Blizzard!

My dad, as you all know, is in Wisconsin right now. Well If you know my dad he's the kinda guy that likes warm weather, and going out fishing all the time. So, if you know your geography or what not, you know that Wisconsin is a COLD state and gets ALOT of snow. The other day my dad called and said that they were expecting alot of snow in the next couple of days. My mom and I were like No fair, we want snow! Haha. But anyways the next day He called back and guess how much of snow they had?????? 15 inches. That's way more than what we get- we're lucky to get 2. But the most outrageous part of it is that school was out that day, duh, but they were planning on going to school the next day? Can you believe that? I mean if we had THAT MUCH snow we'd be out for a month! LOL. Just thought you'd like to know. Pretty cool how they can get that much snow and then go to school the next day, lol. My dad said that they were worried they were going to have the "blind snow" or a "white out" or something like that i think it was called. It's were you cant see right in front of your car when your driving and you can't see your hand right in front of your face. Pretty Bad weather up there.

OH, & for those of you who have Psychology- this is the "blizzard" that Mr. Jones was talking about, haha. My daddy was in it (:

MERRY CHRISTMAS GUYS! Have a good break (:

CHEM-IS-TRY!

Today Chemistry class was the absolute best. I never thought I'd hear myself say that. The last 20 mins seriously made my day. Two of my classmates (not saying any names... *cough*cough* Derrick and Abigal) rewrote songs and added chemistry lyrics and then they "performed it in front of the class. It was too Oops I did it again, dont' go breaking my hear, and a bunch of TV series jingles. It was great! Derrick went alllllllll out. He was singing and changing the tone of his voice and dancing and everything. Ashley took a video of it and is DEFINATELY putting it on facebook- so look for it (: hahahaha. I swear you'll start crying from laughing so hard, just like I did. LOL. Anyways, then we found out who Santa Claus really is. HE'S KELSEY'S DAD! (: Well at the mall anyways. When she told us this it was hilarious because me and ashley were like ohhh well I've sat on your dad's lap before, how akward is that. LOL. Then we were eating these Hershey bars Mrs. Clark gave us and they had Santa on them and Hunter's like "hey that looks like kelsey's dad, and just about that time I ate mine, and he said "LB's eating kelsey's dad!" it was hilarious. In our class the left side of the room is usually loud and the right side is the smart side that answers all the questions... supposedly. Well, It's me, ashley, kelsey, jessica, and emily that sit in the back on the right side... Lately hunter's been coming over to sit with us which is really annoying because he is... well... ANNOYING! Anyways, he was making us laugh and stuff adn Mrs. clark was handing out papers and she heard us and was laughing and she said I think I liked yall better when yall didn't talk as much! IT WAS HILARIOUS, then I'm like it's Hunter's fault he moved over here! Because he usually sat on the LEFT side, haha imagine that, Hunter- Talking?? Duh all the time.

But anyways, I looooooooooooove my chemistry class now (:
Just sayin'

Favorite Decoration!

My favorite Christmas decoration would have to be my family's "ugly tree" as my Mom would call it. We usually put up 3 Christmas trees believe it or not. One in the the front living room, one in the basement, and sometimes one in the sun room that we never really use. My mom, every year, puts up HER tree. She usually doesnt ask for any help with it either. It has all white lights and ALL snowmen ornaments. When I say ALL I mean ALL. Every single ornament is of a snowman. Her tree topper is a snomen's head with earmuffs on, and the tree skirt is... can you guess it? SNOWMEN! Her tree is really pretty though and it's the tree we use for our Christmas now. The tree in the sun room has all glass ornaments. We use those ornaments because we dont go in that room as much. My FAVORITE tree is the Ugly tree (: It's a tree that my Mom and Dad have had since they've been married, it's like 20 years old! If you can imagine how raggedy and old that tree looks, that's what it looks like! But that's not why I love it. We use all of our childhood ornaments and the ones we have made in the past on it. That's why I love it so much! Now that my sister and I have gotten older I think we are just going to put up Mom's tree. Which is fine with me, it's really pretty (:

MERRY CHRISTMAS (:

Childhood Memories!

One toy that I always remember having is a Barney Stuffed animal. I had him everywhere I went. Allday everyday. I slept with him, took him outside to play, to the grocery (well maybe)... everywhere! I remember loving to watch Barney too. One of my other favorite things was Sesame Street. I had my whole room done in it. My walls were banana yellow and I had a Sesame Street school bus bed! It had a rail that looked like the windows of the bus with all the different characters in it. But over all I think my favorite had to be Barney. My favorite picture of me with my dad is of him holding me and I'm holding my Barney Doll. I also remember having a home video made of my sister, the neighbor's little kids and me singing the theme song!
"I love you, you love me, were a happy family, with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you, won't you say you love me too! (:

Last 2 Weeks!

