Even Children Get Older: Back To School Edition!

If only my hair would grow out of my head like this.

Hey there kids! 
Think of this as a general catch-up/inspiration/back-to-school post.
Next week marks the last first day of school for me, because I am going to be a SENIOR. OH HELL YES. So naturally, I have to go all out this year in order to make up for me spending the past three years with zero school spirit, and go to homecoming, go to prom, and actually dress well for school every morning! Right now I'm really into Harajuku street style, watching iCarly nonstop, tons of cutesy accessories, and anything that will make me look remotely like Luna Lovegood.

I love strawberry anything.

Going to summer camp this year gave me some great incentive, because NO ONE can resist talking to you when you look like this:

Me in Times Square in front of the GIANT Toys R Us where I bought a collector K-Stew Barbie doll! THEY HAVE THOSE NOW.

The day I saw two Broadway shows at camp. My outfit was so cute, I couldn't just go to one show!

That's right, readers. I got pink hair. I have been trolling this website for AGES trying to muster up the courage to buy a wig in a crazy color, and I finally have the hair of my dreams! At least, whenever I feel like wearing it. I cut my actual hair really short so it would fit better, and because I am so lazy with hair that is attached to my head. Go figure. So now I want to buy ten more wigs to suit my mood. I just applied for a local job, so that will be my first purchase with my first paycheck! I can't wait to freak out all of the little freshman when I wear it to school.

Also, I just found out a few hours ago ModCloth is having a HUGE sale right now via one of my favorite bloggers, so I flipped out and bought these fabulous platform sandals for only $23! For that store, 70% off anything is SO rare I had to buy it, plus it was the last in stock AND it was in my (huge) size!!! I totally just earned major hipster status here ladies. I want to wear them with my many socks and tights this fall.

I've also been DIY-ing the hell out of my school notebooks, and I got a Little Mermaid backpack from Toys R Us, because that is where all the awesome kids buy their backpacks now. The next time I get the DIY bug or the Etsy bug, I am sooo getting collar tips. They're like little hardware you put on your collars like jewelry! Too bad I swore off collared shirts when I cut my hair short a while ago, before I considered wigs. Collared shirts and short hair are weird on me. Anyway, CUTENESS:

Anyway, good luck to all those going back to school! And listen to this band. You will never go back to other music-things. Trust me.

Love to all my lovelies!

Allie

♥

I Am Totally Not Obsessed With Kristen Stewart...

K-Stew, with some hair in her eyes.

This is a whole Tumblr craze. Like, the only thing on Tumblr I ever check up on.

Not tomboy-ish, but still acceptable.

Aw, there's that tomboy-ish-ness!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 But... I totally am.

How can you not love this shrug/smile? HOW? IT IS PRECIOUS.

I even love Kristen enough to make fun of her. Like this. But you can make up for it by looking at these.

Her awkwardness is what makes her adorable! Have any of you even bothered to see The Runaways? If you haven't seen Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie and Kristen as Joan Jett, you have no license whatsoever to diss K-Stew. You WILL wish you were Dakota Fanning, because you get to have like 100 scenes with Kristen Stewart. And you get to kiss her on the face. WATCH IT NOW.

YUP.

BUT YOU GUYS, I saw Snow White and the Huntsman! Snow White did NOT have enough lines. I mean, you get KRISTEN STEWART in your movie and you don't give her any lines?! Not even any opportunities to awkwardly flip her hair and stutter while staring at the ground?! TOTAL FAILURE. Chris Hemsworth wasn't even that hot in the movie. He is like the epitome of hotness, Mr. Director Man. He was WAY WAY hotter as Thor. My favorite part of SWATH (that's an odd abbreviation you guys) was Florence + the Machine's song in the credits.

Every time I watch Twilight, I must resist the urge to push my television into my fireplace, because Edward Cullen is like the creep-master. At least Jacob's not that annoying. Renesmee is like the creepiest kid ever. 'Nuff said. Bella should just get together with Alice already. I mean, did you see Breaking Dawn Part I? There are like millions of fan-fictions that ship this stuff. No one plans an entire wedding for K-Stew without wishing they were in it.

Oh yeah, they're making On the Road by Jack Kerouac into a movie with K-Stew. My advice? Don't read it just because of K-Stew. It was literally the worst book report I ever had to write. You dang 1940's nonconformists!

