Freaky Friday (An Apology)

I'm sorry I've been gone so long!

I feel bad about it, really I do.

I didn't do a blog last week because I had nothing to talk about.

I can't believe I am saying this, but I think I've run out of things to talk about!

And I never announced the winner of the workout competition!

So I guuuuessss I'll do that right now~

~*~*EMILY PARKS*~*~

She lost a whopping 15 pounds and 10% of her body weight!

Second place was ~*me*~ having lost 7 pounds and 4.6% of my body weight.

Third place was Francesca, who was very close behind me, who lost 6 pounds and 4.5% of her body weight!

And I am proud of Veronica, Jessica, and Max joining this and trying their best to lose weight!

I am so proud of everyone, really. (:

So Emily, we must talk about your prize~

Text me soon!

So as you may have heard I've been super duper busy having a job.

It's pretty cool.

I just sit all day making the minimum wage.

And at the moment I have $650 in the bank!

Such an awesome feeling.

I'm going to try and stretch this money for all of summer so that I don't have to ask my parents for any money for at least 2 months.

But it's hard though because I can totally buy a new lens with that money or a whole new camera.

Or just other various expensive things, haha.

So next week I'm gonna super clean my room and hopefully have a yard sale some time this summer.

Oh and also the idea of starting an Etsy shop is worming it's way back into my mind.

But I haven't sewn in a really long time so yeah...

But I am starting a baby quilt soon!

So hopefully that will motivate me to start being creative and sewing and making stuff again.

Not that I haven't been making anything.

I'm currently knitting 5 separate things.

Yeah, it's a bit much.

One needs to be done before next weekend, one by the end of July, and one by the beginning of August.

The other 2 are just whenever. But I should probably finish Roseanna's hat soon, heh.

Oh and look at these cute knitted toys!

Pigs in wigs!

Bed bugs~

And a television!

Which are all from Mochimochi Land's new book!

Which is now available on Amazon.com and I'm probably going to end up ordering it as soon as I'm done with this blog.

(Along with a camera remote (finally).)

But gosh, all of these patterns are adorable.

I can't wait to make them. (:

In case you haven't heard, I got a Pro account on Flickr!

 Because of this I have gotten a lot more views and a lot more comments and it feels soooo gooood. (:

And I've also made a bunch of new sets and have been uploading a lot more than usual.

You should probably check it out sometime...

In other news I've watched a couple of movies~

I really liked this a lot. I don't care that it had super low quality green screens or that everyone has known the twist ending since before it even premiered.

I liked it. A lot. The acting was good and looking at cute actors and the trippy flashbacks/going crazy parts.

It was awesome.

I hadn't even heard about this until Max asked me to go see it with him.

If you haven't heard of it you should look up the trailer on YouTube.

It was seriously funny and awkward and I loved it.

John C. Reilly starts dating Marisa Tomei only to find out her 22 year old son, who is Jonah Hill, still lives at home.

And Jonah Hill is slightly obsessive about his mom. And they do some weird stuff moms and sons should never do ever. Haha.

But I liked it a lot and I laughed quite a bit.

I definitely recommend it.

This movie was amazing.

Absolutely amazing.

It's about this man, Colin Firth, and his whole day where he is planning to commit suicide at the end.

You find out he's gay and his partner died 8 months ago and he hasn't been happy since.

The film is directed by Tom Ford who is a costume designer so all of the design elements are super beautiful.

It's a sad and beautiful movie and I loved it.

I also love the soundtrack which I have already listened to about 10 times and I only downloaded it two days ago.

Max and I watched this yesterday and it was hilarious.

I love the Coen Brothers already so I went into this movie knowing I was gonna like it, haha.

And I did. 

It's about a guy who wants his wife kidnapped so he can get some ransom money from his father-in-law so he can get out of his debts.

And then everything goes horribly wrong.

This movie is hilarious and full of Minnesotan accents and dummies.

Last week I read all 5 volumes of Scott Pilgrim.

The sixth and final volume won't be released until July 20th and I'm dyyyyyyying!

Especially because Volume 5 did not end on a happy note.

