Me being a dork

Yeah, I was having fun with our web cam... don't laugh at me please... lol

Today was a good day...

I had a good busy day... went to the bank, got money out, paid bills, went to walmart, returned the water filter I bought yesterday (apparently the army doesn't allow personal water filters to be installed on our taps because I couldn't get that thing off for the life of me...), put money on my Walmart Visa card, came back to base, bought a PS2 and Star Wars Battlefront II (SWBFII), had a good chat with my mother, who is recovering from her surgery well, picked up Ryan for lunch, came home, found that one of the controls I bought for the PS2 had sticky stuff all over it, and made my guys run right without me even touching the control, (Ryan then left for work), called the furniture people and made an appointment for them to drop off the couches on Wednesday, then I hopped on my bike, rode 1 mile to the PX, exchanged the control, and bought a memory card, rode/walked back home, died, went bowling with Ryan when he got home, went to the PX, bought a mattress protector and red curtains to go with the new couch set (there's red in the pillows), came home, fed the fish, ordered pizza, played SWBFII with Ryan for a couple hours, then put up the red curtains, and moved the blue curtains to the two bedrooms, put the mattress protector on the bed, and the newly washed pillow cases back on the pillows, said nightly prayers with Ryan, got changed into my PJ's, locked the door, and came to post this... did I miss something? Hm... anyway... that was my day. If I forgot something, I'll let you know later;) haha Pictures to come on Wednesday! :D

Nothing to post...

I seriously have nothing to blog about these days... It's sad really... Oh well, hopefully soon...

Love is blind... or is it?

I just love this song, so I thought I'd post it here for fun ;) Scroll to the bottom for a video of the song :) (Turn off the music at the bottom of the right panel so it doesn't interrupt your video viewing pleasure ;))

There's a saying old says that love is blind
Still were often told, seek and ye shall find
So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind

Looking everywhere, haven't found him yet
Hes a big affair I cannot forget
Only man I ever think of with regret

I'd like to add his initial to my monogram
Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?

There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that he turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me

Although he may not be the man some girls think of as handsome
To my heart he carries the key

Won't you tell him please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me

Stephenie Meyer's "The Host" to be made into FILM!!

I'm so excited! Stephenie Meyer's book The Host is on it's way to becoming a FILM! I totally can't wait! SO! In honor of this, I am going to be a total dork and show you my picks for The Host cast... These are what Wikipedia considers the "main characters". So, here goes:

Melanie Stryder: Alexis Bledel

Wanda: Crystal Hunt

Jared: Zachary Levi

Ian: Tom Welling

Kyle: Cillian Murphy

Jamie: Connor Paolo

Jeb: Kris Kristofferson

Doc: Tim Robbins

The Seeker: Camilla Belle

An Actual Website?

Ok, so I'm gonna try this for a little bit... see how it works...

My New Website

If Only

I bought "The Little Mermaid" Broadway soundtrack the other day, and there's this song on it called "If Only" that was written specifically for the Broadway version... Can I just say... I'm SO in love with this song. I listen to it about 5-10 times a day, and I can never be sick of it. It makes me cry every time... It's SO beautiful... here's the lyrics, I hope you end up loving it as much as I do:

YouTube: "If Only", from The Little Mermaid on Broadway

Ariel:
If only you could know
The things I long to say
If only I could tell you
What I wish I could convey
It's in my ev'ry glance
My heart's an open book
You'd see it all at once
If only you would look

If only you could glimpse
The feeling that I feel
If only you would notice
What I'm dying to reveal
The dreams I can't declare
The needs I can't deny
You'd understand them all
If only you would try

All my secrets, you would learn them
All my longings, you'd return them
Then the silence would be broken
Not a word would need be spoken

Prince Eric:
What is it about her
That's so wonderfully, impossibly familiar?
Why do I feel dizzy
In a way I've only felt but once before?
How come when she looks at me
It seems like time stops moving
Almost like the way it did that day upon the shore?
But that voice!

Ariel:
If only it were true
If only for a while

Eric:
Ah, that voice!

Ariel:
If only you would notice
How I ache behind my smile

Eric:
Where's that voice?

Ariel:
I guess you never will
I guess it doesn't show
But if I never find a way to tell you so
Oh, what I would give
If only you could know

Sebastian:
(Spoken)Bless ya, child. Tomorrow, the Prince will have his pick of any princess in the land! How can a little mermaid
compete with that?

If only I knew how
I'd make him see the light
If only it were up to me
This all would turn out right
And if I only could
I'll tell you what I'd do
I'd simply wave my claw
And make your dreams come true
And wouldn't that surprise you
If you only knew

King Triton:
How could she just suddenly
Completely disappear into thin water?
It's been two whole days
And I don't know where she has gone!

Eric:
Ah, that voice!

King Triton:
If only you'd come home...

Sebastian:
If only I could help...

Eric:
Where's that voice?

Ariel:
If only there were time
I know we'd kiss at last

Eric:
That voice!

King Triton:
If only you'd come back
I'll change my ways!

Sebastian:
Just one more day for that kiss to come...

Ariel:
But time keeps racing forward
And our moment's almost passed!

King Triton:
I'll try to understand...

Ariel:
It has to happen now...

King Triton:
I'll keep my temper low...

Sebastian:
I'd give my life up to make it happen...

King Triton:
I should have started listening to you all along...

Eric:
How I wish that girl could have been this one!

Ariel:
There's only one more day until I have to go!

Eric:
If only...

Ariel, Sebastian & King Triton:
Oh, what I would give if only you could know...

Eric:
And at the ball
What will occur?
Maybe I'll find that voice
But I'll lose her...

Ariel:
If only...

Sebastian:
If only...

King Triton:
If only...

Just for fun :)

Rules:
1. Write down every letter of your name.
2. Then type a song that pops up in your mind in each letter of your name as the first letter.
3. Count the number of letters and tag that many people in your friends list

L - Love Me Tender...
A - American Pie
U - Under the Boardwalk
R - Ride Sally Ride
E - Ever Ever After
N - Nature Boy

Tag! If you've read this, you've been tagged... hahaha (The easy and cheating way to do it ;))

BY THE WAY... This was a LOT harder than you'd think!!!

How Is America Going To End?

I thought this was an interesting article:

When America disappears 100 or 500 or 1,000 years from now, it will be gone but not forgotten. As the world's leading military, economic, and cultural power since World War II, the United States will linger in the global gene pool and influence whatever comes next. But how exactly will Americanness get transmitted to the civilizations that replace us?

The physical structures we've built won't be our legacy. Our houses, schools, and stadiums will eventually crumble; in The World Without Us, Alan Weisman even imagines the Statue of Liberty getting knocked into the ocean by a glacier, leaving the real world in a similar state as Planet of the Apes. The ideas, art forms, and inventions that we've transmitted around the world will outlast our monuments' inevitable decay, and not just because our national backlog of McRib sandwiches may never biodegrade. While the current financial crisis has cast doubt on free-market capitalism, I'd wager that American-style economics will outlast this country's run as a political entity. The global rise of basketball, a game surpassed in worldwide popularity only by soccer, ensures that at least one artifact of American leisure will persist. America's native musical forms—jazz, rock 'n' roll, and hip-hop music—also seem like good possibilities to serve as cultural carriers.

But for America's intangible qualities to get preserved—our shared history, our ideals, our passions—someone needs to do the preserving. Edward Gibbon argued that the introduction of Christianity doomed Rome: "[T]he last remains of the military spirit were buried in the cloister." There's a stronger case to be made that the Christians kept Rome from being erased from our collective memory—that the Catholic Church was the one entity that maintained Roman hierarchies, Roman thought, and the Latin language as the rest of the continent descended into illiteracy.

A religion is also a good candidate to keep America alive. The history of Catholicism shows that religious movements can outlast the political systems in which they arose. Our idealized conception of what America stands for has its origins in religious belief as well: the Puritans' values of industry and self-reliance, and their desire for the nation to be a "city upon a hill."

What religion might serve as America's preservationist? In the 1960 novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr. imagines a group of monks playing the same role as their European forebears, preserving knowledge in a post-apocalyptic America. Considering this country's microscopic monk supply, it's hard to imagine monasteries banding together to combat data rot. Evangelical Christians seem like a more logical contender: Around 100 million Americans identify as evangelicals, and the idea of the United States as a promised land is pervasive in evangelical thought. But while they're often thought of as a homogeneous bloc, evangelicals are really a diverse and fragmented lot. That makes the movement resilient and adaptable but not exactly the best vessel for preserving a culture. The early Catholic Church, in contrast, was more disciplined and hierarchical, a far better candidate both to survive a collapse and to carry forward societal traditions.

A better candidate to serve as America's time capsule: the Mormons. In an aside in 2007's Are We Rome?, Cullen Murphy posits that Salt Lake City could become "the Vatican of the third millennium," with the Mormon Church "propagating a particular, canonical version of America." Orson Scott Card, the Mormon science-fiction writer, lays out a similar premise in the 1989 short-story collection The Folk of the Fringe. In "West," a group of Mormons sets out for Utah after a societal collapse brought on by nuclear war, biological warfare, and climate change. Despite finding that Temple Square is about to be submerged by rising waters, the travelers manage to keep the world alive by sticking together even as "places without Mormons were dying or dead."

Why does Card think the Mormons will live through a disaster? He explains via e-mail that Mormon culture "has strengths and weaknesses, but it has almost all the attributes of a civilizational winner. … We have organizational practices and ideological elements that make it highly likely that wherever we are, we will outlast the collapse of governments and civilizations." As far as organizational practices go, a 2007 church pamphlet recommends that families put together "a [three-month] supply of food that is part of your normal, daily diet" as well as stores of wheat, white rice, and beans for "longer-term needs."* (Seventy-two-hour preparedness kits will suffice in a pinch.) The church, practicing what it preaches, owns a silo in Salt Lake City filled with 19 million pounds of wheat. The Mormons' ideological preparations for the end of America include the widely held belief that the United States will not endure—and that when the Constitution "hangs by a thread," Mormons will be there to save it.

The god of all fish...

Zeus. My new little friend :)

new creation from TheSims3.com

Ok, seriously... I'm having WAY too much fun creating sims on my new Sims 3 game, and uploading them to TheSims3.com! This is Tinkerbell... and I have like... 46 other creations! Check them out here: My Sims Creations. Have fun guys :)

view more at TheSims3.com

My Sleeping Beauty Dream Cast

I don't remember if I've already posted this before, so I'll just do it again... Ryan and I have debated many times about the different actors and actresses that we would use for MY live version of Sleeping Beauty, and I think that we've finally come up with the perfect cast. There are alternatives to some of the characters, but I honestly think these are perfect...

Here we go:

Princess Aurora/Briar Rose: Scarlett Johansson

Prince Phillip: James Marsden

Flora: Maggie Smith

Fauna: Betty White

Merryweather: Kristen Chenoweth

King Stephan: Jeremy Irons

King Hubert: Wilford Brimley

Queen Leah: Robin Wright Penn

and finally, the magnificent Maleficent goes to: Angelina Jolie


Now, as I said, there are alternatives for some of the characters, like if we were to make a younger cast for Phillip or Aurora, my personal picks are:

Aurora: Hayden Panettiere

and Phillip: Christopher Egan


But they'd have to convince me that they can be good enough for me...

I'm also planning on making it a musical. Yes. A musical.

Others for Flora, and Fauna have been picked too... younger, but still old enough to play the wise fairies... but I still don't feel like they're right... they just don't... click yet in my heart... if that makes sense...

Anyway, I'm having way too much fun thinking that this could actually happen... Once upon my dreams right?

P.S. Can I have this please?:

PRISMACOLOR LOVIN'!

I GOT MY PENCILS TODAY!!!!!!! I don't think anyone has seen me this giddy in a while... anyway, just thought I'd let ya'll know that art is soon to come!

Love,
The colorful ~L

Prismacolor!

I'm SO excited! Last week, I ordered my set of 132 Prismacolor, colored pencils, from Cheapjoes.com. I'm so excited about getting them... I'm getting a bit anxious. I've already drawn a few fairies, and can't wait to color them. When I have them, and they're finished being colored, I'll take pictures of the finished products and put them up here, or on my DeviantArt page...

Anyway, I'm just too excited... I can't say it enough. I'm excited... EXCITED! AAAAH! lol

Health and Wellness...

See... that's me ~~~>
Tomorrow, Ryan has set up an appointment for our Health and Wellness inspection. I didn't know we were going to be subject to these since we're married, but whatever. So, today I am in my cleaning mode. All dressed in my comfy clothes, and have my dance music on in the background. Dishes are done, laundry is in, kitchen floor is mopped (done 2 days ago), and the table with the laptop on it is relatively visible through many layers of paper... soon to be organized.

I have yet to clean the bedroom(s), bathroom, and living room. I have a 1000 piece puzzle spread across the floor at the moment, but that will soon be remedied. There are shoes scattered all over the house, and oddly enough, they're not mine! Funny thing right now is that Ryan has more pairs of shoes here than I do! I have 2 pairs of flip-flops and a pair of sneakers. That's it, and they're all on the shoe rack by the front door. I think I might even venture out and clean the glass door to our porch... *gasp* It's true.

And at the end of it all, I will vacuum. A chore I really don't mind doing, and possibly even look forward to. Because to me, a well vacuumed floor means you can lie on the ground in complete bliss, knowing you're finished :) Done!

Anyway, I will let you know how it all goes. I'm sure we'll pass inspection, but if we don't... I'll be in a total loss for words. I'm a bit nervous because he has like, 4 of his superiors coming to take a look at hour house... weird. I should look good... maybe I'll dress like this:



What do you think? Will it impress his bosses??? LOL!

Ok, I'm off to finish my work! Hey, put some good moving music on yourself, and take a dance around the house... it's good for your soul ;)

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I am now in love... all over again ;)

Need a good laugh???

ENJOY ;)

MOMMY!!!

My mother will be here in 4 days :) I'm so excited! We have plans to go visit Pearl Harbor, and the temple (which I do often anyway), the Bellows, North Shore... I just really hope she doesn't get bored. I know that we can't really afford a lot, so hopefully she brings enough money to do what she wants.

Anyway, I'll take a lot of pictures when she does get here :D I'm excited to see her!

I'm on the way!

Yay me! I've gotten started on the road to my lapband surgery. The doctor told me today that I'm a perfect candidate. The only thing is, she told me that it'll be almost the same amount of time to wait to have children as if I had gastric, so I'm going to talk to Ryan about me just doing that instead. I don't know, I'm going to have to pray about it... I dunno...

Anyway, wish me luck. I hope everything goes quickly and smoothly... *cross my fingers, cross my knees, hope all's well with the surgery!*