dean karnazes ftw

i saw a movie tonight about dean karnazes and his 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days journey. and at the end, he talked about how some people run away from things, and some people run to things.
which am i?
i started out by running away. i was running from my ghosts, in a way. i think i was running from myself.
then it slowly morphed into running to something by running away, if that makes any sense. the further away that i got from whatever i was running away from, the closer i got to what i was running to. i was running away from myself, but i was also running to myself.
now what? i think i'm running to things. somedays i run away. earlier this year i did a lot of running away. i try to run away from running, but that never works very well. maybe i just want to think i'm running to something, when, really, i'm not moving at all.

hp trailer!!!!!!!!!

ok, the fact of my nerdiness has already been established. but seriously, i'm getting fangirly lately. especially about.... THE HARRY POTTER TRAILER!!!!!
i've been waiting since last july for this. and now it's out and it's SO. GOOD.

wow, looking down through the snow at hogwarts is so cool. everything looks so dark and dangerous. or maybe i just expect it to look like that.
i really like the music for this one, it's creepy.
LOL when dumbledore shows harry the memory, i like the guy in the picture behind him.
sweet tempo speed-up when the WB logo shows up, too
and i absoluetly love old-time dumbledore. he looks like a mini-hagrid with that hair. and the flowers- yes!
tom is so cute!!!
ok, the speeding up and the choppiness is so perfect. everything feels so dark and creepy and awesome. keymash time: diohgdoisyrujsbnkl!!!!!!!!!!!!
"i can speak to snakes, too. they find me, whisper things." is that only funny to me?
i like the flashes of voldy, right after his young self. he went through a michael jackson type thing.
"to know the future, return to the past."

WEEK OF MAC AND CHEESE MAYHEM!!!!!!!!!!!

ok, have you ever seen mac and cheese crackers? i thought they'd taste like cheetos. i don't like cheetos. BUT THEY DON'T! i highly suggest buying them, because i'm eating some right now and they are SO GOOD. it's like my easy mac got even easier and crunchy and puffy and powdery in the best possible way. MAC AND CHEESE CRACKERS FTW!!!

ok, so this is one hell of a week. wednesday's my friend's party (he used the fb description "night of mayhem," though i find it highly unlikely that he would be the one causing the mayhem. no, that's more like me :)) thursday night is the one-time showing of the dean karnazes movie. if you don't know who he is, google him. he's my hero. seriously. i love him. friday- holy shit. midnight (so that's really like saturday but whatever) is the release of breaking dawn!!! and even though edward and bella annoy the crap out of me, i love twilight. so much. so i will be there, at midnight, getting my book! and then i'll stay up all night to read it (just like i did for harry potter, but no book series could ever mean as much to be as harry potter does. twilight doesn't even compare.) and then i have to sleep all day for the harry and the potters concert saturday night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which, if i prod my friend enough, will end in a sleepover at her house, which is my favorite house, other than mine. and my grandma's. i love my grandma's house.
so YES! i'm very excited for this week of MAYHEM. which will be even more mayhem if my friend lets me create at his party, and even more if my other friend's parents don't catch me causing mayhem at their house.

Holy Crap Dark Knight

i saw dark knight this afternoon and holy crap, it was amazing.

spoilers below, so if you're going to watch it stop reading



i seriously jumped about 3 feet into the air when the fake batman hit the window. i hate it in movies where they just WHAM throw something or whatever.

and i practically cried when gordon "died." i love his character and they showed him, looking like he was dead, and my friends and i all looked at each other like "wtf did they just do!" but then when he came back i got this look on my face that probably looked like i saw rupert grint. (lol, gary oldman plays gordon in batman and sirius in the hp movies, so if i had been watching the right movie, i would have seen gary and rupert at the same time... which has nothing to do with batman, but does have something to do with harry potter and rupert, which are two things that i get quite fangirly about.)

heath ledger did BRILLIANTLY. i got chills, almost. the joker was so freaky and heath did an excellent job of portraying him. definitely deserves a posthumous oscar. i started paying attention ot all of the acting, and i really think heath did the best job. that'd be such a character to play- a deranged physcopath that has this sudden to urge to kill everybody.

the directing was also fantasic. it gave you that feeling that superhero movies are supposed to- that kind of weird mix of danger and anticipation and power slipping. i love it!