Later, gatorettes! I've got a summer vacation to enjoy!

Yay! This exists too!

School's (Nearly) Out For Summer! Plus, Silly Dogs!

They see me rollin'... In my car that I cannot drive yet even though I'm almost 17... Yeah, I'm proactive you guys.

Hey, you little pretties out there! It's SUMMER VACATION!!! Well, technically I have one more test for tomorrow morning, but it's SO EASY compared to all the AP exams I took earlier this spring. Then it's really summer vacation! I can blog, like, all the time now, dudettes! HA! I can tell you of all the crazy things I have up my sleeve too, so stay tuned!

I thought I'd leave ya'll with a little summer vacation music too. It's not all happy though, because as I near graduation for next year, it's kind of hitting me that everything is changing. Like WAY too fast... I guess it's in a good way, but still! *whine.* When your thirteen-year-old cousin friends you on Facebook, you start to feel OLD. *sigh.*

Until next time, enjoy these happy/sad summer tunes, y'all. Try not to get your tears on your laptop. Go cry in your pool or something.

Everybody's Changing

Ch ch ch changes!

Yay! Silly Dog Number 2!! They see me flyin'...

P.S. My cat is snoring, because I'm blogging from  my new art desk in the basement... She is SO LOUD. And obese. Meh.

Spent A Week In A Dusty Library

I love libraries, even though reading anything non-Harry Potter pains me. This was taken on a recent college visit to Wells, and their library is PERFECT. Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card!

This past week was my school's spring break! Cue collapsing party balconies and hot tub diseases.  HAR HAR HAR, no. (Never google "spring break.") Kiddies, that is not my style. For me, spring break is the last break before finalsAPexamsregentsohmy! HA, like I ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT NON-ART/ENGLISH RELATED CLASSES. No, no, my friends. This is how I spent my spring break, in no particular order:

HOOHOOHAHA LIKE THAT VIDEO WAS MY SPRING BREAK. I wish. No, no, this is just a favorite song of mine called "French Navy" by Camera Obscura. I've definitely been feeling the airy, sunny, run through the city in fabulously sixties dresses past every single flower shop that ever existed vibe lately. Plus, kissing. Ew. NOPE. This is how I really spent my spring break:

1) I went to see the Hunger Games

The wardrobe in that movie made me want to kill people. The way Suzanne Collins described Katniss' varying fire-related outfits was stupendous, in the book. Like, a simple black jumpsuit on fire. And a red dress on fire. And a yellow dress that looks like a candle or something. WOW. But NAW. It was like a bad cross between eighties Star Wars and Miss America.

1. Why is this #1 here? What the hell is going on with this formatting?! ANYWAY...
   

   

   "My bejeweled arms will certainly remind everyone of my bangin' archery skills. As long as Peeta doesn't profess his love for me or anything. That would be badly timed, and would make me look weaker than this dress already does. Hey, I wonder where I can find a glass table to smash him into if he does. You know, prove my toughness. Because I'm always prepared, you guys."

   

   "WHOA you guys. When did I start looking like Princess Leia?!"

   

   "Yeah, when, you witch-with-a capital-B?!"

   Effie Trinket looked really scary, like she was 1,000 years old or something and just discovered Forever 21. Why did Cinna look like a Backstreet Boy? Why did Peeta's hair look so bad?
   
   

   

   "Everything is a dollar in here! And it's such good quality! No more Claire's for me!"

   

   Truer words have never been meme-ed.

   

   "My bad hair will certainly woo Katniss! Go me!"

   
   

   

   "Shhh, don't resist the fact that I am the best Backstreet Boy Ever."

    It was like a bad 2008 neon skinny jeans Jonas Brothers fashion moment. Like the days in 8th grade when how cool you were was measured by how many different colored pairs of skinny jeans you owned. ONE. And I still wear them when I'm too lazy to wear real pants.
   
   
    
   I love the Jonas Brothers. What was I talking about again? Oh yeah!

