Dementors

I don't know why, but for some reason Dementors have been on my brain. I haven't even read a Harry Potter book in months, let alone watched a movie for a week or so now.

I personally think that it may have been this commercial that did it for me. I saw it one day, and loved it. I've watched it a million times now. Watch it.

Tell me that all the death eaters aren't driving this car.

A few days ago, I was walking up the stairs from my room to go to school. I take several bags with me for all of the different things I do. (Dance, school, after school stuff... blah blah.) It was a dark morning, and I looked up to see a Dementor hanging its head over the bannister trying to suck out my soul. I squealed, dropped all of my bags and proceeded to fall down all over the stairs in one big hot mess.

I'm perfectly fine now, because the Dementor that was trying to suck out my soul, wasn't actually a Dementor. It was just a black jacket, with its hood expanded in a Dementor sized head fashion. When my dad asked me what happened, I wanted to scream out "Dementor, Dementor!" like Draco does in Book Three. But I didn't. I told him I just fell up the stairs, as per usual.

I was at school this morning, walking up the stairs, concentrating on every single one, as you must while walking up stairs, when I noticed a black form in the corner of my eye. I looked up to see another Dementor. They're everywhere! I turned around abruptly and smashed into the boy behind me who knocked down several girls after that. Only this time I actually did scream out 'Dementor, Dementor!'

Ok, this time the Dementor was a boy wearing a black jacket. But he was coming after me I swear. I'm going to try harder to calm myself down when I see a Dementor. It's a wonder I have any friends at all.

Sterling Scholar

These are a few of the shots I did for a dance photo shoot.

(Click to enlarge)

Desert Spirit

Desert Spirit

Amelia Pullman

You will learn to love in the Kingdom of Death.

You will sing in its Gardens of Silence.

What tomorrow brings will never be known.

What weapon you choose in your Army alone,

Will be the Sun and the Moon combined into one.

What horses will fly with Bumblebees of blue.

What stars will burn out when you close your eyes.

If this Desert Spirit finds you, and it always does,

Submit to its rage, and Honor your soul.

The Apocalypse Is Here

Love, Majora's Mask 

You're Staring.

I was in Hollister yesterday, just bumming around when I couldn't get over the feeling that someone had been watching me since I got there. Then our eyes met, and I was like 'where have you been all my life?' The second thing I thought was 'Why am I wearing this ugly sweater?' and the third thing 'stop staring at me in my ugly sweater.'

But he wouldn't.

So, I came home and I found a picture of him.

Yup. This is him.

Yes. I know he was staring at you too.

They Have Won.

Happy Halloween!

Dance In A Nutshell

In Dance Company we had to write a short paper on our own philosophy of dance. To be perfectly honest with you, I wrote this in probably less than 20 minutes. Tada. Anyways. I didn't really think much about it, it all came pretty easy, because this is just how I feel about dance. But my dance teacher actually read my paper out loud to all of the other girls. ... awkward. Not really, but she said before she read it that she had to read the first paragraph three times before she understood it. Maybe that's because its a jumbled mess, or it could just be her. But hey, if she liked it enough to make her all teary-eyed, I thought I might as well put it up. So, to the world; here is how I view dance in a nutshell.

Philosophy of Dance

Philosophy is the study of the foundational features of knowledge, reality, and existence. We gain knowledge through facts, information and skills that we acquire from experience and learning. We use reality by dancing in the real world, and worlds beyond this one. And through our way of life, we use dance to exist.

Dance is an extraordinary thing because of it’s many uses. We use dance as an art form, a way to express ourselves, a way to re-tell a story, a physical exercise, to learn and grow, to touch others lives, and to touch our own lives.

Dance is the bridge between spiritual and physical. Dance takes energy, strength, and self-control, which must meet with emotion and soul. Because it takes so much effort to achieve this, only through practice and growth will this happen.

When words cannot be expressed, there comes dance in its stead. Dance is a way to express certain feelings and emotions that can better be said through the words of a body and movement than could ever be said in words. If you want to share your feelings in their fullest, you must let yourself go in dance. You are giving your entire self. Making you vulnerable to whoever may be watching. You must be brave. Many will not understand what you have to say, however even if there isn’t one who does, in your heart, you will have felt accomplishment that cannot be gained from anything other than dance in this world.

