Updates

Greetings Earthlings,

     Just wanted to do a quick update since I haven't blogged in over a week!

Christmas was great, had a wonderful time with all my family and was especially happy to have my cousin Ashley come down from Holland for the holiday to celebrate with us. I'm going to be posting a kind of that you post to everyone who sent me lovely items for the season, so stay tuned for that!

New Year's Eve is today and I'm getting ready for some CELEBRATING!!!! So that'll be fun.

Those are really the only things happening right now, but I'm going to be blogging more often now that the holidays are over, love you guys! <3

DFTBA

Olivia :D

Here is a picture of me to hold you guys over form lack of Olivia in your lives:

(P.s. my cousin Ashley has hijacked this post and would like to sat that the author is an incredibly magical young lady with many tricks up her sleeve. She likely has her own pet unicorn stashed away somewhere in her backyard, probably behind one of those big conifers. Wouldn't be surprised if she was part cyborg.)

Television Obsessions

Greetings Earthlings,

     Peoples, let's get serious, do you ever have those television shows you just can't stop watching? I do. But before I get into my current obsession, I will talk to you about previous obsessions and how I stopped being obsessed.

1. Pushing Daisies: I swear if that show was still on I would never turn the the television. It was the most amazing show ever. But it got cancelled...Grr.

2. Flash Forward: I wasn't huge on this show but it was one of those guilty pleasures I couldn't resist. It also got cancelled, and that one bothered me since it was during a crucial part of the series, whatever.

3. Glee: I liked Glee for a while, then I realized how utterly terrible that show is. I'll admit though, I do like the first season, but then I watched the episodes too many times and stuffz.

4. Castle: Castle was probably my best obsession, and I still love that show, don't get me wrong. I'm just not obsessed  any more and the reason for that is Emma. After I realized the potential amazingness of the series I introduced it to Emma, who consequently showed it to every other person she knew while I was there and I saw every episode too many times. Then I got sad, new episodes are good though.

5. Firefly: Okay, how could anyone not like Firefly? Nathan Fillion, cowboys in space? It's amazing. I got sad when it was cancelled, but happy when it was on Netflix. If you haven't seen it, I highly suggest you do.

And now for my current obsession: Community. I absolutely love it, especially the paintball episodes. They're amazing, I especially like Troy and Abed, but the cast is so strong it's hard to choose. Anyways, almost done the second season and moving on to the third! Woo!

Okay, that's everything. Maybe in the future I'll make a list of my favourite television shows!!

DFTBA
Olivia :D

PS: It's Christmas eve as of 18 minutes ago! WOO!

   

nomnomnom

Greetings Earthlings,

For Christmas this year, a received a this:

Naturally, the this went in my mouth:

Which resulted in this:

You're welcome internet :D

DFTBA,

Olivia :D

My Post...Ft. Emma

Greetings earthlings (I believe that's how Olivia begins her posts),

It's Emma here, updating Livi's blog as she's much too lazy to be bothered to do it herself. I'm exhausted and about to g to bed, so this probably won't be very long, but I'm going to tell you about her. Every question you've ever had, ANSWERED!

Her name is Olivia. Want to know her last name? Of course you do, stalker. She's 13 going on 5 years old, with an odd compulsion/obsession over Youtubers and unicorns. Not that I can really talk about strange obsessions without being ironic, but we can save that for another day. She loves Bones, Castle, My Little Pony, and is absolutely, 100% FURIOUS at the people from the TV networks for killing Flashforward before we could all find out what the day was.

She is in love with Bobby Flay, her future husband and biffle. Just so you all know, here is the list of things she looks for in a man:

-Good cook

-Dancer

-Guitar player

-African american

-Named Bobby Flay

OR

-Sterling (who she consequently named the knight in shining armor after in her story)

She has a very  nice French accent, though neither of her parents are bilingual, as all of her French teachers comment on.

She is a Nerdfighter through and through (DFTBA!), and a total Unicorn Warrior. She dabbles in vlogging as well, so you guys could check that out. Please note that the pic of her in the "MASTERMIND" section was taken by my camera at my house when she was insane on a sugar high. Fun times, fun times.

Anyways, she's awesome and my #1 and #2 BFF.

Bai bai.

-Eem Jayo

There it is!