    

   2) I went to the Salvation Army in New Paltz, New York

   
   
   New Paltz is this great hippie town near where I live, and we went on a college visit there and then went shopping at the SalVal! I got a Hawaiian shirt for tying, two maxi-dresses for hot days, a pink cowboy shirt for tying, and OVERALLS. YAY! I have been looking for overalls forever! They're shorts, and I'm just dying to do a photoshoot with them soon! They match my wardrobe perfectly, and look adorable with pink and purple girliness! Whee! I'm pretty sure it's going to be really hot this coming week, so perfect!
   After that we went to this pizza place that was straight out of a teen-indie movie. They had pinball machines! I played Attack From Mars! How indie movie is THAT? They even had Miss Pac Man. I love New Paltz, but I think I would get bored doing such teen-indie things all the time in college. I have an intense need to be a tourist at Toys R Us in Times Square! I NEED to ride the ferris wheel in there again! MAN.
   
   

   3) I realized, with horror, that those without Windows 7 see my blog titles in COMIC SANS. 

   
   Oh dear god no. That's like every artist's nightmare. What I see is this awesome ice-cream parlor swirly lettering. I am sorry. Get Windows 7. It's nice!
   
   

   4) I prepared for my Junior Prom, which is this Friday!

   

   I thought about asking someone to prom, but how can anyone in high school dance as well as I? It's impossible! Plus, my glitter perfume (yes, I do own that) would outshine anyone I asked in a most unfair manner.

   I bought Katy Perry's (my idol, minus the divorcing Russel Brand part) false eyelashes, sparkly hairclips from Forever 21, practiced my entrance walk in my pink heels (I never wear heels. Or roller skates, for that matter), and sprayed glitter perfume all over my body. This week, my mom is going to twist my hair into a big curly girly afro, and I'm going to paint my nails blue. Now that I think of it, my description actually sounds like Effie Trinket. Ha! Don't worry, beauties, it'll be much more fabulous than that! I'm going to try and do a whole prom post soon, so don't fret! I even got contact lenses.
   
   

   5) We had an Easter egg hunt

   Even though it's just me and my twin sister participating, and we are 16, and I don't even like chocolate eggs, we do one every year! As we get older, we get increasingly violent. Plus, the hunt only lasts about 15 minutes, with Maia and I running around our house at full speed, threatening each other and running accidentally into walls. We also shove each other, and I usually fall, and on the way down I usually see another plastic egg, sometimes from the previous year. Except my mom accidentally bought tropical Starburst jelly beans, and they're not as good as the original kind, which is our house's Easter Specialty. We also dyed eggs, and my science-geek sister made Albert Einstein!
   

   

   He has a cotton ball for hair! So cute!

   6) I watched Bridesmaids with my sister

   I was surprised at how much heart the movie had, since it was a comedy! I love Maya Rudolph. The Irish cop guy was ADORABLE. Also, the story was really relatable. Every girl needs a friend like the crazy sister-in-law Megan. Everyone.
   
   
   
   
   

   7) I also did a bunch of pen&inks for my portfolio!

   I think they came out great, but I don't like posting pictures of my art online, for fear people will copy it or something. Guh. But I was inspired by 50's horror movies, CSI, Adventure Time, and FRUiTS magazine, so paint a mental picture.
   
   I also watched a lot of Zoey 101 and Degrassi. I want to go to PCA! *Sigh* I also ate a lot of ice cream. Strawberry by Edy's is DA BOMB. Well, three cheers to warm weather this week, plus prom! Enjoy the last vestages of spring break, and read the new 17 magazine with Chloe Mortez to be inspired for summer for the rest of the school year! I really must get out on that hammock...
   
   What, you want more library-childhood-esque songs to carry you into this delightful springtime? Oh, all right. "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane it is!
   
   
   Kisses and glitter, my friend!
   

   

   My pet unicorn is a beast.

   
   

Forgive The Kids, For They Don't Know How To Live

Arthur and Naomi Quinn from Arthur, which you simply must see! Great montages, and Helen Mirren is fantastic. I WANT TO BE NAOMI QUINN. She gives illegal tours of Grand Central Station and illustrates kids books! I am going to watch this again before I got to art camp in the city this summer for inspiration. I will also spend about 60% of my time there looking for Arthur, and getting him to fall in love with me. Particularly the Russel Brand aspect of Arthur. Yes, that is precisely what I am going to do.

