Day Sixteen of the Blog Challenge

My views on mainstream music.

Well, mainstream music is really just music that is popular right now. And I think that its usually popular for a reason: its pretty good stuff.

I do like more obscure music like He is We, Tessa Violet, and Christina Perri, who isn't really obscure anymore, BUT I LIKE HER BEFORE SHE WAS POPULAR. 

....

Dear God, I'm turning into a hipster....

HELP ME.

And yeah, thats about all my views in mainstream music: its popular for a good reason.

Peace out peeps,

A Girl Against the World.

Day Fifteen of the Blog Challenge

Write fifteen interesting facts about yourself.

....

FIFTEEN FACTS???

I can only think of like two...

Okay...Well...Here I go.

1- I am related to George Washington through marriage and adoption.

2- I was on the news once, for being "kidnapped." (Its a long story. Suffice to say that I wasn't really kidnapped. I was just part of a kidnap experiment.)

3- I am the oldest of six kids.
4- I have met the author Mark Hepburn. And he wrote a book about me. Okay not REALLY. But he wrote a book where the main character has my name. I like to think its about me. I'm delusional. Oh! That should be fact five!
5- I'm delusional.
6- I talk to myself. A LOT. Like ALL THE TIME. And I hold imaginary conversations with people.
7- My name means innocent.Which is very ironic. I'm not innocent at all.
8- Apparently I look like Jenna Louise Coleman. This is according to my friends, who are blind.
9- I have a terrible memory. I often repeat things that I've already said.
10- I have a terrible memory. I often repeat things that I've already said.
11- I'm scared of things that start with an S. Snakes, sharks, spiders, sunburns, soccer, sports, screaming, sadness, school, society, the sea, sexual stuff, solos, smoking, and sailing. Oh and heights, which doesn't start with an S, but I still hate them.
12- When I do the smallest bit of physical exercise, my face gets beet red. When I get a little bit hot, my face gets beet red. When I'm embarrassed, my face gets beet red. My face gets beet red a lot...
13-Music and books are my life.
14- If I take a hot shower and then drink cold water, I get really sleepy.
15- I own over 200 books. Not including school books and a box of random books that I have in the attic.

There we go! I did it! I'm so proud of my self!
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go have some soup.
Wait. Soup starts with S.
Damn it.

POP (Peace Out Peeps),
A Girl Against the World.

Day Fourteen of the Blog Challenge

Your Earliest Memory.

When I was two or so I swallow a pin. It was when we lived in Boston and we had a really bright room where my mom did all her sewing. One day when she was sewing, I was standing next to her and I noticed a pin cushion with lots of pin that had small, bright plastic circle thingies on the ends. I thought it was candy. So naturally I swallowed one. Mum took me to the ER and I was fine.

Peace out peeps,
A Girl Against the World.

Day Thirteen of the Blog Challenge.

Somewhere you'd like to visit or move. 

Well I would really like to move to London. Like REALLY. Its my dream.

No wait, its THE dream.

All my favorite TV shows are British. My favorite authors are British. My favorite drink (tea) is British. AND my celebrity crush/future husband is British. (More on him later.)

So yeah, LONDON HERE I COME.

Peace out peeps,

A Girl Against the World.

Day Twelve of the Blog Challenge

Bullet your whole day.

Sit back, my peeps, because you are about to experience the ultimate joy: Hearing about my day.
*sarcasm*

First I woke up.
Then I went down stairs and did the Morning Ritual of Saint Stories and other prayers.
Then I argued with my parents for twenty minutes about whether of not I could go to camp this year and the kind of music I was listening to.
Then I went upstairs and did stuff that I can't remember. Possibly read, maybe watch YouTube videos, I don't remember.
Then I had lunch.
Then I went to Jade's house and baked strawberry cake and talked about stuff....
Then my mom picked me up.
Then we went to the psychiatrist's. (Not for me, but my mom loves to go talk about her day to that dude. I don't get it. Telling almost perfect stranger all about your day. Bulleting everything that happened, right up to the-- Wait a second....)
Then I went home and again did stuff that I can't remember. I'M DRAWING A BLANK ABOUT MOST OF THE THINGS I DID TODAY. I MUST HAVE SEEN A TON OF SILENCES! Wait what was I talking about?

OH yeah, then I ate a really lousy dinner, (leftover hamburger. COLD. Bleh.)
Then I came upstairs and messed around on the Internet and now I'm really hoping one of my friends will chat me...
UPDATE: They didn't...

