12 days of Christmas

So, I had no idea what to get my mom for Christmas and I knew I owed her something better than just a book or a scarf or something. So I decided to do a 12 days of Christmas thing, before Christmas and I followed what the poem said, and in case you don't know the poem very well here it is:

On the first day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
A partridge in a pear tree. 

On the second day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the third day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the fourth day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Four calling birds, 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the fifth day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Five golden rings, 
Four calling birds, 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the sixth day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Six geese a-laying, 
Five golden rings, 
Four calling birds, 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the seventh day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Seven swans a-swimming, 
Six geese a-laying, 
Five golden rings, 
Four calling birds, 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the eighth day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Eight maids a-milking, 
Seven swans a-swimming, 
Six geese a-laying, 
Five golden rings, 
Four calling birds, 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the ninth day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Nine ladies dancing, 
Eight maids a-milking, 
Seven swans a-swimming, 
Six geese a-laying, 
Five golden rings, 
Four calling birds, 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the tenth day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Ten lords a-leaping, 
Nine ladies dancing, 
Eight maids a-milking, 
Seven swans a-swimming, 
Six geese a-laying, 
Five golden rings, 
Four calling birds, 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the eleventh day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Eleven pipers piping, 
Ten lords a-leaping, 
Nine ladies dancing, 
Eight maids a-milking, 
Seven swans a-swimming, 
Six geese a-laying, 
Five golden rings, 
Four calling birds, 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the twelfth day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me 
Twelve drummers drumming, 
Eleven pipers piping, 
Ten lords a-leaping, 
Nine ladies dancing, 
Eight maids a-milking, 
Seven swans a-swimming, 
Six geese a-laying, 
Five golden rings, 
Four calling birds, 
Three French hens, 
Two turtle doves, 
And a partridge in a pear tree! 

It's the longest song ever haha, but anyways in case you want some idea but can't afford to get an actually Partridge or a pear tree or six geese, then you can do these things. So on the first day I didn't really have anything so I gave my mom a rose instead, but you could also give them a pear or something like that. On the next day you can give them the candy turtles and doves and you have turtle doves ha. The 3rd day I gave my mom chicken in a biscuit, I know it's not a French Hen, but hey it's pretty close and she really likes those. The 4th day I'm going to give her a really annoying squeaking bird, because she likes thinks that make noise... I have no idea why. On the 5th day I went to amazon.com and bought her (with the help of my dad) a "gold" ring. It wasn't very expensive, and it's really cute. I haven't gotten everything yet so I don't really know what I'm going to do for the 6th day, I know that's no help to you. The 7 day I got her a swan necklace, and again really cheap but still good quality. On the 8th day I got her a stuffed cow, she could also get a goat or something too ... anything that's milkable. I got her a dancing game for the 9th day because she's trying to lose weight and I know she'll really like it. I have no idea what to do for the 10th day ha. The eleventh day I'm burning her a CD of Music she likes. The 12th day again I still don't know, so if you guys have any ideas let me know! Thanks!

Why are they so addicting?

Do you have a facebook? A twitter? Do you watch television? If you answered yes to any of these questions, are you addicted to them? Did you know that there are 500 million active users on Facebook? On twitter there a 200 million active users and 97 people will join or have joined just today. Just in the U.S. there are 240 million people watching TV at this very moment. Why though?

For twitter, it's the simplicity. It's so easy to let people know what you're doing strait from a text. There aren't very many things to do on there, which makes it less "annoying" for some people. Yes, twitter doesn't have as many users as facebook, but even the users for facebook are annoyed with it (like me), and facebook also started out earlier that twitter by 2 years. I like twitter so I know what's going on in my friends lives and I don't need to have a huge amount of people following me either. People that use twitter more than 20 times in a month tend to get more addicted than those that only get on once in a while, so that may be the cause huh?

Facebook is a little more addictive than twitter (at least for me), but I've had it longer and I also use it for school too. Some of my teachers have facebook pages to update students on what's going on in class and what we have for homework. Facebook is place where you can talk to friends easily. Facebook's also the most popular website in America, how it got this popular though people don't know for sure, but there a few possibilities. 1. The social network. 2. People telling their friends about it. 3. easy to use. Whatever it is, we all know we're a little addicted.

Television has been around for a while, and almost everyone single household in the U.S. has one. It used to be rare to have a TV not too long ago, but now you're rare if you don't have one. There are so many television shows and movies out there and people can be so lazy and watch TV for hours. If you don't have cable though, it could be a little boring because you don't have much to choose from. Studies show that if younger kids watch TV more than 12 hours a week they will become addicted when they get older. Watching TV shortens your life span, not by damaging your brain, but by lack of exercise. So if you jog in place, lift weights, or do some other form of exercise you should be okay. Knowing what's going on in the world is also a major factor to addiction, but for adults. People want to know what's going on in their communities and the environment that they watch the news for about an hour and then after that they have a popular show come on and then you want to watch that too. So every show you watch just keeps leading you to addiction.

