Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Day 39: You see the most awesome and peculiar things sometimes...

[This post makes up for God only knows when. I've got a lot of catch-up to do...]

So yesterday I was driving home from the orthodontist, and we passed a park. I glanced over and I saw a sight worthy of the Earth's mightiest acid trip:

I saw about eight nuns, in full robe-and-wimple attire, playing basketball.

There's not really much I can add to that, is there?

P.S. A "wimple" is the thingymajig they wear over their heads.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Day 38: Have I ever mentioned that awesome figure skating dudes are the sexiest people alive?

(FUCK. Finally I finish this god damn post. I have like 20 to make up for... OTL.)

Because they are. They really, really are. They are so sexy it is UNBELIEVABLE.

On Friday last week I went to Stars on Ice - basically Sears says, "what if we all got some world champion figure skaters to amuse people by skating to modern songs?" Then they got it together and oh. My. Gosh. SO GOOOOD. Me, my mom, my grandma, and my aunt all went to see it and all three of them, having seen many Stars on Ice shows before, were so impressed... they all said that this was the best show that any of them had ever seen. This was my first one, but I don't doubt it. Since I promised Supreme Harem Master (on Friday.... OTL) that I would present her with the complete act lineup. Thank god for the (FIFTEEN DOLLAR WTF) program we got! (Even if you aren't the slightest bit interested in figure skating - which could probably only result from you never having seen it - read my descriptions just for the songs.) Just a warning, though... even without imbedded songs, this is going to be a seriously butt-long post. Okay, here we go!

ACT I (That's right, bitches, this show was so awesome it has to be divided into two acts.)

I Like It
The opening number involved the entire cast skating on, in glittery red costumes, and kicking butt in a huge mass of synchronized dancing, only on the ice, and in skates. LOOK HOW SEXY THEY ARE!

GOD DAMN THEM FOR LEAVING OUT MY TESSA AND SCOTT. But they were there.

Hold It Against Me (but not sung by Britney Spears - some dude I've never heard of sang it instead. Thank god.)
Shawn Sawyer skated to this, extremely attractively. Those girls that think pro basketball players/hockey players/[insert other random boring sport here] players are the hottest dudes on Earth? So not true. They have never seen guys figure skating, obviously, because they are HAWT but without being grossly muscular.

Nobody Knows
This number was skated by Sasha Cohen (Not Sacha Baron Cohen. Gross. A really adorable GIRL was figure skating. SASha. Not SACha.) without a single jump. It was REALLY beautiful and made me happy. (True, every song made me happy, but still.)

Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger
This one was one of my faves. Those of you who know who Jeffrey Buttle is, visualize him now. Those of you that don't (you poor things!), here's a picture of King Sexy.

Okay. Now, visualize Jeffrey Buttle! Now visualize him in some black leather. Now make that black leather look futuristic and technological by adding those shoulder thingies and some silver studs. Now picture him popping his pelvis forward multiple times. Guys, once you've recovered from retching, and girls, once you've recovered from swooning, listen to the song. Just please do. This was SO GOOD. Damn he's flexible. If he wasn't a skater, he would have been a dancer. I wish he hadn't retired from competitive skating so soon, but at least we can still watch him in shows like this.

I Want To Hold Your Hand
This was a really sweet number skated by Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. Even if you AREN'T a fan of figure skating, you should know who these two are. If you're a total loser and don't know who I'm talking about, then please feast your eyes on the picture below, which is much appreciated by men and women alike. Feel free to stare for a few minutes. Believe me, I did. :D

Although they aren't together as a couple, it's really hard to believe when watching them skate. Their chemistry is just incredible, and even though they aren't the current world champions, I believe that they're the best ice dancers in the world. (Ice dancers, not pair skaters. The difference is that pairs do jumps and stuff, while ice dancing is basically dancing on the ice and doing fancy lifts and stuff.) I mean, if you have personally invented and entirely new lift with your partner, there's no way that you aren't the absolute best. (Plus, they won the Olympics, which is way bigger than Worlds anyway.) Just so you know, the lift is called the Canadian Goose, and it looks like this:

That's them at the Olympics, by the way, winning gold. Actually, if you didn't watch them at the Olympics... you know what, even if you DID watch them kick major ass at the Games last year, watch them now. Seriously. There is not a person on the planet who would not get some enjoyment out of watching it, if only to creep on Tessa's behind. (Yes, Colombian Rice Eater, I'm looking at you.) Go here, and watch it in fullscreen and HD, or I will hunt you down and gut you like a fish. (You don't have to listen to the commentary afterwards... just watch the videos.) Here's their original dance and here's the free dance, which the picture above was taken from. The free dance is still some of the most amazing figure skating I've seen in my life. THEY ARE SO GOOD DEAR LORDEH.