(This post was written by Emma, follow her at nanowrimoemjk.blogspot.com)

DFTBA,

Olivia :D

Tab For A Cause

Greetings Earthlings,

     So today I wanted to talk to y'all about this supermegafoxyawesomehot website I discovered called Tab For A Cause. Essentially, it's a non-profit organisation which, after quickly installing the system for free, allow you to chose a charity, and every time (or two, or four..) you open a tab, a certain amount of money is donated to the charity you chose!

     At first, I was certain there was going to be some sort of catch. Like I would get billed or spammed or get viruses after installing, but after doing more research I discovered Tab For a Cause is absolutely free. The way they make their money is with advertisements that appear each time you open the tab, and 100% of the profits from those advertisements go to the charity.

     For my charity I chose Room to Read, a charity which is described as "Room to read believes that World Change Starts with Educated Children. We envision a world in which all children can pursue a quality education that enables them to reach their full potential and contribute to their community and the world." But you can also chose such charities as Water.org, Human Rights Watch, Educate!, and so many others. 

     If you want to participate, just go to http://www.tabforacause.org/ and start making a difference! Yay!

DFTBA

Olivia :D

     

Eat Tacos With Me?

Greetings Earthlings,

     So there's this song I really really like, it's called Sleepyhead by Passion Pit, and it's kind of a dubstep alternative indie pop song that is bursting with creativity. Here it is!

Anyways, I thought today I would talk a bit about why I love this song, and also a bit of lyric dissection, yay! Let's go!

     So, I discovered this song through my biffel Emma (Inflatable Furniture and Bubble Wrap) over the summer, and it's basically just pure amazingness. In the beginning of the song, you may think the lyrics are just high pitched non-sense, but if you listen a bit closer, I'm pretty sure the lyrics are "please unicorn, eat tacos with me". Which makes me extremely happy, because as you know I love unicorns, and mexican food. Anyways, those lyrics are not for certain, but here are the rest of the lyrics I found online:

And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going

And you said
It was like fire around the brim
Burning solid
Burning thin the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I drag you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead

They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions and all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls against your rules against your skin
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes but go in disguise like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead

     The beginning of the song I think is fairly straight forward "everything is going to the beat" I think just means they're devoted to music. And everything they do goes into the beat, and their songs. After that though, the music gets extremely confusing, I don't even know where to start there. 

     Anyways, let me know what you think of the song and the lyrics, and I'll talk to you guys soon!

DFTBA

Olivia :D

     

     

I'm impressed

Greetings Earthlings,

I just coughed and an entire Rocket came out of my mouth. I'm extremely impressed. Although I have no recollection of actually eating said Rocket. Double Impressed.

DFTBA
Olivia :D

SO. SICK.

Greetings Earthlings,

     I think the sicknesses I've felt in the last month or two was just my immune system trying to prepare me for this one. I haven't felt this sick since Disney World four years ago (a story for another day)

      Anyways, I woke up and the first thing I felt was my throat burning, I couldn't even drink liquids. It was crazy. The next thing I felt was a horrible headache, which I took some Advil for, and then when I tried to get up, I made it only a few steps before tumbling over from pure aching of my legs, no thanks to my knees, in which I had tripped sever times onto when I went skating the evening before. and an insane surge of nausea.

     I decided to go to school anyways, and it only got worse, the aching in my legs made it almost impossible for me to walk from class to class, and the headache, which had somewhat diminished thanks to the Advil, was coming back stronger then ever, definitively didn't help that I had full band both recesses, which included me sitting in a room of ballistic teenagers holding instruments. Luckily I had cough drops with me, so my sore throat was only on and off.

     On the bus I felt freezing, I was legitimately shaking uncontrollably to the point were I couldn't even speak. My throat had gotten much, much worse, and my headache was almost unbearable. Once I got  to my stop I had infinite troubles getting to the front door, because of my shaking, freezing, throbbing legs, and once I got into my pajamas I still felt terrible, and so I took a crazy warm bath at four o'clock and didn't get out 'till six.

     I'm now sitting in my bedroom with a cup of tea, trying desperately to heal for tomorrow. Sigh. Okey dokey, that's enough of me sympathizing for myself. See you soon!

DFTBA
Olivia :(

     PS: last night I woke up and was completely convinced an alien mothership had landed in Ottawa and we we're having an apocalypse. Yup...

