Jasmine&Jim || I Want Some More

Yes, yes, I know I have been MIA for a few weeks. I've just been busy and to be frank, I also wasn't feeling in the mood to blog either. :P But here is the video of the week at least. Hopefully I'll have a moment to get something written on here soon. :) I love crossover videos.

There are some that are okay, others where I'm like, "eew, I would NEVER pair those two together," and some that are just plain awesome! Like this one! :)

Paperman

In honor of the Oscars, I thought it was only appropriate to have an Oscar winner as the Video of the Week. :) Seriously though, I LOVE this short, and it totally deserved the award!

[PMV] Paradise

I've really gotten into My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic lately. Like, crazily so, lol! Here's a very well done video starring all your favorite ponies. Enjoy!

Friends for Dinner and The Proposal

This week, we have not one, but TWO videos to share! Why two? Well, simply because these are each five seconds long. Yup. But they are definitely well worth the five seconds. ;) Enjoy!

Avatar- Remember the Name

Avatar: The Last Airbender is a GREAT show. Really great storyline, humorous, fun, and creative. So here's an amv (anime/animated music video) of Avatar by MamoruMe. I like this one a lot!

Jump Rope

Not only is this a good song, but it is a great video as well. Fun thing about this video too is that it was made by lots of different people, all who took a section, made their own part, and then put it all together. These are called MEPs, by the way. Don't ask me what a MEP stands for. I actually have no idea. :/
Anyway, here's the video, as well as the description from YouTube. Enjoy!



Song: "Jump Rope" by Blue October
Theme: Animash - working through life's ups and downs
Host: Hinokara

Part 1 - Sawnahhh
Part 2 - XReiKaoriX
Part 3 - Annnarchist
Part 4 - CorpseBridesmaid
Part 5 - DiamonddollJeanette
Part 6 - CherryFoxify

Mending Severed Bonds

Wow, it sure has been a while! Christmas craziness and fun has kept me from updating things here, but I'm back now and *hopefully* ready to keep the blog updated regularly. :)
This week's video is Mending Severed Bonds by LovingHeartbreak, starring Jim from Treasure Planet and Thumbelina from Thumbelina, as well as other animated characters. I just love these crossover videos, and LovingHeartbreak does such a gorgeous job! Seriously, it all looks like one movie!
Since there is an actual storyline with this one, I'll post the editor's description at the bottom. Enjoy!



SCENARIO/STORY INFO:
(You will have to imagine Jim and Thumbelina being in their late teens to early 20s in order to get through this video. Also, Thumbelina is human size in this ^_^)
Jim works as a space cadet and so he travels alot. One night, however, he returns home early as a surprise, but he finds his wife in the arms of another man (Tulio). They argue and their marriage goes sour for a while with Jim hardly ever talking, or looking, at Thumbelina. Thumbelina feels the shame, but she tries her best to make it up to him. This goes on for months, until a sudden move to France causes the couple to swallow their pride and rekindle their marriage. Only this time, fate has something else in mind for the young couple...

DISCUSSION:
This plot was inspired by "The Painted Veil", the only major difference here is that Thumbelina doesn't resent her marriage, she actually loves Jim. Her affair was a cry for the physical love and attention that Jim wasn't able to deliver while he was away. As for the child, Jim is the father, not Tulio :)

My Only Wish...

Here's the video of the week! Sorry it's up late. It's been a busy day already. :P
So I wanted to post a video that is Christmas themed, and I wasted a lot of time trying to find something to no avail. Blah. But then I remembered that there was a Christmas video I made a few years ago. Although it is a fun video, I'm glad to say that I have improved in my editing skills, lol! :) Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

Kid History: "Healthy Food" Episode 6 (Kids Tell, Adults Act) True Stories

Kid History is seriously one of the best things that has ever happened. These videos are hilarious, and this one, about healthy food, is my absolute favorite. Watch for a really, really, really good laugh!

Diseny Paradise

I love Disney, and I love the Disney princesses, and so I love this week's video made by tonightsreality. Although I do wish that my favorite Disney princess, Giselle from Enchanted, was included, this video is for sure one of my favorites.

BEST ACTION SCENE EVER!

Of course, that title is sarcastic. This is, without a doubt, the worst action scene ever and it is hilarious! The only thing I don't find funny at all are the poor horses used for this. Not. Cool. But the rest will have you in stitches. My personal favorite is the jeep. XD

Change of Seasons

And here we are with the Video of the Week! I love Avatar: The Last Airbender, and ended up watching The Legend of Korra (the sequel to the latter). I liked it in the beginning, but the plot steadily went a little downhill for me in the end. I could get into a whole discussion of how if only Nickelodeon would have given the creators another season in the first place instead of just one, this wouldn't have happened, but I'll pass that and just say that for the most part, Korra was enjoyable. But I just love this video that MentalProdigy made of my favorite episode in the series. Fabulous job! Enjoy!

