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.