So.... tonight was the night. Stephenie Meyer in Seattle.

I was coming into this with very mixed feelings. If you read my post about Breaking Dawn, you know how I feel about that. And everything I've heard her say in interviews after the release has made me want to punch something. But then again, I adore the first 3 books and The Host. So I was feeling pretty torn.

And I kept feeling like that throughout the night.

Justin from Blue October was amazing. I am definitely downloading some of his stuff. And what a funny guy he is too... He was delightful. :)

Then Stephenie came on stage. And O M G !. If I thought people were loud before she came on stage, people went CRAZY! I have been to my share of boyband concerts, but this topped everything. My ears were hurting. Maybe I'm just getting old. Hehe...

The whole answering questions wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. She even answered a The Host question. (yay) Love The Host...  And the Breaking Dawn questions were not too horrible... If she started defending the book, I think I would've laughed out loud. So it all went smoothly.

Then the waiting started. Apparently there were 2400 people there and they all had to get their books signed. And they started with the ones on the top balcony.... and we were on the floor. So we sat and waited for about an hour, I think. I read some of The Host aloud to Maria. Made me want to read it again.

But then it was our turn and we went out into the lobby.... to wait some more. >< There was a HUGE line of people there. But we started playing an Improv game (Twilight inspired), so time went pretty fast.

I got up to the table where she sat and signed. The girl standing in front of me in the line had brought The Host with her as well. I didn't notice that till we were right in front of Stephenie. And I just went 'Omg, you brought that one too??' (*facepalm*) And then one of the women working there went: 'You must be friends...' But I told her we weren't. And then Stephenie was all 'You should be!' Lmao! It was funny.

Stephenie was nice though... She seemed very humble at the signing. I actually thanked her for creating the universe (the Twilight one obviously... Not the whole... you know what I mean. :p ), and she said 'Thank you for being a part of it with me.' It was cute. :)

So yeah... I got my autograph and survived the night without cringing too badly.

Now... picture tiiiiiiiime! :D

Hehe... guess I'm a non-nerd.

Saw people doing this and wanted to try it too. Couldn't get the code thing to work though, so just did a screen cap. Hehe...

FUN! :D

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb (or whatever) and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. No cheating.

Okay... HOW do I make a LJ cut when I want to put pictures in? I've been trying for half an hour now and the picture still shows up on the main page! *smacks head*

If anyone could please help?? *puppy eyes*

Declan Bennett = <33333333

LOVE him! Love love love!

You're all invited to our wedding. :p

He's the Edward to my Bella..... I wish! Teehee..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqwSaXWoZDU

my fic sucks. I just know it does...




yeah.. my new H/G fic was just published on Checkmated.. and.. God.. I wanna take it back now. ><

I'm going to New York! :D

I'm SO excited! Meeting up with Liz there on Tuesday! Gonna stay till Sunday. Wheeeee! I only had to pay for my plane ticket, because I'm gonna stay with one of my host mum's friends there. So more spending money for moi! YAY! Urban Outfitters, here we come. Hahaha..

Things are a bit better here.. I think the whole New York trip made me feel a bit better. At least I get to do some traveling. :) We hardly had any time in NYC when we were there in October. So 6 days in NY.. it's just awesome! :D

I can't wait to see Liz again. I miss people from home so much. It'll be good to see a familiar face. Plus Liz is my gurl, so we're gonna have so much funnnn!! :D

My Photoshop diiiiiied.. :( And the guy who can help hasn't replied to my email. *sad* I already miss it!

And heads up to my Facebook peeps. My host mum got a Facebook account and added me as a friend. So no more ranting there. :p It'll all happen here. So I'd appreciate it if you didn't ask me about stuff on there.. hehe..

She was home late yesterday and today. My host dad came home pretty early today though.. or well.. early for him. I still worked 9 and a half hours. So yeah.. it sucks. I did offer to babysit Alexander tomorrow night.. for extra money. I neeeed money for New York. Teehee.. and I don't have a problem taking care of Alex if I know how long and I'm getting paid for it. I mean, it sucks to just sit around waiting for them to come home. They don't even call when they're late. Never.

