Today I stayed home from church and music lessons because got hives all over my arms. I don’t know why though…usually people get them as an allergic reaction but I’ve never gotten hives before. Also, there is nothing new in my life that would really trigger it so I don’t know. But it’s gone now so that’s good While being home, I decided to try to get back into the web designing world. I missed it, yet I enjoyed my time away. I feel kind of bad though that so many of my online friends have disappeared from their sites. But hopefully they will come back too!

I’m going to start to recomment on people’s sites. I keep putting it off and I feel so bad. Life’s just busy. I’m gonna stop here cause I have to go walk the pooches ! Byee

Seee you after the revamppp!

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I think I’m going to finish the CSS on the layout now, and then I’m going to go put it up
Ciao !

Since I live in New York, the state gives all 8^th graders state tests. We had a math assessment, a science assessment, and an english assessment. In addition to all of the assessments, I had to start taking my Italian Proficiency Exam that is required by NY. It is basically a test to see if you are proficient in the foreign language that you have been taking for the past 2 years. My speaking had 4 parts which was spread over the course of about 3-4 weeks. I also have been having lots of tests in preparation for my upcoming finals. I had my Health final last week which I got a 98 on it I have my social studies assessment/final on Monday and Tuesday, my English final on Thursday, my Math Regents on Friday, and also my 8^th grade dance on Friday as well. I have my Italian Proficiency exam on the 21^st, and my Science Regents on the 22^nd.

In the past few months I had many events in the area of fine arts. I performed in 2 concerts, performed at the NYSSMA Majors for the 2 orchestras that I am part of. Every year, all of the 8^th graders go to this amusement park to perform to 2 judges. They judge you and you get rated. We got superior in Band, Orchestra and Chorus. After we performed we were allowed to stay at the amusement park and go on all of the rides. That day though, happened to be 95 degree weather. We were sooo hot there! But we had a blast! We also were asked to perform at an awards ceremony at the end of the year.

I also had my whole season of tennis while I was gone. Me and my friend Nitasha were 1^st doubles! We had a great season, my partner and I won 8 out of the 10 games that we played. Overall, the team only won 4/10 of our games, but it’s okay

In the beginning of the year, I became part of the Leaders Club at my school. In this club we help out others. Throughout the year, we donated to orphanages, animal shelters, Haiti and to those fighting in the war. We held a Badmitton tournament. We helped out with the 6^th grade Jump Rope for Heart last week. And as our last event of the year, we held the annual Faculty Volleyball Game. The faculty volleyball game is a volleyball game in which the teachers and faculty participate in. The students come to cheer on the teachers and to donate to a cause. Last year, the Leaders Club donated to a secretary who had breast cancer. This year, we decided to donate to this kid in my grade who had bone cancer. He’s really a great kid, so we decided to donate as much money as we could to give to his family to help pay for medical bills. He was supposed to come, but as of Friday, we found out that his blood count was too low. But we still supported him!

So yeah, enough about my life. I have only 1 more full day of school, and then I can hopefully start working on getting my site back up ! Which reminds me, I need to start designing a new layout

Questions
1. When did school end for you?
2. How have you been lately?
3. Did you ever have to take state assessments?

Well my Spring Break is over, and it went by so fast! The first few days of our break were pouring rain, so I didn’t do much. I stayed home. Then once it started to get nicer outside, I went outside more. Now it’s like the perfect weather. Lately it has been in the 60’s/70’s and super sunny with a touch of wind. It felt like spring! I wish all year was like this

I’m not that bummed that my spring break is over, I kind of wanted to get back because on Wednesday we will have tennis tryouts! I’ve been waiting for tennis to start up again since like the beginning of this year. If you asked my friends, they’d agree that I’ve been talking about it for just about forever. I hope I’m not too rusty though xD I played a few times since the summer, but not much. I need to get back into the game !