Peace out peeps,
A Girl Against the World.

Day Eleven of the Blog Challenge

Put your iPod on shuffle and write the first ten songs that pop up.

YAY!! I have been looking forward to this one, yes i peeked at the questions.... DON'T JUDGE. I had to know what I was getting my self into....

Anyway...

Let me find my iPod....

Ah-ha!! Found it!
....
Its dead...

OKAY PEEPS HERE WE GO.

Note: I am probably lying about which songs pop up and just put which ones make me sound the coolest.

Okay, whoa I have some cool songs on here. I'm just going to listen to them and then write them down later...

ALRIGHT. Enough dilly dallying (is that how you spell it, I never know how to spell those weird phrases)

Song One- Shot Me in The Heart by Christina Perri
Song Two- Song of the Caged Bird by Lindsey Stirling
Song Three- I See Fire by Ed Sheeran
Song Four- All of Me (cover) by Chester See
Song Five- Rocks at My Window by Bridgit Mendler
Song Six- Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift
Song Seven- The Saltwater Room by Owl City
Song Eight- This by Ed Sheeran
Song Nine- On Top of the World by Imagine Dragons
Song Ten- Beauty From Pain by Superchick

So thats that...
But because I'm sure you guys are SO interested in my musical taste I also shuffled my Google Play Library and here is what I got.

MY INTERNET IS SO SLOW

Here we go.

Song One- Gold by Owl City

Song Two- Fire Starter by Demi Lovato 

Song Three- Teenage Rebel by Chameleon Circuit

Song Four- Ashes and Wine by A Fine Frenzy

Song Five- Hey There Delilah by Plain White Ts

Song Six- Cruisin' Bruisin' by The Teen Beach Movie Soundtrack (DON'T JUDGE. ITS A GOOD SONG!)

Song Seven- Airplane by B.O.B

Song Eight- The Broken Ones by Dia Frampton

Song Nine-  The Speed of Love by Owl City

Song Ten- Something I Need by OneRepublic 

And there we have it. My bad music taste....

Peace out peeps,

A Girl Against the World

Day Ten of the Blog Challenge

Day Ten of the Blog Challenge: Your guilty pleasure (or pleasures!)

I never quite understood the guilty pleasure thing until recently. I always thought that if you are going to eat, drink or do something you might as well enjoy it. But then I realized that I have a couple guilty pleasures.

1- Starbucks.
 Its not a huge one, but I always feel a little guilty paying a ridiculous amount of money for a drink that I can make at home.
UPDATE: Homemade Starbucks Iced Chai Lattes are disgusting.

I'm addicted to this stuff. Its like Heroin. 

2- Rice Krispy Treats.
Not the homemade ones (I have no qualms eating those), but the store bought ones.
THEY ARE JUST SO DELICIOUS!

3- Netflix.
 I always feel guilty when I watch a ton of Netflix.

4- Cookie Dough.
I always make extra so I can eat it....

So there we go! All my guilty pleasures!

Please don't judge me.

Peace out peeps,

A Girl Against the World.

Clara and the Doctor

So for those of you who don't watch Doctor Who, I suggest you go read some other blog post of mine. Maybe one about Why I Think I'm a Vampire or maybe the one about the Say Something Music Video. Because I'm about to dig deep into the relationships of Doctor Who and what this means for Whouffle.

ANYWAY.... So the Doctor has had many relationships over the 50 years of the show and they are all different. I'm not going to address the Classic Who relationships because if I did that we'd be here all day. So in the New Who there are several relationships that have SPECIAL interest.

BTW, this is going to be a long post....

1- The Doctor and Rose.

Look at these two and tell me they're not in love!

This is the biggest and most dramatic relationship in the whole show. The Doctor loves Rose in TWO of his regenerations and by the way the Eleventh Doctor talks, probably three. This is huge. Usually the Doctor loves a person in one of his lives, because no matter what any one tells you HE CHANGES. Just look at the Ninth vs. Eleventh Doctor. The Ninth is broken and vulnerable, but Rose fixes him. When he loses her in his Tenth regeneration, he breaks again and this time nothing really fixes him. The Eleventh Doctor is so different from the Ninth, Nine would give you a chance and count to ten and then blow you up. Eleven just blows your ass up. Rose fixed the Doctor and he remembers her for the rest of his life(s).

2- River and the Doctor

Does this look like the type of look a man (or time lord) would give the woman he loves?
I don't think so...

