Life!

Sometimes I say I'm really busy, but sometimes I also LIE. For instance, right now I should be writing, BUT, I already made my resolution at the beginning of the month (yesterday) that I'm too busy to do NaNoWriMo entirely, so I will write a minimum of 500 words per day instead of 1667. Lame and possibly pathetic. The real truth? I wrote 1,000 words today (didn't write anything at all yesterday), and then took the rest of my "homework time" watching will.i.am, Nicki Minaj, Usher, Willow Smith, and assorted other contemporary musicians dancing around and singing to catchy beats.

I also had some chocolate. The truth of the matter is that I made another resolution at the beginning of October that I only needed three new things this winter: a flannel shirt, winter boots, and a coat that actually keeps me warm. Then I decided that I could live without the flannel shirt. I'd buy the cheapest winter boots I could allow myself to buy. And I would make myself a winter coat in sewing class.

Here's the thing about sewing. People may tell you that sewing a garment is cheaper, or at least much higher quality, than if you bought a similar garment anywhere in the world of rabid consumerism. Don't believe them. I'm fairly positive that this coat, which I bought fabric for this afternoon, will by the end of it's construction be both more expensive, less well-made, and less cute than something I could pick up at Target for $40. Because the fabric, lining, and interfacing alone cost me $67. Okay, I bought a bit more than I'm going to need, just in case, but still. I'm reaching into the recesses of my uncomfortably empty pockets to fund this sewing class that already cost an arm and a leg.

The other thing I bought this week was brown hair dye. My roots are coming in strong; it's almost time. And I'm almost ready to go back to looking like an English teacher rather than looking like Pink on the worst hair day of her life.

I just watched The Karate Kid. The original one. You know how it was supposed to be so great and so much better than the remake? Maybe I expected too much of it, because I really wasn't feeling it most of the time. I feel kind of shallow for holding old movies to a higher standard than new ones simply because I can't stand watching really dated films. Here are the things I liked about the original:

1. Mr. Miyagi (teacher dude) was awesome and adorable.

2. The love story was super dumb but at least they were like sixteen instead of twelve.

3. It wasn't just pick-up-the-jacket-hang-it-up-put-it-on. It was wax-on-car-wax-off-car, paint-the-fence, sand-the-floor, and paint-the-house. Which in my opinion is waaay more helpful (and plausible!) than just messing around with a jacket.

Here are the things I didn't like:

1. Kid wasn't such a great actor.

2. Maybe they just didn't go into the particulars of karate enough, but the remake made kung fu look waaay more awesome than the original made karate look.

3. Pimply American high school bullies aren't even half as scary as hardcore Chinese middle-schoolers. Just sayin'.

So that's the general idea. I know that you are much less forgiving than I am, and so I'm pretty positive that you wouldn't like the original at all. Jaden Smith is just too cute for that. Speaking of which, I just looked him up and he was born in 1998. I still can't believe that someone born in 1998 can be coherent now. I remember 1998, man. It was a good year. I'm only eighteen and already I'm beginning to feel like an old fogy.

-Amy

P.S. I meant to add a couple of pictures to make this post less wall-of-text-y, but my computer, or the internet, it being stupid and not allowing it.