there's too many things I haven't done yet, there's too many sunsets I haven't seen

Four books and fifteen forms of the word "chagrin" later...

...I have finished the Twilight series.

And let me admit, I have become a fan. I'd still pick Harry Potter over Twilight any day, but it was entertaining, and worth the money I spent on the books. I read them straight through, starting with book one and ending with book four, without any breaks in the middle. I was slowing down my reading during "Eclipse" (number three) only because I was getting intensely busy with the end of the drum corps season, but as soon as I started "Breaking Dawn," my reading picked up again and I finished that book in a week and a half. And now I can watch that "Breaking Dawn" video that Kristina (Monday from FiveAwesomeGirls) posted on her personal channel on YouTube.

Here's the books with the 15 chagrins labeled:


4 in the first book, 2 in the second, 4 in the third, and a whopping 5 in the last book.

My glasses broke the other day. They slowly snapped in half while I was polishing the lenses on my shirt. I don't even know how it happened, because I wasn't applying much pressure to them, and bam. They broke in the middle. I tried glueing them, but that didn't work. I finally had an appointment at the eyeglasses place today and picked out some new frames, so they should be ready sometime next week. I'm really excited for new glasses! There will be before/after pictures, I promise.

So....here's a list of books I've read since I graduated college.

1. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks
2. "Big Boned: A Heather Wells Mystery" by Meg Cabot
3. "Lock and Key" by Sarah Dessen
4. "Queen of Babble In the Big City" by Meg Cabot
5. "Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood" by Ann Brashares
6. "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
7. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
8. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer
9. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer
10. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer

My hardest decision now is trying to figure out what to read next!

<3 kristin

accio, accio, accio hot guy, oh bring me a boyfriend, he better be cute...

I am officially addicted to Wizard Rock.

On Sunday, my made of awesome friend Cait and I went to the first ever NYC Wizard Rock Festival. Now, I wasn't much of a Wizard Rock fan to begin with, but I watch the FiveAwesomeGirls on youtube and two of them are in Wizard Rock bands. That's how I got into this, and when I found out there was a show in NYC, I thought, "why not?"

Dude, it turns out it was pretty freakin' sweet. I mean....two whole rooms full of Harry Potter and music fans. What more could you ask for? I mean, some of the sets were "ehhh" and I thought, "you really shouldn't be up there..." but that's the whole point. You don't have to be amazing to sing and make music about stuff you love. Some of my favorites were Lauren from the Moaning Myrtles (and Tuesday on FiveAwesomeGirls), Lena of the Butterbeer Experience, Nagini and Alastor (they sang most of their duet album, and Justin Finch Fletchley and the Sugar Quills (although I have to admit their set came with a pair of earplugs). Thanks, Cait, for saving my ears!

Some of the highlights of that day:
-Meeting Lauren. I absolutely love Tuesday on 5AG.
-Buying 4 CDs of music. I was listening to the Moaning Myrtles and the Butterbeer Experience at work today.
-I loved the fact that everyone was singing along to all these HP Wrock songs, and the one song that Lena and Lauren do, that has nothing to do with HP (well, it has some WRock references, but it is a more nerdfighter-esque song) I know all the words to. "Guacamole Ukulele Song" FTW!

I enjoyed some delicious cookies and cupcakes by this awesome woman who makes Harry Potter cookies and cupcakes. Check them out!


So delicious.


Hagrid cupcake. Sorry it came out flipped...that's not how I took the picture. Hmmm.


Hagrid, Harry, Ron, and Hermione. They're such great friends!


Ron and Hermione snogging


Me and my purchases


Cait with Ron and Hermione


Alastor and Nagini


Lena (The Butterbeer Experience)


Justin Finch Fletchley and the Sugar Quills


the cool backdrop. they had house banners on the side, too


Lauren Myrtle's set with Alex Carpenter of the Remus Lupins


Lena joined Lauren and Alex for "The Snog Song"


Cait and I with Lauren! We also saw Liane (Friday of the FiveAwesomeGirls) but she was talking to a bunch of people outside when we spotted her. We thought of yelling "DFTBA" when we got to the end of the block, but we figured we'd save meeting her for the Paper Towns release party.

And speaking of Paper Towns....oh man 21 days until Paper Towns. I am so damn excited. This is going to be my first ever book release party. And I get to meet John Green! After watching him on Youtube for a year now! And I get to meet the Yeti! And I get to see Hank again!

\\// NERDFIGHTERS FOR THE WIN! \\//

I love being a Nerd.

maybe there's a feeling that you've been brushing off

I am nine photos away from finishing my photo blog, and I can't seem to find the motivation to finish it.

What is wrong with me?

one look was all it took and everything was said

I'm really pissed off about something, but I can't pinpoint exactly what it is.

I'm missing Drum Corps a lot, but I'm also not, because I really like having some sort of freedom on the weekends. I keep changing my mind as to whether or not I want to go back next season. I'm still undecided.

Work is good, I guess. I'm playing in the childrens' show right now, and that's really fun. I enjoy the music, and watching the story unfold right in front of me, and being a part of it an amazing experience. I think I'm just frustrated with work in general.

I'm looking for a job right now. I'd definitely love to have more money.

I really need to clean my room. Like really badly.

And I desperately need a vacation. I need to get out of New York and go farther than the couple of states I had shows in this past summer. I need to go further than that, and maybe to a different country entirely.

I think I'm going to my brother's show later tonight. I suppose taking a shower would be a smart thing to do (it is soooo hot and humid outside). I feel mad tired from today.

And I'm in a bad mood.

I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen

Where are the hopes, where are the dreams
My Cinderella story scene
When do you think they'll finally see

That you're not not not gonna get any better
You won't won't won't you won't get rid of me never
Like it or not even though she's a lot like me
We're not the same

And yeah yeah yeah I'm a lot to handle
You don't know trouble but I'm a hell of a scandal
Me I'm a scene I'm a drama queen
I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen