Movies, books, stuff going on recently

Movies I've seen recently:

Up. Oh my gosh, sad! I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it, but the main part that makes it sad is at the beginning after you see all these great memories of the old man and his wife growing up together, she dies. So that throughout the whole movie is sad. I wasn't that thrilled with the movie.

New Moon. Laugh if you will. But the books are awesome. I only chose to read them because one girl told me she loved them and normally hates to read. I liked New Moon a lot better than Twilight, although Bella gets on my nerves a lot because she's depressed through the WHOLE movie. She's not even happy at the beginning or the end when she's with Edward.

The Blind Side. Great movie! I highly reccomend it.

Old Dogs. It was pretty good. I hadn't really wanted to see it but my parents were going so I went as well. It was funny. It's the movie with John Travolta and Robin Williams.







Books I'm reading or have read recently:

The Lucky One, by Nicholas Sparks. I am half way through right now. I hadn't heard of it until I bought it, but it's good. However, in The Notebook and A Walk To Remember it was sad at the end because of the people dying. So I hope in this one someone doesn't die. I like happy endings, even if they are a bit predictable.

Poverty and Promise, by Cindi Brown. I'm reading it right now. A woman who is actually friends of some of my friends, wrote a book about her 9 months volunteering in Kenya. It's a neat book.

Simplify Your Life, by Marcia Ramsland. I'm kind of reading it....off and on.... it's supposed to have ways to keep things clean and organized without taking so much time, how to reach your goals with it, etc. It's kind of dry only because of the topic so I just pick it up at random times to read it.

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Anyways, I have final tests and projects this week in my classes and then I'll have 5 weeks off instead of 4 because none of my teachers had finals during the normal time! Whoo! I have a whole list of things to do that I never get to do during the semester or that need to get done and I'm excited about it. I also have a bunch of people I want to get together with, some I only see at Christmas and summer, and some I haven't seen in years.

Today in one of my classes we had to do group presentations. 2 hours of listening to people talk off of powerpoints, blech. But anyways, one girl was really stuck out to me because she kept saying "um" after every single sentence, and it didn't even flow. For some reason, after hearing her keep saying um I then heard like everybody else do that. And I thought, did I do that? Did I say um? Or do I say "like" too much? Or is there something else I say all the time and have no idea? But not in normal speaking, I mean during presenting. Hmm. I'll have to ask someone next time to pay attention for me.

Tomorrow night is my chorus concert. I finally got to take chorus this semester - I didn't have room all the other semester since I was pushing to graduate in 4 years and then it didn't happy so now I have space. I haven't sung since high school in anything formally and I've missed it. There are 83 people in my chorus and Mrs. Blackwell is an awesome director. However, there are ups and downs to chorus' everywhere, no matter how great they are. There are always 1, 2, 3, or 4 people who are SO stinking loud you'd think they were trying to let the people on the other side of campus hear them. Do they not know how loud they are? Or if they do, do they know how frustrating it is to everyone around them? A chorus is supposed to blend. And then there's the few people who can't really sing but think they can, and they're hitting the wrong notes left and right. I really do feel bad for these people. So sometimes I'd rather just sing solos because I'm a perfectionist in music.

Ok, enough rambling for today. I'm so ready for a BREAK and I'm excited about the upcoming stuff in Decemeber!!