Art, Music, and Volunteering

   Wow. I haven't posted in a while! I NEED to update you on some things!

   First off, starting today, I've been volunteering at my church's vacation bible school. I'm doing the games as usual. This year's theme is Babylon. I would've picked Middle-earth, but hey, that's me.

    Next week, I will be away at camp for a week, so probably no internet access. HOW WILL I SURVIVE?!?!? xD Speaking of which, I painted a sign last night to set outside of my tent. It says "Speak friend and enter" in Lord of the Rings inspired calligraphy. It looks pretty great. The phrase comes from The Fellowship of the Ring. It was written in elvish on the gate at the Mines of Moria. I'll add a picture as soon as one becomes available!

   I've been listening to music like CRAZY lately, so I wanted to share with you some of my top picks! These are songs that I've had in my head ALL WEEK.

  5. Florence + the Machine "Spectrum"

      I. LOVE. THIS. SONG.

   
4. Valentines "Buttercup"

  I actually first found this as a joke (long story), but I really love this song now. Also, Bon Scott of AC/DC is in this version which adds to the awesomeness. I haven't been able to get it out of my head, and I'll just start singing it randomly at stores. xD

   3.  Alice Cooper "Hey Stoopid"

       Don't ask.

          
      2. Alice Cooper "Go To Hell"

      If you like Lady Gaga for her onstage antics, you'll probably love Alice Cooper. You actually have probably heard an Alice Cooper song before without knowing it (ever hear "School's Out"?).  This is my favorite song of his. Believe it or not, he's actually very normal offstage.

            
    1. Florence + the Machine "Only If For A Night"

        And the top spot goes to Florence + the Machine! This song has been playing in my head all. day. long.

                  

                          -Holly Casey Davis

YESSSSS! :D

  Good news, my friends! I took all three of my Skills for Health finals, the multiple choice half of my Honors English II finals, and the entire Honors World History final. They were sooo much easier than I thought they'd be! I got a 100% on my history, english, and two of my health tests. (On the other health test, I only missed 1!)

   As you know, I'm cyberschooled, so this means I will be able to finish school early! I thought the finals would be much harder, and I've been dreading them for weeks. A HUGE weight has been lifted from my shoulders, and I can now finally enjoy my upcoming summer vacation! :D

        -Holly Casey Davis

P.S. This means more videos!

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   My. Brain. Is. Frazzled. SOOOOOO much schoolwork! I don't think summer vacation will ever come!

   My finals are next week, I have to complete a 10 minute long short movie (which I am 80% done with. Thank goodness!), and myy room is a disaster! My life is crazy.

   Anyway, I have decided that I would like my first home to be a hobbit hole. Sigh, I can see it now... My human's father actually loves the idea as well, so who knows? Maybe she could get him to build her a hobbit hole when she needs her own place. :D One can dream...

    It's just such a brilliant idea. Hobbit holes are ADORABLE, and (for you freakish enviromentalists) since it's underground, there would be no need for air conditioning or heat. In the summer it would stay cool and it the winter it would be warm. The pizza guy would have NO problem finding your house. "Yeah, it's the one with the round door and the lawn mower and the roof. You can't miss it!"

     Here is Bag End (Bilbo and Frodo's home). I would love to live there...
      
          

                       -Holly Casey Davis
                
                

Ah, it's a good day! :D

The Ronald Reagan letter wasn't the only thing that brightened my day today. A few hours after posting, a package came in the mail.

THE ONE RING IS IN MY HOUSE!

 Yes, it is true. Every ringer's lifelong dream of owning a wonderful replica of the One Ring was finally fullfilled for me. *dreamy sigh* I love it to death.

  *PICTURES COMING SOON!*

              -Holly Casey Davis

BEST. PRESIDENT. EVER. (Apart from Theodore Roosevelt)

   I don't know if any of you have Yahoo! as your homepage, but today there is an article up that made me smile. It's much better than the usual crap Yahoo! puts up about the Kardashians and Obama.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/funny-letter-ronald-reagan-seventh-grader-surfaces-160857855.html

   Former president Ronald Reagan received a letter from a seventh grader:

"Today my mother declared my bedroom a disaster area. I would like to request federal funds to hire a crew to clean up my room."

  And Ronald Reagan wrote back:

"Dear Andy:

I'm sorry to be so late in answering your letter but as you know I've been in China and found your letter here upon my return.

Your application for disaster relief has been duly noted but I must point out one technical problem; the authority declaring the disaster is supposed to make the request. In this case your mother.

However setting that aside I'll have to point out the larger problem of available funds. This has been a year of disasters, 539 hurricanes as of May 4th and several more since, numerous floods, forest fires, drought in Texas and a number of earthquakes. What I'm getting at is that funds are dangerously low.

May I make a suggestion? This administration, believing that government has done many things that could better be done by volunteers at the local level, has sponsored a Private Sector Initiative program, calling upon people to practice voluntarism in the solving of a number of local problems.

Your situation appears to be a natural. I'm sure your mother was fully justified in proclaiming your room a disaster. Therefore you are in an excellent position to launch another volunteer program to go along with the more than 3,000 already underway in our nation—congratulations.

Give my best regards to your mother.

Sincerely, Ronald Reagan"

       xD He was a hilarious guy, and the last great president. Even after someone attempted to kill him, he still cracked a joke ("I forgot to duck.")

                -Holly Casey Davis


                       

Hairstyle Tutorial with MEEEE!

 I don't know if any of you watched this, but I am in a new hairstyle tutorial on the Peppermintsoup channel.

         
  While I would've preferred being in the last video (it had Lord of the Rings music in it!), I did enjoy being the only doll in this one. TAKE THAT, SISTAS! :D

  The song featured in the video (Landslide) is an amazing song and I recommend that you go listen to the full version on YouTube. I get goosebumps everytime I listen to it.

                      -Holly Casey Davis

Randomness and Pancakes

 Hello. How are you today? I am good...So, I really don't have all that much to talk about right now...I'll just tell you some random stuff.

1. Did you hear Florence and the Machine's newest song? It is for some movie with that creepy pale girl from Twilight. I've been listening to the song NON-STOP. I LOVE IT. 

   Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXlkc9UFE4

2. My human is reading Macbeth for her Honors English 2 course...True story. I looked at a bit and (since it's set in Scotland) I tried to read it in a Scottish accent. I failed miserably.

3. Last night, I watched some "People of Walmart" videos. Viewer discretion is adivised. (VERY DISTURBING IMAGES...HOW DID WALMART NOT KICK THEM OUT?!?!)

4.  Pancakes. True story.

5. I can not believe that it is May already. My brain is somewhere back in February or March. I honestly do not know how the time went so fast. Now, I can only think about SUMMER VACATION! :D

                           -Holly Casey Davis