I hate Yahtzee

We just played Yahtzee

My dad got 5 Yahtzees

IN ONE GAME

He's despicable

GRR

This child was my reaction:

 

DFTBA

Olivia >:(  

Christmas-y Traditions

Greetings Earthlings,

     So, with Christmas just around the corner I figured I'd talk to you all about what my family does for the holidays. Since we're kinda crazy and all that stuff.

     So, every Christmas Eve, My ENTIRE family (extended and all) come over for a Christmas Dinner. Because our roots are in Newfoundland and everyone from my mother up was born there we eat what we call (although I'm not sure if it's the proper word for it) "Jiggs Dinner". Which consists of salt beef, turkey, dough boys, cabbage, pea soup, carrots, and potatoes. It's extremely delicious and everyone is happy after eating that much food (although most of us just want to sleep). After food we sit down with our extended family and exchange gifts.

     After the family is gone the only people left are myself, my mom and step-dad, my step-sister, my two cousins Valerie and Ashley, and Val's husband, Jason. We're all usually too tired to do anything else that night and so I go to bed and they'll watch I movie or something along those lines.

      Before I talk about Christmas morning, I should probably tell you my cousin Val (Hi Val!), although in her 20s is a child at heart. And so every morning around 5: 30 we get up and watch a Christmas movie, we also examine the wrapped packages under the tree, which is fun. Then at 7 o'clock we run around the house waking everyone up and we all sit down and open our stockings.

     After we get through seven stockings we all make a yummy breakfast in which we eat together before we movie on to the presents under the Christmas tree.

        So, yup. That's my Christmas, comment on what you do for Christmas!

DFTBA
Olivia :D

Interrup-HI!-tions 2.1

Greetings Earthlings,

     I'm enjoying this segment, here's another one! Send me your pics also :D

That's after I scratched my cornea and was temporarily blind! Isn't that picture attractive! (That's right boys, doesn't get hotter than that.)

DFTBA

Olivia :D

V-logging?

Greetings Earthlings,

    I come bearing news that will rock your socks off, people, today I uploaded my first VLOG! Yay! It's super poor quality, but I'm really proud!

       Here it is!

Don't worry though, I'll still be posting here just as often! 

DFTBA

Olivia :D

My Unicorn Collection

Greetings Earthlings,

     Guys, I'm sick, AGAIN. GAH! So that's annoying, but today for my blog post, since I talk to you guys a lot about Unicorns and such, I thought I'd share with  you all my Unicorn collection, and the origins of each unicorn, let's begin, shall we?


                                                                               Unicorn 1

Okey dokey, so this Unicorn actually (not very exciting, I know) came from a Happy Meal I got last summer when I went on a three day road trip to Newfoundland. I don't eat at McDonald's, at all, but when your in a car for three days you pretty much eat whatever, I was happy when I got a unicorn, though :)

Unicorn 2

This unicorn (That's attached to my purse) Came from my trip to the Toronto Zoo last May with the Grade seven and eight band at my school, that trip was a ton of fun! Isn't this Unicorn adorable? My friend got a zebra that looks like it, too. So that was fun

Unicorn 3

Okay, so this Unicorn is actually Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony, and I got it a couple years ago from my friend Emma (Inflatable Furniture and Bubble Wrap)'s mom. She gave it to me after I pestered her about her owing me a rainbow unicorn forever. It was awesome.

Unicorn 4

I'm not going to lie to you, I have absolutely no idea where this Unicorn came from, but I like it.  I think I've had it since I was a child. It also has an identical twin, but that one has a huge hole in it's side. So sad :'(

Unicorn 5

This Unicorn is one I've had since I was probably four, I got it for Christmas one year from my mom, that's the end of that story. So exciting, I know.

Unicorn 6

This is a Unicorn I can't go anywhere with out, It keeps my head warm, and it's a Unicorn! When I saw it at Miss. Tigglywinkles I was MIND BLOWN. Not a very exciting story, though D:

Well, those are all of my Unicorns. I'll update you if I get anymore. See you guys soon!

