Yay! Crisis Core!! I finally have it!! xD It's so awesome!! I'm only so far it, but its awesome! :D

Also I want to say happy birthday to my younger brothers. Who are trying to watch me play my video games over my shoulders. (PSP) Lol.

TTYL

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Hunger Games; Movie Review

The Hunger Games Movie
Released; March 23 2012
Watched; March 23 2012, 9:45 PM
Length of Movie; 142 mins.
Rated; PG-13
Starring; Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Josh Hutcherson.
Movie Summery; In a not-too-distant future, North America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcast throughout Panem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss' young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart Peeta, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives.
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   Well...That was...Eeeeeeggh.
   I'm going to be as kind as I can, please forgive me if this turns into a rant.
   I think they did a good job with the settings and the castings for the tributes. Jennifer Lawrence did an okay job as Katniss, because I understand it can be a hard roll to play. Josh Hutcherson could have done better. Liam was good...he didn't really say much though. Willow Shields (Primrose Everdeen) did a good job with her part.
   So to me, it seemed really rushed. They cut and changed so much from the book, it was very disappointing. I think if you didn't read the books you would be lost for half of it.
   First of all, the muttations? Those dogs at the end? What the heck?! They were cool and all, but they were supposed to look like the dead tributes. Did they? No. I admit the way they brought it in was cool too, but...
   Now...Rue's death. People were crying and I was all like...WHAT? THAT'S IT? Basically Katniss teams up with Rue, they talk, they sleep, they make a plan, they complete the plan, Rue dies. They should have played that out a bit more! Why are we supposed to feel sorry for this girl she met and hung around for two whole days? I didn't feel any connection. Plus, the romance? That was horrible! They kissed like twice. Star-crossed lovers my butt.
   I think you should watch the movie yourself. Don't take my word for it. Just because it disappointed me, doesn't mean it will disappoint you. My expectations were too high, because I have an over-active imagination, when it comes to books. Which made it hard to enjoy the movie like I did the books.
   Don't get me wrong, I'd watch it again, but as a fan of the books I was disappointed. I feel sorry for the fans who were living for the movie to come out.

My Rating;

Three Lightning Bolts out of five.

Interesting fact; The Hunger Games TRILOGY is being made into FOUR movies. How they plan on pulling that off, I'm not quite sure.

So yeah...I'm hoping they do better for the second movie. They better pick someone good for Finnick.

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Hunger Games Fan Art! (By yours truely!!)

   Alright! So Hunger Games is out today!!!! I'm soooo excited! I cno't wait to see it onthe big screen!!

  In light of the Hunger Games I drew a picture of Katniss! I'll post another one like this one later, but the background will be coloured. I promise! Hope you like it!!!

Please tell me what you think! :D

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Two Words; Hunger Games!

   As you guys might know, I'm a huge fan of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, aaaaand Hunger Games. Which just so happens to be coming out in

EXACTLY TEN DAYS!!

   Awesome right? Keep your chins up my friends, we're almost there!!!

So I think this Video is the older trailer

And this is the brand spankin' new one!! XD
    Cool Aye? I'm pretty psyched! My mom and I really want to see it when it comes out, although, I'm kind of thinking we should go the next day or something, that way (it'll still be crowded) but maybe not as much?? I'm defiantly going to do a movie review for you guys!

Here some Awesome fan art and other Hunger games stuff I found online!!



 Look Look! Rue's Interview!!! :D And Peeta's interview! (...What's up with his hair?? :S )

 Check out the outfits! It's before they are on the chariots. Before they are on fire. :D

 Aww did Peeta fall down?

       



          


Sorry I couldn't resist the last one! Hope you enjoyed the talented fan art!
XD Till later my friends! May The Odds, Be Ever In Your Favor!! :)

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Once again I remind you that I do not own any of these pictures. If you see your picture on here and do not want it there, please tell me and I will remove it.

Thank You.

ATTENTION STAR WARS FANS!

 Totally awesomondo Star Wars song Thing.