On Golden Pond
Another really sweet, ballet-esque song, with Jeffrey Buttle, Kyoko Ina, Evan Lysacek, Jamie Sale, and David Pelletier. They performed it really well.

Steppin' Out of my Mind
Lololol. Kurt Browning is such a legend... what a champ. I COULD describe it to you... but why would I describe one of my favorite performances when I could just... link you to the actual performance? *cue Supreme Harem Master squealing with joy* lololol. This guy is amazing. The song is Steppin' Out With My Baby, but Kurt added a lot of voice-over to the song, that is supposedly what he's thinking. The last thing he 'thinks' as he skates off is just PRICELESS. It's a great performance! Love this guy.

True Colours
Joannie Rochette skated to this song, but it's sung by Cyndi Lauper, and I REALLY don't like her voice, so I'm not linking it to you. HA! But Joannie did a great job. Here's a picture of her because she's pretty!

I watched her performance when she wore that a couple years ago, by the way. *bragbragbrag*

Wild Horses
I wasn't a huge fan of this song either, I confess. XD Although Jamie Sale and David Pelletier did a good job of skating to it.

El Tango de Roxanne
Evan Lysacek skated to this, proving that he, too, can be very sexy when he wants to be. Even listening to the song makes you think of sexy people dancing to this in sexy clothes. A great skate to a great song!

Knock, Knock!
See, I would post the link to this song, only it doesn't actually exist. It's a mixture of different songs by different artists, so there's nothing to link to. I can tell you about the performance, though, which was BEAUTIFUL. Everyone was dressing up like it was the 50s, and even their skates were looking like those funny black-and-white shoes... I think they're called saddlebacks? and they had socks folded over the tops. SO 50s. They were really cute. Suddenly, at the end, someone knocks on the door... Oh, and here are their costumes!
SEXY.

CUE INTERMISSION.
Me: fffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Who's There?
The show's return had Evan Lysacek skate in like a rock star - literally. He was a greaser in a leather jacket, and they all had some fun with getting back in the groove.

Love the Way You Lie (click on it - it's not the gross version with the gross rapping, but it's JUST Rihanna. Hallelujah! It's actually pretty impressive.)
Kyoko Ina skated to this, but in all honesty, I was too busy appreciating how perty Rihanna's voice is (without gross rapping in between the chorus she sings) to really pay attention to the skating. :D

Party in the Park
This was ADORABLE. Kurt Browning, Sasha Cohen, and David Pelletier skated this cute little number. They were dressed up in a classic 1930s tramp look, and Sasha was being pursued by both of the men. She carried around a big red helium balloon. At the end, she leaned it to kiss Kurt... then she leaned in to kiss David on her other side... and then she skated backwards and... well, you can guess what happened. :D Their reactions were priceless. XD Completely classic.

Working for the Weekend
This was another one of my faves. Shawn Sawyer did a FANTASTIC job on this. He starts out typing madly on this imaginary typewriter in front of them, but after a few seconds, the song starts and he ROCKS OUT. He was wearing a lime green shirt with a purple tie and looked fantastic. Right at the beginning, he grabbed this briefcase, put it on the ice, and as he was skating, lay down on top of it and slid across the entire rink, before standing up and swinging it around. It was just one fluid movement: skate set it down lie down stand up keep skating. It was EPIC. At the very end he sat down at his imaginary typewriter again, and we heard an alarm beeping as the song ended... and poor Shawn was back to work at his typewriter.

