3 more days...+ a mini photoshoot

The excitement is building. Yesterday I was eating nachos for lunch and I suddenly wasn't hungry. Bond and my other friends kept trying to get me to eat. Finally, one of them suggested that I thought of the nacho as a Harry Potter cupcake. They applauded as I started to eat the cupcakes. They later ate the rest of the HP cupcakes. Oh, how I love my lunch table :)

My friend Hailey & I started a Harry Potter marathon on Sunday. We watched the Sorcerer's Stone and prepared out nails for the premier and then went outside and took some pictures before picking up Bond and going to youth.

 Nails by me, call me if you need your nails done for any event :D

 The Arch of Optimistic Toe Separators

 Cartwheel, pft...

 Somersault baby!

Hailey's brother Milo:)

 More product placement of my nail painting skills..

 Beautiful sunset at church:)

As I'm typing this, I'm watching the Order of the Phoenix. I've come far on my marathon. I will be waiting with a group of friends for 9 hours till midnight.We will leave as soon as school gets out to meet at the theatre.I will take as much pictures and maybe video as I can to show you. I will be dressing up like a witch, ha ha. I will only get about 3 hours of sleep, but it will be worth it.And yes, I will be going to school the next day.Oh, fun.:)

HARRY POTTER!!!

I.Am.So.PUMPED!!!! It is Thursday, friends, one week before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 comes out!: D


I love the movies, but the main reason for my love of Harry Potter is because of the books.Today I will be telling you guys the story of how I met J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter.


It all started when I was 8 or so. My mom had started to read the series and I wanted to too. I had been reading since before pre-school, so I was a bit above my grade's average reading level. I could understand most of the vocabulary, but I just couldn't get hooked into the story.I already knew what was going to happen, so I thought "Why read the books then?" I never got past chapter 1 of the Sorcerers Stone.


Then the Christmas of my 6th grade year (I was roughly about 11 years old), my cousins came and visited me. They are both a little bit younger than me. They kept on talking about how much they LOVED Harry Potter and how I need to read the books. So starting that winter break, I started reading the books.After that, I was hooked. I remember that by the time that the Goblet of Fire was playing on TV, I was reading it too and fought to read 50 pages before I saw what happened in the movie.I won that battle:)


I am now typing in Geometry. Quick side note: As our assignment we had to blog about MATH! I blog for fun so this was a super easy assignment!Want to see it? Here you go:


"Once upon a time there was a little pig who loved math.The END. Just kidding.:)  This blog is really about GEOMETRY.Hi I'm Rebecca, I like to take pictures and watch YouTube videos.No I'm not joking.Enough about me, I need to bring my grade up in this class after all. I like this class, there's some hilarious people in here.Also my teacher is really fun and awesome. I just had trouble memorizing the theorems and stuff so I got horrible test grades. I really get the stuff we are learning now though.You want to hear more of my random mumblings/photography, check out my real blog. Tata!"


Entertaining yes?(sarcasm sensor BEEP BEEP BEEP:)


Anyways, back to Harry....
Harry Potter is truly my favorite fiction book in the world. Thousands, possibly millions agree with me.Favorite book EVER is the Bible;) As far as the Twilight & Harry Potter comparison, I've  read both series and can honestly say "What comparison? Harry Potter wins!"


I find that so many things in life can relate to Harry Potter.The character connection is so strong between me and pretty much most of the characters in the series.If you ever read this J.K. Rowling, thank you.:)And if you haven't read them yet or just can't get into them, please keep trying, I implore you. You won't regret it.:)


Now, for some pictures:)

This is a panorama of my "Wall of Harry Potter"

No one there...

Apparition!Doesn't my foot look like rubber?Awkward, I blame Lockheart...

It's sideways so you can read the titles;)

I will be doing a HP movie marathon, PPP(Potter Puppet Pals), and AVPM(A Very Potter Musical) marathons for the next few days.My school is cooperating wonderfully:) I will be going to the midnight premiere next Thursday right after school with some of my friends from church.

