Winter!

Has anyone besides me noticed how gorgeous the colors are this winter?  I don't think I've ever seen a more colorful winter.  I know that sounds weird, but the browns are browner, the greens are greener, and that gross brownish grey color doesn't seem to be seen anywhere I look.  I'm looking at my Grandparent's backyard as I write this, and they have this tree filled with maroon berries and a few trees with some deep orange leaves.  All are such darkly saturated colors, it's gorgeous!!!  While I love and adore snow, this rain makes everything look magical in a different way, and I love it!!
It's totally unique.  I don't remember a winter ever looking like this!  I wish I could capture it with a camera, but the cameras don't seem to do it justice.  Neither does this post.  haha... Oh well!  It's so funny too, because this morning I spotted some blue sky, and I thought that was a little depressing, but decided to roll with it, then suddenly out of nowhere all this rain began pelting outside!  It was fantastic!
Anyways, I love colors.  Just for the record, we had some amazing Sunsets this year too, some of the coolest I've ever seen!

A New Post!

CELTIC HOLIDAY WAS SOOOOOOOO FANTASTIC!!!
I just had to throw that out there.
We had a great time, and lots of people came!  It was sweet too, because even though we had like 3 performances, we actually made it through!  It was awesome!  Everyone did a great job, and coming off it has been really fun, because we get to watch everyone improve now that we can start actually teaching them dances again!  YAY!!!!!!!
And I made a profile on Mormon.org!



That's my spiffy button.  You should click it!  I have a ridiculous picture on it right now though, I want to change it eventually.  But I'll have to take a picture first, then upload it and... yeah.  I'd rather use this, because I don't want to go to ALL that work.  Just kidding!!!  haha  I'll do it eventually!

I just clicked it, and it's not working yet.  But soon it will!  So I'll just leave it on there!  haha

Updates and that

Hey guess WHAT???  There are only 16 days until Celtic Holiday.  Well, at least the preview for Celtic Holiday...  on Friday night...  And so there are basically 17 days until Celtic Holiday!

(AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!)

Treasures team is basically ready, which is super sweet!  Gold team is also basically ready, just a few more things and we've got it!  And then we'll finish Unplugged, which reminds me, I have some music to edit.  And a playlist to edit.  And a line-up to finish.  And then I have the lights to do...  tehe...  and yet here I am blogging about all the things I need to do but haven't yet...  XD  It's mostly done, just the finishing touches.  

So here I go!  :D

A post

This is a post!  I haven't posted for a while.  Now I just did.  And now it's time to write in my journal and go to bed!
I want to re-design my blog now...  must resist... must sleep...

Ponderings

Whenever I see the word ponderings, I think of Jeeves and Wooster where Bertie shoves the little brother of Anoria Glossop into the pond.  Bertie calls him imponderable.  Emphasis on the pond.  Anyways, I'm not in a pond, I have not been shoved into a pond, and I don't live in a pond.  Thank goodness that's out of the way...  :D
So we just started up Choir at the Institute!  Second week in, and the songs are already playing through my head!  It's fun too, because this year I have more confidence, can find the alto line more easily, and Odorf was teaching me about singing on the drive home last night, and I was able to feel like it was supposed to feel.  I was really excited!  That being said, I need practice. Lots and lots of practice.  But at least I did it once so I can know what it feels like!  I'm excited for next week!  :D
Another thing that I've been thinking about is the Dressing Your Truth system.  I LOVE IT.  I'm just going to tell about my experience with it, because I've been bottling it up inside of me, which means it has the tendency to explode in odd ways.  haha 
I've been dressing my truth as a type 1, and I've loved being so comfortable with who I am.  It shows on the outside who I am on the inside, and I don't have to worry about being myself, it just happens naturally!  It's great, because I feel like I'm more sensitive to people around me, like I could help them if they needed me or I wouldn't be afraid to ask for help.  I don't apologize for myself anymore, my words to describe myself have changed.  Instead of saying something like "Oh gee, I'm fat.  I need to eat less and exercise more."  I say something like "Don't I look oh so adorable today!" and I don't think about weight, and I've never felt healthier.  I love how my closet isn't a dull necessity, it's a fun place filled with super fun stuff!  A treasure cave instead of a broom closet.  Mirrors aren't my enemy anymore either, and I've been able to let go of so much worry in my life. 
So not only have I had a HUGE amount of fun, I really am loving the positive effect it's had on me!  Now that I understand myself so much better, I look forward to trying to understand the other types.  Which will be fun in my family with one Type 2, two Type 4s, and one more Type 1!  Not a lot of 3 in my family, although I'm pretty sure that's my secondary type...  but I really followed the Type 1 way of reading the book, which I laughed about since I didn't even know at first...  I was like OOOOH a book!  NO SHINY.  I skip, besides I understand this anyways, even though I skimmed it once.  Wait...  she just said what I did.  Psychic lady. 
:D So yeah, watching the online course or re-reading the book again is an order.
And yeah, I'm going to sleep now, I have committees in the morning!  And then graduation, where I get to wear a spiffy hat that makes me look like a turtle.  Woohoo.  AND THEN THE INSTITUTE SPECTACULAR!!!  Talk about fun!  :D  Anyways, life is awesome, I love it, and great stuff! 

