First of all, you should know something about me:

I love Salvador Dali.

His work, I mean. I love the strange, spooky worlds he creates (or created, I should say). Okay, he does has some mediocre paintings. But I really like the one with the woman whose body is cut out and propped up by a crutch... Eh, this sounds weird. I'd post it here, but I can't find a pic of it!

Anyways, I found this amazing artist on dA... This artist, Kolja, creates a... Well, the artist puts it best:

"Using many techniques, I am always painting the same idea, the same world, different from our own: silent, distant and lonely... The world that seems to wait for somebody. That somebody might be you? Who knows? If you sense the atmosphere of going away that only lacks the gentle whistle of the wind..."

And I'm just sitting there, thinking "Oh, my gosh... It's the world from my dreams..."

Like a modern Salvador Dali!

You can see Kolja's work here, too: http://members.tripod.com/%7EKoljaT/ Make sure to play the music!

...I wish I could create worlds like that. (u_u)

I want to cry.

This has to be the saddest music video I've ever seen. I want to cry every time I see it! It's scary... How quickly things like that can happen. And how it can happen to 

anybody.

I just came across this on Photobucket. I laughed out loud, for the first time in a long time! I just had to share it!

Like the new template?

I've been working on it all day! Especially the header! That took at least three hours. But it was so worth it! I WANT FEEDBACK!!! On all of it! I may be changing the layout around a bit... We'll see.

Haunted maze! O_O

Tonight Angel, Destiny, Kaity, and I went to a haunted maze.
Actually, I'll start with the movie. I know I've been talking about this for awhile. It was fun!
Angel originally invited me, Christian, Kara, and Chelsie. But they (minus me) couldn't go. Then she invited Holleigh, Nelly, Destiny, and Amber. I soon realized that only her friends were going and invited Kaity. Nelly, Holleigh, and Amber couldn't go, so the four of us went.
I'm not going into too much detials... We saw Eagle Eye. It was so good! The computer part reminded me so much of I, Robot. When the movie was just starting, Angel was desperatly trying to open the tub of what we now call 'candy fluff' (aka cotton candy), but could not, and I repeat, not open it. Heh, the guys behind us were shushing us at laughing at her!
Anyways, about the haunted maze....

It was terrifying!!!
I thought it would be lame. But most defintally was not. The greenhouse part, which was basically a haunted house before we went out to the corn maze, was the scariest. People kept jumping out at us, chasing us, following us quietly... The chainsaw was the worse part. I highly doubt it was a real chainsaw, but the fact was, a guy dressed as a scary clown was chasing us with a chainsaw. Real or not, that was a nightmare.
I was trembling afterwards. XD Not a big surprise, though, I shake whenever I'm incredibly nervous. I have a sore on my hand from when we were running and I was kind of shoved against the wall. My hand scraped against the plywood. Ouch.

In other news, my mum bought a CD of photos she took of my family last weekend. Geez, there are a lot of me. I actually like some of them... I'm so glad that I fixed my make-up after church! Shoot, that sounded so shallow. For those of you who don't know, my eyeliner always smudges so much! And they are neat smudges! Not random smears, I get neat little black circles under my eyes! So I'm always fixing it. If I don't, I look so goth!

This computer is screwed up. Right now Blogger is trying to automatically save this post, but it won't connect. And the window that comes up so I can post pictures? Not loading. And iTunes can't connect, either. I want to buy a song! The Internet is working, so I don't know why it's doing this.

I really like Elfen Lied! I'm only on episode 5, though. My mother is letting my on the internet! Soon I may be allowed back on my own computer! I don't really understand why I was grounded... Because I wanted to be alone? Hm.

Adios, baka diablo!

PS. DANTE'S INFERNO! -cough- This is directed to Diak-kun... I knew that I knew who he was!!! I mean, I knew that he was a writer, but I totaly forgot about Dante's Inferno.

Cast of Characters

I talk about my friends a lot, so I figured that I should introduce them to ya'll, so you know who the heck I'm talking about!
I will start out with my friends-from-school (aka offline, though a few of them cross the borders over to "online"). Then I'll 'splain my good online friends. :3

Angel- She's been my friend for almost five years! An incredibly strange girl... I don't think strange is the word for it, really. But let's stick with that. She can get hyper on air. And when she has a Pepsi... Watch out! She's into tennis and soccer (football). And she is constantly trying to get me into one of them! Once she suggested joining track and doing pole vaulting. T_T Yeah. Right.