I'm so excited for Christmas break! My dad comes home for 11 days this time! (: I caaaaaan't wait! I already have done some shopping but still have alot left to go. We only have 2 weeks of school left before break and I am stressed out! My grandmother's been in the hospital for the past 2 weeks so I've spent alot of time out there lately and then I have tons of homework and papers that need to be written. I'm proud of myself though, I finished my GSP essay and application and my Psychology paper and project last week and they sounded pretty dang good to me! Now I'm about to write my Chemistry Radiation paper, which hopefully won't take me too long. The English and APUSH paper's are due friday and I'll get time in English to work on that on Wednesday so I'll probably work on the English Essay a little tomorrow and then finish APUSH book review on Wednesday and Thursday. I pretty much have my finals planned out. I'm gonna take all my blue day finals: Math, APUSH, English, Psychology! And then hopefully I'll be done (if my spanish grade goes up like 2 points (: ) I'm thinking it will but let's not get my hopes up...! This weekend is going to be crazy busy too! Friday I'm going to my friend Sarah's house and then on Saturday I'm taking the ACT!! I hope I do good! At the FEA Conference there was a ACT prep session and it was very helpful! Then later that Night I'm going to Hannah's for our Christmas Party/Sleepover! Not sure what I'm doing Sunday though. Probably something! This has kinda been a ramble on and a planner for the next two weeks! sorry guys! & goodluck on all of your finals!!!! (:

Best Saturday Ever!

This past Saturday was pretty good! It was the best one I'd had in awhile. All of the drama between friends was going on, so I hung out with a few of my best friends. Alexus andRachel came over and we just chilled and watched movies and got online and talked to our friends & GENE- my new friend (: haha (inside joke) But then Rachel had to leave to go to Utica for her family Christmas so me and alexus just hung out at my house until my mom got home. Then we went to Hong Kong to get some take-out & gosh is it the best chinese food! Chicken and rice, lol. We ate like chinese people on the floor around the coffee table with my mom & let me tell you that was fun. Then we got bored so we decided to go out. We called everybody else to see waht they were doing & we ended up meeting payton & tyler @ legion. Then Kelsey and Cassie came too! Well It was freeeezing outside so We all ended up going to Payton's along with stacie, rachel, and payton's 2 brother's Matthew and Hunter. We had tooo much fun. Then we had to take stacie home so it was prettty fun in the car me, hunter, and rachel in the back and stacie and alexus in the front. We listened to my Cd I made <3 Then Rachel and Alexus came home with me and stayed the night! It was just an amazing day (:

Spydaman

So in Chemistry were watching Spiderman. We´re supposed to be telling how the movies true and how it explains Nuclear Fusion, but Kelsey, Ashley, Hunter, and I are deciding to talk. At one point this chinese chick starts singing ¨Spydaman, Spydaman, does whatever a Spyda can¨ It was hilarious! We seriously busted out laughing. We talked through the entire movie. This was on Monday before Thanksgiving. Were finishing it today and the chinese girl sang again! It was hilarious! Then this little kid was stuck in a fire and Emily says ¨awww it looks like a little eskimo¨ hahahaah! Were going to plan a Spydaman party where we watch all the three Spiderman Movies & color spiderman coloring pages! It´s gonna be a blast! :) I can´t wait until we have the party! Anyways this is just a ramble on about how fun my Chemistry class is with all these losers! :)

Thanksgiving Break!

My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is spending time with my family and all of the good food! We always have our Thanksgiving dinner at my house. My mom cooks all the food except my grandma makes Chicken & Dumplings (they are the best) and then everybody brings something like a dessert (Uncle Brian's Choc. Pie mmm! ) haha But yeah I love Thanksgiving because I get to see all of my family. I have family from Maryland that come in every year and I love spending time with them! Also, all of my little cousins come over and we end up having so much fun. Then one thing we alwyas do is draw names for Christmas. Each kids name is put into this bowl and then each kid draws a name and they bring a gift for that kid. Simple enough. The adults play Dirty Santa which is really fun to watch! They get so mean with it! haha! Right now the best thing about Thanksgiving to me seems like the Break from school! I'm so stressed out with school lately. I'm not really sure why, I just am. I mean, I have a few projcets due but That's it. Guess, it's just because their due around the same time. I'm not really sure, hmmm. But yeah I'm really pumped for this Thanksgiving Break!

My Closet!

This past weekend my dad was coming in from Wisconsin and the first thing he said to me on the phone was, "That room better be clean when I get home, or I'm going to have me a new phone." Of course he wanted my room to be clean but he wouldn't dare take my phone away... would he? Idk actually that's why I did it anyways. I wouldn't want to risk that happening! Anyways I cleaned off my entertainment center, my desk, under my bed, and the horrible CLOSET! My closet is the messiest (is that a word? it looks funny) thing in my room. When I try on my clothes to plan what I'm going to wear I always try it on and then throw it back on the bottom shelf in my closet. This is why it's so horrible to clean. I had clothes all over the place. I started by taking everything out of my closet and onto my bed. THen I sorted the clothes; jeans in a pile, shirts, sweatshirts, sweaters, etc. Then I hung it all back up in it's own little spot perfectly. That is one thing that I absolutely hate HANGING UP MY CLOTHES! Everytime I bring up clothes from downstairs being washed I throw them on the bottom shelf of my closet and if my mom brings them up for me she puts them on my bed and guess what I do? Any guesse? Throw them on the bottom shelf in my closet. Haha, but yes I always wake up trying to find something to wear and I end up saying "I don't have any clothes to wear." I will NEVER say that again after this horrible weekend of cleaning out my closet! (:

FEA State!

