Perfection.

Jive Week

It has begun.
And of course... along with Jive Week it has to be finals week.  Oh swell.
Goodbye sleep.

And just for funsies...
Here's a picture of me about to kiss Niall Horan.

#badediting

#whocares

#yolo

A Not-So-Memorable Christmas

Maybe it's because it didn't feel like Christmas.

Yeah, that's probably it.

But I also didn't get what I wanted the most.  An iPhone.  Or at least a new phone.

...Actually, please ignore that last sentence.  I sound like an ungrateful turd.  All complaining about my Christmas because I didn't get a phone.  That's so stupid.

I did, however, get an electric piano keyboard!  As in it's MINE!  :D  It's so exciting!  I love music.  And now I have my OWN keyboard.  When I go to college I won't have to go to a church building to play the piano, I can play in my own dorm!

And I got a One Direction toothbrush.  YES.  But I'm not going to use it.  That's like blasphemy or something.  If I use it, then I will eventually have to throw it out because it will get gross.  So for now, it's just for decoration and admiration.

Also, I got ties.  For Tie Tuesday.  Whaddup.

A Week Away, Yet Already Here

Take Me Home

-One Direction-

I have been looking forward to this album for... well, since their first album came out.
And it's here!

Well... not officially.

But I can listen to it.

And I have been listening to it.

And you should too.

