I Seriously Need a Week of Normalcy

So as of right now it's 11:08 PM Sunday night. I still have to write an essay for English *bangs head on table*, I hate Greek Mythology. What gives a state the right to make someone go insane by studying it two years in a row in ENGLISH. Kill me now DX.

I just watched all the five awesome girls videos from the last two weeks... I really should have watched them when they were posted. I think that the majority denounced Twilight in that frame of time.

This week has seemed so busy. I hung out with Lexi on Tuesday, spent an inane amount of time on the phone, spent the day yesterday at the mall climaxing with Twilight (which was scrap, and VERY unintentionally funny). Monday was Monday schedule (six periods UGH!), and we got our registration forms for next year *bangs head on table*. Tuesday was career day so I had to go to advisory first, then go to my first session which was in the band room for preforming arts which was made of awesome. My dad won't let me use the four free lessons I got for ballet though :(. They didn't do attendance at the begining so they did it when the bell rang, which meant I didn't have time to put on my shoes, so I ran in my socks to the next location, and stepped in mud. I walked around without shoes for the rest of the school day (and then proceeded to walk to the NEX with Lexi in shoes without socks *shudders*. My second session was for a teacher. They didn't decide to just find some teachers from the school, no the DOE had to come. That lady has put me off of teaching officially. After recess came session three which I had with an interior design guy. He was so boring. His voice was one that I would expect to fall asleep to if I hadn't had other things to think about. After that was psychology. The lady was pretty awesome and comprehensive, which was good, as I was tired of being put off jobs. After that was an eventful hour long lunch where K got kicked pretty good in the shin. After that they sent us to advisory for another half hour or hour to basically do nothing. Wednesday was the curriculum fair. Friday schedule (six periods, extra ten mins in class...). Mrs. Sherlock had a lot to get done so we didn't do anything in period one. I got to miss period two to play in the curriculum fair, where I saw my math teacher from last year (she looked so professional it was kind of scary). I missed recess at the curriculum fair :(, and I missed just enough of French that I was basically in a frenzy to finish everything, because I'd come early enough to know what we were doing. Period four was alright, mostly just talking to Jess. Then lunch, which was uneventful. Period five we watched a video, which was a nice change from all the projects for the past two weeks. I got to miss period six with Court, because we were the band ambassadors (basically). We got rid of all the color guard packets. I took one myself. You have to wear contacts :(. Thursday was uneventful, besides having a Friday schedule, and subs for French and Math. Friday was again subs for French and math, but we also had to go to our advisory before lunch (assembly schedule). We underclassmen turned in our registration forms, while the seniors had an assembly. I'm going to be in AP US, next year. I think I might die DX

I have some problems with this upcoming week, and some cons. It's Turkey Day in the US of A, which means no school Thursday or Friday. However, it means Friday schedules Tuesday and Thursday. Why couldn't they have just done a Thursday schedule on Monday? I could care less about getting out earlier on Mondays, I'm rather sick of having six periods each day. One thing that is a pro and con about this week at the same time is the band field trip to the middle school on Wednesday. I will be happy to miss class and have four days to make up the work, however we are going to be playing music that we have barely practiced which is BAD. We're going to try and gain students, not loose potentials! Although I really do not want all those tuba's I've been told currently play. The middle school band sucks right now, and I don't think I'll have the stamina to keep up with that amount of bad tuba players :(

I really cannot remember the last time I made a blog this long.

The rest of the quarter should be easy though. Only two weeks left for school, meaning some normalcy for once, and then a three week break. What with marching band finally having climaxed and ended, I feel so out of it. I really just need a good two weeks to have fun with Mom and Dad, and then a basic week to myself... Not to mention the sleeping in... And Xmas, can't forget that :D

This weeks song will be the first to play on my itunes when I turn it on... And the winner is... The Swiss Army Romance by Dashboard Confessional.

Gonna go do that essay *bangs head on table for third time*

Lots of love to friends!

Oceansurferg

PS: To ChinGyLinG - You and I need to have heart to heart conversation about life... I can't remember the last time we did one of those. Email me! Or call me on Weekends. Even better would be if you got a Skype. It's free video calls on your computer. I want to see you hun! And I'm not gonna forget about the British accent tomorrow *cackles evilly*

The Dobbys, Thegirllikeme, and Shipping

The Dobbys have been here for nearly a month, so I'm a bit late in posting about them... However I think they still deserve to be posted about. HPFF is in my opinion, the best Harry Potter Fanfiction site I've found. This is the second year that they've given out the Dobby Awards, and I'm very pleased with their choices. It was obvious that Match would get at least one (most read/reviewed on HPFF!) so I'm pleased that it left with Best Marauders Fic, and Best Original Character. Delicate was well deserving of Most Addicting story, what with it's wit, humor, and constant cliff hangers. I was also happy with We Griffies winning best Next Gen, although I think the story was more deserving of Best Humor.

On the Topic of fanfiction here is just another reason why thegirllikeme is my favorite fanfiction author...



And then there's a trailer for the second in the series.



And of course after watching these again, I decide it's time to look through some of her other vids, and I found this absolutely beautiful Lily/Severus video.



I am way too big of a shipper for my own good aren't I? Actually, that makes me wonder how many things I ship... Hmm. In the HP fandom alone there's Lily/Severus, Ginny/Harry, Neville/Luna, Ron/Hermione, Fred/Hermione, Lupin/Tonks, Rose/Scorpius, Ginny/Neville, and that's not even including the character/OCs I ship... Dang... Need to ship less...

I figured out that there's a way to have updates sent to certain emails every time there's a new post, so if you'd like to be receiving those, email me!

And finally, this post's song is Zombie by The Cranberries.

-Oceansurferg

Reasons to Squee

Because I feel like it here is a list of things that will make me squee w/ joy.

• NO HOMEWORK!!!
• FALL BREAK!!!
• SUGAR!!!
• TUBA!!!
• ASHLEY!!!
• '!!!'S!!!
• MULTIPLE WAY CHATS!!!
• MUSIC!!!
• BOOKS!!!
• THE WORD ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM!!!
• MYSPACE ADDICTIONS!!!
• CHEESE!!!
• FRIENDS!!!
• CHICKENS!!!
• PRETZELS!!!
• CELL PHONES!!!
• PERVY FRIENDS!!!
• BAND GEEKS!!!
• EDIBLE GOLF COURSES!!!

No song today, as I'm hungry so....

BYE!!!

Moola, Math, and Mario

So it finally happened. I plugged my 2 gig ipod in to charge, and add a few new cds, and some songs I got of myspace, and my laptop told me there wasn't enough room, so I had to set it so that none of my playlists downloaded, and since mugglecast is over *wallows*, I didn't put my podcasts on there either. In conclusion I need a bigger ipod. I think I want to get an 8 gig green nano-chromatic. But I'll need to talk to my mom about this... not to mention start advertising that I babysit so I can get moola. I need moola... Well, I don't need moola, but it's the only way that I'll be able to get to Chicago, and San Francisco this summer (Person A says that she'd totally go with me, and would probably be able to find some HP loving aunt or something to come with us, so I'm very excited!), not to mention by a new ipod. Why does moola have to make the world go round.

I was being really stupid this weekend with Person F (I'm really starting to get confused with this letter system...), and we both walked out of the mall with Algebra II books... And we're in geometry. Yeah...

Oh, I found this freaking awesome line rider video. It has to be one of the most ingenious ones I've ever seen.



In an effort to kill the killers in my head this post's song is Believe Me Natalie by The Killers.

Hope that your monday isn't biting too bad!

-Oceansurferg

Trailer Spoof

Hey!

I'm only posting this video for friend person C who can't get past her school's server with the website I gave her, so enjoy!



Oh, and this spoof made person C and I interested in making a Harry Potter trailer spoof. We are still currently looking for someone to play Harry Potter, someone to play young Voldemort, someone to play old Voldemort, and a boy who's interested in being sparkly. Just find me at recess or lunch, I'll always either be in the band room, or on the hill by some of the trees.

-Oceansurferg

It's a band geek life.

Hello peoples!

So my school's band is almost ready to put our opener out on the field. We have 2 1/2 rehearsals before the show, and that's it, I will be free from having to wear the sousaphone all rehearsal (I hope...). My sousaphone is killing not my left shoulder, where the sousaphone rests, but rather my right shoulder. I think it has something to do with the fact that my extension is too small. Either that, or it's because the sousaphone was obviously made with a larger sized person's ability to fit in mind. I am not a larger sized person. In fact, you might be able to fit two of me in that thing. The sousaphone is also fixing my posture, which causes my back to throw out slightly whenever I chase person D around the band room at lunch.

