BEDA 4/9 Now the Theme Park's Done, and I'm Going to Hogwarts

So today my sister came home from her spring break in Florida. I've been there three times, but I haven't been there since the opening of the Wizard World of Harry Potter last year. She got to go to it while she was there, and she was telling me about it tonight and it sounds SO amazing. I don't care if I have to work full time this entire summer, I am going to get enough money to pay for the park when I go to LeakyCon. It sounded like it was everything I could have hoped for in a Harry Potter theme park, and for me, to hear that my favorite book series, the world I wish I could live in, the world that has made me who I am, has come to life in a way- it's like magic, corny as it sounds. It may have always been real to me and the other fans, but now it's real to everyone. It's actually there. I cannot wait to go. I think I'll actually cry from happiness when I'm there.

Also, my friend Luke and I are starting a band called The Neverland Dreamers and it is going to be all about Peter Pan and we are going to meet Andrew Ducote and marry him. So there's that.

Anyways, I have a huge project I'm supposed to be working on, so I'm gonna go do that. See you all tomorrow.

Currently reading: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
Song of the Day: 2012- Jay Sean

BEDA 4/5

Hey guys! Today's cop-out-*ahem*-BEDA post is a new post on my other blog!
Here you go: http://thesecretlifeoftheamericanroommate.blogspot.com/2011/04/maybe-theyll-make-comic-strip-about-her.html

BEDA 4/4: Hunger Games Casting- Peeta and Gale

Okay, guys. So, today it was announced who would be playing Peeta and Gale in the Hunger Games movie. Josh Hutcherson, the boy from Bridge to Terabithia, is playing Peeta and Liam Hemsworth, the love interest from The Last Song, is playing Gale. I'm pretty disappointed that Hunter Parrish will not be playing Gale, but I guess Josh will be an alright Peeta. With blonde hair he looks a bit younger, and he's got a sweet face, and he's a good actor, from what I remember. I saw some of The Last Song, but don't remember much of Liam's acting skills; however, he looks NOTHING like Gale. Gale is supposed to be 18. Liam is 19, but he looks about 30. And he just doesn't fit the dark, mysterious, handsome, tough-but-kind Gale that I had in my head.
While I'm disappointed that the actors don't really fit my pictures of the characters, if they're good actors, I'll be okay with it. I'd rather have really good actors who don't fit my idea of the characters as much than actors who fit perfectly but can't act. I don't want a repeat of Twilight- two leads who fit the description but give an emotionless performance.
And I'm also really worried that the movie won't live up to the books. Of course, it won't be as good, because the movies never are. But I'm just really hoping they don't ruin it.
For example, I love the Harry Potter movies. While I did read the books before I saw the movies, I still was able to love and appreciate the movies because they were so well done. Holes was another book I loved, and when the movie came out, I was really pleased with it. It wasn't exactly like the book, but I really loved the way they did the movie, and they didn't change it so much that it was completely wrong.
However, when Ella Enchanted, one of my favorite books as a child, was turned into a movie, it was so different from the books. Everything I loved about the book had been taken away and turned into something different, and it was terrible. I'm just worried that this will happen again with Hunger Games, because of how intense the books are and how difficult it's going to be to portray that on film.
Anyways, I guess I'll have to wait and see. I hear Suzanne Collins is writing the screenplay, and I trust her to keep it similar enough to the books.
Anyone else have any opinions on the cast?

I should go, since I have four minutes until midnight.

Currently reading: Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Song of the Day: Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)- Spring Awakening

BEDA 4/1

HELLO TO THE TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO READ THIS!
Welcome to my blog! You are just in time for BEDA!
I am going to write a quick post right now before I go to bed, since I'm not sure if I'll have time later, but I'll add to it if I have time.

I have already pulled the best April Fools joke ever on my friend, and it is the first successful April Fools joke I have pulled ever in life. It was a really good one and, needless to say, I was very excited that she actually fell for it.
I'm watching Into the Woods right now (finally!) for the first time, and I love it already. I have a date today, which I'm excited about, and work tonight, which I'm not.
Although I actually had a really good day at work last night- we pretty much had a sing-along night. Kelsey started singing Don't Stop Believing, and I joined her, and then a bunch of us were singing. Then I mentioned that my roommate had been singing Dora the Explorer earlier, which prompted everyone to start singing that, and then the national anthem, and eventually Backstreet Boys and then Grease. I was having so much fun that I forgot how much I hate my job. Haha.
Later my manager Melissa put on her iPod and played Another Day from RENT for me, and I was dancing around and singing. It was an unusually interesting time.
But now I really need to go to bed, so tomorrow's blog will hopefully be of much higher quality than this. Let me know if you're doing BEDA so I can follow along!
I'm doing VEDA as well, so if you want to follow along, here's the link to my Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/myxgiftxisxmyxsong

Currently reading: Poison by Chris Wooding
Song of the Day: Happy Now- Take That