Happy Halloween!!!

First of all, Happy Halloween everyone! As I'm typing this, my mom is outside taking pictures of my brother in his costume, and then they're going to go out Trick-or-Treating. My dad and I are watching football.

So, everything's been going good. A couple of random points before I get into my story for the night.

 - I am loving Frankenstein, and I can't wait to read the next few chapters tomorrow.

 - My aunt and grandmother came over to visit today, and that was fun.

 - I had a YouTube video break 100 views a couple of days ago, which was awesome.

And now, my story. So, my brother is going Trick-or-Treating as Link, from The Legend of Zelda video games. Now, there isn't really a store-bought costume for that, so my mom has spent the last few days making him a costume. And I got to sit there and make pop-top strands for a sort of chainmail-ish look.

And so I was up until 2:30 in the morning last night, threading pop-tops onto silver yarn, and Mom was up finishing off his undershirt and making his hat. So, in total, she made: one green tunic, one pair of gray pants with attached faux boots, one hat (with felt hair), one belt, and sewed long sleeves onto a t-shirt and then sewed my pop-top strands onto the areas that would show under the tunic.

So, my brother just left, and is apparently very happy with his costume, and I'm so freaking tired...I stayed up until close to 4:30 in the morning, what with doing the pop-tops and then answering Kate's civics poll, and checking blogs and stuff like I do before I go to bed.

So, tonight is just going to be relaxing now. Once Mom and Quinn get back (probably around 9:30 or 10), we're going to watch the Halloween episode of The Office, and the Criminal Minds episode that we missed this week because of the weather programs that interrupted our Wednesday shows. And I still have to take Ella out at some point tonight...

But, anyway, this week is going to be a little crazy because we've still got to get Quinn a few things for photo sculptures on Wednesday evening. So, we'll probably be going to the mall and looking for a couple of things. And then our first Wake basketball game is on Friday, so Dad and I will be going to that. It's just an exhibition game, but still, it's a game nonetheless. And then I think Emma's coming into town on Saturday, so we might be getting together...

Okay, well, that's about it for the night. Happy Halloween everyone! Boo! :)

I Did Nothing All Week, and Then The Weekend Comes...

I have thoroughly neglected my duties as a blogger for the past week, and for that, I am sorry. I was planning on posting on Sunday, but things got out of hand. [See below for explanation.]

Now, anyway, not much has been going on since I last posted, although this weekend was interesting...

So, Saturday was crazy. I got up, and had something to eat, and then Mom, Dad, and I went over to my grandmother's to clean her house. And I spent quite a while dusting all the tables and chairs and knick-knacks and such, as usual, and I got to see my aunt, which was awesome. And after we finished, we headed home, and Mom and I went out to run a few errands.

We went over to AC Moore, because Mom does these little photo-board-things that she puts up in her office at work, and she was making one for her skydiving pictures and needed some blue paper for the background. So, we got that, and then headed to Barnes and Noble to look at some of the homeschool stuff. And I ended up getting a couple of review books. Technically, they're ACT prep books, but whatever. I got chemistry and world history, so I'll be able to add a little more to my studies.

Then, we went to the mall, and I picked up a couple of things from Clinique that I needed, and Mom got a few shirts at Belk. And then we headed home, and watched the first two Harry Potter movies on tv, before I cleaned Ella's cage.

And on Sunday...well, Sunday was not very fun for me. I logged onto my laptop in the morning, and low-and-behold, there was something wrong. I was getting a message from one of the anti-virus programs that kept saying I needed to restart for an update to work, and it wouldn't shut down properly, and I had been getting a "blue screen of death" for a few days. So, anyway, pretty much my whole day, with the exception of lunch at Coppola's with Mom and Quinn (Dad was at a Wake soccer game to do some fundraising for Komen), working on fixing all the problems.

When everything finally did get solved, I let Ella out and that was all I had time for. I barely even got to watch Get Smart, our latest Netflix rental, but what I manage to catch was funny, but sometimes a little to much for me.

And today (Monday), I woke up really, super late. As in, like, noon. And I flipped out, because I never do that. I'm going to blame it on 1) the fact that I had pretty much been freaking out the whole day before, because of my laptop, and 2) it was raining, so therefore, it was dark outside, so it didn't feel as late to my body.