And that's all that matters.

~~~

Thank goodness for iTunes and it's free streaming previews of entire albums.  I don't know what I would do without it.  (Actually I do know... I would wait another week and then buy the album.  But I prefer the listen for free before buying it way.)

Today Will Be Better

So, I didn't specifically wait until midnight to watch this... but I did!  And so it was a great start to my Friday. :)  I'm really hoping today is better than yesterday.  By bushels and bushels.

Another 1D Parody

They're salmon!

Happy Birthday One Direction!

Two years ago today.

At 8:22 PM.

One Direction was formed.

You may think... so what?  That doesn't affect your life that much.

But it really does.

I love them.

I love their music.

Fangirling over them has definitely changed my life.

Yeah, maybe for the worst.

But whatever.

I love them!

They inspire me. :)

My dreams are bigger.

And I feel like they are reachable too!

Happy birthday!

What better way to celebrate their birthday than to listen to their first song over and over and over again?
And sing it at the top of my lungs all over my house.

And when What Makes You Beautiful comes on the radio I have absolutely no choice but to turn it up all the way (which is loud in my car), roll down the windows, sing at the top of my lungs, and ignore the complaints of my eight year-old sister in the back seat.

I love my boys.

My creys. :'(

I'm so proud of them!

♥

Remember...

...When I posted about SoundCloud and was upset about how I couldn't post sound clips onto Facebook or Blogger?  Well... I can.  I just hadn't figured it out yet!  But here you go! :D

This is one of my favorite audio discoveries of SoundCloud. :)

A 1D Post

Fangirling.  Over One Direction.  A lot.  So sorry.  And here's a long 1D rant/happy-not-ranting post. :)

But yeah.  So... last night Liam was going to do another Twitcam.  And I was like WHAT?!?!?  It was so exciting!  I've never been on the computer during his Twitcams before!  #EXCITEMENT!  But... (as Liam would say) "Twitch" wasn't working.  :(  So I didn't even get to watch it anyway. :( :(  Poo.  But sweet Liam decided to go on a Twitter following spree to make up for it!  :D  But of course, just going down his  followers list he only followed his most recent followers.  Which doesn't include me. :(  But I don't mind because he is just the sweetest guy. :)

And also... I BOUGHT THE 1D BOOK!!!! :D :D  Dare to Dream  I love it.  It's so perf!  While reading it I feel like all the boys are by best friends.  Which actually kinda makes me sad because I realize that they aren't. :(  But it's still super great.

Oh!  And when I bought the book at Target I was skimming through 1D related magazines... and I saw the cover of one that had this picture... so I had to criticize it.  Please don't judge me for judging the stupid magazine.

In another 1D magazine (or it may have been the same one... I wasn't paying close enough attention) it said that Zayn had the best butt.  Now, I'm not saying that there is anything WRONG with Zayn's butt.. but (heh, I said butt but) Louis butt is DEFINITELY the best.  No discussion.  And it said Niall had the best eyes.  I agree that Niall's eyes are insanely gorgeous.

...But I prefer Harry's.  And I think quite a few Directioners agree.

I mean. Seriously.  They're a mixture of green, gray, and gorgeous.

But honestly Niall's eyes are incredible as well.  I just can't choose between the two.

Nevermind magazine.  I'm sorry for getting angry at you.  It must have been difficult to choose between two such flawless creatures.

Oh.  And I'm angry at 1D's management.  For releasing their Tumblr.  Now everyone knows about the directioners of Tumblr.  No.  It was our secret!  Ughh.  Now all the little Facebookers are gonna come and have no idea what's going on.  *Tsk tsk tsk*

 I wish I could meet them.  Just once.  So badly.  My goal is to meet them someday.  No matter what it takes.  I will.  ...I hope. :/

♫

Saw this at Welch's during my piano recital.

I didn't buy it.  (It was too simple.)

But I wanted to document that I saw it. :D

Tomorrow

Tomorrow my boys will be recording new music.

YES.

Am I going to be able to pay attention in school tomorrow?

NO.

Am I incredibly disappointed at the great amount of time

between them recording and releasing their new album?

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HECK YES!

But I shall be

patient.

Deep breaths.  In and out.  You can wait, Elizabeth.  I promise.

A song that WAS my favorite.

Don't you just love the moment when your favorite song that was known to only you begins to be played on the radio, and then becomes overplayed, and then everyone knows it an sings it repeatedly?

Yeah.  I hate it.

And that's what happened to me with "What Makes You Beautiful."  I still like the song... just not nearly as much.  But I really enjoy "Your Maths Skills are Terrible."

I also like this parody a lot.  It's kinda inappropriate...
But I like it anyway because it's so accurate and hilarious!  :D

Niall is the Real Deal

...So, I know swearing is bad and completely unattractive.  But in this video it is just too darn cute.  I feel like a bad person because I just repeatedly watched 0:14-0:19 like twenty times because it's so great.  Niall Horan you little Irish man... you need to not be attractive when you swear.  It's bad.  Please stop.  That is all.

**BitterSweet**

Bitter

Not getting much sleep and having to wake up at 4:30.

Feeling horribly sick at 3 in the morning.

Sweet

Swimming in the morning with Hailey. :)

Bitter

Being sore after not swimming since swim season ended at the beginning of November.

Sweet

Getting ready in the pool locker room while rocking out to One Direction.

Taking pictures in the pool locker room mirror.

(I swear it's a fun house mirror because it always makes me look skinnier than I really am.) 

Bitter

School.

Sweet

Seeing all of my friends.

Finally buying a guitar capo.

Totally winning epically at the duet Kiefer and I are going to try out with for Jive Night.

Selling 15 Jive tickets. :)

Bitter

Family Home Evening with grumpy parents.

Sweet

Strawberry Shortcake.

The SWEET outweighs the BITTER.

It was definitely a good day. :)

A Mixture of Anger and Pride

My boys! :'(

One Direction are my love.

(See what I did there? ;) Notice how even though it's a collective noun

I acted like it was plural and said "are"? Well... that's what the Brits do.

And I'm a wanna be Brit.  So that's how I do it now.)

They were mine.  And all mine.  And only mine.  I knew about them back in October! (All my Tumblr Directioner friends are the only people I wanted to share them with.)

But then... THIS SONG became popular.  I love it... but not when everyone ELSE loves it too!

I dislike sharing.

Now there are a bunch of stupid lame Directionators who think they are true fans.  That don't even know their names.  Or how to spell or pronounce them.  Or they don't know the importance of

-Turtles

-Spoons

-Nandos

-VASHAPPNIN'

-Larry Stylinson

-Paul

-Kevin

-"NO! Jimmy protested."

-Giant Baby Grows

...or many other things that only TRUE One Direction fans would understand.

I'm obviously quite possessive of them.

As Louis would say... "[THEY'RE] MINE!"

(Except he would have said "she's" (in reference to Mary, of course) in place of "they're".

They are my boys.  Back off you wannabes.

