Music that I love right now

I am obsessed with a lot of music right now, but there are a couple of songs/albums/artists that I'm obsessed with...
1. The soundtrack to Frozen. I am obsessed with the soundtrack as well as the rest of it. I LOVELOVE LOVE the songs so much and would also love to sing/play them. Don't you think Elsa or Anna would be really fun to be in a musical? Anyways, some of my favorites include For the First Time in Forever (reprise), Do You Wanna Build a Snowman, and Let It Go. Best Songs Ever!!!
2. Kacey Musgraves. She's kind of country, and that's cool, and her lyrics are hilarious. She's a really talented songwriter and a really funny person. Some of my favorite songs include Follow Your Arrow and Merry Go Round.
3. Burn by Ellie Goulding. I really love this song, it's great. I love the tune, the lyrics, and everything about it. It's so catchy, and fun to sing a long to, and has a cool message. Her voice is also really interesting and the instrumentation is really cool and works with the song.
4. Taylor Swift, by, well, Taylor Swift. This was her first album and is amazing. She was a lot more country, but still has the pop-rock thing that I think is so awesome. It is amazing that she was only a couple years older than me when she wrote these songs. My three favorites right now are probably Our Song, Picture to Burn, and Teardrops on My Guitar.
5. The Band Perry. They are also really country a little rock, a little pop, which I have been into a lot recently. They are so awesome. Listen to Don't Let Me Be Lonely, If I Die Young, and Done. It's just awesome.
6. Dark Horse by Katy Perry. This song is so amazing, and is kind of overdramatic and stupid and amazing all at the same time. It's this whole pop song with a little bit of dance-punk-techno feel. It's really melodramatic too and has a weird sounding rap (yes!).
7. I would feel like a failure if I didn't add Avril Lavigne and Adam Levine (from Maroon 5).
Yay! So this is music that I have been into over the last couple of days/weeks etc. Not all of it. If I did that, it would take over a billion pages/

Why I want to be a Singer/Songwriter/Popstar

I want to be Singer/Songwriter. Well technically I am, considering I write songs and sing, but I would like to be a popstar. Ok, you probably are like, that's stupid, yeah, only you and a billion other teenage girls want to be a popstar, etc. But I really love music, like to the point of obsession. In a good way. To me music is like something that I can write down all of my thoughts and feelings in. Music is also just amazing. Do you know anything that can bring people together or connect people like music. That is why I'd like to be a popstar, not because of the fame (well, maybe a little bit:)) but to share my music with the world. And of course, it has it's perks like going to the Grammys again year after year after year.
But technically I would be happy being a musician in any way, even if I wasn't famous or anything like that, just because I love it. I would love being a songwriter especially, either for musicals or probably other artists. Another thing that I love related to music is The Voice. I really don't know why I LOVE The Voice so much. As you think about it, it really just doesn't make sense, but it rocks, there's good music, and I just love it. I'm so obsessed with it again, in a good way I guess probably ( I hope:)). Maybe the contestants are just amazing, most of the time. Go Team Adam and Team Blake!!!

