Sunday, November 29, 2009

It's Almost Christmas!!!

With the holiday shopping done and Christmas on the way. It makes me wonder where the time went? As i looked back I realized that my time went to the only place that is my life now. Work!! All of my time and energy has gone to my job 24/7 which is tiring since I have no social life what so flipping ever. Work has teken much of my time and energy but I have to be greatful for the people I work with because they have been my friends lately since I see them a lot more than my actual friends with is sad in a way but they have been there for me and I love them dearly. Plus working at my store allows me some SWEET!!! discounts; which come in handy for birthdays and Christmas. This year has gone by so fast that anticiapting next year is going to be fun which is going to be exciting and I'm gratefull for this year because it has allowed me to grow as a person and know my true place in this world. I'm greatful for everything that I am given everyday and thank Heavenly Father for allowing me to have the live that I thought that i would never have. This year has been huge for me and I only hope that it gets better and better.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

21!!!

Wow I honestly can't believe that I'm 21 now. It's a cool feeling sort of it still feels like any other birthday but now I feel like an adult now :) Wow so much has happened that I haven't been able to update anything. Well I got promoted at work Yay!!! Yeah I'm a key Holder at American Eagle which is kinda like an Assistant Manager but not quite. I've been going through some training this week and it's gotten a little crazy but I'm working it out. What else is new that I can come up with??? Let me think....... still thinking........ Nope! Nothing, well its just a quick update :)

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!! (Warning there are spoliers in here from the movie.)

Being a huge Harry Potter fan, I've been looking forward to the new Harry Potter movie. I can say that I enjoyed it but having read the book first I noticed that the movie added and took out a lot of things. That usually happens with a lot of movies but I noticed it more in this one out of the Harry Potter books. I'm going to be very critical and will pick apart this movie. I read the book again and I have come up with 23 points that compare the book from the movie. So let's start from the beginning of the movie/ book alright. Let us begin!!

1. For those who read the book, do you remember Fudge meeting with the Prime Minister? Yeah wasn't in the movie. I thought it was critical because Fudge is telling a "Muggle" that the "Magical" world exists. Hmmm..... if I remember correctly the Prime Minister knows a lot about some know characters in the Magic world. If they did mention that in the movie it was probably when I went to the bathroom.

2. Nacrissa Malfoy... Now I figured she would look younger than what they portrayed her in the film for one and two she's suppose to have long platinum blond hair not half brown half blond. What is that!? I was disappointed with that a lot and that whole scene is suppose to have an argument between Wormtail and Snape. Where was that at?

3. When Dumbledore appears to Harry, he shows up at Privet Drive and not at the Subway station. I thought that was odd because Dumbledore speaks to his Uncle and Aunt in the book where they discuss what Sirius left for Harry.

4. Horace Slughorn... I was pretty impress with Jim Broadbent playing Slughorn but He's suppose to have a mustache when he clearly doesn't and he's suppose to be bald too.

The way that he is first introduced is wrong but I'm satisfied with what David Yates did but I was hoping for a better introduction of Slughorn.


5.
When arrive at The Burrow Dumbledore and Harry arrive together, not separate as it is in the movie. That whole scene was completely off! For those of you that have rad the book, remember that Fleu Delacour comes to the Burrow because she is marrying Billy Weasley. Then the Burrow never caught on fire! I know that the director made that up completely.

6. The scene where Harry, Ron, and Hermione follow Draco and his mom is semi right. They speak to each other before they decide to follow them, there was a confrontation between Nacrissa and Harry in the book too. After that they go to Fred and George's Joke Shop, have fun there, and then follow Draco. Side note Hermione gets a black eye from the "Punching Telescope" in the Joke Shop. Plus they do not hang from a roof they go inside and get kicked out by the owner of Borgin and Burkes. Then again The Golden Trio run into Malfoy, argue and leave. Oh and FYI I must say that Draco did get really hot in this movie! Love him!!

7. I noticed that in the book. Professor Slughorn invited Harry to join his club way before he actually starts his potions class. Oh and something that I thought was interesting, Blaise Zabini is Black in the movie. All this time I thought he was White but I'll say that I prefer the movie suggestion of Blaise. As Harry sneaks into the compartment where all of the Slytherins are at; in the book, Blaise lists all of the students that were invited to Slughorns party while Pansy is stroking Draco's hair. DIDN'T HAPPEN! In the movie of course. But the whole scene where Draco breaks Harry's nose is correct.


8. Luna Lovegood does not free Harry from Petificus Totalus spell that Malfoy cast, it was Tonks. Yup that's right, and she takes him down to where they were inspecting the trunks and what not. That whole scene was with Tonks in the book not Luna, also Snape comes and looks for Harry and takes him to the Great Hall.

