I Don't Understand Why Anyone Still Reads This Blog

I have 800 views.

I don't know whether to be thankful or worried.

Thank you.

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Still Sick of The Melodramatics

Le me, scrollin through teh internetz...

WHEN SUDDENLY

"No one knows how many times I've cried"
"No one knows how sad I am"
"My life sucks"
"I don't eat because I think I'm fat" (*cough*)
"Random, super cheesy 'inspirational quote' about depression"
"Our generation is the saddest"

I. Am. Sick. Of. Melodramatic. Teenage. Girls.

I seriously don't know if they're just begging for attention or what. That many people cannot be depressed. And besides, the real depressed people wouldn't make pointless posts on the internet. They would be in bed, staring at the ceiling. Not motivated to do anything. That is depression.

I know that this is really pointless, and really short, and I already talked about this before, but it really annoys me. It's just a huge, stupid cliche at this point. If you make posts like this, for the love of God, STAHP.

Toodles!
-Vienna

P.S. AAAUGHAUGHGHRUAHGHAURHRGHAUHG!

Holy Crap, You Must Really Like Me!

I haven't been posting in furevah and y'all keep coming! I'll have you know that my life hasn't been interesting lately. But guess what? I have (as of now) 650 views! Why do you still like me?!

Anyways, you deserve the stats, since you worked so hard:

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United Arab Emirates

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Philippines

5

Spain

4

How crackalicious.

Toodles!

-Vienna

School Started Today

Guess what happened today?

School started! Yay! :D






Just kidding, I hate school.

Today was slow and boring. But I do think that I'll make a lot of new friends this year, because one of the schools in the district closed and now all of the students transferred to mine. I think I might have already sprouted some friendships today. : )

I also found myself a friend to fangirl with. She was here last year, but we never really clicked until today when we found out that we both were obsessed with Hetalia. We totally squealed and flipped out.

I think I'll like most of my teachers, especially for first period. She's perky and happy, but doesn't take no crap from nobody. So that's cool. But I don't think I like my teacher for fourth period. SHe just kind of... has an aura of... no around her. DX

Someone that I hated last year is riding the bus again. I was so relieved when he left and now he's back, the totally immature, stupid, stuck up, lying, hypocritical little butt. I want to punch him in the face with a honey badger that's on fire and saturated with acid. You can tell that I hate him a lot. But he's not the only totally bat crap crazy little jerk I'm forced into close quarters with. But he's one of them. I think I'll save the others for a later date.

Toodles!
-Vienna

P.S. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEREEEERRERREREREREGHGHGHGHGHGHGH.

I'M BACK~!

Guess where I went! Just kidding. You can guess, but I won't tell you.

But I CAN tell you that  I went camping, and it was fun. Some of our family's friends rented a boy scout camp for memorial day weekend, and that's where we went. There were a lot of people there, and about five or six toddlers. We had lots of fun, roasting marshmallows, and generally just hanging out the whole time.

To my delight, though, there was a nice, pretty river flowing next to the camp site. It was so pretty that I HAD to go swimming. It had a lazy current and at the deepest parts only went up to my shoulders. Plus, it was really pretty and clear.

I was going to write a whole two paragraphs about swimming but I decided to just cut to the good part: I cut my foot. Twice. The first time it was a tiny little thing, but the second time was deep, and maybe an inch long. It sucked. I asked my dad to help me, but quite honestly, he didn't give a potato. He was more fascinated with the bugs that walked on the water.

I just put on some socks and kept swimming, though. I couldn't resist the pretty water.

Did I mention that the water was pretty?

Anyways, there was a little girl there, let's just call her Mary, and the last time I had met her was when she was two. She didn't remember me, but warmed up to me quickly. And she really, really liked me. What can I say? I'm a likable person. She had me draw her animals in her sketchbook, and while I did, everyone told me how good I was. I don't mean to brag, but I am pretty good at chibi and manga. But I have a long way to go before I'm a professional.

I really don't have much to say otherwise, nothing interesting, anyways, so I'll sign off here.

Toodles!
-Vienna

P.S. I have to feeling that my blog has gotten boring a while ago.

Over 500 Page Views!

It's a little late, but thank you for reading my blog and giving it over 500 views! I'm really happy that people like my blog so much. It also makes me really happy when people comment on my posts. :3

Here are the stats, like always:

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I lurv you all.

Toodles!
-Vienna

On Vacation Once Again

I went away again! Did you miss me? Of course not, silly goose. I wasn't gone that long.

This one wasn't much of a "vacation," though. We just had to go away to get my brother from military training camp (he wants to me in the Navy as a guy who defuses bombs using robots. I know, awesome). We got to the hotel and visited a candy store (my mom loves buying hoards of candy, but don''t get me wrong, she's not fat at all whatsoever.), and we got back with a ton of chocolate. We ate maybe 30% of it. :P

But the wifi there was painfully slow. So we decided to go to the pool. And let me tell you this now: I get really, really awkward in a pool with other people, unless it's just a little kid there or something. When we got to the pool, it was empty (yay!) but after about two minutes, a bunch of people came in. It totally sucked. After a while I "gave up" and left.

More painfully slow internet. I managed to download an app (Plague Inc. It's really fun!)on my tablet which kept me entertained.

We left the next day for the graduation ceremony (my brother and his group were moving up a rank. Yay!) and my brother was really happy to get out of there. By the way he was wearing - tee hee - a sailor suit. Yeah, it wasn't as funny as I thought it would be, but we got pancakes afterwards and got to listen to my brother and his friend tell stories.

...We were PLANNING on leaving for home afterwards, when we were invited to my brother's friend's beach house that their family rented. And let me tell you another thing: whenever I go to someone's house,  always feel like I'm imposing... it's really awkward for me. But I put on my big girl pants and complied, and I suppose it was fun, I guess. At one point we went down to the beach, stood in a line, and watched the sun set for ten minutes. We were trying to see the legendary "green flash" but there were clouds on the horizon that blocked the sun and prevented it from shining on the water. We went back and watched Tarzan afterwards. Just because.

And now I'm home.

Toodles!
-Vienna

P.S. I'll be leaving again next weekend for an event my parents' friends' are having... and we don't even know what they're celebrating. Oh well, at least we get to stay in a hotel again!

Biospheres, Action, and Sad Quotes

I decided to make some biospheres recently. If you don't know what those are, Google how to make them, you'll get the idea. While I was making them, I went to the lake to get some water to add to the sphere. I took a big 32 oz jar and when I got there, I felt like an evil genius in the process of their master plan. Mwahahaha. When I was filling up the jar, everyone was staring at me. I guess mere mortals wouldn't understand my complex plan for world domination. I made one for my friend too... My shrimp and my snail both died, and my friend's shrimp died... Oops.

I REGRET NOTHING!!!

Today my friend came over. We actually got really bored. So, we decided to invent something. Behold, the newest to-be trend. Tell everyone about it. I beg you. Please make this a thing.

Anyways, the thing that we invented is called prank packaging. It's where you make a package that looks like a just because gift, write a nice note, and fill it with something extremely random. We used a few rocks and a piece of a cement block that we wrote "Super Larry" on in Sharpie. You tie it up with some ribbon. Then you leave it on your friend's door step. Surprise!

Yeah, I know, it's lame. But we were really bored and nobody would answer their phones for prank calls.

We got bored again after delivering the package. So we decided to create a stupid, random action movie. I don't want to describe it, because you might stumble upon it and my true identity will be revealed. And that would suck. but it was really funny, and we  laughed every time we watched it.

On to the next subject.

I go on some social networking sites, and I keep seeing these pages called "Teenager Quotes" or "Teenager Whatever" and they're always filled with all these quotes and phrases with pretty fonts and pictures. But what I don't understand is why they're always so sad. For instance, they say stuff like this: "Shout out to all the people who never knew their lives would be so messed up" or "People don't understand what kind of crap we go through" or "Just because I'm smiling, doesn't mean I'm okay". It makes it sound like every teenager is depressed, or they are hated by everyone. Yeah, life has its ups and downs. You're going to feel really crappy some days. But guess what, princess? That only happens sometimes. The rest of the time, everything's normal. You're just choosing to take the normal negative stuff that happens sometimes, and blowing it way out of proportion. It's like crying that it's flooded because your lawn is squishy after a rainstorm.

