Merry Christmas!

"Here, this one's for Helen."
"Did you get me Edward Cullen in a box?!"

Haha. I love Christmas! I didn't get Edward Cullen in a box, but I did get Twilight and New Moon in hardback so I can't destroy them. Did I mention I love Christmas?

Ben woke me up at about 6:30, pretty good considering the fact that sign I put on my door last night said 7:00. Usually its 5:30ish and then an hour of waiting for my parents to wake up. So he woke me up -a lot nicer than Chip or Josh would have, I might add, they would have jumped on me- and I went to fix my hair and put on some makeup before going upstairs. When I got upstairs I didn't even look at the tree, I went straight for the coffee. Dad laughed and said it was understandable. I was done with the coffee before we were halfway through with the presents. I am so not a morning person.

After presents my brothers went to go set up their new Wii and I got more coffee. I was awake by this point, and really into the whole Christmas thing. Mom told me about how she tracked down my impossible to find lipgloss, and it was hilarious. Apparently she went into Bath and Body Works to find it and some gay guy helped her. (Hmm..I wonder if it was Scottie.) He was wearing pink lipstick and going on and on about how amazing this lipgloss is. He helped Mom find it, actually using the phrase "Oh, honey" in the process. Ha! I love gay guys. For seriously. I want one. Oh, Scottie....

Since then we've just been hanging out. Every year Mom makes cinnamon rolls -the real ones that I was supposed to bring Shaine after Thanksgiving- and this year they are ah-mashing. For seriously, I don't know how she does it, but they are awesome. Oh, did I mention that Mom is the best cook in like the whole world? She really is. If you don't believe me come over for pasta sometime.

We're going to my grandparents' house around one. That'll be really cool, I love it when my whole family gets together. Its really really really really loud with the six little kids (yeah, I'm the oldest of the seven grandchildren) running around, but its fun.

Since I'm going to be adding stuff to this all day I'm going to break it up into sections. So far is section one, 6:30 - 10:57. Peace, loves.

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Here goes part two.. 12:36 PM.

I just got to my grandparents' house. My Aunt Jen and Uncle Dave are here, along with my grandparents and my great grandmother. My other aunt and younger cousins aren't here yet, so we can't open presents for a while. I've been instructed to hide the computer mouse when she arrives, so this might be the last update until tonight when I get home.

After the last update I got ready to go and sent my Myspace friends pretty 'Merry Christmas' comments. If you didn't get one I obviously don't love you.

ADD sidenote: I absolutely love my grandparents' keyboard. It doesn't make as much noise as mine does. Must remember to get one so Dad will let me stay on the computer later. He always complains that I keep him up banging on the keyboard.

Everyone looks like really good. I mean, I know you're supposed to on holidays, but its a new thing for my brothers. They're all wearing button-down shirts and they look really nice. I think they may have bathed, too, but I won't get my hopes up. I think I look pretty good. I'm wearing a pink sweater that Santa brought me. While I was getting ready I realized that I've worn a pink sweater on Christmas for the last three years. I'll try to find pictures, but I might not post them. I had really bad hair from the time I was eleven to this year. (I finally have it under control now, though, which is kind of laughable if you've seen my hair.)

Ok, so its 12:46 now and I think I'm going to go socialize with my family now. Maybe my uncle will tease me about my big nose again..Ha! I love my crazy family. Peace, loves.

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Part three: 2:11 PM

Just got done with presents. It was actually pretty pleasant, no drama. Some screaming, but no drama. I sat with Aunt Jen -who I have decided is really awesome- and laughed as Dad and Uncle Dave passed out presents at a painfully slow pace just to annoy Aunt Reetie. Man, my family totally rocks.

ADD sidenote: There may be some typos in here until I get home. My internet has a built in spell checker, which I rely on desperately, and my grandparents' doesn't. Bear with me if I sound completely stupid. lol.

After the last post I went and hung out with the relatives and ate cookies. My grandmother -Nonnie- made about thirty thousand cookies, and I plan to eat at least twelve thousand before the day is out. I talked with Aunt Jen about all the cool stuff she does. (I really don't know her that well because she and Uncle Dave only got married two years ago and I've only seen them a handful of times since then.)

Turns out that the place where she works caters for What Not To Wear when they're in New York. How cool is that? She said that Stacy and Clinton are really low maintenance when it comes to their food, and she assumes that they're pretty laid back in real life. Clinton, maybe, but I for seriously doubt that Stacy is. I mean, have you seen her show? She's like a total betch! (A really really awesome betch, but a betch all the same.) I tried to explain this without using the word 'betch' or any variation, so I don't think I actually made my point, but whatev. They also cater the Baby Phat fashion shows. All I know about Baby Phat is that Kimora Lee Simmons was a guest judge on America's Next Top Model a few times, but that's still pretty cool. Not as cool as What Not To wear, but still pretty cool.

A little after that Aunt Reetie showed up and we started opening presents. Dad and Uncle Dave played Santa this year, and it was really funny. I think its so cool how over time brothers-in-law can become brothers, because you -or at least I- can totally tell how well they get along. They were absolutely hilarious, and with my Aunt Reetie here it will be insanely hilarious. I love it when my family is all together. For seriously, if you saw us all together for just ten minutes you would know where I get it. ('It' being my outstanding sense of humor, big nose, and bigger ego.)

Like I said before, we just got done with presents and now I am like starving to death. Its 2:24 and we're eating in an hour, but I don't know if I can make it that long. I think I'm going to get some cookies and get verbally abused by my 'loving' relatives. =p Peace, loves.

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3:05 PM

Gahhh. They're cooking very slowly and it is NOT fun. So question: Is anyone reading this as I post like a crazy person? Haha. If you are leave a comment so I know.

In the like forty minutes since I left you I have done basically nothing. I ate some cookies and listened to Mom, Uncle Dave, and Aunt Reetie talk about the time Mom tried to crucify Uncle Dave. No, I'm not kidding. When they were kids Mom tried to nail him to a tree, and he has a scar on his foot from it. This was after Mom left him out in the snow when he was a baby. I don't think Mom much liked the idea of younger siblings. (Ha! I took it a lot better than she did, I just complain a lot. JK. I love my little brothers more than anything, even if they are annoying.) Its pretty funny because when Uncle Dave got bigger he got revenge. Once he put her on top of the refrigerator and wouldn't let her down for hours, and once he hung her by her belt loop on the security lock thing in a hotel. I'm thinking that my parents should be thankful that I only yell at my brothers..I could hang them by their toes off the back porch. Hmm...That's an idea. Maybe Uncle Dave will help.

So are y'all having good Christmas? I definitely am, and will continue right about...Now. Its 3:12 I'm going to go -er- patiently wait for the food to be ready. Peace, loves.

PS- Its technically a white Christmas. Its raining and sleeting and snowing a little. Ha! That's Tennessee for you. We like never get snow. For seriously! I've been out of school for more rain days than snow days. Ridiculous.

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4:09 PM

OMG, I'm like totally stuffed. I think we may have a problem, how the hell am I going to eat pie?! Haha. I just laughed out loud at all the morons who think I'm anorexic.

So dinner was awesome. Like for seriously, my family is made up of amazing cooks. The conversation was better, though. My family temporarily moved the spotlight from me -because obviously its always on me- to my brother Chip and his inablity to stop laughing. Its really amusing. If you tell him something funny he just can't stop. And if you tell him something not so funny he can't stop. It reminds me of Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Not the crappy movie, but the book. "Must...Not...Look..Like a....Baboon's backside!!!" (It was close to that, at least. If you've read the book you get it.) So Uncle Dave and Aunt Reetie picked on him for a while, and then the spotlight came back to me and we talked about how charming I was when I was little.

See, Aunt Jen asked how Chip (whose real name is Phillip) got his nickname, and I explained that when he was born I was obsessed with Beauty and the Beast. Phillip became Chip the cup, Mom was Mrs. Potts, Dad was the beast, and I was Belle. So apparently one time when I was like three I was over here with Nonnie and Aunt Reetie and a friend of Aunt Reetie's came to pick her up. I answered the door and I said, "I'm Belle the girl in the castle, who the hell are you?" Ha! I was such a cool little kid, Aunt Reetie's friend even said so.

