Maybe

Maybe I should come back to this.... I've ignored it for a while. I don't have a lot of time to post, but it might help me right now. There's so much stress in my life, so much pressure. Its crushing me.

I did it

I finished my poem guys! Well, one of them. It's called "The Ride". Wanna read it? Well, I don't want to type it again. Just go to I Dare You and its there:

idareyouflipz.blogspot.com

HOPE YOU LIKE IT :)

I Dare You Flipz

I haven't really had much lately. Just same ol' same ol'. Listening to Shinedown like there's no tomorrow :)


But, while you're here, I'd like it if you went to my other blog and checked out my posts there. I've don two new ones recently that I enjoyed the heck out of writing.

Here it is -----> http://idareyouflipz.blogspot.com/

And btw,  my I Dare You blog is named after the Shinedown song "I Dare You". I added Flipz into the mix because its like, my nickname in the online world. Yippee.

I've been motivated

I've been listening to Amaryllis from Shinedown an a daily basis, every chance I get. Listening has motivated me to write some more poems. But I have to be inspired; like, I can sparatically come up with the first verse and then manage to whip out the rest of it. But if I force the beginning, it's not as good. But I haven't been able to get that lately.

So good news then huh? I DID. I'm so excited. I got the first verse for two different poems. Now I can happily sit down and write them out. It's the best feeling in the world to me. Listening to music, with a pen in my hand and the page in front of me. I absolutely love it. It's where I belong, okay? Don't hate. It's who I am. I adore my notebook, and anyone who touches it without my permission gets a big ol' lecture from me and whop on the head. IT'S MINE. My words, my ideas, my writing. And I love every single word I've written more than anything else I own. If I had to get rid of everything but one thing, I would keep my notebook. And I'd find a way to get my Shinedown back ;)

If you'd like, I'll post my poems when I've finished them, and y'all can tell me what you think. Ok?

Vote for my gym!

Hey guys! Not that many people read this, but whoever does, could you like pretty please click on this link and vote for Technique Gymanstics??? I'd appreciate it soooo much!

http://kcra.cityvoter.com/technique-gymnastics/biz/169715?for=health-and-fitness%2fcheer-and-gymnastics


Thank you! :D

Artistic Touch

Yeah right, I'm no artist. But I can pretend to be. Wanna see some of my drawings I've done? Of course you do.

This one is my favorite :3

And the awesome thing? You know when you hear something over and over and over again, and you never really 'get' what it means. Then one day you hear it, and it just clicks in your brain and it ALL MAKES SENSE! Yes I just experienced that.

Boomerang channel. Their motto: "It's all coming back to you." I thought that was because they were older shows. But it's because it's BOOMERANG channel! It comes back to you :D

Yeah, I just noticed that. 

Gonna go back

Hallelujah, I get to go back to practice today! FINALLY!!!!!! I've been feeling so unproductive lately, it's driving me crazyy. My knees are still really bruised and I can't put pressure on them, but I don't care. I just want to get back out there. And I can't wait until they're completely healed so that I can start running, before summer practice starts. -shudder- Good times

Also, I'd like to point out my hair, the big fuzzy thing on my head I call hair, is cooperating today. It's like, almost normal. Yeah, most of you are probably like, yeah cool good to know, but it makes my day when I wake up and see my hair like this. :'D

AND, my fingers hurt from trying out the guitar my dad's student lent us. It's so hard to do it right. But I'm determined. I really want to learn, and I'm gonna get used to it. Dang it.

Yup yup, and it's a beautiful day out, the sun is shining, and summer is on its way. How exciting. Most of my teammates dread summer practice, and all the conditioning, but this year I really can't wait for it all. It's so much fun, even with all the conditioning. Just wait, you'll see. ;)

Oh, p.s, pleaseeee go look at my other blog, too!!!! It would mean a lot to me if you'd go check it out. It's really important to me!

http://idareyouflipz.blogspot.com/

100 Views!!!

This really just made my day. I now have 101 views here. Thank you guys so much, whether you accidentally stumbled upon this while looking for something else, or you actually meant to come here, you got my number to 100. Yippeeeee

So let's see, on a less happier note, on the outside, I am amazing.. on the inside, I am scaring the heck out of myself. About death. Enough said, moving on.
I drew Perry the Platypus today. It was pretty awesome. And I played with Legos for the first time in a while. And now listening to Pandora, a Shinedown song has come on. Heroes to be exact. What perfect timing. I love it. Oh and I ate really yummy cake :D

I'm not very talkative right now. I'm just gonna go back to Tumblr, k?

