NaNo and other News

National Novel Writing Month started today! I am gonna do it this year, unlike last year where I failed miserably. I'm gonna write a 50,000 word novel before midnight on November 30th! so far I have just over 3,000 words so I am almost a day ahead of schedule. That'll give me enough leeway in case I have a lot of homework tomorrow. In other news:

-Tomorrow is Isaac's 12th birthday. Happy B-Day Isaac! (Oh my gosh I just realized that he can go to mutual now . . .)

-I'm in Concert Band 2. :( But that's okay I guess.

-We're going to at least one playoff game in Houston. Fun . . ./!

-I have a Deviant Art account. My username is

Alright, I'm gonna work on updating this more often. Now I've got to go take a shower and draw some pictures and find my biology workbook and Madeleine's phone number!

First Football Game!

so . . . yeah! marching band is awesome and we got all of the opener on the field for the first game! come watch us this week @ dragon stadium on friday!

i'm dead i'm dead i'm dying i'm dead

okay, since i know most of you are not as involved in the beatleworld as i am, let me inform you about this terrible news . . . DISNEY. IS. REMAKING. YELLOW. SUBMARINE. IN. 3-D.

now you know how and why i'm gonna die.

but, as you may or may not know, it is also possible to die of happiness and this is the other half of my diagnosis . . .

are these pants not GORGEOUS???? chloe introduced me to delia's and when we went in, i fell in love. there was a bunch of really really really cool shirts and stuff, but i saw these and i died! now i actually have enough money to buy these (w/ the $10 coupon i have) and i won't have to keep battling it out with my mom on fb (although she doesn't really know what we're arguing about. she thinks it's over this cool pair of shoes from journeys that i showed her.)

Schedule

I know i've told like everyone my schedule, but here it is again:

ORANGE

Debate

TAG Pre-AP English

Band

Geometry

WHITE

Pre-AP World Geography

Pre-AP Biology

Band

ASL 1

i have Lunch A both days and if that room we went to at fishbowl is our homeroom, then i'm in 223. i think.

News

Guess WHAAAAAAT??? i got another beatles book! but this is the best one so far!!! it's a book of the beatles: anthology and it just has quotes from john, paul, george, ringo, brian, neil, mal, and derek!!!!!!!!!! it weighs over 10 pounds probably and its AH-MAZING . . .

next, i'm very sad cuz media converter isn't working and it's KILLING me, not being able to have please please me or september on there!!!!!!!!!!!

today i went to the mall with chloe. best time EVER! i was her personal fashion engineer and i helped her pick out the most gorgeous pair of jeans . . . PLUS i also got . . . (wait for it . . . WAIT FOR IT . . . ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . BLACK JELLY GLADIATOR SANDALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've been looking for a pair for forever!!!

madeleine's gone. i haven't cried yet, but then again, i haven't gone to a church activity w/o her yet. but that will change cuz the sleepover is tonight! YAY/cry . . . !!!

band camp is good, but a cymbal player collapsed yesterday. that was REALLY scary.

okay, i have to go cuz i have to leave for band in 40 minutes and i need to pack. ttyl

Beatles Rock Band!!!

I found this on Bitmob.com and I think it's a great article. So far, I am extremely proud of Beatles Rock Band . . . Eeep, I can't wait until it comes out! Only 40 days left for me to earn about $300! If someone . . . you know . . . just HAPPENED to have it laying around . . . could I . . . oh, I don't know . . . COME OVER AND PLAY IT AS SOON AS YOU GET IT??? please? :)

http://bitmob.com/index.php/mobfeed/The-Real-Beatles-Vs.-The-Beatles-Rock-Band.html

I KNOW IT'S KINDA LONG BUT PLEASE READ: (real title) What to do?

so i don't know what to do, cuz i'm still in utah and everyone is still gone and i won't be having my tea party until tonight and:

- i could watch help! and a hard day's night again, but i'm kinda tired of just staring at the computer + i want to watch them w/ someone who hasn't seen them

- i've caught up on phineas and ferb

- i could work on the script for kick it! but it's not as fun all by myself

- i could practice my euph part for marching band on a pencil but . . .

- i could take a shower and do my hair and makeup and stuff, but then i would feel like i'm only doing it so i could have something to do and i don't like feeling like that

- i could read, and maybe i will, but not for long cuz i feel restless

- there's a lot more i could say, but i know that nobody reads the long posts so that's it i guess . . .

HELP ME!!!

Ha

so tonight we're gonna have a harry potter movie marathon and my dad was talking to my mom and i "so rudely" interrupted and this is how it went:

Dad: We're gonna have a Harry Potter marathon tonight!
Mom: Oh, really?
Dad: Yeah. It'll take us about 10 hours if we start now.
Me: Well ya know, it would still take 10 hours whether you started it now or not.
Dad: That was profound . . .
Me: Why thank you.
Dad: . . . and disrespectful.
Me: Why thank you!

yeah, i know it's kinda lame, but i thought it was funny . . .

Update

yeah, i know you guys don't like to read long posts, but too bad. so i'm in utah, visiting the fam, but right now i'm kinda sad cuz nolle and taylr and morris are at girls camp and dani is in new mexico and i'm not going to cassie's until tomorrow. btw, morris borris is simply amazing (i'll have to do a separate post on him sometime soon). but even w/ all my peeps gone, i still could have survived IF i still had that beatles book! i went to the library w/ nolle and i got "the beatles: a biography" by bob spitz and it's almost 1000 pages long and i'm in love with it! but since we're leaving like on wednesday and cliss had to go to girl's camp, she took it home w/ her yesterday! :( :( :( :( :( i was only in january 1964 (somewhere between pages 350-400) and brian had just booked them for the ed sullivan show and capitol was just releasing a meager 5,000 copies of "i wanna hold your hand" in the states!!!!!!!!!! they were about to make it big!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well, they were big . . . but even BIGGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( moving on . . . . . . . .

girl's camp was way fun! chloe and abby came and it was amazing! i know i had loads of fun and i know we're all gonna miss madeleine next year. :'( but she loves us more than rootbeer floats so i guess i can live w/ her gone at byu. but me and chloe and maddie and maddy and rileigh pulled an all nighter (well, rileigh ALMOST made it, so i think it counts) and i have learned the valuable lesson: sleep is good. but chloe and abby got lice and i feel AWFUL! i'm so sorry guys!!! <3

eep! i'm like FREAKING OUT cuz band camp starts in ONE WEEK!!! i'm gonna die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm also freaking out bc i'm really scared that my packages i ordered are gonna get stolen or something. i ordered a beatles cartoon tshirt, a ys poster, and 4 beatles buttons and they were scheduled to come while we were in utah but i'm really really really scared that someone just saw a package sitting on the doorstep for days and took it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but i went to the mall and bought normal stuff! (aren'tya proud?) i got two polos from aero, a GINORMOUS purse and earrings from anchor blue, and this really awesome shirt from this store called papaya. also i went to the DI and got some awesome jeans and a shirt w/ a porcupine on it that says "can't touch this"! (hee hee)

alright. i can't think of anything else to say so i'm gonna watch the phineas and ferb episodes i missed . . .

Beatles Stuffff

 

my new shirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my dvd!!!! sideways!!!!

yay! i'm like SOOOOOOO happy right now! cuz like a) i finally got my hard day's night dvd! it was starting to worry me cuz it was supposed to come on july 8, 2009 but instead it came on july 9, 2009 and so yesterday i was REALLY worried cuz i had even worn my "all you need is love" shirt even though it's long sleeved so that the movie would know that it was going to a good home where it would be loved and cherished and screamed over, so it would come faster but that didn't work. :( so todaaaaaay i b) wore cassandra's old beatles shirt that she gave to me yesterday!!! thank you again cassandra!!!!!! i love it!!!!!

in non beatles news: i'm gonna watch charade tonight!!! :D

Oh gosh . . .