So now with that charming little anecdote finished, I'm going to have some coffee and pie. Its like 4:19, so I say its time for pie. Talk to you soon. Peace, loves.

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6:29 PM

Just got home. Did you miss me? The pie was amazing, I'm never eating again. Or until tomorrow morning, whichever comes first. After dessert I listened to my aunts and uncle talk in depth about hair products (not joking) and then sat in the living room with everyone and we just hung out. My younger cousins and my youngest brother kept jumping all over Uncle Dave and it was pretty funny. One of my cousins obviously just got new feet, because he was falling all night long. Not even kidding. It was hilarious.

So all in all it was an amazing Christmas. If I hadn't mentioned it before, I love having all of my family here. We're all -all being the fifteen of us- going to have a family portrait taken tomorrow. That will be interesting. I wonder who's going to end up in a headlock this time. =p

Well, I think that's about it. I hope everyone had a great day and got to spend some quality time with their families. Its 6:38 and Dad's kicking me off here in about five minutes, and I have to talk to some people on Myspace, so I'll talk to you tomorrow. Peace, loves.

xo
Helen

These Are The Best Days (Part One: Friday)

"...So don't wait for someone to tell you it's too late
'Cause these are the best days
There's always something tomorrow
So I say let's make the best of tonight
Here comes the rest of our lives..."
-Graham Colton, Best Days

So its Saturday night and I got back from ice skating about an hour ago. It was absolutely amazing, I had SO much fun! But more on that later. Right now you get to hear about Friday.

Yesterday was hardfreakingcore. I wore my new favorite t-shirt and I had a pretty good hair day, so it was great from the beginning. I was texting Laura on the bus, as usual, and she decided that she's the third coolest person ever in the history of the world because I blogged about her. How cool is that? And even cooler, number one and two are Stephenie Meyer and me. Me? Me! I am the second coolest person ever in the history of the world ever according to Laura. I love that betch. As I got off the bus there was no one there to meet me. I was momentarily crushed because I love it when Laura and Scott fight over who gets to hug me first. All of my emoness was lost, though, when I realized that Kayla was back.

It was so exciting! I ran up to her and we were hugging and screaming with Laura and everyone. I'm really glad Ranger Joe wasn't out there, or he would have yelled at us. So this is what was happening in the five minutes that I was out there, all at the same time: Kayla was talking about Shaine's pissing tricks, Nichole and Laura stole my iPod (which I named Alex) to listen to 'Santa Monica', Kayla and I drank some of Laura's Full Throttle and got crazy, and some chick came up to us and asked us to sign a petition to stop the school administration from giving us uniforms. We all signed, of course, and now we might get ISS for it. More on that later, though.

I had to pry myself away from my stalkers to go to Biology, which was actually pretty cool. We watched 'Finding Nemo' and colored diagrams of frogs. For seriously, there are three things we do in that class: Take notes, color, and watch videos. The videos usually correlate to whatever we're doing in class (like the one about bug sex) but we got to watch 'Finding Nemo' because we dissected a starfish. Mom says we should watch Kermit the frog videos after we dissect the frog on Tuesday. (Yeah, she's also thrilled about the fact that my awesome free and public education includes watching 'Finding Nemo'.) Yeah, the frog. I'm going to throw up, no way around it. I almost did with the starfish, and I already know that the frog is going to be worse because it has human-like internal organs. Ugh. Can anyone else sense the excitement? < /sarcasm >

So yeah, Biology was almost completely pointless. I say almost because at the beginning of class I had the following exchange of words with Beth, which I think totally rocks.

Me (singing) - "I remember the day..."
Beth - "Wow. Since when can you sing? That was beautiful."
Me - "It was like three words. How can three words be beautiful unless they're 'I love you'?"

IDK..I just love that. lol. See how self-centered I am? I'm blogging about my great appreciation of my awesomeness. I need help..

ATTENTION PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: CANADA IS AWESOME! Haha. Vincent was wearing this cool shirt and then we had a discussion about Canada. Canada totally rules. Me, Kayla, and our people going there on our road trip after our senior year.

ADD sidenote: You really do have a procrastination problem when you're procrastinating on something you actually love to do just because its going to take a while.

The rest of history was insane and I wrote a ton of stuff down, so here's the headlines:
--Jodi Picoult - We were talking about Dante's nine levels of hell again, and I remembered Jodi Picoult's novel The Tenth Circle. It is absolutely completely amazing. Read it if you get a chance.
--The raccoon. We have a raccoon in our classroom. Its pretty scary. It keeps running right by Seth and pushing Scott. Creepy stuff, man.
--Stileism - Yeah, my teacher has created a new religion. She won't tell us her religion because she said it effects her ability to teach objectively if we know, so naturally we spend lots of time trying to guess. So we have decided that her religion is Stileism (also sometimes referred to as Flippism.) It is kind of like the universal faith that some Byzantine (or somethingorother) guy was trying to establish. I personally think she's Baptist, but she'll never tell us.
--My 'B' on my paper was correct, I actually did well!
--Everyone's lying to little kids! Its stupid! I'm learning about how the Vikings were the first to settle in North America and my younger brothers are learning that it was Columbus. Not cool, man! And apparently Columbus was a jerk anyhow, so as far as I'm concerned the only Chris Columbus that's done anything worthwhile is the one that directed Harry Potter.
--Another quote! Katharine was making fun of me, and then this happened:
Me - "You know, you think you're hilarious, Katharine, but you're not."
Katharine - "Yes I am. You just don't like it because I'm making fun of you."
Me - "Exactly."
Haha. I love us. She's so awesome.
--Queen Elizabeth was having an affair with the king of Spain. Her people thought she was 'the virgin queen' because she never had any children. Haha. They're stupid. In second block Ancient History, she's referred to as the 'not so virgin queen'.
--During the time of exploration, the French were just a bunch of obese people with lung cancer.
--Katharine blew off our EOC reviews and talked about the fagification (new word) of dogs.
--No more history notes!
--Guatemalans are the shortest people in the world..Finally! We have discovered Laura's mysterious ethnicity!
--Katharine told me that I remind her of a drunk person at the restaurant she works at. I thanked her profusely.

Wow. That was a lot of stuff from History. Scott hid in the rape corner during activity period and Kayla and I screamed some more. (We had a lot of screaming to catch up on.) Algebra was awesome. At the beginning of class Kayla brought out like twenty thousand cookies, which we proceeded to eat and get even more hyper than we already were. We then went into a rant about Twilight and the guy that will be playing Edward in the movie. While we were doing that Eric decided to be cute and write something mean about Edward on his calculator. Kayla and I were horrified and planned to ignore him for the rest of class, but Eric's kind of hard to ignore. He kept saying that he was going to kill Edward, to which I replied, "So silly. You don't know how to kill a vampire." After that Eric stole my pen and then inquired as to why it smelled like perfume. I wanted to know why he was sniffing my pens, but he wouldn't tell me.

While all of this was going on Half Baked kept giving us death stares. We can tell that she's almost as happy that the semester is over as we are. Just one week until I'm done with Algebra until next year! I really am glad the semester's almost over. In all my classes when I take notes my hand cramps almost immediately. Too many notes, I think. I'll count later, but I think I have over a hundred pages of notes in History alone.

ADD sidenote: Its Sunday afternoon now because it takes me forever to write a blog. One day I'll have my own computer and I won't get kicked off halfway through writing.

