So today my chorus teacher and I were hanging out in vocal lab and I had my iPod out and was playing some tunes for her that I thought would be cool to sing for chorus.

Since I'm a senior this year, that means I get to be apart of a group of senior students and sing at Graduation. We usually sing a modern contemporary piece that is usually a semi-popular song by a band. There is a slowly growing list of songs that people have suggested to sing for Commencment, but my teacher still hasn't decided what to pick yet.

So I was wondering, all you music lovers out there in LJland, do you know of any pretty/nice/fitting songs that would be good to sing at Graduation?

I've already looked through my list of songs and haven't really found anything special (other than than the really cliche Vitamin C song. *rolls eyes*) so I was wondering if any of you guys had some suggestions.

Thanks a bunch guys!

I just got another letter from my school today. It appears the purse ban has been lifted!!! *does victory dance*

The letter stated, and I quote:

"After listening to some very reasonable and responsible input from our community, the Board and our new Superintendent, we have decided to reconsider the policy requiring that purses be placed in lockers upon arrival at school."

In other words, they got tired of about a million parents calling in and bitching at them for making such a dumbass decision. So it's safe to say that I'm a little smug at the moment. IN YO FACE SCHOOL! :P

Guess what I'm gonna be doing tonight?

PURSE SHOPPING!

:D

So I got a letter in the mail today from my school, which, that's never a good sign--especially from my school--but I never thought it would've been this bad.

So the letter was stating that with the new superintendent on board, some school rules have been changed.

Apparently due to "cyber bullying" through text messages, and the excessive texting that is going on in school, mostly from girls, my school has banned purses from being carried around.

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK!?!

Ermm, what am I supposed to do with my, um, girl... supplies when darling Aunt Flo decides to drop by in the middle of Chemistry class. O_o????

So it's been mass chaos 'round these parts lately. My fellow irate female students are also as pissed off as I am and are planning a tampon rally against our school Principal by throwing them at him. This older woman I know was like "Do it! But dip them in red paint first." hahahaha.

Other people have come up with the option of wearing fanny packs because those technically aren't purses.

I understand why they have put in place this rule, to stop texting in school, but I'm sorry, this is getting a little ridiculous. They obviously haven't thought of all the other consequences to not being able to carrying around a purse and what this really means for girls. We're talking about a matter of privacy here. What are we supposed to do with our pads/tampons? Put 'em on the corner of our desk? If so, I certainly plan on waving my tampon in the air when asking my male teacher to go to the bathroom. This rule has been put in place, I certainly plan on making a few people at least a little uncomfortable with the consequences of such.

Thank God I only have to put up with this school for only one more year.

But let's just say that this year is certainly having a promising start.

So my friend and I were talking about the Duggers, or something like that. They were on TLC and they're a family that has like 18 kids. Literally. And we started talking and this is pretty much what happened:

Judy: they have a mini bus. literally
Me: awesome. i wanna mini bus
Judy: me too!!!
Judy: I should pop out 18 kids of my own...think Jensen's paychecks will cover it?
Me: hahaha yeah i think so
Judy: eeep 18 jensen babies!!!
Judy: *iz in heaven*
Me: you know what that means, doncha?
Judy: bow chica wow wow
Me: and lots of it
Judy: yay like bunnies!!!
Judy: jensen can impregnat me with his eyes

*snickers*

Yeah, will our boys PLEASE come back now? We don't want anymore conversations like this, now do we?

P.S. And the mood theme? O_O *thud*..... *drowns in own drool*

Hi guys! I'm baaaaaaack! :D

I finished reading Breaking Dawn the other night, and boy was that some ride.

I didn't start reading it until Sunday afternoon 'cause the book I ordered online, didn't get here until Tuesday afternoon, so I gave in and bought it at K-Mart (which I should've done from the get go since it was cheaper than what I paid for it online *rolls eyes). So now I have two copies of Breaking Dawn which I am using to spread around to my friends for them to read, and eventually I'll sell it to someone or donate it to the library or something lol.

It took me 3 days to finish that nearly 800 page monster of a book. But I enjoyed it a lot. Sure, there were some parts that made me think a crazed fanfic writer had taken over Stephenie Meyer's brain while she was writing the book, but I still really liked it, despite from what I'm hearing other people thought of it :(.

