Happy Thanksgiving!!

Here I sit, typing away at my NaNoWriMo story (which will only probably make 30k this year...) thinking about Thanksgiving.  What am I grateful for?
Everything.
No, that sounds cheesy.  But it's true. I'm grateful for everything that God gives me, everything He's placed in my path to get me to where I am, all the people and experiences, whether they be good or bad. Because they are all from Him and all have helped me grow in Him.

Taking a pause to look at the year and all that's happened....the past few weeks have been tough on my family...we're going through some pet problems and have been kinda down in the dumps lately.

Today is the day before Thanksgiving.  That means my dad took off work, we're cleaning the house like crazy, decorating, setting the table, cooking, baking, the house is full of stress and craziness, we're running around and being all around busy.  Except for this moment, where my sister and dad are taking the dogs to get groomed, my mom and I just came back from the store, and she's resting.

So, while I have a break, and am sitting here gazing at my lovely Christmas tree and listening to Christmas music on the radio....I want to pinpoint a few things I am most grateful for.

1. Jesus
He's saved me, made me born again and loves me unconditionally, when all else fails, He's there for me.
2. My family
So time's are tough, we have to say goodbye when we don't want to, but we're still together, and that's what counts, right?
3.  My friends
What would I do without you guys?  I'd be very very lost and very very lonely. ;) I love you all so much I can't even say. Thank you for being there for me, and for being yourselves!!! I love you all!!!!!!!! XxX
4.  My passions
Whether it be Viola, writing, dance, Literature, or fandoms, I'm grateful for all the things that set my soul alight with excitement! :)

I have so much more I am grateful for....but right now I have a kitchen to clean and food to help prepare. ;)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! Here are a few pictures of my Christmas tree!!!! I ended up getting a white one, which I tumblrfied. ;)

Note the TARDIS lights ;)

Sherlock and fangirling all in one. ;)

Told 'ya I'm a Bond girl ;)

Not only am I protected from Demons with my Supernatural ornament, but Yoda reminds me that I only live once. ;) LOL!!

My Loki ornament. XD Oh Loki. ;)

Charlie the Unicorn ornament!!!! "We gotta be sneaky Charlliiieeee SNEAKKYYYYYYY" ;)

Clintasha ornament!!!!!! :D MY SHIP!!!

CAAARRRRRRRLLLLLLL YOU'RE AN ORNAMENT!

Rory the Roman!!! Now that's a title! ;)

Got this in the mail today from Autumn. <3 awesome.="awesome." nbsp="nbsp" p="p" s="s" she="she">

Merry Christmas and have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!! Tis the Season to give thanks and be merry!! ;)

Love,

Grace xoxo

Tis the Season!

:O CHRISTMAS IS IN THE AIR!!!!!
Already.
Wow...the year has gone SO fast. I can remember blogging about Christmas time and looking forward to all the charity projects...we've already done two of them, one of them we went to tonight! :D
So yeah. Christmas is coming guys!!!! My mom is putting up our tree as I type!!! Glory's decorating her own tree...and my Christmas lights are up and my Michael Buble Christmas CD is in and on repeat! ;D

Happy Holidays friends!!!! :D I'm definitely in the Christmas spirit. So I /do/ have a point to this post...but first....

*throws decorations* LET'S CELEBRATE! ;D

That's my desk. Doesn't it look lovelyyyyy? ;D My bookcase is decorated in similar fashion. XD  

I'v decided my new favorite thing about the holidays is listening to Christmas Radio by Christmas light, writing my novel for NaNoWriMo. ;) It's so peaceful and relaxing and fun. :) 

My FAVORITE Christmas album.

Ok, on to the actual post. XD So my mom said I can get an ACTUAL REAL LIFE ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE for my room this year!!!! ;D The past few years that I've had my own bedroom, I've had very minor decorations.  The lights I've got going on this year are probably teh best I've had for three years. XD I have been reusing the same darn tinsel for my bed headboard for three years. XD Time to refresh, yes?  XD 

So a Christmas tree!!! :D Yay!!! Glory has two of them in her room (one for her and one for her dolls) so it's my turn now!!! :D Mommy said I can pick out a tree from Walmart and decorate it however I want. :D YAY! 

Would you all like to help me decorate? ;D My tree will be fairly small, not quite sure yet just /how/ small though.  I know exactly where I'll put it too!!! :D (considering rearranging my room....hahahahahha maybe not, my mother would /probably/ murder me first. XD with good reason too.)

Anyway....I saw a few ideas I really want to try.....

There's the Tumblr Tree...which I really am considering doing. I get to make all my own ornaments!! :D

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So something like that would be fun, right?  ;D All the fandoms and memes...SO perfect! ;D 

Or this one....

HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE?! xD 

Or maybe I'll do just a normal Christmas tree with pretty classy lights and such. :D

Ashley Tahg (The One To Blame) suggested I get a pretty white tree. :D I like that idea too, quite a lot! :D  We'll see. ;)  I'll be sure to post lots of pictures of my final decorations!!!! :D

Today we decorated Thanksgiving boxes!!! Thanksgiving is NEXT WEEK!! :O I can't believe it!!! SO SOOON!!!!! And I'm really not ready. XD My NaNo novel is NOT gonna make 50k by the 30th at this rate. 

Especially when I'm having battles with alternate personalities over Skype with my friends. O.o

What?

Oh nothing. OK moving on....

I really need to be writing right now. I've got my Christmas lights on, my Michael Buble CD in...and I'm about to turn the wifi off so I can CONCENTRATE. XD

In the meantime, what are you all doing to prepare for the Holidays? :D What traditions do you adn your families share that you're anticipating? What's your favorite Christmas song? I love (almost) all of them. ;D The only two I can't stand are "Christmas Shoes" and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" XD What's your favorites/least favorites? :D Do tell!!!

Comment away....and Merry Christmas!!! :D

xoxo

Grace 

Picturations

Pictures and Inspirations. Picturations (ooooh new word ooooh)

That's some NaNo inspiration. My MC and her love interest. Heh. Heh. Heh. No comment on that bottom picture. XD

me and my mommy *mwah*

A couple of weeks ago, we went to a park. Embie took pictures of me and Glory on the little springy rides. I didn't realize she caught this one....we laughed so hard we were crying. XD My face, is priceless.  I'm so hardcore. *rock on*

My mother is most definitely River Song. ;)

Cute huh?

See Mom, that's the picture I was telling you about. XD

 :3

Me and Autumn, IN COLOR. XD I think I love this chickie a bit too much. ;)

See, you can tell the depths of our affections in this one. XD That was from a KIK messenger convo we had once, me and Autumn.  To say we have a /special/ relationship is putting it mildly. XD

This photo never fails to make me giggle. XD

MY SHIIIIPPPPP *SCREECH*

Thank you Steve Rogers for making my life complete. xoxo

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....in which I thank the Lord for Photoshop :D *spaz flail*

Thank you Lestrade. I know. XD

ahahha *flail*

oh em gee.

You get it?

So accurate it hurts. XD

Never a truer statement. XD

Hey Autumn, look! XD

Pretty much.

Alright, enough procrastinating. :)  All these images can be found on my Pinterest boards. http://pinterest.com/EvansStar/

A few of the pictures are mine...from Instagram. :) 

Enjoy all the Picturations!!! I'm off to write for NaNo and do some school work. :P

Grace ;)

Skyfall

Why not, I'll do a little update. I've got a few things to actually talk about, and not procrastinating things. XD

NaNoWriMo is coming along okay...I really need to keep writing. XD I started editing a different story for something and got distracted...hopefully I'll take all day tomorrow to write and focus on my NaNo story. I can do this!!! :D

Now...the title of this post. Skyfall.  Anyone familiar with the James Bond movies?  I've gotta admit that I'm definitely a Bond Girl now, as my mother told me. XD My brain has been full of 007/MI6/British Intelligence stuff all day. :D
Last night, my dad and I met up with a family friend (and his sons) and we saw the new James Bond film, Skyfall.
It. Was. Awesome.  Seriously, absolutely amazing.  I don't know the other Bond films, I haven't seen them (yet!) and I LOVED that movie. It was fantastic.  The kid next to me hogging the arm rest, the rude teenage girls in front of me talking through the whole movie and the girl on her phone behind me couldn't ruin it. :D Too awesome.

The trailers were awesome by the way, I must say.  They played a Les Mis featurette and I was like flailing and dying all over the place.  Saw Emma Stone and Jamie Alexander in upcoming movies and got very excited, and my favorite preview was when they played the Iron Man 3 trailer. XD
Oh man. I SCREAMED, and then was flailing and freaking out so bad I hit the guy next to me. XD I'm glad I knew who he was at least, so it wasn't terribly awkward (he's one of the sons of family friend guy XD)
Twas hilarious.  And, for the record, I did apologize.
And, the IM3 Trailer looked so gorgeous on the big screen I could not even.

