Surprise!

   Okay, honestly, I had opened this blog back up a couple of weeks ago thinking about "wow I haven't posted on my blog in forever, lord knows if people still use this." Then I was going to say something about going into my last year of college, thesis, how this blog is a pretty great reminder of my middle school/high school years etc. etc. etc...


BUT FORGET ALL THAT!!!

   Upon my discovery last night, I figured an update is in order simply because I found that there's not just one, but TWO NEW SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT BOOKS OUT THERE IN THE WORLD. NEW CONTENT AFTER THE SERIES ENDED FOUR YEARS AGO. I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS!!! This series has literally been there for me for most of my school life honestly and so just the fact that its BACK, IS IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AND FOLLOWS THE SAME CHARACTERS IS JUST AMAZING. So naturally I bought both of the books and they'll be here in like two weeks which just isn't soon enough.  I was just so hyped up last night when I found this out, I left a few of my friends, who know nothing about the series, some pretty long voice messages cause I had to just get out the energy you know? I also realized that fan art is a thing, and I'm gonna make some because now I feel confident enough in myself to do so!

   This series is the reason I made this blog in the first place! The author, Derek Landy, had a blogspot running (I should check and see if he still does...) and I really wanted to comment on it and be part of the conversation. It led to a bunch of cool online friends, some interaction with Derek Landy himself *see past posts for more information from teenage me* and a writing blog thats...still out there...somewhere.... Anyway, this series means a lot to me and it seemed appropriate to write another post after so long seeing as this has returned to the world.

    So I hope all of you still holding on to blogspot are living good lives and have been reading these new books. If you're just learning about these new books today then TAKE A LOOK AT THEM!!! It's such a good series and its so under appreciated, especially here in America. I maybe know like two people in real life who actually know the series and have read them.

   I wish you all the best and hope you're all being your best and truest selves.

_Skulgirl13

Time Flies Doesn't It?

    It's odd isn't it, looking back on yourself just a couple of years back and yet still believe it was a lifetime ago?

    I have just recently rediscovered my old blog and am making the realization of how much I've grown. This is strange. So much has changed in such a short time span yet it feels like eons. I'm not even sure if the people who follow me still use blogspot. It's become almost archaic? is that the word I'm looking for? I'm unsure.

   Any who, I felt the need to make another post after all this time. People come, people go, the world keeps spinning and theres no way to turn back time. Yet this strange childish blog I kept reminds me of the past and how great it was, even though I complained a LOT. Now here I am three, almost four years later, a freshman in college, and everything has worked out for the best. I love my school, my friends are great, everyone is happy and I'm very excited to see what the future has to offer.

   I guess an update is in order of sorts?
 
   I finished high school in a flurry of nine art classes, seven school plays, receiving all six college acceptance letters, five months of fighting to attend my top choice, three years of unwanted but mandatory classes, and one mural that will forever be on the wall of my school. Lets not forget numerous friends and strange memories that will last a life time. Strange measurements yes, but my life is strange.  I currently attend my top choice, an art school in the city, under an animation major. I have five talented, wonderful roommates (one of which is a halloween skeleton we have named Papyrick) and fantastic teachers who really know their field. I've met more famous people in the industry within these past three months than in my entire life and been on numerous adventures.

   Everything happens for a reason, we may not know why, but eventually the pieces fall into place and you'll end up where you feel most at home.

   It gets better, trust me on this.

Sincerely,
Skulgirl13

Sherlock Holmes Returns

The brilliant Sherlock Holmes (left) and Dr. John Watson (right)

    A new television series that first came out in 2010 called Sherlock is sweeping the nation and sweeping me off of our feet. It is co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. They have brilliantly created a thrilling 21st century version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original story's of the amazing one and only consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. And who could forget his incredible partner in crime Dr. John H. Watson, ex-arm doctor. Together the two make an unstoppable crime fighting pair who never cease to amaze the captive audience. These brilliant 21st century adaptations of some of Sir Doyle's greatest stories such as A Study in Scarlet now told as A Study in Pink are told in a high paced action packed series that will stun the viewer in awe and amazement.

Benedict Cumberbatch portrays Sherlock Holmes while Martin Freeman takes the role of Dr. John Watson. Together, along with some help from DI Lestrade, Molly Hooper, Mrs. Hudson (their land lady not their house keeper) and the British Government A.K.A Mycroft Holmes, they solve murder mysteries that no amateur could possibly solve. As the series goes on the murders get more involved more intense, each one becoming more and more complex as time goes on. 

