Kristina Horner

If you don't know who Kristina Horner is, she's a vlogger/singer/songwriter/writer/Potternerd, and she's one of my idols. She's part of ALL CAPS, along with Luke Conard, and she's part of a Wrock band - the Parselmouths - with her friend Eia. She's an amazing person, and I honestly do look up to her.

I was listening to Delete You by ALL CAPS, and I noticed that she sung part of Happy - a song Luke wrote last year after a painful break-up, that made it onto their latest album, Bmin/E. Naturally, I tweeted about it.

I didn't think anything of it. I always tweet about ALL CAPS and my little discoveries, like just a few hours before I tweeted about how the last four tags in the Can't video on Youtube are "SWORD FIGHTS PWN NOOBS".

So then I signed off, went to bed, yadayada. In the morning, I checked my Twitter as usual. I wasn't feeling too great because I had a dream that reminded me of an old friend whom I haven't spoken to in almost a year, and the second top TT on Twitter was #OurFriendshipEndedWhen (which is still trending second now), which only made me feel worse. And the computer was slow, so I was feeling annoyed at that. And then I saw it, as I was scrolling through all the tweets I'd missed while sleeping. An @reply.

Not only did I mentally fangirl-squeal from excitement (my grandparents were in the room; they think I'm weird enough as it is, so I bit it back), but I felt super proud of myself for noticing something that not many people have/no one has noticed, and that no one has pointed out before. But still... she replied to me! She is, for all extents and purposes, a celebrity in my eyes. A YouTube star, most definitely. But she's such an inspiration, so determined, funny, and genuine. I was super excited that she'd replied to me.

I've been dying for the past eleven hours, because I've had no one to tell. My only Nerdfighter friend who likes/has listened to ALL CAPS is Jess, and she's ill, so I couldn't even squeal about it to her. Even online, I'm not friends with Nerdfighters*. I've met people online who DFTBA, but we've never talked much, and we're not friends. And so I decided to squeal about it to you, lovely readers. I've been whinging so much lately, I decided to show you that I'm not just some depressed emo who cries herself to sleep every night.

So, that's exciting. For me. You probably don't care. Oh, and I'm getting a Netbook on Sundayyyyyyyyyy. So that's exciting, too. For me. You probably don't care. But I don't care that you don't care. I'm telling you anyway. So ha.

Kristina's Twitter
Kristina's YouTube
Kristina's Blog
Kristina's DeviantART
Kristina's Dailybooth
Luke's Twitter
Luke's YouTube
Luke's Dailybooth
ALLCAPS's Twitter
ALLCAPS's YouTube
ALLCAPS's site

I strongly suggest you check out that last link, if none other, and listen to their music. You can listen to both albums, Songs in the Key of Email and Bmin/E, for free on there, so really, I do suggest checking that out. Now I've officially link-spammed you, I'm gonna go. Keep blogging!

*EDIT: Ellen's a Nerdfighter, but I don't know if she likes ALL CAPS. Ellen, if you're reading this, do you?

Maybe I'll wake up for once.

Title has nothing to do with the blog. I'm just listening to Going Under by Evanescence.

I have a lot of things I want to share with you today because I've been bottling up all my blog ideas and I think I might spontaneously combust into flames if I don't get it all off my chest. And, chances are, I'll probably forget half of the things I was planning to tell you, because I am very forgetful. Hence the reason one of my friends called Jess (I have three friends called Jess ... and I talk to two other people called Jess. Ah!) calls me 'Goldie' ... which is short for Goldfish ... because Goldfish have short memories. Moving swifty on!

1.

You know I said I was going to make a better Kiro icon?
← That would be it. Isn't it so much better than the first one I made?
(This is where you nod obediently despite what you really think, 'kay?)



2. I figured out how to animate pictures! I'm really pleased with myself. Unfortunately, even when I optimise the animated icon or whatever, it takes up a lot of space, so I've only made one so far. And it's Hermione/Ron, which is a ship I don't even support, but whatever. When inspirations strikes, you just go with it, even if it's out of the norm. I've got a couple more in mind, too. Unfortunately, for some God unknown reason, the icon doesn't work on the blog (thank Merlin for Ctrl+Z), so I'm just going to link you to it, 'cos I posted it on DeviantART ... So, just clicketh here to see it. I'm really excited about it ^.^

3. Hayley G. Hoover wrote a really lovely, truthful blog the other day. Well, I say blog. It was more a piece of creative writing, and it's so inspirational. And so, here is the link to A Pretentious Portrait of Pretension. It's not too lengthy, it'll only take a couple of minutes to read, but it really is beautiful. Hayley is a fantastic writer.

4. I've started making stamps, now, too. I've only made one - and I have a second half-finished. It's not fantastic; I'm not keen on it. But I have a ton of ideas, thanks to my thoughts keeping me up last night, so I'm going to go on a stamp-frenzy once I've finished today's entry. I'll share with you the one I made...

Now, if you know me well enough, you know I squeal or squeak when I'm excited/in fangirl mode. However, it doesn't sound like a squeal or a squeak. It sounds like "squee". Imagine a really squeaky voice saying "squee" really fast, or for a long time (squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee), and that's what you get when I'm excited. It generally happens when I read fluff, or slash, but it also happens nearly every time I see Kiro (Cinema Bizarre) or Dougie Poynter (McFLY), or I just generally get excited over something. Because I'm a nerd, I'm allowed to obsess and overreact.*

5. Today is Emma Watson's 20th birthday. In honour of that, I made an Emma Watson signature banner. It's alright, I quite like it, but I can see room for major improvement. Happy Birthday, Emma! ♥

6. The layout on KW changed drastically overnight, and honestly, I think it's bearable but awful. It looks like a proper kids' site now. I mean, it is a kid/teen site ... but now it looks like a site for little kids, now for kids aged 7-18! I don't like it, but we're going to have to live with it. Allen and Tanya - people who work with the site (Tanya runs it) - said they're working on skins for people who want calmer, duller themes. I will definitely be using these skins because the site truly looks horrible now. It's so bright and childish. Yuck. I so prefer the old KW... *sigh* When I signed in earlier, I didn't expect it, and I freaked out. But at the end of the day, I'm only on there for the people, and until I can contact all my friends off of KW, I will remain an active member.

7. I'm adding this because I forgot what else I wanted to say, and so the title will relate to the blog xD Sometimes, I seriously think my life is a dream. Not that anything special or extraordinary happens, because they don't. It's just ... the friends I have are too good to be true, sometimes even I surprise myself with some of the things I say, and I get really bad cases of dejá vu where I dream something - an ordinary, everyday situation - and then it happens within the next forty-eight hours. I just keep thinking to myself, "I'm going to wake up in a minute. Wait ... I never think like this when I'm actually dreaming." Heh.

"We're all so laughably similar in our attempts to be sickeningly different." - Hayley G. Hoover.


On that note, I'll leave you, because I've forgotten everything else I wanted to say (told you it would happen). Keep blogging. (:


*I just spent twenty minutes trying to find that video to link it. I'm so dedicated to nerdiness.