And besides, like my grandma said: "It's your choice to be happy or sad." I used to not believe this, I mean you can't help your emotions, right? But later I learned that it's much better to just to forget about things. It's in the past now. You can't change what happened, it's not going to ruin your life, so why dwell on it? I became a much happier person after that.

Toodles!
-Vienna

P.S. It's been thundering the past three days.

YAY! 400 Page Views!

Why thank you, my dear viewers, for reading my random blabberings about life in general. It makes me feel popular. I don' know if I have any "fans" that comeback over and over, but I pretend that I do. X3

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Thank you, my minions!

Toodles!

-Vienna

A Beautiful Beach Vacation!

When most people think of summer vacation, they think of free spirits packing up their cars, yelling "Smell 'ya later!" and heading for the sunny beaches.

Well, I got in the spirit and did the same thing. The only thing is, the beaches here are cloudy and cold, but I threw on a sweatshirt and jeans and had a ton of fun. I don't really want to tell you all the details since it will most definitely reveal where I live, so I'll just tell you about when we went to one of the beaches.

We were all jacked up about taking pictures, since my mother is a professional and I am aspiring to be one. She let me use one of her fancy shmancy cameras, and even if I still really suck, I made up for it with my underwater pictures.

We went to that specific beach for the tide pools there, which were filled with green sea anemones and orange and purple starfish. And tiny crabs and.... it wasn't kelp... and I'm pretty sure it wasn't seaweed...

Anyhow, I had brought my waterproof camera, so I would stick it into the water and cross my finders. Here are my favorite shots:

Cool, right? I cheated a little, because I put the "vivid" setting on my camera which made the colors brighter, but that's okay, right?

By the way, I had a little mishap while I was there that made me feel really bad. Along the sides of most of the tide pools were some little anemones that were all closed up and waiting for high tide. I tried to get close to a tide pool to take a picture when I accidentally slipped an a patch of the little guys! Good thing the water was shallow so I didn't get too wet, but I just hope I didn't hurt the poor things!

Oh! And for people like me out there, I saw something really cool, and I took some pictures... I found the mystery machine!

One of the days close to the end of the trip, we visited a small town and got hungry so we decided to eat at a Chinese restaurant. It was really good and it was pretty inside, too. I found a red vegetable in my chicken and I thought it was a slice of bell pepper, and I like bell peppers, so I popped it into my mouth. It was kinda leathery, unlike the soft, squishy texture of bell peppers, so I knew that I was eating a whole pepper of a different kind. Then it started to burn. I chewed it up and swallowed, and let me tell you, it really, really burned. A lot. I was shaking. I gulped down my whole glass of water and sucked on the ice cubes, but it still burned. My mother laughed and told the waitress what happened, and she laughed too. And no, I was not offended, because it actually was pretty funny. After we paid the bill and left, my mouth still burned, so my mother bought me some Dibs from the gas station. :D

Okay, welp, that's about all of the exciting stuff you're going to get from me. The rest, you wouldn't really care about. But it was really fun.

Toodles!

-Vienna

P.S. Nalu forever!

Just a Short Viennafans Service Announcement

I just want to let you know that there is a very important list on the side of the page, titled "Too Short For Whole Posts". I update that every once in a while when I have something short to say, so please check it out whenever you remember. : )

Toodles!
-Vienna

Why The Beatles are better than One Direction (Part 2)

YO! IMPORTANT: before you read this, read my newest post, "All Artists Are Equal"

I'll admit, I didn't do my research on 1D. I was basing my answers on the reasons on the original post that some person made somewhere at some time about that one thing. It seems that we have an expert on 1D in the audience that has enlightened me with knew knowledge on them, that I will now work off of to make a more accurate report. Enjoy.

1. The Beatles, as a whole band, have been awarded 14 gold records in the U.K. Paul McCartney, the bassist, has been awarded 17 in the U.K. and 20 in the U.S. The Beatles have only won, I'll admit, 13 awards and have only been nominated for 35, but that's probably because there were less awards to win back then (not that I'm making excuses or anything)!

2. There are very few songs that The Beatles performed and didn't write. They had only produced 21 covers out of their entire collection of  over 200 songs. The covers were mostly in their early years when they were just starting, and the rest they just did for fun here and there. One Direction, apparently, wrote some of their songs, an performed in some of their songs, but mostly, they are written for them and they don't play most of the instruments.

