Monday, August 16, 2010

another manic monday

good morning, or good evening depending on what you consider being awake at 3:02 am, iknow it's late, but ijust felt like posting a new blog, even though ijust posted a new blog 5days ago about my passion, which if you haven't read, is dancing, but that's not what my blog is about today...i'm just sort of, going over my weekend, and just pointing out some of the highlights of what idid, and some things i'm really excited and happy about.

so, friday was basically wasted, because ihad injured my back on thursday after rearranging some DVDs...iknow it sounds kinda silly that iwould injure myself by doing that, but it happens...as of now, i'm still feeling discomfort, but it's not as painful as it was when iwoke up and tried to get out of bed on friday morning...but ispent my friday entirely on the couch....icame downstairs and took some pills, lied down (if that's proper grammar), and watched two of my favorite films...The first was a French film that irecorded on my DVR...it's a film from 1959 called "Les Quatre Cents Coups", or translated "The 400 Blows"...it's a great film, and iwas really excited to watch it again for the first time since isaw it in my middle school french class...the second, which iwill always adore, is Breakfast at Tiffanys...yes, iknow there is a song with that title, but the movie was made WAYYYYY before the song was though of, so I WIN!!!! :)

saturday was alot like friday, in that iwas still in a huge amount of pain, and that ididnt do much...but sunday was great!!! my cousin jamie came to my house from New York with her friend from college, Jackie and my grandma, and of course my grandmother was accompanied by her dog...needless to say, my dog weezy, and her dog santi did not get along...my dog kept growling at her whenever she got too close, which is only because santi, is a strange dog to weezy, and she's never been around santi, but my dad thinks she was just protecting her own..lmfao

anyways, so ialso ended up getting CDs, iknow that is irrelevant, but ijust thought iwould mention it...my cousin Jamie and irocked out to the runaways and gossip, it was a pretty fun time, and we caught up on some of our "thug-life" lessons :) but the reason i'm excited, is because my cousin lent me Cherie Currie's memoir. "Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway". i'm really excited to read this, because irecently just saw The Runaways movie, which imentioned in a past blog, but i'm soooo excited!!!!! anyways, once iread that, i'm definitely going to post a blog sharing my thoughts on the book :)

i'm also kinda bummer though...it's monday, and that's my day of the week that ifeel drags on forever....and today ihave to do the following:

1. go to the dentist b/c ihad one appointment, but it was rescheduled...i'm definitely going to get yelled at because idon't wear my retainers :( kill me now

2. go see a doctor about my back...this might not even happen, it all depends on how my back is feeling when iwake up :/

3. go train my mini me for a tournament...i'm a second degree black belt, and i'm helping afriend's daughter train for a tournament in october...hopefully i'll be able to hdemonstrate something if i'm in good shape


well, that's my blog for today....ithink might do this every monday, but i'm not quite sure yet ;)

i'll write back soon ^_^

xoxo, ree♥

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

my passion :)

namaste :)

so, today, my brother and iwent to go see Step Up 3D..he had already seen it, but ididn't see it yet, so he took me to see it. out of all of the "Step Up" movies, this was my favorite, and the cool part about this movie is that it was shot entirely in 3D. all the special effects were amazing.

now the reason that i'm posting this blog is that in the movie (and iknow this is a MAJOR spoiler), the main character, Luke (such a hottie!!! lmfao), is a dancer who is also into filmmaking, and when the movie begins, we see him interviewing different dancers, and asking them why they dance. this movie made me think about why idance. like isaid in my other dance blog, i've been dancing for 12 years, since iwas 4 1/2. it's something that i've always done, and it's what i'm always going to do. in college iwanna keep dancing. it's just something that i'll never let go of, it's my passion.

now i'm gonna answer Luke's question: why do you dance? well, idance because when ido, i'm in my element. everything feels right, my problems go away, and ijust feel free. idance because it makes me feel happy. and when you see me dance, you get to see me in my true form, & my spirit shines...and ijust feel invincible:)

ok, so now ihave a challenge for all of the dancers that might be reading this. answer Luke's question, why do you dance?

leave a comment below & i'll write again soon


xoxo, ree ♥

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

love....

that one who makes my heart melt, everytime we lock eyes
iwish icould believe him, but instead ihear his constant lies
iknow it would never work, ijust kinda wish that was wrong
my heart is just pacing so fast, it'll explode like a cherry bomb
iwish you could see the world as isee
the one where everything is perfect between you and me
but that world doesn't exist
and so you're up to your old tricks
while ijust sit here and make my wish
that you would be with me♥

and even though you don't know how ifeel
or what i'm going through
ijust want you to know...iloveyou

Monday, August 9, 2010

whatever comes to one's mind early monday morning!!!

namaste everyone!!!

ihope everyone had an amazing weekend..mine was good, even though ididnt do alot, istill had a good weekend..if you live on the east coast by NYC and Philly and Boston like ido, then it's just as late, but for all my west coast readers, its a couple hours earlier, but it's still late..anyways ijust decided to make a little entry before igo to bed, b/c i'm wearing my retainer, and itook nyquil (no clue why, thought it would help with the pain) and aspirin, it still hurts a little, ithink my retainer might not fit, which i'm really fcuking myself over, b/c its my second retainer that i've had made, and i'm gonna have to pay for it if ihave to get a new one, and my mom is gonna be pissed...but hopefully that's not the case...b/c ithink it's a pretty penny to get a new one


anyways, so imade 2 new videos today for my youtube account (oohlalamariaa)..for those of you who don't know, my youtube account first began in may of 2008 with the debut of the Alie & Reea show, and it has since branched out into doing makeup tutorials, tag games, vlogging, and in the very near future, a parody of Laguna Beach!!!!! ifelt so productive today because of the videos iposted...ioriginally made 3 videos, but the first video, which was a 25 random question tag, was removed from youtube, b/c it was too long..my second video was a would you rather tag game, which iwas dilligent about, if you wanna put it that way, b/c ididnt want it to be too long..my third video, which iam most proud of, is my first ever...drum roll please!.....MAKEUP TUTORIAL...AHH!!! i'm so happy that ifinally was able to do one, my digital camera was cooperative with me, so iwas able to make the video and post it...the look that idecided to do is a look for going out to a club or a party or a nighttime outing or something like that..i've used it a few times in the past few weeks and people like it on me, so idecided to do a tutorial for it...iwill do more tutorials soon, and more tag games are gonna be coming up..

so i'm going to post the videos iposted today in this entry..hopefully you enjoy them, and don't forget to comment & subscribe, b/c ineed subscribers!!!!

thanks

xoxo, ree :)

Would You Rather Beauty Tag Game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dM7fNWdmr0

First Makeup Tutorial (Evening/Party/Clubbing Look):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdF1Kev40Tk

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http://www.twitter.com/xxmariaxluvsyou

Saturday, August 7, 2010

vitamin water, ipods, 80s movies, girl power, joan jett, and whatever else comes to mind :)

good evening (told with a vampire accent for comedic effect of course ^_^)

well, its friday, and i'm home with my dog, watching a movie while drinking vitamin water XXX. iwent out for dinner with the family, red robin (YUMMM)...hahah ihad their apple harvest chicken salad, SOOOO GOOD!!! haha. then the family and iwent to walmart. got some essentials ineeded, ya know, bottle of vitamin water, an itunes card ($25, of course), new earphones, a DVD set that had the Teen Wolf movies, and igot some other essentials that ineed not say...there's a red box at the walmart that iwent to, so irented the runaways, so some of this blog is my review or critique, or whatever you wanna call it...basically its what ithought about it.

but before we get into that, igot an itunes card, like isaid before, and igot a bunch of new tunes that ihad been wanting to get (wow, probably bad grammar) for a while...so, this is the list, in the order that igot them from itunes:

1) Mine - Taylor Swift
2) I Like It (feat. Pitbull) - Enrique Iglesias
3) I F****d the DJ - Tila Tequila
4) DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love - Usher
5) The Boys of Fall - Kenny Chesney
6) Round & Round - Selena Gomez
7) If I Had You - Adam Lambert
8) Undo It - Carrie Underwood
9) The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert
10) There Goes My Baby - Usher
11) Our Kind of Love - Lady Antebellum
12) I Never Told You - Colbie Caillat
13) I Wanna Know You - Hannah Montana (yes iknow this is sooo dorky, but ilove the song)
14) Makin' Me Fall In Love Again - Kellie Pickler
15) Red High Heels - Kellie Pickler
16) Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
17) California Paradise - The Runaways
18) Hollywood - The Runaways
19) Everybody In Love - JLS

ok, so you see, ihave a very wide range of music here, from rock to R&B, to country, to pop to rap, ilike all kinds of music ;)

so now, i'm gonna give my critique or review or just basically, my opinion of the movie about "The Runaways" :)

so if you know anything about The Runaways, they were the first All-Girl rock & roll band. it launched the career of Joan Jett, who later became famous for her band "Joan Jett & The Blackhearts", who were famous for their cover of "I Love Rock & Roll", which happens to be, if iwere to ever do karaoke, the one song that iwould have to do!!! lol..anyways, the movie is based on Cherie Currie's memoir "Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway"...Cherie Currie was the band's lead singer from late 1975 to mid-summer of 1977...she joined the band when she was 15, and left before she was 18...anyways, so enough with this playful banter of giving information, on with my review!!!

so ireally enjoyed the movie...Dakota Fanning's portrayal of Cherie Currie was amazing..her performance is transitioning her into bigger, more mature roles. ithink that now she'll be given more adult roles, because ithink that the role of Cherie was a big step for her, and it was her chance to show what she could do, and she pulled it off perfectly.

ialso loved Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett. ididnt really know much about Joan Jett, other than her band, but my cousin, Jamie, told me about her and The Runaways, and ijust love the idea of an All Girl Band during the time that women weren't really able to branch out of the ordinary..this band paved the way for other girl bands...without their influence, you wouldnt have bands like The Donnas, The Gossip, or any other girl groups...but anyways, thats some serious Girl Power

the movie to me, progressed very quickly, it didnt seem like it was 106 minutes, or however long it is...the movie was directed by a woman, so that is some serious GIRL POWER!!! 5 stars for that :) ialso loved how both Joan Jett and Cherie Currie were on the set of the film, and when you compare side by side, Kristen looks soo much like Joan Jett!!! WOAHH ihad to take a double take...anyways, nevertheless, it was a great movie, and now ireally wanna read Cherie's memoir


well, thats all for now, i'll right back soon, byee :)

xoxo, R<3