She's also a hilarious and amazing girl who comes up with these insane but well thought-out and intricate plots (there was this whole big plan that had some very specific requirements (an air-force base within 30 miles from our school), but ended in "We were with the military.").

Chelsie- I've known her for... Four years? Not sure. Favourite Fruits Basket character is Shigure and has posters of Orlando Bloom (XD). I met her through Angel. She lives on a farm, has horses, goats, and rabbits. I used to think she was perverted, but then I met another girl (Stacy), and man, I don't remember why I ever called Chelsie that!

Donald-An interesting guy! He's in the same class as Genaro, a year ahead of me. He loves anime and manga, too. And has this thing against iceicles... LOL. Sorry, kinda an inside joke. And he likes Kingdom Hearts! Actually, we have pretty much the same taste in video games.

Fetus- AKA Ian. Most people just call him Fetus. :3 (Before I knew him and I heard that name bounce around, I thought it was someone's actual name! ...Soo glad it wasn't. XD) He has to be the strangest out of all my friends. Seriously. I don't know any other boys who would say, "In Kindom Hearts, Sora and Roxas make out. It was hot." (laughs) So he's into Kingdom Hearts, manga, web comics, etc. A "nerd" (Geek, I say! Geek!), but in his own words, " I am also very handsome, so I make up for it." 8D Last summer I gave him some supplies to make a plushie, and now he carries around Isaac, his insane-doctor-vampire-character. Emily got mad at me for giving him the power of creation. XD

Zach- We met through church. (War Week -> Cody's birthday party -> Friends! ^_^) I've gone to that church for over two years, but we didn't become friends until last August (2009). We have shared interests, such as bubble tea, Japanese, and AFI. He plays guitar on the worship team at church... And sings! :D Over the summer we had extremely-late-night-IM-conversations, but we've stopped that since school has started. 8)

Genaro- First of all, his name is pronounced "Huh-naro." Yes, I do think that it should be spelled "Janaro." Whatever. (Laugh.) He's a year older than us. He likes to hang out with Angel (teehee). He's fun. :3 He's Mexican, and he speaks Spanish and English. He does have an annoying habit of taking my notebook to see what I'm drawing... And tripping me in the hallway... And throwing pieces of paper at me during class... What the heck?!
(He did come up with a nickname for me, "V,"..... Short for Vanilla. Thank God, he's just calling me Coco now, like everyone else!)

Nellie- A sometimes-crazy-acting, Lady-Gaga-liking, anime-watching, but-mostly-sweet girl. >:3 She's one of my closest friends. We haven't met personally, but we've voice-chatted, late-night IMs, etc. =D Too bad we live an entire country away.

Andrea- I will often refer to her as 'Andrea (Muse)', because I know way. Too. Many. Andreas. 2 Andreas I hang out with on a regular basis, 1 Andrea classmate, and Muse. Muse is her Blogger nickname, but I don't usually actually call her that. ^^ Fai fan-girl (It's true, right?! Please don't slap me!), plays Kingdom Hearts, and likes to read. AND HAS BEEN TO JAPAN. D:<

Wow.

This has been a really weird week.

I'm not going to talk about it, though... GAH.

I'm sorry! I'll talk about... This weekend!

Almost everybody that we invited to go to the movies can't go. It sucks. So now I have two, possibly three friends coming, and the rest are all Angel's friends.

I really want to see Eagle Eye! :)

Sorry, I really don't have much to post about! I'm going to watch That '70s Show now... And IM Diak-kun. ;D

I’m kind of excited.

Next weekend, I’m going to the movies with my friends!

I mean, if everything works out… I’m worried that three of the people that we invited won’t be able to come… Five of my friends plus Angel’s mother will be going. :D Kara, Angel, Me, Christian, Chelsie, Holleigh… Yay! :D We’re going to see Eagle Eye. I want Twizzlers! <333

GAH. I still have Biology homework. I want to watch Malcolm in the Middle!

