So after redoing my blog again...

Wow that took some time.  I've been reading a lot of nail blogs lately.  As you can see, I added two nail blogs to the side over --> there. where it says that you MUST READ BLOGS.  But if you don't really want to read them, I'm not going to send Cosmo after you to chew on your toes for you.  Mostly because postage costs so much these days (Just kidding).  I was thinking about bringing back some of the old pictures of my nails and tell you how to do them since a picture isn't always helpful.  And, no, I am not going to tell you the exact colors and brands of nail polish we used, mostly because I don't remember what we used on them, but I thought it would be nice to tell you how they're all done.

Let's see what we've got:

These are simple (for an advanced nail polisher).  Just to tell you up front that all the credit for my nail polish goes to Muppet.  The only credit I get is for photography (credit for having pretty nails goes to the One who made me).

My fingernails here are just different nail colors.  This was Muppet's first time painting my nails, back in October of last year.  I couldn't decide on a nail polish so we did a rainbow of colors.  You may or may not be able to see all the colors so I'll tell you the fingernail colors from right to left: silver, black, purple, blue, light blue (it smelled like fruit punch), two different greens layered on top of each other, yellow (smelled like bananas), orange, red orange, and red.  You probably fell asleep reading all of that so to wake you up:

BLUE!!!!!

 Now tell me, what color is that up there?  Is it yellow, red, or blue?  Just wondering what color you think it is.  If you want my opinion, it's all of the above.  A primary parade.

Anyways.  picture two is my toes done the same year in the same month on the same day. My right toes are black and white, horizontal stripes.  My left toes are black and white vertical.  If you click on the picture, it should enlarge it.  But you can tell that I went off to do some mindless activity before my toes dried completely because you can see where my nail polish is tarnished on my big toe on the right.  It happens when you have your nails painted at your friend's house, you have fun and forget about your worries :)

Alas, she's off in California and is busy attending a wedding.  And I'm here with my computer and my blog (and my cat).  I went to California once.  A long time ago when I was on a cruise.  We had two long flights to California where our cruise boat was awaiting us to sail to Alaska.  Where we didn't see any bears...except for the big fake or stuffed ones in random stores or museums (lol).  It was cloudy when we went to California, though.  I think it may have even rained at one point.  But we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge and sailed under it.  That part was really spectacular, sailing underneath the bridge I mean, because the smoke stacks (is that what you call them?) folded so we could go underneath.  It was a ginormous cruise boat.  But not the new one that apparently is so big that it has an amusement park on it.  I can't imagine something THAT big floating in any ocean.  But if it floats, it floats.  There's no arguing with gravity.  Unless you're singing Defying Gravity.

I love that song.  Probably my most favorite song from a musical.  Not that I'll ever sing it to audition.  That's one of those songs that apparently everyone does.  Then there are those songs that you can't sing because the people you're auditioning for will start comparing you to the one star that sang that song.  For instance, Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a song that I usually can't stand unless it's Julie Garland singing it.  Even when I was a child it never sounded right.

Speaking of songs not sounding right, I figured out how to fast forwards through songs.  Like, you can actually hear it fast forwarding.  So when I'm listening to a song, either you can barely tell what they are singing or not at all.  On windows media player, right click the fast forwards button and left click on the box that says, "Fast forward     ctrl + shift + F". I tested it out on some songs (including Defying Gravity which seemed very sacrilegious since it's such a serious song plus one of my ultimate faves right now).  Some of the best fast forwarded songs were Queen and Taylor Swift (so far).  If you are really feel like you need a laugh, fast forward through the suggestions below:

John Williams' StarWars theme
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
Life in Technicolor (Coldplay)
We Will Rock You (Queen)
We Are The Champions (Queen)
Bicycle Race (Queen)
Someone to Love (Queen)
Good Morning Baltimore (From the musical Hairspray)
Without Love (Hairspray)
You Can't Stop the Beat (Hairspray)
The West Side Story Overature
Maria (West Side Story)
Fearless (Taylor Swift: Fearless)
Love Story (Taylor Swift: Fearless)
Breathe (Taylor Swift: Fearless)
Mine (Taylor Swift: Speak Now)
Dear John (Taylor Swift: Speak Now)
Never Grow Up (Taylor Swift: Speak Now)
Haunted (Taylor Swift: Speak Now)
Enchanted (Taylor Swift: Speak Now)
Last Kiss (Taylor Swift: Speak Now)
Long Live (Taylor Swift: Speak Now)
McCavity (From the musical Cats)
Yes (Cold play)
Tim McGraw (Taylor Swift)
A Place in This World (Taylor Swift)
Should've Said No (Taylor Swift)
Oh My My My (Taylor Swift)
Tear Drops on My Guitar (Taylor Swift)
Anything Goes (From the musical Anything Goes)
People (from the musical Funny Girl)
All that Jazz (from Chicago)
Fame (from Fame)
I Dreamed a Dream (Les Miserables)
What I did for Love (A Chorus Line)
Sherry (Jersey Boys)
I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady)
Last Night of the World (Miss Saigon)

Okay this list is so long.  I have to stop now.  Just listen to everything in fast forwards!  LOL this is so funny.  Superclifragilisticexpialidocious is funny in fast forwards.  The computer doesn't think that it's a word.  Tear :'(

This Week

I'm going to Muppet's house tomorrow.  So we can talk about things we never talked about during Drama Camp because there was no time to do so.  It's funny how often you can see a person and still not get to talk to them.

We're also planning on watching Hairspray (because Muppet has never seen it), Avatar (because I've never seen it), and Mario Karting and such.  Probably surf the internet.  You know, the usual things we do.  She'll paint my nails, I'll find a way to mess them up and then she'll have to fix 'em up again.  We'll bake something, cook dinner maybe, laugh at how ridiculous we are, laugh at the TV when it's being ridiculous, laugh at the clock because it's being ridiculous (Hey, it can't be 1:00 in the morning yet!).  You get the picture.  Nothing out of the ordinary here.

Vacation wasn't too overwhelmingly exciting.  The manatees decided to be shy, but one of them breathed on my feet.  I got yet another sunburn (I still don't have a tan), saw crabs popping into their holes one the beach, ate at a sea food restaurant, and watched the end of Time Line.  I only saw the end but it didn't look too interesting to me from what I saw of it.

Well, I'm going bowling now, so toodles!

The Early Bird Gets a Haircut

Okay so the title of this post may be more amusing than what I've actually got to say.  So yeah, I woke up kinda early today but, oh my gosh, it feels like I slept way later than normally.  It's 7:30 in the morning and I usually get up around 7:00 so I guess I did sleep in a little.  For me.  But I can't sleep because every time I get comfortable my head buzzes with the same old stuff.  Or new stuff.  If you're me it's old because my brain has been doing this for two weeks.  It's like an early alarm or something.  My brain just says, "TIME TO GET UP!  You've got places to go and plays to perform so GET UP." So, as usual, I gave up trying to roll over and fall asleep.  It'll be better next week I think, especially because I won't have to wake up early with butterflies in my stomach.  Stupid butterflies.  They always attack on the day of a performance, whether it be something small or something HUGE.  But I can assure you as soon as my feet touch the stage and I'm sitting cross-legged in my spot on the set, it will magically melt away.

I assume you've probably guessed that today is the day of my performance, but I haven't been telling you about what happened before today.  Actually I don't think I've made a blog post all week.  I thought that a blog post would calm my nerves.  When I talk, I feel better.  I don't know why but it's just relief to say the things that are blotching my mind.

Mostly this week we blocked some things, played some games, went to the park, ran through the whole play several times, tech day, dress rehearsals and the assistant director finally went over my monologue with me and I apparently did very well.  Or at least that's what I think because he didn't correct me too much, but then again, we didn't have much time to do that sort of thing because we had to get costumes on and stuff for dress rehearsals.  But I feel really good about my monologue and now I feel like I'm ready to audition for things in the future.  Well not entirely because I only have the music from this year's performance to work with at the moment but we'll find something for my voice type eventually.  I like musicals, because I love singing.  I'm not always on tune when I start singing a new song but I get the hang of it eventually and then I really feel fabulous.  And then there are all the people who think I have beautiful voice (not just my mother, people).  But for me, it's not that I have a good voice, for me it's that I can use it well without hurting myself on higher notes like other people can and that I can sing loudly and softly and clearly.  For me I think it's more important that you're words are loud and clear than that you're voice is beautiful.  But also I think it's great if you can hit all those notes that no one else can.  But it's good to not be a showoff when singing, even if you can sing like Jean val Jean in Les Miserables.  Everyone can sing, they just need practice.  Really, anyone can do just about anything with some practice.  So don't make people feel less than you.  But on the other hand, don't put yourself down to make others look better.  Just do your best and don't overdue it.

Have you noticed that a lot of my titles only match up with the first sentence and then goes in an entirely different direction?

ACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yes, I'm sick today.  If you didn't notice from the title.  That's part of the reason why I didn't blog yesterday.  Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away...now it looks as though they're here to stay...Anyways.  Sorry, I get carried away when it comes to singing.  Not that I was actually was singing.  But speaking of singing, I came up with my own version of I Could Have Dance All Night.  It goes like so:

I could have slept all night
I could have slept all night
and still have slept some more.

I could have slept away
the entire day
and still have slept for sure.

But really, yesterday I had auditions.  And either it was because I mentioned that I was good at playing crazy granny's or they just thought that it was a better part for me, I'm going to be Weeping Old Lady 2.  2?  That sounds familiar...Ah!  I was Guard TWO in Jerusalem's Most Wanted.  It's reminding me of two different parts I've had in my life, the character Tilly McBride from Muppet's script of A Murder By Any Other Name Would Still Be Wrong and the part of Guard two mentioned above.  I think Tilly McBride is my ultimate favorite character I've ever been.  I mean, she was a little strange of a character, but in a good way.  I loved her crazy self.  I think Muppet should write part two to that.  Then a close second would be my character from How to Eat Like a Child in the song How to Torture your Sister.  But I think I might like my role as a Weepy Old Lady better than Olivia in the short film we did with Drama Club.  No offense to the writer at all.  It's just my opinion because she was least like me.  But then again, I'm not very good at playing silly, boy-obsessed girls.  But I think I know what my strengths are in characters and my weaknesses in them.  I like funny, crazy people.  But even when I think back to the days when I was playing Littlest Pet Shop with my sisters, I was always a crazy bad guy.  Often a cat.  But enough of that.

Hey-o! I'm Cosmo!

Hello kittens!  I'm back from Muppet's house!  Here's a summery of what happened:

First we talked a while.  Next I looked at her notes about what we were going to do and we crossed talking off the list! LOL After that, I looked at the awesome pictures of her dollies playing with Legos.  We then proceeded to play various video games like Whatchamadrawit using Wii Paint and Mario Kart.  We had lunch which consisted of a sandwich and all the potato chips you could eat.  There was Honey Barbeque, Salt and Vinegar, and BLT flavored chips but the BLT flavor really only tasted like bacon.

Oh, but in between lunch Muppet and I started our Veggietale marathon.  We watched the first and third episodes and we realized a whole bunch of jokes that we didn't understand when we were six or whatever.  Then we watched Pirates of the Caribbean the second movie (the title just escaped my mind, but hey, I went to bed at 12:00 and didn't get to sleep until later).

We made dinner.  We were supposed to make a chicken fajita pizza but it turned into a disaster.  The dough turned into slime and the salsa jar took a half hour of failed attempts to screw the lid off.  So it turned into chicken fajitas without the tortillas.  Then I had a can of cream soda but it decided it didn't like me and bit my finger when I was trying to open it.  It bled some so Muppet got me a bandage which I wore until we made cookies later.

