I finished Forever Princess in 2.5 hours

Your Word is "Love"

You see life as possibility to form deep connections with a few people. Relationships are the center of your world, and you always take time to bond with those you love. You are caring and giving. You enjoy helping those you love. And when it comes to romantic love, you feel passionately ... even in a very long term relationship.

What's Your Word?

I'm not bragging. It's just a fact.
And it wasn't that great.
But, in all honesty, it wasn't really that BAD, either.
It was kind of like HSM 3; we all knew it couldn't be as good as the first few.
But it was a good ending.
And it was sort of good that it was FINALLY ending. Mia can be really dense sometimes.
But as soon as I got the book, I read the end.
Because I'd read at least 50 pages from the online excerpts and it was irritating, having to go back and read them again.
So I found out:
She ended up with Michael (duh).
She then slept with him.
Her dad won the election.
She reunites with Lilly, and...
...J.P. is a total cad.
Then I read the book through and found out how all of this came to be.
Michael grew up quite a bit. He was quite the gentlemen and when Mia rejected his advances (sort of...they ended up making out in a carriage, but that's not important), he was like, "I still love you and I'll wait forever."
Which was great.
But I kept thinking that's what he SHOULD have said when Mia said she wouldn't sleep with him.
And Helen Thermopolis gave a big speech on prom night about how a guy might try to force a girl to do "something she wouldn't want to", but she could "always say no".
She was referring to J.P.
But Michael pressured her before.
Then again, 2 years had passed.
So hopefully he's grown up.
And, anyway, I was happier that she was with him when J.P. started being a loser.
He "proposed" on her birthday (but insisted it was just a "promise ring").
He didn't read her book, even after it had gotten published, and acted like its publishing was no big deal.
He wrote a play about their relationship, including some very private stuff.
He slept out with Lilly, then broke up with her as soon as he found out Mia was available (I knew the last part all along...and I thought Mia did, too. But apparently she really is that stupid.)
And, to top it all off, J.P. called paparazzi every time he and Mia went out in public, in order to "make good publicity for Genovia".
Really, he's just a moocher.
But yeah. It was good times. Prom sounded lame. It was just implied that Ling Su and Perin are a couple...but you know they are.
"Perin and Ling Su were there with guys they'd dragged up for the benefit of their parents."
But there's this part where Mia reads in Psychology class about Major Histocompability Complex, which shows that people will have healthy kids with people whose MHC is dissimilar to their own, and therefore smells good.
Just like Michael.
Nathan told me about this during the summer, and I just assumed that's what was with Mia and her neck smellage.
But the passage she read showed up more than three times before she realized that.
And then she was like, "Michael is my true love! Bla bla bla, JP and I have too much in common."
So Meg Cabot seems to think couples with too much in common are doomed.
Well, yeah. If you have TOO much in common, that's in problem.
But if you have NOTHING in common, like Mia and Michael, that's ALSO a problem.
And they seem to be fine, and they have more in common than they think, but to say that because of MHC, ALL couples should consist of exact opposites, that's just stupid.
And no, I'm not being very "objective", but neither is Meg Cabot.
Ugh, the thing that bothered me most is I would read all these things on the message boards and other fans kept writing stupid fanfics about what would happen, and were predicting totally bogus things, and I was like, "That's so stupid. Not of that will ever happen."
Au contraire. It all DID.
It's as if the fans wrote the book rather than Meg Cabot. Or she wrote it just to please fans. Because some parts weren't suprising or creative in the least.
The part about Lilly and J.P. was surprising, though. But it was one of those things someone had predicted and I completely wrote them off.
Yay me.
Still...irritating. It was cheesy.
They should've made the movies better.
Maybe they could make a TV miniseries.

2009: Was it really worth the wait?

How come tons of people stay up until midnight on New Year's Eve just so they can scream, make out, and drink champagne?
I mean, they can do that any other day of the year.
And I know they want to be part of the brief moment when 2008 changes to 2009, but really? You'll enjoy it much more during your nightly cycle of REM than in the middle of the night, insanely drunk.
And the Chinese New Year is in February, yet we think it's weird when they stay up all night to ring in THEIR new year.
Oh well.
Truthfully, I love New Year's Eve. We always go out for Chinese food, chill at the Japanese bookstore, and buy tons of Asian candy.
Mmm, sweet and sour spareribs.
That and the steamed pork dumplings.
Cranberry chicken is all right, too, but Nathan ordered something called drunken chicken and it turned out to be fairly disgusting.
I mean, you were supposed to eat the MARROW.
MARROW!!!!
"The Legend of Zelda" is the best 80's show ever.
"HEY! Excuuuuuuuuuse me, princess!"
There is NO way Mia is an INFJ. People are talking about taking the Meyers-Briggs Personality test on the message boards, and some are distraught that they aren't "just like Mia".
The Sensor motto is practically, "I don't know unless you tell me". They don't ASSUME things; they have to HEAR it for it to be true.
So frustrating.
And Mia does this A LOT.
So she has to be a Sensor.
And she has a lot of trouble making decisions quickly.
Therefore, she can't be a Judger. She has to be a Perceiver.
That would make her an ISFP.
Cheer up, message board girls. You're more like Mia than you think...unfortunately.
It's going to be Michael.
The book comes out in 5 days and it's going to be Michael.
Ugh.
I brought my mom up to speed on the plot, and when I told her about Michael she started screaming.
At him, not me.
If my mom's mad about it, he must be a jerk.
But Meg Cabot made it very clear that Mia would not end up single: it will be either Michael or JP.
Crap.