9. Harry willingly goes into Potions with Slughorn, McGonagall doesn't force him to take the class as portrayed in the movie. Now I would have liked to see everyone in Defense Against the Dark Arts class with Snape for the first time. That would have been awesome in my opinion. When the Golden Trio arrive in Potions, Hermione names all of the Potions that are in the cauldrons of course with her being really smart. Anyway, the make the Draught of Living Death, just like in the movie. Now fast forward to where they are in the Common Room and they take Harry's Book and she read that the Potions Book belongs to the Half-Blood Prince. In the book, Hermione thinks that the book is cursed and she tries a spell to see if it was, of course it's not but Harry is the only one that read that the book belongs to Half-Blood Prince *H.B.P.*, everyone finds out later on.


10.
The part where Dumbledore starts to show Harry memories that revole around Voldemort. The very first one he shows him in the book, is concerning Voldemort's grandfather Marvolo *which is where is middle name came from* and not when Dumbledore visits Voldemort in the orphange.Dumbledore also shows Harry that Voldemort wanted the job as D.A.D.A teacher at Hogwaarts but ended up being turned down. When Harry looks in the bowl to look at the memory, Dumbledore and Harry travel inside to have a closer look at each memory. In the movie Harry just looks in the bowl and that's it.

11. Quidditch Try Outs!! This scene was fairly accurate now what I thought was funny was that Cormac was asking Ron for an introduction to Hermione and Ron gets jealous. That was funny because Ron thought he didn't have a chance against Cormac. I love Ron!! Ron and Cormac's try out in the movie was perfect!! Very well done on that in my opinion and the guy that plays Cormac, I forgot his name but he's pretty good looking. Anyways, afterwards they all visit Hagrid, Buckbeak makes an apperence too. Here they find out that Aragog isn't well *more details about that later*.


12.
Don't you think it would have been interesting to see Harry try and attempt some of the spells in the H.B.P.'s book? I think so but I guess the director didn't want to emphizes on that.

13. While in Hogsmade, Tonks, makes another apperence in the book. Why didn't the director make it know that Tonks is looking out for Harry? I thought that if at least we knew then some things might have made sense. Also when Katie Bell gets cursed Harry goes to get Hagrid for help, Hagrid just decides to pop up out of the blue. Now comparing the cursed necklace, in the movie it's carefully placed back in it's oringinal wrapping, the book says in a scarf, I prefer the movies adapation on that. Another interesting things is that Snape is not with McGonagall when they examine the necklace and it is McGonagall that tells Harry that Dumbledore is away not Snape.

14. According to the book, Hermione tells Ron not to drink his juice since she saw Harry slip something in there. The movie has Luna saying that instead.. I think she looks awesome in that lion head piece, what a way to show some Gryffindor spirit even though she's in Ravenclaw. Go Luna!!

15. Slughorn's Party.... another scene that was perfect. Everything was in order and adding when Cormac threw up on Snape was awesome and funny. I enjoyed it a lot. After that, when Snape tells Draco that he's there to protect him and that he made The Unbreakable Vow was fairly accurate, the wording was changed but all-in-all these scenes where very good. I like that Draco stood up for himself too. :))))

16. They learn how to Apparate in the book and I think that this could have been in the movie since I felt it could have had more magic and spells in it. When Ron takes the love potion that was my favorite scene in the movie, I love the scene with Ron and Slughorn to. Again I love Ron!! But then when he was poisioned I almost cried!!

17. The memory between Slughorn and Voldemort is the most accurate m scene from the movie. I tried to find a picture with both Slughorn and Voldemort but I only found this one. Oh well.

18. The fight between Harry and Draco had a twist to it in the book than in the movie. Moaning Myrtle was in the bathroom when the fighting started. Harry finds out that Draco is in the bathroom through the Marauder's Map, he does not follow him from the Great Hall. You see how powerful the H.B.P. spells are when Harry uses the Sectumsempra on Draco. You can tell that Draco is struggling from doing the right thing and following what Voldemort wants. Don't you just want to hug him? I do hahaha.


19.
The Cave oooo the cave!! There are no floating bodies in the movie and there are no bodies jumping in and out of the water. In the book there are bodies floating and according to Harry they are jumping out of the water. In the movie when the dead grab Harry and dragged him underwater, that didn't happen in the book they almost did but to add a dramtic effect which worked for me. I thought that this is a cool picture of Dumbledore at the cave scene.