DFTBA

Olivia :D

YouTuber of the Day: missglamorazzi

Greetings Earthlings,

     Before I get in to the second edition of the segment names YouTuber of the day, let me express to you I  do NOT wear make-up, or even enjoy it. To me, it hides what facial features girls should love about themselves. And yet after saying this, I must express to you how much I love the YouTuber missglamorazzi, or Ingrid. 

     So, Ingrid is known mostly for her makeup tutorials on her channel, and before you exit this blog post because you don't like make-up tutorials and this and that. Let me tell you, Ingrid is no ordinary make-up guru. Although her main channel is dedicated to make-up tutorials and reviews, if you were to watch her second channel, TheGridMonster, or Luke (her alleged boyfriend)'s channel, you would discover Ingrid is nothing more than a huge nerd and food lover. 

      When I first discovered Ingrid, through Luke, (who you may remember me mentioning as one half of ALL CAPS) I did not enjoy her channel or her frequent appearances on Luke's channel. Although my decision was biased since I still mush preferred Kristina with Luke than Ingrid. Now that I've come to realize Ingrid's potential as a YouTuber and really begin to enjoy each of her videos.

     When Luke viewers first started to acknowledge Ingrid in his videos, there was a sudden rivalry as to Kristina and Ingrid, and who made the best girl fried. At first, the majority of the viewers preferred Kristina, but I think after a couple months people really started liking Ingrid and Luke together.

     This month, Ingrid is participating in Vlogmas (in which she vlogs everyday from December 1st until Christmas) on her second channel, TheGridMonster, and I highly suggest you check out her videos!

DFTBA,

Olivia :D 

missglamorazzi: http://www.youtube.com/user/missglamorazzi

TheGridMonster: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGridMonster

lukeconard2 (frequent appearances from Ingrid): http://www.youtube.com/user/lukeconard2?feature=w

Only 1667 words a day? HA!

Greetings Earthlings,

     Remember a while back when I told you all about NaNoWriMo? Well, I'm behind...twenty thousand words behind, and I have T-minus two nights a counting to finish it. I am making progress though, yesterday I was thirty thousand words behind, wrote ten thousand, and that's what I plan to do tonight, so we'll see how that goes.

No time to talk to you all! MUST...WRITE!
NaNoWriMo for life!

DFTBA
Olivia :D

Things That Happen: Math Class Edition

Greetings Earthlings,

Today in math class, we were learning about Geometry and all of it's boringness. Anyways, our math teacher was telling us about line segments and rays, and then he gave us textbook work. AS he was explaining it, he said, so here is Ray UP and Ray PU. To which everyone in the class bursted out into laughter...Including our teacher.

Get why? Ray PU? RayP U? Haha?

Anyways, inappropriate and still hilarious joke of the day. Hope it made you laugh too!

DFTBA
Olivia :D

PS: I can not be taken responsible for the inappropriateness of the joke.

Sitting with ma Doodah, eating an orange :)

This picture describes us perfectly, meet my father :)

DFTBA

Olivia :D

FREEDOM!

Greetings Earthlings,

    I'msorryI'msorryI'msorryI'msorry. I haven't posted in a while (like two days) but the last one didn't count, it was one line, I think. So, you know. But I have a life, I'm a busy person. Who cares if I spend most of my time lazing around my freaking house in pajamas watching re-runs of Bones and talking to people on social-networking sites? That's a life! ...right?

     Alright, so today I wanted to talk to you guys about something making my life infinitely better, lack of Facebook! That's right everyone...I QUIT! HOORAY!

     I'm going to have a little heart-to-heart with you all right now, I'm going through that stage of my life where, let's be honest, I'm about to start having those-times-of-the-month, and I really can't control my hormones. I feel insecure about my body and angry at people who are only trying to help me, generally I just feel like crap. And so when I told my mom about this, she suggested to me I quit some of my nasty habits in order to work on my health. And so I took a stand and deactivated Facebook.

     Upon deactivating your account, Facebook actually brings you to this page in which it shows pictures you were tagged in with other people, for the sake of this post we'll say it showed a picture of me and my friend Emma, and over the picture will be a caption that says "Emma will miss you". There are at least five pictures like this. Once you skip that page it's a page asking you why you're quitting, and then it finally lets you deactivate. I noticed Facebook was really hostile about this, as if they were sing everything in their power to convince you to stay. It really only made me want to go more.

