Nothin Really

Hey Ya'll! So I really don't have anything to say. Nothing has happened, just school. Soldier, conformed, headache-filled school. So I am just gonna skip to quotes.














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Concerts and Cupcakes

Hey Ya'll! So I just got back from an orchestra concert and I honestly think we did really good. Other than the fact I knew my A string was out of tune on my violin so I had to play softly when I went on that string. We have this uniform we have to wear and it is SO annoying. It is this stiff black shirt that falls off your shoulders, and I have really broad shoulders, so that's saying something. Then we have the palazzo pants, which I love because I feel like i have power whenever I walk, cause they are flowy and huge. They look like this but much bigger.

But after the concert we had a reception with Lots and Lots of cookies and brownies. It was really icy and snowy today so we started school at 10:00. I didn't know that til I woke up. It was a very stressful morning. I woke up and looked at the clock and it said 7:42. I started freaking out. I am usually at school by then or earlier. I ran down the hall, and no one was around. I was thinking, "MY PARENTS LEFT ME!!!!!!" Then I ran to the laundry room and saw my mom and I was relieved but then I got excited and said, "Are we out of school?" and she said no but we started late and I was happy. Then she told me that the lady that lives a street over from us was going to take me and my sister to school. She said that the lady would be here at 9:35. I thought, well I have enough time to bake cupcakes for my orchestra party(We always have parties for our performances). So my mom left and then I started on my cupcakes. I found this recipe that made no sense. On the ingredient list, under each ingredient it would tell you what  to do. No it did not have separate instruction, and then it would say underneath the ingredient, "Add 3 tablespoons of butter". Add 3 tablespoons of butter, to WHAT?! In the end I had a mixture of flour, sugar, baking power, and salt. I had a mixture of burnt chocolate and water. I had a mixture of butter and sugar. Then it said Add 4 egg yolks. ONCE AGAIN, ADD 4 EGG YOLKS TO WHAT?!?! But I looked in the refrigerator to get the eggs and saw that I only had 3. So I looked up substitutions for an egg. I found a recipe and it called for flour, liquid (yes liquid, no specification), shortening, and something else. I didn't know where the shortening is kept, so I couldn't make the fake egg, and I just decided to kill everything and get a box mix from the pantry. I might sound like an idiot, but it really wasn't that easy. But I threw it all away and started from scratch and ended up getting them in the oven with 35 minutes to spare, it takes 28 minutes to bake them I took a shower, while they were cooking. I got out of the shower, got dressed (in casual clothes since public schools are out cause of the snow, it's an awesome rule they made), then ran to get my stuff for school together. The lady from the street over calls my sister and tell her that she is at the end of our driveway. I look at the clock. 9:23. She was supposed to be here at 9:35. So I didn't have time to brush my hair, so I shoved a brush in my backpack and then the timer for the cupcakes goes off and I am panicking cause I didn't have time to put them in containers for the party. I yell at my brother, who goes to public schools, and is out, to come and help me. I didn't have time to get them out of the pans, so my brother wrapped them in a towel and my hands are full of a violin, computer, and backpack, so he brings the cupcakes down the driveway for me. That is not as easy as it sounds. If you have ever seen my driveway it is really steep. It looks kind of like this, but covered in ice.

So my brother walked, more like slid, down the driveway for me and I am so grateful for that. So I sat in the back seat, holding the hot pan of box cupcakes and with really messed up dripping hair. I get to school, put the cupcakes in my locker, and tell my friends what happened. Then they tell me that the orchestra party isn't today, that it's on Thursday. I was so mad. Anyway, now there are cupcakes in my locker and I have to make more for Thursday, cause the ones I made taste weird. Time for quotes!






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 Bi Ya'll!

Hey Ya'll! So I think this week was the longest week I have ever experienced. I don't even remember Monday, it was so long ago. Monday and Tuesday were fine, then the rest of the week I died. Many times. I am SO glad that it is the weekend, but I know it will feel like a few hours. I only have 7 1/2 school days left til winter break. Then I have three days of nothingness then I go to Ecuador and then on a cruise around the Galapagos islands. SO EXCITED!! But it's so far away and this will be the first christmas out of Tennessee. We have barely decorated our house and it is really depressing that there isn't a tree outside. I loved sitting on our porch and sit on the bench and just close my eyes and smell nothing but pine. Then I would hold my guinea pig and hold her close and just feel her tiny heartbeat. Now she's dead. Her birthday was on the 23rd. I said , on the day she died, that I would place a rose on her grave everyday on her birthday.  The first christmas without her, I am going to be on a cruise. I feel like an awful person. Yes you might say, oh she's just a pet. She meant the world to me. She shared my personality. She was so bipolar and I thought it was hilarious. I knew her so well, that with one sound I could tell exactly what she wanted. I love her so much. She was abused by her other owners and I promised that I would give her the best life, I didn't give her the best life. That's what hurts the most. But anyway, now for quotes



You have to listen to the new Katy Perry album. Some of the songs are annoying and weird but she has some really good ones. Bi Ya'll!!

