I found out something marvelous just now. Inkheart–the movie–is premiering in theaters on…MY BIRTHDAY. Now tell me this is not fate! One of my absolute favorite books in the world is coming to theaters, in movie form (well duh…), on my birthday, January 23. I just saw the trailer and I’m so excited! It can be seen here.

Someone left me a message on my post about Golden Grahams, saying how the movie should be good because of the many amazing actors playing in it. That’s when I got curious and searched it on IMDB, and found out that Andy Serkis is playing Capricorn. I had absolutely no idea who Andy Serkis was, until I clicked his name, and found out that he played Gollum in Lord of the Rings! You see, this is what obsession does to you!

The girl playing Meggie was in both Nanny McPhee and The Prince and Me. And OHMYGOODNESS. Dustfinger is played by the naked guy in A Knight’s Tale!!! Jim Broadbent is playing Fenoglio. He is also in two of my favorite books turned into movies; Harry Potter (as Slughorn in the next film) and The Chronicles of Narnia (ProfessorKirk). The girl playing Lavender Brown in the next HP film is also in this movie; as a nymph. Rafi Gavron is going to be Farid, Dustfinger’s little follower from One Thousand and One Nights. He’s in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, which I haven’t watched yet but most definitely will (don’t you just love Michael Cera??) Arya from Eragon’s going to be Resa, and Helen Mirren who’s played Titania from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (which I’ve never watched, but was in the play once) and Morgana from Excalibur (another movie I’ve never watched but I went through a King Arthur stage and read a bunch of books), is going to be Elinor. She also played Hermia from another version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This guy (Stephen Modell…never heard of him….) has an uncredited role in the new HP film as Feather Wizard, apparently. The guy playing The Shadow was the stunt man for Professor Lupin in his werewolf scenes, which I personally think is awesome. Anyways, my point is, this is going to be one amazing movie.

So, moving on…

I forgot to mention that on Friday, after the dance, Chantel, my dad, and I watched 21 (yeah, check out my awesome grammar :D). It was so confusing, but I loved it! All the codes and all were so…I don’t know, cool! The whole time watching, I was trying to identify the main guy’s accent. He talked sort of weird, but I couldn’t tell how he was talking. Near the end, he said something that made me yell “IT’S BRITISH!” My dad’s like, what? And I explained that he’s British trying to be American. He was all “Nuh-uh”, so I looked it up, and yeah. He’s British!

Last night we all watched You Don’t Mess With The Zohan. It was one of the most stupidest movies I’ve watched in a while, but so hilarious I couldn’t really care. After, my mom, Chantel, and I watched SNL, then a Halloween SNL Special on E!. They had a clip of Adam Sandler on the show a while ago, where he was giving out costume ideas, like “Crazy Pickle Mustache!” and all. He’s just hilarious!

Today I haven’t done much of anything, except handstands outside. Apparently handstands will help you out with you back handspring, so yeah.

This week I got some glasses. Me and Chantel have been needing them for a while now, but we’ve been putting it off. Glasses just really don’t look good on me, and I can (most of the time) see well enough. But since we’re moving, our parents wanted to get them now while we still have insurance. So we got glasses.

That day, me, Chantel, and Ashley all had to get the TB skin test to participate in Hawaii sports. While we were there, they decided to give us the flu shot, too. Oh, and me and Chantel had to get the second part of some shot we took two months ago. Lovely.

Yesterday we got the skin test checked, and we were all negative, thank goodness.

Yesterday was also the Falloween dance at the YS. I don’t know why it’s Falloween, but it is. Just to let you know that it’s not a typo ;D

I was dressed up as a flapper. I think I mentioned my costume a few times. But I’m uploading pictures to Flickr as soon as November starts, since I’ve used up my free space for this month. It was fun! They had a bunch of “Fear Factor” eating contests. Chantel and her friend competed in the last one, where they had to eat this concoction that smelled and looked gross. They were the only two girls in the contest, and the only ones who finished the stuff and didn’t throw up. Chantel had her cup empty first, but she hadn’t swallowed when her friend finished. So her friend won.

We just got back from the football game about thirty minutes ago. It should’ve ended about now or in a couple of minutes, but it started raining. At first it was just a little, then when it got harder our coach told us we could leave. Some people had no parents there, and others just wanted to stay, so the seven or eight of us stayed and cheered our team on until it ended. We were soaked, loud, and laughing. It was fun! I mean, how an you get through a whole football season without cheering at a rainy game? About five cheers and fifteen minutes later, the game ended. We thought the other team forfieted. My dad told us the other team wanted to cancel this game and postpone it. Our team was out there playing and scored a touchdown in the rain. They had scored two time before, so we were winning 21 to nothing :D I don’t know what ended up happening, except that it ended and we had to leave. We took Tori home, then our parents dropped me and my sisters off to fit more people in our car.

