I know why I'm sick now

So I finally got to the doctor's last night, and discovered that I have a sinus infection and an ear infection.  Well, that explains a lot!  So anyway, I'm on antibiotics now and though I still feel like I'm living in a balloon and I've finished off not one, but two boxes of kleenex, I feel much better.

I'm going to bag groceries at Cub Foods today, yet another band fundraiser.

My cousin proposed to his high school sweetheart this week!  At Disneyworld!!! (they live in Florida)  It's so sweet!  See it here.

Anyway, I'll probably be cutting up a lot of t shirts this christmas break... I'll post pictures.

gtg- got to get the house clean for Christmas!

Merry Christmas
-Haili

Remember the reason for the season, and as I figured out as a young girl: J comes before S, even in the alphabet (J as in Jesus, S as in Santa, if you didn't know, which you probably did...)

I am soooo sick... yuk

yeah, so I have this super nasty cold right now and my ear is all stuffed up and congested and I've blown my nose so many times it's raw from all the kleenex.  I know what they're talking about in the Puffs commercials now... I feel like I've swallowed a bucket of nails and they've lodged in my throat, and my head is throbbing...

I had to play french horn in my band concert last night in this condition... I made it through the first 4 songs all right, but the last one, The Great Locomotive Chase (listen to a recording here) which happened to be my favorite, I barely made it through.  My dad thankfully zoomed the camera away from my face because even he could see I was having trouble.

We also were wearing these t shirts at that point that said "Band Rules" on the front, and "Brass Drools" on the back, since we say the back row of our band (the brass section) is a "splash zone" It had a picture of one of our trombone players who is moving away on it, and we surprised him by wearing the shirts under our concert clothes (black sweaters are great at hiding t shirts... this one won't stay normal for long, I can guarantee that.  Just give me a pair of scissors.... mwhahaha)

Well, on a happier note, I'm officially done with college for the semester, have gotten my books for next semester (and am such a nerd I'm already reading them... just the stage and screen ones though).  I'm taking Intro to creative Writing for Stage and Screen (how convenient, Script Frenzy is next semester...hmm), Small Group Communications, Astronomy, Intro to world music, and relationships, marriage, and the family... should be interesting.

Anyway, I should get going so I can sleep this cold off... see ya'll and have a merry Christmas! (and pray it snows here... there HAS to be snow on Christmas!!!)

Shamelessly Quoting Tangled

So, I'm sorry it's been a while.  I'm officially seventeen now.  And I have a funny story to tell you.

So, as my family and I were sitting around the table, finishing up lunch on my birthday, my dad says that it's my birthday and that I'm seventeen.  To which my little brother Lee says something to this extent (bear in mind that he was completely serious) "But I thought your birthday was last year?"

To which I couldn't help responding, "That's the funny thing about birthdays.  They're kind of an annual thing!"
My sister, Elli, is obsessed with Tangled, so this was pretty funny, being that the whole family practically has the whole movie memorized.

Then just tonight, I was messing around with roll of wrapping paper, hitting my birthday balloon with it and having way too much fun doing it.  I managed to hit Elli by accident and she said, "wrapping paper is a dangerous weapon."

to which I shamelessly replied, "Wrapping paper - who knew, right?"

Yeah... I'll write more later.

Hasta luego,
Haili

my life isn't terribly exciting at the moment

anyway, I guess that's kind of a lie.  It's kind of exciting.  Yesterday, we had to evacuate the college where I go to school (I'm PSEO) because of a bomb threat.  So I sat in the Performing Arts Center for 45 minutes while they brought in the dogs and everything.

The semester is over!!!! YAY!
Now I just have finals... *sigh*

anyway, on a more positive note, it's my birthday tomorrow!  I'm going out to eat with my family at Old Country Buffet, hopefully going to Joann's to get some music fabric so I can entertain myself this winter break (I'm going to try and make a quilt for my bedroom... which I should be cleaning right now... oops)

We're having a Midnight Truffle blizzard cake from Dairy Queen.  I'm excited, though I had a flash back to CakeWrecks when I asked the girl who took my order (I think she's named Emily- that's what she wrote on the order form) for "Happy Birthday Haili" to be written in purple and she wrote down "Happy Birthday Haili (purple)"
Hopefully my cake says "Happy Birthday Haili," with no (purple)

Thanks to Rebecca who reminded me how much I love midnight truffle blizzards and reminded me that there are better blizzards than Oreo Cheesequake.
Chocolate coma, here I come!