~~~

Okay, my rant is over.

Now I just want to show my love and pride.

I am so proud that they are finally being recognized for how great they are.

CONGRATULATIONS! :D

I wish...

• He would notice me the same way I notice him.
• I can go to Disney World over the summer and participate in The American Idol Experience.
• I'll be able to go to a One Direction concert and meet them.
• The Hunger Games midnight premiere will be worth the $10 and the wait.

Liam! :D

Not Quite a Directioner.

So... You may or may not have heard of this band.  They're called One Direction.  I have known about them for months.  They are a British boy band of teenage heart-throbs.  I love them.  I will marry every single one of them.  They sing like angels.

Elevator Goes Up...

Wow, this week has been intense. Good and bad. Up and down. I've been physically and emotionally exhausted, completely hyper and insane, calm and peaceful. Am I bipolar? ...I don't think so... just a teenage girl with a lot going on. I think I'm gonna mix things up a bit. Instead of writing paragraph after paragraph of what's going on in my life I think I'll just do an "ABC's of the Week" sorta thing. So here it goes!

-A is for Allergies. Ughh. I have never in my life had allergies until the beginning of this summer. Now I constantly get itchy eyes and I sneeze all the time! I hate it! And at our swim team spaghetti feed Friday night my allergies were horrible. My eyes were bright red and really puffy. People said I looked like I was going to die. I believed it because I felt like I was going to die. My eyes are still kinda puffy, but they are mostly better.

-B is for Bobby pins. Okay, so, funny story: I had this substitute teacher in English. One girl walked into the class and said "Does anyone have a bobby pin?" The sub said "Bobby pin? Honey, they don't sell those anymore!" Apparently bobby pins were very popular like 60 years ago, and they used them to curl hair. The substitute demonstrated how they did it on my hair. It was slightly strange. Okay, maybe a little more than slightly.

-C is for Calculators and the many mysterious apps which they hold. Call me a nerd. I don't care. I am one. But this past week I was totally messing around on my calculator and discovering new apps and such. Some of them are quite entertaining. :D

-D is for Dogs barking and freaking me put at 5 in the morning. On Tuesday and Thursday morning I went swimming at 5:30 AM. On Tuesday I walked outside and there was this dog. Sitting there. I walked over to my car and then the dog started barking and snarling at me. Freaky. And then on Thursday my friend Sarah (who went swimming with me) called me saying that her dogs were barking outside, and they wouldn't stop. Just the night before we had been discussing how there is someone terrorizing her neighborhood, so she was freaked out. And her being freaked out freaked me out as well.

-E is for Eating a bagel in my car as I rush to 6th period. On Friday I wasn't going to be home between school and swimming because I had a piano lesson right after school, so I texted my mom and asked her to bring me my goggles, which I had forgotten at home. She said she had just barely left the house, so she asked if I could just come home at lunch and get them; she said she could have lunch ready for me. I replied "Okay, sounds great." When I arrive at home, however, my mom isn't there. Needing to leave for school in less than 15 minutes I text her wondering where she is. I then receive a text from her saying "So what's the plan? Are you coming or not?" I was confused, so I called her. Apparently she didn't realize that her inbox was full, so she didn't get my last couple messages, so she was on her way home from running errands, and I had no lunch. My mom said she'd be home in 2 minutes and then could make me a quick lunch. I frustratingly responded that I needed to leave in less than 2 minutes, but I waited. When she got home she made me a bagel sandwich, and I hurriedly ate in in my car on the way to school. I was late for 6th period. Almost 10 minutes late. Swell. But whatever.

