Yesterday I wasn't able to make a post with another New Year song, because in the evening (and at night) I made a little present for the STEP party. Isn't it awesome?
So here's your song for yesterday. Let it be "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay. I don't remember how I found that song, probably just came across it on the Internet. Still such a nice Christmas song. Of course, it has already been the song of the day once, but on the other hand I don't have a lot of new Christmas songs this year.
The party itself was pretty fine. We had much fun there all together, performing little plays we'd prepared. Then we had cosy tea-drinking wishing everyone all the best in the up-coming year. Unfortunately, I didn't chance to talk to one guy, so it put me out a little bit later, but I did chance to get to know other people better.
The song of the day will be... I think, the saddest Christmas song - "River" by Joni Mitchell. I really love it.
It's been such an AWESOME Saturday! Y'all are gonna long for the classes I had today at school. So for the first lesson we had IT, then we had 3 lessons of cleaning the area (well, 30 mins of actual cleaning and 2,5 hours of playing volleyball) instead of having a lesson of life safety and 2 PE lessons. But then we were to have a couple of mathematics, but we all didn't want maths, so the power of thoughts worked (maybe, because our maths teacher seemed not to want the lessons too), and she let us go home! But my friend and I played for one lesson more and got home. So the day was amazing! But now my right knee hurts, I hope there's nothing serious.
But it's what about the day at school. Still I've got something to do at home. My mom and I (because I'll fail doing it alone) have to create a headdress (kokoshnik) for my new chorus dress. I've shown a photo of our header headdress to my mom, so I believe she's caught the idea and we'll make a fine kokoshnik.
The song of the day will be on cool song with the special atmosphere, with some heritage of Mr. Jackson, with some lyrics so belonging with me. It's "Wanderlust" by The Weeknd feat. Pharrell.
As I wrote yesterday, my today was dedicated to Cherry Lady, my music friend celebrating her 18th birthday. In the beginning of the journey we wanted to go to the cinema to watch "The Lego Movie" (yup), but all tickets were sold out, so we decided to watch "RoboCop", a remake of the 1987 classic. And even though I didn't watch the original film, I was able to understand - the 2014 movie is crap. I was on the edge of falling asleep, really. Now we can measure things with the scale of RoboCop to... to Fassbender, for example.
I presented Cherry Lady a CD disk of Muse's greatest hits, a gift card with some nice handwriting, a facial mask with red wine and a song we ended up singing together.
But when I got home, I had another task - I had to bake an American pie. Why did I exactly had to? We'll need to cook something for girls' competition judges, so it was my test effort. And it sucked. On the scale of RoboCop to Fassbender, my pie is two grades higher than RoboCop.
Due to my putting more pastry than was needed, my American pie became a real Russian one. Of course, my parents liked it, but I knew it was all wrong.
Now I'm gonna spend some time watching "Glee" and "The Vampire Diaries", and that'll be the end of my day. The song of the day will be "She's Not Me (Pt.1)" by 16-year-old Swedish singer Zara Larsson. What an amazing song!
She doesn't love you - like I do
She doesn't have my name
However she tries - to act like it
She'll never be the same
But she's new and she's beautiful
You've never been in a fight
Yeah it's awfully perfect now
But you just know deep inside
She's not me
She's not me
She's not me
Baby
She's not me
Does she
Make you feel wanted - like I did?
Make you feel like you're the one thing that matters?
I've been too busy these days, so here's a little chronicle of mine.
25.12.2013
Hey, it was Catholic Christmas! My congratulations! But still it was the busiest day of the day - I had too many things to do. I was at school for a longer time than usual because we, girls, had to finish sewing the suits of the boys. In the evening we had a party with the chorus, so Dasha and I had only about 3 hours before it to do everything each of us needed and... dye my hair. Yup! It was my aim #1 that day. I wanted to make a surprise for everyone at chorus and at school the next day, so I hadn't told no one about my plans to make the ends of my hair be red again. Expecting my worries about the lack of the time, my friend and I had no problem with the execution of my idea. Ah, well, she dyed me a little bit awry, but it's not a big deal.
We used up my American hair-dye; it was "Punky Colour" Vermilion Red by "Jerome Russell". If I knew it would be so cool and I would like it so much, I'd buy more jars with different colours. We didn't brighten my hair this time, so red ends don't look so synthetic now as it was past August. After making dip dye, I prepared quickly to go to the chorus. Certainly, I put my new dress on. Frankly speaking, everyone liked my look. (Yeah, I've been lazy to cut some photos up)
26.12.2013
OH GOD the day came. This day is a big day of our New Year performances. I had to wake up at 6 a.m. (though usually I try to raise my ass an hour later) to fix myself up generally, handle with the hair-rollers and put false eyelashes on. We'd been told to come to school by 8 o'clock, and all the madness started at 9 a.m. We spent only 3-5 minutes for our dance of snowmen and snowflakes, but we had to repeat it every hour and, what is the most draining, we had to wait. We ate, wandered around the school, took photos. Also there was a disco after the play for each parallels of the classes, and to make children move we joined their discos. And there we were rocking the fuck out. I guess, many pupils didn't dance because they watched how we did it! We had 6 performances, and we taught 'em how to rock at 5 discos ( simply because we missed the 1st one for the 5th grades). Dasha instagrammed how we were improvising "Gangnam Style" for the 7th grades - clickclickclick!
I don't know if the pupils liked our stuff, but we did, generally. The main idea of the play was that it was played only by the senior students. Our organizer just helped us to do that, some teachers sewed costumes. You see, usually teachers performed different plays to us, and this year we did everything by ourselves.
I've downloaded some photos of our dance taken by another girl.