okay, seriously, i need to get with some band buddies ASAP!!! i was practicing piano today and i was not having fun and i was like, hmm, i'm an ensemble person really. so i got on the computer and listened to our summer dances and loch lomond cuz i wanted something to do besides piano. and i was like, THIS CLOSE to crying! i couldn't stop thinking about sandra doing her solo (she sounded much better than the official recording) and shanti overcoming that high note and mikeska and conner doin vibes (it was mikeska and conner right?) and the clarinets bulldozing their way through 171 in summer dances and all the euphonium-clarinet matchy matchy and those high g's that i cried over and that awful drone beneath those beautiful solos and mr. piwetz's face during loch lomond . . . SERIOUSLY. i need to see some of my clarinet buddies before i have a nervous breakdown and start adding drum beats to my piano book and learning the exact notes and rhythms for lead, bass, rhythm, drums, etc. on EVERY beatles song just for the sake of ensemblyness!!!!!!!!

This is the best tribute you'll get from me . . .

yeah, i'm not really into micheal jackson like the rest of the world, but i do love this song. the video is great and it was the first music video to have dialogue and plot, something we see the year after this video came out in another video by jackson . . . THRILLER! RIP micheal jackson (the jack in "mack and jack)

Remodeling Time

ok, i know all the cool stuff has disappeared cuz i put up a new layout. but never fear. i will work on putting it all back up as soon as i can!

Help!

I need help deciding on a name for my euphonium!!! help me!!! 

there was something else i needed help with (well there's actually a lot, but it was something specific) and i can't remember it! oh well . . . 

p.s. help! is SUCH a good movie!!!!!!! :D

Hello

Hey, i know i haven't posted really at all lately. that's most probably cuz i do most stuff on facebook now, but still. i shouldn't have been neglectful. so i'm just gonna talk.

- BIG NEWS: if you didn't already know, i'm kinda obsessing over the beatles right now. i guess it first started in february when my mom bought the dvd yellow submarine and i watched it like everyday for weeks. then that just lead to listening to our albums for the first time really since 6th grade (or more like when i was 4) which lead to doing school projects on them so i could learn stuff which led to finding out about the cartoon series which led to their other movies (i watched help! twice a day for a week) which led to abby burning like 5 of their albums for me and hapa buying me the most amazing book about each and every one of their songs (a hard day's write!!!!!!!!) and so yeah. don't let me forget to order my cartoon lunchbox and ys playing cards asap.

-ALSO BIG NEWS: we finished Deep! that's mine and preethi and val's story that we were working on at school that's totally nonsensical and kinda tells the story of our second semester if you look deep enough. (oh my gosh, did you see that preethi?) gasp! i'm freaking out cuz we're calling it "Deep" cuz it's the shallowest book ever and has no deeper meaning but now it kinda does! eep! idk if that's good or bad . . . but right now we're (well, it's my time right now, but i'm kinda right here . . . ) editing. after that, as a joke, we're gonna send it off to all the publishing companies there are out there and see a) how many rejection letters we get and b) if we actually get accepted (which would be absolutely hilarious!)

-school's out. i'm in high school now. yikes.

-we got a new puppy! we haven't decided on a name yet, but i think we're leaning towards either penny or abbey. she's part black lab and part something else and her ears are so cute cuz one stands up straight and the other flops over all cute like!

-i was a student conductor at the last concert! and yeah, i know that like everyone knows that, but oh well. that was fun. speaking of which, i'm gonna go back to cvms every once in awhile during the summer to visit the band directors. anyone wanna come with me?

-um . . . beatles rock band is coming out. it looks pretty darn amazing if you ask me. i want it. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

there's probably other stuff i'm forgetting (like youth conference, which was really fun!) but i should get back to editing so val can edit and so preethi doesn't kill me. aren't we a great team?

:(

sigh . . . it's the last day of school. hope i don't get in trouble for wearing the coolest pajama pants in the world . . . 

ITOUCH ITOUCH ITOUCH ITOUCH ITOUCH!!!!!!!!!

OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE'S A 16GIG ITOUCH ON CRAIGSLIST FOR ONLY $160!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW AMAZING THIS IS??????????????? I MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS A TOTALLY AMAZING DAY!!!! FIRST, I FOUND OUT I HAVE OCD, THEN I GOT A 99 ON THE MATH QUIZ AND GOT 3 EXTRA CREDIT FOR THE TEST SO I ACTUALLY PASSED IT NOW AND NOW I HAVE A 78 IN MATH AND NOW THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and ellie just said i'm obsessed w/ ocd. hee hee . . .  :D :D :D :D :D :D

Happy Medium

today was a happy medium type of day. i almost cried during band cuz i realized that it was the last time that we would ever play those songs in the band hall. after tomorrow, nothin'. no more "summer dances" or "loch lomond." and no more "trombone king." they're the next "moscow, 1941. " i swore that i would always remember it bc it was such an amazing song. now i can barely remember anything besides the name. but lunch was good. chloe and abby and sophia are all dying to come to girls camp. but i got a 66 on my math test WITH extra credit. and i got 2 A's and 5 B's on my progress report. but i had a really fun time waiting for a ride w/ sophia and chloe. then i got home and made cake. but i'm SOOOOOO cold right now, but the fan makes me not feel lonely. shoot! i have vocab!!! but i have the new jason mraz cd to listen to. you see what i mean? major happy medium . . . OH YEAH! my birthday's in a week! *hint hint* i've been wanting pins, itunes gift cards, and jelly gladiator sandals EVER SO BADLY . . . *wink wink*

My Website

hey, don't know if i've already said this, but i have a new business where i sell things i've crocheted and other stuff too. please please PLEASE check it out at www.eclecticismbyme.synthasite.com!!!!! PLEASE . . .  :D

Spring Break

it's spring break, and i'm bored. yeah, so far i've earned $8 this week and i'm goin to shauna's today and we're playing calimaf tomorrow at mutual (YAY! IF ANYBODY WANTS TO COME JUST TELL ME! :D) but i'm bored. everyone's out of town and i've watched every episode from the 1st season of full house about a bajillion times in the past few days. joey's jokes aren't funny anymore. i reread harry potter 7 and i recried when i read it, but now i'm done. i have nothing to read, don't feel like crocheting and my cleaning burst is gone. we made a giant mega fort and we've all been sleeping in it since sunday, but all that it's resulted in is a sore neck and a slightly cushiony reading nook. sigh . . . i wish we had the second season of full house or the first season of phineas and ferb. then we could watch those for hours and hours and hours on end. btw, casablanca's a good movie. also btw, please check out my website it's my new business, but i have no traffic on it. well, no paying traffic anyway. tell your friends!

Um . . .

i'm just gonna post cuz i feel like it so . . . . . . . um, well . . . GONE IS REALLY GOOD!!!!! it's the most amazingist book in the world (besides all the other bestest books ever) and *happy shudder* it's so GOOD!!! read it read it read it! (but then make sure to read the book thief and the hunger games!) um, taks is today. blah. all i get to do is sit and be bored and read boring stories and answer boring questions about them and then read. for hours. and abby has Gone, so i can't reread that. i can't even crochet! where is the justice in that? i am THIS close to finishing ... but NOOOOOO. cuz i might spell out the answers w/ my crochet or something!!!! stupid taks.

um, gum tastes really good. and oh yeah! we got 3rd @ the DI competition! we thought we were gonna do better, especially after our coach got us all hyped up after we performed by yelling "you're going to state! you're going to state! i just know it!" over and over and over. but oh well. we still got nice medals.

yellow submarine is the best movie ever, btw! look at the new beatles songs i put on my playlist! :DDDDDDDDDDD

The Holocaust

i love learning about the Holocaust. i mean, it's so horrible and it's makes me cry and feel sick and mad, but i just love reading books about it or learning about it. we're doing a Holocaust unit in language arts, and it's really sad and amazing. we did this poster tour and made butterflies in honor of the children who died and now they're hanging up in the halls, and we read the broadway version of Anne Frank's diary. but what was so amazing was yesterday, a holocaust survivor came and talked to us. he's the grandpa of one of the girls in 8th grade, and he told us about how he was separated from his family and how a dutch girl smuggled him underground to safety and how he practically starved in an orphanage and how his parents survived auschwitz and all this amazingness and sadness and wonderfulness. gosh, it was so cool. thank you to mr. arnold vandenburg!!!

now i really want to write a letter to miep gies, the lady who helped hide anne frank's family. she just had her 100th birthday, and was her when we read the play aloud. she is pretty awesome. 

now on to much less inspiring stuff. sigh . . . 

whoa, this is like cool!