So in conclusion, I couldn't have been happier with the way the Twilight saga ended. I got everything I wanted to happen in BD, and more. There were a ton of scenes that had me laughing hysterically and like nearly all of the saga's books, it had an extremely intense, but satisfying ending that had me screaming and clapping and laughing and crying.

This post hereby reinstates my return to LiveJournal. :D

Hi guys. *waves*

( Me being Spaztastic )
So in conclusion:


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Be back in a few days! :D

OMFG YOU GUYS I GOT MY LICENSE!!!!!!!!

*does victory dance*

That is all.

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

So I'm super excited for Saturday cause the 4th and final book in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, comes out. And I was also excited cause my friends and I were going to the local Barnes & Noble to go to the midnight release party, and also visit my english teacher who works there during the summer (she's working til 1 am tomorrow night!! O_O kudos to her). But now all the people we invited can't go and my best friend who was tagging along doesn't want to go now.

So now I don't have anyone to go with and I can't go because I don't have a drivers license, and it's past curfew anyway. *sigh* So you all see my dilemma.

I really wanna go to that release party dagnabbit!!!! :((( RAWR. lsdjhglihdgldfh

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Oh and by the way, I go for my driver's test tomorrow(for the THIRD FREAKING TIME). I'd appreciate it if you guys would keep me in your thoughts/prayers that I finally pass this stupid tedious test. Dang parallel parking.

Thank you!! :)

Ever since I read spoilers about the S2 finale, I've tried to remain spoiler free because I discovered that knowing what happens when I watch the show, really makes Show a lot less exciting. I like being surprised while watching SPN.

So all through Season 3 I managed to not look at a single spoiler *is proud*. And I was happy because it wasn't that hard to stay spoiler free, but now Season 4 is inching closer and closer and I've managed to accidentally read one or two spoilers because someone didn't put a spoiler under a cut *rolls eyes*. And I was very mad that I was spoiled a bit, but it wasn't anything that I didn't expect. But still.

But now that the Comic-Con panel for SPN has gone under way, and I've heard that they showed the first 5 minutes of the Season premiere, and there are spoilers everywhere about everything, it's getting harder and harder to resist the urge to find out what happens. =\

I think I'm just going to crawl into a little Spoiler Free Hole until September so I don't slip up again and ruin a really good surprise for me.

So my mom informed me this morning that this boy named Ian, who is a year younger than I am that I know goes to my school, died last night in some sort of freak accident. The story is still pretty unclear because, hey, this is a small town and stories have a tendency to get twisted around. But from my understanding, Ian was coming home from a swim meet and he was with a group of people. They stopped to get something to eat. On their way back to the car Ian got hit/clipped/something by an 18 wheeler and died. :( This kid was a year younger than I am!! And he was so talented and sweet. He had so much freaking potential. And now...

And I got a text from a friend saying that their mom just died.

What the hell is going in with this world right now? And why does life have to suck so fucking much sometimes?

*sigh* That's too many times I've been informed of someones' death today.

Does anyone know of any good LJ layout sites/communities? I'm bored with this one and want a new one, but I can't seem to find any layouts that I like and I give up too easily. Any suggestions?

Thank you wonderful f-list! :)

Don't try making Jiffy Pop popcorn over an open campfire cause a) it says so on the box. and b) this will happen:

Jared is a Pretty Pretty Princess. y/y

*SMISH x a billionty*
 

Borrowed from buffyaddict13 cause she makes me giggle.

1) Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2) Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3) Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4) This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

( Icon Fun Here )

Normally when I post something fandom related on LJ, it's usually about Supernatural. And it's also usually mindless squeeing, but that's beside the point. So due to lack of activity in the Supernatural fandom (well activity that isn't spoilery or makes me depressed), I've gotten up enough courage to wander outside of my familiar little SPN fandom. And it's landed me in a fandom that's just as crazy, and just as protective of their characters.

I have found myself completely and utterly obsessed with Twilight and all things Twilight related.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with Twilight, it is a novel by Stephanie Meyer. She is absolutely fabulous and amazing. There is only one way to explain what Twilight is, and that is through an excerpt from the book:

About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him--and I didn't know how dominant that part might be-- that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

I know what you may be thinking "A vampire book? O_o". That's what I thought right off the bat too when my friend introduced me to the book. But the first day I read it, I read 100 pages before I even realized it. The book is written so beautifully. And Edward and Bella's love for each other is so EPIC, it just makes me so happy.

