The most dreaded time of the year...

Finals are upon the college world... everyone is grouchy, emotional, and some just want any excuse whatsoever to NOT do their work.

Unfortunately, I'm one of the last ones.... which is why I decided that my little blog needed some love and attention.

I am not excited, this week I have two finals, and well, I also need to get finances settled which has been a messy business all the way through. If you're looking into college, make sure that you constantly call the financial office and ask them what you need to do in order to get the right financial support so that you don't get into trouble with stupidness of people.

Next week, I have only one final(which is nice) in math(which is not nice). I hope I do well, the teacher is super nice and has a lab review so that we can study together in class and see what our common mistakes are and study with the sample questions on the lab sheets. She's an awesome instructor.... makes me happy.

I met someone today! Really nice, he sat by me in my religion class and we started talking. He was nice, funny, and very cute. I think he's Hawaiian or Tongan, he has an accent but has been living in the state I live in for nine months now. After talking with me for a while, he asked me for my number and... well... I gave it to him. He then said that he would text me to find out when good times are for me to hang out. Left and right he was making jokes that were genuinely funny, he made me laugh.

Also, I went to my first basketball game!!!!! It was Jazz vs. Memphis Grizzlies. The Jazz won: 120:93... It was so much fun!!!!! I loved it! Before I went, I thought that it was just going to be stupid and I would be bored out of my mind, like I am at football games. But the quite the contrary happened. I knew what was going on, my brain was active, and I really didn't like the fact that the ref called a foul on one of the Jazz players for tripping a Grizz when it was obvious in the playback that the Grizz tripped over the Jazz player because of his own clumsiness! GAH! It was frustrating. But still... I had lots of fun.

That's the extent of what's been going on!

Live Laugh Love!!!!

Love,

BroadwayChick

High-Diddly-Dee a college life for me...

Lucky for me, college has been in session for approximately five weeks. And already I've had 3 papers due and 2 tests. This is definitely NOT like High School. Also, it's very HUGE! another reason it's not like High School. And, you meet people that haven't known you since you were still in diapers, and if you do, then it's just a crazy happenstance.

One of the most annoying things in the world is when you have teachers when you're younger say, "You have to do this in (high school/ middle school/ college) so get use to it now!" Well, I have one thing to say............. you're wrong ............... I swear that teachers just wanted to stress you out so that they could laugh at you and see you suffer because number one, there are less classes in college and ya you may be required to write a 10 pg paper at some point of time but you're not required to write 15 papers in a semester.

Right now I'm taking a class called "Introduction to the University" and the teacher I have for that class (we'll call this teacher Mike) is a very perfectionistic individual. You do something even slightly wrong and he will dock you points. Now, Intro to the U class is supposed to be the easiest class I'm supposed to be taking. WRONG! It's the hardest. I have at least 2 papers a month due and a test every two months plus I have to do presentations, have proof of doing service, and all sorts of stuff that are completely pointless. For instance, I had a paper due about "Why I Am Here In College". dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb. And, I try to be optimistic about this lame class but sometimes I just want to... AH!

Gr.

Anyway, I officially vented and now I'm calm... yay me!

Love,

Broadway Chick

picture from http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/images/teststress1.gif

Fizzy-Izzy

Ever since Easter, my younger sister has been begging our parents to get her a dog. When my parents "bought" a dog and told my sister that, she was ecstatic. After it had only been a month since the plea. Upon entering the house and seeing the golden haired puppy sitting on the couch fast asleep and deeply breathing, my sister blew up, it was just a machine dog that our parents got as a joke saying that "That is as good of a dog as you're going to get".

My sister never gave up hope on the prospect of a new dog. She did searches online for her "perfect dog". Our mother eventually got involved in it and was addicted with the search. Finally, my sister found the perfect mix for her, a Shi-cockapoo (aka a Shitzu, Cockerspaniel, and Poodle) mix. My sister seemed to have found the perfect dog also for sale of KSL(great place to look for stuff to buy and such). However, when the 10 year old, who owns that dog, found out- she was a nutcase and fought to keep the dog. Eventually the 10 year old won, and my sister was dogless.

One day, after a day of garage selling and a sudden down pour of rain/hail, my mother went to see if there was any sales of the kind of things that we were selling at our sale. And while she was checking on KSL, she looked at the dogs. And found the perfect mix, female, with all of her dog items completely for free! My mother called lickety-split and was the first caller for the dog. The dog was scheduled to meet our family the next day when my sister would be home. However, the owners called last minute and wanted to bring her over the day of the call. Even though my sister wasn't home and had no idea about our mother calling about the dog, we consented to see her. They brought her over, and she was perfect. Sweet, loveable, smart, and all things fizzy.