Hehe. On Mon-Wed we had a sub in Algebra class. I really like him! He subs at our school a lot. He’s actually a lot more interesting than our actual teacher T_T. On Monday, he tripped, I guess (I wasn’t paying attention), and everybody laughed. Rather than smiling and going on with the lesson like our teacher would have, the sub said something like, “I almost fell, don’t laugh!” –mock concern- “’Oh, Mr. S, you almost fell and died!’ No, you laugh.” He went on a little more, but that’s all I can remember. The “You almost fell and DIED!” part was hilarious! He’s really funny.

By the way, does anybody know why my Biology teacher thought that I like ‘80s rock? I’m thinking that it may have been the ‘I <3>

 

Check out this hilarious video!!! I’ve watched it over and over, and it never gets old… Fighting Dreamers is a Naruto cosplay group that films humourous skits and posts them on YouTube. This is my favourite! 

“Sai, I think somebody is trying to kill me…” If you listen when they’re walking away, you can hear Naruto say, “…And he wouldn’t let me have any lemonade, I was pretty upset…” XDD Randomness!Publish Post

Check out their other videos at youtube.com/fightingdreamerspro

Jeff Dye's Gym bit

Man, this guy is hilarious! I didn't really understand one part of it, but I was still laughing (partly because of the other people laughing in the video... I have an issue: I laugh when other people laugh. Even when they're laughing at me. So whenever I make a joke, it never really goes well because I start laughing when they start laughing!).
"Don't look away, sir. Embrace it!"

Elfen Lied

I started watching Elfen Lied.
It's good! the beginning was rough... The nudity and violence. Actually, it was the nudity that bothered me. But I pushed through. Lucy reminds me SO much of Chii from Chobits!

I stayed home sick today. Wasn't feeling well (obviously). Gah, I want to throw up...
There really isn't much to talk about... That's 'bout it.

PS. I discovered Meebo! So if you're one of my friends that I talk to with Yahoo (Angel, Kara, Christian, Kaity), I can IM you now! Whoo-hoo! :D
PPS. This is totally random, but I was just thinking... Guys' voices are never what I expect them to be when they sing. In Mata Ashita!, Mori's voice is a lot higher than when he talks. (He sings after the twins, with the high voice that belongs to Hunny saying something at the end of his verse.) And David Archuleta's voice is deeper than I thought it'd be....
(I'm watching some videos of David Archuleta on American Idol... He's so smiley! I can't help but grin, too... It's really funny!)

My weekend

Today was one part sucky and two parts fun!

(Homecoming was fun, btw. I just hung out with my friends… And we lost. No surprise there.)

I spend last night with Angel… Ugh, she called my guy friend, Christian… Interesting conversation… It was actually pretty funny. She said that she was going to call, then she started running around the house a couple times while I chased after her. I failed. Then she laid on the floor on her stomach, crossed her ankles, and started talking to him like they’re the best of friends! And she’d never even talked to him before, people! Um… At one point, Angel said something to him in Spanish (which she does not know, by the way), and I guess he started talking to her in Russian (which he does know)… Yeah, that was interesting.

ANYWAYS!

Today sucked ‘cuz I was really late for guitar lessons with Christian (I’m sorry! Really!), and my mum was incredibly mad at me. I mean really. T_T But it was fun because the reason I was late was because I was buying purple hair dye with Angel. But I didn’t get to dye my hair because, again, I was late. And that sucked. But the guitar lessons were fun. I really suck, though. (I HATE YOU, G CHORD!) I sound horrible playing chords at the same time as him… It was like, “G….. C. D. G… No, you strum G twice. Okay, C. D….. G…. No, it’s fine… C… C… Those fingers. Yeah, like that… D…” Yup. But I’m just learning, so I have a right to suck!

I love this picture (from Iconator.com). It’s strange, but very true. I really want to say more, but I can’t think of how to put it in words.

 

Malcolm: What's going on?
Reese: Grandpa gave me a live grenade. It's really cool. You wanna hold it?!
Victor: No, no, no! It's for you, not him.
Malcolm: Oh my God! We have to call the police!
Victor: No! No police! No police, please! There's no reason to panic.
Malcolm: Yes there is! You gave Reese a live grenade and he's a total idiot!
Reese: He's right. I am. I don't think I should have it anymore. Here!