Why I Love Frozen

I went to see Frozen last night. Again. After trying to go to the earlier showing, the projector broke, so I forced my family to go eat dinner at 5:00 to go to the later showing and to try and dodge an 80% chance of the movie still not working then. See, my family hadn't seen it before, so they didn't know what I would do to see it, even if I had seen it before at the theater, and then once on my iPod touch, because, yes I bought it. It turns out that the risk of making my family mad payed off; the projector worked, and they loved it. Here are some reasons that I LOVELOVELOVE Frozen (in no particular order)... oh, no spoilers by the way.
1. The storyline is AMAZING. This is one of the only Disney movies that I've seen where love is not the main storyline. Sure it's part of the storyline, but it's not like omg all of you girls out there need a guy and then you can be happy. There are so many little twists and BIG twists in the plot that surprised me so much, in a good way. Also, it's so funny! The thing that I like about the humor in Frozen is that they don't try too hard at all. If they had to choose between a touching moment or a funny moment they would choose the touching moment, which they do a lot. The jokes are so totally careless that it's so hilarious! Also, besides being funny, it's just fun. It's a really fun movie with about the best plotline of any movie I've watched.
2. The characters are AMAZING. Especially Anna and Elsa. At least to me, they were so connectable. I almost felt like they were my own sisters, or maybe some version of me. By the end-actually who are we kidding, about 3 seconds into the movie- you fall in love with them and feel like you are going through everything they are. The supporting characters are also so great too, and funny. There are a lot of characters with tiny parts in the actual movie that add so much to it too. The two guy supporting characters are awesome too!  A lot of the time Disney supporting characters put in just for comic relief are stupid but PLEASE believe when I say that Olaf ROCKS. He's so funny and actually contributes to the story. My favorite character has to be Anna or Elsa...probably Elsa. I was so able to connect to her, I don't even know why. She was awesome, and funny too by the way. These were probably the characters that I was able to connect to the most and the best characters EVER!!!
3. The music was AMAZING!!! They are like the most perfect musical-pop songs ever. My favorite song was probably Let it Go, there's a reason it won Best Song at the Oscars. I like how in Do you Wanna Build a Snowman she ages throughout the song,it's really sweet. All of the songs are amazing, catchy, meaningful, and take a lot of musical talent. Another one of my favorite songs was the reprise of For the First time in Forever, because the amount of musical talent that that took to sing was incredible and it was just awesome. It was so crazy. Best songs EVER!!!
4. The animation is amazing. I mean, I don't know anything about that, but it looked awesome. Just watch it.\
So, congratulations if you survived my rant.Frozen is so good!!! Overall, Frozen is by far my favorite movie right now.

Late and Early flights

I have figured out a lot. Late and early flights suck. I have been on a lot of them, considering my family and I (well, most of the time) love to travel too far off destinations. I have been on flights across the many oceans, over the north pole, flights with many connections, flights with a huge time change, and flights where I had to go to school the same day, or even a sleepover.  My least favorite type of flight is the red-eye flight. This involves going east across an ocean, and the time change makes it that you have to spend a night on the plane. You have to get all ready for bed, eat the airplanes dinner and breakfast and sometimes lunch, depending on the length of the flight, and be on an airplane for at least 6 hours minimum. The problem with the red eyes is not the flight, because sleeping (or trying to sleep) is actually better than going the other way, and spending a lot of time awake on the plane, but the awful part is getting off the plane, barely being able to stay awake, and being in a new place when all you just want to do is fall asleep in you own bed. That is also why I hate the first days of vacation a lot, if we go do something interesting all it is to me is torture. Connections are OK, because the flights are often shorter and you get little breaks for lunch and stuff like that in the airports of cool places. Also sometimes the airports are awesome, like the Toronto airport. I have never been to Chanda, but I have stopped in the airport a couple of times in Toronto, so technically if someone asks me if I have, I COULD say yes. Overall, airplanes can be both bad or good, and the idea of flying through the air is pretty cool, and we're overlooking one fact; they do get you where you want to be pretty quickly, which is pretty awesome.