-F is for Failing tests. This was totally the worst possible test-taking week for me ever in my life. 95% of tests I have taken in my life I have received A's on. But not this past week. Last Friday I had a Calculus test that I was sure I failed, when I received my test back, however, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I received a 65%! Wahoo! I didn't fail! I only almost failed. :D I also received a 77% (which then got bumped up to an 80%) on a history test. And then, on a chemistry test that I found extraordinarily easy while taking, I got an 81%. A low B. Really? I have a feeling that it will be very difficult for me to keep as high a GPA as I would like to this school year.

-G is for General Conference. :D :D :D This happens to be what I am watching this very second! I absolutely love listening to the talks of the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. If you would like to read more of my input on these talks it will soon be on my other blog, here.

-H is for Homework and lack of completing it. You think I would have learned my lesson last year when I received my first B in a class due to lack of homework-doing, but apparently not. I'm already getting back into the habit of not doing homework. It's because of business, tiredness, and procrastination(ness?). I should probably start doing homework more regularly since my test grades obviously won't be enough to keep my grades up (as they have been in past years).

-I is for Intense swimming workouts and dance routines. You know, with all the exercise (and sweating) I have been doing lately, I had better sure as heck start losing weight! I already have noticed strengthen of muscles, but that's not what I want! I want to lose this big bubble of fat-stuffs stuck on my stomach. >:P It is so unflattering.

-J is for JIVE! Oh wow, I am so glad that I am in Jive. It is the most fun I have had in quite some time. Sure, it's a lot of work. Sure, it takes up a whole lot of time. Sure, it feels as if I have sold my soul in order to be in it. But who cares?! I. LOVE. IT. :D

-K is for Kendall. Haha, that boy is one funny boy. He always tells me everything. And then I tell someone something he told me, and he says, "See?! This is why I don't tell you anything!" Then I say, "But you do tell me everything!" And then he gets all quiet and says, "...I know, but I won't anymore!" And then the next day, guess what? He's telling me something again. :D Man, do I love that kid. He's one of my bestest friends.

-L is for Love (or at least the teenage equivalent of it). I find high school relationships very entertaining. People are like "I love you" one week, and then the next they are like "I hate you." If you honestly loved them, you wouldn't hate them the next week. Yeah, people get crushes (even I'm not exempt from that), but having "relationships" is not necessary until you are at least graduated, I think. Being in high school is the time to meet people to find qualities you would like in someone that you will date someday. It's a time to flirt, have fun. If you are in a relationship it is like building a wall so you are no longer to flirt and have fun! And if you continue to flirt, it will only make you feel guilty (unless of course you are heartless, as some people are).

-M is for Meth/Mell. Dear people (by the way, I know who at least one of you is) who wrote "Meth" on my car. Really? That's immature. And I knew it said Meth. The only reason I asked you if you wrote "Mell" on my car is because it somewhat looked like that is what it said, I had a somewhat legitimate reason for it to say that, and I knew you would laugh and look at me like I was stupid if you really had been the one who wrote Mell on my car. So yeah. If I just asked if you had written Meth you may have lied and I would still not know. But now I do know. The End.

-N is for Noodles (aka Spaghetti). I like spaghetti. And swim team. And swim team spaghetti feeds. Even when my eyes are puffy. At spaghetti feeds our team bonds and grows together. Their my favorite part about swim team! That and oatmeal carmelitas. ;)

-O is for One Direction. So I was YouTube music searching last night and I saw this song "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction. Love, love, love that song. Love, love, love that band. (The fact that all the members of the band are extremely attractive teenage boys only helps. And they have British accents. Yum.) I love the song, but I don't agree with it. It says "You don't know yo're beautiful, but that's what makes you beautiful." I think that girls who know who they are and know that they are beautiful are more beautiful because they have a glow in their eyes. But other than that little flaw, the song is incredible.

