"Ohana Means Family...

...and family means nobody is left behind or forgotten."

-Lilo and Stitch

This quote is among my top 3 disney quotes, along with "Fish are friends, not food" from Finding Nemo and "I do not like the cone of shame" from Up.

This quote, unlike the other two, has a little meaning to me in my heart. It explains how my family is going to be when I get big. [side note: I never say "when I grow up" or "when I'm older" because I will most likely remain this mental age and keep my childish side, I'll just hopefully grow taller and more mature.] I want my family to be close knit, but respectful of individual privacy and space. I would give my kids a curfew to be home by, but its not an exact time, because I understand being 20 minutes late is not the end of the world.

It also brings up the topic how I am almost too excited to be a mother. Or at least a motherly figure for someone. I really like taking care of people and helping them with mommy things like making food or helping them wrap their injuries in bandaids, medical tape, or magical booboo kisses. At camp, I was the cabin mommy, I supplied costumes and jackets for all my girls, I helped wash the dishes, and finally, I rescued my little camper, TBA [who is damn afraid of bees] from one of the 3 bee attacks at camp. Same with my friends. I make them food, kiss their booboos better, I helped TJ wrap his finger properly so it doesn't set crooked, I always to make sure to include everyone, settle differences, be there to help them when they need, and most importantly, I'm always here for whenever they need a hug or a magic fix everything button.

The most likely cause to all this motherly energy is the lack of it I had as a child, so this is me making it up for the world what I barely got. Similar to Karma. Except backwards... I never got, so I'm giving it. :)

Ok, For Real Now.

So I may have been deceiving all of you all along.....

Do not worry Mr. Pinza, I will not go ruin my life of working up all this knowledge to go dress scantily and sell drinks to sad sacks and lonely women. I actually plan to do that on the side during college or something along those lines. For the rest of the time, I'd like to be either a Chemistry or English Teacher, Film Producer, Photographer, or possibly a Writer/Poet/Illustrator.

Teaching has always been a fun idea of mine, due to all the... lets say VARIOUS.... teaching styles I've had. I've had fun, good, bad, effective, terribly out of control, ect. ect. I've always had the dream of being the Mr. Haskett and Mr. Pearson all thrown together in one. Mr. Haskett [from what I hear through the walls in French class] is the loudest, most ridiculous teacher ever, with due respect to Mr. Evans who also is very silly. I adore acting and being loud and silly. I also love singing. So if there is any way that I can do that and have an audience who is semi-interested in me doing this, is a deal for me. ALSO, I chose the subjects of Chemistry or English because those are my two favorite classes ever. Although I do enjoy art and photography and creativity, I do not believe in art classes for they limit your creativity and force you to follow guidelines to please the teacher, not yourself. I had trouble agreeing with my art teachers as a chile because I didnt want to draw a darned tree, I wanted to draw a skyscraper. Along with Photography, but at least Mr. Czech lets me take pictures of whatever I want :)

Movies and Photography have always been a dream of mine ever since I got my first video camera in 6th grade. My friends and I tried making a webshow, Dreamers Illusion Pro. We felt like the coolest things ever. I mean seriously. We even had cool nicknames so we didnt use our real names. I was Dino, Shane was Kitty, and another friend who left shortly after we made it. We felt like we were super cool, but now looking back and after learning all these film techniques in my Media Production class, they look like they were done by 3 6th graders.

Poetry and writing have been a HUGE part of my life specifically in my middle-high school years. I use my poetry to express my deeper thoughts and emotions that I can't exactly explain in spoken word or images. It usually ends up on the 3rd step of my thought process of how to express emotion. It's easiest to explain in diagram.

Is it Happy or Sad?

Happy?
sing it.
[too many people?]
draw it.
expressed.

Sad? 
sing it.
[not sad enough of a song?]
draw it.
[ran out of lead for all the dark shading?]
write it out.
expressed.

Make sense? 
I don't expect it to. I dont often make sense of things when I can't draw it out. I guess thats just my Left Brain screaming out at me. 
Anyway, back to writing. I was also interested in illustrating for my friends who all wanted to write novels, and just like the students flock to the artistic kid when assigned a poster, they chose me. It was almost creepy how they ALL decided to write novels at the same time. But alas, I turned most down for being too insecure about my art skills. 

They've improved, thankfully. Progress is nice. Always one unsure step pushing the next step till you're leaping and bounding into new lands and new opportunities you never would have dreamed of.

Acting AND Teching AND Bartending?!?!?!

When I first decided that I want to be a bartender when I grow up, my dad was the first one to buy me all the necessary tools to begin making things for him and my brother. My dad also showed me an interesting show that sounded kinda weird at the time, but now it's among my all time favorites. I recently learned that this television show, Drinking Made Easy, has its own website in which they post recipes [in other words various mixing recipes for various drinks mentioned in the show] other cool scientific facts about various liquors, and other tips and tricks to make your bar that much cooler. Also, in the show, there are 2 co-hosts, Zane Lamprey and Steeve McKenna, who basically get to travel the nation and try all the cool drinks [all conveniently posted recipes on the website] and generally be awesome. If I ever have anything close to their job, or even be on the camera crew for that show, [another small hobby I've been in and out of since middle school is broadcasting] my whole life would be that much better.

Another handy-dandy trick up my sleeve is my favorite iPhone app: Mixology. In the app, there is a really nice tool called the "Cabinet." Here, you can conveniently mark off which mixers or liquors you have and then it lists only the drinks you can make out of those items you have. For example, out of the contents of my cabinet, I can make hundreds of martinis, shots, punches, cocktails and more. Also in this super-cool app, there is a folder labeled "Bartending Guide" where it has a few tips and tricks and tools to help you become a bartending master. My goal for the next few weeks is to study this whole folder to understand more of the basics and terminology.

Finally, to fulfill my history buff in me, I've been watching is How Booze Built America, hosted by none other than Mike Rowe. It is a beautiful half documentary, half drinking show where he shows how many influential figures in American history were under the influence. This show also serves its purpose as a brief history on booze in general, such as moonshine and its history in the south.

I know none of this specifically has to do with bartending, but I also have an interest in Acting, Broadcasting/Videography, Photography and History. It is one of my life goals to be happy and mesh together my many interests into a fun, not dead-ended job where I can work with people, but not have to be the one to fix their computer. [reference to my father quoting how half of his job is "making sure the idiots know how to turn on the computer."]

Bonjour, comment ca va?

Bonjour :) Je m'appelle Veronica Harris et j'ai 15 ans. J'attendre Westmont High School et je suis une AP Langsteur. Je suis petite et blonde. Quand j'etais 7 ans, je mélangé le sprite et le jus d'orange pour mes amis. Aussi, quand j'etais 10, je vu mon péré mélangé une martini. Je savois je veux devenu une mixologiste.


Hello :) my name is Veronica Harris and i am 15 years old. I go to Westmont High School and I am an AP LANGSTAAAAH. I am short and blonde. When I was 7 years old, I mixed Sprite and various juices for my friends. Also, when i was 10, I watched my dad make a martini using the cool magic cold tumbler. I knew then that I wanted to become a mixologist.

Last weekend, I had told my dad of my dream, and he and I bought all the essentials for a bar and my best friend and I made him a martini. For the record: they don't taste all that appealing.

Finally, Mixology sounds like a fun profession because I love working with people. Especially when they're drunk off their butts and I'm the one making them drunk. I also enjoy ratios and the whole adding this plus this makes happy drunk people.