That evening, the family (with my sister) went out to dinner and acted like nothing was different in our lives at all. On our arrival home, my older sister and I held the younger one back. Finally, we took her inside. Sister walked in, the same time the dog turned the corner. You should have heard her scream!!!!!!!!!!! And the dog barked like crazy!!!!!!!!!!! From that point on, they were inseperable and our family had a new member named Izzy.

An Addiction?

So I don't know if you've noticed or not, but, I've mentioned Jane Eyre once or twice in previous blogs.... yes folks, I'M READING IT!

Girls- it is the best book I've read in a really long time. It's a chick flick written so long ago but it speaks to your heart and makes you want to really meet Edward Rochester! He's like the Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. The Colonel Brandon in Sense and Senseability. These men were created so long ago in a young woman's imagination! WHAT MAKES US WANT THEM SO!?

Guys- It will be a fun book for you too. There's no love-dovey scenes that would be considered to "girly" for you to handle. There's adventure too. Say, there's a knife attack in the night. Mysterious fires start to blaze. Delirious actions from a hidden secret. And since I'm not a guy, I can't really think of anything else, but I promise it's worth while.

Alas, I must say that I'm not yet complete with reading it. I haven't even gotten to the part where I meet the missionary. So, bear with me, I still might be quoting it quite a bit.

Edward Fairfax Rochester- picture from

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/prosejaneeyre/2prose_janeeyre_charrev2.shtml

Mr. Darcy- picture from http://marmadas.deviantart.com/art/Mr-Darcy-Wallpaper-69601329

Colonel Brandon- picture from

http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol28no1/wakefield.htm

Another Tale Of Woe

JE DETESTE ESPECES LES HOMMES!!!!!! And that's not all! I just want to punch someone in the face because of tonight! The only thing good about tonight was that I got to watch Colin Raye in concert!  I will give you a hint at my annoyance from the evening...

The text in the above picture says: "An so the lion fell in love with the lamb... and the third wheel wolf plotted the death of the lion."

What? I was the third wheel? No! REALLY!? UG!  

Now, before you think I'm being totally immature at the whole situation, here me out. I've NEVER in my LIFE been the third wheel before. Nor have I been the third wheel with a guy that I guess I like. I've known him for what! Only about 6 years! And he meets this girl and decides he loves her after, hmmm... a WEEK! L'IDIOT! So, the three of us are at this concert together, Me and (for name sake lets call him Ian) Ian are there for free to sell glowsticks for a fundraiser. However, Ian bought this girl a ticket into the concert, and the whole time before she showed up, he was constantly saying, "I know some people who are coming." "I'm happy about who's coming", etc. Anyway, she shows up, she's nice (I shall call her Meg). I am introduced to Meg and we end up bonding as friends really fast. But soon, I start noticing Ian holding her hand, putting his arms around her waist, kissing her cheek, and getting really touchy-feely. Then, to tick me off even more, he starts swearing the full words out loud! Now, dear reader, you must know that he has never done anything like that around me before he just started doing it around Meg because he knew that she liked the devilish dark side of men more than the good happy-go-lucky side! I was getting annoyed with his behavior and her always standing between me and Ian. It bugged. Alot. Puis, doucement lecteur, il a continué à piquer des baisers de sa couverture sur le partage de nous! Their "sneeky kissing" hurt me alot. I mean, especially when I turned my head and beheld their conduct... a pain struck my heart that I had never felt before. Dieu ne plaise, je doit avoir un cœur! 

I mean, you hear all sorts of tales of the third wheel who didn't care. Like Donkey from Shrek. He was trying to help Shrek make the moves on Fiona, he didn't hurt because Fiona was falling for his best friend. Or (well this is technically the 4th wheel) when in the Three Musketeers Dartanian was smooching that one chick, you didn't see the trio of friends plotting Dartanian's demise and hoping it would be slow and painful till he learned his lesson. The only character I can really relate with is Jane Eyre. She felt hurt when Blanche Ingram seemed to take hold of Edward Rochester! She even tried to hide from the scene! To no avail...

I mean, COME ON! Just because the opposite sex hasn't asked me to be their one-and-only or their girlfriend for more than a year doesn't mean that I don't have feelings! And how could he calmly ask me to play racquetball with him tomorrow! I vent my anger in that game! Oh dear... I'm rambling.... sorry dear reader.