If you think you're addicted to the computer or TV go outside and doing something, if you're not still go out and do something active to increase your life span. Don't sit around being lazy because that's not helping you accomplish anything. For me, when I'm done with homework I'm going to go hang outside for a while and be active.. unless it's too cold. (:

Holy Wind!

Let’s talk about that storm! This storm has made me so grateful for the Internet, television, and heat! Our trees, which aren’t pine trees, haven’t fallen yet but I expect them to tip soon. This is the worst storm I’ve ever seen, and I used to live in tornado valley! (I’m probably exaggerating a lot but it was bad.)

I decided that I wasn’t going to go to school because I wasn’t feeling very well that morning. If I went, and I’m glad that I didn’t, I would have been stuck in a dark gym waiting for my parents to come pick me up. I was sitting at home, my mom had come home by then, and the power would turn off and then back on. It was really annoying because it kept doing this over and over again until it finally just turned off all together. It was so cold I had sweats, sweaters, and blankets. Yet, I was still freezing and kept shivering, that dumb electricity.

In my backyard we have huge trees and every now and then you can hear a little snapping noise. My mother and I went for a drive in the middle of the storm and we went to see her old neighborhood. “In the middle of the night we just heard a huge crash,” An older man said to us as we stopped to see all the damage done. If you travel through the county it’s like all hell broke loose, or someone really pissed off Mother Nature. There was a house that was lifted up by the roots of tree too!

“If lived in this town 71 years this is bad, it’s the worst it’s been in years,” An elderly man had stated on KSL news. I’ve lived here since I was six and there has never been anything this bad. I hope that the people that have had tons of damage done to their homes are okay and that it won’t cost them too much money. I’m also hoping that none of the trees in my backyard tumble over and crash on my house and that we can trim them as soon as possible. This is one of the craziest storms of my life. Luckily there isn’t any school tomorrow.

Well, I’m hoping that this will all turn out well (even though I know that it’s a disaster). I’m glad that they’ve excused school until next Monday because it’s gives be a chance to get everything done that I’ve been putting off for a while. I’m sure we’ll be hearing about his for a while. Stay warm and well and good luck to those of you who are having trouble.

Thanksgiving

We often take what we have for granted. We've all experienced at least one tragedy in our lives, and everyday we hope that we could take the terrible moments out of our lives and replace them with grate ones. We need to think of all the wonderful things we are able to have in our lives and be thankful that we still have them. I don't mean cell phones, I-pods, laptops, or I-pads, but things that will always matter.

For me, I'm grateful that I have my parents and step-parents to guide me in my life. I will always be thankful for family because we've been through so much together and they've always been there for me when I needed help. I'm also thankful for friends to help, care, teach, entertain and just make me smile. Food! I'm really grateful for that, it's what keeps me alive... well that and water... I love water.(: Education is something that will always be a huge part of my life and I'm very grateful for that. I'm thankful for the ability to read and write, play instruments, sing (even though I might not be very good I'm just glad I have a voice) and for being healthy. I'm thankful for all of my many talents, my pets, the sun, my organs, my arms and legs, music, books, and my sense of humor(: ha ha. I'm grateful for the many forms or art, Google, transportation, the gym (I might be a fatty if I didn't have that ha), and a house to live in (2 houses actually). I'm thankful for the piano, guitar, bassoon, and I would say flute but I don't really like that one all that well. I'm grateful for calculators, pencils & pens, paper, and tape. And I wouldn't get any paper if we didn't have any trees so I'm pretty grateful for those so I can climb up them and I'm thankful for the oxygen I get from them. Flowers, they're so pretty so I'm thankful for them and bees, even though they sting you they give you honey. I'm grateful for cows so I can have dairy products, and I'm grateful for the people that grow our food. I'm thankful for my eyes so I can see all the beauty in the world, so I'm also thankful for the pretty things there are.

There are so many things out there to be thankful for, I would have typed some more things but I have such a long list and I think you would get bored reading that for like two hours. I'm so thankful that there is a day where people can take a break from work and school and all the stress and be thankful for what they have in their lives. I'm thankful for the people who fought and those who are still fighting for our freedom because they've risked their lives to make ours better. I hope you all have lots of things to be grateful for and have a safe and great Thanksgiving!

a friend(:

A true friend is something that everyone wants. Someone that they can to go to when they need to have a shoulder to cry on, tell all their secrets too, or just talk in general. Someone, that no matter what goes on in life they’ll always be there for you. Laugh, cry, scream, yell and they will not even judge you as long as you are just being you of course.

“To have a friend, you’ve got to be a friend.” A quote that almost everyone in the world has heard even if it’s in a different language, it still means the same thing. This right here is so true, more true than what I thought at first. I know I have friends and all, but haven’t you ever felt like you’re the only one in the world and you have no one to turn to? Then, when you hear the quote above you just say to yourself, “but I have been a friend, why then, is this happening to me?” Well, unfortunately I don’t have the answers, because this is happening to me right now.