      The first night after I deactivated. I noticed my computer time must have cut down by at least an hour. I occurred to me that although I wouldn't just sit on Facebook for an hour at a time, when I was bored I would say to myself "What's happening on Facebook?". Even if I was only on around ten minutes each time, only six visits and I was at an hour, it kept building up. Now, I feel as if I have a lot more time to spend doing more productive things (like blogging!)

     I've also noticed that no one even cares I deactivated. I had over two hundred friends on my Facebook account, and yet not one of them mentioned to me they noticed I had left, or even asked me about it. It really shows you how even though people are your "friends" on Facebook, it doesn't mean they necessarily care about you in real life.

     I had had Facebook for around two years, and after a while, it kind of started becoming part of y everyday routine, Get home, homework, food, Facebook. I didn't even think twice about logging in and searching people I haven't seen in years. I think like coffee or tobacco, it's addictive. People get hooked and can't stop. When they want to deactivate, they say things like "Oh people will miss me" or "I won't be able to talk to that guy I knew from kindergarten". But in truth, no one will even notice. It's funny, actually.

     Anyways, there's my two cents worth on the cons of Facebook. Maybe after reading this you'll realise it's basically just controlling your life like I did. No, I feel a lot less pressure and freedom from Chat boxes with relatives you haven't seen in a while. I feel a lot less pressure and I'm loving it :)

DFTBA
Olivia :D

A very very short blog post just for the sake of updating

Greetings Earthlings,

I haven't posted in a while, don't hate me.

Well that's all.

DFTBA
Olivia :D

RandomRandomRandom

Greetings Earthlings,

Here are my thoughts on a daily basis:

I'm hungry
Pajamas
UNICORN
I should be doing something productive
NaNoWriMo?
No
Homework?
No
YouTube?
Yes
Let's kill brain cells!
BADADADA
I like cake
I'M HUNGRY
I need to jump up and down now
Jump Jump Jump
I'm tired
SLEEP

Interrup-HI!-tions 2.0

Greetings Earthlings,

Thought you'd all enjoy this picture

Why do I feel as if I'm going to regret posting this?

M.I.T...fun times :D

Greetings Earthlings,

    So yesterday my friend Emma left our home town to go to Boston for the weekend so she can participate in this year's M.I.T Splash program, unfortunately I couldn't go, but I figured I would tell you guys a little but about my experience from last year.

    For starters, Splash is a program that runs every year  for high school and middle school students at M.I.T. All the classes are taught by M.I.T undergraduates which is pretty sweet. And basically you go online and you pick your classes, which vary between things like "How to survive a zombie apocalypse" to "Canada, and why you shouldn't live there". Then, you bring something like twenty bucks and you spend a whole weekend taking courses about awesome things, it's great.

    So last year, Emma and I drove seven hours and ended up at Splash M.I.T. We got there in the morning and waited in line for a bit before getting into M.I.T and beginning our courses. If I had my schedule still, I would definitely share it with you, but I don't, because like I said, this was a year ago. But anyways, I took some classes on data management (because I'm a nerd) and other pretty lame subjects, but one stood out in particular for me, so bad, I actually snuck out.

    So, the class was called "Who wants to be millionaire?" and Emma convinced to take it with her. I assumed  it was going to be some sort of talk show kind of deal, so I was pretty excited, but was I ever wrong. Turns out the class was about the seven unsolved math questions of history, and if they were solved, the reward was a million dollars. The class was literally two hours of the guy writing out each math question (they were LONG) and explaining to us why they we're unsolvable. It was torture, and after an hour, I knew I had to escape. I literally wrote Emma a not saying meet me at lunch, got up, said I was double booked for another class and had to go, and got the heck out of there. I RAN out of that room. So that was to worst class I took.

    Don't be put off by that story though, there are a lot of awesome classes at M.I.T. I took one called "Canada, and why you shouldn't live there" which was highly amusing for me since I am Canadian. The class was three M.I.T students explaining why Canada was horrible, then they had a quiz about Canada (all the answers were false. One of the questions was "What is the capital of Canada?" and the answer was supposedly "Beerville") and the winners got to pick a prize of a stuffed beaver, a Canadian toonie, or maple syrup. At the end, people were appauled to discover I was Canadian, but I got a real kick out of it.