   This guy doesn't actually sing it, the four voices belong to talented guys from Mousebutter. But he is super entertaining! His shirts are Awesomeness! You can actually buy some of them online, soo cool!! XD
   Just so you know, John Williams (is the man! XD) is a composer. He did the songs in Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, Indiana Jones saga, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,  Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Home Alone and the first three Harry Potter films. That explains why Corey in the video there, used some of the tunes, clicking together now??

   Awesome right?? Yeah I did my home work...surprising? :P

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Book Review: The Iron Thorn

 The Iron Thorn
By Caitlin Kittredge.
Page Total 492
Read in Two Days
Book Summery (As found on back of book);
In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical, or born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, time is running shorter by the day.
   Aoife's family is unique in the worst way. Her mother and her older brother, Conrad, both went mad on their sixteenth birthdays. And now, a ward of the state nearing her own sixteenth birthday, Aoife is trying to pretend that her fate can be different.
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  So first off what a name right? Aoife...Type it into Google Translate and hit the speak button, it sounds funny XD

Anyways. I loved this book! The world was amazing! I'd describe the book as a Victorian/Steam-Punk sort of book. Aoife is some one I could defiantly relate to. With the society pushing her to be a "proper lady". She receives a letter crying for help from her brother, and she takes off to help him. Even though he could be crazy.
The only things I didn't enjoy from this book were; It's slightly hard to understand in the beginning. But the author had her own way of describing things, and I respect that. Secondly, the romance didn't come fast enough. Now I know Aoife was scared of becoming mad and all, but I'm a sucker for romance (though I seldom admit it).
The love interest was Dean Harrison. I really liked his character (again that might be because of my romantic interest liking XD). He was smart and he was funny. You could tell That Aoife and Dean were going to end up together, but it took awhile. Cal, Aoife's faithful best friend was also a great character. He loved Aoife, and wanted to keep her safe. Although he was also, like society, trying to make her a good lady like woman. I think that's also why I liked Dean, he respected Aoife, and treated her as an equal.
Aoife has these powers, she calls Weirds. And helps save/begin the destruction of the Iron world.
This book had alot of imagination behind it and it's defiantly something I'd read again, and I encourage you to read it.
If you didn't like it, loved it, or just feel like commenting please do :)
My Rating:

Five Lightning Bolts! Awesome read!

(Alright I'm going to start putting random Movie and Book reviews on here. They won't be a constant thing though. Most likely my favourite or least favourite movies/books. This is my first time doing this so bare with me.)

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Hey A!!

This is for one of my really good friends. A, you know who you are ;)

Happy Birthday!

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Thanks.

600!!!

   You guys are Awesome!

600 Page veiws! Four followers! You guys rock! Thanks so much! XD

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Lazzzer Tag!!

  Yuppers! Yet again my youth group has dragged me out to Laser Questing all night long! I love it soo much! You get soo pumped! The place we went was in Ottawa. There floors and it's almost a maze.

It was totally awesome!! I came in second place for one of thirteen games. My new personal best XD

I can't wait till next year! Let me just say I felt like a stormtrooper, or a super bad-donkeyed spy holding the gun and listening to pulsing music. Sooo Awesome! I'm still pumped!

   But I've got to go to bed XD. It's like 8:30 in the morning and we just got back :)

 Later Gators!

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Cool Video

   So, I've been playing around with Windows Live Movie Maker abit. And I have ONE totally cool video that I've made. Final Fantasy Advent Children. ;) Here it is;

     What'cha think? I totally need some feedback!! :D I'm making another one and I'd like your guys opinion.

    Thanks Dudes and Dudettes! XD

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Bloggiversary!!

   I didn't notice it before, but Valentines day was my First Blog Post Anniversary! How wicked crazy is that?!

   So I don't really no how exactly to celebrate my First Bloggiversary, I mean its not like I can buy it a present or anything. So I'm going to so you some of my favourite pictures! not of me, but cool stuff I found on, like, the Internet and stuff.

This picture, I have no idea what it's called, but I call it Dude Surfing In His Sneakers. XD

 

It's Sora!! From Kingdom Hearts! The first one is off the world wide web, and the second was drawn by yours truly.