Oh that reminds me, I've created a new system to speak about people with out putting their names in. All people are not person A, B, C ect. once I get to Z (if I get to Z) I'm going to have person AA, BB, CC, ect. If you want to know who you are, ask me and I will tell you your letter (or tell you that I have not assigned you one).

Back to band... Jazz band is coming up, and since person A said that they thought I should do it, I'm going to talk to Mrs. Band Director about getting a trombone to use so I can start practicing, because it's harder to switch to a trombone, than to a tuba. That said, I don't have a mouthpiece, and I already have to pay $55 for a new tuba mouthpiece. At this rate I will never be able to pay for my plane tickets for this summer.

My mother has made me really happy because she called somebody about piano lessons. I have been teaching myself to play piano for a year or two, and now I can learn how to play it properly.

When my dad started drilling me about this (he's in Guam) I told him about Person B's master plan for me. This plan is basically that after I learn piano, I need to learn guitar, then get a drumset, then a violin, and then a sax, and then a flute. After all this I will supposedly be ready to be a band director. I'm not quite sure what happened, but I think somehow I'm getting a guitar for Xmas. This makes me feel like a hypocrite because Person E and I were arguing about whether or not guitar or piano was better, and I was arguing piano... Ah well, life likes to be ironic.

Since Mrs. Band Director comes back tomorrow I think that there's going to be a section leader/drum major meeting, which will be relief because I am tired of playing the same music over and over again every day... I wish we had concert music to work on :(

Okay, I need to go, because I need to find out what rise over run, Y=mx+b and all that muck means.

-Oceansurferg

**MUSICMUSICMUSIC**

Hey guys!

I'm really happy with my last post right now. I've gotten a lot of response from friends, and I even changed one of my friends minds about something. Makes me feel like I have an impact on this desolate little world...

Any who, onto that really important looking title up there... I've reread my recent posts, and noticed that while I'm getting a lot more serious and in depth, I keep forgetting to add a song, or end up thinking a song would ruin the flow of the post.

Today I'm going to make up for that.

I have chosen ten songs for you all to listen to. Enjoy :D

1) You Can't Speak Snake by The Moaning Myrtles (my myspace song)
2) There's a Reason These Tables are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of it Yet by Panic! At the Disco
3) I'm a Bitch by Meredith Brooks
4) Ebay by Weird Al
5) Lovegood Acoustic by Ministry of Magic
6) Emergency by Paramore
7) Shut Up and Let Me Go by The Ting Tings
8) She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5
9) We Belong Together by The Parselmouths feat. Ministry of Magic
10) The Band Geek Song by The Totalitarians

Oh, and please vote ----------->

-Oceansurferg

Twilight - I'm laying down the line

I am getting sick and tired of the arguments, the picking of sides, the unreasoned attacks on either the author or people with reasoned arguments, the petitions, ect. But the thing I am getting most sick and tired of, is people asking me for my opinion.

It's not really people asking for my opinion that bothers me. What bothers be is their reactions. If I say I don't like Breaking Dawn, I get reactions along the lines of 'only someone who was never really a fan would say that'. If I express to some of my friends that I really did enjoy some parts of Breaking Dawn I am suddenly labeled as a 'rabid fangirl'. (Note: I do realize that my closer friends don't do this to me, but this is a generalization).

Now let's switch over to the chat rooms, and basic fan community. Debate; great, reasoned and slightly fired up argument; okay if the topic of debate is a large one, flame wars; unjust, unreasoned, mean, stupid, and unwelcome. The picking of sides; it can be just, when well reasoned, but if you're choosing sides to follow the crowd/friends/author to the death, or are picking sides because you think you need to pick sides, I will get mad. Mostly because this leads back to arguments.

Also, I need to say it right now. This is bugging me a lot 'Smeyer is trying to instill her Mormon beliefs on us!!!'. Do you want to know some other authors who put their religious beliefs into their writing? JK ROWLING, CS LEWIS. Do these names ring any bells? Their series' of books sell at least thousands every year and they aren't being flamed for it. Heck, Rowling has even been considered to be 'anti-christian' for having witchcraft in her books.

Now, so people can understand that you don't need to be at an extreme end of a spectrum when you have certain opinions, here are all of my opinions on the twilight series and recent occurrences...

Twilight was good, New Moon was better, Eclipse was great, The Host was excelent. Stephenie Meyer created high expectations for her books, and she'd been living up to them... So when Smeyer made the statement that basically said it was very unlikely that this book would have lived up to expectations, may I point out that if she'd not strayed so far from established cannon this story might have lived up to expectations. Look at Jo! She managed to live up to the majority's expectations, and her expectations were quite easily larger than Smeyer's were.

I do have the opinion that Bella is a Mary Sue, but when Mary Sues are well written, I am fine with it. This brings us to Breaking Dawn, Mary Sue suddenly became way too emphasized, and it was not well written.

I do not have qualms with the Quil/Claire imprint. I completely understand that there is no romantic feeling what so ever, and there won't be until she is closer to Quil's physical age biologically. I do have qualms with the Jacob/Renesmee imprint. It is too based on physical age over a mix of biological/physical. My basic point is this; Renesmee is full grown when she is SEVEN biologically. She still will not have enough experience to truly consider herself an adult, and it's very likely she will go off with Quil, no problem. It just makes me uneasy.

This series has been mainly about choices, giving up things for other things. This was one of the many things that grounded Smeyer's books in reality. Choices no longer exist in Breaking Dawn. Bella gets everything she wanted in the end, with no consequence. Way to back up a theme!

I actually did like Jacob's perspective. It was something refreshing and new. It was also something that I've wanted since I read New Moon. Jacob is the most realistic character in the series by far, and he's worthy of this honor.

Renesmee cannot exist. Smeyer competely ignored established cannon right here. Explain how this is possible scientificaly, and I might chang my mind.

My opinions on the boys... Mike is clingy and annoying. Some people like that, I don't. Edward is an empty box with luxurious wrapping. He's polite, kind, and has many other excelent qualities, but these should all be secondary to the personality, the present that's supposed to be inside the box. (Note: The following opinion is highly biaused) Ben is awesome. He's nerdy, sweet, shy, and so many other things... I was never kidding when I said I was Team Ben. Jacob, is a realistic teenager, boy person. He makes a lot of mistakes on the way in his life. Most importantly however, he has a personality. I cannot stress that enough. If I had an option between Edward and Jake my choice would be Jake, end of story. (Ben v. Jake is again, another story).

Oh, and Midnight Sun is the best thing Stephenie's written, she's stupid to not publish it. I am a writer, and other writers are saying that you need to be a writer to understand why she can't finish it. Again, I am a writer, would any of you other writers like to try and explain this concept to me?

These are my basic standpoints on the series right now. And understand, I DO love all of Smeyer's other books, but I just can't understand Breaking Dawn.

Also, I am now afraid to go into chat rooms, forums, ect. because there is always one rabid anti-fan at an extreme end of the spectrum, and rabid fangirls at the other, so if anyone has any ideas about how to get over these fears leave a comment. Also leave a comment if you feel like debating... I'm interested to hear others REASONED opinions :)

-Oceansurferg

Edits: 1) I meant that it was a stupid decision, not the Stehpenie is stupid. 2) I can now remember that I wrote this blog in response to Kaleb Nation's (AKA Twilight Guy) personal response to fan backlash. You can read it here. 3) I forgot to add that I do not approve of personal attacks on the author. She's a human being just like everyone else, and deserves respect. You don't know her, so you can't criticize her. End of story.

Cheese, Nerdfighters, and Seven Postitions

I could rant for a while about HP being moved, but I'll do that later. (As in, another post).

So lately I've noticed that I've been saying one particular phrase a lot - using it as an ice breaker sort of thing when it gets awkward. 'Do you like cheese?' I'm serious, I've been asking people this. So, when I searched the phrase on Google, the first result was a quiz "What Kind of Cheese Are You?" Apparently, I am American cheese. And I was so sure I'd be Swiss.

I have discovered Hank and John Green (please don't hunt me down if that was incorrect!), and I am now a Nerdfighter. I love the chat room there. People are so nice, and intelligent. Tell me where else you can find people who have a tendency to spell everything correctly. And they all are into nerdy stuff like Star Wars, Harry Potter and all that other good stuff. I also love the weapons of choice; Brain (I think I use mine adequately), Heart (Umm, mine beats?), Calculator (It solves the fancy equations so that I don't have to), and the Trombone (used to play it! WOOO! Go low brass!). Oh, and you're probably wondering what the weapons are for. Nerdfighters are fighting against world suckwith our brains, hearts, calculators, and trombones.

