Most Excited

The award for Most Excited goes to mikaelamcmillian. (Her blog is blocked to a point where even I can't see it so I'll respect her privacy and not even try to give you the link)

Last Monday when the Blog-A-Thon first started we were talking before my fifth hour class and she seemed so excited for it. That excitement made me excited and, it seemed, even Courtney excited. So, thanks for being your happy lovely self.

Congratulations, go ahead and put this lovely award on your blog.

Deep Thinking

The award for Deep Thinking goes to lifelove-n-hugs for her post titled Building up a wall.


In the post she compares others thoughts on love and hate with her own. Through this she is able to come to a conclusion that satisfies her own thoughts, truly deeply thinking. "We all carry hatred within us, let's not pretend otherwise." Her words are almost shakespearian with double meanings and a poetic flow leaving you wanting to read more.


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Best Overall Pictures

The awards for Best Overall Pictures goes to livingxforxmex.

Each and every picture she post (which is a lot) is perfect in their own way. Especially when doing the prompts she was able to find great pictures that fit perfectly. An accomplishment that is quite hard to come by.

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Personal Favorite

The award Personal Favorite goes to bcuzimbored for her post titled Overkill.


This post was my personal favorite because of the picture, it just makes me laugh each time. But it wouldn't work with out the words she put with it. "another negative aspect of my mom's cooking skills, she's a weensy eensy weensy meenie miney moe lover full of herself."


The words she spews show us how much she really loves food. Both of her parents have distinctly different cooking abilities, her dad thinks he can cook and her mom almost was once on at TV cooking show. Perfect, just perfect.


Congratulation, go ahead and display this lovely award on your blog.

Best First Blog

The Best First Blog award goes to iwantmoremeghan for her post titled Hate and Love.


In her post she list many different things about her life that she love and that she hates. The most meaningful is "i hate being told my dog has some sort of incurable, very painful stomach cancer. i hate hearing that surgery is not an option because it's too close to her spine. i hate the way my mom told us. i hate her dramatic/immature nature. i hate knowing Ally has maybe a year left. i...hate it."


Her simple (but precise) words show you how much she loves her dog, but hates what's happening to her. Just what I was looking for with the prompt Love and Hate.

2010 BlogAThon

For the first year I think we did pretty well. Don't you agree? People were posting and people were reading and commenting. True, it was a little bumpy. I guess I should have made the rules a bit more structured, if you wanted to blog about something else, then you could have, it's all about blogging and not about the prompts.

Any who, I want to thank everyone who participated in the Blog-A-Thon and give each of you a little gift.

This is a blog trophy of sorts that you can display on the side bar of your blog (or anywhere) by adding a picture gadget. This award goes to anyone who participated in the past weeks events.

Europa!

I'm an American.

That is something I use to define myself. We learned about it last year in AP, we define ourselves against certain things to see what we are not so we know what we are. I don't remember the word, but the definition stuck with me.

To be an European for a day would be interesting. So many accents to choose from and plus you are loved by Americans no matter what. Say something with that accent and you have them, seriously, at hello.

Spy-e-ness

"On the stroke of twelve, the spell will be broken and everything will be the way that it was before." - Fairy Godmother

What would you like to do for a day? Would you be someone? A fireman? A celebrity? Would you go somewhere?

Up Up And...

I would want to fly.

If figure I could play in the clouds and have no need of a car.

And I could just skip the whole morning bus ride, that's a big plus.

Super! Trooper!

"He's a bird, fireman, and a ghost?" - Jack Carter (Eureka)

To the side you can see I have a panel titled quotes, I don't know if you've noticed it before, but I tend to update it a lot. The quote from above was added a few weeks ago and since then a few others have been ushered in. I write them down so I can remember to use them for things such as this.

What superpower do you want? Do you even want the weight of a city on your shoulders?

McNaughton's Anatomy

"The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. And then there are the choices that matter. Love or hate. To be a hero or to be a coward. To fight or to give in. To live. Or die. Live or die. That's the important choice. And it's not always in our hands." - Derek Shepherd

Today I finished a really great book, and in that really great book it talked a lot about hospitals and you know what I realized, I don't really like hospitals. Think about it, we have built a building devoted to death, and at the same time one devoted to life. Quite the yin and yang.

