A rambley post about everything.

Hi there. So I realized that there was a whole bunch of stuff I meant to tell you about last week and forgot, as well as the disaster that is my April fools.

So this post will probably be long and meaningless, with no discernible segues, but bear with me.

So last weekend I had the almost imponderable joy of watching Jayne dance in her ballet school's spring showcase.

But I also got to help out, because I'm a helpful volunteer. And also the only volunteer who isn't a parent, but I don't like to brag.

So I was promptly put to work at watching the younger kids and making sure they don't wander off.

I helped with three different age groups:

4-6, "the tinies." these are the hardest to watch, because they're really little. The plus side is that as a fifteen year old, I'm the most exciting thing ever.

10-12, "the easies," are exactly that. They simply read their books, and occasionally ask to go outside. The only problem is that they can be kind of boring, because you're pretty much ceremonial.
Although one of my easies gave me a friendship bracelet. Thank you Isabelle. I hope that's the proper spelling of your name.

And finally,

8-11, "the goldens" my favorite to watch because they're old enough that you aren't herding cats, but they're young enough to find you interesting.

That was a really final and super exhausting weekend, and I wasn't even the one dancing.

Ok, now let's fast forward a bit to the Hunger Games, because I totally forgot to review it.

I liked it in general. I was right that Jennifer Lawrence was a good Katniss, although she's waaaaaay taller than Josh Hutchinson which was hilarious.

They cut to Gale a couple times, which I found kind of cheesy. Plus it incited the people behind me to say "omg, Jacob!" This made me almost throw my straw at them. Fun fact about Liam Hemsworth: his brother plays Thor. Also he's dating Miley Cyrus, but I really don't give a crap about that.

I really liked Amandla Steinberg as Rue. She was excellent. I just wish she'd had more screen time.

The wolves angered me. In the book I imagined them sleek and and graceful, with human eyes. In the movie they were mangy cats with human ears.
No.

Peeta was perfectly captured, although he had one slightly creepy "Cullen-esque" line, where he said that he watched Katniss walk home from school everyday.
Potato's little sister and Jayne agree that that's creepy, even though they aren't allowed to read/watch.

I think that's the best film review I've ever written. Maybe if I show my film teacher it'll make up for the really crappy ones I've given him all year...

You may know that it's April fools day. I had this great piece planned that involved me handing out festively wrapped lemons to random people.

If I have learned one thing today, it is that nobody trusts a really polite teenager giving out gifts.

WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?
You're all good with telling your children that a fat man watches them sleep, and rewards them for being good, but you're not at all cool with a friendly stranger giving you a gift???

Why?

Do you think I'm a terrorist? (This is America so I wouldn't put it past you...)

Do you think I want money? Because people who want money TOTALLY give stuff away!

Sigh. I'm going to go make some lemonade. Yay irony.

A couple drawings I did.

I love iPads.

I did these with the app Paper. I love it

Anticipation (For a Film)

I'm going out to see the Hunger Games movie tonight with... Ooh, neither of them have camp names, and I haven't mentioned them before...

Oh!

Elf and Archer!

They're both friends from girl scouts (and coincidentally, we all have pretty much the same hairdo) and they've already seen it once.

I'm super excited, because I LOOOOOVE the Hunger Games, and the movie looks goood.
I really like Jennifer Lawrence (I saw her in X-Men: First Class, because I like X-Men.) and although I was kind of skeptical when I first saw her, but I think she'll be good.

I'll have to tell you what I think tonight or tomorrow.

I Frickin' Miss Potato.

Potato and I hung out on Google+ (go join it's cool) for like three hours yesterday, until she had to eat dinner, and I realized it was it was 3 pm and i hadn't eaten breakfast. Time zones are confusing/

This made us realize, that this was the first time we had talked face to face (albeit from across the country) since her 13th birthday. 

My mom, Jayne, and me flew out to State That I Used To Live In, and hung out with our friends. And then we totally surprised her by sneaking into her bedroom and throwing balloons at her. She didn't even know we were coming. It was pretty epic.

You see, she's turning fifteen in like two weeks.

Potato, I miss yoooooooooooouuuu!

I hope we get to hang out more.

p.s we need to properly see each other soon, so i can poke you.

You know you're a nerd when...

... You ask your mom of you can stay up at least to the end of Ophelia's funeral.

The answer is no, unfortunately.

But seriously, I've been watching Hamlet all day because my mom got me the David Tennant version on blu-ray for New Years.

It's my favorite version because David Tennant and Patrick Stewart as Hamlet and the King/ghost are both phenomenal, (they're two of the best actors in the universe, and i can say that without shame because they've both been all over it) and it's really well done.

It's available on Netflix, but only on disc. You need to watch it.

Lady E

Ps I would also like you to know that I can say all of Ophelia's lines about the flowers. So I'll put on my favorite line :)

Here's rue for you, and here's some for me. We may call it herb o grace o sundays, but you must wear your rue with a difference.

Nyan nyan nyan

Being the weirdo that i am, i'm listening to a million versions of Nyan cat while doing driver's ed. BUT- I thought i'd share some epic nyan iterations with you!

(All of these are from nyan.cat, which is just nonstop nyaning.They have even more, i'm just putting up the best)

Technyancolor:
A techno remix with a brightly colored cat

Jazz Cat:
Slightly more bearable. piano and jazzy vocals

Sepia toned cat:
This just makes me think of silent movies. but i like silent movies, so that's good.

Ninja Nyan:
This may be my favorite.

Smurf cat:
guaranteed to get smurfed in your smurf.

Ok, I'm going to go learn about the automobile in america. (they're very thorough on this thing...)

LADY E!

Eggs :)

My mom helped me flip this, mainly because it's the first fried egg I've ever made. I think it's a tiny bit overlooked, but I'd rather have it over sunny Side up than under done and raw.

Also, I do realize that it's 3:00 pm. I just got a craving for eggs on toast.

Yes this is two posts in one day. I just feel really guilty about my unreliability. Consider it a peace offering and a promise.