The actual academic Algebra stuff was really confusing. I don't even remember what we were doing because I've slept a ton since then, but I do know that Half Baked kept coming up with twelves, and I had no idea where the twelves came from. It was very frustrating. And then she was all, "I know, its just like magic!" Which, of course, sent me into a rant. "No, it is NOT like magic! There is no Transfiguration, there are no dragons or three headed dogs or house elves or dementors! No no NO! It is NOT like magic, its like Algebra, which is like torture, NOT LIKE MAGIC!" And then Kayla said something about our consciences, Fred and Georgie, and I almost wanted to cry. Poor Fred. =[

Lunch was interesting enough. It was really great to have Kayla back, because lunch with a bunch of guys can be a pain in the ass. After we ate we went back upstairs. We used the elevator because Buck hurt his knee and he can't walk up the stairs. Buck, Kayla, and Eric pretended to act cool while we were in there but I think they looked kind of dumb. We tried to be quiet while we were upstairs -because we're not supposed to be upstairs during lunch- but we still got yelled at. Well, not really yelled at, but warned. Again. We're going to have to actually stay in the commons after lunch now. Damn. Going upstairs was the second of two things that we did to potentially get ISS on Friday. The first was signing that petition, which apparently got a ton of people ISS during lunch. Uhh...First amendment much? Idiots.

When we got back to Algebra we placed bets on how many times Eric would fall while ice skating. I bet Kayla three Scooby Snacks that he'd fall five times, and Kayla bet me ten Scooby Snacks that she'd fall on her butt. After we were done betting, Eric told us about how he, Scott, and Jeremy got banned from Hollister. Apparently the morons went in there and put a Cinnabon in a stack of clothes then got banned. Idiots. I love them.

Gym was gay..Is anything else new? We have to take our final sometime this week, which means I actually have to learn about sports. Gag. I'm so glad that I'm almost out of there.

When I got home I hung out and then went to babysit at 6:30. Uneventful. Yeah, whatever. That's all I'm posting for now because my fingers are starting to hurt. lol. I'll post the ice skating adventures of Bella, Rosalie, Alice, Esme, Ben, and Eric later today or tomorrow. Peace, loves.

xo
Helen

I Can't Stay Away

"I think someone's trying to show us a sign
That even if we thought it would last
The moment would pass
My bones will break and my heart would give

And I remember the day when you left for Santa Monica
You left me to remain with all your excuses for everything
And I remember the time when you left for Santa Monica
And I remember the day you told me it's over....."
-Theory of a Deadman, Santa Monica

Totally love that song. I heard it on someone's profile and now I'm in love with it. See how easily I fall in love? It might seem terribly romantic, but for seriously, its really not a good thing.

So I didn't post yesterday because I basically passed out from exhaustion at six and slept until five this morning. That was good, I think, because I've had like no sleep all week. I think everyone can tell, too, because my hands are shaking more than normal due to the more than normal amounts of coffee I've been drinking. Yes, I do have a problem. Yes, I should probably switch to herbal tea or something. No, I'm not going to change anything.

So yesterday...Pretty cool day, actually. I'll try to keep it brief. Partly because I have a ton of stuff from today to talk about, but mostly because I slept for eleven hours and I don't remember most of yesterday.

Biology was actually pretty good yesterday, well, compared to today. Yesterday we took notes on the starfish that we dissected today. (Starfish sex..Eww!) More on that later. After we were done with the notes we watched Finding Nemo. No joke. I absolutely love that movie. I love to watch it with Josh. Its our favorite movie after The Wizard of Oz.

In History we discussed the genius/pervertedness of Shakespeare. Actually, we talked about the Renaissance, but Shakespeare was in there for a second. That's not what I really want to write about, though. We read a passage from Machiavelli's 'The Prince' and there were two quotes in there that I absolutely love.

"...For imagination has created many principalities and republics that have never been seen or known to have any real existence, for how we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. A man striving in every way to be good will meet his ruin among the greater number who are not good..."

Pretty freaking accurate, huh? One more:

"...For men in general judge more by the eye than the hand; all can see but few can feel. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few experience what you really are and these few do not dare to set themselves up against the opinion of the majority supported by the majesty of the state..."

Yeah, I know, supernerd. Blogging about Machiavelli, using 'blogging' as a verb, understanding that medieval gibberish...What a nerd. =p

Other than that History was boring. On my 'blogables' note I have the notes "DAM - Mothers Against Dyslexia" "He who dies with the most toys wins" and "Plato/Playdough". Its an honors class, I swear.

That's the end of my blogables notes from yesterday, so lets see how much I can remember by myself..

In Algebra we found a really nauseating love note on the floor. I won't subject you to the whole thing, but here's a passage: "Baby I feel the same way towards u when u told me 'of course we will be together forever,' I know we will be we are so perfect for each other, u think?" And on and on like that. It would be really sweet if he didn't go on to say that even though they'd only known each other for a while he thinks they're soulmates, yadda yadda yadda. Eric and I think that he's just trying to get in her pants.

Lunch was uneventful. Boys are gross. Can't wait until Kayla gets back. Gym was boring. We had a sub again, so I sat out with Destinie and she psychoanalyzed me again. We, and Laura, have decided that my heroin addiction problem will be solved when I talk to it and get closure. Yeah. I don't see that happening anytime soon.

When I got home I talked to some people online for a while, but around six I just gave up and went to bed. I woke up at five this morning and did my morning stuff then went to school. When I got there Laura met me when as I got off the bus. I hung out with her, Scott, Cassie, Shaine, Nichole, and everyone for a minute and then I went to Biology. Scottie stalked me all the way upstairs. He's really starting to get annoying.

In Biology we dissected the starfish. It was absolutely completely disgusting. I almost threw up, and Beth did throw up. We had to cut off the end of one of the arms, slice it up the side and then peel off the top and examine the mushy insides. I felt like I was mutilating Patrick! Not cool, man! And it smelled like rotting pumpkins. Completely nasty. I still want to be a doctor, though. I don't think people smell like rotting pumpkins, and their insides are more interesting. Oh yeah, here's a pic to sum up my starfish dissection experience. We're doing frogs on Tuesday. Oh, joy.

History was one insane religious item after another. It started with notes on the Protestant reformation and Martin Luther's position on the sacraments. That segwayed into a discussion on transubstantiation and the possible negative ramifications of taking spray cheese with you to communion. We decided that its probably blasphemy, but it was still fun to think about. I could totally see Scott and Seth doing that. Not that Scott would actually make it to communion, he'd burst into flames upon entering the church. Yeah, the great atheist was saying "There is no God" in my ear all through class. Its completely obnoxious. He has the right to express his opinions, but he doesn't have to constantly bash my faith.

Oh yeah, my faith, haha. I'm a bad Catholic because I read Harry Potter. Actually, I'm a bad Catholic anyhow because even though I was baptized Catholic I haven't been in a Catholic church in years. Oh well. If not going to church will send me to hell, I'd rather be down there with Socrates, JK Rowling, and all the other heretics. Ok, well while I'm on this topic, I may as well tell you about my theory.

Before I start you have to realize that this was just an idea that popped into my head. I don't believe it, I just thought of it. (Can you get excommunicated for thinking something?) So: What if Christianity is just an elaborate joke? I mean, you can't deny that Jesus existed, but what if he was just a bored teenager that wanted to trick some people into believing he was the savior? Maybe he just really didn't like Judaism, or maybe he was just really self centered and wanted a religion based around him. Think about it, people. He could have been pretty deep into the oracle reading herbs that the ancient Greeks used. (Only the nerds in my History class will get that one.) Ok, enough heresy for one night. I've got about three hundred 'Hail Mary's' left for the Harry Potter thing.

After that History was boring. I bashed Scott's head into a wall (but I had a good reason) and had a very interesting conversation with Matt about killing the pope. Our teacher said that since the pope is the basically leading religious authority in the world no one in their right mind would kill him. Well Matt -the ultimate nerd, he reads Star Wars books and everything- said that you'd have to be right handed to kill the pope. I got it immediately, but no one else did. You know, right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa, so you'd have to be in your left mind, not in your right, therefore not using your left hand, to kill the pope. That was pretty freaking awesome.

Nothing truly interesting happened during activity period. Some chick passed out in the hallway and we watched Rent-A-Cop Randy run over to her. It was bad that the chick passed out, but man, it was hilarious watching that fat cop run. I don't get why there are fat cops, I mean, aren't they supposed to be able to chase down suspects and stuff? Makes no damn sense. After that we went back to class and we got our research papers back. I actually did ok. I'm terribly excited about it, but I'm not going to show it externally until I know that my teacher didn't accidentally mess up my grade.

I am SO glad that Kayla is coming back tomorrow. For seriously, I love Eric and Ben to death, but they are really getting on my nerves. We took a test today. I actually understood 99% of it, and the other 1% Alexis explained to me after lunch, so I think I did pretty well. Nothing happened other than that. Kayla promised me a really awesome day in there tomorrow since she's been out all week. I can't wait!

At lunch I introduced the guys to the insanity that is the female process of finding out if one of them is interested. Its a crazy process, too. See, Laura likes this guy that I sit with, so I was asking him what he thought of her while simultaneously texting his answers to Laura. Shaine tried to get in on it, too, but mostly he was just harassing the other guy.

Gym was lame. What else is new? Kelly and I danced in the rain and sang Taylor Swift. Its actually pretty interesting when Kelly and I sing, because usually we can't harmonize for anything, but sometimes we sound really amazing. That's all that happened in gym. After school I hung out with everyone then went home. While I was on the bus I decided that I really need some music on my iPod. Maybe I'll get the new Veronicas CD tomorrow...

When I got home I got online and talked to some people. A bunch of people weren't online because of the chorus concert. I wanted to go, but Dad was busy condemning himself to Italian hell (no, no one is supposed to understand that) and Mom couldn't drive me, so I stayed home and talked to Laura. I love that crazy chick. Yesterday -yeah, its Friday morning now. It takes me forever to write a blog- morning we decided that we were going to run away to Forks and stalk Edward. I pointed out that it wouldn't be too much fun because Alice would know we were stalking him, so Laura said that we should kill Alice. BLASPHEMY!!! You can't kill Alice. No, no, NO!! Then Jasper would kill us and Edward would hate us and it would be horrible!!! Haha. I'm way too obsessed with this book. I need help.

I stayed up doing pretty much nothing last night and crashed around 12:30. Today is going to kick ass! Kayla's coming back, finally, plus I'm babysitting tonight then going ice skating with everyone tomorrow. Since -I hope- anyone reading this is actually one of my friends and not a stalker, you're invited. We're going at the Icearuim in Farragut from four to six tomorrow. Let me know if you can make it!

So I suppose that's all. I have to go eat and get ready for school and all that..Gag. Only one more week, and its not even a full week! Yay! I'm planning on giving everyone their Christmas presents on Monday, but thats only if the stuff I ordered gets here before then. Peace, loves.

xo
Helen

I Could Get Used To This

"I'm feeling it comin' over me
With you it all comes naturally
Lost the reasons to resist
And I could get used to this...."
-The Veronicas, I Could Get Used To This

Totally love that song. And I'm so totally in love with life that I think I'm getting used to the constant euphoria. Pretty neat, huh?

One word for today: Ah-mashing. For seriously, it rocked.

WAIT! STOP EVERYTHING! THEY CAST EDWARD!!!!!!!!!!!
And get this, its Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.



"Los Angeles, CA December 11, 2007 – Summit Entertainment announced today that Robert Pattinson will star as “Edward” in the highly anticipated feature film production TWILIGHT opposite Kristen Stewart. The thriller-romance, based on Stephenie Meyer’s publishing phenomenon, is slated to begin production in February 2008."

I don't know...Is he good enough? I can definitely see Edward potential, and Stephenie Meyer's thrilled. He'll need contacts, of course, and I don't know if he has a British accent all the time or if he can turn it off like Hugh Laurie. I guess if Americans can do British accents then British can do American accents. I completely hate Kayla for being grounded while this is happening. Kaila isn't online and Laura hasn't texted me back...I feel so alone in my Twilight obsessed world.

So with that..Its 10:36 and there's no way I'll get to bed at a reasonable hour, so y'all (yes, I said y'all, I am from the south) are getting one hell of a long blog tonight. Hope you don't have plans or anything.

Today started pretty normal. Got up, got unpajamaed, got ungrody, made my hair unmessy, got some coffee, wrote a blog, yadda yadda yadda. I got to school and got Laura to help me find Taylor. Its her birthday (happy birthday, again, Tay!) and I made her cookies and I wanted to give them to her before I ran into Eric. (Just kidding, Eric. You can call me 'Helen Zasz' three times for that one.) Before we went into Taylor's classroom I took them out of my backpack and Laura murdered them. For seriously! I held them out and asked Laura to hold them while I closed my backpack and she just let them fall. What a typical cookie murderess. Gosh! Anyhow, only like two of them were murdered so I gave them to Taylor and blamed the broken ones on Laura and then went to Biology to cut up a worm.

I still want to be a doctor. The dissection wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. One of my senior friends told me once that it isn't so terrible, but I didn't believe him. I should have. It was completely nasty, of course, but really fascinating at the same time. I so definitely can't wait until we cut up larger animals. We got in there and we were assigned lab partners. I was with Taylor. We'd never really talked before today, but she's really nice and wanted nothing to do with the internal functions of the worm, so I got to do all the cutting. We had to wear really queer looking shower curtain-like aprons and supernerd goggles. We looked like Dr. Warner on SVU. But me and Beth make it look good. I absolutely hate Alicia, though, because she actually did look good with the shower curtain apron and supernerd goggles. So not fair. (Just kidding.)

As far as the actual cutting and poking goes, it wasn't terrible. I sliced it down its back and then pinned it down so we could see the insides. I kept going, "Ew!" and, "Grody!" But I was really thinking, "Ok, cool, lets do this on people." I can't wait until med school, man. Its going to be freaking awesome. So the lab went pretty quickly. Basically we spent fifteen minutes slicing it open and five poking it, and then we spent the rest of class cleaning up. It wasn't until after class when I couldn't get the smell of latex off my hands when I started to feel a little sick. I realized after I left that formaldehyde smells really horrid.

Abbey stole borrowed my phone at the beginning of History and it started a really funny reaction. She gave me a box of nerds -ironic in itself when you're in an Honors Ancient History class- because I let her use my phone. Simple, right? Not so. I ate like three and remembered that I really don't like nerds all that much, so I gave them to Seth, who gave them to another nerd, who ate them then gave the box back to Seth, who put them on the back of my desk where they were sure to fall off. The teacher jokingly accused him of littering, and there was a finger pointing epidemic as we tried to find out who should have to throw the box away. In the end I did just to make them stop pointing at whatshisface. That's not the point, though, the point is that one of the nerds was confused by my statement, "There are nerds all over this classroom." He didn't know if I meant the candy or my classmates. Ha! (Yeah, I just realized that this story is probably funnier to me than to you, but whatever. Its my blog, so =p)

Other than that History was basically insane. You know, the usual. We talked about Dante's nine levels of hell and Satanism. (Which reminded me of Jodi Picoult's amazing novel The Tenth Circle which everyone should read because it kicks ass.) We also discussed how cool it would be to be the king of Rhode Island. I have absolutely no idea how we got to that, but it happened, and I decided that being king of Rhode Island would be pretty sweet because I would get to boss around my uncle that lives there. And you have no idea how much fun I could have with that. After that Scott kept saying "Sexy time explosion". (Which is supposedly from Borat but I don't remember it.) And then he called me prissy, which made me want to break his nose. I threatened to do this and our teacher told me to to it in the hallway where she couldn't see so she wouldn't have to write me up. Then Seth was being all weird over something and she said, "Sit down, Mr. Anal. You're going to have a heart attack before you're thirty!" That was awesome. She would be the coolest teacher ever if she wasn't a hardass. I totally hate the academic part of that class. Only one week and a huge scary test and I'm out of there!
< /enthusiasm >

Algebra. Gag. We did something confusing that I didn't understand. Next? One week and a semi-huge scary test until I'm out of there. Thank God, because I think I'd go crazy if it was any longer. So enough about the numbers, lets get onto the social stuff, because that's all that really matters. Eric has taken to doing this really creepy thing whenever something's bugging me. He puts his hand on my head, as if he was going to crush my skull, and shakes and makes a really funny face and says "Demon be gone!" It doesn't eliminate whatever's bugging me, but usually it freaks me out so much that I forget what was bugging me for a while. It seriously reminds me of the "Serenity Now!" episode of Seinfeld. Man, I adore that show. Kramer is the coolest dude ever. I wish I could walk through a door like that.

Lunch was uneventful apart from Shaine's compelling recollection of his 'pissing tricks'. No, I'm not kidding. He was actually telling Cory that he was pissing for so long that he started to do tricks. For seriously?! Guys actually think about that stuff?! That's insane! I guess that's what I get for hanging out with guys all the time. Man, I can't wait until Kayla gets back.

The rest of Algebra was confusing to no end, and gym was stupid. We went outside and walked around the track a few times. I texted Laura and took pictures the whole time. I also got a video of Kelly and Emily singing 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer'. I posted it on YouTube, I'll add it to the end of this post. After we were done walking we went inside and joined the other gym class. I ended up playing volleyball with a chick that looks like Bella (to me, anyways) and some other people while at the same time keeping an eye on the game that was going on next to us, because that chick that was mad me last Friday kept telling all of her friends to throw balls at my head.

After gym in the locker room she approached me and asked me if I had a 'staring problem' because apparently everyone had told her that I'd been staring at her. For seriously, she needs to stop listening to everyone all the time because everyone is lying to her. Its really starting to make me mad. But what will I do about it? Nothing. Why? Because I am a pushover and a wimp and I hate myself for it, but that's what I am and I do not intend to change who I am just because some chick is too dumb to know that everyone is trying to start drama because everyone is a disgusting being who wants to see a fight. Well I have news for everyone: I will not fight. I will not fall to that level of primal, immature, uncivilized behavior.

After school was cool. Hung out, took some pictures, got stalked, the usual. When I got home I hung out and did my homework. When I got online I had a status/mood conversation with Scott, Eric, and Rhiannon. (I actually think I was speaking to myself at one point, too.) Other than that, not much happened. Its 12:17 and I'm completely exhausted now, so I'm going to bed. Peace, loves.

xo
Helen

This Love

This love...My love for life, my love for my family, friends, blessings, everything I have to be thankful for. And, of course, my love for the Veronicas, who's song 'This Love' totally rocks my socks.

I'm coming to you from my kitchen. Nothing new, except for tonight, I have been grounded from chairs, so I am standing up and typing at a very unusual angle. Yeah. I got grounded from chairs. My family is absolutely insane...

Today kicked butt. What else is new? I've almost totally gotten over my heroin problem from last week (read previous posts if you're confused on that last point) and I'm back to my overly hyper crazy perverted self. (I can already hear people groaning.)

Today started simple enough. Got up, showered, got dressed, put up makeup, did my hair, got some magic wake up juice, made lunch, hung out, ect. You know, the usual. Nothing to report until Biology, so lets start there.

Animal sex update: We have moved on to bug sex. For seriously, you haven't lived until you've watched two spiders getting it on. It was a truly life changing experience. The worm sex discussions are ongoing. Did you know that an earthworm's seminal receptacle is larger than its brain? This is very important information, people. I'll get to see this for myself tomorrow when I dissect a worm. I'm not really nervous now, but I am afraid that I might have a totally unexpected Bella moment and pass out as soon as I make the first incision. And that wouldn't be too much fun if Edward isn't around to save me. So wish me luck. There is a good possibility that by second block tomorrow I will have abandoned all aspirations to become a physician.

So did you know that the US is #5 on the 'Best Countries in the World' list? Yeah. Switzerland is number one, but we have Oprah. That was the highlight of History class yesterday. (Yeah, I'm rushing now because I started this blog last night before Dad kicked me off the computer and now I only have a little while before school.) Other than that we talked about Medieval Freaking Europe. Someone mentioned Alfred the Great, and we talked about his self esteem as compared to Pepin the Short's. Seth suggested that Alfred might have been the same height as Pepin, and asked how he got the title of 'Great'. Does anyone get where I'm going with this? I didn't say it, but I was thinking that he might have been really really good at something else..

We had an orgy in Algebra. An orgy is defined as four or more people in a room with their shoes off, so Eric, Ben, Abbey, and I all took our shoes off. Speaking of Abbey, apparently she has conversations with her chest. No, I'm not kidding. You can ask Eric, I'm hoping he's blogged about it by now. (There, Abbey, is that enough attention for you?) Other than that we didn't do anything really great. Cortney accidentally got a face full of the teacher's butt, and that was absolutely hilarious. And Eric made the bestest joke ever. He's already posted it, though, so I won't steal his thunder.

At lunch I was left alone amongst the pervs of the round table. Kayla's suspended until Friday, so I was forced to listen to the boys talk about their favorite 'code words' for boobs. It was disturbing, yet highly amusing. Hey wait..Mom just pointed out that if the guys are the pervs of the round table then I must be queen of the pervs. That totally kicks ass. Its good to be queen. Other than that the rest of lunch was uneventful. Eric gave me a new nicnkame (Helen Zasz) and picked me up and threw me at Ben. It was great fun.

After Algebra was gym..Gay! We had a sub so Destinie and I sat out with a bunch of people and she psychoanalyzed me. She's my therapist, which is kind of laughable because we both need therapy.

Other than that nothing really happened yesterday. I have to go get ready to dissect a worm now, so I'll talk to ya'll later. Sorry for the short post. Peace, loves.

xo
Helen

Hardfreakingcore

Hey everyone! Sorry I couldn't post yesterday, but trust me, nothing really great happened. I'll try to make it brief.

Biology was boring. I spent the first half of the class taking a practice Gateway test and the other half listening to my iPod and trying not to fall asleep. After Biology I went to go take the Algebra Gateway. It was pretty easy, but it was kind of hard to pay attention to the test when the parabola questions came up. (Click here if you have no idea what I'm talking about.) After I finished the test I read Jane Eyre. Gag. Charlotte Brontë must have been a very tortured woman.

After that I went to Algebra. We talked and got yelled at until lunch. Lunch was interesting. It started with me wondering how I ended up as one of the guys, and ended with one of my friends who hasn't talked to me in a month randomly talking to me. It freaked me out a bit, to be perfectly honest. I was completely content with him ignoring me, but whatever. Maybe I'll let Eric sit on him or something. After the weirdness I went back to Algebra and talked, even though Half Baked gave us an assignment. Whatever. Thank God there are only three more weeks in that class. I don't think I could take much more than that.

Then to Gym, where I sat out and watched. It was boring. Coach Creepy was all, "Helen Rooooooooooooooose. You're my heartthrob, Helen Roooooooooose." Ugh, disturbing much? I totally hate him. After Gym I went outside and hung out with Scott and everyone. Me, Scott, and Emily took some pictures. (Pic 1, pic 2.) I think we look like vampires in the second one.. When I got home I was online for like ten seconds and then we went to my grandparents' house for my cousin Parker's birthday. Nothing truly interesting to report there. We hung out and most of the little kids ended up with cake on their faces. When we got home my parents wouldn't let me online, so I went downstairs and watched a rerun of House and then the new SVU and went to sleep. Very interesting day, huh?

Today wasn't much more interesting.

In Biology we went over the practice test we took yesterday. I spend most of the time finishing my History homework. My Biology teacher's obsession with animal sex continues. Today it was clown fish sex. That's right. Clown fish. Like Nemo. (Gahh, I love that movie.) That chick is just odd. The Biology Gateway is tomorrow. Gag. Not only is it another huge scary test, its another day of History -ie my hardest class- that I'll miss. Its ridiculous.

History was hilarious. Matt took Scott's seat and I had to beat him up. It didn't work, so Scott sat in Katharine's seat and annoyed me. We took notes on the Medieval church the whole time. We were talking about the popes and stuff, and someone asked if there had ever been a female pope. There actually has. She dressed up as a man and was the pope for a few years. Then Seth was like, "Well how come no one noticed? Its got to be hard to dress up like a man." And I came back with, "It can't be that hard, Scott does it." It was absolutely hilarious. Even my teacher thought so. After notes we were supposed to be working on our unit definitions and stuff, but we spent pretty much the whole time talking about the weird nerdy hand gesture from Star Trek. It was the nerdiest thing since Seth said "Lets Spock it up" last week. After that we spent the rest of the class talking about Harry Potter and deciding who would be in which house. Scottie's in Hufflepuff and I'm in Ravenclaw. We're so hardfreakingcore. (Another new word. I'm going to start writing a dictionary.)

Algebra was boring. We were supposed to be finishing the assignment that we started yesterday, but we just spent the whole time talking. At the beginning of class I put on Eric's sweatshirt. It was like a dress and a comforter all in one. It was really cozy, but it smelled weird, so I took it off. lol. I kind of wish we had gotten a picture. I would have, but Abbey and Alexis had my phone all through class. They're hating on someone...I should demand details.

Lunch was funnn. Well, for Eric, Shaine, Ben, and the other guys. Kayla and I just felt violated. All the guys decided that it would be fun to try to throw things down our shirts, so they tried all through lunch. They didn't succeed. We're too awesome to let that happen. Darrel told me that some chuck is talking about me. Apparently she hates me because I wear stripper shoes with socks and she hates my hair. News flash: I hate my hair, too. People like that really bug me, though. Its like their own lives are so boring and pathetic that they feel like they have to talk about other people for something to do. Damn. Take piano lessons or something.

During lunch I saw Emily B. coming into the commons, so I ran up to her and did the really over exaggerated "OMG I haven't seen you in 20 years" (even though I actually saw you this morning) hug thing that we always do. She gives the best hugs in the world, I mean it. They're freaking amazing. Anyhow, we were doing this, and the evil teacher that sits outside the girls' bathroom during third lunch was like "Ok, girls, that's enough." What the heck?!?!?!? I can't hug my friends? When did that happen? I think she's just bitter because she wishes a cute girl like Emily would hug her like that.

After that minor drama Eric and everyone wanted to go walk around and hang out upstairs, but I didn't, so they were going to leave me with Emily W. and Sarah, until someone suggested that Eric pick me up. Not cool, man. He did it and started to walk out of the commons, but I started screaming so he put me down. Ha! I win. Then the bell rang and we went upstairs. We hung out until we were almost late, and then went back to class.

We actually did some of the assignment, but mostly I drew on my notebook and Kayla and I tried to see things in our suckers again. Mine was a squirrel and hers was a heart. Completely adorable. I would have taken a picture, but someone still had my phone, so I couldn't. Whatev. I'll take one tomorrow.

Gym was gay with a capital B. I was like strangely emo for some reason and Coach Creepy wouldn't let me play volleyball because I forgot my gym pants. So I sat out with all of the other PO'd girls that he made sit out. Sexist pig. He never makes the guys sit out. I hate him. I hope he gets a papercut. So while all this was happening I was talking to Kelly and Emily about that chick that was talking about me, and Ashlie ran up and was all "Are you talking about me?!" and I said, "Wow. You're the most self-centered person I've ever met." (Which isn't actually true, Shayne is the most self-centered person I've ever met, but Ashlie was definitely the most self-centered person in the gym.) So now Ashlie is all pissed off at me. Whatever. She's a manipulative self-centered witch. (Yeah, my mom said I can't swear on here anymore, so just use your imagination.) She gets mad at me over something stupid every two weeks like clockwork and then tries to turn Emily against me. Its really immature, so I just let it blow over and hang out with Destinie. Its actually kind of amusing now that I think about it.

After school I hung out with Scott and everyone. It was absolutely freezing and no one got arrested today, so it was kind of boring. The bus ride was pure torture. Some idiot had their window down and it was like freaking Antarctica. It totally sucked. I listened to The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and fell asleep. lol. I have to admit, though, the last song from "Don't You Fake It" still depresses me. Maybe one day I'll get over all of that drama. Its old news, but it still bugs me sometimes.

When I got home I got online and I haven't been off since. I have a problem. Everyone should start sending me contact information for support groups or internet rehab or something. If you could find an Edward Cullen recovery program while you're at it, that would be pretty cool.

So now I'm listening to The Veronicas and contemplating buying their new album with my allowance tomorrow. Seriously, they are so definitely on my top five favorite bands/artists. The other four are The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, U2, Avril Lavigne, and Nickelback. I listen to just about everything, though. Everything buy whiny country, that is.

I think that's about it. I might post a story I'm working on later, but I don't know if I really want to make that public quite yet. Maybe I'll post it on my myspace blog. I'll figure it out. I'm still working on my Carrie Bradshaw epiphany, but I probably won't finish it until after finals and everything. Stay tuned. Peace, loves.

xo
Helen

Stalkerism

"I'm obsessed with him, is there a word for that?"

"Stalkerism."

I love making up words.

Stalkerism's only meaning at this moment is Laura's obsession with her ex boyfriend, but I believe that stalkerism will be the area of expertise of Kayla and myself very soon. We're just special like that. We stalked some random hot guy at lunch today. It was amazing.

So my day: Boring yet exhilarating. All of my days seem to be that way recently. Odd. Anyhow..

Biology = Practice Gateway tests and boredom.

History = More notes on Islam and boredom.

Activity Period (aka the 15 minutes after second block when they tell everyone to walk around.) = Some drama, minute confession, slap fights, discovery of a very interesting corner. (Only Scott knows what I'm talking about.)

Algebra = I actually understood it. Amazing. Obsessed over Twilight with Kayla. What else is new?

Lunch = Talked to everyone. Don't remember what I said. It was probably hilarious.

Gym = Emily's mad at me. Oops. < /sarcasm > Coach Creepy is showing undeniable favoritism towards the blonds. I hate him. And them. Blonds only have more fun because pervy guys start staring and let them do whatever they want. More confessions.

Sorry I'm being so boring. I really don't get it. Tons of stuff happened today, but it felt like just a boring day. I had a whole list of blogables, too. (Yes, another made up word. A blogable is something that I see during the day that I want to blog about.)

I had a very Carrie Bradshaw moment today. You know, the "I couldn't help but wonder..." I'll try to work it into a suitable article and post it, no promises, though.

So I finally finished 'Eclipse' last night. It was amazing, but that was expected. I forgot to breathe a few times. That was expected, also. I loved it. I'd heard snippets from a few people -including "Edward nearly rapes Bella" from Kayla and "You won't want to wait for the next one" from Lindsey- and I was absolutely desperate to finish it last night. Just to clarify, Edward didn't rape Bella, he was just trying to demonstrate that she should keep her hands to herself because he could kill her. lol. So yeah, the Twilight books rock. I'll finally admit it: Twilight is better than Harry Potter. ::Dodges flying pocket protectors as my nerd friends throw them::

Grr. Daddy Dearest is making me get off. Just when things were getting interesting. Oh well. I'll be back tomorrow with some more interesting stories, loves, promise. Check out the video below to keep yourselves occupied. <3

xo
Helen

Its The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

So at this moment, I am the coolest thing I have ever thought of. Just kidding, but I am pretty pleased with myself for a few different reasons.

First, I finally finished putting together Stephenie Meyer's Twilight playlist using ProjectPlaylist.com, and now I'm listening to it through my myspace where I posted it. Its taken me forever to finish putting it together, mostly because the Linkin Park songs were nearly impossible to find, but I have finished it and I am very proud of myself. I listened to it like six times today. If anyone wants the codes, let me know and I'll send them to you.

Second, I made a wallpaper with my favorite quote from 'Eclipse'. Its awesome. Its the ribbon cover art from the book with the quote on it. I absolutely love it. I'm using it as my desktop wallpaper and considering using it as my myspace background. I shared this theory with Kaila (Kayla's equally Twilight-obsessed best friend) and she replied by asking me if I was maybe just a little obsessed. I am. But just a little.

Other than that nothing really happened today. Yesterday was pretty fun, though. Well, fun-ish. Mom, Fred, and I woke up at an ungodly hour to head downtown to the Fantasy of Trees where we sat for four hours making fun of fat people. Well, technically we were greeters, but seriously, we just sat there for four hours making fun of fat people. And, to make things even better, I came up with the funniest thing since 44 pi.

You see, here in East Tennessee on game days -and all other days- fans of the University of Tennessee Volunteers proudly display their support for the team (notice how I didn't say 'our team') by wearing orange and white. Also, here in East Tennessee, we are impartial to all things fried and greasy, especially on game day. That makes for a lot of fat people wearing orange. Hence, my new catch phrase, (admittedly stolen, but the meaning has changed) "Its the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" And that is what my mom and I said every time an obese UT fan walked by us. I'm starting to think we should have turned it into a drinking game..

I blame the whole trend on Phil Fulmer. So now he is the original great pumpkin. The phrase has now extended to include great blueberries, tomatoes, and eggplants. We could have some serious fun with this.

Oh yeah, just remembered, I'm Googleable. (Yes, it is a made up word, your point?) Seriously. This blog is the first thing that comes up when you Google 'The Coolest Nerd You Know'. Try it!

That's all for now, I suppose. Sure, there's plenty more I could write about, but Edward is downstairs calling me in that sexy velvet voice of his, and (since I am the true Bella Swan of Karns High school, not Kayla) I just can't resist. I'll talk to you later, loves.

xo
Helen

And The Lion Fell In Love With The Lamb

News flash: Jon is the best boyfriend ever. Not only is he totally sweet and makes me unbelievably happy (Kayla, prepare to be jealous) he has accepted that he will probably always be second to Edward Cullen. =D Just kidding [a little].

So that's the end to my day, nothing other than eating happened in the middle, and it began with smoke detectors going off because Dad almost set the garage on fire. Fun day, huh?

So as we speak, or more accurately as I type, I am searching desperately for a Twilight wallpaper that doesn't have Emily Browning in it. I mean seriously, how hard it it? I mean she's pretty and I know she was a contender for Bella for a while, but she LOST! So move on people and make some wallpapers with just the best quotes and stuff or something. Aha! Found one! Its the tulip from the 'New Moon' cover and a totally black background. I may have to do some editing, though. Maybe add my favorite quote to it or something, or just 'Edward and Bella'. Oh, the possibilities.

Oh, in my travels through cyberspace I stumbled upon the Twilight Lexicon forums and decided that I absolutely must join. Now I just need to come up with an extremely clever and adorable screen name...

And with that, I think I'm going to bed. Lots and lots of shopping to do tomorrow. Before I leave, though, I have to show you my new favorite avatars:


And now I'm done.

xo
Helen

Turkey and Twilight (Part 2)

And here is part two. It starts exactly where the last one ended..Enjoy. (If you haven't ready part one, scroll down to the next post and read it first. You might have to click the 'Older Posts' button.)

xo
Helen

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 10:21 PM


ROFL!
Yeah we wont like who they find no doubt but no jesse mcfag. hes gayer than brokeback mountain on ice with nothing but guys in tight spandex.
nice image huh?
dude i think i found Emmett tho!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 7:41 PM


haha
ok, bring on the emmett
maybe we should just cast everyone but edward...

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 10:50 PM


ugh! i couldnt find him on imdb but he played in the movie down periscope. he was this really muscualr guy who would be perfect im trying to find pics

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 7:54 PM


hmmm..interesting
what about carlisle and esme?
im thinking for rosalie just get some bitchy blond model and its done
i almost want the chick that played tonks in harry potter [natalia tena] to be alice, but shes too old

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 10:55 PM


i still havent seen the 5th Harry POtter movie! grr!

anyway i found out the guy who i think should be Emmett his name is Bradford Tatum. hed be a bit okay if hes still in that shape but then again that movie was done in 1996 so idk.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 8:15 PM


don't bother, its nowhere as good as the book

can't find a pic of that guy on google...grr..my nerd tool is letting me down. lol.
what about jasper? i think he should be kind of medium build but twitchy, you know? since hes having such a hard time resisting all the human blood and stuff...wow. what a dork i am. lol.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 11:28 PM


toby hemingway
he was on the covenant with taylor kitsch aka perfect edward

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 8:35 PM


toby hemingway for jasper? i could totally see that. he's hot

taylor kitsch is really gorgeous..but he'd need a haircut to be edward. i see edward with hair like jesse mccartney's in that pic u saw earlier but kind of shorter.

so i was thinking about who should play esme, and i thought of mariska hargitay from svu. do u think its just because im obsessed with svu, or could she actually do it? i mean, she's like 42, but she looks really really young, like in this pic from a few months ago:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a48/hotstuf3218/1111%20BLOG/MariskaI.jpg
i could kind of see it
her hair's short now, tho...

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 11:45 PM


yeah i know toby and taylor are gorgous! and yeah taylor woulde def have to cut his sexy hair

i think mariska would be awesome for it!!! shes like really loving and caring and just idk kinda gives off the vibe that Esme seems to give off Kaila agrees too

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 8:54 PM


Ya, but he'll still have a sexy body when his hair gets cut
lol

Oh yay, i'm not totally delusional
lol
You and Kaila are right, she is really loving and caring.

What about Carlisle? Chris Meloni. lol, no jk jk.
Maybe Jesse Spencer?
but im probably only thinking of him bc he plays a doctor on House
Don't think it would work bc he has an Australian accent, but he def looks the part.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 11:57 PM


i say he looks it and kaila said "uh huh hes not cute enough hes supposed to be abit good looking" i think hed work tho but the accent coukld be a problem

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 9:04 PM


Yeah..the accent could be a problem, but some really good actors can turn off accents. Like Hugh Laurie from House is British, but he does 'American' so well that you totally can't tell. Jesse is a little young, especially if we're going with Mariska as Esme, but I still think he could do it... All of the Cullens are supposed to be good looking, its part of being a vampire, being attractive to humans, aka their intended prey.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 18, 2007 12:07 AM


yeah
but iut could work
now Rosalie Alice and Charlie too

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 9:21 PM


Ok..

This chick from America's Next Top Model as Alice:
pic

William Russ [aka the dad from Boy Meets World] as Charlie:
pic
[really shitty pic, but its all i could find]

And Anna Kournikova as Rosalie:
pic

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 18, 2007 12:30 AM


i used to watch Boy Meets world all the time so i know what he looks like and he would work
the other two wouldnt come up but what about
theres this one girl elyse i think her name was from ANTM i dont remeber what cycle it was whats the girls name and what cycle and i can figure out who it is and the Anna girl would be pretty good for Rosalie

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 9:33 PM


I loved that show. I wish they played reruns more. =[
I remember her..I don't think she'd be good for Alice, tho. She's too fat and she's a lesbian, so she talks like a dude. lol. And now that I think of it, the same way that blond chick in Algebra talks..huh...rofl.
I think Anna would be perfect for Rosalie, the only thing is she's a tennis player, not an actress, lol.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 18, 2007 12:41 AM


hey she acts in those nikon commercials! haha
hmmm who for Alice? Who for Alice??? lets see on imdb we have these choices already being debated: Rachel Leigh Cook and thatas only suggestion in the boards

someone said possible rumored Colton Haynes for Edward
and rumored rosalie emilie de ravin

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 18, 2007 6:03 AM


Hmmm...Rachel Leigh Cook could be Alice. She'd have to get the short haircut, tho..

This is the only pic I could find of Colton Haynes:
..
He's cute, but not unhumanly gorgeous...lol. Maybe...

IDK about Emilie De Ravin..She's pretty but I don't think pretty enough.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 18, 2007 2:12 PM


idk havent looked at pics yet i will over at my house imat kailas house syncing my pod

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 18, 2007 12:39 PM


kk

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 18, 2007 3:54 PM


yeah
u nkow who else needs casting? Jacob and all his werewolf friends!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 18, 2007 2:13 PM


Yeah!
Jacob won't be too hard tho...Just get some indian kid. lol.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 18, 2007 5:30 PM


dude what about that kid who was in the Disney movie JOhnny Tsunami (when i was like in 5th grade!) and then the sequel that came out recently JOhnny Kapahala Back on board whats his name... heres a good recent pic of him

..

he'll need a haircut tho at first
hes Hawaiian tho i think
oh well close enougH!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 18, 2007 3:05 PM


Yeah, he could totally do it. Hawaiian can pass for like anything...Scott's Hawaiian and I call him a beaner. lol.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 18, 2007 7:42 PM


lol haha! okay so to be decided: Edward "mr sexy perfect" cullen and Alice adn the werewolves (those dogs). haha look im thinking like Edward now! Haha

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 18, 2007 4:50 PM


Haha, cool. I want to think like Edward too! Those dogs! rofl. I think Alice should look kind of like a fairy, you know, like very small and almost child like, but not quite..if that makes sense. lol.

Your comment on my blog made me smile. lol. I was hoping that someone would tell me I smell lovely today. lol.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 18, 2007 7:51 PM


lol
somehwere, no clue where, i have "bite me alice! oh please would you!"
lol...where was it....oh! on the imdb.com message boards!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 18, 2007 4:53 PM


oh COOOOL
we should design shirts that say that and wear them to school
lol

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 18, 2007 8:03 PM


haha we so should! lol

oh sidenote: im not going to school wednesday explain tomorrow

dude! perfect Edward! steven strait think thats him
he played with taylor kitsch in covenant, which u think better, steven or taylor my vote taylor

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 18, 2007 5:09 PM


ewnoewnoewnoewnoewno!
steven strait could be mike or maybe jacob, maybe, but not mr. sexy perfect. no! i still like taylor kitsch for edward.

Turkey and Twilight (Part 1)

Hey everyone! Well, as of right now my only confirmed readers are my parents and Kayla, so hey Mom, Dad, and Kayla! Hope everyone's having a good Thanksgiving so far. But its only 10:58 so seriously, how could it be bad?

As anyone who's anyone (or anyone who has had the pleasure of witnessing an "I'm Bella!" "No I'm Bella!" argument in the hallways of Karns High School) knows, Kayla and I are obsessed with Stephenie Meyer's amazing Twilight series. Now, I have only ready the first two books (Twilight and New Moon) because four unbelievably obnoxious people at school have yet to return the third (Eclipse) to the library, but that is beside the point. The point is that the Twilight movie is now in preproduction, and Kayla and I have taken it upon ourselves to cast it. So here are our casting decisions as of November 18th. There are more to come, as a matter of fact the Myspace message I'll be copying in here is still ongoing, but as of now its a little off topic, so here is the good stuff. Follow the links to see pictures of the actors/actresses/tennis players we're talking about.

xo
Helen

**I'm going to have to post it in two parts because its too long. Bear with me..

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Helen ♥[[Amours L'Éclat Du Soleil]]♥
Date: Nov 16, 2007 4:30 AM


theres new info on stepheniemeyer.com
they actually found a chick that might look like bella...
http://stepheniemeyer.com/news.html

xo
helen

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {Ago Vestri Vita}
Date: Nov 16, 2007 4:18 PM


Kristen Stewarts okay but we need Mr Sexy Perfect himself to be casted--they better find a damn sexy guy too!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Helen ♥[[Mon Soleil]]♥
Date: Nov 16, 2007 1:31 PM


Ya, I just hope she's a good actress. We should rent some other movies she's done...
I really can't wait until they cast Edward. But I swear, if its Zac Efron, I WILL NOT see the movie. Or anyone else from the Disney channel..

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {Ago Vestri Vita}
Date: Nov 16, 2007 4:34 PM


NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it they cast THAT FAGGOT as EDWARD i will MASS MURDER THEIR ASSES!!!!!!!!!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Helen ♥[[Mon Soleil]]♥
Date: Nov 16, 2007 1:36 PM


I know! Seriously! We should watch like 700 movies or something and find an actor to play Edward...lol.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {Ago Vestri Vita}
Date: Nov 16, 2007 4:42 PM


yeah we should search imdb.com or something lol

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Helen ♥[[Mon Soleil]]♥
Date: Nov 16, 2007 2:01 PM


good idea
or just google 'sexy vampire' and see what comes up
lol

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {Ago Vestri Vita}
Date: Nov 16, 2007 5:02 PM


lol
that'd work
omg just did it came up with edward cullen and Twilight fansites lol!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Helen ♥[[Mon Soleil]]♥
Date: Nov 16, 2007 2:05 PM


i KNOW!!!!!!!!!!
there's twilight t shirt pages
and i want this one that says:
"bite me" on the front
and "edward cullen fan club" on the back

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {Ago Vestri Vita}
Date: Nov 16, 2007 5:08 PM


lol
i loved that in new moon where she like ‘bite me alice oh please would u?!’

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 16, 2007 2:15 PM


haha yeah
my fave part of that book is where alice says
"i don't know what he was thinking. i've never seen someone so prone to life-threatening idiocy"
rofl
or something close to that..lol
i wrote it down somewhere...

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 11:16 AM


yeah thats great

lol wwoooooooowwwwwwwww
so Kristen Stewart is BElla and on the imdb message boards their like k, so whos edward? and everyones like NO ZAC EFRON!!!!!!!!!!
lol

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 2:18 PM


i just hope whoever it is does edward justice
i mean, its going to be hard and no one is going to be good enough, but someone close would be good..lol
but srsly
if its zach efron im going to cry

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 9:39 PM


it has to be taylor kitsch!! he is TOO HOT not to be!!!
if its not him... i will cry

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 6:41 PM


ehhh
hes ok, but hes too human looking
if that even makes sense
whoever it is needs to be so gorgeous and flawless that its impossible to think they're human
lol

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 10:01 PM


yeah but think about it...Edward is SO perfect NO ONE could portray him just right. ANYONE would put him to shame. SO all we humans can do is try to find the closet thing to him with as little shame as possible. ANd that, i believe would be Taylor Kitsch. Have u seen the boy without a shirt?! GORGEOUS! so yeah...
who do u think should play SexyMan Edward?

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 7:04 PM


ya..i google image searched him and he is HOTTT
BUT
i think i found someone:
jesse mccartney
i know, such a disney channel pretty boy, but look at the pic...
[like actually look at the pic, bc all the other pics don't capture what im trying to say]
he could SO be a weak imitation of edward
which is all we're going to get from anyone
so i think it could be him

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 10:09 PM


NO! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO HELL NO!
IF THAT FAG OR ZAC EFRON GET ANYWHERE NEAR MY EDWARD I WILL KILL THEIR WHITE ASSES! THAT WOULD MAKE EDWARD JUMP OUT OF THE BOOK AND BEAT THEIR ASSES! THE ONLY GOOD THING IS HE COULD PLAY THE ROLE HIS OWN DAMN SELF! HELL NO THEM FAGGOTS ARENT'S GETTING NEAR THAT MOVIE!
i should DISOWN you for SAYING that!!!!!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 7:13 PM


did u even look at that pic?
if they colored his hair and made him really pale and got some black contacts for the scenes when hes thirsty, it could work
and hes not like zac efron
zac effingefron is just a fag
jesse mccartney may be kind of faglike, but hes nice to look at
and since we're not going to get a true edward
it might kind of work

plz dont disown me
=[
lol

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kayla {de toute beauté saisie le temps}
Date: Nov 17, 2007 10:15 PM


i wont disown you but NO JESS MCFAG! hes shit ugly and sooo woulnt fit Edward, gay little MIke Newton who is hardly there shure, Bella wants to run him over remember? so i would be okay with that. but Mr. Perfect himself? Edwards crying because of that helen you made perfectioon CRY how do you feel about that?!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ♥Helen♥™
Date: Nov 17, 2007 7:18 PM


how do i feel about that?
to be perfectly honest i just died a little bit in my heart.
=[
don't worry
we'll find mr. sexy perfect eventually
or the production company will...rofl
we're not going to like anyone, tho....
ha!