On that topic of musical instruments I must admit it. I am a geek who can play the cell phone. Actually, I was bored, searched for random things, and eventually came across a website of instrument jokes. There are several that I'm fond of from there, so I'm going to bullet some of my favorites.

• How do you tune two (insert instrument here)s? Shoot one of them.
• How can you tell if a kid on the playground is the child of a trombonist? He can't swing, and he has complains with the slide.
• What do you call a (insert musician type here) with half a brain? Gifted.
• What's most tragic about a minivan with five (insert instrument here)s running off a cliff? You could have fit more.
• (innuendo alert!) Trumpets do it with three fingers, baritones do it with four, but trombones do it in seven positions. (I laughed way to long when I read that).
  
• Two tuba players walk past a bar... Hey! It could happen.

Nobody ever gets the last one when you say it to them. I only found two friends who got it. Even after I explained that the stereotype is that tubas are drunks. And that's my favorite after the seven positions too...

So, I've made friends with another Slytherin. I told you there were other anti-Voldemort (you don't pronounce the T people, get it right!) Slytherins out there. You just have to look real hard. But it's nice to be friend with another Harry Potter freak for once, because they don't think you think about Harry Potter way too much.

Oh, and another friend of mine and I are trying to annoy our friend into reading Harry Potter as well as we possibly can, by calling her, and asking for the transfiguration homework. Since I know that she reads this, she should know that if she doesn't start reading the books soon, I'm going to call for the Transfiguration homework at three in the morning, and that won't be fun.

I also realised that I haven't mentioned it, but I'm one of the people who didn't like Breaking Dawn. Mary Sue completely pulverized the book. And with the way Jacob's book ends (book 2), there's no way in hell that there will be a fourth movie. However, even with this disappointment, I look forward to the Twilight movie, which got moved after what I shall forever more refer to as the day of black potter happenings, to November. Oh, and the majority of the teeshirts for the movie are REALLY tacky.

It's slightly past eleven, and I will still procrastinate on going to sleep... But it's best to be off.

Laters,

Oceansurferg

This Chick Reads WAAY Too Much

Hey Guys, it's Tuesday! And I'm not a member of the five awesome girls but, it doesn't mean that they have that phrase copyrighted or anything. (Yeah, that was a TOTAL 'placement ad', but I seriously love watching those girls!).

Anyways, it's Tuesday. Let's pretend that Saturday = 7, and Tuesday = 3. Now what is the difference between Saturday and Tuesday? The answer: FOUR FREAKING DAYS TILL BREAKING DAWN BY STEPHENIE MEYER.

Was I clear enough?

Just to be sure... FOUR FREAKING DAYS TILL BREAKING DAWN BY STEPHENIE MEYER!!!

Now, I'm not as excited about this as I was Deathly Hallows (please view the monologue I wrote on the 21st...), but I feel it's safe to say that I am really freaking ecstatic about this book. I'm not even speculating about this book like I did for the last book in the series that came out (Eclipse) - let alone nearly every HP book after four - but I'm still excited all the same.

I'm betting that a few of my friends *coughsierracough* are thinking that I'm crazy for not speculating, but I have a very easy reason. Stephenie Meyer always does things in surprising ways, ways that really can't be predicted. Sure there is definitely some speculating on Bella's powers that I could do, but the moment I read the first chapter of Breaking Dawn in the Eclipse special edition, I was positive that the Wedding would be relatively non-problamatic. There is truly no way to have an idea of what's going to happen in more than a hundred pages of the book (unless they've been spoilerfied). So I've decided not to fret, and just enjoy the ride.

Now I'm going to inform you of my plans for the release. I'm going to a barnes and noble, because even though Borders is cheaper, and I have a borders card, I really enjoyed the Harry Potter release party for DH, not to mention that I think BN has better service. After probably having to spend two hours waiting to get our book after midnight, my friend and I (probably extremely tired at this point, will start reading in the car, then, once home, will grab some soda to stay up and sleep deprived, so we can attempt to read the book.

Oh, and I'm also making a t-shirt at the last minute that basically states that I'm team ben (which is a joke), hilariously on a t-shirt if I do say so myself.

Now, on to the song!

I've been getting a wee bit obsessed with wizard rock as of late, so I've decided to make this post's song 'This is Never Going to End' by The Parselmouths (The lead singer - I think - is Monday on five awesome girls). I'm choosing it mostly because of July 21st, but also because it's the first song on their myspace...

Laters!

~Oceansurferg

WTF!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Okay, I completely meant to post this when everything started, but I was so outraged that I spent quite a bit of time in a chat room discussing laziness that is WB.

With that in mind, watch this 'teaser'.



Here are some quick notes to prove to some of you that I'm not an idiot about what's going on.

• I know that there is supposed to be a full length teaser coming out with the Mummy movie.
• I just looked at mugglenet, and apparently we are getting the theatrical trailer with the mummy.
• And for two, I am aware that I'm six days late with giving you my outrage here.

Now with that in mind, here is my list of many things WB screwed up on.

1. The mpaa message saying that the preview has been approved for all audiences, blah blah blah, was one third of the length of the ACTUAL trailer (if you can even call it that!)
2. The members of the Harry Potter fandom had come to expect that trailers would be delivered to us in a timely manner. I can remember a TON of mugglecast episodes speculating over when we would get this. This length of time gave us greater expectations than WB seems to care about.
3. To emphasize point number two, I must point out that Twilight - a movie that comes out later than Harry Potter - got their teaser trailer on May 5th OR EARLIER.
4. Now this didn't happen to me, but many have stated that they couldn't understand Michael Gambon the first time through.
5. There isn't even a clip of Gambon saying the line to Daniel, which can make one become under the impression that the line isn't even in the movie.
6. You can only see the words Harry Potter (in full) for two seconds.
7. To loosely quote someone else 'when people saw the words harry potter they started cheering, and then got quiet in confusion as to where the rest of the teaser was'.
8. This is the only teaser we get.
9. The actual trailer is going to be with THE MUMMY. I'm sorry but WB's only putting it there because the movie is going to be a huge flop.

Don't you think that's plenty of reason to feel neglected by WB?

Oceansurferg

PS: Expect a full length post tomorrow, where I will discuss the new twilight trailer (Another point WB!), twilight guy being in entertainment weekly, and some wizard rock stuff.
PPS: Forgot that I won't be able to post tomorrow, so I meant the day after tomorrow.

UPDATE: It has been confirmed by Warner Bros that the REAL teaser is coming out with the Mummy. It still doesn't mean that I'm not outraged, it just means there's one less bullet up above (I haven't deleted it from above, I just don't count it anymore).

A year in reveiw.

For most of you it's probably already Tuesday July 22, 2008. But here it's still Monday the 21st of July 2008 so I have to give a monologue.

366 Days ago, I was anticipating all day about the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 365 Days ago, I held Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in my hands for the first time. 364 Days ago, I put Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on my shelf.

366 Days ago, I read everything I could find on Mugglenet.com. 365 Days ago, I stayed up late into the wee hours of the morning trying to read as much as I could before I'd plop asleep. 364 Days ago, I closed the book - I'd read the last words.

366 Days ago, I had no idea of the end. 365 Days ago I cried as Harry walked to his death. 364 Days ago, 'all was well'.

I cried when Hedwig died. I cried when I believed Hagrid to be dead. I cried when George's ear was cut off. I cried when Dobby died. I cried for Snape, Colin, Fred, Remus, and Tonks in the final battle. Bellatrix Lestrange did not deserve my tears. Lord Voldemort deserved them even less.

I smiled when Ron complimented Hermione, and she blushed. I smiled when Ron asked Hermione to dance. I smiled when Ron and Hermione held hands while they slept. I grinned like a MANIAC - perhaps I even giggled - when Hermione jumped Ron in the middle of the Battle of Hogwarts and practically made out with him.

Between 364 days ago, and today a lot has happened. Dumbledore was outed as having fallen in love with Grindelwald - something that recieved as much press as the release of DH. JK Rowling sewed RDR books for trying to sell Harry Potter encyclopedias, when JK planned to write one herself. Warner Brothers announced that the Harry Potter films were the largest grossing film franchise of all time, at 4.47 billion to that date. JK toured the US for the first time in many years. Warner Brothers announced that they were splitting the Deathly Hallows movie into two.

