The Lizzie Bennett Diaries. Ep 48

Anyone else obsessed with this show? No, just me?

Before I start typing/talking/rambling about how much I like this show I'll get out of the way the versions I'm familiar with. That would be the book, the Kiera Knightly movie and that's it, I can't get the BBC version OK.

Now onto this episode.

When I read this part in the book I felt like I had fallen from a horse and all the air inside me had been kicked out, I felt bad for Jane & was upset with Mr. Bingley but that was it.
In the movie it was kinda the same, I felt bad for Jane & thought Mr. Bingley was stupid for letting get played so easily, period.
But with TLBD I felt bad, not only did I have that feeling of falling from the horse since last episode but I was so sad for her*, I cried and I'm so angry with Bing I want to jump into a plain, go to LA and kick him and then slap Caroline for good measure. Not just because I know her character but because I can't believe a girl would let her brother play such a douchy move, yes I know it's the way the story goes, but still. Ugh!!

My biggest problem with any book adaptation, besides the changing of lines, is changing the characters personalities and the playing with their emotions, and this show, for me, shows everyones emotions more clearly and in more shades than the book ever did for me.**

To all the team that works in The Lizzie Bennett Diaries, congrats on the amazing job you are all amazing. And to Laura Spencer and Ashley Clements in this episode I'll give you a standing ovation.

Now back to working out, I'm guessing people want to use the bicycle I've been using while I watched the episode and typed this.

*I actually cried which is not something I like to do in public, I'm at the gym you see and I got a lot of weird looks, a coach came by and asked if I had injured myself and all I could do was say: It's just that Bing left and Jane and I just..., never mind. No, I'm fine.
**Feel free to disagree with me, this is just my opinion after all.

Let's try this again.

Today I shall re-launch this blog. 

Why?

1.-I've been having lately a lot of things going around in my mind and I'd like to share them in one go instead of shortening it into 140 characters.

2.-Since I'm jobless at the moment I should* have more time to properly write/explain my ideas.

3.-I need an outlet to express myself, and I'm not sure I want to use tumblr for that.

What can you expect to find here? Not in that order necessarily.

1.-I'm in culinary school, so there may be talk about a Chef I really like, stuff I made at school, projects I have at school. Or my own tries I make for my family or friends to try.

2.-I'm a fittie so if I find an article that talked about a diet** I'll share it. I also like making changes in recipes from my family or school that aren't so healthy and I'll share those here too.

3.-I'm a nerd, I love Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Being Human, John Green, Maureen Johnson, Glee, Lisa Wright DeGroodt, Narnia, The Hunger Games. So if anything relevant to the ones mentioned before (and in some other shows, books, authors I forgot there) happens expect my reactions here. So expect spoilers.

4.-I watch YouTube (big surprise there) and some of the vlogs I see leave me thinking/pondering. So besides the immediate answer I'd left on the video, I'll talk more about it here.

Lastly. I tend to ramble a lot, one of the reasons I don't vlog editing would be the end of me, and I'm hoping to make my rambling as nonexistent as possible though this.

*If school doesn't go all crazy on me.

** I use the word diet in the having a balanced way, I don't believe in cutting out food or starve yourself. I believe in healthy and smart(?) eating.

Weddings, driving, dancing.

Yesterday, Saturday October 29, I had two weddings.

In one my dad's cousin was getting married in Tlayacapan a magical town here in Mexico about an hour an a half away from my house, it's in another state but we live close to the road that takes you there.

In the other one, my old neighbor was getting married in Lomas Verdes, which is NW out of the city, about a 2-3 hour drive from my house depending on traffic. We lived next to each other for over 10 years, he is like my brother, we would all go out on our bikes or when his two cousins Jessie and Erica were there we would watch movies. They are amazing, they were teens that liked spending time with their kids neighbors.

My day went like this:

I woke up at 7 am to get ready* for the 1st wedding, I wore a manta dress, with pink and purple accessories and sandals. It looked really pretty went with the vibe and place of the wedding and my hair was curly, success on my hair products. We stopped about half way through our driving to eat in a quesadillas place that was next to the road.. Didn't like it much, the coffee was cold and instead of serving me a taco they gave me a half order. The food was not bad, but I wasn't happy with it.

The  invite said to be there at 12:30 so we thought the wedding would be at 1 pm, we got there at 11 am ´cause dad was sure the wedding would be at 12:30. We get to the church there was no one and nothing there, the church had no flowers, no one form the family was there. I see a woman that seemed to work for the church, she did, I asked about the wedding it was at 1 pm. With no one there and nothing to do, we headed out to the plaza in front of the church. It was full of people and stands, the people were there mainly for the Chaman gathering that was taking place and the stands were there for the 2011 Feria del Barro (mud? fair). We found a small restaurant and waited there for 1 pm to come, we had some coffee and Cajeta Crepes al Tequila (they were so good)

The wedding started around 1:30. After the wedding ended and the newlyweds stepped out to a shower of withe roses petals, we left to go to the next wedding.

Dad stopped in a gas station about 30 minutes after we left to get some chips, soda and gas. About an hour after that we stopped at a rest stop in the Cuernavaca-Mexico city road to eat, again it was a quesadillas place. Then we continued driving. Once at Mexico City dad stopped in a McDonald's. Mom and I raced to the bathrooms and changed our dresses. Dad did the same to change his suit. The sis was using the same dress. I wore a strapless latte brown dress with black heart shaped spirals.

The dress is so pretty and I look tall and for anyone that knows me it shows how much weight I've lost, and it covered the muffin tops I have. Back to the car in 10 minutes. We did our make-up in the car.

Then we got lost twice trying to get to the church. We got to see the wedding last 15 minutes. Back to the car and to the party. Newlyweds show up, do their first dance and the father-daughter / mother-son dance, cut the cake, everyone to the dance floor for 20 minutes or so until we are told to return to our table to eat.

The entrée were rolls in a weird green sauce. The filling was not mixed properly and the sauce had a ewe texture. Then there was a potato-turnip creme which was nice, followed by pork tenderloins in a gravy sort of sauce with potatoes filled of mash potatoes and a chocolate cake.

After that back to dancing. I danced with my sis, my mom, my dad, my cousins, aunts and uncles**, there were few songs I didn't danced. I was dancing rock and roll with one of my uncles when my sis showed up to dance again with him, he called one of his nephews which I've never met before (which is weird) and sent me to dance with him. He is a good dancer and he kept twirling me so much I got dizzy.

Then all the lights came up and all the music stopped. Cue for everyone to leave and we did.

The day was so amazing. I got to see family and friends that I hadn't seen in years, I danced a lot and got to see two people I care about get married to someone they love.

* Hair, make-up, necklace, perfume, everything.

**The mom of Abraham and her family as kids were neighbors of my mom as a kid, our families have known each other for over 30 years, so we are their neices and they are our aunts, uncles, cousins...

everything is in the tags

Medicine + Dreaming = ?

*Moves boxes* *dusts off* Oh look, my blog!

Hello!
I got sick last week, the doctor* sent me some medicines and told me not to go out**.

This mixture of medicines has given me a series of really weird dreams:

Like being in the Land with Tracy and not being able to help her keep the Balance and Lisa being crossed with me because of it***.

Or some nightmares, like not being aloud into LeakyCon because somehow I had food-poisoned someone. Or being told in school that I had failed all my classes****

But last night I had a really nice and funny dream which I shall tell you right now, because the ones in the dream told me to (not in the dream).

I was at work and I got a text telling me to please answer my phone and to check FB*****, it was signed S-E-N. After freaking out a bit, I check FB and I see that I have a bunch of private messages from the girls asking about my spring brake when it was and stuff, anyway some of this were about 3 weeks old.

While trying to answer them I get a call from an unknown number, it was Erica; she wasn't happy with getting "that recording in Spanish over and over" she wanted to know about my non existent spring brake plans. And she was wondering if I could go pick them up to the airport later that week.
I thought she was kidding, even though she gave me a flight number & everything.

- Then I woke up because my alarm started. I feel asleep again, by then it was Friday in dreamland.-

Friday, second to last day of work before spring brake and I get a phone call from a really annoyed Silvia wanting to know where I was and why I was there. My boos kept laughing at me, apparently my face looked funny and allowed to go to the airport but u had to go back to work.

I called my mom, she yelled at me for not letting her know in time, we went to the airport picked up Erica, Nikki and Silvia and went back to work. They decided to stay there with me, which my mom thanked so she could clean the house******.

My boss and coworkers laughed at me because Pilar (she is in charge of the salty cuisine) wanted me to give them a tour of the school and the girls were in uniform asking stuff and I was trying to explain them in English.

The girls started to get hungry and Pilar said that I should show off my learnt skills, thankfully our vegan chef was there and he helped me make some food.

Then dad went to pick me up after work, he was surprised to see them there, he thought mom was joking about "3 girls showing up in the airport and me not believing my friends".

The girls had plans to visit at least one Mexican beach and some other places, so we ended up asking for a mom's car and decided to make a tour of some of my favorite cities and Old Mystical Towns and visit Puerto Vallarta and Ixtapa.





*Not the one from Gallifrey, she was from Tlalpan.
**Mom was there, so I've been in my house since Sunday, only been out to go to the doctor.
***If you didn't get that reference it means you haven't read the Quest Series, what are you waiting for?! http://www.thequestbooks.com/purchase.html
****I tried saying Ridikulus but Pilar wasn't a bogart.
*****I rarely use/check FB so I'm wouldn't be surprised if something like thus happened.
******Our house is not dirty or messy but mom pretty much want the flora to shine when people visit.

BEDA # 27 Exams

Hello Blog!

This is going to be a short blog. Tomorrow I have Italian exam, and E&S exam.

Tomorrow I start learning how to pick up a tray, how to leave it and how to move around with a trade full of glasses with water. And it is all very stressful, because tomorrow is he day that I have to go all dressed up, with make-up and all. And because today my Hair decided to go for Hermione instead of for Rachel .like it had been doing all week, I'm ironing it again.

I'm not good at ironing so my mom is helping me out, and this is the only 5 minutes I have to blog before I return to studying for my Italian exam.

I hope to have something better and thought out tomorrow.

Days until LeakyConn: 76

Gaston: How can you read this? There's no pictures!

Belle: Well, some people use their imagination.

P.S. I finished Firefly already, but I can't seem to find a decent Serinity link.Could you help me find one?

BEDA # 26 Collections

Hello Blog!

Do you guys collect things? I do, and I collect a lot of different things, below is the order in which I started collecting them.

1. Coins or bills. My grandad collected coins and my mom gave me a small bag that had them, every time thy were going to change the shape or something about a coin he would keep one of the ¨old ones¨ and one of the ¨new ones¨. Now I do the same with coins and bills that change, to that I've also added foreign coins. I have British coins, a Peso from the Philippines, and I also have a collection of the quarters that the US made, the ones that have a state in one of the faces of the coin. I think I'm only missing 5.

2. Postcards. When I was younger we used to drive a lot, and because I didn't have a camera of my own to take pictures at the buildings I wanted and instead I had to be in the picture, so I started buying postcards. I always buy at least 1 postcard wherever I go, this includes theme parks. I always have a hard time just picking 2 at Disney and Universal.

3. Key rings. One of my uncles used to go out on weekends a lot, and he would always bring something from where eve his parties had taken him to my sis and I, he used to bring this funny and awesome key-rings. I was 7 and didn't have keys so I started keeping them in a box. Then I started looking at nice key-rings while looking at the postcards. And so I began my keyring collection. I have some fun ones, a key-shaped one that has one of the coins from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, a dice one from the science museum in London, a friend bought me an Eiffel tower shaped one when she went to Paris, and I had one that my aunt bought me in Alaska that had a small seal, a polar bear, that I lost.

4. Cups. Concerts are expensive and buying at the concert is too, so instead of buying T's that are around the 250 pesos, I buy cups that most of the time have the same print of the shirt for 50-80 pesos. They look really nice in my bookshelf, and if needed could be used by guests as my dad says (but mom always has extra cups or disposable cups, if guest needed them, its quite possible they'd be drunk and could smash it).

5. Pennies. You know those machines at theme parks (most of the time) that print something into the penny and makes it longer? Well those pennies I collect. I've got some from Disney, Knot's Berry Farm and a few from Boston, there was a mall like an hour or so walk away (I realized that when I got back on the 3rd day and the concierge was worried because I looked really red and wanted to know if I felt OK, and then asked why didn't I take the subway) the LeakyCon hotel, and in that park they had a few of those machines that had important buildings. The small bag containing those coins and some cash got lost in the Atlanta airport.

6. Bookmarks. My favorite bookstore-chain in Mexico (called Gandhi) makes bookmarks that have clever/funny lines and some quotes, so I started collecting those, an independent bookstore near my old elementary always had bookmarks that had pictures/scenes of books turned into movies, I have like 8 or so of HP&GoF, my aunts and friends started bringing me bookmarks (instead of postcards) of the places they went. The ones I like the most are a London Eye one that has all the info of it in the back, one a friend brought me from Veracruz that has my name, one I bought from a native in Tajin and ¨Give yourself another page¨ by Gandhi.

Days until LeakyCon: 77

Phineas Nigellus: You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts ... but you cannot deny he's got style....

BEDA # 25 Artiness, kinda

Hello Blog!

Today I ask twitter to choose between 2 topics and twitter choose art. So below are some of the things I've drawn or painted over the last 6 years or so. Most of them are things I saw but only changed the way they were presented on the first place.

One of the things I loved the most about my drawing class was this, painting with dots. I never managed to do this properly with paint but I'm fairly good with fine point markers.




This is the first oil paint I made, we were supposed to paint what we saw in the classroom. My teacher liked that I left the old paint stains that our classroom had, so it was part of that years exhibit.

This one has marble dust, we were experimenting with texture, and I used oil paint.

 

 This I made for LeakyCon '09. I did a lot of this type of fan-art but they were among my school work that my teacher kept.

My first chalk drawing attempt.

And I did this last week.

I don't know if taking the same things to LeakyCon would be good, or if I shouldn't take any fan-art with me at all.

Days unti LeakyCon: 78
Quote: ARE YOU DISRESPECTING THE HOUSE OF COOPER?

P.S. Non of this are hanging or on ¨public display¨. Why? I'm not sure, some of them are not that bad, but they are not on display.