Best. Birthday. Ever.

For my birthday, my dad got me a bunch of balloons while I was at a speech tournament and made everyone sing "Happy Birthday." While the birthday song was mortifying, the balloons made my day. Most of them were gone to cute little kids by the time I walked to the car.

After I got the balloons, my friends and I walked around the campus (we were at University of San Diego) and had a photoshoot. I took this picture of my friend, Gabe who happens to be a photographer. I went on Adobe and found this tool that can add lense flare. The result: hours of enjoyment.

Flick & Click

I love it when you can just flick you wrist and click the shutter button and come out with a photo like this.

Or this.

The hair, by the way was inspired by an awesome blog that my sister recently posted about. It didn't quite work as well as in the video but I still like it.

Wow, I'm on a link spree!

(That last one is my favorite.)

Twilight and Speech

I was at a speech tournament in Irvine the last few days which happens to be my sad excuse for not writing, but anyway I was waiting for my parents to finish filling out ballots after they had judged and I was very bored. I'm glad I had my camera! This is how I entertain myself:

I love macro. Just a few months ago I discovered it on my camera and it was such a revalation to me. For those of you who don't know, macro lets you take really close-up shots of things. Like eyes. And jeans. And iPods.

Anyway, every time I'm at a speech tournament giving a speech I always zone out in the middle of it and wonder: "why on earth am I doing this?" I was the girl who would stand behind my mother's back and glare at people, and now I'm in front of sometimes almost 100 people giving a 10-minute interpretive speech mocking Twilight.

For you Twilight fans out there, I am very sorry, but I think Twilight is absolutely ridiculous and Edward is not one tiny bit cute. There, I said it. If you have ever read Dan Bergstien's Blogging Twilight, I think you will agree with me. I'm actually including parts of it in my speech to help show the ridiculousness of it. (Although I don't even think I need it.) Just to show what I mean, here is a line from my speech:

Bella:     I couldn't imagine how an Angel could be any more glorious. There was nothing about him that could be improved upon.

Dan:      Really? How about and eyeball on the end of his finger so he could look around corners without being seen?

Ha. Ha. Ha. I love it.