Why not?

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I finished my last class at Stevens-Henager!!!!  HURRAY!!!  At least, for the time being.  You never know if I'll go back for my bachelor's degree later.  ANYWAY that's another thought for a later time.  For now, I'm totally excited!  And even better, I found out while I'm at the Oregon Coast, so it's going to be an even more relaxing time!  YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!! 
And while we're here, we gotten to be with some of our awesome friends we've had forever who are awesome and they're awesome and they're also awesome!  It was so great to see them again, I've missed them a ton!
And we've gotten to go walk historic Newport, where my brother fed a Sea Lion.  Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-3ZQAwUSGo
Good ol' Jiggers!  That was really fun!  The guy was funny, he eats raw tuna and loves fishing, whether it's tuna or halibut.  Strange, I can't imagine enjoying fishing.  Though I probably could get into fishing on the ocean!
AAAAND I got to buy a pair of my very own CONVERSE!!!!!!  It's only too true, and I'm so excited I can barely stand it!
Here they are!

I was excited.  haha... now I'm ready for a Doctor Who episode!  It'll be about...

Sea lions.

 

 A whole colony:

Or maybe not, Steven Moffat will find some way to make Sea Lions freaky, and I'd rather not deal with it.  ;)

Ninja Chipmunk

FEAR the mighty Ninja Chipmunk!  For if you make her mad, she's going to find you and uhhhhhhhhhhhh try to open her mouth so she can chew you out.  Which is kinda scary, right?
Okay fine.  I got my wisdom teeth out yesterday.  And yesterday it hurt, but not too badly.  Today it hurts quite a bit.  This morning it does anyways, but I should've thought it might, 'cuz it's been a while since I had Ibuprofen, since I don't have the skillz needed to swallow pills in my sleep.  haha
But yeah, my mouth can only open far enough to drink stuff and get stuff off a spoon.  Thank goodness I can get a spoon in!  So far for breakfast I've had a bowl of sherbet and an ice cream/nectarine smoothie thing Mom made.  And soon I shall eat some of the ice cream brought by SwashbucklerT! (Thanks again so much!) Why couldn't I do this when I didn't have teeth gone?  Just kidding!  :D 
So according to Mom, the anesthesia made me kinda funny.  I talked in a really high slow voice, asked to keep my wisdom teeth over and over, and then just wouldn't stop talking.  I did get to keep my wisdom teeth, isn't that exciting?  Scary thing is, I don't remember a lot of the drive home.  I remember getting out of the chair, being helped to the car, getting into the car, suddenly seeing Dad at his office, getting asked by Mom to stop talking so I wouldn't keep chomping on my lower lip, suddenly seeing my cousin at my grandparents' house, and then the drive home is a bit hazy, but I kinda remember it. Then Mom helped me out of the car and onto the couch, and I asked to play the wii, and she said probably not yet.  And I remember all of that.  :D  Then we got to watch Sense and Sensibility, because Mom knew magically what I was saying with her psychic powers...  haha This is our conversation:
Mom: Do you want to watch a movie
Me: uh huh
Mom: We have Little women, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility...
Me: nuh uh, nuh uh, other one
Mom: Which other one?
Me: other sense and sinesinfnsinceifity
Mom: Oh, this one?
Me: uh huh
Sounds like a Ponyo conversation, but I can't eat ham right now.  :)  hahahahaha
All of this made me even more grateful for an awesome Mom who doesn't video me, or do anything horrid like picture taking or listening to me when I want to go to the dance studio.  Apparently I asked to do that too!  Just shows my priorities, I guess!  :D
Well, another day, another adventure!  I get to try to brush my teeth today and I also get to eat some scrambled eggs, and I'm going to be rinsing with salt water, and most just kinda hanging.