my absolute favorite thing about it was how it turned to focus on human nature. when they had the two ships, both with the detonator for the other one, i was freaking out. i wasn't at all surprised that some bitches were so ready to kill the other people if it meant that they could live. i absoletly loved it when the guy got up and tried to set off the bomb on the ship with the prisoners, but then started shaking and couldn't do it. and when the prisoner got up and made that speech and took the detonator, and i really thought he was going to set it off, but then he threw it out the window. yes! that's really when you find out someone's character- when they're faced with a life or death situation (the joker said something about this, but he's a creeper and enjoyed it when they turned out to be cowards) and i hope, i really, really hope beyond hope, that people can remember to be good when faced in such situations. it's so disturbing that some where so willing to just kill others so that they could live. that's their true colors. i wish that it had surprised me. i wish that i had more faith in humanity than i do. but the guy throwing it out the window did put soem more faith in there.

and the thing about dying the hero, or living long enough to see yourself become the villian. that was so good. that kind of focuses on human nature, too. you can either die when things are better, or you push through that to the very end, where all hell breaks loose, and that's when your villianous side comes out.



ok, spoilers done now. but if oyu haven't seen it yet, you have to.

37 Odd Things About Me

37 Odd Things About Me

1. Do you like blue cheese?
i really hate blue cheese.

2. Have you ever smoked?
no, and i never, ever will

3. Do you own a gun?
that also gets an emphatic no, and i never will

4. What flavor Kool Aid was your favorite?
um, the stainy kind?

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
no

6. What do you think of hot dogs? that they are the greatest mix of disgusting things ever.

7. Favorite Christmas movie?
a christmas story!!!

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
water.

9. Can you do push ups?
yes, but i complain a lot, even though they are important

10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry?
i don't really like jewelry. i used to wear this one bracelet a lot, but it broke so i don't anymore. and i wear a puke shell necklace a lot, and earrings only if i have to. i hate earrings.

11. Favorite hobby?
youtube

12. Do you have A.D.D.?
sometimes i wonder

13. Do you wear glasses/contacts?
glasses, but i don't wear them a lot

14. Middle name?
lynn

15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment?
the lyrics to the song i'm listening to, if my friend has read what i posted on her wall about seeing the dark knight tomorrow, and i'm hungry

16. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink?
water, soda, tea

17. Current worry?
nothing

18. Current hate right now?
politics

19. Favorite place to be?
i've got 3: the couch in my library, reading; my favorite tree in my yard in tampa, on a branch that was quite comfortable; and at camp

20. How did you bring in the new year?
by drinking apple cider and taking my sister to the airport at 4am

21. Where would you like to go?
london

22. Name three people who will complete this?
no one, my friends are too lazy

23. Do you own slippers?
several pairs

24. What shirt are you wearing?
a white polo my sister gave my for christmas

25. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets?
no

26. Can you whistle?
not well

27. Favorite color?
blues, pinks, and greens

28. Would you be a pirate?
hell yes, if i got to be a pirate with jack and will

29. What songs do you sing in the shower?
i don't sing in the shower, but i do tend to belt out random songs in the ears of my friends.

30. Favorite Girl's Name?
melanie

31. Favorite boy's name?
i don't know

32. What's in your pocket right now?
i don't have pockets, but if i did, probably starburst wrappers

33. Last thing that made you laugh?
q: how many distance runners does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
a: three. one kenyan to actually do it, and two americans to stand around wondering how they can do it

34. What vehicle do you drive?
it's not quite safe for me to be on the road at the moment, but when i'm 16 i will drive a camry

35. Worst injury you've ever had?
i've never broken or sprained anything, but i almost broke my arm in 5th grade (trying to jump from the pull up bar to the monkey bars, caught the monkey bars, and slipped) and couldn't really move it for a week

36. Do you love where you live?
i guess

37. How many TVs do you have in your house?
two

the prince's tale

i've kind of been thinking recently of the prince's tale. and i think that it's one of the saddest things i've ever heard. i'm going to ramble for the rest of this post about that.