 

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I am an artist. Really! I'm going to go to school for it and everything! I'm partial to collages and pastel portraits, and pen and ink vignettes, and illustrations. But art isn't just something you DO. It's something that IS. Not just on flat squares or roped off sections in galleries. It's everywhere! THAT is why I'm going to be an animator! I'd rather watch a movie than read a book (UGH trying to finish Hunger Games before I see the movie... but nothing will ever replace Harry Potter! LUNA LOVEGOOD AND NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM 4EVAHHH) or go to a gallery anyways, because you're literally watching every element of the artist's thoughts/message. All at once! Books and art combined! Plus music! Oh god music. These are my favorites lately. I like these for the music AND the videos, so watch these before you read my synopses. No lazy, "I am too lazy to watch these so I will just read the crazy girl's ramblings and then go eat a taco while updating facebook." Take the time out of your day to go on my musical odyssey of sorts with me! (Except, perhaps, you might want to widescreen these, since they're so tiny on my blog! Also, forgive the formatting, it got pretty weird on this one.)You won't be sorry!  
Here is my ode to the music video:

1. St. Vincent - Cruel, and Cheerleader

The videos for these make the songs a lot more dimensional. Proves my point! IT'S LITERALLY IN AN ART GALLERY. YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN? YES. YES YOU DO. You can see it, instead of just listen! Yay! Cheerleader is just so scary and also beautiful. I love the reactions on the people's faces. They look so bored and judgmental. No one goes to help her when she falls either. She doesn't want to be a cheerleader (metaphor for a perfect girl in today's age I think) anymore, but no one listens, because of all of the things she's done that make her look shallow. The lyrics are SO AMAZING too. Listen to what she's saying/thinks of herself! This is like a literal nightmare mixed with a real-life nightmare. Fear of falling apart both literally and figuratively. Plus, the camera work in this gives you a real perspective on her supposed giant-ness. Yay! Tall girls unite! Wait, that's not what she intended? DARN. *Wears heels to prom anyway because I JUST DON'T WANT TO BE A CHEERLEADER NO MORE NOOOOO*


But wait! Cruel is just lovely. I love the beginning when she's looking over her shoulder at the girl in the wheelchair. Kind of like a "should I look or should I look away?" moment. Like in Girl by Beck, when the homeless man's sign says "Look Away." That's another great video. This family's literally captured the mother, and they BURY HER when she messes up! In real world parallel, a woman's family has taken her captive! They're cruel to her! They don't appreciate her, and they KILL HER for it. Plus, she has high waist-ed pants. EXTRA BONUS POINTS FOR FASHION!Yayy! I'm too lazy to wash mine. BOO.


More St. Vincent, you ask? I KNOW. SHE'S BRILLIANT. Check out "Actor Out of Work" for some intense-crazy (whoa that blond chiseled guy can CRY), and "Marrow" for some super cool camera-ness. ♥♥♥

2. Miike Snow - The Wave

This one is THE GREATEST random videos I EVER FOUND. The drums in the beginning remind me of Recess, the BEST CARTOON EVER of the early 2000s, which I hope to emulate in my future career as an animator. You know, playgrounds and dead grass, and WHAAA DEAD KIDS ON THE MERRY GO ROUND. NOT LIKE RECESS AT ALL. No, they aren't sleeping. [Since the aliens did it, it reminds me of Super 8, one of my favorite movies of all time! WATCH IT TODAY. The movie director kid is just like me, except tubbier and more annoying. Haha, no. No one could ever be more annoying than I. Plus, Elle Fanning!] ANYWAY. The cops look all sad and bewildered with their doughnuts and coffee. NO, they don't really give a shit, because they pick up all the little dead kiddies themselves and then bury them, and then resume their doughnuts and coffee. Isn't there like a coroner or some crap to do that? This probably isn't the first time this has happened in that town! BUT LOOK AT THE ALIENS. I love those dudes! Their cute little high heels and their black bob hair (Berries and Cream guy from the skittles commercials anyone? Another one to look up! That's like my entire eighth grade right there). And their noses! I love big noses. And their shirtless-ness! I bet they're chiseled from all that running on deserted stretches of interstate. When he waves to his friend in the grass, I LOVE the part when he starts running. I don't know, but I think it's the focus-y camera thing again. Maybe they're running away from something? GAH, why are shirtless aliens in black leather gloves and pants so adorable to me? AND WHEN THEY SING TO THE COPS (which btw, is the best part of the song and you will surely be singing this while raiding your freezer for goodies tonight and probably freaking out your cats) THEY ARE SO FUNNY. It's like a student-made movie or something! Clearly the cops love it too, as evidenced by their reckless gun shooting. LOVE IT. COPS COPS COPS. And the skipping running thing in the middle of the road is SO me. Like, I would do that, and totally get hit by a car while singing this song (probably my sister's car, since WE BOTH GOT OUR LEARNER'S PERMITS!!! I CAN DRIVE TO ART CLASS NOW! YEAH! I always sing the Need For Speed song whenever I drive, which my dad points out to me as worrying. WELL ME AND MY SISTER LIKE IT. We mix the chorus with Kumbaya. That and the window to the wall song. YEAH.) And then a random house smashes in the middle of everything. I bet it was Dorothy's house from the Wizard of Oz. DARN IT DOROTHY. YOU RUIN EVERYTHING. Okay, so, start loving Miike Snow NOW, and also STARE AT THE WAVE. ♥♥♥

