Happy late Easter!

Hope everyone had a good Easter weekend! I know I did. :) Nothing but relaxing at home. I even watched a bit of General Confrence on Sunday. And then, for some odd reason that I don't really know, I started remembering bits and piece of The Prince of Egypt. I used to watch that movie ALL the time as a kid. I absolutely loved it. However, so many years had passed that I honestly didn't know what happened in the movie (well... besided what happens in the Bible. :P) So... I got onto YouTube and found someone who had posted the entire movie in 11 parts. So... I sat down and watched the entire thing. :) And now I remember why I loved that movie so much growing up. It's just too bad that we don't actually own it, because then I could watch it from a more comfortable place than my uncomfortable computer chair.

Anyway... nothing else really new. Besides the fact that I changed the Song of the Week earl.y :P

You see, I FINALLY got enough money to go buy myself a nice little present... Danny Gokey's CD "My Best Days," which was released a month ago. I have now fallen in love once again with this guy's voice! :) Then again, I never fell out of love... but you get my point.

I even think that I talked about Danny in some of my blog posts while he was on Idol... yeah, they're there.

Anyway... the new song of the week is "I Still Believe" from the previously said album by the previously said man. It's a really nice, even insperational song. I'm really happy with it. :)

Just be prepared for some more Gokey coming up in the Song of the Week for the next few months. ;)

That's all for now! ♥

Counting down to so many things!

Ah. Yet another late-night blogging adventure. It's... 11:56 pm right now. :)

Alrighty. First of all, I'm SO SORRY that I haven't posted anything in, like, forever. Even though no one really reads this. :P But still!

Anyway, I just realized yesterday how many things I'm counting down to. Allow me to tell you all about it. :) Also... this is all using mental math, which isn't my strongest suit, so I'm sorry if I'm a day off or something. Not liked you'd really care enough to check though. :P Anyway....

16 more days until The Mentalist (season one) comes out on dvd.
18 more days until season two of The Mentalist starts.
74 more days until New Moon comes out in theatres.
76 more days until I turn fifteen.

See? How amazing is that?

See, The Mentalist is a tv series I watch am obsessed with. :) It's pretty dang amazing, in my opinion. I saved up money this summer to buy the dvd when it comes out. :)

And Star Trek. I know what some of you are probably thinking... 'Star Trek? That nerdy show?' Let me just say that I have never watched the actual 1960's show and I don't think I plan to. BUT, I went and saw the new movie with friends on Friday night, and let me say, it was amazing. :) At first I was a bit skeptical, but once we were actually sitting in the movie theatre and the first two minutes of the movie had passed, I was hooked. :) SO, now I want it on dvd for myself. :) And it comes out four days before my birthday, which is very convenient. ;)

Also, I finally changed my Song of the Week. Since I've had "Halo" stuck in my head all day, it seemed pretty fitting. So... there ya go. :)

Anyway, that's all for now.
BYE! :)

Lots of stuff to catch up on...

Aw. I haven't posted in like... three weeks. :(
Let's see... what's happened?

I found out New Moon's release date: November 20, 2009.
The day before I turn fifteen. How cool is that? :)
I found out Eclipse's release date, too: June 30, 2010.
That's only... seven months after New Moon! Which makes me have a strong feeling that Eclipse will really suck. Because they'll only have about... four months to film, edit, and complete. :(

Hm. What else?
OH! The Oscars! ;)
Yeah. I watched the Oscars on Sunday.

Here's the winners of some of the really cool awards:
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionair
Best Actor: Sean Penn; Milk
Best Actress: Kate Winslet; The Reader
Best Director: Danny Boyle; Slumdog Millionair
Best Animated Picture: WALL•E
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz; Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger; The Dark Knight

Really the only highlight of the Oscars was Heath Ledger winning. Because I never saw Slumdog, Milk, The Reader, or Vicky Cristina Barcelona. So I didn't really care about those. I just saw WALL•E and The Dark Knight out of the movies that won anything. Oh. Speaking of TDK, it also won Best Sound Editing. So... yeah.

Hm. There was something else...
Oh, now I remember. :)
The cast list for the school musical this year (Guys and Dolls) got posted today. I'm not in it, but all my friends are. :) And my friend Marie got one of the lead roles, Sarah Brown! I'm so happy for her. She wanted that part so bad, and she really deserves it. :)

But since all my friends are in the musical, I'll have to go to it alone. Joy. Unless I find another random friend to go with. Hopefully, I will.

Well... I have to go babysit in less than an hour. So... bye!

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.

Christmas Eve

IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE!!!!!!!

Today my young nephew Brayden stopped by today, and he was all being skeptic of Santa Claus. So, for fun, I took him onto the website called NORAD Santa Tracker. It's an awesome website to take little kids on. :) It has all this Santa info and it tells the kids where he is and everything. It totally wiped Brayden's skeptisism away. ;)

But seriously. Search "NORAD Santa Tracker" and a link to the website will pop up. Take a younger sibling or something onto it. It's fun.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!! :)

Why so serious?

Chantel isn't getting anything for Christmas, because she's been bad. :(

Wanna know how she's been bad? She hasn't posted since DECEMBER SIXTH. That was... *mental math* seventeen days ago. Over two weeks. A week and a half is pushing it for me.

So, I'm sorry, all of my invisible readers (besides Janessa and Lizzie. They're not invisible). I'll try harder, I promise.

Anyway.

Wondering about the post title? Read on to learn more.

Okay. So what has happened in the SEVENTEEN DAYS that I have not posted? Let's see...

1) I have a new obsession!!!!! (see number four)
2) School is out!
3) I haven't been having any headaches any more. :)
4) I saw The Dark Knight for the first time (more on that later)
5) It was my friend Holly's birthday on Sunday.
6) A bunch of my family came over yesterday (more on that later).
7) I changed the layout on here to something a bit more winter-y.

Okay. So, here's some extra info on number four. AKA my new obsession. :) I rented The Dark Knight a week or so ago. AND I LOVED IT. Best. Movie. Ever. Seriously. I liked it even more then *gasp* ... Twilight.

Crap. Now I'm going to be struck by lightning or something.

But, if you haven't seen The Dark Knight, you should. Unless you can't see PG-13 movies. Then you shouldn't. But that movie is AMAZING. I'm seriously obsessed. My own DVD of that movie is at the top of my Christmas wish list.

And now I've had a bazillion Dark Knight quotes swimming through my head ever since I tragically had to part with the rented DVD on Friday. Hence the title of this post, "Why so serious?" I might have a Dark Knight Quote of the Day, just to get it out of my system. :)

And now on to number six. Yesterday the following family members visited: My sister Camelle, her husband, and her four kids; my brother Gil, his wife, and his three kids; Shaylee, my niece; and Trevor, Shaylee's older brother. One of Camelle's kids, Chanse, is Shaylee and Trevor's brother as well, but Camelle adopted him, and Trevor and Shaylee live with their dads. It's a complicated thing I don't exactly want to explain right now.

So, we had a bunch of kids, mostly between the ages of four and nine, running around our house causing mayhem. It was quite entertaining.

And that's about it. I'll be sure to post more tomorrow. Or later today. Or whenever I get a chance.

Sorry. I'll shut up now.
Buh-bye!