I'm so tired of having to choose between getting a warm shower and getting enough sleep to function. My brothers take showers at 9:00, even though they're supposed to at 8:30. I have to take a shower at 9:15 to get enough sleep. (It takes a while for me to wash my hair, and I wake up a lot earlier than them, too.) Very often, the shower is so cold that I literally can't stand in it for more than ten seconds without violently shivering. I could wait thirty minutes to an hour more for the water to warm up to a bearable temperature, but then I wouldn't get to sleep until 11:30 or so. (It also generally takes me 45 minutes to an hour to fall asleep... so...) So I would only get at most six hours of sleep (and generally not even this because I wake up a lot at night when I'm stressed, and during school, this is most of the time.) Just really sick of all of this! (Going to go to bed now--- yay for seven hours of sleep!)

Have you ever been so jealous of someone that every time you look at them, you want either them or you to die?

Complicated

:L

Transcendence

I went to see Transcendence with my whole family a few hours ago. (It's a thing we'll do on break days when none of us has something to do.) That was a freaky movie. I honestly didn't really understand the story at all, because even the actors seemed confused about what was going on, but it was entertaining. I mean, Morgan Freeman and Johnny Depp? That would probably make any movie entertaining. It was pretty cool, though, especially the special effects. Rate: 6 out of 10.

We all went out to Eat 'n Park afterwards. I got a cheeseburger and a milkshake, but then immediately regretted it because I had forgotten that all of the milkshakes in Mentor are gross. My dad made this big deal about how awesome the cod was, but I'm like, in my head, 'How awesome can it be? It's fish.' Maybe it's just me, but seafood is gross.

Also, I'm 14.75 today. Go me. :)

Why Today is Awesome

          So, first off, today is awesome because I don't have school and I was finally able to catch up with the sleep that I lost stressing out about the end of the grading period. Yay! Also, it's about sixty degrees outside, and that in general just makes today two times better.
          Also, I just went to the dollar store, and got caramel, twizzlers, yorks, and two kinds of gum for $5. And then the cashier said that she remembered me from a play I did last summer, and that I was a good dancer. So I'm in a good mood. (And I have a fan! Weeee!)
          Today is just really good because there is nothing that I have to do, and I can enjoy it however I want.

I know this is probably a weird thing to start talking about, but the weather is really bugging me. Like, today it's 73 and overcast, and on Tuesday it's going to be like 34 and snowing. MAKE UP YOUR MIND. I'm starting to wear shorts and break out the flip-flops, and now I have to dig out my snow boots again... :P

I'm ridiculously tired and my dog just wants to play... :(

School started again. Blech.

          My mom and I went to see the Divergent movie today. I guess it wasn't as bad as I expected, but then, it did not live up to expectations set by the book (which I guess is hard to do when a movie is based off of a book). Character development was a little weak, and I felt like a lot of the plot was lost when the audience didn't know Tris' thoughts, especially on choosing a faction.
          They left out the eye stabbing, part of the aptitude test, and the capture the flag guns change from paintballs to darts that simulate what a real gunshot feels like. I also kept getting Will, Al, and Peter confused. They looked really similar. It was sort of creepy.
          Personally, I think that if you haven't read the book, you could probably still watch the movie, but you might have some questions. So, after the movie, you might want to read the book. My dad and little brothers are going to see the movie next weekend, and they haven't read the book. My mom and I went alone this weekend to see if the movie was appropriate for eleven year old boys. I think it's not, because it really is a teenage girl kind of movie, I think. But they thought The Hunger Games was okay, so I guess we'll see.
          I rate the movie seven out of ten. Despite all of the things I have mentioned, there were some good effects to the movie that made you get into the simulations, and that sort of thing, and the movie did tell most of the story.
          I honestly wonder how the critics will see this movie. If they have read the book, the rating will probably be less, but it really depends on how many people watching the movie have read the book, and how many haven't. Based on the advertising and previews, though, I think it will be more people who have read the book. The previews don't explain that much about the story, and so I think the people who have read the books and know the story are more likely to see the movie.

Ridiculously Awful Nail Polish

         So I painted my nails this gorgeous dark blue, and then used a nail polish pen to make white dots on my ring fingers, (which turned out surprisingly well, even though I'm not ambidextrous) and then I put a clear polish coat on top so it wouldn't chip. And it didn't chip exactly. But I spent an hour painting and drying my nails.........
         