But I'll leave you with this, so you'll understand the awesomeness I was just listening to:

Shinedown: Heroes

Short and Sweet and to the point

My awesome for the day? Well, it's going to be really lame, but I got all my homework done! That relief you feel, right? When you finally finish it all... until next time of course. But for the moment, it's pretty awesome. Especially when you are stuck on one part of the assignment all week and can't figure it out, then you finally do!!! Now I'm off to go draw. I'm on day..... 6! Favorite book character, can't be a movie. We'll see what I've got.. :)

My head

You're probably wondering... why the heck is she going to write about her head?! Well, because I like it that's why. It's round, with brown curly hair, and eyes, a nose, and a mouth. I mean, who wouldn't want to write about their head?

I'm just kidding.. By my head I meant in my head. Like my imagination. (oohhhhhh, now I get it... am I right?) With this 30-day drawing challenge I'm doing, day 4 (the number I'm up to) was your favorite place. Now, I have a lot of favorite places. But my absolute favorite place is in my own head. In my own little world, where anything can happen, the way I want it to happen. Come on, who doesn't love that? If you hate someone, you can imagine destroying them. If you love someone you can imagine kissing them. If you want something, want to go somewhere, you can imagine getting it or going there. In your head, the possibilities are absolutely endless. As endless as your imagination is. And heck, I think mine goes on for an eternity. That, or it makes one big circle over and over and over again, but it's different every time.

Either way, it's easily my favorite place. I can have whatever I want to happen happen there, and it can make me feel happy, sad, mad, or loved. Whatever I want. What's better than that?
Now you're probably wondering (or most likely not) what my head is like. I call it a maze. A maze that you never want to leave. At least, I never want to leave it.  But it's up to you. But it's like an endless maze that has something new around every turn. Awesome right?

Anyways, I didn't really know HOW to draw that, so I ended up drawing the outdoors. I love the outdoors, its absolutely beautiful. I want to live in a treehouse. Yeah, sounds dumb, I know. But hey, anything's possible. And I'm not kidding, I really do. Nature is beautiful. Amazing. Awesome. Breathtaking. I'm gonna stop there, otherwise you're gonna get one of my rants about how the human race is destroying the natural beauty of our planet....

And HEY, my drawing wasn't bad. It has a lake, and a mountain in the background. And trees and hills. In fact, I'll show you the image that I based my drawing off of:

Courtesy of Wikipedia

Of course, my drawing doesn't look like that at ALL. But it's....... kind of close. I'll post a picture eventually. 

Soldiers

Good news... maybe. My knees aren't horribly damaged. But the bad news..... no practicing on them for the rest of the week. I feel so incapable right now!!!! Gah.
Well, at least everything else that hurts has a chance to get better now.
You know what's really awesome? Good music. You know what's good music? Rock. You know what made me think of this? No, not Shinedown (for once). But I'm listening to this song right now, and it's a good song and I really like it:

I don't know what I'm setting y'all up with video wise, I've never watched the video, just listened to the song. But it's called "Soldiers" by Otherwise. Listen to it! :D

And with that, I'm out for homework. 

No Boise this year

Nope, I didn't make it to Westerns, which were in Boise this year. As much as I wanted to go, I am so glad season is over! You don't even understand. But I hurt my knees. My hand slipped on my vault (just smile and nod and roll with it if you don't understand) and I ended up doing an almost-belly-flop onto the mat. Except my knees hit first. So yeah, they're all swollen and stuff. But I got to ride around the airport in a wheelchair!!! Weeee! I am just happy that it didn't hurt so bad I couldn't do anything. I was able to finish my meet, and it was all right. After getting pushed in the Vegas airport, I walked in the Sacramento airport. I hate the feeling of being incapable on a lot of things. I hate not being able to walk or see. Those are my two biggest hates. I guess I can deal with the others, but if I lost my hearing all together, I would cry forever.
Anyways, yesterday I submitted an entry for the Shinedown iPad contest. And I didn't win :( Now I gots one more week to do it. What should I do hm...? I'll show you my picture. It was lots of fun taking them all, and I managed to get a few funny looks from passer-bys.. BONUS POINTS! Here's all the pictures we took:

My favorite is the handstand one. ;)

Ok, well I gotta go figure out something for this contest on the last week. Y'all have fun doing whatever it is you like to do. 

Viva Las Vegas

First I shall apologize for any grammar/spelling errors. I'm not used to this keyboard... its my mom's netbook.
Vegas Vegas Vegas, where do I begin? I'll just say I'm competing tomorrow morning, I'm pretty nervous, but still wish me luck! I'm gonna kick butt!!!! (personal motivation there)...

Ok let's see. I guess I'll say first that to anyone out there who is on a diet, and you plan on coming out here and eating on the Strip, well, you're doomed. Because Vegas has the BEST buffets in the world. I walk away from those places about to explode I'm so full... but they are so worth it. Seriously, next time you're out here, unless you live out here then you're already here, go to the buffets. I'd recommend:
1. The Wicked Spoon at the Cosmopolitan
2. The Buffet at the Wynn
3. The Buffet at the Bellagio

And I can't recommend anymore than that because that's all I've been to. But go to them in that order, that's from best to least best. (yeah, be jealous of that grammar there <----)

And it's been so fun here. We saw a comedy magic show last night, Mike Hammer. FUNNY DUDE. Oh wow, this guy was good guys. So worth it. And the dude sitting in front of us... HA. He's one of those people who's reaction, and his laugh, makes you laugh so dang hard. I laughed at him as much as I laughed at the comedian. Uncontrollable laughter.
Let's see what else... saw some old friends, went shopping and got some new clothes on sale, walked Fremont Street, ate at amazing buffets, and ooh. Got a new leo for the practice that was on Thursday. Ours was cool. It was all shiny black with the NorCal logo on the chest. For those of you who don't know what that is here:

Except it was in gems.



And yeah, I got pictures with the Shinedown poster, too. Woop woop. Oh, you wanna see them? I can't do that yet. I have to put them all in one big collage and post it on the website first. And let me tell you, the farther along the contest gets, the more and more I realize how BADLY I want to read the "For Your Sake: The Making of Amaryllis" iPad Book. Like REALLY BAD GUYS.

Welp, thas all for now folks. I'm gonna go dream about getting the chance to read that book, and I guess I'll be back tomorrow night to tell y'all how I did.

Forever Shinedown

Regional Competition

I won't be here until Sunday again. I am going to Las Vegas for a gymnastics meet this weekend. I know, you're gonna miss me :'( but I'll be back
It's a really big important meet... yay. Regionals. From here I can qualify to Westerns. AND if I get a 37.000, or win all-around at the meet, my mom will enter us in a 5k Zombie Run in San Diego in October!! YAY :D
For any of you rocker fans, Halestorm's new album "The Strange Case Of..." came out yesterday. They're pretty dang awesome, you should go get their album too ;)

I had something awesome to say, but I am so tired right now I lost it.
But I know something not awesome: I hurt. Let me write it out:
Sore shoulders
Sore abs
Hurt knees
Hurt back
Hurt toe
Hurt hip
Hurt wrist

....and yep, I think that covers it. How exciting!!!!!

With that, my dear companions, I leave you with Shinedown lyrics:

"So do I remind you of someone you never met, a lonely silhouette
And do I remind you of somewhere you wanna be, so far out of reach
I wish you'd open up for me, cause I wanna know you
Amaryllis, Bloom."
<3

Mathless Fool

No math homework this week. Isn't that enough to make any day awesome? Yeehaw. Well, that's because I did it all last week, over Spring Break. Oh well, now it all pays off. No coming home from practice to my math book waiting for me.

But I got onto my blogs last night and I saw.. 9 views? On this one, and like 7 on my other one: Idareyouflipz.blogspot.com

Yeah, yeah it's not a lot. But when you normally get 2-3 a day, 9 and 7 is a LOT! So, thank you guys again. It means so much to know people read my stuff.

Anyways, that's about all I've got, so how about we part ways with a little Shinedown? :)

Shinedown- Amaryllis

Shinedown- Adrenaline

Shinedown- Unity

Shinedown- I'll Follow You

Shinedown- Nowhere Kids

All right, that's all for now folks :)

I think... I'm coming out of my shell

Not the one that's permanently grown into my back (which most people like to call shyness). But I mean the one I crawled into after the Shinedown concert. It was a great shell, with lots of memories and good music and lots of thoughts and feelings. But it wasn't working, because I had to focus on the stuff around me. Certain things I managed to fake, other things I didn't. But I can tell, because I actually dealt with listening to something that wasn't Shinedown today. Ha. I think my parents are kind of getting tired of the new album, so they've been playing other music. Of course, that shell will always be a part of my life, I will crawl back into it occasionally. But I have to put it aside for right now; this week is extremely important and I must be extremely focused.

Today I started the first day of the 30 day drawing challenge I'm doing. The first day was to draw myself. Ha, fail. Not as bad as I though it'd be, but it was.... well, challenging. :)

And I finished my bracelet project. Want to see?
Here:

Come on, you can figure it out. 

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That's right, it's Shinedown's four albums. :) From left to right: Leave a Whisper, Us and Them, Sound of Madness, and Amaryllis. The color schemes for each of their albums. Pretty awesome right?

Even awesomer. I posted the picture on Twitter and tagged the Shinedown gang. A fan saw them and asked me for a set of them. It totally made my day. Knowing someone really appreciated my work. And now I've got bracelets to make for a while again. Woohoo.

Easter Sunday

Remember when you were younger? Easter meant getting up really early, trying to beat the Easter Bunny. Looking out your window and seeing colorful eggs hidden in the yard. Running around the house looking where he hid you Easter basket this year. Looking at all the stuff in your Easter basket then going outside to grab all those colorful little eggs. Then running back inside to open them all, count the money, eat the candy, and rounding up all the little treasures inside.

