Exciting Stuff, Ya'll!

Alright, I promised I would post some NEW YORK CITY pictures so here are a few of them!!!!


New York City was flippin amazing. I really cannot describe it in words so I suppose I'll just post pictures:

Just off my first plane ride since I was three! Decided to rock the braids in honor of the SUPERCALL Hunger Games!!

New York Times HQ!!

Soooo, we went to Planet Hollywood and they gave us a $5 off coupon and this kinda nasty black and white cookie. I sat with Aaron and his visa card was being weird so he dragged me down like 5 flights of stairs (I was in HEELS.) and got a $3 pen in the gift shop just to make sure it was still working. Then when we got back up there he told me I could keep it.... it was an interesting experience!!

UM. I SAW THIS IN TIMES SQUARE AND STARTED FREAKING OUT. People started staring at me like I was insane, so I just decided to take a picture and capture the incredibly supercall moment... Then I looked up and the rest of the group was walking away from me so I had to run.... Through Times Square. In heels. ;D

This is me before going in to see Mary Poppins on broadway! (Those are the heels I keep talking about, they hurt. A lot.) I seriously had to push little kids out of the way so I could get this picture... Haha just kidding! Just kidding! The show was alright, the little girl who played Jane didn't have a very good accent so she would either shout her lines really loudly or whisper them so quietly you couldn't hear her.... The little boy was alright, and Mary and Bert were GREAT. I would say more, but my BBF may see it in NYC next year and I don't want to ruin it ;)

These were my fantastic roomies, Makayla A. Channing H. Isys V. Hannah K. and moi! (I look terrible in this picture though, so just imagine a stick figure where I am standing ;))

There was this little figure of Pikachu in the Nintendo store, and we all went insane wanting to get picture. So, I went around the rest of the day saying I ment Pikachu.... Because I am a nerd that way :D

When we went to Radio City, we got to go onto the stage, where THE GRAMMYS HAD HAPPENED JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO!! It's apparently really rare for a tour group to get to go up there, and they only allow it like 5 times a year. So we got CRAZY lucky. It was breath-taking and exhilarating....

I got to meet a Rockette! I think her name was Lauren, but I don't really remember. . . . She was really nice and I felt short standing next to her....

This was an Abercrombie model!! There were two others outside, but it was cold so they had shirts on.... My mom was being a weirdo and asking them questions like: How often do you all take your shirts off? Is their a rotation?

So, next let us talk about something extremely amazing: THE HUNGER GAMES MIDNIGHT PREMIER! I went with my SUPACALL BBF Kennedy and got approximatly two hours of sleep, but it was totally worth it.

Well, me and Kennedy had made shirts:



OH yeshh!!!

And they were amazing. So when we got there we though the line wasn't going to be that bad... Boy were we wrong. It wrapped all the way around the building like a snake, and we ended up sitting by the dumpsters :/ But thankfully my neighbor was next to us!! So, Kennedy had to print out her ticket at "the kiosk" (I love that word) so we dropped our stuff off with my mom and ran up to "the kiosk" (hehehe). She entered her little code thing and it said it was "invalid" so we went up to the lady at "the FRONT kiosk" and asked her what was wrong and said that the ticket wasn't for this movie theatre it was for another one. So we both just kinda stood their not knowing what to do, and tried to get the lady to be nice and just give us a ticket because Kennedy paid for it, but obviously that didn't happen. So we started slugging back behind the building when we see our friend Mrs. Leslie Rundell! She's seriously only like five people from the door, and asks us where we are sitting. When we tell her we are crazy far from the front she's all: Well just come sit with us! So hoping we won't get mauled by evil teenagers mad at us for getting in front of them, we go all ninja and try to get up there as inconspicuously as possible. Putting our stuff down we finally decide to address the fact we don't know what to do about the whole ticket crisis. Mrs. Rundell has a smartphone, so we get onto Kennedy's e-mail and see if we got the conformation number right, and it turns out she bought a ticket for Harligen, Texas.... Which is like down by the Rio Grande... We begin to freak out and not know what to do until Mrs. Rundell says: "My friend has an extra ticket!" And she gives it to Kennedy. Like, no charge. So now we consider those two our saviors. Then, we just sat down for two hours outside on these weird stair things leading up to a door that goes who know's where (did I mention we got there at 8:30, for a MIDNIGHT showing?), talking about my NYC trip, her Louisiana trip, dance, LMM, and a bunch of other stuff really loudly. Finally they started letting us in at 10:30, and because Mrs. Rundell is amazing, we got really good seats because we were near the front of the line. Seriously, they were smack dab in the middle of the theatre. Perfection. Our showing didn't start until 12:20 even though it was supposed to start at 12:02 because the projector was being stupid, it was really nerve-wracking to hear the movie pounding in the theatre next to us, while we were having "technical difficulties". It finally started though, and I freaked out when I saw Josh Hutcherson, cried along with Katniss when Rue died, and loved it when Clove (my favorite bad guy tribute of the movie) attacked Katniss at the feast. I cannot wait for Catching Fire :D

NEW OBSESSION UPDATE:

JAMES. PATTERSON. 'Nuff said.

~Livi~ 



Inspiration

Inspiration can come from the littlest of things. Today, for my new story "Raised Amongst the Stacks" (Title may change) came from many things. First it came from the idea that wherever you go, you can and will run into mean people. Dozens upon dozens of authors get their inspiration from things like that, or the fact that there is always that single dot of hope in the glimmer of darkness (example in the third Maximum Ride book: Saving the World and other Extreme Sports written by the second best author in the world, James Patterson). You won't always be stuck in the same situation forever, so you might as well make the most of it, such as letting things that happen roll off your back.

Don't end up the bitter old man or woman living down the street because of one simple instance, just let it go and think what I like to think when things like that happen to me: One day, when you are at the top of the world (or in my case a best selling author) they will see you on the rickety television in the corner of the McDonalds in their petty little town and think: "Boy did I screw up."

Take a walk and look past your own doorstep, the world is much worse off in other places. I hate to sound cliche, but remember you will always have SOMEONE who will be kind to you and love you. As the AMAZING J.K. Rowling once said:

"Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me."

Sure, I wasn't called fat, but this quote taught me that there are much worse things than petty teenagers (I love how I'm saying that and I'm only twelve) and their shallow gossip. Thanks J.K. :)

~Be kind to those you meet on the way up, you may find them again on the way back down~
Stay amazing~
Livi


PS: I learned how to sword-fight today ;)