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[Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Okay so after the last entry, I'm obviously not completely over everything, but I mean, it was 3 years of trying to figure out what the guy wants. ![]() ![]() Relationships should be a 50/50 thing. And granted we weren't a relationship, but there were times I thought we were heading there. Obviously, it looks like I was wrong. ![]() I like this song. I really like Raelynn- I think her lyrics have a great truth to them. I mean, a guy like CG- he seems very sensitive in the sense that he's supposedly nice to everyone. But when he's sending out signals everywhere to everyone, that becomes a problem because then all the females flock to him and fall under this "spell". I will openly admit I was one of them and I thought we were headed somewhere more than friendship. At this rate, though, I do vow to care less. ![]() ![]() |
I’m gonna try (note TRY, not actually guaranteed ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyways today I’m torn between “A Million Dreams” and “Come Alive”. ![]() [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] This song was the midterm song for Jazz. It’s super fun, and the dance helped me gain more confidence in myself and my performance skills (or lack thereof ![]() ![]() ![]() I also like that this song starts out so soft and slow, but then ends on such a high. As the Jazz instructor said, it’s definitely a flash mob type of song. ![]() ![]() Annd it’s time for class so maybe(?) I’ll be back later. ![]() |
[Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Hands-down my current favorite song from Disney right now, I'd have to say. I mean, WATCH THE VIDEO! The choreography is amazing, and I love how Hook Jr (Captain Hook's son, Harry- Uma's first mate, finds so many rhymes for "debilitate" ![]() ![]() Rhymes and choreography aside, I like this song because it's catchy! The beat and tempo make you so pumped when you listen to it- to where I'm slightly falling asleep as I write this because I'm just exhausted overall. I also keep getting distracted. ![]() Long story short here on why I like the song- it pumps you up, it's from Descendants, and the choreo is awesome. It also makes me want to choreograph my own thing for it. ![]() Also, someone turned the heat on again in this apartment and I'm sweltering. ![]() ![]() |
Oh, so we're moving into current playlists now, are we? There's really no way I can choose 7 songs from what I've been listening to recently, so I'm just gonna open up Pandora every night and see what they give me. ![]() [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Pandora's choice tonight- Superstar from Make it Pop Just a caution for those visiting my blog this week- I recently switched from a heavily country music station to one that's mostly K-Pop (XO-IQ/Make it Pop) and soundtracks from various movies- anything from High School Musical, to Sing, to The Greatest Showman is all fair game at this point. ![]() ![]() This is definitely one of my "dance in the room" songs- it's also fun to turn it up when I'm in the kitchen or the common area- I'll blast my music and sing loudly, mostly to annoy a certain roommate who's always cold. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's also a very kid-friendly song.... I had a dream one night that after I graduated, I'd gone back to my dance studio at home and I started teaching dance there. If that dream does actually come true, I can imagine these soundtrack songs being pretty appropriate for kids' recital dances- I mean, looking at the CNY program for Chinese school, one of the classes is doing "Let it Go"- which is DEFINITELY not Chinese. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
[Embed For Use By Upgraded+] This song pretty much desribes how I feel about everything right now. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm also so done with research, because yes, my advisor is nice and everything, but she's slow- it took her 1 1/2 months to return any of my parts I sent her during fall quarter- my first deadline was before Thanksgiving, and she didn't return anything until mid-January. ![]() ![]() Yeah and doing those 1-minute heartrate things is TERRIBLE. I usually don't mind doing tech stuff and all that, but this is just too much. ![]() I also love my job at Chinese School, but the New Year celebration is so stressing me out because my kids just don't seem into the dance or celebration, which makes it stressful on me as well because I want to have something to show for my first year teaching. ![]() Annnd my secret shop next week is on Monday morning in the medical school, and I saw online that they're closed?! so we'll have to see- maybe I'll try to call them tomorrow or something and see. ![]() |
I'm torn if I want to do another TNS song or another Delta Goodrem song at this point, because Delta is raw. ![]() ![]() ![]() [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Fun Fact: I actually didn't like this song when it first came out. Actually, I wasn't a big fan of Adele in general. Now, my opinion's totally changed, though. ![]() Ummmm it's Delta Goodrem- do I really need to say more? Also, Jessie J is in there. *shrug* they're two very powerful voices and combined together, as Jayne ![]() ![]() Reminds me a bit of the Mr. CG, and his occasional/frequent disappearances, but that's about it.... We also played it at board meetings at one point, but I'm done going on about that group because yeah, I'm done. ![]() |
