Prince Riddle

JJ, my little brother. Ahh, I love that kid. Anyway, today I took him to see Prince of Persia, a movie he had been dying to see. Well, there's quite a story involved, so...here it is. :)
A couple months back, I took my little sister to the movies. Just me an' her. Naturally, JJ wanted "movie time" too. Fast forward to NOW. I concoct this plan to take him to see Prince of Persia, so I ask my parents. They say "yes" and I decide NOT to tell JJ.

Everybody in the house knows the plan, but JJ.

TODAY: JJ and I are up, lazing around. I get dressed and get ready to head out to return my Library books. The Library, cooly enough, is just across from the movie theater. I make JJ come with me (he wasn't surprised. I often make him come on random trips with me) and ask if he wants to go anywhere afterward. i.e Target, Title wave, Over the Rainbow... He says no and I drive into the Movie theater parking lot.
"Yippee!! Yipeee! Yippee!" he starts shouting. I park and give him a look.
"Yippee! Yipppee!..."
"Dude, what's wrong with you?" I ask. (I am a very loving sister :P)"I'm just stopping in here to see if I can get some tickets in advance. Me and MASK want to watch a movie on Sunday."
He stops. I nearly broke then and there.
"What movie are you going to see?"
"Robin Hood."
"oh. Why do you want to see that?" he asks in disgust.
"'Cause we want too."
I take him in, stating "he cannot stay in the car by himself" and he walks in. I can tell he's disappointed. I order two tickets to see Prince of Persia and give one ticket to him.
He just stares at it.
"What's this for?"
"Here, we might want to sit down. It's going to be..." I look at my watch. "About 50 minutes before the movie starts."
"Are you meeting your peeps here?"
"No. I'm watching a movie with YOU." I'm smiling now. Kind of hysterically.
"Robin Hood?" he asks, his shoulder's slumping. haha. He really doesn't want to see that movie.
"No. Read what's on your ticket."
"'Prince of Persia' - you're going to see this with your friends!" he accuses. "Look, there's four tickets!" he says, pointing at the tear lines where the dude rips it. I roll my eyes.
He made excuses and stuff for the next 10 minutes while I'm dragging him through the food line, getting popcorn and a soda. He canNOT believe that I'm going with HIM. It's kinda sad, actually.
As we sit in the totally deserted movie theater, waiting for it to start, he says: "I won't believe you until the movie starts."
THEN he believes me. :)

Now, what I found funny was the audience. Surprisingly, there were only about 20 people there! Maybe even less!
3 kids. THREE. (not including me)
The rest of the audience was made up of:
Single, older men. (1 pair came together, the rest were totally by themselves.)
Age range: 34-40
Old Couples. Like, old. There were three pairs. Age range: 70-80
And the rest?
Teenage guys. Age range? 18-19. There were about 10 of them.
I was the only girl who wasn't married (and old), or under 5 years old.
Interesting. ...

Anyway, the movie was AWESOME. At first, I had negative thoughts, but it definitely got better as it progressed. It was a LOT like the video game. It was awesome.
Anyway, I won't spoil too much. JJ liked it a lot, so did I. MASK is planning on seeing it....soon. :)

Annndd yeah. There's waay more scheming and fabricating and stuff, but it's too long and complicated to type here. Anyway, he enjoyed it. :)


-A

LOST

Three days ago....LOST ended. I love that show. Future A - listen up. :P Me and S are pretty sad about it, but we understand it had to end. That's what makes it so good. The creators of the show knew that if they tried to drag it out and keep it going that people would loose interest and it'd just get....stupid. They realized this and decided to end it, shocking millions. But it was for the best.

*sigh*

I love that show. I liked how it was so intricate, like a puzzle. I love (but hate) shows that are obvious. "Oh, she's gonna die!" "He killed her!" Stuff like that. LOST wasn't like that...most of the time. :P And I have to say, me and S were pure geniuses at the end. :D
So I guess this is my Ode to Lost. 'Not really sure what an "ode" is, but whatever.
LOST was awesome. Still is. And I will miss it desperately. Dude, I spelled that right! Cool!
As S said to me: "There is nothing for my brain to try and figure out now!" It's driving me crazy. We're still trying to connect stuff, even though it's already connected.

Alright. I'll stop rambling. Since this is mainly for me anyway, and K, since she's been the only one posting...hehe. Sorry K. :)
So yeah. LOST was a phenomenon. An Era. It was just plain....Awesome!
I will miss it.

This is my Good-bye to LOST.


-Amanda

P.s. Just in case you're interested: I cried twice during the Finale. ;)



*Siiiiigh*

T.A.N.

YES! My Tenth Avenue North CD came today!! Just in case the only person I'm talking to right now is my future self, I would like to remind you that you love Tenth Avenue North :) They are just so truthful!
Well, it's another beautiful day! This Friday night MASK got together and had a "The Office" marathon. Results: I adore that show. It's so funny!!!! At least, those were my results, I don't know about everyone. But yeah, we did that and played cards and then on Saturday we went to this HUGE garage sale with trillions of people and got popcorn...and shoes.

QUOTE:
"I really feel like doing a cartwheel..." -K
"Oh, I didn't bring my pocket knife." -A

That was from Hidden Lake round 2, it was very dark outside....

-K

Yeeessss

Ok, I feel like I am in Narnia and suddenly, in like an hour, all the snow melted and it was beautiful Spring. It is the most beautiful day since last summer today and school is out (Hallelujah!) and I am very happy. My computer crashed (again) which kinda made me tense up for a while but I am trying to ignore it. Really hard...I'm kind of failing at that, but overall it is a good day. I am not quite grasping my newly aquired freedom just yet, but I'm sure it will come to me.

-K

MASK is having an Office marathon tomorrow night, I am super excited!!

Round Two

Sooo...this past weekend A and me (K) went back to Hidden Lake with my family, including my older sister and her husband who live in Seattle. So that was super fun. It was a much shorter weekend than last time but still awesome. An old friend of my sister's showed up so that was cool too. School is almost over, only two more days. I am not sure if I can hang on....eeeegh.
-K

Cheeseburger

Today I witnessed something for the first time. You know on some signs, like fast food places, they have letters that slide in and they put like the specials or sales or whatever up there? Well, I saw a really old guy putting the letters into a sign today. I've never seen anyone do it, I mean, of course it's done because they change all the time, but now I have proof.
-K

HIDDEN LAKE 2010!!

WHOOOOO HOOOOO! Mother's Day camping FINALLY came and went, it took forever to come and then went by like that! It was really fun. Me (K), A, and S went down with my mom on Thursday afternoon and M joined us on Friday night- good times. We do this thing where we hide a baseball each year that we all signed, and then we're going to come back someday and dig them all up. It's very exciting.
We stayed up late and slept in a hiked and played and did more camping stuff :) I miss it already. I am so ready for summer it practically hurts!
We've just been discussing friendship and stuff and I am glad to say that we truly are best friends forever, and I have no doubt of that!
-K

Sarah's Surprise

Last Saturday we planned a surprise for Sarah- we packd her a picnic and hid in her closet. Then we took her to Kincaid Park for the day and just hung out. It was really fun, we ate, we talked, we ran...a good start for the summer. We saw a dead moose on the beach (I mean a REALLY dead moose) and lacy pink panties on a random bluff...I really don't want to know how they got there.
We got lost and sunburned but it was totaly worth it, I'd do it again. I took like 200 pictures in that one day!
Then we came back to my house and had dinner (hamburgers and milkshakes) and then went to see Avatar (me and M's first time) for a night showing. I have to say, I loved it!- and Sam Worthington.
So that was a fun day. Uhhh...yeah. It's been a while since then so I don't know what to say.
-K

Nondalton and Kokhanok April 22-25, 2010

So my second mission trip went amazingly well. First, we went to Nondalton for half a day and a night. It's right on the shore of 6 mile lake which is right next to Lake Illiamna. It was probably the most open village acceptance wise. The kids were really friendly and fun, although there were only about 30 in the entire school. Terrance, he was really shy but an amazing artist, was the only senior. I got to help with the 1-2 graders and that's when I met Laci. She was the only blonde girl there, and she was completely native (I think). Anyway, so I helped her make a sock puppet and she read a few stories to me. She didn't really talk much, but then, none of them really did (with the exception of Thelma). On Friday morning she gave me a school picture of herself. It was so heartbreaking when we had to leave.
Kokhanok was the "best" village we went to. I say "best" because it felt like it was the most receiving of mimes and testimonies. Does that make sense? Anywho, it was really fun because on Friday night the school government had a lock in at the school and so we got to play crab soccer and sardines with them. After sardines though, we all got in a circle on the gym floor and told ghost stories. All of our ghost stories were hokey camp fire type ghost stories, but all of theirs were absolutely true. Someone told about their great uncle disappearing and there were many many stories about "the Hairy Man" (basically Sasquach). Never before had we been directly informed of demonic manifestations. We went to bed praying the Psalms that night. The next day was our fun day. We panted faces and had balloons. It was great fun. It was also amazing to see how well our mimes were received. We did Porcelain Heart (which was a mime that we made up to the song by Barlow Girl), Papercut (a dance mimish thing that Victoria Walsh made up. It went perfectly with our demon talk the night before and went really well), and the Champion (which was about how Christ totally demolishes satan and how the demons don't have a chance). It was awesome.
So yeah, pretty much an amazing trip with lots of new friends made! I can't wait to go again.
-M

M Word of the Post
Masterdom- v. acquire complete knowledge or skill in (an accomplishment, technique, or art); gain control of; overcome; make a master copy of (a movie or record).