But yeah.. extra money. Woot! :p

I want to know the rest of the Twilight cast!! Come ON, already! I'm dying here.

New mood theme! Yay!! OotP! By miss_kallahan

Yeah, I'm booooored... :p And I really don't have that many songs on my laptop yet. >< But I managed. Lol..

Step 1. Put your playlist on random.
Step 2. Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. (You can skip songs that are instrumental.)
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
No Googling! That's what they call cheating, fool.

1) Five A.M. on the bathroom floor from the night before.
2) The dawn is breaking, a light shining through (Howie Day 'Collide' - Sonni)
3) This could be the very minute, I'm aware I'm alive (Snow Patrol 'Chocolate' - Sonni)
4) Love goes out, out like a light.
5) He was a soldier, he always was
6) Strain this chaos turn into light, I've got to see you one last night (Snow Patrol 'You're all I have' - Daphne)
7) There are certain people you just keep coming back to (The Fray 'All at Once' - Daphne)
8) I wake in the morning with one thing on my mind
9) Hello my friend, we meet again
10) So this is Christmas and what have you done (John Lennon 'Happy Christmas' - Sonni)
11) I guess you're right , and there's nothing I would say to you this time
12) There you go , flashing fever from your eyes
13) Driving away from the wreck of the day (Anna Nalick 'Wreck of the Day' - Sonni)
14) She rolls the window down and she talks over the sound
15) I remember now, but I still have my doubts
16) Hey Miss Murder can I
17) They stand to fight for nothing, and show how stupid we've become
18) I have often dreamed of a far off place
19) I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons
20) Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (Dean Martin 'Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' - Sonni)
21) Love of my life, my soulmate
22) Hello, can you hear me, am I getting through to you
23) Lying back to back at ten to one, you're awake like me
24) She doesn't look, she doesn't see (The Fray 'Little House' - Manon)
25) Last Christmas, I gave you my heart (Wham 'Last Christmas' - Sonni)

I've started reading A Wrinkle in Time. It's really good. I've wanted to read it for a while and just came across it at Borders this weekend. I bought the second one in the series yesterday. :D I have a huge book list at the moment. But I'm slowly getting there.

I also started my creative writing class today. It's fun and we're supposed to read the kind of prose we want to write every day. So it's good I have so many books to read. I think the majority of the people taking the class are over 30. But hey.. it's an online class, so it's not like we're going to hang out in recess. Hehe..

Maria and I went to Starbucks yesterday. There's a Starbucks in Bellevue that has an au pair night every Tuesday. Lots of au pairs go there. We started talking with some really cool girls. A girl from Germany and a girl from Bosnia. The girl from Bosnia has been here for over 2 years and the German girl since July, so they know a bit more about the area and such. Where to go out when you're not 21 and all that. It sucks that Maria isn't 21 yet. They mentioned a place in Seattle that's supposed to be cool. So we might go there with them this Saturday. :)

On our way home from Starbucks we had a freak out moment. My car started doing weird stuff while we were on the highway. Like kept jerking forwards. And there was a light that kept blinking that said 'Check.' We were just praying to get off the highway before the car exploded. :p It was scary. So now we have to take my car to a mechanic. And Johanna doesn't think she has time to do that til Saturday. Sucky, but it's okay. I'll just hang out with Alexander at home tomorrow and Friday. :)

I got my Photoshop back! YAY!! I'm soooo happy! Maybe I can even start posting icons and such here. Teehee.. *huggles Photoshop* I've missed it so so much.