Between 364 days ago and today... I posted my first harry potter fanfiction (and then realized that fanfiction is NOT my strong suit). I subscribed to Mugglecast. I discovered the Parselmouths, and started paying attention to some wizard rock groups. I truly talked to my current best friend for the first time, because I was reading DH. I attempted to read Philosopher's Stone en Espanol (don't know how to add the tilda...). I began checking Mugglenet at least daily. I visited an HP forum for the first time. I got an Order of the Phoenix poster. I reread Sorcerer's Stone one time. I reread Chamber of secrets one time. I reread Prisoner of Azkaban three times. I reread Goblet of Fire two times. I reread Order of the Phoenix one time. I reread Half-Blood Prince (my favorite) five more times. I reread Deathly Hallows four more times. I managed to get my mother to read the first chapter of the series.

Because of the Harry Potter series and fandom... I'm interested in starting a podcast. I'm interested in being a writer. I made a few friends. I started learning about the Genocide in Dafur. I 'eemproved' my Brittish accent. I read more fantacy. And so much more.

So the Harry Potter series may have been over for a year now. So eventually there will be very little fandom left. That doesn't matter as long as Harry Potter lives on in our hearts.

With that cheesy note, I think it's best to be off!

Oceansurferg

Quickie

UPDATE: My bubble is burst. The advance screenings begin this weekend, not the general admission... :(

There is A LOT of stuff that has suddenly come round, so I'm just warning you beforehand to expect a huge post tomorrow or the day after. This is majorly because it is almost guaranteed that the HP6 teaser trailer will be coming out with the movie 'Dark Knight'. Basically I'm saying that I'm going to be searching youtube every five minutes tomorrow for 'half blood prince' until I find the trailer posted - unless mugglenet says that there wasn't a trailer, in which case I will be VERY sad :'(

You can already tell I have a lot to say on the matter.

Also, this post is here to inform you that I will be updating the list of songs on the side (UGH! I promise to never procrastinate ever again! I super pinkie swear!)

Until tomorrow (or the day after),

Oceansurferg

And we thought she ALREADY had enough reason to be in a mental institution...

Heh, guess I was wrong about not getting a life. In fact, I bet that if I hadn't taken summer PE I would right now be staring at my ceiling. I once managed to do that for a half hour you know!

I'm going to be on a plane tomorrow night going to Maui. My friend (I think she posted once as Biggs429) is on the island for her uncle's 50th birthday. So I get to see her for the first time in months. It's making me a bit delirious with happiness. Okay, excuse me as I go crazy for a second in delirious fun.

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:P '_' :D *_* :) -_-
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Okay, slight delirium is gone (sort of).

So I'm also a little upset as well. You see the author mental from HPFF (on the side bar) said that she'd update Match. today, but she has yet to update. I'm rather bummed out, she left off with a slight cliffie (okay, so deadly flying purple socks that have suddenly spawned, and James Potter sounding like he's about to pull out a sword is more of something funny than a slight cliffhanger, but it still doesn't mean that I don't want more!).

Adding to my uphoria of happiness is that WALL-E is coming out this weekend.

Adding to my being upset is that there WASN'T A TEASER TRAILER!!!! (I'm very angry! Twilight's teaser comes out about a month ago, while HP6 - which comes out before twilight only has international release dates! I feel jipped.)

The final thing to add to my uphoria (bipoler much?) is that my mom promised that we aren't having fast food tonight! I am SO sick of fast food...

Song #? (I really need to update the side bar...) is No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age (a group of men). It ends with someone speaking spanish, but other than that I think it's a good song.

I'm hungry, so I'm off to go get a 3:30 lunch...

Oceansurferg

Wall-E, Breaking Dawn, and OMG

Hey people of Earth. Or maybe Mars... Do they have internet on Mars yet? :P

So I'm here today (OMG!!! She's actually posting). Yeah, I haven't been posting as regularly, but I think it's because I've finally gotten a life... BUT with summer approching I'm likely to loose that life in a matter of days. We can only hope that Summer PE (so I don't have to take the class next year), can help me keep SOME semblance of a life. Of course, it's not likely to happen... Aw, well!

Now, I may not be the best judge of movies, but I feel a need to speak about Wall-E. Wall-E is Pixar's newest film, coming out June 27th. Get this almost NO DIALOG (sp?). That's right!!! The main characters can NOT talk. Talk about crazy (cheezy pun, yes I know...[actually, did anyone even figure out it was a pun at first glance? - just a thought]).

Anyways, it has robots, and romance, so that's a bit for the guys and girls (though I think that both aspects make it great...). Plus this little robot just looks so cute. Plus he's curious if you've seen the commercials, reviews, ect.

Now, I've seen all the Pixar movies besides Ratatouille, and I feel I can safely say that they haven't made any horrible movies whatsoever (Cars was a little overhyped and little kid friendly, but I still think it was good[ish?]), so I feel that I trust Pixar enough to make another great film.

Now, I give you a Breaking Dawn...

Spoiler Alert !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you have not read the first chapter of Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer...

Walk AWAY from the computer....

Or scroll down till you see more big L-E-T-T-E-Rs

Okay, so one thing I have to say. WHO IS IN THE PROLOGUE!!!! Who in the flippin' world is she talking about? The only people I can think of are Edward and Jake, and I now think I must admit I'm a team Jacob who completely supports Bella in her choice of Edward. So, I'm basically saying that I have trouble thinking that it could be Jake, but I also think it impossible for Edward to hurt Bella.

I have come up with an alternative solution.

Bella is thirsty and after humans but Edward is trying to keep her from doing something stupid. The major problem with this is that she is 'marked for disaster', so this solution doesn't work. I must grudgingly admit that it could also be Jake - now so wild - who can't stop himself from attacking Bella.

Maybe I should start hoping for her to fall in love with Ben Cheney... (yes that's right I'm team BEN, [I even made a t-shirt for it :D]).

The part about Jake - after I'd reread the Epilogue of Eclipse a bundle of times - was rather expected for me. I figured that as a wolf, they could still track him, so they wouldn't be on the (pretend) search - even if the whole town was searching.

I had been expecting WAAY more drama from Bella's family. I mean, Charlie was supposed to turn colors then yell. And Renee was supposed to refuse to go to the wedding or something! Although - even though I now realize the obviousness of it - Charlie thinking Bella to be pregnant was H!-I!-L!-A!-R!-I!-O!-U!-S!

I absolutely CANNOT believe that Bella gave in so much. I thought she was strong enough to fight the system! And I saw the video of the closest car to the 'Guardian' getting hit with tests like BEING SHOT AT!!!! It was a really awesome video, & I'd post the link, but I can't find it :(

I like the idea of Bella still having a link to the pack through Seth (and Seth & Edward striking up friendship) and it makes me wonder what drama will come of it...

BIG LETTERS

Now, don't think that I'm being hypocritical when you first read this. I H A T E O M G.

I'm not talking about when people are texting, bloging, ect. I'm talking about the people who SAY omg. I can understand typing in OMG because it's easier, and less tedious than Oh, My, God (or Gosh - if the idea's offensive). Plus OMG looks more urgent than Oh My God. But for heaven sakes, if you're too lazy to SAY 'oh, my, god', then you shouldn't be talking at all. I don't have time for people THAT lazy, because if you're that lazy then you probably don't bother to think for yourself...

That's my 2 cents.

To speak out for those who actually don't like Summer break TOO majorly, I dub this post's song 'Closing Time', by Semisonic in their CD Feeling Strangely Fine. I give you this song to give you the message that we should grab this opportunity known as Summer Break, with the realization that so many hopes and dreams are possible in the span of time.

Yeah, I know, I'm a total Cheese.

CHEESE WILL RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!! BOW TO THEIR LEADERS NOW!!!!!!! OR AT LEAST WORSHIP CHEESE FROM FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS!!!!!

BLOO, MAC & CHEESE!!!!!!!!

From the girl who escaped the loony bin with Luna Lovegood multiple times,

Oceansurferg

PS: I'd thought that using my usual coloring wouldn't work with the purple and blue, so enjoy the B&W. (Black and White).
PPS: I wasn't kidding about the cheese.
PPPS: Just Joking!
PPPPS:Or not...
PPPPPS: That was a lot of PSs
PPPPPPS: BYE!!!!

All hail Cheese!

Delirious = fun for all (but me)

Terve! Hola! Bonjour! Kalla! Goddag! Hallo! Guten label! Olá! Ciao! God dag! Hallå! Abyssus!

