Currently

Currently Listening:  I've been listening to two different bands lately. Imagine Dragons is one, and Fun. is the other. I really love these two songs particularly, as I've been singing them OBSESSIVELY lately.

Currently Reading:  Not enough. :P I've been rereading the X-Wing series because I LOVE IT SO MUCH and I haven't gotten past Krytos Trap so I'm kinda being a loser there.  Other than that, I just finished reading the update of my good friend Pink's Ahsoka and Anakin FRIENDSHIP story that made me freak out and I highly recommend it: Once a Jedi

Currently Drinking:  Water? I lost my water bottle...I had one that I bought at dance last week and I've been reusing it.  Know what my favorite beverage is right now? Watermelon Juice Cocktail. Don't scoff, it's delicious.

Currently Missing:  Just about all my friends :(  Especially Autumn. It's hitting me that it's been almost a year since I've seen her and I really really really hope that we get to see each other this summer. I miss Savanna too, but I'm really counting down the days until Star Wars Weekends where I'll spend the weekend with her and Stephanie. I miss everyone!!! D:

me and audy D:

Currently Watching:  Doctor Who. Or rather, reruns of Doctor Who. Glory's watching it in the family room while I sit in my room and become a hermit.  I also watched the premiere of Warehouse 13 last night and CAN I JUST SAY THAT I REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVE THAT SHOW AND I WANT EVERYONE TO EXPERIENCE THE AMAZINGNESS THAT IS WAREHOUSE 13 BECAUSE I LOVE IT AND REALLY CANNOT EVEN.

Currently Feeling:  I feel kinda flighty. I've been doing geometry all day long and it's been rainy and blah outside and I JUST WANT TO RUN AROUND OUTSIDE OR SOMETHING OR GO TO A STORE OR DO SOMETHING I CAN'T FOCUS ON ANYTHING RAAWWRR. I'm going crazy!! I've been slap-happy like three times today just from being stir crazy I guess. XD

Currently Writing:  An AU fanfic for my Star Wars AU: ORPAS (Of Rebel Pilots And Starfighters).  I published a very squealy girly cute oneshot I wrote on our ORPAS website if you'd like to see it. The AU story I"m writing is slightly (*COUGH way) more feelsy. XDD Everything goes pretty much downhill for the Klivians after that story. I gave them their one happy moment at least. ORPAS site

Currently Loving:  My red converse, dance, Doctor Who, Avengers, the Star Wars Insider that TLF was featured in (Bantha Tracks!!! EEEEPPP) being a grown up, my cousin Embie, being finished with Math, Lindsey Stirling, Imagine Dragons, the new Her Universe merchandise, and The Clone Wars.

me and Embie over the weekend. No, I'm not driving, just sitting up front XD

Currently Wishing:  That Star Wars Weekends would hurry up and get here!!!! Also that I could see Autumn this summer and possibly get a new cell phone, depending on how much money I save up.  In that case, I wish for more babysitting jobs too!!

Currently Excited:  For Star Wars Weekends. Repetitive much? I'm also REALLY REALLY REALLY excited for Iron Man 3 which comes out this Friday but I'll be seeing it on Sunday!! I'M SO EXCITED MY PEPPERONY FEELS AHHHHH

Currently Stressing:  About the SAT test I'm taking on Saturday (though I think I'll be okay, plus I can repeat the test up to 4 times), my orchestra audition results (won't find out until the end of May! :O) my end of the year orchestra concert that conflicts with my dance dress rehearsal and a bunch of other things that I need to make decisions on. :/

Currently Completed:  This blog post, and also Geometry for the year. Well, I will have (but I haven't yet! Haha River Song quote BOOYAH).  Tomorrow I'll be finishing the last two units of math and take the final, making me officially FINISHED with Geometry for this year!!!!!! THANK GOD.  GOOD RIDDANCE.

Thanks for reading, I have like 5 or 6 blog posts in drafts that I just haven't been pushing myself to finish. :P I'm sorry!!! Will do SOON. Until then, go look at my Tumblr. http://authoressviolist.tumblr.com/

Love,
Grace

Happy Birthday Mom!!

*last birthday post for a while XD*

Hello Sweetie!  Today is my mom's birthday.  Happy birthday, Mom!!