severus saw a pretty little girl playing outside (or wherever he first saw her) and started to notice something- she was, quite obviously, a witch. so he planned and had this idea for when he was going to come out of hiding and talk to her, and then he basically blew it that day on the playground. but it was then, when they were so little, that he started to fall in love. he didn't know that it was that love that would basically control his entire life, that would lead him away from voldemort, and that would save harry- who saved the wizarding world. so, in a way, severus saved the wizarding world. in a way. but then they started hogwarts and severus met james, and james was a complete arrogant jerk. but he had a thing for lily. so severus had this enemy, and lily didn't understand why, because she didn't know severus loved her. all he could do was be her friend, and, for a few years, that worked. she hated james and loved severus's friendship. but the dark arts started to call to him. and lily, muggleborn as she was, disapproved, and she started to get suspicious about him. so came that horrible day- when james attacks severus and he called lily a mudblood. and when lily said that he called every other person of her parentage a mudblood, he couldn't say that she had never been a mudblood to him, that he loved her. but, what if he had? what if she knew? maybe she did know, but what if he told her? would everything be different?

so lily went to james, who also loved her. and severus had to watch that, he had to watch the love of his life go off with his total enemy, and fall in love with him. that must've been so unbearable. and even when she got married and had harry, he still loved her. when he heard the prophecy and went running to dumbledore, that must've been the most scared he's ever been in his entire life. he asked for help, being in a placed that would have cost him his life, had voldemort known where he was. so he asked for voldy to take pity upon lily. and voldemort did start to, but lily gave her life for harry. and that's when everything changed. severus turned everything around, going to dumbledore again and went from the death eater to the good guy, taking everything from the dark arts and turning his back upon voldemort (it's a good thing voldy was gine at that point, or he would've killed severus) to follow the path dumbledore laid out in front of him- to protect harry. and when severus saw harry for the first time, and saw how much he looked like james, but also saw lily's eyes, everything was right there. he was the son of the man he hated, so he did perceive harry to be just as bad, but he also was lily's son, and he had her eyes. and when severus saw him, everyday, he saw those eyes on the face of someone he disliked so much. so then voldemort came back, and severus was faced with what he had feared for 13 years. voldy knew who severus worked for, and severus had to try to convince him that he would be a double-agent (but really, he was double-crossing him) it would've been so easy, so simple, to turn his back upon dumbledore's plan of protecting the child he hated, but he didn't. after all those years, he still did love lily. so every second was a risk to him then.

and then voldemort told him to kill dumbledore, who also told him to kill him. and harry faced him in that corridor and screamed at him that he was a coward. but he wasn't. harry later came to realize that "he was, in fact, the bravest man [he] ever knew" (ministry of magic, 'bravest man i ever knew') and his patronus was a doe, still a doe, after lily had been dead for 16 years. "after all this time?" -dumbledore "always."-severus is one of the best quotes in the books. when he died ("look...at....me....") and his eyes connected to those eyes, so like lily's, and he saw her face, instead of harry's, in that final second. he still loved her. he gave everything, absoluetly everything, to protect harry, because he loved lily so much. he loved her for about 30 years until he died (i can't remember if lily was born in 1960 or 1961, and i really don't want to go get my book right now) and had everyone hate him, to think him a traitor, when he was really braver than anyone else. he was so clever and brave that it just kills me. the prince's tale is so incredibly depressing.

camp, school, and harry potter

i'm doing a running camp done by a local running store this week. i went today, and dear god, at 6am it was already hot, and they started at 8, which i think is way too late. i'm normally already done, showered, and back asleep by then. but we ran about a half mile away to a park, then into the park a little bit and then split off into groups to run. and i was so stupid. i thought 'well, 3 doesn't seem like enough. let's go with 4.' and that was so dumb of me. i ended up with a group of people on a 4 and a half mile loop. and about a half mile in, things started to look famliar. i was back on part of that 5k i did a few weeks ago. it was the same park, and i was on that same stretch that made me want to scream. it was not a good run. i wore my new shoes, which was a mistake, and i've got blisters to prove it. i have never felt so sick, except for when i actually was sick. i'd like to get my time down by a little bit by the end of the summer, so i'm thinking that if i go earlier in the day, it'll be less hot, so a bit easier. and if i run with friends, too.
then we did strides, which made me miss track a lot.
and a game that involved spinning around a baseball bat (i've seen this on america's funniest homevideos so much, and it was hilarious in person) and running down around a cone and back, which was fun. then back to the store and pizza :) i love pizza.

school starts pretty soon, and i've got mixed feelings about that. i typically do.
i like the first few days of school- getting to know the teachers and classes. but then it goes back into the stupor that makes me so annoyed. i basically hate the routine of getting up everyday to go to a place, to do work, only to be told that i haven't done enough. i like learning, and there's a few classes that i don't mind, but it's just the repetative-ness of everything that bugs me. i hate change, truly, but i like things to be a little different every now and then.
my school's not incredibly boring, football games and spirit week and dances are fun. i love that about school- going to root on your team (even though i don't know much about football. i can follow along alright, but i'm not too great about it) and school spirit and hanging out with friends and dancing.
and i'm really excited for my newspaper class. i took journalism first semester last year, and i loved it. i'm excited to be back there working with journalism. and i love english class, and history. but that's where it stops. i'm horrible at math, science is only interesting to me when we're doing something fun with it, i like the language of spanish but hate learning it, and am very uninterested in health and personal finance. i like seeing my friends (though i tend to get in trouble for talking to them all through class) but would rather just hang out at the mall or movies, rather than having to go to school to see them.
so i think i'll take the most out of summer for now- which i already have plans to do. my friends and i have so many things we want to do that there is no more time for being lazy. we want to go to the waterpark a few times; 6 flags a few times; go to this park that has rocks to climb; see movies; have an all-out wizard rock dance party (several days long- we didn't get to go to wrockstock, thanks to my mom's disapproval) lots of swimming and tanning; go carting; a trip to branson (though that might've been a joke lol) go in search of the tallest, steepest hill ever and run up it; a harry and the potters cocnert; a plain white t's concert; breaking dawn release (at midnight!) my parents want to go to, um, actually i don't remember. springfield? and, somewhere in there, we should probably fit in some time to sleep. and eat. yay summer :)

so it's july 21st. i have a very clear memory of a year ago today (and the day before today a year ago) on july 20th, 2007 (and if you don't know the importance of the 20th and 21st of july, 2007, then i'm not even going to say it. so ha.), i could not sit still at all all day. nothing could hold my interest and i basically walked around with a clock glued to my face. every 2 minutes i'd look at a clock and think '7 hours, 27 minutes' or something (it's not geeky that i'd been doing that for nearly a month) i spent almost the entire day on mugglenet. i tried to read, but it just made me even more excited. i left at about 5 to get a ticket to know how far back in line i'd be (second group of 50. i still have that form.) and then went home to wait some more. i watched the footage of huge releases all over the world on the news with my eyes so wide that i'm surprised that they didn't fall out. i basically spent the day walking around, then getting online to just look at the cover, and looking at the clock. at 10:30 it was damn near unbearable. at 11 we left. i wish i'd left a whole lot sooner, and i will for the encyclopedia release, because there was other stuff to do. when i got there, the store was so crammed that i'd never seen a bookstore in such a state. except for the 5th and 6th releases (i remember watching the 4th release on the news and calling the people dorks, and i don't think they had them for the 3rd, and they certainly didn't for the 2nd and 1st) and there were people everywhere in costume and screaming and there were 2 suits of armor and a knight that called out the time remaining every five minutes (wtf does a knight have to do w/ hp? except for chess) and it was like an explosion at midnight. there was a huge collective scream and bells ringing and it was the coolest thing ever. i had my book at about 12:20 or so (the exact time is written down somewhere) and i clung to it like it was the vaccine to a deadly disease and ran out to get home. then i plopped myself down on the floor (12:30) and did not move until 5:52, except to get a blanket and tissues. at 5:53 i went downstairs (i remember that it was unseasonably cold- i had on a hoodie) and read newspaper articles. it didn't seem real to me that i knew everything about harry, that it was over.
so a year ago today- what were you doing?

shoes, aerosmith

so i'm happy :) i'm getting new running shoes either today or tomorrow, which is good because my mizunos are basically dead.

i rented guitar hero aerosmith from blockbuster last night, and i have to say, it's not very good. and i like aerosmith (kind of impossible not to when you spent the first five years of your life having your brother blasting it and the next 10 having your father blasting it) but it's just not very good. you've got to play 2 songs that aren't even aerosmith to get to 2 or 3 aerosmith songs every set. it's annoying. maybe i'm just getting bored of guitar hero, or maybe the songs get better, but i'm not too pleased with it right now.