Are you into Harry Potter?I'd love to hear your thoughts:) Thanks for reading & commenting!

Halloween/Fall Pictures.

This is me with this scary dude on Halloween. (And yes, the hair in the bottom right-hand corner is Bond's mullet)

These are the magical lemons/pine cones at Bond's house.

My little brother's feet (My mom doesn't want picture of him out on the Internet yet.)

On the right side doesn't it look like a thin skyscraper?

The mark our pool left over from the summer.The ring doesn't go away until it's time to bring the pool back out. :D

 

Playing with dof(depth of field).

My brother has developed a habit of using ladder to climb the trees in our backyard.

My mom saying how these leaves could be knee-pads,ha ha..:)

This leaf was standing up by itself. I am so proud:')

This HUGE spider in the backyard.*shudder*

I got very lucky to get this shot.

My friend doing some sort of math homework.No comprendo?!?

The pumpkin I made at a Halloween party.

I went to the park for a photo shoot with a friend; then this arrived on the scene...

This is the coolest bike rack EVER.

Thanks for reading, more pictures coming up.Feedback is appreciated.:)

Cornmazes, Halloween, and Sissors For Hands (:

Hi friends. I really missed blogging. I've had so much homework/paper/projects/tests over the last 11 days that I haven't even had time to read the bogs I follow. I'm sorry, but school has to come first.


So, I will attempt to catch you up on what's been going on. On Saturday, I invited Blue Seal and a few friends to come to the haunted corn maze with me and my youth group.(For some of my foreign readers who may not know what a haunted corn maze is, it's a field of corn that has been partially cut down to create a maze. A haunted one is where people in scary masks hide among the corn stalks and scare you by growling or reeving up a chainsaw) I had never gone to a haunted corn maze. I LOVED it! First off, there was this 7 feet tall dark dementor looking thing walking around outside the maze. Me and some of my friends chased him around. I flashed my Toy Story flash light at him as I yelled "I'm not afraid of you!!!" I felt quite accomplished.:)


Now, the actual maze itself... the first scare we had was when a blue strobe light was flashing. So, naturally we started dancing.Then this guy with a scary dread lock mask jumped out with a chainsaw. I screamed along with everyone else(because I was scared...0_o), but I laughed afterward because we weren't chainsawed and nothing was going to happen to us.


We wandered through the maze.... One guy was telling us to keep walking, apparently some one had thrown up. Thrown up in fear... never heard of that one before.  I couldn't see where it was and them some stupid scarer jumped out at me. I yelled in anger, "HEY not COOL!I could've stepped in PUKE!!" I was quite angry at the time... We came to this one tent filled with blue light and smoke.Their was a quarry of people outside of it. After a minute or two of observation, we realized  that the way out of the maze was through the tent. We all linked arms and marched through. We couldn't see anything. It seemed to stretch on forever. Then we were out! No chainsaw was reved at us while in the tent.


We made it out and I was dancing in celebration until a worker said "Ready for part two of the maze?"We were in the second part of the maze, until we realized our youth group was going to re-gather soon. We went to the fire and made s'mores.We had time to sing one song before heading home on the bus. We got home very late, and after dropping 3 of my amiga's, it was midnight!After some 4th meal, we got home round' 12:30.


On Sunday I volunteered at my church's Halloween party. I had the privilege of being the "candid photographer":) It was very fun.Then I went with my friend to a Halloween party. The costumes were as follows: Kiki Strike(me), 80's workout girl, Bond with Mullet, an old man, Luigi, and Santa Claus. We ate pizza, trick or treated, and watched Edward Sissorhands.Every time I see that movie, I just want to cry for Edward. Johnny Depp is brilliant.:)

Also, huge news that may or may not be super-awesome-happy-dance-time for you; 16 days until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows come out in the U.S.!!!I reserved my tickets last week and I got them on Sunday. I'm going with a few church friends as soon as school is out. Midnight Premiere; oh yeah.: D

Wow, this post is extremely long... I am at school now so I can't include pictures from the last 11 days, but I will try to do a photo post later this week. I am very excited for Thanksgiving, Christmas and the whole joyful feeling it brings around :)

And thank you guys for bearing with me as I abandoned this blog for a while. I got my grade card yesterday, got a B- in Geometry!*woot-woot*Thanks again for reading and commenting, your words really make my day : )

B-?

