Awards!

Zomg, guys. It's the weekend, and I'm NOT at a debate tournament. Do you realize the epicness of this? No? Well. To put in perspective, this will be one of the last -- no seriously, one of two open weekends -- I have until February. That doesn't include Christmas, but really, school shouldn't be considered for those latter weeks of December.
(Technically, I should be at a tournament. My coach offered, but I wanted to hang with my sister. She's bringing pie; obviously this means I need to give her a due amount of worship.)
I read several very ninja books this week and will have reviews up later -- except for Linger, which I took a day to reread (it involved ignoring three of my teachers, one of whom was mildly offended that I thought the book was more interesting than the notes) -- as well as some other random. But for now, Abby over Above Water has given me an award!

Abby is pretty much epic, y'all. She's a mom, which automatically makes her way more ninja than average, and works at the library, which in my book is on par with working at like, a store that sold candy and sparkles and Harry Potter paraphernalia.
Anyway, to accept the award, I get to answer this question:

If I had the chance to go back and change one thing in my life, would I and what would it be?


-blinks- -shifts uncomfortably-
Mm.
Well.
I can think of a few things. Not freezing at debate districts comes to mind. Researching more thoroughly before I jumped into querying the first time. And then there's a boy. (Isn't there always?) 
-ponders-
Yeah. The boy thing wins. I wish I could deal with it way more ninja like. 
See, everyone talks about how I'll look back on that fondly and be like BOOM, Sarrah Dessan-esque book deal, but now? It still stings. Even if he is one of my best friends, I wish I could go back and be all suave and chill and just do things different. For instance, taping my mouth shut would have been a GREAT idea. At the very least, I wish I could go back and stop myself from crying. It kills me that I cried over it. 
-wrinkles nose in distaste- 
Oh, WAIT.
There's also the time I ran over that snake. Dude. I wish I could have stopped that. 
Sigh. All in all, I suppose everything I've gone through has made me who I am today. For a 16 year old girl, I'm pretty okay with myself. -shrugs- (I still wish I hadn't killed the snake.)
Anyway. Giving the award to five people now:


Maggie, because I plan on living on her fame when I'm old and decrepit. 
Cipherqueen because she is very good at cheering me up.
Aspen because holy crap, that girl can edit like no other.
Sarah because there is no one better to talk books with. (Even though I don't think she technically always does awards. Hmm.)
Katharine because she's basically what I was at 12. Cept, you know, way smarter. 


All right, farewell, friends! I'm off to go pull my sister's hair and steal her clothes watch Social Network with my family. 
More later!

Awesomeness!

Thank you Cipherqueen! Now, as the condition of receiving this award, I need to link to as many awesome people as I can think of, regardless of whether or not I think they'll repost or if they've gotten it before. This is just people who I think are awesome--because everyone needs to be reminded that every once in a while.
So.
Here we go.

I award this to Maggie, Maddie, Aspen, Bish Denham, Kendra, Holly Schindler (A BLUE SO DARK IS OFFICIALLY OUT AND GETTING AWESOME REVIEWS!! WOOT!), Myra McEntire, Hilary Wagner (Cipherqueen, I know you tagged her. But she has her cover and her ARC's and RICK RIORDAN REVIEW-HOW AWESOME IS THAT? So yes. I'm re-issuing her awesomeness) and GreenBeanTeenQueen.
Hmm.
I feel as if I'm missing people. Several people.
If I am, comment. I will put you in. Please don't take offense--I'm strapped for time.
Anyway. Someone else awesome, who does not have a blog--
Mi madre. :P It's my mom's birthday today, and she is very awesome. -nods- This is me telling her that. She also bought the aforementioned new Rick Riordan book, which, too, is awesome. Plus she gave me her taste and music and almost gave me her birthday. That deserves something, at least.

More later. Actually, book review later, because stupid Maggie gave me a stupid book of awesome and I want more and I need to rant about that.
So, bye for now. :P

Humbled

First. A blog award. Thank you Kendra.

This is part one of humbled. I'm glad to get the award, but I was kinda surprised! Thanks so much, Kendra. :D

Second part of humbled?

http://www.inkpop.com/projects/18538/dear-friend/read-project/?chapterid=28220#chapter

That. Oh, my, frigging, god.

They are letters. Written by teens, written by people. They're heart breaking. It's secrets, compiled into a story; all true. All heart breaking. It's one of the only things I've read that's made me cry like this.

It's so beautiful.

Read it, please.

Yay!!

Yay, I get an award! Thank you very much, Ms. Cipherqueen. :D
To fulfill this award, I must now list 10 things that make me happy. Well, that shouldn't be too hard. I'm putting pictures as I go, instead of at the end, so bare with me. :D
:D In no particular order....

1) Reading!! Reading some more!! More reading!! Books!! They're so pretty and shiny and awesome and they make me very happy indeed. :D


2) My fantabulous friends, online and off. They keep me amused, annoyed, happy, and exasperated all at once.

3) Shoes. Heels, boots, clogs, sandals, exspensive, cheap, all the way. Shoes, shoes, shoes.

4) Shiny things. Sparkly things. Things that glitter. Things that glitter and that are gold. :D

5) Debate. It's a stress reliever and it gives me a chance to exercise my sarcasm.

6) Scholarships. College is so flipping expensive.

7) Cute boys. :D Yes, you knew it was coming. I'm sorry. It just had to be said.
(This is Emmet, from Twilight.)

8) Writing! Even better than debate for stress, and plus, it's just fun.

9) Partial requests. Oh, and full requests. Oh, and editing. And . . . yeah. Basically, succeeding at writing.

10) Happy endings. It's obvious, but I like them. In real life, in books, in movies--I like things to work out.

And now, I have to pick some people who deserve the Happy Award....here goes...

Maggie,
Brandon,
Kendra.
Maddison.
The Green Bean Teen Queen (Hah, that's fun to type.)
Anyway.
Carry on! :D