3. Dry the River - The Chambers & The Valves

This song is 100% me. My room looks like this video. Which is why I'm going to throw a HUGE PARTY IN IT and only invite those who took the time to read this far! Teehee, anyway. The first line is adorable! Where does love come from!? The premise of the video is all of these monster friends getting together to have a party, after being sick of their boring lives. The styling of the whole thing (cloudy weather, drug stores, boring jobs and bored people) is really fun with monsters. The devil guy is like me, who often gets fed up with doing dishes and calls his friends to host a human-themed party every now and again. THE COSTUMES. The skeleton is my favorite. I love how forlorn he looks when he buys his shampoo! I really want to dress up as a skeleton for Halloween now. The werewolf guy is AWESOME. He reminds me of a jock pizza delivery guy for some reason. Letter jacket! For monster highschool? HA, I AM SO NERDY. I NEED HIS BIKE. It's so nerdy. The mummy's cute too. Their masks are actually their real faces! COOL! There's some more running in the street! YEAH! But in slo-mo! YEAH! Their party is so paradoxical on real people. REAL PEOPLE DON'T EAT MINI HOT DOGS AND JELLO CUBES ANYMORE. Teehee! I wish we did though. And their fireworks are totally illegal, yet still fun! Yay! I wish they would play this song at prom, since it is the perfect skipping/twirling song. I tested it with my perfect twirling/skipping dress. But our school will only play Rihanna and dubstep. Or dump-step, as my dad calls it. But not Nyan Cat, which is the best dub-steppy song out there. Only stupid WUMP WUMP WUMP allll night. Guh. Dry the River is muchos betteros than that! So turn up your speakers and twirl around your room while you listen to this one! Disco balls and sixties school dances! Hold me tight! Tell me I'm the only one! Tonight! Tonight! Let me go on loving you! (If you haven't gotten the Beatles' Hold Me Tight reference by now, shoot yourself in the leg right now. Now! No, please don't actually. That would be sad.)

Well, I hope you've enjoyed these music choices for this spring! It's SO GREEN outside where I am right now. I woke up with crazy allergies. BEH.

Music videos are my favorite thing ever. Reading this post and LOVING IT reaffirms, that yes, you are indeed a hipster. Which is grand! Hipster = 100% okay with being you, and not caring at all what people think of you, or your musical stylings. Make some art, or make some videos, you guys! We need more stuff out there like this! What music/videos would you recommend for me? Comment below!

Plus, an un-intended DIY for personalized Ray Ban plastic glasses. Dye your hair red with henna, and wear your glasses while it's on your head. The stem-things will turn gold, and the little logo looks SO COOL. Like ombre-gold. YAY! But maybe don't do this if your glasses were REALLY expensive. Yeah. MY HEAD SPARKLES RED in sunlight! YEAH!


May the odds be ever in your favor! xoxo

Is the Mouse Mightier Than the Pen?

This is my dog, Hailey, reacting to the title of this post. She doesn't agree. She also likes bacon. And you, judging by the way she's leaping out from your computer screen.

The pen is, in fact, still mightier that the mouse. At least, to me it is.
Let me clarify, for those reading the title and being stared down by my dog and wondering, "What in the name of Super Bowl 2012 (GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS) is she talking about?"
I think that taking the time to write things out in a magazine, blog, diary, or newspaper trumps spitting out little blurbs of your thoughts or inspirations on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or Tumblr. A lot of this sentiment probably came from the fact that my sister just came back from the supermarket and bought me the latest Nylon Magazine! THANKS, SISTER O' MINE! Anyway, nothing beats having crisp and colorful pages physically in your fingers!

So I think I want to start a 'zine. (No, not a full-fledged magazine, just an on-the-computer Microsoft Publisher printed-on-my-library's-printer and so-not-even-legit 'zine.) I'm tired of reading all of these hipster blogs saying, "YO LOOK AT ME AND MY 'ZINE. IT'S MAD BETTER THAN YOURS. ALSO LISTEN TO THIS BAND YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF.

DID YOU EVER HEAR OF 'COMPUTER MAGIC?' YEAH, I BET YOU DIDN'T, BECAUSE THIS IS THE BAND YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF." [Side note: I actually really like this band! You should too. Even though your non-hipster friends/family will probably make fun of you for it. THROW CAUTION TO THE WIND AND DANCE LIKE A ROBOT NOW.]

BACK TO 'ZINES NOW. Sorry, I got distracted by the glittery outer space purple wonder of it all! I do that a lot judging by the way I redecorated my bedroom:

*embarassed that I cannot find the huge folder of pictures I took of my room*

It's pink, blue and purple with a outer space ceiling and glow-in-the-dark stars. VISUALIZE IT.

REALLY BACK TO 'ZINES NOW. I love to write, and I love taking pictures, judging by the fact that I'm writing a book, writing a diary, and writing this! MOOHOOHAHA, so yes, 'zines. I want to make it very artistic, with sketches, collage work, editorials, my pictures, and music playlists. Something I could put in my portfolio! You know, that thing in my living room that needs SO MUCH MORE ART IN IT FOR ART COLLEGE AND THAT SUMMER PROGRAM IN NEW YORK CITY I MIGHT GO TO DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED, YOU GUYS.

Over the next few weeks, I'll certainly be a-workin' on this 'zine as hard as I can, so if you want a copy, just ask! You know, comment, email, throw a rock through my window, whatever! I might make you pay, if it turns out good enough... AGAIN, MOOHOOHAHA!

Onto other news, very very random news.

Pictures that make me giggle:

This is the "college freshman" meme, which will probably TOTALLY be me when I go to college. Or prom. Or anything that involves partying remotely. I AM UNCOOL. LET US REVEL IN OUR UNCOOLNESS, FRIENDS. AGAIN, LET US DANCE LIKE ROBOTS TO OUR LAPTOPS.

Y U NO guy meme, which would be an appropriate response to this post!

60's Spiderman meme, which is just SO SO rad. This is the cleanest version of the meme I could find, and fits my reaction to to most things I encounter. Just you know, LIKE EVERYTHING.

Well friends, I have to clean my room (LAME I KNOW. GET OFF MY BACK. I READ TWILIGHT. IS THAT LAME ENOUGH FOR YOU?), get ready for Super Bowl Sunday (GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS), and make my 'zine!!!

xoxo, Allie

Don't forget to watch Zooey Deschanel next weekend hosting Saturday Night Live, darlings! Or, you know, I might set this girl (actually the meme-version of Neil DeGrasse-Tyson, which has been brutally defaced) on your tail:

BECAUSE I CAN.

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger! I Swear It!

Vintage toy cars I found in a thrift store in New Paltz, NY!

This song came on the radio this morning on the way to school, and I nearly crashed into a tree exclaimed in righteousness to my surrounding passengers.
You know, it's a good thing I DON'T drive. If I could drive, there would be a lot of flat trees. Like every time my favorite song comes on the radio. Which is like EVERY SONG, because I am a sixteen year old girl, and am SO SO addicted to pop music. (OH HEY THERE KATY PERRY. HOW'S IT HANGING PIXIE LOTT? I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE KELLY CLARKSON!) But I can't. So I won't.