Noctis from Final Fantasy 13 Versus. ('S soo cool! :P)

TaDa!!! Hope you enjoyed my Bloggiversary!

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Again none of these pictures (besides the one Sora XD) are mine. And If you see a picture that is yours and do not want it there please tell me.

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♥ Valentines Day ♥

 Happy Valentines Day!
   Now, I wouldn't say I'm totally in love with Valentines Day. Because I'm not. I'm pretty sure it's just a "special day" for that "special someone", because greeting card companies needed more money.
   I'm not saying it's bad to tell someone that you love 'em. But why would you wait till Valentines Day to do it? I mean you can buy your sweetheart flowers and chocolates and cards(oh my!)any day of the year. *Sigh*

    Anyways since I don't have a "special someone" I'm going to name all my favourite Book Boys. I know you think I'm replacing my true love with someone fictional. But hey I'm, like, fifteen, give me a break!

So with no particular order here I go!

10. Peeta Mellark. The Hunger Games. 
The boy with the bread. I really liked Peeta as a character, he was really nice, and he really did love Katniss. He's defiantly someone on my list. (And yes, I did put a fan drawn picture on here, not a picture of Blonde Josh Hutcherson)

9. Gale Hawthorne. The Hunger Games.

Okay, compared to Peeta, Gale is... Down right Awesome. I really really like him as a character. Everyone says he only wanted Katniss after he saw her and Peeta together, but I don't think that's true. I think he liked Katniss waay before that, and when he said that they should run, was when he was mustering up the courage to finally do something. I might be wrong but that's what I see. Poor Gale :'(

8. Finnick Odair. Also The Hunger Games.

Hey Suzanne Collins is a good writer :P I may like Gale and Peeta, but I love Finnick. True he got married to a crazy woman, but it's so sweet. He loves her with everything he's got. I love the jokes he makes. I HATE how he dies... May he rest in peace :'(

7. Iggy. Maximum Ride.

He's got wings, and he's blind. He is soo funny, and he can make bombs how cool is that? Kay, but really he's an awesome character and the manga books of Max Ride made me like him even more!

6. Fang. Maximum Ride.

He has wings. And yes in that picture he has long hair, but don't let that fool you, it is a guy XD He's totally awesome/annoying. He had me crying in book six. (I'm not gonna say why, you'll have to read it :P)

5. Astley. The Need Series.

Unfortunately there is no fan made pictures of Astley. He's a pixie from the Need series. No, not the tiny cute pixies that fly around and keep the flowers pretty. The type of pixies who are evil, and blue, with sharp teeth, and are relatively the same size as humans, but they live much longer. Only difference is Astley isn't evil. Although he does want the main character Zara, to marry him. Which she finds utterly horrid, but I find cute. He really does like her, he likes her enough to help her find her missing were-wolf boyfriend, whom I don't really like (not after Astley came :P).

4. Four/Tobias. Divergent.

There isn't any fan made drawings (I don't use real people as an excuse for book characters :P) of poor Four either. Which is totally crazy considering he's such an awesome character. He wasn't the type of guy who got the girl in the first three pages she meets him. But I liked him before, Tris, the main character liked him. :P He wasn't the type of guy who was totally "the man". He had fears and he's fine with Tris knowing that. Plus Tris saves his butt, and he knows it XD

3. Joseph, or Seph Mccauley. The Heir Series.

He is my favourite character through in the Heir Series, even though he comes in like the second book XD He's like super powerful, but he doesn't let it get to his head. He was stuck in a school run by an eeevil guy who was mentally torturing Seph into joining his group, but Seph didn't cave. I think I might like him cause of his super awesomeness, but you can't blame me for liking someone for who he is :P

2. Percy Jackson. The Percy Jackson & The Olympians Series.

Son of Poseidon, or Neptune, take your pick. And totally cool. He can control water. Whaaat? XD Anyways the movie did okay with they're actor for him, but in my very imaginative mind, Percy was alot better :D Heh, Heh.

