And may the odds be ever in your favor

I knew it had been a long time since i had written but i didn't realize how long till my friend Emma told me i don't write in it and i checked and it has been a good many months. yikes. and i have sat here wondering what i should right about and decided that i could not write about anything but the Hunger Games. which is weird because i have only briefly written about some of my other passions and haven't even written some of my feelings on Harry Potter, but i saw the new Hunger Games movie twice this weekend, reread the first last week and reread the second today, and so i feel like writing at least a little about it.
So first the books, i read the first book almost two years ago when my sister had surgery and was bed ridden for about a week and my grandma and her had went to Barnes and Noble to buy some books for her to read. One of them, of course, was the Hunger Games. I came home from being out with friends somewhere around midnight and saw it on my coffee table and remembered one of my good friends reading it and really liking it, so i decided to just pick it up and read a chapter or two.... NOPE! i didn't put it down and stayed up till 5:00 a.m. reading the book. I was completely sucked in! though it was violent, i became so enthralled that at times i had to put the book down for a minute just to pace the floor because it was so intense. I also had this strong love for the characters, Mainly Katniss and Peeta. I feel like if you took the both of them and they had a child it would be me. I have so many of both of their qualities and connected really well with them. I also have this strong love for Archery and it is one of my goals to be an amazing archer one day. The second book had me equally enthralled and i love the way the games are set up in that book. I also do like the third book, though not as much. I feel like Katniss complains a little too much and the book is slightly rushed with a lot of knocking Katniss out and resolving the problems without her, though overall i like the story and i like the very last few pages.
The Movie, i was SO HAPPY with how close the movie was to the book and then i learned that the Author Susan Collins helped write the screen play, of course! that is why it was so good. They also did a lot of abstract filming using different types of cameras and was quite shaky at times, which didn't bother me but i did hear some complaints about it. I was very pleased with the movie and saw it twice within 18 hours! the casting was so perfect and they all played their parts very honestly, even Effie. Their are a few things i wish they could have done a little more with but then it would have been even longer and it was the perfect length as it is. the things i wish they could have done is give the story of the red headed Avox girl, Ktaniss's prep team who i kind of adore in the books and think of them as a little brainwashed from birth, and then more in the cave with Katniss and Peeta. But other than that i was quite pleased. Not to mention that i have loved Josh Huchterson for quite a few years now and i love Peeta so Josh playing Peeta was just the greatest thing and i am obsessing over him... probably too much.
But yeah that is my opinion of the Hunger Games. hopefully i will write again sooner!

"All for one, and one for all." -Now and Then.

this is my second night watching Now and Then in a row. and i cried both times. freaking crazy Pete is just the best old man ever (and i figured another reason why i like him so much, he is Maurice on ever after which is a childhood chick flick of mine), and that adorable scene between Roberta and Scott! so awkward but so cute at the same time! "canikissyou?" haha i love it! it just makes me smile so much, not to mention that Devon Sawa was an attractive kid.  and the love that those girls had for each other and helped them through whatever they were going through, it reminded me of the best friends i have in my life right now. i'm so grateful to have those friends who help me when i need them and who love me no matter what, people who i can tell my secrets to and (for the most part...) i know they will keep them. i know i can count on them and that is a comfort in my life, we pretty much are the girls in the movie. all we need is those awesome old fashion bikes they have in the movie! i call green! we are also the girls in sleepover (haha best movie quotes ever!) and the first wives club all best friends for life. and that is what i have. thanks guys you kick butt!

