Arrr! A Pirate Be I!

Welcome, one and all, to Ariella's musical theater!
This year's play shall be...
*Drum roll*

The Pirates of Penzance, Junior!
(I know it sucks, but my school always does the junior version of plays.)

Zev (A boy from school, whom I believe I've mentioned before...?) is an opera singer, and this is HIS play. He loves it. When we used to do talent shows at school, he always sang "I am a Pirate King."
It is now posted below, for your enjoyment.


Sorry the people are so weird looking.

Anyway... Well, not much else, really. Most of this year's teacher are pretty good. A few, who will not be named, are not so very good... (I would say more, but I know of one teacher specifically who reads this, although he isn't my teacher this year, and I don't want to get in trouble.)

Been doing a lot of writing, both on my new manuscript (Hooray, for the assassin! The government shall never catch her! No, I won't say anything else about it for now.) and editing Reborn.
I have been told by multiple people that I WILL be published, for real, not just self-publishing.
And that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and glowy! :-D

Cheerio, peeps!

Snapshots

Unbeknownst to all, there is an old trunk in the attic. It has been undisturbed since 1944. It is full of the snapshots of life.

One is of children eating cotton candy at a carnival. Another is of a bride throwing her bouquet to her waiting friends. Snapshots of life.

Every picture is a moment, caught in a split second, the moment the holder's finger clicked the button. Since that time, some of the magic has been lost. Before you get the perfect moment, you position your camera, play with the buttons, pose the people.

There are very few snapshots of life left.

Back then, the impromptu photos were truly impromptu, no poses.

And in the attic, this box waits for the moment it will be found and dusted. Unlocked and opened. But until then, all it can do is pray that one day its' contents will be found and examined and used to once again create true snapshots of life.

Funny little story. I don't know if that whole thing about not posing photos back then is true, but it's sort of how I feel sometimes, being an amateur photographer. But I also like to position people anyway.

Cheerio, peeps.

Sugar and Glass

I live in a world

made of sugar and glass.

One loud step

and the walls fall en masse.

Sweet and clear

will never make my troubles disappear.

I live in world

made of sugar and glass.

Which is really a world

made of lies and of fear.

I tried to do some rhyming. I think it worked surprisingly well.

Okay, about the cooking blog, I promise we'll post tomorrow. We've got cookies, ice cream cake, chocolate and peanut butter rice crispies, turkey... what-ever-they're-called-s, and some other stuff.

PROMISE!!!

Well, workin' on some new things. I've got a romance/ghost story/murder mystery idea coming pretty well, and I'm still working on Assassin, so I should be able to keep pretty busy until I got back to Reborn.

Honestly, I'm a bit afraid to. Now, I know the writing in the beginning is pretty bad, but I'm cutting a whole character and moving her to be introduced in the second book, so that will take a LOT. I even have at least 2 chapters that she narrates!!

But if I must, I must.

I WILL GET THIS MANUSCRIPT PUBLISHED!!!!!

One of my teachers this year used to be an editor, so once I do the second draft, I'll give a copy to her, and some copies to a few other teachers, and let them edit for me, if they want to. Hopefully. After I have about 4 teachers AND my mom AND (hopefully) my book selling uncle (Maybe...) AND my friends AND a previously-published, soon-to-be again published author AND myself one more time, to make the 3rd draft, then I will hopefully be ready to BEGIN sending to agents.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Okay. I'm better now.

School started again. It's school. More tomorrow, or something. I have to go to be.

G'nignt, all.

Cheerio, peeps.

P.S. I did this cool thing where all the books I have in my bookshelves that I haven't read, I put yellow sticky notes on. I have started now trying to read all the marked books. I hope to finish before the end of the school year. Maybe not, but I'll try.

The Post of Shameless Self-Promotion

Uh-huh. This post is all about my amazing cake decorating abilities and my new team cooking blog with my mom. Oh yeah!

Below is the ice cream cake my mom and I baked, and I decorated, for a friend's baby shower. She used to baby sit me sometimes before she moved to Arizona! Very far from where I live, I can tell ya' that!

Here's the cake. It had already been in the freezer for a while, so it was starting to droop a bit.

The cake was chocolate chip with mint chocolate chip ice cream. The icing was home-made whipped cream and the colored icing was just sugar, water, and coloring (So, more sugar.)

It was based off the napkins below.

I even put a monkey on!

Isn't he cute?! :-)

Now, the blog my mom and I are doing is called Once Upon a Cookie Pan. I named it! You should check it out. Once I finish this post (So, it will already be up once you've read this.) I'll be writing a cookie recipe post. And tomorrow morning/afternoon we'll put up a recipe for the ice cream cake and the whipped cream. So, probably ditto to the above in parenthesis.

Well, that's enough of my ego for one night, then!

Watch out for tomorrow's birthday post!

Cheerio, peeps!

Stick Figures

A figure made of sticks and stones,

has no bones to break.

A figure made of sticks is wood

but not flesh and blood.

A person can't be made of sticks

but what if the answer is

yes.

