vague mystique.

Instead of making another blog filled with complaints and rants about my ever-growing irritations with humanity, I thought that I would go in a different direction for once and talk about something more… cheerful. Not that reading about Rosalie Bass is always joyful experience, though! I know that you are all automatically filled with feelings of warmth and content as soon as you type in my URL at the address bar, bombarded by the sudden onslaught to go frolic in the meadow, kiss your neighbor, and dance around Times Square in a bright pink Christopher Kane dress with ten-inch black leather boots that are insanely hard to walk in but look oh-so sexy.

Right? RIGHT?

Anyway, though, I decided to make today’s blog about the things that I am currently engrossed in. What am I currently reading? What music am I listening to? What movies have I seen with my friends lately, and have I liked them? I’m going to cover every last square inch. Isn’t this great? It will make it so much easier for you all to imitate me, because I know you go to bed every night wishing you would wake up as Rosalie Bass the next day.

So, sit back, relax, put down that iPhone and let the games begin!



Literature

City of Bones by Cassandra Claire: I finished this book a few weeks ago, and it is by far one of the best books I have read in a while. Sexy and mysterious (Or at least that’s how the review on the front cover described it), it is a wonderful, wonderful book about a girl in New York City that realizes at a dance club that she can see things that normal people cannot… like demons. The entire book is one exciting roller coaster, and the ending is just… inexpressible. I ordered the sequel at Barnes and Noble, and the wait for it is absolutely excruciating!

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld: I’ve wanted to read this for a while, and when I went to Borders a few weeks ago, hoping to find City of Ashes (The sequel to City of Bones, and this was before I went to Barnes and Noble looking for it, again to no avail, and decided to just order it) and found a copy of Peeps standing on the bookshelf instead, I decided to just go for it. Scott Westerfeld is one of my favorite YA authors, and believe me, he does not disappoint in Peeps. However, if you are not a science person, don’t read it- the entire plotline basically revolves around biology… and VAMPIRES!

Tithe by Holly Black: I’m reading this for school, and I’m only about two pages into it. It’s in the fantasy genre, and supposed to be about faeries. Jasmine said that it wasn’t that bad, so hopefully I won’t die of boredom while reading this.

Before I Die by Jenny Downham: Again for school, and I don’t like it. It’s about a terminally ill teenager in Great Britain who has a list of things to do before she dies…. it’s just… kind of boring, I guess. I’ll try to prevail however.

Movies

A Walk to Remember: I found this on ABC Family while channel surfing last weekend, and decided to watch it because the main actor, Shane West, is completely gorgeous and the character he plays is totally my type. I’M SO GLAD I DECIDED TO WATCH IT! It made me cry so many times, and it’s definitely one of my favorite movies of all time now.

Push: I’m seeing this tonight with a few friends. I’ll update afterward and tell you how it went!

Music

My Life Would Suck Without You – Kelly Clarkson
Piece of Me – Britney Spears
Poker Face – Lady GaGa
Right Round – Flo Rida
Bad Girl – Danity Kane

Misery Business – Paramore
Decode – Paramore
Hemorrhage – Fuel
Monsters – Matchbook Romance
Bring Me to Life – Evanescence

Untouched – Veronicas
Stockholm Syndrome – Muse
Butterflies and Hurricanes – Muse
Suppermassive Black Hole – Muse
Teenagers – My Chemical Romance

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Muse
Full Moon – Black Ghosts
Live Your Life – TI and Rihanna
Sober – Pink

Playlists on Pandora: Evanescence. All of the songs on it are wonderful- Nickleback, Flyleaf, Within Temptation.... definitely my all time favorite playlist.

Clothes

Lately, I have been rocking skirts and mini dresses to school with tights in various colors. I never used to dress so girly preppy girly girl, but… something has come over me, and now I cannot resist the urge to break out the mini skirts and sweaters. I usually wear black boots with these outfits, because the only other things I have are slippers, white sneakers, ballet flats that don’t fit and sandals. When I’m not dressing sluttily, I usually wear jeans and a nice shirt, or if it’s absolutely freezing outside, a hoodie. It’s still a bit too frigid to wear blouses and most short sleeve things. How I miss thee, warm weather!

My budget does not exactly fit the prices of designer stores like Barneys, so I do most of my shopping at Kohls, JC Penny, and Deb. Kohls is my favorite store- they have a lot of really nice clothes for low prices. Their Hayden Panettiere line, Candies, is to die for! Most of their stuff is short sleeved, though, and again, it is negative one hundred here, so when the weather warms up I will definitely dive into her line.