ok, batman. i'm normally more of a spiderman girl. i love spiderman- he's so freaking cool. but then i saw batman begins. and it was so good that spidey better watch out. bruce wayne really has to put up with a lot; he saw his parents murdered, he trained for years on a remote mountaintop with those crazy people, was attacked by bats, and then he has to go protecting gotham from the physco gas. and i have to say, the whole thing with the physco gas really freaked me out. that's so creepy. if you haven't seen it, i suggest that you do, because it's a really good movie. and i'm excited for dark knight- my friend and i, dorks as we are, bought batman capes at 6 flags (which actually sparked my interest in batman. they had batman, superman, and wonderwoman capes, and superman's annoying and wonderwoman's annoying so i got batman, and then wanted to see the movies) and we're going to go see the dark knight with our capes on. i wanted to get this full costume thing at the store that had the mask and cape and, um, idk but other stuff, but my mom wouldn't let me. i think she questions my maturity at times.

it's hot as hell outside. i love summer, and i love warmth, but i don't need a sauna outside. i wish it would rain- i love rain. i open my window because i love the smell and the wind. that's something i miss about florida sometimes- the hurricanes. hurricanes are fun. it's like a ginormous storm with huge gusts of wind and sometimes you can't see, because it's raining so hard. i used to look out the window and watch the wire the streetlights were on fling around and the streetlights fly off. one time, while a hurricane was in the gulf, it sucked a huge amount of water out of the bay (not the tampa bay- the hillsborough bay. if you look on a map of tampa, it's a peninsula, and there's a bay on both sides) and it was just this disgusting mud for basically ever, and then the storm came in and we went out there in the morning when it started and it was just flooded. ridiculously so. normally, that water's several feet under the wall. i'd say 10, but that might be stretching it. between 5 and 10 feet. but then the water all came back in from the hurricane and you couldn't even see the wall, just waves that kept chugging in, completely covering everything. and the water came in really far- two streets away from the bay it was flooded. that doesn't normally happen. ever. it was one of the coolest things i'd ever seen, like one of those movies about storms in the pacific, except that it was there, in real life, in front of me.

i'm really bored.

like a kid in a candy store

i'm going to take time now to point out that i am extremly childish.
my mom watched my cousin, who is almost 2, today, and wanted to take him to the store. he really loves clifford, so she wanted to find him a clifford stuffed animal. this involved scouring the toy department. and the sad thing is, the kid didn't seem to find much interesting. however, my mom and i did.
i wanted to get a penguin that had bouncy balls in his stomach; a super deluxe batman cape (it had freaking wings!); a batman mask; a spiderman lamp; a walle lamp; a walle pillow; one of those things that have a little dome on wheels then a long handle, and the dome has balls in it that when you push it they pop like nuts; a stuffed kung fu panda that was like 3 feet tall; water guns; a stuffed master sishu (am i spelling that right? from kung fu panda); this car thing that was rubbery and hollow, so when you pressed on the top it caved in; sanrio stuffed animals; a scooter (pink, of course); a mini car thing; an elmo sprinkler system; and a tickle me cookie monster.
yeah.

i bought new stuff for school, like pens and giant notebooks and stuff, and went to put them in my backpack. i decided to use the one from last year, rather than getting a new one, because my old one has incredibly handy pockets and is cool and i love it. but this posed the problem that i actually had to clean out this backpack. it took me forever, because i would stop every 2 seconds because i found something funny. i found a lot of notes that discussed things that had seemed so huge at the time, but now, are nothing at all. and i found a college planning guide. um, scary. i don't want to think about that. but, thing is, i have to. i've got tests soon and things to look over and i need to start looking at scholarships i could get. i've been decided on journalism as my major for a while now, but that's such a competive business. that scares me! college seems so far off, but really, it isn't. it's lurking around the corner, and it's going to jump out at me very soon.

