I'm currently thinking about the Greatest Showman, I saw it two days ago and I think I've listened to the entire soundtrack about 15 times... If you like musicals you'll love it. If not then you're probably going to agree with Randy.
It does get bonus points for Hugh Jackman. He was the first celebrity crush I ever had. In first grade I was obsessed with X-Men, How could you not love Wolverine? Then VanHelsing came out, which is soooo cheesy but it was my favorite movie when I was eight. I can quote a pretty embarrassing amount of that movie to this day. I mean it has it all, explosions, vampires, a mildly inappropriate monk, Hugh in black on black, and REAL (although corny) vampires. I think Bram is prolly still rolling in his grave over Twilight. I've always loved fantasy/action- I actually re-watched Brother's Grimm not too long ago because I remember LOVING that movie as a kid. It's was terrible, but to be fair the horse eating the spiders is still just as scary as I remembered it- that is so not okay. Back to Greatest Showman- I've had 7 or 8 people tell me I look similar to, have similar facial expressions too, or similar personality to Zendaya. Especially after Spider-Man Homecoming. I got quite a few texts telling me I was just like her character in the movie. That was by far the most flattering thing I've been told this year so I'm throwing it in this post.
Okay, that was the end of the tangent. This is the real deal.
This year I found out that I'm a C- parker, B kisser, and A++ with finger guns. Thank goodness I'm best at the one that will help me most in life.
It ended my teenage years. HALLELUJAH. Easily the worst years of my life. I will not miss them. Ever. For any reason. I also let me my inner Kirk take the driver's seat this year. Which meant I had to make my inner Spock zip it. That was definitely new. (Isn't that a great analogy? I have some pretty clever friends.)
It's the year I learned to love Styx. I don't know what took me so long, but I'm sure glad that I've
gotten to know and love their music. If you haven't listened to their album The Mission you are missing out BIG TIME. This year also introduced me to Elvis- I'm sure that 2018 will be the year I fall in love with his music. I just started really listening to him a couple weeks ago and it's so good. I have a new favorite song from this past year it's very different from what I normally listen to, it's about human nature. It's right here in case you wanna check it out.
It gave me a HOT dad bod. Okay not really, but I do now have a little doctor pepper baby that's not going away so 2018 is going to bring me a gym membership *groan*.
Which also brings me to trying to quit doctor pepper. Which is actually the worst. If you know me well you know caffeine is the foundation of the food pyramid, and that my most frequently sported accessory is a big gulp. It also keeps me going despite not sleeping. So.... It's sucked and I've been doing a bad job.
It gave me a really cool new job at an embroidery shop. I've got to design some great patches and make some pretty funny T-Shirts. I made my brothers some kind of cool hoodies for Christmas and I'm pretty proud of them. Maybe at some point, I'll update this with pictures of them.
I was on a comic-con panel again this year. I'm getting better every time, people actually laughed at my jokes this time around. I got to use Darkseid and the Deathstar in my presentation. So that is also a big plus. I watched Fight Club and Sleeping beauty for the first time this year. Loved Fight Club, sleeping beauty was... cute. My favorite Disney movie is Lilo and Stitch that's just a lot more my speed.
It brought Stranger Things season two (spoilers, but if you haven't watched it by now I don't feel that bad) which was rad. I still think Season one is better- and that eleven should've stayed dead. Because now I'm not going to trust that the consequences in the show are real. I also can't recall a time in this past year that I haven't hurt myself on purpose. There were a couple times I came really close, but I only had one night where I needed to be with other people. I think that's the first time since I was 11 years old. So this gif feels appropriate to use.
But... for all the times I didn't hurt myself on purpose I hurt myself on accident in 2017. I accidentally clotheslined myself with a box, burned my leg with a heat gun (there's a pretty gross scar now), Stabbed my thumb with a pair of tweezers so hard they stayed in finger until I pulled them out, and by far the most painful thing I did was rip the cuticle off my thumb. I didn't know what true pain was until I did that. There was quite a bit of swearing and blood that day. 10/10 would not recommend- it's just barely starting to grow back.
It gave me my first trip to new york for a street renaming. Where I met Kevin Conroy. That's right I met THE Batman. Which was a pretty big dream come true for me. He was incredibly kind and he signed my book. I know this picture of me looks kinda derpy, but I guess that's what being star struck does to ya.
Additionally, everyone in New York is SOOO nice. I know they have a reputation for being short and cranky but that's not the case at all. I loved everyone being so assertive. Maybe I don't think they're loud and rude because I fit in there but either way, I really loved that about New York. The culture there is very different and a little intimidating but I loved people not being afraid to interact with each other. I got to meet some amazing people from all over the world- I met the most beautiful woman from the Dominican Republic with a white afro who had her art in the Edgar Allen Poe park visitors center. She was so warm and passionate and I think she was the coolest person I met. Then there were the people from all over driving for Lyft I got to talk to. Which by the way must be the most stressful job ever. New York traffic is like Provo but with wayyyy more people and they all honk and cut in front of each other. I found myself tapping a non-existent break a lot there. I also really enjoyed watching this enormously fat squirrel run around in the park for like 15 minutes. He was a big fatty fat fat. It was very cute.
