Christian Bale

It's been what, two weeks since I talked about hott guys? I've learned to face it, you guys should too: I like hott guys.

However this hottie post in particular isn't just for me. It's also for Psycho, who asked me about Christian Bale while he was on my CurrentObsessions list. {He's gone now; I have a rather short obsession span.} I decided he merited a post because he seems to be pretty awesome.

The Basics:

Name: Christian Charles Phillip Bale

Age: 37

Hair: dark brown

Eyes: brown

Height: 6ft

Does this lovely individual look familiar to you? You may recognize him from the movie "Little Women." He played Laurie.

No? Okay. Try this:

Yeah, he's also Batman in "The Dark Knight." Therrrrre, does that ring a bell? If it doesn't, you should familiarize yourself with the movie right away because not only is Christian Bale in it, it's also just a good movie.

He's also been in a lot of other random things such as "Anastasia: the Mystery of Anna," "Treasure Island," "The Machinist," and several Shakespeare play movies.

Basically, he's cool. And quite cute. I might have had a little more enthusiasm a couple of weeks ago after I had just watched "Little Women," but as I said before I have a very short obsession span and I'm pretty much over him.

For now.

Pictures, pictures:

~Stephanie

Latest {Over} Reactions

Thanks for following, Heather! I love love LOVE your profile picture.

Things That Should Not Have Affected Me as Much As They Did:

1. I finally killed the spider that has been haunting my room for 6 days. I was disproportionately overjoyed by this. As in, jumping around my room.

2. I saw a quote that said "Muffins are just ugly cupcakes" today and for some reason it made me want to cry. Muffins have feelings too, guys.

3. My sister and I got into a fight over whether iRenew bracelets were supposed to help balance or not. I was way angrier than I should have been and nearly chucked a camera at her.. {Btw, it IS supposed to help. Take that, Sarah. >.>}

4. Saturday night I was craving chocolate ice cream with brownie bits to an absurd and dangerous level. I ate about six other things with chocolate, but it was not even close.

5. I opened my blinds yesterday to find that it was snowing. Last week it was 83. My mind = blown.

6. Facebook would not let me upload photos yesterday and I nearly decided to help the computer out with a hammer. I'm beginning to think I'm kind of high-strung...

7. After typing the above, I decided to try uploading again. It did not work. I think I'll go punch a wall.

SO high-strung.

8. I am panicking significantly that I didn't send in my form for prom tickets in time. It's my own fault because I mailed them on the 30th. The deadline they have to receive them by was the 1st. I've had nightmares about not getting tickets for a week now. If I don't get some kind of confirmation soon I'm going to need therapy.

9."City of Fallen Angels" came out yesterday. GET ME TO A BARNES & NOBLE RIGHT NOW OR I WILL CUT MYSELF...a big piece of chocolate cake! But no really, I want it. "City of Fallen Angels." Now. Aside from dance, writing and eyeliner, Jace is my one love. {>.>}

10. I just realized I already pre-ordered it :D There is sunshine back in my life now.

Now if I only had prom tickets o_o

~Stephanie

Lines

Lines

When does a pause become a silence?

When does a glance become a stare?

When does a hug become holding?

That line that’s barely there.

When does a short story become a novel?

When does a house become a home?

When does a statement become a promise?

That line that can’t be known.

When does a noise become a racket?

When does a drop become a storm?

When does a frown become a scowl?

That line that’s old and worn.

When does a dream become a nightmare?

When does a gray become a blue?

When does a while become forever?

That line I wish I knew.

I used to think that things were black,

And then some things were white.

But now I’m growing up and see

What’s wrong is sometimes right.

There are lines around the world:

Lines that run and hide and change.

Sometimes I think we’ll never know

Just where they stretch and range.

Some lines are not important.

Some lines don’t have to be found.

But then there are the lines

That can’t just be left around.

The world won’t always tell you.

One day you’ll draw your own.

And that’s the hardest part:

When you must draw your lines alone.

~Stephanie

Re-Edit? Pre-Edit?

Thanks for following, Angie and Mrs. H!

I have started editing my novel. Um, again.

I started "The Mirror" when I was fourteen, three years ago this past January. I didn't intend to go anywhere with it; I never finished anything, I was sure this wouldn't be any different. I had a few fleeting sentence thoughts and decided to type them out.

It was the best thing I'd ever written.

I went farther and farther, met more characters, and began to realize the potential the story had.

Then I got completely stuck because I got everyone into situations that I didn't know how to get them out of.

Outlining FAIL.

I hadn't outlined at all, so I guess it was only a matter of time before the whole thing went kaput. Three years later, the characters have refused to leave me alone, so I've decided to jump back into the mix and sort things out.