I just feel like I’m being ignored all the time and left out too. There’s a party tomorrow and all of my friends are going, except for me. Today at lunch I was sitting next to one of my best friends and he just got up and left he didn’t even talk to me after school. “Is it something I did?” I ask myself this question all the time and I never was able to come up with the answer to my question except, “You have no one to turn to right now, and it is your fault.” I couldn’t stop saying this to myself because I did not know the answer to my own question.

I’ve realized lately that I need to stop caring about the number of friends I have, and care about the friends I have. I once heard a quote, “I friend to all is a friend to none.” This totally blew my mind when I first heard it, but now I get it. I don’t need to be a good friend to every one, but I need to be a great friend to few. My mom always said I didn’t need to have so many friends and I just looked at her like she was crazy. “You never can have too many friends.” I was so wrong, and I need to thank my mother for helping me realize this.

Once again I hope you guys (my readers, very few of you ha ha) learn from my mistakes, if you haven’t learned this already. It took me a while and I hope it doesn’t take you guys very long to notice this. I hope that I learn to be a better friend, still be nice to everyone, but be a true friend to the ones that I really need to keep, the ones that will help me become a better person.

The person I want to be

I like the person I've become but I always have known that I can still do better. The world today isn't the best, there's the really nice people that everyone loves but they don't feel so secure about themselves. There's also the people that just don't fit in, but they are the kindest people you'd ever meet. Rude people, popular people, fake people, amazing people, where ever you go you'll always find these types of personalities.

I've really been thinking about how people see me. I don't know if this is something I should be really worried about, but I know I am. I want to be the kind of person that everyone can turn to and trust and always want to be around and I know I'm not always that person. I've decided that I want to make some goals for myself just to do everyday acts of kindness. I have a little story for you that is true, but I've changed some things to protect some people.

There was a little girl that had a mental disorder. She had a little trouble with people and had a hard time at school. She was so cute and then one day she had to move to a different state. When she moved in there was a younger girl named Amanda about the same age as her that came to visit. They became very good friends and the little girl wondered why she liked her so much. Amanda told her she was friends with her because she was such a great person and she was beautiful inside and out. The little girl was soon getting teased and she was abused. She had things thrown at her, people called her names, hit her, and just simply enjoyed teasing her, but she never had a bad word to say about them and she always forgave them.

Amanda was friends with the most popular guy in the school, Carson, and they both made it a goal to keep the girl safe. They protected her for as long as they could. When people realized that two popular people were being so kind to her they knew that they had done something very wrong. People started become very nice to her. She was so grateful for Amanda and Carson, and enjoyed talking to them everyday. A couple months later the girl got very sick and couldn't go to school any longer. She passed away about 4 months after she got sick and about 400 people showed to her funeral. Amanda and Carson were in awe when they saw all the people and knew the girl was pleased.

I'm going to make an effort to:
1. Say "hello" to 3 different people I don't know a week.
2. Invite someone to come sit with me at lunch.
3. Walk with someone to our class.
4. Make someone smile everyday.
5. Help everyone in need.

When I come up with other goals I'll let you guys know ha ha ha. Be kind to everyone!

Science, I'm good at it(:

Science hasn't always been my best subject, and I don't know if it will ever be but I'd like to hope so. I like it (sometimes) and get it (sometimes), but I kind of wished that I had my own little personal teacher. I think a lot of students would enjoy that because to me you learn more, because you have to be more involved. I mean, you can't be the only student and just sit there not saying anything the whole time... that would be dumb. Sometimes I'll just be sitting there in class when a teacher is giving us students a lecture and it goes in one ear and out the other and I have no idea what they just said... even if it was a minute ago.

I hate the moment where teachers are talking and rambling on about the lesson they're teaching, and then they pause. You ask yourself, "Why in the heck did they just stop talking? Oh, crap! He's looking at me!"

Then he looks at you and says, "So what did I just say?"

You look at him with a blank expression and you're so embarrassed and you just say quietly. "I don't know." Your face is pure red and everyone is just looking at you. Then your teacher gets mad because you weren't listen, which you were, but you can't focus.

This tends to happen to me more often now and sometimes it just makes me feel so stupid and then I wonder if anyone else is having this issue. Then when you look around you see that they're all just staring at your teacher intently and you feel even more stupid. I have this problem almost every single day in my biology class, and with the jobs I'm considering in the future I have to know a lot about science. Then I have to choose something else to be when I grow up, and it turns out that has to do with science too. I guess I like science but comprehending it, well, that's a whole other story.

I used to say that I hated science and that it wasn't going to help me in any way. Boy was I wrong! Now I try to say that I don't hate science, because I really don't. I also used to say that I sucked at science, which I don't I just don't get it very much. I figured out that if I say negative things about it, I am just going to be a very negative person, and I would never want to be that. So if you're having trouble with a subject, don't say you suck at it, don't say you hate it, when you're in the class don't look at the clock every three minutes because it is just going to make it worse for you.

I haven't done a life lesson in a while and I think it's time for one. I don't even remember what number this is so I won't do a number. Life Lesson: Don't say hate, don't say you're bad at something. When you don't say these things then you will have a better experience. Now I just feel like a philosopher, even though it wasn't that good ha ha.