Cookies!  We made cookies!  The first batch were hard and crunchy and browned.  The second was perfect.  The third were huge squishy puffballs that mostly broke apart.  We doodled some while listening to my CD of Musical music.

In the morning we played Mario Kart until we left to go to Muppet's church service.  We were early.  Really early.  Like the Pastor wasn't even there yet.  Then Muppet's two friends arrived to do some singing practice.  After the service there was a lunch thing and a wedding shower for the pastor's oldest daughter.  They have a guest policy thing so I got to get my food after the bride and groom to be went.  After lunch, Muppet, her two friends and I went to figure out what music they would sing to for mother's day.  I helped choose one of the songs.  All the songs started with a B:  Beautiful Things (by Gungor), Beautiful Beautiful (Francesca Battistelli), and Blessings (Laura Story; the song I chose).

Well now I have a band-aid on my finger because last night I rubbed in up against something and it reopened the wound.  So it's difficult to type right now.

But apparently I'm  going to see Muppet today.  Because our mothers are going to be discussing curriculum and stuff.  Well I have some school to do still so...

The End

Here comes the Sun!

Ha ha!  That reminds me of this one sign I saw once!  It was sign for a church of some sort and it said:

"Weather forecast: God reigns, the Son shines"

So adorable.

So I saw Les Miserables last night.  We got the DVD from Netflix and watched half of it Thursday and the other half tonight.  It was spectacular!  Three words, Best Musical Ever!  The characters, cast, music... It was just awesome to watch it.

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Yeah, so I'm bored.  But I shouldn't feel bored.

I'm trying to finish reading The Help and label my blog posts.  I'm sure you've noticed that.  If you haven't, it's not that important of information.

I've also been writing, but you knew that.  Oh!  Today is May the fourth be with you!  We were planning on watching the third Star Wars movie...but our plans changed.  Yes, I still have not seen the third Star Wars movie.  I was too young to watch it the last time we tried to watch it together.  I think I could have handled it but I was just tired of my mom covering my eyes for half of it.  I want to watch the Dick Van Dyke Show.  Or Fractured Fairy tales.  But those are the shows that nobody else in my family likes except for my mother and me.

I feel like posting something funny I wrote.  It's from the story Diamond Gems that I was writing:

“Hey there, grizzly bear!” said the voice of a boy.  Both girls jumped, not expecting his intrusion.

“Harvey!  Don’t sneak up on me like that!” Diamond said, her face turning red.

“Jeez, sorry!” he said, “I just came to say hello to my favorite gem.” He puckered his lips for a quick kiss.  Diamond pushed his face away from hers.

“I don’t think so mister!  You know the rules at Youth Group.  No purpling.”

“Goodness.  Do you have to follow all of the rules?  Why not color outside the lines?”

“Maybe if the crayon was only pink; but my crayon isn’t going anywhere near your crayon and we both know that.”

“Okay, alright! I get it!  You don’t have to be so graphic about it!”

LOL.  Isn't it funny?  Okay, it probably isn't that funny...But I thought it was hilarious.

So I get to see Muppet tomorrow.  We're going to have a sleepover party thing and then in the morning I'm going to her church.  I guess she wanted to get back at me for when I brought her to my church.  But I probably posted that before.

But she's going to paint my nails like butterflies and cupcakes.  So I'll have to bring my camera to take pictures of them.  I don't think I've posted any pictures of my nails.  You probably are curious about how some of my nails turned out.  I can't show you all of them now because some photos are still on my camera but I can show you some of them. 

Let's see...

 Black and white stripes

Rainbow

 Black.  Notice that my toes are the same color and pattern.

Red and black french manicure thing

Red and black french manicure with white stripes

Awesome blue toes.  I think it's actually two different blues on top of each other

 Rainbow nails with black french manicure and rainbow toes with various intersecting stripes.  I ruined my right big toe's nail polish in this picture.  All of it was done by my friend Muppet's steady hand.  I had cute little presents for nails and a holly berry for Christmas on my nails.  I kept ruining my nails that night because we were watching the Nutcracker Prince that night and I kept falling asleep during that movie.

I'm going to Bodyflow with my family tonight.  YES!  My sister from college is HOME.  After that, I'm going to go spend some time at adoration.  Because you can't adore God enough, you know!  It's nice.  It's quiet and you can reflect on the past, your day, your family, your friends, you enemies.  It's kind of like meditating except the Lord is right there on the alter listening to your prayers.  Not that he isn't there any other time.  Because God is always listening.  I love Jeremiah 29:11-13.  Look it up for yourself.  Such inspiring words.

Have a Sunny day!

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Hi.  I'm back.  Sorry, I haven't been blogging lately.  There are five reasons for that, I assure you!

1. I was cleaning the house.
2. doing school
3. looking up awesome old video games for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and all video games featuring Mario (which it included a golf game in which the golfer looked like Mario)
4. brainstorming ideas for my book and for what I will do when Muppet comes to visit
5. going on Facebook normally for the first time in what feels months

Okay so maybe I've mostly been procrastinating.  But it's not procrastinating.  I was simply waiting for a good subject to blog about.

I have the hiccups.  Now there's a good subject (rolls eyes).  It's hard to type or eat or read or anything with the hiccups.  It's worse when you're coughing, sneezing and hiccuping at the same exact time.

So I was looking up old video games as I said above.  I don't see why school can't give you fun subjects to write reports and things on.  Like the history of video games.  Or the science behind making the perfect pasta.  I don't know, it just sounds funner than writing about the French Revolution or Carbon Dioxide.  Not that I've ever written a paper on Carbon Dioxide.  But it was just an example of something boring.

Oh!  Like I was saying...Um, what was I saying?  Oh, yes *ahem* video games...

UGH! My music!  I love this song!  But it's distracting me.  The Last Night of the World from Miss Saigon.  Not that I've actually have seen that musical.  I just like the song because it's on some CD my family got from Sam's.  Mozilla Fire Fox is weird.  It doesn't think Sam's is a word.  But when I typed Sunny's, it thought it was a word.

Ugh.  My mind.  Ah!  My brother has a Sonic Screwdriver for his birthday!  The Fourth Doctor, that is.  As in Tom Baker as in the best Doctor in the history of Doctor Who.  Oh, I'm sorry.  I don't know if you know who Doctor Who is.  He's a guy in a cool TV Show that's on Netflix.  So if you're on Netflix, try him out.  Just once.  For me.  Tom Baker is cool.  Trust me.  Even if the show is from the 60's.  Trust me.

VIDEO GAMES!!!! I CAN'T KEEP TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND!

So I learned a lot from this article about Donkey Kong the arcade game.  I learned that Mario was formerly known as Jumpman and Princess Peach was called Lady.  Then Jumpman became Mario.  And Princess Peach.  But Princess Peach took a long time to evolve into Princess Peach.  First she was Lady, then later changed to Pauline, then was just Princess, then Princess Toadstool, then Princess Peach.  And Mario has always been Mario ever since and Yoshi was Yoshi and Luigi was Luigi and Wario was Wario and so on and so fourth.

Then I looked up a whole bunch of Video Games that I realized that I've played before but didn't realize what they were.  So apparently I really do know video games from the 80's.  I realized I've also seen the original Donkey Kong video game before.  Granted, it didn't actually do much else besides eat tokens and frustrate me, but that's besides the point!  Wait.  What is the point?  Is it a pencil tip?  Isn't that the point?  Don't you know it's not polite to point?  Look ! <-- an exclamation point!  That's the point.

Anyways.  I'm reading this awesome amazing book called The Hiding Place.  It's really cool.  It's a true story about this person living in a watchmaker's shop during World War 2.  And she tries to hide innocent Jews in her home so that the Nazi's won't come and take them to those awful camps.  You learn a lot from reading.  I highly suggest that you read a good book.  Like The Hiding Place.

So this is a long post so I should stop here.

That's right!  Don't Panic!!! I'll be back tomorrow with more random happiness! :D