We danced yesterday. ♥ The day started out so stressful, I couldn't find the little shorts I needed so thank god Mette had extra. And then people were just bugging and we kept ~disagreeing~ on choreography and I got so upset that I just took my curling iron and went to the bathroom on the other end of the school lol. That was nice. I just sat on the floor in a straddle with my Christmas socks and spiral curled my hair and that took a little over a half hour, which was enough time for me to cool down and feel better. Whenever I get upset, I'll pretty much always be completely okay if I just get a room to myself for 30 minutes. Then my mom got there and she was SO excited, oh my god. We stretched and warmed up a bit, ran the routine a couple of times.



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I really hope this becomes a yearly thing. I have more to write about but I have to leave, god I feel so goddamn busy all the time.

Two pics I took this morning from the balcony from the apartment ...

http://twitpic.com/vqm2q

http://twitpic.com/vqm12

Kisses !

Monday afternoon, at the beach, drinking cold beer, eating some appetizers ...
what a perfect life !!!
The sun appeared shyly, but the temperature was so high!
The water was absolutely PERFECT !!

I wish my life was just like that the whole year ... nah this probably would be boring!
ahahhhhahahahahahah

I had dance and then we went and saw Nine. Holy son of a bitch, I may even love it more than Chicago. And that is fucking serious. I think I love the lyrics in Chicago more and obviously Chicago has Catherine, which Nine does not (they wanted her though, I'm pretty sure), but this was cinematographically BRILLIANT and so aesthetically gorgeous and god, god, NEED TO SEE IT MOAR. I'm still thinking about it but visually it was so, so beautiful.

well, I came to the beach today it was the fastest trip to Riviera I ever did!
I went to Sao Paulo ans then to Riviera by bus and arrived almost at the same time as my aunt, to give me a ride til the apartment.
The weather is cloudy but is so HOT ! We are melting! AC is not enough ! oh my ...
I hope tomorrow we get some sun !

I´ll post again before the new year .. see ya !

- You know that point in your life when you realise the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone.
- I still feel at home in my house.
- You'll see one day when you move out, it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, y'know? You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for... for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.

Garden State will always resonate. I swear to God. There are few films that strike a chord in me even half as much as this.

In other news, I have mad love for Parks & Recreation right now. Mad love. I always liked it and gradually fell for it more over the course of this season, but re-watching it? It's the only thing I can find lately that has the ability to make me completely switch off and stop thinking. It's such a gorgeous little pick me up of a show :) I'd highly recommend that anyone who didn't initially like it give it another shot. It's turned into something pretty unique, warm and well rounded. Surprisingly subtle, too. It's kind of a quiet show? I don't know, I just know that I find it exceedingly soothing to watch and it makes me smile, so.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Hope you had a lovely one! =D

LOL, so it's just after midnight and I'm wrapping presents (lol moar procrastination, MOAR!) and my grandma decides that she feels like making a snowman. SO WE WERE LIKE "OMG YES" SO WE DID!! ♥!! We got all bundled up and made this snowman in the middle of the night. And then I wrote "Merry Christmas" all big in her front yard, and then we came in and changed from our wet clothes into our new robes and we had hot chocolate and played Celine's Christmas CD and best, BEST! I have loads of pictures but I like this one for now. lol look, those are mini cheese wheels for eyes. And a carrot, obv. And then we picked little frozen berries off of her tree for buttons!


PERFECT SNOW, WE HAVE PERFECT SNOWMAN SNOW.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, my dear friends!
I love you all !

A Christmas card to all my flist !

LOL dance practice yesterday, omg I miss them so much. We were trying to make up an ending to the routine and someone got the brilliant idea to point up to God on our last "All I want for Christmas is you", since this is a ~Catholic~ school and all, AND THEN someone got the brilliant idea to lift me up to the Lord. lol. So we did all of these stupid and totally unnecessary lifts that never even worked.



We had the gym today - we had a good floor so we worked on turns a little and it amazes me how together and on-time we still are with each other. Like I don't even know how to explain what I feel right now. And Mette and I were driving and she was talking about how complete she felt now that we're doing this and that is exactly the word I've been using. I just, IDEK. And I want to edit something to show you how stupid and ridiculous we are always, just so you can get a ~feel~ for the dynamic, but I don't have time right now. I will try so hard though, it's so hard/weird being so busy. It was like this last year, I should have known. Although to be fair, I wasn't doing my own dance practices on top of everything so it's like, worse. Oh shut up Liss, CRY MOAR.

The actual team (not alumni lol) were performing at a game tonight so I went and shot more and apparently it was some Alumni night so a few of my old classmates were there and it was weird because I hate a lot of my old classmates lol. Like Peter. I fucking hate that kid. No but I saw Kiel and he was so excited to see me, I went up to give him a hug and he full on picked me up and I tucked my feet up behind me and I felt so tall. Deanna was a fucking riot today, I love her, we had so much fun. She is so much fun and so happy now that she's pregnant. I mean, she always was but I notice a tremendous difference. She seems to be a lot more open, too. OH but bad news, our ~performance~ (or, rather, the game that it's a part of) was postponed until Monday - we're supposed to get TWO FEET OF SNOW STARTING TOMORROW, YOU GUYS. BARF, BARF.

And Nikki let me take her beautiful camera home to take the pictures off of and it makes me so happy because I have a whole new set of photos to play with and they're my favorite ones, I've been dying for them. And I love that she trusts me so much with her family's serious business piece of equipment.

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MISC SHIT:
→ My mom and sister are all obsessed with Grey's and it kind of bugs because I got yelled at for talking during it, when it's perfectly fine for my sister to talk during House. My mom full on tunes House out to listen to her inane shit.

→ Christmas is a huge clusterfuck right now, I have no idea what is going on or when family functions are or where. jklkdfslhk. NO BUT I DO KNOW I AM TRUFAX WATCHING "HOW THE GHOSTS STOLE CHRISTMAS" NO MATTER WHAT BECAUSE I'VE DONE THAT FOR LIKE, 7 YEARS. MAYBE 8, IDER. It is the highlight of Christmas for me, seriously.

→ Speaking of, I hung out with Tony yesterday and it was fucking weird, what the fuck. I know he has feelings for me because he's told me but it's always been fine. They might be starting to get in the way now though or something, it felt so messed up, idk. No but I bring it up because I was watching XF when he got here and he asked what I was watching so I said X-Files and he was all, "You're always watching weird shit", and then he was like, "X-Files bugs me" and I was outraged, "YOU GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW." I think he thought I was kidding but I was pretty much serious.

→ I woke up to 40 facebook notifications from gentleflower. I have never had that many, lol, it was so much fun and so encouraging, it set the tone for a fantastic day. I am so blessed! I know some really beautiful people. I probably don't tell them enough.

→ I'm really tired right now though. But it feels weird to go to bed this "early". IT'S BECAUSE I DIDN'T GET A NAP TODAY, OKAY. :( :( :( Oh my god I'll shut up, I sound like an infant. "oh, *whine*, ~I didn't get a naaaap~~." W/E.

I'm watching The 4400 -- I had seen the first season back when it premiered, and I've caught many reruns on Skiffy -- but I'm finally doing it properly. Last night I finished season 2.

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PS: Do not spoil me for seasons three and four.

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In other news, io9 posted this kick ass article named When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like Avatar? [seriously, just read it!] and of course the comment section has become FILLED with a) white people in denial of their own privilege and b) stupid people crying "stop harshing my squee".

AND THEN io9's Moff wrote the most awesomest rant EVER about the stupid people and I'm gonna copy and paste it without cutting because I want the entire world to read it, YES:

Of all the varieties of irritating comment out there, the absolute most annoying has to be “Why can’t you just watch the movie for what it is??? Why can’t you just enjoy it? Why do you have to analyze it???”

