Getting Licensed

(excerpt from - The Utterly Normal & Boring Escapades of Elaine)

Today was the day! One of the most important days of her life, one of the milestones that marked her growth.
"I'm going to get my driver's license!" Elaine declared to all her facebook friends
She woke up at 7:10am so that she would have enough time to pretty herself for the photo. This picture would be her ID for a whole year... it was no time to skimp on the prep time.
She found herself with just the right amount of time, a great start to the day. She grabbed her large pile of forms and jumped in the car with her dad, eagerly anticipating the short line (since, of course, they were aiming for opening time... no one else would dare be there!) and the easy passage.
As she pulled into the parking lot she noticed a line outside of the door.
'Well, that's probably jsut the people waiting for the doors to open,' she explained to herself
As she and her father walked up to the doors, they realized that the people were in lines.

The lines had already escaped the building.
Sighing in resignation, she took her place in the correct line.

"This can't be too bad, right?" She wiped the humidity-caused fog off of her sunglasses and look up at the clear blue sky. At least it wasn't rainy! And hey, it was like a sauna out here! A free sauna! She smiled to herself, happy with her optimistic observations. And it only got better. She ran into a friend that she hadn't seen in a while, which was nice, and the line moved quickly inside the building.

and another hour passed

and another hour passed.

at one point she remarked to her father, "I see why they don't make shows, or write stories, about teens getting their licenses. It would be rather boring."
Her father chuckled and nodded.

after three and a half hours in line, they finally got to the desk. All their forms were in order, and everything was done quickly. Unfortunately, she still had to take the driving test. Frowning in annoyance, she scheduled her test for the following monday.

"Well, that went well." Her father made a face.
"Tell me about it," She sighed.

So much for all those plans for the weekend.


(~LS)

a grotesquely incorrect portrayal...

It's still late. Somehow, I think I come up with my best work at these hours. Evidence;

 JACKSON RATHBONE IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE ANY FORM OF TEXAN, AND NEITHER IS JASPER. I DESPISE STEPHANIE MEYER FOR HER HEATHENISTIC AND GROTESQUELY INCORRECT PORTRAYAL OF THAT SUCH GLORIOUS THING AS A TEXAN MALE

 a reply to Sera, who was claiming that Jasper was awesome cause he was a Texan. I say - battleship.

:P it's true, y'all

we are not, by any means, normal

It's 11:51 pm. Want me to tell you how I know? I just had this conversation on im with Sera -

Sera says
can you read something for me, I need you to look over it and give me your opinion

LuLu says:
 NO
 NO NO NO

 YOU WILL NOT FORCE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe
 
Sera says:
 pleez
 someone HAS to read it

LuLu says:
 I WILL NOT FALL FOR YOUR EVIL TRICKZZZZZZZZZZZ

Sera says:
 wanna bet

LuLu says:
 SHES TRICKSIE

Sera says:
 HECK YA!!

LuLu says:
 WHATS IN HER POCKETSES???

Sera says:
 a new chapter

LuLu says:
 SHE MUST KNOW THE WAY OUUUTTTTTTTTT

Sera says:
 yes she does, give her four chapter and the way out will be found
 sixteen to a happy ending

LuLu says:
 MYYYY PREEEECIIIIIIIIOUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSs

Sera says:
 twenty to get it to all come crashing down

LuLu says:
 smeagol knows. smeagol knows the truth. smeagol sees your tricksies. SMEAAAAGOOOOL KNOOOOOWSSSSS

*sera puts chapter excerpt that LUTHIEN DOES NOT WANT TO SEE*

LuLu says:
MY EYES ARE CLOSED
 IM NOT READING THAT
 YOU ARE TRICKSIEEEEEEEE

Sera says:
 CMON CORA!!
 PLEASE!!!
I NEED YOUR OPINION TO SEE IF I SHOULD CHANGE ANYTHING!!!
 PLEASE!!!
 WITH A BIG RED SUPER SWEET CHERRY ON TOP!! AND A FREE ZUKO!!

honestly, I wonder. do normal people talk like this? 'Cause... I doubt it. :D

my preciousssss

~LS

Letting Go

This is Sera's world, that I'm using :D for more Pandora & Luthien go visit her blog!! Serastoff.blogpost.com




"


She felt torn. In many, many ways.


In one way, she wanted her friend to leave. Perhaps it would be easier than this slow band-aid that was being painfully pulled off. If she left, then maybe the salt would stop falling on this open wound. Perhaps her heart would stop its random aching.