2011!

Wow, already a new year? Wha-wha-whaaaat??? ;)
Well, not much to report that won't take a long time, so I'll post a couple of vids I've finished since last time...haha, I don't do enough with this stupid blog. Oh well! Here ya are!

Katara and Azula- Paparazzi

Nothing very interesting to report, so here's the Video of the Week. Katara and Azula- Paparazzi from Avatar: The Last Airbender by AviiAvitar02. Awesome job, although the ending is kinda creepy...enjoy!

The Duck at Daybreak

Most people wake up to birds singing sweetly in the trees. I woke up this morning to a duck quacking in the canal. Haha, it was great! :)

So, let's see, recent happenings...Well, I'm just working hard at getting Savior of the World all put together. Can't remember if I mentioned that I'm in charge of putting that show together for the ward Christmas party, but I am! I'm very excited and hope that things turn out awesome! :)

This last weekend we went to Twin Falls to visit family for Conference weekend. It was great and wonderful to hear all of those wonderful talks. Really felt the spirit. :) We had a fun time, all together. We didn't do anything amazing (except watch conference :) ) but we had a fun time. I just love spending time with the family, no matter what! The hardest thing though was not eating any sugar. My mom always makes the best food, and that includes the best desserts too. She made some peach cobbler and THAT was hard to resist! I had a teeny tiny taste of it though, and that was good enough for me. It was delicious!

We also went shopping to TJ Maxx while we were there. It was fun. I found a jacket I really liked, but even at TJ Maxx, it was a little more than we could really afford. It would have been nice to have, but it wasn't necessary, so with a sigh, I set it back on the rack like a good girl. I'm proud of myself though that I can do that. Sometimes it is sooooooooooooooo hard, but then I'm glad that I'm able to say no and save the money. I'm sure Brandon is glad too. :)

I'm getting more hours with babysitting. It's going good, and I'm enjoying it. Kids are so much fun to be around, and they are soooooo cute too! I'm going to love being a mom someday.

Ballet is fun too! We just started turns (piruettes, I think that's what it's called...pretty sure that's not how you spell it too! haha!) I've done those in Jazz before, but these are a little different, and I REALLY need to work on landing. It's a lot harder than you'd think actually. But I know I can do it! :)

So I got some essential oils from Young Living yesterday! I am sooooooooo excited to try these out! I am really hoping that all of this helps me to become healthier and solve a few issues I have. I really want to learn all I can about these things too! It will be a fun adventure! :)

Well, I don't want to ramble too much about everything and bore everyone, so I think I'll just wrap things up right here. Oh, and while I'm at it, I think I'll post the video of the week as well. :) This one is entitled Basil and Mrs. Brisby Beauty in the Breakdown starring Basil from The Great Mouse Detective and Mrs. Brisby from The Secret of Nimh by boebliek. Not a fan of The Secret of Nimh myself, but I thought this crossover was really well done! Just short and sweet. Here it be! :)

Title...?

So, basically, just going to ramble about what's been going on recently. Last week we had Jacob and Kalli over (Jacob is one of the vendors that Brandon helps at work) for dinner. They travel all over the world, so we thought we would give them a homemade meal and dinner at home. It was fun to have them over, and we also had Daniel and Hailey over too, which I think helped because Daniel is so good at driving conversation. To be honest though, I was a little nervous, just because it was a work thing, and I wanted to be a good hostess, and make Brandon look good (because he is!) :) We had a good time, so I guess things went well! It's funny though. Stuff like this makes me feel...not old exactly, just....older? I mean, honestly, what do you think of when a husband comes home one night and says, "I think we should invite an important someone from work to have dinner with us this week." I think of mom and dad. That's their thing. That's what mom and dad do. I guess it's just weird to see that I'm at a more grown up part of my life than I thought or feel. I still feel really young actually. I think I want to keep it that way though. I've always wanted to stay young, and I think I always will. :)

We also had our housewarming party this weekend. We invited sooooo many people, I was a little worried as to how we would fit everyone in, but things worked out. I have learned one thing from this though. From now on I am definitely rsvp-ing to invites. It makes things sooooooooooo much easier when you know how many people will be there for sure so that you can know how much food to get, etc. It ended up being that I could end up having 21-45 people show up, so I just rounded out to the higher end and made a lot of cookies. Of course, we had the lower end come, so we have lots of cookies left over that we've just taken over to friends and to ward choir. There's no way I'm eating that many cookies!

Speaking of which, I've decided that I am going to cut out sugar and yeast from my diet. My mom said that she recently found out that people who have been on antibiotics for an extended period of time may have issues with yeast and sugar which can cause problems in the digestive tract and stuff. I've had my own share of health issues in my life, and some of which I am still going through, where I've had to be on antibiotics for years and a little in between. My digestive system hasn't been what it could be, and I wouldn't be surprised if the two were related somehow. So, I figure I will give this a try and see how I feel. The good news is that even if it doesn't solve the problems I am facing right now, I will be healthier and probably feel better and look better, so that's cool! The only thing is that this is going to be much harder than I thought. Sugar is in EVERYTHING and you can find yeast in many ordinary places too! I mean, I've already run into problems this morning with breakfast. Cereals have too much sugar in them, so that's one thing off the list. I figured eggs would be good, but I can't have toast due to the yeast in bread. I thought, maybe I can have a granola bar? But that has lots of sugar. I thought about hash browns, but they are a carb which turns into sugar, so I'm not sure if that works...So I got so desperate that I thought, maybe I can have peanut butter on saltine crackers? But NO! To my amazement, saltines have YEAST in them! I couldn't believe it! So, I ended up having a couple of eggs and a lot of water...I'll have to fix this somehow. Oh, something else I had no idea there was yeast in, is cream of chicken soup! Now, what the heck is yeast doing in SOUP???? My mom warned me that lots of canned soup has yeast in it, but WHY????? Ingredients in foods these days are very strange...

Let's see, what else? Oh, I've been put in charge to do the program for the ward Christmas party. I think what I would really like to do is the part of the first part of Savior of the World. It would be amazing! The only problems I see though is we don't have a stage at our building and I'm not sure the choir would be interested, and I'm not sure if I would have enough volunteers. I guess I would just recruit friends from elsewhere in that case...As far as a stage goes, I could always ask bishop if we could have the party at the stake center where there is a stage. I think a stage make a lot of difference. Well, I hope things work out though. I would LOVE to do that!

Well, I think I've rambled enough...the only other thing I can think of to put on here is the video of the week, called Vampire Knight- Zero's Chance, a remake of a previous video by TheWingsofKanna starring Yuuki and Zero from Vampire Knight, and anime that I would definitely recommend, although it didn't end the way I wanted it to. :P Booo! Oh well, still good. Enjoy!

Canning, Story Writing, Videos, and Headbands

Yesterday I went to an older lady's house from my church ward with a friend and we canned peaches. I've never really done a whole lot of canning before (I did apples one time- it took forever!) but peaches went by pretty quick and it was fun! She's a really cute lady and it was nice to learn something new and useful. :)

We also had lunch over there too. She had made some homemade bread and it was sooooooooo good! We had homemade peach jam on our bread or homemade raspberry, or mayo and tomato with salt and pepper (I tried all 3!) I thought the tomato was kinds weird, but I tried it anyhow and I was sooooo glad that I did! It was delicious! :)

This picture is seriously what the tomato looked like! It was huge!

So, something I forgot to mention before that I'm doing is I'm writing a story. It's a fantasy-type story, and I would put what it's about, but it's kinda complicated, so maybe when I get the story really put together I'll be able to give some more details about it. But it's going to be awesome! I'm so excited that I have the time now to finish it. I've had this idea for about a year now, and I started it, and then had to stop due to absolutely no time to do it. :( But now I can, so yay! :D

I thought this cartoon was cute (love Calvin and Hobbs!) and also very true at times.

The other day I was messing around with my video editing stuff, and ended up making a video about me! I think it turned out good and it was fun to make. Enjoy if you'd like to!

Something else I've been doing is making headbands (I don't have pics at the moment- I'll get them up soon). They are really cute and fun to make! I think I'll try selling them on etsy.com. Hopefully that will help with my ballet class fund. Speaking of which, I had my fist lesson yesterday and my friends Diana and Tony are both in my class! I was so surprised and delighted! It was a blast having them in there! We had a great time, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the time we get to spend in the class together. :)

We're going to finally have our Housewarming Party this weekend. I'm excited but for some reason a little nervous. I don't know how to host parties, so I'm hoping it will just go it's own way smoothly, haha!

Well, Brandon has some people from his work in town, and we might have one of them, along with his wife, over to our house for dinner tonight, so I need to get to cleaning the house and figuring out what to serve! :) Bye!

Long Time No See...

Well, not that anyone follows up on this thing anyway (at least I don't think so...) but I figure I have the time now these days, so I should at least document that I am still alive and what's new. ;)

Let's see, so, I started working at the Chiropractic office back when things suddenly came to a screeching halt here. It was a good experience, but not exactly right for me. I'm hoping to become a mom hopefully soon, which is the real job that I want anyway. :) I'll probably start a babysitting job soon though in the meantime.

I'm enrolled in a ballet class! I'm so excited! My first lesson starts on Monday, so I'm going to go shopping for leotard and tights tomorrow. :D I already have shoes, so there's one thing down to get. :)

We moved into a home (picture not of our real home...just thought it was fun!) recently. We're renting it from a friend of my parent's, which works out really well for us in case we ever need to get up and leave for whatever reason (pretty much work or school).

Some new (and by new I mean not listed on this blog) animes I've seen are: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Romeo X Juliet, Fruits Basket, and Vampire Knight. All of which were good, but I still LOVE Princess Tutu most of all. :)

Zuko and Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender

Romeo and Juliet from Romeo X Juliet (duh...)

Shigure, Yuki, Tohru, and Kyo from Fruits Basket.

Yuuki and Zero from Vampire Knight (still think they should end up together...)

Um...trying to think of what else has been going on...well, I'll write it later if I think of it. That's all I can really think of at the moment.

So, the bi-weekly video has been basically non-existent, so I'll put a video on this post to make up for it. Yay! This post's video is one made by your's truly called Fakir: The Hand of Sorrow. I've entered the video into a Princess Tutu AMV contest. Hopefully something positive (such as placing?) will occur! Eee! ^_^

Princess Tutu- Memories

Video of the Week is MY very own Princess Tutu music video I made! :D So happy with how it turned out!

THE STORY
*WARNING* This is most definitely a bit of a spoiler video, meaning it gives away some of the plot in this awesome show. So, watch if you don't mind finding out some stuff, and don't if you want to keep the mystery a mystery until you actually watch the show. :)

The video starts basically where the series ended. Fakir has tried many times to write a story about Duck so she can become a girl and they can be together again, but with no success.
One day, as Duck is swimming in the lake, waiting for Fakir to visit her, she is attacked by a vicious animal. Fakir arrives in time to drive the beast away, but Duck is too badly injured and dies in his arms.T_T Fakir is devestated and blames himself for Duck dying since he wasn't able to write a story about her sooner.
Fakir is visiting Duck's grave one night (I know it says Drosselmyer, just pretend it says Duck or something). He reflects on what happened that day, and with new determination, sits down to write a story to bring Duck back. As he writes, he recalls all of his memories with Duck.
Meanwhile, Duck awakes as Princess Tutu inside another story (kind of like being reincarnated, I guess). She searhces around for a way to escape, but finds none. Tutu wonders if Fakir is all right, and misses him terribly. She thinks about her memories of him as she dances.
Suddenly, Fakir senses Tutu's thoughts and feelings, as does Tutu. The two draw strength and hope from each other. As Fakir writes, he recalls the time that Duck showed him the mime for "I love you." Fakir proclaims his love for Duck. She hears him and is lead out of the story and falls safely into Fakir's arms. The two are reunited and live happily ever after. ^_^

So that's my vid! Please feel free to leave comments and suggestions as long as they are both clean and constructive. Thanks for watching!

Song: Memories
Artist: Within Temptation
Anime: Princess Tutu

I'm not the creator of Princess Tutu, nor am I in any way associated with Within Temptation (although both are AWESOME!), but I did buy and song, and the DVDs, so I would expect that I have enough ownership and rights to at least make this thing and post it for others to enjoy. :)

Ikuto is Amu's Bad Boy

Hey, sorry about not updating this thing in FOREVER! I have been insanely busy, and I haven't had time to do anything! But, here is the Bi-Weekly Video, extremely late, but here it is anyway. :) I actually can't post the video into my blog because the author has disabled this feature on their video, but I do have the link to it. :) The video is entitled Ikuto is Amu's Bad Boy by 0SimplyAngel0. The video features Ikuto and Amu from the anime Shugo Chara, which I have watched only a few episodes of. It seems okay, but really the only thing I was interested in was this couple, but that doesn't justify watching 100-somewhat-odd episodes for me. But, nonetheless, I thought this video was really well done, and the couple is fun. ^_^ Enjoy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcKXq-SQzaw