Hiatus

My lack of posting has been due to the untimely demise of my laptop. I'm coming to you now from my mobile app. Unfortunately I am not sure when I'll be able to get my laptop fixed or purchase a new one. 

This hiatus is killing me. I rely on blogging, on my multiple blogs, for relaxation and release. And because I have not been able to I have a lot of pent up irritation. Towards my family, my friends, even myself. I'm not quite sure where to start. And I have so much to say that I fear it may take multiple blog posts to really get through it all. Now that I have this app, I will try harder to be more reliable when it comes to making daily blogs. 

Lots of Love, 

Emily. 

Update

Sorry it's been a while since I've made any posts. This is about to be a long one cause I'm going to let you know where I've been. 

So since my last post, I've moved into an apartment near my university for school. I'm living with some of my close friends and we've been getting into our routine of getting up every morning and walking across the bridge to sit in classes that have nothing to do with our majors or future plans and then coming home and going to sleep way earlier than we'd like. I'm enjoying apartment life a lot more than I enjoyed dorm life my previous year. Not to mention my roommates and I get a long great and my best friend lives right down the hall. 

So far my second year of college has been going quite well. I'm not really thrilled with all the classes I'm being forced to take, though I'm doing well in them. I just see general education classes as a waste of time and money. I have no need to take Dynamic Earth or mathematics to be in the profession I'm working towards. It's just useless to me. But my general education classes aren't even my biggest problem. For my major, Theatre Studies, I've taken all the acting classes I'll be able to take at my university. After your first year they don't allow students to take anymore acting classes. Now, I go to a school that has a presitgous theatre program, it's talked about by working actors for it's credibility, so I think it's a bit ridiculous that I can't take anymore acting classes.

This is my dilemma. My major is a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Theatre Studies. In order to take acting classes after my first year I have to be a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Acting. This doesn't sound like an issue except for the fact that in order to be a BFA I have to audition for the program. That shouldn't be a big deal, I mean I want to be an actress so I'm going to have to get used to auditioning and that's not my problem. I understand the importance of needing to audition but my problem is that I don't have a lot of auditioning experience and you only get one chance to audition for the elusive program, and if you don't get in the first try, you can't be a BFA. But because I can't take anymore acting classes, I don't feel prepared to use my one shot at the BFA program. 

Now, I have a friend who was at my university last year. He auditioned for the program and was denied so he transferred to a school in Chicago and from what I hear it's a complete 180 difference. After talking with him, I'm now highly considering transferring to his university. The difference that going to that school and being able to take acting classes for the next four years of my college life is like a drug. It's all I can think about. I want to transfer there so badly now. I mean , not only because of the school but the lifestyle. To live in Chicago, I can't even imagine how enchanting it will be.

Making this decision was easy. Making it happen though, having the funds to transfer, is going to be a work in progress. I promise to start blogging more and giving more updates on what is going on. 

Lots of love,

Emily

Short Rant

I won't post rants like this often, or at least I hope I won't but this one is very relevant. 

I have a huge problem when a TV show ends with a cliffhanger. And I'm not just talking about for the season, that's fine. Ending a season on a cliffhanger makes the first episode of the new season exciting. I'm talking about when the season ends in a cliffhanger when the show is getting cancelled. 

As I mentioned before I get very into my TV programs and into movies and book series, so when something happens to them that I wasn't expecting, it literally irks me for days. This being my current mood because I just found out that one of my favorte TV shows, ABC Family's The Lying Game is not being renewed for a new season. 

Now I know that this show may not be everyone's cup of tea, it's not everyone's thing. But I very much enjoyed it and am very upset that it will not be returning. I'm even more miffed because the previous season ended on a cliffhanger. The news of it's cancellation was released this morning and I'm trying to not think about it but it keeps creeping back into the foreground of my mind and it's irritating me. Not only did I love the actors, I also loved the storyline and now it's OVER. With no resolution. 

Another show of mine that recently ended was a show that originally aired in the UK. I watched it on BBC America. It was called Merlin. Since I was a kid I've been obsessed with stories, movies and TV shows involving King Arthur and Camelot, since I first saw the animated movie Quest for Camelot. So when I got into this show it was like magic, pun intended. And it ended. It's over. I will give the show some credit for not ending the show with a cliffhanger, though I was upset that King Arthur died. (My Mom gets really mouthy with me when I complain about Arthur dying because he did die in real life.) But come on, it wasn't a realistic show, they didn't need to kill him off. 

This was a not so short rant. Note to telveision producers and writers for the future: If you are going to cancel or end a TV program, please do not end it on a cliffhanger. And if you know the show isn't going to continue, give viewers closure. 

Lots of Love

Emily

Silver Linings Playbook Review

For my first movie review I've decided to review Silver Linings Playbook starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Silver Linings PLaybook follows Pat Solitano (Cooper) after he is released from a mental institution. He moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his wife. Pat is soon introduced to Tiffany (Lawrence), who is a extremely mysterious girl with problems of her own. 