Step 1: OUTLINE THE FREAKING THING. I did this, and it already looks about a million times better in my head. I added some key events, took out some stupid ones, and shifted things around to be more realistic.

Step 2: DETERMINE WHAT IS SALVAGEABLE. {This is where I am right now.} Surely SOME of my original manuscript can be saved, right?

Or so I thought.

It has clearly been a long, long, long, long, LONG time since I edited "Mirror."

Except that it actually hasn't, which is sad and scary.

Last time I edited, probably just six months ago, the first page looked like this:

Yesterday, I decided to print out a new copy to work with. After I was finished with it, the first page looked like this:

Yeah. Clearly I've gotten a bit more brutal.

The story is going to be better because of this. I'm going to be ruthless and rip things out left and right, rewrite things, scrap things, reword things, delete things and add things.

Then I'll get to actually rewriting the story as a whole.

I'm almost positive that I'm doing this the wrong way, but I'm equally positive that there is nowhere to go but up.

~Stephanie

Jogging

I'm considering it. Jogging. Stephanie going jogging. Stephanie jogs. Stephanie the jogger.

A couple of my friends just started jogging and they're trying to get convince me to go for it too. I'm not really hard to convince about this. I mean, I want to; I LOVE to run. The problem is, I'm out of shape, so going up the stairs is a bit of an ordeal.

{I'm exaggerating.}

{Maybe.}

Jogging has lots of benefits, I believe. Like it's heart-healthy. And can help you maintain a healthy body weight. And releases endorphins, a chemical that makes you feel good. Am I sounding like a commercial yet? I'm trying to.

{I feel like I'm being really obnoxious right now. I'm in a mood. I apologize. Wow.}

*sigh* Enough with commerciality. Let's go the list route, shall we?

Reasons Why Stephanie Should Take Up Jogging:

1. It's spring. Spring is about new beginnings, AKA trying something new, AKA jogging.

2. I actually enjoy running/jogging.

3. I really, really, really need the exercise.

4. It would make me feel good.

5. I would like to be able to tell people that I jog. It sounds...fit.

6. It would give me an excuse to get out of my house and away from certain people in my family that I do not find pleasant company.

7. It's something constructive to do that's not school.

8. It's supposed to help lower your stress levels. {Actually I just BS'd that, but it sounds plausible, right?}

At this time your author ran out of good reasons and was forced to resort to Google.

9. "Jogging twenty miles a week can add seven years to your life." - BTOdell at HealthMad.com. I like that. I'd like to live to 100 AND SEVEN. {I'm already planning to live a century just so you know.}

10. "To have an excuse to get myself a pair of new running shoes once in a while." - DavidTan.org. Shoes are good. What girl doesn't like to get shoes at LEAST "once in a while"?

Awesome. Thanks, assorted bloggers of the internet.

There you have it. I should start jogging. There are really no good reasons why I shouldn't {actually, I saw a link about that, but I refused to click on it}. The only question is WHEN? Today is Monday. It's the beginning of the week. It is a Monday in the spring when I have high stress levels and would do well to maintain a healthy body weight with swimsuit season coming.

WHEN IS THERE A BETTER TIME THAN NOW??

{That's rhetorical.}

I am telling you this for a reason. Hopefully blabbing this to the internet community will help give me some accountability.

Will it work? We shall see. If everything goes as planned, I'm going jogging tonight.

Alllllright.

~Stephanie

CORRECTION

*gasp* I WAS WRONG.

You may remember a few days ago that I corrected myself in saying "spitting image." I had found out that it was really "spit AND image." Well. I decided to double check my facts and found this little beauty:

"Spitting image/spit and image: These phrases mean "exact likeness." "Spitting image" is first
recorded in 1901; "spit and image" is a bit older (from the late 19th century), which seems to refute the explanation "splitting image" (two split halves of the same tree)."

It would seem that I was wrong about being wrong (and so were a lot of you guys too). "Spitting image" is apparently also correct! HAH, WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG. And we knew that, of course, right? We were just testing everyone else...

Um, yeah.

Okay.

Bye.

~Stephanie

The April Project

It's a work-in-progress title.

I've decided to go the month of April without straightening my hair. *gasp* It's called SOCIETY HAS NO HOLD ON ME.

Actually, it's called I'M AFRAID MY HAIR IS STARTING TO LOOK FRIED AND NO ONE WILL LOVE ME.

I'm giving myself 3 "lives" in this project, 3 times when I'm allowed to give in and straighten my hair. Because really, I don't want my hair looking like THIS on Easter Sunday. And there are bound to be at LEAST 2 other times when I can't bear not to straighten my hair.

Hopefully this project will force me to do discover some interesting new hairstyles as well as prove that I CAN go against the crowd and still be awesome.

April 1st

Stay tuned for further updates.

~Stephanie