The episodes go as follows:
Season 1
Episode 1: A Study in Pink
Episode 2: The Blind Banker
Episode 3: The Great Game

Season 2
Episode 1: A Scandal in Belgravia
Episode 2: The Hounds of Baskerville
Episode 3: The Reichenbach Fall

A person may find all these episodes on iTunes or season 1 on Netflix OR one can order both seasons from Amazon UK

You may also find out more information on this fantastic show on John Watson's blog
www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk or you can also read Sherlock's blog The Science of Deduction at www.thescienceofdeduction.co.uk follow the two to 221B Baker Street and watch the story unfold right before you very eyes. This show will keep you on the edge of your seats!

In case some how by some miracle Steven Moffat or Mark Gatiss or Benedict Cumberbatch or Martin Freeman or any of the cast and crew of Sherlock is reading this you should know you have so many adoring fans in America and many more are being recruited as i type this. I have personally made sure to get the name of Sherlock out there, i wrote an article for my school news paper and wrote up in my blog and told all of my friends to watch it I've gotten quite a few people to start watching the show :)


I want to thank my friend for getting me started on the show in the first place don't want to mention your name but you know who you are!!!!!! So much more i  want to say about all the episodes sadly i can't, I'd give away WAY too much and spoil all the surprises! Your all just gonna have to watch and see what happens, can't wait for season 3!!!!!

Thanks for reading and please WATCH SHERLOCK!!!!!!!
~Skulgirl13

woops missed something....

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!! I HOPE  YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL AND HAPPY NEW YEAR HOORAY FOR 2012!!!!!
LOTS OF THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO SO HAVE FUN!
~Skulgirl13

Steampunk!

Ok i was just on one of my favorite authors website SCOTT WESTERFELD!! (the one who i have met :D) and he posted an awesome song showing how unappriciated the work of steampunk is now one of the many series he has written is the Leviathan series which is based on a steampunk version of WW1 and i am absolutely in LOVE with this series and you all should read it too! and now i will share the video because its a good video and you should all listen to it

Deck the halls with....well..MENORAHS!!!

ok so its holiday season! and so therefore i thought i owe it to my followers to post some vids of some funny songs i love like.... the one above this lettering that was supposed to be below it and another video of..... ok so again im having text difficulty here! lol hope you enjoy the videos!
_Skulgirl13

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2

Ok so i come back from a bat mitzvah today and on the way home my dad gives me the DVD case for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 IN BLUE RAY AND IT HAS A HOLOGRAPHIC COVER!!!! So i'm totally mezmerized by the cover of the movie case and i tell him "im watching this tonight theres no choise in the matter im watching it!" so i have just finished watching the movie and i still cried as much as the first time and i hope no one heard me for it's about 2 in the morning and tomorrow i have a lot of stuff to do but i thought i should post this because i just love this movie even though it messed up on more than half the things in the book but it also made it very epic unlike the fifth movie *scowles* but we wont go there so yeah
also i got to AVPS! HOORAY! its very good very funny but im not done yet! im only on part 5 of act 2! there going into Snape's memories ooooo *snif* I MISS SNAPE SOOOO!!!!! :'( he was a great man i tell you!

soo i think i should go to sleep before i go more insane than i am
goodnight!
_Skulgirl13

Happy Halloween!

Ok first of all want to say I MET SCOTT WESTERFELD AND HE TOOK MY FRIEND AND I'S PICTURE AAHHHHHH!!!!!!! That was totally awesome did that on the 22 and then today for halloween had no school because of a snow "storm" that left a ton of people without power so the school was used as refuge for people! Then i stayed home and watched Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl and ate candy :P 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!

Best school day EVER!....well so far at least :)

Ok so today had to be the BEST school day EVER!!! First period of the day i got a FREE BAGEL!!! but wait! it gets better! second period i get to watch the hunchback of notre dame! the disney version!!! I LOVE THAT MOVIE!! Third period....well im gonna skip third period the only bad part of the day :P
but 7th period we just worked on a lab the whole time! 6th was lunch thats always fun. 5th we did a worksheet then talked the rest of the period, 4th we took a bunch of notes but it was still hilarious cus there were a bunch of random comments and stuff :P then after that we had a pep rally! well we WERE gonna have a pep rally, instead the fire department came because something smelled funny in the music hallway so they pulled the fire alarm and we went out to the football field and spent most of the rest of school there talking to people and stuff. then we went back inside to our homerooms for about ten minutes then we went home and now im eating a chilled hershey bar! yum! and then later on today im going to go to the circus with my friends! talk about being totally awesome LOL XD you guys really need to watch A Very Potter Musical on youtube it is TOTALLY AWESOME! *you'll get the joke once you watch it* BYE EVERYONE!!

_Skulgirl13

Happy Anaversery!