Guess what? Those twelve hellos I gave to you are almost all found in TWO languages? I found Hallo the most, so often in fact, that if I'd put in all the languages with only that for Hello (on my translator) there would be two more hallos up there. Just thought you'd like to get a thought to begin the post.

Now why did I begin with a thinker? Today, I plan to challenge the way you think about the world. (Okay, so I'm mostly here to help you understand there's a world outside your country).

Did you know that there are 195 countries in the world?
Did you know that there are 6,700 languages spoken across the globe?
Did you know that there are about 4,200 religions on Earth?
Did you know there are around 6.5 billion people alive?

Did you know...

glumbert - Shift Happens 2

Our world is changing.
Technology will change.
Political powers will change.
Knowledge will change
Access to knowledge will change.
Exchange rates will change.
Music will change.
Ideals will change.
Travel will change.
Money will change.


Yet even in a world where so much is changing so quickly...

The essence of being human will not change.

Enjoy my little presentation? I was bored so... Well you know how I am :D
Or if you don't, might I say that I'm pleased to make you acquaintance. (Sorry about the silliness, it's 11:15 here in Hawaii, and I'm getting a bit delirious).

For the heck of it I've been coming up with a bunch of tee-shirt ideas (related to twilight), but I'm not going to tell anyone any of them until after all of the books in the series are published (including Midnight Sun).

No song, as I need to sleep.

Laters,

Oceansurferg

Podcasting

Okay, so my friend and I are starting a podcast for the twilight series, the host, and whatever else Stephenie Meyer might come out with. Our first episode is being recorded this Friday. We're going to be talking about what we thought of the Host. Our podcast is called 'Anti-Human', and I urge you to be there on the 21st when we will have the first episode out. (I must sheepishly admit that I'm not done with the design yet, so enjoy how lame it is while it lasts).

I also might learn how to make a banner ad and put it into the sidebar here.

I finished the Host. Six (or seven, it you count the have from I've) words to describe it "The best book I've ever read". It took me two days to read it. That book is so huge. My friend (see above) has my book, so I can't start re-reading it yet. I just asked her if she can finish it by Friday (again, see above) and she told me she still has to ask if she can do the podcast. YIKES!

I know that you're probably getting tired of all the Paramore songs of the day (although I'm not!) so I'm giving you another song by Death Cab For Cutie. My choice is 'What Sarah Said', it's on the CD Plans.

Hope you're having a great Tuesday (2x Tuesday at dominoes!),

Oceansurferg

Not a Chance

Ugh, this is impossible.

You see, about every other month college suddenly springs to the front of my mind. You have no idea how much I want to get a degree in tuba performance at UW. Absolutely no idea. And yet, I've looked through the application process.

There's no way that I have any chance.

Seriously, ALL the major and minor scales, MEMORIZED!?!?!?! Who can do that? Not me. That I'm sure of. Not to mention I have to preform two pieces. I'm bloody horrible at preforming on my own. And I have no tuba to practice on at all, a tuba is between 3,000 and 20,000 dollars, and that's simply for one of cheap good quality. I have no chance to get into this school, or any school for that matter (though UW, is preferable, as I'm a resident of Washington, and there's a difference of 16,000 dollars a year for the undergraduate program [less difference for the graduate program, but still...])

Ugh, I want to go to this school so badly. Nobody can have any idea how much. And it doesn't help that I'm not with a good group of musicians to be learning with at school. About half our class is given over to discipline, and lectures on life, simply because nobody manages to put any effort in.

Not to mention I don't have a lesson instructor. And I also need some skill on the piano (on which I can only play basic compositions in C position, probably with horrible technique as well.

Meanwhile I ache for the release of The Host. If only today could be tomorrow (actually, I need all the time I can get, so maybe I don't wish that, but still...).

No song for today, I'm not really in the mood...

Laters,

Oceansurferg

Hey guys! I fell asleep in a heartbeat last night, so I didn't get much of a chance to make a post. Well, actually, I didn't fall asleep that quick, but the Lord of the Rings made me tired.

So apparently I do have friends in my age group who like what I like, I just wasn't listening... Ah, well, at least I know now. So that's good...

My friend and I are starting a Twilight Podcast, and - being a twilaholic - has started advertising. I'm not quite sure what she expects, because we're just a bunch of kids doing a show, surely it can't get far. Not to mention, I'm still learning html a bit more in depth so I can make to page look better, and right now, I don't want too many people to see it.

I've been spending a lot of time on youtube for these past two days and I feel compelled to recommend some stuff. Obviously I've been watching the clips about the twilight movie (there are tons). I also have been watching videos from the account 'nigahiga'. Of theirs I reccomend the how to be _____ series (order: ninja, gangster, emo, nerd), the number 21 (or something along those lines), mindgeek (really stupid and funny)... Actually now that I think of it, I recommend everything (except a few of the lip syncs).

You guys get a double song today, since I didn't do it yesterday. Plus I'm rereading 'Just Listen' by Sarah Dessen, and Owen's take/obsession on music makes you a bit obsessed yourself.

Today's first song is another by Death Cab for Cutie 'Soul Meets Body'. My favorite part has to be the short instrumental at the begining. This song I like way more for the sound than the actual lyrics.

My second song for today is also a repeat band. We welcome back Paramore, this time with 'That's what you get'. I first (and only) found it on youtube, the video is awesome (which reminds me, I forget to mention fueledbyramen earlier), and I love the lyrics and sound. I definitely need to get this CD, which also reminds me that I'm almost out of space on my ipod :( I listen to too much music now.

With nothing much else to say,

Oceansurferg

Release

I am a bit frustrated right now. To fix it I'm listening to some of my more 'hardcore' songs, and my foot is shaking violently. I'm trying to come up with better solutions, as I feel a bit nauseous (perhaps it was the pizza I ate?), and shaking your foot tends to jitter the stomach more.

Ugh...

My dad's going to put our ps2 on craig's list, NOT in the garage. Our old T.V. goes to my parent's room, not the garage. (Hopefully their old one can go in the garage). I really just want to be able to play DDR, but the way this is going, I don't expect it to have a chance of happening...

I seriously wonder how serious my dad was when he offered to get a drum set... The death of the 360 makes me miss the rock band, creating a want for the ability to play the real instruments. Plus (even if it is 8:30) I would love to go destroy a drum set (or um, play)...

I'm going to the beach tomorrow. My friend is coming with me, and I haven't gone to the beach with a friend in a long time. So that should definitely be fun...

I don't feel like a song today.

Laters,

Oceansurferg

PS: I've noticed that the time-stamp on the blog is wrong. I'll fix it a bit later, but for now just know that it's three hours behind.

I've had the song crushcrushcrush by paramore stuck in my head, so I looked up other songs by them on SkreemR. Let me just say that so far I think they're AWESOME. I don't think I've ever found alternative with a woman singing that I liked. But this is different. It sounds good, so I'm totally into it.

Okay, so, I just left this post for an hour and a half. My phone call didn't come. I'm dieing to play some DDR (let's hope the new tv, comes soon so we can put the old one in the garage for me to use). My dad has confirmed the death of our 360. Life continues. Meanwhile, a tired girl writes out a blog post when she would prefer to be dreaming... I always love dreams...

You'd never have guessed what today's song is. In an effort to get it out of my head crushcrushcrush by paramore gets the headline of song number 9 (I think).

As I've already said, I'm deathly tired, and want to just plop to sleep, so I'm going to do so.

Laters

Oceansurferg

A random Wednesday, how else?

I understand that it's a bit absurd, but I never realized that D.C. has a mayor. I now realize how silly that is, but I just didn't think it possible. Or at the very least I believed the mayor of D.C. would simply be the president. I'm just shocked that isn't the case.

I'm reading Anne Frank's Diary. Barely anywhere yet (page 55), but, as an internet addict, is it really possible for me to leave the computer for over an hour when I'm home and not sleeping? The diary is also screwing up how I write. I'm also Mrs. Quack Quack on yahoo, and msn messengers. And yesterday's post, we were reading a play based on the book and had to do songs, hence 'Mrs. Vaan Dan (I found out I spelled her name wrong)

Daddy (as I've now taken to calling him) is coming home a day early. It makes me very happy, especially since I believe it means that pizza and the tri-tip are pushed up on our dinner calender, and I love pizza and steaks (but not ribs, nobody understands why not...).