It brought me my first kiss. Which was pretty weird. I only really like snack foods being near my face. So the fact that I let something to touch my lips that wasn't a candy bar was a pretty big deal. (I almost exclusively touch people by punching them and show my affection for them by gently bullying them so that makes it a double big deal.)
It also brought me my first (kind of) boyfriend and my first (kind of) breakup. The breakup felt pretty real. I only listened to Wham (the band) and Tainted Love (the song) nonstop for two days. It showed me that I'm capable of being VERY patient and that I can do relationships. I wasn't terrible at being a 'girlfriend'. Which actually surprised me. Kind of funny that I met him the day after I blogged about how important Language is and how freaked out by feelings but I guess life is pretty wild that way (I met him August first). It brought some great (and mildly painful) memories with it.
One of those memories is the time we were kissing and my fake eyelash came off. Seriously. We laughed really really hard over that and then I solved the issue by getting eyelash extensions. At that point that's kind of what you have to do if you want fake eyelashes, I mean the eyelash was literally glued to my eyelid and I've put them on myself and other people enough times to know how to do it- under normal circumstances, they stay on all day long... He's a pretty good sport for just laughing with me. Unfortunately, there were some mistakes made and a couple that felt really really big and then there was all the complicated 'kind of' stuff.
It makes me a sad because I wanted to wrap him up in my arms and make him my lil' baeritto. He's an awesome guy and there's a LOT more to it than that but again- it's complicated and I won't write a dissertation on how things were or why they ended within this post- that'll probably be the next post. So I'm trying to move on from it. I never thought I'd miss smushing my face on somebody else's face but here I am.
It's definitely not easy but I'm trying to do what's best for me. The worst part of it all besides feeling like my soul got punched in the crotch is that he took up all my designated Skyrim time (obviously he was important to me, that's the only time I can shoot fireballs). I tried to go back to it- now I'm so rusty, I can't remember my quests, and the controls are now something I have to relearn.
It's okay though- It was worth it. I'm sure I'll quickly figure it out again.
This year I've been hit on more than any other time in my life. It's mostly by drunk guys, which is really weird because I'm rarely in a position where people around me are drunk. If I am in that position the people drinking mostly know me- the issue they'd have is to keep their honest opinion of me to themselves.
Of course, that was in person, I had a lot of nasty dudes try to slide into my DMs. Which resulted in my usual "I'm sleeping with your mom" type joke. That works 9/10 times to get someone to leave you the heck alone. If that doesn't work you can imply your basically looking to harvest their organs to sell them on the black market that should do the trick.
2017 gave me a great summer with my cutest cousin who's about to be an awesome mom. It was the year one of my very best friends got engaged and the year two of my favorite people got home from their LDS missions. I got to be really good friends with a dude from school who is going to no doubt be wildly successful in whatever he chooses, whether that's dentistry, making movies or baking croissants. He let me pick the movies we went to see and they were all terrible (the Circle, the Dark Tower), plus he allowed me to send him memes 24/7. He's a pretty great guy. I also met one of the most beautiful, sassy, and genuine people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. Her name is Gabi, she left not too long ago on a mission to Chicago and I'm sure she's KILLING it. She is seriously incredible and has done a little of everything, she's fearless and bubbly and adorable. She let me walk right into her life and play tomb raider and the last of us with her. She helped me actually attempt to have a social life, and introduced me to some of the best girls I've ever met. Between making new friends and all my old friends coming back/visiting I was very busy.
I had the opportunity to do makeup professionally this year for a jewelry company and a couple of my friends' makeup for their bridals or wedding. I also did makeup for a couple student films which I learned so much on. Some of it makes me wanna cringe and hide under my covers thinking about the amateur hour mistakes I made, but there's a big learning curve and it's for student films that weren't paid so I'm doing my best to just let go of it and not let those mistakes convince me to join a convent.
This year I tried to be a little more fearless and to push myself. I think I did really well. I had a lot of firsts this year and did a lot of growing. Way more growing than I ever wanted to do, I couldn't even resist it because most of it I couldn't have even anticipated. I think I'll be a better person from all the experiences I had this past year and definitely more considerate. I hope you liked this scattered update on my life. Happy new years- make an important resolution you want to keep. I think this year mine will be to stop being passive aggressive and either let things go or deal with it in the moment and just call stuff as it is. I hope 2017 wasn't a scooter to the ankle for you, but if it was I hope you make the best of the fresh start 2018 will give you.
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