youtube and nerdfighters

i feel that there is something i should share on this blog. something that eats up a lot of my time.
i'm a youtube nerd. and i don't mean that i sit there for an hour looking at videos. i mean that i sit there for at least 4 hours watching videos. every day. it's not that i don't have a life, because i do. i have friends and things to do and during the school year i'm usually incredibly busy with work and extra things. but i am a total youtube nerd. i don't make videos, because i think that i'd probably be really bad at that (i've kind of wanted to try it though) and i don't have a video camera.

something else also makes up a big part of my life. i'm a nerdfighter! don't know what a nerdfighter is? http://nerdfighters.ning.com i'm a huge fan of hank and john green. it's not creepy of me or anything. i was in 2 videos with my friends! john's peep eating contest one, and hank's birthday video one. i started screaming when i saw the picture of my friend and i in the peeps eating contest. literally screaming.
NERDFIGHTERS FTW
DFTBA!

amy could use some encouragement

ugh. i wake up everyday at quarter till 7, drag myself out of bed, throw my hair up, and run. and you know what? i'm sick of it. really sick of it. what is the point, i ask myself, of getting up so that i can go curse under my breath for 3 miles? it's really getting annoying. i love running, yes, but i am so sick of this. if anyone's reading this, and you run or do something else that you love but at one point got incredibly sick of, can you leave, in the comments, how you got over that? thanks. i'd have something else to say, but nothing exciting is going on right now.

concerts and braces

so i've been pretty excited for a while that the plain white t's are coming to a city that's a few hours away from me pretty soon. and i had discussed it briefly with my parents, but they hadn't said yes or no. so i asked again today and go an earful about "too far" and "drive there, concert, and drive back all in one day?" which made me mad so i brought up a harry and the potters concert the day before that, which is about a half hour away, and then my dad started talking about it being a "hassle." really? i mean come on, it's only a half hour away! and i could even get a ride if i needed to! so i'm quite angry at the moment. i hate not being able to drive. i mean, i can drive, but i don't have my liscense, just my permit. so my parents would have to be in the car anyway.

i've had braces for 2 years now, and i went to the orthodontist yesterday, and she said i can get them off on august 5th!!! if youv'e ever had braces, you know how happy i am. i can actually eat corn on the cob and apples that aren't all sliced up! :D

results, bbq, and mario kart

aaaaa!!! i went to that 5k this morning, and the first things i realized was how different it was from track meets. the starting was different, for one. it was kinda weird to me. but then i started off and we went down the path i normally go and i thought "ok yay! i know this course by heart!" and then we went a different way. and it went for a little bit and it was ok, until i started noticing "HOLY SHIT WHY ARE THERE SO MANY HILLS?!" i mean, i love hills. that's exhilariating and i love them. buit seriously? what the hell! that was the longest 3.1 miles ever. giant hills that dwarfed the single uphill climb i go through on my normal course. but in all i had fun. i got 25:57! I GOT 25:57 ! (i will remind you that this is still within the confines of 25 minutes, thank you very much, and i would also like to point out that i won my age group and 4th out of women, so i'm not horrible, and while varsity guys can mange about 17 minutes, it's different for girls) i was pretty happy that it was just under 30 and i gulped down an entire bottle of water that they handed me at the end. so now my legs are sore, my head is filled with encouragment, and i'm happy :D

my aunt, uncle, and grandma came over for a bbq today. and after lunch we went over to see my grandma's cousin, who has really bad cancer :( it was really sad to be there, and his daughter from arizona is staying with him because he can't be alone. and she's having problem's because of the stress. can you imagine having to take care of your unable father in his last days? how hard that would be? it was so heartbreaking, her dad went in the house and my aunt asked how se was, and just her face was so sad that i wanted to cry. but i'm really glad that i went, because we don't know how much longer he's going to make it. and it was good to see him.

i'm at my friend's house with another friend, and we've been playing mario kart. and we are extremly vocal about it! we were screaming and cursing and being so loud that i'm surprised the neighbor's didn't complain. i suck at mario kart. i came in 12th. out of 12. but that is an awesome game! now they're playing guitar hero and i'm writing this and i'm glad that i did the race and i'm glad that i visited my grandma's cousin and i'm glad to be here with two of my best friends. :)