Weird...

So this morning before waking up, I had an odd dream...  I was going to join a special military program specializing in HTML.  Yes folks, I was going to be a secret service HTML agent, but first my work had to be okayed.  So I sent it in, and went to Settler's Park to meet with the undercover agents to see how I did.  They were my dance students, you just never know how talented they really are to be in the secret service HTML program!  :D  Especially in Grade school and Middle school...  haha
Anyways, I had made a pretty cool website, but the people who reviewed it and put the review in the envelope informed me that I hadn't done a very good job at all, and had only got a 35% on it.  The forms were covered in red pen, and I had several comments telling me what I should've done instead.  They got one of their secret agents to re-do my website, and I had to admit that they were right, theirs was AMAZING.  It was a bit depressing, but at the same time, really cool!  So then my brother had to give one of his shoes to the people to take back to HQ, and we ran around at the play equipment, then we all started off home eating poptarts and licorice and I think we flew some kites too, and then I woke up... 
But I still remembered the awesome version of the website!  So I kinda sketched it out, and I can't wait to see if I can re-create it!  :D  But yeah. Remember, HTML agent is watching...  uh...  your website...  yeah.

Birthdays!

Odorf and Jiggers had birthdays this July!  How exciting, I love birthdays!  Jiggers got a surprise birthday party, and Odorf got a sweet picture:

Odorf dislikes every character in that picture, so I mashed 'em with a 1 ton weight...  tehe... I promise she got other stuff too, but that was her birthday card.  :D  I have a very patient sister, don't I? 

Bouncing again

There are times I sit in class, and I feel like the words bounce right off of me.  And then the words bounce so much outside of me and against my ears, that they enter and bounce inside my head.  That's an exciting thing that they actually are in my head now, but THEN they have a fun time bouncing off the walls of my head.  So instead of being absorbed as part of my thinking process, they bounce around greeting each other and popping up when I least need them... "Hullo, I'm the DOM." "Hi DOM!  I'm Parsing!"  "Hey look, it's Variable!"  "See ya later Encapsulation"  "Oooooooo Hierarchical... what a snooty whatchamacallit" "Ph34r m3 ! 4m 73h XHTML... mw4 h4 h4 h4 h4......."
And after they have their fun bouncing off the walls, I finally get them all to settle down, and then I get to sort through them all to try to use them.
This just means I have to go to sleep earlier.  :D  haha

Random thoughts for a Tuesday

Here I am waiting at school for my sister to get out of her class.  I think she has another 20 minutes to get out, but it seems like I've already been waiting 30.  But I like sitting here, the table I'm at smells strange though, at first it smelled like fish food, and now it smells like.... I think it's Top Ramen noodles.  Yes, that's the excitement of the table.  :D  While I was homeschooled, for writing we'd write a page of something Pearls before Swine calls "Stream of consciousness" (see below)

And there you have a prime example of stream of consciousness.  So that's what you're being subjected to today, I'm just writing whatever pops into my head to write about next.  Today I made a program in C#, and it was really exciting!  So far, I have Pete, the hero:

Charming, isn't he?  Just dreamy.  He runs around the screen being controlled by the arrow keys.  Then we have his arch nemesis, the bad guy:

Try not to be too afraid, he doesn't do much yet.  So far, he just follows Pete around, but stalking is still pretty creepy... :)  Someday he's probably going to eat Pete, but I don't know how to do that yet.
Exciting stuff!  I think my sister's class is out, but where is she?  So....  I have a sister.......   (end of the mutilated Darth Vader quotes) Perhaps I should go find her...  yeah...  I shall.
Happy June 1st!

Sewing adventures TRIUMPH!