FEA State was on Thursday, November 12, 2009. It was really fun! Our Future Educator's Association Club just started this year, thanks to Kelsey Minto (: So we are a fairly small group. We could only take 7 people with us because we didn't quite have enough people to take a bus. We took a van instead. On the way there we cut out slips of paper for Teacher Appreciation Week. We had papers made that said "All you have done mint a lot to us" and we attached a mint to the paper and then each day of the week we put a different slip in the teacher's mailboxes with attached candy. Once we got there it was tons of fun. We went to different sessions which had different speakers and subjects they were to talk to us about. I went to a college room which had several different colleges that gave away free stuff and talked about their education programs. Then I went to a Child with Two Languages which talked about ESL students and how they feel and ways to help them learn better. The last booth I went to was the Think before you ACT. It gave alot of advice on strategies and things to do before the ACT. It was very helpful and I have a very good feeling that my score will be bumped up a few points (hopefully several) lol. Unfortunately we didn't have enough money to stay the night and participate the next day so we won't figure out the results for awhile, but hopefully our PSA (Public Service Announcement) did very well! Also, Next year we will hopefully be able to stay the night at State & possibly go to Nationals! (:

Oh & the picture goes: Stephanie Williams, Abby Thomas, Kelsey Minto, Me, Megan Hickman, Noah Tucker, and Yesica Cisneros. It was at Regionals at Western and again we were only allowed to take 7 People.

Leaves, Leaves, and more Leaves!

It's fall now, and with fall comes leaves. Well, in my yard its just not leaves it's LEAVES, and I mean LEAVES. There are tons of them. We live on a corner lot and have probably around 10 trees! My mom and I have raked the yard soooo many times already. We raked last sunday and it's just now Tuesday and our yard is covered again! It's crazy. Another thing is, our neighbors across the street complain about our leaves nonstop. They get so mad because our leaves blow from across the street to their yard. One of my neighbors has even gone to blow the leaves from his yard into the street and then up to the curb on our side. This makes my mom sooo mad! It's actually pretty rude you know? It's mother nature hello, we can't just call her up and be like "Aye yo miss nature can you chill with the leaf falling?" HAHA, we can't control when or how much our leaves fall. My dad told my mom not to worry about raking leaves anymore until he gets home for Thanksgiving. I think this will really put a smile on my neighbors faces (:

Mornings!

What all do you have to do to get ready for school in the morning?

Well, here's what my afternoons & mornings consist of.

When I get home from school, at around 3:30, I usually immediately start on homework. Either that or eat a snack and watch TV for like an hour. Depending on how much homework I have the time varies on when I take a shower. I wash my hair every other night because it is SO thick and a pain to fix. Anyways If I wash my hair and want to straighten it then I usually wash it around 5, then I give it around 3 hours to air dry. (if I blowdry it it gets huuuuuge) Sometimes it doesn't take three hours, it just depends. Then I straighten it that night before I go to bed, which usually takes about an hour. Then you see its dry by 8, then I straighten it til around 9. Then I either study for tests I have or get on the computer for about an hour. If I havent completed all of my homework that's when I do that. Then I'm hopefully in bed by 10, but that's on a good night! Other times I'm up fairly late. I swear I think I'm sleep deprived :/ haha. Then I usually get my backpack ready for the next morning. But anyways that's my nights for ya. Oh & Supper fits in whenever just depending on if my mom cooks or we go down to my Memaw's (a block away) or out to eat (rarely happens) lol.
Mornings on the other hand, don't require that much. I get up at around 6:15, the past few days when my mom woke me up I yelled and asked if I could sleep 15 more minutes and she said yes, so that helped out w/ the sleep deprivation believe it or not. Anyways when I get up in the morning I always have to pee, so I do that, haha then I brush my teeth and put contacts in (I don't sleep in those) and stuff. Then I go to my room get dressed. Then I go back to the bathroom and do my hair. If I stayed up that night straightening my hair and I took my time, then usually all I have to do is touch up the back of my hair and it looks fine. I'll either wear it up in a ponytaiL, back in a clip, part up part down, or in a headband, usually never all then way down, don't like it too much. Then If I didn't get my backpack ready then I do that. Then If I have time I update my Facebook/Myspace status (: Then I make sure I have everything lunch money, papers signed, extra stuff I need for classes, all that jazz. Then My mom and I leave around 7 because she has to be at work at 7:30. Somedays we stop at the gas station because she needs ones instead of 5's or 10's or whatever because she buys a diet mountain dew or somethign everyday at her school.
Today was a looong morning that's why I decided to blog about this! But tomorrow's friday, so it should be better (:

AT&T

My dad is in Wisconsin, as some of you may already know, for the Army for a year. Well, we got a letter in the mail from AT&T saying our cell phone plan was going to be terminated because we had roaming charges. We weren't aware that there weren't many Cingular towers in Wisconsin where he is. He's been there for 7 months now and they are JUST NOW realizing this? So my mom gets on the phone and calls them and they end up being somewhat patriotic an letting my dad out of the contract but my mom, sister, grandmother, and I stay on. We were happy with that until 2 days after fall break. We get a call on the phone saying that things have changed and our WHOLE plan will be terminated. When my mom asked why, the lady said that there were more roaming charges on the plan. (My mom had only been there for 5 days, what was she going to do not use her phone on vacation?) My mom argues and argues with the lady. The contract states that its ok as long as not over 50 % of you plan is roaming. My dad's only 1 of 5 of us who is 1/5 isn't 50% is it, or at least it wasnt the last I checked! Anyways my mom is about fed up with Cingular and how UNpatriotic they are being. Seriously how much could roaming fees cost? The woman on the phone was getting an attitude with my mom, and my mom was getting very irritated. My mom asked to speak with someone higher up and she said that every person would tell her the same thing. My mom didn't believe that and told the woman she would be spreading the word about Cingular and cancelling her house phone that's with them which she has had for 20 years! Anyways I think we're getting a new plan with Verizon or StraightTalk? Gosh I'm gonna miss my new phone!