Many of you might know my mom as River Song or Princess Leia from past posts...she is most definitely both.  Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey.

Today we plan on spending time together as a family, we went to work out at the gym (one of her favorite places) and eat lunch at one of Mom's favorite restaurants and tomorrow she and my dad are walking a 5k marathon together and after that we settle in for some Doctor Who! ;) 

LOL Christmas

My mom means everything to me.  Though we /occasionally/ fight or disagree, I love her more than anyone and her opinion is the only one that really matters to me.  I don't necessarily mind what others think of me, or say about me, but my mom's opinion is like crucial to my existence. xD

She's more than just my Mommy, Mom/River is my life-coach, teacher, encourager (even when it feels like nagging) and fellow fangirl.  Though she claims that I don't understand her "feels" (oh the sweet irony) I in fact very much do, and love to talk with her about Doctor Who and Star Wars and everything else that makes our family so uniquely geeky. 

Happy Birthday Mommy!! You already received your gift of my school work, completed ahead of time and my renewed love and inspiration for viola.  I hope that you have a great birthday, I know our Doctor Who premiere night will be fun, and (even though you're scared) I know we'll love it. :)

Hello Benjamin

Mom, you're always there for me, even when I don't want you to be.  This is random, but when you were calming me down when I was panicking over school and SAT tests and geometry last week, you made me feel so amazing, and helped me realize that I'm only learning and that you really are flexible and willing to work with me and not against me.  Not sure why that hit me then, I think I just really needed to hear that from /you/ (since Autumn already told me "chill out it's just school" like seven times the previous night, haha).  So thank you.  Thank you for dedicating your life to teaching me and my sister, thank you for putting yourself on hold for us.  I hope that someday I can become a mom just like you (with slightly less yelling….maybe.)

Here's to celebrating another trip around the sun, Mom. :)  Love you!!! 

Love,

Gracie

P.S. Spoilers!

Happy Birthday Autumn

(sorry for all the birthday posts, but March is apparently a very busy month for birthdays!! Two of my best friends and my mom have a birthday this month, and both of my grandparents!! LOL)

So today is my bestie/bby Autumn's birthday. :) She's (OLD) 17 AND ALL GROWN UP *SOBS*

Autumn, I think it's clear that it'd be hard to say how much I really really really love you and how close our relationship is.

*ow feels*

Even though I've only known you for like 2 years, you and I talk literally every day and we're closer than friends (WE'RE SOULMATES LOLOL).

So I can't really talk about how much you mean to me, because I'll get all teary eyed and start getting all sappy and crying and I'll just save that for Skype. XD  Instead I'll put some videos. >:D

T.T 

THESE VIDEOS ARE GIVING ME MAJOR FEELINGS. :'D I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AUDYYYY. *HUGGLES*

Seeing those songs pretty much sum up our friendship....I'll end that there and rant about how much I love you on Skype. ;)  Happy Birthday bby, hope it's a great one. Here's to many more together!! :D

Love,

Gracie 

 

Happy Birthday, Ashley-Tara!

Today is my best friend and sister Ashley-Tara's birthday! :) Happy birthday, sissie!!! I love you to death!!!  I don't know what I'd do without you. ;) ♥

I hope you have the most fantastic birthday dearest sister, I love you!!!!!

Definitely one of the best days of my life was getting to meet you in person, and seeing Avengers together!!! :) That was so much fun, I can't wait to see you again, hopefully someday soon!

Ashley and I are writing partners, I tell her all my ideas and show her my writing, and she does the same with me. We write fanfic together, especially our favorite Star Wars AU we've created with our good friend Elizabeth, called ORPAS (Of Rebel Pilots And Starfighters).

