Peaceful Little Panda

Bah Humbug, Guitar!

2011-08-19T18:00:00.000-07:00

I want to be able to play the guitar, but I don't know how to learn it. It's obviously one of those things you can't teach yourself.

On a completely unrelated note, whenever I say "envelope" I pronounce it as "onvolope."

I wonder what I sound like to people from Europe or other continents.

I added the kitten for you, Katie. ;0)

Watch as I Babble About Things You Don't Care About

2011-07-22T18:33:00.000-07:00

Yeah...so I haven't written here for a while. Might as well post something! So...what's gonna on?

Well, I was recently introduced to the card game Magic: The Gathering, and I have to say, it is so much better than Yu-Gi-Oh (or Duel Monsters, if you prefer to call it that).

I really like it, and I sort of want to teach more people how to play (such as my friends from school), since I have two decks now. Or maybe I'll find other nerds at school who play the game, and I'll have someone to play Magic with other than Heidi.

This is one of the reasons I'm anticipating the return of school. I'll get to see my friends, and I'll have new teachers and a new schedule! Well, maybe not completely new teachers. Some seventh grade teachers might be doubling up for eighth grade too, due to the recent budget cuts.

Ooh, not to mention my golden birthday. Yeah, it's way far away in October, but still. Two things I really want to put on my list: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (a clever and very awesome book on literature and symbolism), and the Starship: A Starkid Production DVD, which can only be bought by ordering it off the Starkid website.

Starship is a sci-fi musical comedy by a theater group called Starkid, that started out in Michigan, but later moved to Chicago. The show performed in February, and then it was posted to Youtube in April. Starkid is also the same group of actors who did A Very Potter Musical/Sequel, which I have also taken a great liking to.

Starship is my favorite musical. Ever. The music and talent and musical talent and the creativity is just totally awesome. Basically, it's about a bug named Bug on a far-off planet, and he dreams of being a starship ranger, an elite group of humans that traverses the galaxy in search of strange new worlds.

Anyway, I've been listening to the soundtrack for that a lot. I'm also reading a bunch of books, including Eat Pray Love, which I like very much so far. Italy is just so interesting! My interest to learn Italian has been rekindled, after the last several months of not bothering to pick up Italian: Step-by-Step.

So, anyone reading any good books lately? Learn new games, watch new movies/musicals?

A writing structure I'm sure you're all familiar with: CLIFFHANGERS.

2011-03-06T22:05:00.000-08:00

Recently, I finished a book called BoneMan's Daughters. This book was good. I have to say that Ted Dekker gets me everytime, even though sometimes there are lulls in his stories that are quite deadly when it comes to thriller writing. In my favorite thriller books, I find that there are two stories/two things happening at once, and the stories/character perspective switch of every other chapter.

Cliffhangers are awesome. But they can also be annoying, frustrating, nail-biting, suspenseful, or exciting.

This is a clever thing, because once you finish reading a cliffhanger at the end of a chapter, you want to keep on reading to find out whether the other character is going to fall off that cliff or not, but first you have to read about what this other character is doing meanwhile. This technique is both good and bad in different ways. It builds suspense, but it makes a weaker reader set the book down because they don't particularily care about what Jane is doing at the moment. A stronger reader plows through the chapter, and finds out that Jane is dangling off an even higher cliff than John is!

(Oh, and if you haven't caught on yet, this is all hypothetical and John and Jane have nothing to do with BoneMan's Daughters.) So now you're back to John, who you were so worried about a chapter ago, and now you just want to get this chapter over with to see how Jane's doing. This is sometimes the case with a book, but other times it is not, and the whole book is just a whirlwind of events for a reader.

That's the best part- having your emotions flung all over the place, not sure whether you're going to implode any second from all the suspense and excitement the book is causing for you. BoneMan's Daughters was both of these for me - sometimes so exciting I was holding my breath, and sometimes so boring I wanted to fling the book across the room and pick it up again in a few days...maybe. I have been both the strong reader and the weak reader, sometimes setting the book aside and sometimes plowing through the chapters like a steam engine would through a valley of molasses. And with that being said, I need a new book. Any suggestions?

What books have you read that had this type of structure? Was it mindblowingly suspenseful, or so annoying you wanted to fling your book across the room?

Panda?

2010-11-13T16:50:00.000-08:00

I want to just scoop this kid up and take him home with me. SO. CUTE.

Buono Giorno, Amici!

2010-10-19T20:41:00.000-07:00

I'm bloggity-bloggy-blogging! Do da do...

The post is for you. Yes, you.

How are YOU doing today? I want to know.

I had a good day. At school our first few classes were shortened, so the whole school could participate in a Walkathon. The WHOLE school. The school colors are gold, white, and black, but each grade has a color. 6th graders are gold, 8th graders black, and 7th graders (like me) white. Now with the recently fixed softener, there hasn't been any time to get around to washing white clothes. (I've grown so used to not wearing the any white clothes that I barely notice if they're washed or not.) Of course there were no clean white stuff today, so I just wore a white sweatshirt over an orange shirt. (I don't really have any yellow clothes. That needs to change.) Anyway, the Walkathon was fun, for I got to walk with my friends and say hi to teachers or acquaintances that I don't get to speak to often.

The sun was out more today, but it might have been colder than yesterday. (Look at me, talking about the weather. You don't want to listen to all that.) Autumn is leaving quicker than I thought! And jeez, it's already Halloween next week!

It's awesome how fast I'm writing this post, but I'm not using the "proper" form of typing. ;0)

Oh, hey! November's coming up, and you know what that means! Thanksgiving (nom nom nom potato cheese casserole nom) and...(drum role) HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1!!!

Don't pretend that you are not utterly ecstatic about it. I know you are. The great part is that since the showing is during the school year and NOT the summer, kids at school get to gossip about it the day of the release, and people will talk about it the next day being like, "AWESOMEST. SEVEN DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS. EVER SPENT!"

As you can see, the title for this post is in Italian. Yes, I have regained my enthusiasm for learning Italian. I don't have Spanish until the end of the school year, so I can enjoy learning Italian for a while longer.

I have such a long mental list of books I want to read and/or need to finish. Some books I've wanted to read for a while, but I never get around to it.

Books I want To Read:

- Running with Scissors
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Halo (a book I got for my birthday)
- Burned? (7th House of Night book)
- Awakened? (8th House of Night book coming soon)

And let's not forget those random books that I pass/look/see at the library and think "hm, that looks interesting..." but I never get it, because I'm already reading some other book.

Note that Burned and Awakened have question marks next to them because I'm not exactly sure if I want to read them, but I probably should because I've already read and own the six other books.

Books that I Started to read/read a good chunk of but Never finished:

- It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences
- Black and Blue Magic
- Star Girl
- Lord of the Flies (the writing is kind of poor)
- Mockingjay (up to chapter 4, but it's kind of boring)

There are no doubt more books, but those were the ones I could think of just now.

Well, buona notte! (At least for me.)

Autumn Wisconsin

2010-09-26T17:27:00.000-07:00

I took a walk today this late afternoon, the sun just starting to set. The whole time I listened to the In Between Dreams Jack Johnson CD, and I felt pretty cool. I was really proud of myself of how awesomely awesome the awesome pictures of mine are.
So I walk, and it begins! 8D

I actually like how overgrown our grass looks sometimes. It's cool, and there was a lot of those straw thingies in the yard; like patches of them everywhere.

"I R a hoodlum!"

You know all those red berries on the bushes in our yard? The poisonous ones? Well, all today a bunch of birds have been swooping in and nom nom nomming on the berries! I got really close to a bird. It had already swallowed the berry, but I saw it do so. It was so cool!

This picture above is probably my favorite of all of them.