My Best Friend!

Sarah Caitlen Wilhite!

My friend Sarah that goes to DC now has been my best friend for about 9 years! We used to live in the same neighborhood right down the road from each other! We did everything together. Her grandmother lives right across the street from her so they are pretty close. When we stay the night with each other sometimes we would stay over there. Anyways, I think that since I was over there so much her granmother thought of me as another grandaughter! Everytime it was someones birthday they went out to eat at Ryan's. When Sarah asked if I could go her grandmother always said "Well yes, of course" but when her little sister Emily asked if one of her friends could go, she said no! But yeah, Me and sarah are absolute best friends. We tell each other everything and try to do everything together. Now she lives with her dad out in the country,well kinda, and I only get to see her once a week, twice every other week and sometimes I can't make it to those visits. But when I do, we have a blast. I really don't know what I would do without her in my life. She's pretty cool & a great friend. She can help me with any of my problems and give great advice... well sort of. She's great you should meet her, you'd love her too =]

Fall Break!

My fall break was pretty good this year! My dad got to come home for 5 days which is always good! I got to hang out with him a lot and everything & I can't wait until he comes home in March. My mom went back to Wisconsin with him until Saturday so I was home alone all week with my sister, which isn't good! I love her and all, but lately we just haven't got along too well. We argue about the littlesst things. It's kind of fun though (: I love getting on her nerves! She's 21 & I'm the younger sister, haha! It's pretty great. But anyways, tuesday a bunch of my friends came over and we ordered pizza, watched movies, and just hung out. It was fun (: I did a bunch of other stuff the other days, the best one of all though was SLEEPING IN! I remember a few night staying up until around 2 or so and not waking up until 11! I know some people sleep in that late all the time or on weekends, but not me. I just naturally wake up early most of the time, no matter how late I stay up! Anyways, on Friday Alexus came over to work on our English projects for a few hours. Then we went to Hannah's house for a bonfire, except it wasn't a bonfire anymore because it rained. But we still had fun, we went into the house & played DDR & Air Hockey... well they did I just was texting, lol my favorite thing to do. I was sittin on the couch with Sparky- Hannah's dog! It was too funny. They tied a donut to a string and then put it on the ceiling fan and started the fan, then it went around and around and around and they tried to get Jeff to eat it while it was spinning but It kept flying off. Then we went outside and played flashlight tag. It was all fun until Hannah pulled me down in a ditch to hide from the guys. & then Alexus fell in a mudhole & hurt her ankle... so we ended up leaving early but We still had fun. We went to Long John Silvers (Her work) and got some food & parked at Kroger & watched these people at McDonalds act like idiots. Then we went to My house and she stayed the night (: Then the next day she had to work and then she stayed the night again! Basically all the other time during fall break I was either sleeping, watching TV, driving, at my grandma's, or on the computer! Pretty good fall break though (:

BTW that picture to the left is my Bestie Rachel & some cool girl Named Laura Beth or something like that (:

Can you sense Halloween time?

Halloween is here... What do you see?

I see the leaves of trees changing colors and covering the ground. I see carved Jack-O-lanterns on porches. I see children trying on their costumes weeks before the 31st. I see orange and black everywhere at Walmart. I see the Halloween stores opening up to sell decorations and costumes.

Halloween is here... What do you hear?

I hear scary music playing in all the stores. I hear Mrs. Matthews doing her really cool laugh when reading a Halloween book. I hear Trick or Treat? I hear BOO! I hear knocks on the doors. I hear of all the Halloween Parties. I hear the leaves crackling under my feet.

Halloween is here... What do you smell?

I smell Mom's pumpkin spice candles (: I smell the carmel for the apples. I smell Pumpkins being carved. I smell Fall outside (undescribable) haha. I smell all kinds of Halloween treats being baked in Mom's kitchen.

Halloween is here... What do you taste?

I taste Candy. I taste Reese's from Sarah's Memaw (She always saves me like 10 for trick or treating!). I taste Popcorn Balls. I taste Carmel Apples and Pumpkin seeds. I taste carmel apple suckers. I taste all the good Halloween Treats!


Halloween is here... What do you feel?

I feel the cool Fall breeze. I feel the sweat on my face from wearing my scary mask. I feel the different textures of all the wrappers from different candy. I feel a hand grabbing mine from the candy bowl. I feel the fake fangs in my mouth. I feel the fake blood dripping down my chin. I feel LIKE IT'S HALLOWEEN (:

Darkness Falls!

Okay so this movie right here, absolutely scared me like crazy! I was watching it with my sister and her friends Hailee & Bhrett. It was a really long time ago when I was a lot younger. The movie is about some tooth fairy monster thing that kills children when they lose their first tooth or something. I don't really remember all I know is I was scared to go in the bathroom after watching it. At one point in the movie, the toothfairy person is chasing this little boy that lost his last tooth and he hid in the bathtub. It was the scarriest part in the movie when the toothfairy opened the curtain really fast and the little boy was sitting there in the shower scared and shaking and crying. It was sooooo sad & scary. But I'm not gonna tell you what happened after the toothfairy opened the curtain because that would just ruin it (:

But from that day on almost EVERYtime I go to the bathroom I go look behind the shower curtain before I use the bathroom. That movie seriously scarred me for life! Thank goodness I had already lost my first tooth, I don't know what I would have done If I hadn't. I would have been so scared, lol.