    Once, when I was trying to find my "Introduction to Chinese Art History" class, I stumbled upon this beautiful room in which the floor was covers in mosaic floor tiles that reflected onto the glass ceiling above. After I had found it, Emma and I spent a half hour trying to find it again. We thought we had given up, when we came across it a couple hours later (We hadn't been searching all that time, we weren't THAT desperate) Anyways, Emma saw the room, and wasn't nearly as impressioned as me, until a boy and a girl looking slightly older than us appeared and the boy screamed "BUTTERFLY! LOOK! IT'S THE ROOM ONLY HEARD OF IN LEGENDS!" Emma didn't really know what to so, but I just turned over to her and whispered "Told you." So yeah, that was epic.

    One extremely disappointing event that happened during our experience was Emma and I were walking and happened upon a bulletin board with a sign reading:

ONLY FOR SPLASH STUDENTS!
The Purple Elephant is testing out a new chocolate today in room (I forget the room)
Come try some free chocolate!

    Emma and I just kinda lost it at that point, and so we pranced happily to the room, only to discover there was no chocolate, it was a SCAM. So that sucked.

    Anyways, M.I.T was an awesome experience, even though I almost died (Another day, children, another day) And I'm super sad I couldn't come this year D: Oh well! I hope you have an awesome time Emma! Tell me all about it! And I'll see you guys tomorrow!

DFTBA
Olivia :D

P.S I got this sick shirt while I was there:

I had to take that picture with my foot, so enjoy that :)

What House Are You?

Greetings Earthlings,

    So I figured with all of this talk of Hogwarts and such, I would do a quiz to discover what house you belong to! Keep in mind this probably isn't accurate, and if you want something more realistic, I highly suggest Pottermore, if you don't have Pottermore because of the stupid Beta extension, I suggest hexrpg, which I will link at the end. Let's begin!

Q1: What is most important to you?

A. My Friends!
B. School
C. I only care about myself
D. Winning!

Q2: What do you consider your best trait?

A. I'm an exceptionally good finder
B. My intelligence
C. I always get my way
D. I'm the best at everything I do

Q3: What are you academic strategies?

A. Lots of hard work and studying
B. It takes no effort, I'm just super smart
C. I suck up to all the teachers
D. Teachers just love me

Q4: What is the sport you're best at?

A. I prefer cheering on my friends from the sidelines
B. Why play sports when I have the library?
C. Quidditch is was I excel at, but only because I bribe the coaches
D. I'm good at every sport, I guarantee I'll beat you
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RESULTS

Mostly As: You're a Hufflepuff!
Mostly Bs: You're a Ravenclaw!
Mostly Cs: You're a Slytherin!
Mostly Ds: You're a Gryffindor!

NOTE: If you got a half and half of two letters, just mix the two names together. Hurray!

Alright, Sorry for that pathetic quiz, You can post what House you got in the comments! Yay!

DFTBA
Olivia :D

Anti-Bullying Week

Greetings Earthlings,

    So, if you don't already now, the past week has been Anti-Bullying Week. At my school, we spend the week taking one period out of our day each day and having an assembly on bullying. A lot of people found it stupid, but it really got me thinking.

    So, if you couldn't tell by now, I'm a nerd, a hardcore, insanely crazy, dorky, geeky, bad-ass nerd. That's right people, this may come as a surprise to you (not.) but I watch My Little Pony, I spend my time doing anti-social things like blogging (i'm actually at a friends's house right now, if that helps plead my case) and I am a frequent role player. And yet I have never really be bullied. Sure, I've had the odd taunt or diss. But I can pretty much say nothing drastic in terms of bullying has ever happened.

    It's not that bullying is just not relevant in my life, bullying is present at my school for sure, just this year a boy I had known since grade two left because of his constant taunts. It's frightening for me how people take their lives and stop feeling happy or included, people skip school because they're afraid. And it's horrible.

    That's not to say you should stop being yourself to fit in and avoid being bullied. You have to stay strong to who you are, no matter what happens in your school years. That's what I do, I mean c'mon people, the unicorn hat, how could you insult the unicorn hat?!

    Alright people that's all for tonight, sorry my post was kind of short. Leave a comment about your opinion on bullying and if you've ever been bullied, your experience. Thanks for staying awesome guys :)

DFTBA
Olivia :D

   

The Hunger Games

Greetings Earthlings,

    So, if you are anywhere near as Hunger Games obsessed as I am, you would probably know by now of yesterday's release of the Hunger Games official trailer. If you didn't know about it, well then, the official Hunger Games trailer was released yesterday.