In the main hospital shows I watch (Grey's, the old Scrubs, and ER) there has been pain and suffering. Even in quite little Scrubs that's supposed to be happy and funny. That nice little old lady dies and that nurse. In ER's final season opening that amazing black doctor died and his brother watched it happen. Then we have the messed up characters like the one with no kidney and lack of child, then the one who killed a murder on purpose and then he died of cancer. Goodness, even little British chick has a messed up love life. Then Grey's, where do I start here? Izzy? George? Denny? And now the whole shooting thing, people are going to be so depressed next season. I'm surprised any of these character can still stand!

I think I would like to be a psychologist. I've always wanted to listen to people's problems and list off weird mental illnesses. Then again, that could get dramatic, can you just see it being made into a TV show? Hello, any of my patients could bring a gun into the session and bang! people drop like flies.

Tradis

If any of you watch Doctor Who then you'll understand the title, if not then good luck to you all.

Today's prompt is titled Doctor Who, which really just means what type of doctor would you want to be if you could be any. You already have a super smart brain and money is no object, so what kind would you like to be?

Can't Wait!

"Life's a garden, April," I said. "Dig it."

I can't wait for this summer, and the book I'm reading right now is not helping my school blues.

I also can't wait for video tomorrow. I wrote the whole script tonight and I'm kinda' pumped. I hope the rest of the class likes what I did.

Most of all I can't wait until Courtney get's back. I really enjoyed our talk/water fight yesterday.

El Porvenir

The future, many people thought the year 2010 meant a life like the Jetson's. To their disappointment we got the iPad.

What do you think the future will hold? What will you do? You get a chance to predict the future, what do you see? What don't you see?

What does that word, future, mean to you?

Me?

To get anywhere in video class you need to learn to ask questions. I have always been good about asking questions, but I can understand why people would get intimidated around the cutaway people. Heck I still get a little intimidated around them!

Where are the tripods? Can I sign this out? When are we going to start? What's the new project? Can you show me how?

But when were in our own little groups, doing our own little thing (such as planning the next project) we need to ask questions.

What do we want to go for? Who will be in it? Who's gonna film? Can we check out a video camera? Do you want to edit? Does this make sense?

Especially when editing, questions arise.

How do you set a scratch disk? Render? Where did my project go? What did you save it as? How can I make this move? Where did you find that video filter? How come it won't import? Do you like this? Where is the voice over button again? What if I want to change the color?

Today, we started a whole class movie as our final project for the year. Mary came up with the idea and Mrs. Drew just rolled with it. Then she set us free.

Who's gonna be the director? Me?

Question?

Simple, ask a question. Maybe ask the readers, or somebody certain or maybe ask yourself one. You can get really creative with this one.

Mother Vs. Father Cooking

A look into your home lives. So, is your mom the better cook? Or is your dad the real wiz in the kitchen. Maybe it's split down the middle or one is better at certain things then the other. Can either grill? Do they wear aprons that have weird sayings on them?

Maybe the real question here is, do either of them cook?

Or maybe there is a underling women vs. men problem here. Do you think women have it worse then men? Do you care at all?

Intense & Passion

"Ugg! I hate it!" Courtney whines about the song on the radio.

"Courtney, hate is a strong word." Replies her mother.

The feeling of the grass between my toes and the smell of wet asphalt. My body feels like it's swimming, the air is so thick I would need a butter knife to cut it.

A rustle from behind me makes me jump. Turning I make more noise then I wanted. The squirt gun is raised above my stomach and a crack allows water to flow slowly down my arm and tickle my arm pit.

The shock from the instant cold temperature freezes me, but only for a second. Soon I'm pumping and firing back at the opponent. My eyes sting from the water dripping from my hair and soon I'm forced to close them.

Blurred vision allows me to see my teal toe nail polish and purple swim shorts. The oncoming water ceases and I take the minuscule amount left in the super soaker and let it cascade over my head and body.

The last few moments outside are wonderful I love them, walking into the ice frozen house soaking wet is what I hate.

Hate And Love

Today's prompt is: Hate and Love.

This one is pretty self explanatory, what do you love and what do you hate, or who, or really another way those two words can be applied in this situation. Anywho, I'm looking for the best 'off the bat' post today so, maybe a prize will be in store for somebody!

Midnight!

Remember the contest starts at midnight tonight! Good luck to everyone and have fun! (check back for more info each day)