If you've never seen this movie you should probably watch it, from what I remember It was pretty good/ but scary. If you watch it let me know, because I'd like to watch it again maybe... that's a MAYBE! Haha.

Ghost Story!

My best friend Sarah and I always spent the night with each other every night during the summer. Her grandmother lives right across the street from her house, so we would alternate houses, her mom's house, her grandmother's house, her mom's house, her grandmother's house... You get the point. Anyways, whenever we stayed the night at her grandmothers house we would sleep in the living room. We would make a two pallets to sleep one for her and one for me. Her grandmother's 88 years old but you couldn't tell that from looking at her. She gets around fine and always made us a big breakfast every morning! I love her (: Her grandfather died a few years back and Sarah always said she thought that he was still "there" in the house, as in his ghost. One night, we were sleeping in the living room and we were up til around two waiting for her uncle to get off work. He usually came in the front door and talked to us for awhile if we were up. He always seemed to have some story about work to tell us. Anyways, that night he didn't come in the front door. He came in the back door and tried to scare us. Sarah kept on commenting on how she saw something moving in the hall by the bathroom. I just said Sarah shut up and stop trying to scare me. Then she's like I'm serious, so we walked back there and just as we passed the bathroom her uncle popped out and screamed at us. Well, we screamed back, haha. We were really scared, he got us good! But it was okay, because the next day he felt bad so he took us to get icecream! (:

Halloween Poem!

Halloween

Kids are walking up and down the street,

repeatedly saying Trick or Treat.

They hold their bags out to collect their candy.

This cool October night may be slightly windy.

Witches, Frankenstein, ghosts, and goblins,

Hannah Montana, Cats, Batman, and Robin.

Some costumes are scary, others are cute.

One little boy is Woody with Cowboy Boots.

Candy corn, chocolate, skittles, and suckers,

Sour candy like warheads will make you pucker,

Carmel Apples, pumpkin seeds, and Mom's homeade chex mix.

There are so many treates to choose from, I don't know what to pick.

Carving out pumpkins is my favorite thing to do,

You can carve out a face or the word BOO!

Carve out the top so you can take it out,

and stick in a candle to light up the face's mouth.

Haunted houses are a lot of fun,

Make sure your not behind everyone.

Some people will scream and squeel,

If you see something scares you don't make a big deal,

Just remember Monsters aren't real!

My favorite Color!

Isn't Lime Green Just a pretty color? I absolutely love it. Anything that I see that is lime green I think is pretty.. well almost anything. I want to paint my walls lime green, well at least one of them, someday, but I have to wait until my mom is ready to do it. Lime green just makes me feel happy and brings a smile to my face. Let's see red or green apples? GREEN! Purple or green grapes? GREEN! What color is money? GREEN! Green is just a great color. Actually, any type of green is... lime green is just my favorite. My cousin Ashley always has her nails done at a salon and I saw her yesterday and she has the cutest tips. Guess what color they are? LIME GREEN! And they have cute stars and what not on them. Their adorable. But yeah, when I was younger I always used to want a Lime Green slug bug. I'm not so sure about that anymore because just about everyone has one now-a-days. Also, my great friend Marley has these shoes that are BRIGHT NEON LIME GREEN! Their adorable (: I have quite a few things in my room that are lime green. My fan, my frog bulletin board, this picture holder thing, a sign on my wall, some of my bedspread, a frog stuffed animal from build a bear (: etc... Green is Good!

Driving!

I got my permit in March 2009. It's now September and I still haven't driven nearly enough or as much as I would like to have. I'm taking driver's ed which is helping me out a lot. I've learned to almost perfectly parrallel park and do a turn-about which will come in handy on my intermediate test, which I plan on taking around December. You see most 16 year old's parents take them driving or let them drive everywhere once they have their permit. Not this one (Me). My dad is the person who should teach me to drive but well, he's in Wisconsin so he can't. My mom on the other hand, just can't. Haha. I'm totally serious. She is way to nervous to get in the car with any teenager. I mean jeez she gets nervous when my dad drives! I've driven with her a few times. It wasn't that bad, but I know that I make her nervous which makes me nervous. It's not that she won't take me, she just has to get the nerve up to get in the car and go. My aunt Susie, my dad's sister, takes me the most. Some days after school she'll call me and be like "I need to run some errands, do you want to take me?" So I drive her wherever she needs to go and get some hours in for my log. It's pretty much a win-win situation. I just thought I'd blog about this because it's been on my mind lately. I absolutely can't wait until I can drive around with my friends whenever I want to and don't have to have my mom drive me everywhere. It's beginning to get annoying because I have a lot of places I want to be, haha. But anyways... yeah (:


PS: I always used to want this car, lol. ------------------>

I hate being sick!

After the game Friday night I went to Payton's house with a bunch of people. We had tons of fun (: Anyways that night when I got home I woke up in the middle of the night and I just knew I had fever.

-You know those times where your head feels really hot and your eyes and head hurts. When I run fever It's always really high and my eyes get bloodshot and glossy. One time I had a 106 fever and I was seeing monsters coming out of my toy box! My mom called my doctor at home at like midnight and he said to put me in a luke warm bath because It might help lower my temperature.