SOL: Right now

Right now, my dad is in the other room. He's playing drums. I listen as he adds the ride cymbal,and then the bass drum, and turned a roll into the climax of whatever he's playing right now. Drums are cool, but I wouldn't like to put in the work to play them really well. For songwriting, and also just having a melody, piano is better. I also play guitar, but only for less a year, so I'm not that great. The drums stop for a second. I revel in the silence, listening to the patter of water dropping from the roof, until another drumroll stops my thought. The drums just stopped again.And started. I reach over and pet my dog's golden wavy fur, and she casually sticks out her big pink tongue and licks me, dampening my hand with her hot dog breath as well as the tongue. "Go away, Boo", I say, but she can barely hear me over my dad's incessant drum playing, not that it's not good or anything. The drums are going on and off, like dangling hope of peace and quiet and front of me on a string and then pulling it away. Normally I like his drum playing, but after Jack playing some game with Boo all morning that involves screaming, I'm ready to be done. I consider going to get my iPod, but decide to finish this slice of Life first.
For any of you guys wondering if this is the "I don't know what I should write so I'm just going to write about not knowing what to write slice," that apparently everyone has to do, it is a little bit, but not really, considering I'm talking about what is going on right now, at this moment. For example, my mom is setting the table for and early lunch so she can take me to AS play practice and then go to the tile store. She walks away. Jack runs down the hall, saying "Guess what? Me flappy happy"!!! Besides from the noise of my parents distant footsteps and voices, and my brother in talking to them which I can hear faintly, there's nothing left besides the low hum of this computer, the click of my fingers on the keyboard, and the splattering of the water falling off the roof outside.

Swimming

The sun beat down on my shoulders as I stepped closer to the safety of the shady tent. This is one of the times that I wish I tanned, not burned. One of the many times. Sigh. I was lined up to swim in the 12 and under link relay for my team, Crestmoor. We were at another club, Monaco, which can get blisteringly hot. Seriously. So here's how a link relay works. It's all freestyle, and involves all age groups . The youngest people, the 8 and under group swim a 25, which is 25 meters or one length of the pool. The 9-10 age group swims a 50, so twice that. We swim a 100, the 13-14s swim a 200, and the Upper-D swims a 400. There are two representatives from each age group, one boy and one girl. So the other thing about the link relay is that no one really takes it seriously. It kind of has a tendency to show up at fun or family meets and that's about it. Except for this meet. Huh. But it's really fun, and like any relay, you feel pressure to not disappoint the other people on your team, as well as yourself. I wrap my arms around my body and shiver, starting to get cold in the shade and step out into the sun again. It's a no win situation, I guess. Our first person, 8 year old Sarah-Jane, steps up on the block, and the familiar rush of adrenaline sweeps through me. Her tiny arms churn the water, and we end up in about 2nd or 3rd place. The next person goes, and then the next person, and then the second 9-10, and it's my turn. I I jog in place a little, trying to get rid of any last minutes nerves I might have, pull my goggles over my face, aiming to catch up a little, maybe even pull out of fourth into third. I focus, and then dive off the block as my brother swims in and touches the wall.
The water hits my face. I try to push myself a little on the first lap, because I can just hear my coaches slightly annoying voice in my mind. "Long and Strong!" Sigh. I flip, and try to hold my speed into the second lap. I see the faces of my team at that wall, who look actually quite bored, except for my sort-of-friend Izzy, who is cheering for me. I flip again ( I hate flip turns) and just figure I'll go really fast. I mean, it's like my last lap, except for the one after that. That's what I always tell myself. I just really can't explain my mind. I sprint to the wall, take a deep breath ( but not inside the flags) flip ( I hate flip turns) and pour all the energy I have left into the last lap. I hit the wall, Henry dives over me, and I bring my head up. First.
So, I love winning. I love winning for myself, for anybody, but there is no better feeling than having two tiny eight year olds running towards you and telling you how great you were and how we're now going to win.

Classroom Slice of Life #2 of 31/Hair

My hair is coppery medium brown, long, and wavy-curly. I also can't brush it or wear it down in humid places because it gets so puffy it's totally annoying. My mom and dad call it "the hair". One of the plusses of having hair like mine is that I can do about ANYTHING with it, not that I want to. I've made kind of minor changes to my hair for like the last 7 years or whatever, but nothing huge. I'm thinking about straightening my hair. If I ever move to L.A. I think that I will have to straighten my hair, or it will be in my face constantly. Of popstars with cool hair, I might give the prize to Avril Lavigne. Not best hair, just cool hair. And every country-pop star always has these perfect wavy-curly ringlets. That's kind of what my hair looks like, just without the perfect part, and a whole lot puffier. And that's when I don't brush it.