(Yeah, Chris, this is what I was talking about. Man, I really butchered it.)

Things I have learned at my school

 

-Do not eat anything with cheese on it. Just don’t.

-When people used to get beheaded with a… I forgot what they’re called. In the ancient times? It starts with a ‘g’. ANYways, when people used to get beheaded with those things, their nerves would cause them to keep screaming as their heads rolled. Like chickenss running with their heads cut off. (Donny told me that. He’s a strange boy.)

-Guys look funny in blonde wigs

-They look even funnier with a shirt that has fake stuffed boobs.

-They just look wrong in a pink prom dress.

-It’s best to pay attention when playing soccer. The balls are hard.

-The kids at my school don’t know the difference between ‘90s and ‘80s. Now, I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that some of them were wearing ‘90s-style clothes on ‘80s formal day (spirit week).

-When somebody says “Eat this!” during lunch, don’t look!

Wow. Today was sure a weird day.

The morning was pretty normal… But at lunch time it became odd.

I didn’t pack a lunch today… My stomach has been hurting a lot lately. So all I had was strawberry milk and a cappuccino… Some kids in our grade that don’t have the same lunch as us sat with us (um, something about a history test? Yeah, didn’t make sense to me, either). Holleigh took my cappuccino ‘cuz it was hot and, apparently, she was cold. Then Ganaro (I hope that’s spelled right… It’s pronounced Hanaro) took it from Holleigh, and Sam took it from Ganaro. THEN Sam put his mouth to it… He would have taken a drink of it if I hadn’t said “Hey! That’s MINE!” XDD He thought it was Holleigh’s. That was really funny! Then Angel made me go to the girls’ locker room in the gym to get her tennis shoes.

 

My next two classes were actually pretty normal… But in my fifth hour class, gym, we went outside to play soccer… I actually played a little! I usually just stand there and avoid the ball. Today I went after it a few times ^-^ It’s actually a little fun… Until I was hit in the face with the ball. T_T I didn’t even see it coming! I was standing there… And then something HARD hit my face… OUCH. It was kind of embarrassing.  Everybody was looking at me. Then they walked over to me. And kept looking at me. Ugh. And to make it worse, I think I was crying… No, not crying. But I think there were tears. It was really weird! I didn’t feel like crying, but I noticed that my face was wet (and it wasn’t blood!). I was fine, though… Although my face did hurt. I just got my braces tightened last night, so my mouth was already sore. After that, Angel made me defend the side of the field where the ball didn’t go often.

“If you broke your nose, you wouldn’t be able to come to my house this weekend! And that would be sad… I’ve always thought that that would be the worse. To have tape on your face, I mean…”

Typical Angel.

 

And to top off my weird day! When I came home, all of the doors were locked. We (my brother and I) were locked out. So I had to climb through a small window to get in. UGH. I thought I was going to fall inside on my head!  It was too small to really get my leg up, but I managed. And here I am!

Tomorrow is homecoming!

(sarcastic cheer)

More later.

David Archuleta- Crush

...Story of my life.

I love this song! I heard it on the radio and immediately fell in love with it. (The singer is kind of cute, too... Okay, really cute.)

I WAS GOING TO POST ABOUT SOMETHING, BUT-

Oh, right.

Ugh, in Biology today, we watched this DISGUSTING video... It was about, eh... Sex... I am NOT going into... Never mind. It won't be funny if I tell it. You just had to be there, I guess...

That's it, then!

Blech, I have a cold...

<33

I’m watching The Notebook on FX right now.

I love this movie!

W000t.

The best romance I’ve seen. It’s amazing… I want to talk about it, but it’s really something that you have to experience.

-sigh- I want to fall in love... But what girl doesn’t? I want a guy who… Who… Gah, I keep trying to put it in words, but I’m desperately failing. I suppose what I want to feel can’t be put into words… This is kind of frustrating. It reminds me of something I read awhile ago… But I can’t remember it! Something about love being something you can only feel, that it can’t be put to words. I searched for it on Google, but I couldn’t find it. I did, however, find this. I like it.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

 

It’s like… The difference between Socrates in Love and Gossip Girl. The difference between Teardrops on My Guitar and Every Time We Touch. The difference between The Notebook and How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

Love is when you miss him even before he's gone,

When you could listen to him talk all night

And never get tired of hearing his voice,
When the sound of his name sends chills down your spine,
And when you see his smile the second you close your eyes!