3. As I said in part one of this... uh... series, you could call it, I mentioned that The Beatles were pretty much brothers. They shared their hotel rooms, rode in the same car (okay, maybe that wasn't their choice)... the list is endless, but their producer said something about it so it's legit. *puts on reading glasses that I don't need and looks over a piece of paper* And it says here that that's pretty much the same with 1D, so I guess I can't bash it. BUT The Beatles DID NOT break up because they didn't like each other. Yes, they were fighting at the time, but after a while of being apart, they were besties again.

4. Aaaaaaaaaand it says here that 1D wanted to "master" the art of song, and that's why it took a year. Well, all this says to me is that they were too inexperienced to begin quite yet. The Beatles had been playing for a very long time before they recorded their first album, therefore, they knew their stuff. Besides, I'm sure that Johnny's throat got better after a week or so. It was just a cold.

5. John Lennon, the rhythm guitarist who started the band, was interviewed in 1971, and was asked if the songs of his "Give Peace a Chance" and "Power to The People" were propaganda songs, and he replied: "Sure. So was 'All You Need Is Love'. I'm a revolutionary artist. My art is dedicated to change." He also created the "Hair Peace, Bed Peace" thingy. Yeah. I haven't heard a word of 1D being dedicated to change for the better.

6. Here's a reason that I really like: One Direction COPIES The Beatles. "All You Need is Love" was written by, you guessed it, the one and only BEATLES! And guess what? Their album cover or whatever that picture is from... them walking across the crosswalk together? Look up "The Beatles Abbey Road album cover" on Google Images. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

7. I don't see why changing names is a bad thing. I find it good, because they made their band perfect before they got too popular. If they had kept it to the original "Quarry Men", they probably would have been real sick of it forever. :P

8. I'm too lazy to write this one.

9. Yeah, having long hair wasn't the style then, and according to this expert over here, still isn't! Their hair was unique and fun, and gave them a sort of "trademark" that the fans could hold onto and associate with them. It kind of gave them a way to be "The Beatles", and no one else. Of course, long hair went into style later in the 60's, but that's not important.

10. The Beatles did do charity concerts, as a matter of fact. A quote from my sources: "On 09/20/1964 (8:30pm) - The Beatles concert is held at The Paramount Theater in New York City as a charity benefit for The United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, and The Retarded Infants Services. 3682 tickets are sold for this 3650 seat theater for up to $100 each." That's $368,000! And that's only one instance. I couldn't seem to find any more, but if I do, I'll let y'all know.

Taha-Oodles, my people!
-The FABULOUS Vienna

P.S. Dear Sir or Madam Expert: If you just so happened to be trolling, it didn't make me mad. It just motivated me. Thank you for giving me more prompts to write about how superior The Beatles are to 1D. Have a wonderful day. : )

P.S.S. The Beatles were not selfish! HUFF!

300 Page Views! RELEASE THE CONFETTI!

I must be SO popular! I know you all love me so much. I just wonder if any of you come back over and over... like fans or followers or whatever. I'll just pretend that you are. : )

...and I'll pretend that you comment....
...and share with your friends....
...and find me to be your guilty pleasure........
...and that you all love me....
...and you wanna date me even though you're a lady............

ANYWAYS I'm sure you're all wondering the stats by now so here they are:

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Coolio, right? Thank you to everyone for making this site kinda sorta cool-ish!

Father's Day Extravaganza!

This was written on Monday, but I was too lazy to revise "yesterday" to "two days ago". :P

Yesterday was Father's Day! Yes, I was ever so kind to my father and tried my best to make him happy. Our day went like this:

My brother wakes me up so that I can "help him" make breakfast. Instead, it turned out, all that he did was slice the peppers and sausage. I was the one who did all of the cooking and cleaning up! I cooked the eggs, fried the onions, and burned my hand pretty bad in the process.

After that, I made some roast beef, Swiss cheese, jalapeño, and bell pepper sandwiches; toasted up and wrapped in foil. My father, my dog and I soon set out for the trail, which was an old logging road from I'm guessing about 100 years ago. The ice storm (last year? this year? I don't know... I think it was last year) had blown down some trees over the tail that we had to crawl under or step over, which made it more fun or me... for some reason.

