Ya know what I'm sayin'?...

I haven't posted in a while, and I thought it would be nice to catch my buddies up on what has been happening in the life of Ellie... I have been dancing a ton! -explains the bruises, bumps, blisters and PULLED MUSCLES! My poor manicure and pedicure were for nothing! Ha ha I had two performances in the last two weeks but luckily I was only in a piece or two. The dance company performance was in opening assembly yesterday and it was swell. I was really pleased with the progress we made in the last week. The lighting, costumes, and of course the dancing looked and felt great. I had a blast being with all my girls. I was only in one piece for CDT. Basically the reason I went was to hang out with my BFFs for the day! I was with Maggie (Mama Peace) and Emma all day on Saturday last week. We carpooled in Emma's new car and jammed to music the whole way to the meeting place... which felt like we drove to Mars and back!

On a more serious topic... school has begun. The excitements of summer have ended and I have to get down to business. Four AP classes and pounds of homework means time to study, read, and prepare for anything that comes my way at school. My dad always tells me right before I start school, study hard, work hard, and when its time to play hard. I think this is great advice. If I work really hard throughout the week I don't have as much to worry about on the weekends. That is when I can take the time to do what my dad says and play. Mostly I am just home, but I like to do things I wouldn't get to enjoy throughout the week. Sew, watch movies, call friends, hang with my little brothers... and stuff like that.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about being patient. Patience for answers, patience with friends, patience for help, patience for excitement... patience for everything. Some times I get all flustered because I can be a very impatient person. If something is not stated to me the first time very clearly then I have to know the answer right then. Or if I am struggling to understand something about someone I want to clear up the situation then and there so that it is not haunting my mind. I read in an awesome book once that I should learn to take things one-step at a time. Rather than getting stressed and angry I should think about the situation calmly and then I can have the patience to solve the problem. Whenever I have a big day ahead of me I remember with the assurance that if I take the situation one step at a time, my day will run more smoothly and I don't have to be as worried. This schedule seems much more organized and relaxed to me. Ya know what I'm sayin'?

Fixed in the 50's...

Anachronism: something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.

Mother is always calling me an anachronism and Alyson is always telling me I am weird for my interests. I have an obsession with anything from the 1930’s to the 1960’s. The language, the hair, the dress, the music, the BEAUTY. I am not much of a disco freak so the 70’s are O.U.T. I just recently ordered a black rotary phone in the mail just like my idol Della Street (Barbara Hale) had from Perry Mason which is my favorite TV show. Next on my list will be a typewriter…. but not the electric kind yuk! The first-half of the 20th century seemed so marvelous, although mother and father tell me it had its problems just like we currently have. War, economic problems, ya ya ya. Home life seemed so perfect, and women were women and men were men. The mothers dressed like ladies and didn’t try to dress like they were still 16 and the men wore a suit and tie and were gentlemen. I idolize that time. I love hippy music so the 60’s are perfect. In addition Perry Mason was on TV. I couldn’t live without my Perry! Everything seemed so decent and perfect then. I am sure I will rant about this topic much more throughout my blog because of my undying obsession and desire to bring back the 50’s!

A list of my favorite movie stars:
1) Cary Grant
2) Deborah Kerr
3) Katherine Hepburn
4) Judy Garland
5) Raymond Burr
6) Barbara Hale

An "Affair to Remember" was an affair to remember...

Movie Review!!!
Okay so suddenly the movie "An Affair to Remember," has jumped to the front of the line for favorite Cary Grant movie. I haven't ever seen a romance that was so incredible in my whole entire life... and if you think about it 16 years and nine months is quite a bit of time. The movie is about a young Casanova (Cary Grant) named Nicky Ferrante who is on a cruise from his home in New York to Italy to visit his aging grandma. On the same ship is a young singer named Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) who just happens to be taking the same trip. She does not want to get mixed up in a guy like Nicky but they happen to run into each other quite often on the ship and soon fall in love. Waiting at home Nicky is engaged to a very wealthy heiress (whom he doesn't love) and Terry has a boyfriend. Terry and Nicky truly fall in love on the ship and spend their entire time in Italy together. They decide that it would be in their best interest to leave each other for six months when they arrive home so that they can save up the money they need to get married and promise each other that after that six months is over they will meet on the 102nd floor of the Empire State building. They work hard to keep the promise but on that day Terry is in a tragic accident.... You must watch the rest if you are interested. It is utterly AMAZING! Movies today just don't appeal to me. I am not interested in the superheroes they are currently displaying, or the horrors, or even what they call "romances." Men in the 50's seem like they would be so much easier to fall in love with because they are such gentlemen. Just look at Cary <3 the perfect idol for all men. I never worry about what I am going to see in the classics because the producers would not allow anything crude or vulgar. I would recommend "An Affair to Remember," to anyone because it is so marvelous!

Back from Camp!...

My week at camp was great. I was one of the oldest girls so I got to be a couselor which was so fun. I had four other girls in my group Kayla, Whitney, Shali, and Renae. I got to know these sweethearts so well last week. They are all so unique but there is one thing they have in common they are all so so kind.

I stuck with my fabulous childhood friend Brittan basically the whole entire camp. We had so much fun together. We had a lot of laughs. Because the theme was Western the camp leaders gave us some cowboy hats. Brittan and I pulled down the rims and wore our blue bandanas around the bottom half of our faces to make it look like we were bandits. Then we wore our sunnies and ran around camp. We thought we were in disguise but people could pick us out.... oh well ha ha.

I had a lot of other awesome experiences at camp that I wrote about in my journal that will never be forgotten. Even though I felt so deprived without a shower I made so many new friends so it was totally worth it.