Over the break, lots of things changed. First, one big announcement that I’ve been waiting my whole life for, was that I finally painted my room! I’ve never ever gotten my room painted. It has always been white, then when we got my house redone back in 2005, my whole house, including my room, was painted an off-white color. Now my room is blue and green. Two walls are blue and two are green. I took a picture of my bed area and my desk area for you to see

Other then painting my room, I also rearranged the furniture. My bed before wasn’t against the wall, now it is My room looked a lot smaller until I moved my bed, now my room is nice and spacious. I really like it Painting room is fun xDDD

While cleaning my room, I found that watching America’s Next Top Model kept my company. I hate cleaning when it’s quiet, I get freaked out xD. I haven’t watched ANTM in a while, and to catch up on the new cycle, was good. I miss watching it. I hope to get back into the swing of things. I also have been watching the show Shear Genius. I really like it as well. Their cuts are really cool.

Well, I have to go, I have school tomorrow. Bye, I’ll return comments to the older post soon! Oh and April’s Photo Contest is up!

I still have to return like 20 comments, so don’t comment if you didn’t receive a comment from our previous conversation! I WILL get back to them. I’m sorry for neglecting this. I kept putting it off, and then I got so busy, and then time just slipped away.

So during my crazy school life. My weird social studies teacher which I hate, left. There were multiple rumors of her leave. Some people say she broke her leg, some say her mother died, and some say she was getting surgery. Well, whatever the right reason is, she is gone for the rest of the year. We were all kind of happy, but yet, we knew we were going to regret it. We had a temporary sub for a week and a half. We were 3 units behind, and that’s like 3 months of stuff. So our sub was trying to catch us up. We have a state test in June and we need to know everything, as well as for the final. We learned about WWI in 3 days. Then, we had the Roaring 20’s which we learned for a week. So we had 2 tests with this sub whom we had for a week and a half. We weren’t use to all of these tests. Now we have a new permanent sub who is a tad scary. He has a super low voice, and he keeps yelling at us. Then we learned about the Great Depression in 1 week! He told us that the Great Depression usually takes 3-4 weeks but we are so behind we must do it in 1 week. So we got a test on Friday, but here’s the catch: We had a 15 minute period to take the test. That’s crazy! Plus, he said he took the questions off a 11^th grade Regents! He was like “Oh, you guys have taken a Regents so you know what it’s like,” meanwhile, we never took a Regents, and we’re in 8^th grade. The test was soo hard, and we all guessed because we didn’t have that much time. We just sat down to take the test and he’s like “Ok, 10 minutes left, you should be halfway done.” WHAT THE HECK. And he also expects us to be so “smart.” He stereotypes us all the time. He told us that since we are Honors, we usually “read” over the weekend. Then he says how since we are Honors, we should get harder tests, like that makes sense, but not 3 years ahead tests! And last but not least, he said that we could take the test in a period that is more then half the usual time to take a test, because we’re “Honors.”

I mean really, what does the name “Honors” give to people?! I know we are usually more mature and we have a greater understanding, but always comparing us to Regents kids, that’s not always the right thing to do. We do have a life other then school. We don’t all read in our free time, and we certainly aren’t smart enough to take a test in a 15 minute period, as opposed to our usual 40.

So this was my little rant, I think I failed that test, but whatever. That class has been serving no purpose because I learn more social studies in 21^st Century Skills then I actually do at SS.

I know, I’m like dead. I have a retreat this weekend, and I have to help out at after school almost everyday this week and next week. I’ll try to return comments some time next week.

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I’m currently listening to Lisa Lavie’s youtube video of We Are The World. I really that song now. My friend showed it to me, and I think it’s amazing how she created it. She got a whole bunch of singers on youtube [not famous] to take part in the song We Are the World. The song is currently a support song for the people of Haiti. I think the song is just so moving and just so pretty. She did an amazing job, and especially all of those who took part in the song! I kind of like it better then the one with all the celebrities, but both are lovely!

Well I was a tad mad this morning when I found out that we got another snow day. This is our 3^rd this school year. We are given 2 every year, they set aside 2 days for snow day, and after that, we lose our Memorial Day weekend. At first it was Spring break, but apparently it’s Memorial Day. We all wanted school, because which would you rather have. A day, where you’d have to shovel, and it’s all bad outside, or a longer weekend when it’s sunny and warm? Most of us would want it when it’s nice out and warm! But oh well, I guess it is somewhat okay, but I kind of wanted school.

The storm is supposed to go all the way until tomorrow morning. I took a picture this morning of Casey [my dog] on top of a pile of snow She wouldn’t look at the camera though

I am also going to add some more of the photos to Oh Faux. I took this really cool picture using some accents in the picture. I was playing around with the settings

I’ve been soo busy lately, this site is like nothing. Haha, well I’m still returning comments, slowly, but I’m getting there. I try not to hold it off too long, otherwise the pending comments will be soo long.

Well, I’m going to go make some pumpkin bread with my mom. I LOVE pumpkin bread, especially when heated up & with cool whip! PURE AMAZINGNESS.

Questions
1. Favorite dessert?
2. Ever watch the video “We are the World” ?
3. What did you have for breakfeast?

Answers
1. Pumpkin bread or Apple Cake !
2. YES and I it.
3. I made crepes with Nutella!

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Yeah so I’ve been like super lazy with this site. I’m on break, and I’ve been like relaxing, watching tv, playing sims, and going out with friends. I’m trying to keep up with comments though. I’m trying not to get too behind. But sometimes, I reply to comments because I have to. I need to actually get into the mood to return the comments.

Okay so I’m in the 3^rd quarter of the school year. School is almost over, and in a matter of months, I will be graduating middle school and I will move on to high school. I’m excited for it, yet kind of nervous. My friend says how your friends will change and you’ll lose a lot of friends. My sister says that your friends don’t really change. It’s kind of hard who to believe because in a sense, it could happen either way. I think it really depends on who you consider your best friends. I’ve been best friends with most of my close friends since I was in Kindergarten. I believe that nothing will drastically change.

I will though, lose many good friends because many of them are going to like Catholic schools or they are moving. Not my really close friends, but some good friends are leaving. Pretty disappointing. Some don’t even have a choice to wear they are going to school.

Also, high school is such a big step in life. Maybe not as big as getting a job, or graduating college, but it’s still big when it comes to planning your future. I have to start preparing for college in 9^th grade, but yet, I am not sure what I want to be exactly. I always have mixed feelings because I am unaware if I can achieve my goal. I work really hard, though, I feel as if I won’t be able to become what I really want to be. I am not even sure what I want to be, which makes it hard to look for colleges. Advice ?

Do you ever worry that you can’t achieve your goal? How do you know that you really want to do something as a career? Do your parents ever expect you to go into a certain career? If so, does that effect what you take into consideration?

Ah, so many questions, and it’s just so confusing. I mean, this isn’t a huge problem for me, but I do get worried at times.

Questions!
1. Did/do you ever have these kind of questions flowing through your mind?
2. Have you been watching the Winter Olympics?
3. What kind of grapes do you prefer?

Answers!
1. A lot of the time.
2. Yes! My favorite part is the Figure Skating ;D
3. Green grapes !

So on Sunday Kathy told me that we are supposed to get a huge snow storm Tuesday night. Well we are! We were all talking about it today and the teachers were discussing what we are going to do if we have a snow day! We are supposed to get between 6-18 inches of snow, possibly more. I’m pretty excited ! We haven’t had a snow storm in soo long! It’s the perfect storm. They said that the storm is like two big storms coming together, or something like that. Pretty cool though I’ve been so tired, so I can catch up on my sleep

Oh, before I forget, can you vote for Kathy and I here? Thanks! It is actually for Kathy, but she wanted me to submit it, so she told me to.