OK so i probably spelled that wrong but who cares!
THIS IS THE BLOG'S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!! A year ago i was such a newbie but now
i know a lot more and i've met and made people join, i've commented and ive recieved comments and i got to join my favorite authors website

BEST BLOG EVER!
ok thats all :3
_Skulgirl13

I am still here

Yes you guys haven't gotten rid of me that easily!
First week of high school i got hopelessly lost,
joined Harry Potter club
and got even more lost

now i know how to get to my classes and what period my classes are all i need to master is what order their in! The schedule changes every day but stays the same every week if that makes sense to any of you. also in these past two weeks i have finished to AMAZING OUTSTANDING i don't think there are any words to exactly describe how awesome they were.

just warning SPOILERS!!!!!!!

Book #1
Skulduggery Pleasant Death Bringer

It was such an amazing book although i can't STAND how Mister Landy didn't even HINT that Skulduggery was Lord Vile i mean SERIOUSLY!!! but its still an AMAZING series and i love it so even if he did write some things that i despise like for instance breaking up Fletcher and Valkyrie i mean i was like WHAT?! and yeah i could go on but i don't want to bore you

Book #2
Goliath (part of the Leviathan series) 

This was such a good book because this was the last book in the series i mean the first two were awesome to but this one made the series! Alek FINALLY found out Deryn was a girl WITHOUT any help very surprised about that but what im more surprised about was that she actually ADMITTED to it and KISSED him TWO FOR ONE! and then at the end when Alek threw away his official documents and stuff and Deryn told him how she was gonna leave the ship just for eachother and then the picture at the end of the book! i just went AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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X Infinity symbol it was such a good ending! :3




SPOILER END!!!



So yeah i might not be on a lot cus of school and things so ill try to post when i can!

your host 
_Skulgirl13

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......AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I start high school in like 8 hours EIGHT HOURS!!! My school is HUGE i'm starting to panic here and its going to my head so wish me luck for tomorrow shal be my first official day as a freshman...oy vey lets hope i'm still alive by tomorrow
I'll fill you guys in on what happens
Good Bye for now (if not forever)
_Skulgirl13

Moosebutter

Ok this is not about a buttered moose this is actually about an a cappella group consisting of four people who are HILARIOUS!!! They created a whole song about star wars to these John Williams themes like Jaws and Indiana Jones see if you can name the themes and for those who are really star wars savy try and see which movies their quoting, listen to the song until the VERY end and watch their actions its so funny you will die laughing and if you don't then you must have lost your funny bone somewhere go find it! Enjoy!

Muppets

My cousin sent me this video and i LOVE it! GO KERMIT!! Had to show you guys.

Warning it starts out black just so you don't freak out and think its not working

And then there were four... >:}

Ok so it's not as evil as you think
actually i lost another tooth!
yes i am a little old to still have some baby teeth not my fault they don't want to leave me
apparently i have no root left to keep the teeth in but the fibers that connect the tooth to the gum are too strong and won't let go! and thats why their not falling out
weird right?
so anyways now i have four more baby teeth left hooray!
then braces.... : (
but for now i must quote the Weasley twins on this occasion *movie not book*
" 'How you feeling Gorgie?'
*mutters* 'Saint-like'
'What?'
'Saint-like' *points to hole in his head* 'I'm holey Fred!'
'Out of all the jokes in the world you choose 'i'm holey'" gosh i love Harry Potter :3

Guess who!!!

yes 'tis me! IM BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!!!

LOL ok so maybe not better than ever cus im SUPER tired i woke up like at 11:30ish this morning i have NEVER in my life woken up that early

Camp was a blast! there was sooooo much that happened in a short amount of time so there are a few things i must shout across the blog :P

1) We went to Six Flags!!! whilst we were there i hugged Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Mr. Six, Marvin the Martian and Bugs Bunny! I feel very accomplished with that

2) We had COLOR WAR!! For those who don't know about color war i will explain it to you the way my camp does it,
so we divide the camp into four teams  
אדום, כחול, לבן, ירוק
(in english from right to left its red, blue, white, and green)
and for the whole day we battle it out to become the winning team or in my case the winning super villain because our theme was SUPER VILLAINS!!!
Red= The Queen of Hearts
White= VOLDEMORT!! *i put in caps cus i was on white >:D*
Blue= Megamind *HE IS NOT A VILLAIN!!!*
Green= Wicked Witch of the West
So in the end my team came in third sadly and red won grrrr ah well there's always next year!!


