KK's Book Club: 2

Alright. I'm done with the gooshy stuff for now. (Or, not. Tortured Lex with some of it halfway through this)

Books finished:
1. Darkest Mercy, Melissa Marr
2. The Iron King, Julie Kagawa

I don't know how long I'll keep that list on here. Not long, probably. I have no patience with that kind of thing. But I am keeping a list pinned to my wall, too, so....

I'm about a hundred pages through The Iron Daughter, which is in the Iron Fey series, same as The Iron King. After Iron Daughter, I'll be reading the next book in the trilogy, The Iron Queen.

I love this series so far, and if you're into the mystical fantasy stuff, I definitely suggest you check it out. But if you're a Shakespeare fan, well... maybe not. I've read some Shakespeare, but it didn't really inflict my opinion on this series.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, if you didn't make the faery connection.

Uh... yeah. I find the second book a little more angsty than the first, but that's to be expected given the situation the author put Meghan, the main character, in.

Sage. Forever.

~Probably not subtle KK, Somewhere, USA.

Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.

I'll post the book club thinger after this. I didn't forget, I promise.

If you're a Potter hater, I'm telling you now, get off.

If you haven't read the books or seen the last movie, there will be spoilers.

Those are your warnings. If you yell at me now, I will yell back.

Sorry if I sound a little odd. I'm having, like, an empty, dizzy day. I almost fell walking down the steps. Eating didn't help. I don't know exactly what's wrong.

Anyway.

I started reading the Harry Potter books... uh... the summer going into third grade, I think. Ever since then, it's been a main factor in my life. I wouldn't know half the people I know now if it weren't for Harry Potter.

So, I went to see the last movie for the third time again last night. This time, though, it was at the giant-screen super-high-tech place.

It almost made me bawl.

The best day of my life: The day the book Deathly Hallows came out.
The worst day of my life: The day the book Deathly Hallows came out.

My (Slytherin) friend who I met through Harry Potter and I saw the movie together, just like we practically read the book together. I don't know if it was being near her that got to me, or the realization that it's actually over, or what.

I hate how Tonks and Lupin died. Those two, the Weasley twins, Bellatrix, and Luna are my favorites. Just... to die, reaching for your love like that.... And then later, their bodies are side by side, their hands still reaching for each other. Argh.

The sad thing is, four out of my six favorites died. Damn you, final battle.

"When in doubt, blame the Nargles." I would have been devastated if Luna died. God, that would have been awful.

I suppose you're wondering what the title is about.

A couple months ago -I totally missed it, but the Slytherin friend participated in it- there was this project... Kristina Horner (I think. I know she had a part in it, at least) started on Youtube. It was: if you could talk to J.K. Rowling, what would you thank her for? And then people could make video responses and I think they made a huge montage and sent it to Rowling or something. Not quite sure.

I would thank her a thousand times I could, but I doubt I'll ever see her in person and still be able to talk, so instead I'll say it here:

Thank you, J.K. Rowling, for my childhood.

~Ravenclaw KK, Somewhere, USA.
I just cried while watching the info on Pottermore (which is being retarded). Harry Potter's turning me into a wimp. D: I miss it already.

KK Probably Being Ironic In Your Eyes

Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala. La. 'Tina, see what you do to me???

Argh.

So. Soooo. I dunno what to say. Blah. My back hurts (I fell. Off a bus. Because the driver is a douche.), I was in a gross lake today, and bitchy girls were being bitchy.

However, I need to console Thorny (Screw the nicknames I gave them earlier. We actually call her this one) through relationship problems, Scarlet (again) is pissed for no good reason at someone she never actually met, and it's just a whole big mess, and I really don't appreciate the extra worries right now.

I think... I'm just going to go to sleep, read my friggin book, and hope it all goes away.

Sorry for random shortness.

~KK. Just KK. Somewhere, USA.

Things That Creep Me Out

I really have to stop talking to Lex....
Earlier rant put aside, *sigh* I've been... tagged?... or something again.

I have to tell you things that creep me out, "at least five", and I can't just say murderers or stalkers or whatever (like a majority of you guys! :D Yes, I just called you a stalker! Yes you, there, reading my blog but never saying anything to me!).

1. Toilets. I'm not afraid to admit this one. THINK of how many people use even the toilet in your house, and what they do in/on it. You know, when toilets flush, they spray germs everywhere if you don't close the lid? Toilets are DISGUSTING, but as a human in this society, it's a necessity to use them.

