December 5, 2009 at 7:09 pm (Random)
Tags: sailing, venturing
I was just reminded of one of my favorite sayings… an old nautical blessing according to the US Navy website. We said this occasionally while we were venturing.
There are good ships, there are wood ships, and ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.
September 6, 2009 at 11:52 am (Random)
Tags: "Answer", "Better", "Boys with Girlfriends", "Everything", "Fidelity", "Grace Kelly", "Mercy", "On the Radio", "Raindrops from the Sun (Hey Hey Hey)", "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", Duffy, Frank Sinatra, Imani Coppola, Jason Mraz, Meiko, Michael Buble, Mika, Miss B., music, Regina Spektor, Sarah MacLachlan
… and it’s awesome. I recommend you listen to all of these songs.
So I Tried a Little Freddy
1. Grace Kelly by Mika
2. How Lucky We Are by Meiko
3. The Remedy (I Won’t Worry) by Jason Mraz
4. Raindrops from the Sun (Hey Hey Hey) by Imani Coppola
5. Fidelity by Regina Spektor
6. Better by Regina Spektor
7. Everything by Michael Buble
8. Answer by Sarah McLachlan
9. Boys with Girlfriends by Meiko
10. Mercy by Duffy
11. They Can’t Take That Away From Me by Frank Sinatra
12. On the Radio by Regina Spektor
August 21, 2009 at 11:46 am (Random, Skating)
Tags: Cleveland, Grey's Anatomy, Hope S., Ingrid Michaelson, Kennebunk, Lindsey, London, Miss B., My Sister's Keeper, Omaha, Regina Spektor, Samantha, Skating, Sophie, The Time Traveler's Wife, twix
I got this from Lindsey, Sophie’s classmate.
1. What time did you get up this morning?
Miss B. is working welcome week, so we had to get up at 8:30. That’s actually late for me… I don’t have skating this week and I’m used to getting up at 3:30am!
2. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
I have not been to a cinema here. The only people who ever get to go to movies are Kit-Kat! I want to see My Sister’s Keeper… but not with anyone else. Too many questions… And The Time Traveler’s Wife looks good; MB said it was really true to the book.
3. What is your favorite TV show?
Grey’s Anatomy. It’s bad…
4. What is your favorite dessert?
anything with apples… like cinnamon apples, apple pie a la mode, etc…
5. Favorite sandwich?
any panini. right now, I’m really loving reubens!
6. Favorite item of clothing?
Oh right now, Hope’s NYC sweatshirt that I’ve kind-of stolen. We’re not going to see her until October, so why not? Otherwise, my skates of course!
7. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would
you go?
I go a lot of places for skating…but I don’t really get to tour or anything. Probably London.
8. Morning or night person?
I have to be a morning person because I am a skater…
9. Any Pets?
None
10. Texting or IMing?
I don’t really like either. I text a lot though because it’s convenient with skating. But I don’t like when people send chain texts and stuff.
11. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with us?
I have a great new sweatshirt! Um…jk…it’s not really mine…
12. What did you want to be when you were little?
A doctor
13. How are you today?
Well-rested. Ready to move people in…
14. What is your favorite candy?
Not Kit-Kats for sure. I’d say Twix.
15. What are you listening to right now?
Regina Spektor, which Sam is kind-of mad about…but I LOVE HER! AND… Ingrid’s new CD comes out the 25th!!! SO EXCITED!!!!!!
16. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Light blue… like snow 
17. Favorite restaurant?
Panera by far
18. Summer or winter?
Winter
19. Hugs or Kisses?
Hugs, and cheek kisses (OH SKATING)
20. What is under your bed?
Oh, wait! I DON’T HAVE A BED! That’s right! Miss B. ran out of space, so me and every doll after me do not have a bed or a room! This is a major fail. Under MB’s bed? Extra bathroom supplies, suitcases, books in a shelf thing, and printer paper.
21. What are you afraid of?
Nothing really. Nothing I would tell the grand online world…
22. How many towns/cities have you lived in?
Just one, until I moved to OWT. Now I’ve lived in 3: Omaha, a town near Cleveland OH, and Kennebunk, ME
23. hearts or stars?
stars
24. Most embarassing moment?
odd questions…
25. Favorite genre of movies?
Action
July 19, 2009 at 7:44 pm (Random)
Tags: "Fidelity", Little Miss Playthings, music, Nicki, photos
I have a new favorite outfit. Too bad it’s Nicki’s!!
