Monday, July 15, 2013

Welcome to Lazy town. Population: Me

 Another lazy day in homework town, folks. I have less than 3 weeks before school starts (August 1st), and I still haven't even gotten half-way through reading The Count of Monte Cristo. To top that hundred-something chapters of reading that i've hardly touched,  I also have to finish this crazy project for my AP History class. Like I've previously said before, I'm going to not have a lot of free time on my hands for a while.

Homework + Girl Scouts + My siblings' schedules + Soccer = My Crazy Non-internet Life

I forgot to tell you guys about how my mom is trying to suck me into re-joining  rec. soccer. *sigh* I honestly would be happier getting a job for this fall, but I guess I gotta keep myself fit for soccer during off season...no, actually last spring Coach Carte (high school soccer coach) said we might start the season earlier. Apparently the other high schools in our area start their season earlier to skill build. *shrugg* I wouldn't argue with that idea; everyone starts out rough at the beginning of the season, starting the season earlier allows us players to re-acclimate to the game. My mom also told me that the U-16 rec. league will be coached by someone new (instead of the other coaches i've had in the past). I'd much rather have a new coach than one of my old. Rumor also the newer coach is a pro, the kid you normally find teaching the Varsity soccer players. That gotta be fun, right?

I promise i'll try and set aside a few minutes-hours a day post here. Life can be crazy sometimes..so it wont  be long before I crawl back and start wining for random reasons.


Saturday, July 13, 2013

Today's topic: Movies

Movies. We all watch them. Nerds, Jocks, snaky cheerleaders, actually nice cheerleaders, teachers, parents, that annoying five year old that lives across the street.

For me Im nearly three weeks away from being an official Sophomore, which means summer is almost over. :(

Okay, back to the point. Over this summer my parents decided to cut our cable, which I wasn't to thrilled about at first, in the end we got Netflix as a TV "filler."  All this summer spare time has enameled me to become a movie addict.

So, yesterday night I locked myself into my parents room, turned the lights off, and watched two horror/scary films on my mother's IPad. To explain, Netflix doesn't update their movies frequently so we Netflix'ers end up with a combination of good old movies. The two movies I watched were, The House at the End of the Street and The Cabin in the Woods. Both films where excellent in my opinion.

<- Trailer of The House at the End of the Street.
Plot : A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.

Director:

 

Writers:

  (screenplay), (story)
( Stole this information from  http://www.imdb.com)

I honestly Liked this movie, But I'd give it.....

3.5 Stars!!!

The Plot sucked me in and I love Jennifer Lawrence's acting abilities. This horror movie is very gory and PG-13 (for all of you independent teenagers who's parents will only let you watch PG-13). The movie is classified as a Thriller/Horror, I couldn't argue anymore, the movie pulled me in and made me jump a couple of times... the movie info website I said they're rating was .


<- Cabin in the Woods Trailer

Plot Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

Director:

 

Stars:

 
(also stole information from http://www.imdb.com)


I Crazy LOVED this movie! As I checked the movie info website I saw their rating was 7.1/10. I'd give this movie.....

4.5 STARS!!!

This movie's unique plot really grabbed my attention, their begginning hook seemed to keep climaxing. I can already say this is one of my (new) favorite movies.


*Both movie's where said to come out around 2011-2012, so they're still pretty new. Go check em' out!

Friday, July 12, 2013

Alice can't find her rabbit hole


This morning I woke up to the sound of my parents talking over their normal Friday morning coffee. As usual I catch myself listening to them share information about one another's life, rather than falling back asleep as I wish to do every morning (even during school). In some alternative universe I imagine myself as some sort of sleep goddess...Nothing to abnormal. I’m sure other peoples parents have some sort of alternative to my parent's morning coffee consultations, but to explain why parent do this so frequent, my dad is always working and my mom is (mostly) a stay at home mom. A majority of the time my dad is either out of the house working or sleeping because of the late hours he works on his second job, Fridays are the only regular  days he has off from work. Another secret reason they talk this early might have something to do with my still sleeping little sisters, they might know I listen in they might not I honestly don't care.