You will not guess what happened. I have a B- in geometry!I know, shocking much?

Thursday, I got a grade check in geometry class.My heart was pounding. When my teacher handed me my paper, me eyes scrolled down and saw 79.88%, B-. She rounded the grade!:D My friend(no nickname ideas yet..) helped me before bible study at Panera Bread. She really helped me understand.I took some notes on properties and proofs to memorize. It was quite fun too, as fun as math can be.:) She let me try some of her Broccoli and Cheese Soup.YUM. Then we got a tumbler of cookies and arrived a tad late to bible study. It's alright, we shared the cookies.(: 

I didn't have an opportunity to retake my geometry tests yet, but I have more study time on the bright side. I have gotten a load of my research paper on Mecca done today. I've gone over the minimum page requirement, but I'm not even half-way done... I am so not an overachiever, even if that's what it looks like, ha ha :) 

Yesterday we had a two hour early release. It was a brilliant day. Journalism was fun with  my funny teacher and friends. We had a sub in Spanish ll and enjoyed the last day sitting with some of my freshman friends.(We are getting a new seating chart next week.:(  In biology I just laughed with one of my new friends. We had fourth lunch and weren't hungry so we skipped lunch and we worked on our huge pile of projects, papers, and homework.  

My friends wanted me to go to our last home football game of the season, but I went with my family to a fall festival party for autistic kids and their families. We left early because my brother wanted to leave but I think he had fun.:)

 I have some pictures to share from this week...

My brother decorated this cookie:)

My grandparents from 8 hours away are visiting so I'm going to hang out with them now.(:

Weekends full of sleeping in and no homework,

 

Geometry, how you loathe me..

Dear Geometry, 
I am so sorry that I am failing you. I'm trying, I really am. I know you want an explanation as to why I am failing the tests and quizzes over you.So here it goes.
1) Budget Cuts. The school has had cut funding into little tiny pieces, so that results in my class having, oh I don't know.. almost 40 students!?! That results in my class having loads of kids who are loud and distract the ones who want to learn about you from doing so.
2) My teacher is completely insane.I mean she's nice and all, but she never really teaches us anything. She never explains you fully and she can't control the 37 or so teenagers that are in her class, and I can't expect her to. 
3) My dad who knows a lot about math, can't explain you. Neither can my mom who really liked Geometry back in high school. 


I have a friend at church who's offered to help me retake and pass your exams tomorrow before bible study. She had you last year and she tells me that you and her are tight.With her as my translator, I'm sure we can become buddies.
Sincerly, 
Rebecca

Yoga is really hard to do with the confusion of Geometry over me. Let's be friends, yes?




It took me forever to get that shot. Here are some silly mess-ups...hahaha:)

I rarely ever shoot posed shots but I thought this could convey my frustration better than my words.


School isn't all bad... Today in aerobics, we did pilates which was hard, but my teacher let us take a ten minute nap.I kid you not. He let us all lay down on the mats and turned the lights off and let us rest. It was great.I halfway fell asleep and was reliving my days at camp.:)


After that we had study hall. But I had to go with my fellow sophomores to a "class meeting" with the principal. We have a new principal this year and he is a hypocrite and I don't like him. He talks at us like immature children, he has no sense of humor, never smiles and has the nerve to tell us to not use our phones during school hours then answers his phone after the meeting. I mean really?! Great example your setting for the student body....


That meeting also ruined my chances of making up one of my failed geometry tests.I did make up the quiz though and think I really improved my score.:)


I am looking forward to getting this crazy week over with, so much is happening and I have lots to take care of before the quarter ends. I hope you all are doing well, have a good week!:)