I looked like a homeless hoodlum, [with my giant swatshirt and baggy sweatpants], looking for trouble. I put my hood down to not scare the neighbors, and I took out my camera to show them I was a harmless citizen, just taking pictures. I probably still looked creepy, though, [looking like I was taking pictures of their homes], so I made sure my camera was always pointed at the sky. Jeez, I can't go walkin' in my own culd du sac without the neighbors eyeballing me.

This is my favorite time of day: Rays of orange light streaking through the trees, slightly chilly, shadows dancing in corners, light hitting leaves and bark jsut right...

This is me, bringing Hartford to you. Have a good upcoming week! :o)

Inception: Review

2010-07-28T21:53:00.000-07:00

Inception was a very good movie. No, it was AMAZING - magnificently and deliciously imaginative. I, for one, have never seen a movie about dreams before. Although that doesn't mean that there aren't any out there, I still will go as far as to say that the plot was very original, in the fact that it dealed with the whole basis of original ideas in the first place. I mean, that is exactly what Inception is. Implanting an idea successfully into someone's mind, making the person believe that it was their idea in the first place without any inspiration. The details are still a little fuzzy.

Leonardo DiCaprio, in my opinion, did an excellent job in this movie. If not better, than as good as Shutter Island. He does the whole 'my-wife-is dead- and- I'm-still-grieving' thing very well. I loved this movie not simply just for the creativity, but for the music, plot, characters, and all that jazz. My favorite types of stories is when the main character is keeping a secret from everyone else, and someone is or already has figured it out. The angst - that's just gold.

What made this movie better for me? The surprises of seeing familiar actors. Like Ellen Page, Micheal Cane, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Cillian Murphy. (When those actors are rolled into one, what else to expect but AWESOME?) The fact that I had never seen a trailer for the movie might have helped, as trailers usually give away good parts of a movie and kind of take away the mystery of it all. (This point is true, in the fact that after I saw the movie I looked up some trailers for it, and Danny was right: They're very misleading.) I only knew that the movie involved dreams and it had Leo DiCaprio in it. Plus everyone was saying that it was the best movie ever and my own brother thought it was amazing.

That's another thing - what I heard from other people. So, before seeing the movie yesterday, I lowered my expectations a lot. I told myself that it was going to be really crappy while the trailers were going through, and people were exaggerating to the limit. Low and behold, after watching the movie that was 2 HOURS and 35 minutes, if felt like no time had gone by at all. It felt much shorter. The movie had been excellent, made me think, and it took me the rest of the day to absorb it fully.

Now, I want to see it again. I want to buy a ticket with my own money, and see Inception again by my self. I've never gone to the movie theater by myself before, and it would be an interesting experience. Sit wherever. Never have to turn my head every now and then to see how the other person is reacting. I'll just sit down, move if I want to move, and relax. But I would also not mind to see the movie again with Heidi (she's GREAT to watch movies with) and/or with Danny.

Too bad that I missed the 4:15pm showing of the movie today. That's the only time I can see it - the other times are either too early, or too expensive. I can't see it tomorrow, because Moma, Kelly, Heidi, and I are going to go visit Katie and Amy in Madison for the day tomorrow, after which Heidi has to stay around and see her new dorm. So hopefully I'll be able to go on Friday, but we might have the unfortunate displeasure of Kyle coming over. If not, I'll go on Friday or Saturday.

I would love to see Inception again. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to think during a movie, and enjoys witty and angsty and cool and confusing and downright original. Especially all the people who love the concept of dreams, keep a dream journal, or just have nothing to do this summer or this weekend of right this minute, and want 2 hours and 35 minutes of awesomeness.

Almost Summer

2010-05-31T18:00:00.000-07:00

Well, I haven't posted in almost exactly three months. Good time to start again, huh? What with school ending and stuff. I'm going to try and make this summer not boring. Ever since I've been getting the summer vibes (end of the year tests, AC is installed, mosquitoes invade), I've been cleaning and appreciating school more, because my teachers are nice and I get to see my friends every day. This summer I'm going to try and teach myself the basics of the piano. The library never fails to provide the right books. I'm also going to try and be active, advance more in my Italian, paint my nails differently each week, and figuratively scarf down as many books as I can.

When it's summer, I can read books until 5am everyday if I want to. Plus there can be sleepovers and camping and no homework for two and a half months (for me). School doesn't end for me until June 11th, and the day after I have the Washington D.C. trip with my orchestra for four days and three nights. Doesn't that seem fun? Months ago I didn't know if I was going and I didn't feel that excited about it, but now I'm plenty excited.

Lately I've been not that busy. This weekend dragged on pretty well. In almost all of my classes at school we're starting end of the year tests. Which reminds me...I should study especially for math...

The other day I was looking for something to wear, and I saw Kelly's cute, big black and white checkered hoodie. Of course it's too hot for that, but it is so SOFT. And I like how the sleeves and hoodie are big and baggy. So, I have decided to save my money to buy a green and white striped hoodie. I feel like it would be totally worth it. :)

One of my goals this summer is to start blogging again, at least once a week. So tune in next time on my blog. That means you, Amy!

Adventure with Daddy

2010-02-28T19:29:00.001-08:00

Oh my gosh, so today Heidi, Kelly, and I went on an adventure with Daddy to Menomonee Falls! We visited Moma at Cracker Barrel, and then went to an AWESOME arts and crafts shop - it was bigger and greater than Hobby Lobby! We were in the same aisle most of the time, and we got a bunch of neato stuff. And guess what? I got an ink pen! With a jar of ink and a really cool quill! Isn't that SPECTACULAR? See for yourself:

It's so awesome. At the store they had more ink colors and stuff, and it looked real cool. Heidi and I are writing letters back and forth, and it's pretty sweet. I'm from Westchester, and she's from Yorkshire. THIS IS SO FUN!

How was your weekend?

Chess

2010-02-26T18:15:00.000-08:00

Chess is the best. Have a good weekend, everyone!

Recently

2010-02-06T10:07:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody! I've kind of been neglecting my blog for a while, so I thought that I would post today.

Last week Heidi, Kelly, and watched Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes on Heidi's computer. One day we ate doughnuts while doing said activity.

I played with Barbies and dressed them as hobos.

Ooh, plus I took a bunch of cool pictures of Barbie shoes.

Ah, I'll never get tired of that. I'm going to the library now, I think. Have a good Saturday!

Questions...

2010-01-09T22:44:00.001-08:00

1. What are the names of all your pets (living)? Kiwi, Lola, and Elvis.
2. What are you wearing today? A worn, grey American flag T-shirt with jeans.
3. What’s for dinner? No idea. Taco dip!
4. What’s the last thing you bought? Um...I bought a Harry Potter poster, a new journal, a candle, and a cookies 'n cream Hershey bar.
5. What are you listening to right now? Kelly playing her gameboy (ding, ring, fwoop!), Daddy walking around (thump, thump), and my typing on the keyboard (clack, clack, clack).
6. What do you think about the person who tagged you? Heidi is a very nice and creative person.
7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be? Somewhere close to my family :)
8. One thing you wanna change about yourself? To not be a chubbers :/
9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go? ...Is my family coming with??
10. Which language do you want to learn? Italian.
11. What’s your favourite quote? One of them from a book: "I've seen you pull a rabbit out of your hat before, but this one took the cake." "What a delightfully mixed metaphor."
12 . Would you cook for me? Of course, Heidi!
13. What is the right way to avoid people who purposefully hurt you? "I punch 'em back!" ;)
14. What are you afraid of the most? Deep questions like, "Why are we here? What really happens after death?" If I ponder on the topic too long I start to feel depressed.
15. Who do you want to meet right now? Douglas Preston ^^
16. What is your favourite color? Green.
17. Give us 3 styling tips that work for you: ...
18. What is your dream job? Don't have one.
19. What’s your favorite magazine? I don't read magazines much, but my favorite is People.
20. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on? I'll have to muse on that a while.
21. What do you consider a fashion faux pas? ...
22. What's a little quirk of yours? Whenever I talk to a teacher or in front of a class [while sitting] I start swinging my feet, however small or big.
23. What brings a smile on your face instantly? A favorite part of a favorite book.
24. A word that you say a lot? "Sure."
25. What kind of haircut do you prefer? I like the weight and feel of my long hair.
26. What are you going to do after this? Sell Girlscout cookies.
27. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed? ...
28. What makes you go wild? ...
29. What are your favourite movies? Agh too many to count! I guess, above all, The Muppets Christmas Carol.
30. What inspires you? My aweosme, loving sisters.
31. What do your friends call you most commonly? Lilly, Waffle.
32. Would you prefer coffee or tea? Coffee.
33. Which other blogs do you love visiting? iRead, InABox, Word Gardening, ?blogblog?, krillkat, 1000 Awesome Things, Disapproving Rabbits, and Lola Everyday.
34. Favorite Dessert/Sweet? Cookies 'n Cream icecream.
35. How many tabs are turned on in your browser right now? One. Just blogger.
36. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought? 'My hair's not greasy now, but I'll wash it tomorrow...'
37. Favorite Season? Spring. Not too hot, not too cold. School is still in process, so there's something to do.
38. One wish that you really want to see it come true? ...
39. What breaks your heart? ...
40. What's one thing you really want to do in life? Be happy.
41. Do you like waffles? Yes, I do.

