Senior Pictures, School, and Zelda :)

This entry is a little late, but I'm excited to report on the latest phase of my life. First of all, I pulled out my Nintendo 64 about a month ago, and my little brother has become a fan of the Legend of Zelda... I wish my older brother had loved me enough to let me play when the game was actually current, but I'll take it a decade later as well. Now I can show my 4-year-old bro the classics while learning them a bit myself. Registration for school was a week ago as well, and I'm taking four advanced placement classes. This means impossibility when you include my softball season and the rest of my classes. But it'll all be a happy memory eventually. Last but not least, I traveled to Mobile, AL this past Friday to take my senior portraits which I'm extremely excited about. It's costing a lot of money, a lot more than I would ever imagine pictures to cost, but I'm hoping it will be a timeless sort of thing-- perhaps a good investment? Anyway, I'm just glad I got my drape picture for the yearbook over with already. Now I can cut my hair or dye it something crazy and not worry... Haha!

My other 'how to' blog

If you care to see, I've posted an entry on my other blog, created to show people how to do stuff. I love crafts, and I demonstrated how to make a button bracelet. Yay, here's a pic.

Crab Festival, Anyone?

This weekend in Bay St. Louis, there is a crabfest going on. We have it ever year, and it's really fun. There are carnival rides, booths for selling stuff, food, etc. I have learned not to bring a lot of money because with the tickets, the seafood, and the constant drinks I buy, it gets expensive if I'm not careful. Besides, my friends always go without money, and I offer to pay for them because I'm a nice person. My favorite ride is this flying contraption where you lay on your stomach and hold on to a bar by your head. You're in a sort of kite-thing and then you just go around in circles, up and down, until you get dizzy. At night, with the carnival lights flashing, and me being on this flying ride, I feel like a vampire from The Lost Boys, only I don't live in California.

Politics, Changes, and Toy Story!

I recently changed the name of my blog from 'a guide to travel' to 'a guide to journalism'. I think it suits my immediate interests more since I'm majoring in journalism, though I won't have enough money at first to travel. I also changed my picture from the African desert to a view of Amsterdam. I would like to move to Amsterdam one day, but I promise it's not just to smoke pot semi-legally. Oh, what it must be like... I'm glad though, for now, to live in America. I've been quite the self-critic before, especially when George Bush Jr. was president, but now that I've matured and seen what freedom we do have, I can sit back and appreciate it. I once heard a member of British parliament say how great America was. I thought he was being a total smart ass at first, but I could see his point of view by the time he'd finished speaking. He said it's a great burden to be the World Police, and he also said if he lived under our political system, he'd only slightly lean towards the right conservative side. I definitely am left-wing, but hey! I'm just a naive kid.
In other news, today I went to the movie theater to see Toy Story 3 which was totally awesome. It was perhaps the earliest show I've ever gone to, at 3:20pm. Anyway, not to give a full review, but Andy grows up, the toys escape to a daycare, they realize it was a bad idea, they try to get out, they finally do, and then there's a happy ending. I swear I almost cried because I'm such a big baby.

Update of those postcards from Italy

I was looking through my sometimes-forgotten blog, and I saw the post I made about the cards I bought from an antique store. My grandmother passed away this May, and I had never given her the postcards, like I wanted to. It's just that, I waited too long, and before long she wasn't even mentally aware of her surroundings. Then I remember the night before she left us, I could hardly get close to her because I just wanted to cry. I did before long... I cried that whole week, and I still feel sensitive to the realization of her being gone. But for her wake, I wrote on one of the Florence postcards, and I gave it to my aunt to put in her coffin. I'm not sure what happens after you die, but I really hope she was somehow able to see what I left her. Honestly though, I have a lot of questions about God and heaven now. People have to die, though, and nothing lasts forever. I guess.

Last Week in Review

Last week I went to a journalism workshop in Hattiesburg, MS where I met some awesome friends while learning about photography, TV broadcasting, radio, and newspaper writing. My other blog usmmirandaadams.blogspot.com tells my story about everything that happened. The people that were there with me were all extremely talented, and I hope to be working with them in the future. I might have decided to go to the University of Southern Mississippi as well.

My eyes, my eyes! What'll I do for eyes?!

I'm full of news these days. For one, my mood has changed since last week. I believe my stress is very slowly easing up. I realized that it could have been somewhat related to midterms that I'm taking this week. Soon I should be very relieved that they're over!

In sports, people go through slumps. I thought in softball, you just got into hitting slumps. Little did I know, however, I was in a defensive pitfall. I sucked at fielding the ball, and my arm always hurt when I threw. Thank the Internet, I discovered this and fixed it. So now all is good with that!

Has anyone ever seen The Lost Boys? Amazing movie, right? Well, I watched it Tuesday night with my little brother. I was so excited because it had always been one of my favorites, and I hadn't seen it in like 10 years. So, I had my Jim Morrison T-shirt on and was hyped up after watching the best vampire movie ever (forget Twilight!). The next day, I got on yahoo, and one of the headlines said, 'Remembering Corey Haim'. I thought it was a coincidence they had a story on him the day after I saw the movie that made him really famous. Then I figured it out-- he died. I was distraught, and I thought it was somehow my fault he died. It was too big of a coincidence that his death was literally only hours after I watched The Lost Boys.

I still don't know how much blame I should put on myself, but I miss him! And I'm just getting to where I can accept it. I have to admit, I had no idea where his life was going currently, all I knew was him in the movie. But it's sad all the same.

Okay, enough rambling for now. I shall talk with you later.