Anyways back to friday night. When I woke up I couldn't find the thermometer so I just went back to bed. When I woke up for the second time I was coughing like crazy. When My mom saw me she asked me if I had fever. Then I was like I think so I don't feel good at all and how did you know? She said, Because of your eyes. So we took my temperature and it was a 103.2 which is really high for some people. It's high for me too, but I've been worse. So my mom called Dr. Houston's office and they said to rotate with tylenol and ibuprofen. They said I had the symptoms of either a virus or the flu. Then they went on to say that If I had difficulty breathing, diarrehea, or vomiting to come in and they would test me for Swine Flu!

Well, that freaked me out right then and there. I cried at first because I mean come on, who wants swine flu? But the good new is It's now sunday and I've been fever free, the headaches gone, and the coughing isn't as bad (: The thing about me when I'm sick is, I don't want to miss school. You see, my sister and I are complete opposites if she's sick she loves missing school. But when the doctor said I could have the flu and miss up to 7 days of school, I was like Uhm No that WILL NOT happen, haha. I hate missing school because all of the tests and homework assignments. Also, I cannot miss more than one class of math. I need to hear the teacher explain it to me as a class. I'm not sure why, but that's just me. Also This wednesday we're taking the Practice ACT and I deffinately couldn't miss that.

While I was sick I probable drank 20 of these things. I don't know why, but they just helped me not cough (: Oh, and in the picture (the purse) my aunt gave me one of those for Christmas in like 5th grade! Haha.



I just hate being sick, period!

Daddy-O!

First let me tell you a short version of a story about my dad. His names Jerry and he's hilarious. He IS the best dad ever. I'm really lucky to have a dad like him. My grandmother always says he's a wonderful man. Sometimes she even says she likes him better than her own son (Well, she doesn't tell her son that). I've known my dad for about 16 years now, lol, and he's pretty great. Right now he's stationed in Fort McCoy, Wisconsin for the army. Yeah I know, it sounds far and you say well at least it's only for 2 weeks or so, but that's not the case. He's stuck there for a whole year. He's been there since March of 2009, and he will hopefully come home March 2010. My mom, my sister, and I have been to Wisconsin to visit him twice and he has came home about 3 times so I haven't got to see him much. It's really hard with him gone. I miss him waking me up in the mornings saying "Rise and Shine, it's Morning Time." I just miss him being at home. It's not cool at all with my mom, my sister, and me in the house because we're all chickens, well except for my sister. If my mom and me hear a little sound in the house we get scared, its crazy. Well Last night my dad called and wanted to talk to me about when he's coming home for Thanksgiving and Christmas and stuff. I talked to him for at least half and hour. This may sound weird but I closed my eyes trying to picture him sitting there with me talking because I miss him so much :( I know I sound selfish and I feel really selfish. My family is really lucky that he is only in Wisconsin and not Iraq or anywhere overseas. It's just really hard. But we've made it half way through and I'm pretty sure we can make it through the other half! I'm just praying March comes soon!

APUSH!

For some reason APUSH (AP US History) goes in one ear and out the other. It's not just that I'm not interested in it, it's just boring and hard. I can't seem to do well enough in there to get the grade I want. It's really challenging for me because well, I guess you could say social studies never been my subject. Last year I got my first C in World Civilization with Mrs. Castlen. I complained all year long about how I wish I could have gotten a better grade in there. Now, I wish I hadn't complained so much. I would go back and retake that class again, ANYDAY. That's how much I dislike APUSH. You see, right now I'm supposed to be writing an essay about all the Acts (Stamp, Tea, Sugar, Intolerable) but I'm stuck. I have part of my opening paragraph and almost my whole second one, but I'm stuck. I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be writing. So, here as soon as I finish this I'm going to just let the words flow out and type what I know, just like I'm doing now (: It should actually be a pretty good essay, haha. My teacher makes the class really fun and he cracks jokes and breaks into random song and is hilarious, but "Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus" Doesn't help me score well on the test. As much as I like that song =] My point is, the class is fun and all but I don't learn a thing. I wish I could go back to history class where you color maps and memorize the little song for all the presidents.

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.
These are the US Presidents all lined up in a row.
Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, and Tyler.
Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson.
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland.
McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft, Wilson and Harding.
Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower,
*these are the men who led our country within their binded power.
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan too.
Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama Woo-hoo!

Lol I made up the last line because we've had more president's since then & I'm not sure about the line with a star! I think that's what it says!

$ Money $

Money means being capable of "having" things. You use money to buy things you want and need. I want a lot of things, yet I don't always get them. That's just how the world works. Now-a-days, money is hard to come by. Things are changing with the way people are spending their money. Most people wouldn't go build a new house or buy a brand new and expensive car. I feel like school fees are never ending. You pay before school starts to get your schedule and everything, which is a couple hundred dollars. You have to buy school supplies, new clothes, new shoes, a mesh backpack, and other items that are neccesary. You also have to have lunch money. Its already close to the end of September and I've paid IDK how many club dues. People say money can't provide happiness, but in some ways it can. Money can be used for a lot of good things. For example, scholarships, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Fundraisers, Charitys, there are unlimited organizations helping people with disease/problems/family troubles... etc. I may sound materialistic but I love money (:

El Club de Español!