-P is for Piano improvisations. I have always wished I could improv... and now in my piano lessons that is what I'm learning! I'm still not all that great at it, but I'm getting better! Before long I'll be able to improv song that I may not have even been able to sightread! (And sightreading is my forte!) I'm so excited. :D

-Q is for Quartets (barbershop). On Tuesday for choir we went up to Boise to a barbershop quartet concert for a high school barbershop workshop. It was so fun. It was fun mingling with choir members that are now my friends, and it was fun on the bus ride, and it was fun at the concert. I pretty much fell in love with every single boy that sang. Wow. They were incredible.

-R is for Rachel. WHY MUST EVERYONE CALL ME RACHEL?!?! Haha, Teagan Savage has been calling me Rachel because she knew my sister (Rachel) really well and apparently I look a lot like her. And now a bunch of people are calling me Rachel as a joke because they know that isn't my name, but then some people who don't know my name assume that my name really is Rachel, and it is somewhat obnoxious. :P

-S is for Sesame Street spoofs.

This rocks.

This next one isn't as great, but I love it at 1:11 (Keep in mind that the puppet is supposed to be Justin Bieber.)

-T is for Thinking I saw a mouse in the freezer. Eww. I opened the freezer and heard little mouse-sounding clicky noises. I thought nothing of it. But then I saw something move in the back. I screamed. No mouse has been found. Everyone is making fun of me. Not cool.

-U is for 'U is.' This is a quote from my Calculus professor. Haha. "You is!" Sounds smart, doesn't it? U was a variable and so he would always say "U is this" and "U is that." Maybe I'm just easily entertained, but I found it very entertaining.

-V is for Varying emotions. As you can probably see from how some of these topics have been happy and some have been not so happy, I have been an emotional roller-coaster. It's like the song "Elevator" by David Archuleta.

I had a dream last night
I didn't know which floor to get off on, hey
The doors, they opened on 4 and 5 and 6
And you were gone, all gone

I didn't understand
I didn't wanna know
At least I took a chance
I had to let it go

Elevator goes up
Elevator come down
And you just go with the flow
Until your feet are back on the ground
It's an endless ride
Sometimes it takes you up
Sometimes it tears you down inside
But it's the butterflies
That keep you feeling so alive, so alive
You gotta get back that high

And in my dream last night
The doors they finally shut and I was there, somewhere
Alone in my reality inside an empty box
That's filled with air
But I don't care, no

Next time I'll get it right
Next time I'll be okay
I'll have a different dream tonight
Tomorrow's another day

Elevator goes up
Elevator come down
And you just go with the flow
Until your feet are back on the ground
It's an endless ride
Sometimes it takes you up
Sometimes it tears you down inside
But it's the butterflies
That keep you feeling so alive, so alive
You gotta get back that high

You'll never know
What you're gonna get
What you don't expect will come and find you
If you laugh or cry
If you run and hide
But it's all right

Elevator goes up
Elevator come down
And you just go with the flow
Until your feet are back on the ground
It's an endless ride
Sometimes it takes you up
Sometimes it tears you down inside
But it's the butterflies
That keep you feeling so alive, so alive
You gotta get back that high

-W is for Wishes. I like wishes. This doesn't have anything to do with what happened in the last week... I just felt like wishes was a good W word to use. :)

-X is for absolutely nothing.

-Y is for Yoyaknowyouyoyeahyoyouyonikonoyo. This is somewhat hard to explain. So I won't. Haha, have fun wondering what the heck this is about!

-Z is for Zippy! Me. Elizabeth. Yeah. :D

For those of you who actually read this entire post. Thank you for your support! Now maybe you should go do something worthwhile. :P The end. :)