Mulan - I'll Make A Man Out Of You

Your Guardian Angel-Music Video

This is the Music Video of the song I just posted. The lyrics and pictures are off time, but when I tried to fix it, it didn't work too well >.< sometimes technology and I don't get along.

Art Gallery (Song)

I don't know how else to name just the pictures... >.> hmmm... I will have to think on that. So, like I just said, these are the pictures and the lyrics for the song Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. I did draw all of these pictures, and as a challenge to myself, and because I started this song at a swim meet where I only had sharpies accessible, all of these pictures are drawn in sharpie (except for half of the VALVUR and the girl in the CUSTOS pictures)  >.< It was very challenging to draw these pictures in sharpie, and I am glad to say that I went through less paper than I thought I would. O.o I am amazed at how well some of the pictures turned out, and I hope (sincerely =D) that you can enjoy them as much as I do. //>3<// on another note, unlike the other songs I have drawn thus far, I did not write the lyrics on the page they correspond to. I did this because I wanted to switch the order around in the All About Us by He Is We interpretation that I did >o< (I still have yet to post it, its in my sketch book in the dark corner of my back pack, so I will try to post it soon-ish), but since I had the lyrics written in, I was unable to switch them around since they were for specific spots in the song that I had premeditated. I can say though XD that I changed the order for this song a lot, and I like the result that I got when I put it all together in the end. x3 it makes me happy.

Wow...has it been that long?

Hey, I realized today, that I haven't visited my blog in months... >.> I think that since its a three-day weekend, I could type up the things that have gone on in my life since school started, because that is really when I dropped into the pit of despair that is the cave of my home where I do homework, and sports, and have little to no extra time. Where the extra time I have I spend doing nothing. So, here goes, month by month run down since September.
SEPTEMBER:
Schools just started and waking up at 4:30am every morning to go to sleep at 9 each night is a little weird, sometimes its hard to get homework done by then, but I have to go to bed then to get 7 1/2 hours of sleep, which turns to 7 on some nights to get it all done. Swim  season has yet to start and I am so excited!!
OCTOBER:
Last Frenzy meet I swim attached before the High School season starts! It was fun, only I didn't realize that I wouldn't be swimming specialized events for a while. This month started the season swimmers come to know as "Tear-down". This is where your muscles are used to (well, used to doing the same-ish things) and coach changes it up a bit, every single day. This means as well, that the workouts are more and more intense and will continuously get harder for a while. I got a weird fungus on my feet, called Pitted Keryltois (or something) only we didn't know what it was at first, so I wasn't allowed to run every morning when we would run. First presidents test was this month for APUSH. The Mock exam was good too, I was able to make up the questions which was nice.
NOVEMBER:
STARTS THE HS SEASON!!! We started the season with our first meet down in St. George. The next meet was two weeks away at home. November was by far the good kick-off month, but the next few would be a test of time management. Tear-down was getting more difficult and we kept working out hard, taper would only come before Region and State.
DECEMBER:
Meet in Cedar City---creepy experience; Courtney, Markell and I went on the bus the Friday night to get Costa Vida for dinner, the others on the bus wanted Panda. we crossed the street when a truck pulled up beside us, inside was full of boys and  they asked us if we wanted a ride even though their car was full. We ran for Costa Vida, got our food, and went to Panda to eat, just in case the boys came back. We told Coach Meyring and he told us that we chose the right thing, and if someone needed to beat those boys up he and the boys in the restaurant would gladly do it, we are more than a team, we are a family.
We had a meet every weekend, and through Xmas break, only school stopped, swim was still going, we had three meets over the break. The one leading into the break was out in Tooele, and that was where I swam the 200 IM for the first time this season. I got a 2:48.8 or some time a few tenths near that. I woke up late on the second day of the meet, and my dad, wonderful as he is drove me out to the pool in Tooele and we beat the bus.
JANUARY:
One or Two meets every week, some were home meets some were away, APUSH pres. test #2 and Mock Exam #2 in full force, I wasn't able to make up the Q's this time due to needing to make up work missed in other classes. It became a very stressful month with all the homework and time I reserved for sleep...
FEBRUARY:
The 8th was REGIONS. BOYS TOOK FIRST!!! LEHI WON!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy, and we all jumped into the pool in celebration. It was one of the best feelings ever. Over all Lehi won as well, with a 3 point lead. It was so much fun and everyone worked so hard to get there.
The 14 + 15, this is where we are now. Yesterday was Day 1 of STATE. I missed school to go watch the state swimmers swim, because I didn't make it. Next Year I will make it. I will try my hardest. I really want to go :) As of yesterday the boys were up by 10.5 points, with Herriman in second. If Brighton wins it will be 20 years in a row that they've won. Its our goal to beat them. Today is Day 2 and due to a school project I am filming today, I am unable to go... but I got my Meet Mobile App to track my teams progress.