I'm feeling about ready to murder a friend. We like to jabber on the phone a lot (especially since we found out we both have t-mobile). Anyways, whenever she's called me, she's joked saying that she's called someone that I'd rather she not. This sent me into hyperventilation the first time, but now I just yell really loudly (it is a phone). But there's so much to this story that cannot be said, so I will just say that this is actually a larger act than this paragraph entails. Hmm... Maybe I do sound like a text book...

My 360 has a red ring when I try to turn it on, I can only believe that this is a sign of its death.

And now for the song of the day. I'm so sorry that I keep forgetting to put the songs into the side bar, but I am a procrastinator. Yes, I know that's not an excuse, but it's an explanation! Anyways, what is today's song... Sorry, I've got to go look for one... Here we go! Crazy English Summer by Faithless. I'm surprised I haven't done this one yet. Used to listen to it a lot (until someone's youtube video ruined it for me).

Not much else to say today.

Toodles! (wow, makes it seem like I've gotten an email from a certain friend...)

Oceansurferg

PS: I'm not going through and changing the colors of the black and white ones. I want my stupidity to be completely recorded! And you already know I'm weird.

Oceansurferg can't blog!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Hey guys!

I have quite a lot going on in my life, that is, unfortunately, not bloggable. All of these stories I have are super personal, and if somehow, certain people managed to get here and knew it was me, I would not be happy.

But, since I can't do these stories, today is just a song day.

Song #7[(?), I've lost track] is, as I said yesterday, really funny if you know the inside joke. One name Mrs. Van Dann. With that in mind please enjoy 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous' by Good Charlotte. Below isn't the real video, but it has good sound quality, and it's kind of cool.

That's it

Oceansurferg

PS: I found the colors! I was stuck in edit HTML instead of compose.

T.V. Am I watching weird stuff?

Yes, that is the question. Seriously, maybe it's just my age group, but how come my friends aren't into 'My Name is Earl', 'How I met your mother', 'Two and a half men', '30 Rock', 'Big Bang Theory', 'House', 'Bones', and all that good stuff? This dilemma came to me when I was watching 'Bones', and 'Big Bang Theory' tonight (I didn't get to 'how I met your mother', and 'two and a half men'). I mean, am I seriously that out of the loop? I need to know when in the world this happened!

What's more, why don't my friends like the same music I do, at all, period. Well, I mean, we share some choice in music. How can one not share a small amount of music taste with me? The girl who has a little bit of everything. But nobody's into indie, or alternative, or British pop. I mean come on! What's a girl got to do to find people with her same entertainment interests. I fear that to find a person like that, I'd have to make friends with a guy. Been down that path, not interested.

You see my friends are into 'American Idol', the latest pop, and the friends in IL are into Disney, of all things. I mean, Miley and Zack and Cody are cute and all, but they're just annoying after about five minutes, yeah? Have these people ever heard of Teenick or, well, I forget what the channel's called, but, they're the one that used to share with noggin, and have Digrassi [(sp?), I don't really watch the show]. Well, anyways those are my kind of channels (can't forget Fox and CBS, but I meant for kiddie stuff).

Dang, now that's made me think of Nick at Nite and you do not want me to go into a tangent about that. But I will anyways. They used to have such good shows on that. I loved watching Rosanne, The Fresh Prince of Belaire (sp?), sometimes Full House, and when I was desperate, The Cosby Show. But they've replaced almost all my faves (not sure about fresh prince and Cosby Show, but if they are, they're on way too late). And guess what one of the shows they replaced it with is. Home Improvement. Ugh.

Wow, I sound like I'm my parent's age.

Sidebar: Does anyone know how long it's going to take for 'that 70s show' to end up on nick at nite, if ever?

Okay onto the good stuff. Here's your song of the day. 'Yellow', by Coldplay. It's in the CD Parachutes at the least. I absolutely love this song. I'm a cheese at heart... But I have this perfect image of a beautiful beach, (I think I'm thinking of one of the ones from the movie 'the beach', but I can't be sure), and it's always dark out with a starry field. I think part of the reason I imagine this is because I used to bring my ipod with me when I walked the dog. She always needs to go when it's dark out, and here the sky is so clear. God, in my head that sounded like I was gushing (after the comma not before, gushing in the before part seems odd, yeah?).

My homework is to choose music (sweet!), and I've decided that some of these songs deserve recognition. Trust me, if you know the context, song #6(7?), will be a laughathon (I made a word!). And if not, it's still a good song that deserves to be noticed.

Off to charge my ipod (don't think I've charged it in months),

Oceansurferg

Sunday, a day of rest.

Today's been a very nice day, here's why.

1) My day began with cheese cake and T.V. I used to have mornings with desert for breakfast with mindless T.V. a lot, so that was kind of nice.

2) I woke up with out an alarm at eight in the morning. I know that it's bonkers for me to say that's a good thing, but I like waking up early by myself. It makes me feel like I'm internally organized.

3) I had a mindless hour and a half phone conversation. I barely even payed attention to her, eating my lunch/desert (cheese cake again), making comments every once in a while. I like hearing my friends, it's soothing, even the ones that I tell them their voice is annoying on the phone, it's still soothing. Plus I didn't have to worry about minutes

4) I read today. A lot. Like, I basically woke up, went downstairs for a half hour, came back up to my room and read (eventually going into my parents' room - they have the best bed ever), the only interlude was dinner and the phone call.

5) Nobody in the house started going parent on me, reminding me to take a shower or brush my teeth. I utilized the opportunity by skipping the shower. For some reason, I think I end up dirtier than I began in the first place.

6) No homework. That's always the best, because it means you can just be lazy on a Sunday, not giving a care in the world.

7) I sang to Sara Bareilles for about an hour and a half without my mouth going dry, or throat getting clogged, or said throat hurting.

7) I had a good hair day, which is a rarity in itself as about 95% of the time my hair's hopeless. What's better is that usually on good hair days I take a shower, but I didn't today (see #5).

All in all, an absolutely great Sunday. It almost felt like I was having a lazy day in Illinois before the move. I'm definitely getting more comfortable here in the land of rainbows (seriously! I see about three a day).

I've made a re-aquantince (sp?) with one of my old friends from the begining of eighth grade. We used to hang out a lot more, but I was in my transition mode, and her friends freaked me out (they are a bunch of guys). But we've been reconnected over our love of books, and have hung out this weekend and the last.

Oh and speaking of yesterday, I went to see Nim's Island. Let me just say that it's a really funny movie. Especially when you have someone to point out 'that's what she said' esque jokes. I'll admit that I did contribute.

At the mall where I saw Nim's I also got a book. Even though I read it real quick I would definitely recommend 'Someone Like You'.

I did a little sudoku today as well, my record is ten minutes (I tend to loose focus. A lot).

And for the Finally here is your song of the day. Song #6 (I think) is Vegas by Sara Bareilles. It's been stuck in my head all day - no wait, since one in the morning (which I count as last night AKA yesterday). My fave part of the song has to be when the chorus comes round, it's really catchy. I also chose this song because I'm in a semi-jazzy mood. Yup, I'm weird. I also apparently can't spell 'because on a computer as one of my hands moves faster than the other when I type that word. (That wasn't random, I'd just misspelled 'because' for a third time).

To hoping you had as great a day as me!

Oceansurferg

PS: One of the Fanfics that I was (and am, I'm not finished yet) is 'Epitaph of a good man' by toomanycurls on HPFF (see side bar) I totally recommend the Tonks/Lupin fic.

Ugh! And so the Frustration Begins...

Okey dokey my friend type peoples. I haven't posted in near a week. I swear it's not my fault! Okay... So maybe it is, but so what? Anyways here's why I haven't posted.


1) I forgot my login name.

- I hadn't logged in for forever, and mom logged in, completely screwing me up. But the basicness is that I didn't realize that I didn't need '@gmail.com'. I kept putting that in, and it kept rejecting me.

2) A friend stayed over last weekend.

-I had a friend come over, and the day she left I went to write an entry but got distracted.

3) The first day I was simply frustrated with my lack of color, and decided I didn't want to write in black in white.

- Seriously! Who took away my color? Ugh!


Anyways guys - if there actually are any of you - I'm explicitly sorry for any disappointments I may or may not have caused. Especially since I promised you a song.

But I'm going to make it up to you all by giving you something very special! *Begins Game Show Voice* Today I'm giving you two songs, but that's not all! The winner *Frowns when told this isn't a game show*, I mean you also get a preview of my fiction press story. It currently has two entries from Sadie, but, since I'm already at the eight or ninth, I'm giving you a two paragraph preview from the next entry.

Oh, and I've come up with a better name for her friend, I just haven't changed it yet, not even on my computer.