Project 2...  the green dress.
I started this project right after I finished the black dress, and I just finished it yesterday with the help of my wonderful Mother, without whom this never would've been possible, AT ALL.  Thanks, Mom!!!!
So this one started out as this pattern:

I was using the one that got whited out by the flash...  but first I cut out the wrong pattern and ran out of fabric.  So that was the second trip to JoAnn's to get more fabric.
Then I made the bodice, the sleeves were a pain, the bodice was pretty easy, then it looked horrible when I got that part done.  So I looked at it, dragged it to Mom, complained in a loud tone, she totally understood and complained with me, and then we played with the bodice, nothing worked, and we scrapped it.  At least, for a little while.  I went searching through the old patterns to see if there was another bodice that would work, and found this old pattern:

"Look!" I yelled to Mom, "It looks like the lines are SIMILAR!!!"  and Mom was like "Well, this can't get any more messed up, let's go for it!"
And so we went back to JoAnn's and got more fabric.  That was the 3rd trip.  So I made that bodice, and sure enough, it worked pretty well!  Then it was too long, so I took the shoulders up a bit, and that made it fit perfectly.  So I started the sleeves...  and realized I didn't want the ginormous ones belonging to the pattern, and I didn't want to re-make the other sleeves very much at all.  So I looked at the old bodice that turned out so awful, and decided the sleeves could be salvaged.  And they were!  After Mom remade them, that is...
  haha
Then we did the zipper and a few other things, Mom top stitched and used a nifty hemmer attachment on her machine, and this is it!

And now, I'm not making anymore dresses until I get a few skirts done.  I LIKE SKIRTS.  SKIRTS DON'T HAVE SLEEVES.

Updates from a frenzied mind

School:
I'm learning more about the wonderful world of C# programming.  And so the first week, I basically felt like there was this huge, very thick brick wall.  However, the brick walls have been manageable for me in the past, so I ran headlong into it!  BAM!!!!!!  It didn't go so well.  Eh, that was just a fluke, right?  Off I go again!  CLANG CRASH KABOOM!!!!!!  Just as well as the last time.  Well, this time I think to myself, repeated blows, that'll bring the thing down!  So I repeatedly bopped my head against this brick wall, figuring it'd come down eventually.  Finally, the second week was coming to a close.  It was Thursday, when I looked up and realized the brick wall could be climbed over.  So I spent the rest of Thursday looking up and formulating my scaling strategy.  Friday morning, things started clicking for me, and I got my head above the brick wall and looked over.  It was astonishing, the possibilities over the wall were unimaginably amazing.  The different ways of using these skills expanded themselves, and I was extremely excited.  Am I over the brick wall?  Most likely not...  ;)  But I have made a start, and my head is not as sore!  I'll be working on my final project tomorrow, learning how to create a game.  I'm calling it "Don't eat Pete" and it'll be this little square that goes around eating "food" (aka littler squares) while avoiding a large circle intent on eating Pete.  Silly?  Absolutely!  Fun?  Of course!  (I hope...)
As for the other class, it's training us to be a professional and also testing our skills.  I want to get all the homework for the skills complete this week.  I have a simple web page to create, a C# program to send, and a request for purchase of a program which will be used by a bank with 25,000 customers.  The professional aspect is fascinating, and I enjoy it very much.
Sewing:
Another brick wall has been hurdled on the green dress (project #2), and the top of the dress is approaching completion!  Thanks to my amazing Mom, who helped me over the wall.  So the complete dress story is approaching the hopefully happy ending.  ;)  The whole story is quite intense, and will be told another day.
The Garden:
Is failing.  Just kidding, it might be recovering!  :)  At any rate, the homegrown strawberries are so very fantastic that I really can't complain if that's all we get this time around.  And the beets are doing so very well!  So yeah, it's going pretty good!
DANCE!:
The best for last!  :D  Dance is fantastic as always, I love it so much!  Dance camp has been moved to be a month closer, which is pretty sad 'cuz not everyone can make it, but it's happy as well, because it's going to be so much fun and I don't have to wait as long for it.  We're gearing up for the Idaho Shakespeare festival volunteering, and heading out for a Highland Games soon!  Wonderful times, great memories, and I am so excited!!!!
Summary:
I talk too much.  BYE! 

Cake

So the beginning of May has two birthdays in it, and I got to bake the cakes!  It was really fun, my Aunt loves Junior Mints, so I made one cake look like a large Junior Mint with a Junior Mint swirl on top:

It turned out pretty cute, I was excited!
The other one I made in a heart shaped bundt pan:

Mom did some toasted coconut to put on top of that one, and I thought it was pretty cute too!