2. Cotton balls. Not getting into it, but my mom has to buy me these, like, cotton round things, they're like disks. Cotton balls... just don't ask.

3. Microphones. I have a fear of microphones. Like, a big one. Not those little stage microphones that they clip onto your costume in a play, but the bigass ones that need stands. Again, just... don't ask.

4. Clothing that hasn't been washed. Just ew. Unhygenic and disgusting.

5. Time. The feeling of not having enough. A girl died here recently in a car crash. She was eighteen. Her sister's eye socket is crushed. It's gross just to think about. But her sister was here one second, and gone in the next. Eighteen. Humans are finite. We're definitely not indestructible.... Anything can happen at any time. We're never particularly safe, either. Americans, remember the Cumberlain massacre? Cassie Bernall ("Do you believe in God? Written on the bullet.... And Cassie pulled the trigger."), Rachel Joy Scott.... Can you imagine? Us humans have limited time. And here I sit, waisting time away, blogging.

Random facts time!

The quote I put earlier with Cassie is from Cassie by Flyleaf. If you don't know it, I suggest looking up the Rolling Stone acoustic version, but that's just me.

People are always preaching about saving water. The thing is, water circulates. It's called the water cycle. My third grade cousin can tell you this. We're all drinking dinosaur and human pee. Get over it.

I had more, but I forget it, so....

~Caffeine requiring KK, Somewhere, USA.

-Insert something emotional here-

I feel like... I'm just lacking emotion today. There are just... no words.

Screw it. We're dropping the correct grammar and typing

i feel 'notsome' today. yes, that's the 5AG way.

honestly. i'm just sick (i'm so sick, infected with, where i live, let me live without this.... brownie points, anyone?) of everyone being so... so... superficial and fake. honestly, wouldn't it all be easier if everyone told the truth, and didn't pretend to be friends with a person, when in reality, they're both repulsed by each other?

Jay, I love you, and if you weren't around, I sincerely think I wouldn't be.

argh. don't get me started about dating and boy hell. i'm lucky i have Jay, and let's leave it at that.

but the girls.... Why is there so much drama? Why?

Why is the female species incapable of being honest with one another? people wonder why some of my best friends are guys. have you SEEN the trouble girls cause?

i just... argh. just because my IQ is higher than all of theirs put together -because their heads are stuffed with Jersey Shore and Eminem- doesn't mean they have to be so bitchy and full of shit.

i wish that we could just get rid of the popular girls, get rid of this false sense of superiority, and just have everyone look the same. that way people would have to judge by personality, not on how someone looks. although people seem to look to the girls with the most make-up on for leadership... not those who aren't covered in eyeliner and spray-tanned orange.

i'm sorry. i sound like some fat, complaining twelve year old. i just can't take the fake and nothingness sometimes. please tell me i'm not alone in this debacle of fake superiority.

~Short and pale KK, Somewhere, USA.

"I Still remember the world from eyes of a child....
Slowly those feelings were clouded by what I know now....."

Lalalala

Today was a lazy day.

Lol, right. This is KK, I can't get a freaking break.

Two softball games today. 14. FOURTEEN INNINGS. Of me pitching. I have now pitched four games in 3 days. Twenty-eight innings.

I know that doesn't seem traumatic for those of you who might not pitch or play, but for those of us softball pitchers, it can get quite painful. I reserve judgement on baseball because obviously I've never played it, but it seems a lot less painful to throw a lot of baseballs because they're smaller, and you're throwing overhand, but I've never played, those are just guesses.

I seriously could not straighten out my arm after the second game today. Just couldn't.

And tomorrow I must work. Three college kids, me, and another girl in my grade, plus thirty rugratz.

My hours? Seven to five. A walk to the pool with said thirty rugratz. Pay? Very low. I'm still trying to remember my reasoning for taking this job. Hornet works one day a week and gets 50-60 bucks for it. All week and I get about thirty. WITH RUGRATZ. She's at a freaking farmer's market!

Yep. On that note, I'm done.

~Tired and pained "grandma" KK, Somewhere, USA.

Somewhheeeeerrrrrre over the rainbow, pitchers pitch. And their arms never get sore, why oh why, does mine?