Now I’m all warm in some new jeans, my favorite tank top, Abercrombie jacket (that’s actually Chantel’s, but it fits me :)), and my big vest with fur on the hood. I’m happy :D

This week has been really crazy, and we’re moving on Halloween day.

School’s always the same. My favorite class is Geometry, because we’re really insane. I get tickled all day and people tease me, but it’s fun. It’s funny, because it started with Jacob, then soon enough everyone hears how extremely ticklish I am, and they all gang up on me! All the rest of the day is boring and repetitive.

We didn’t have practice on Monday, due to Columbus day. But we did have school. Whatever, we didn’t have to walk home because our parents were off of work.

Tuesday was a Tuesday, and Wednesday was a normally crazy Wednesday. Gymnastics was intense, with fifty million running hurdle roundoffs. Why do things have such big names? They’re all like, “Who can do a running hurdle roundoff??” I’m like, that sounds hard… And it turns out, it’s exactly how I do my normal roundoff. Why confuse things?

We did fifteen minutes of conditioning before starting, which was even more confusing than all those long names. The coaches had us do all these random little exercises that were hard and burned, but I felt good afterwards.

We also worked on handstands, handstand forward rolls, handstands to bridges, and back walkovers. She spotted me doing my backbend, and I can go all the way down right before my hands reach the ground, but then I freak and let go. I can go that far without a spot, but whatever. She thought her spotting me would help. It so totally didn’t. She stepped on my hair! So yeah. She gave up on that for the time being.

Walkovers I almost have on the cheese. I just get stuck in a handstand for a few seconds, and she has to tip me over, lol.

After the first hour, some people leave and the advanced classes stay for thirty more intense minutes. This week we did back walkovers then running hurdle roundoffs down the other side of the floor. By the end, I couldn’t land them anymore, I just flipped and fell. But whatever.

After that thirty minutes, we went home, I had a granola bar, and immediately after we went to cheerleading practice out in the field where we used to practice. Since Homecoming is over, our practice was more relaxed. We learned two new cheers. The second one had tumbling in it, and they wanted to know who could do a roundoff. And obviously, I can. But I couldn’t there. I fell hard my first try. I went like way fast and fell weirdly. The second try sucked. But whatever. I had enough of roundoffs for now, lol.

We did that second new cheer for at least twenty minutes straight, just going on and on without a break. They were working on the building. Michaela’s going to be up in the air in a basket when we yell “BOOM!”, while April and Micheal land their roundoffs and Jasmine, Jadah, and Marissa kick into splits. Yeah, it’s a pretty cool cheer!

On Thursday I had pom again which was cool. I had to get caught up since I was at the pep rally last week instead of there. It was pretty easy, though. They worked on back rolls landing weirdly, and they all wanted to see me try, and I could do it easily, and they’re all like “no fair!” But that was one of the first things I learned in second grade gymnastics, I just had to land not on my feet, hehe.

After, me, Chantel, and our dad watched Jumper. It was cool. I loved Griffin; I could listen to his voice forever!

Friday was relaxing. We had no school that day! That night, we all watched Made Of Honor, which was hilarious!

That reminds me, last Sunday us three watched Prom Night. It was completely random and…I don’t even know. The scariest part was when she was looking in that little hole thing in the hotel room door, so you can see who’s at the door. All of a sudden, the guy shows up, and I screamed. I was getting on Chantel’s nerves with all my random screaming at the not-really-supposed-to-be-scary parts.

Yesterday I had a game to cheer at at 3 in Kinder Park. We won, of course, 15 to 0. It was freezing, so we ran all around the whole field before getting started. And we very quickly learned two cheers, one of which I absolutely love! They were both real simple and easy, but still.

After the game we went to Party City (or one of those stores) to look at Halloween costumes for Chantel and Ashley. Chantel’s going to be a dog, and she got a headband thing with ears and a nose. Ashley is going to be like Indiana Jones, because she looked absolutely adorable in the hat! I got a boa, necklace, and purse for my flapper costume :))

Then we ate at Chipotle, which is always amazing. After we went to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua. I took me until the previews started to realize that I was actually watching a movie about Chihuahuas. The whole story was really stupid and dragged on, but the dogs were so adorable!

We just sort of roamed the mall after, and I got the new addition to the Inkheart books: Inkdeath. I saw it and I had to have it! The poster outside the chihuahua movie was of the new Inkheart movie, and I was like FINALLY. And then I saw the new book! I’m going to read it on the plane.

Which leads to the whole “moving on Halloween” thing. My dad finally got his orders, and requested for plane tickets on Halloween. We’re leaving early in the morning, and it’ll take 14 hours to get there, not including the two hours we’re in Illinois, but we’ll get there in the afternoon due to the time change.

Since we’ll be on a plane, for Halloween, we’re going to this huge party at the YS. Every one’s going, so it’ll be fun.

I think we’re having a party for my cheerleading team on Saturday after that game, since it’s the last game before playoffs and my last game. I can’t believe it, but I wish we weren’t moving so soon! I mean, our 135lb team is undefeated except for that one Gorc game where they were cheating. But they’re definitely going to championships, and I won’t be here to cheer!

We just finished up my room for getting ready to pack. We had to go through everything and try and throw a bunch of stuff away. It’s going to take two months (yes, months) to get our stuff to Hawaii, and that really sucks. It’ll take a month for our car to get there, so we’ll have to use a rental car. And we’ll have to stay in a hotel until they have a house for us. So we’re moving to a place that doesn’t even have room for us yet, how smart? And on top of all that, we can’t take Bubbles or Blossom. It’s that whole “Hawaii is a rabies free state” thing. No, our dogs don’t have rabies, they just haven’t had all the shots necessary, and it’ll take a few years until they can, because they have to be a year apart. And it’ll cost at least $5000 to have them in quarantine long enough. Yeah, they have to be quarantined. We can take Emma, but not for like 120 days or something. We’re trying to convince our grandparents to let her stay with them for a while, but we don’t know if they will. How wonderful is Hawaii, anyways??

As for the title, Golden Grahams are all I’ve been eating lately. I don’t know why, they’re just very addicting.

And of course I have a new layout up. I made it on…Thursday? Yeah, I think so. Do ya’ll like it? It’s a lot different than anything I’ve had before, so I’m not sure. I think I do, though. It’s cougar colors, just to let ya’ll know ;D

So hot damn, this is my jam, keep me parting ’til the AM.

Wow, this week was exciting! It started out just as normal, with a Monday at school.

School days tend to get a little hazy for me, especially since they’re normally all the same. First block, advisory, second block, third block, lunch, getting poked and tickled and stared at all the way to fourth block.

We practiced like insane this week. Monday at the gym, Tuesday outside (the little girls had the gym :P), Wednesday at the gym in our uniforms for pictures. We added a bunch of stuff to fill in empty spots, and learned them in a day.

Thursday was our pep rally. It was actually a pep rally for all the football and cheerleading teams, so it was a lot of fun! They started with the 70lb team (only a couple of the players are actually 70lbs; it’s the tiny team :D) and their cheerleaders. They would call out the nominees for the Homecoming Princess for that cheerleading team (the whole team was nominated, lol) then draw a name out of a bucket to pick who won. After the princess is picked, the cheer team would do a cheer, then they would call out the nominees for Homecoming Prince, and then draw a name, and the football team would do their little pumped up thing. Micah, Marrissa’s little brother, was prince for the 70lb team. We were all excited and like, “GO MICAH!!”

Five 8th grade cheerleaders were nominated for Homecoming Queen. First Sarah was called, and she runs out there all nervously. Then I was called, and I just about died! I was shaking when I got there, then Nikki, Michelle, and Tori. We were all freaking out, and Michelle randomly goes, “I’ve never seen you up close before!” to the MC. We all started cracking up, and he goes “Well, I’m no Jonas Brother…” then he asks us which Jonas Brother we like the best. Their like, uh…so he changes the question to who our favorite singer is. When it got to me, I’m like, “I like Joe Jonas!” Ok, so he’s not my favorite singer. That’d probably be John Mayer. But really, he mentioned the Jonas Brothers, and I’m not marrying John Mayer! Joe’s my boyfriend, so really! Nikki ended up winning, and she was…um…yeah. Apparently she didn’t want to win so much, lol. Tom won king. It was so much fun! Then they had a bonfire and stuff.

Friday the principal gave us permission to wear our cheerleading uniforms to school. I was so happy! I got to walk around all day in the little blue skirt, hehe. Seminole players would walk up to me randomly and say “Fort Meade sucks!” or “You’re cheering for the wrong team!”. I loved it, though.

My dad had his graduation from DINFOS, so I had to get signed out at 1:20 to go home, change, and leave. The graduation was pretty boring. There were only eight people in the class, so the whole graduation took less than 30 minutes. I had practice, the last practice before homecoming! We learned five eight counts too fill in some empty spots, and I practiced it all night.