Movie

Thanks to the following websites for some nice photos for my venting purposes:

 www.goenglish.com/ ThirdWheel.asp; carboncopy.hobix.com/ archives/trips/; www.tenslashsix.com/ ?m=200511; http://have-you-met-ted.com/2007/season-3-episode-3-third-wheel-discussion/; flickr.com/photos/ 16403464@N00/2394262088; 

Love,

BroadwayChick

Mai gossipers aller et mourir

In case you have a wonder for the random french title, which I'm sure you do. I have been reading Jane Eyre lately and the french texts enclosed in this beautiful piece of literature has made me a constant companion of the translator on dictionary.com. So, I figured that the reason for Charlotte Bronte using some french was not only to "capture the characters true self" but also for showing some messages that are transalted to be harsh but were written to be romantic. Thus is the reason for my title. My writing shall be calm but my heart needs to release a harsh feeling.

Why is it, that when in a building, people think that walls can cover any conversation being spoken. I mean, walls can cover images through a closed door and such but sounds cannot be completely muted unless the wall is constructed to do so. Now, I don't know why people prattle about other people who are in the same area as them. But I must say, that the most distressing feeling in the world is when someone slanders your name to another within your ear shot and then acts completely cordial to you when you are within sight. Peu importe combien j'essaie, c'est juste pas assez bon. J'ai toujours calamonie' pour la moindre chose. It's now written. But my heart will be burdened for today but tomorrow hold for a brighter day.

the following picture came from http://www.princeofatlantis.com/visionarywonders.htm

A brand new device

So, I am the very recent owner of an iPod touch. Note: I've never owned an iPod before, nor any other mass song playing device. This is really all new to me.

My first experiences of using this device, was, I first downloaded a chunk of my CDs and burned it to the iTunes library. YAY! I figured it out all by myself. However, there were some songs that my sister had on a different computer that I wanted to have. So, I let her delete all of my songs off of my iPod so that she could sync my iPod with the music on her computer. PROBLEM!!!!! When I went to my computer to get my songs back on. It wouldn't let me! I fought with it, trying different tactics to let my songs onto my iPod, nothing. absolutely, nothing!

I finally, took my iPod back to the computer with my sister's songs. restored my iPod to its original state, and re-sync-ed my songs onto the iPod, and now I'm adding more newly found CDs to my collection of songs.

It was ridiculously tiresome just to have an iPod have the songs that I wanted, but now I have to just burn the songs I want from my sister's CDs one by one. Gr.

Well, that's my story for the day!

Little Children

Once upon a time, I had some exciting news. My brother is engaged! From a previous marriage, they both have 2 children him- 2 boys, her- 2 girls.  They are happy and are gross all kissy lovey-dovey, yuck. I like her, she's a sweet independent individual who is a great match for my brother. I mean, if you look at them in pictures, they look like they go! It's an amazing phenomenon how that happens.

A plant from the dark side?

Earlier this year, specifically on Mothers' Day, I was given a plant that had a trio combination of basil, tomato, and cilantro from my mother.  I planted the trio not doing any research on the cilantro plant- which at the time remained nameless to me and insignificant.  It was just another plant after all.  I planted some mint, strawberries and this trio. I felt pleased with my garden and decided it was good enough for me.

Where I live, we've been getting a lot of unexpected rain and my plants were doing wonderfully. Until the rain slowed and I hadn't been around to take care of my plants.  My mints are tough plants and all I need to do (even though they look horrible) is give them some water and I know they will bounce back.  My strawberries have been doing very well in a high weed growing environment, they seem to scare the weeds away actually.  However, when I looked at my trio, I saw something shocking.

My basil and tomato were wilting and not looking very healthy, while the unknown specimen was flourishing and more than 12" tall.  I pulled it out thinking it was a very large weed, but the smell of a sort of salsa sent hit me, and I realized, this was the unknown plant, and it was taking all the water and nutrients from my tomato and basil plants.  I planted the devil in a pot and tied it to some wooden stakes for support. I had never seen this plant before and I didn't know how to use it. It was like some sort of mutant that decided to invade my garden and I had planted it not knowing the danger it caused my plants! So, I decided to do my research.

I went to my cookbook, there I looked up in the index "salsa", I browsed the words for something that I never heard before and saw the words "with fresh cilantro". Dictionary.com aided me with the definition.  I was dealing with a plant that wasn't native to my part of town and it apparently has a split personality with it's name.  I did some more research on it and found out that it actually came from a different country- UK to be precise, I can't remember where it started first but it's been a part of the world since 5000 BC.  I did find out some really good recipes for it tough, but I have no idea what it tastes like so I will make salsa with it first and see where it goes from there. 

Funny thing, there is a place called IHateCilantro.com, check it out, I got a good laugh from it. I mean, who starts a revolution against a plant? I thought it was funny, but maybe some of you readers may decided it's a cause worth fighting for.

Anyway, that's my tale of woe for the day.

Love,

BroadwayChick *mwah*!

P.S. Some of the people looking at this don't know this very important fact. All underlined things that are not the same color as the rest of the text is not just because I'm bored and like to underline things. THEY LEAD TO A WEBSITE! Please don't be confused!