Why do people who are older than you think they know everything? Yeah, Yeah I get the respect your elders thing but when its someone a year older than you, please? You don't have that much more intelligence or "knowing" then me. Last year during spanish club we were voting on t-shirts. I was a sophomore and these two girls (saying their names wouldn't be nice) were juniors. My friends and I had a really cute t-shirt design. They also had a design, but in everyone else's opinion, except for theirs, it was really ugly When we showed the group our design girl #1 was like "Well, yeah it's cute but our design is better and we're juniors so seniority rules." It made me so mad and we ended up getting their ugly shirts! Anyways the reason I'm writing about this is because today we have spanish club and we're voting and I'm pumped to show our t-shirt designs and we WILL win (: I love spanish and spanish class. Everybody else is like omg spanish I don't wanna go or it's so hard. Spanish is kind of dificult but I enjoy it. I actually get better grades in it then I do english :P I like english too (: I'm just saying, haha.
Spanish Club's fun; so all of you reading this should join :D

Laughter!

"A family that laughs together stays together."

Laughter unifies us by bringing us together to have wonderful times. Anytime I'm with my friends and family I'm laughing. Laughter is a form of medicine that can cure a "bad day." Laughter is important because it brings joy and happiness to everyone. All of my friends make me laugh. They make me laugh because they are so random at times and we start talking about off the wall things. For example today in US History my friend Alexus and I ended up talking about Chinese Food (: Weird I know, but the whole time we were talking we were laughing! Also, my family makes me laugh. My mom is absolutely hilarious with some of the things she says. Ask any of my friends, they will tell you. I am always laughing or have a smile on face because of my family and friends. Laughter to me, seems contagious. Lets say I'm in a bad mood one day and I come into school and all my friends are sitting at the table laughing about something, well of course I'm going to ask them what their laughing about. Once they tell me, I'm most likely going to laugh. Laughing is kind of like yawning. If you see some one doing it, sooner or later you will be too.

My Cell Phone!

So seriously, I do not know where in the world I would be without my cell phone. It is like an item in this world that I absolutely have to have, no matter what. It is a way for me to contact anyone I need to at anytime- unless we have an icestorm and I can't get reception ;) My favorite feature on my phone would have to be the handy dandy text messaging tool. I use this tool everyday. If I don't have my phone with me I like pace the floor and have to like bite my nails or do something with my hands to stay busy because I can't text. I guess you could say I have withdraws, haha. I would say I do up to 10,000 text messages a month :D Another feature that I like on my phone is Bluetooth! I love having different ringtones set for all my friends. This helps trigger memories I have with them. For example my friend Rachel's ringtone is Your a Jerk- it's a long story- ask later! (: I also like setting a ringtone for whenever I get a text message. It makes it more fun to hear a song playing than "beep, beep, beep." My phone's pretty much my life. Everythings on it. Phone Numbers, Calendar, Pictures, etc. My phone has everything and everything I need! I love it! <3 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379911256988135650" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7lfXKV0nJCa_gwYcyXJiGOmNHM1wScULCqv7VG37qGIOv8yztV5znhMfqAvwm8G2p-Phy02HvrPTRwoq68mpvjudk0fawzwRSdx92G3D4uKv29wX5b7sJGRWGyL0m-sLHs3gW4Nsxkrs/s200/lg-xenon.jpg">

Home Sweet Home!

Home to me is a place where family and friends belong. A place to have fun and make memories. My home is a place used for all the holidays. Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc are all celebrated at my house. After school everyday I go to my room drop my stuff off in my room, get out my homework, take it into the living room, sit on my favorite spot on the couch; and do my homework, watch tv, and get on facebook/myspace. My favorite rooms in my house would probably the living room and the party basement! (It's finished and not scary) Haha. Even when I go to college I'll know that I will always have a room to come home to. My doors always open. Home to me feels welcoming, happy, loving, caring, and warm. If we ever have bad storms my mom always tells the neighbors that our back door is always unlocked in case they want to come get in the basement with us. The house that I call home is one of my favorite places to be, with friends and family!

Allyson Nichole Funk!

My neighbor Jennifer Thompson works at US Bank with a lady named Liz Funk. Her daughter Allyson needs a Bone Marrow Transplant. Some of the ladies who work at US Bank have been getting together and organizing fundraisers. They had a huge garage sale at Precious Blood Catholic Church in the church yard. Lucky me, my house is right beside the church yard so I was able to meet precious little Allyson! She is so small and adorable! (: They ended up making a very large amount of money from the yard sale. They also sold Boston Butts at the church which made a lot of money too. If you would like to learn more about Allyson you can go to http://www.fight4allyson.com/. This webpage had all of the updates on how she is doing and pictures of all the fundraising events. Keep Allyson in your prayers!

The night after the yardsale I thought to myself how truly lucky I am to have eveything I have. I have a good family, good health, good friends, and an overall GOOD LIFE! I felt so bad that day because earlier that morning I was complaining about cleaning my room. That little girl has been through so much throughout her life and she is so young. She probably wishes she could just stop all the hospital visits, and stay home and clean her room. I've really realized how blessed I am because of this little girl and her family! I just wanted to say Thank You Allyson! And your always in my prayers <3>

Goodbye Summer, Hello School!

So school started about three weeks ago which means bye-bye summer-time. I think I'm just now starting to adjust to the fact that its hello school! Waking up early, going to bed early, not going out on school nights, homework, studying, and all that "FUN" stuff. I miss summer already.