If you have posted such a comment, or if you are about to post such a comment, here or anywhere else, let me just advise you: Shut up. Shut the fuck up. Shut your goddamn fucking mouth. SHUT. UP.

First of all, when we analyze art, when we look for deeper meaning in it, we are enjoying it for what it is. Because that is one of the things about art, be it highbrow, lowbrow, mainstream, or avant-garde: Some sort of thought went into its making — even if the thought was, “I’m going to do this as thoughtlessly as possible”! — and as a result, some sort of thought can be gotten from its reception. That is why, among other things, artists (including, for instance, James Cameron) really like to talk about their work.

Now, that doesn’t mean you have to think about a work of art. I don’t know anyone who thinks every work they encounter ought to only be enjoyed through conscious, active analysis — or if I do, they’re pretty annoying themselves. And I know many people who prefer not to think about much of what they consume, and with them I have no argument. I also have no argument with people who disagree with another person’s thoughts about a work of art. That should go without saying. Finally, this should also go without saying, but since it apparently doesn’t: Believe me, the person who is annoying you so much by thinking about the art? They have already considered your revolutionary “just enjoy it” strategy, because it is not actually revolutionary at all. It is the default state for most of humanity.

So when you go out of your way to suggest that people should be thinking less — that not using one’s capacity for reason is an admirable position to take, and one that should be actively advocated — you are not saying anything particularly intelligent. And unless you live on a parallel version of Earth where too many people are thinking too deeply and critically about the world around them and what’s going on in their own heads, you’re not helping anything; on the contrary, you’re acting as an advocate for entropy.

And most annoyingly of all, you’re contributing to the fucking conversation yourselves when you make your stupid, stupid comments. You are basically saying, “I think people shouldn’t think so much and share their thoughts, that’s my thought that I have to share.” If you really think people should just enjoy the movie without thinking about it, then why the fuck did you (1) click on the post in the first place, and (2) bother to leave a comment? If it bugs you so much, GO WATCH A GODDAMN FUNNY CAT VIDEO.

We shall call it Moff's Law indeed.

I'm pulling a response to THIS POST and opening up another one of these discussions.

→ previous discussions;
homosexual derogatory terms, "gay", being politically correct in terms of race, female masturbation, abortion, lesbians, friends with benefits, porn, euthanasia, taxes, fangirling, egg donation, religious feuding, death penalty, virginity, sterilization, swine flu, orgasms, etc.

I'm not sure if this person wanted to ask my whole flist about the issue, but it was left as a comment to my debate/discussion prompt post so I'm just assuming she did. (If not bb, let me know and I'll delete the post).

question;
So this one was brought to my attention last night by my boyfriend: He asked me if (well he pretty much said you'd be okay with this, right) i would be okay with the having sex with someone if your girlfriend isn't in the same state ~rule~. And at first I was like fuck no. Cheating is cheating.

And then I felt like two can play at that game. But ultimately when we first met he made a promise about how he could never cheat, he thinks its disgusting or whatever, and this, to me, is cheating.

So I was just wondering what you thought because this has been chewing at me all night.

liss' thoughts;
In my (somewhat limited) experience, guys are totally okay with shit like this until you assume equality and mention that you're going to sleep with other people too, then. In regards to the actual question, I think you giving permission doesn't make it any better on your relationship than cheating even without permission. If you guys want to both enter an open relationship, where you're both free to sleep with other people, that's fine, but one person giving consent will kind of screw things up, I think.

Has anyone had experience with this? The "rule" or whatever? Or with an open relationship?

DISCUSS.

→ Ask questions.
→ Have an open mind.
→ Be respectful.
→ IF YOU FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT SOMETHING, FIGHT FOR IT.

If there's ever an issue of controversial nature that you'd like to discuss,
→ COME OVER HERE and leave a comment. Nothing's off limits.

And summer officially arrived !
Welcome !!

