I'm 15!

Hey Everyone!

Guess what? :D I'm 15! :D I had my birthday during the week. ^-^ Shall I tell you how it went? :)

So I woke up very early. It was about 5 am, I think. Then I just kinda sat around, waiting for the hours to pass by.
 About... 4 hours later everyone else was up, and we got to open the presents! No that was exciting. I got a new skirt (pink with blue castles around the edge), a necklace, a blue eyeshadow and a green eyeshadow, and some chocolate. My younger brother Arden says he's getting me a late birthday present, so I still have one to look forward too! :D
 After that I had breakfast, then spent the rest of the day doing stuff. I checked the mail (just a parcel for dad), and then sang First Time In Forever and the reprise over and over again.
 Then my friend Drew came over, and he wasn't in the house for too long before I whisked both him and Gabriel (another brother) to town. We were headed for Koko Blacks (a really good chocolate shop) but we kept stopping off so I could introduce Drew to all the buskers in town that I know.
 We got to Koko Blacks, had a chat to one of my friends (who works there), got free chocolate, then I bought some chocolate, and we left.
 Then I literally bumped into my friend, Alexandra - or maybe she bumped into me. Anyway, by the time I noticed her she was nearly on top of me. I then followed Alexandra around for a while with Drew and Gabriel, and we listened to her and her brothers and sister busk.
 We had to leave after a while, as Drew, Gabriel and I had to get home in time for dinner.
 It was a very good dinner - roasted duck. My grandmother phoned up just as I finished, so I had a chat to her while everyone else finished off their own dinner. Then we had the cake and went to see Les Mis.

 Now, I was disappointed with Les Miserables. Hey, it was OK, but nothing what I had expected. The singing was pretty good, but it lacked character. But the set was awesome, there is no other word.
 But the first half was the worst. I actually swore.
 The second half was much better. I actually shed a few tears, which hadn't been expecting to do. xD

 I ended up getting home at about 11:30 PM, and didn't go to bed until about an hour later.




And that was my birthday. :P


Anyway, I had better go in a few minutes to write my other blog post of my LEGO blog. But today is music Monday, so I'd better give you a song! Hmm, how about this one:

 Absolutely hilarious. XD It's one of the best song I've ever heard, and the video never fails to make me laugh.

And here are my three newest edits:

I hope you like them. ;)

Catch you later!
Spinj xoxo

Bush Fire

Hey guyz,

I've been reading about the Adelaide Bushfire. If any of you are interested to read about it, here are a few links:

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-02/catastrophic-fire-conditions-declared-near-adelaide/5996722

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/4-maps-that-show-how-the-adelaide-hills-bushfire-grew-into-a-monster-in-under-24-hours-2015-1

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-03/adelaide-hills-face-most-dangerous-fire-day-since-ash-wednesday/5998294

 My friend's grandparents got stuck in the blaze, but fled their house after putting on the sprinklers and (last I heard) are currently safe. The fire had entered their property, and the Sheep were saved. Unfortunately the old fallen down tree that my friends and I would play on when we headed up there is burnt.
 
 My thoughts are with everyone in Adelaide, and the rest of South Australia, and I hope that the blaze is put out sooner than later.

I'm going to donate to the South Australian Bushfire Recovery to help out. If any of you are interested in helping out (donations wise) let me know in the comments and I'll post up the link.

 Hopefully this fire is stopped quickly.

 Spinj

A New Years Holiday!

Hallo hallo!

 How are you all? Did you have a good New Years? Did you get to watch some fireworks at midnight? Or did you go somewhere for New Years?

Well, I had a pretty cool new Years Holiday! My parents, siblings and I headed down to the country, and spent a few days with my friend Drew and his parents.

 So we drove down to their holiday house on Tuesday. We kept stopping off little towns and getting out for a walk, but I didn't get out of the car for the whole drive, so I spent about 5+ hours sitting in the car. XD That was a very foolish thing to do... I got out of the car feeling terribly stiff. XD

When we got there there was a slightly awkward feeling, and I just kinda stood around trying to make myself as small as possible. We had dinner, then Drew took my brother and I for a walk down to the Pier. It was rather nice down there, but we couldn't see much in the dark.

 The next day we got up early, so we went fishing. We didn't catch anything, and Drew, my brother and I got rained on. So we headed back to the Holiday House.
 When we got back we had breakfast, then headed down to a Tree Walk place - I think it was called "Walking among Giants". I found my camera just as we got out of the car.
 Here are some pictures of the walk:

 1. I was like "Don't look down, don't look down...!"

 2.  I looked down again!

 3. Wow, I reached the highest point!


 I'm really scared of heights, so I was terrified being that high up in the air. I kept stopping, starting, walking as fast as I could, getting dizzy, and freaking out in general. :P So you can bet that I was really happy when I got to the end of the Tree Top Walk, with both my feet firmly planted on the ground.

 4. The hollowed out base of one of the Tingle trees - I was now off the Tree Top Walk and walking in the "Ancient Empire" walk thing - it meant I could still walk among the trees, but with my feet on the ground.