My summer was great! I went on vacation to Wisconsin to visit my dad. If you don't already know, he's stationed there for the army until March (for a year). I absolutely love shopping in Wisconsin Dells. It is the best place ever (: We also went to this deer park place where deers like
literally walk up to you and eat out of your hand. It was so cool. Also this past summer I spend tons of time with one of my friends, Rachel! She lives the closest to me out of all my friends so she came over a lot. Of course I went swimming tons of times. Actually, this year we bought a pool for our backyard patio. It wasn't huge, but it wasn't really small either. It was big enough to lay on a raft in and soak up the sun. That's all that my mom and I were worried about, getting a tan :D And... We did!

But now, summer's really over. I realized it today as my mom and I were taking down the pool. So goodbye summer, hello junior year! I'm kind of excited about it, but I'm kind of nervous about being a junior. I've already had tons of homework which is never good. I'm really excited about clubs that I'm going to be in. Spanish Club, I was in it last year and it was really fun. CEC (Council for Exceptional Children) should be really fun. Academic Team of course. Hopefully I will become a member of NHS (National Honor Society) and Beta Club. Last, but not least Mrs. Garner was talking to our Spanish class about having a Spanish National Honor Society. That sounds really cool and I'd love to be a part of it. Also I'm excited about football games this year. As for my schedule, I love White days and I like 3rd and 4th on Blue days. I'm taking on AP US History this year too! That should be a challenge. So as you can see I've got a full year ahead of me and lots of things to do. Summer's over and school's here, so I'm going to make the best of it (:

Good Times!

One of my friends had her birthday party at skates alive this summer :D You may be thinking "She's 16 and had her birthday party at skates alive?" Well, yeah so was I when she told me. But if you think about it, seriously, what else is there to do in Owensboro. Go to the movies, bowling, skates alive, or have a party at your house. So she decided to go to skates alive. This changed it up some and brought a variety into our weekends (: At first I wasn't too sure about going because I hadn't skated since like elementary school, but once I got there I was like ahhh this is the place to be. It's so much fun skating around trying not to fall, but it's also fun just sitting back and watching everyone. I was sitting in our little booth watching all the workers skate backwards and do little tricks and whatnot and then I was also watching all the drama that went on between the 10 year olds. It was hilarious! I went back yesterday with Stacie, Rachel, Jordan, Chris, Allison, and Halle and it was super-fun! I started playing games and so did some of my friends and we ended up getting like 200 tickets and getting cute little prizes! I felt so much like a little kid it wasn't even funny! But the important thing is that it was fun! Right now there's so many stressful things I'm going through with school, and my dad not being home until March, clubs, grades, EVERYTHING! It's just good to go out, have a good time, and act silly! So that's what I did and it was gread (:

Follow the Leader

The kind of leaders that I admire the most are teachers and my parents. Teachers do a lot of work that students don't realize. Students come to school with attitudes and in bad moods not caring how they treat their teachers. Even though teachers have to stay up late grading papers or may have had a family emergency they always come to school with a smile on their face (: That's why I admire them! Parents on the other hand, haha no I'm totally kidding. I admire my parents whole lot for just putting up with me! I mean, yeah I they get on my nerves all the time, they make me do things I don't want to do, but they do it all in consideration of whats best for me. I look up to my parents and teachers because they show all the skills that are needed to be a leader and those are the skills that I would like to have someday. I would like to follow the footsteps of my parents and teachersand become a great leader one day!

"Friendship doubles joy and halves grief."

Proverbs- are simple sayings commonly known which expresses a truth and are based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity.

"Friendship doubles joy and halves grief."

This Egyptian proverb to me, means that everything is easier with friends. Having friends brings joy to everyone's lives and cuts down on grief and hard times. This proverb has came to be true in my life many different times. In January of '09 my grandfather past away. It was a really hard time for my family and I, and thankfully I had friends there to lean on. It felt really good to have them there to talk and comfort me through everything that was going on. One of my friends, Marley brought a lot of joy to me the day of my grandfathers funeral. She stopped by for about 20 minutes and brought me a small gift. The fact that she came by just to say hey and sorry for your loss meant a lot. All of my other friends had a movie night the next night, this helped me get my mind off of everything and just relax and have a good time. Another time in I was the friend that brought joy to someone else was when my friend Sarah had to move from her Mom's house to her Dad's. This was a big change for her and caused her lots of grief as well. She ended up having to switch schools and lost a lot of friends. She has told me ever since then that I brought a lot of happiness to her and was a true friend for sticking by her through everything. Both of these situations, as you can probably tell, explain how friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

They call me Jerry Jr.

If someone asked me which of my relatives I am most like I'd probably have to say my dad. I'm a daddy's girl, always have been. First off, I look like my dad. I have dark hair like my dad and almost always have somewhat of a tan just like him. All of my family calls me Jerry Jr. because I act and look like him I guess. He's stationed in Wisconsin right now for the army for a year and all of my family talks about how they miss him so much. But they always add, "At least we have Jerry Jr." to the end of it. Last Saturday my cousin Starr was over at our house. By the way, I think she's my dad's favorite neice-in-law. Anyways, everytime she comes over right before she leaves my dad yells, "Don't let the door hit ya in the butt on the way out!" So, last Saturday when she was leaving I yelled the same thing my dad would have. Starr came back inside and said, "You know what, its just not the same coming from Jerry Jr." Also, one thing that makes my mom think I'm just like my dad is when she says I love you when she drops me off at school, I say "Yeah, yeah!" That's what my dad says too when he goes to work. So everytime I say it she just smiles :)