Update: Me

2010-01-02T12:08:00.000-08:00

(Picture taken yesterday, when my hair was mega wavy)

I pasted this off of Heidi's blog, and filled it out as directed ^^

Feeling: Tremendously content. It's still break, and I am completely comfortable in my pajama pants.

Loving: My new camera that I've been taking so many pictures with. It's so awesome, and takes amazing macro pictures. 8D

Reading: a few books at the same time. I recently went to the library and got heaps of books. I'm reading Tithe, A Study in Scarlet, The Last Wife of King Henry VIII, and The Da Vinci Code.

Wanting: to pet Lola at this very minute because she is so fuzzy. Ooh, I'll do that now! ^^

Dreaming: Of the time school starts again, so I can see my friends again and tackle-hug them and yelling in fake disbelief, "I haven't seen you in a YEAR!" XD

Having: a bag of cheese squares left over from our New Years Eve party. Yum!

Waiting: to watch more Pushing Daisies ;)

HOW ABOUT YOU? TAKE A PICTURE OF YOURSELF AND POST IT WITH YOUR UPDATE.

Pictures from the Krill's New Years Eve Party

2010-01-01T13:23:00.000-08:00

These are pictures from our New Years Eve party that I took with my new and awesome camera! We prepared food, ate food, pet Lola, played Wii, and all that good stuff!
Amy "canoeing" on Wii.

Heidi "canoeing" on Wii.

Lola ^^

Kelly and Lola.

Amy, Kelly, and Lola.

Food! Cheeses, chips, meat, shrimp, buns, pizza rolls, dip, and cheesy pigs in blankets!

Macro Meat!

Yum...

Amy being all tough opening the chips...

60 Shrimp!

Awesome close up of the cheese squares!

Cheese and crackers plate.

More shrimp!

Chips in spinach dip.

So, I ment to take a picture of my foot, but Kelly was in the background, hilariously...The pyramid of weeny roll ups!

Heidi was tyhe one in charge of the rolls.

Heidi making the weenies...

Close up of the cherries!

One of my favorite pictures; Heidi setting the rolls in rows and placing the last one. So cool!

My Current Playlist

2009-12-10T21:21:00.000-08:00

This is my playlist! It holds over 90 songs, and I've been working on it since last January. I keep on adding to my playlist to this day. The songs 80-94 are the ones that I've added in the last month, and I listen to them ALL THE TIME. Enjoy!

So Far...

2009-11-28T13:15:00.000-08:00

...I've celebrated Thanksgiving with my whole family, watched a horror movie, watched a comedy movie, watched an action movie, played a hilarious game, chilled with my sisters and brother, listened to my brother play The Entertainer on the piano, started on my Christmas list, finished reading two books, ate lots of food and pie, munched on two ice cream cones, and painted my nails. How's your weekend been goin' so far?

Good Mornin'!

2009-11-24T05:36:00.000-08:00

Good morning, everybody! The sun is rising right now, and it sure it beautiful! Have a great Tuesday!

New Moon

2009-11-19T16:54:00.000-08:00

I'm seeing the midnight showing of New Moon tonight, and I couldn't be more excited!

Like photography?

2009-11-14T14:45:00.000-08:00

Do you like photography or art? I found this really neato blog My Photo Collection, and it's really cool. Check it out.

Lilly thinks...

2009-11-12T14:04:00.000-08:00

...all the Krill sisters could try all coauthoring a blog together. What do you think?

Pictures I Heart

2009-10-30T20:43:00.000-07:00

These some pictures I really liked, and I thought I'd share with you.

"Yayyy!"

I want to sink my teeth into that!

*insert classy song here*
"There's no place to be...like Italy...buh dum duh dum...."

How can the sugar cubes look so classy, you say?

Who is this guy? And why is he shooshing?

Ah, smarty suckers. I remember them well.

"One man, one street."
Boy, he looks lonely!

WHO DONE IT?

Aw, cute scene.

I love their light dresses.

A lone little tasty cracker, on a lone ity bity plate....

Grandpa Cassette Tape, lecturing iPod about the old days.
I wonder where Uncle Walkman and Aunt CD player are....
Poor iPod.

Nice yellow thing going on.

Getting married, but still have awesome shoes.

Hee hee hee...
And you thought gnomes didn't travel!

"OH NO!!"

Aw ^^

Even if we were fingers we'd still be buddies ;0)

We caught you, Darth!

Adorable shoes!

Pft. Who wants a CELL PHONE when you can have this 'ol baby over here?

Good photo shot, Amelie.

Hee hee. -_-'

Haha. So that's it. I got all these pictures from We Heart It! Have a great Halloween, everybody!

Runway to the Sun

2009-10-25T12:21:00.000-07:00

Doesn't this look like a bridge going over to the sun? Wouldn't it be awesome to run down this thing? That would be SO cool! I would skip, do a few summer salts, then I'd jump in! 8D

That is, if the pier didn't fall from beneath me....

Panda Dog!

2009-10-24T15:06:00.000-07:00

OH MY GOSH it's a PANDA DOGGIE!!!

*squeal*

....just thought I'd share with everyone. Ain't he adorable??

^^

Naps are Awesome

2009-10-23T18:23:00.000-07:00

I took a nap earilier today. It was great. And now a little while later I went on the computer, and I Stumbled on something I found interesting on Stumble Upon. Here is proof that naps are awesome and are totally good for you. Just click on this link.

The wonders of stumbleupon.com...

Ghost Hunters - Real or Fake?

2009-10-21T18:43:00.000-07:00

So Moma, Kelly, and I were merrily watching the show Ghost Hunters on ScyFy. And Daddy is sitting on the back couch and basically says, "This show is so fake. You can tell by their tones of voices and how they act."

Well, having Ghost Hunters as one of my favorite TV shows, Daddy's comment really annoyed me. So I looked it up on none other than the Internet, to see if other people thought the same thing (no doubt they did, seeing as how this is a ghost show). So I typed in the Google search box: Is Ghost Hunters real or fake?

Of course, it came up with a ton of results. I clicked on a few, and found this one the most promising. Here's the link:

http://hollowhill.com/ghost-hunters-tv-show-fake/#5da9d

So I read the whole entire thing. They talked about the investigation during Halloween last year (which I recall seeing the rerun), and the facts they pointed out seemed acceptable and truthful. See for yourself.

In conclusion, Ghost Hunters IS real. Take that, Daddy!

Wings by Aprilynne Pike

2009-10-21T14:43:00.000-07:00

So I just finished reading a really good book, Wings, by Aprilynne Pike.