The first song I give you is 'Drive' by Incubus. I chose it because I used to hear this song a lot when I was little. And well, I've realized that I still like my favorite songs from five and six. Maybe it's happy memories?

Oh and this reminds me. Dad got this absolutely ridiculous laptop. It's tiny. And has almost no memory. I want to know what in the world he plans to do with that tiny thing. He might not even know himself...

So here's your preview from my story. Enjoy guys! You deserve it.

During Algebra II yesterday, Mr. Weston became the first teacher to crack in regards to me. He asked me a question, and I showed him my spiral as an answer. He told me that if I didn’t speak it would be detention. I didn’t speak, and got detention yesterday.

Detention wasn’t something new. Miss Hamilton from seventh grade would give me one weekly (I only had her weekly) for not talking. I will agree that drama does involve speaking, but why can’t I just get the part of a mime or something? Or an extra, that would have worked really well with me.

Hope you liked that.

Now for the second song of today. 'Absolutely (Story of a Girl)' by Nine Days. This song is the one that I remember explicitly. I have no clue why I remember this one the second most (most to come later) from my Iceland days, but I don't care, I think that it's a sweet song.

Now, even though it's Friday, I have work I need to get done (because somebody forgot to come to the library to work on a project with me and now we're screwed).

Have a fantabulously bizarre weekend,

Oceansurferg

Hungry

Okay, umm, starting to get really jacked off at whoever this person is who took away my colors.

Hello, my name is Oceansurferg, and I'm hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry.

Surely you get the point, yes? Well, I don't care. I'm soooooooooo hungry. We have nothing in the fridge whatsoever. All there is, is lunch meat, cheese, and beverages that the system won't let me have. See, I wasn't lieing about there being nothing in the fridge. There's nothing good in the pantry. I tried the soup in a can, chicken noodle one. Disgusting, utterly disgusting. Seriously, as of right now it's 4:55. Why does dinner always have to happen after six when there are adults? Can't they just make food magically appear or something? I'm getting hungry here! And to leave a fridge so barren... Have people in this world not heard of grocery stores?

Okay rant over. I guess. Still doesn't change that I'm hungry. Leave it to my pretzel jar to disappear...

Song later tonight!

Oceansurferg

Song #3/fishbowl universes

Hello! I'm really finding this all very weird... Blogging nearly everyday and whatnot. Oh, and, as usual, the dang color and all that good stuff is gone. I want to find out who did it...

I have made a very strange bet/contest/test thing with someone in my homeroom. We were arguing over something that made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and now we're in the middle of a battle of the squiggly pictures. I need to figure out what in the world happened.

Also, never try to explain the universe by using a fishbowl. The idea of the universe fitting inside one is unnerving to say the least, because that would mean another big bang was going to happen soon. Although, he meant scale the universe or something along those lines, but it's still unnerving to me. Perhaps I'm claustrophobic?... Nah!

Okey-Dokey, on to the song! This day's song, and song number three is....................................................................................
Song of the Cebu by Veggie Tales! JK, JK. But still, you have to admit it's a catchy song...that makes no sense...and talks about bulls...with random slideshows...All and all, it's a kids song!

And that reminds me. Search google pictures for dik-diks. They are these really cute antelope related species, and, well, just look! They're really cute...

Oh, right, the real song. Okay! Song numero uno es Imaginary by Evanescence. I've decided that finding the youtube videos is pointless, because at this point, I'm pretty sure you know how to use the search engine on youtube. I chose imaginary, because this used to be one of my favorite songs. Crazy to imagine how much life changes, huh? Also the picture it creates in my mind is remarkable! I wish I could take a snapshot for you all so see, but alas! I cannot :(

From the overdramatic,

Oceansurferg

Update: It was song numero tres, not uno, but I felt like it was an uno day, yah know? Maybe I should have played uno... Bye!

Song #2

Hello All! (which is probably no one)

Do I really need to mention that the ability to center, color, and all of that stuff isn't working?

Okay, I was going to do another song yesterday, but as I mentioned two days ago, I was sick. I was passed out for half the day, and had no energy to type words on a computer screen. Also, I would have posted earlier today, but I was absorbed in Eclipse, poor Jacob...

Um no more news about m'self, so best get on with the song, yeah?

Song number two is Title and Registration by Death Cab for Cutie. I'm not giving a link, because I only skimmed over the first half minuet or so, and freaked out a bit. I chose this song because I think it means renewal. I also believe it to be a great song to listen to when you're cleaning. Gives your cleaning a sense of purpose yeah?

I'm quite buggered now, honestly. This is the first time I ever read Eclipse and realized Jacob's point of view, and it's a rather confusing concept on its own, without Bella's love involved in the picture.

That's all for now

Oceansurferg

Blogging, rolos, and my friends according to Oceansurferg

Well still no color or any of that stuff. It's driving my quite bonkers that is.

I think I may be becoming a bit attached to blogging. I think it's because, with my old friends I could share my thoughts (which are extraordinarily long and complicated) and no one would interrupt or anything. But with my new friends, there are just too many of us for me to be able to do anything like that, plus when I first came into the group, it was when I didn't talk whatsoever. And, well, I just need an outlet for these clogging thoughts.

I have a runny nose. Normally I don't think much of it, but I have a headache, and when I have a headache, it means I'm sick. As long as it's in combo with something else, and not after I've just run the mile... It's all mum's fault. She went and got bronchitis (sp?). You know, my immune system's probably so good because of how often she gets sick. It has to fight viruses a lot. However, mum says she's sick when she's only sneezing.

I've decided what my new favorite candy is. Rolos. I've never really thought much of them, but they have to be the best combination ever rolled up into a candy. I got some at the mini mart today. I've had them before, but not often or anything. I'm rather glad I got them. The orange juice I'm drinking for the cold is making me hungry, and candy fills you up quick. Or, at least it's supposed to.

My book 'City of Bones' is missing. I realized it yesterday, because I went to grab it from my bag and it wasn't there. I had another book there at the time, so I just thought 'I'll look for it later'. But now it's annoying as hell because I finished the other book.

My friend said that I talk like a textbook. So not cool! I don't talk like that, do I? I thought I only wrote my essays like that. (Something that they tried to edit out of my essay for science, but you can't change someone's style of writing.) People seem to think I come off as some sort of smarty pants. I'm not really like that anymore though. Problem is that these people are so closed minded that they can't think past their first impression of me. Well, at least, they come off that way.

I want to find out what a biscuit is in British terms. I'm reading the fanfiction 'The World, Biscuits and Sirius Black according to Nellie O'Neal' Unsurprisingly a large factor in Nellie's life is her love of biscuits. Her biscuit of choice being digestives. The only thing is, well, I want to know what in the world a biscuit is! That's my only question.

Okay well, I need to go sleep, as it should lower the pain of this headache, that and I'm dead tired, as being sick tends to create people.

G'Night

Oceanusrferg

Song #1

Okay color and all that stuff is still gone :( but the show must go on. (Or blog, whatever...)

My first song is just to get it out of the way, (sort of). Actually, my thought process is that if I post it, it might just walk out of my mind as 'elevator music' that isn't so elevatory (yes I understand that it's not a word. Gosh!)

Now, how this is going to work. I'll leave you the song name, who it's by, and a link to the youtube video (as most don't have html codes to use). Then you will find the song on a new list in the sidebar called '100 songs to listen to (according to me)'. I'll leave the date I posted it too, that way, if you want to, you can find the post it was on.

This post's song is 'White Houses' by Vanessa Carlton. The link is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptBn4Nek9M

The video is kind of (okay, definitely) a bit weird. But the song is why I'm posting the link.

No news really. Well except that it's another boring weekend here in the sun. Rainy seasons been over for a while, and now I'm actually getting what the difference is. It barely rains anymore, and when it does, it's hard rain.

Also, in an effort to get a certain friend to read my story that I kept sending her, here is a quote 'Wow my mind is wandering today. Need to stop eating the fruity pebbles...'

I'm posting this story on fiction press, and yet, well... This might be the first story I actually finish, and for some reason, I don't want people to read it. Weird huh? I've written enough to create three more posts to fiction press, but I haven't even updated the first one with the edits my beta made.

With nothing more to say,

Oceansurferg

100..........

Okay so the color button has disappeared which means no color :( The font button has disappeared as well...

Anyways, hello all! I've decided against doing the movie (too much work), but for those who were wondering what it was going to be, well, I'll tell you. The story I'm writing, Throwing Common Sense out the Window, written as a movie. I realized that it would be very different, and well, also, it's a bit hard to make a movie about a person who doesn't speak. So that's being thrown out the window as well...

I told my friend about another idea, and I think it's more doable. You see, I managed to convince three of my friends to read the Twilight series (Well four, but I won't give him the book, he wants to read it for pervy reasons, but that's just how he is, so we didn't think much of it). So my thought process was, let's do a podcast! Yeah, I'm a bit peppy...

Okay so I have a cool idea. I want to do a listing of 100 songs I like, one for each post, with youtube video if it's there.

Or I could just do a long list of a bunch of songs. Your choice.

Well, actually, nobody reads this... So it's my choice, but still... It's the thought that counts.

I'm super sorry that this was late, I got caught up in stuff...

A good book that I started reading is 'I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you' by Ally Carter. It's about a girl who goes to spy school and... Well I don't want to spoil it or anything. Just read it, it's good.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Vanessa Carlton. I probably have three CDs I want. The two by Vanessa Carlton, and Drastic Fantastic by KT Tunstall. I think I get hooked on new music every other week, yet I never tire of the old (dido, and fiona apple may be exceptions though, and Avril Lagvine, and, hmm maybe it's more than I think...)

You guys have no idea how much there is to talk about. If you're interested IM me. (Jen I would be rather happy if you did,;D)

Hmm, seems there's no center button either.

Laters

Oceansurferg

PS: If you haven't noticed I've changed some of the colors, nothing major, but still... :)

My name is Lisa: A short film

The Youtube awards winners have been announced. I didn't vote in all categories, but besides the commentary category, all of my picks won. My favorite film was 'My Name is Lisa' in the short films category. It is a Shelton Films production, that has made it to semifinals, and honorable mentions in other contests/awards as well. The story is basically about a girl coping with her mothers Alzheimers disease. I think it's rather heartbreaking, yet inspirational all the same. They're planning on making a Movie called my name is Lisa with the response they're getting to the short film.

This is going to stay rather short for now, but I'm updating tomorrow about a film I want to do myself. If you want a hint about it, read my fiction press story.

Lots of love (to friends, not random strangers),

Oceansurferg

Update: If you read this maybe two minuets ago, I forgot to put up the film, it's down below.

Panic isn't quite so Panicked anymore

If you know me well enough, then you should know of my liking of Panic at the Disco (formerly Panic! At the Disco). Their newest CD Pretty. Odd. came out yesterday. I don't have the CD, but I have listened to some songs. The fast pace of their other CD A fever you can't sweat out, has suddenly disappeared. It has been replaced with a 60s feel that has been compared to the Rolling Stones among many. This CD is definitely proving that they really are not an emo band (just as they claim). Many don't seem to realize that this is still Panic though. There is the same strange choice of topics and word choice - for example Nine in the Afternoon - and the vocals are the same (yes I know! It's just Oceansurferg being crazy as usual, but trust me, I think that with other singers, this band would be completely different sounding). I'd just like to give Panic a Bravo! For breaking out of emo label, and reforming in a way that most bands just cannot.

Now that that's out of the way, it's time for me to give you all some information about what's going on with me! Don't look so excited *sarcasm*. I have a fiction press account now, and have posted something already. Although it's a smaller group, I think my works will do better here, because it's my own work, and I'm much better at my own stuff then fanfiction. Oh, and if I haven't drilled it into your head already, my name there is Oceansurferg as well.

I'm also really excited about something I posted on HPFF that was posted yesterday. It's the story of Neville Longbottom *snickers* sorry, but the name Longbottom is funny. I think I'd be happier if she had kept their name to Pupp. But, anyways, the reason I'm so excited about this one is the amount of response I've gotten. To give you a scope, so far 32 people have read Annelise's one chapter (it was not set as abandoned until after two months), and two have reviewed, and no one's favored it. With The Boy Who Could Have Been I have gotten 30 reads, one review, and one favorite in 24 hours. I'd consider that a fair amount, wouldn't you? The amount of response has made me feel that I should write often on this one. I've already begun researching his childhood for the first half of the first chapter. The second half should be between a half and a whole of his first year. If I get a total of five reviews by the end of tomorrow, I promise to dedicate two hours to writing the story the next day.

While I was on HPFF today, I also found a story I had once read about a woman revisiting the cave that Tom took her to. She talks about being in love with him. Anyways, this made me go and look at who was actually taken to the cave. There's such a vague description about what happened here, that I decided to write a oneshot about it starring Amy B. and Dennis B. (cannon characters of no relation). If I decide it's worth working on it might take me about two good hours of work to put it in the queue.

I have also been playing a puzzle game called Bloxorz. I don't really know how to describe it, so check it out yourself by using google, or go to addicting games and then puzzles to play it. I'm on stage 31 right now (with no help! go me!) which I almost finished earlier, but then fell off on accident :(

More on music is my discovery of Death Cab for Cutie (almost completely discovered by everyone but me) My favorite song right now is Transatlanticism, which makes me imagine slow dancing with someone, not to mention it can put me to sleep, my main reason for listening to music.

I've also discovered Sara Bareilles, but I did that weeks ago, so it doesn't seem like much anymore.

So many more things have happened, but I really don't think that I need to put it all in, so...

From the girl who's dad thinks she should play the drums,

Oceansurferg

PS: This is very likely my longest post besides the copy and paste, go me!

Update: My post about the circles is actually longer than this, but to me this proves that I'm becoming wordier.

Circles aren't hopeless

If you were forced to communicate only with one of the following symbols which would it be? Draw a rectangle, a Z, a triangle, and a circle. Which would you choose? In the end this is a personality test, that our SS teacher showed us. Did you choose the rectangle? Then you're really intelligent. The Z? you're creative. The triangle is a leader. Well, what about the circles? Circles are apparently 'hopeless'.

I chose the circle this time round. Last time I easily eliminated the triangle and Z, and in the end I chose the rectangle. This time the same happened and I went with the circle. I'd forgotten that she'd done this to my old class before. I think she wasn't fair. Sure, that day my friend broke down in frustration with her situation with a project, not much earlier before we were given the 'test', and sure that other guy is prone to loud, frustrated arguments with the teacher, but we are NOT hopeless.

Sure, I am a procrastinator, and in a bit of a way I am 'hopeless', but isn't everyone? Doesn't everyone have their flaws? Aren't we all still great in our own means?

I looked as objectively as I could and found some similarities between us three circles. First we don't give up; we fight for what we believe in. We are all excellent writers (well, I've never read anything of the guy's but he does well in English.) And finally we are compassionate. and caring when it comes to others. We're the people who give the Z's inspiration to keep going. We're the ones who the triangles lead. We are there when the intelligent people come to a dead end. We're the ones who care for everyone else, and isn't that a personality trait?

I'm scraping that personality test's view on circles. Compassionate people are not 'hopeless'! Just because we put others before ourselves does not mean that we are somehow not proper people!

To many of you this little blogging blimp will mean nothing, but you're wrong. I want to prove that we circles are not hopeless and are instead compassionate. If you are a compassionate circle, I would love it if you left an online name (I will delete the real, or real looking ones) and said 'I am a compassionate circle!' it would make me a lot happier.

Also not to get too off topic, but while writing this I came up with something that the Hogwarts sorting hat might be interested in. You see, I believe that rectangles are Ravenclaws, Z's are Hufflepuffs, triangles are Gryffindors, and we circles are Slytherins.

Many of you would say that that makes it worse to be a circle, but there is something I like to call a Slytherin complex that you should be made aware about.

The Slytherin complex basically states some things you might have overlooked. First of all Rowling only introduces us to the worse Slytherins. This creates the illusion that all Slytherins are bad, and I will admit that most are. But Slytherins go into things with compassion for what they are doing, with the cunningness and other things to do it all. Most Slytherins goals aren't that good because households that seem to be ones for compasionate people are usually either really nice or really mean. In the wizarding world I think it is understandable that with power like that many do not do well with compassion for things. Look at Dumbledore! He was compassionate about gaining the Hallows but eventually realized that power and compassion for glorious yet bad things doesn't equal anything good.

Hmm you know I could probably write a book on this...

Anyway, I'm tired and have stuff to do tomorrow so...

From your circle/slytherin friend w/ a hint of ravenclaw,

Oceansurferg

Update: I remembered this fanfic that proves the Slytherin complex rather well. On HPFF it's called 'there once was a darkness' which follows an unknown slytherin in the same year as Harry.

Update 2: It's 'once there was a darkness' not 'there once was a darkness' sorry if you tried to read it, but didn't get it.