Ah, those were the days.

I've officially been promoted to assistant Easter Bunny now. I get to help fill the eggs and hide them. I still get my own Easter basket though :)
But hey, it's cool being on the other side of it all. Watching my younger siblings scramble for eggs while you know where (for the most part) all of them are. Good times.

So since my Shinedown concert has now come and gone, I've had nothing to count down for. Quite depressing actually. But I enjoy just sitting there and thinking back to that night. Because it was just sooo damn awesome. Anyways, I guess I'll start counting down for the Avengers, because it's GOT to be the best movie of the year coming out. Much anticipated to say the least. Soo, 26 days until the Avengers comes out.

Now I've got something to look forward to. But, "Don't count down the days, make the days count." I saw this earlier today, and I never realized how important it was, and honestly, how strongly I feel about this. There are some days when I just want to go out and do something. What it is, I don't know. But I want to make every second count. I just don't know how.

Perhaps I will figure it out one day.

When all else fails... what the hale

My catch phrase, because my last name's Hale. Get it? Hehehehehe

I missed a couple days I know. But I can sum it up into a couple things. Over the last few days I've been all kick-butt-ey at gymnastics practice, which is ALWAYS a great thing. ESPECIALLY because I AM going to get my mom to enter us in that race, even though she doesn't really want to(:

And I've been making tons of bracelets. My favorite thing to do(; I'm currently working on a project with them. When I'm done I'll show you. It's gonna be pretty awesomerific

And hey hey, anyone heard of Tumblr? Pretty epic. If y'all have one, you should go follow me. If you don't have one, y'all have no life and you should go get one to follow me(:

MY TUMBLR BLOG HERE PEEPS: http://alliewhatthehale.tumblr.com/
Yup, be jealous
Peace, Love, Shinedown <3

The Easter Bunny Lives In Canada

So we have this map of the U.S and at the very top is a little bit of Canada. It also says at the top Pacific Time Zone, Mountain Time Zone, Central Time Zone, and Eastern Time Zone. The words are technically inside Canada. So my little brother is looking at the map and says "I know where the Easter Bunny lives. He lives in Canada. Cause see right here it says 'Eastern Time Zone'" And he points to the words. Oh, don't 6-year olds just make your day (:

We got a new 55-inch TV today! :D Holy crap its huge. It's blue-ray, 3D and all that fancy stuff. It's like, live action here peoples!!! Absolutely awesome.

Oh hey and on a final note, here's a picture of me with the "Amaryllis" CD, from Shinedown of course ;) WHICH, might I mention, is number 4 on the Billboard Top 200!!!!! It's sold 106,000 copies and its only been out for a week. How awesome is Shinedown?!?!

THANK YOU

To all the viewers who come and read my blog, lemme just say... THANK YOU! I sooo totally appreciate anyone who reads my posts. It means sooo much to me(:

Today I listened to the Shinedown album at least 5 times consecutively.. Nothing is better than that! (:

Thanks again peeps. I'm slowly getting more and more views everyday! Yesterday my other blog got 7 views. Haha,  not much, but when you're just startin' off its actually pretty good! ;)

I'm out peace <3

Stalking

I have become once again overly obsessed with Shinedown. Twitter is my new best friend again. I love it, because the band posts a LOT on Twitter >:) And I've managed to obtain 6 new followers in the past four days. I'm up to 12!!! Look who's flyin'... ha. As if XP
But seriously, I am loving Twitter right now.

Our packages finally came today! We got our Shinedown shirts, wristbands, posters, ALBUMS!, and these really cool lighters that say Avalanche Tour on them. 'Course I don't smoke, but its hecka cool.

Now I'm awaiting to see who's won the first iPad from the "Amaryllis Bloom" contest. There's some good ones... I really love mine though :)
And now I am currently listening to the Shinedown album. And it is amazing <3

Amazingly Awesome but... EMOTIONAL?!

Can someone please explain to me why the hell I'm being so EMOTIONAL?!?! Ever since the show got over last night, I've wanted to cry! WHY?! Seriously, lately whenever I'm thinking of Shinedown I start crying. Maybe because I've been waiting for soo long, and now it's over. Maybe because my DREAM, to meet the band, has been fulfilled. Maybe because it wasn't enough? Maybe I miss it. Or maybe, I'm just one messed up human being.

So yesterday was pretty awesome though. On the way to Reno I got to listen to a interview on Sirius Radio with Shinedown from the other day. So then we got to the hotel. There was like three hours to blow before the meet and greet. So we were going down to the arcade to play some games (we as in me, my mom and my dad) and we ended up passing Zach Myers (Shinedown guitarist for all you newbies), whom happened to be coming back from a workout. Hehe. I was wearing my Shinedown T-shirt so he said hi and I said hi as he walked past. Purdy cool.