But just because the Doctor never forgets her doesn't mean he didn't move on. But I don't think that the Doctor loves River in a romantic way. Now before you kill me hear me out. River tells him that she's his wife when he firsts meets her. Because he then knows how she dies I think he felt obligated to love her, to make her death worth it. When you see him interact with her, he is all flirty and charming, but there are never the long lingering looks that two people in love have. Sure River sends a flood of love struck looks at him, but it seems to me that she makes him more uncomfortable than happy. She is a reminder of death and I don't think he ever looked at her the same way as with Rose.

3- Friendships. 
The Doctor has lots of friendships which helps us gauge the other relationships of the Doctor's.

Amy Pond- purely platonic. He rejects her several times.
Martha- So platonic it hurts....
Donna-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! *breathes* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Rory-Well there was the kiss... JK! Amy would kill him.....

Then there is the last and most important one

4- Clara and the Doctor.

ADORABLE.
LOOK AT THEM. LOOK. LOOK. LOOK.
*dies from overload of adorableness and feels*

If you type in "The Doctor and" into Google the first result to pop up is... The Doctor and Rose. Not surprising. But the second is the Doctor and Clara.

Here are the reasons why I think the Doctor and Clara are the most adorable thing ever

1- She saved his life. Lots of times.
I'm not just talking about the whole "I was born to save the Doctor thing." If it wasn't for her we wouldn't have the Doctor right now. She was the one who begged the time lords to save the Doctor in the Time of the Doctor. It was her. She saved him. We owe her everything.

2-She saved Gallifrey.
If it wasn't for Clara then the Doctors would have blown up Gallifrey. She was the one who was crying and then told the Doctor that she never imagined HIM pressing the button. That's what hit him. He couldn't do it after that. He looked for another way out, and found it.

3-She isn't a typical companion.
Put aside all the other stuff, she didn't say yes to the Doctor's invitation to fly away with him right away. She told him to come back tomorrow. No other companion did that. She didn't throw her self on him. Clara is also the only companion the Doctor actively looked for. After he met her in the Dalek Asylum and in Victorian London, he became a MONK to find her. He didn't become a monk to find Donna....

4-She is hilarious.
She keeps the Doctor on his toes and teases him and laughs and is generally the cutest thing that ever walked the face of the earth. Or any other planet....

 

5-She flirts. He flirts. They flirt.
There is so much flirting!! Just... look.

That hair though....

And...

Yeah, she is.

6-He really likes her. A lot. Way too much to be platonic.

He does crazy things for her. Loves to show off. And just generally adores her.

 "Rrrruff!"  *big gappy smile*

7-He also called her perfect.

8-And he calls her "MY impossible girl" or "MY Clara"

9-And there are lots of hugs. Lots. Of. Hugs.
   

10-There is also the way he looks at her when she isn't looking and countless other little things that make me think that they are the cutest couple of all time.

And here are a few links to support my theory.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/drewr8/29-undeniable-reasons-the-doctor-and-clara-are-in-demz

http://whatculture.com/tv/doctor-who-are-the-11th-doctor-and-clara-oswald-in-love.php

So in conclusion,

*dreamy sigh*

Now we just have to see what happens with 12....

Peace out peeps,

A Girl Against the World.

Nick Jonas' Chains

Listen to this. DO IT. I command you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngSZLGkLQbI

Its good. Really good. Me likey.

Peace out peeps,

A Girl Against the World.

Day Nine of the Blog Challenge

If you could have an job in the world what would you do?

Well I looked up some cool jobs on the Internet because I have no imagination, and here is what I came up with.

1- Ferrari shopper. Apparently rich people like spending money so much that they hire people to pick out a Ferrari for them. And also buying a Ferrari that about $1 million is "almost a steal." Ridiculous. (Don't mind me, I'm just bitter because I'm not rich.)

2- Party Planner. So there is a dude that plans hug parties and weddings for rich people. Like one time he planned a wedding for a rich couple, who later got divorced, then got married again, then got divorced, again AND THEN GOT MARRIED FOR THE THIRD TIME. Oh and now they're divorced again....
Piece of advice people, if you have to get divorced three times... IT ISN'T WORKING.

3- Jet interior decorator. So you know how people are always like, "I need to remodel my house. If only I had the money...", followed by a long description of their money problems? No? Enjoy that while it lasts....
Anyway rich people hire other people to decorate the interior of their JET. I'm repeating this just in case you didn't get that from the extremely cryptic job title. This dude rips out the inside of the old jet, replaces it all with cool, fancy, new stuff. He even put a MOVIE THEATER in one jet.