The 4th, WWW Girl, Mini- Scrapbooks, and 5ks

so it's the 4th of july. woo hoo? while it is quite nice (well, more than nice, it's fantastic and i am incredibly thankful for it) that america became free on this day 232 years ago, i can't feel very spirited today. why? look at this country. almost the entire world hates us. we're in a war that's practically pointless, our president's too thick to string two words together coherently, the dollar's plummeting, and our economy's going down the drain. happy celebration of how our country's been declining in glory!
but seriously, i am thankful that i live here. so thankful. because i know that there's people that don't have as much as i do, are oppressed by their government (china, anyone?) and aren't free. so really, today's the time to focus on that, not what was mentioned in the above paragraph. so in that case, happy 4th!

world wide web girl. haven't heard of it? where have you been?! lol world wide web girl's this incredibly catchy song that's been the subject of many hilarious youtube videos. my favorites? the ones by italktosnakes and darthhamsterreturns. guaranteed smile for when you're not so happy. i've got it stuck in my head like mad and it's slightly annoying, but even more humorous. it makes me want to put my hair in pigtails and dance around like i'm a little kid! which might cause alarm. but then again, it's me, so maybe not.

mini-scrapbooking! yay! so i got this idea from youtuber charlieissocoollike to do a little mini-scrapbook type thing. and it took me forever to actually start one, but i did. so every now and then i'll add a little bit, and today i attacked a page with stickers from guitar hero, another with things cut out of elle girl magazine, and one with a picture of me and my friend with cut-out letters of an inside joke. it took me almost 2 hours to do 3 tiny little pages, which shows how slow i am to cut things (because scissors thoroughly annoy me) but i like this project. so i suggest that you start one! fill pages with comic strips or stickers or things from magazines. it's a good way to pass time and it's pretty fun.

5ks! so i started running not very long ago, about 8 months. and i did sprinting for track in the spring, but then decided that i wanted to try out cross country. so i basically sold my soul to running, which has caused me to get up at 7 am 6 days a week this summer, which is annoying but worth it. and i've been working really hard and busting my ass and tomorrow i'm running my first race. it's a 5k, which is a normal xc meet distance. and i know that i can run that far, and i go on 3 mile runs all the time, but i'm still nervous. not overly nervous, since it isn't for school and is just a fundraising thing, and i don't even think anyone i know will be there, but i'm still nervous. i want a good time! i'm aiming for around 24 or 25 minutes, which i don't think will kill me (i never time me runs) but it would be nice to get under that, though i doubt i will. even 25 might be pushing it.

i'm going to go eat now.

I'M A WORLD WIDE WEB GIRL
IN A WORLD WIDE WEB WORLD
THERE IS SOMETHING I MUST CONFESS
I NEED A WORLD WIDE WEB BOY
WITH A WORLD WIDE WEB TOY
THIS IS MY EMAIL ADDRESS!

intro

well hello, i guess. maybe i should be telling you that you're creepy for being here, or maybe i should thank you for being here, because it means that someone is paying attention to my sometimes pathetic life.
in that case, why do people read other people's blogs? is it the lure of a somewhat public diary, one that you couldn't resist when you saw your sister's diary lying there on top of her desk years ago, and still now can't fight back? is it like reality tv in text form? or is it just interesting, an insight into someone else's life, with problems you don't have to deal with and can just sit back and enjoy?
well i've never really tried to find anyone's blog. i mean, i read my friend's, but that's because she's my friend. i don't read blogs of people i don't know. this isn't because i find it slightly creepy (which would be all the more reason that i would search for one, given the fact that doing creepy things does not bother me anymore.) but because i just don't know of any. suggestions?

now that that's over with, here's an intro:
i'm amy, i'm 15, and most of my time is spent running, writing, reading, watching youtube videos, or sleeping. i don't watch much tv, partly because i can't sit still for very long, and partly because there's only a few shows that i find interesting. these include: gilmore girls, greek, friends, gossip girl (though it thoroughly annoys the crap out of me) and dane cook. as for those youtube videos, i enjoy: brotherhood 2.0 and 5 awesome girls and vlogs, and videos of world records in track and field, music, and random things
i love to read, and have this crazy thing about harry potter. i also really like looking for alaska and an abundance of katherines (both are written by john green, who is a fantastic author and vlogger) and the twilight series. and my mind doesn't retain memories of every book that i like. because that would be a lot.

so i guess that's all for now? mmk.