LOL my sister's car alarm went off at 4 in the morning today. I had no idea what the fuck it was, it sounded like it was far away, some annoying-ass siren of some kind, IDK. Then I woke up at like noon and apparently my mom and sister were going shopping. So, because I was BOARD, I went, too. Well no, we went out to lunch first. THEN WE WENT. And I ended up getting a bunch of shit I didn't even plan on getting, like I got new tennis shoes, they are white and gold and have a rhinestone B on the strap thing for Bebe (Sport). They are dressy and adorable. And Express has cute clothes and I basically got a free shirt because I had a $28 sweater, and a ~$25 off a $50 purchase~ card so I spent $25 more just to get it taken off lmao. THEN. I GOT GLITTER AND RHINESTONES AT MICHAEL'S, I LOVE THAT STORE. And fun things for the dance team to wear in our hair with our Christmas dance! And I got Derek this spinning photo pencil/pen cup to put our pictures in for his ~office~. And also a square frame because I photoshopped something for him but I'm not sure. And we also found a dress shirt, I hope he likes it, I'm not sure, but I really like it. I asked him if there was anything he wanted/needed for Christmas and he was like, "No, I already got my present - that red thing I got you at Victoria's Secret." LMAO LMAO. ♥ Do any of you have any ideas for anything else I should get him?

Then I got dragged to Bed, Bath, & Beyond to get shower curtains and shit for my sister but oh my god they had this huge Marilyn poster and it was like a hologram. kljsdfha. OH, I also got a new purse. But not at BB&B, lol. AND AND AND. a DVD of Rocky Horror Picture Show that has a subtitle track of the audience script. A++. AND YARN!! My mom, sister, and I all picked out new needles and yarn and we all were sitting in the living room when we got home, knitting. I wish I had a photo, what dorks.

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I HAVE DANCE PRACTICE TOMORROW MORNING!!!! ♥!

Also, you need this song for the ~season~, if you do not have it already:

"Light me up, put me on top,
let's fa la la la laaaaa, la la la laaa...
Ho ho ho, under the mistletoe,
yes everybody knows, we will take off our clothes."

I put our grapes in the freezer today. Do any of you do that? Have I talked about this before? I feel like I may have.

Also, I know that tonally this does not match my entry, but Brittany Murphy. It makes me so sad, it could just as easily have been one of my girls, my favorite people. And that's always what hits me when a celebrity dies young and suddenly. And I know that there will be a day when I'm in the second half of my life and I see on the news that my celebrity role models have died, but like... I plan for that, I know that's coming. I don't plan for hearing that they could leave like, right now. /emo, idk.

I got asked out by a three/four year old today, it was the cutest shit of my life. Three of us alumni were sitting up in the dance bleachers and this little guy was running around blushing at us and whenever we'd wave, he'd run away and hide. And eventually he calmed down and asked me what my name was. And then he asked what my friends names were. So we were talking to him and he leaned on his elbow and said to all of us, "So, wanna go get some coffee?" SMOOTH LITTLE FUCKER, OMG WE DIED. His mom asked him what he said that made us laugh so we told him and she hugged him and was like, "AW! GOOD JOB! DO YOU NEED SOME MONEY?" lol ljsafhja. And then I pulled my purse onto my lap and he was like, "I like your purse!" and then two minutes later I put my feet up and "I like your shoes!" And he had to have pictures with us and sit by us and it's so cute, he wasn't even from our school, he was from some other team. And his mom was telling me how much he loves dance and he sits and watches his sister's recital tapes. And then he was asking us our favorite colors and telling us about his Finding Nemo cake and he was adorable. He had a baby brother with these huge dimples and a Superman sweatshirt who kept falling all over the place and trying to talk to us too but we couldn't understand anything and lol ljhskdf.



Dance comp today was amazing. I know I sound like a broken record but I'm seriously so complete right now. And it was so nice, the girls had great competition today and our old coaches were against us with their new team so there was that fun rivalry and I love these things because I get to scream and nobody judges me lmao. We were SO loud today and it makes all the difference in the world, their performance was ecstatic. Mette and I sneaked back before awards to take pictures but ended up sitting and talking to Deanna and she was talking about how happy it made her to see them all getting along and sitting in one group instead of three. And they were all so welcoming, it's like it's natural to them for us to just be there all the time. They didn't win but nobody even fucking cared because they were just so happy - they told us beforehand they didn't even care where they placed because they had a blast. And afterwards we went back with them to go over their scores and they're all so beautiful and fun and it's so hard for me to talk about this without my pictures to show you right now. Everyone left until it was just the alumni and D, which always happens because we talk and talk and talk, and I got the most beautiful picture of her laughing, god, everything is so happy always! She was like, "It made their day to have you guys here." I told her it made ours too. And then I drove them home and we listened to Gaga and talked about how much we miss dancing and being there every single day, but also about how much fun it is to live it again on the other side of it all.

These next couple of weeks are probs going to have quite a few dance/photo entries, so don't feel obligated to respond to all/any of them but I have to talk about it anyway because skljdfhjkls. JUST WARNING YOU.

ALSO!!!! GLEE SONGS ARE SO POPULAR FOR ROUTINES THIS YEAR!!

Thing the first: everyone should watch this short movie, because it is the most awesomest thing ever:

Giant robots invade Montevideo. A 5 minute short movie directed and animated by Fede Alvarez.

[No, you don't need to speak Spanish to watch it, trust me.]

( Ataque de Pánico! )

And if you get the Eisenstein reference, you're almost as awesome as this movie.

/film geek

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Thing the second: I know I posted a truckload of music yesterday, but then this leaked today and really, I was actually supposed to post it three hours ago, but I got distracted by Joel Gretsch being pretty.

Anyway!

MIDLAKE LEAKED, IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!



Bonus:
. Peter Broderick - Roscoe [Midlake cover]
. Adrien Sala - Hudson [this has nothing to do with anything, it's just pretty. *g*]

Files on my server, so right/control-click-save-as, comment if you download, eeeeeee new Midlake!

:)

Last night my sister and her boyfriend came over and we played a lot with Wii ... it was great !

Today it looks like (almost) summer !
The sky is so blue, (almost) no clouds, the sun is shinny and bright .. and it´s very hot !

Lunch at mom´s, then I helped mom and dad and sis to finish Christmas decoration at mom´s place (we´ll celebrate Christmas here this year again), and after I went to downtown with my sis to buy some small things ... it wasn´t THAT chaotic as I thought it´d be!
But I still didn´t get all the gifts I have to give ...still have to bought my brother and sister-in-law´s presents .. I HAVE to get them tomorrow ...

well, have a great weekend everybody !

I HAD SUCH A GREAT DAY TODAY.



I WOKE UP EARLY, ALL BY MYSELF, AND TOTALLY FUCKING HAPPY BECAUSE I WENT TO BED SO LOVED. THEN. I HELPED DEREK WITH HIS CHRISTMAS SHOPPING (AND ALSO GOT MYSELF AN AMAZING GREEN SWEATER!!1). THEN, METTE GOT ME AND WE WENT TO A DANCE THING AND I GOT TO SHOOT MOAR. AND THEY WON EVERYTHING SO EVERYTHING WAS SO HAPPY. AND DEANNA IS GOING TO BE A MOM. SO SHE IS JUST FUCKING RADIANT AND IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL TO SHOOT. AND THEN THEY LET ME TAKE THE CAMERA HOME SO NOW I HAVE ALL OF MY PICTURES. AND I'M DYING TO PHOTOSHOP THEM AND MAKE A SPAM (I STILL NEED TO MAKE A SPAM FROM LAST YEAR'S PHOTOS LOL) BUT I HAVE TO GO TO BED NOW BECAUSE I HAVE TO GET UP EARLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE ANOTHER COMPETITION TOMORROW AND MOAR MOAR MOAR!! I LOVE DANCE. AND I LOVE THESE PEOPLE. AND I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY. AND I LOVE PHOTOSHOPPING. I LOVE EVERYTHING.



WHAT DID YOU LOVE TODAY.