When I look at my tumblr,

I feel happy.

When I look at my tumblr,

I feel happy.

i'm fabulous

Happy Barbershop Quartet Day!

Yes.

This happened.

I would apologize, but I don't mean it. Hopefully no one is keeping score of my sorting ventures, because it is kind of embarrassing.

JK, I'm fabulous and I don't care what anybody thinks. 

I am getting suuuuuppppeeerrrr excited for Centerstage Act 3! This year is gonna be so fun, and it is a million times more difficult too! We kinda lost our choreographer, seeing as she is recovering from a spontaneous surgery, and so we are just making it up as we go. That's okay, as we are such talented people.

We can handle it.

But still, wish us luck!

In case the term "Centerstage" is unfamiliar, it basically is a spring production that is made up of songs from TV,  musicals, movies, radio, etc. It can be compared to a glee club, I suppose, but it is AMAZING.

Yeah.

xoxo,

McCall

Happy Barbershop Quartet Day!

Yes.

This happened.

I would apologize, but I don't mean it. Hopefully no one is keeping score of my sorting ventures, because it is kind of embarrassing.

JK, I'm fabulous and I don't care what anybody thinks. 

I am getting suuuuuppppeeerrrr excited for Centerstage Act 3! This year is gonna be so fun, and it is a million times more difficult too! We kinda lost our choreographer, seeing as she is recovering from a spontaneous surgery, and so we are just making it up as we go. That's okay, as we are such talented people.

We can handle it.

But still, wish us luck!

In case the term "Centerstage" is unfamiliar, it basically is a spring production that is made up of songs from TV,  musicals, movies, radio, etc. It can be compared to a glee club, I suppose, but it is AMAZING.

Yeah.

xoxo,

McCall

hate we can all agree on

Happy National All is Ours Day!

Today, I found a blog of one of my fellow classmates. He has quite the sense of humor, as you will soon find out.

Give it a looksies:

The Young and Nostalgic: Hate We Can All Agree On: Self-help books teach you that if you find common interests with someone else, it's easier to hold a conversation with them...

xoxo,
McCall

Happy National All is Ours Day!

Today, I found a blog of one of my fellow classmates. He has quite the sense of humor, as you will soon find out.

Give it a looksies:

The Young and Nostalgic: Hate We Can All Agree On: Self-help books teach you that if you find common interests with someone else, it's easier to hold a conversation with them...

xoxo,
McCall

crank 'em out

Happy National No Housework Day!

Basically, I am one lazy, lazy child.

How many times have I posted during 2013? Er, don't answer that.

I have plans, however, to catch up with all of the pictures I have taken during the past year. There are not many, but I like quite a few of them.

Potter-itis has struck me once again. For a while I thought I was on recovery mode, and yet, fortunately, this is not the case. I am as hopelessly obsessed as ever, and soon I am going to enter a full-fledged depression if I don't get an owl explaining how I accidentally did not get into Hogwarts. The only reasonable excuses I will accept are:

   a. Some prankster either Imperiused or Oblivioused the man in charge

   b. I am a part of some covert group that required someone on-field with the Muggles, and I can't remember anything for obvious protection reasons

   c. The entire magical world has collapsed in the past twenty years or so since Harry's triumph.

Anywho, I recently stumbled upon a note that one of my friends created in Facebook, and I absolutely love it. Jesse is an amazing author and artist, probably the most talented girl I know, and she also is incredibly brilliant. 

Exhibit A:

Now for the note:

"Soooo just recently I stumbled upon a comic strip that involved a character that was Mormon--a rather stereotypical Mormon. It was funny. So I scrolled down and started reading the comments because I was curious how people would react.
And I gotta say, I don't understand the majority of the comments that were made.

The vast majority kept saying that the LDS religion was stupid, a load of crap, and so on (hurtful to some extent but there isn't much I can do about it). And yet EVERYONE agreed that Mormons are the nicest people on the planet, that the LDS religion never fails to keep 'cranking out the nicest people on earth.' And they don't know how.

Okay, so, whut? Is it not connecting for these people? Do they not get it? Religion/church isn't a sideline thing, it isn't something you simply go to, like school, then leave and forget about until you remember to go back again. That's not religion--that's something else entirely.