So, I got up, got ready, and ate lunch, and then washed the dishes. And then I went back into my room and started on my homework. I started Frankenstein today, and even though I've only read the prologue (really, it's a few "letters" from a character to his sister), I'm really excited about it. I read the unit introduction in my literature book, and it says the novel is actually nothing like any of the film portrayals; that Frankenstein's monster is not the clunky, ugly, stupid thing that the movies make him out to be, but a thinking, breathing, eloquently speaking person. So, I think that's why I'm so interested...it could also be the time of year, with Halloween being right around the corner.

Tomorrow will be much of the same, but that's cool. And now, I think that's it...

Weekends Are So Much More Fun Than Weekdays...

So, I'm kinda bored right now, as usual with me...haha.

Um, I've had some fun this week. Mom and I went to the mall on Friday to exchange her sneakers, and we ended up going into American Eagle to look at the black jeggings, because photo sculptures are coming up soon, and we need to be thinking about our outfits for this year. And Mom knows that Quinn wants to do green, and doesn't like jeans, so she wanted me in a pair of black pants.

So, I ended up getting a pair of black jeggings, and I think we're pairing that with my black boots, a purple cami, and my long, black knit cardigan for photo sculptures, with whatever Quinn is going to wear. So, we did that, and went out to La Carreta that evening when Dad got home, and had a nice meal, and then went over to my grandmother's to visit. And then we came home and watched tv like we always do.

And on Saturday, Mom and Quinn went with Aunt Lynne to the New River Bridge for Bridge Day, which is the one day of the year where they close the bridge and let jumpers parachute off of it. So, they got up early and ended up spending most of the day up there walking and hiking and all that good stuff. I figure I can go next year when Dad comes with us.

Speaking of Dad, he had a Wake Forest soccer(?) game to go to for Susan G. Komen, since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month (hence all the pink stuff you're probably seeing everywhere), and so, I got to spend a couple of hours of that evening alone, which was cool. I ended up watching a silent film that I had recorded, and just sat around and watched tv until everyone got home. We ended up watching Fool's Gold again, which is the cutest and funniest movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. And then, I cleaned Ella's cage.

Today was rather fun as well. I got up, and had a doughnut and worked on the crossword puzzle, and then Mom and I went to the grocery store. And then I came home, and worked a little more on the puzzle, and then Mom and I went out and picked up some chicken wings for dinner, and we had those, and now, I'm just kinda killing time until eight when we watch Prince of Persia, and then I'll take Ella out afterwards, and then comes Monday...blegh.

I'm slowly uploading my videos to YouTube. I'm trying to pace myself by only uploading one every Wednesday and one every Sunday, so that I don't end up uploading them all at once and then having nothing to upload for a while. So, yeah...

This Is How Bored I Was Today...

Okay, short post, but I just wanted to show you how utterly bored I was today...and no, I am not vain. Just bored, and really wanted to see what I could do with my hair now that it's actually long enough to style different ways.

Normal hair.

With sunglasses.

Swept to the side.

Parted far to the side (& clipped in place).

Parted to the side, clipped in place, and clipped up.

Random one...and probably the only one that's not blurry. Because my camera phone sucks...

And man, I wish I could actually handle contacts, because the glasses, even though they don't really look that bold and drastic, really change the shape of my face. But, I'm weird about things touching my eye...maybe I'll get over that soon. :)

Okay, stupid post, but whatever...

Well, I Take It Back, I Guess...

Well, I guess my YouTube account is staying where it is for the time being. It hasn't been deleted...of course, I've read that it could takes days, weeks, or even months to delete, depending on where you are in the line of deletions. So, I'm just going to keep uploading videos, and so I'm hoping that if I'm still logging in, YouTube will assume that I don't want to delete my account anymore. And all of this because I got a comment on my video. I'm such an idiot...

So, I'm in the process of uploading my Top Hat - Crazier tribute right now, and then we'll see how it goes. My channel views and upload views are all screwy now, but I guess I don't really care anymore. I'm trying this "don't worry, be happy" approach. Haha.

Anyway, back to more interesting things...I have no life. Lol. School and that's basically it, except for the usual dinner with Granny tonight. Which was good...Mom made beef stroganoff, which we don't have very often, so it was really, really good. And then after Dad and I dropped her back off at her house, my Dad randomly decided to stop at Food Lion for something sweet, which turned out being Frosted Flakes.

And then we watched Criminal Minds, which was good, and now, I'm down here letting Ella run around as usual, and I'm pretty bored.

Um, what else can I talk about? Ooh, fave songs at the moment: So Happy I Could Die by Lady Gaga, Welcome to My Life by Simple Plan, Happy Ending by Mika, Last Friday Night by Katy Perry, What If by Colbie Caillat, and about a bazillion others, but I'm going to stop there because I could go on forever.

