The Princess and the Frog

I haven't posted a blog post in a while, and it's funny that a Disney movie has inspired me to write one. I just saw the new Disney movie, The Princess and the Frog yesterday with my mom, and I just loved it so much. Not only is it 2D, and takes me back to my memories watching classic Disney movies, it had good characters and beautiful animation and voices and AH just amazing all over. My only beef with the movie is that it's your typical Disney Princess movie. There's always the villain that is the witch or into bad magic or whatever. Then there's the good magic that the 'fairy godmother' uses. It's so dumb, because, hello, magic and all that voo doo stuff the bad guy is into is all bad. There's no good and bad magic. The villain, Dr. Facilier, was very charismatic and draws you in with smooth words and actions. He paints the magic he does to be pretty and every deceiving words out of his mouth has bad repercussions. He reminded me of Satan in that way. But, the movie was beautiful and it was awesome to see the princess actually work for what she wanted instead of being like other princesses who are basically helpless. She reminded me of Belle, my favorite princess, and that could be why I loved her so much.

The prince was also awseome. He was basically this jerk who never had to work for anything in his life and so had the attitude of just partying forever and whatevs, and Tianna, the princess, really seemed to open his eyes. He wasn't like most princes, seeing as he was a jerk at first, but he wasn't like the princes who just do everything for their princesses and like...I don't know...Hard to explain.

This is officially my second favorite Disney movie. Beauty and the Beast will always be first, but this is second. It's the first thing in a long time that made me actually grin and I think that's why I keep listening to the music and have the urge to see it again and again. Oh wells. I just wanted to post this for whatever reason. xD

More vlogs

I'm sure one of these days I'll make a real post again.





And this one just for fun.

Vlogs

So recently I started doing video blogs. Here are my first two. :D

Crawl.

A lot has happened since my last post. Life has been flipped upside down for me and my family. My wonderful stepdad Joseph took his life on April 19th. He lived most of his life on the streets with an addiction to drugs and alcohol. He came to Christ, learned to read, and had a wonderful ability for computers. He was clean and sober for three years. Joseph married my mom on March 15th 2007, and was a complete joy to have in our family. Joseph made my mom so happy, and in turn, that made me very happy as well. He and I were good buddies, and I was so proud to have him as my stepdad. After being told he had Hepatitis C he began taking Interferon and it triggered something in his mind. He began drinking alcohol again, and tried to get through the struggles. But the addiction was too much, and he did this. I know for a fact that he is in Heaven, free of addiction and free of any pain. I am comforted by this fact, but my mom and my family and I miss him terribly. We believe that Joseph couldn't go through the struggles of this addiction. He was such a wonderful, sweet, funny, and loving person. Even though I was not his child, he treated me as such. My friends looked up to him, loved him, and thought of him as a mentor in their lives. At his memorial, my grandpa's little church was packed full to the gills of people. He was so loved, and still will always be so loved.

I sometimes wish I could have said something, done something to show him how much I loved him. If I had a time machine, I would go back and savor each memory. I sometimes wonder how long it will take for the pain to subside. But the hard part about it is, I know it won't ever go away. I know we won't get over this, but we'll get through this. It's so hard to not have Joseph in our lives, but we are reassured that one day, we will see him again. I can already see him bouncing towards us with a big grin, so excited and happy to show us everything in Heaven that God has for us. I wish and pray everyday that the trumpets would sound and that the sky would part, because I really wanna just go home with Jesus. Our world is a terrible place. God never intended for us to go through this pain of death. He never wanted us to have to suffer the pain we feel when we lose a loved one.

Quick update?

So it is February tenth. WOW, interesting, I KNOW. Yesterday, it was pouring down rain, and completely dark and sad outside. Today, it's bright, sunny, and freezing cold. Gotta love California and our bipolar weather. Another storm is coming in though. That may put a damper on the Bible Study hike in Forest Falls though. Hm. In January when we went to Forest Falls, the path up the mountain was completely covered in snow. Me, being the ever danger magnet, kept slipping and dropping a few feet beneath the snow. Good times.



And in honor of Valentines Day...[which i will be spending babysitting :P]

Heya!

Hellooo. I'm a little new to the whole, blogger thing, but I'm getting the hang of it! I'm pretty excited to be on blogger, and I know I'll be using it a lot I'm sure. But for my first post, I thought I'd post a little video of a beautiful Vitamin String Quartet playing the song Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. I love the Vitamin String Quartet. Truly amazing and lovely.

That's all I have to say for now. More later. :]