And yeah.. last Friday we went to Macy's and got a Clinique test to see what products to use. And the sales girl asked me if I was starting to worry about wrinkles. ><

I'm ooooooooold!!! *cries*

I did it! I finally got a chance to look at my fic again. I got it back from my amazing Beta ages ago (*hides in shame*), but tonight I finally sat down and worked on it. And it's much better now. I'm so happy. :D It feels so good to get things done. I hate having it hanging over my head, but somehow that's always what seems to happen. But YAY for it being done. Now I just hope she likes what I've done with it. At least I have a better feeling about it now. I actually liked some of it. Enjoyed reading it. That doesn't happen that often. Or.. it does, but this time I actually felt like.. I don't know. I'm rambling. I'll stop. :p

And I got my Christmas present from Sarah!! Stupid mail for getting here so late. But YAY! I finally got it. And it was perfect. She knows me so well, she really does. I got a bunch of Danish candy, a fashion magazine AND the most beautiful earrings. Golden hoops with butterflies. They're amazing. I totally cried when I opened it. ^_^ I miss her SO much. It's horrible.

It's Maria's birthday tomorrow. Going to take her to lunch at Red Robin (they sing to you there.. teehee..). And then her host mum is making her a birthday dinner. Yay. We might go somewhere in the evening as well. Fun! :D

Man.. I feel so happy right now. Fic done.. present from Sarah. Everything is just.. good. ^_^

I finally managed to get a good night's sleep. I really needed that. After 3 nights in a row with no sleep, I was a mess. But I feel really good now. I'm not even tempted to take a nap with Alexander. :D And I always do that. Haha.. go me!

I feel like doing a lot this week. Today I'm going home to Maria with Alexander. He's gonna have a play date with her little host baby. Granted, she's too young for them to really play, but it's just nice to get out of the house and hang with Maria. They have so many toys at her place, so Alexander will be happy. :)

Tomorrow we might go to the Zoo with Maria's host mum. If it doesn't rain, that is. I hope it won't. Going to the Zoo would be fun. And again.. I want to do stuff. I've been in this house too much lately. ><

It's Maria's birthday on Friday, so we're also planning on doing stuff then. We were talking about going out to lunch at Red Robin. They sing to you there if it's your birthday. Hahaha.. and it's a good place to take Alexander. Lots of noise and things to look at. He likes that. Then we might go to the mall and then later her host dad is going bowling with his work and he invited us along. Might be fun. I hope I can go though, because I don't know what time the bowling is. And Johanna probably won't be home til 5:30. After the bowling we might go to the University Village (U-Village) and get something to eat and look at all the college students. Teehee.. they have a bunch of stores there too, so yay!

So yeah.. busy week ahead of me. :D I needed that night's sleep. ^_^

I need to figure out what to get Maria though. I still owe her a Christmas present as well. I have one idea.. just need to figure out what it costs.

I'm so happy to be back on LJ. It's such a good way to keep in touch with people and such.

..........

Sorry, my icon distracted me. Hehe.. but isn't he pretty?! I can't WAIT to see Twilight. :D

So yeah.. I'm in the States now. Have been for over 2 months now. And it's amazing and frustrating and wonderful and scary. All at once. I love my host kid, Alexander. He's 5 months now.. and just the best baby in the world. He really is. I love him! I don't want to think about the day I have to go home again. I miss him when I haven't seen him just 1 day. It's horrible.

I've settled in quite nicely here. The second day I was here I met another au pair from Sweden, who's also called Maria. And we've been hanging out since. Like.. almost every weekend. She's awesome! We have fun. I feel so lucky to have found someone I can talk to and hang out with here.

My host parents are pretty cool too. I love my host mum. She's amazing. We have so much fun together and she's just really nice. I've been having some problems with my host dad, but meh.. you can't like everyone, right?

I'm happy here though. It's nice and different. I just signed up for a creative writing class, which should be very interesting. It's an online course, so that's something I haven't tried before either. I'm trying so hard to figure out what I want to do when I get back home to Denmark. Because I wouldn't feel good not having anything to go back to. Plus I would feel really bad saying to the family that I need to go home before my year is up. Usually au pairs stay for a year with the family. But seeing as I came here in October I would just be missing the first month or two of school. But if I haven't figured out what I want to do, then.. I don't know. I really want to go home this summer too, because Sarah is going to London to study and I want to see her before she goes. :( Guh.. it's hard. Also, I want my 13th month to travel. When you stay a year here, you get an extra month on your visa to travel. I would so love to do that. But I don't know. My mum would be really sad if I didn't come home until November..

