Oliver's Team- Making Each Moment Count

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, or MLD is an orphan disease. All research if from donations and grants. Don't know what MLD is? Look it up. It's pretty God-awful. I didn't know what it was either. Then I found out about Oliver. My fourth grade teacher is an amazing person, who was always kind to us and I never heard her say a bad thing about anyone for the whole year I had her. So what the heck did she do to deserve her child, Oliver, being diagnosed with MLD, a fatal disease. I just purchased an Oliver's Team bracelet, and I ask you to do the same to show support for the cause. No one in the world deserves this.
Click here to donate, learn more, check up on little Oliver, or purchase a bracelet or vinyl sticker for the cause:
http://www.oliversteam.blogspot.com/
  https://www.facebook.com/OliversTeam
http://mldfoundation.org/oliver
and follow the Twitter page @Oliversteam
Please.

Everything I know is a lie.

Blue from Blue's Clues is a girl. My whole childhood is a lie. 
http://www.nickjr.com/blues-clues/about-blues-clues/blues-clues-characters.html

Disney Love Analyzed Part 2: The Little Mermaid

2. The Little Mermaid
This story features Ariel, a 16 year old mermaid princess who sees Prince Eric on the shore at his birthday party on a ship and immediatly falls in love with him. A random storm hits, and everyone is safe except Eric's dog, Max, who fell off the ship. Eric dives off the ship to rescue his dog, but almost drowns in the process. He was saved by Ariel, who sings to him as he is waking up before diving under the surface. When Eric is fully conscious, all he remembers from the incident is that he was save by a girl with a beautiful voice. Ariel makes a trade with an evil witch to become a human, but she has to give up her voice. Once on land, she finds Prince Eric, who becomes discourage because he thought Ariel was the girl who saved him, but she now has no voice, so he thinks it's impossible that it's the same girl. With the help of Sebastian, a singing crab, Ariel and Prince Eric almost kiss on a romantic outing, but the evil sea witch interferes. One of  the conditions for her legs is that she must recieve true loves kiss before three days are over, or else she becomes the witch's slave. The witch then poses as a beautiful girl with Ariel's voice, who Eric falls for and almost gets married to.

I, personally, tough I love this movie, think the love is shallow and superficial. At first, Ariel loves Prince Eric on sight, without even meeting him, and Prince Eric loves Ariel just for her beautiful singing voice. Ariel is still head over heels for Eric, and he almost falls for her without knowing her personality, morals, or virtually anything about her because she can't talk. Then, as soon as the girl with the beautiful voice comes along (aka the sea witch, Ursula, in diguise) Eric totally ditches Ariel for another girl. Once he realizes his mistake in almost marrying Ursula, he rushes to kiss Ariel, but the sun has set on the third day. Eric somehow kills Ursula, who became queen after Ariel's father, King Triton, sacrifices himself for his daughter, and everyone is set free from Ursula's wrath. King Triton uses Ursula's magic to turn Ariel into a human when her realized how truly in love they are. Ariel and Eric get married, with both merpeople and humans attending the wedding.

As much as I do love this story, and "Kiss the Girl" is one of my favorite songs, I would have to say this one is Happily Never After, because the love is superficial and shallow, at least during the movie.

Tune in tomorrow for more Disney love stories analyzed!!! If I have time, of course... I have to go get attaked by my arch enemy, who happens to be a rooster named Bobo, but that, my friends, is a story for another day.

~I

Disney Love Analyzed Part 1: Beauty and the Beast

So, yesterday, I was obviously upset because I don't want to grow up. But today, I am going to analyze an even more mind boggling concept: Love. Not love like, "oh there's this boy, and even though I'm thirteen, I think I love him." (No offense Kay, but I don't believe in love this young) If anything, that could be called puppy love (roughly defined as "shallow but intense feelings of love between two young people" (and yes, I read the dictionary on occasion...)) But no, I am talking about the most romantic, best love stories of all time: Disney. Now, not to say all Disney love stories are perfect, so this is where I will decide: Happily Ever After or Happily Never After?