1. Galen Nexx. Hunted. [Picture coming soon.]

He's a rebel XD. Jk... well only alittle. Anyways. I really like his character...Because well...he's my character. XD Yeah, I'm writing a book.

   There you have it folks! My top Ten Book Boys XD Whose your ton ten?? :)

Hope you have a grrrreat Valentines Day ♥♥

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Homeschooling Rocks!

   I love being homeschooled! I totally prefer it over public and/or other types of schools.

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And yes, I have been to a "real" school before, and yeah, sure, it was fine...if you like being contained in a classroom for eight hours. But that's just not my cup'o'tea.

    Some people think that because I'm homeschooled I need to have things explained to me..."Soccer is a sport that involves your feet not your hands", "You do know pi is 3.14, right?", "Is your DNA messed up or something? You seem to have the wrong jeans on." Now most of my replies are something along the lines of "Yes that's why in Britian and Australia they call it 'foot'ball.", "Yes I know that pi is 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971...Oh! You left...", "No my Deoxyribonucleic Acid is not messed up, but that you for admiring my genes." But it still gets annoying sometimes...

    There's this awesome video on YouTube called the Seven Lies About Homeschooling... It's hilarious!

   I love this guy's facial expressions! And how his eyebrows twitch. XD

   I admitt it, I do wear my PJ's during my schooling hours, sometimes. It's fun. :)

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 **This post was not meant to hurt or make fun of or offended any "real"schoolers who read this, if you feel hurt, or made fun of, or offended, please forgive me**

* Merry Christmas *

Merry Christmas Everybody!

 

               

    

  I hope your Christmas is full of joy and happiness!!

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Favourite TV Shows!

   Hi and welcome to this special episode of Awesomeness! I'm your host...The Shinester!

Today we're going through a list of my favourite TV shows! Well to tell you the truth we don't really watch TV (no satellite or anything), but when we do we watch these;

1.  Spectacular Spiderman!
2.  Iron Man Armoured Adventures!
3.  The Batman cartoon!
4.  Storm Hawks!
5.  Fantastic Four; World's greatest Heroes

   Haha, You can kind of guess what kind of TV shows I like XD

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Freakiness

   I have this huge bruise on the back of my head from yesterday... Wanna know how I got it? Keep reading if you do.

   Yesterday morning I was making a cake with my mom, when all of a sudden I felt really, really dizzy (like when you just stood up really fast from sitting or something, except I had been standing for a while). Then I passed out, literally I fell backward and landed on the floor (which is actually a good thing because if I had fallen forward I would have hit the counter). My mom said I was shivering and my pupils had gotten so big that you could barely see the colour of my eye. Mom took me to the Emergency after a call to Tella-Health. We waited from 10:30 to like 12:00 in the waiting room, and then we were in the (I'm not sure what you call it...) check-you-out-to-see-if-your-OK room (we'll go with that :P). Turns out I might have low blood sugar or something. :S
    Although the stressful morning and afternoon, I was able to buy a video game, with my dad at Wal-Mart. Can anyone guess what it was? I had it in currently waiting for, for ages!

Correct! Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception! (YAY!)

    Plus the nurse said I should carry around a snack or something with me, hehe, then she said I could carry around Coca-Cola or something and my face must have light up because my mom started laughing. I do like my Coke XD

    I'm ok now, but my bruise still hurts when I touch it (I guess I should stop touching it...but I can't, which is really annoying actually).

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Me, Myself, and I...

   Waz up my faithful blog readers?!

   I'm going to tell you about my self! Of course you already know that I'm a homeschooler, and that I am totally wacky. But here are TEN things about me...