Here are both of 'em:

So that's another adventure... somehow I think I keep getting new adventures so I don't have to keep sewing...  ;)  hahahahaha
And the best part was that both of the cakes tasted REALLY good!  It was a kind of chocolate cake that doesn't have milk in it, which is pretty cool, it's called "Crazy Cake".

Celebrate!

HURRAY!!!  I HAVE A LOT OF FOLLOWERS!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
As promised, to celebrate I'm doing a series of photo manipulations/edits.  Here are some blossoms from our apple tree in our backyard to start out:
This is the original picture

 This is after applying a layer mask, desaturating the background, and blurring a bit

 This is my personal favorite, colors are not desaturated at all, I burned the pink to make it stand out more, and I applied a hard light filter to the blossoms.

Flowers are really fun to edit.  You're going to be having more coming your way!  Also I'm doing a silly one, but it's just silly.  And it's not of people, which is the most fun, but it's still pretty funny.  :D  Anyways, that's the first wave!
And the sewing project is still coming along...  I worked on it yesterday, and we'll see when I end up finishing it.  One thing's for sure, I SHALL FINISH IT.  No sewing project will lick me!

Ahhhhhh....... :D

Thanks to my two newest followers!  I have much less of a complex today!  As a result, I think something special is an order, so we shall have some balloons:

There, isn't that nice? 
I won't be with my computer at all until Saturday, so if more people join, we'll have something else special happen.  Like..........  uh.......... maybe a photoshop?  Of something?  Sure, sounds good!  We'll have a photoshop of something to celebrate maybe getting more followers!
And it's kinda fun to follow myself, that's pretty entertaining.
Thanks again to all my followers, you're all awesome!

...

I'd really like to know why Jiggers has 7 followers and I only have 3, one of which is Jiggers.  I mean, I've had my blog longer, and I'm older, I have cooler sunglasses (jk Jiggers, your sunglasses rock), and (What other petty things can I say?  ;) ) My hair is prettier (though not cooler) and I have... uh... skills... of a special kind.  Yeah.  I have special skills.

Anyways to my faithful followers, I thank you.  I shall give you a candy bar. Here you go:

And there you have it folks, I shall give you a virtual butterfinger if you follow my blog!  

Come to think of it, I'm not following myself.  That shall change, because I do so love virtual butterfingers.

Yeah.

This is why I should go to sleep earlier!  haha

I'm going to sleep now, honest!

The sewing adventures continue.  I was going to have my next post be about that, but I haven't done enough lately, so I'll post about that sometime in the near future.  Suffice to say, dress #2 has been more than slightly annoying.  It will be awesome next time I work on it though, I know it!  I'll post pictures when it's done.

Now I'm really going to sleep!

G'night!

Sewing Adventures Part 1

So for my birthday, Mom and Dad gave me a pattern, material, and notions to make dresses and skirts!  It was one of the very best birthday presents EVER!!!  I've never sewed a dress before, I've done a lot of skirts, and almost finished a shirt, but I've always wanted to try a dress. 
I made the dress with the black fabric first, and it went really well.  It was so exciting to see it come together!  Mom helped with the zipper and other confusing and hard parts, either giving advice or doing it for me, teaching at the same time.  YAY FOR MOMS!!!!
Here's me in it:

We put gathered sparkly fabric on the hem, and it's a spaghetti strap because I hate sewing sleeves (Which I've just figured out) and wanted to be able to choose what color to put under it.  Here it is without my spiffy shrug thing:

It looks good with a lot of colors layered under it, and I happen to be a color-holic, so I'm glad to choose what shirt goes under it.  :D  haha  Many thanks to Jiggers for taking these pictures...
I'm still working on Project #2.  It's a dress that's green with a flower print on it, and will match with black, brown, or white shoes, so I get to have fun with colors with that one that too.  That dress was going to have sleeves because it was going to be cuter that way, but I just finished the top the other day, and it looked gross, both on me, and off me.  So it's back to the drawing board with Project #2.  Mom and I are going to be looking over it tomorrow, and I think something will inspire us, hopefully...  it was at least a good learning experience to be able to sew those STUPID sleeves though, so I'm still glad I did it... I really don't like sleeve sewing.
The third project doesn't know if it's a skirt or a dress.  It'll figure itself out when Project 2 is done.
Thankfully as a Glenn Beck Insider, I can listen to Glenn whilst sewing, and also I can review General Conference, or talk to Mom if she's in there with me, so it's never boring!  The biggest annoyance is not being able to just sew all the time!  haha just kidding
And by the way, if you're looking for the perfect cereal, go buy some Chocolate Marshmallow Mateys from WinCo.