After a few encounters the two make a deal that if Pat helps Tiffany with an upcoming dance contest, she will help him reconnect with his wife. Throughout their dance rehearsals and outside interactions, a lot is revealed about the two characters and they find they have a lot more in common than they knew. The two realize they have feelings for one another in the end and the movie, which was filled with dramatic displays of anger and at some points full blown hysteria, ends on an uplifting note.

I was extremely excited to see this movie when it first came out, mainly because I am a huge Jennifer Lawrence fan. I didn't know what the movie was about going into it but I was expecting it to be quite serious. Throughout the movie however, I found myself laughing in the most inappropriate moments. I was in the theater with older couples who were probably taking the movie and it's content very seriously because it was meant to be a rather serious movie. I however couldn't contain myself whenever Jennifer Lawrence was on the screen. She has some of the best facial expressions I have ever seen and it made it so hard not to laugh when she was yelling at Pat. 

There were some parts that were quite sad. Like for instance, when Pat would go into these hysterical fits thinking about his wife or when he heard the song they danced to at their wedding. I couldn't help but feel sympathy for him in those moments. Those fits and moments of severe sadness, common with Bipolar Disorder, are very real for other viewers. 

Overall I thought this movie was great. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone. This movie, although having quite serious content, is still a very endearing story. 

Lots of Love

Emily

RIP Cory Monteith

This post will be far from happy. Early this morning, around two a.m I noticed, because I was still awake, Twitter was blowing up with the devastating news that Glee star Cory Monteith had passed away.

I don't remember if I mentioned this in an early post or not but Glee is one of my favorite shows. My heart is literally broken. I've been part of the Glee fandom since the very first episode, I watched it when it first aired on May 19, 2009 and I have seen every episode since. My favorite episode and scene to date was the pilot episode and the very last scene where the original six Glee members performed Don't Stop Believin'. 

 

Glee is the losers anthem. It's the show that brought so many people out of their shells and was one of the first TV shows to have openly homosexual characters on it. This show changed my life. I can't even fathom this show without Cory. I feel selfish worrying about what the show will do without him.

 My heart goes out to Cory's entire family, both at home and in the Glee Cast. His death is hitting the fandom hard but I can't even imagine how his fellow cast members are feeling today. My deepest condolences to Lea Michele. There's been no information really released about his death or any statements from Lea. My heart breaks for not only myself but the entire Glee family.

Stay Strong Gleeks. We'll get through this together.

Lots of Love

Emily

Something I'm Loving

As I've mentioned before, my favorite color changes often. Right now my favorite color is mint green. I don't know what is about this color that I love so much but I think it's just looks great for summer time. Literally I went to the mall the other day with a friend of mine and nearly every store we went into had an abundance of this minty green color. I felt very overwhelmed because I wanted to buy everything I saw in this color but couldn't. One thing I did pick up is this Maybelline Color Show nail polish. It's number 320 and called Green with Envy. I think it was like $1.25 or something along those lines. I'm really into pastel colors for my nails and when I saw this I had to have it and when I got home and put it on my nails I loved the way the color looks with my skin tone. I'm rather pale so it's really shocking to me when something compliments my skin tone. Anyway, I'm really loving this I think it's a perfect shade for summer and I highly recommend it. 

Lots of Love

Emily

25 Facts About Me

Let's see if I can come up with 25 facts about myself. Probably not but we'll give it a go. 

 1. My eyes are blue. (And I get complimented a lot for it but please don't think I'm all into myself or something.)

 2. I've dyed my hair so many times that I cannot remember what my natural hair color is. My most current hair color is red and I'm thinking about keeping it that way for a bit. I quite enjoy it. Here's a recent photograph of it. You can roughly see the red, I obviously need to get my hair re-done. 

  
 3. I don't really have a lot of friends but I have a few very good ones. A lot of them I was fortunate to meet once I got to college. I didn't get along with hardly any of my peers in high school so college kinda saved me in a way. 

  This is one of my best friends whom I met at Wright State. Her name is Tabitha and she is probably one of the sweetest people I have ever met. I love her dearly and I cannot imagine my first year of college without her or the rest of my life.

 This is my college roommate Nikki. As you can clearly tell I have had some seriously fun times with this girl and cannot wait to have many more.

 This girl is my other half and she is also my cousin, Kayla. I have gone through so much with this girl and I know I can count on her to always be there. 

 This is my high school friend Addie and I, obviously on my high school graduation day. Please, ignore my hair, it was humid that day. This girl moved to my high school my sophomore year and is a year younger than me but we connect on so many levels about so many things and I'm glad to call her one of my best friends. 

 This is Tatiana and I on our Graduation day. I've known her since middle school and no matter what we always can find something to talk about, even if we haven't seen each other in a long time.

 

 This is Ashley. She has been my friend for as long as I can remember. She is the funniest person I know and we have had some seriously great times together.  