To truly be a part of a religion, to be a religious person, you have to incorporate it in your lives. You LIVE it. It guides and dictates your actions, thoughts, words, and choices. It's who you are, you're center. It's YOU. So to say that the religion is awful but the people are saints doesn't make sense. How can such an awful religion 'crank out' such wonderful people? Easy. Because the religion is wonderful.
And honestly, I don't care what your religion is. If you're a nice person, then whatever guides your decisions is wonderful. Whatever you live by is your religion.
I'm a Mormon and the Gospel is how I love my life. I truly believe that the LDS church, the Gospel is a wonderful, wonderful thing. And it's because it's such a wonderful thing that we have such amazing, good folk as members. Like draws like, my friends.

I'm not sure if I'm communicating this correctly--I'm a little tired and a little upset so everything's a jumble in my head.

Lastly, it's so FRUSTRATING how people seem to not care to get their facts straight, but rather guess and assume what they will and go with that. It's how rumors and gossip and false information is spread and it spreads like wildfire. It's rather exasperatingly funny--the false information spreads faster than the truth. Some of the things I've read have made me laugh with the stupidity of it, others have made me want to scream and throw things, and yet others make me want to cry.
It's the most maddening thing to me."

Sadly, not everyone is as intelligent as she is. But thank goodness there are the "Jesse"s in the world, or it would be a sad, sad place.

xoxo,

McCall

Happy National No Housework Day!

Basically, I am one lazy, lazy child.

How many times have I posted during 2013? Er, don't answer that.

I have plans, however, to catch up with all of the pictures I have taken during the past year. There are not many, but I like quite a few of them.

Potter-itis has struck me once again. For a while I thought I was on recovery mode, and yet, fortunately, this is not the case. I am as hopelessly obsessed as ever, and soon I am going to enter a full-fledged depression if I don't get an owl explaining how I accidentally did not get into Hogwarts. The only reasonable excuses I will accept are:

   a. Some prankster either Imperiused or Oblivioused the man in charge

   b. I am a part of some covert group that required someone on-field with the Muggles, and I can't remember anything for obvious protection reasons

   c. The entire magical world has collapsed in the past twenty years or so since Harry's triumph.

Anywho, I recently stumbled upon a note that one of my friends created in Facebook, and I absolutely love it. Jesse is an amazing author and artist, probably the most talented girl I know, and she also is incredibly brilliant. 

Exhibit A:

Now for the note:

"Soooo just recently I stumbled upon a comic strip that involved a character that was Mormon--a rather stereotypical Mormon. It was funny. So I scrolled down and started reading the comments because I was curious how people would react.
And I gotta say, I don't understand the majority of the comments that were made.

The vast majority kept saying that the LDS religion was stupid, a load of crap, and so on (hurtful to some extent but there isn't much I can do about it). And yet EVERYONE agreed that Mormons are the nicest people on the planet, that the LDS religion never fails to keep 'cranking out the nicest people on earth.' And they don't know how.

Okay, so, whut? Is it not connecting for these people? Do they not get it? Religion/church isn't a sideline thing, it isn't something you simply go to, like school, then leave and forget about until you remember to go back again. That's not religion--that's something else entirely.

To truly be a part of a religion, to be a religious person, you have to incorporate it in your lives. You LIVE it. It guides and dictates your actions, thoughts, words, and choices. It's who you are, you're center. It's YOU. So to say that the religion is awful but the people are saints doesn't make sense. How can such an awful religion 'crank out' such wonderful people? Easy. Because the religion is wonderful.
And honestly, I don't care what your religion is. If you're a nice person, then whatever guides your decisions is wonderful. Whatever you live by is your religion.
I'm a Mormon and the Gospel is how I love my life. I truly believe that the LDS church, the Gospel is a wonderful, wonderful thing. And it's because it's such a wonderful thing that we have such amazing, good folk as members. Like draws like, my friends.

I'm not sure if I'm communicating this correctly--I'm a little tired and a little upset so everything's a jumble in my head.