Show Me How You Burlesque
For the record, this rocked. After Joannie's skate to True Colours, which was lovely but a bit dull, I had been praying for her to skate something a little more... sassy. It's like she made this next one exactly for me.
BURLESQUE WITH ME, BITCHES.
This was amazing. After a little while of jiving with the sexy cane, she handed it off to Shawn Sawyer, still in his ridiculously sexy outfit from the skate right before hers.It made me so incredible happy.
BURLESQUE, BABY!

Enigma
Jeffrey Buttle being sexy to some very pretty music. Focused more on Jeffrey than on what he was doing... :D Couldn't find a good link for this one. Feel free to search.

Mein Herr
Sasha Cohen skating in this awesome little outfit...

... about why she's a player and does not want to continue her relationship with "Mein Herr." This amused me greatly.

The Climb (but NOT, thank god, but Miley Cyrus. It's sung by a man with a very attractive voice. WOOHOO!)
Evan Lysacek skated this. Dum dee doo da... No link, sorry!

Temptation/Mujer Latina
Man. MAN OH MAN. Tessa, girl, can you ever DANCE! This is basically what they skated at the world championships, only she wore pink, and they did it even better. Just look at how she moves in the first few seconds! Her flexibility is INCREDIBLE! (By the way, it links to the video of them doing the skate, if you hadn't figured that out yet.) Seriously, these two pwn.

Downstream
Kurt Browning did this one too. Very nice, very sweet. GIVE ME CANDY!

Let's Go Crazy
Jamie Sale and David Pelletier rocking out, in black glitter and purple.

The Best
The finale. AWESOME. Here, have a buttshot of the entire cast!

WOOHOO SO ATTRACTIVE!

Saturday, May 07, 2011

Day 37: Butterbeer is FREAKING AWESOME (even though my friends suck monkey butt)

[Note: This was supposed to be Thursday's post.]

So on Thursday there was a party at my house. But Katrina, you say, why wasn't I invited? I didn't even know there was a party. Don't you love me any more?

Well, I say, I didn't know there was a party either. That is why you were not invited.

Yah. No kiddin'. I knew that Supreme Harem Master and her brother were coming over (she was doing childcare for him), and possibly Colombian Rice Eater. The daughter of Moomoo's best friend, let's call her My Twin Who Isn't Related To Me - seriously, we look so alike it's scary - was also coming over. We were her unpaid slave labour informal babysitters for the day. :D Actually, she's pretty awesome, and although she's four years younger than I am, she's a lot more mature than half the people in my grade. -_- (Which says just as much about them as it does about her, actually. ^^;) So I texted Supreme Harem Master in the morning, double checking to see who was coming, and she said her, her little bro, Colombian Rice Eater, and World Champion Pacer were all coming. Okay, I thought. One more person. I can handle that.

So then My Twin Who Isn't Related To Me arrives. Yay! Supreme Harem Master isn't that long behind, with her brother in tow. He's got long hair, but he actually pulls it off quite well, even though she says that people sometimes think he's a girl. I can't imagine how, as he doesn't look feminine in the slightest. He's actually kind of attractive. He looks NOTHING like his sister though. She's pale, and he looks like he's legit First Nations. XD A few minutes later, Secret Society Girl walks through the door. Um, okay. Didn't know she was coming but I can deal. Colombian Rice Eater is next, and you know what he tells me? He invited Secret Society Girl, Sailor Moon Fan Who Is Epic At Drawing, another girl, and Quiet Smart Airplane Dude. WUUUUT. The other two girls didn't come, but Quiet Smart Airplane Dude walked for like half an hour carrying a butt-heavy backpack to get here.
Me:

Everyone else:

Needless to say, I was less than prepared for having SEVEN other people to entertain, plus my loser brother Tummy who wouldn't leave us alone. -_- So we played video games for a while, then went to the park a block from my house to play Grounders (shut up, it's FUN!), then came back here after an hour of that. Then I remembered that Supreme Harem Master had brought a recipe for butterbeer - you know, the Hogsmead drink from Harry Potter. So we all walked to a store to buy some butterscotch syrup and more cinnamon. Secret Society Girl got some quiche.

We came home. I sent them all into the living room to play more video games.  Me and My Twin Who Isn't Related To Me made the butterbeer, a triple recipe, in a gigantic glass bowl. We drank the butterbeer. I looked upon what I had created, and I thought it good; for the butterbeer was heavenly and we drank it gladly.