The whole series is about this guy named Scott Pilgrim who falls for this girl named Ramona Flowers and comes to find out that to date her he has to defeat her 7 Evil Ex-Boyfriends.

And the novels are about him fighting the Evil Exes, his relationship with Ramona, his band, and just Scott's life.

I loved them.

I definitely recommend these to anyone who likes graphic novels.

Alright, last thing~

I'm getting a hair cut today!

So this is your last chance to take in and appreciate my long hair.

And prepare for another very short boy hairstyle~

Well that's all for now.

Have a good weekend and keep having an awesome summer.

And I'm definitely going to try and blog more!

I promise!

Bye~~~

Freaky Friday~ (Saturday Edition)

Sorry I didn't blog yesterday I spent all day at UCLA taking pictures of my friend Micah and his friends for end-of-the-year memories.

And when I got home I fell asleep for two hours.

Traffic is really exhausting!

So right now I'm getting ready for all of my finals and stuff and it sucks.

My finals week starts June 7th and I just want it to be over with already.

I am so ready for the summer and to (hopefully) have a job, and sleep, and knit, and sew, and read, and do all the stuff I haven't had time for.

Here's a couple of things I can't wait to knit.

Still have to finish Roseanna's hat which will probably take me three days, I just don't have that time right now. ):

This awesome lace scarf which is gonna be super challenging but I'm excited.

The coolest baby booties I've ever seen~

And a super awesome berry baby hat.

And I wanna knit tons of other things, of course, but these are at the top of the list right now.

Oh and I'm going to be doing a major sewing project for the first time since...

I don't know. I guess Tyler's Christmas Quilt.

A Peter Pan costume!

Haha, it's gonna be super awesome~

This week I watched Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time in... I don't know, three years?

I totally forgot how much I love this movie.

And watching it I just think about the cool costumes I wanna make.

I mean, come on, look at Brad's tux!

A plaid cummerbund and bowtie?!

So freaking awesome.

Last night I watched Donnie Darko for the first time in a long time, too.

I freaking love this movie. 

It's about wormholes and schizophrenia and Sparkle Motion and jet plane engines.

Oh and it stars Jake Gyllenhaal and it really doesn't get any better than that.

And it's awesome because Maggie Gyllenhaal is also in it and they play brother and sister, haha.

Well, that's all for this week.

Now I have to go get a bunch of stuff done and do some homework and blagh.

I hope you have a good weekend. (:

Freaky Friday~

Hey, what's up, duuuuuuuuuude?

Have a good week?

I didn't, I had to write essays and make a posterboard and had a math test and blagh.
School is the balls.

But I did come to the startling realization that my finals week is only two weeks away.

For some reason I thought it was more like four weeks, haha.

So I only have each of my classes three more times until I take their finals.

And it's only three because of Memorial Day, haha.

That's craaaaaaaazy.

But yeah, I am ready to be DONE, sheesh.

This semester has dragged on and on and on and on and on and I think you get the point, haha.

Omfg, when the semester is done I am going to do so much knitting!

The hat I started for Roseanna back at the end of April has had no progress on it.

And just fyi the yarn is much more green in real life, haha.

And I really want to finish these socks, I'm still on the first one.

Boy do I love these colours. (:

So yeah, I just want to get some freaking knitting done!

This week I watched Role Models for, I don't know, the millionth time?

Paul Rudd is so dreaaaammyy~~~ <33333

And everything about this movie is hilarious.

I laugh every time I watch it, the jokes never get old. Ever.

Saturday my family went to some event, I don't know so Max and Vance came over and we watched The Human Centipede, and it was just as funny the second time, haha.

Vance left and Max and I watched this video called "Incident at Lake County".

 It's Thanksgiving and this kid is filming his family hanging out and stuff and then the power goes out so the kid and his two older brothers go see what happened.

When they're trying to figure out what happened they see...

A UFO~~~

And some aliens killing a cow, but you can't really see it in the video because whenever aliens get near the camera it gets all scrambly and distorted.

Anyways the aliens see them shoot one of the brothers and they all run away crying.

They tell the rest of the family what happened but no one believes them.

EVEN AFTER THEY SHOW THEM THE BURN THE BROTHER HAS.

