OMGPOP

Ever heard of it? Well it's a gaming site that is SO addicting! And SO much fun!

Fanta, the soda co. it i guess sponsoring OMGPOP. And all of these awesome new updates are available! I LOVE it!!!! I highly recommend this gaming site to anyone who has yet to fall in like with it[: I will be updating on this often!!! (Under the "random interest" label!)


And I want to post a QUICK shout out to two people (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE IF YOU'RE READING IT) who commented and recently read my blog! Thanks! I'm honored to know that my feelings and my interests are being explored by others!! thankss!!!

Yeah...pretty much.

Nothing too exciting right now. Going to the cottage for a day then back home tomorrow to hopefully be with people, maybe even this one specific person, but they keep ignoring me. Could I have been wrong about friendship from the start?

Anyways, feeling pretty lonely. Hope to make summer worth it. It probably won't be a success. It was fun while it lasted, but I just want to get more of my life through with so I can make decisions on my own, and have my own life. I know, one needs school and college to have a future, but the journey to the end isn't always smooth.

Making a lot of simpler decisions on the way there. Changing things about everything. Hoping for a new room--not getting it soon. Life is...ehh..

I'm trying to make it better for myself and only myself.
...

(=

Things are going good. No drastic imbalance in my life to make me feel upset. It's one of those moments where I'm generally just in a good mood for no reason. Often I have to be looking forward to something to be happy/excited rather than just happy-content. I'm just in a particularly good mood..

Why does this seem so odd? Well, I have yet to read over 600 pages of small-print-Old-English for school, my phone is broken (I left it on the rocks at the cottage and it must've gotten wetD'=) but it's slowly repairing..., not to mention the site I used to go to if I wanted to watch movies is like not working, and, of course, summer is almost over. So many unpleasant things, but I'm still feeling pretty good.

Meeting people laterr...hopefully nothing ruins this good moodd[:

fingers crossed(:

THE 100TH POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY 100TH POST!!

IT'S THE 100TH POST OF THIS BLOG! THAT MEANS THAT I'VE UPDATED THIS PAGE 100 TIMES AT LEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To celebrate, I've got lots of blog-candy for you: in other words, a lot of stuff the daily reader of this blog will enjoy[: Sorry I haven't gotten to this yet, but I've been very busy in Maine. Besides, I wanted this to be the best post yet! So each topic is a different color, hopefully to help with organization! So ENJOY THE 100TH POST!

IT'S A NEW LABEL! It's called "Awards of the Week" Every week I'll be handing out awards to lines of a song that will be the Lyrics of the Week. You can nominate lyrics by commenting. Also, a Picture of the Week will also be awarded. This will either be from my own gallery or from some one else's, or maybe even yours! Just comment during each Award Ceremony to nominate a photo! And, last but not least, is a Word of the Week. This might be just a random word, or a new word found while reading. I will have reasons for choosing each and every one of these awards which will be described in the post. Also, commenting and nominating is encouraged! So please do so!

This week, the first annual "Weekly Awards" ceremony, I have an award for each category, as I always should.

This week's lyric of the week is from "Secrets" by OneRepublic.

"I'm gonna give all my secrets away"

I like this song. It's in the movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" which I'm currently OBSESSED with! And I think it represents me because I often give secrets away, although sometimes--most times--they might not be mine...

This week's picture of the week is:

I miss the beach. I want to live on the beach someday when I'm older. I miss the beach soo much. This photo is gorgeous. It reminds me of how much I want to be near the beach. This was taken by my friend Grace who is an amazing photographer!

This week's word of the week is:
JUXTAPOSITION- definition: (v.) the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
I was reading an interview of Jerry Spinelli talking about his book "Eggs" which is my book review today too! Anyways, i had no idea whatsoever what it meant, so i looked it up, and found the definition.

These awards will be posted weekly probably during the weekdays. The weeks will be Sunday-Saturday. So I will probably be posting awards from Monday-Thursday. I shouldn't post one on Saturday for one week then Sunday for the next week. So, enjoy! DONT FORGET TO NOMINATE SOME SUGGESTIONS[:



Maine: short and sweet visit! We're back already[:


We visited, nothing tooo special. Also, no beachD'= So no pictures of the beach. But our family might be going to Misquamicut in Rhode Island later this summer!! That should be just as exciting!! We shopped not only at Freeport but on the way home westopped at the Kittery Outlets, and both had great sales at some great stores(:


This was taken in the pool there..I'm the one struggling to smile under my sister's weight...thanks Kira..


Kira at L.L. Bean. It was the entrance to the Kid's shopping center, and this is her...posing...