SERIOUSLY OMFG IT WAS SO GOOOOOD. I think my sixteenth birthday party will have to be Harry Potter themed. Everyone will dress up, and we shall drink butterbeer and many other things. We'll have a Triwizard Tournament, only with more than three people (I hope!), and we'll practice spells, and PLAY QUIDDITCH! I'll invent other games that have to do with invisible cloaks and such. We shall also worship Dumbledore for a little while. YAY

Day 36: Teachers being badass rebels is SO totally awesome

[Note: This was supposed to be posted on Wednesday.]

So my teachers are picketing on Thursday. No school. I get to chill with a few of my friends. The teachers want a way bigger raise than the government wants to give them. The government is staffed by idiots. However, this means I get a day off.

Fuck yeah.

Day 35: Tuxedo Mondays make me look awesome

[Note: This was supposed to be posted on Tuesday.]

For those of you that have been hiding under rocks because you're terrified of me stalking you retribution for Bin Laden's death, here's what Tuxedo Mondays are: we all dress up on Mondays in fancy clothes. Here's how they got started:
STAGE ONE - THE INCEPTION
1. Colombian Rice Eater, Freakishly Smart Person, and Curly-Haired Spock Fan decide to wear formal attire on Monday and call it Tuxedo Monday.
2. Freakishly Smart Person and Curly-Haired Spock Fan forget about it, and although alone, Colombian Rice Eater looks massively sexy on Monday.
3. Colombian Rice Eater blogs about the experience, and encourages me to join him next Monday. I do.
STAGE TWO - THE TRENDSETTING
4. Me and Colombian Rice Eater look incredibly sexy in our sparkly shirts and white ties, shown above.
5. People inquire as to why we look so sexy. We tell them. They build a bandwagon.
STAGE THREE - THE SNOWBALL... SNOWBALLS!
6. Secret Society Girl (and a few others) jump on the newly-built bandwagon. Sailor Moon Fan Who Is Epic At Drawing promises to join us, but chickens out the night before. I told her she would. She didn't believe me. Curly-Haired Spock Fan finally remembers - it's been few weeks. OTL
7. Supreme Harem Master, World Champion Pacer, Bean, and others promise to catch the bandwagon at the next stop.

TA DA! I R JEENYUS, EH?!

So. You should all join our bandwagon. BE SEXY, MY DARLINGS! BE SEXY!

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Day 34: Doctor Who is awesome

For those of you who don't know, Doctor Who is a British sci-fi show. It's the longest running science fiction show ever. And it kicks total butt.

The doctor is an alien with two hearts, and when he (almost) dies, he blasts out orange energy and gets a new face and personality - basically a totally new person, but with the former Doctor's memories. His spaceship looks like a 1950s police box, and it's bigger on the inside. It can travel through time and space, anywhere in the universe. And did I mention that he is effing SEXY?



True, he's English, which gives him an unfair advantage (especially when he speaks... SWOON), but still. LOOK AT THAT BOW TIE! Bow ties are cool.



That thingy he's holding is a sonic screwdriver, by the way. It's a screwdriver... only sonic. HOLY CRAP! He also, when necessary, will wear a fez and hold onto a mop. THEM EVIL ALIENS DON'T STAND A CHANCE! :D



And if you think he has great hair now, just look at how awesome it was last time. DAAAAAMN


So please. Do yourself a favour, and get immersed in the British pot of tea with a dash of God that is Doctor Who. You'll never look at anything in quite the same way again.

Day 33: Church is SO not awesome, but uncommon flowers sure are!

Yes, yes, I know I'm late. I HAVE BEEN BUSY, FOOLS. Plus I had to upload a couple pics into the computer before posting. SHUT UP I MAKE SENSE.

Before I make the normal post, I would like to tell you all one thing... apparently someone that we all (well, most of us xD) know and love has picked up reading this blog! Probably several others as well, since I sent her the links to people's. I'll give you some hints. She was an Advancie last year... she used to live in Germany, and Russia before that... she used to think Asia was a country... she was going out with one dude for pretty much all of last year... that's right, it's Bible Thumper Dancing Girl! :D (You better love your name, sweetie, cuz if you don't... well, I guess nothing will happen, but YOU HAD STILL BETTER LOVE YOUR NAME!)

