Masquerade! Paper faces on parade...Masquerade!

Those iconic lyrics are from "Masquerade" from The Phantom of the Opera.  I'm working on a a scene in a book, and there's a masquerade involved.  I've got to choose what the main character's mask looks like, and I thought, "Why don't I ask my blog-readers?"  So, I am. :) The options are below, the poll to the right.  Please vote!  Your mask choice will also help me determine her dress because they've got to coordinate.

Option #1:

Option #2:

Option #3:

Fashion

Have any of you seen this the ABC Family TV show, Jane by Design?  I have, and it's pretty good.  There's some objectionable content, but I love all the fashion.  Recently, I hopped on ABC Family's website and found out they had an album of all of Jane's outfits.  I practically went "Squee!", haha.  Just wanted to show you a couple of my favorites. ;)

What I like about this outfit: It's basically an LBD (Little Black Dress) with a twist. It's got a vintage-y look, and Jane's necklace livens up the simple top.

That dress... O.O Gorgeousness wrapped in retro-chic.  I would wear that, if it came in my size.  Not sure where, but I'd definitely wear it, haha.

If I wasn't so darn tiny (barely out of kids' sizes, to my chagrin), this is similar to what I'd love to wear every time I go out in public.  Dark-wash jeans, a classy blouse, and probably some amazing high-heeled boots.  Epicness. <3

My Secret

I kept a secret from most of you.  I kept most of you thinking I didn't have my iPad yet.  Well, Friday, I got it.  At Best Buy (so it's not engraved).  It's white.  And I got the pink polyurthane (sp?) cover for it.  I've been loving every minute of having my iPad.  My mom says I'm obsessed,and it's detracting from my schoolwork, but I beg to differ.  I got schoolwork done before she got up this morning, plus French assignments and the remaining biology questions from the current chapter.  Who's to say I'm not keeping up? (Well, keeping it up when I'm behind already from other factors...)

Poll

Please vote in the poll appearing shortly!  It is tres important.  I'm going to be getting my iPad soon (since the iPad 2's are on sale), and I might possibly be getting it from the Apple website.  If I go with that option, I can get something engraved on the back for free.  So, I want your help deciding what to put on the back.  You can choose one of these three options.

Option 1) "Fashions fade, but style is eternal."~Yves St. Laurent

Option 2) I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth.~Job 19:25

Option 3) "No one can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books."~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The poll will be up through the weekend.  My parents are making me wait until next week to get it. :P

New Book

I'm getting very excited because tomorrow is the release of the new 39 Clues book!  The Dead of Night, it's called.  The problem is, my mom is working tomorrow, so she can't take me to get it, and her schedule wouldn't work for her to pick the book up for me.  So I have to wait until Friday. :P At least four days isn't as bad of a wait as six months.  Yup, that's how long they're making us wait for book 4.  I think that's outrageous.  The first book in the new 39 Clues series (Cahills vs. Vespers) came out in August.  The second, December.  This one, March.  Those are only about three months apart each.  So why a six month wait for the next book?  I'll bet they're trying to stretch the series out as long as possible.  Blasted marketing tricks.

In other news, who's getting excited for....The Hunger Games?

First Post of March!

Happy March to y'all!  My BFFE's b-day is coming up this month, and I still have to find a gift for her.  I have a few weeks still.  But as a special treat, here is the last book in Juliette's series! 

Poll Results

Okay, so, Charlotte, Luke, and Nicholas (Nick) were the winners of the poll.  However, I decided to go with Blair for my main character's name.  I randomly found a connection with it.  Eventually, I'm going to have another poll about them (and it's an important one).  Y'all better make the right decision on this poll!

In other news, I'll be posting Night Black & Snow White soon for y'all. ;) I think it's gonna be a good one.  For now, though, I'll be leaving off the epilogue.  You'll learn why soon enough.

Leap Day

Since it's Leap Day, I decided I would do something special.  I'll finally tell you the story Chuck told us!

All right, so he was a teen in the 1960s.  He started high school and was late to his homeroom on the very first day (because of bullies).  When he walked in, he immediately saw this girl, and he claims his jaw just dropped.  He was instantly in love.  So, Chuck obsessively tried to woo this girl.  He sang to her at lunch, he found out her schedule so he could "stalk" her (stalking wasn't illegal back then), and he constantly asked her out.  It took about two years, but she finally said yes.  They dated for a bit, and one day, when they were standing on his front porch, she told him she wanted to break up.  He couldn't understand why, so, as she was walking away, he said, "If you break up with me, I'll..."  And she turned around and said, "You'll do what?" "I'll kill myself!" was his response.  She just rolled her eyes and walked away.  Just at that moment, a car started coming down the street.  Chuck decided to make it look as if he'd gotten hit by the car.  But his timing was completely off, so he ended up face-planting on the front windshield.  The driver slammed on the brakes, and Chuck went flying.  The girl didn't even come help him.  But you wanna know something?  That girl is now his wife.

Of course, I can't tell it quite like Chuck did.  I condensed it a bit, and just the facial expressions and stuff that Chuck added made it twice as funny.

Character Poll

So I'll be giving y'all book 4 to read soon!  But while you're waiting, I need you to vote on a new poll or two.  It's for a new story. ;) BTW, there are three polls, so please make sure to vote in all three!

Oh, yes, and Amy, I have lost your e-mail address and need to contact you again.  If you still have mine, e-mail me, or you can post a comment here with your e-mail address. ;) (I won't post the comment, of course.)

Biology Paper

So, as my little bio says, I like writing anything, even papers for school.  Well, right now I'm working on a 20-page biology paper.  It's due in mid-April, with the rough draft due mid-March.  That means I have about 3 weeks left to work on it, and I have about 11 pages to write still (approximately 11 pages, since we can have up to three pages of pictures, drawings, charts, and graphs).  We could do two topics in the same paper, so I'm doing domestic cats and Eurasian lynxes. (I'm hoping, however, that I'll only be doing domestic cats because it would be awkward to have, say, 14 pages on domestic cats and only 3-5 on Eurasian lynxes, LOL.)  Anyways, right now I should be working on the section about a cat's health; instead, I'm going back and working on the section about genetics.  I found a good book on domestic cats at the library, and inside it, it has a chart on short-haired and long-haired genes.  I decided to include that in my report, along with Punnett squares (for those of you who don't know what those are, they are a square divided into four mini squares that can often determine the genes for if a certain species has four offspring).  I am not a big genetics studier.  For the most part, it bores me.  But doing those Punnett squares and figuring out the recessiveness of the long-haired fur gene in cats was so cool!  I think my biology teacher is going to love that I could get so excited about something like this.

Oh, and don't think I've forgotten about the story about the speaker at the retreat. ;) I'll tell it sometime this weekend.