R.I.P. Heath Ledger

(I started this blog the day after Heath died... and am just finishing it now. I've also found out people don't think it was a drug overdose, but probably a heart attack. So at least it wasn't drugs.)

I was really, really sad when I found out about THIS yesterday. I mean, obviously this stuff happens all the time in Hollywood, but it's HEATH LEDGER. One of my favorite guy actors! I never thought he would die so soon. Well, of course I didn't, but... ah what am I saying? It makes me sad. I'll be thinking of his family.

<3

In other news! We've started watching Battlestar Galactica, which is crazy intense and super good. I'm still not sure if I like it as much as Babylon Five, although it is very similar. My favorite characters are Starbucks and Lee, of course. In fact, we're all kind of in love with Lee... hehehe. It was so funny, last night we were watching and finished a slightly depressing episode, and we decided it was due to the fact that Lee hadn't appeared once. He was in the next one though, so we survived. ;)

And the next night, we all screamed when we realized the episode was going to be about him. Litteraly. Screamed.

So anyways, devoted to Lee? Yes, definitely.

I've been working steadfastly in the last couple of weeks on my mv (which I finished like a week ago), and my short story. The short story is finished (via WR if you want to read it), and I'm thinking about sending it to some magazines. There's this one called the Apprentice I think I'll try first, although I'm going to edit it a couple more times. It already seems rough reading it again after a day. Erin drew some really awesome pictures for it of the MC Sam and the shell girl Leah which I want to put on here if she lets me scan them in. They make me happy. :)

As for the mv, well it's been quite, quite, quite, quite, quite, quite, irritating. Haha. Seriously. VERY irritating. It's only worked in the email I sent so far for one person, and I can't figure out why it's not working for you guys. I even got Erin to try uploading it to youtube/here, but NOTHING works. GACK! GABOOPY! NOT FAIR!

Why me?

...Why???

*sigh*

In compensation for the lack-of-working-video, and especially since L. DOWNLOADED QUICKTIME for me and it STILL wouldn't work, I shall gift you with pictures. Lots of pictures. And please, say what you think. :D

You all know this girl.

Mirany's future hubby, EriQ. I have to avoid looking at this dude. I swoon a lot.

Would you want him as your daddy?

Emmy!

Guess who.

Kadin. <333>

Zara as a blonddd (she's naturally red headed.)

This is my boy. Stesha. :)

Um. Um. Um. ILOVEHIM.

That's all for now! I don't want to post too many just in case I *do* get the vid to work by some miracle. But that's a little teaser, if you will. 

I know I haven't done a little book thingy for awhile, (well I haven't even POSTED for awhile, sooo...), but I have still been reading!!! Very much!! I just finished Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe, which was fabfabfabulous! It's about Jasmine, girl detective wannabe who is being slowly crushed by her father and has a strange attraction for calamity, as her total brainless-slash-loser cousin calls her. (Her cousin talks with slashes - seriously, she's always going "that is so lame-slash-pathetic," or whatever. It's rediculous.) 

Anyways, as you may expect, Jasmine runs into trouble over family vacation and starts uncovering a very confusing mystery including celebritys, murderers, and one hot, confusing, british accented young man. Unlike Leila, the mystery did pull me in and I was very impressed by Jasmines skills. But like Leila, I still think it's the characters that make the book, especially Jasmine and her extremely, extremely crazy friends. Guys, think of us, at our craziest craziest, and that's not quite there. Seriously. It's awesome. 

So pretty much, just read it, because it's sosososososososo fun and refreshing and if you're having a bad day it's the perfect book to pick up. 

Plus, it's PINK! COMMON! 

