how a bad movie can ruin your week, especially when you were expecting it to be horrible. Of course, it makes a bit more sense when you throw in the fact that you have waited six months (counting down the days) for this movie, that you dressed up and went to the midnight premier (and ended up finding out that your 'genius' costume sucked and you looked/felt awful) ...
in case you haven't yet deduced it I'm talking about The Last Airbender (hereafter reffered to as 'TLA')
I am far too het up to write anything even closely resembling a review, so I'll give you pieces of other people's... with my commentary in brackets {like this}
Sera writes: So I went to the A:tla movie premier!! Needless to say, I hated the movie! Don't get me wrong, I love M. Night, {as do I} but it takes a true trooper to get past the lack of acting (although Zuko and Sokka were great!{Still hated them, casting wise}), plot and character development. And through the whole movie I kept waiting for something truly funny to happen, or some sarcasm to blow me away. HELLO!!! Where on Earth were Sokka's endless sarcastic quips... or his intense love of meat? In the show Aang character may have been a little bit emo (VERY emo when Appa got taken) but he still had a sense of childish humor, WHERE THE HECK WAS THIS IN THE FREAKIN MOVIE!!?! Katara spent the entire film looking like she was about to cry... What? Where was her preachy hopefullness!! Why where the Earthbenders weak? Where were the Kyoshi warriors {I was confused by this, because I saw a picture of them... so did they get cut at the very last moment???}? Why was Yue's father dead? Where was Hahn (Yue's fiancee)? Why does it take four hours to make one water whip (And people wonder why the Fire Nation took near complete control of the world?)?
I'm going to blame the writers. {All of these things bugged me too, as well as a few other things. Erica AKA GreenifyME summed up most of everything else:}
Erica writes:
As for the characters/acting/writing: Let me just say that it wasn't really the race thing that bothered me about these characters. You could quickly get over that. {yeah you could. I was over that in may...}Yes, Katara's family seemed to be the only white family in the Southern Water tribe (the rest were Inuit), but after seeing that the entire Northern water tribe was white, and knowing that Kanna came from there, I allowed myself to buy it. Sure. Whatever. But we barely had time to even get to know Sokka and Katara or even really learn to love them. They were just sort of "there" for the whole movie, besides the very beginning, when they actually had more than a couple words to say. And when they did, well, it wasn't very good. Which brings me to the writing...which was unbelievably awful. {YES YES YES. this was what bugged me the MOST. ugh ugh ugh. continue for more}
I don't know what on earth Shyamalan was thinking when he wrote this script. It would almost be impossible for anyone to perform good acting in a movie that forces you to speak such cheesy and out-of-place dialog. I literally cringed at a few parts...even giggled.{um yes. there was ALL OUT LAUGHING at some parts. my word, shamamallama!} There was nothing natural about the way they spoke, it was just awkward. The pacing of the whole film was terrible. I really don't blame the actors for this, I blame Shyamalan. That being said, Katara could have seeeeriously toned down the melodrama. Nicola Peltz had a tendency to over-act, and everything she talked about seemed to require her bugging her eyes out or having tears in them, or both, and having a constantly shaky voice like she was about to have an emotional breakdown at any second. But once again, this is not her fault. It is the director's job to direct. To say "cut". To say, "Let's try that again with less DRAMA." But that, he did not do.
Noah Ringer's performance started off pretty shaky, but he did seem to get better as he went on, and I did like him at the end of it all. Sokka was pretty good, and was allowed a few humorous parts. Dev did really well in his delivery and emotions, even if what was coming out of his mouth was bizarre. And everyone else was just alright.
Also, Azula does show up at the very, very end, bowing before her father and in a flashback. She looks the part, but we'll see, if there's a second movie. {I LOVED azula!! I loved loved loved her! I sincerely hope they change writers/directors (Although I love shamamallama.... this movie just didn't work for him) so she can actually get a chance to work the part!}
One thing that bothered me was that Aang, in ocean spirit form, did not kill Zhao. A band of waterbenders literally just appeared, lifted him up into a ball of water until he drowned, then dropped his butt and walked away. O_o I was like alright... {yeah, that was weeeeiiiirddd. I was like.. okkk. guess hes... dead??}
Honestly, the most Aang did in that form was lift up a huge wall of water (like you saw in the trailers), and that alone scared the entire fire nation into leaving. That's it. Huge wall of water= we're done for. He didn't even USE it against them! It was just a warning!{EEEEEERRRRRRGGHHHHHHHH I hated that! I was looking forward to Aang Koi!}
And then of course, there's the name changes. Yes, Sokka, Aang, and Iroh are indeed all pronounced differently. Sokka is now Soh-ka, Aang is now Ohng, and Iroh is now Eeroh. I don't care what Shyamalan's reasoning for this was, it was unnecessary. All it did was throw the audience off every time one of those names were said. I'd hear whispers and giggles. It was distracting. {hee hee, ummm yess, we were the ones giggling. and ONCe when someone said 'Ong' Leiler went 'grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!' really loudly, and then we couldn't stop laughing and then.... ummmm... yeah. Sorry everyone in the theater with us!}
SO yes, that's pretty much that. Both of those sum up what I {Lu} feel about TLA. I despised it but at the same time... it was atla. on screen. in real life. SO MUCH POTENTIAL... and... failure.
:)
It is even more amazing how a simple patch of blue sky, a shower, some new cover up, and a night with your family can turn it all back around.
It might seem a little overdramatic if I say that with the failure of TLA I lost my will to live. But it did send me into one of those 'funks' where you don't see the point in anything. I wasn't even excited for my super-birthday celebration, which is going to be amazing!
I'm here to tell you that when you feel like that don't give up! Find the blue sky, drink some coffee, do something you always do that makes you happy, write a song, bake a cake, take a shower! Go shopping or to lunch with a friend, read your Bible, sing, pray, just live life... normal, wonderful life!