Okay so the other day, I was talking to my mom [while watching the Cosby Show] about how Bill Cosby is so important in my life. When my sister and I were little, we would watch the Cosby Show all the time! It was hilarious! I told her that I’d probably cry if he died. I mean, he’s like amazing. He cracks me up all the time! Then I went on Twitter and I saw a trending topic about Bill Cosby. I clicked it. All of those tweets about him were saying how he died! I was like WHAT? So then I googled, and I found a news article saying that he just died! I was like WHAT THE FREAK. It was posted like 10 minutes after I just had that conversation with my mother. I was like, what are the odds?

I honestly got freaked out for a second, yet I didn’t believe it. Then I checked back a few minutes later and the article didn’t exist anymore on CNN. I was praying that it was fake. And it was! I was like, THANK GOD. I got so freaked out, and it was so odd how my mother and I were just talking about it!

Ah, yeah, well I have to go help Hemali with math! We’re using our big, fat graphing calculator. We’re learning how to graph like quadratics, and this exponential thing. Kind of confusing at first

Questions:
Ever use a graphing calculator?
What celebrity would you cry for?
Did you win any Namecheap contests on the Superbowl Weekend Trivia contest?

Answers!
Yeah, it’s really annoying, but it’s cool how they have games on some of them
BILL COSBY!
Yeah! Surprisingly, I had given up, and when I got home from school, I saw that I won, and was like NO WAY.

As I am typing, I am listening/watching the show What Not To Wear. The show is airs on TLC and is a show that helps teach people how to dress appropriately. Well today was their 250^th episode so they found someone who had the worst possible wardrobe they’ve ever seen so far. So yeah, this lady’s is pretty bad. She takes pillow cases and uses them as skirts! Like in past episodes, the people would wear like clothes that were either too reveling, mens clothes, or just too baggy for them. This lady wears pillow cases. That’s pretty bad. I mean, like she literally took the pillow case and just cut the end and made a skirt out of it. At least in the end, the lady will learn to shop right and not have to make anymore pillow case clothes XD.

This week was pretty lazy. I mean, I don’t want to get into the whole thing. Except for social studies, since it’s pretty odd. Midterms were pretty easy. I did well on them.

So during Social Studies we were taking midterms Thursday and Friday [today]. So here are some of the odd things that happened. Just before I continue, I just want to give you a 411 on stuff about my school. Well we have 9 classes that we attend everyday. Each class is 40 minutes long.

Social Studies 8^th period on Thursday. We go in, she makes us line up outside and she is individually placing everyone in seats because we have to be spread out for the midterms. We’re not allowed to get up once we get to our seat. So we sit down, and she’s like “DO NOT TALK THIS IS IMPORTANT.” So we are silent. Then she asks if any of us need a pencil or if we need to sharpen our pencils. Okay so those who need to sharpen their pencils raise their hands, then my teacher goes “Okay no ones allowed to sharpen their pencils” So then she gave us pencils and we started. Then she said “No questions until 5 minutes after the period, I have to do some business first.” So then we took the test. Then my friend raised their hand to spit out their gum and my teacher goes “Okay,, now just cause you kept raising your hand, no questions until 5 before the period ends.” We’re like WOW. How can you do that during a midterm? Not let us ask any questions and the fact that we didn’t learn a whole unit that was on the midterm. So then when she did answer questions, she was like “Run, Run HURRY UP,” She was soo annoying. There is so much more, but I should end this soon.

Questions
1. How is the weather currently?
2. Do you ever feel “inspiration-less”?
3. How long have you been web-designing?

Answers
1. Cold! We have a wind chill here ):
2. YEAH. I’ve been feeling “inspiration-less” this whole week -___-
3. For a little more then a year and a half.

So on my other site Dainty Hearts, I am planning on adding to the blog a bit by adding a little section about my crazy social studies days. I’ve experienced so many hilarious things since my teacher is a bit out of it. Hopefully I can get them up soon! I’ll add them whenever something hilarious occurs during Social Studies. Oh boy, there is going to be lots of short stories.

I added a bookshelf page, which is a list of books that I want to read. I went on the Barnes and Noble website, and I checked out some books that got good ratings and sounded interesting. My mom is planning on getting the book when she comes back from work today. I would go myself, but we lost my library card XD. I had received my first library card when I was in 1^st grade I believe or Kindergarten. We would take a class trip there, [which was down the block, literally] and we’d all get a card. I lost mine since then. So we just use my moms. I’m really excited to get started on the list. I will add on to the list when I find some more interesting books. If I like a book enough, I’ll write some more reviews on books. Yeah, so the first book that I want to read is The Last Song. If you haven’t heard, it’s being made into a movie and is going to be released in April. I really want to see the movie, and read the book. Any good book suggestions?

I don’t really like Fiction books. I did like the Twilight Saga, but not as much as other people. I like books that are more realistic, things that I can relate to or things that could really happen. I find them more interesting, in my opinion of course.

That reminds me, when I was in 5^th grade I believe, I read this book called the Orphan Train. It was just a short story that was in the reading textbooks that you get in elementary school. I really loved that story. It was about a girl who was on the Orphan Train and she remembers being sent there. Her mom had told her that she was going to come back someday, and the little girl was waiting there for her. Eventually, the girl’s mother never came and another family decided to adopt her. She didn’t want to leave, and she didn’t want to leave her friend. They told the women that her friend was actually her sister. The women though, would not take the friend. So then the girl had to leave her friend and she lost hope of her mom coming back. She ended up loving the family though. I loved that story. I don’t know why. I guess it was just touching to me XD. I wonder if I was to read it again this year, if I would like it. Who knows ?

Questions!
1. Favorite type of book?
2. What was your highlight of your day so far?
3. Long hair or Short Hair?

Answers!
1. Not really sure.
2. Home and Careers! We got to eat the meal we made
3. Medium

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Haha so a little part of this blog will be about KATHY. Yeah, well she wanted me to blog about her [?] and I had nothing to blog about, so yeah. I haven’t seen Kathy in like a year. Haha we usually hang out in the summer since we don’t have school. I remember one time we played hide and seek. It was in the dark and we would scream so much because we would hide behind walls and just scare each other! Haha, it was really fun. We also played Badminton in my backyard. Then we would end up having a BBQ outside Her and her sister are so much fun to hang out with. As Kathy would want me to say “She’s Kewl Kathy”

So like Sandy just left my house. She stayed for a few days at my house while she was visiting here in New York. She use to live here but over the summer her and her family moved to California. She has a little sister that I mentioned way back when [Nicole] who wasn’t able to go since she had school. But my sister is going back to school so Sandy is going to stay at her boyfriends house. I hope we see her and Nicole soon! We enjoyed her stay though!

I have midterms coming up. It sucks. The day we left for winter break we had heard that we were not going to have midterms because we have a lot of tests coming up. Then the day we came back, we learned that we have midterms in 2 weeks! We were like, WOW, and we’re a month behind in Social Studies. Our teacher was out in the beginning of the year because of family problems and she was out for like 3 weeks. We didn’t get a permanent sub or anything so we didn’t learn anything. It was pretty much a free period. And my teacher gets distracted REALLY easily. She’s like “QUIET DOWN, I NEED 30 MINUTES FOR MYSELF” while we have a 40 minute period. So then she wastes all of it doing nothing. She is also horrible with computers. She was like “It says I have caps lock on, how do I turn it off!” We’re like WOW. She didn’t even know how to minimize a page -__- She was like “WHAT DO I CLICK?” She cracks us up though XD. She’s like such a random teacher

I am starting my language midterms next week since we have multiple parts. We have speaking, reading and writing. My teacher said that she has to change the format because of the lack of time we have. So instead of doing individual speaking we are doing paired. But the problem is we are doing a Unit test which has speaking, reading and writing, just on one unit. The midterm is made of all of the Units we learned this year and last year. So yeah, my dialogue that I did on Friday was pretty good. We had to do a dialogue about Leisure. I had to persuade my friend to go Bicycling. We had a lot of fun preparing the dialogue though