Fly me to the moon

Fly me to the moon

Let me play among the stars

Let me see what spring is like

On a-Jupiter and Mars

In other words, hold my hand

In other words, baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song

And let me sing for ever more

You are all I long for

All I worship and adore

In other words, please be true

In other words, I love you

Fill my heart with song

Let me sing for ever more

You are all I long for

All I worship and adore

In other words, please be true

In other words, in other words

I love ... you

-Frank Sinatra

I was out with my mom and my brother one day, driving around, as far as I remember having a grand old time, when my brother said, "Yep, I am going to be an astronaut when I grow up." I smiled and told him it was a brilliant plan not including the fact that NASA had just set up their last ship, and the program was basically over with. Why crush that right now, right? Soon after he said this, he asked me what month came after October. Oh my little brother. So, I asked him if he knew the song. You know, the song we all learned. The song which some of us still use to figure out which month follows October? Several times of singing it with him, I said he should sing it alone. And he went like this; January, February, March and April, May, June, July and August, September..... November? Nope Max, remember the whole, what comes after October question?

This conversation didn't phase me until a few days later. How could I expect Max to be able to become an astronaut in a dying program. But how could I expect him to be able to do this without knowing when November came? It won't happen. Thats how. But he still believes he can. So why shouldn't I? Dreams are what makes us who we are. Without them I don't think we would know what to do with ourselves. So to my little brother who wants to be an astronaut. If you ever are unsure of when November is, I will always be here to tell you. Because if we all know when that is, I believe we can do anything.

Expressions of Love

Once upon a time I took a stupid online quiz. Just something that came up when I was stumbling. It was kinda about life and all of that. We have all taken one. Like a Phycology quiz or whatever. So, one of the questions says something like; you come upon a bush of red and white roses and you pick 20. How many roses of each color do you pick? I said 19 red and 1 white. You know, for dramatic effect or whatever. So at the end of the quiz while it was explaining the answers to me, and it said that the roses symbolized love. The red roses are how much love you expect to receive and the white how much you expect to give. So the dumb quiz was telling me that I expect 95% of love and am only willing to give 5%. I blew it off. These quizzes always lie. Right? But wouldn't it be sad if it was true? I mean, that was months ago, and for some reason I am still thinking about it.

My dad recently sent me this amazing video. Usually I just roll my eyes at these because thats just what I do. I close off to these. But this one kinda caught me and I ended up loving it. Crying actually. Shhhh thats a secret. But watch it and just love it. because it was really sweet and it kinda has to do with all this silly love stuff. Not that I am or have been in love or anything. just directed at the people I love. My family in friends. I want to give more than 1 white rose.

Girls Camp

In my Spanish class this year, instead of learning spanish we actually just learned about Mr. Burtenshaws (Spanish teacher's) life. He had a pretty interesting life and he told the stories really well, so I honestly didn't mind at all. One day he told a story about his towns girls camp. He started by explaining how small his town was. How everybody knew everybody. For two whole weeks all of the girls in the town would go to girls camp. He said it was on a property far up a road and in the woods in some cabins. During those two weeks all of the boys in the town would try to sneak in. Brilliant idea. Because of this, all of the dads in the town would take shifts guarding the camp. He said it turned out to be more of a game between the boys and the dads then anything. If the boys were caught, they had to do community service. He said it was pretty intense and they had quite a few years to try to get in. He told us all of the ways they tried and all of the plans they had. Apparently only a few boys got into the camp every year. He sadly wasn't one of them. But anyways, what I'm getting at is tomorrow I and about a bazillion other girls are headed off to stake girls camp. Boys, It's in Heber, not too far away. If you're up for a challenge, try sneaking in. Then, you should come and find me. Cause hey. It's girls camp baby.

Thought Of You

In my spare time, or time that I honestly don't have but just waste, I like to stumble. Nope, this is not tripping or falling. Stumbling is, well it's a website that takes you to other random websites. If that makes any sense at all. It's really awesome. It's an awesome waste of time, but it's still awesome nonetheless. Stumbling is also very fun to do with someone else. So, we can do it sometime. Ok?

So, Eliza was stumbling. Just with herself, and she came across something so completely amazing, it made me cry. She posted it on my Facebook wall, and now I watch it probably 4 times a day. So, here is the thing. I would really like to do this with someone. So if you are watching this and you think you could possibly do this with me, or maybe know someone... come running to my house. Because I will fall in love with you. I mean, I'm still working on the growing wings on the spot thing, but I think we can maybe pull it off.

I found it on youtube. Because it's easier to watch that way.

This is breathtaking. Watch it.

100 Truths

This post is 100 truths about me. Mainly. It's just a little random and the truths probably have a little inconsistency but hey, read em' anyways. Learn a little more about me. And if you already know all of these things, then I'm impressed and we should probably be dating. So tell me. here it goes. 100 Truths of Amelia.

