Hi y'all!

Just a few really random things about me:
1. I'm a freshman in college now.
2. I LOVE 24. If you love it too, message me and we can obsess about it together, kay?
3. I have a complex where (in most cases on most shows/series) best friends have to get together.
4. Goes along with #3, but I am a hopeless romantic.
5. I'm also a night owl and will stay up all hours of the night (mostly to read fanfiction-it's addicting!)
6. I have the uncanny ability to predict what couples will get together - for instance, I predicted that Quinn and Logan would get together by the end of the series (Zoey 101) at the very beginning of season 3. A year later, and what do you know, I was right! I'm obsessed with this couple. They have such chemistry.
7. The 18 and semi-obsessed with iCarly. It's an awesome show. Actually, the obsession lies more with the chemistry between Sam and Freddie.
8. I am a die-hard Team Edward fan, but I must admit, when I saw Taylor Lautner shirtless in the New Moon preview, I stopped the video...for about five minutes :D
9. I read a lot...pretty much everything goes.
10. Paramore is one of my favorite new bands. They are awesome.
11. I think that the guy who plays Patrick Verona on the new 10 Things I Hate About You is HOT.

My favorite things:
Twilight, shoes (I'm at 45 pairs and counting), sparkly things (I'm easily distracted), macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, mashed potatoes (yes, I'm southern. Are you seeing a pattern?), my Twilight posters, House, a can of Coke, my collection of books, Tudor history, Jane Austen's books, especially Pride and Prejudice, the names Elizabeth and Rosalie (they will be my daughters' names), Hairspray (the movie, not the substance), strong coffee, Mary Higgins Clark books or mysteries in general, Edward Cullen, the Old Nickelodeon shows like "Get the Picture" and "GUTS", my friends, Zoey 101 (which I can blame said friends for getting me into), sweet tea, my AP Calculus teacher who makes math easy, St. Elmo's Fire, McDonald's cheeseburgers (no-pickles-no-onions!), Shakespeare (I loved Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet), my VW beetle, Edmund Pevensie, the song "Love Shack"(don't ask), Alice Cullen's hairstyle, Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom (or pirates in general; it just helps that these ones are smokin'), the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Ned's Declassified, 70 degree weather, the Chronicles of Narnia, purses, 24, 80's music, The Secret Life of the American Teenager (Go Ben and Amy!)and cookie dough ice cream...

My not-so-favorite things:
Loud obnoxious people, waking up early, most rap songs, a certain politician and his BIG TANNED FOREHEAD (Good God, that thing takes up half of his face!), cold feet, waiting in line, school in general, mayonnaise, driving my mother's minivan (I might as well be driving a tank - in fact, I usually call it the Silver Tank), people who assume that my newborn baby brother is my son - dude, I'm not even legally allowed to buy alcohol, (not that I would, eww), but I look old enough to be a mother?, a friend I lost in ninth grade when someone told him I had a crush on him and he got freaked out- and four years later will STILL not acknowledge my presence, people who flock to the next fad just because (for the record, I liked Twilight before it was super popular), peanuts, walnuts, any sort of nuts really, Vanessa Hudgens, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, people who think that the Chronicles of Narnia are like Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings (sorry, but they both bore me), and when I can't find a good song on the radio (my car only has a CD changer that I haven't figured out how to work)...

Favorite Quotes:
By me and my nutcase friends (who I love dearly):
-"I mean, it's not like he was in a car accident! (Long Pause, with my friend staring at me like I've lost my mind) Oh, wait..."- me, about this guy who I had a huge crush on at the time, who had, in fact, been in a car accident. For the record, I meant to say "It's not like he got shot". And you don't want to know the backstory behind the whole conversation - trust me. It's disgusting.
-"And that was brought to you by the hardworking folks at Faith Baptist Church and Schools!" - radio announcer, who could have gotten half of the senior class expelled for announcing that...details for which I cannot bring myself to post.
-"I wanna take a road trip to Europe!"- Ashley. "Ashley, dear, there are no roads to Europe..."-me
-"Dude, that guy was kinda hot."- me, about George Gordon, Lord Byron, BEFORE I found out that he was actually quite short and had a clubfoot. My friend Jared will never let me live it down.

Movies or TV Shows:
-At the start of the evening, I was in the hall- I know because I was there. -- Clue
-Hey, drinking and driving don't mix. That's why I ride a bike. -- Pretty in Pink
-I'm gonna need a hacksaw. -- Jack Bauer from 24
-Well, I hope you'll be at cheerleader tryouts. We'll have so much fun and get to be life-long friends! --Grease
-We're very much alike, you and I. I and you. Us.-- Jack Sparrow
-We have pictures of you so-called mooners. And just because the pictures aren't of your faces doesn't mean we can't identify you. At this very moment those pictures are on their way to Washington where the FBI has experts in this type of identification. If you turn yourselves in now, you may escape a Federal charge. -- Principal McGee from Grease
-If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a game show host.-- from the movie Heathers
-COME ON, WE'RE GOING TO THE ROSE GARDEN! -- Moze (very forcefully) to Loomer on Ned's Declassified
-I'm really glad Fayed didn't kill you this morning -- Chloe (my favorite character) from 24
-I love Quinn Pensky! -- Logan from Zoey 101

Cool quotes that aren't from me, my friends, or pop culture (except for one that's a lyric from Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages"):
-Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.
-Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
-Love, like everything else in life, is a risk.
-It's better to burn out than fade away. -- Def Leppard
-You can't set sail for new seas if you're afraid to lose sight of the shore.
-Someone, somewhere, sometime is gonna love you for who you are.
-Sorrow looks down. Worry looks back. Faith looks up.
-Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted, counts.
-If you are not living on the edge, you're taking too much room.
-You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
-g'nothi s'auton - Know thy self- inscription on the wall of the temple at Delphi
-Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
-If you want to keep on getting what you're getting, keep on doing what you're doing.
-Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.-- James Dean
-Do the thing you're afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.--Emerson

I have many ideas bouncing around in my head and a notebook full of half-written stories - they just need to be revised. Unfortunately, I don't have much free time right now - with college, a new baby brother, and my crazy, well-meaning friends, it's a wonder they haven't put me in the psych ward yet :) But I will try.

So hopefully, maybe, eventually, many more fics!