    Anyways, when I had heard it had come out, I basically soiled myself with excitement. I'm sure you can imagine me literally jumping from my seat, sprinting to my computer, and watching this trailer with a huge goofy grin on my face and literally bouncy up and down on the couch. I think my mom thought I was nearing hysteria.

    Actually, watching this trailer eased a lot of my Hunger Games movie jitters. I loved Gale, I really thought they got his character right. I especially digged his vest. I also felt a lot better about Jennifer Lawrence portraying Katniss, it's a huge role to step into.

    I think though, of all the characters, Effie Trinket was the best. I loved how they took characterisics of Effie, like her crazy personality and complete obliviousy and used it all in her make-up. They made her look completely Effie-esque without even including the bright, hot pink wig she's so known for. Everything down to the way she tilted her torso when calling out the tribute was perfect.

    I'm still not sure about Peeta. I like the scene on the rooftop they showed, and I liked where they made him look young and innocent in the train looking out the window, but there's something about him that really doesn't seem right. He'll still have to prove himself to me.

    I also thought Haymitch was weird, what was with the hair? I always thought Haymitch was supposed to be bald, not long flowing obviously fake blonde wigs. That was strange.

    I really enjoyed how the trailer was focused on the events that happened before the actual Games, and not the Games itself. I think the really did a good job setting the mood for the entire movie, without giving anything of great importance away. I think the part I'm most excited for has to be the interviews. It was by far my favourite part in the books.

    I really hope, for my sake and the sake of all the actors and producers of the Hunger Games movie, that this turns out well. As I'm sure a lot of you know, Hunger Games fans tend to be slightly violent.

   That's all for now guys, I'll post links to the trailer and teaser trailer below for your enjoyment. More blogging soon!

DFTBA
Olivia :D

Official Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9a5V9ODuY
Teaser Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpWHkiq744k&feature=related

 

NaNoWriMo?

Greetings Earthlings,

    So earlier today I posted something on my blog called "YouTuber of the day: italktosnakes" In that post, I think I said something along the lines of "Kristina makes vlogs about NaNoWriMo" although I can't remember the exact quote. Anyways, it took me only a couple seconds after I posted it to realize a lot of you probably have no idea what NaNoWriMo is. Well, I'm gonna explain it to you!

    NaNoWriMo is the abbreviated form of National Novel Writing Month, in which people from all over the globe struggle to write 50 000 in as much as 30 days and nights. Still confused? Alright, let's continue.

  The correct pronounciation if NaNoWriMo is NaaaNoooWryyyMooo (That's me trying to sound it out for you) but people like italktosnakes (and myself) pronounce it NaaaNoooWreeMooo (According to Hayley G. Hoover it's the "Potter Fan" pronounciation). Following along? Moving on.

    NaNoWriMo lasts through out the entire month of November, and in order to reach the goal of 50 000 words, you need to be able to write 1667 words each day. Which, in case you couldn't infer, is a lot. Making any more sense? Keep Following.

    NaNoWriMo was founded in 1999 by Chris Baty, that year, there were only 21 participants, and last year (2010) there were over 200 000 participants, who wrote in total 2, 872, 682, 109 words. Are you comprehending? Keep reading!

    Since the first year of NaNoWriMo, ten novels that were written during the of November for NaNoWriMo have been published. Including The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and The Compound by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen.

    Okay that's all I got for ya, I hope now NaNoWriMo makes a bit more sense. This is my first year doing NaNoWriMo, so I'm almost as confused as some of you! It's a bit late to join this year, since it's almost the middle of November, but I highly recommend you try it out next year if you aren't already participating, it's a lot of work, but the pay-off is well worth it.

    If you're still confused on this topic, I highly suggest you read my friend Emma's blog. She does a daily journal-like entry on her experience with NaNoWriMo. You should also check out these websites and videos:

Emma's Blog (Inflatable Furniture and Bubble Wrap): http://nanowrimoemjk.blogspot.com
NaNoWriMo website: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en
NaNoWriMo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGRDik-e8zg
NaNoWriMo song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78mvUeBw7MM

That's all for now guess, happy writing!
DFTBA
Olivia :)

Youtuber of the Day: italktosnakes

Greetings Earthings,

    Well, today I'm stuck in bed with a cold, so I thought I would write you all a little recommendation blog about a YouTuber I enjoy: italktosnakes.