Please just get it over with!!

My dad has gone crazy and must be stopped.
Ever since I made sugar cookies on Friday, he's been whipping up all sorts of holiday treats.
Yesterday, after I refused to make them, he made chocolate TRUFFLES.
He made TRUFFLES.
Then, today, while listening to Medved, he made macaroons, without chocolate, unfortunately.
And then (we thought he was kidding) I found him in the kitchen cubing cheese for cheese bread! It's in the oven now and it looks like a puffy, sauceless pizza.
And he usually hates when we eat carbs.

I HATE MICHAEL MOSCOVITZ!!! He's such a jerk in "Princess In Training", and SO CONTROLLING!
And people are like, "Oh, when he says, 'You WILL be mine,' I almost MELTED. It was SOOOO romantic."
Yeah. Maybe for someone with low-self esteem and a death wish.
BUt I have a sneaking suspicion that Mia will end up with Michael.
Because he's "changed" and they're "soulmates".
Ugh. If someone pressured you for sex and threatened to DUMP you if you didn't put out, why would you stay with him? I'd drop him immediately.
And they say he was only "joking", because he said, "I'm not going to wait forever," in a joking tone of voice.
But that is NOT something you joke about. You have NO idea how INCENSED this makes me.
Actually, you probably do, seeing as I've been yelling about it off and on since 2007.
Ugh.
Perin and Ling Su are definitely together.
I've been thinking about this, and some people agree with me, but there's a chance that Mia won't choose either boy; Michael OR JP. That would probably be the best ending, showing how much she's grown and how "self-actualized" she is.
This is terrible. I'm getting emotionally entangled with a YA series about a nonexistent principality (soon to become a democracy).

Apple juice!!!!

"Cinderella Story" is no longer on my list of favorite movies.
And not just because Chad Michael Murray can't act.
But, after watching it once again last night, I realized that Austin is a JERK. He's shallow and stupid and CREEPY.
I mean, he doesn't recognize the girl he's seen at the diner on a regular basis, when she's wearing a dinky little mask. Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
He believes Shelby when she says Sam concocted the whole plan to humiliate Austin. And then he believes SAM should apologize because his pride's been hurt. Let's see, your dad now knows you don't want to go to USC, and everyone hates Sam and is either shunning or ridiculing her. But your pride is more important, Austin.
When he runs over to kiss at the end of the movie, he leaves the game at a very pivotal point, letting down his dad, his school, his friends, and his team!! But at least he got the girl!
>:(
And Carter is SUCH A GOOD FRIEND. My estrogen levels must be REALLY high, because I started bawling when he came and gave Sam a hug after her confrontation with Austin in the locker room. And even if she and Carter are JUST FRIENDS (which they so obviously were), Sam deserves a guy who's nice to her like Carter was! Even Terry, who was "geeky" and therefore didn't deserve to be Sam's boyfriend (even though she wasn't exactly Miss Popularity), was polite and chivalrous, and better than that stupid, misogynistic, commitment-phobic self-obsessed LOSER Austin Ames.
The Prince or Princess quiz was very entertaining, though. Carter is, without a doubt, my perfect prince, but there was some debate over whether Sam or Astrid was my perfect princess. I would normally pick Astrid, but that would mean peace ralleys, indie music, a "totally rad scene", and vegetarianism.
Fun.
Princess Diaries Theories
I thought these all up last night and they sort of make sense.

1. Philippe gets someone pregnant AGAIN (though it was once believed that he was sterile) and marries them, thereby producing a new heir to the throne of Genovia, relieving Mia of her princess duties.
But there's that whole thing about Genovia not being a principality any more, so we'll have to work around that.

2. Rene wins the election (it's alluded to in book #4, so it could happen) and Mia relinquishes her princess duties.

3. Mia, instead of picking JP or Michael, picks neither and decides to wait for her perfect prince to come much later in the future.

4. Mia and Michael get back together (aaaaaargh).

5. Oh no. Oh no, oh no, oh no....this can't BE!!! Some people think Mia and Prince Rene are going to END UP TOGETHER!!
WHY?? That just underminded the ENTIRE series, and that ending would bring to mind "Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement", which was preachy and boring and SUCKED a lot, Garry Marshall. That is, in essence, having her end up with Nick, only Nick is Rene in this case. DANG IT! NO, MEG CABOT, NO!!
And he just knocked someone up, too. What a terrible father!

Aaaagh. That book is coming out SOON.
And FOB's new album came out three days ago.
What a hullabaloo.

18 days till Christmas!

