HBP round 2 and the art of travel fashion

i decided that midnight Harry Potter movies are really special things. for the last two movies, i'm DEFINITELY going ALL out - hopefully i'll be in a city where there's a really big theater, and i'll have THEE best character costume in the place (pansy parkinson? :D), and i need to take tons of pictures. i realize this because i saw Half-Blood Prince again yesterday - the third day it's been out - and the crowd was sooo lame compared to the midnight show! i mean, of course, but it just makes me see that midnight movies are once-in-a-lifetime kind of shindigs, in a way. for freaks like me, they must be taken seriously, and by seriously, i mean totally outrageously :)

but back to reality...

i'm leaving for a long trek of the west coast on friday. it's going to be SO GODDAMM HOT in vegas. and probably REALLY COMPARATIVELY COLD in washington. i'll be packing an interesting assortment of clothes in my suitcase. i can't wait to stop by hot topic and grab some Harry Potter and possibly Watchmen posters to bring to college and freak out my roommates with.. :D i really don't want to be the "kym" of the apartment though.

but one of the things i'm mostly excited about on this trip is taking lots of pictures in the outdoors and the beaches and lakes. mostly testing out camerabag on my iPhone and the vintage filters. i also can't wait to tan in vegas. i only wish i had a sexy swim suit (ModCloth's Bathing Beauty Retro Swimsuit in Wine plz!!!) i wish i had that kind of money. speaking of amazing retro-ness - i have finally pulled off the perfect pin-up look. if i had a complete wardrobe to match, i'd be a happy girl. the turquoise sweater and sexy flats that i ordered from Forever 21 should help. i also decided that i REALLY like Twelve By Twelve. it's expensive compared to Forever 21 but cheap compared to Urban Outfitters and especially to ModCloth. i'm not sure i will ever order anything from ModCloth.. =/ not until i'm a successful business owner. please stay in business for another ten years, ModCloth, i love your stuff, i'm just a broke college kid!

okay i remember what i edited this to write about now. haha. i am SO stoked lately on getting a tattoo. i should probably start small.. should i start with MCR or HP? those are the two things that are really important to me to get tattooed. right now, my idea for MCR is more practical.. i already have my MCR idea totally set in stone. i'm still playing with HP. it has to be perfect :) this is one idea i'm pretty keen on.



i'm just in love with my non-traditional lightning bolt. and i think maybe even having it in my own handwriting would be pretty cool as well. my f is all fucked up though.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

OOOOMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGG

:D

Half-Blood Prince is by FAR the best HP film yet. BY FAR. as stated on MuggleCast, they totally just took everything to a completely new level. i am astounded. my favorite part of it was just the cinematography. everything had a perfect amount of this gorgeous glow. i wish all of the movies could have had that light. they better keep this director of photography for Deathly Hallows 1 and 2. SO happy we don't have to wait two years for the next movie :) a year and a half is much easier to deal with.

anyway, it was super funny and outrageously romantic. i think the romance was necessary, but i'm thinking the humor was maybe a LITTLE over the top. as well-balanced as it made the film, the plot is still very dark. they got to that at the end, but still. it was great being in a theater full of laughing people though :) everyone would be laughing so hard that no one would be able to hear the next few lines. haha good thing i'm seeing it at least twice more :P i don't know why i think it'll be any different though, haha.

i really enjoyed Dumbledore's death and his memorial. i was upset at first when i heard there was no funeral, but over time i guess i accepted it, and the "memorial" moment is just as beautiful. everyone raising their lit wands; it was really really lovely. and ginny going over to comfort harry was very real. i was shaking by that point in the movie, but i don't know if it was because of the anticiptaion of that "avada kedavra" or just because i was starting to get cold in the theater haha. i really do think it was the former though. it really was a great scene. i wonder how many people that haven't read the books will now be convinced that Snape is pure evil.. i'll have to talk to my parents about it after i go with them on Friday :) i'm not even sure they know Dumbledore dies. it'll be fun.

i love Alan Rickman. i love Snape. i love Snape so goddamn much. every time he opened his mouth was a great moment. i didn't even realize that the Unbreakable Vow scene was in Spinner's End until like, this morning. it was great too because while watching it, i couldn't get over how great that scene looked - the library sort of room with all the old books, the rain in the windows, this heavy, heavy mood over all three characters. it was all so Snape. so it alllll made sense when i realized it was Spinner's End.

i know it was 2 1/2 hours but it seemed so short :( did not want it to end. the midnight madness was awesome though :D TJ Harris was first in line and had been there for 6-7 hours. i'm sure that's a small number compared to bigger cities though. i can only imagine the chaos that ensued around the country last night.


how lucky am i that infinitus is in Florida next year when i might be living there? lucky! i need Harry Potter friends that are just as horrible as me, i really do.

edit: buying the soundtrack asap. SO amazing.

my life is intense

in the words of the loser that is ted mosby: "i think if we're really honest with ourselves about what we want out of life, life has a way of giving it to us." (approximate quote)
today, the day after i wrote that last blog, trina left me a happy birthday comment on facebook. i don't think she did that last year; i don't know about the year before that. life is just SO crazy this way, innit? and it wasn't even just simply "happy birthday." she really cares.