The family is a bunch of jerkwads.

But then they see the video the kid was filming and start actually freaking out.

So a bunch of weird creepy stuff happens and then at the end they get abducted.

It's ridiculous but it freaks me out, haha.

Max was freaked out too, like a little baby, haha.

After that Max left and then I watched SNL with Alec Baldwin~

Seriously one of the sexiest men alive~

This sketch was soooooooooo hilarious.

And so were the rest of them, because that's Alec Baldwin: sexy and hilarious.

And also charming~

I downloaded so much  music this week~

The first two is the Killers and the Strokes and yeah they're really old but soooo goooood.

And yeah it took me this long to get Vampire Weekend and She & Him.

I was just lagging it, haha.

Well, that's all for this week.

Oh and tomorrow there will be a workout at 10am at Royal Oak, as usual.

Well I hope you have a good weekend and I'll see you next week. (:

Freaky Friday~

Are you excited for the weekend?

And for my high school friends, excited for spring break?

I know that you areee~~~

I have had an awesome week.

Whenever Tyler's here I actually hang out with people and do things!

I know, weird, right?

Haha, so anyways, here we gooooooooo~~~

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So Tyler decided he wanted to bench press me.

Afterwards he started to trip me and I screamed, "No! I have a cookie!"

As if that would be important enough for him to stop.

And basically everything I say is hilarious and gets repeated by us 100 times.

"Ey man, I'm gonna kill you!" 
"No please! I have cookies at home! They'll go bad!"

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Just fyi Cholas do NOT like Panic! at the Disco.

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We also hung out with Michelle a lot. 

Pretty much the majority of the time.

And she says some funny things sometimes...

But not as many funny things as me, of course.

"You guys wanna watch a movie?" 

"Yeah. But only a good one... So not anime." 

"F***!"

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So the new Ben & Jerry's flavours are out for this year.

 And Milk & Cookies is the best ice cream I have ever eaten.

It's like cookies and cream with tons of cookies.

It kind of tastes like the Tollhouse ice cream cookie sandwiches.

But man, I could eat a pound of it.

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Knocked Up

 I have no idea why this took me so long to watch, it was absolutely hilarious.

I was laughing the whooooooole tiiiiime.

"You know what I did yesterday? I googled 'murder'."

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~Hot Chip~

 Okay, so I can't embed the video so here's the link.

Go watch it and come back. I'll wait.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I&feature=related

SO WEIRD, RIGHT?

And, as you will come to find out, very addicting.

Haha.

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Frank & Sons

So on Saturday I went to Frank & Sons with Tyler, Jessica, and Chance.

Tyler just hung out with some friends and talked about Magic the Gathering and Jessica, Chance, and I walked around and were weirded out by all of the nerds. Haha.

But it was nice to hang out with Chance, especially after such a long time.

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Chris's house

So me and Chris Huerta are homies, dawg. 

But we never hang out.

So Tyler and I went over to Chris's and hung out with him, Jonathan, and Casey.
We mostly just sat and watched Youtube videos and ate pizza.

"Jesu Christ-o! A crocodilloooooooo!"

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On Sunday Tyler, Michelle, and I were hanging out and went on a bike ride~~
We went to Subway and ate some sammiches and then went to Royal Oak and played Bocce Ball.
Yeah, we're old people, so what?
But dang, I need to work out more.
The next day I had never felt more sore.

"I couldn't afford a mortar and pestle so I just bought 2 pestles. It's not working out so well. I lose everything I pestle."

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 Yogurtland

I haven't had Yogurtland since the summer, I think.
But it's so good.
Tyler ate well OVER A POUND OF YOGURT.
Hahahaha.
Also, they have this new Red Velvet Cupcake Batter flavour and it's suuuuper goood.

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Scarface... Done by children

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

 Cheesiest. Movie. Ever.
Enough said.

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On Wednesday we played Little Big Planet with Tyler's friends Bonin and Brisky.

I hate that game.
The end.

"I can't eat Cheese Nips before Saturday!"   

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Tyler doesn't know any celebrities or their names.
Ever.

"Is that Mike Goldblum?" 
"JEFF Goldblum." 
"Who's Mike Goldblum?" 
"Nobody. You just made him up."

