So, I may sound like a fatty when you read this but this week I went out to eat, which is pretty rare in my house. Anyway, so we went out to eat 4 times and three out of the four were really good. So if you ever are thinking about what to eat and you live in Utah then you can go to these places.

1. Gabor Brother's - It's this little place in a location where you would least expect it to be. They have pizza there, salads, soups, burgers... pretty much everything. I've been there three times and every single time I've really enjoyed it. I think there best thing on the menu (I haven't even tried everything though) would be there pizza's hands down. It doesn't matter which pizza you get though because they're all amazing. Now, when we were waiting for our food to come out my mom decided to get an appetizer for all of us and she got the cheesy bread. The first one was burnt and our waitress discounted like 5 bucks off of our ticket (which wasn't much to begin with the total was around 15 dollars). She gave us another cheesy bread and it was so good. So out of all the pizza places I've been to, this is the #1 best place to go.... I think it even beats The Pie.

2. Tucanos- Now, I wouldn't recommend this for just a casual dinner because it's a little pricy, it's more of a look nice and have a nice fancy dinner kind of place. The cool thing about it though is that you can pig out and still have a great time because everyone else there is too. You can have the salad bar, which is amazing because there are so many varieties. Then, they main thing is the endless types of meats. It just keeps coming and coming and when you've had enough you flip over this little thingy (I don't know what it's called) and they know not to give you anymore, you can still flip it back if you want ha. My favorite is their grilled pineapple, it's delicious my dad and I just love that stuff, my mom's favorite however is the chicken hearts. If you like that stuff and all go ahead and eat it but that is not my forte, so I don't eat it. This place is probably one of my favorite places to go and I would always recommend it for a date or just a special night. If you're vegetarian though I would go ha.

3. Noodles & CO. Okay so this is the place that wasn't very good, and I've never really had any issues with this place, except for a couple of things. Don't order their tofu... it's nasty and I like tofu, its super dry and the taste isn't great. I've also had some trouble with the employees, they don't do their job correctly and are rude sometimes. Now I wouldn't just stop going there, I'd go to a different location and I'd order something else off their menu. Still good just not as good as it could be because it has potential.

4. Zupas- The best soup, salad, and sandwich place you'll ever go. This would probably be more of a lunch place, but it's still good for dinner too. Their sandwiches are just to die for, they aren't dry, they have just the right flavor, and they give you just the right amount. My personal favorite is the cranberry turkey sandwich and the lobster bisque soup. MMM!... so good! Now if you not a fish person, get a different soup ha.

insperation(:

It may seem hard, and it might be crazy,

But when your dreams tend to be hazy,

You have to take a leap of faith.

You’ve got to stay strong,

And follow your heart,

But taking the first step

Is always the hard part.

You look left and you look right,

And you might have the excuse

Of being taken over by fright.

But don’t be scared no don’t panic,

Just take that leap of faith.

Start your life all fresh and new,

And let that faith carry you.

You’re not going to trip or fall,

Have confidence, be hopeful,

Stand strait, and be tall.

Life is going getting you down,

It wants to see your precious face frown.

But look below at life and laugh,

Just smile, go on your way

And don’t ever look back.

Don’t let yourself go,

No don’t make it complicated,

Because complication is your foe.

Fight through the obstacles,

And take your leap of faith.

I wrote that poem when I thought everything was over. Obviously it wasn’t and I just had to realize that for myself. I never knew life could get so difficult and confusing and I just wanted it all to end. I knew by problems weren’t going to change themselves and they would stay my problems till I dealt with them. I had to make hard choices, and it doesn’t always turn out the way you want it. Marilyn Monroe once said, “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” I love this quote and now I appreciate so much more now. Things did get better, amazingly better and I want you all to know that giving up shouldn’t even be a choice. Giving up is possibly one of the worst things you could ever do, you have to take your chances and at least one of those chances will make everything fall together in one piece.

“You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it.” –unknown. Whoever said this definitely knew what they were talking about. You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t strong enough, and by here I mean where you’re at in life. It may be tough and hard to go on, but deep down you know you’re going to make it and that everything will change for the better. I also recommend going to the website Pinterest.com ha ha, this is where I find all of my inspirational quotes, and boy, have they helped me!

I know they’re just quotes, but actually they are so much more than that. They can inspire and teach those of us who have been in tough situations. I’ve learned that I need to surround myself with positive people so that their energy rubs off onto me instead of that negative crappy stuff. If you need help, just remind yourself that it’s not the end of the world, not until December 21, but you know what I mean ha. Just make the needed changes in your life and I promise you will feel so much better about that choice you made.

quotes(:

I've been having a little trouble lately and I've been bored as well, so I've been looking up quotes on the internet and I'm going to share some of them with you, hope you like them.

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” -Dr. Suess  "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'" -Audrey Hepburn "Sometimes what you want isn't always what you get, but in the end what you get is so much better than what you wanted." -unknown "They say you are what you eat. That's funny, I don't recall eating a sexy beast today." -DdR "When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life." -Bob Marley "I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday." -unknown "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles." -Audrey Hepburn "Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." -Marilyn Monroe   "Stressed spelled backwards is desserts." -unknown "One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." -Winnie the pooh "Procrastinator? No. I save all of my homework until the last minute because then I'll be older, therefore more wise." -unknown. I love this one though because I can use this all the time now and my mom won't be able to argue about it ha ha.  I don't know what I would do without quotes, or the amazing people that actually said it because then I'd have to come up with my own things to say to make me feel better. They also help me get creative and put them all over my room so I can be more positive. I hope you liked them, and of course feel free to use them! That's what they're there for.

The cure(:

So lately I've been experiencing a ton of headaches like once everyday, and it's just so annoying as you can imagine. So I looked up online to see what I could do to get rid of these stubborn things.
How to get rid of your headaches (if you don't want to take pills)
1. Have someone massage your head or just put pressure on your head.
2. Try to relax and stay in a quiet room.
3. Yoga, meditation, aromatherapy are ways that can relieve stress.
4. Avoid slouching, and watch your posture.
5. Put ice on your neck, or forehead.
6. Drink fluids, and eat a snack (healthy, of course)

I found a lot of these to be very effective and I hope they can help you to (when you have a headache of course). These could also be very good habits to make so you won't get headaches in the first place.

My essay for English

Courage [Kuhr- ij]
Noun-
The ability to do something that frightens one.

 If you follow everyone else’s footsteps, then you are not showing courage. Doing what you think is right may be what everyone else thinks is wrong. It takes a great person to stand up for what they believe in, even if every single person in the world is sitting down staring at them in disgust. “Courage is doing what you think is right even if the odds of succeeding are against you.” Many characters in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee show what real courage is by fighting for what they believe in, the right thing, and they never sat down to join the others.

 "Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." Atticus Finch states. In the eyes of his children Atticus Finch was the best person in the world. He did everything to help his children, to help his community, and to help Tom Robinson. When the community was scared of the rabid dog, Tim Johnson, he shot the dog. He saved everyone from danger and showed that he wasn’t scared. The world is a bitter place and when the words, “#&(%^*-lover,” come out of the mouth of Francis, Atticus didn’t care because he was one. He didn’t care if people were black or white and that’s why people in the town of Maycomb, Alabama despised him so. He knew that there was nothing wrong with Tom Robinson or any other black person in the world, and that’s why he defended Tom, because he knew it was the right thing to do.

 “’Do you defend n******, Atticus?’ I asked him that evening.

 ‘Of course I do. Don’t say N*****, Scout. That’s common.’

 ‘ ‘s what everybody at school says.’

 ‘From now on it’ll be everybody less one-“’

 Atticus didn’t want his daughter disrespecting black people like everyone else had already done. He knew it was the appropriate thing to do by telling her to be different and not offend black people. They may have been hearing that word their whole lives, but that doesn’t mean black people necessarily enjoy being called that. People needed to learn that saying words like that were rude, they still are, and it needed to change, a change that was needed in their community. Atticus didn’t mind people saying that he defended black people because that’s what he was actually doing and he wanted everyone to know that. It was okay to defend Tom, but everyone said that it wasn’t supposed to be done because they were racist. Atticus was showing courage by standing up for Tom, he wasn’t afraid.

 Jem and Scout heard all the words of their neighbors. It bugged Scout at first until she sat down with her father and he explained to her not to take everything too badly, and also not to resolve something by beating people up. She then learned why her father had to defend Tom. Jem had to deal with the same exact things, but just in a different way. He had to help Scout, handle with all of her actions, and cooperate with the neighbors. He knew what his responsibilities were and did them without question. The children had to stay positive even if times were hard, but with that tough time they finally understood the lives of other people being judged. They learned to like the people who were misunderstood, even when no one knew why. They got to know the people for who they really were and they knew that understanding their lives was the correct thing to do. It was the right thing to do by showing everyone else that Tom, Boo, and other people that they weren’t bad, or strange.

 “’I wants to know why you bringin’ white chillun to n***** church.’

 They’s my comp’ny,’ said Calpurnia. Again I thought her voice was strange: she was talking like the rest of them.

 ‘Yeah, an’ I reckon you’s comp’ny at the Finch house durin’ the week.’

 A murmur ran through the crowd. ‘Don’t you fret,’ Calpurnia whispered to me, but the roses on her hat trembled indignantly.

 When Lula came up the pathway toward us Calpurnia said, ‘Stop right there, n*****.’”

 Calpurnia stood up to someone of her own race, because she wanted them to know that the children, Jem and Scout, were okay and weren’t going to do anything to them. She stayed strong in front of everyone in her church so they would be aware of what was going on. Calpurnia wanted blacks and whites to get along instead of fighting each other. Calpurnia taught herself how to speak, and act like the white people she was around all day to be accepted by them. Atticus didn’t care, they children didn’t care, but the people in the community did and she wanted to be known as normal in both environments. She worked hard, but when someone went against what she believed in she stood up in front of them and let them know how she felt. Not only did she do this, but she also raised the children, helping Atticus along the way.

 Mrs. Dubose an older lady in the community shows how she has remained to have courage. She was addicted to morphine, and her spirit showed how she remained strong throughout her fight. Miss Maudie showed what she believed in and let everyone know that she was against racism. “Miss Maudie’s voice was enough to shut anybody up.” Tom Robinson was convicted of a terrible crime, something he didn’t actually do. He fought so he would stay out of jail, and so he wouldn’t be known for such a terrible thing. Mayella Ewell, even if she was portrayed as a bad person, she showed courage too. She had to take care of her younger siblings without the help of a mother. Mayella also had to struggle with her father brutally beating her, but she didn’t tell a soul and stayed strong. Heck Tate and Judge Taylor show courage by helping Boo Radley, so he would be safe from harm and the wrong people. “Let the dead bury the dead.”

 To people all over the world who have read this book, Arthur (Boo) Radley is the character that shows the most courage. He dealt with people mocking him, making jokes about him, and not knowing his true personality. Nobody knew a lot about Boo, and most of them just assumed that he was a crazy person that stayed indoors at all times with no life. The truth about him though is that underneath all those accusations and lies, he was an amazing person. He was nice to everyone, he sewed up Jem’s pants that night of the fire, and gave Scout a blanket, and he saved the children’s lives, and he even helped them afterward. He was bold and dared to protect them when they were helpless. He was the one who proved that he could be more courageous than anyone else, he was a true hero and no one had any idea of what he was capable of.

 To Kill a Mockingbird teaches so much. It teaches you about racism, the lives of the depression, but even better, courage. It shows what people will do to save lives, help others, and act different for the good. The right thing may seem like the worst thing anyone could ever do to one person, but the best thing to another person. These people all succeeded in their own ways. When everyone put them down and shoved them to the ground they stayed up to help those in need, even when they didn’t need to. They wanted to, that’s what real courage is.

This week has been crazy! So we get back to school on Tuesday and stuff(thank goodness we didn't have to go back Monday) and we're assigned all this crappy homework. I don't think there is a single class I don't have homework in... in fact there isn't a class that I don't have homework in. Not to mention the end of the semester is super duper close and all of the teachers decided to give us as much homework as possible, and me being my busy self never ever have time to do homework and get a good nights rest. This whole week I've been going to bed super late. I hate it! Now I know I shouldn't have all of this negativity built up inside of me, but it's stressing me out big time. I'm a perfectionist, I have no clue where I got it, but if I don't have good grades in school I freak out. There's people that care too much about school, those that don't care, and then the people in between. Everyone wants to be successful, some people just don't show it as much. Here's some tips for people that want to be great students and do well in school, without making it you're entire life so you stress.

1. Limit the amount of extra curricular activities you have that make your life seem too hectic.
2. Check your grades constantly.
3. Don't ever procrastinate, even if you feel like it's better, it isn't.
4. Do your best.
5. Take time away from the computer, friends, video game, etc. to work on homework, but don't make it your whole life.

Making these tips into habits though is hard and you have to work at it. Everything doesn't just change over night, you've got to break your bad habits to make them into good ones.

2012, make it better!

I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life… like a lot… I’m talking a trillion mistakes that I’ll probably never ever be able to fix. I’m young though, I’m a teenager it’s kind of my obligation to make mistakes and learn from them so I won’t make them later on in life. It still doesn’t mean that I want to keep them in my head forever, I wish they could just go away and I could pretend that nothing even went on, but we all know that’s never going to happen because of guilt. Like I said though, we can learn from our mistakes so we wont do them again, we can make goals to stop it.

New Years Eve is the time where people make resolutions to change their lives and become a better person, goals to make the year ahead of them better than the one they’ve had to deal with for 365 days. Some of the information given below may be pointless to you, so you don’t have to read it, but after the list is done you can read again.

Mistakes I don’t want to go over:

1.     Wasting a kiss… yes, I have kissed someone… duh I’m a teenager.

2.     Falling apart from family members.

3.     Being lazy. (That’s a big one!)

4.     Not returning a phone call.

5.     Missing out on great opportunities.

6.     Telling secrets.

7.     Trying to grow up too soon.

8.     Sneaking out.

9.     Not leaving a party.

10.  Lying.

Why these things happened?

1.     Ummm… I’m not sure I want to give this information to the public ha ha.

2.     School, homework, friends, bad attitude.

3.     Not getting enough sleep, not seeing the point in doing something besides laying around all day.

4.     I was mad at the person.

5.     I thought I couldn’t handle it, didn’t believe in myself.

6.     Thought I could trust certain people, I have a big mouth, peer pressure.

7.     I’ve been told I look older than what I actually am and sometimes I think I can get away with more things because of that.

8.     Didn’t think my parents would have let me go, I like feeling rebellious.

9.     I didn’t want to leave my friends even if there were bad things going on.

10. I feel like people can’t handle the truth.

What can I do differently?

1.     Get to know someone better before hand.

2.     Don’t procrastinate, be positive, and spend more time with family.

3.     Going to bed earlier, just because there is a computer by me doesn’t mean I need to use it.

4.     Forgive and Forget.

5.     Believe that I can do anything.

6.     Don’t tell other secrets, or my own.

7.     Stay young… it’s better than being old ha ha.

8.     Ask.

9.     Call someone to pick me up if I feel uncomfortable.

10. Take chances and stop making up a long story. (Tell it how it went.)

I read something once that said writing down your mistake and evaluating it can help you to fix your mistakes. If you don’t write it down you won’t remember it because your brain stores thing and sometimes you can’t find what you’re looking for. Studies show that people who write down their goals are more likely to be successful than those who don’t. Write down everything, if you write an RSVP to someone you won’t forget it, if you say you’ll go to lunch with a friend you’re more likely to forget. Talk literally is cheap, writing isn’t.