1. I have a hard time not stepping to the beat of the music while shopping at the mall.
2. My favorite foods are avocados, havarti cheese, chicken, oranges, peaches, milk, ice cream, bruschetta and lettuce.
3. I enjoy being alone.
4. I like to climb trees.
5. I'm in love with colors.
6. I can't stand fast blinking blinkers.
7. I use too much toothpaste.
8. I take cold showers.
9. My patronus is a fox... or a wolf, or a bird, or a coy fish.
10. I laugh hardest when I am by myself.
11. I'm good running on about 4-5 hours of sleep.
12. I don't use a bookmark.
13. Other peoples relationships bother me. I don't like hearing about people getting together, and I don't like hearing about people breaking up.
14. I hate stores like tai pan and pier 1.
15. I love flowers. Even when they die I still love them.
16. I'm always needing to pee.
17. I have 256 songs from all the Zelda games.
18. I am constantly sarcastic.
19. I don't like wearing what everybody else is wearing.
20. I have weird dreams and I usually remember them all.
21. I want to take scissors to my hair and randomly cut.
22. I can't wear the color yellow.
23. I am easily entertained, but lose interest very quickly.
24. I hate fake nails. (sorry)
25. When I find a movie I love, I watch it over and over and over again.
26. I accidentally swallow my gum a lot.
27. I really wish I was a soccer girl.
28. When I am typing something, and I notice that I have typed something wrong, I erase everything up to that point in order to fix it.
29. I'm usually icing something.
30. At night while driving I get super scared when crossing the train tracks and that light shines right in my face I think I am going to die.
31. I should probably start doing my hair.
32. I've had my life flash before my eyes before, and once it was over I said, "that was it?"
33. I hate how people can't get the to, too and two thing. it's just so simple.
34. I can't stand how people have to chew their ice cream.
35. I set my alarm for 5am and put it on the other side of the room so that when it goes off I have to jump out of my bed and hit the snooze button, just because I love the ringing sound and laying in my bed with a pounding chest.
36. I am horrible at parking.
37. I adore art museums.
38. I have a hard time flying a paper air plane.
39. I hardly ever answer my phone.
40. I like 25mph roads because it gives me a longer time to think.
41. I love the cello.
42. I want to be a sexy spy who runs around in heels.
43. I am not a big fan of surprises.
44. I love the sparkly floors at forever 21.
45. If I don't write in my journal I don't sleep well.
46. I laugh at people who can't maintain their composure.
47. I love shoes, but I like wearing them a whole lot less.
48. I love wearing socks outside.
49. I know what I want and there aren't many times when I don't get it.
50. If I listen to the same artist too many times in a row I get depressed.
51. I actually enjoy being stressed out.
52. If I could have another piercing I totally would.
53. I look best in blues. Particularly royal blue.
54. My eyes change color. Along with my hair.
55. I like wearing lipstick.
56. I wonder how many people have blocked me on Facebook.
57. I think my greatest fear may be myself.
58. I love wearing my socks outside.
59. My favorite season is fall. The next is spring.
60. I hate decorations and holiday music.
61. I can't stand text that isn't justified.
62. I want to write a book someday.
63. When I am holding someones hand I have to be underneath.
64. I don't like driving with the windows rolled down.
65. Toilet paper has to be coming over not under.
66. I like floral everything.
67. I like turning pages.
68. Pearls are my favorite stone.
69. I am going to be a manikin when I grow up.
70. I like old lady clothes.
71. I love to learn.
72. Without fail I always type 'birthday' as 'brithday' (you can only imagine the time I had trying to do that one)
73. I never got a parking pass.
74. I say the word brilliant quite a bit.
75. I can't wink. Never ever going to be cool enough. So if I try to wink at you, just laugh.
76. Lamps remind me of soap operas.
77. I hate automatically flushing toilets. I have to jump up and down in front of them to get them to go off. I just recently found out that there is a button on top.
78. I hate people touching my hair. Only a select few can.
79. I love red hair.
80. I like boys with spiky hair. Those cute fohawks.
81. Sleeping is a complete waste of time.
82. I'm a true eagle.
83. I love the smell of laundry detergent.
84. I like taking naps in the grass.
85. I'm totally a princess.
86. I have a hard time not looking at people in their cars while waiting at a light.
87. I have never broke a bone.
88. I can't drink milk at other peoples houses. It creeps me out.
89. I don't like babies.
90. I wake up at 2 in the morning and am really really hungry.
91. I like it when people call me by cute pet names.
92. My favorite book is Girl With A Pearl Earring.
93. Apparently I'm intimidating.
94. When I'm walking I like to be reading something.
95. I love writing letters. And receiving letters too.
96. I don't sleep with a pillow.
97. I have never seen lost, the office, or any of your other favorite shows.
98. This took more than one day to write.
99. I had only two goals for this past school year, and I completed neither of them. Maybe next year you could help me out with them.
100. If I could be anyone, it would be hermione granger. Because she is stunning in every way.

well. Thats it. That is my 100 truths. And just one more time, if you knew all of that, call me up. Because we should probably be dating.

You should probably just laugh

If you asked me what my normal day consisted of, I honestly couldn't give you a very good answer, because my days are all over the board. Take today for example. Just for example.