If a stick figure is a person

what is the answer to that?

I haven't the faintest clue what that was. But I got inspiration from this poem.

Cheerio, peeps.

I am so tired that I forgot to name this post! Then I came back to fix it, and I couldn't even think of a clever title!

Found this a while back on Eleanor's blog. Thought about doing it. Didn't. Got bored. Decided to do it. Just now.

Wow, I'm pathetic. Oh well. *shrug*

1. Put your iPod or MP3 on shuffle.

2. Hit the next button and whatever it lands on is the answer to the question.

3. Laugh out loud at the answer.

4. Tag six people.

(Hmm... Since I already used numbers, the questions will be marked in Roman numerals. Should be interesting... since I don't really know Roman numerals... Nor can I read them particularly well, unless I'm counting on my fingers... Yay! Back to Kindergarten!

Anyway... Don't bother... just ignore me as I go play with my hair in the corner...)

I. Are you male or female?

In the Dark-Flyleaf (So I don't know what I am...? O.0)

II. What do people feel when they're around you?

Don't Slow Down-Matt & Kim (Um... HUH?!)

III. Describe your current relationship. (With who?)

As You Cry-The Hush Sound (Brilliant. *Sarcasm!*)

IV. Where would you like to be right now?

The House Wins-Ok Go (A CASINO?! I'm not even old enough!!)

V. How do you feel about love?

The Technicolor Phase-Owl City (Apparently, very nicely.)

VI. What's your life like?

The Resolution-Jack's Mannequin (So, it was pretty suckish? I don't think so.)

VII. What would you wish for if you had only one wish? (Please let me get published, please let me get published, please let me get published...!! WHAT?!?! It's TRUE!)

Hot Air Balloon-Owl City (Huh... That wouldn't be too bad of a wish. A hot air balloon!! :-D)

VIII. Say something wise.

Fireflies-Owl City (WHAT IS WITH ALL THE OWL CITY TONIGHT?!?!)

IX. How would you describe yourself?

Invincible (Live)-Ok Go (SWEET!!!!!)

X. What is your life's purpose?

The Coolest Girl-Bonnie Gruesen (from AVPS, written by Darren Criss) [OHMYGOD!!!! THIS IS P-E-R-F-E-C-T!!!!!!]

XI. What is your motto?

Vindicated-Dashboard Confessional

XII. What do your friends think of you?

Break the Sky-The Hush Sound

XIII. What do you think of your parents?

Save Me-Amasic (Eeek!)

XIV. What do you think of very often?

Misguided Ghosts-Paramore

XV. What is 2+2?

You're so Damn Hot-Ok Go (WTF?) [<-- LOL. Another Ok Go song!]

XVI. What do you think of your best friend?

Beaming-Relient K (So she's smiley? Um... Yeah, I guess...?)

XVII. What is your life story?

All Around Me-Flyleaf

XVIII. What do you want to be when you grow up?

The Permanent Rain-The Dangerous Summer (I am afraid of what this means...)

XIX. What will you dance to at your wedding?

Re-Education (Through Labor)-Rise Against (Awesome!)

XX. What will they play at your funeral?

The Vinyl Countdown-Relient K (Wow... Kind of appropriate for me, but... wow...)

XXI. What is your hobby/interest?

Sahara-Relient K

XXII. What is your biggest fear?

Blood-The Editors (Well... I don't love it, but is sure isn't my biggest fear.)

XXIII. What is your biggest secret?

God & Satan-Biffy Clyro (That would work.)

XXIV. What do you think of your friends?

Not Alone-Darren Criss (Awww! So sweet!)

XXV. What will you repost this as?

Top of the World-The All-American Rejects

Okay then.

I tag...

Infublo of What Really Happened

Michelle of Back and Forth then Back Again

Cranberry of Insane Trio Blog

Kay of Cerulean Skies

The Clumsy Reader of... Wait for it... The Clumsy Reader!

And really, whoever else reads this post and feels like doing this. 'Cuz I'm too dang tired to think of anyone else.

DISCLAIMER!!! Sorry, for all my weird cynicism/craziness tonight. I'm frickin' tired and I hit my arm on the kitchen table, got blisters from new shoes, cut myself shaving, and got clawed up by my cat, all within less than 24 hours of each other.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

'Night, all!

Cheerio, peeps!

Friday the 13th

Hooray! :-)

Screw the superstitions and let the curses begin! LOL.

I laugh at superstitions. I will gladly walk under ladders and I love black cats. Friday the 13th is fun. AND in the same month as my birthday!

Although, it would have been cool if Friday the 13th had been last August, when I turned 13. Oh, well.

And now you know how old I am.

And I found more of those Hogwarts blogs. (And my STUPID computer didn't think Hogwarts was a real word!!!!!!)

Gryffindor House

Ravenclaw House

Hufflepuff House

Slytherin House (Again. And still my favorite... God, I feel GUILTY!)

Explanation site

Cheerio, peeps!

P.S. 8 days till my birthday! Now I'm off to write more of my new manuscript. :-)