I wore it for my photoshoot for LMPT Round 4, “About Me”. It looks pretty cute for a ski outfit, don’t you think? It makes me miss winter at home. Ski mountains in Nebraska are uh…not happening.
I was almost going to use this picture, but it didn’t have the skis.
But this is the one I used.
Which one do you like the best?
Also, I have a new obsession with Regina Spektor.
July 12, 2009 at 1:39 pm (Random)
Tags: "Answer", "I Walk the Line", Johnny Cash, Little Miss Playthings, Miss B., music, photos, Samantha, Sarah MacLachlan, Walk the Line movie
I thought it would be cool to make a little “backstage” post about my LMPT Round 3 photo because it was quite complicated. The theme for this round was Line.
First I thought I’d use one of my favorite songs, “Answer” by Sarah McLachlan. So we set up a “photo shoot” and got to work. I put on this dress because I thought it would be cool to kind-of be part of the background.
Then we put down a line, of course…
Next we spelled out my favorite LINE from the song, get it, haha…
But as you can tell, it didn’t really read the way we thought it would. MB thought she could photograph it so it was kind-of on a down-angle and you’d read the words going towards me, but when she uploaded the photos she had to admit they didn’t read correctly. So we switched it, and this was going to be my entry photo…
It looks pretty with the color editing we did, but I wasn’t totally satisfied. If you look at the “WILL” we couldn’t get the second “L” to lay correctly, and some of the letters are so light-colored that you can’t really see them. Plus, my expression isn’t the greatest. Still, we were going to go with this photo until we noticed it looked like I was walking on the line, which is kind-of why I picked this particular shot to be my entry. (PS: I got that by leaning against a doll stand – bet you can’t see it!) Miss B. said something to her mom about this and she just said we should go all-the-way Johnny Cash.
Of course. Iconic and simple. I think part of the issue I had with this shoot is that it was a little complicated. Samantha started going NUTS because she’s obsessed with Johnny Cash. So I figured I’d try to model it after that famous pose he has…you know, this one that was immortalized in the Walk the Line movie poster:
Here’s a picture of me goofing off on set. I kinda like it!
This was my pose…
But for the final transformation, we had to make it all ’50s…very real Johnny Cash.
Do you like it? Which one do you like better? I love that I still used music as my inspiration, and still used a song LINE (“Because you’re mine…I walk the line” – duh!). I didn’t think of this originally because, well, I’m not Samantha, but I’m totally in love with it. What do you think?
July 10, 2009 at 12:07 am (Friends, Random)
Tags: "Under the Oak", Baby-Ruthie, D.H. Lawrence, Harper, Kit movie, Kit-Kat, Miss B., My Sister's Keeper
Or “not fair”. Take your pick.
Tomorrow Miss B. is going to see My Sister’s Keeper…and she won’t take me! She said if she took me she’d have to take Harper too, and she doesn’t want to bring two dolls. She brought Kit-Kat AND Baby-Ruthie to Kit’s movie! Ugh! She says Harper should go anyway (instead of me!), since it took them forever to convince me to read that book. I didn’t even want to admit I liked it because they kept bugging me about it. But it’s so good! Oh well. I guess I’ll have to see it on DVD…or pretend I’m boycotting Cameron Dias and The Noncanonical Ending like some of Miss B.’s friends are.
You, if you were sensible,
When I tell you the stars flash signals, each one dreadful,
You would not turn and answer me
‘The night is wonderful’
~D.H. Lawrence, “Under the Oak”
July 7, 2009 at 1:54 pm (Random, Skating)
Tags: Kit-Kat, Little Miss Playthings, Miss B., photos, sewing, skating costume
Except as a graduation present, I got to order an ice skating dress this year. Sweet! It’s the white one. This was my picture for LMPT Round 2, Clothing. The scene is kind-of fake, though. The leotard I’m sewing is actually the top to Kit’s new dress, and the extra fabric on the floor is actually her skirt! (Kat didn’t get one so she’s kind-of mad…) I love this sewing machine, though. Miss B. said I could have it.
And as an extra, MB insisted I post this picture of me. It was one of the ones we took for the Heroes round, but we decided we like the one of me smiling better. I bet you can tell why. It kind-of scared me. I look pretty sick!
June 29, 2009 at 7:14 pm (Random)
Tags: "Hero", Enrique Iglesias, Little Miss Playthings, Miss B., photos
Sorry for the bad “Hero” puns.
Now that the first round of LMPT is over, I wanted to write a little about my entry. Sorry it sounds formal, we wrote this up together to be an intro to our photo.