So yeah, enough with this random blog. Here are the questions!
1) Least Favorite Class? 21^st Century Skills or Social Studies
2) Is there anyone you haven’t seen in a long time? Nicole, Amanda and Kathy and Kelly! (:

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I hope everyone had a great new years! I had a great time. I hung out with my sisters friends [Eric, Erin, Meera, Radha, Carlos, Natalie, and Meera and Radha’s cousin from Australia]. It was really fun! We played a bunch of random games such as Taboo, Mao and we watched Four Christmases.

Taboo is a game similar to charades but the idea is kind of opposite. You are not allowed to make any hand motions, instead you have to describe the word with words not on the card. If you do, the other team gets the point. Well we played that [Twins vs. Non-Twins with the exception of Meera and Radha’s cousin]. Haha the Non-Twins lost. The Twins team claimed that they have twin telepathy. Haha, it was close though.

Mao is a card game. In the game, one person is known as “Mao.” Mao makes the rules. The person who is Mao does not explain the rules. The rest of the players have to figure out what the rules. They receive penalties and they have to figure out the rule themselves. It is a really fun, but hard game. Usually everytime someone wins, they add a rule to the game. Then the rules get longer and longer. It is really fun when you have a lot of people because you learn faster. I use to be HORRIBLE at it, but now I understand it.

Then on New Years, my sister, my cousin and I went to the movies. We saw the movie Avatar. I really wasn’t that into it because I didn’t know what it was about, nor did it seem like the type of movies that I would prefer to watch. The movie was AMAZING. I loved it, and I really want to see it again. The movie settings were so beautiful and everything seemed so real, even though most of it is animated. We read on Wikipedia that they started filming the movie in 1994. They decided to wait for technology to “catch up” with them before they released the movie. The movie really paid off after all those years. It was just so realistic and just awesome. I would so buy it on DVD when it comes out!

Today my sister’s friend came over. We watched the Pokemon [the first] movie. I felt like such a baby because I almost cried when Pikachu was getting weak from the evil pokeballs. I was like NOOO! Just the sound of Pikachu makes me go AWW Then afterwards, we played the game Rummikub. We got that game for Christmas and we really like it. We were teaching my sisters friend how to play it, and yeah. It was funny! He didn’t get it and was like AHHH! Then I won, then they gave up XD. They both had bad numbers left !

Afterwards, we played Mario Party 8 on the Wii. It was SOO much fun! We played on the Tycoon one. That one is like Monopoly. You spend coins on hotels and the person who has the highest investment gets stars. You can easily lose the stars if someone else placed a higher investment in it. We decided to make it interesting by playing for 50 turns. It took us like 4 hours, and by the time we were down to our last 4 turns, my sister’s friend’s dad comes to pick him up! We were like NOOO XD. But we saved the game and we can continue when he comes back.

Well break is almost over. I have school and tests when I come back. I also have to decide on what classes I want to take in High School. I ALSO have a meeting at the High School about everything. *Sigh* already leaving Middle School & I STILL don’t know where things are XD.

Anywhoo, before I forget, me and Kathy are holding a Domain Giveaway together. We have been planning it for a few weeks and we decided to put it up in the new year. You can nominate someone here!

Whoa, this blog is long, but I am going to end it with questions still!
1) Favorite group game?
2) *Random* Do you prefer showering at night or in the morning?
3) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Answers:
1) Taboo!
2) I don’t mind when, just as long as I am clean ;P
3) Hmm, I think I would stay in New York

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Haha I am so sorry for being SO slow on comments. Holidays make me lazy. I was out a lot and I don’t get online till late at night. See, right now, it is 1 AM. A tad late for writing a blog, but otherwise I won’t have time tomorrow.