Anyway...Like always I only start paying attention when our family matters is the main object of the conversation. 

My name slipped into the conversation. Lately my mom has been talking about my fall extra-curricular, in other words what I'm going to do with the "black hole" of time I have between my never done homework (which by the way I signed up for 2-3 Honors classes and 1 AP class) and girl scouts (We've stopped going to the regular meetings so it's only time before I quit).

I honestly don't know what I want to do either; it's to the point where my parents are making the choice without me. I've expressed my interest in computer related careers before; my dictating mother just doesn't think any of my ideas are "heavenly spotlight" great, nothing more than another crumbled piece of paper next to the hypothetic trash bin. I heard Mother mentioning unhealthy and computers in the same sentence, I almost cried.

My mom’s opinion of extra-curricular is time filler with benefits. Of course computers can fill that spot, but she just doesn't like it as much as I do, mom Im sorry my future is enviably going to be computer related, I guarantee that in my generation somebody is going to invent flying cars. (Easier said than done, right generation Ys?)

I know when she says unhealthy she means exercise, normally I would play rec. soccer (recreational). I used to believe someday I'd be Mia Hamm good, and that by sophomore year I would have Varsity in the bag. What killed my light? Our local leagues' "alpha" soccer tryouts. Of course it's not called that, but to make it more understandable to pretty much everyone else that doesn't play in my home town's rec. soccer league. The tryouts where tough, and I didn't make it. I over estimated my super powers and un-heroically I sat in the corner of the room and cried. 

On that note, soccer was just something I did in my "free time". To be a soccer super star you need the correct knowledge of soccer, something that only a few people know. Hopping into the league like I tried almost never works, you have to join when you’re younger, and hardly anyone thinks about being a proper Mia Hamm at the correct age. It's really stupid; everyone is being belittled by the program. I promised myself to try again next year (but only if I was still interested in soccer by then).

The other day one of my mom’s friends suggested that instead I should work for something different all together, getting a job. Anyone my age wouldn't pass this up, working for money. MONEY! I could do so much if i just had a little more money in my life...But one does not simply walk into a store and ask for a job. Or a fast food restaurant. Or anywhere. That’s my problem. I don't know where I would work. A start decision would be to work somewhere that could open a door for my future...and unhelpfully I still don't know where I want to work in the future, I don't have the bittiest of a clue. Another smart decision would be to work where you could get any sort of discount, a useful discount at that.

Can we just assume I don't have my life together enough to even come close to this? After all, I started this blog as personalized way to understand how to organize my thoughts. Not also to mention I made this to work on my horrible grammar. I’m still stuck. Please oh please mom! DON'T sign me up for golf lessons!

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Mistakes are always made, but it's how you solve them that makes the greater difference

Today I quit the forum.

For those who honestly don't know, but still do care....
'The forum' is (well, used to be) my personal escape, I only go on when I have spare time or a boring project to finish. Thanks to the forum I've mastered the art of procrastination; I used to get sucked into that website for hours. Of course I didn't go onto the forum everyday, you don't have to do something everyday to be classified as 'obsessed'. I had been on the forum for two whole years, my forum adversary was sometime in June.

How the heck did I work up the courage to give up something that important? Not sure. I typed the thread title intending to explaining my surrendered efforts to finding the missing admin, and somehow the post topic alternated all together. It started as a what if and became a why not.
I could best describe this as a common case of teenage YOLO....

I don't normally regret my spontaneous choices, so why should I this time?
I told the other members they could talk to me at other places, I didnt specify where.
Was that a bad idea?

Unlike others who have quit the forum, I've promised myself to stay with the internet. I can still tweet from my crappy phone, I have access to the forum's vacant blog, I refuse to go M.I.A. 
I have gone M.I.A before, the end result is a confusing comeback and a tricky game of catchup.
(Happens to pop stars all the time...)