4- Yacht maker. Rich people hire dude to who does something really cool. I'm beginning to see a pattern here....
This guy makes yachts that are so expensive that "if you have half a billion dollars you can comfortably buy a Feadship." I quote directly.

5- Lamborghini seller. 20 year old guy sells Lamborghinis to rich people and rap stars like Missy Elliot. Oh and he drives a Lamborghini to work everyday. And its covered in gold. GOLD. He drives that thing like we drive an old van. 

So there we go. These are the best jobs that you can possibly have according to society. I disagree.

Note: I will be using this GIF a lot.

I believe that it doesn't matter what job you have as long as you love it. For example I would love a job as a teacher or Doctor's companion. Or maybe a singer or maybe Sherlock's blogger. As long as I love it, I will be happy.

Now what was the blog challenge question again?

Peace out peeps,

A Girl Against the World.

Day Eight of the Blog Challenge

So when I started writing this I thought it was going to be like a diary that nobody would ACTUALLY read. But I have gotten over a hundred views in less than a week. Now I may not know much, but thats pretty good...

So here is day eight of my bloggy challenge thingy

Day Eight: A moment you felt satisfied with your life.

So there is one moment in my life that I felt like all the heart ache and drama and just general "bleh" of life was worth it. But its a very private memory so the other one would be when I was at camp. I was at a choir camp and all the counslers and teachers left all the kids in a room so that they (the teachers) could practice for a play. Some of the kids sat in another room practicing for a talent show, but the majority of us stood around a piano in the other room singing along as a girl played popular songs. It was amazing. Just pure fun as we didn't care if we sounded awful or off tune, we just sang.

And that's about it really.

A Girl Against the World.

Say Something music video

So I don't know about you, but for me music videos are either a hit or miss. For example Taylor Swift's Ours music video was good, not GREAT, but it told an enjoyable and touching story and was REALLY cute. (Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ34LlaIk88.) Overall it was a really adorable song with a video that actually had something to do with the song (and the whole soldier-coming-home thing really got me in the feels). Also Taylor's hair is very cute. Just a side note.

Anyway so there is an example of a good music videos, others include Owl City, Lindsey Stirling (although sometimes its a bit repetitive. She jumps, she dances, she plays her violin. We get it), and a few others. A example of a bad music video? Just type in Miley Cyrus and click what ever comes up, odds are she swing on a wrecking ball, naked. But the Say Something video, (link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2U0Ivkn2Ds) was something different then the standard music videos. Lets break it down.

Cons

1-CHRISTINA AGUILERA. While she has a pretty good voice, she spends the entirety of the video running her hands up and down her body in a way that I think I'm supposed to see as sexy... It takes away from the rest of the video. She is in a skin tight black dress and has WAY to much makeup on. But I guess that's what you get when you put a that woman in a music video about serious love...

2- The couple at the beginning. While it made sense that the producers would cast a damaged couple for a song that's about a damaged couple, I don't think that they captured the whole essence of the of the song. The song made it sound like it was a person who was giving it all in a relationship and not getting anything back, he is begging her to "say something", like "I love you", so he won't leave. The couple in the music video made it look like it was a girl dating a bad boy and she got burned. It sounds like the same thing, but if you look closer its not.

3- This dude's hair....

Just...no.

Pros

1-The song is amazing. I almost cried the first time I heard it. It speaks of a man begging his lover to tell him that she loves him, so that he won't give up on her. To say the words that every human want to hear, crying into the abyss that he would do anything for her, just please.... say something.
I know, I know. I got carried away. But its a beautiful song that gets you right in the heart.

2- The piano. Always good in a music video.

3- The old couple. When I say I almost cried when I first heard this song, I meant when I HEARD it. When I SAW it, I cried harder than I cried when Augustus died, Jean Valjean died or when Tris died. Something about an old couple being separated in the cruelest way possible really hurts me. It was the best and the worst part. When he kisses her face and starts to sob....

Pros and cons aside, it was the best and the saddest music video I have ever seen.

Until next time,
A Girl Against the World.

Day Seven of the Blog Challenge

Day Seven: Your favorite childhood toy.

*rubs hands together*

This is going to be a long post....

*ahem*

So when I was a kid I had three favorite toys, two of which my mother so generously gave away. Without telling me. Just scooped them up and they were gone. Its was a very trying time for me.