The Tag Thingumery

So. There's this tag thing that's been floating around since early 2009. Well, Lex finally caught me, and I figured I'd share it with you too. However, I substituted KK in place of my real name, because Google didn't accept KK as a name, and I don't really want my name on blogger.
What you do is time your name and then whatever word it is into Google, then look at the things that come up. If you want to do one, don't be afraid to post it in the comments!
Oh, and if anyone other than Lex would have tagged me, I probably wouldn't of done this, but Lex, I love you, so I will. (that's what she said...?)

KK needs: a puppy
KK looks like: Linsay Lohan (the fuck? No, I do not)
KK says: so
KK wants: strawberries
KK does: Google (lawl)
KK hates: tickle torture (okay...)
KK asks: for help
KK likes: to dance like a retard (rofl)
KK eats: babies (Google, I love you)
KK wears: flannels (...okay then?)
KK was arrested for: doodling on desk (wtf? lulz)
KK loves: Friendly's.

There you have it. My Google thingy, started by the Green brothers, I believe.
If you wanna do one (that's what she said) post a comment with your results below! Please? :3

~Baby-eating KK, Somewhere, USA.

KK's Book Club info and first update

I've been challenged.

I'm supposed to give you updates weekly (so, probably every Saturday) on like, books and crap that I've been reading/rereading.

We'll call it.... KK's Book Club.

Now, I usually read fiction/fantasy stuff more often then not (unless it's something required for school. Ugh), like Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Maximum Ride, etc.
If I forget to give you and update on Saturday... I will be punished. By Lex or Ashy or someone. Like, gross eating a whole container cheese kind of thing. Ew. I wish I hadn't typed that....

So. I'm currently reading the fifth book in the Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr, entitled Darkest Mercy, the last book.
Honestly, I read the first four books of this series a couple months ago, and then got bored, so I finally got the courage to pick it up again.

So far, Darkest Mercy is kind of cool.

The Wicked Lovely series is about a girl named Aislinn who can see faeries, and lives by three rules:
3. Don't stare at invisible faeries.
2. Don't speak to inviaible faeries.
1. Don't ever attract their attention.

Or, well, that's some of the description for the first book. Obviously not the fifth.

Do I suggest you read it? If you're into the same kind of thing I am, then sure. My advice? Skip the second book. The Ink Exchange. It is possibly the most boring book I've read on my own, or that wasn't required for school. Plus, they give you all the info on it in about three pages rather than three hundred. Just... don't. It's so boring.

Alright. Here's a brief thingy about Darkest Mercy:
In this series, I have three favorite characters. The whole of Darkest Mercy is about killing one favorite character, who ended up killing another favorite character, who died saving the OTHER favorite character, who was almost killed about four times throughout the series. Yep. It's almost like the friggin Hunger Games all over again.

So, that's the first installment of KK's Book Club! I'll do this every Saturday for... hmm... who knows how long?

~bookworm KK, Somewhere, USA.

JUSTICE and Mercy

Brownie points if you picked up on what the title is from before reading the rest of this. In order to receive these brownie points, however, I suppose you have to communicate with me....

Anyway. Flyleaf lover here. I don't know if they have a particular name like 'Parawhore' or not. If they do, I'm going to feel stoopid. (Yes, that was done on purpose, smarties.)

Alright, Justice and Mercy, off of Remember to Live, right? Nup.

There's the Violent Love Verson, on Remember to Live, and there's another one off of... well, I don't know where.

But I prefer the first version over Violent Love.

My friends don't like screamo. Or anything remotely close to it. A girl from Camp called Black Veil Brides hard metal and weird. I told her to fuck off. She was a Beiber diehard though, so I suppose she deserved it.

Um. Off-topic. This is why I should plan things before I start typing.

Alright, Violent Love Version of Justice and Mercy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQrUHRnb9_o&feature=related
Other version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHtQJQ9pRc

Which do I prefer? The non-acoustic. By A LOT.

I'm not a big fan of the sound Flyleaf acquired in their third album. I'm hoping their new one will be, at least, closer to the sound they had in Memento Mori, if not their first album (FLYLEAF).

Sorry. Um... what have I done that's been interesting recently?

We totally killed in a softball game today. It was a two-hour, THREE inning game. We won, 20-2. I never thought I could be bored while playing softball, but there it was. One girl just got a lucky hit and she got an RBI and then stole home 'cause our catcher has more attention problems than I do.

