Lax and the New Year
29 Dec 2011 2 Comments
in Blogs Tags: bowling, Brine, Christmas, Harry Potter, Lacrosse, Lacrosse stick, lanterns, Lax, Laxer, Laxer bro, Mid Field, middie, New Year, New Year's, Pixie, Tangled, wands, Wizard's Duel
Well, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! The Christmas I got to spend with my family rocked. I ended up making my nephews Harry Potter wands because they love Harry Potter. 
They take after their aunt. They ended up loving the wands. We had a wizard’s duel after opening presents. It was awesome. XD All of the family festivities were spectacular, too.
One of the things that I am so psyched about this year is that I got my girls Lacrosse stick.
BOOSH!!
It’s the Brine Pixie, for those who care.
So, some of you may be wondering why I asked for a Lacrosse stick. The answer: I’m going to be on the team this year! I’ll be a middie (mid fielder), and I’m number 7. I’m way excited. (In case you can’t tell.) But I’m also nervous. I’ve never played an actual game of lax in my life. However, I thoroughly enjoy watching it and tossing around. I’ve apparently got a pretty good throw. Now I just need to work on everything else . . . I thought I would give Lax a shot though. I wouldn’t call myself a very sporty person, mostly because I am no good at sports, but Lax is one of the few sports I’ve found I can actually play.
I’ve been practicing a ton with my friends and on my own lately. I’ve loved every minute of it so far. One of my dear friends actually taught me how to string my stick and made it so that the release point in my net will be different and match my throw better. I’ve already noticed the difference. 
I can’t wait to learn more and actually start playing. Basically, be prepared to hear about a lot of Lax stuff from me from now on. Of course, I’ll post all my game updates as well. I’ll probably get clobbered, but it’ll be worth it, right?
At least I’ll have stories to tell.
But who’s excited for the New Year? I know I am! I’ve got a lot planned for New Year’s Eve. XD I can’t wait! I’ll be out with a laxer bro of mine to go bowling. I’m going to make a fool of myself. HA!
When midnight rolls around, I also get to set off floating lanterns. I can hardly wait! I’ve gotta give a shout-out to the awesome Winward’s who gave us the lanterns in the first place. I’m incredibly giddy over the idea of being able to light them off. I’m a major Tangled fan.
Well, Happy New Year!
That Christmas Feeling
15 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Blogs Tags: Christmas, fun, Harry Potter, Nephews, project, service, wands
Wow! It’s been a long time, once again, now hasn’t it? I promise to do better about that.
Well, it’s finally Christmas break for me! And boy, has is been crazy so far! My local Institute did a huge service project and provided a Christmas for 18 families in the are who were in need of a Christmas. It was absolutely wonderful! I even donated a few art pictures. It was really cool to see everyone getting so involved. I’ve never seen so many people at the Institute before, and it was totally worth it. So many people came to help make hats, quilts, scarves, paint doll houses, make ornaments, donate clothes, and all sorts of other things. It was fantastic! I particularly enjoyed seeing the men helping to make a quilt.
Two of my very dear friends have also gotten me involved with another Christmas giving project. It’s pretty awesome! I’ll let you check it out: EcoFirst Christmas Project. They work for the company, but I think it’s a really neat thing to have happening here that’s local again.
All of this just got me thinking about how cool the Christmas spirit is. I wish it could stay around all year. I think that’s going to be my new years goal, to try to always be this happy and helpful during the rest of the year.
But I wanna hear from you guys! What are you up to for the break? Anything spectacular? I know I have a few fun plans. I’m off to St. George to play for the weekend, for starters. I also have a few other Christmas projects to work on. I’m making my nephews Harry Potter wands. Yep. You read right. Harry Potter wands. I have taught my nephews well. 
So well that they know a large majority of the spells and love to watch the shows with me. And the oldest is only five! HA!
Well, until next time. Hopefully it won’t take me so long this time.
2012 Cartoons Can’t Get Here Fast Enough
26 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in Blogs Tags: Avatar: the Last Airbender, Korra, Legend of Korra, Nickelodeon, The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra, trailer
I’m pretty sure most of you have seen that trailer by now. I know I’ve been Tumblring about it for quite a while, but I just had to share it here as well! I’ve been fangirling like mad! I can’t wait for Nickelodeon to release the series! Woot! The trailer has me excited for SO many different reasons! I could go on and on about it, but I’m sure it’s just better if I let ya’ll see for yourself instead.
Anyway, for those who haven’t seen the trailer, hope you enjoy!
Goodbye . . . Harry Potter . . .