;)

Yes people. There is more to this already-unusually-long-post-for-me! :D 

I never wrote about last weekend, I realize, which is terrible shocking! Basically, it was a blast, as on Saturday I drove down (or up, never remember), to Auburn with Leah's parents to see her, and the show she's assistant stage managering for. It was mucho awesome, especially since her parents are very cool and very funny, and it wasn't really awkward at all, which was relieving. We went to her apartment first, which is kind of spooky looking on the outside but really nice inside, talked for a bit there, and then went out to eat. I wanted to get to hang out with her more, but sadly she had to go to the theater pretty soon so I got to follow her parents around Craft Mania and Beds, Baths & Beyond. I had never been in a Craft Mania before, and WOW, I could live there! It made me happy, and I bought some stuff mostly for card making. Then we met up with her Aunt and Uncle, who are kind of singular cool people like the rest of them, and went to the show. That was cool, and afterwards we got to talk a little with some of the people Leah works with, especially the stage manager there. She was really nice and talked to me a little, and made my night because she was all like "So are you at Bennington with Leah, or...?" 

I think she was fairly surprised when I told her I was a sophomore in high school. 

Heh.

Also, last saturday I cut my hair. I've been wanting to for awhile, kind of hoping to get it styled but I don't want to have to pay all that money especially with going to San Diego and drivers ed sometime in the future, so I just decided to chop it. I wanted to donate to locks of love but wasn't sure if it would be too short... well at any rate, I went for it, and it IS rather short, but I've gotten used to it. In fact, I quite like it. I can actually wear it down, with a side part, for the first time in my life! Shocking! :D

Then on Sunday, Jessie, Katie, and India came over and it was LOADS of fun. We watched Pirates 3, and talked pretty much through the entire thing (sub-titles are so useful!), and ate a ton of junk and LAUGHED. How we laughed! Mom was astonished, and even commented on it when everyone had gone. Ah well. At least it's healthy. 

MONDAY, we had another busy day, as we went to the teen advisery meeting at the library, BG and teen movie night. The best thing that happened though, was that the utterly beyond awesome Leila gave us ALL FREE BOOKS! :O :O :O She had extra copies so we played a trivia game and won them as prizes. I got The Morning Gift, by Eva Ibbonson (sp? I'm too lazy to look it up :P), and I finished reading it this morning. (It's now Saturday btw. I started this post, like, WEEKS ago.) It's INCREDIBLE. I loved it soooo much. It's one in her series of romance novels, and I had read one before and not loved it - I dunno the characters never connected with me and the whole thing seemed kind of shallow - but this I absolutely adored. The characters are all fabulous, the romance, like, just makes me want to scream, and... it was just so good! This morning when I was reading it, I kept reading a chapter, groaning, getting up and pacing around my room for a moment because things were so bad in the book, and then picking it back up again. I wanted to tear my hair out. But it was SO GOOD! It's like I told Erin; we read this really sweet short story a couple of days ago one of our friends sent us, that was just about falling in love and being married all your days and whatnot, and it was SO sweet that both of us I think were tearing up at the end. The Morning Gift was like that, except MORE. 

AH.

THANK YOU LEILA!

And now probably anyone who reads it will be dissapointed because I've built up their expectations so much but... tough. I loved it. So there. 

There's not much more to relate, except that I've applied for jobs at Garden Street market and the little cafe in town... actually RETURNING the applications this time. Whoo, go me. The choices are kind of bleak... bagger, dishwasher, bagger, dishwasher, bagger, dishwasher, hmmm which would I REALLY like to be?! 

But oh well. We'll see what happens. :)

Tomorrow is my Grandma's birthday and I'm singing at mass, then Wednesday is Kelia's birthday and Thursday we're leaving for San Diego!!!!! YAY!!!! I'm SO excited, although it does seem kind of unreal like, we're going on a plane to somewhere warm on thursday?! Yeah. Right. But it's true! We are! And we'll be back the 14th, probably won't have any internet access between then. I'll miss you guys, but I'm so excited!!!! :D :D :D

Despite the head aches, despite the restlessness that winter always brings for me, the sky was still blue today, Pride and Prejudice was still fabulous, and Erin still made me giggle during prayer when I should have had my eyes closed... Life is good. :) 

<3

Anna