I am currently in the middle of my second round of reading Twilight. There are three other books in the series called New Moon, Eclipse, and the fourth book, Breaking Dawn comes out August 2nd. And I can't wait.

They also have a movie version of Twilight coming out in December.

So I highly recommend that you guys pick up a copy of Twilight. It's such a great book, it's definitely worth it. It has everything you could ever want in a book. It has romance, action, adventure, humor, and insanely hot vampires!

So start reading! I want more people to squee with! haha

Well last night I went to graduation. And let's just say, things didn't turn out like they usually do at graduation.

I got home from running a few errands with my mom and I had a few minutes to spare to get changed and make myself look a little more presentable and a little less like a melting snow cone cause it was freakin' hot yesterday, It felt like it was about 100 degrees outside. blugh =\ Don't get me wrong, I love the warm weather but that's a little much.

I caught a ride with my friends Kali and Kayla, and we were driving out to the community college where our high school has their graduation ceremonies every year (our auditorium is too small *rolls eyes*). Just before I left, my mom informed me that this area was in the severe thunderstorm alert and that the weather was supposed to get pretty bad. I was like, "Oh, okay, well it probably won't start until after we get there." That was wishful thinking.

We were driving, and it was raining a little when Kali and Kayla picked me up, but then all of a sudden it started pouring, I mean, to the point where poor Kali--who was driving-- couldn't even see. Now, I live in a very rural area. I'm talkin' corn fields and rolling hills as far as the eye can see (yeah that's right, I'm a small town girl *rolls eyes*). So we turned down this one road, and I suddenly realize we were driving through the exact same place where about 8 years ago a horrible Tornado came through and destroyed everything in it's path. O_O

So at that point I was sitting in the back seat, freaking out and sending up silent prayers because I didn't wanna get swept up but a tornado. lol. We drove through the fieldy, hilly area and finally got into town again. But we found that there was a line on the main street to get into the college, just to park. *facepalm*

So we're sitting there, waiting in line, and it suddenly started hailing. I'm not talkin' little specs of ice, I'm talkin' huge pieces of ice that range anywhere from grape to golf ball sized pieces of ice that are falling from the sky, practically denting Kali's roof to her car. I was just waiting for one of them to crack her windshield. Meanwhile, it was pouring, haling, thundering like God decided to have a bowling tournament upstairs, and lightning like you would not believe. The streak lightning that you can actually see touch down-- I swear I saw a streak of lightning touch down next to us. O_O

Now I don't usually scare easily, especially with thunderstorm. I'm usually rather level-headed. But being stuck outside, during the middle of a terrible thunderstorm, with nothing but a puny car to protect us, it's safe to say I was freaking out.

After about 10 minutes of sitting in a line, Kali just decided to park on the road and we ran two blocks to the college. We got inside and we found out that the power went out in the building where they hold graduation. That meant no sound system, no lights, and no air conditioning.

The ceremony is always held in the gigantic gym of the college, so we go in, find some of our other friends and sit with them. We got inside the gym, and we realized that because of the lack of air circulation and the massive amount of people on the bleachers, that it had to be over 100 degrees in that gym. It was insanely hot.

Well after some time, the Superintendent of my school came out, and ordered everyone to be quiet so he could shout cause he had no sound system or anything. He said that he wanted to get people home as quickly as possible, so instead of having a regular ceremony, that was complete with speeches by the Valedictorian, and the President of the Senior class, and a few other faculty members. They were just going to announce the students' names and they'd walk up to get their diploma. :(

I felt so bad because that is not a graduation ceremony. I personally believe that they should've postponed the ceremony for another day because the kids' graduation was ruined because of a storm.

So the class president came up on stage and shouted out the names while the Vice Principal handed them their diploma. During the "ceremony" though, two people passed out cause of the heat and had to be carried away on stretchers and taken to the hospital. Eventually they found a megaphone and gave it to the Class President and she announced the names through that.

Graduation was over in less than a half hour, when it usually lasts for about 2 and a half hours.