So way back when in March (of 2009) I found this really cool website Fantastic Fiction. -http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/ - It's a website that list new books that are coming out, and other bestsellers and popular books. So anyway, I clicked on the New Books button and was led to a page with a bunch of titles. And so I came across Wings. Of course the cover of the book got me - plus the little comment from Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight Series - so I clicked on the summary. This is what I got:

An extraordinary faerie tale of magic and mystery, romance and danger, described by Stephenie Meyer as 'a remarkable debut'. Laurel is an ordinary fifteen-year-old high school girl. But something incredible is happening to her. She is changing. Now Laurel is about to discover that a deep and powerful magic holds the key to her destiny.

O.O ~ Of course, now I had to get it! But it came out in May, a few months away. But still, when it DID come out, I didn't have any money to get it. And voila! My birthday was finally here on October 14th. So I got out my birthday list and wrote, at the top of the list, Wings (book, purple cover; found at Walmart).

And I GOT IT! So I read it like crazy, and four days afterwards I had finished the 290 paged novel. It was REALLY good.

Now, as I looked in the back of the book, I saw there was no preview for a sequel. Usually all books I read have previews for their next book in the series. I went on the computer to see if Pike is writing anything else - and Wings is a four book series! AWESOME!

(Kelly, my "hysteric" sister, is yelling and singing at me and says she's in withdrawal from the computer. Better let her on - she's starting to sing Christmas songs!)

Camp!!

2009-10-09T20:11:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I got back from 6th Grade Camp today! I slept over on Thursday and got back today. So cool!

I had 7 classes in all. There was Ecology, Photography, Fishing, Canoeing, GPSing, Wildlife, and Plants. I rocked at canoeing; the whole class had teams and we raced around a buoy and back to the shore. My friend and I won, with me in the front! Awesome.

I really liked Plants, though, because we got to smash leaves with hammers! It was awesome! We would lay the leaves under white cloth and then - SMASH! Hitting the hammer down, the chlorophyll in the leaves would burst out, leaving green and yellow and pink and purple and all the colors under the sun on the cloth, leaving awesome imprints on it! With color! You had to be there to see how sweet (not "sweet" as in "candy", but "sweet" as in "dude!") it was. I did hammer my fingers a bit, but no blood, no foul!

The best part was at night. When all the Day Campers left, all of the Night Campers (me and ma peeps) got to do awesome stuff. There was golf frisbee, wall climbing (the wall was huge!), and then I decided to do archery.

That's right, you heard me.
ARCHERY.
With REAL arrows and bows!
Not plastic!

I only got to try it once. Unfortunately, I wasn't the best (I sucked), but it was all in good fun.

An hour or so later we Night Campers sat around the giant fire pit with our SUPER AWESOME glow necklaces. Eli, our camp counselor, was really funny. He told lame jokes and stories. We then sang songs and acted out short skits. You just HAD to be there!

The skits were funny; like this one where there was this girl who kept on complementing all these other kids on their various articles of clothing. And it would always go like this:

"Darlllllling, where did you get those shoes?"
"Thanks, I got them from J.C. Penny!"

They would always say they got their thing from J.C. Penny. And at the end this kid came up to the girl and was said (seeming to be covering himself up):

"Can I have my clothes back?"
"Pft. Well, like, who are you?"
"My name's J.C. Penny."

OH MY GOSH I laughed so hard! That was my favorite of all the skits. You just had to be there.

The bunks we were assigned to annoyed me. All of my friends were in the same cabin together, and I had to be in one that didn't have any friends in it. Eh, I take that back. There was Marie, I guess. But other than that nobody I really liked. Our cabin's number was Fox 6. Isn't that funny? Fox 6? As in, the news channel? It was hilarious at the time.

In the morning we had to pack up. After that was finished with, we had breakfast and then the teachers gathered us up. They told us to basically shut up about what we did last night (more politely, though), and hide our glow sticks. They didn't want us to rub it in or show off how much fun we had.

But, of course, we couldn't help singing a bit (we sang and chanted like happy little campers) and taught all the Day Campers our songs. We were too happy to help bursting into to song; and trust me, that feeling's contagious.

After our next two classes and lunch all us campers met into some big empty lunchroom type area. The teachers handed out these half finished letters that we would send to our future 8th grade selves. You had to finish a sentence, basically. The letter was SO corny. Not even the good type of corny. 'How neat those classes were!' *makes gagging sounds* I tried to awesome the letter up, so future me would have something to look forward to.

The teachers and the campers then played a sort of Jeopardy type game. Yellow group *waves*, that's me, lost by -3 points. Other groups got worse, but it was fun nonetheless.

We then went home. Surprisingly, camp was great! And now I'm home ^^

Pictures I Like

2009-09-23T21:58:00.000-07:00

I typed the word 'beautiful' in the deviant art search box, and out of the results these were most of my favorites. :D

I decided to do this because Heidi told me to post something -anything- so I did. Here ya go!

Series I Want To Start

2009-09-12T21:21:00.000-07:00

Most of the books I want to get are not out yet, but here are some titles of the first book in a few series I'm thinking about reading.

The first title (left) is called Vampire Kisses. A vampire story in a series; I figured that I've already read a bunch of vampire books already, wouldn't hurt for another. And the summary:

Raven lives in "Dullsville," where nothing ever happens. Until now... The mansion on top of Benson Hill has been empty and boarded up for years. But a new family has moved in. A family that never ventures out during the day. Who are these creepy people- especially the handsome, dark, and elusive Alexander Sterling? Or rather, what are they? Could the town gossip actually be true? Are they vampires? Raven, who secretly covets a vampire kiss, both at risk of her own mortality and Alexander's loving trust, is dying to uncover the truth.

~ Now, I don't know about you, but that sounded very familiar.

Any who, the second title (bottom right) is called The City of Bones. It's part of a series also. I couldn't find a summary for this one, I just know that it's a fantasy, with lots of mythical creatures and stuff.

The third title (top right) is Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare. It's part of a series, too. And vampires are in it. I couldn't directly find the summary for this, and I'm not even sure what it's about that much. I saw the trailer for the movie. The movie is based off of the first three books in the series, and I thought it looked funny. (Shrug.) Why not give it a try?

I Am Happy Because...

2009-09-10T21:33:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! I am happy because school has turned out not as boring as I thought it would be. Plus the day goes faster. Which is pretty cool.

~Now, see what I just did there? I want you to do the same thing - whether you post it on your blog or just think about it. Ask yourself in a sentence (or two, or three...) what your happy about! If your not happy, then simply find something to be happy about. Good day to you all!

Happy Cello
Happy Backpack
Happy Books

Corn and Mumphy!

2009-09-05T16:53:00.000-07:00

Yeah!! So for dinner we're having corn on-the-cob with other delicious stuff, and I got to peel the corn!
I sat on the front porch, peeling away! I sang and whistled Mumphy, Sweeny Todd, and Pocahontas songs!! It was great! 8D

Hope everyone has a happy dinner wherever you are!

Busy, busy!

2009-09-03T00:00:00.000-07:00

Sorry I couldn't really post anything today. It's 2:01am. It's been very busy around here since school started. Tomorrow after school I just want to relax. Twenty minutes ago I finished one of my library books, and now I have to go back and get another one! I'll also try and catch up on my gaia and farm on facebook.

Anywho, I'm exhausted so good night to you all!

2009-09-01T18:07:00.000-07:00

The first day of school was great! A little boring; basically the teachers just gave us tours of the school and explained a lot of stuff involving the school and rules and whatnot.

Now I think I'll go to bed soon, after I chill with Katie, Heidi, Moma, and Kelly. (I wish you were here Amy!)

Buh bye for now!

Insert Birthday Theme Here

2009-08-31T15:26:00.000-07:00

HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY HEIDI! WE ALL LOVE YOU!