[Embed For Use By Upgraded+] "Don't take enemies for friends"- just, holy crow, how accurate is this song in retrospect? ![]() ![]() That organization was not toxic, and I successfully stayed on for the full year. ![]() For me, at that time, though, I suppose the biggest irony was all those groups talked about "safe spaces" and the "Vegas rule" (what's said here, stays here, what's learned here, leaves here ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Yeah she's a math major. No surprise there, really. She's an international student. ![]() She also claims she doesn't cook. Buuut towards the beginning of the quarter, I'm fairly certain she claimed to enjoy cooking. She even volunteered to cook for me. ![]() ![]() So here's how it went down just now: I was eating my dinner. She knocked on the door. I opened it- and she demanded we make an agreement about the A/C because she was cold. She suggested I only have the A/C on for an hour every day. We said some stuff, I mentioned she needs to start taking out the common area trash as well when it's full- she claims she doesn't put raw meat into the trash, because she doesn't cook meat. All the while, she's trying to peek into my room, so I close the door a bit so I'm pretty much blocking her view of the room. ![]() She said she doesn't know how to cook meat. She shows me the meat she has, that's all cooked, and says that's all the meat she has- it's all cooked, because she doesn't know how to handle meat. She brought in cooked meat from China. I ask her how she managed that, and she says "I don't think that's your business". we go back to heatedly discussing the A/C. She says she's cold, I say I'm warm. ![]() She tells me that yeah, "customs checked it twice *holds up 2 fingers*" and said it was "very safe" because it's "in a plastic bag" and it's "not raw- r-o-w, raw, right?" I nod. ![]() currently, her meat is frozen, so there's probably no way to actually tell if she's lying or not, but she's in the kitchen now, and doesn't sound very happy from the thumping around. She's turned off the A/C, but I don't know if anyone else sees the problem with her story.... 1. Any meat would probably go bad by the time it gets from China to the US 2. You're not even allowed to bring in meat in the first place 3. even if she had frozen the meat, it would've thawed in her luggage by the time she arrived in the US 4. a plastic bag does not automatically make meat safe. ![]() Yeah, so nice try, I don't believe you, even if I said I did, just to make you go away ![]() |
Besides the craft of writing, are you an artist in any other medium? Sculptor, singer, dancer, painter? Share a story about your talent! Aaaannnnd... I’ll be awarding another MB this Creation Saturday! Well Kit ![]() ![]() ![]() I have artsy hobbies, yes. Talents? no. ![]() Dance, for starters: I'm making my kiddos (Chinese School) dance for Chinese New Year, and the choreography is mine, but it's so simple, I don't even think it's considered much of a feat. ![]() Also, I'm taking 2 dance classes this quarter for fun- ballet and jazz. It's interesting because neither class is stretching before we begin ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoy drawing/art. I bought a book in Taiwan last year, that's kind of a "how to draw everything" type of thing for beginners- catch is, it's all in Chinese. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At one point last (school) year, I was doing lots of GNR drawing- Slash and Axl Rose for the most part, because classes were boring and one in particular was not fond of technology personal devices. ![]() ![]() I played piano from mid-elementary school through 12th grade. Mom was kinda overbearing on the practicing, since Sis and I took lessons, which also meant yearly examinations from a posh, certified board that flew in once a year from London (Trinity Guildhall, if anyone's interested). ![]() ![]() ![]() On a nicer note, I'm also learning guitar now. This, however, is on my own terms- I saved up heaps of $5 Amazon gift cards to get it, and I use Yousician (an app) to learn songs and such. It's good, not great, but since it's free, I'm using it. They have subscriptions you can buy, too, and maybe once I'm off of school for good after this quarter, I'll buy a short one and see how it compares. Realistically speaking, you can only play guitar for so long before your fingers get seriously pained. ![]() ![]() Annd yeah, for someone who was raised not-very artsy, I think that's alot of art for one person. ![]() ![]() And those would be my "stories" I suppose. ![]() |
If you were a fighter pilot in the Navy or Air Force, what would be your Call Sign? Why? Example: Ice Man from Top Gun. Probably Flamebreather. Because I use it for everything else. ![]() The heroes in Matthew Reilly's books all have call signs, like Scarecrow, Pooh, Mother, and a couple others I won't name because they're over my blog rating. ![]() Anyways, usually they all have some sort of story or significance behind them, and aside from me thinking it was a really kick-butt name when I chose it in middle school, I don't think there's too much significance behind flamebreather. How I did choose it though, was after scamming the system. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My original screenname was something like "charlirox" or something along those lines- probably with some numbers involved too ![]() And then I forgot the password to the account when I re-joined it in high school.... so I made a new account- to be completely separate from charlirox. I gave it some thought and decided "flamebreather" sounded cool enough. Not to mention, it did kind of have a boyish tone to it. Charlirox was definitely a girl, and flamebreather was definitely not charlirox. So, I went with it. I also made a bunch of friends on that site- so if anyone knows a kellietim or lismosnus, or if they ever happen to read this post, ![]() As for "flamebreather," I used it again for WdC, and then Instagram, and Gems of War... and the GoW guilds I joined definitely thought flamebreather was a cool name, so I'm glad I stuck with it. ![]() Which, ultimately means, if I needed a call sign, you could call me flamebreather. ![]() |