Makeup, Etc

I’m not huge on the whole “makeup” thing. I do not wear blush and concealer and cover up and lip liner and lipstick and everything else that women pay thousands of dollars to wear for a few hours and then take off. Instead, I wear eyeliner with the occasional lip gloss and eye shadow. I’m not going to lie- I wear my eyeliner thick and black. Some people don’t like the heavy eyeliner look, but I do. REBEL!

I own about five thousand sticks of eyeliner in varying types- liquid, pencil, etc. I am absolutely horrid at putting on liquid eyeliner (Every time I try it I end up with my entire EYEBALL BLACK), so I try to refrain from that. Wet N Wild and Avon have some wonderful eyeliners. Avon is Serena’s favorite, favorite place to get makeup.


Websites:

Facebook: I am your typical Facebook addictee. I’m on it at least three times a day, sometimes five, sometimes ten. I only got it about a month or two ago, but gee, I’m hooked. I do not do Myspace, though- Facebook is so much better.

Maureen Johnson’s blog: She is an absolutely hilarious YA author, and she doesn’t blog often, but when she does it will seriously have you falling off your chair and dying of laughter. I aspire to be as funny as her one day.

Scott Westerfeld’s blog: As I mentioned before, he is a YA author, and very cool indeed. I want to meet him someday. He doesn’t post a lot either, but when he does it is honestly engrossing and some of the science/technology things he finds are so interesting! He turned me on the boingboing.com, too.

Stephenie Meyer’s official site: I liked Twilight BEFORE the movie came out, in the summer of 2008. Needless to say I know the books by heart, and they’re my number two series (Harry Potter is number one), so I check her site at least once every few days to see what’s happening. I check it mainly to see if she started working on Morning Sun again, though… ugh.

Robertpattinson.org: What can I say? I love the guy and want to every detail about his life.

Diffindo.net: A few years ago, I used to be one this site everyday for twelve hours at a time on the weekends. During the summer, I would be on for twelve hours or more. Nowadays, I check in once every two weeks. It’s a Harry Potter role play site, and it replaced Dissendium.com, my old obsession (It shut down. That site literally changed my life).

That’s about it. I used to be one a few role play sites, but the ones I loved, like Dissendium, shut down! THE DRAMA.


Cell Phone

My much loved and adored lime green Chocolate LG broke two weeks ago, and I have been WITHOUT A PHONE ever since. Next Friday, I will hopefully be getting the LG Voyager. That is, if I am sane enough to use it by then. It is a very, very iffy situation.

Cell phone withdrawal makes the best of them go insane.


Television Shows

House, M.D.: I love this show. It’s hilarious, intellectual, and sexual. What can get better than that?

Heroes: Jasmine turned me on to Heroes last year, and let me tell you, Heroes is WHERE IT’S AT. I love, love, love, love, love it! Seriously. It’s one of the best shows on television. If you care about me at all, you would watch this show on NBC, Mondays at nine.

NCIS: My entire family watches this show. It is simply one of the greatest crime scene shows on television! Wait, no: THE greatest. Law and Order and the other CSI ‘s have nothing on it.

John and Kate Plus 8: How I adore those children! And John, and Kate. The entire show is just golden. It’s so completely interesting, too! I can’t even imagine having so many kids!

Gossip Girl: I haven’t watched it the last few weeks because it’s on the same time as Heroes, but I will get the reruns somehow. The show is a little slow at times , but oh-so sexy and seriously jaw-dropping. Just when you think you know what’s going to happen, WHAM. They throw in something that makes you FREEZE MID STEP. Chuck Bas and Blair are my favorite. Chuck is just … so … gorgeous. And his voice is sexy. “I am Chuck Bass.”


Hair Products

BED HEAD: I got it for Christmas at Ulta, which is an expensive beauty store in Delaware. The bottles reflect the price: they’re huge, and you don’t pour it out: THERE’S A TAP. Yes, A TAP. The product itself is good also.

Andis Tourmaline Nanoceramic: It’s Serena’s straightener, and she got it at the mall for fifty dollars. It’s red. I straighten my hair with it everyday.

Perfume

Surreal and Goddess, both bought from Avon. I got it from Serena for Christmas. Surreal is my favorite- it smells very sweet. Goddess is more tart and bitter.