1. Beauty and the Beast
"Neeeeew and a bit alarming who'd have ever thought that this could be? Truuue that he's no prince charming but there's something in him that I simply didn't see!" (Something There, duet between Belle and the Beast)
 Once upon a time, the Beast was the charming Prince Adam, who was found by the Enchantress to have no love in his heart for others. The Enchatress curses him, tranforming him into the horrible Beast, and the only way to break the curse is to learn to love and be loved by another person. The catch is, he needs to do this before the last petal of the enchanted rose falls. There is only one petal left on the rose at this point in the story. Belle, the beautiful, beloved town girl (Belle means beautiful in French, hence "Beauty and the Beast") makes a trade with the Beast, who was holding her father captive for trespassing. Belle offers to take her fathers place and must promise to remain in the castle forever. In the song lyrics I quoted above, Belle is beginning to see the gruff, angry Beast is not all bad, and is starting to fall for him. Beast, who was thought to have a heart to full of arrogance and self obsession to love another being, is starting to realize he loves Belle. One of my favorite Disney movie scenes is in Beauty and the Beast, where Belle and the Beast are waltzing on the balcony, and the curse is broken, so in the middle of their slow dance, the Beast is transformed back into Prince Adam.
I would consider this story to be one filled with "true love" because Belle falls in love with the Beast, even though he is, by title, a beast, gruff, not classically handsome, and pretty mentally unstable, due to frustration and impatience of finding true love. She loves him through and through, good, bad, and sometimes quite scary.

On the other hand, Belle was being held hostage. Forever.

A would call this Disney romance Happily Ever After, because even though they met through capture, and he was going to hold her captive for eternity, the love was true and real, unlike this next story...

I am actually going to break this into parts because otherwise it's a lot to read in one post...

Kid stuff

So maybe I still watch Disney, and play Poptropica, play hide and seek, love Disney movies, love stuffed animals, Christmas morning, even coloring just for the heck of it. This doesn't make me immature. It means I am still a kid, and I want to stay that way. I don't want to grow up yet, and I don't see a point to yet. You're only a kid once, and I don't want to get older and always wish I was younger because I was in a hurry to grow up. And so what if I am tearing up writing this post because I never want to grow up. I still have time to learn and grow and change and have fun, and that is what being a kid is about. It doesn't mean I'm irresponsible, just young. People say you only live once, and you're only a kid for a short amount of time. It is my personal mission to make it last and just be a kid. Try it sometime.

'Stand Up and Be Heard

Staring at my keys, waiting for inspiration.
Still waiting.
Well, for starters, Silk shaving cream is crap.
So is gym class volleyball.
And sometimes, society.
Not to copy my good friend  Kay's recent post (Check it out at girlvssociety.blogspot.com), but mean people suck. I almost never use that word. (I prefer sock ;)), but it's true. Being mean doesn't make you cool, or better than everyone else, it means you don't respect other people, and obviously have no regard for their feelings because you think it's funny to get a reaction out of them. Well, reality check. It's not funny. it's cruel, and it needs to stop. Not to say I'm completely innocent. In the beginning of the year, in art class, my assigned seat was with three guys, Kyle, Evan, and David. Evan is a friend of mine, I didn't know David or Kyle, but I thought Kyle was kind of weird and for some reason, those first few weeks I couldn't tolerate him for some reason. I wasn't mean to him, but I got annoyed easily by things he did, for no good reason. But David and Evan did bully him, and it bugged me,  but I never said anything, maybe because I never particularly liked Kyle, maybe because he reacted strongly to the bullying. I had tried telling him not to react as strongly, but he didn't listen. Maybe this is why I didn't do something before, but it was no reason not to. Then one day, they were bullying him again, and he said, "It's all fun and games until someone commits suicide." This opened my eyes to how bad bullying has become, and how being a bystander is almost as bad as being a bully. I told David and Evan off, and they claimed they were just having some fun. I knew I couldn't get through to David when he said this, but I talked to Evan later that day, and told him what Kyle said, and I think it opened his eyes too. He laid off with bullying Kyle, and stood by me multiple times when I tried to get through to David and told him off for being a jerk. Now Kyle often hangs with my friends and I in numerous classes, and he's actually is really funny. He makes the weirdest faces... He's also a good singer too. He sang for my chorus as part of this thing we have to do now to show class participation.
So, on that note, don't be a bystander. Nobody's perfect, and don't cover up your insecurities by exploiting others.
Keep it real and fail with style.
-I

This is an afterthought, but I would feel like a loser commenting on my own blog, but I swear, I sound like a saint or cult leader or something "I've tried to get through to David" but know, I pretty much said, "Hey David, knock it off, you're being a jerk and it's not funny." So yeah XD