So, yeah, that's what y life has been like since school started: eat, sleep, eat, swim, eat, school. swim, eat, repeat. I have turned into a hobbit over the season, eating three breakfasts, two lunches and two snacks before eating dinner. Although in my defense, I do workout in the pool, for four hours a day, and sometimes an hour of that is dryland. If anything with food, getting in as good of shape as I am in now makes me crave healthier foods most of the time, like apples, and oranges.

Now that the season is going to be over, I am going to be back to doing all of my homework, and trying to understand some of it. My goal this year school wise is to pass the APExam, which is no easy feat. I hope that I will be prepared.

Oh, and like last year, I will probably just make a list of all the books I read this school year, and go back to writing reviews in the summer.

I am going to do club swim as well this summer like I usually do. I plan on pushing myself to the breaking point and beyond, to get the times that will get me to state this summer.


I am looking foreward to the long weekend this weekend, and am looking foreward to Grandpa Kip and Uncle Brian coming out to ski next weekend!!

oxox - Nicole

Chapters I-!V

**NOTE: The information and story line in this post are no longer accurate. This post is now void, and I deleted a chunk of it. The synopsis below is also not true anymore. Sorry for the weird inconvenience**

About two months in the making, and  Here they are!! The first IV chapters of my story, UNFORGIVABLES.

Here is the Synopsis, and I will most likely edit it to fit the main body of the story soon, this is an early copy of the Synopsis:

After the USA uses a genetic serum they believe will cure cancer on all of their inhabitants, the world is in ruins. The Japanese, got the same serum, but knew that it was only for the military. After wiping out the USA population, the serum stays in the new generation, slowly evolving. They get too cocky, and are defeated when faces by the Fates. Yes, the same Fates in the legends of the Greeks. Except, the number is wrong. Instead of two or three fates, there are twenty-six total. Referred to as the Unforgivables, they are always watching over us, waiting for us in our time of need. They are trying to save this world from destruction.

Clark was born to a family, well-known of because of his father. Being the best lawyer in the whole area should amount to something. If not, going home to a moderate house, to a beautiful wife and two kids should as well. When his parents get in a fight one day, Clark's life is forever changed as he is taken from his mother and sister to live with his father. He assumes that they will move into a dump of a place, but instead they move into a mansion, owned by the richest man in the nation. Follow his journey through his life, into the ultimate battle of his generation, and almost die trying to find who he is supposed to be.

Here is an Excerpt, also subject to change:

"...A seemingly small army; composed of no more than twenty-six kids. Half were girls, the other half were boys. The army, if they were able to feel would have laughed; they were just kids trying to defeat the most powerful force in the world. They wouldn’t know what they were up against.
On the contrary; the kids were more powerful than the serum would make a man if it were twenty times stronger than it was. The kids had certain powers. They were referred to in mythology as the Fates; always in a pair, a boy and a girl with the same power to control the fate of the people in the world. The only thing the books got wrong was the number, for they only manifested themselves only when utterly necessary. This was one of the only times they were all seen together. They approached the army, and sent a message to them, requesting their surrender. The army would have none of it, believing that the only way to solve their problem was through fighting---“ 
“But Uncle fighting is never the solution,” one of the kids says, “Mom always says that with calm words rather than sharp swords are wars won.”
“Which is true, the army just didn’t understand it like you guys do.” Clark says, sitting up a bit.
“Then they were stupid.”
“They were just doing what they thought was right, remember they had their thoughts clouded by a serum. They had almost no control of what they did.”...."

XD 

 

Here is the cover for my story Unforgivable. I love it!!

The title is blue across the top.

November's challenge #2

I have reached my first benchmark!! I now have 10,009 words in my story!!! I have the prologue and the first chapter done. This next chapter is going to be really long. I am getting really excited with this story, and I wish that I could stay up really late and not have to go to swim in the morning to start working on the next leg of Clark's journey. I am getting really excited. I also think that The first chapter took me so long because I couldn't figure out where to start the story. I couldn't decide which beginning to start at. This got me hunting down all my story starts with him in them to pick a good place to start, and I decided to start with the short story I finished called Found. Clark is by far one of my favorite characters. x3

 I decided against all I wanted to do, to not post any more of my story on my blog. Though it kills me to keep this story from those who I have been telling them about, I would rather to not have someone steal my work. The Preface is being taken down tonight as well. I am sorry if you wanted to read the rest of it. If you'd like, comment in a box and I can work out with you a way for you to read it, without the issue of plagiarizing my work. Thanks!! I can't wait for it to continue!!