And Everybody's Fine was so good. Sad, but good. The Lovely Bones just came from Netflix, so we'll probably watch that this weekend, since we've got tv shows Thursday and Friday, but whatever.

And ugh, I'm rambling again, so I'm stopping right here, and not posting again until I have something better to talk about.

YouTube Adventures

So, I'm currently involved in my own little YouTube battle...and I thought I'd come over here and vent.

You guys know I'm like super-perfectionist, right? So, the first time I uploaded a video, I realized the ratio was wrong, and everything looked sorta out of proportion. So, I deleted it, re-converted it to a different ratio, and uploaded it again. And guess what? I didn't like the way it looked, so I deleted it and re-uploaded it...again.

Long story short, my 'upload views' count on my channel went from 0 to 23 just from me trying to figure it out, because YouTube doesn't reset the count if you delete a video. So, I'm currently waiting for YouTube to submit my account deletion request, and then I will re-submit my info with the same username and everything, and try it all again. Maybe this time it will work a little better.

So, if you find that my channel is no longer there today, you know why. I'll sign up again as soon as I can't see my channel anymore, which will mean that my account has been deleted. But for now, I wait...

Not much else going on...Mom and I went over to Cato's yesterday so she could look at clothes, and I ended up buying a necklace that matches my teal cardigan, so that was cool. And I got a new purse from Target, cuz the one I have right now is pretty summer-ish. So, I got this black one which Mom and I really like cuz it's edgy-looking, as Mom said last night.

Mom and Quinn are going to the fair tomorrow, so I'll have a couple hours to myself during the day, which will be pretty nice. I'm not much of a fair person, anyway, so they can go and have fun, and I can hang around the house. Cool.

And oh my gosh, where have the past few weeks gone? It felt like yesterday that I was getting back from the beach, and starting school...and now it's October. Another year almost over...

And now I'm rambling, so I'll sign off, maybe go convert a couple of my videos so that I can upload them to YouTube this week...or maybe I'll just chill today. :)

YouTube, Clothes, Movies, TV, and Anything Else I Can Think Of...

So, I had a wonderful post typed out and ready to go, and then Blogger screws up, and I have to rewrite the whole darn thing. Ugh...

First of all, let me say that I am now on YouTube, so no more video posts on here; I'll just post the link and a short description, and you can determine whether you want to invest your time or not. So, here's my channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/jsaqricha

Anyway, the past few days haven't been all that exciting, with the exception of a few days during the week.

On Wednesday, Mom had a hair appointment, so Dad picked Quinn and I up from the house, and we picked up some McDonald's and headed over to Granny's for dinner, which was cool. I had been making paper cranes that afternoon, so I took some over to hang on Granny's chandelier, to replace the old ones that had been there for years. So, I made so many of them that it's become muscle memory or whatever...lol.

And then we came home and watched Criminal Minds, which was awesome as usual. The actual case wasn't all that interesting, but the focus was mostly on JJ (played by AJ Cook) because it was her last episode. And they wrapped up her character really nicely with this little montage of JJ's memories of the team, blended with her walking through the BAU where she worked. So, cute, but sad at the same time.

Thursday is our comedy line-up night. My favorite of the night was 30 Rock, mainly because of the guest appearances...Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, the guys from Cash Cab (Ben something-or-other, I think). Too funny. The Office and The Big Bang Theory were pretty good, too.

Friday, Mom and I went to the mall to exchange my boots, since someone *coughSylviacough* stretched one of the pair when she tried them on. So, we exchanged them, and then Mom and I went shopping for some of my fall/winter essentials. We stopped in American Eagle for a pair of jeans and a couple of long-sleeve shirts, and then went to Forever 21 because I was looking for another knit cardigan, but in some other color than the teal one I bought. And we found a black one, so I bought that. And then we stopped in Justice for a couple of camis and a couple of long-sleeve henleys.

And then we hung around for the evening, and watched CSI: New York, which was neat. Well, the storyline was neat. I haven't really warmed up to Sela Ward yet; she just doesn't fit in with the group, so idk if I'm ever going to like her. But, anyway, it was cool, and then I went downstairs to let Ella out, and ended up watching part of The Green Mile, which I absolutely love.

And today, we're just hanging around the house. Dad is helping out at the Wake football game this evening, and so Mom and I are going to watch Everybody's Fine in a little while. And then I'm just going to hang around until later, and clean Ella's cage and whatnot...