 

Rockin' the Violin @ Yahoo! Video

PoStInG

k, since everyone's been complaining, i'm gonna try to post more. but i don't like to post too much cuz then everyone misses some of my important posts, like my limericks! *hint hint* so anyway, if you want me to post more, then you must scroll down and read everything! grr. 

To save posts, i'd just like to say:

A) BUY A CANYON VISTA YEARBOOK IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY! IF YOU HAVE . . . BUY ANOTHER!!! we are way behind, and the deadline is Feb. 5! prices start @ $38. go to myyear.com!!!

B) during midterms, i found out that i like to make lists such as this one . . . 

C) Facebook rocks!!! JOIN JOIN JOIN!!! be my friend!!! :D

D) My button collection is coming along . . . I guessssssssssssssssss . . . *another hint hint* lol

E) I am so mad @ math!!!

F) I made the Ready Writing team and the DI competition is coming up and so is Sophie's Birthday! I am sooo busy!

G) I still don't really have a crush, and if i ever start to get one, it just turns into a story idea.

H) I am regaining my long lost love for poetry.

I) John Adams and Alex Hamilton are very funny people.

um, that's it i guess. but as u know, i've probably forgotten something, and i'll remember it right as i post this and then i'll have to do a whole nother post and then my other posts will get lost again. sigh.

Strange

Is it 
Strange 
that I watch others 
Date and 
Kiss and 
Dream 
when I have my own 
Dreams and 
Hopes and 
Want To Be's?

No.

Is it 
Strange 
that some 
Cry for a 
Teacher and a 
Death in a 
Book?

No.

Is it 
Strange 
to be 
Kind and 
Caring for 
No Reason 
and to not 
Hate 
someone cuz they 
Wore the 
Same Shirt as 
You?

No.

Is it 
Strange 
to not 
Leave a 
Friend or 
Family or 
Love?

No. 

Is it 
Strange 
to 
Hope and 
Wish for 
Better Times in the 
Midsts of 
Despair?

No.

Is it 
Strange
to hold your
Head high
and to 
Stand up
for that which
You 
Believe?

No.

Is it 
Strange 
for me to
Ask?

No.

Is it
Strange
for you to
Answer
No?

Yes.

*P.S. For those of you who haven't already, look at my limericks! They had gotten lost in the posts, but just scroll down to find them. Whoo! :D

Spelling Bee . . . buzz . . .

Grr, evil spelling bee. i got out on the second round. my word was palette, but i spelled the other pallet spelled like so. i was 5th out, so i had to sit there for an hour while ashley and ben got words like festival and extravaganza and little sixth graders got nachtmusik, rhinoceros, and escargot!!! grr, i knew almost all of the words that people got after i got out. but oh well, i wasn't first out, and i did better than last year . . . sigh . . .

Today

well, i'm glad that it's almost over. things turned out okay i guess. the scene @ the library didn't turn out totally awkward as i had fantasized, and i'm almost done reading this awesome book called "The True Meaning of Smekday." but i just want the day to be over with for some reason. over and out.

Utah Update

As i was driving home from utah, i was all like bored and so i came up w/ all the stuff i did in utah so i could write this post to enter into the rambling contest (haha, inside thing) so yeah. while i was in utah, i saw beverly hills chihuahua, a christmas story, bedtime stories, august rush, and half of sabrina for the first time. i got a facebook (YAY!), and i learned how to play zooloretto, rolit, and garf! and we got a wii and i got a 205 on bowling. i went to the mall in my pajamas and learned that horton's the greatest hero of all, huh! (see post below) i helped recreate therapist and played some creepy rounds of bus stop and freeze. i cheated like 24/7 and watched myself do karate when i was 5, my fam @ the beach when i was 7, and my dad doing the worm when his hair was past his shoulders. wow, i thought for sure that i had written more done, cuz it like took my an hour to do it, but oh well. i figure that u probably wouldn't have finished it if it had been longer. LOVE YOU ALL IN UTAH! <3

This is for you Nolle!!! XD