Happy Sunday!

2009-08-30T13:54:00.001-07:00

Happy Sunday everybody! The sun is shining and the sky is cloudless, not a bad day for swimming or hiking!

As for me, Heidi, Kelly and I had our "Happy Meal"! It was some sort of shrimp vegetable soup kinda thing. It tickled my taste buds and now I feel good.

Hope everyone's havin' a splendid afternoon! For our third day of "Happy Week" I'd like you all to get outside today and do something fun! Now, taking my own advice, I'm going to see a play with Heidi, Daddy, and Kelly! Buh bye for now!

Happy Meal!

2009-08-29T12:57:00.000-07:00

For our second day of "Happy Week" I'd like you to look at this picture of this "Happy Meal" from McDonald's. Why do you think it's called that? To make you happy, of course!

Now, today or tomorrow create a "Happy Meal" of your own. Not in the McDonald's sense, but make anything that'll tickle your taste buds! Invite a friend or two, so you can enjoy the meal together!

Be Happy!

2009-08-28T16:50:00.000-07:00

I have a poster in my room that I've had for years that says "Be Happy!" I think it's very cute. That is the theme for this week! You can also see I updated my blog to fit the theme. The panda is there because pandas make me happy! What makes you happy?

Here are some synonyms for our "Word of the Week":

~Happy. It means in high spirits; satisfied.

Synonyms: blessed, blest, blissful, blithe, can't complain, captivated, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, content, contented, convivial, delighted, ecstatic, elated, exultant, flying high, gay, glad, gleeful, gratified, intoxicated, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing, light, lively, looking good, merry, mirthful, on cloud nine, overjoyed, peaceful, peppy, perky, playful, pleasant, pleased, sparkling, sunny, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, up, upbeat, walking on air.

Who knew there were so many? Now go out and do something fun that'll make you happy; before your summer ends!

Top 14 Essential Beverages

2009-08-20T00:44:00.000-07:00

~So I was randomly Googling things and I chanced upon this interesting website about healthy stuff. More to be exact, it has the top healthy drinks for you. Right now I expect Kelly to be turning away in disgust from even the title, but Katie, Amy, and Heidi might find interesting. Well, at least Heidi will for sure. Have fun. CAUTION: This may get boring and if you're afraid of learning don't read this.

1) Milk

That's right. Even with millions of dollars in marketing money behind new-age drinks with names you can hardly pronounce, there's no denying the health value of good old milk. An all-around good source of energy and protein, milk is also bursting with bone-strengthening calcium that doctors call vital in preventing arthritis and osteoporosis. If your hands, joints, or even your teeth aren't as strong as you or your doctor would like them to be, it's hard to beat the instant calcium injection a daily glass of milk or two can provide!

2) Naked Juice

Naked Juice is a relatively new brand of all-natural fruit drinks that have no added sugar or health-killing preservatives. In recent years this wellness-enhancing drink has seen considerable notoriety, including being acquired by PepsiCo and sold to consumers at Starbucks locations. Many of its drinks are exceptionally high in immune system-aiding antioxidants, and with flavors ranging from berry blast to strawberry banana to pomegranate, virtually everyone is sure to find a Naked Juice they'll enjoy! Of course you could drink fresh fruit juice but that's no substitute for Naked Juice, which offers much more and shouldn't be overlooked.

3) Wine

Everyone knows the occasional glass of wine offers some health benefits, but there may be even more than we previously knew existed. An exciting study conducted by University Hospital of Zurich researchers has uncovered a potentially huge breakthrough in how moderate, mealtime alcohol consumption benefits our bodies. According to the study, wine consumed around mealtime "reduces the proliferation of smooth muscle cells (SMC) within the arteries. SMC growth is a key element in the development of atherosclerosis, which commonly leads to heart attacks and strokes." Now, clearly this isn't meant to endorse binge drinking or alcoholism, but it should give you one more reason to enjoy a casual wine with your supper!

4) Green Tea

Green tea is such a healthy drink that the Chinese have actually used it for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. And far from being a cultural superstition or affectation, hard evidence is showing why green tea relied on for so long. A 1994 study by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute displayed a clear link between green tea consumption and a lower risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by as much as 60 percent! Other researchers have identified links between green tea consumption and slowed growth of malignant cancer cells. Clearly, this is one beverage you should chug down as often as possible!

5) Ginkgo Biloba Tea

Long hailed as a potent health-boosting supplement, Ginkgo can now be consumed in tea form! Health benefits to drinkers include improved memory due to an increase of blood flow to the brain, which has been proven to take place by controlled, double-blind tests. More oxygen to the brain offers many other benefits, including greater ability to focus, a longer attention span, and the overall feeling that you are more awake than normal

6) Pomegranate Juice

For many years, pomegranate juice was the "dirty little secret" of the healthy beverage realm: it has many health benefits to offer, but few people following through and reaping them. Recently, that's all changed with a number of magazine articles and press coverage about just how healthy - and delicious - pomegranate juice is. The primary health benefit is a significant - up to 40 percent - increase in the output of blood from your heart to the rest of your body. Since this is one of the most fundamental bodily functions that takes place, a boost here effectively boosts almost everything else a person could do!

7) Whey Protein Shakes

A longtime favorite of bodybuilders, whey or soy protein shakes can be tastily enjoyed by anyone! The Internet is literally bursting with recipes, including chocolate peanut butter and strawberry banana, of the different shakes you can make with your favorite powdered protein and common household food items. The best thing about whey protein shakes, though, is that whey penetrates through to your bloodstream faster than any other protein does. So if you're looking for a nice jolt that'll take effect within the hour, a nice, cold whey protein shake could be right up your alley!

8) Orange-Mint Iced Tea

If you already like iced tea, why not rocket its health boosting properties into the stratosphere with this ultra-healthy recipe?

6 tea bags
2 tablespoons sugar
12 sprigs of fresh mint, divided
1 1/4 cups orange juice
juice of 1/2 lemon or lime
1/2 lemon, sliced
1/2 orange, seeded and sliced

All the fruit and citrus in this drink will pack a decisive knockout punch to any cold bugs or viruses that dare to challenge your immune system. For more details on preparing it, see the following link.

9) Water

It seems obvious, but the fact is, too many of us drink tragically little water relative to how important it is to our bodily functioning. The health benefits of water are staggering in number, including cleaner screen, improved digestion, better hydration, enhanced alkaline retention, reduction of headaches, and much, much more. Still not convinced that water is absolutely vital to your quest for ideal health? Consider this:

Bone is 22 percent water
The brain is 74 percent water
Muscles are 75 percent water
Blood is 83 percent water

10) Cranberry Juice

If tart yet delicious red fruits are a guilty pleasure of yours, cranberry juice is one you can feel a little less guilty about! Among its many immune system fortifying properties are the prevention of urinary tract infections and respiratory infections, the delay of ear infections, and a special strain that stops bacteria from sticking to red blood cells. According to one study, "it seemed that the juice inhibited the bacteria's pili, the hair-like structures that allow them to adhere to surfaces. The juice had no effect on strains of Haemophilus influenzae that lacked pili."

So if you like cranberries, drink up!

11) Orange Juice

Another time-tested favorite, orange juice is positively packed with citrus and beneficial acids that protect your immune system like an alligator-filled mote around an ancient castle. The health benefits of orange juice are magnified when you drink it while healthy, as the vitamins and minerals can burrow deep into your bloodstream without having a cold or stomach bug to deal with. Not coincidentally, this greatly reduces your chances of getting sick with one of those things!

12) Ginger Ale

We know what you're thinking. "What the heck is a soda doing on this list?!" But believe it or not, ginger ale actually has several important health benefits! For one, there's almost nothing better to drink if your stomach is upset or you're having trouble digesting food. Additionally, the ginger in ginger ale has natural and strong anti-inflammatory properties, a major benefit to anyone with arthritis or chronic muscle pain. If you're looking to drink healthy but would rather ease into the process than drastically change your intake overnight, ginger ale might be worth a shot!

