The world from my unusual and insane point of view.
Monday, December 17, 2012
I know, I don't always post, but it you look at my blog then I hope when I do it brightens your day.
I love to make people smile, as pessimistic as I can be, I truly love to make other people smile. I guess that's why I love to perform, it's a chance to brighten someone's day. Like my chorus director has said, every year he hears someone say they really needed to hear something that was in the Winter concert. Whether it's covering a song or making a makeup tutorial on Youtube or being on a stage in choir, I love to see the reactions people have.
At the Christmas concert this year, I had a solo, and when I first got on stage I felt nervous, but when I saw an older woman towards the front just smiling, in a way where she just looked like she was having a wonderful time listening to people sing, I felt a sudden rush of confidence.
If you have a chance to make someone smile, take it, the world will be a better place.
Ya, I'll be honest, I hardly go on this anymore, I like to write and I try to keep up, but I just kind of forget about Blogger/Blogspot until I see someone on Youtube talk about it.
I've had a somewhat crazy life anyways, I have a friend in the hospital, both presidential candidates sucked so I didn't really care about them, I have been very active in Chorus, and I've been taking an online course so that I can have 4 electives in school.
I'm in Chorus, Digital Arts, Latin II, and ROTC, which I want to leave ROTC oh so very badly.
I don't have a lot to say at this point, so I'll add a few pictures I made in Photoshop.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Group projects. What do you learn when your teacher places you with three of the dumbest girls in class and a guy you find annoying? Well, if you're anything like me, you relearn why you always do every project alone, and you learn that you could have easily completed the project alone.
In my English II Honors class we are reading Lord of the Flies and my group has to do a project on chapter seven. Since, for reasons unknown, most of the girls in my class are ditsy and obnoxious, I am the only smart girl in my group for the project. No, I am not being conceited, I am saying my intelligence by far surpasses theirs. When we were reading Fahrenheit 451 one of the questions on our pre-reading assignment was "Define censorship in your own words." This particular group of girls behind me were discussing the assignment and the dialogue was in the most sickeningly revolting voice "What's censorship?" "I think it has to do with your senses!" "You mean like taste? And touch?"
I kid you not, these girls are in my honors class. I have never been so disappointed to be an honors student.
Anyways, the project is split to where out of 100 points, 10 are a video, 15 are for vocabulary, 25 are for in depth notes, and 50 are for the essay.
We gave the three girls the job of the video, which between the three of them, they will probably shoot, and ask one of their dads to do the editing.
We were in class discussing how we would split up the work and the boy and I were trying to decide how the essay should be done and which of the two of us should write it.
As a girl with a Gothic style I get some unusual stereotypes. I swear, without missing a beat, one of the girls says to me "Something about the way you look makes me think you are a really good writer." Thank you teenage girls, for allowing me to lose my faith in humanity once again.
I've been so busy so I apologize to the maybe one follower I have for not updating in forever. Basically this is my life up until a week ago:
Sunday: Friends
Monday: All-State Practice
Tuesday: All-State Practice
Wednesday: All-State Practice
Thursday: Friends/Sleep
Friday: Swing dance
Saturday: Friends/Sleep.
Since I didn't make All-State that has freed up my schedule, anyways, I thought I'd make a list of some of my favorite bands. I think I'll limit the genre to just rock/metal. So here's the list:
10. Escape The Fate
There was a time when I would have placed them at #2 or #3, but because my friend has an obsession with Falling in Reverse I'm a little sick of Ronnie's voice. But I still love them and listen to most of their stuff.
9. The Cure
Of course I love The Cure. I put them at #9 because I listen to them a lot, but I don't know every song, I only have a couple albums by them on my computer. I adore them though
8. My Chemical Romance
My best friend and I have fond memories of walking the track when we were supposed to run and screaming "Teenagers" at the top of our lungs, they were #2 until they released the Danger Days album which I don't know how to describe it other than as an angry disco train wreck.