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i never realized how much of a "guy's girl" i am. idk if that's actually a real phrase. but it seems to describe me. on the iphone, it's easy to see exactly all of whom you have texted/have texted you, and since i've had it, only guys have texted me. i need more girl-friends =/ there's sariah, and kym... (haha. total opposites. proves my range of friends.)

and jeez this boy is being so cute! i never thought a guy like him would ever be into someone like me. and when i say "guy" i mean "player."
i'm probably already way in over my head. i need to back off. i shouldn't trust him.

finally got mah birthday casssssshhhhh ;)
all i've decided on so far is a new pair of shoes.



$9.99
hot.


HALF-BLOOD PRINCE IN 71 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOKED STOKED STOKED STOKED STOKED STOKED STOKED STOKED STOKED

a whole night of nerding out with sariah and hopefully marty and michael! SO excited. gonna be one of the highlights of my summer.

i'll be the one that shouts "HALF BLOOD PRINCE '09 BABY" after the cinema workers dressed up as wizards give their whole "turn off your cell phones" speel, and the one whistling when harry and ginny kiss, and the one giving a standing ovation at the end :D

you saved my life.

"We might never again be as close as we used to be...
but I just wanted you to know that you saved my life."

my favorite part of Annie Hall is the part at the beginning with the class of elementary kids standing up and saying, "i'm a heroin addict." etc. because really, who would have guessed? i imagine all my elementary school friends in that scene... alex standing up and saying, "i live on a farm with my five adopted siblings." kim standing up and saying "i'm my high school valedictorian."

what would i say? "i'm an alcoholic actress?" "i'm a starving artist?"

kim and trina were such a big part of my life... i'm writing this because i just lurked kim's entire blog. she's going places in life... she's so smart and talented, and i'm so upset that she's not even the smallest part of my life anymore. i'm really sad in general that of the three of us, i'm the one that got left behind... kim and trina apparently still she each other often. i haven't seen trina since 9th grade, kim since 10th... i know we have to move on with our lives, but i just wish we could talk.
i wonder if i'm the person that they thought i would be. we all knew kim would be valedictorian and trina would end up in california, because those were their plans. but i didn't really have any plans... it was just as big of a shock to them as it was to me when i found out i was moving to utah. maybe that's what they resent me for. i just ran off on a spurt of spontaneity. but that's my life.. that's still my life. it's who i am.
i never had a 4.0 like either of them, and i was always the "wild one" of the trio, but would they really disapprove of who i am now? is that why we don't talk? i'm still a good person... truly i'm the same person i was in 8th grade. just older.

but... they saved my life. they should know that. they picked me up and fixed me and they didn't even have to try. they should know that. but i don't know how to tell them.


idk...


my birthday's tomorrow and all i have planned is dinner with my parents.
ugh.

me = pimp

strumming on two boys hearstrings right now. i've missed flirting :) a lot.
AHHHH disney worldddd six monthsssss!
i really haven't decided if that's what i want to do yet though...
as much as i resent my mom right now; she's right, if i go to FL, i might not come back.. and i do want to get at least an associate's degree. and i don't want to lose my scholarship...

BUT I'M SO YOUNG

I NEED TO PARTY

whatever, we'll see :)

my main concern right now is my 18th birthday... i really don't want to spend it alone.

the world has its shine

last night was fan-tastic. even though i have a huge cut on my foot that hurts like a bitch. klutzes shouldn't drink like i do. or alcoholics shouldn't be as klutzy as i am. hahaha. i'm lucky that i have someone who is always there to take care of me when i'm trashed. it's not his responsibility whatsoever, but he just does it. it's very nice.

like seven people telling me in unison that i can do way better than him.. is so great. and getting closer with close friends. when i was with ty.. i was trying to fit in with his friends that i do not fit in with. it was awesome to go back to where i belong.

i love when i take my own advice. i'm great.

FREEEDOMMMMMMM!!

life! liberty! and the pursuit of happiness! and marriage proposals from a gorgeous guy. proof that i can do way better ;D i'm not down one bit. up up up it can only go up from here. man i'm going to have fun in disney world. hopefully at dixie too.. but disney is for sure. :D i'm YOUNG and HOT, gotta live it up. c'est la vie...

and in four days, one of these babies will be miiineeeeee! young hollywood and i.



ipod for my last birthday, iphone for this one.. :D


i'm trying to decide between five new books, or a couple of new dresses... holy twizzlers, having money is liberating. i really should save it but... mehhhhh.



oh oh and public enemies was great! i realize i've gone out to the movies three times in the past week.. haha

SQUEEEEEEEEE

david g commented my art on facebook and said he loved it! :DD yeah i'd say he and i are on official facebook speaking terms 8))))
it amazes me how simple it is to speak to your heroes these days :) in text, at least.

my sister's keeper was soooooooo sad. i mean, duh. but you know how during really sad movies.. you can hear people sniffling every once in a while in the audience? well, during this movie, we could hear people sobbing. christ.