Reactions to The Empty Hearse (SPOILERS)

Hi guys! I know, try not to die of shock from me posting on a Wednesday morning. (Deep breaths, in through the nose, out through the mouth. I think.) Our school district has a two hour delay this morning, but I didn't find out until after I had already gotten dressed and such.... so I decided not to waste my extra time. Anyway.

This post isn't going to interest you if you're not a Sherlockian or if you for some reason haven't been able to watch The Empty Hearse yet. Basically when I was watching it on the 19th I had a little notebook and I wrote down what I was feeling as I watched. I started a few minutes beforehand, so there's a bit in response to the commercials that were playing before the actual episode. Now I've used those notes to write down some of my favorite things about the episode.

• First I was basically just raging over having to wait, like when Mark said the suspense was killing him I may have actually yelled at the screen.... And then there was a commercial about marijuana, and then Ralph Lauren, and I really just didn't care but I may have scared my family.
• During the first scene, I was so excited, and I was freaking out, and I screamed out loud at the kiss, and then it was taken from me and I was quite upset. Then I got a lot of feels from Anderson and Lestrade (thanks guys), and then I was really happy to see that Sherlock's reputation had been fixed.
• During the scene(s) with Mycroft, I was basically just sitting in a pool of emotions. It was really annoying that Mycroft let Sherlock get beaten, and it gave me sibling-feels when they were arguing about it, and the whole time I was just really distracted by Sherlock's hair (and the brief interruption by Khan).
• I would just like to say that I wrote down, "I'm not actually gay" about 3.2 seconds before John said it. Psychic?
• I have to admit, I got really upset when I realized that Sherlock was going to be crashing John's proposal. I mean, after leaving him for two years, he finally decides to come back, and that's when he does it? Gah! Also I thought it was really interesting how he kind of pauses when he walks into the restaurant, just before he starts putting together his disguise. I was thinking, "yes Sherlock, those are called emotions," and I think Benedict really did that scene well,
• The entire sequence in the restaurants may have been my favorite part, because, let's face it, we have all kind of been John for the past two years (me only for seven months), and in that moment, Sherlock was Moftiss, and if you say you haven't wanted to punch them at least once since the Fall, you're lying. I also loved the French accent, and the whole thing with the champagne, and that Sherlock said the hashtag. 
• The bit with him returning to all his friends was great, but my favorite was definitely Greg. You've probably seen a lot of predictions for Series 3 that talked about John using his cane again, right? Well remember how in ASiP Lestrade showed Sherlock his nicotine patches? My headcanon is that he started smoking again after the Fall because he felt guilty and I just had SO MANY FEELS!
• Another favorite was the scene in 221B with Mycroft and Sherlock. First of all, OPERATION???? Also, they PLAY Deductions?? I think my inner fangirl may have lost it! (Also my outer fangirl, but we don't need to talk about that.) I loved that glimpse into their childhood, too; I think it explained a lot about their relationship.
• I just want to talk about Molly for a second. Molly who we all know has had feelings for Sherlock since before ASiP, who helped him fake his own death and keep it a secret, who is the only person (besides John) who can get him to apologize with just a look, who has tried SO HARD to get over him but keeps getting screwed over, who thinks she's really moved on but hasn't. Just, Molly.
• I don't really remember what I was thinking after that, because I basically spent the entire rest of the episode almost hyperventilating. First because of the bonfire, then the bomb, then the real solution, then just everything!

I hope you enjoyed this look into my crazy brain! It's honestly a miracle that I managed to pull something coherent out my notes, since I was flipping out the entire 90 minutes. I have seen The Sign of Three, and I absolutely loved it, and it gave me at ton of new feels, and I'm learning the waltz on piano. So yeah, I really think that Series 3 is going great!

I'm not sure if I'll have another post this week, but I will definitely try. I do have my first guard competition on Saturday, which will occupy me from 9am to about 11pm, so I probably won't be posting then. I guess it'll just be a surprise!

Dragon Army Scarf

Due to my amazing intelligence and crazy amount of planning, I wrote this on Wednesday, I think, but I never took the picture, so I'm not posting until now. So, yet, again, I'm posting late on a Saturday night.

Hello everyone! Due to the bad weather, I somehow got this entire week off from school. Yeah, it's kind of blowing my mind. This half of our county got about five inches of snow, but the western half has less developed roads and worse weather, so we often get off for minor weather problems. We just got the mass phone call which told us about tomorrow and Friday, and most interestingly, midterms. They're cancelled. I don't even have the proper words to express how I feel about this. The super nerdy half of me is actually kind of disappointed, but I'm also a bit relieved (mostly about science).

But you probably don't really care about that. The important part is that I know have a ton of unexpected free time, and I plan to use it well. First, I'm going to have at least one other post this week that won't really be of interest to you if you aren't a Sherlockian. During the airing of The Empty Hearse (which I LOVED) I took a few notes of my reactions and thoughts and things. I'll be posting those at some point, along with some additional commentary. Because there isn't enough of that on the internet, right?