In another way, obviously, she didn’t want her friend to leave. She wanted to drag it out, to be able to be with her as long as possible.


“Why must she go?” Luthien recalled her whiny pleading, her immature unacceptance


“She’ll have a better future if she leaves, Lu. Besides, she’s not happy here, you know it!”


“She’s plenty happy here! We have lots of fun! She’d grow to love it even more if she stayed!”


“Luthien, please. Pandora needs to go back to where she’s happy; she needs to go to where she’ll be able to grow more. Don’t fight it.”


She had stalked off, angry at the predicament. She’d sat on the window seat in her room (her favorite place in the whole house) and stared at the sky, the heavy gray clouds echoing her feelings.


“Who will take care of her? Who will watch her, protect her?” Luthien sighed, knowing no-one would answer her.


A sudden call from her mother caught her attention.


“Luthien, a letter!”


She ran down eagerly, hoping perhaps it was something that would help this awful day.


“It’s from Li!”


She smiled. This probably would brighten her day.


She read the message, a standard one about the amazingness of life in general, and felt better. As she returned her gaze to the gray sky, a thought suddenly struck her.


“Li will watch her, Li will protect her! Li knows she’s special, Li knows about her tendencies.”


She knew that Pandora was trying to have a semi-normal life, despite her mental conditions. She knew that Pandora couldn’t stay here and do that. Gradually, over the months before Pandora left, Luthien became accustomed to the idea. She accepted it, was happy for Pandora even. But that didn’t mean she wouldn’t miss her, wouldn’t ache sometimes.


Now, she wanted to rip the band-aid off. She was sitting here, in this old familiar tree (Pan’s favorite), thinking about life in general. Her journal lay open next to her, half a page filled out. There was no other way she knew how to express her feelings except through writing. Writing was emotionless and emotion-filled at the same time. The very phenomena of writing something down in a journal could not be explained. She picked it up again and began to write, the sound of the pen softly connecting with the paper was like a balm to her wounds. She let the tears flow as she wrote, not caring if her eyes would be red or her head would ache. Tears must flow sometimes, despite society’s looking down upon them.


She scribbled a poem that had suddenly come to her in the soft twilight


“For though time passes, we stay still
Sitting, laughing, upon this hill


I smile at you, and you smile at me
We wonder what we might not be


A dancer, a writer, an artist, we scream
these are the simple things we dream


We wish upon the shooting stars
but will we end up tending bars?


For dreams are funny, angry things
they fly around on paper wings


Eventually the wings get torn
and new thoughts and dreams are born


The old ones turn to ash and die
to the corners of our hearts they fly


To stay and grow and fester and mold
until we have grown far too old


For them to ever happen, or such
these dreams feel stale to the touch


And we cry at night as we remember them
What could, and might have very well been


Our future lives as actresses and writers
have fallen in proverbial fires


And burnt to death, as we can see
Burning flesh and death smell we


Our lives have turned to nothing more
than a simple wooden score


And nothing that we say or do
could bring us back to twenty-two


So let us stay here, and speak our dreams
for, perhaps, if we believe, these things


They will come to pass, that is;
if we work , and study too


We will be able to accomplish
things through Him who strengthens us


And anything is possible through Him


Impossible things, like flying, living, dreaming
are possible, through HIM, God our father


So let us leave this pretty hill
go to achieve our dreams, we will


And pray and hope for happy lives
in which I become a loving wife


And you can live where’re you wish
I will visit you with a covered dish


We’ll smile and laugh like always
and it’ll be more than just a phase


It will be our life, filled with love
and joy, and everything stereotypically included above


And when we feel down, we’ll remember this hill
and sitting and laughing and talking still


We will always be friends, always love each other, never will we be able to completely and utterly separate.”


Luthien tore it out and stuck it in the hole in the tree. She knew Pandora would visit here before she left in the morning, and hopefully she’d see this. Brushing a stray tear from her eye, Luthien slid off the tree, relishing in the simple joy of the way the grass felt on her bare feet. She walked tiredly home, emotionally exhausted. Smiling at her complete and utter emotionality and her over dramatic-ness she gave a sudden skip. Life was good, and anyone who couldn’t see that was blinder than a mole.


Yes, a mole!


Never will we be able to completely and utterly separate. This carries me on."