ONE-           

   

A 1995 Bluebird Vintage Polly Pocket Cinderella Castle.
It cam with several figurines. I loved it. It was the best toy ever. It had so many tiny little spots and buttons and details that you could discover after owning it for years. It was adorable.

TWO-

Pounce the Cat. Pounce was the first Beanie Baby cat to be made of Ty-dyed fabric.

I've had her since I was born and she is sitting on my knee as I type. She is by far my favorite toy. It funny that my grandmother bought her exactly a week before she was discontinued.

THREE- A small dog toy that I really don't remember but I know I loved.

Well. So. Thats about it....

Its so awkward ending these things....

Until next time,

A Girl Against the World.

Day Six of the Blog Challenge

Day Six: Your Zodiac Sign and if you think it fits your personality.

Short answer: No.

My birthday is March 24th

I am Aries. Here is a description of Aries that I got off the internet.

Your element: Fire Your ruling planets: Mars Symbol: The Ram Your stone: Diamond Life Pursuit: The thrill of the moment Vibration: Enthusiastic Aries Secret Desire: To lead the way for others.

Description: Aries are fire signs and those born under this element are regarded in astrology as adventurous, active and outgoing. It won't matter where you go or how remote or unusual it is - from the Outback to the Antarctic - you can be sure that an Aries has been there before you (or at the very least you will meet one along the way!) Aries is a uniquely naive sign. Although they are independent, outgoing and assertive they are also surprisingly trusting, often innocently walking into the lion's den at times. No matter what upheaval, challenge or triumph they confront - an Aries has a wonderful ability to bounce back. Their faith in life and the future remains untouched by hardship. Their gift is that they are always children at heart and the world is always a magical place for them. Many famous sports people are born under this sign

Its actually a lot longer than that, but I didn't bother reading all of it.

So the overall temperament of Aries is choleric, but naive and child like and have a great ability to bounce back and be unharmed by past experiences. This is like the polar opposite of me.

I am an extremely melancholy person, I'm not naive or trusting of any one and I am also very sensitive to insults and past experiences.

Whats really ridiculous is that Pisces describes me perfectly.

Mysterious and alluring individuals, most Pisces are extremely talented, but even though they are gifted in many ways, they still manage to spend most of their lives battling "confusing" conditions. Pisces is the sign symbolised by the image of two fish. Their symbol depicts one fish heading upward, the other pulling downward. This mirrors how Pisceans are frequently torn between two pathways in life, or actually do live two very different existences at the same time. 

Later it goes on the say that they have and "ivory tower" syndrome. Which is hilarious, because in my house I'm always being chided for spend to much time in my ivory tower (my room). They say this ALL THE TIME.

It also says Pisces live in worlds of fantasy, which I do. All. The. Time.

So I was born three days late.

Until next time,
A Girl Against the World.

Day Five of the Blog Challenge

Day Five: Your favorite comfort food and why.

FINALLY. A challenge that I will enjoy. 

FOOD. YESSS. *ahem* Lets begin, shall we?

I love lots of food so I shall narrow this down to about five or so foods.

ONE-Steak. Rare. My grandfather taught me the proper way the enjoy a steak is rare and I never forgot that. I always order rare. Even though most restaurants cook it medium.

TWO- Potatoes. Any way, except potato salad. That shit is just gross.

THREE- Pretty much any kind of meat. I love meat (its a vampire thing). But I really love lamb. Yeah, yeah I know. "Those poor little lambs, so sweet and innocent and YOU EAT THEM. GO TO HELL YOU EVIL MEAT EATER." But God gave us animals so that we could eat them, so I eat pretty much anything and hav no problems doing so. Except deer meat. I mean, ITS BAMBI OR HIS MOTHER. So yeah, no deer for me.

FOUR-Orzo. For those of you who don't know what orzo is, it is literally God's greatest gift to man. And I don't take the word,"literally" lightly. Its pasta that is shaped like rice, (confusing I know) and my grandmother has an amazing recipe that includes cooking it in broth, then mixing in TONS of Parmesan cheese and basil. I'm telling you, I would have that as my last meal on earth. Just orzo. Nothing else.

FIVE- Meatball sandwiches. And philly cheese steak sandwiches. Both are extremely good.

SIX- ANYTHING SWEET (except coconut). 'nuff said.

So there you have it. My list of comfort foods. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm very hungry....

Until next time,

A Girl Against the World.