Bittersweet news: The Oscars

Okay.
So, most of you (hopefully) know that The Dark Knight is my favorite movie, right?
Well, I was browsing around on the internet today, and I found the one and only Oscar nominations! I like watching things like the Oscars, Golden Globes, and People's Choice Awards, okay?

Anyway, I was looking through it, and I gasped three times total. One was happy, and two were shocked and not-so-happy.

Let's start with the shocked, not-so-happy gasps:

1) The Dark Knight got SNUBBED! It didn't get nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, or Best Adapted Screenplay. I'm not the only one shocked here. Many others are, too.

2) Leonardo DiCaprio didn't get nominated for his role in Revolutionary Road! I mean, I never saw the movie, but it's Leonardo DiCaprio. He's one of my favorite actors!

So yeah.

Let me add before I go on. The Dark Knight kind of recieved some nominations. Just not any of the cool ones like Best Movie and Best Director. It got nominated for things like:
Best Cinematography - Wally Pfister
Best Art Direction - Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
Best Film Editing - Lee Smith
Best Makeup - John Caglione Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
Best Sound Editing - Richard King
Best Sound Mixing - Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, and Ed Novick
Best Visual Effects - Nick Davis, Christ Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin

So, I guess that's eight nominations (counting the one below), which puts the movie in third place for most nominations (Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionair have 13 and 10, plus Milk also has eight). But still, it makes me (and many others) mad that it wasn't nominated for Best Picture or at least Best Director. Hopefully it'll win some of the above awards, though. :)

Now, my one happy, joyful gasp:

1) Heath Ledger got nominated for Best Supporting Actor in The Dark Knight as the Joker. :)

Today is the one-year anneversary of Heath's death, and his nomination was also announced today, which is kind of ironic.

Well, I guess that's all.

My Life is Now Complete. :)

Okay. So there's this cool blog called Cartoonize the World (http://cartoonizetheworld.blogspot.com/). They cartoonize people. They're a fairly new blog, but are becoming very popular. Some faces they've cartoonized: Barack Obama, Robert Pattinson, Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliff, George W. Bush, Kristen Stewart, and many more. But today, they Cartoonize the World made me very happy by cartoonizing the one and only David Archuleta.

So, yeah.
They have a neat little schedule going on that decides who they cartoonize:

Monday: Music
Tuesday: Random male celebrity
Wednesday: ANY
Thursday: Harry Potter cast member
Friday: Politics / World Leaders
Saturday: Random female Celebrity
Sunday: Twilight cast member

Today is Monday, so they did music, which means David Archuleta. :)
Anyway, you should go check out their site. :)

Okay, moving on.

I had to babysit yesterday. :) My neighbor has this sweet little baby girl, Fayette, who is eleven months old. She turns one in February (in case you didn't want to do the math). But I went over there yesterday and Faye was in her cute pink pajamas and playing and stuff. So, after they left, I gave her a bottle and she just sat on the floor and played. And then I put her down for a nap and she slept the rest of the time. :P So I got bored and watched Batman Begins, because there was nothing else to do.

So, yeah.

Oh, dang. We go back to school tomorrow. I don't want to go to school tomorrow. :( Can't May just be here already?

I'm really excited for May. :)
Wanna know why?
1) It'll start warming up.
2) Cassie's baby girl will be born
3) Laeci's baby boy will be born
4) School will be out
5) Summer will start
6) My brother will turn ten
7) I will have the Twilight DVD by then (it comes out in March!!!)
8) New Moon filming will have started (starting in March!!!)
9) It'll only be six months until I turn fifteen. :)
10) It'll be only six months until my blog is on year old.

Wow. I came up with ten things. I'm so proud of myself. :)

So, I guess that's all.
Bye!

David Archuleta CD

Let me tell you something. My friend Ashley is so nice. :) I've been bugging her for the past week if I could borrow her David Archuleta CD. And guess what she did. She lent it to me for the weekend! :)

Right now I'm listening to Your Eyes Don't Lie. It's okay so far. Not my favorite, though. My favorites are probably Crush (which isn't new), Angels (also not new), and Touch My Hand (New!).