I felt so bad for my friends that graduated. My friend Colin was upset and I gave him a big hug, but I knew it wouldn't really make up for anything. But it started to rain again and we had to get home quick before the storm picked up again so we said some quick goodbyes and left.

One thing is for sure, this'll be a graduation to remember. But not in a good way. :(

HOLY CRAP! Today was the last day of school. And I am OFFICIALLY A SENIOR! O_O

And I'm looking at old pictures and feeling really nostalgic right now because some of my friends graduate tonight and it's really scary and sad cause I'm afraid I'll never see them again and I just listened to Graduation (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C (yes I know it's such a 90s song) and it's made my nostalgia and sadness even worse.

Don't mind me, I'm just acting like a crazy, wooby person. :P D:

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

That is all.

So I just read the funniest fic ever. It made me so freaking happy.
It's called What Kind of Day Has It Been? by musefool

Dean thinks this is the strangest job they've ever worked, and that includes that one time with the aardvark and the elves.

It is a Supernatural/The Muppets crossover.
Yes, the muppets with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy and the such, that kind of muppets.
I know, it sounds totally weird, and its basically one of the biggest pieces of crack I've ever read, but it's feel good crack.
It has everything you'll ever need in a fic.
It has brotherly banter, it has Protective!Dean, it has silly!Sammy, and it has implied Bobby/Miss Piggy. haha.

After the season finale, I really needed something as silly and funny as this.
So I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :D

So hi guys! I know this is like the first time I'm poking my head back into LJworld in like months, other than my incoherent SPN finale freak out and my random note about my friend that I'm sure you guys could care less about. But life has been crazy DAMN YOU SCHOOL! But thanks to procrastination, I have decided to venture back. So, hi. *waves* :D

Ever since the Supernatural season finale, I've been meaning to do this so, enjoy a nice SPN meme from spn_fridayfive. :D

1.) Season 3 is over! How will you be spending the summer hiatus?
I will be reading lots of fanfic, trying to pick up where I left off on my own fanfic, writing all sorts of stories (fandom related as well as my own originals), watching my season dvd's until i wear them out, and counting down the days until season 4 premieres.

2.) What was your reaction to the season 3 finale?
I LOVED IT! I really did, but yet it made me very sad. But I still had a blast watching it. It had the Man Pain of DOOM, it had Bobby \m/ being absolutely kickass and smart and all father-figure like, had demons, it had latin, it had Ruby \m/, it had crying, brotherly love, and how could I possibly forget BROTHER SING ALONGS!! FTW x a billionty!! :D

3.) How do you feel about what happened with Bela in 3x15, "Time Is On My Side"?
I feel horrible saying that I did half mass victory arms because, sure, what happened to her was horrible, but yet at the same time my brain was screaming THE BITCH HAD IT COMIN' haha. My apologies to the Bela lovers out there, NOT but I just did not like her,I felt that she didn't help carry the storyline along other than those small moments, which I'm sure the writers could have come up with more clever ways to achieve. So yeah, all in all, I was kind of relieved to have her gone.
But I also felt it was kind of rushed and sloppy and very sudden, but I do understand part of it was most likely from the writers strike and the short amount of time the writers were given to wrap up her story line. But still... I was kinda meh about it.

4.) Would you like to see more of Ruby in season 4? Would you like her character to slowly be filtered out of the show? Or something else?
I would love to see Ruby come back, but more importantly, I would love to see Katie Cassidy come back because I think she is a fabulous actress and has really portrayed the role of Ruby really well. She has really helped show the gray side to demons-- that sure, demons are evil, but not all of them are out to destroying the human race.
But when the time comes, and is appropriate, I would be sad to see her go, but I would understand why Ruby's character would be filtered out of the show.

5.) From what we've seen so far, did you like the Yellow-Eyed Demon more than Lilith? Why or why not? Do you like how Kripke & co. are handling the Lilith storyline so far? Explain, if you wish.
I feel the Lilith storyline is more interesting than the YED storyline. Don't get me wrong, I still love the YED, I think he was a badass. But his storyline was short lived and I knew that it was just a matter of time before he'd kick the bucket.
But Lilith is freaking creepy as hell. I think this is the first time that a demon has actually scared me because most of the demons I find are very funny. They're so sarcastic and snarky, but I never get the truly evil vibe from them. Lilith on the other hand... O_O
But I do like how the writers are dealing with the Lilith storyline. I think they're stringing us along very well and keep us on the edge of our seats and waiting for what's going to happen next. And I think that is fabulous writing on their part.