Right now, however, I'm going to show you a project I did a couple weeks ago.

I did it in small stages, which is really the only way I could have had time. I used this tutorial from Rae Gun Ramblings, and this tutorial to make the freezer paper. I also had to look up how to do a French seam, but I don't have any idea what video I used. I'm definitely planning on doing some more projects with freezer paper, since I'm really happy with how this turned out. I think I'm going to make it a little shorter at some point, though. Since I'm already small for my age, and this is sized for an adult, it kind of adds up into one really big scarf!

Less Than 24 Hours

Hi guys. Are any of you surprised? Because, let's be honest, I think we all knew we were going to end up here. However, alert the press, because I actually have a full 40 minutes to write this!

Speaking of time (I know, great segue), there is now less than 24 hours until the American premiere of Sherlock. And I'm freaking out. A few of my friends have already seen it, and they say that I'm going to go insane. I've been avoiding spoilers like the plague, but I've seen a few things, and I'm quite excited to see how they play out in the next three episodes.

Under normal circumstances, I think time would be going reeeeaaaalllllyyyyy sllllooooowwwww right about now, but I kind of lucked out. Midterms are next week, and I'm totally freaking out in a not good way about those, so time is also going really fast, so it all balances out. We have Monday off for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (the only reason my parents are letting me stay up to watch Sherlock), then my first exam is on Tuesday. It's science, which will be my hardest one, no competition. It's 23 pages long, and my teacher says there aren't any huge diagrams to take up space.... Oh well. I'll be fine! (I may be a shriveled up mess on Tuesday afternoon, but I'll be fine.)

This is really random, but are there any Sly Cooper fans out there? I used to play it all the time when I was 9 or 10, but after I broke the PS2 the PS2 took an unexpected fall I haven't played since then. Lately I've been watching some walkthroughs and cutscene movies, and I'm now re-obsessed! Also I have a major crush on Sly, but in real life I think I would slap him. He's just so sassy!

Next week's post will undoubtedly be about Sherlock, so if you aren't a Sherlockian, what's wrong with you? feel free to skip it. I'll try to be a little less fandom-specific in the next one!

A Tale of Two Barbers*

So about five minutes ago I was in the shower, just casually rinsing my hair, when I remembered a joke-ish thing my dad told me and thought, "Oh, I should put that in a blog post!" And then I thought, "Oh crap, I really need to write a blog post!" So apparently I will be making a habit of waiting until fifteen minutes before my deadline to post every week...

As I obviously don't have a ton of time, I'm just going to tell you guys that joke-ish thing that actually is not a joke but I laughed about for five minutes. My dad says that this is attributed to Mark Twain, although he may not have actually said this, but this is the Internet so I don't think anyone will mind if I accidentally misquote someone. Here we go....

In a town with only two barbers, should you go to the one with the good haircut or the bad one?

Get it? You should go to the one with the bad haircut! (I'm now realizing that this in no way qualifies as a joke. Forgive me, let me try again.)

A photon arrives at a hotel with only one suitcase. The bellhop comments on his lack of luggage, and the photon replies, "Well yeah, I'm traveling light!"

This joke speaks to me on a deep level. I got it from my sort of homeroom teacher's wall. Thanks, Dr. T! (Although I have been using just first initials to refer to people I know, I would like to state that many of his students actually refer to him as Dr. T in real life. This apparently caused some confusion when he arrived at the school last year because people thought another teacher, referred to as Mr. T because of his horrifyingly unpronounceable last name, had gotten his doctorate.)

So now I have told you a joke random thing, a joke, and an anecdote from my school. What more do you people want from me at 11:54 on a Saturday night?

I swear I'll try to have a proper post this week.... possibly even during the week and not at quarter to 12 next Saturday!


*In case anyone is wondering, I am aware that A Tale of Two Cities isn't by Mark Twain, I just thought it sounded good. Poetic license? Even though I hate poetry?

Thirty-Six Minutes: My New Year's Resolution

Hi everyone! I hope you've enjoyed your first few days of 2014: waking up at 1 pm on the first, hastily scribbling some half-thought-out resolutions so you can feel accomplished, then not fulfilling them the very next day? (I know that wasn't a question, but all the other punctuation looked wrong, so let's just go with it.)

Nevertheless, I have my own resolution that I made, shockingly, a day early. I decided that I wanted to post here at least once a week, and to keep track of my progress, I even printed out a Don't Break the Chain calendar. In case you haven't been around here before, this means that I will be posting twice a day about biweekly. You may have noticed that I have already posted twice this week, but that was last year, so it isn't on the calendar, and I decided in the bath that it wasn't good enough. So I came down here with 36 minutes to spare (less, now) to write this and have this week's official post. So here it is, my very own lame New Year's resolution that I very nearly broke, but managed to save for at least another week.

What do you think about New Year's resolutions? Do you have any? Let me know in the comments!

P.S.
I am going to try very hard to not make next week's post tomorrow, because I feel like that would be unbearably lame. But, as always, no promises.