Hehe how was everyone’s Christmas? I hope to all the people that celebrated it had a great time. I got a couple of cool things. Not much, since I think as I get older, I just get money. I think that happens to a lot of people. When you are little, your aunts and uncles know EXACTLY what to get you since you are little and you’ll like anything. When you get older, you are picky with your clothes, games, etc. But I like getting money. I am hoping on getting a reseller from some site…if I can find a good site that is not that expensive and has good uptime. Eh, I’m trying to do my research, but suggestions can be helpful

Well so I’ll mention some of the things I got. The big thing was a tablet! A simple Bamboo Pen tablet. I like it though. It works really well and I am planning on using it for stuff on my portfolio on my other site. I need help with some things I should add to my portfolio since I am totally clueless. I also got a sweater from American Eagle, but in grey. A sweater dress from Max Rave, which unfortunately they don’t have a picture online, and I am too lazy to take one at the moment. I got a long sleeved shirt from Aeropostale. I got TONS of things from Bath and Body Works. I got 5 shower gels, 4 lotions, 4 body sprays, 1 lipgloss and a loofah. Yeah, the body sprays are useful. I use them a lot since they smell so good on my clothes. I use to only have Fresh Pineapple, but now I have Butterfly Flower, PS I you, Warm Vanilla Sugar, and Sea Island Cotton. I also got Avon lotions since my friends mom sells them. I also got a few movies. My dad got 4 Christmases, which I watched and was soo funny. I got My Sister’s Keeper, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, and The Proposal. I had bought them on Black Friday, but I saved them for Christmas. Oh and I got a Panda Key Cover thing or whatever you call it from Urban Outfitters. Also, a Tokidoki keychain It is the one at the bottom right [red superhero one]! It is cute, I put it on my phone !

Okay so enough about my presents. Ah I was reading Simone’s blog and she said how it was her last for the year! She is right! Ahhhh amazing 2009. LOVE IT. Haha, I just want to end it on a high note Anyone watching the Ball Drop?

1. Suggestions for Paid Domain Hosting? I dont know.
2. Get anything good for Christmas? [If you Celebrate it] Yes, and I am very grateful for them :D
3. Current Song Stuck in your Head? My Name is Jonas from Guitar Hero III XD

OH YEAH. I keep forgetting, here’s everyones gift! I made it last week and I forgot to upload it -___- *sigh* my laziness
Lame Holiday Gift

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Weeee! Lots of snow ! We got about 14 inches! My cousin got 22 inches ): Ah, i wish we got that much. But then again, shoveling? That’ll take forever! It already took forever to shovel the driveways and the pathway Ah, hopefully the snow will stay until Christmas ! Who doesn’t a White Christmas ? I got so tired after shoveling. I fell asleep in the afternoon for like 2 hours. And I didn’t even get to make my snowman XDD.

Hmph. School tomorrow. I have a Science quiz. I also have to finish my Social Studies project. Blah, such a stupid project XD. Well, I finished, I just have to check it over and what not. So, am I the only person who has school still? I mean seriously, who has school the day before Christmas Eve? I think that’s ridiculous since what if someone wants to go away? They’re going to leave on Christmas Eve? I think that’s pushing it a little, but whatever. It’s my schools problem

Owwww. I have a paper cut on my finger, and it hurts so much. It’s like right on the bend on my finger, and it burns XD. Pooey. I hate paper cuts!

Oh yeah, this is my formspring, so ask me something

I’m so excited since my sister is coming home tomorrow night! She has one more final then she is coming home for like 3 weeks? Around there, but yeah. We have a lot of catching up to do Even though I talk to her pretty much everyday on the phone, or on AIM, it is still nice to really hang out with her.

On Wednesday, we are having a Christmas Party with our friends. 6 of my closest friends and my sisters friends are coming over. I am giving them their presents then, since their gifts I can’t bring to school since they are bulky. I got like 25 of my friends gifts. Haha yeah, most of them are like little small things from Bath and Body Works. They smell so yummy XD. I’ve been wrapping presents for who knows how long. I do a little everyday I just need to get my cousin something and I’m done ! Hah FINALLY !