3) We had Berkshires
now my camp is a chain camp they have them every where! but our sister camp is the one in Berkshires (not england!) and we go against them in team sports so in Plamer *the place i go to for camp* we call the competitive sports Berkshires cus thats who we go against
this year instead of the JV teams coming to us we went to them that meant a three hour bus ride there and back on coach busses
the day was long and HOT!! I was on JV Dance team so we didn't perform until the end of the day around 4ish we practiced for the whole day and by the time we preformed most of our teams had lost to Berkshires but we were there to bring the spirit back up cus technically JV Dance already won *they didn't have a team we did but we never really compete we just show off : )* and boy did we have spirit! it was probably the best part of the day! that and sleeping on the bus :P


4) then there was last night in which i WAS going to write this blog post but i was WAY too tired to do anything cus i went to see HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2!!! During the movie i was crying my eyes out being the loving geek and freak i am and also being all knowing of Harry Potter i knew what was coming......except for the end......THEY CHANGED IT ON ME!! but thats another story and i don't want to ruin the movie for you all.....so yeah i was basically crying my eyes out and almost yelling at the movie screen i was this close to screaming at the movie screen but i didn't i held back....just barely 


then i came home and went to sleep and then woke up at like 11:30ish today! and now HERE I AM!!!
so now im caught up to the present i have missed you all and im glad to be back!
till next time!
_Skulgirl13

"I can't believe this is good bye"

1) That is a quote from Rent one of my favorite musicals
2) i am in fact a black belt now. the test was really brutal it was 6 hours of hard work, monday i couldn't move a single muscle!
3) this past monday we had an award ceremony and i got an award for having a 90+ GPA all three years i was at my middle school and i also got an art award
4) thursday was the last day of school for me :'( i was very sad even though i'll probably see most of them again i was crying all the way home and the sudden down pour didn't help my mood either
5) im leaving sunday *today in a few hours???? still confused about the time thing* for camp an i won't be able to access a computer for a little more than a month so for now "I can't believe this is good bye" but dont worry ill be back in July!

GOOD BYE MY FRIENDS!!! *for now*
_Skulgirl13

Wait....WHAT?!?!?!!?!?!?

OH MY FLIPPEN GOSH!!! I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING!!!
My Black belt test is TOMORROW!!!!!! OH MY GOSH!!!!
I suppose i should be jumping for joy but right now im scared out of my mind!
the test starts at 8:30 A.M. and ends somewhere around 2 P.M. thats *one....two....three...* almost 6 and half hours!!! and i have to wake up extra early to get there im FREAKING OUT!!!!
I'll see if tomorrow i'll have enough energy to make another post about what really happed at the test.
Wish me luck!
your very nervous test canadate
_Skulgirl13

Dances and trips

Ok yesterday i had my 8th grade dance. it was so much FUN!! The first hour or so was awkward though because it was still light and i guess no one really wanted to see each other dance. It was Neon Lights so one side of the room was completely dark except for the sky lights so yeah..almost every one started dancing once it got dark and it was soooo cool! they had black lights so peoples shirts were lighting up and there were THOUSANDS of glow sticks! i got like five glow sticks for each arm and i had this three colored glow stick necklace around my head like a headband and i got these neon colored sun glasses. I popped the lenses out of them so i could see :P.
I danced with my friends and it was crazy!
Then the slow song came on....
I started doing ballet by myself and then got my friends to do it too. I've never done ballet...well not a real class anyways. And so i spun around and such whilst my friends bugged me to ask one of my guy friends to dance with me. I didn't do it and they got mad but whatever i have my rights!
Then for the last 30 minutes of the dance they played a slide show of pictures throughout the three years we've been there.
It was really sad because it brought up all the memories and i realized im really gonna miss this school! along with all of my friends and...im really surprised im even saying this....my old teachers. over all...
I DON'T WANT TO MOVE ON!!!!!
*sob*

Oh yes the whole trip thing....
well my friend and i were at the food table to get something to eat when she said "Their playing the Cotton Eye Joe" which is one of my favorite songs to dance to so i run into the dancing area and slip onto my bum
i didn't see what it was until after they turned the lights on
it was a streamer
it was really slippery and of course out of all the people there I am the one to step on it, trip, and fall on my side/ bum.
I woke up this morning and i realized i can barley lift my right arm up! i guess i fell harder than i thought i did cause it still hurts even as im writing this!

Well now im gonna sleep feeling satisfied that i have informed you on my recent where abouts
NIGHT!
_Skulgirl13

Black Belts and (un)happy Endings

Oh my flippen gosh i just realized something extremely important.... I HAVE 12 MORE DAYS LEFT UNTIL MY BLACK BELT TEST :O
Now is the official time to freak out i need to start working double time no TRIPLE time

Im in freak out mode

Any ways about the (un)happy endings happy cus schools out in 17 days so my French teacher says but unhappy because i will greatly miss all of my friends :( i doubt i will see them in the huge high school that im going to and even if i do im not gonna be able to see all of them! plus im gonna miss all the good times we had during lunch and during class when we had no work and such....
im gonna miss them so
and my middle school believe it or not
so many memories so little time

sppeaking of time its time to sleep!
NIGHT PEOPLES!!
_Skulgirl13