Our friendship is a lot like that of our characters, Fallon and Tara. ;) And I hope it stays that way forever!! ♥

Seeing I don't want to get all sappy (I can save that for Skype), Ashley, I love you so much, I'm so blessed to call you my best friend, and thank you for all the fun times.  Happy birthday, girl.  Happy SWEET SIXTEEN OMGSH *FLINE*. ;) 

*SOBBING TACKLE HUGS*  ♥♥♥♥♥♥

Love forever,
Gracie ♥

Random Things

I feel like posting random things, so here, see some things I wanted to share. ;)

I was Her Universe's Fangirl of the Day!!!! :D See my post HERE  I was the FIRST one!!! :O The first girl who was nominated and not one of the writers. ;)

I'm the 10% of people who's toenail grows back after having the permanent surgery. :P

Because of being the 10%, I had BOTH sides of my toenail fixed....*CRINGE* Toe surgery is my LEAST favorite feeling EVEEERRR. It hurt so much! :P I wrote "TCW" on my toe, because The Clone Wars hurts as much as toe surgery. >.>

That's my purple dinosaur. His name is Jawn. And he's adorable. And I got him a few weeks ago at dance. Or rather, we bought rubber dinosaurs instead of buying food for dinner. WORTH IT.

Good quality photos of me, taken today. XD I'm like in love with these pictures. The quality alone is perfecttttt. The top picture has my wrists in it, where I wrote "Sigh No More" (from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing) and I'm wearing my rubber bracelet that has TLF and HU colors in it. ;) My other wrist has my Her Universe bracelet and my friendship bracelet that Pink made me and put on me at CVI (I haven't taken it off XD)

i made this thing

OH LOOK WAREHOUSE 13 FEELS OUCH. ASFKDLAJDSLKFASHFKALSKFAASFKAS;L
Warehouse 13 is amazing and I cannot with THESE FEELS. *SOBS*
My favorite characters are Claudia Donovan and Steve Jinks. I DO NOT SHIP THEM. I actually don't ship ANYONE in this show. IT'S ALL FRIENDSHIP FEELS AND I CANNOT HANDLE THEM. ASKLDJFA;KLSDJFASS
That whole photoset makes me cry. XDD I love the friendships in this showwwwww. *SCREAMS*

That's from Grease (if you didn't know that you probably live under a rock XD) and it's the song I'm doing for Jazz with my 5-6 year olds. XD They're SO cute doing it. ;)

......I am.

And now you're sad. (WHOVIAN FEELS)

......yeah.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE VIDEO EVER IN THE HISTORY OF /EVER/

New Favorite Song:  

Much Ado About Nothing is my new favorite book, and when I found this song, my life was made. XD 

I didn't know how great of a singer David Tennant was until now. ;D EEEEEHHPPP!!!!!

I memorized that song.

Okay, so my random post is done!! :D Hope you all enjoyed me being in a random posty mood!! ;) 

xoxo,

Grace :)

Ended, The Clone War Has

(cliche title.../everyone/ has been using that one...sorry....I had to.)

The Clone Wars is over.
......
Cancelled.
Done.
Forever.
No more waking up early on Saturday mornings to watch the new episodes. No more panels at conventions, no more screaming at people over it on TLF or Skype or Twitter. NO MORE.
.........

Get ready for a really emotional/sobby post about The Clone Wars, what it means to me, and how much it's impacted my life, why I'll miss it so much....shoot....crying already....nopenopenope.

So Monday REALLY stunk for me (and my family). First, I went to the dentist and found out I had a cavity and wasn't pleased about it, and was in a bad mood because of it, and when I got home and logged onto Twitter, I saw that the internet had EXPLODED because of this article released on starwars.com

I read the article hurriedly (three times to catch all the details) and then watched the video. Almost as soon as Dave Filoni started explaining what was going on with TCW and that it was "winding down", I started crying.  A lot. Then I ran from my room, (crying hard, mind you) and told my mom and sister that The Clone Wars (our favorite TV show, aside from Doctor Who) was cancelled. Glory's face twisted up with upset, and she ran into her room, closed the door, and laid on her floor and cried. :'(

This is why it hurt so much.  Without TCW, my family wouldn't be Star Wars fans. I wouldn't have met Savanna, or Autumn, or Ashley, or started Lakehouse, or met any of my other friends, or have gone to Star Wars Weekends, or Celebration or ANYTHING. It wouldn't have happened. I wouldn't be a Doctor Who fan, or a Warehouse 13 fan, or ATLA or Korra or Sherlock or Avengers or Marvel or ANYTHINGGGGG. NONE OF IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

My sister was six when she saw The Clone Wars movie in theaters. For a little kid, that was awesome and a huge deal, she loved it and started watching the series as it aired on Cartoon Network.  She eventually decided she needed to see the other Star Wars movies, which I purchased for her, and you know the rest of the story.  Anyways...The Clone Wars really got me into Star Wars even more than the OT did, because it was so constant and something to look forward to every week.