And very special thanks to my friend Mia for the early birthday present!  I've already written in that gorgeous journal (purple - my favorite color!  However did you guess?  I wonder if my purple coat, purple gloves and scarf, and purple and silver tennis shoes had anything to do with it... hmmm)
thank you! :D

I'm doing a terrible job of listening to myself when I tell myself no.

No, Haili, you cannot go and waste time on TVtropes.org even though they're very interesting.
No, Haili, you cannot read your novel.
  or Ellyn's
  or Elli's,
  or James Dashner's
  or Chris Baty's
  or ANYBODY'S, for that matter
No, Haili, you cannot go on a youtube karaoke session
No, Haili, you cannot watch Lee play Gus's skateboard game on the computer
No, Haili, you cannot practice "By the Limpid Stream"
  I don't care if you have lessons tomorrow and still don't have it memorized.  And I don't care that you need to practice
No, Haili, you may not fill out that Advanced Character Questionnaire for Calista.  I don't care how many good ideas you've come up with for her.  You have to wait until August when you can do Camp NaNo.
No, Haili you cannot ignore the fact that you need to make dinner
No, Haili, ignoring your paper will not make it go away.
Do you want to have to stay up late tonight?  You're sick, remember?

I don't remember.  But... 
Don't deny it, Haili.  Get the paper done and I'll stop nagging you.
Fine! 
Off to the stupid logical fallacy full land of my boring paper about genetic engineering and blah blah blah...
*sigh*
sorry peoples, I broke my promise...

I hate my paper

Okay, so I'm really really sick of this stupid term paper. It's about genetic engineering and it's totally ineffective. It's supposed to be an argumentative research paper, but I keep finding myself arguing the opposite point!!!!! I just need to settle down and wrap my mind around it… and maybe get some cheesecake. I don't know. I need to stop avoiding it because it's not going to just go away. I'm really distracted now………. Hence why I am blogging… *sigh*

I promise my next blog post will be less complainy and more interesting… really I do. I just really don't want to do this right now but I have no choice.

Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

That's my new word qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

I'm leaving now. Adios

Hasta luego

Haili Alegria (my Spanish name)

Sorry for the random spontaneous Spanish.

sooo... nothing much exciting- Big surprise, I know

It is officially December 5th, and my life is now average.
I made my cheesecake yesterday.  It was pretty much an all- day project.  Cutting up the apples took forever... and then it had to cook for an hour, cool an hour in the oven, and spend quite a lot of time in the fridge cooling down.  The middle wasn't quite cooked and is a little mushy, but it tastes really good.

I spent a lot of time reading out loud yesterday, and now I have no voice.  Kinda stinks.  I also have a cold and my head hurts and I'm exhausted because I stayed up until 10:30 last night reading "PART THE SECOND: KEIDREIY" to Elli.
I didn't even hear my alarm go off at 5:45 this morning.  I got woke up by the snooze.  Okay, so a little trivia about my room.  I share it with Elli, and I have a lofted bed.  I have a little square alarm clock thing on a shelf above my head.  When I rotate it, it goes from showing the time, to the temp, my alarm, and a timer.  It's pretty cool.  So, anyway, I usually set my timer for 5 minutes and use that as my snooze, because I usually rotate it to where the timer is when I turn it to turn my alarm off.
Apparently, I turned off my alarm without realizing it because it was the snooze that woke me...

I have to go work on my paper now, so until later peoples!

-Haili

I'm contagious!

So, one of my little brothers (not the singing one) came in my room last night and asked me if he could write a story and get a book published like me and Elli.  Let's call him... Lee.  He came up with this story idea titled "Get Lost!" about this kid getting kidnapped, escaping, but then going the complete opposite way from home as he tries to go home.  This character, Luckas Tarrington (I helped come up with the name) has the worst sense of direction ever which is really funny since Lee has the best sense of direction.  Like one time, we were going to my dad's mom's house for Christmas, and my dad accidentally turned to go toward my mom's mom's cabin, and Lee was the one who caught the mistake.  At like, age 4.  I'm not kidding.  When I drive him around, I still confirm with him that we're on the right road.

So anyway, now I've gotten my brother and my sister into writing, and my other brother (the singing one... let's call him Gus) asked me about this writing club I started last year and if we really were going to do it.  So now Gus is writing a story about a kid named Matthew who loses his skateboard.

So since I have now infected all of my siblings with NaNoWriMo, I have decided to make NaStoWriWe, National Story Writing Week, to take place over the winter break.  It'll be so fun.

Oh, yeah, and Lee came up with the best title for my novel.  Instead of Written in the Stars which is already a song, he suggested Beyond the Stars.  Which is awesome, but there's already a story about an astronaut by the same name, so I might have to tweak it a bit.  It's awesome!  Love Beyond the Stars maybe?

let me know what you think!
 and I shall be posting bloopers of my attempts to sing "Defying Gravity" on youtube soon... should be funny!

NO! Not my title!!!

oh no!  I just googled "Written in the Stars" and it's like this rap song!  NOOO!!!
So, here are my options: let me know what you think:

• Fire and Dreams
• Let Go
• Let Me Go
• Never Give Up
• Secret of Our World
• A Little Place Called Keidreiy
• Ilori

I shall do my best to explain the idea of my plot in a paragraph.  Here goes:

Halyn has always been the invisible girl in Cast Haven, Minnesota, so when the boy she's had a crush on since 6th grade starts noticing her, she's delighted.  He's really nice and even invites her to join his band Kafele.  He calls her Ilori, his treasure.  Then Halyn's dad comes back.  He abandoned Halyn and her mom for another woman when Halyn was only 3.  He comes back and tells her that she is worthless, fat, and ugly, completely destroying any sense of self - confidence she has worked so hard to achieve. Esteban comes over to see why she missed practice, and they end up getting kidnapped by a shapeshifting ball of fire known as a Caelestis.  They are taken to Keidreiy, a place full of wonders and insane creatures, that they are to be king and queen of.  But when Halyn is forced to go back to Earth, ... 

I really can't do this!!!!!! I'm terrible at this stuff!
anyway...
ugg

 

I have officially titled my book!!!

Okay, so today I decided on a title.  Please welcome to the world of NaNoWriMo noveling, Written in the Stars.  By me.  I am also trying out a new software called Celtx which I'm super excited about.  It's for novels and plays and screenplays.  I'll be taking an online class at my college called "Intro to Creative Writing for Stage and Screen" next semester, so this might come in handy... especially if I do Script Frenzy... which I'm still debating.  But I definitely can't wait until next November for NaNo again, so I'll see you at Camp NaNo!  (Yes, the story of Calista cannot wait until November.  I've decided she's blind, so the new title is "Beauty is Blind" should be interesting since I love first person...hmm)
I printed out a copy of my manuscript today- all 134 pages of it.  Single spaced, back to back.  It's still huge.  It's awesome.  I started editing and found a few mistakes.  Word drives me nuts because it's all like didn't' when I type didnt' which is annoying because of the autocorrect... so I've got to fix that...

Okay, moving on.  Happy December!  My birthday is 8 days away!  YAY!  Anyway, last year my little brother and I did a duet of "When Christmas Comes to Town" from The Polar Express.  I'm going to try to embed the youtube here.  However, should this fail to work, here's the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FGE_Cm3IcA

Anyway, consider this your early Christmas present.  I'm working on a few videos now that NaNo is over and I'll be posting stuff on my youtube of me singing in preparation for the auditions for the musical in February.  Which is the Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast... my favorite fairy tale, if you can't tell...

okay... I'm going to go and practice "There's been a Change in Me"  so that I can post it as soon as possible.
:D