You can recognize me with my white band and curly half-red ends
Disco-part of our trick
You will be surprised what song had been chosen for the fast part of our dance. Check it! It hits my brain, I think I'll literally throw up if I hear this song one more time.
27.12.2013
Oh man, the last day of the school this year! Yey! I got all A's, super excellent, though everyone knows my math isn't so good. We had only three lessons, I presented everything I'd prepared to my friends and teachers. Then I came home and SLEPT! ALL DAY!
Now I remembered Dasha made some awesome stuff for me, and I've made it. I've already posted about that new Internet trend, it's so funny!
I have some series to watch their Christmas episodes. Firstly, I'm gonna watch "Doctor Who"; other Whovians would kill me because of the fact of not having watched the episode. You should know that Mr. Capaldi appears there.
What about the song of the day, so I'll put here what I wanted to do on 25th December. TSOTD is going to be my favourite Christmas song called "Last Christmas", and you can pick out your own favourite version.
Be brave this Christmas and give hearts to right hands
Hey there! My Sunday was full of various stuff, and here it goes.
In the morning (I can call it 'morning') my mom and I went to the shop because according to her she'd saw a nice dress for me (we still keep on looking for a dress for the prom). But mom turned out to pick dresses out for herself, and it made me mad! In the end I found a dress to try out (and even burst out crying in the fitting-room). The dress were too warm to be called "prom dress". Of course it was! - now Christmas time, and there are piles of dresses made of tough fabrics, they are meant to be worn in winter and autumn. But mom decided to made a New Year's present for me and bought it. Yey! Now I've got a new beautiful dress! It's so classy! But frankly the material, the dress is made of, reminds me a carpet LOL
What my happiness about the dress fell off, I started sewing... a skirt for my snowflake suit! I did it absolutely "hand-made", because I had no sewing-machine and didn't want to ask someone's help - if you want to do something well, do it yourself! And well, I did. But instead of a puffy skirt I got a tulip-form one - just because I sewed the layers in a wrong way. Anyway, it's pretty puff, but not in the way you may think of the snowflake. Maybe, tomorrow I'll try doing something else with the skirt, but it's unlikely.
My Markiza really liked the cloth
A ready-made skirt being fixed up
And here I am a snowflake! Couldn't help Instagramming. As you can see, I also decorated my top; earlier I bought white tights, and today I've bought white ballet shoes. This top silver bolero I bought 2 or 3 years ago, but yesterday I finally cut a flower off from it - snowflakes don't have flowers! And if you've mentioned this shining something on my head, so it's kinda a crown, fitting perfectly for snowflake's role.
While I was making my super skirt, my parents fixed our fir-tree up. It became so nice and festive! Even though our firs aren't so luxurious as there're in the USA, but still they're so fine and homey.
Today I've been informed my holy friend Ilya and I will participate in the region stage of the Olympiad for English. Atta guys!
The song of the day will be "Sexxx Dreams" by Lady Gaga from her latest album. I know I made it TSOTD already, but I've been listening to this song all day long and can do nothing with that.
Well well well, here I go. As I promised, there's a recipe for Scandinavian meat-balls with cowberry sauce. even though I promised to give it to you yesterday.
All you need is love:
about 700 grams of minced meat (I had 1 kg)
an onion (in my opinion, it's even too much)
some bread
milk or water (I used milk)
cowberry itself
a lemon
1 egg (because of the fact that I cooked a bigger amount of minced meat, I'd decided to use 1,5 eggs)
inspiration
Firstly, I put the bread in the milk to make it soft. Before it I'd take crust of the bread off. I didn't count the time how long the bread was in milk, 'cause I let it lie there a long time doing funnier things, but the Internet said bread could soak for about 15 mins. Some people prefer water, but also tells it doesn't matter. Tastes are tastes.
Then my most tearful ordeal in my life began. I had to chop the onion. Actually, it was probably my second time I did it and the 1st time I did the whole onion. I forgot about the tip to wet my knife in cool water, but earlier I'd read that mint bubblegum helped not to weep during chopping. Well, I didn't have mint one, but I did original Japanese gum, so I tried to use it. Usual bubblegum does not work. Take your make up off before cooking, if you have sensitive eyes to these phytoncides as I do. For example, if my mom's chopping an onion in the kitchen, I can feel it with my eyes sitting in my room. Could you imagine, what was with me, when I was right above my poor onion cutting its integrity?? I seemed to become a new participant of "Kiss" band!
Then I washed my face, open the window, turn our hood on and my tears vanished away! I finished my onion aim, but my fingers are still smelling like the onion (already for 3 days).
I got already prepared minced meat, but if you can do it by yourself, you're cool. So I was ready to mixed everything together: meat, onion, bread and eggs.
The minced meat was taken right from the refrigerator, so I frostbited my hands while I was mixing all this stuff. After all mass was ready, it was the time of the most interesting part - forming balls. Right before it I'd prepared my kitchen-range with the frying pan. Don't forget to add some oil!
Also looking for a big soup-plate I found my cookie cutter I'd bought in Disneyland. They weren't even opened, so I decided to let them work a bit.
Then the time of the most delicious part became. Cowberry sauce! It's so simple and so tasty. Take 200 grammes of the berries, squeeze 1/3 of the lemon and add tea spoons of sugar. The next step is blending it, and that's all! Your unbelievable sauce is ready. Exactly it makes your usual meat-balls tastes so good.
And here coming the finish: meat-balls were fried, the sauce was blended, I was hungry.
The only thing I had time for before my rehearsal is to put everything on the table nicely. I ate some balls and ran away to sing, but when I returned home, mom and I had awesome supper.