Mind bloggering (a play on words)

for the past two weeks i have wanted to write up another blog post, but i felt that i didn't have anything profound to write about. but tonight i realized, not very many people read my blogs, and i actually can't think of anyone who really does at the moment. so why just not write whatever i want? so i am going to write about what is on my mind. and for the past week and a half is my mind has been consumed with Harry Potter.
The newest and last Harry Potter came out two nights ago and i went to the midnight showing! for the most part i am satisfied with the film though there are a few parts that i was disappointed with and i just had to remind myself that i knew i would have disappointments and that i had to accept the film for what it is and i saw it again this evening and i did enjoy it much more, and its not like i didn't enjoy it the first time i truly liked it very much i just had a few twinges of disappointment. yes i still wish they did a few things differently but i can't really do much about that anyway. they can't fit everything from those books into movies, its just entirely impossible.
Another thing that has been on my mind has been the end of Wizard of Oz, as it took up most of the first half of my summer it was sad to see it end. though i couldn't be happier with how it ended and i don't want to go back and keep doing it cause i feel it has closure. though i have learned some wonderful things from it. that you may lack in certain area's of your life, whether it be your heart, or brain, or a lack of courage, or a many other things, that you can't just get them from someone else you have to build them yourself. just like the characters did as they went to save Dorthy from the wicked witch. i also learned that humbug is one of my favorite words. i am also grateful for the friends i made and the friends i grew closer to. i loved the cast and miss them dearly. they took me somewhere over the rainbow. :)

And Everything Changes

"All there is to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you."-Gandalf the Grey.  

 life is full of choices and though some choices may seem small they still change your entire life. for me choosing which college to go to was more like which college will even accept me, i went throughout high school just skating along the surface when it came to grades and because of that two colleges accepted me Weber State and SUU, i originally wanted to go to SUU but because of money and the distance between their and home i decided to go to Weber and what seemed like a small decision then has greatly impacted my life today. i have just finished my freshman year of college there and it seems very odd, almost dreamlike that this year could be over this quickly. Somehow i feel that when Monday rolls around i will take the 30 min journey from my home to Weber to go to class and while i am so grateful i do not have to wake up and go to my generals classes i am also sad. i have been blessed because i am in a department at Weber where we are kinda forced to spend so much time together with small classes and lots of after school time in workshops and plays that i have gained friends i never thought i could find at Weber. At the end of my last years summer i never thought i could make any more best friends i had all the best friends i could ever need, and then i met Blake and Becca, and they were bubbly and bright little rays of sunshine and they became some of my best friends and they live FOREVER FAR AWAY, and loosing being able to see them daily and loosing those who are graduating and going on missions and then having new freshman coming in next year, it is hard to comprehend how different this next year will be, but then again i didn't know what this year would bring and oh the joys it did bring i can never be more grateful for those at the Weber Theatre Department for being such wonderful friends to me and giving me a great start to college.

A True Adventure

I just saw the third Narnia for my second time tonight, and i can't help but think of what intrigues me so about magic. Narnia, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings all have these intense story-lines that revolve around magic and i have fallen in love with all of them. some parts of each more than others and there are parts of all of them i don't particularly like at all. but overall i can't help just wanting to be there, in some magical land having adventures of my own. i want to face my own dragons and overcome my weaknesses while epically dueling with a sword, or bow and arrows, or a wand(or perhaps all three). but as I look at life i find it is an adventure in itself, you just have to work at your weaknesses and find your strengths, discover passions and if you want dragons read a book! and dream. anyone can find adventure and beauty in their lives, they just have to believe.

Create Moments

you know the expression, you don't know a good thing when you have it? i realized that sometimes you do understand that something you have is good, you just don't realize how much you are going to miss it when it is gone. sometimes that thing is a person, or lots of people, and sometimes those people are gone for a while or forever. it makes me never want to take time and the people who are placed in my life at the time for granted. every second counts to do something good, to do something happy, to be with someone you love, you never know what might happen or who might cross your path.

A Twist of Color

Color Guard is a team activity including dancing, spinning flags, rifles, sabers, and maybe even adding other props to the show. Color Guard can either be done with the Marching Band in a parade  or on a football field during field show season or in a gym on a large tarp we call a "floor" during the winter guard season. I spent two years on my high schools Color Guard team, all the other girls became like sisters to me as we spun and danced our way through life. i loved being in Guard it kept me in shape and kept me dancing which i had done for a few years before. it also made me feel comfortable with being in high school even before classes started and i made life time friends and sisters.