My Birthday!

Surprisingly, I had a great birthday yesterday. Nevermind, I take that back, it's not surprising when you factor in the fantastic people I have in my life who love me so unselfishly and will do everything they can to make sure I have a great day. The only things that could've made my day even more awesome are my dad, step-mom, step-sisters, Daniel, and Devin.
All day, I got birthday texts, calls, and wall posts on Facebook, which I thank everybody for. My grandma made a beautiful cake for me that I ate with my best girlfriends and close family members that were in the area. After that, the girls and I went to Summer Palace to eat, which we had a great time doing with our ninja waiter and wonton broth. Then we came home and the ones that were left played Apples to Apples, the official game of everyone I've met.
It was so awesome to see them. I was glad to share this birthday with Amber, who I've been getting close to recently, Kathleen, someone who I truly believe is one of my soulmates and would never choose to do without, and Kristina, who I usually don't get to see that often but was able to celebrate my birthday with me. I thought Devin forgot my birthday, but I was happily proved wrong when I saw that he wished me well on both myspace and facebook.
This weekend I'm going to continue the celebrations at my dad's and I'll get to see my grammy, which is always a blast. I can't wait to see them all.
Thank you everyone who's made the last 18 years ones worth reliving if I had the chance. Although my life has been filled with hardships and almost fatal heartbreak, I have also been blessed with family members and fantastic friends that gave me the love and strength to counter the hard times. You've all helped make me the person I am today, a person that not only you love, but that I love too. Thank you for sharing my life thus far with me, and I hope you stay put for a long time to come. :)

Pictures of my cake & small gathering.

The Hunt for Moby Raven

Two days ago, I discovered that Rudolf Martin a.k.a. hottest German without makeup ever, was in another vampire movie called Raven. It came out in August 2009 and barely anyone's heard of it, so I was like "Cool, it should be on DVD by now." So I searched every shopping site I could think of for this movie, but apparently it doesn't exist. The only thing that taunts me with the possibility it's somewhere floating the internet (or a movie store) is the imdb page. So I've decided that this movie is my current white whale; I will search the ends of the internet for this movie and I won't rest until I find it! Or at least a DVD release date.

Prom was awesome!

But of course, Class of 2010 was there, and we always know how to throw a good party. If you were born in late 1991-early 1992, you were born with party genes.
But let me start from the beginning of my promtastic tale. About a month ago, my bff Kat invited me to go to prom with her, since, as a graduate, I couldn't go without being invited by a current student. Then the month of shopping and working out ensued, with a lot of good times and great sales being discovered. I found a great dress, cute (not to mention comfy) shoes, and a gorgeous mask. I might start collecting masquerade masks after this.
Then we (Kat, 4 other friends, and I) had to find a place to take prom pictures. We looked at a local tree place, thingy magig, but that was being rented out for a wedding on the same day. We wound up picking a hospital with gorgeous fountains.
Prom day arrives. Kat stayed the night before, so we got up early and went to work. My grandmother did my hair and Kat did my nails before I took her home so she could get ready herself. When I came back, my aunt did a gorgeous job on my makeup and finally, finally, I could put on my beautiful black dress. Now fully dressed, I went to pick Kat up, who still wasn't ready. By the time she was dressed, we were late to meet the others for pictures. Oh well, we looked hot. My grandma came along to help us take pics and we had a good time looking around the hospital's beautiful scenery.
After our photoshoot, we picked up another friend and went to Summer Palace to eat. I tried some eel, which actually wasn't too bad, but it did look like Petrie from Land Before Time. Needless to say, we ate well before prom lol.
Then, finally, we went to prom. I thought that my hair loose, a mask on, and in a dress, no one would recognize me. The first seven people we saw who greeted "Hey, Kayla" kind of ruined that plan for me. Prom was a blast; we danced, yelled, and had a great time with people we never expected to hang out with. I couldn't have asked for a better night. I was dancing with some of my best friends in the world, I was making eye contact with a hot dj, and then the girls came over to stay at my house again. I can't wait to do this all over again sometime.

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Prom and Commercials

Well, I've been getting ready for prom lately, but I still need shoes, hair tinsel, and a masquerade mask. I finally got all the jewelry I planned today, woot! I'm very excited for prom this year and I intend to get tons of pictures this time. I might be snapping pics more than dancing lol.
Now for some of my favorite commercials (that I can think of):
Betty White's Snickers
Doritos Boy
And my all-time favorite forever; Old Spice Man.

Whoopists and Shopping!

Some of the Whoopists yesterday got together for a water fight! For the Whoopists that didn't come, YOU DISAPPOINT CHUCK NORRIS!!! It was a lot of fun, for the whole 2 minutes it lasted. We didn't fill up all the water balloons, some of the water guns didn't work, and only 6 of us showed up. We're going to try again in a couple of weeks, and this time we're going to plan ahead. We'll fill up those water balloons at 5 in the morning if we have too!
After that, my bff Kat and I went to the mall to window shop. In one store, we found the perfect dress for her! It was her size, her favorite color, and looked amazing on her! It's that one dress every girl searches for her entire life! We didn't have the dough at the time to get it, but it's in the works for her to get it by prom. :) We're gonna look so good and have such a great time there! We still have to buy shoes and a few accessories, but I'm sure everything'll work out by then! I need one more bracelet and some star earrings, maybe a necklace, and then I'll be all set.

Kurt Cobain movie

So apparently there's a new Kurt Cobain movie in the works and Twilight-heartthrob R.Ptaz is being considered for playing America's most iconic grunge-rocker. I laughed when I heard this because one of my friends loves Kurt like I love James Dean and I don't think she'd be too happy if this was set in stone. Of course, she'll be even more upset once she finds out that Kurt's ex-wife and the occasional fan-believed murderer, Courtney Love, is one of the executive producers of the film. That kind of bothers me too in a way. In my opinion, if there's going to be a biopic about someone, then the people closest to that particular person shouldn't be handling the creative aspects of the film. If someone who wasn't involved with them is in charge of the movie, then there's a better chance that the movie will be less biased towards certain individuals. I have a feeling that Courtney might use this movie to put her in a better light and make Kurt look like some kind of monster.

WWE has infected my mind

It's gotten to the point where Brandon and I watch WWE Raw and NXT every week. I've put Tough Love Couples and Celebrity Apprentice aside to possibly watch John Cena, Randy Orton, and (if I'm Lucky) Bret Hart. Dangit, eyecandy prevails. I also got to talking with one of my best friends about WWF (when it was fun for everyone) and we remembered some of our favorite moments of wrestling: anytime Chris Jericho did the Walls of Jericho, Kane choke-slamming Tori, Kane wearing a mask, Triple H ruining Stephanie's life before she switched sides. Then I remembered my main man (besides The Rock) Scotty too Hottie, doing the worm! I loved that move, and the Too Cool dance afterward.
Whoopism is making a comeback in a fun way! Some of my fellow Whoopists and I are going to have a water fight at one of our local parks this Saturday. We'll be bringing water balloons, water guns, and the good, old-fashioned water bottles and duke it out in public. Maybe I'll stay out of it and just tape it to put it on our future YouTube account.
I bought a couple of dresses for prom this past weekend and since I couldn't decide which one to wear, I asked 5 of my closest companions to vote between my black dress and my mixed dress. The black dress won, 3-2, so it looks like I'll be all black and silver for prom this year :) and of course, that's never a problem.