This photo was just edited, before it looked worse. I just thought it was s good example of how useful the "Teeth Whitening" could be because it helped ALL of the smiles in this photo! Even mine...I'm the one all the way to the left with the green lei.


This was cool. I wish I'd had taken this before the colorsplash contest at the Picnik Help Forum because it looks really cool! I was jsut playing around with some effects and this was the amazing outcome[: I like how they're all different colors and stuff... It's cooll:i lovee itt




Kira i guess really liked this outfit, so she spent a good 5-10 minutes scoping out the outfit--it only should've taken like two minutes--and she needed a picture with it. No, she didn't want to buy it, just wanted a picture with it. Incredible.

Anyways, overall, Maine was a fun experience[: Next year, it'll probably happen again, and perhaps the Morrisons will come up and visit the cottage!! Hopefully next year I'll go to the Wells Beach like I did last year!!!!

Picnik has this feature called "Tint" which can not only be used to give photos a tint of color, but you can change a person's hair color, eye color, and give them full makeovers by giving them lipgloss or applying blush! Picnik has just become soo much more helpful, not that it wasn't absolutely my favorite photo editing site anyways!

I learned how to make a "Rainbow Eye" This is my friend's eye, and she has beautiful eyes, so I thought she'd be the perfect "guinea pig." Hahahahaa[: the first one didn't come out as well, but this one looks really cool. i've also learned how to make anyone's eyes different colors, even like a vampire red or a sea green!!! Just go to tint, and you'd have to make a stripe with each color, or you can make a target-type thing with the color going inwards. Just tint each color individually nd it should turn out awesome!

How to video:

Now, time for a movie review!! **CAUTION. CONTAINS SPOILERS!** I've recently watched the movie "When In Rome." It stars Kristen Bell as Beth, a young single woman whose sister is engaged after knowing a man for two weeks. Beth has to attend her sister's wedding in Rome as a Bride's Maid. She meets the Nick (Josh Duhamel), the best man for the wedding, and he seems like the perfect man. After seeing Nick kiss another woman during the reception, Beth walks over to the Fountain of Love and not only dips her feet into the fountain, but proceeds to taking four coins and a poker chip that were thrown in by men wanting love. Little did Beth know about the curse: if you take a coin from the Fountain of Love, the person who threw the coin in the fountain will fall in love with you. So Beth has five men under a spell and, literally, stalking her insisting they truly love her. Beth only has two options to reverse the curse: either return the coins to the Fountain of Love, or return them to whomever they were thrown in the fountain by. And that's all I'll reveal!

This movie was definitely a chick flick, but it was cute, charming, and something I'd recommend the heartbroken to see to give them faith that love can still be found! Probably an 7.75/10. Only removing points because it was a little cheesy, but the overall theme was a little cheesy tooooo...but it was definitely cuutee[: also, PG13? I think there should be a PG10 because there's hardly any sexual content, hardly any swears that I remember, and the only reason not have it be PG is because the topic of love, and some of the content is a little more inappropriate but not that bad. So I'd rate the movie PG10.

Also, I'm counting down the days until the movie "Eat Pray Love" It looks like something I personally would love. In case you didn't know, I want to travel the world some day. I want to marvel at foreign things, explore new cultures and what not. And Eat Pray Love looks charming, romantic, and very funny. I will definitely be doing a movie review for that!

NEW POLL! It's a short simple poll just to see the ratio of females to males visiting my blog[: So are you a guy? A girl? Or were you born both or neither!? Or perhasp you're a moose, who captured some hiker's computer and are visiting MY SITE with your limited internet access, in which case i'd be honored[: So, answer!! This poll will be active until next Tuesday

Cottage this weekend!! Hopefully going to be having a sleepover with some of my dance friends!!!!!!!! Who knows?!? Definitely have pictures up! And I will be updating on that subject tooo[:

"Eggs" by Jerry Spinelli is my book review for the 100th post. David, (9 years old) whose mother recently passed away, moves with his grandmother and talks to her as little as possible. He meets 14 year old Primrose whose father disappeared when she was young. Both kids' parents who are still alive aren't always there like one would think they should be. So both kids rely on each other to learn from. Their only adult guidance is a man witha growing disorder who people call "Refrigerator John." Their friendship twists in between their two personalities. I personally find their friendship a result from their fragile egg-like similarities, and they could be very good siblings. Two people who aren't the best at making friends or reaching out to people reach out to each other and become friends unlike most.