Never again... and the Garden

I'm never naming another blog Happy [Insert Month here] [insert date here] again.  Because my crazy friends on Google Buzz will never stop posting on it.  :P  :D  haha
That being said, I should blog about something...  because I haven't for a while.
OH!!!!!!!!
I started another GARDEN!  Last year's garden was awesome!  It was crazy though, because we technically started late.  We got everything ready to go I think by Memorial day.  And I think we planted indoors in the middle of April, but I don't quite remember.  I should check my journal.  Anyways, I planted tomatoes and some other plants the Monday before St Patty's day, and they're coming up looking healthy and awesome!  The peppers take so long!  I hope they'll all come up.  So far, the yellow peppers seem to have sprouted.  And as per normal gardening, whenever Dad and I find a plant that grows in purple, we plant it.  This year's garden will sport:
Purple Peppers
Purple Cabbage
Purple Basil (my personal favorite, I love basil!)
Something else that's purple, romaine lettuce, I believe
BEETS!  Lots of beets!  I LOVE BEETS!!!  They're especially good when Mom uses her sweet skillz to pickle 'em!  NOM!
We almost got purple carrots, but that seemed a bit overboard... and they were way more expensive than normal carrots.
I'll be posting pictures of 'em eventually, I love to photograph the awesome garden.  Dad and I also found some black hollyhocks, so that's going to be really fun to see how those turn out, they might be as cool as the candy cane striped Zinnias, but I'm not sure, those will be pretty awesome!
And I've never grown cherry tomatoes before, but we have some of those!
And the Yellow Peppers are going to be fun, of course!  I love having so many different colors in the garden.
Roma tomatoes too, so hopefully we'll have some fun with Salsa this year.  AND I got some strawberry seeds to sprout!  * gasp! *  I didn't know if those were going to come up, but they're so cute and tiny, and a few have sprouted!
And right now, the best spot in our house to grow these plants indoors is in my parent's bathtub... poor people... they're very patient with the whole thing, but I'll have some scrubbing to do when everything has been planted outside...  :D

Alice in Wonderland

This movie may take its place as one of my all-time favorites.
That being said, it was weird. Just like the book! In the old Disney animated film, I was sure something was out to get me. There were evil, stuck-up flowers that were your friend one minute, your bitter enemies the next. There was that horrid carpenter and the Walrus. Alice had a shrill voice, and she kept screeching. The Red Queen... no words to describe how disturbed I was about her. Combine Captain Hook and Cruella De Vill and you had her. So imagine my surprise when I opened up the book one day, and discovered the real Wonderland, full of zany and lovable characters who were more than a little crazy, situations that didn't end up stressing out the reader, and Alice as a curious fun girl with quirks. It was one of the happiest moments of my life to read the books. The books are some of my favorites.
When I found out they were going to make a movie, I had my doubts. When I found out it was Tim Burton, I felt better. That's a little backwards, but if anyone could capture Wonderland, it was him.
And I wasn't disappointed! From beginning to end, the whole movie was so imaginative, brilliant, and enjoyable. I don't think I'd let small children watch it, he made this movie very deep, with quirky characters and disturbing monsters. It all turns out for the best at the end, just how it should. Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter was perfect. He's an amazing actor, and Alice was fantastic! She was everything she should've been, and quite recovered her muchness. The only complaint was that I wanted it to be longer, I just loved it. The Cheshire Cat, which has always been a favorite of mine in the book, was even better in the movie. Stephen Fry voiced him with that perfect amount of charm and craziness required by the Cheshire Cat. The March Hare was another favorite of mine, as I also go mad in March... ;) The computer animated characters looked real.
And as for the Red Queen, she was fantastic. I loved how she was like a spoiled child. The White Queen was a presence I sorely missed in the animated version, and Tim Burton re-thought her perfectly to fit into Wonderland (or Underland). Anne Hathaway was a perfect fit to play her, gracious and slightly insane.
THE JABBERWOCKY!!!! Find one of the original illustrations from Through the Looking Glass with the Jabberwocky, and then imagine it stepped right off the page. I thought the Jabberwocky made the Balrog look like a lap dog, but that's just my opinion. Computer animation has drastically improved.
And as always, Danny Elfman created a wonderful soundtrack that enhanced the movie.
I loved the quotes from the movie. One of my favorites is when Alice's Dad is talking to her at the beginning of the movie:
Alice. "Do you think I've gone round the bend?"
Dad. "I'm afraid so. You're bonkers! But do you know what? All the best people in the world are."