13) Vitamin Water

Offering proof that a mass-market drink available in gas stations can, indeed, be healthy, Vitamin Water is a shining example of a drink that's both tasty and healthy. It's available in about a dozen flavors (from fruit punch to grape to green tea) and each flavor packs a different medley of vitamins and minerals. Prepare for an intense yet delicious surge of Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Taurine, Calcium, and Lutein, depending on the flavor you choose!

14) True Lemon

Everybody loves lemonade, but not every mouth-watering glass of it was created equally. Most of the store-bought mixes you buy are packed with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup. Yikes! Fortunately, there is an alternative: True Lemon, a lemonade drink with 0 calories, 0g of carbs, no sugar or artificial sweeteners, and absolutely no preservatives or sodium. If you want to keep the familiar yummy taste of lemonade as you drink healthier, this is definitely the way to go!

~Pretty cool, eh? Note that milk is #1 and water was at #9. Hope you found that interesting. I copied and pasted this straight off of the website, so here is the exact link if you want to learn more:

http://www.docshop.com/2008/05/17/14-essential-beverages-drinking-to-a-healthier-you/

Now, tell Lilly what you all learned!

Thingy-ma-Bobber

2009-08-17T16:59:00.000-07:00

This is a little thingy-ma-bobber that I copied off of Word Gardening/Heidi's blog:

...

Feeling: bored. I want to spend some more time with my family; summer's almost over, folks!

Loving: my stuffed animals, blanket, and oh so comfortable bed.

Reading: Brimstone

Wanting: to make a mix CD with chosen songs from my playlist on it.

Dreaming: going back to school; hugging and tackling my friends.

Having: naps, computer-izing, snackies.

Waiting: for summer to be over patiently; I'm in no hurry.

What about you?
Fill this out in your blog and post it.

What a Strange Dream

2009-07-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

So I had a dream that I was at my last day of school. For some reason I was in fourth grade again, and the whole grade was doing yoga in the field at Rossman. It was weird.
The scene changed. I was at Alex's house, I touched some wall in her garden and the frost on it burned my hand. It's summer. I remember that dream-me had recently just taken a bath so I was sparkly clean and wearing a bathrobe, hair still wet. On the side of Alex's house she has a small hill going down, but when I looked more closely the hill seemed to go down forever and ever into a black abyss. I then slipped in mud; the hill was full of it. I was sliding far down, and then I finally dug my heels into the mud and stopped. I remember me thinking that since I was mostly dirty already I should just roll around and get the rest of myself muddy because there was no point. I was mad because taking a bath had been useless.
Far up, I saw a turkey on the top of the hill. It had this little computerized tag underneath it saying, "Brown Friendly Turkey, $200". It crowed down to me, and I understood it saying something along the lines that it wanted to be my friend.
I attempted to climb the hill, but didn't get so far; the mud was cold and slippery. Then Heidi appeared and said, "C' mon Lilly, you can do it! You're on Heidi's Exercise Program!" I'm almost there when I fall to my doom, falling down and down and down and then no more.
Dream-me woke up in the exact same place I was before, hanging onto the cliff ledge. I asked Heidi in confusion, "B-but I thought this was real life, I thought I had died!" Dream-Heidi laughed. "Lilly, this isn't real life! You're in a video game!" And to prove it, she pointed above my head. It said in bold, green letters "2 Lives".

And then I woke up. It was 8:06am. I laughed a little. I dreamed about Alex's house I guess because Alex was moving to Chicago soon, and I've know them living in that house for a long time. And I dreamed about the "Brown Friendly Turkey" because yesterday Heidi was pestering me about playing on Farmville, a game on facebook, and she said I could buy animals, too. I had just happened to look at a turkey when browsing through the animals. What a weird dream.

Things I am not allowed to do at Hogwarts

2009-07-21T10:40:00.000-07:00

About 20 things you are not allowed to do at Hogwarts.

1. I will not dress up as Voldemort for Halloween.
2. I will not wear my DEATH EATER AND PROUD OF IT! shirt to school.
3. I am not allowed to reenact famous battles of the Revolutionary War in the charms corridor.
4. I will not tell the first years that Professor Snape is the Voice of God.
5. I will not use Umbridge’s quill to write “I told you I was hardcore”.
6. Polishing my wand in the common room is acceptable. “Polishing my wand” in the common room is not.
7. When fighting Death Eaters in the annual June battle of Good v. Evil, I
will not lift my wand skyward and shout “There can be only ONE!”.
8. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a fifth house at Hogwarts.
And I am not a member of that house, nor am I its founder.
9. I will not refer to the Accio charm as “The Force”.
10. If asked in class what the Avada Kedavra curse does, yelling “It Does
DEATH!!!” may be correct but it is not the manner in which one should
answer.
11. If the thought of a spell makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it.
12. Albus Dumbledore is not my personal Jesus.
13. I will not, under any circumstances, ask Harry Potter who died and made him boss.
14. I will not give Hagrid Pokemon cards and convince him they are real animals.
15. I will never ask Harry if his scar senses are tingling.
16. I will not start food fights in the Great Hall.
17. I will not scare the Arithmancy students with my Calculus book.
18. “To conquer the earth with an army of flying monkeys” is not an appropriote career choice.
19. I will not sing “We’re off to see the wizard” when sent to the Headmaster’s office.
20. It is not necessary to yell “Burn!” everytime Snape takes points from Gryffindor.

If you want to look at more look it up on Google.

-Blank-

2009-07-19T13:08:00.000-07:00

I just wanna say that I have nothing whatsoever to blog about. A person (not giving any names here) keeps pestering me about writing on my blog. Yes, you know who you are. Anyway, I don't think I have much to say other than I have nothing to write about. This makes this post quite pointless, doesn't it? I know it does. Heidi is like, "Caughtchya!" about writing in my blog just now. I gave her a look and she says, "It's not about hating me, is it?" Nope. It's about NOTHING. I blog when I have something to say, and right now I can't think of anything except for the fact that everyone in this house is doing nothing interesting besides being lazy! They're either reading, on the computer, eating, or sleeping. Glad to know, isn't it?

Harry Potter Midnight Showing

2009-07-15T13:50:00.000-07:00

I saw the midnight showing of Harry Potter last night; it was awesome and hilarious!!! I figured it would be all serious and stuff because of the last movie and the whole "there's a war coming" business, but besides some serious stuff and sad stuff it was actually very funny. Once the movie was over at 3am last night I just wanted to watch it again! I hope one of my friends invites me to see it with them this weekend or something. My favorite part was when Harry had the Felix Felicis. Ah, so funny! Can't wait for the DVD to come out!

Websites

2009-07-12T14:17:00.001-07:00

Since I'm bored and promised to write a new post I decided I'd make a list. Yes, a list. of every website I've ever been to (more than once). Here it goes:

buildabear.com (awesome games), youtube.com(almost daily), dollwizard.com, myspace.com, google.com (I love googiling), fanfiction.net, imdb.com, wikipedia.com (awesome website, second to google), facebook.com (daily), mibba.com, hotmail.com (daily), gaiaonline.com (daily), stepheniemeyer.com (sometimes), blogger.com, and...I can't think of any more, really.

Well that's a lot of websites! And yet, so little compared to the whole internet. I havn't been to build-a-bear in a while so I'll go there and play some games. Buh bye for now!

Reincarnation

2009-07-11T08:39:00.000-07:00

So Wednesday night at around 2am I finished the book Reincarnation. The book was awesome; very well done with a good plot and characters. I especially liked how it all came together in the end. That's my opinion, and right now Heidi is reading it so I'll see what she thinks about it.
Once I was finished with that book I went to Heidi's book pile and went to the next book in the stack that seemed interesting. It's called The Secret of Lost Things. I'm on chapter four.