 4. I have a huge family. A lot of my cousins are older than me and have already had children so my family just keeps growing and growing. 

 5. I want to be an actress and plan on moving to LA to start auditiong for things as soon as I am able. 

 6. I'm probably the biggest Vampire Diaries fan on this planet. I am literally obsessed with this show. Last April, I paid $600 to go to a Vampire Diaries convention in Chicago and I got to meet my favorite characters and get my picture taken with a few of them. 

 7. I am a huge social-networking buff. I have a Facebook, a Twitter, a Tumblr, an Instagram, a Pinterest and now a blog. And I'm sure many other things though I can't think of them right at this moment. 

 8. I'm terrified of the dark. I walk around my house at night time with a light up Harry Potter replica wand that I got from Barnes & Noble. (Seriously, I do.)

 9. I shamefully used to be obsessed with the Twilight series, though thank God I have moved on from that. (Only to become more obsessive about another vampire TV show.) 

 10. I've seen every Star Wars movie probably a hundred times and I'm one of those Star Wars enthusiats who knows that the original three movies are better than the newly added parts one through three. 

 11. I'm a cat lady and damn proud of it. 

 12. I find it a bit difficult to get in a relationship and stay in one. Though I like having a boyfriend, I clearly have commitment issues because once things start becoming to serious, I run away. (One of many things I don't particularly like about myself.)

 13. I don't really have a lot of self confidence. I know everyone has things that they don't like about themselves but I just have a lot of things I don't like about myself. 

 14. I've battled depression since I was about 10, that's when I began being seriously bullied in school and began losing friends. (Sorry for getting morbid, it's just something I think I should share finally.)

 15. I've seen nearly every movie that has come out in my lifetime, and a lot that came out before I was born. What can I say, it's a passion of mine.

 16. I work at Build-A-Bear Workshop which is quite different and fun. 

 17. I've secretly always wanted to make YouTube videos but have never had the courage or the self-confidence to do so. 

 18. I watch a lot of YouTube videos and subscribe to many YouTubers. My favorites are Zoella, Marcus Butler, Alfie, Tyler Oakley, Jenna Marbles and Andrea Russett. 

 19. My favorite color constantly changes. Right now I'm obsessed with Minty Greens and Corals, they are very in right now and I just think they are very cute for summer. 

 20. My favorite snack is Oreos. (Must be dunked in milk.)

 21. I eat breakfast when I wake up. No matter what time of day it is that I wake up. When I wake up, it's breakfast time. 

 22. I love going to see scary movies though most aren't very scary to me. 

 23. I get into a lot of different kinds of music though I've never really enjoyed country or rap. I'm more of a punk rock, alternative kind of girl but you bet your ass I will jam to some Ke$ha when she comes on the radio. 

 24. I've read the Harry Potter book series 11 times and want to read them again. 

 25.  I am obsessed with Disney movies.

Well I think that's about all I've got. You guys literally have no idea how hard this was to do. 

Lots of Love

Emily

The Blogger

If you haven't had a chance to look at my about me section on the right hand side of my blog this is post is just a little more in depth into me, the blogger. 

My name is Emily. I recently turned 19 years young and I am going to be starting my sophomore year of college at Wright State University. I am a theatre student who dreams of moving to LA and being an actress. Maybe someday you'll see me in a movie, who knows. :) 

 

These are just a few photos I snapped whilst walking around campus during my freshman year at Wright State. I absolutely love it there, it's an absolutely beautiful campus during every season, my favorite being fall with all the leaves and colors changing. It was gorgeous. 

I am an aspiring actress, though a long shot in some people's eyes, it's reachable in mine. The following is a photo of my freshman year acting class. It was probably the best class I have ever had and I had an amazing teacher who I learned a lot from my freshman year. 

Notice I skipped over high school for my little opening. I wasn't very fond of my high school experience, I don't think a lot of people really are, so I just decided not to dive into those memories and just be in the now.

I live with my Mom and my older brother David. Unfortunately my Dad passed away after battling cancer for 11 years. He passed when I was 16. It's been a pretty rough couple of years but we are getting through it. I think I battle the most with his passing because I really didn't get along with him while he was with us and I wish I could fix it. Since my Dad's passing my family and I have acquired  three cats. 

 

 This is Oliver, our newest little boy.

 

 This is my baby. I named him Ronald Weasley because I'm a super Harry Potter nerd.

 

And this is my brother's girl, Tabby. 

 

 So there's my cat lady side, for you to see. Don't be surprised if you see more photos of them later on. 

I'm a huge bookworm. I've read tons of books and have a massive book collection. I'll probably start doing reviews on the books I read when I finish them, I think that'll be fun and interesting. I'm also obsessed with movies, watching movies is probably my favorite pastime. Since I want to be an actress I just kinda consider it to be studying, which is a bit weird. I'll throw in some movie reviews as well.

I think that's about all for my first post. I hope you learned a little bit about me and I can't wait for blogging to become more integrated into my everyday routine. 

Lots of love

Emily