    Kristina Horner, or italktosnakes, started her YouTube account on March 1st 2007, and her first video was a video response to "How has Harry Potter impacted your life?", although her videos only really started developing revenue with her 2007 Project For Awesome video, in which she and a friend, Liz, wrote notes to Nerdfighters who didn't know they were Nerdfighters, and placed them throughout novels in the library.

    In 2008, Kristina started a program with four other YouTubers calles "5 Awesome Girls".  The videos revolved around Kristina, Lauren, Kayley, Hayley, and Liane. Each one of the girls was dedicated a week day and each day they would make a video on why that day is awesome. The channel ended around the beginning of 2011, and the channel has over 600 videos.

    Kristina is also in a Wizard Rock band, the Parselmouths, and another band with Luke Conard, ALL CAPS. Both band are in association with DFTBA records.

    Kristina makes videos at least twice a month, from things like NaNoWriMo, Wizard Rock, and Nerdfighters. To random vlogs about important happenings in her life and the occasional song. Currently, she has over 100, 000 subscribers. She also has a second channel called kristinahorner, in which she does more random vlogs about her life or less polished videos that don't end up on her main channel.

    I love Kristina and her videos, I suggest you check them out too! Thanks for enduring this rant guys, I thought you'd all enjoy some recommendations :) Okay, back to cough medicine and sleep, more blogs to come!

DFTBA
Olivia :D

italktosnakes: http://www.youtube.com/user/italktosnakes?blend=1&ob=4
5 awesome girls: http://www.youtube.com/user/fiveawesomegirls
kristinahorner: http://www.youtube.com/user/kristinahorner

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Nerdfighters

Greetings Earthlings,

    So, I'm guessing from my title "Unicorns, Nerdfighters, and Wizard Rock" some of you have had some speculation as to what a Nerdfighter really is. Well, ponder no further, because for today's blog, I'm going to teach you of the basic knowledge of Nerdfighteria.

    The official definition of a Nerfighter, or at least what I gathered from Urban Dictionary " People who instead of being made up of cells and organs and stuff are actually made of awesome. They fight decepticons on behalf of Nerds everywhere"

    Nerdfighters, despite what you might think, are not people who fight nerds, they are nerds that fight worldsuck, which is, according to Hank Green, "the amount of suck in the world". The general motto and initialism for Nerfighteria is DFTBA, which stands for Don't Forget To Be Awesome.

    Some famous Nerdfighters include Hank and John Green. Hank runs the website EcoGeek and John is an author who wrote novels such as An Abundance of Catherines and Paper Towns. Other Nerdfighters who are recognisable are Charlie McDonnel, Alex Day, and Kristina Horner. Each of which are YouTubers and musicians for DFTBA records.

    "Am I too young, old, fat, skinny, weird, cool, pretty, handsome, tall, dead, to be a nerdfighter?"
NOPE. In the words of John Green "If you want to be a Nerdfighter, you are a Nerdfighter."

   Well, thanks for enduring that brief history of Nerfighteria, if you want to know more:

Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/0/FyQi79aYfxU
Or visit this website: http://nerdfighters.ning.com/

That's for now guys! More to come later!
DFTBA
Olivia :D


 

First Post! Hi!

Greetings Earthlings,

    Today marks an important event in history, something that could change the course of our universe forever...that's right, folks, it's the day I started my blog!

   Welcome, ladies, gentleman, and hopefully ponies, to Library of Awesome. A blog in which you, the reader, can come to explore a world of My Little Pony, NaNoWriMo, YouTube, books, movies, and so much more.

    I'm really excited to be starting this blog. To be honest, I need a hobbie. Plus, I feel blogging is something I've always been meaning to do, but never actually had the chance. So here it goes! Please don't be put off by my insanity, I feel like I can be normal, occasionally. And people who know me say I'm really awesome (I think, I've never really asked them...don't go check that with any of my friends)

    Okay, I'm going to stop rambling now. Enjoy my blog! More entries to come!

Olivia :D