Vienna

2009-07-08T18:13:00.000-07:00

So I didn't do this with an ipod, but I just picked songs on my playlist at random. Here it goes...

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY:

The boys are too refined.

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?

Fat (what?!)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

Inner Glow (that's cool; song by Blue October)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?

Love you much better.

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?

Fairy Tale

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?

Crazy (Mwahaha)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?

Stacy's mom

WHAT IS 2+2?

Poker Face

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?

Medicine Men

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

Quiet Mind

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

Sweet Balad

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

Blue

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

You Make Me Smile (Blue October)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

Halo (haha sweet)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

The Stoop (Little Jackie; oh my gosh I totally will play it at my wedding!)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

We've Only Just Begun (if I were alive I'd be creeped out!)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?

Uh-Huh

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?

You are the moon!!! (I probably sound insane haha)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

Wild Child

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?

Here Without You

HOW WILL YOU DIE?

Mr. Lonely

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?

White and Nerdy (it totally does)

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?

The Longest Time

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?

Our Song

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?

Break the Sky

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?

Wine Red

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?

I want it that way

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?

Blue Velvet

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?

Vienna

The Bachelor's Cat

2009-07-07T00:11:00.000-07:00

So Amy and Heidi went to the library and got stacks of awesome books (oh how I envy them), which I read the backs of. Heidi had this book called The Bachelors Cat, and it's the story of a romantic and difficult bachelor that found a stray cat and how that cat helped the bachelor find love.
It was a really cute story, I found myself laughing a little and smiling at certain points. I started it at around...about 12:30am-ish, and ended at 1:58am, which was...exactly twenty minutes ago (it's 2:18am). Staying up late is fun, don't you think? Anyway, it wasn't like the book was super long and I'm like a super fast reader, the book was...*checks back of book*...only 120 pages long, so about half of the first Harry Potter book kinda.
Anywho, Heidi has the book lying around, and everyone who happens to be following me can read it (and you should, it's a great story), even Katie, who can read it maybe on Friday. So...yep. All I gotta say for now.
Tomorrow I'll start this other book of Heidi's, Reincarnation.

What have I learned in summer school this week?

2009-06-26T08:47:00.000-07:00

So I have finished my first week of summer school. Now, what did I learn in orchestra this first week?
Well, I learned how to adjust a cello to my height. I know how to hold a bow properly, and I don't really get why people say it takes years to practice that. I'm comfortable with the way I hold it, so that must mean I'm doing something wrong.
On Wednesday I learned the strings on a cello are ADGC. My cello buddy and I were making up little things to stand for them so we didn't forget. One of the was Apricots Dance Great Cellos, and another Apples Don't Get Cancer. The next day we learned the notes on the D string. If you put four fingers on the D string it's G, if you put three fingers it's F, if you put one finger it's E, and no fingers is just D. And now, this morning I learned the notes on string A. With four fingers it's D, three fingers C, and one finger is...um...B! Right, B. And no fingers at all is just A. I think that when you hold down a string and play by yourself it makes a horrible screeching sound, or sometimes no sound at all. But when you play with the whole orchestra it sounds very pretty.
I am proud to say that I can play Mary had a Little Lamb or 'Rolling Along' on the cello and other little songs. I don't have them memorized, but I can play with the book.

Cool Rhymes With The Word 'Cello':
A cello can't bellow. Me and my fellow play the cello. If you play the cello you gotta be mellow. I wore yellow when I played the cello. Don't get any jello on that cello! Always say hello when you play the cello!
Hee hee. Those are fun!

Different Test Results

2009-06-26T08:21:00.000-07:00

So I retook the quizy thingy, this time the right quiz. And I got....

You are an
ENFJ : Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging. (hm, in both results I got 'feeling' and 'judging')
Warm, empathetic, responsive and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs and motivation of others. Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfil their potential. May act as catalysts for individual and group growth. Loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. Sociable, faciliate otheres in a group, and provide inspiring leadership. (I think this profile explains me better.) ENFJs are the benevolent 'pedagogues' of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. Many ENFJs have tremendous power to manipulate others with their phenomenal interpersonal skills and unique salesmanship. But it's usually not meant as manipulation -- ENFJs generally believe in their dreams, and see themselves as helpers and enablers, which they usually are. ENFJs are global learners. They see the big picture. The ENFJs focus is expansive. Some can juggle an amazing number of responsibilities or projects simultaneously. Many ENFJs have tremendous entrepreneurial ability.

TRADEMARK: "The first shall be last" (I don't really know what this means, but it sounds cool)

Famous ENFJs:
David, King of Israel
U.S. Presidents:
Abraham Lincoln,
Ronald Reagan,
Barack Obama. (sweetness!!!! I got Abraham Lincoln AND Barack Obama!!! Mwahahahaha!!!!)

William Cullen Bryant, poet
Abraham Maslow, psychologist and proponent of self-actualization
Ross Perot
Sean Connery
Matthew McConaughey (The Wedding Planner)
Pete Sampras, Tennis Champion
Lauren Graham ("Gilmore Girls")
Ben Affleck (The Sum Of All Fears)
John Cusack (High Fidelity) (cool!)
Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean) (in yo face Kelly!)
Oprah Winfrey (haha)
Bob Saget (How I Met Your Mother) (interesting)

Careers:
-Advertising account executive
-Magazine editor
-Therapist
-Career or outplacement counselor
-Corporate trainer
-Bilingual education teacher
-College professior: humanities
-Fund raiser
-TV producer
-Occupational therapist
-Holistic health practitioner
-Marketing executive
-Writer / journalist
-Social worker
-Human Resources professional

Personality Quiz

2009-06-25T15:49:00.000-07:00

So I took it, and I got: ISFJ. Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging.

ISFJs generally have the following traits:
-Large, rich inner store of information which they gather about people
-Highly observant and aware of people's feelings and reactions
-Excellent memory for details which are important to them (like every little detail about socail studies I remember)
-Very in-tune with their surroundings - excellent sense of space and function
-Can be depended on to follow things through to completion
-Will work long and hard to see that jobs get done (if we're talking about homework that I just want to get done, then no)
-Stable, practical, down-to-earth - they dislike working with theory and abstract thought (that is half true)
-Dislike doing things which don't make sense to them (like algebra! haha just kidding)
-Value security, tradition, and peaceful living
-Service-oriented: focused on what people need and want
-Kind and considerate
-Likely to put others' needs above their own
-Learn best with hands-on training
-creating structure and order
-Take their responsibilities seriously (not all the time)
-Extremely uncomfortable with conflict and confrontation (I hate confrontation!)

While their work ethic is high on the ISFJ priority list (not true), their families are the centers of their lives (very true). ISFJs are extremely warm and demonstrative within the family circle--and often possessive of their loved ones, as well. When these include Es who want to socialize with the rest of the world, or self-contained ITs, the ISFJ must learn to adjust to these behaviors and not interpret them as rejection. Being SJs, they place a strong emphasis on conventional behavior.
Like most IS, ISFJs have a few, close friends. They are extremely loyal to these, and are ready to provide emotional and practical support at a moment's notice. (However, like most Fs they hate confrontation; if you get into a fight, don't expect them to jump in after you. You can count on them, however, run and get the nearest authority figure.) Unlike with EPs, the older the friendship is, the more an ISFJ will value it.

Possible Career Paths for the ISFJ:
-Interior Decorators
-Designers
-Nurses
-Administrators and Managers
-Administrative Assistants
-Child Care / Early Childhood Development
-Social Work / Counselors (no way!)
-Paralegals
-Clergy / Religious Workers
-Office Managers
-Shopkeepers
-Bookkeepers (oooooh I wanna be that!)
-Home Economics

Famous ISFJs:
St. Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesus)
Louisa May Alcott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (I know him! He's a famous peot.)
Queen Elizabeth II of England (Huh. Which one was she again?)
Robert E. Lee
Queen Mary I ("Bloody Mary") of England (interesting...I've heard legends about her.)