Anyways, 5 o'clock came around. They called our names and gave us the wristbands. There were only 27 people going to meet them! And we were three of them!!! Jake led us backstage and had us all stand in a line. He gave us instructions and handed us all pictures for the band to sign and then went to go get the guys. I think... I almost either stopped breathing or almost started jumping up and down like a bunny wabbit.

Then they CAME OUT. Awwwwwww yeah. As a side note, they're shorter than I though they'd be. They're all around my height, and I'm like 5'6"ish. It's so awesome. Eric and Barry started on one side of the line and Zach and Brent started on the other. We were right in the middle of the line(:

They guy right next to me was an older man and he and Brent were really funny. He said "Your oldest fan." And Brent was all, "Oldest? Oh no way. You don't look a day over 30. I'm 34 and you look younger than me."

Then Brent came to me and shook my hand. I handed him the picture and our Sound of Madness album to sign. (After playing a game of which one?! haha) Zach said he recognized us when he was all sweaty and breathless. Eric has a really cool hat on :) And Barry was really nice. I like his hair. Actually I like all the guys' hair..

Oh then we got in line to get pictures. When it was our turn, my dad asked if they could say happy birthday to me. Even though my birthday isn't for a few months, it was an early present! They ended up all singing happy birthday to me! It was so amazing. My favorite band in the world, my favorite people, singing to ME... <3
We got a really really awesome picture and then they had to leave. Still, amazing backstage epicness.

And you know what? I want to meet them again. And again. And again. It'll never get old. They're the awesomest guys ever. So nice, and friendly and funny. And genuine. One of the most important things you could ask for in a band!!!!

Here's us, me and the band and mom and dad. I'm the girl in the middle, in between Brent and Zach :)

All right I have a lot more to say but its time to watch Person of Interest. More next time bye :)

Short

Short post, got lots of stuff to do.

The other day I had to drive home on the freeway for the first time..... and it was actually not as bad as I thought it'd be. Thank goodness.

Today I got to hear part of an interview Shinedown did on Sirius XM Octane. So exciting, it got me so much more pumped for tomorrow. Oh and I got to see the Hunger Games again :) even better the second time yeee.

Sad news... We haven't gotten our package from Shinedown yet :( it has our shirts, CD's, posters, and wristbands. DX It's kinda depressing, because I wanna listen to their album!!!!!!!

But I am going to see if they will sign my notebook tomorrow YAY!

Today was pretty awesome, but for some reason I'm having a hard time remembering yesterday.... I am losing it peoples!!!

I will majorly update y'all on my big night. I am soo dang excited, and I am determined to say way more than just "hi" to them. You know what'd be awesome? If Brent Smith read one of my poems. BEST...  MOMENT.... EVER.

All right, homework time. Peace out

It... Is... March... 27th!!!!

Yup, lookie at that date. Can only mean one thing.... Shinedown's new album has officially come out today! Whoop whoop. And that means 'tis now only three more days until the concert. Whoo-buddy, I'm getting so excited! It's like surreal. I just have to remember to breathe... and to talk.

But yesterday, I finally got the nerves to tell the guy I liked (Remember I'm a girl here peoples) that I liked him. I had some help from my friend... XD. Cause I'm soo dang shy. His answer? Well, if I knew I'd tell you. But he hasn't replied yet.... Maybe I scared him off... or worse... Eh. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

But I've realized, after the concert I will have nothing to look forward to. Summer I guess. But I'm not ready for summer to hit yet. I need to make a few more amends first. Anyhoo, I shall make it last while I can.

And when you get the chance, go buy the new Shinedown album. It'll be worth it =)

Gymnastics

Yeah, not sure if I've told you, but I'm a gymnast. I hope for quite a few more years, but that's in jeopardy right now. Don't really wanna talk about it. But I had State Championships yesterday.... and yeah the awesomeness stops there really. Let's see, I fell on bars and messed up on floor, I fell on one vault and did terrible on the other, and beam was sloppy, but I stayed on. So yeah, I guess the good thing is I made beam. And regionals. Three weeks to train, and yes I will totally kick much more ass at that meet, and yes I said ass.

Today was a lot better. Why you ask? Psh, Shinedown, duh. Because we have VIP tickets for the concert (which is 5 days away I must add) we get to stream the album before it comes out!!!! (Which is in two days if you were wondering) So, you guessed it, I've been listening to it all day!!! WHICH IS AMAZING... YEEEEEE. Yes, I will be a fangirl when fangirling is necessary. And fangirling is completely necessary when Shinedown is part of the picture. I think what makes it even more awesome, on a serious critique level, each song is totally different. A lot of bands, some of their songs sound the same, have the same rhythm or tune, but this album, every song is different. Each one is unique with it's own sound, and on a non-biased level judgment, I think that's what makes it so great. For me, the same sound over and over again is boring. This one keeps you on your toes, so to say, because it's different.