1. I love kick boxing, with a passion. It's something about the kicking and the punching probably, but I love it.
2. I am part of a large family. Six kids. (actually we're not the largest family we know). I'm the oldest.
3. I have brown hair, and blue eyes. It's quite boring actually I mean lots of people have brown hair and blue eyes.
4. I wear make-up. Black and silver eyeshadow and black eyeliner. I wear it where it's not dark...but not entirely light either. (Remember I'm not goth.)
5. I love climbing, well, everything. Flagpoles, trees, fences with restriction signs on them(just kidding, but I do climb fences), play structures(not the right way ;P), basically anything that is possible to climb. But I hate climbing ladders...
6. I hate when people tell me what to do, like, not my mom or anyone related to me or anything, but like teachers (yes even though I'm homeschooled I sometimes go to school to learn French/Spanish).
7. I'm a video gamer, a writer, a drawer/artist, a soccer player, and a chess player. Plus I have a small interest in singing and acting, not that I'd ever do it.
8. I dislike chocolate ice cream, peanut butter (I'm not allergic though), and bananas.
9. I love being sarcastic and joking around.
10. I have more guy friends then girl friends.

   And there you have it! Ten things about me! If you have any questions, comments or "What the hay"s about anything please comment.

Till later blog readers!
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Phobophobia...

   Haha weird word right? Phobophoia. Turns out that means the fear of phobias...or the fear of fear. Strange right?

  Everyone has a fear of something, no matter how hard they try to deny it. There's so many different fears.

  My fear is probably the fear of dark wooded areas(or being in the forest at night), that's also known as Nyctohylophobia. That's one of the biggest ones I have, I'm so scared that something will jump out at me or an animal will eat me (I know dumb, but it's so scary when your out in the forest). Or I have Coulrophobia or the fear of clowns, heh... I'm pretty sure I also have Atychiphobia, the fear of failure... I think that sort of explains itself.

There's so many different names! I'm not going to list them all but here are my favourites

Anablephobia- Fear of looking up
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting
Dementophobia- Fear of insanity (every one's insane, sorry bud, but you've gotta face it someday)
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school (warning: do not use as excuse to skip school)
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers (how rude!)
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words (does anyone else find that mean?)
Macrophobia- Fear of long waits (I hate those too)
Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on (don't forget your umbrella)
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking (...)
Tropophobia- Fear of moving or making changes
Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages
Zoophobia- Fear of animals

I'm not going to name them all but here's a HUGE list of different phobias, maybe you'll find yours! >Phobia List<

Remember, it's ok to be scared, and to have fears. :)
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Favourite Songs - Part 2

   Yes time to renew my favourite songs! Time passes but Music is ageless!...welll, sometimes anyway :P

Alright in specific order Here they are! (Just click on the names of the songs if you want to listen to them on youtube)

Scream - Thousand Foot Krutch. It's a really cool song (thanks Amy!)

E For Extinction - Thousand Foot Krutch.

Fireflies - Owl City. It's so random it's awesome. I know some people who absolutely hate this song... But I also know some people who absolutely love this song.

Bring Me To Life - Evanescence.

New Divide - Linkin Park.

Cross The Line - Superchick.

Monster - No not Lady GaGa, Skillet. Never heard of them?? Check it out! Music vid's kinda weird, but that's just how they roll!

White & Nerdy - Weird Al Yankovic.

Hope that made your day a bit more musical. :D Have a great day everybody!

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Halloween

Charlie Brown!!

     As you've hopefully guessed by now its Halloween. I don't really do that any more, I mean I used to, but no I don't really, three years ago (gosh I can belive it was that long ago...) I want to a concert (Starfield). Then the year after I went to my friends house and played bored games with her. This year I was back and forth between two options. I was struggling with going out Trick Or Treating, or going with my Youth Group for a food drive run.
     One of the girls at my youth group (cough-Amy-cough) kept begging, pleading, demanding, etc. that I went with the youth group. So now that's what I'm doing. I had orignally planned on dressing up as a princess (because I'm usually wearing black-I'm not gothic though-and I bearly ever wear dresses) with a really pretty light purple prom dress I found at Goodwill (16 bucks only :D) and one of my little sister's dress-up crowns. But my youth leader said we were trying to stand out from the crowd (to show what weare doing) and that I shouldn't go full out. So I decided not  to wear the dress, but  I'm still wearing pink make-up, and fancy jewelry, and curling my hair. Oh and wearing a crown. Heh heh.
     It should be fun!

     Have a fun and safe Halloween!
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