 

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Tyler bought a can of nacho cheese last night.
Six pounds of nacho cheese.
Yup.
Cheese fries for daaaaaaaaaays.

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I bought more yarn.
I know, I need to stop.
But it was for a specific project for a friend!
And then I bought myself some too... Hahaha.

These are for me.
I just love the green so much.
And grey is one of my favourite shades of black~~~


For Roseanna I am making this hat called ETTA.

With this yarn.

It's called "Denim Twist", ooooohhhhh.
Hahaha.


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I have also been asked to make a... Prom dress!

"Oh god Jacqui not again!"
Haha. I think it'll be much easier since: a) it's not for me, so I won't procrastinate and b) I only have school 2 days a week and I get soooo boooored.

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But I did finish something this week!

A lobsterrrrrrrrrrr. (:
It's my first ever toy and I'm pretty freaking proud.


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Well, this is my longest blog in a long time and I hope you like it.
I'll leave you with another weird music video but addicting song.

Freaky Friday~

Well, hello there.

I hope you have something fun planned for the weekend, or maybe just some time to relax, that's good too.

In last weeks blog I mentioned Tyler was going to come down for the weekend...

Well, he didn't. His sister left without him so that sucked quite a bit.

But Tyler will be here today in just a few hours and I cannotttt waiiiiit. (:

So today I woke up at 6:25am in a panic because for school I generally wake up at 6am and I grabbed a bunch of clothes ran into the bathroom, turned on the shower, and then remembered... It's Friday.

I was so mad at myself. Hahha.

Today I also read some comic books Tyler has been wanting me to read.

Civil war is about how some of the superheroes believe they should reveal their identities, which is led by Iron Man, and work for the government and the other half, led by Captain America, believes that things should stay the way they are.

It's really good. 

It's 7 separate comic books but you can buy the collection of all 7.

I really recommend it to anyone that likes Marvel anything.

It has Captain America, Iron Man, the Fantastic 4, Spiderman, Thor, the Punisher, S.H.I.E.L.D., and a IDK a million other super heroes and a couple of super villains.

This is just a collection of a few different chapters from Deadpool and X-Men.

I don't know much about comic books but I love Deadpool.

He is notorious for always breaking the 4th wall and talking to the audience.

He also makes really random references, like Grey's Anatomy and Dancing with the Stars.
Hahahaha, yeah, I don't know. He's ridiculous.

So last weekend out of my boredom I watched quite a few movies.

I'd been wanting to watch this for awhile and finally got to.

I liked it. I mean, it was kind of weird.

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson's relationship was really hard for me to understand, though.

It was kind of mostly a hipster movie, though.

Hahaha.

I've seen this movie way to many times. Haha.

I loooove this movie.

I would love to read the graphic novel someday.

And this movie had some of the best cinematography I've ever seen.

If you've never seen this (even though it came out in 2005...) I definitely recommend it.

Always gotta top it off with a little bit of anime, haha.

This is probably my favourite Miyazaki movie.

Yup, I like it more than Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.

I just want to be Sophie and for Howl to fall in love with me.

It should be me!

Last Saturday I saw the play The Foreigner at the Covina Playhouse with Jessica, Snell, and my parents.

It was pretty funny.

Kind of a ridiculous plot:

This guy from England goes on vacation in Georgia and his friend Froggy tells the people at the hotel he doesn't speak English so he doesn't have to talk to anyone.

And then Idk, there is hicks and the KKK and it's ridic.

Hahahha.

But it was pretty funny, I'd say.

This weekend I also got to hang out with Emily and the was pretty awesome.

We got to catch up on stuff and eat Subway.

Haha.

Nothing too interesting happened this week.

But I did finish a knitting project! 

I like it but for some reason one half is way bigger. ):

I still have half of the skein left so I might try and make another one.

I just have no idea why it happened!

I also started knitting a lobster.

But it doesn't have any legs yet... Haha.

I think I'm doing pretty well for my first ever knitted toy.

Well, I think I'm going to go clean a bit, listen to Tunng, and hopefully finish this lobster.

Have a good weekend. (: