Will you be my hero?

For those of you unfortunate enough to not know what came out on Sunday . . . I shall enlighten you. Disney made my Valentine's Day by premiering their newest Disney Channel Original Movie . . . Starstruck. And after watching it (three times), I am indeed Starstruck.



It really isn't even that great; the main girl is overly dramatic and her sister is pretty annoying and silly - even for Disney's standards. And yet . . . I LOVE it. I watched it twice on V-day (really more like 1.76 times) and once the next day. And I have been dying to watch it again ever since. My time since that night has been spent listening to my favorite songs from the movie on Youtube. Over and over. I am still not sick of them and just continue to love them more and more. Don't worry, I am going to get the soundtrack. It has come to the point where I must.

There are two songs on it that I just absolutely adore. One's Hero and the other is What You Mean to Me. They are both splendid and make me fall in love with Sterling Knight every time I hear them pretty much. Even though he isn't actually the one singing. But meh. Minor detail. Still love him. Which brings me to my problem.

Here I am, almost 20, and I still have an irrational weakness for Disney Channel stars. I love them. Mainly two, to be exact.

My newfound love, Sterling Knight

and my longtime love, David Henrie.

Now, mind you, Sterling Knight will never come anywhere near David Henrie status in my life, but he still is an option in my wishful love life thoughts. Not to be creepy at all or anything . . .

Does anyone else think it's completely ridiculous that I am old and supposed to be mature and yet I am still starstruck? With Disney stars nonetheless. I most definitely do. But oh well, I guess. Because I like it. And I don't think it's going to be changing anytime soon. At all. Yay Disney!

P.S. At least they are both my age. Better than me crushing on some 40 year old actor, right? Right?

I wish I had one . . .

I have this little problem. I hate doing homework and being responsible . . . so sometimes I end up wasting my time on the Internet. Okay, a lot of the time. But in my opinion, most the stuff I spend time looking at is totally worthwhile - or would be if I wasn't supposed to be doing homework - and fantastic (except you, Facebook - can we just break up already?) So today was supposed to be a MAJOR homework day, mainly because I procrastinated and played all weekend. And it has been. Sort of. Luckily the day is young so I still have plenty of time to do more homework. But my point is that since it's a homework day - I inevitably had to have some weak moments and end up surfing the internet. One of the wedding blogs I follow had a new post today, which I obviously had to check out. And it talked about wedding flowers. So I went to the website they were talking about and looked at the flowers. Which made me start thinking about flowers I like. And looking up bouquets with them. And then thinking about flowers I might like to have for my wedding someday. And mentally arranging those bouquets. Which then led me to another aspect of weddings. It's a rough cycle.

Today this vicious cycle led me to snowflakes. I love winter weddings. I plan on having one someday. So I allotted myself fifteen minutes to look up snowflake cakes. But then I stumbled across a snowflake hair pin. Fifteen minutes turned into 25. Then I found tips on planning a winter wedding. There goes 40 minutes. You see what I mean? It's quite ridiculous.

My favorite thing is that half the time when I do this it isn't even like planning my wedding. Just weddings in general. I love them and wish I could plan them all day long. But . . . I can't. And as you probably noticed, today's theme was most definitely for myself. But don't worry. I'm not obsessing about getting married. I'm really not ready (knock on wood). I just want to have a wedding. My priorities are SO straight!

After I dragged myself off the Internet and into the textbooks, I was a good little girl and got homework done. Then I decided to just check one more time to see if anyone had updated their blog in the last few hours. Bad move, Caitlyn. Bad move. I ended up finding my way to one of my obsessions. It's called Little Shop of Shavs and it is SO great.

It is this woman who paints pictures. And they are incredible. I am pretty sure I have mentioned these in the past, but that's okay. They deserve another post. I am truly obssessed with them and want one so bad it's really not even funny. Unfortunately . . . I do not have money for such things. Because they are not exactly cheap. But, on the plus side (I guess?), my favorite ones that she does are the couple ones. And since I am not married and therefore have no need for a couple one, I am okay waiting. But I still enjoy looking at them. Over and over.

Want to see one of my new favorites? Of course you do. Click here. I just love this painting because it's so unique and personal to the couple. It shows their relationship and interests. Adorable.

And after you check out that painting, look at the rest of them! She is incredibly talented and I am in awe pretty much. Hopefully you will all love them too and will get you your very own! After which I shall be ridiculously jealous of you. But also very happy for you, of course. :)

So really, check her stuff out.

P.S. I so want one at my wedding. How cute is this? (Second picture down)

Baking - Take 1

I finally was able to bake! Woohoo. Despite really wanting to, I wasn't able to get myself to do it until today. But, as stated above, I finally did it!

The fondant went rather well. It was a lot messier than I expected, but it was totally a lot easier than I thought it would be. It is chilling in my fridge as we speak! I'm excited to use it on my cake. Except . . . the cake part didn't actually turn out so well. I decided to get ambitious and made it from scratch. But then I was dumb and didn't cook it enough and thought I did and all that jazz. The point is now I pretty much have a lumpy, undercooked cake in the middle that may or may not be disgusting AND a complete disaster when trying to put the fondant on it. I shall let you know how it goes!

Michael Kenna . . . I love you

So for our photography class, we had to go to three different photo exhibits. One of these was an Exhibit at the Bibliotheque National. It was by some photographer named Michael Kenna who I had never heard of (obviously, since I don't follow photography or anything). So I obviously went. And I fell in love. Not so much with him (how freakish would that be), but with his photography. I LOVE his style and he is incredible. Seriously, I can't even tell you. He is officially my favorite photographer. And that is actually saying something now because I have definitely started appreciating photography more since taking this class.

So when we had our "Mois de la Photo" assignment, where we had to be inspired by an exhibit we saw, it was really a no brainer who I was going to pick as my inspiration. So I took my Kenna-esque photos and posted them. I'm actually quite proud of them. So you should really check them out. :)

The last one's my favorite. Ooh, it just . . . mmm. Love it.

I'm definitely gonna be getting a print of one of his photos as soon I have some money again. I wish I could've gotten one at his exhibit - but I was too worried about getting it home. And I really want me some of this. It sounds incredible. Really, I want that book.

The Baking Bug

Out of nowhere I have this strange, overwhelming desire to bake! During the time when I should be studying, I find myself taking breaks and looking up recipes and whatnot. I have a feeling that when I get back to Utah I am going to go on a cooking - well, more like baking - spree. I already have big plans for my first day back. I'm going to need big plans to fight the jet lag! So while I am waiting for my parents to come home (the day after me), I think I am going to attempt something AWESOME. And if it works out, I will just have to bring it/them to my family party the next day! For those of you who will be at that party, hopefully you won't mind the random surprise. :)