This morning I woke up early to do my hair all pretty. I had done it on Thursday for the pep rally, because we had no school for Yom Kippur. It takes me a while, since I have very long, thick hair. But I love to curl it! It stays in until I wash it, too, because of all the hairspray I use! After curling it, I had to put it all up, spray it with this glitter stuff, do my makeup (bunches of glitter), and change. I didn’t have enough time to put on fake eyelashes, but oh well. I wore them for the pep rally, and had so much fun with them! I got them for the pageant originally, but now that I can’t be in it, I decided to try them out, lol. Anyways, we lost the game. The 125lb team was playing, and they aren’t very good…to be nice, hehe. After their game, they gave out Most Spirited and MVP awards. Raven, Kiara, Nyla, and Michelle won from our team :D Then they did the whole Homecoming Queen and Court thing, which was so cute! All the princesses and the queen got a tiara, sash, roses, and this huge ribbon thing. The princes and king got a ribbon thing pinned to their jersey, and they walked down and around the field with their princess/queen. Then we did our dance. We were so nervous! But we did amazing!!!! I messed up twice, but still! We were pumped and singing and dancing like insane!

I just got back from the dance. It was fun, very tiring! We did our dance there, too, for everyone! I think we did a lot better there, in our jeans and all! I didn’t mess up that time, and I was grateful. I was so excited when they played Cotton Eyed Joe. It was so funny. In the car, right before we got there, I was like, I bet they won’t play Cotton Eyed Joe. And then, all of a sudden, I hear it, and I freak! I started doing the dance, and everyone looks at me like, ?!?. They all tried to learn it, but it didn’t work out too well. But it was fun! I’m uploading pictures right now, here’s my favorite:

That’s me and Micah after the dance :D I just had to have a picture with a football player! Now I have one with a prince, too!

I guess I should explain the random song at the beginning. All through the game, I knew only a couple of songs. That was one of them. I watched that music video way too many times on FNMTV, that it sort of stuck in my head, and I started singing it all the time. So sad, ain’t it? Hehe.

I’ve been meaning to blog since Tuesday, literally. We had the day of for Rosh Hashanah, and I told myself I would blog, but I didn’t. Of course.

So, since I can’t seem to remember my dreadful Monday, I’ll start this off with our day off. Me and my sisters walked over to the PX, and I got royal blue nail polish, clear nail polish, and royal blue eyeliner. I wanted to be very FMC-ish, lol. Very spirited! My sisters were annoying to absolute death, so I was just trying to concentrate on how excited I was for my new makeup. So we went to get some pizza, and we were standing in line, when I dropped the bag with all my makeup. And the nail polish bottle broke. And blue went everywhere. A waste of $3. Yes, it all cost only $3. But still!

We had practice that day because Monday there was a homecoming committee meeting. And we definitely needed the practice.

Wednesday was Wednesday. We had practice at Manor View, the elementary school. The weather was dreadful, so yeah. Thursday was our day off of practice, and Friday we had another practice at Manor View. We learned and memorized yet another part of the Breaking Dishes dance for Saturday, which is Homecoming.

Yesterday we had a 12:30 game cheering for the 125lb team, which was fun. It was a home game and we played the Apaches, who actually had cheerleaders who came. Their uniforms were white Tshirts that said “Apaches Cheerleading” and black shorts. So yeah, we were awesome, and they were just down right rude. They would start cheers while we were in the middle of ours, and during halftime and the cheer off, they did their cheers, and then started to leave before we did our cheers. Their coach had them come back, and they sat down in a tight little huddle like we were rabid dogs or something. While we’re doing our cheers their rolling their eyes, and they just get up and leave as soon as they can. See, we have manners. We did this whole “good luck” cheer before they went, and a “we are proud of you” cheer after.

After the game I had to stay for my sisters’ game. I had a headache, and there was just too much sun. When we went my dad had his whole graduation party there that he had been cleaning for all morning. I was supposed to clean my room Friday but I fell asleep at 7. Yeah, wayyy early. I was very tired. So I had to clean that Saturday morning before the game.

The party was…well, I don’t know. I was upstairs the whole time. Army men with food and Korean shots, not really my kind of party, lol. My mom bought 25lbs of galbi (or is it kalbi?? I don’t know, I can’t even pronounce it right :D) and they grilled it. It’s Korean ribs that everyoneloves. We had a bunch of other Korean food and ChocoPies for dessert.

Me and my mom and sisters watched SNL which was, as always, hilarious. Tina Fey looks just likeSarah Palin! Hehe…

Today I did some homework and watched hair tutorials all day. Yep. I’m looking for a new haircut, and I want it to be more Korean-ish. I turns out, my hair is already very Korean-ish. The whole style is bangs. Either very straight hair with bangs, and wavy hair with bangs. Who knew I was so in touch with my culture??

I found a tutorial on curling your hair with a straightening iron, which was fun, and very time consuming. We just watched the Sex and the City movie, which was funny. “I curse the day you were born!” Hehe, I can’t get over that. Now I have to go to sleep and wake up for school tomorrow. Ooh, but we have Thursday off for Yom Kippur. Yes, we have the day off for both Rosh Hashanah and  Kippur…yay us!