I give it a 9/10 only because the overall concept was a little odd and pretty unrealistic in the grand scheme: what grandmother wouldn't notice her child leaving the house almost every day at night and disappearing until past midnight? It's a little unrealisitc but it's definitely original, creative, quirky and it will definitely have you wanting to keep reading! loved it!

"Oh. my. Gods." by Tera Lynn Childs is the book I'm currently reading. I will have a review once I'm done with it. It's about greek mythology and how a girl named Phoebe moves to a small greek island after her mother gets remarried to a guy she's known for a very short amount of time. Sounds like a disaster right? Well, she has to move halfway across the world for her senior year in high school to a private school in which her new stepfather is the headmaster. But that's not her biggest problem. the school is so exclusive that nearly all of the students are descendants of greek gods or goddesses!! not to mention they all have superpowers! that's all i've read about so far, but when i'm done i shall give a full summary and review.

Got a new polish from OPI! It's called "Shootout at the O.K. Coral" It's a pretty coral from OPI's colorcopia collection! Swatch? I haven't gotten around to any yet. But my camera is stupid and doesn't allow very good pictures, so it's hard to capture the amazing colors in a flattering way. The actual polish is a bit more pink than in the photo. It's sort of like the color of this font! I'll take photos later, so look forward to those!!

And for the random interest topic: T-E-A! I love tea. It's soothing, and warm and lovely to have on a cold snowy winter day or a hot sunny summer day! I used to have it with sugar, but i don't anymore. Anyways, my favorite brand of tea is "Celestial Seasonings" they have many flavors of herbal teas which are my favorite. I love trying them all. I also love looking for teas wherever I go, and trying new flavors! I will, as a random interest topic and not a new label, I'll be reviewing teas as well--not as critically as books or movies, just saying whether or not they're good or if they're interesting or original etc.

My first tea review will be of the Celestial Seasonings "Tropic od Strawberry" On a scale of 1-5 i'd give it a 5! It's delishhh! I LOVE strawberries, and this flavor was just perfect for any strawberry lover! But I also enjoy other brands of tea. Originally, I drank only Red Rose tea with tons of sugar and that was the only way I drank tea. But without sugar is just as good! I recommend tea to anyone who drinks coffee;)

Oh! I also just made a flickr account! I'm jsut hoping to make my photography a bit more public. But I don't think I can committ to it. I don't think I'll be visiting it often, or updating it often. So, visit, but it won't be much from this blog. Anyways, wish me luck!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainydayskeepmestrong/

SO THAT WAS THE 100TH POST! HOPE YOU ENJOYED READING IT[: I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE 500TH POST! THAT WILL BE SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE!

Still taking suggestions to improve the blog in any way!!! Perhaps a non-regular webshow? Maybe[: No giveaway, not enough followers. Please recommend to friends!!!!

Happy 100th post to all, and to all a good night!

busyy nightt

went to see the trial of goldilocks, and as my friend called it: a "twisted fairytale." it was very funny, and very cute[: didnt win anything at the raffle, there wasn't much i wantedd..but hey, it was a good way to interact with the story etc. it was all in rhyme as well, which ended up getting really annoying because my mind was always looking for the rhymes! it was clever and creative, but my messed up mind was only interested in the clever rhymes!!!!

also hung out on the bleachers beside the football field and took pictures and stuff, it was funn[: lovee my first-choice girls>

realized how friendship isnt always permanent when its not with the right friends..i guess everyone has to realize it at some pointt=\

all the photos from todays awesomeness were edited and now look AH-MAZING thanks to: http://picnik.com

lovee this edit[: thanks to picnik!!! it looks awesomeee

high school musical jumping-in-photo shot meets trying to touch the pole results in this[:

just a photoo[:

me, and my two friendss

my three firstchoice girls;)

night ouutt;)

out with some awesomee friends!! then right after, seeing a play (The Trial of Goldilocks) tht my other friend is in with another friend! its a night of seeing alll the friends i havent seen in foreverrr[: [: pics laterr?? painting nails now, maybe only toes, and hopefully baking somethingg if i have timee=D good afternoonn(: morning? not so muchh...

Back homee..

a long weekend of celebrationss...first day of kira's birthday was kind of dreary. only because I was really tired for some reasonn..and I had to take a bunch of naps throughout the day while no one noticed. the second day I actually got a good night's rest and was able to be active all dayy[: evn went to the park with kira and her friend and it was very active and exciting! pictures belowww... todayy, my sister, her friend and i went on bumper boats, ate clam chowder, and im about to go see a movie with michelle! excitementtt=D i will be seeing the sorcerer's apprentice with a movie review, soo look forward to thatt[:

here are some pictures from the partyy: (all were edited on http://picnik.com/)

Friends and the cupcakes

L to R: Miranda, Kira, and Kaylee

Sitting on MY BED, mind you, and playing on the iPod Touch

L to R: Kaylee, Kira, and Miranda

Colorsplash photo, the main focus, of course, is the people and the paddle boat.

L to R: Erin, Kira and Jess.

Us jumping off of the paddle boat.

L to R: Jess, Erin and Kira

The cupcakes that say "Happy Birthday Kira" They were DEELISH;)

Plans

last day of ballet for the week: tomorrow. then off to the cottage! celebrating Kira's bday party..evn tho it was in MARCH haha. Anyways, reasons to celebrate[: Food, party, and friends. I'll be updating!!! I'll be back by Monday so i can go back to ballet. photos?? im excited to do lots of party stuff this weekend. maybe group photos that i will go crazy picnikingg?? HAHA[: watching avatar againn! untill i updateee...

Soreness and Books

A lot to say...
well started ballet yesterday, and i'm soo soree right now!! i don't dance for one month then hardcore stretching and stuff reallyy has an impact on a person! and on top of all that pain, my ear has been hurting very badly for two days now, and i found out that apparently I have Swimmer's Ear. I only swam like two times since the summer. Weird, huh? Anyways apparently there's some green growing in my ear, too. And there's water like sitting in a pool of stuff? and whenever I do something to disturb the pool im in pain! funnn... So my ear, and my legs, and my back are in total pain right now. great way to spend a day off..

anyways i also finished "Lock and Key" and it was a really good book! Ruby Cooper, abandoned by her mother and sent to live with her sister who she hasn't seen in ten years and her brother-in-law, is determined to get through her senior year at a rich school quietly and unnoticed so that when she turns eighteen she can get the wish she's always wanted: to be independent. Ruby scores a new house with her own room, a pond in the backyard and the dream any teenage girl would want. Even with her determind mindset to not make friends, she soon meets people who she can rely on. It's a classic Sarah Dessen story with romance, friendship, family and reaching out to others. I loved it, and i'd recommend it to anyone. It teaches you about life and has great lessons not to mention an amazing story line.(:

Still havent gotten together with any friends...not today when i'm so sore. maybe next week? sigh..my summer is more boring than school. what a sad fact.

busyyweekk..

This week is actually pretty filled with plans! I have ballet this week and next week for three days, and I'm spending my free days probably resting...Hopefully I can find some more plans for the empty days? Anyways, I'm almost done with "Lock and Key" by Sarah Dessen, which means a book review! The nail polish i ordered: Flit-A-Bit by OPI, is here, and hopefully I'll actually have a swatch ready!!! The Funky Dunkey swatch went a bit amiss, so I will have five swatches coming your way soon(:
The ants are loose again. More spray, hopefully they'll die for good now!
Any plans this weekend were sort of ruined...need to hang out with peoplee, I haven't in FOREVER!!
My life is actually really boring, even with the plans. Who knew summer would be quite so boring? I'd rather be with friends most of the time then bored as heck the rest of the time over going to school. Who wouldn't? Ughh...

Grrr...

Back to the cottage tonight. I don't know if I'm having any friends up. Unfortunately. Life is boringg..summer from here on out is going by faster now. Need to do some school workk..fun..ughh. need stuff to do..='(

Color Splash Challenge: Entry #2

Some friends of mine. I really enjoy colorsplashing things that aren't the main focus of the picture because it makes you focus on other things rather than just the main object of the photo. The main objects in this photo are the people. But I color splashed the objects in front of them, drawing one's attention to the objects rather than the people.

Color Splash Challenge: Entry #1

My friend doing a cartwheel. The only color is the yellow of the street lines. First photo I ever color-splashed with Picnik.com

friendship?

im going to feel like one of those friendless losers who reveals their feelings on the internet hoping someone will pity them or comment or can relate to how they feel. but i found a quote online by Irwin Federman that's completely true: "People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel." It makes me question some people whom I like being with, therefore they make me feel happy while other often upset me, but they're good people who have lots of friends. It makes me wonder, do I really love them? Or do I just love who they are, which, therefore isn't love as described here. A friend wanted to make plans today, but cancelled..then I found out she decided to hang out with another friend. But I didn't want to tell this person, therefore expressing anger towards them. I just couldn't. anyways, i'm hanging out with a friend today, who i havent in a longg timee. So, until I further question my friendship with people...