R.I.P

Hey Ya'll! So I got home thinking that today was just another day, another boring, mind killing day. Yes I consider it mind killing because we are staring at black and white all day. black and white pages, black and white textbooks and black and white people. Not in the racist way, there are just a lot of flat characters in our grade and I consider them black and white. I thought today was just another day. Then I came home and heard that Nelson Mandela had died today, a few hours ago to be exact. I didn't even know who he was at first, and then I turned on the tv and saw what the news had to say about it. There are no words to describe how much I value this man now. To me, he is more effective than Martin Luther King, and that's saying something. That's in my opinion, of course. If you don't know who he is, he is like gandhi. If you don't know who gandhi is, than you have not understood the meaning of life. Nelson Mandela united north and south Africa and made speeches for what he believed in. He got arrested for standing up for what he believed in and stayed in prison for 27 years. He got arrested at age 50 and got out at age 77. Through his days in his cell he slept on the concrete floor every night. A man in his 70s was sleeping on a concrete floor. You might think that he got bitter after his days in prison. He became one of the best men of all time in prison. I would have this post be all fun and jolly, but I want today to be serious in his memory. My sister says that I will get no where in life and I will have no friends when I'm older because I am rebellious. She also says that I am probably just going through a phase where I am rebellious. No I am not. I am like this and I am like this to stay. Some might say that this is a bad thing, but I just stand up for what I believe in. And I will fight and fight and fight til what is right has been completed. I will show my sister how far I will go in life because I stand up for what I believe in. I will show her and I will show everyone. Because I am not going to be a person who sits back and watches people get hurt. I will not sit back and let myself get hurt. I will not sit back and watch our country fail us. If there is any way I can help my country, or the world, I will do it. No, I am not going to become a soldier. I hate the idea of having a dictator and having to follow their every rule, even if it's wrong. I want to have a voice in the world. And yes a middle-class, Tennessean, student, white girl, may not seem to be anything right now, but if  I try hard enough, and I know I will, I can change the world. As cliche as that sounds, it is true. I am asking everyone, right now, that if you have something you believe in, stand up for it. Do not let it wither and die. Do not leave behind, thinking it is a stupid idea. You saw all of the things Martin Luther King did, you saw the things that Nelson Mandela did (hopefully), you saw everything that gandhi did, you saw what all of these people did, whether it was in a book, documentary, etc., you saw it and you have to see that it is possible. You cannot sit back and watch our world fail. If there is problem, DO SOMETHING. That is the least I can say.
 
You have to hold your own future.


People wonder why I am so different from everybody else. I just don't have that person

Keep Nelson Mandela in your prayers and I dare everyone to stand up for what you believe in and see how far it takes you. To back up my thoughts, listen to Stand in the Rain by Superchick. Bi Ya'll!

Key Cards have no point in life

Hey Ya'll! So today, the head of the middle school and the head of the high school announced that "for our safety" (we all know they're paranoid) that we were going to start having to have key cards to enter through ANY DOOR ON CAMPUS!!! Well, gee thanks heads of school for making our lives so much more annoying. So you might be like the majority of the grade and think, "Well keycards are cool, it makes me feel like I have power" Well, would you like to have to wear a lanyard around your neck, 24/7, while it gets stuck in your clothing and hair? I wouldn't but I obviously don't have a say in this argument. I wear my necklace everyday, but I have it underneath my shirt so it isn't swinging around and in my face all day long. AND I know for a fact that I am going to leave it at home the majority of the time, so I won't be able to get into any classroom, or room, or building, without a person following me around all day. So they are making us where lanyards with the keycard on it and in every entrance to one of the buildings (middle school, highschool, library, Cafeteria, etc.) they are installing security cameras! Do they think a terrorist is going to walk right through our doors with the security guards all over the place, teachers, and workmen, (from the look of them they could definitely kill someone)? I mean REALLY!  They say it is for "Safety Precautions". Yeah, "Safety Precautions", because every terrorist in the world wants to blow up Music City, cause music is definitely a subject to have extreme groups on (please note the sarcasm) No offense to anybody, but If you were a terrorist, you would want to blow up New York City, or LA, or someplace really populated to make more of an affect on the country. Not a city in Tennessee. No offense to Tennessee, of course, because I love it here, and I am a proud Tennessean, but you would pick a more populated place, so the heads of school really don't have much to worry about. Yes it is still a risk, but they are going overboard with the security cameras and the key cards. We already have security guards with tasers and guns in their cars, so I think we're good. Anyway, sorry about that rant, I just think they are wasting their money. Anyway, time for some quotes.