 5. A fairly dead tree, I should think - and it looks rather like Sauron's tower from Lord of the Rings in this picture.

 6. Rather unusual mushrooms... :P

 7. One of the fallen down trees.

8. A very big tree... :P


Well, we went home, and began making a Ginger bread house. It was very yummy and didn't last long...

We sat up late, as it was New Year's eve, and I think it was 1:30 AM by the time we all got to bed.

 The next day we watched a movie, then went down to the beach. My parents had a chat to someone from Adelaide, then we drove to another part of the Tingle forest and walked through it.

 12. I had to lie down on the ground to take a photo of this tree... :P

 13. Look, it's the tree again!

 14. Aww, some pretty flowers... :)

 15. Another really cool tree. I love the way it curls!

16. I must send this to Steven Spielberg... :P

After that we headed down to Circular Pool. It was really nice there - peaceful, quiet and relaxing.

After that we went to an ice creamery and had ice cream. It was very yummy - better than normal ice cream! :D


Well, we were all very exhausted, as you could imagine. When we got back I collapsed on one of the couches and lay there. But I recovered a bit and we went fishing again. I nearly caught a fish, which was really exciting!

 We went fishing again on the third (and last) day of our New Years Holiday, and I finally caught a fish. :P I was sitting on the Pier, wondering if I'd ever get a fish, when the fishing rod started getting tugs and the line began moving around in circles. xD When the fish was finally out of the water I was half freaked out and half fascinated. :P Here I am, with the fish being held in front of me (I didn't want to hold the fish):

 The fish was very yummy - it was filleted by Drew and then cooked few minutes later in garlic butter.

 After eating the fish we started driving back home. It was a long, but good, drive, and we stopped off along the way - and, unlike the trip to the Holiday House, I actually got out and stretched my legs.

Well, that was pretty much the entire holiday - and that wasn't even half of all the photos I took... :P

 I have to go now!

 Sparkles and Sunshine!
 Spinj xoxo

Big Hero 6

Hey all! :D

I'm back from my holiday! :D I have a post written up about what I did on the Holiday, but I'm waiting for Mum and Dad to come back before I post it up.

 So, what's this post about? Yeah, that's right... Big Hero 6. :P

 I saw Big Hero 6 a couple of weeks ago, and I am now officially obsessed! Here is some info on who I like:

 Favourite Male Character(s): Tadashi and Hiro
 Favourite Female Character(s): Gogo
 Favourite Robot(s): Baymax!

 I can't think of anything else to type up for that... xD

 I made up my own Big Hero 6 character, who'll be one of the main characters in my Big Hero 6 fan fiction. Her name is Crystal, but everyone calls her Flame because of her hair and her temper, and she's 15. Here she is:

I also had a go editing a picture of Hiro - it was really bad, so I'm not posting it up. xD

 I really like Immortals (by Fall Out Boy) from Big Hero 6. It's such a cool song! My favourite line(s) is... "They say we are what we are, but we don't have to be. I'm bad behavior but I do it in the best way." Here's the full song:

And here are some Big Hero 6 photos and gifs I found on the Internet:

 

Aaaah, Tadashi... why did you have to die!?!?! That was the most emotional scene in the whole movie. ;_;

 Weeeeeell, I'd better go go now, We're going to watch The LEGO Movie and have dinner.

 Adventures and Mysteries!

 Spinj xoxo

What Happend On Saturday.

Hello All! :D How are you? :)

 Well, I shall tell you about what happened yesterday. It turned out to be a busier day than I thought it would be, which was surprising.

 So at about 10:50 my brother and I headed over to the Dojo for our class.  We arrived with twenty minutes to spare, which was nice, because the other times I had been getting there with at least three minutes to get ready because of the time I'd have to leave circus at.

 The class started fifteen minuted later, and to my disappointment none of my friends were there, because I was hoping that one of them would train with me after class. My Sensei decided to put me with the older and more advanced students (She divided the class) even though I'm a white belt, but I suppose it was because I've trained with adults and was going for my brown-and-white belt (the first belt in the Adult's grades).
 It was a pretty good class, and I enjoyed it. At the end the older students and I were having a good laugh.

 Then my training partner, who I hadn't seen for weeks and had stopped replying to my emails about when we should catch up to train, suddenly came into the Dojo and asked if we could do some training. I said yes, and so we started, but about ten minutes in we had to stop because the gradings had started.

 I didn't watch the first grading - I had vanished into the change rooms to plait my hair. We're judged on appearance, performance and on how well we know the history of the Dojo, and at that particular moment I looked scruffy, hot and sweaty.

 My grading was at the very last of them, with my training partner (If two or more people are doing the same belt, they will group them together), and because I didn't feel like walking around town for three hours I decided to stay. Plus, unlike all the people who are doing their first gradings I never went to see what a grading was like, so it was better that I stayed and watched.

 It was cool to watch, and the kids who were under ten (I'd be guessing that they were somewhere between seven and nine) were fun to watch.