Nat King Cole is playing, it's freezing outside, and people are consuming candy canes like heroin.
So pumped.
Emma hates it, which is understandable, but still.
She actually likes Washington weather, something I readily complain about.
Not like you all didn't know that.
PRINCESS DIARIES IS COMING OUT IN A MONTH!!!
Please stop talking bad about J.P., avid Michael-fans. You're making some very good points and I don't want to end up on your side.
Really, J.P. is a nice guy, and he's great for Mia.
Stop trying to make him the bad guy, Meg Cabot!!
And Michael, it seems, has matured a bit. Or a lot.
He's not pressuring Mia anymore.
And he was TOTALLY pressuring her, Michael-fans; don't you insist he wasn't. Even if he was partially "joking", he essentially told me that if she wouldn't put out, he wasn't going to stay with her FOREVER.
What a terrible thing to say.
PlEEEEASE let him stay with his Japanese girlfriend.
Please let Mia break up with J.P. if she has to.
Maybe she'll end up single. That wouldn't be too bad.
SHE WILL NOT END UP WITH BORIS!! I don't know what everyone's talking about.
So now, only a month until we find out.

Thank God this moment's not the last

I saw Alexis in the window. It was pretty funny. I was just walking Tie and she appears in the attic.
Apparently she's switching rooms. She said I could help her paint. :D
But if she's switching rooms, does this mean Texas isn't official?
Because last time I checked, Texas was on. :(
I forgot to ask.
Aaargh, I was reading about the upcoming "Princess Diaries" book, and the blurbs basically told me that Mia will end up with Michael.
NOOOOOOOOOO!
I almost started crying when I read that.
Argh. I hate Michael.
But Meg Cabot is being Meg Cabot.
I just realized that she isn't that great a writer.
And not just because I'm bitter about J.P.
But all of her books are sort of the same.
The characters, the plot...everything.
Princess Diaries is the only series of hers that I truly enjoyed.
I reread "Pants on Fire" and it reeked of predictability and not-so-subtle women's rights messages.
Ugh.
Michele Jaffe is always hilarious and amazing, but I have yet to read "Kitty Kitty".
There's a new Peaches book coming out! Yay!
The last book in the "Dairy Queen" series is not coming out till Fall 2009. XP
Like Mimi, I want to put on a tight skirt and flirt with a stranger.
Okay, not really.
But dancing on some random guy's stoop at night sounds fun.

Democracy is a good idea (and good entertainment!)

OMG!!!! I SAW "27 DRESSES"! I READ "PRINCESS MIA"! I FINISHED "MAXIMUM RIDE: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS"!!!!! In other words, a good Saturday.
So "27 Dresses" was pretty good, but sort of really depressing. James Marsden is growing on me, but I've seen at least 6 of his movies in the past 6 months. I really like Katherine Heigl. "Don't you have needs?" "Nope. I'm Jesus." EW, the boss guy was SOOOO creepy and the little sister was such a slut. And she treated Jane like crap the entire movie, and she never really owned up to it. "You ruined my wedding!" "You based your entire relationship on lies!" "...but you ruined my wedding! Because you're jealous of me!" My favorite part in the whole movie was when Jane tells her best friend Casey and Casey screams, "That selfish whore!!" during yoga. I don't know what Jane's problem was; I liked some of the dresses, especially the one from that "goth" girl's wedding. White wedding dresses suck.
I love Maximum Ride!!! It was sort of confusing, but shocking and amazing and Max is Mexican?? That's cool. Wings? Mega boys? Ari becomes a good guy and wears plaid? So cute, I love Ari. I would so make out with Fang in a cave. I'm going to check out his "blog". No ways, it's real! Awesome. I sort of really hate Total. Fang and Max = sooo cute.
Dang it, Fang, why'd you have to call him "Billy" Shakespeare?
OMG, "PRINCESS MIA" IS THE BEST PRINCESS DIARIES EVER!!!
I THINK MY JP THEORY IS RIGHT!!! w00t!!! I underestimated Meg Cabot. So Mia spends like 50 pages brooding over Michael (loser), but it gets better. And there's actually a plot. I like Mia's therapist. Lilly is such a *see above on 27 dresses*. J.P. is pretty much the most amazing boy in the world. Mia's sort of clueless. Okay, really clueless. And Kenny blows up the school. Ha. Not even lying.
JP: ...there's something I've been meaning to tell you for a long time now, and every time I start to, something seems to happen to interrupt me, so I'm just going to say it now, even though this might not be the ideal moment. And I know you're going to freak out now, because that's what you do. So put down your pen and take a deep breath. Mia, I'm in love with you. I know up until now we've been just friends - good friends - but I want more than that. And I think you do, too.
Awww. I almost started crying, no lies. This was worse than that one episode of "Ugly Betty" where Gio hugs Betty and he looks so happy, but she doesn't even notice!!!, because Mia's just like, "Crap, Kenny blew up the building! Gotta go, J.P.!" She kisses him at the end. Awwww. For once in my life, I don't know what's going to happen. I bet it's going to be a showdown between Michael and JP. I don't know about you, but I'm voting JP.
I hadn't realized he doesn't normally wear jeans. I always pictured him wearing jeans. Just saying.