~LS

Facts

There are some things in life that we know for sure. No doubts. Things like: the sun will always rise in the morning, and the moon will do the same at night. Every morning we will be rudely awakened by beams of gold, and every night we will be serenaded to sleep by beams of silver. This is something we will never question, never worry about... never even consider it becoming non-existent. We can see the sun every day, we can see the moon every night (even 'new moon' we can still see its shadow). Everyone in our history has been able to see the sun and moon. It is an 'unquestionable' fact of life.

It is a part of time; time is the same. We know time will pass. No one exclaims at the fact. No one is surprised by the changing of seasons; no one is surprised to grow older. Saddened by it perhaps, but it is expected. We don't see time, but we know it is there, always moving, always passing us by.

If these things, things that we can and can't see, are accepted so readily, why isn't the existence of God? Why, when he is so plainly visible everywhere and in everything, is he not believed in by every being on this earth? We can accept the passage of time, the rising and setting of the sun and the moon, our own mortality, the life of the things around us... yet we cannot readily accept God. Even the strongest Christian has doubts on occasion. I can bet you have never gone to bed thinking; 'I wonder if the sun will rise tomorrow. I wonder if it will be a new day, or the same one. I wonder if next year will come. I wonder if I will ever die.' You know these things will happen. The same way, I can bet you have gone to bed at least once thinking; 'Is God really real, and even if He is does he really love me? Was it really Him who created all of this?'

Truly, it is sad. God's presence in creation, His ultimate and unconditional love for us is visible everywhere, in every tree and every cloud, in every smiling face and every angry one. He is the one who makes the sun rise and the years go by, the one who changes the seasons and carefully crafts wrinkles onto our faces. He is always there, always loving us; wayward, sinful us!

Sunbeams will always fall in the morning, and moonbeams will always fall at night. If these things are true, how much more is it true that God will always love and care for us; always be there.

Hebrews 13:5b - 'I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you'

Job 37: 5-6, 14-16, most of 38,  "God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; He does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'
¹⁴Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders. Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said: Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it, to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass? Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen? Can you bind the twinkling Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth? Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'? Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind? Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? ^42:1-2Then Job replied to the Lord: 'I know that you can do all things, no plan of yours can be thwarted.'"

~LS

The grass is always greener...

Winter's ice loses its glory,
We tire of cold and white.
And with heavy hearts we count the months
'til flowers are in sight.

We cry with joy at the first warm breeze
And the tidings it may bring
For we know the grass is always greener
In the first few months of spring.

Birthday Buddies

Tuesday was my birthday. It was also Harrison Ford's birthday. I wonder if he looks as much forward to it as I do. Does his life revolve around his birthday? Is his email address 'guns-r-better-than-swords713@gmail.com'? (I bet it is). Is his favorite number 13 (mine is), his favorite month July, his favorite season summer? These are the questions that keep me up at night. That and... are sheep really just clouds that have assumed organic shape?? It's really a wonder I get any sleep at all! ;)

happy post-birthday to me!!

~LS

Blue Sky and TLA

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!

:)

~LS

Reminiscing

So I just posted this pic on deviantart - http://luthiensnowtail.deviantart.com/art/Reminiscing-171371141

and it made me sappy. So I wrote a little paragraph. and it's perfect blog fodder. so here goes:

"I sat and watched her through the window. It was as close as I could get, nowadays. She leaned on the hood of her car (her very own car) and laughed at something that the boy standing by her had said. Another girl came out of the house holding a camera, and took a picture of my girl and the boy. After they were done posing they all got into the car and drove off, my girl driving. I knew she'd come back tonight and type away at her computer, or scribble in her journal. Time was she would tell ME all the important goings on. But that time has passed, something I must learn to accept. It is hard, becoming obsolete. I would despair, were it not for my girl's soft heart, her sentimentality. I know she'll never toss me out. She still picks me up and kisses me whenever I get tossed onto the floor. She still holds me as she falls asleep. And she still talks to me, only once in a while. I'll always be there, always be close by. I'm her teddy, and that's what teddies do." 

ack. that's seriously like one of the best things I've ever written

:) 


~LS

I'm so-kkanfused

Hey y'all!! I have a lot of things to tell you, mainly about TLA, but right now I am at Sera's house ;)

She just informed us that she is going to marry a sexy ninja.

and Jell said that Zuko and the Kim Possible guy are hotter than any other japanese guy ever. :D :D

speaking of Jell, the weirdo, she just got a bloggy! so you get her side of this crazy story we call life! :)

check it -http://ajarofjelly.blogspot.com/ :)

sayonara!

(Leiler, Sera, and Jelly say hi. They;re watching me {type this})

JELL IS TOPH

haha :)

<3
LS