 My turn came out, and I was really nervous. Now, believe it or not, I have never done a test or a grading or anything like that before, because I'm homeschooled. So this was my first time, and it's no surprise I was worried about not doing something right.

 The grading started out fairly well. I actually surprised both the Senseis with how good my strikes were (snap-kick and punch with step), which was really good! I felt encouraged after that (my blocks had been a bit shoddy).
 Anyway, it all went really well until reflexes. I suddenly had a mind blank, and forgot which block/lock I was meant to use on the different attacks. So I ended up completely failing that section.

 Anyway, my Sensei's called me up after they had talked for a while and sorted out our grading sheets. From the looks on their faces I was fairly sure I'd failed, and to be honest I didn't feel surprised, because for the past few days I'd felt like I was going to fail. xD
 But actually, to my surprise, I had neither failed nor passed. I stood there, I bit shocked, as my equally surprised (and maybe  confused...? xD) Senseis told me that I hadn't failed enough sections for them to say it was a fail, but I hadn't passed all seven sections, so they couldn't give me my belt. I, however, had passed five out of the seven sections.
 So, because my Sensei's want to give me my belt and certificate, they told me that I have the whole of next week to practice and fine-tune the sections which I had failed, then on Friday we can finish off the grading and then they can present my belt to me.

 I ended up as the only person who didn't get their belt that day.

 My brother and I headed home, and when we arrived Mum and Dad were packing food for the picnic we would have while listening to the Symphony in the City. Their friend Edward was there too.
 We left again thirty minutes later (maybe it was fifteen minutes...) and when we arrived at the park it was getting really full. I'd guess there were roughly 15,000 people there already.

 So while we were hunting around for a free patch of grass to sit down and have our picnic at we saw a Cyberman from Doctor Who. I got super excited and would've taken a photo, but there was a crowd of people around it. 

 After settling down I had a run around and saw the TARDIS!!! I took a few photos of it:

 

 After I took these photos the Cyberman appeared again, about three centimeters in front of me, and probably would've walked into me if I hadn't jumped out of the way. I would've taken a photo of him that time, but he was going 'away' (in other words the person inside the Cyberman out fit was getting hot and needed to get out, and was going backstage). So that was the end of getting a photo with/of him.

So I went back to our picnic, and the Symphony started playing shortly afterwards.
 The MC had the coolest last name ever - it was Perfect. No, really, his name was Eddie Perfect. xD And the assistant Conductor was called Christopher Dragon. Maybe I should change my last name to Unicorn. Then I really would be Willow Unicorn... :P




  Here are some more photos I took:

 Waiting for it to start.

 Took a photo of the sun setting over the river.

 Can you see the Christmas hat?

 Can you spot the hat in this one?

 Fireworks!!

The hundreds and thousands of people who were watching Symphony.



OK, I gotta go now. I have stuff to do.

 Merry Christmas!

 Spinj xoxo


(A few weeks later...:
 (Hey all! Sorry I didn't post this when I meant to, stuff got busy. X| I thought I'd tell you that I ended up with my brown-and-white belt! It was so cool, and I was so relieved to get it.
 (I'm writing a post on my LEGO blog now - catch you all later!)

And I'm Frozen.

Hey y'all! How chu all going? :D

 Well, I thought I'd do a post today. :)

 Soo, lets see, what first? :P

 Well, I had martial arts today. I did some training, had a break, and did more training. Hopefully I'm ready for tomorrow (when I'm doing my grading) because I really want to get this belt. It's a brown-and-white belt, which is the first one in the Adults belts. Then I think it goes red-and-white... I dunno for sure though.

 And I've got a bit of a Frozen obsession... I've never watched it, but I've heard the songs, and I know nearly everything about the storyline and the characters plus I know that there is supposed to be a sequel.
 So my favourite songs are Let It Go and Let it Go (Demi Lovato) and First Time in Forever (reprise). Favourite character... hmm, I'd have to pick between either Elsa, Anna or Kristoff, and I'm not in the mood for picking favourites at the moment.
 Favourite line from a song... I have a few. :P "Standing frozen in the life I've chosen" which is an awesome line, "No escape from the storm inside me..." I just like that line in general, "We can fix this hand in hand" well, who wouldn't want to fix something hand in hand with an awesome sibling? :)

I had a go at editing some Frozen pictures. Here they are:

 1. First try. Looks interesting...

 2. Second try. S'OK, I could've done better. XD

3. Does this count as an edit? :P

 4. I'm getting better...

 5. And better... I still think that this one was probably one of my best.

6. And the only really good one that I made. xD However, in the process I also got rid of the original picture (just plain Elsa) so I can't re-do it in a different way. Oh well!

 So those are all my edits. Some are OK, others are better. :P
 Here are some ones that I found and that I do not own. Credit goes to each artist:

 I really love the last one and the ice GIF. And the one with Anna. And the fire one... :) :P

 I also had a go at writing a Frozen Fan fic, but that kinda failed... Although I'm going to have another go at writing it one. :)


Well, I hope you all enjoyed this. :) I'll let y'all know what happens with my grading tomorrow!

 Night!

 Spinj xoxo