Life Post: It's a Little Cold Outside

Everyone's been freaking out for the past week or so over the weather we were supposed to start getting yesterday. It's cold here, guys. A lot colder than I can remember it being, although I know it's colder farther north. Even people in other areas of the country are talking about how cold it is in the Midwest.

I almost feel bad complaining about our cold when it's colder up north. I know Indianapolis is at least ten degrees colder than us, so I suppose I should be thankful that I'm at home and not up at school right now. Still, the wind chill is scarier than the actual temperature. When I looked last night, they were expecting the wind chill to get to about -25 degrees, and we're supposed to get a lot of wind. No one is really supposed to be traveling, so everyone around here is pretty much just stuck in their houses. I'm fine with that because there's no way I'm leaving the house in this weather.

I'm currently the only one up and awake (considering almost everyone is still sick), and I just heard the mail get delivered. I'm actually amazed the mail's still running considering everything, but I really don't want to actually go outdoors to get it. I haven't been out to feel how cold it is, but I really don't want to anyway.

Oh, I also just realized that I haven't really blogged since that first day I was getting sick when I said it was probably just a cold. Yeah, I don't think it was just a cold. I'm pretty sure now that I got whatever my sister had, although I didn't seem to get it as badly as my sister, dad, and now my mom. I felt absolutely horrible, but I didn't stay in bed forever like they did. I feel more miserable when I'm laying down though. With whatever I have now, I've been feeling absolutely horrible when I first wake up, and then I feel a million times better once I'm up and moving around. I feel better than I did now though, so I'm hoping that this is almost over for me completely. I'm coughing a ton, which I think is usually a sign that everything is ending.

Now, I guess I should go get the mail... Let's hope a few seconds outside won't be too bad.

I had to edit this post because I completely forgot that I got to see my friend Summer yesterday for the first time in more than a year. It was so, so great to see her. I love how we have one of those friendships where we may not see each other forever, but when we do, it's as if we've never been a part. She's one of my oldest friends, and it's always so much fun when I get to see her. We went out for lunch together, and then she stayed at my house for a while and visited my family who were all happy to see her. It was really nice, and I'm really glad that we got to talk.

Life Post: I'm Finally Sick This Season

Today has not been the best of days. Yesterday my sister stayed home from school because she was sick. Today my sister is home again, and my dad is home from work and sick. I realized last night that my throat was starting to bother me. It's only gotten worse. I couldn't sleep throughout the night because it was hard to breathe when I was laying down and I was constantly coughing. I feel horrible, even though it's entirely my head right now, and with my sister the biggest problem was her stomach.

I have no idea if we have the same thing. It doesn't seem like it. She seems to have a stomach virus or something, while mine seems to be a cold and nothing more at the moment. My brother has also had a bit of a cold, so I could have caught it from him. Either way, there are a bunch of us sick here now, and I'm a bit on the miserable side.

I'm just happy that I'm still able to function. I don't feel so sick that it's that difficult for me to do things, although I did feel a bit winded going up the stairs earlier. For the most part I'm fine other than coughing and such. I hope it stays that way. I'd really rather not spend the end of my break sick. I'm hoping this is over with soon. When I get colds though, they tend to worsen over a really long period of time and then get better over a really long time. They are never short. Still, I can dream and hope that it will be different this time.

To be honest, I'm not that surprised. I typically get at least one cold every winter, but I usually end up with two: one at the beginning of winter and one at the end. I haven't gotten one yet this year, so this is actually pretty late coming. I was really hoping I'd be able to say that this was the first winter in memory that I didn't get one though. After all, my allergies have been particularly horrible this year. You'd think that would be punishment enough.

However, my sister's laying on the couch in the room with me, and if that's not a constant reminder that I could be worse off, then I don't know what is. I'm just going to stay thankful that it's looking like it's just a cold and not whatever she has. As long as I don't get nauseous or run a fever, I'll consider myself lucky.

Life Post: Cold, Writing, and Twilight

It's decided to get freezing cold here again right at the beginning of the year, and I'm not a fan. We hardly got any snow last night, but I think we're supposed to get more soon. I don't really see it getting much warmer before I go back up to Indianapolis, and it will only be colder up in Indy. I guess I'll just have to power through that the rest of the winter.

I didn't get any writing done on New Year's Day, but I got a lot done today. I'm still loving the fanfiction I'm writing at the moment. I've reached the point where it's not pouring out as easily as it was at the beginning, but I'm still extremely excited about it. I also wrote an article today that I submitted to the Yahoo Contributor Network. It has to be approved and everything, but I'll let you know what happens. If it's published, I'll be sure to post a link here and on Twitter.

As I'm writing this post, Twilight is actually on the TV. My sister found it and turned it on. It's odd because I hadn't realized how long it had been since I watched it until I started watching it. I used to be such a huge fan, and now I criticize it more than anything. There will always be a part of me that has a soft spot for Twilight, but it also makes me cringe. It's definitely a love-hate relationship in so many ways.

Life Post: Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope everyone had a great ending to 2013 and that your 2014 is starting off well.

I rang in the new year by reading Harry Potter fanfiction, and that is just perfect to me. My sister was having a party with a bunch of her friends, but I spent the night upstairs, although I heard all the fireworks they set off. I actually hadn't read any Marauder Era fanfiction in a really long time, so I was pretty happy about it.

2013 was a pretty good year overall. I met Little Mix over the summer, and I consider that to be one of the best days of my life so far. I also saw One Direction, Ed Sheeran, and Cher Lloyd in concert, and each of them were absolutely amazing. I became more sure of what I'm doing with my life, which is definitely a good thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm still terrified about the future, but I'm more sure of what my plans are, which makes me feel better. I'm sure there were plenty of other amazing things that happened that I'm forgetting as well. I really haven't put much thought in this post, and I'm not the most awake right now. (Turns out that your little sister throwing a New Year's party and having friends spend the night can make it a little difficult to sleep.)

2014 will be amazing as well, I'm sure. There's another One Direction concert to look forward to as well as things like The Fault in Our Stars movie and The Giver movie. I'm sure even more awesome stuff will come up as the year goes on. I'm pretty optimistic.

Film Review: Tinker Bell, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, and Secret of the Wings

I'd known that there were Tinker Bell movies for a while, but I'd never been really interested in watching them. I love Disney and everything, but they were straight to DVD and I'd never been fond of Tinker Bell (or even Peter Pan really) in the first place. Still, when I saw a couple of them on Netflix I figured I might as well watch them. I watched Secret of the Wings first because I found it, even though it was the fourth in the series. I hadn't even realized that there were four, even though I knew there was more than one.

I thought Secret of the Wings was really cute, and it actually made me interested in watching the others. I've since watched three of the four, and I only need to watch the third one. They're definitely movies meant for young kids, and I could see a few minor things that seemed a little inconsistent between the three movies I watched. Overall though, they were very adorable movies that I found very enjoyable.

Funnily enough, I find Tinker Bell to be unbelievably annoying in Peter Pan, and I really like her in these movies. Maybe it's because she actually talks which gets her personality across better. They did a nice job of throwing things into the movies that show she's still the same Tinker Bell she was in Peter Pan, but you're seeing more of her character. I really enjoy her in these movies, and I like the other characters as well.

While this movie is definitely geared towards kids, I really enjoyed it. Sometimes it's nice to watch movies like that in my opinion. I thought they were really cute. I definitely plan on watching the third one, even if it's not any time soon.