polish and plans

painted my nails. lovee the brand N.Y.C. last time i painted my nails orange, they lasted like three weeks!! insanee righht!? haha well this kind is (uhh OBVIOUSLY) called "Skin Tight Denim Creme) its a dark blue shade and sometimes evn looks like black:not my intentionn haha they look awful, but the paint on the skin usually is clean after a take a showerr or wash my hands a few timess..soo yeah[: i highly recommend this brand. and it may sound odd but i also pick nail polish colors (sometimes) based on their names but this kind is really coolll and bluee and prettyy[:

plans tomorroww=D meeting kulsoom and mattie and mattie's friend (who im not sure is going to come or nott..) but im getting out of the housee, hooray!!(: not waking up at noon likee alwayss...yayy[:

facebook and my house arrest sentence

facebook seems suddenly addicting again. im deleting it before high schooll..maybe..ughh its sooo time consuming. i need to delete it! i can't be on it. its a waste! grr...

wentt shopping todayy @ many places, got a lott of cutee clothess(: theres still this plaid chloe sweater that i wantt..i mightt findd it one dayy..who knowss. wishh mee luckk!!!!!!

im not allowed out of my house for the next two days. for the next 40 hours. i. will. be. stuck. inside. my. house. parents are going away to a wedding in which KIDS (evn thoughh im not a kid) arent allowed at. grr>=( anywayss..family friend is going to be babysittinggg..and im not allowed to leave the house and visit friends or hang outt whatsoever): i miss a lot of my friends..summer is supposed to be where i see my friends all the timee, but i actually dont see them anywhere near as often. there are some friends who either are really busy or dont like me enough to call me/make room to spend time with me or i dontt know what but i havent seen certain friends since the last day of school. at. all.

i need to see the sunlighttt againn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! savee meeD'=

New Picnik Effects

My personal favorite feature to picnik.com is its effects. It can change the color, the lighting and everything. Recently, "Comic Book" was the new effect celebrating Father's Day, and I comic-ed a lot of photos[: The newest one to celebrate the Fourth of July is called "Red White and Blue" which allows a red and blue tint over the picture. It looks like this: (Picture features two of my friends, and for privacy purposes, their faces have been pixelled out)

It's really cool, and the only Fourth of July feature I can use while not having Premium. I can't wait to apply it to pictures I'm about to take for the Fourth of July! =D

The frames are pretty cool too, although as I'm not a premium member, my options are limited. But this one was blog worthy;)


I'm sure going to miss the comic book effect, but this one is pretty cool too. Can't wait for more new limited effects!!

Wings, Layers and Vampires

I'm going to be reading the book The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee as my summer reading book. I haven't started it yet but it looks good, hence I'm reading it[: It's about a girl named Jenny who has recently experienced the loss of her sister, Beth. It's a typical (more or less) story about a girl setting out to achieve a goal, but then again, aren't all stories just someone trying to achieve something? This is coming from me, who doesn't know how to summarize stories, and has never read the book yet. I'll be updating that soon.

Also, bought gum today, only to find out that there is a new flavor of trident layers. The already existing flavors are Wild Strawberry+Tangy Citrus and Green Apple+Golden Pineapple. The newest flavor is called Cool Mint+Melon Fresco. I like it better than the GA+GP but not as much as I like the WS+TC. I recommend it. It's yummy. It definitely has an overpowering minty flavor was the melon fresco gives it layers of flavorrr=D

And I just saw the Twilight Saga: Eclipse. AH-MAZING! Then again, I'm pretty obsessed with the series anyways. It was action-packed, and I'd recommend it to anyone. I mean, not like it's already anticipated enough, right? But then again, right beforehand I saw a preview for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. That looks really good, too. I plan to read the Narnia series (I only read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as well as Prince Caspian) and sit in a theater the day after Christmas just as excited to see it as I was to see Eclipse today and as I will be excited to see Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows part 1 in NOVEMBER! Movies are fantastic portal to imagination. I will be posting about the books/movies often. Until then, Happy Reading! I've sure got a lot to read...

Popcorn!?

SEEING ECLIPSEE:LARGEEE POPCORNNNN!!!! muahaha haha withh my bestt friendd TAYLOR CULVER and some creepers said hi to herr..anyways we're here an hour earlyyy!!! cannottt waiitt for it to startttt!!! this is going to be a LONGG HOUURRRR!

Better Summer

summer is getting better. ive been able to be with friends more often, and therefore it feels more like summer. it feels like endless funn. finnalllyyy[: it finally feels like im having funnn=D just withh my bestest buddy, my wifey for lifey and Frank the ginger hahahaxD got stuff planned for tomorrow tooo!! hopefullyyy this goes on for a whileee=]

(my friend's feet, my hands)