We got to the end of the trail, which is a place we call "the campsite", even though I'm sure no one camps there. It's a clear space on a steep hill overlooking a rushing creek, with an umbrella of trees to block the warm summer sun. We ate our sandwiches, which proved a little too spicy for my dad, who ate almost the entire bag of nuts to make the burning in his mouth go away! But he insisted that he loved the sandwich, so that's good. My dog got some kibble and water.

I had brought a knife with me for various reasons, and I took it out to try to carve my initials into a tree, but I had never been good at that, so it turned out to be chicken scratch. But my dad saw the knife as an opportunity. He occupied his time by throwing it at a tree, trying to perfect his throw, I guess. He had a fun time with it.

We  cleaned up and took off, and the trip back was very quick. When we got to the head of the trail. we heard some roaring thunder and it started to sprinkle. We walked back home and were relieved to finally rest. We had a very fun time!

Here are the pictures:

I live in such a pretty place. : )

Toodles!

-Vienna

The Rainy Summer is Here!

Ah, the summer vacation --  all of the children await its presence. They count down the days to barbecues, Popsicles, ice cream, swimming and FREEDOM.

I give you, my dear readers: the queen vacation!

Clap. Clap. Clap.

I would be a lot better if it weren't so rainy. Now hat school's out, my parents see that as an opportunity to pour more chores on my brother and I. They make the excuse that they're "getting old", and I wouldn't mind doing them if the way they asked(more like commanded) was nicer. -.-

During this summer vacation I have planned a few activities for myself:
-Going to the science museum (SCIENCE IS PHUN)
-Going to the aquarium (I'm mentally and almost secretly obsessed with water/the ocean/ fish/etc.)
-Going to he beach (a cold, cloudy beach, bu here's fun stuff to do in town... plus reason above)
-Photography (I'm into that now)
-Swimming (lots and lots of swimming in our ice cold lake... SO MUCH WATER)
-Filming (oh, I never mentioned... I'm a born director/actress/scriptwriter/editor... slightly mentally obsessed)
-A weather balloon filming (here's the video that got me hooked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5REsCTG4-Gg )
-Anime binges (VIENNA JORDAN COINED THAT TERM!)

Wish me luck.

Oh, hey, I love a new anime -- Hetalia! It's random and stupid to the point that it's hilarious. It's just tedious watching the Funimation thing every five minutes. DX

Toodles!
-Vienna

Whale Watching, Treasures and My Excitement

On Saturday I went with my best friend, Summer, on a whale watching tour in a city a while away from my little town in the country about 40 minutes away. The tour was very long and we only saw two California Sea Lions and a few glimpses of a grey whale, but we got food and we got to go on the deck so it was fun.

We stopped on an island that was filled with restaurants and antique shops, so we ate a light meal and went down to the beach. I collected a lot of shells, a few pretty orange rocks and a rusty old pressure gauge. It looked very, very old to me, but I have no way of telling how old. I have the pile of shells next to my computer, and they smell like fish! :P

On Sunday, I slept most of the day... and only a few hours that night.

Anyhow, my birthday is tomorrow! Today, my friend gave me some delicious cookies she made. Of course, I didn't eat the whole plate myself! I shared it all with my friends and kept two for myself. Tomorrow, to celebrate, my mother is taking me to the spa, then my entire family and I are going to a nice restaurant that serves the BEST chocolate cake I've ever tasted! I hope I can have my party on Saturday. We'll first go on a party bus and go to a laser tag... place, then we'll go back to my town and get fancy ice cream to feast on!

New Job and a Special Surprise!

I'm going to lay down the less exciting news first. I'm a babysitter! Yay! Unfortunately, I'm only paid $5 per hour for two hours every other week, but at least it's better than no income, which was where I was for... probably ever. :P

Anyhow, every other Thursday, the residents of a women and children shelter program have a meeting on who knows what, and all of their kids need to be taken care of. They're all herded into the playroom to have fun with Sam and I! My goal is to help a very shy girl named Emma be more comfortable with conversing with others, because it's no fun to be shy!

Next time, I'm going to bring in craft supplies for them to make mother's day gifts: flower pens! You know, those plain ballpoint pens wrapped in floral tape with a fabric flower poking out the top. It's going to be fun!

You're probably thinking: "This is so cliche!" So I think I'll shut up and get to the good stuff.

Aren't you all excited? You know, for the next national holiday. It's bigger than Christmas! But of course, you already know that. Everyone's going to be partying and feasting on sugary things. My birthday is so fun! May 7th, the most amazing day of the year! :D

Yes, my minions, the day when the stork delivered me is nearing. I'm going to go with my mom to get
mani-pedis (manicures and pedicures), then we're going to go home to get my brother and father and go out for dinner! I think I already know where I'm going, because they have really good chocolate cake!

I'm tired. I can't miss another minute of precious sleeping time!

Toodles!
-Vienna

Frenemies and Procrastination

I hate it when my friends turn on me. Either you like me or you don't. I don't have multiple personalities or something. Maybe you do. I don't know.

One of my "frenemies" is especially a problem -- let's call her Dianne. That's not her real name, but we'll use it. This Dianne, in friend mode, is nice, caring, and tolerant. She's not my best friend in the world, but she's nice to me. She lets me give her hugs and she comforts me when I'm nervous. Not like she wants to or anything, but she's in between too sweet and tough love. The Goldilocks Zone, you could call it.

Then every once in a blue moon (not literally, of course), she all of a sudden decides to act like one of those people that I really want to rip their heads off and punt it across the room. Anyhow, she completely brushes me off when I'm around, and even insults me. I told her to stop being so mean, and she told me to stop being so annoying.

Of course, I like to make jokes out of everything, so I exclaimed "You're turning into one of THEM!" and I point in the general direction of whatever mean person is in view. But guess what? Her friend, who hates me twice as much as I hate her, replied for Dianne: "What, one of the normal people?"

I am by all means not annoying! I'm only annoying when I want to be. I don't annoy my friends. I honestly have no idea why she's being so mean! It's making me seriously frustrated and hurt. She used to be the friend I could turn to when I was sad! I don't even know what I did!

Okay. Thanks for reading my rant. I feel (a little) better now.

Now I'm going to talk about my own flaws!

I am a procrastinator, big time. In fact, I'll let you in on a (not so) secret: I have an F in math because I never do my homework! D: I'm just now doing an assignment given last week and due yesterday... and giving up because it's too confusing, of course. I can't ever keep promises I make to myself, which really, really stresses me out. Not only am I letting my grades slip, but I almost have diabetes from not being able to keep my promise to myself to not eat and drink very much sugar!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAH! STRESS!
-Vienna

A Great Collection of Updates!

My high school is holding a competition in which you must make a video preventing drug, alcohol, and suicide. I absolutely love making and editing videos, so this is for me! The video is due the day before my birthday, which is happening soon... I will decide whether or not I should reveal the exact date later.

I got my friend to play the role of the main character. I made some (very realistic) props for the video that includes water and food coloring "wine", Tic-Tac "prescription pills", and basil/oregano "marijuana". I also shot a scene of her drinking a glass of water with a bleach bottle next to it, so it looks like she was drinking bleach. I'm going to shoot a few scenes by myself to make it more dramatic... but I need to invite her over again for the scene where she's dead!

My SOH2 (refer to Giggling, Crushing Boys post) is so nice to me! He complimented me today. Not just the kind of generic compliment like "I like your..." or "Your ___ is cool". He said out loud to someone else purposely so that I could hear it: "I think Vienna is the most amazing person in the world" and then he turned to me and smiled. I don't agree, honestly, with my bad habits and annoying tenancies, but he did make me feel special.... at least a little.

I have created a new habit! And trust me, it wasn't on purpose. I actually didn't entirely know why I was doing it until I detected a pattern. I used to close my eyes and ball my hands into fists when I remember a moment filled with emotion (usually bad memories!). But my new habit is to wink my left eye! It's a little embarrassing,  but oh well. It's a habit now.

I truly am the human Pinky Pie. This Friday, I'm going to help a ten year old little girl plan a birthday party. She lives in a shelter, so we can only use what we have on hand, but oh, this will be fun! I just love planning and throwing parties!

Toodles!
-Vienna

Giggling, Crushing Boys (Part 2!)

I made a post yesterday about two boys who have crushes on me. Today, though, I learned of one more who is quite fond of me, so he's my subject of humiliation today. This post's going to be a little short, but it's okay since this is the second post this week!

Hmm... not much to say about him, honestly. I know he's been crushing on me for a while, since he admitted it a while back, but I thought he had gotten over me by now! His friend, a boy who I suspect knows all the dirt his friend posses and create, waited until my SOH3 walked away to tell me, grinning, that he has a huge crush on me! Oh, how jolly! I caught him glancing at me today in class, but I think perhaps it may have been a coincidence.

Meh, this post is too short... so I'll let you know about my finger! I'll tell you know that there was a LOT of blood when I cut it...

I turned the contrast in this picture WAY up and the brightness a little down. It's really hard to see, but there's a big bad scar diagonally along the tip. It goes all the way around to the other side. And yes, I did put my hand in the scanner.

Toodles!

-Vienna

Giggling, Crushing Boys

You know how you just kinda know when a boy likes you? How they start to act a little different, how they start to talk to you more? Or even how they overhear your bullies and tell them to bug off? Yeah, it makes me feel pretty darn special too.

Well, have I got some pretty juicy secrets for you! Well, I guess they're not really secrets since I'm welcoming (almost) the whole internet to read them!

My first subject of humiliation is a boy that has sat next to me in almost all of my classes (coincidence?) for one month. I guess that if you sit next to me for that long, you'd have to warm up to me, right? Lately, he's been talking to me directly more than anyone else. He jokes around and I think he enjoys our short, almost one-sided conversations, but I don't think he's being obvious enough for me to say for absolute sure if he's crushing, but listen here: after school, I saw him grinning with two of his buddies and staring at me. I only caught them for a second before I turned away, but I know what I saw. Even after he left, his friend was still toothy and watching me, which, I'll admit, was a little awkward.

My second subject of humiliation has almost no contact with me whatsoever, but I did overhear him a while ago admitting his crush on me. In my very relaxed and casual exploratory class, a boy (or should I say my enemy that is so obnoxious beyond words that I hate with a passion, that dirty lying cheating sabotaging...) is pretty snotty towards me, including messing with my work and saying lies about me to make me look stupid and mean. Of course, what this has to do with SOH2, he's always telling him to stop being such a jerk and that usually shuts up the boy for a minute or two. I make a little joke about it and keep working, but deep down, it makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside!

Toodles!

-Vienna

100 views! :D (And a tea party)

(Sniff!) I never thought I'd see the day! 100 views! This calls for a celebration!

...or maybe I'll just squeeze it into a celebration that I'm already having tomorrow.

Tomorrow's my Easter tea party! Everything's going to be fine and dandy! I'm inviting five friends to enjoy my hard work for the holiday. Perhaps I'll even take a picture of it and post it here!

For appetizers, I'm going to make homemade crackers and buy different varieties of cheese to create a personal cheese platter for everyone. It'll preferably be some fancy sounding ones like Provolone and Gouda, but of course, they're actually normal cheeses that I have every day!

As the main course, we will be having ham or turkey and mozzarella cheese sandwiches, since all of my guests have different tastes. We'll have a side of chicken Caesar salad (my favorite!).

For dessert, we'll have fancy cupcakes with carnations steeped in grape juice as toppers. We'll also have poached pears (Also made in grape juice). Although, I'm not sure if I should just serve the poached pears as a side throughout the entire meal or just as a dessert. I would ask for suggestions in the comments, but you guys never do, so I'm not even going to try.

We'll have a CD of piano music playing in the background and every person will have a flower waiting for them on their plates when they walk in (for them to keep, of course). All the napkins will be folded into fans and I'm going to use my best lace linens.

I'm so excited! Don't worry, I'll make sure to mention all of my views during the party! 

Toodles!
-Vienna

Why The Beatles are better than One Direction

YO! IMPORTANT: before you read this, read my newest post, "All Artists Are Equal"

There was a post made some time ago with ten reason why the writer thought that One Direction is "better than The Beatles". It's all well and good to have opinions and I'm fine with that, but when you say things about The Beatles that aren't true to support your arguments, it really ticks me off.

That being said, let's go over MY ten reasons that The Beatles are better than One Direction.

1. The Beatles have made five movies, been on countless TV shows, had their own cartoon series, and have had many movies made about them.

On the other hand, as far as I know, One Direction has only one movie and has only been on X-Factor.

2. The Beatles were most likely the most popular band of all time, but if that is not so (yeah, fat chance!), then they were at least the most popular band of their time. Their songs were clever, fun, creative, catchy, and full of irresistible components on just the right pieces, never over using a style.

On Direction's songs all sound the same to me, and their songs really aren't even that creative. They're pretty cliché, plus, they don't even write their own songs, and they don't even play any instruments in them!

3. The Beatles, despite others' opinions, all of the challenges they faced, and extreme sadness from the losses of their friends, pushed through life and reached for the stars. They were hardly payed much, had to work long and hard, and had very low expectations of themselves, but they still played because they loved it. They had to work very hard to catch the attention of Brian Epstein, yet they still soared to the top.

One Direction only entered a contest and were tossed together by producers. They needed the help of the media to achieve their success.

4. The Beatles had the extreme talent to record almost an entire album in only one day. After singing for hours, their voices got progressively more worn out and on one of the last tracks they recorded that day, Twist and Shout, John's raggedy voice pushing through the energetic lyrics created one of their best sounds of all time. As quoted George Martin,  "I don't know how they do it. We've been recording all day but the longer we go on the better they get."

One Direction had to spend a whole year recording their songs, despite the fact that they had to do nothing but sing.

5. The Beatles were practically brothers. They did absolutely everything together, and were happy to involve themselves in each other's outrageous and silly schemes to have fun and to scare and irritate their manager at the time, whoever they may be. They played together for 12 years (8 years as "The Beatles") and only split when their music tastes became too drastically different.

One Direction is overly enthusiastic about the whole "I miss you" texts. In my opinion, it's just plain creepy.

6. The Beatles had met many, many celebrities in their days including Mohammed Ali, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Elvis, Mick Jaggar, Bob Dylan, and many more! These people were all very influential to music (except for Mohammed, of course! XD) and helped shape the styles that were listened to for yers to come!

One Direction's biggest "celebrity meeting achievement" is meeting Simon Cowell, a grumpy man whose past job is to judge people.

7. The Beatles have experimented with many names that they liked and thought had good meaning for years until they reached The Beatles. You see, they tailored their band until it was perfect.

One Direction had their name picked for them by their producers.

8. Members of The Beatles dated actresses such as Pattie Boyd and Jane Asher. Of course, they ended up with normal people like Yoko Ono and Linda McCartney, but everyone that they had relationships with were all very talented and beautiful.

The woman Rebecca Ferguson, which is bragged about as "a much classier lady than Cynthia Lennon", was simply a normal person who happened to be on X-Factor and produce a song or a few.

9. The Beatles' moptops were crazy and outrageous during their time. They were very influential to manufacturing companies and fanatics alike. There hair was an iconic part of the band, but it did not define who was the most popular member. The fans chose who they liked the best by their personalities. Yes, I will admit that many also chose favorites by their looks, but I don't believe that that was the greatest contributing factor to their decisions.

One Direction's Harry Styles is liked simply because of his hair style which, in my opinion, isn't that special. In fact, to me, it seems a little over the top. I never hear or read anything about "talent", only their hair or looks.

10. The Beatles were unselfish and kind. In fact, there are many instances of Paul McCartney having lots of fun with his dog, whom he loved unconditionally. John, in fact, loved children and loved to please them and play with them. The Beatles were friendly and humorous, and were sure to give a laugh wherever they went.

I never read or hear about One Direction being kind or caring. Yes, they may have sang songs that exclaim someone's beauty that they are unaware of, but let's not forget that they don't write their own songs.

That is my ten reasons why The Beatles are better that One Direction. Can we please get some legitimate reasons for an argument of someone's opinion about One Direction vs. The Beatles? At least try next time, people!

Toodles!
-Vienna

P.S. All right. I just had to say it... ambassadors of Pokemon? Seriously? That isn't something to brag about. Nobody cares.