Happy March 1st!

Well, I thought I might blog about something non-web related. Please don't have a heart attack!
As a result, I have no idea what to say... ;) Bye!

WOOT!!!!

I FIXED IT!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAY!!!!
So I found this thing yesterday online (one of the biggest parts of programming is learning how to use google... ;) ) and it's an htc file which uses Javascript that makes IE compatible with the :hover command. So yesterday I was playing with it, and it wasn't working, and that made me mad. Today I went back to it to play with it some more, and after viewing the source on a site I knew worked, I copied their code and pasted it into my htc file. Then I referenced it in my external style sheet, and refreshed my website.
AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XDD
So I'm a little excited... :D my gallery is here if you want to see it! Now whether in IE or Firefox, it should work!
Thanks to http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html for the code!

Computer Adventures part 1

So I have an AWESOME web design class right now, it's definitely one of my favorites! Using http://w3schools.com/, we're going through tutorials with CSS and HTML. HTML is fun to refresh, my coding skills are pretty outdated. I mean, it's the same HTML, but I've never played with the div tags and the span tags. I've missed out a lot apparently, 'cuz they're super fun. If you want to see the website I'm building (and keep in mind, this is my experimental playground, so nothing is really serious... ;) ) the URL is http://shcheidi.webng.com/

But I'm having some trouble with the Internet Explorer non-support of the :hover tag in CSS. And it's starting to bug me. I have an awesome gallery of flowers which are all images, and when I hover over them in Firefox, they go to full opacity, but in IE, they don't.
Now, I could just copy/paste the following code into my HTML:

<img src="flowers/flower1.jpg" style="opacity: 0.4;"
onmouseover="this.style.opacity=1;
this.filters.alpha.opacity=100" 
onmouseout="this.style.opacity=0.4;
this.filters.alpha.opacity=40" 
/>

and it works in both browsers flawlessly. The problem is, what if I have 40 images in my gallery? That would take tons of time to copy/paste it for every single one... and that would be really impractical if I suddenly decided to decrease or increase opacity. I'd have to edit every one of them.
So yesterday I asked my brother, who is a genius and knows CSS better than I do, and he found the following code for me to put into my external style sheet:
img#flower {
opacity:0.4;
filter:alpha(opacity=40);
border: none;
}

img#flower:hover {
opacity:1.0;
filter:alpha(opacity=100);
border:none;
}
and it works perfectly in Firefox. And I only have to edit the style sheet for it to work in my web page. The reference I have in my HTML is:
<img id="flower" src="http://www.blogger.com/flowers/flower2.jpg" />
with the id="flower" I reference my CSS external style sheet. It's pretty awesome, I'm still thrilled with that ability to do that... :D
BUT it doesn't work in IE. So I'm going to keep researching and find out what I can do about that. Believe me, if I find a break though, you'll be the first to know.
And hopefully you guys won't stop following me after this post... it's a bit weird to read... haha

Sleepy....

Thus is the life of a college student. It's okay though, I suppose...

But seriously, it's tough to try to stay awake during classes. Right now we're talking about object oriented programming, describing the clock to the computer. It's pretty entertaining, there are a whole lot of things I've never even thought about. Think of describing a piece of toast to a fish. A slightly more intelligent fish, but still, the fish hasn't seen, tasted, or smelt toast, and you need to start at the very beginning to even get the fish thinking about it.

You: "Hey Fish, how's it going?"

Fish: "Pretty good, just the same as usual."

You: "Well, that's great! Have you ever had a piece of toast?"

Fish: "..."

You: "Uh... how about bread?"

Fish: "..."

You: "I see. Well, I just thought of several things I have to do, so I'll talk to ya later Fish!"

Fish: "You're really weird."

You: * is GONE *

So that's just a little sample, but we actually have to describe it. So I'll be signing off now and listening, so I know how to do it...