LOVES!

Happy Fourth!!!!!!

It's a wonderful day!  I know it may be 3 am, but it will be a wonderful day. It's the fourth of July!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!  Isn't this exciting. I just love watching fireworks, having a barbeque, and all of those wonderful things. 

Now, I probably know what you're thinking. What the crap is BroadwayChick doing awake at 3 am? Well, I'm looking for scholarships for school and the nap I had earlier today is not letting me go to sleep just yet.  

Anyway, In honor of the United States of America, I'm going to attach some really awesome music videos and some cool pictures.

Enjoy!!

Love,

BroadwayChick

to the soldiers

the constitution

for those from other countries

for the kids

for all of us

for those who forget -blast your speakers for this one folks!

My personal favorite

REMEBER WHAT WE ARE AND WHERE WE CAME FROM!

Remember When

Today, I performed my last show with the acting group I've been with for about 10 years. I've been doing nothing but performing with this acting group. Now, today I did my last show. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself! I won't have the same constant schedule like I've had for years and years!

For my senior show, we did a Disney show which consisted of a collection of multiple Disney songs from multiple Disney shows .  I danced to songs from Dumbo and High School Musical 2. I sang songs from Hercules, Little Mermaid the Musical, Cinderella, and a song called Remember When from the 50th Anniversary Disney parade.  When singing Remember When, it was HORRIBLE! I was sniffling, and on the brink of tears because I realized; though I would never really admit it; that I was going to miss these people. My second family, so to say, I would never be with the same people in such a close bond as I did that night. If I ran into them 20 years from now, would we remember each other? Would that bond still exist? It's scary.

But on a happier note, I did my final choir performance today as well. THANK HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  My choir instructor has been so abnoxious lately, getting mad at me for the dumbest reasons. For some reason he thinks that everyone in his choir class should not have anything in their life except for his choir class. No drama. No sports. NOTHING. So, the madrigal choir of our school (which I'm a part of) sang our "farewell" song to him, everyone was teary eyed, but me. I had no attachment to that man because he was always so mean to me! So while everyone says, "I'm going to miss this!" I'm saying "Thank Heaven I'm out of here and don't have to deal with his crappy attitude all the time!"

So, bittersweet feelings have been going on today.  But, it all worked out and it's done. the end.

Love,

Broadway Chick

It's a Disney Day

Yesterday, was (let's face it) not my day. People were just bugging me all around! Especially some of my instructors.  What the day led to was me buying a tub of Chocolate frosting and eating about 15 tablespoons of it while I was at rehersal for this Disney Review I'm in. After eating that, I was EXTREMELY happy. 

Today is an ok sort of day. Nothing really all that exciting happened today. It was just a BLAH day. BORING! Then I went to a church class and we talked about SuperHeros and Disney Characters and Peter (King James Bible). It was cool. It made me happy. Then, I had a happy song stuck in my head called "Come In From The Rain". It's a nice old jazzy tune that has happy lyrics that make me happy. I found a youtube link to it that is the pop 80s version to it, but it's close enough. "Come In From The Rain". 

Hope life is good on your end.

Love,

Broadway Chick

Heart of Darkness

As I was trying to finish reading my homework... in class that is... I came across this interesting quote from the book Heart of Darknes By: Joseph Conrad.

"The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires." (pg.6)

I don't really know why it struck my curiosity so much. It was, after all, just the beginning of the book.  However, I'm looking at it right now and now I'm saying to myself What the crap is this? What a dumb quote! But at the time I thought I could make a thought provoking comment for my english assignment with this quote.

After reading 33 pages of Heart of Darkness I now have to right a journal response for it in my notebook and say what "the most interesting part of [my] reading was today". Barf.

Anyway. WARNING: It's a pointless book and is seriously ADHD and skips from one topic to the next in one sentence. So you will be confused when or if you read it.

Love,

Broadway Chick

Got Boredom?

Well, Here's the deal. I know I'm supposed to do my work and try to get ready to sleep and get up really early tomorrow. However, I am in a state of boredom. I don't know how to cure it right now. I'm tired, but I'm not motivated AT ALL to do anything  but sit here and type.

This makes my second blog in one day because I just can't think of what I should do.  It's kind of annoying. I'm getting ticked at this unmotivated state that I'm in as you read!

Gr.

Love,

Broadway Chick

The beginning

Well, I hope this adventurous beginning of my brother convincing me to sign up for this doesn't belly flop. And if it does, I will blame him completely.

This will show the basics of my life when I don't have time to sit down and hand write my thoughts on paper.  I hope that I can actually think of worthwhile thought to actually write down.

If you will be reading it, then I hope I'm not making you go to sleep right now.

We'll see how this goes.

Love,

BroadwayChick