Summer School Tomorrow

2009-06-21T21:55:00.000-07:00

Yeah, summer school's tomorrow. This will be interesting. For the past week or two I've been waking up at 1pm or later, and I don't know how my body will react to waking up hours prior. So anyway, I have no idea how to play a cello. Kinda, I know that you hold the neck part of it with your left hand and the bow with the right. That's it. Then I learned in Music how to write notes, and I know how to play a recorder with notes. I hope I don't learn too slow, because Mrs. Johnnson, my fifth grade Music teacher, would always get real annoyed when a kid didn't learn something right away. I hope Mr. Huckstep isn't like that.
Right now Kelly wants me to join this thing, so I'll go to that in a minute then go to bed. I gotta get up early tomorrow. Even though I'd rather stay up and watch a movie with Amy, Kelly, and Heidi I can't exactly stay up 'til 3am. Well, I can, but not without bad consequences.
So...good night then!!!

Summer is Here...

2009-06-19T16:00:00.000-07:00

So nothing special is going on. I go on gaiaonline.com more, 'cuz Kelly figured out how to turn my gaia back into a human. A few months ago my gaia took this potion and turned into a vampire. I didn't like it, because it made her look evil. I didn't know how to get rid of it, so I just put a giant smiley face mask on it. It looked rather stupid, so I just stopped going on gaia all together. But now I can again because my gaia is all cute and human again.
Amy started this 2,000 piece Las Vegas puzzle a few days ago, and we were working really hard on it yesterday. We also put the air conditionar in, for now it is summer and summer has quite warm weather.
Along with summer comes boredom. With no school or activities what are we supposed to do? I wanna chill with Katie, Amy, Heidi, Kelly, and Danny but we're not doing anything!!!! Seriously, I don't want to keep on doing this all summer. Or maybe it's what I'm not doing.
Some things to look forward to: Summer school. I'm taking orchestra, going to learn cello because I have no idea how to read music notes (well, I do, but not very well and not in the cello sense). It starts June 22nd-July 17th. Speaking of July 17th - the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! It was supposed to be in November, but it was moved by the coming of the popular book and now movie, Twilight. Anyway, I'm excited about that. Another thing: The second season of Pushing Daisies. It's a real cool show. Yesterday Amy, Heidi, Kelly, and I watched the last three episodes of season one. The last few episodes were very funny (indeed, Heidi went into laughing fits and cried sometimes), which is why I like the show so much. It left with a sorta cliff hanger, and I want to see what happens in the next season. I also get to look forward to my sixth grade year at Central Middle School next year. And lastly, in November the sequel to Twilight, New Moon, will come out; which I'm sure Kelly will be looking forward to 24/7.
As you can see, this summer has only just begun. *Insert that creepy song "We've Only Just Begun" right here*

Our segment today: Stupid Computer Journals

2009-06-17T19:17:00.000-07:00

Sorry if I havn't been putting posts up. I just don't like 'computer journals' that much. Also, in normal journals you can draw silly pictures and doodles and glue and tape stuff in and WRITE in them, as in, not TYPING. It's the satisfaction of turning the pages of blank paper, and filling them with memories. Not just memories of the good times you had, but the memories of your grammar getting better, and your spelling and your handwriting improving. In the future when you look at your journals you're going to cherish them and look through them, remembering the good times. The journal is a part of YOU. Journals are something to write in at the end of a fun, exciting day and reliving it again by writing them down. That's why I don't have a LiveJournal, or really like to write on my Blog that much or like having a computer journal in general. I now and then write litle bits in blogger, and I would find it fun to put pictures up. Thus concluding our segment of Stupid Computer Journals.

Sincerely,
Lilly

P.S. As you can see, in stupid computer journals you can't actually sign your signature.
P.S.S. This does not offend blogger or Livejournal; just ta let ya know.
P.S.S.S. Hey, maybe I'll make this a picture Blog.
P.S.S.S.S. Not like I'll have much to talk about.
P.S.S.S.S.S. I'll try to write more, I just wanted you to understand. I love blogging and following my sisters, and they probably want to do the same to me. Well, some maybe *glares at Kelly who still hasn't raised her hand*

THE DEVOURING

2009-06-08T13:59:00.000-07:00

Yesterday it took me a little over six hours to read The Devouring (4pm-11pm minus 1hr for bathroom brakes and times I got distracted by people). It wasn't like I was obsessed with the book or anything (amazing book, by the way), I just wanted to set a cool record. So my sistas (Heidi and Amy) havn't read yet; but the will. YOU HEAR THAT? YOU'RE GONNA READ THAT BOOK. Yeah, I know you're reading this, Heidi.

Kereoke Time!!

2009-06-07T09:59:00.000-07:00

Okaly dokely then. When I grow up I want a kereoke, then I can sing all the songs I want. Heidi will be my singing buddy, and Kelly can come in for a trio when she's not being so wimpy.
At this graduation yesterday no one was singing kereoke so Heidi and I sang Ain't No Mountain High Enough, which was quite ridiculous really. Not only had I never heard the song before, but niether has Heidi. So we tried to sing it, but we stumbled at a bunch of parts and I was giggling a lot. The point was that we got other people to kereoke, too. We also sang Livin' La Vida Loca, which I knew way better, and then we sang YMCA which I knew word for word. And when this guy was singing this Joeseph song Kelly, Heidi, Jessie, and I were singing the background sounds the kids in the musical did and the DJ dude had us all take some mikes and go up there and do that. So much fun! After that I think Kelly got over the whole I-don't-want-to-sing-because-I'll-make-a-fool-out-of-myself thing because then she wanted to sing the song Hey Jude with us. So Heidi, Kelly, and I sang our last song. Good ending song, don't you think?
So anywho.....I had TONS of fun with that. Thus concluding this segment of "Kereoke Time!!"

THIS IS A TEST.

2009-06-06T22:20:00.000-07:00

If you read my blogs, raise your hand please!!! Okaaaay...how 'bout you comment instead?

Bloggering about BOB.

2009-06-04T16:28:00.000-07:00

Well I might as well start with this bloggering stuff.
Today was the final competition of B.O.B. (Battle Of the Books). I wasn't in it, of course. I got kicked out in the third round. Anyway, there was a team from each homeroom that each had to answer the same 30 questions of the 30 books they've read. I found it most annoying when the team was struggling to find an answer when I knew what it was. It's so obvious!! I screamed in my head. I was making all these crazy hand motions at some points, and so were some of the other kids sitting next to me, whispering to their buddies. It was against the rules to give the teams hints of what the answer is, so we had to keep quiet. But after each question the BOB teams got wrong I would mutter to my friend Liz next to me what it was, and we would both nod in agreement. Each time the teams would be asked the third question ("In what book was a window shutter an important hiding place?") they always said "Anne Frank: Life in hiding." BRRRT! Wrong! Right away I knew the answer was "Daughter of Liberty", but of course the kids in the team can't read minds.
After the first two teams had gone, there was a sort of intermission. Mrs. Pyzak got up and announced we were doing the "Toody Ta" to get our wiggles out. It was embarrasing to put my knees together, put my butt up, and stick my tongue out. One part of my mind whispered, "You look like an idiot!" But I ignored it, and was laughing, enjoying myself. Smiling brightly, I sat down after that and we continued the competition.

2009-06-03T20:24:00.000-07:00

I don't really know what this BLOG stuff is all about, but my sisters are obsessed with it so I might as well. I probably have no friends ACCEPT them, actually, so why am I talking in general like this? Hey Amy, Heidi, Kelly, and maybe soon Katie! PREPARE TO BE FOLLOWED. Haha. Look at me, laughing at my own jokes. This blog stuff is going to be Fun!!