And she's pretty freakin' cool and I love her like WOAH. And right now she's doing some pretty amazing things right now.

For a few years now, my friend, Kali, and I have really been into Africa and helping the kids and everyone suffering over there. But Kali has been really into it. So much that she started reading more about the problems in Africa, she started sponsoring kids, started doing fundraisers and such. She has even decided that she wants to do mission work in Africa for a living.

Well, right now, Kali is living out her dream because for the past week, she has been in Uganda, Africa on a missions trip with her aunt's church.

Last Saturday she left Philadelphia airport and was on a 3 to 4 hour flight to Detroit to meet up with her Aunt who lives in Arizona. From Detroit, they took a 10 hour flight to Amsterdam. And then from there they took an 8 hour flight to Uganda. So as you can tell it took a long time for the group to actually get to Uganda.

But for the past week, Kali's been keeping in touch with her Mom via cell phone. And she's been keeping us all updated. From what we've heard, Kali's having the time of her life. The group has been busy speaking at conferences for the Ugandan people, have been going to orphanages and hanging out with the kids. Kali has made friends with a lot of the kids there. A lot of the kids have given Kali their addresses and vice versa and are asking Kali if they will please write to them after she returns home and will continue to be their friend. A boy has asked Kali if she will "be his only white friend" haha.

She has also given the kids a lot of stuff that she had taken along with her. She took over 300 lollipops with her. They were gone after only 2 days. She has given hundreds of pencils and pencil sharpeners and erasers to a Pastor that runs the local orphanage (that isn't exactly so local). She has also given out all of the prayer bears my Youth Group had made. I was told yesterday that Kali has made friends with a Ugandan boy that is around 18 or 19 years old. Kali always where's these rings, she never takes them off. Well the boy asked Kali if he could have one of her rings for him to always remember her by. (Talk about the cutest and most heartbreaking thing ever) Kali must have been using this chap stick and a little girl kept commenting on how shiny and pretty Kali's lips were, so Kali gave the girl her chap stick. And she also met a boy who was one of the only people that could read english. And Kali must have been reading a book, and he commented on it. So Kali gave the boy her book. But I'm not sure what book it was, so it makes me wonder if it was one of the books she took with her to read for english class. haha.

I can just imagine Kali when she gets back to school: "Sorry, I can't return Catch-22, I kinda gave to it to a boy in Africa." xD I bet our teacher never heard that excuse before. haha.

Pretty soon, Kali's gonna come home with nothing lol. But I pretty much figured, that's what she intended on since those kids basically have nothing.

But there have been a few problems on the trip. The weather is extremely hot, with average temp of 90 degrees everyday with 95% humidity. They have to walk a couple miles every day just to get to the conferences, or the church, or even a working toilet. And they haven't been able to find clean water, so last I'd heard, they had gone over 48 hours without water. =\ At night, they eat dinner by candle light and the church that they are sleeping in, is insanely hot, and they can't open the windows because the mosquitoes are so bad, and the mosquitoes are carrying malaria.

It really makes you realize how much you take advantage of the things you have and how easy it is for us. We don't have to walk miles for a toilet or clean water, we can simply walk into the next room and use the facilities, or simply turn on the faucet, or flipping a switch to have light. If we're hot, we can simply just open the window for some fresh air, we don't have to worry about malaria carrying mosquitoes. It's horrible and incredibly eye opening to hear a first hand account from your friend about how bad it is instead of hearing it in an article, or on rare occasion, hearing it on the news.

So please keep Kali and the rest of the group in your thoughts and prayers since they have one week left in their trip.

This week they will be staying near the capital of Uganda, Kampala. They are hoping that they will have the means to finally take a shower and maybe have some clean water to drink.

If you guys are interested, I can keep you updated on Kali and the trip and what they're up to, just let me know, I'd be more than happy to. I am so proud of Kali and all that she has done. She is my role model and my hero because she has shown that it doesn't matter how old you are, where you're from, how much money you have, to be able to make a difference in people's lives.