It's kind of ironic that I find this out when I'm posting this entry... for obvious reasons. Anyways, this is my... WONDERFUL experience in church on Sunday.

My cousins are all older than me by about 15-20 years, as my parents are both the youngest in their families and didn't have me until my mom was 39 and my dad was 41. OTL The last five or six years have been filled with many, many weddings and babies being born and christenings. (This was the second christening, but still.) On an unrelated note, I caught the bouquet at one of the weddings a few years ago. WHY AM I NOT MARRIED YET? STARS, YOU HAVE BETRAYED ME! Anyways. I was at the church two days ago for a christening, and it sucked monkey butt.

For starters, the priest dude was wearing a dress. A really BIG white dress. Don't tell me it was a robe - he's just secretly a cross-dresser (although I have discovered his secret. HA.) and so chose a profession that would allow him to do so in public. Second, the priest was, before he was a priest, a university professor. orz HE JUST KEPT ON TALKING. "The lord Jesus is great... blah blah blah... little boy whose legs were amputated because of a bitchy bacteria.... blah blah blah... 'Mommy, I saw God at the hospital' [and he didn't even give him a hug! He just... patted his shoulders. Jerk! I WOULD HAVE GIVEN THE LITTLE BOY A HUG.] and then she saw God in her life... blah blah Japan pray blah blah..." for 45 freakin' minutes. OTL And we had to keep standing up to sing. NOT FUN. Couldn't find the damn page, didn't know the tunes, all basically saying 'the Lord is good.' Well no shit or else why the hell would you be making us SING SONGS PRAISING HIM?!?!? And babies kept on making noises. Okay, that was actually pretty cute, but still. Also, I'm pretty sure that for the music, someone was playing a lute. I mean, wtf? A LUTE? Seriously? The only person that should EVER play that is Quiet Math Lover Who Plays The Lute. And that's mostly because he looks extremely attractive when dressed up like a medieval bard. <3



Then there were two baptisms to go through. Poor little cousin... she was asleep and then the priest tried to freakin' drown her! "Splash splash. SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH. SPLAAAAASH!" Talk about a rude awakening... And then the dude greased their foreheads and was all "Lord, I hope you are pleased with our sacrifice, and that it is enough for you." Seriously. He said those exact words. (Maybe in a slightly different order, but you get the idea.) Dude. WTF. SINCE WHEN DOES THE GREAT AND MERCIFUL GOD REQUIRE US TO SACRIFICE INFANTS?!?!?! I'm going to go cry in a corner now, if you'll excuse me, and pee my pants in fear. WTF. And then he was all "Let us now eat the body and drink the blood of Christ" and he gave people wafer-things and like... wine or juice or something? So... I guess the Catholic church is full of vampires and cannibals now. That's cool, I guess.



So after like an hour and 15 minutes, he FINALLY stopped talking and we could go upstairs and eats cookies. Which, by the way, were good. (Although they were all store bought. What happened to good old-fashioned church baking, huh?) I checked my phone and it turns out that Bean texted me in the middle of the service, though, and I hadn't noticed. xD I was like "Bean! You texted me in the middle of a church service! Wtf is your problem?" and she replied "Um... WTF WHY ARE YOU IN CHURCH?" I REALLY wish I could have seen her face when she got my text. xD It would have been HILARIOUS.


So then we drove to their house for food, ate everything in sight, and drove home. Had some fun at the park with friends, filled with epic faceplants in the ground, me falling off the top of the playground thing all the way to the sand, and a BEAUTIFUL slow-motion moment that left me and Supreme Harem Master lying on the ground for a couple of minutes in terrible pain.

Then I went for a walk behind Bean's future house - a mental hospital and women's prison - and took lots of pretty pictures of crocuses with Moomoo, Dodo, Tummy, and my grandma (who has no awesome name). Here is one of my faves. AIN'T IT PWETTY?!?!?!


Fuck. My computer appears to have spontaneously deleted all of the other pictures... oh well.