Because of The Clone Wars, Ashley Eckstein became part of the Star Wars community and because of Ashley Eckstein I felt confident in being a fangirl and embraced who I was and because of that I met my best friends on the planet and made so many amazing friends and created a website for fangirls and started writing fanfiction and then discovered how much I love to write and how it's my passion and now I sit before you staring at my computer with tears in my eyes because I didn't realize how big of a deal The Clone Wars was to me until it's GONE.

I think that in this time of mourning for our favorite TV show...the finale's 'fortune cookie' was really important. I'm clinging to this TCW-ism for dear life.

Because come on guys....I'M SAD.  I talked with Savanna on the phone on Tuesday after the news was released and we both were reminiscing and being sad, and she said "I never realized how much I cared about this show until now."
And that is so true, because until that last finale episode, I was just really "meh" about TCW for a while there. I'd still tune in EVERY EPISODE no matter what, and I love it dearly, but it didn't hit me until Ahsoka walked away from the Jedi Order that I HAVE GROWN UP WITH THIS SHOW. MY AWKWARD PRE-TEEN/TEENAGER STAGE HAS BEEN SPENT WATCHING AHSOKA GROW UP AND MATURE AS WELL AND I'VE LOOKED UP TO HER WITHOUT REALLY REALIZING IT AND SEEING HER RELATIONSHIP WITH ANAKIN JUST MADE ME HURT AND NOW
IT'S
FREAKING
OVER.
:'(

So now the question becomes, what now?
Lucasfilm promises a 'new show is in the works', but to be honest, I really am not too pleased with Lucasfilm/Disney right now. XD I wanted The Clone Wars to continue, at least FINISH the story. I'd be okay with the show ending, if it weren't so abrupt and out of the blue. :( Like, the CAST only had a week of notice before this was released to the public. How horrible is that?!

First Satine, now Ahsoka, and now the whole show. Clone Wars....you're breaking my heart!!!

Trying to be positive.......The Clone Wars cast and crew are some of the most amazing and awesome people EVER and I love them all. :) They've impacted MY LIFE so much, and I know they've impacted others as well.  I'll really miss The Clone Wars...everything about it, and all the actors.  I hope they'll still do events and things, because I really really really love them.

in which a tweet made me cry

I really can't take too much more of this post. It's too final and making me so sad. XD I can't comprehend this....The Clone Wars is seriously my favorite TV show. I love Doctor Who, I love Warehouse 13, I love Sherlock, I love Legend of Korra, but The Clone Wars WAS MY FIRST. My first TV-show fandom, it was such a huge part of my life. It still is!

I'm glad to know that the show isn't COMPLETELY over. I hold hope that we'll get to see some promised arcs, and hopefully get to see where Ahsoka's story is finished. :)

I am just rambling now, and I really can't think when I'm this sad XD So you know what? Here, go listen to me talk about it. I was on the Tosche Station podcast last night, and I think I voiced everything decently on there. I talked about Ahsoka leaving, discussed theories, and more. :) I had fun talking with my friends Nanci and Brian, and I really loved talking about The Clone Wars. :D  Let me know what you think, if you listened! ;)

CLICK HERE TO HEAR ME TALK ABOUT MY FEELINGS

That's all I've got guys. I'm out of emotional stability for the night. xDD If you want to be even more depressed (haha, not really) go read some of my fanfics. I wrote 3 TCW ones recently, and I'm enduring an extremely painful back and forth battle between my fangirl friends Pink and Shelby. (Thanks guys. This only hurts A WHOLE FREAKING LOT)

His Fault (first oneshot)
Thank You, Ahsoka (second oneshot...my favorite)
Anonymous (third oneshot....friendship feels all around!)

i made a thing

Enough, enough already! I'm done with these feels! xD

Very, very, depressed blogger....signing off.

Love,

Grace *hugs to the mourning TCW fans*