- Adriene Auckerman –

I’ve been thinking about this kind of stuff for quite awhile now… I loooove romances ^-^ I read them all the time, now I want to be in one. But with the right guy, y’know? Not just some random classmate that asked you out.

Hehe.

In math class today, this guy who sits in front of this girl (Nellie) who both sit in the row next to me was wearing a coat with a… Eh, it’s a piece of fabric with only the top and bottom sewn to it. Sorry, I’m being very confusing.

(cough) When the teacher was explaining… Something (I dunno, I was working ahead), she suddenly started laughing. At first I thought she was crying or something, but she was smiling… And she just kept laughing. For at least two minutes straight. Finally, I noticed that a pink pen was sticking out of the back-fabric-thing… I couldn’t help but giggle, too, just because she found it so darn hysterical. (She was drinking a Dr. Pepper, I think that’s why…) Seriously, she was laughing for at least five minutes. Eventually, after giving her a bunch of strange looks, he took of his coat and noticed it.

Gaaah, it sounds SO boring when I try to explain it! Sorry! It was actually really funny!

Here, I even provided a drawing: ^-^

(It looks awful 'cuz our scanner is broken and I had to take a photo... Then, when the photo turned out too light, I attempted to make it visible with Photoshop... ^^;)

For your entertainment purposes, here's a drawing I did awhile back:

You can view it on deviantART here!

I'd love some constructive critism! Pleeease.

My week and plans

I still have nothing to post T_T So, uh... Here's me week: (sorry if it's boring)

Sunday- My mother woke me up at 8:30 so we could go to church during the first service... But we only went so my mother could do this children's ministry thing... I sat in the car and read manga. For two hours. -SIGH- Then we went in for the second service. I had this REALLY good coffee, it tasted like that hard cherry dip they can put on your cone at Dairy Queen! <33 Delicious. Then I came home, watched The Day After Tomorrow, started my homework but decided that I needed to call Christian, went back to my homework for five minutes before calling Chelsie, sent an email to my friends, worked on my English essay for a few minutes, then checked my deviantART messages... I think you get the point.

Monday- School. T_T Escuse me while I go outside to scream...

Tuesday- SAME. Except this time, I started to get a headache at around 9:00 pm. Then my mother informed me that I have to go to the dentist the next day. NOOO!!! I used to love the dentist, but then I had a horrible (okay, not horrible...) experience. Let's just say that some rough men should not be dentists.

Wednesday- That's today!
I didn't set my alarm, so my mother woke me up half an hour late... I did get ready pretty quickly, though, I had about fifteen minutes to do nothing. So now I'm at my grandmother's house, on her super-slow internet connection, writing about my week. I'm missing all of my morning classes, and probably English class. I don't want to miss English! But I'm fine with missing Biology :D And I'm actually pretty excited to go to youth group tonight! Last week was great, but maybe that's because I really did not know anybody there... And nobody really talked to me... So I didn't have to worry about fitting in or talking to the girl who talks to me sometimes, 'cuz she wasn't there. Does that make sense? I mean, last week I was invisible. It was kind of nice. And I'm going to drive there, so I'm happy.

Thursday- The Office will be on... I'm happy for that. Nothing else going on.

Friday- I DON'T KNOW, OKAY?!

Saturday- I'm going to my friend's house (Christian), he teaching me to play the guitar. This should be fun :3 And my mother said something about taking me and my brother to this nearby river to take photos of us. NOOOO!

I'm not going any farther. Mainly because I don't plan that far ahead.

~*~

I think I'm going to just give up on Naruto Shippuuden. THE FILLERS KILL ME! I'll stick to the manga, thank you very much.
And now... I shall watch... Elfen Lied! I hear that it's very good.

Maybe I'm just really out of it, but what is Obama's platform? I've heard a ton of commercials supporting him, but has he really said what he stands for? All he is saying is that he will make "changes." What the heck does that mean?!

~*~Courtney~*~