Lastly, it's so FRUSTRATING how people seem to not care to get their facts straight, but rather guess and assume what they will and go with that. It's how rumors and gossip and false information is spread and it spreads like wildfire. It's rather exasperatingly funny--the false information spreads faster than the truth. Some of the things I've read have made me laugh with the stupidity of it, others have made me want to scream and throw things, and yet others make me want to cry.
It's the most maddening thing to me."

Sadly, not everyone is as intelligent as she is. But thank goodness there are the "Jesse"s in the world, or it would be a sad, sad place.

xoxo,

McCall

i'm radioactive

Happy National Baked Scallops Day!

The Choir California trip is in 10 days! I am getting very, very antsy. This means spontaneous dancing, long hours of looking at Disney pictures online, and an overall unproductive McCall. Basically, the perfect mixture for any already slacking student!

My case is not too bad I suppose. I mean, I am at least thinking about my yet-to-be-done homework.

Kinda.

For our spring music event, I was very honored to discover that I got a duet in our Les Mis piece. I will be singing for Cosette in One Day More, and I am SO excited. I have never felt like I was a very good singer, and I definitely never imagined that I would be able to sing this for this character when there were so many other more talented people. This is truly a little blessing from above.

Now, if you would be so kind as to watch this video:

Also, I would very much appreciate it if you would all lament with me about how I am going to be out of town when this comes out:

xoxo,
McCall

Happy National Baked Scallops Day!

The Choir California trip is in 10 days! I am getting very, very antsy. This means spontaneous dancing, long hours of looking at Disney pictures online, and an overall unproductive McCall. Basically, the perfect mixture for any already slacking student!

My case is not too bad I suppose. I mean, I am at least thinking about my yet-to-be-done homework.

Kinda.

For our spring music event, I was very honored to discover that I got a duet in our Les Mis piece. I will be singing for Cosette in One Day More, and I am SO excited. I have never felt like I was a very good singer, and I definitely never imagined that I would be able to sing this for this character when there were so many other more talented people. This is truly a little blessing from above.

Now, if you would be so kind as to watch this video:

Also, I would very much appreciate it if you would all lament with me about how I am going to be out of town when this comes out:

xoxo,
McCall

big news around fb

Happy Walking The Dog Day!

On Facebook, everyone is getting married, getting their mission calls, or getting accepted into BYU.

Woe is me.

I love life right now. I don't wanna grow up. But then again, I do want to get hitched and I would love to go to college right now. Seeing all of these people's happiness is wonderful, but I suppose that I am getting antsy. I just want it NOWNOWNOWNOW.

Meh.

xoxo,
McCall

Happy Walking The Dog Day!

On Facebook, everyone is getting married, getting their mission calls, or getting accepted into BYU.

Woe is me.

I love life right now. I don't wanna grow up. But then again, I do want to get hitched and I would love to go to college right now. Seeing all of these people's happiness is wonderful, but I suppose that I am getting antsy. I just want it NOWNOWNOWNOW.

Meh.

xoxo,
McCall

yo quiero un godfather

Happy National Plum Pudding Day!

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!

-Richard Krogh

My children are going to be fluent in a minimum of three languages: English, Spanish, and whichever foreign country's native language that I feel would be the best to escape to/have ties to in a time of crisis.

I'm slightly paranoid like that.

Also, I have my future mapped out all nice like. I will marry a man who is a minimum of four years older than me, he will be the son of a carpenter, and he will have an extremely wealthy Godfather that dotes on him like nobody's business. That way, I don't have to deal with rich in-laws, but I get the benefit of a loving and well-off relative.

I'm basically a genius.

Just kidding. That would be pretty nice and all, but who am I to predetermine my destiny?

xoxo,
McCall

Happy National Plum Pudding Day!

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!

-Richard Krogh

My children are going to be fluent in a minimum of three languages: English, Spanish, and whichever foreign country's native language that I feel would be the best to escape to/have ties to in a time of crisis.

I'm slightly paranoid like that.

Also, I have my future mapped out all nice like. I will marry a man who is a minimum of four years older than me, he will be the son of a carpenter, and he will have an extremely wealthy Godfather that dotes on him like nobody's business. That way, I don't have to deal with rich in-laws, but I get the benefit of a loving and well-off relative.

I'm basically a genius.

Just kidding. That would be pretty nice and all, but who am I to predetermine my destiny?

xoxo,
McCall