Can't let the music stop
Can't let this feeling end
Cause if I do it will all be over
I'll never see you again

Can't let the music stop
Until I touch your hand
Cause if I do it will all be over
I'll never get the chance again
I'll never get the chance again

Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm listening to Touch My Hand again. The lyrics and stuff are okay, but I REALLY love the music. No idea why. I suggest you listen to the song.

Anyway, I think that's all. :)

Secend Semester!

The second semester started yesterday. So much fun. :) I had only one new class, which was Peer Leaders.

Today I had TWO new classes!!!! Keyboarding (ick) and Foods (yay!). I have Keyboarding with Janessa, and Foods with AC, Devyn, Courtney... So yeah. Except AC isn't exactly in the class, he's just the TA.
AC the TA.
Haha. That's funny.
Um... so yeah. O.o

GUESS WHAT!!!! I HAVE AMAZING NEWS!!!!!!

My oldest sister Cassie (the one who got married in August) is pregnant. Of course, I already knew that. But we found out what the baby is! :)
Guess.
Nevermind. I'll tell you. Because I'm so excited. It's a girl!!

She already has two little boys, so a girl is just what she needs. :)

She's due May 31st. So it'll be a little May baby. :)

And, guess what. My best friend, Megan, who I've known FOREVER (seriously. i was like a week old when we met, and she was 2 days old), her sister Laeci is having a baby in May, too. But she's having a boy, and is due May 14th. :) The baby boy will most likely have red hair, because his dad Jared had the reddest hair ever. :P

Anyway. That's all for now, I guess.
Bye! ♥

Fancy food and Taylor Lautner

Okay. Today in Creative Writing, we went to a fancy restaurant, because we have to write a review. Anyway, it was really fun. Janessa was there, and Lizzie was there... so yeah. I sat by Holly and Marie and Kylie and Mckena and Robyn, and then AC came over and sat at the empty seat by me. And then Mckena drank five glasses of sparkling cranberry juice, and I swear she got drunk off of it... she was acting kind of loopy.

And then, we saw this waitor, who's nametag said he was Luke. And when I saw him, I immediately thought of Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob Black in the Twilight movie. They just look so much alike. So I turn to Mckena to tell her and she automaticly says, "He's cute, huh?" And I agree and say, "He kind of looks like Taylor Lautner." And Mckena goes, "HE DOES!" So then for the rest of them time she was trying to get a picture of him on her phone, but it didn't work, to her dismay.


And then AC was all like, "He looks like who?" And I said, "Taylor Lautner." Of course, he had no clue who that was. So I said, "Jacob Black in the movie." And he immediately knew. Because AC read Twilight. But he hated it, and refused to see the movie. >:(

And then, sadly, we had to leave the restaurant and go back to school. I got stuck in the back, which sucked. Any other time, I'm perfectly fine with the back. But not when it's my Creative Writing class in the back. Because then it's loud and makes me crabby. >:(

And then Mckena and Nikki started a snowball fight... on the bus. Mckena opened the bus window, reached up on the roof, and grabbed snow. Mr Brooks didn't notice at all, of course. So snow was being thrown around, and it eventually (of course) landed on me. COLD.

When we got back to school, the bell had already rang. Holly, Marie, and I all missed the bus. Which was okay. I just called my mom and she gave us all a ride.

That's all. :)

2009!

*drumroll*

My first post of 2009.

Yay!!

Okay. Moving on.

I'm watching Jumanji right now. I haven't watched it since I was like eight, but it was on tv and I thought it'd be worth it. It's a fun movie, but it still scares that crap out of me. I had to change the channel during the bat part in the begining. I mean, if I had watched it, I probably would have realized that it wasn't that scary, but my little eight-year-old self inside of me was reminding me of how terrified I was of the bats back then, so I quickly changed the channel. When I went back, it was at the part where the Allen kid was getting sucked into the game, and I changed the channel again when his fingers started going all wierd, because my little eight-year-old self decided to pipe up again.

I'm watching it again now, telling my eight-year-old self to shut up, because I'm watching the movie no matter what.

Jeez. I sound insane.

Anyway, it's at the part where Allen comes back when the kid roles a five or an eight (can't remember which), and he just jumped on the cop car and is like, "What year is it?".

So, yeah.

Now the monkeys are in the cop car.

Okay, I'll shut up now.

There's nothing more really to say, I just wanted to make my first post of 2009. :)

Bye!