7. Scary Kids Scaring Kids
One of those bands I just couldn't NOT include. I love them I used to listen to them everyday on my way to school in 8th grade. I recently started listening to them again and I love the music. It's a shame they broke up, but they are forever loved by my ears.
6. Sleeping With Sirens
This is probably the newest band I've fallen in love with, a girl from school showed me them recently and I automatically loved them.
5. Senses Fail
This one recently made the favorites list, I've known them for a long time but just recently started listening to them a lot. They're an amazing band and the top 5 were hard to decide what goes where.
4. Billy Talent
I don't think there's been a Billy Talent song I didn't like. I love them so much, my best friend showed me this band and I was obsessed from the start.
3. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows (DRUGS)
This band was short lived but I loved them, I saw them in concert back in January and I still have the t-shirt. One girl threw a bra on stage and one of the band members put it on his head. They are amazing!
2. Pierce the Veil
This band makes me wish I'd gotten my permit earlier. They are my second favorite band and I can't see them when they come to Orlando this month because I have no way of getting there.
1. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
I saw this band at the first and only Vibe Fest which was a music/skating festival in my area. I got a high five from the singer that night and they are my all time favorite band, I seriously can't skip a song by them on my MP3 and even they're slow songs are really wonderful.
For those of you who I have never texted or spoken to, I hold grammar at a high priority. I usually can keep calm about "u" instead of "you" and "r" instead of "are" and if I'm desperate enough for conversation I'll put up with the forms of where, there, and your. My largest pet peeve about writing is when people don't even try to use the correct verb. Such as "and there isn't any relatable subjects" this is a quote from my ex. He was saying how I have bad conversation skills because I didn't want to speak about dry subjects. In my mind grammar and spelling are important in a conversation. Relatable is not a word. Relative is the correct word. And verb forms are very important to me, it drives me insane when someone says isn't when the correct verb form is aren't. I apologize for sounding a bit pretentious. I'm just obsessed with correct grammar. My mom told me she never baby talked me and I always spoke with excellent grammar. I guess you can root my obsession with correct grammar to my toddler days.
I feel like I've probably bored anyone who could possibly be reading this far, I apologize for my awful ranting.
This weekend I've had absolutely nothing to do. I didn't have any chores my parents gave me, it was storming so I couldn't go anywhere, and my friends were gone or busy.
So I did an English Project, a week early, which was a painting of my perception of Plato's Allegory of The Cave, I painted a folder for Chemistry because I had a bright pink one from Chorus last year, I did my Chemistry homework and extra work in Chemistry. During this I watched the full three seasons of Danny Phantom, which was amazing. And then I painted cups for change, pencils, and paint brushes. After that I thoroughly cleaned my room, which included sweeping it, reorganizing my drawers, cleaning my book shelf, and cleaning my closet.
This weekend was absolutely boring to the point of productivity. And now I've just wasted your time because you actually read this. I'm going to go do some more Chemistry. Good bye.
My teacher requested my class write autobiographies for class. Here's mine.
I'm Lexi and I have lived in seven states and I currently
have two dogs, a fish, a brother, and my parental units. I am sixteen and I
swing dance, sing, and thoroughly enjoy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mickey
Mouse and love to read. That's the most interesting bit about me I'm willing to
share with people I barely know, so I will finish my paper with a story about
giraffes.
One
day, Tom the giraffe was eating grapefruit with his friend Paul. Paul didn't
like grapefruit though so he asked Tom what the joy of grapefruit possibly
could be. Tom was appalled by the thought of one not loving grapefruit. He
broke into a song and dance routine about grapefruit and its tangy tart flavor
with its beautiful red color and sticky juice. Paul was beginning to grasp the
concept of Tom's love for grapefruit and then Tom convinced Paul to fall in
love with grapefruit by telling him that it was packed with nutrients like
Vitamin C. Then the singer from the 90s who no one actually remembers named
Vitamin C came out and sang one of her songs and Tom and Paul were two happy
giraffes and flew off to find girlfriends because they were lonely.
