Flower, gleam and glow
Let your power shine
Make the clock reverse
Bring back what once was mine
Heal what has been hurt
Change the Fates' design
Save what has been lost
Bring back what once was mine
What once was mine...
['Cause] I've got a dream! I've got a dream!
I want to go see all the floating lanterns gleam! ...
It'd be a great shame if you didn't know what that mashup thing just referenced to... We watched Tangled last Friday night, most of it at the park. My mom had never seen it, and my dad only the first half-hour years ago, so I was glad they'd finally watch it, and even more, they really liked it! I was worried about my dad because he likes to complain about Frozen, but apparently the story makes more sense in Tangled to him? I dunno, I just love the songs and the jokes.
And now I also remember my last girl's camp, since our cabin's theme was The Snuggly Duckling and our skit was making a choreography to "I Have a Dream". I think it was one of the funniest out of all the skits, but that could just be me... I don't think I ever mentioned it before.
What I can remember is that I was part of the first verse, where one (or two?) girl(s) acted as a piano and me the pianist. I went so intense during rehearsal my glasses flew off, and in the real performance I almost hit my head. I'm just too much of a rock star. *flips hair back*
The second and third verses I don't remember all that well, besides that there was a girl piggy-backing another on some line about a horse, and on "and lying on enormous piles of money!" everybody did the hand thing where you're... Um, I guess it's like in the "Dolla dolla bills, y'all" gif? Yeah, we all did that.
Then when Rapunzel sings her verse, they went all out with popular dance moves. The girls for that part were nei-nei-ing on the "floating lanterns gleam!" line, and the single whip on the "I'm so glad I left my tower!" will forever be imprinted in my brain.
While one small group from our cabin was performing for a verse, the rest of us were lined up, sitting on the edge of the stage, and when they did the more chorus-y part, we alternated between standing and crouching a bit, thus bopping up and down.
Then the finale was mildly spectacular. We all lined up perpendicular to the edge of the stage and got to one knee, and the girl who was our "Rapunzel" walked on our path of knees to the end in front of the audience, and we all went "Hey!" at the finish of the song.
I wish I remembered it better, cuz then I could tell people about it properly. *sigh*
I wanna officially memorize the Tangled songs, starting with "At Last I See the Light". I already have a few of the lyrics on my iPod from putting them there a few years ago, but I only bothered trying my hand at the song for making her hair glow. I still remembered it all right except one line.
Quick update: I have officially memorized the short version of the first The Law of Ueki opening song, along with all of "Ready Steady Go!" They're pretty drilled in there now. I have some other songs I wanna work on, too, so I'll have to get to them. Probs either "Let It All Out" or "Undo" next.
Oh! Due to the small Talent/No-Talent Show we had on our last day of seminary, I memorized "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan cuz my friends wanted us to all sing it together... but in the end they decided that was too embarrassing and we all did something different. Since it's the best I can do on short notice, I just danced and sung "Tahiti, Tahiti". People looked pretty impressed and surprised, even though I could feel my voice shaking a little bit from nervousness. One of my friends wanted me to give her the words, and so I had first written down the words how I knew them, but she also wanted a translation, so I had to check the Internet. As far as I saw, most of it we were singing right (though maybe putting the spaces between words wrong) but there were some parts we didn't have right. So, I worked on memorizing the correct way to sing it. I sure hope I remember...
Basically, a whole lot of memorizing going on here.
Did you spot how I said last day of seminary? Yep, it was the last week of school. And we didn't do much. My busiest day was Thursday, since we had the final assembly and yearbooks and hanging out outside. I ran around outside for, like, 2 hours, looking for friends to sign my yearbook (this is the first I actually have in a few years, and I wanna make it count!) and asking as many people as possible if they wanted to sign my sister's. As expected, hers ended up with plenty more than mine, but I almost expected even more than that. Huh.
Friday was technically the last day, but I didn't bother because not only were few people gonna be there, but the teachers were gonna be in meetings the entire day, so I couldn't get help on any final concerns I had, like that of my Chemistry grade ending up being an A- even though I had 100% on all the quizzes and assignments, as far as I could tell... I was hoping I wouldn't need to redo a test or something, or at the very least not get my grade entered in yet. It's probably not, but I'm still nervous about if it will indeed be made official before I'm happy with it. I can't expect to get into Stanford for science if everything's straight A's except science!
So I basically had Friday off, which I used to tidy up my final chap for VH and post it. I mean, it was the anniversary of when I put up the first chapter (that surprised me, since I forgot I'd done it when we'd already been in Oregon for a week or so; I remember posting something in my final weeks in Alabama, but that was a one-shot), plus it was (technically) my last day of junior year and of normal high school (as if my second semester this year was normal, but whatever), plus a bunch of authors that I luv and received inspiration from for some parts of VH (especially the alternates) posted something this week. Some of them don't post for months. This was just crazy!!!
So, perfect day to post the final chapter. For reals.
I also had this Monday off due to Memorial's Day, and we used it to go out together. We went to the special effects makeup store (where I got the fake blood for the Halloween costume! I'll need to practice using it sometime soon) and then our favorite restaurant ever, Shanghai Café (awesome food in SLC!).
Anyway, since VH is done, I've been trying to focus more on writing for "An Extra Soul Trapped Yet Saved", which I might shorten to "A Soul Trapped Yet Saved". Yeah, I think it sounds better. I'll probably refer to it as "Astys" around here from now on. I started on a few future scenes, which I usually don't like doing, but I feel like it's better to just let my brain do what it wants so I can develop my character better, and then fill in all the blanks. And I actually have been figuring her out a bit more!
Her name is Rory Madgett, and she was a ginger/redhead 15-year-old before all this stuff happened. She has a rather odd and varied list of interests and hobbies: she likes ballet and martial arts, she likes Drachman stuff (but the interest will get shifted to Xing later), and she likes trying to imitate people's voices. She likes reading novels and such, but things like math and science and trying to write something herself are difficult, so alchemy is just way out there for her, and it takes a long time for her to get the hang of it. She mothers the brothers a bit, but they barely listen to anything she says.
I think that's pretty much it for important personality kinds of things? I noted a few crucial scenes and stuff, but I won't bother with that. I hope I can truly make Rory unique and important in their lives!
Oh no, I forgot to mention! I was finishing up VH while my mom was out with my aunt to buy tickets to a Juan Gabriel concert this October, and they managed to get seats for them, me and my sis, and a friend in a pretty decent spot! So that means I really need to work on my Juanga songs so I can sing along when we're there...
Still reading Spiderman comics.
K, looks like there's two things left on my list. One, we went to Brorange's house today. Turns out their AC isn't really working, and the weather's already over 90 outside constantly. Many funtimes, right? We still got a lot of time to hang out and have fun, so I was willing to deal.
Two, I tried playing my MP3s on my flash drive on our computer, and basically all of them worked! I wasn't sure, since my old phone hasn't wanted to play some... But so all the songs I'd left over from my old phone are there, plus a bunch of others I'd tried to put on. Though it's currently only on my flash drive, I have a huge playlist I can play on our computer when I'm home alone. *little smile*
K, looks like that's everything for now. The summer math program begins tomorrow! Ahh!!! Wish me luck!
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