20. When Harry and Dumbledore come back from the cave, the Apparate to Hogsmade not back to the Astronomy Tower. They get brooms and fly back to the tower where Draco comes to kill Dumbledore. Right on with the scene David Yates! I was a very pleased :) See he can't do it! Draco is a good guy! I don't care if he's a Death Eater I LOVE HIM!!! I've said that already. Bellatrix was not part of the Death Eater that came to Hogwarts, though she did a great job tearing up the Great Hall.

21. Harry, Ron, McGonagall, Lupin, Tonks, Ginny, and Neville start to fight the Death Eaters that are in Hogwarts. They should have put that in the movie because there would have been action. The scene with Harry and Snape was just like the book I wish that it could have been longer.


22.
I wish that they would have explained how Snape is the Half-Blood Prince. If you don't know let me tell you. Elieen Prince was a former student of Professor Slughorn and later became a famous Quidditch player. She married Tobias Snape who is a Muggle. Dah dah dah! Yeah Snape is a half blood just like Voldomort. So he was more proud of his magical side so he decided to go by another name like Voldomort, so he called himself the Half-Blood Prince.

23. Dumbledore gets a funeral and is buried at Hogwarts. This gave students a final good-bye to the greatest wizard of all time. Wizards from around the world were able to attend the funeral and the cenaturs gave their tributes as well. I thought that the funeral would be a great way to end the movies and we are able to start the next movie. I was happy with the tribute the did for him in the movie *tear*

I'm excited for the next movies to come out. I know that I'm going to cry because I almost cried in this one. I gave this movie an A- since I did get very critical with this but over all it was very good and well made.
I thought these were cool so I decided to add them.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Mexico!!



A few weeks ago my family and I took a cruise to Mexico for a week. I've never been on a ship before and let me tell you I was terrified! After watching the Titanic and Poseidon I wasn't sure if I could it but I was able to overcome my fear. There was so much to do from mini golfing to going clubbing, it was awesome! The thing that surprised me was how many guys tried to get my number. Oh course I didn't give it to them and I even got a marriage proposal. I know crazy huh?!? There was a bar tender named Percy *Yes that's his real name*. he served drinks for my family at dinner and he worked at the club that I would go to at night. He's a sweet guy but I'm not sure if I would marry him. He has to be LDS in order for me to marry him for one and two I have a missionary out so end of that. I had a waiter check me out while I was waiting in line at the buffet. That was funny because my little brother was giving him death glares. I love my little brother even though he can be a punk! I saw sea lions, dolphins, and all types of fish and birds there. I would love to do a cruise again!! I loved our dinner waiters Robert and Muhammad!! They were the best!! The food was so good, I think I gained five to ten pounds and it went straight to my thighs. GREAT!! Now I have to start working out so I can lose that weight.







Mexico was beautiful! I love Cabo San Lucas the best with the beaches and the food was amazing! Although the people are crazy and desperate for you to buy their products I loved it! I recommend going on a cruise for those who haven't gone on one. I want to go on a cruise for my 21st birthday which is in a few months but we'll see what happens from now until October. If I can't go in October then I'll go in December of January :) I really did have a good time, it was a great trip and I was so happy to spend it with my family.






Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Ahhh!!!!!

It's time for one of my famous break downs yet again. I know I have them often and I try my hardest to prevent them but that never happens. I was just at the exclusive premiere of Julie & Julia with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams I love it but then my sister decides to call my mom and tells her that she wants to take a cruise from either California or come with us on our trip to the Caribbean in October if we choose too. Now I love my sister I really do but why does she want to go on a cruise by herself? She's going to Wyoming for a trip and I have no idea why? In my head I'm thinking why in the HELL are you going to Wyoming? Oh well it's your money to spend right. Do what you want to do. Then my mother and grandmother started talking about the cruise that we want to take in October and how it could be my birthday present and my little brother's birthday and graduation present. My mother turned around and said but he also wants to go to Florida and I'm considering doing both.

WTF!!!! Are you kidding me???? Why??? Yes I understand that he's a senior and it's his 18th birthday but come on!?!? I got irritated because he's never had to work a day in his life and if he does have to work or do something in our apartment as far as choruses go it's like a flipping sin!! He's always gotten what he wanted in everything, for instance he wanted an X-BOX 360 for his birthday and they cost a pretty penny. Guess what my Dad bought him, a flipping X-BOX 360!!! He now wants a PlayStation 3 and he might be getting it within the next month or so. Then when we went to Mexico for our cruise he saw an I-POD TOUCH at a pawn shop and he wanted it. My mother said that he couldn't have it and he got pissed off and walked away. Now he might be getting that too. Again WTF!!! Now I feel cheated because I never asked for anything like that from my parents because I knew that I had to work hard for what I wanted. I worked for my phone, clothes, and other things that I have and everything that he wants was just given to him.

I gave up my sweet 16 for my sister to have her graduation trip and thinking that I was going to get one too No! I was grateful enough to have a flipping party! Then my little brother might get two trips for his Senior year and a party! What a joke! And he doesn't have to pay for a thing! I'm really upset about this! I feel like the Prodigal Son well Daughter in this case because I do almost everything in my house and no one and I mean no one appreciates what I do! I do deserve something right!!! Whether you agree or not but this is how my life has been and let me tell you it sucks being the middle kid trust me it does! You get riped off of everything and when someone else decides to provide something for you then you look bad. *Screams loudly* Then my Dad decides to come and see my brother and he decided not to let me know. He didn't say "Hey I'm going to stop by and talk to Mikey for a little bit come out and say hi." No!!! I've been trying to see him for two weeks and he tells me I don't have money! Yet you come out of no where and stop by and not tell me. That made me even more pissed off than I already am. I'm just tried of this crap that I have to deal with and I can't take it. Although I do ask Heavenly Father for strength to cope everyday, everyday I ask and I receive a little and that's good enough for me.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Back to School?


Well lately school has been on my mind and I finally made the decision to go back Finally!!! I know it's been to long since I was in school. I missed it for a year. A YEAR!!! I really missed school because I love school, I know who loves school right? Well I do because being able to learn something new every day is Awesome!!! I enrolled in my History classes which I hope are the right ones but whatever. I also got into a Tai-Chi class. Yay!! I can check that one off my list of things that I wanted to learn this year so far. I'm also going back to institute, I missed that too. I want to learn more about the gospel and plus the teacher I signed up for is awesome and was my old seminary teacher in high school. I love Bro. Richardson!!! Now it's just a waiting process for my Finanical Aid to come through and I'll be one my way. But now I have to worry about books which will be a pain. (groans deeply...). Well hopefully everything goes through and then I can worry about everything else like working out something with my job and my car issue so I can take care of everything else.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Photo Shoot with Ruth

Well Wednesday afternoon I had the opprotunity to have my friends Ruth take pictures of me. Although it was very hot, the pictures were awesome! I was really pleased with them. Thanks Ruth!!! You're amazing!!! Here are a select few that are my favorites, let me know what you think.







Sunday, May 31, 2009

OMG!! New Moon!!

Oh my gosh if you didn't watch the MTV Movie Awards you missed out on one of the best movie trailers EVER!!!! New Moon looks Awesome!!!!!! I can't wait for it to come out and the graphics flipp'n ROCK!!!! They did an awesome job and I can't wait to see it. I hope that it follows the book and all since I was a little disappointed in Twilight. Here it is if you haven't seen it yet.


Oh by the way I'm on Team Jacob for those who didn't know. Don't judge me OK I love Edward but I prefer Jacob :)

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Not going according to plan....

So I thought that I would be able to go to General Conference this year but unforunately I got sick with an ear infection, sinus infection, and bronchituis. Yeah it was not fun and with the doctor's visit and the medications being some what expensive it took a lot of the money that I was going to use for my trip to Utah. I'm a little disappointed but I always have October to go which might be a little bit better since it will be my birthday around that time. Wow I'll be 21 this year yay!! I'm pretty excited for this year I know I've said that earlier with my family going on a cruise to my 21st birthday. There are other things in between that are going on so hopefully they'll go according to plan.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Yay 2009!!!

I can't believe that it's already 2009. So many things great things are happening and many more are to come. We have a newly elected President; President Barack Obama. I'm so happy to be a part of history as the United States elected the first African-American president. I have been working really hard at work and might be promoted to assistant manager by the end of the year. My friends are coming home from their missions very soon which I'm very excited for. I'm trying to squeese as many trips as I can this year since I want and need to go out more often. My 21st birthday is this year and I'm really excited about that as well, I don't know what I'm going to do but by the time I'm 21 my missonary should be home. There is one down fall to that because I haven't heard from him in months so I don't know what is going on there so I'm a little sad about that. I'm looking towards the positive now because I'm trying to make most of the time that I have now. I'm going to try and attend General Conference this April which will be a great experience if I'm able to do it.

Another thing that I'm excited for is my friends getting married. I went to two weddings so far and now I believe that I have at least four that I'm going to. I'm very excited to go but thinking about wedding is making me think about my own so I've started planning my own. It's fun but sad because I have this huge book that has a whole bunch of magazine clippings inside of the things that I would like to have at my wedding. I pretty much have everything planned I just need the ring and the man of my dreams haha!! It's great and I few of my friends are kinda jealous that I have everything planned and are staring their own plans. It only took me three days to plan everything but now it's a waiting game for Mr. Right. Now other than that my life has been pretty much the same just he same old sme old.