I woke up and had the biggest glass of milk possible. Drove to school while singing Norah Jones. Read about 4 chapters of my English book before class started so I could actually know a little bit for the test and practically fell asleep in Spanish. During 3rd period we took the math CRT, which I finished in about 50 minutes excluding question 69 which for some reason I could not do for the life of me. I spent the rest of the period on that one problem and got nowhere with it. Failure. I came home and was freezing so I put on sweats over my pants and long blue socks which I wore diligently throughout the rest of the day. I watched Modern family which makes me laugh literally out loud even though I'm by myself. I ran into a wall and now have a goose egg on the side of my head. Went to a baseball game where I learned what a pickle was and attempted at going to mutual where I sat in the parking lot for about 7 minutes then went home. Then I took off my shoes and did cartwheels in my blue socks outside on a hill which is actually a very unusual task.

So, what I'm getting at, is... well, you should probably just laugh.

My Fatal Flaw

I have finally come to the conclusion of what my fatal flaw is. I decided just this week. I have had a really big week of dance, with Dance Company and BYU performances every night. In Dance Company I was in 13 of about 16 dances, which makes for some pretty fast changes. Likewise with BYU. Like 10 second changes backstage. And if I didn't have the help of some amazing girls who helped me all night, I probably would have keeled over and died. Because, you see, my fatal flaw is getting dressed.

Performances (so as not to get confused.)

Wednesday (Dance Co)

Thursday (Dance Co)

Friday Morning (BYU)

Friday (BYU)

Saturday (BYU)

On Wednesday night, there was not a costume that I put on right. I would be running really fast, go out, dance my heart out, just to come off and have someone tell me that my shirt was on either backwards, inside out, or stuck in my pants. In one of the dances I came off stage only to find that my pants were ALL three of those things. So yes, I had a nice little tag as a tail. It's a beautiful thing. But part of me kind of doesn't care that all my costumes were screwy. Because... well I don't really know why. Maybe I just hope that people will look at my lack of getting dressed correctly skills as charming and kind of funny. Who knows. Like I said before. It's just my fatal flaw.

A Couple Things

So I pretty much lost my last chance to become a real Queen. The big marriage happened. I watched it on t.v. It was happy. Dang it. But, I kinda have one more chance to become a Princess. Sort of. I mean Prince Harry is kinda old, and most likely has a girlfriend, and lives in London. But, other than that... yeah, most likely not going to happen. Thats ok, they aren't that cute anyways. Like whatever right??

Went to Prom. With Andrew Swenson. I loved it. I was reading my sisters blog, and well, she blogged about it. So, I thought I should too.

Prom: I was waiting around because once you get heels on, you can't exactly do much, when his parents and his sister come in the back door. We are 'old family friends' as my mom likes to call it. So, it was all super cool. Just about two minutes later he comes to the front door with TWO corsages. Two people. He said I got to choose. One was blue, and the other pink. I chose the pink one because it was smaller, but I loved them both. We took some model worthy photos, and were off. For dinner he took me to Gloria's. It was so happy. Amazing. I would go back in a heartbeat. I could have stayed there all day. Lets go? And then we danced. And danced and danced. We went to Jamba, and ended the night with Harry Potter 7. ahh. Andrew knows how to date me. It was a flurry of everything amazing. So, thank you Andrew, for the Prom night of my dreams. Which is just a little twisted. <3

Oh yeah, he wore baby blue.

And I wore an attractive minx.

It was happy.

Prom: 2011

Eliza is moving back. I am really excited. I need her. She is a listener. Its her hobby. I'm not. Thats why I need one. We are going to have the best summer ever.

I Lost My Earring People.

Hey. So I have a little problem and I think you might be able to help me. You see. I lost my favorite earring of all time. Like I will never have a more favoritest earring than this one. Here it is.

Yeah. So there it is. I drew that with my artistic skills. See, I have one of them because I frequently wear only one earring. Is that so weird? I honestly don't think so. So, I am only missing one. But, these earrings are not only thee most amazing most beautiful earrings in the world, but they are special because my best friend Eliza gave them to me. And I love them so so ever so much. I feel so awful. For a while I have actually been denying that I am missing one. But, it's time to face this problem. So, if you could look around, and you happen to spot this one earring? Could you return it to me? Because, I need them in my life. Oh yeah, and don't tell Eliza. I don't want her to know. I feel awful as is.

Thanks people. Call me. And lets get this earring back into our lives!

Harry Potter.

So Eliza showed me these amazing Harry Potter... thingys. And I love them. I read them like 12 times a day. If you are ever going to take a Harry Potter Exam, study up on these. They are amazingly funny. There are 4 books. Click on them and cross your fingers that they will come up all big. Because if they don't, thats super sad for you. Anyways. Thanks Liza. For showing me these.

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3