I just have so much I want to do here, you know? I want to see everything. And.. I only get like 10 days vacation in a year. And then of course the 13th month. I know my mum is coming in March. That's gonna be nice. I have to figure out what to show her and stuff. I myself haven't even seen that much yet. Hehe..

So yeah.. tomorrow we might take a drive to the ocean. It's like a 3 hour drive. But it would be fun. I'm not sure I'm going or not though. Maria said she'd like to come, but she wanted to sleep in a bit. And Henrik (my host dad) said we'd probably leave around 9. And I'm not sure I want to go without her... 3 hours in a car with my host parents? Hmmm..

I miss my Photoshop SO bad! I finally ordered some more RAM for my computer, so I can actually install it. Yay!

But yeah.. I should go to bed. Especially if I am going tomorrow. Because then I have to be up around 8.. ><

~ Maria

Oh yeah! And for the first time with my very own customized layout! :D A HUGE thanks to rachelroberts on here (if I could make it a link, I would.. hehe..). She did all the work. She ROCKS my socks! Really, she does! <33333

So yeah.. I'm back. And hopefully I'll be posting loads more on here. I have a wish to make this my 'My year in the States' sort of journal. Maybe.. Lol.. let's see how it goes.

But YAY! I'm so happy. *huggles layout*

So now I need to learn all the cool stuff. Like.. how to make a link! Hahahaha...

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm back and posting. Woot!

edit: And I figured out how to make a link! YAY!! Go me!

heyeveryone!


I am drunk.. yes thatI am.. and i kust wanted to say that i loVE you ALL cery muchly!!!

ui am drinkign dooleys and it is vrey yummy indeeedd!

yesh thuis is me... being drunk-- looooooooooooove you alllll....

wooooohooooooooo.. there was a DRUN K mood thingu!!!

Yeah, I know I said I was gonna post more again. I suck at blogging apparently. Lol..

But anyways.. I am going to Seattle on October 15. Or actually I'm going to NYC on October 15, staying for 5 days and then leaving for Seattle on October 19. Man, I'm SO excited. But also really REALLY nervous. I mean.. what if I suck at being an au pair? What if I can't live up to the family's expectations?

But I'm going to stay positive. I can't wait to attend classes over there. I'm thinking about (if it's possible) either creative writing or maybe some media classes.. Movie making or theatre.. That would be really interesting. I just hope I can find some classes that fit into my schedule.

I am slowly getting everything together; I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow (hate going to the doctor!!) to get my health check. I have a dentist appointment in a couple of weeks. I still need to check about the international driver's license. I got a letter from the au pair agency saying that they would make an appointment for me at the US embassy. I just hope it's not a day or time when I'm working. I mean.. how do I do that? It kinda annoys me that they just assume I can go at the time they set for me. But I'll see when they tell me the time. No need to worry just yet.

Ooh.. the family got me this really cute car. It's beautiful and I just know I'm going to wreck it. Lmao..

And I found out the dad works for Disney! IT Senior Manager. How cool is that? :D

I think (or I hope) I'm going to write more here once I get to the US. I plan on keeping a journal about my trip. I'm going to buy a laptop once I'm there. Don't know how soon after I arrive though. Probably not within the first couple of weeks. But I'll hopefully be able to use the family's computer in the meantime.

On other news..

I got my second fan fic published on Checkmated. SO excited about that. I absolutely love Checkmated and to be published there.. it's just amazing. Something I never thought would happen. I've gotten so many wonderful reviews. I'm seriously still all giddy just thinking about it. :D

But I should go now. I'm playing with Manon in the GH and I should go to bed relatively early tonight. Stupid doctor's appointment.

So yeah.. Hopefully I'll post some more in the future. Hehe..

Cheers! *raises Butterbeer*