AND I LOVE IT 

Hunger Games, peoples!!!!!

March 23rd. Anyone who doesn't live under a rock knows what came out today: The HUNGER GAMES!!!!!!! (and for those of you who do live under a rock.... ew, too many bugs.)
So, me and my mom were gonna go by ourselves, but my best friend said she really wanted to go with us.  So in the end me, my mom, and my best friend and her little sister came with us, and it was amazing. We even got D-Box seats, which were hecka cool. Added a nice effect to the movie.
Our audience was really, really funny. Quite.. animated. They laughed, screamed, clapped, and one kid, "And they still don't kiss!" Quite humorous. Oh, and of course I can't forget my "OH MY GOD!" when the mutants popped out of the dark. For those who have seen it, you know exactly what part I'm talking about.
Oh and I've realized I want my own Mockingjay Pin, it's so awesome!!! But I didn't like how she got the Pin in the movie, just sayin'. Besides that, the movie was fantastical!

Who's your favorite character? I love Haymitch, he's my favorite XD he's hella funny

Oh, AND 4 more days until the album (although you can stream it on iTunes, and all the songs are on YouTube now), and ONE WEEK until the concert. OOOOOHHHH  I'm gettin' so fricking excited!!!!!

All right, peace out.

Ew.

All I can say for today is... EW. Frog dissection is nastily gross. Peoples, it takes a lot to make me want to throw up, and let me say, I almost did today. But, I will tell you that is NOT the awesome thing that happened today. What was awesome? Erm, lemme see, I think it'd be that I will be getting a really yummy dessert tonight perhaps. My parents went to a comedy show, and there is an amazing dessert place nearby. YUM, I cannot wait

Yesterday, let's see. Ooh, early practice. I like getting home early, it's so relaxing and nice to come home at 6:45 instead of 8:45. Yeah, that's really it. Besides that it was a normal, average day I guess. Yippee.

That friend that can make your day

I can say I have a good amount of friends, and I love them all. And they're all amazing in their own way. And I need and depend on every one of them.
But I just love that friend that is just... awesome.
I have a friend like that. He listens, he's funny, and we have the same taste in music (always a plus ;D).
And the other day I was talking to him about that guy I like, remember, and this is what he said.

Him: Want help?
Me: Yes please
Him: ok
this is what u do
make sure something soft is behind him
then u tackle him and start making out with him
like a wild animal
:D
hope that helps
:P

These are the coolest, awesomest of friends. They can make you smile and laugh at the most difficult situations, when you're at your lowest. Not that it takes a lot to make me smile or laugh, even when I'm bawling my eyes out, my friends somehow always make me laugh, most of the time.

So I guess that would be my awesomeness for yesterday, talking to my friend. Cuz he's funny as hell and super... awesome :D

It just works

Do you ever have one of those days where something just goes right? Not everything, so to say, but something that you normally have to try extra hard to do right, it just happens without that extra effort? It's an awesome feeling, because you feel like you've conquered it. You don't worry about the next day, or the past days, you just live in the moment of successfully acomplishing that thing that's usually extremely difficult.

That was yesterday! Usually on floor, I have to work extra hard to get my tumbling to go correctly. It's horrible!!! But, yesterday it was so natural and so easy, I loved it. I was able to go, whip out the tumbling, and land it the correct way. Which was awesome, because the other events weren't as well. But I didn't care then. All I cared about was the fact that I was kicking butt. I hope it continues through the week; I have to compete States this weekend. States is a big meet, and you can qualify to Regionals, then either Westerns or Nationals. Me, a level 9, goes to Westerns.

So yeah, that was my awesomeness. And P.S, thumbs up to anyone who totally understood what the heck I was talking about up there. All my gymnastics-y-ness. :)

Maximum Ride

Yesterday I got my Maximum Ride book. If you've never heard of it, you're missing out. I am so obsessed with the books right now, they are so amazing. To give you an idea of how obsessed I am, I finished it in under 24 hours. Yep, its that good.

Today I went to this place called Fat Kitty City, a local cat sanctuary. I love cats, and I decided to make part of my directed project class at school community service. After checking it out this afternoon, I must say: I am in love.
They take such good care of the cats there, and they never put any cat down to sleep. There are many handicapped cats there, but they are just as sweet and lovable as the non-handicapped ones. They enclose the area to keep them safe, and they have indoor and outdoor places for them to roam on their own. I love it, it's the perfect place for stray, feral and abandoned kitties. Definitely something *I* want to do when I'm older.


OH, and I thought I'd just give you a quick update here. 9 more days until the album comes out, and 12 more days until the concert. Ooooh boy, I'm getting excited :))

OHHH, and HERE. I found this!! It's a musical March Madness. You can vote for all your favorite bands! My only request is that you pretty PLEASE vote for Shinedown if they're still in the running when you click the link. :) PRETTY PLEASE
Here it is: Musical March Madness

Yes, I am a teenager

Before I go on about awesomeness, I thought I'd just say that I am teenager, and I am a girl. SO, my posts might be a little bit cheesy, a little stupid, a little... yeah cheesy is a good word. BUT, I AM NOT A GIRLY GIRL. I rarely wear make-up, I'm not big on buying lots of fancy schmancy expensive clothes, and I don't spend hours on end doing my hair. Ok? Good.

So, the reason for the heads up is because we're talking about Thursday here. Thursday was awesome because I got to talk to the guy I really like. I don't say crush, it sounds cheesy to me...
ANYWAYS, being homeschooled and online school-y and all, I don't get to see him much. And he's not the online talker-type. So when I have a conversation with him, it's nice. But see, I'm the really, really, really, REALLY shy type, so even though *I* like him, I don't want to tell him, or ask him if it's the other way around, too. Oh, his name? Psh, yeah, I'm not that dumb. I'm not telling. (Although some friends of mine know.... good luck finding out who they are >:D)

Yesterday now. I got to watch my TV shows and eat and amazing dessert. There was something else, but apparently I've forgotten now. If I ever remember... OH I REMEMBER NOW. Ok hold on. Going to fast here.
So my TV shows? Modern Family and Person of Interest. And Big Bang Theory, but that wasn't part of yesterday. These three shows are my absolute favorite, and I look forward to every Wednesday and Thursday to watch them. Of course, I love Phineas and Ferb as well. But my all time favorite TV show always has and will be Teen Titans. <3

Dessert? AMAZING. Something my mom picked up from a food truck (she loves them). A Smore's sandwich. Yup you heard me right. Take two pieces of bread, put marshmallow cream on one piece, Nutella on the other. Smush a graham cracker between them two slices, then grill the sandwich, like you would a grilled cheese. HEAVEN ON EARTH. The trick, though, is to finding the right bread. Use thinner pieces, tastes better.

Oh, so that last thing I remembered. Writing. I love writing, it's my passion. I totally love writing, an I've been working on a book for months now. I haven't been working on it for a long time. But I finally started writing it again. I sneak some writing time in during school time. It was awesome to get writing again.

I write poetry, too. If you want to read some of the stuff I've written, you can go to my other blog:

www.idareyouflipz.blogspot.com

...i hope that link works.
All right, I'm out. PEACE!

Avenger >:D

Landed on my head yesterday! Second time this year so far, looks who's on a roll. I like to take things at a humorous level, because if not I emotionally break down. I've learned its the best way to deal with things. Finding the positives right? Yep.
Ooh, so yesterday I got to watch Thor. Awesome moment of the day. I cannot wait for the Avengers! I might be a girl, but I know a good superhero movie when I see one. Plus, I absolutely LOVE superheroes. AND I CANNOT WAIT! So I've seen Thor, both Iron Mans (my favorite), the second Hulk, and Captain America. I just gotta watch the first Hulk, and then I'll be all prepared. According to my dad. He says you can't see The Avengers without seeing all the movies before it. Man I can't wait.
No, I can. Because first I've gotta see the Hunger Games. Usually when a book turns into a movie, it's not as good as the book. And it doesn't seem very exciting. But I personally think the Hunger Games will be GREAT as a movie. Lots of action. Man I'm so excited. Iron Man is so dang awesome. But I like them all, and the movie is going to be sooooooo epic.
And of course, after that is the SHINEDOWN concert ;D. It is now... 15 days until the concert, 12 days until the album comes out. My grandma is trying to take my place at the concert. Oh heck no. Shinedown is MY band, and *I* will see them, because I cannot live without them. I might be overreacting a little bit, but I will not miss the opportunity to see and MEET my favorite band. I'll take a picture for her. That's like me going to a Bon Jovi concert instead of her. Oh, but I have to drive part of the way there. From Sacramento to Reno. Hahahaha, I'm so nervous. I've had my permit for like two months. But I don't have to drive on the freeway, thank goodness. Just a few miles on an apparently very windy road. As long as its not raining, I'm okay.

Coming home

My little brother got to come home yesterday. I was so happy to see him, I haven't seen him in practically a week. He was super ecstatic to be home. I realized how much I missed him. I was actually surprised because he didn't look any different. I'd think that being cooped up and not being able to eat much and everything, that he'd look somewhat different, paler, skinnier, but he looked just like his normal self. It was awesome =)

15 and 18 more days :)

If you haven't figured it out by now, I am a huge Shinedown fan. Like huge, like this huge
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ xINFINITY Ok? Humongous

So, 15 days? Well, 15 days until their new album Amaryllis comes out of COURSE! =D

18 days? That's until March 30th, which is their concert in Reno, which my and my parents are going to!!!!!!! The best part? Guess who gets to meet the band? Yep, that's right, ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -dies from overexcitement- My biggest idols EVER, and I get to say hi to them. You know awesome it'd be if I could show them something I wrote? Like one of my poems? You know how amazing it'd be if they liked it? Holy SNOT, I might stop breathing if that happened.