12 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in Blogs Tags: dessert, Flan, Flan recipe, Forum, Gryffindor, H.P., Harry Potter, Harry Potter 7, Harry Potter 7 part two, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Harry Potter Midnight Showing, Hogwarts, HP 7, last movie, Midnight Showing, movie, recipe, recipes
Alright, not goodbye. NEVER goodbye to Harry Potter from me. I just say that because the last half of the last Harry Potter movie is coming out, and frankly, that’s depressing.
Because it is the last time Harry Potter will be in theaters, my friends and I decided to go all out with it. We bought tickets to the midnight showing, we’re going, and we’re dressing up. Not just wearing a black cloak or something little like that dressing up, but we’re going all out uniforms, wands, and so forth.
For the past few weeks, my friends and I have gone around to the local DI and Wal-Mart and any other local store to gather supplies to create our costumes. We’ve even hand-made our own wands out of paper and decorated them to the point where they even look like real wood/wands. I’ve even learned how to knit a scarf, Gryffindor colors. That’s the house I belong to, after all.
We’ve gotten so into it that we really did all get together and determine which houses we really belonged to, not just which houses we liked best. A lot of that came from this online test: http://www.personalitylab.org/tests/ccq_hogwarts.htm I came out as Gryffindor. Must say, I’m pretty happy about that.
I honestly can hardly wait for the midnight screening. I am SO EXCITED to go! I’m pretty sure I’ll need a giant box of Kleenexes though, and a pillow to hug and cry into. Yeah . . . I’m pretty sure I’m going to cry. However, it will be worth it, and it will be fun. I’ll be sure to take pictures of all the crazy things we do!
On an unrelated note, I’ve posted my recipe version of Flan on the forum, for any of those who want to check it out.
Hike This Up
08 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in Blogs Tags: DeviantArt, Hike, Hiking, photos, pictures, summer, waterfall
Hey everyone!
Been a while, eh? The summer months get pretty busy for me, so I’m afraid that even this blog post won’t be very long, but I have been wanting to put up quite a few pictures for a while now.
I’ve been hiking a lot this summer, and I thought I would add a little album for everyone to look through to see the hike I went on. It was one I hadn’t ever been to before, so I was enjoying myself! It was to a waterfall, and boy was it pretty! Cold, too. I didn’t put all of the pictures I took up on here, many of them will go to my DA account. I’ve been pretty photo happy lately, but I hope you all enjoy!
On another note, don’t forget to check out the forum and my tumblr! There have been many on-goings there as of late. Also, I’ll hopefully be getting my comic up soon, so keep a lookout for that!
Ren Fair
28 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Blogs Tags: Angel Statue, Doctor Who, Fairy, Jousitng, Renaissance, Renaissance fair, Utah, Utah Renaissance festival, Weeping Angel
Figured it was about time I threw in an update on what happened at the Ren fair and what I chose to be. I never mentioned. Go figure.
Well, I went to the Renaissance Fair the day the world was supposed to end, so I guess that’s a pretty good way to spend your last day on earth. It was really nice, warm, sunny weather for the day the world was ending, so I decided to dress up as a fairy since that costume was lighter than the others. There you go. Mystery revealed as to what I decided to go as.
Once we finally got there (yes, I did go with friends), the first interesting thing that happened was that I got knighted as a lady of the realm. Cool, eh? I got a shell from it too because the little king liked me so much he told me I could pick something from his treasure box. Whoot!
After that, I discovered something interesting that sent my heart pounding at 2oo mph:
Angel Statue
DON’T BLINK. DON’T EVEN BLINK. BLINK, AND YOU’RE DEAD.
Well, since that was the case, I figured I’d better have a staring contest with the bloody thing to save everyone there who wasn’t looking at it:
I won that one. Yeh.
Over all, that was probably the most terrifying experience of my life thus far.
Once the weeping angel was defeated, we moved on to the Jousting! That was also very exciting. It was the first time I’d ever seen one of the jousters actually get hit off of their horse. I also got a rose from a knight. That made me feel special.
Before we left the fair, we also decided to indulge ourselves in buying cool things. That night, we watched Doctor Who, and the world was good.
Raindrops
18 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Blogs Tags: Costume, Fair, Flowers, Institute, Rain, Renaissance, Renaissance fair, Tulips
It has been raining where I live all day.
I love it.
I love the rain. It has to be one of my favorite types of weather. It was so nice today with the rain and it looked so pretty outside that I just had to go out and snap a few photos. Besides that, I wanted to try out a setting I hadn’t ever used on my camera. I think some of the pictures turned out pretty good.
I only put up one picture here. You can take a look at the rest of them on my DA.
Aside from awesome rainy weather, life has been pretty crazy this week. It seems like everyone has been getting sick in my family. I’ve also had the nephews over for the past two days. Which was tons of fun! It was also a lot of work. I’m pretty worn out. Especially since they stayed over last night and I had to get up very early this morning to make it to an Institute committee presidency meeting.
That’s right. I have been recruited to be in a committee presidency. I’m under publicizing. Meaning I get to tell everyone what’s new at Institute. Whoot! At first, I was actually pretty nervous about this idea, but now, I’m all game for it. XD
Also, the Renaissance fair where I live is this weekend! And I’m SO going.
However, I can’t figure out what to wear/be. I was hoping for a few suggestions.
These are my options:
A) Go as a Greek Goddess.
Pros: -it’s an awesome dress that I altered myself and am proud of.
-A lot of people like said dress
Cons: -A Greek Goddess is what I went as last year. With the same dress. Can I do that again?
B) Go as a Noble.
Pros: -The dress is black, and very sleek with very long sleeves
-I could wear my awesome boots with it
Cons: -I’ve worn this one before too (Although it was a few years ago.)
-Not positive if it will fit me right (might have to do last minute altering).
-It could get really hot.
-The heels might spell out death for me.
C) Go as a Fairy Princess.
Pros: -Haven’t done this before
-The crown is pretty and has lots of long ribbons on it.
-The dress is cute.
Cons: -I don’t have shoes that would go with it. (I’m a match freak, okay?)
-It doesn’t have sleeves and I don’t want to get sun burned (Sunblock won’t help me. I’m allergic. Horrible thing to be allergic to, really. >:/)
-Might have to alter this one too.
Advice/Suggestions?
Thor
07 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Blogs Tags: Andy, Forum, recipe, recipes, Thor, Thor Movie
*Such a creative title . . .
So, pretty much, I am in love with this show. I won’t let out any spoilers about it, but I just wanted to say that. Thor has always been one of my favorite Avengers (next to Captain America), so when this show came out, I was pretty darn thrilled! Heck, counting the midnight viewing I saw it three times in one day! Just in case you were wondering how much I love it. I had to put up some Thor appreciation on here.
Also, I figured it was about time that I put up a new recipe. It’s an easy to make rice pudding recipe, which can be served either hot or cold. Try it out!
Along with that, had to boast of our dear forumer Feyna’s amazing art. She put up the cutest picture of her Beagle, and I just had to blog about it because I thought it was adorable. Call me crazy if you will, but this is her cute picture:
Smart, Nerdy Fangirls
02 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Blogs Tags: David Tennant, Doctor Who, Dr. Who, Forum, Japanese Cherry Blossoms, nerdy fan girl, painting, painting wall, Rock Band, Sakura, Sw33tAxion, Sw33taxion forum, sweetaction forum, Zeta boards
First off, in case you guys haven’t seen it, the forum has been switched over to the Zeta boards. It’s pretty exciting.
You should all check it out. XD
Otherwise, I thought it was about time that I made another blog post.
So, I totally found this image today, and I just about died from joy because I am one of those nerdy fan girls. I’ve been fangirling quite hard over the dear Doctor lately. There have been some good times watching this show.
Recently, a few friends and I took off to another friend’s house to watch an episode from the new season. It was pretty epic. It was a long drive. I didn’t expect the drive to be so long at least. It was really fun though. I pretty much sang at the top of my lungs there and back. We also played Rock Band, where I sang even more. My voice is still cracking today from singing so much. But it was all good fun.
Can’t wait for the next episode this Saturday.
In other news, I’m going to be painting my walls this week. It’s my goal. For the longest time I have been wanting to paint a cherry blossom tree on my wall, and now I’m finally going to get around to it. I’ve got the tree and branches on my wall already, so all I need to do is get my paints out and a little bit of extra time. I’ll take pictures and post them when I finish. I worry that this may be a work in progress though . . .
Tumblr
28 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
in Updates Tags: Doctor Who, Dr. Who, Forum, Sw33tAxion, sweet action, Tumblr, Zeta, zetaBoards
Sweet Action now has a Tumblr!
For the convenience of swift, twitter-like updates, I’ve created a Tumblr for everyone to enjoy! If you want to REALLY know about all the randomness in my life and look at interesting things that make yo’ mind esplode, feel free to check it out here: Sw33tAxion’s Tumblr!
Sweet Action’s Tumblr is also in the links section.
Aside from that . . .
Sweet Action’s forum is also going to be undergoing some major changes! According to popular vote and demand, the forum will be switched over to the Zeta Boards settings. Woot! So THERE’S an update for you.
Anyway, the rest of my day is sure to be filled with lovely Doctor Who and getting all of my pictures and doc’s back onto my computer form when it was in the ER. But enjoy!