This past season, the TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition chose the theme of “Heroes” as well. The minute Miss B. and I saw this theme for LMPT, we thought of a debate we read on EMHE’s message boards when we’d gone on the site to watch the AG episode. People were debating whether one child, who had had two bone marrow transplants, could really be touted as a Hero because he hadn’t saved anyone else’s life. Remembering this debate, it was easy to decide on a photo subject. The photo evokes my past, and my “smile and wave, boys” pose is reminiscent of some awesome real-life photos Miss B. and I both have.
I’ve written up some comments on the round one photos, but I think I will post all my comments at the end, since the results aren’t announced until the end, either.
June 24, 2009 at 11:22 pm (Friends, Random)
Tags: "I'm On A Boat", "Maybe", camping, Harper, Ingrid Michaelson, Ivy, Julie, Kit-Kat, Miss B., music, photos, Rita, Samantha, Skating, The Lonely Island, venturing
Miss B.’s brother is on a high-adventure camping trip, and I am missing Venturing like no tomorrow. I spent six months with those girls on a boat, you know?! (On a boat, hahaha.) And I really miss the physical challenge of all the things we did. Sailing is not all smooth sailing, you know. (Don’t ask for Rita’s account of me on the boat – just don’t. Let’s just say we really didn’t get along for most of it, and I don’t know why besides we’ve never really been close and I don’t know what got into us when we decided to be cabinmates.) We did other things besides sailing too, like going backpacking and caving, and MB’s brother backpacked today. I nearly died. I’ve been feeling that way the whole week. I can technically stay in the troop until I’m 21, but it’s not like I’m ever in Maine anymore, and I haven’t found any troops here.
So I’ve been talking to a few girls about taking a mini-camping trip in the backyard and doing some minor hiking. Just something to get the energy back, but really relaxed. I’ve been talking a lot to Julie and Ivy, who are best friends and are really cool. They are really into the seventies, so I have to admit I thought they were weird at first. Ivy is really quiet, and they usually stay by themselves unless Julie is organizing some rally or fundraiser for her latest cause. But once I got to know them, they’ve been really cool. Ivy does gymnastics, and she’s almost as intense about it as I am about skating. (Nobody can be more intense than I am about skating!) And Julie’s just so open about everything and really fun. I was thinking about inviting them and Sam, since I hang out with Sam the most here.
Well, Miss B. basically took me aside and said certain-students-who-shall-not-be-named *cough Harper cough* are Girl Scouts and would be upset if I didn’t invite them. And so would Sam because she knows how much they love camping. I wanted it to be a small campout! If I invite the two people MB mentioned, I have to invite THEIR best friends too. I’m so over that. And what, can Sam not go anywhere without her posse?
Besides, I read those Kit-Kat camping albums. I’m so over luxury camping. They would honestly hate my trip. Cabins? NO WAY!
But no.
I think MB has some secret conspiracy to get me to be friends with Harper. I don’t know why. Yeah, she’s fun, but we have way too much in common. It would be awkward. I don’t want to deal with how much she knows about me already without me even saying anything. And just when I was starting to trust Miss B. a lot. If we end up good friends, it’ll happen on our own time.
And THIS ALBUM is why us being friends might not be the greatest idea. I forgot to post it because, well, it doesn’t really paint me in a good light, and frankly I’m annoyed about that. I have a feeling I said too much in this post, but who really cares anyway? I’m seriously annoyed. MB is refusing to let me have my campout until at least Friday, supposedly because she’s “busy with homework”. Mmm-hmm.
Yes, aren’t we BFFs?!
“Oh, the only way to really know is to really let it go…” – Ingrid’s NEW SINGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And despite it all, I realize I should just let this go. My mom is always bugging me to “have perspective since you SHOULD considering your history” and maybe spoiled me is finally getting some. Yeah, right. I’m sure another awkward moment will come up and bring this all back again.
April 29, 2009 at 12:11 am (Friends, My Lovely Life, Random)
Tags: "With or Without You", Hope S., music, Peter Gabriel, photos, religion, Samantha, U2
So I got a new dress, Hope implied that I was spoiled (no contest there, really), Hope decided she liked the dress better on her, Hope claimed the dress. Pretty typical story around here.
Here it is on me.
On another note, I am continually amazed at the religious allusions in 80s/90s pop-rock, such as U2, Peter Gabriel, etc. Most recently, I discovered “With or Without You” has this whole allusion to Jesus being crucified. Even though I’m usually lukewarm on my religion, I really connected to this one. (Sam has been begging me to do something about the “lukewarm” thing, but whatever.)
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