That's really it. Actually, I have to get going on icing my arm and such since we have to play again tomorrow. It's a tournament. And then the season's really over. D:

~Attention Problem-ed KK, Somewhere, USA.

I'm a bad... uh... Kind-of fangirl.

If I'm a bad person... you don't like me.

Issues? I got 'em. As if you didn't know.

Oh, before I forget, two things: Happy birthday, Denise! Also, Hornet knows. She KNOWS. Actually, three things. You're now half-half dead!

K. Onto business: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoTEnaAI9Fo

What is that, you ask? That is KK being a semi-bad not-really fangirl. Because she didn't realize it existed until now.

Ohohoho. Paramore has a new music video, for a song I don't really like, from a band that's turning way too pop, and only has 1 of my favorite members left. And no drummer. Or other guitarists.

Damn you, Farros! Well... maybe that should be damn you, Hayley Williams.... Hmm.

So. The music video itself involves the band laying in water for at least a minute, members launching themselves at walls at random, and a lot of explosions. I do like Hayley's hair, though. Anything else about her? Voice, personality, etc? Just no. Also, her eyes change color about halfway through the video, and then she goes all squinty-eyed like Brock from Pokemon, whom they finally kicked out, like five seasons later. They got rid of Misty, my favorite, in the first. -_-

Anyway, escaping from my inner nerd (I'm on Blogger.... Waaaaaiiiiit a minute.), I'm not a huge fan of Paramore anymore. I think I said that last post, but being at Camp has addled my small brain. I MISS IT SOO MUCH.

...all I heard was noodles.

~KK getting into inside jokes already, Somewhere, USA.

OMG KK'S ALIVE

Didja think I was dead? Pretty sure Lex did. I don't remember the format I used for these anymore....

So. I don't really have anything to talk about. So let's talk about stupid things you probably don't care about.

Music. Well, you probably care about music in a way, but probably not the type of music I do. And if you do - you're awesome and you should communicate with me.

Obviously, I'm a musical freak. Cats, RENT, Les Miserables.... You name it, I've probably seen it. Those three are just my favorites :3
Flyleaf, Evanescence, Muse, The Mars Volta, System Of A Down, My Chemical Romance, We Are The Fallen, the ALL CAPS, Christina Grimmie....
Epic bands and artists. You should check at least some of them out :P

But you know one thing that bugs me to NO end?
How people identify bands by their lead singer and such and don't bother to find out the rest of the band's names.
FOR INSTANCE....
I met a girl at the mall the other day. I was wearing an Evanescence T-shirt, being as normal as I can be.
Girl must have recognized the name of the band or something because she goes up to me and says, "Oh my God! I love Evanescence! She has such a great voice!"
What am I supposed to say to that? "You mean Amy Lee... right?"
Girl kind of gave me a confused look and walked away.

No. That's not even the best example.

PARAMORE. Yeah, yeah, Parawhore, blah blah.

Was anyone but me DEVISTATED when the Farros left? I mean, God, that's only their drummer and lead guitarist as well as half of the song writers there. C'mon. How many of those "Parawhores" out there can actually name even the remainder of the band? I bet not a lot. Hayley Williams, Taylor York, Jeremy Davis. Not that difficult. The band is made up of more than Hayley Williams. I don't listen to Paramore as much as I did once upon a time anymore, because compared to the other stuff I listen to, they REALLY sound pop. And I just... can't stand them sometimes.

Their new song, Monster? Kind of think that was Hayley's revenge on the Farros from their blog, Tetelestai or something. They certainly made her out to be a monster.

Flyleaf is probably my favorite band at the moment, or... maybe System Of A Down. Hmm.

But there is NO change from the acoustic to studio version of Lacey's voice, unlike Hayley's (Final Riot vs. Riot. How different do they sound...?). Plus, with Flyleaf, you may get the idiots fighting about religion a lot, but at least everyone agrees they're a good band.

New Evanescence album (and maybe new Flyleaf...?) out in October! Hooray!

As for this blog, I'm going away soon and will not have internet, so don't expect anything until, like, the eighteenth, if I'm feeling ambitious (lol, right. this is KK speaking). What will I be doing...? Probably a looooonnnng Harry Potter rant, maybe some movie critique, possibly explaining some shit from Camp..... *le shrug*

(Did I used to do this? I think so.)

~KK