Anyways, today's awesome was going to be a little hard to find. My brother might get to come home tomorrow, but you know, it was just an average day. UNTIL ABOUT 10 MINUTES AGO WHEN I FOUND THIS:

http://www.noisecreep.com/2012/03/12/shinedown-unity-video/

Yep, that's right, it's another one of Shinedown's new songs. ACCOMPANIED BY a music video. Again, two awesomes mixed together creating a weapon of mass awesomeness. Truly great song, should really listen to it. <3

A few days

So, lesse here, yesterday I had a gymnastics meet, my home meet to be exact. It was really awesome. It was the best one I've had all season, and it was really fun, too. It was also a reunion, kind of, of old teammates. It was nice seeing everyone again. I got a 9.600 out of 10 on vault, and got first place. A 9.600 is a really good score, and a really hard one to get.

Today was a quiet day. I spent it with my aunt and my little brother. The one who isn't in the hospital. It was nice.

Not much more. My brother is still in the hospital, he still gets really high fevers. I just hope he's okay.

A hard awesome to find

Yesterday's awesome? Difficult to find. Why? Because my six year old little brother had to go to the hospital yesterday. And he's staying there for a few days.
My mom took him to urgent care because he'd been throwing up from Sunday night until yesterday afternoon. He also said his head really hurt, his side really hurt, he was weak and dizzy, and he had a fever of 103.5. After being there for about five hours, they were going to let him go home, saying he had an extreme case of the stomach flu, but right before they did, they found three things:
1) Kidney Stones
2) Cysts on the kidneys (Which isn't that bad I guess, a lot of people have them)
3) Inflamed and impacted bowels, which, again, isn't THAT bad, except our dad has Chrome's disease, so it makes the situation dangerous.

After keeping him overnight, they found out what might've caused a lot of it was a urinary track infection as well. My little brother is just having a really difficult time right now :(

Anyways, finding an awesome here is really hard. But, I think it would be that I got my drawing supplies. I chose drawing as an elective for my classes this year (I'm a sophomore), so I'd ordered a bunch of supplies. They came yesterday!!! I got two sketch books, two tracing pads, two drawing books (like teaching you how to draw) and a set of pencils and charcoal and erasers. Of course, I picked up the set of pencils and thought "How the heck am I supposed to use these?" Because truthfully, the best I can do is stick people, but I really wanna learn to be better than that. So, I have no idea what the heck I'm doing, but between Youtube, my books, and common sense, I'm gonna make it look like I know what I'm doing. :)

Awesome status

Yesterday was pretty awesome. You know why? Psh, if you're a massive Shinedown fan, like yours truly, then you'd know why. Right? Come on, what Shinedown fan DOESN'T know what happened yesterday?
For those of you who aren't fans, they have a new single out, called "Bully". You know, "All you'll ever be is the fading memory of a bully, make another joke while they hang another rope so lonely." Great song, very inspirational, very touching, and very hardcore. Should go listen to it. But anyways, so this new song, and its a huge hit. Their new album Amaryllis is coming out March 30th. But what made yesterday so awesome is that the music video for the song "Bully" came out!!! HAPPY DAYS PEOPLE HAPPY DAYS!!!!!! And I must say, the video is just as powerful as the song. And when you put the two together, BAM!, man they could like, take over the world. Theoretically of course XD.
For those Shinedown fans who somehow have not seen the video yet, and for those non-Shinedown fans that reeeaalllllyyyy think they should become fans, here's the video.

Here's an acoustic version of the song:

Oh and here's the official lyric video (although I'm sure EVERYONE'S seen that)

And heck, why not a live version also?

All right all right, I'm done here. But please, WATCH THAT FIRST VIDEO AND SEE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. YOU HAVE TO AGREE WITH MEEEEE

Anything Awesome?

As I said before, some days its a lot harder finding awesome things than others. Yesterday, was one of those days. It seemed nothing made my day stand out, except for going to bed and falling asleep to my amazing music. And yeah, that was about it.

Today, I guess the awesome thing was I got to sit and watch movies. I watched Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Cars, and Harry Potter 8... yes I call it 8, not 7 part 2, 8. Because it's the eighth one. Deal? Deal.
Oh and I finished my Maximum Ride book 2, and got halfway through the third one.

I know, kind of lame awesome things, but I'm kind of.... gloomy right now. So hang with me here. One day, I'll have a hard time picking one out of many awesome things. Someday..

Perspective

Perspective. Something extremely important to me. How you look at things determines your happiness in life. So, my goal? Find something awesome in every day. Just one awesome thing. Some days will be hard. Some will be easy. But dang it, I'm going to do it.

Awesome thing today?
Easy, making this blog :)