Only to have six fingers of polish peel up and fall off while I was in the shower.

 

          I don't know what I really expected with cheap jelly bean scented nail polish, but this was just so ridiculous, I had to say something about it. (Also, I only found five of the six pieces... I have the feeling I'm going to find the missing piece in my hair tomorrow... Ew...)

          I'm just so irritated, because I spent so long doing my nails and they looked pretty good, and now I have nothing to show for all of my hard work. (Say what you might about painting nails being "hard work", but I had to repaint my right ring finger three times because my left hand kept messing up the dots.)

          Needless to say, I will not be using this nail polish again:

 



          So my mom is reading the Divergent series now. I finished the series over winter break, but now I have to wait for her to get into the second book before we can go see the movie.
          Personally, I think this whole "dystopian fiction" thing is getting out of hand. Yes, it's a little fun to imagine how terribly awful our country and world will be in the years to come, and I'm sure there are quite a few ways that could go, but after a while, everything starts to sound the same.
          In Divergent, what bothers me the most is that it's not so different from every other dystopian fiction book. People are separated into organized places, some fighting/dying goes on as part of everyday life, there is political corruption, rebellion/war happens, and in the end people realize how totally pointless it all is.
          And, of course, the mandatory love interest: Four.
          The book to movie thing kind of bugs me, too. Because honestly, Shailene Woodley looks nothing like Tris is supposed to, except for being blonde. (And don't even get me started on Shailene Woodley playing Hazel in "The Fault in Our Stars". The snark is killing me. And the haircut. And the shortness. I'm just really depressed about this because "The Fault in Our Stars" is one of my favorite books, and I thought it would be awesome if they made a movie, and then it goes and turns out like that.)
          So, anyway, we'll probably end up seeing the movie tomorrow or sometime next weekend. I'm also trying to persuade mom to let me go shopping. I need floral prints. And dresses. Because I apparently grew the half-inch more that made three of my favorite dresses look "too low" on the neckline and "too high" on the hem. Sigh.
          Also shoes. Because shoes.
          So I leave you with some pictures of my disappointments for today.

 

Love this!

 

I really want to make this! But we are lacking anything sweet here... :(

My mom is going to a knitting convention called Knitter's Fantasy. This is her spinning wheel, in a giant backpack (and that's me, modelling the 2014-2015 school year's trend in backpacks for high school students with over five hours of homework each night). I think it's kind of dorky that she is only 49 and she's already taken up knitting and spinning, but I guess that everyone needs a hobby. (That just isn't going to be one of mine...)

I think this is called an introduction

          So... I figured I should get more involved with this whole "blog" thing, at least as a way to collect my opinions. And I do have a lot of opinions. I'm probably also going to post pictures. And random things I find on Tumblr. And stuff about my dog, Baxter. (He's a peka-poo, aka a Pekingese-poodle mix, and he is also the cutest dog in existence.)
          I might also post some things about books, or clothes, or movies, or whatever. Because I'm a teenager and I think about these things.
          Some things about me: I'm fourteen right now, drastically taller than all of my friends, and I am really good at (sigh) math. My favorite color is purple (officially, but sometimes it's green, orange, blue, or red, too, because my favorite color changes with my mood). I also might abandon this blog for months at a time because nothing interesting is happening, I have no time, or I forgot I made a blog. (It's happened before.) I play tennis, go to dance class four hours per week, play violin, and am a Girl Scout. (And no, I am not too old. You have to stay in it this long to get to the real community work. Although this doesn't really help during cookie selling season.)
          I have two little brothers who are eleven (they're twins, but the fraternal kind so it's not as interesting as it sounds). It's sort of funny, because one has blond hair, blue eyes, and doesn't really talk to people that much, and the other has brown hair, brown eyes, and talks to everyone ALL THE TIME. They like most sports (except they don't play football, and I'm kind of thankful for that because there are a lot of creeps at my school who play football). They also like x-box games where many people die in many different ways.
          My mom and dad both work at the same place. My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom works in supply chain. She doesn't really like her job that much, but it works.
          That's all there really is to my life right now.

An Afterthought:

          Also, it's really cold and rainy here right now. It's depressing. We got out of ridiculous blizzards and dangerously low temperatures to get weather that resembles hurricanes. Thank you ever so much, Nature.

          So that was my rant for today.