The Help

I saw this movie for the first time today. I haven't read the book yet, but oh my heck, it's amazing!! Totally gives a new perspective and a feel for what life was like during that time. My favorite characters were easily Minny, Skeeter (Rita Skeeter, from Harry Potter, must be the evil twin :) and Aibileen.

You is kind

You is smart

You is important

This show made me wonder

 what type of person would I have been if I lived during that period??

I hope I would have had to courage to make a stand and help out the blacks. Be their friend...

Dognap

Wow. I cannot remember the last time I took a nap. 

I guess a 2 hour nap after a 4 hour test is okay...

But still. I never take naps.

Weird.

It's totally Kobe's fault.

Kobe was laying by me, then later Kooper. Kobe fell asleep beside me and he was snoring. Yes, he's a heavy sleeper. I think he lulled me to sleep :D

The Pictures Your Pictures Could Look Like

I'm taking a photo class this semester... yes, it's great. 

One of the first assignments was making a poster, as a group. My group was made up of Tori, Jalynn, and Ami. I love those people! Anyway. We were told that only a few groups would receive the full points and the rest 80%. Some motivation, huh? Well, we decided to play off of Mr. Old Spice :D

The Pictures Your Pictures Could Look Like

Hello photographers. Look at your photo, now at mine, now back at yours, now back to my photo. sadly, it isn't mine, but if you stopped using bad technique and switched to good technique, it could look like my photo.

(The top photo is a pic of a lady falling off a horse, and the pink strip by it says 'I'm on a horse' haha)

I know it's way fuzzy and I'm sorry, that's the best I could do with my phone camera.

Now. Onto another great aspect of photography class. Homemade tin can cameras. We didn't make them, but Mr. B showed us how to use them. It's a long tin can with an itsy bitsy tiny hole poked in it with a 'shutter'. The shutter is a piece of cardboard taped to the outside of the can, that flips up. See, there's a certain type of paper that, if exposed to light in any degree, once developed, turns into a negative photograph. 

Stick some fancy photo paper inside the dark, dark camera can, lift the shutter to bring in light and...

This was the 2nd picture Megan and I took using said ingenious invention :D

The first one was just of Megan, but turned out great. I'm the one on the right, Megan is on the left. I think the reason my left arm looks non-existent, is because I was holding the shutter up. 

Hey, I think it's pretty clear... for a tin can :D Oh, and do you see the school bus inbetween the 2 of us??

"Live as if you'd drop dead in 10 seconds. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security."

Life... is unpredictable. Just go watch Soul Surfer. Sometimes things happen that make life hard. Keep going. Live as if you'd die tomorrow, or in 10 seconds. How would your life be different? What would you do or change?

Have fun and make every moment count!!

Ever After

Hahaha!!! I LOVE Ever After... I'm watching it now and I keep getting distracted by the quotes :D

Stepmother: Perhaps I shall ship you off to the Americas with all the rest of the thieves.

Stepmother: You're hiding something from me. I can feel it. I demand to know what it is.
Danielle: Why don't you tell me so I can get back to sleep?
Marguerite: What about our breakfast?
Danielle: You have two hands. Make it yourself.

Davinci: I know that a life without love, is no life at all.

Prince Henry: And love without trust? What of that?

Davinci: She's your match, Henry..

Prince Henry: I am but a servant to my crown, and I have made my decision! I will not yield!

Davinci: Then you don't deserve her.

Stepmother: How can anyone ever love a pebble in their shoe. (Oh my heck, if anything screams heartless it's this!)

Danielle: I belong to no one, least of all you.

...

Creepy Dude: I could hang you for this.

Danielle: Not if you are dead.

Woman: Once you wash the tablecloths you can start on the napkins. And move those over there.

Stepmother: Marguerite, you heard the Woman.

Marguerite: So did you.

Stepmother: Yes, but I'm management.

Marguerite: Like hell you are. You're just the same as me, you big nobody!

Stepmother: How dare you speak to me that way, I am of noble blood!

[Umm, excuse me, Mrs. Management? If you are of noble blood, well... so is your daughter!!!]

Woman: And you are getting on my nerves

(pushes them into freezing, dirty water)

Woman: Hahaha, now get to work

Ominous Lady Voice: And while Cinderella and her prince did live happily ever after, the point is that they lived.

Pretty great, right :D

You know, no matter what form, Cinderella is a great story. I've loved each and every version I have ever seen. Disney's Cinderella, A Cinderella Story with Hilary Duff, Ever After, Ella Enchanted, Another Cinderella Story with Selena Gomez... They're all amazing.

"Be to her virtues very kind;

Be to her faults a little blind;

Let all her ways be unconfin'd;

And clap your padlock--on her mind."

     ---  A Bride Most Begrudging, 161, by Deanne Gist 

I love the first 3 parts, but seriously?? How sad would that be? 

Honorable and faultless, yes... but mindless??

There's no way I could have lived like that, way back then.. With the guys in charge and having all the power.. No thank you!

How 'bout this...

"Be to her virtues very kind;

Be to her faults a little blind;

Let all her ways be unconfin'd."

Much better, yes?

This is life ever after :D

Oh Crap

Somebody teach me prealgebra, algebra, geometry and trig... please??

See, I have to take the ACT Saturday morning, and, well... easy math isn't so easy now that I'm in hard math...

Okay, on a better note

my photo poster is displayed in the high school hallway. I'm kinda psyched :D

Positivity

I've never really thought of how important being positive is. With a positive outlook on life and chores and such, everything seems better, more fun.

I've noticed that when I do something with a happy heart it's... different. A good different.

I mean, think about it.  No matter what it is that you're supposed to be doing if you think happy thoughts you can fly.. Not literally, but doing things in a jovial manner makes the task at hand so much easier.

School

Homework

Service

Chores

Favors

 Add a pinch of positive thinking and your whole day can be turned around. So.

Be optimistic and make every second count!!

And remember, faith is like muscle. 

You have to exercise it, because it's continually moving, whether that movement is forward or backward is up to you :D

Hillybilly

On the way home from church Bailey was talking in her British accent... Brock was talking in his "hillybilly" accent. And yes, that was what he called it :D

Driving home from NV we passed a white truck with... wait for it... wait for it... antlers attached and sticking straight up from his truck!! Now, THAT is what I call hillybilly :)

Because I was too slow in snapping a good photo, just try to imagine it.

This truck, mud splattered on the sides and directly in the middle on the top of the truck antlers sticking up more than a foot.. True story :D