Now, Skyfall.

For someone who doesn't know much about James Bond, I thought it was REALLY well done.  The characters were awesome, well written and very fun to watch.  I automatically liked (LOVED) James Bond himself, and found I liked Eve Monipenny, though I didn't even know her name until the end of the movie! XD

She was really kick butt and awesome. ;D

My three favorite things about Skyfall:

1.  The Accents.  

HELLOOOO BRITISH!!!! I love British things already, so this was just awesome.  I feel like I'm an official pretend-Brit now, having 007 under my belt, along with Sherlock and Doctor Who. XD

2.  Tug-At-Your-Heartstings Moments.

I won't go into detail because I don't want to spoil for anyone who hasn't seen it yet and wants to...but there were a few heartstring tugging moments in there.  I teared up towards the end, I had shock and confusion all over my face in teh beginning, and then a few times in the middle of the movie I had to go "AWWW" and like grabbed at my heart. XD Good stuff, good writing.

3. The Soundtrack.

Oh good GOD THAT WAS GORGEOUS. I was marveling over the soundtrack constantly. I want it NOOOWWWW. I think I shall beg my father to take me to Wal-Mart tomorrow to see if they have it, because I really really really really really want to get it. XD

Warnings:

1.  Language.

It actually didn't bother me too much...but I could see where it would bother some.  There was a bit of language in the film, though it's nothing super bad, I don't think. 

2.  More 'sexy' things. 

There was a bit of suggestive material several times in the movie. XD I didn't mind it, since there was nothing too explicit, but it is in there. 

Can I just say....James Bond is HOT. Even if he's old. XD He's really really hot. I MEAN LOOK AT HIM.

yeah. very nice to look at for almost 3 hours. xD

I've gotta share at least this song, because it's been in my head all day for one, and two, it's just AWESOME!!  :D

  Love Adele, love this song. *presses play for the billionth time*

                   

So yeah, I'm a Bond girl now. ;) I can't wait to see the other James Bond movies....I'm really excited to see them now!! :D Thank you Daddy for taking me with you on guys-night-out to go see Skyfall, it was so awesome I'm still having issues comprehending it. ;D

I highly recommend this movie!!!!

Oh, and for the record, all of you action lovers, there was TONS of it.  The fight scenes were SO COOL. And there were a lot of explosions too. ;) *cough SAVANNA cough*

Pitiful post, I know, but it's like 1:30 and I'm tired. XD  I'm rambling, aren't I? ...yeah, I know. Sorry.

See you all at MI6....
Grace ;)

Hi, I'm Procrastinating, nice to meet you

Hello all!!!
Consider this post a I'm-procrastinating-in-NaNoWriMo-and-a-school-essay post. ;)

I just wanted to pop onto mah little ol' blog and say hai. ;) It's been a week worth of NaNo-ing.  I'm about to hit 10k words, and I don't even feel like I've scratched the surface of this story yet, so I guess that's a good thing.

So I found out today that Instagram has this lovely new thing called a "Web Profile" :D I've been playing with mine all day. XD

If you would like to stalk me on Instagram, but don't have an account, feel free. :) I'd love for you to see all the craziness I post. XD http://instagram.com/marileesunstar

Anyway, while going through my Instagram, I discovered that it's documenting my year in pictures. XD I started posting in late January. I've been taking pictures and updating almost every day since then. XD I have  over 1500 pictures. ;) I've just gone through all of them on that site....I've had a great year.  This year is starting to come to a close...believe it or not.  The Holidays are on their way.

Well how awesome, my summer especially, has been the best ever. I have pictures to document for all of it.  I've met more than a dozen of my internet friends, multiple times in some cases.  I've gone to Star Wars Weekends and Celebration.  I've visited the Keys, I've spent time with Family.  :D It's been great!!!! I'm looking forward to more. :)

BTW I promised Halloween info....so feel free to click on that Instagram link and look at my Halloween pictures. XD My mom was River Song, my dad was The Doctor and Embie and I were both The TARDIS. :) My sister was Merida from Disney Pixar's Brave. ;)

You know what. I think I'm gonna do a picture post. XD I'll work on that next, while I'm procrastinating XD I love pictures, and I want to get into a writery mood. So picture post it is. I'll fill it with both pics I've taken, and stuff from Pinterest. XD

Alright all, thanks for reading!!! May the Force be with you, and count your blessings. ;) Today looking at all those pictures has reminded me to be grateful for every day, because every day is a gift. :)

Love,
Grace