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!
Stand a little taller!
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone!"
-Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger) by Kelly Clarkson
Anyway, this song fits my life PERFECTLY. And probably yours too. There's always that ONE person who you used to let chop you down, but now you jump up and down on your bed in your jammies dancing along to this song and ripping up their yearbook portrait you took the time to photocopy and enlarge to poster-size complete with a superimposed uni-brow and a devil's tail.
I say, take that unwarranted and undeserved heartbreak and turn it into something great! Like inspiration! A book! A play! A blog! See where I'm going with this? And if you're not ready for that "something great," forget Valentines Day, and buy a box of chocolate for yourself, a box of fun hair dye, and Tivo (does anyone even do that anymore?) some America's Next Top Model indie movie that sounds cool and totally not mainstream/trashy. Yeah, that one. Yup.
IT'S TIME FOR ME-TIME, DUDES AND DUDETTES!
Listen to this song. Dance. Yell the lyrics into a hairbrush. Cry a little into a jar of Nutella. Deduce that the tears-to-Nutella ratio is SO off now, and you now are being forced to eat several more tablespoons to even it out. And since that involved ratios, it SO counts as studying for tomorrow's math quiz. Start doing Physics homework and then stop, because American Idol is on. Repeat.

Busy Living Out Here in the Real World. It's Nice. It Has Show Tunes!

Today I deactivated my Facebook account. Okay, okay, I can hear some of you guys gasping in horror at the prospect of being OFFLINE. Untraceable. It's not that I check Facebook like, between the brushes of my teeth. I don't troll all over the profiles of people I don't know. I don't start Facebook fights or anything. I like Facebook, I think Zuckerberg's all right. I really do!

It's the way Facebook takes away a part of the motivation we have to interact with one another. Instead of formally introducing yourself to that cool-looking dude you met in your art class, you feel compelled to find out everything there is to know about him through the internet, before you even speak to him. It's okay to randomly stop answering a friend when chatting online, because, "It's not like I was on the phone or anything. They can't tell that I don't want to talk to them anymore." No, my friends. This is not the way it should be.

Tell me you wouldn't be floored if someone asked you for your phone number, and actually called to talk to you, just to talk? So, I think I kinda want to be that person.

I don't like what Facebook does to my perception of my friends. How a comment here or there makes me want to give up on them, even if it wasn't even directed at me! I think we should all drop the computer keys that separate all of us and actually hang out in person. It doesn't have to be anything formal, or anything planned, it just has to be real. We need to go back to the days when we were kids, and would just leave the house a noon and spend the entire day having wild adventures with all kinds of friends.

I'm not taking the excuse that I'll become out-of-touch. Because the people that truly matter I'll see in school, at home, on the weekends, and at family gatherings.

Plus, all that time I used to use on Facebook, I can use blogging to you all out here! Stay tuned this winter/spring for a whole heaping of stuff on my thoughts on everything.

Including a WHOLE LOT on my upcoming junior prom. YEAH, GET READY.

Junior year really is THE WORST time to be getting hung up on all of this social drama. Now's the time to be polishing your portfolio for art college! Telling your friends how much they mean to you (OH HEY THERE FRIENDS. SHOUT-OUT [Oh wow spell-check, thank you for alerting me to the fact that I could have spelled that "shootout." Because that's exactly what I was talking about. NOPE.]
TO YOU GUYS. OR SOMETHING)!

If you are a teenager of the 21st century and you don't know who these people are, you must have JUST FALLEN DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS. LIKE, WHILE READING THESE VERY WORDS.

Reorganizing your room to fit the Lego palace you just built! Learn how to drive! Write a book! Get back into photography! *gasps at the realization of all the things I have gotten behind on because of Facebook*

If you're fed up like I am, and really just want to live life, without all the little insecurities and time wasters, JUST DEACTIVATE IT. You can come back to it later if you miss it! But I promise you, you will not regret it! Think of it like a vacation, where you'll be amassing a huge collection of stories and adventures that you can totally use to impress your next date.

JUST DO IT BROS. RIGHT NOW is the time to live your life! Before you get tied down by work and boyfriends and girlfriends and college and responsibility.

You'll be hearing from me again REAL SOON DUDES.

Peace and Tacos,

That girl who's not on Facebook anymore, who probably should have been doing her Physics homework right now, but Glee (OMG MJ EPISODE WAS SO AMAZING. ARTIE WALKED. WHAT. OH MY GOSH CRAZY.) was on, and Pretty Little Liars (Toby is SO SO UGLY. LIKE, SPENCER, YOU CAN DO BETTER. AND ARIA, THAT TEACHER GUY IS CREEPY.) taped, and well, no. Just no.

Livin' it up at Applebees: Talledega Nights' style, absolutely disgusting strawberry limeade in hand. Stupid waitress.