So yeah, this blog is so random. Have to go eat. Quick Questions!

1) Ever get a paper cut?
2) Excited for 2010?
3) What did you think of 2009?

1) YEAH, I hate it.
2) Yeah, but I’m gonna miss 2009!
3) It was great

Did you ever go in a pet store, the ones where you can bring your pet dog or cat? I went to a local pet store that we go to for pet supplies, and it was so cool to see all of the dogs there. There were big ones and small ones. It’s not that I’ve never been there before, but we don’t go a lot since our dog food lasts a long time XD. I walked in and I saw this huge dog. Not as big as a Great Dane, but it was really hairy. It looked like a really fat and light colored Golden Retriever. But I know it wasn’t that. We bought Casey [my dog] some pet food, shampoo, a christmas present, treats, and this spray that makes a dog smell good. Like body spray, but for dogs. It’s cool, I wonder if it’ll work. And we also got to like make a custom bag of dog treats at this little station they have. It’s like a dog salad bar XD. You get a bag and you fill the big with a whole bunch of treats and it was $4 per pound. I got a bag of treats for my cousins dog, Lucky.

Ah on Monday during Health class. We were learning about stress and dealing with stress. Monday, we did an activity to help us relax and relieve the stress from our bodies. We did this meditation thing. It wasn’t your typical meditation though. We would close our eyes and she would talk really softly and described to us what was happening. It was really soothing. We were actually allowed to fall asleep during class! It was awesome. I couldn’t really get totally relaxed since I just kept laughing. But last Friday, my friend did the meditation as well, and she said that this kid got a nosebleed from it. I was like -___-. How do you get a nosebleed from relaxing?! It was so funny

Weee! Only 8 more school days for me until Christmas break! I’m so excited. This past week though, was torture. It took so long. I thought I was never going to make it. I know I say this a lot, but I am serious. Usually I think it’s slow, and then when its over I’m like “Wow that was fast”. Yeah, I never said that once this week. Ah, don’t you hate when your week goes slowly, plus when you’re unproductive?

Thanks for all the wishes for my concert from the last post. Yeah, if I didn’t tell you, the band messed up. Badly. They must’ve been a measure or 2 off casue when we all paused, they went full speed, loud and clear. It was hilarious. All of the orchestra kids were like “Tsk, Tsk” It was funny though. After our last song, we were all like “Wow band, and you guys always said you were better then us” Ha, we proved them wrong, well at this concert

Questions

Are you scared of the future? Yes, one of my greatest phobias
Which do you perfer, Summer or Winter? Summer, definitely.
Did you get your friends any Christmas presents yet? [If you celebrate Christmas] Yess!

Well tomorrow I have my Winter Concert. I have to be there by 6:45 and it is probably going to end at like 8:30-9. Maybe later, depends on how long each group takes. This is the line up for the concert.

• Orchestra: 3 songs
• Full Orchestra: 2 songs
• Chamber Orchestra: 2 songs
• Chorus: 4 songs
• Vocal Soloists
• Band 2 songs

I’m not sure about the band and chorus. I dont know how my songs exactly, but that’s what I heard there are. So I’m in Orchestra, Full orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. So I am playing 7 songs straight -_____-. Our Chamber songs are really hard, but I practiced them so much so that I can play it. I have a rehearsal for the concert tomorrow during school. I get to miss 3^rd, 4^th, and 7^th period. Yay! Ha, I concerts. We don’t do that much work because people are at rehearsals. And the teachers feel bad and they think we wont have time to work on our homework, which is true though ;D

I am also helping out at the 6^th grade concert which is Thursday. I have to be there at the same time, but I don’t have to stay the whole time. Nitasha, Megan and I decided to volunteer and help out. I helped out at the 8^th grade concert last year, but this year I’m helping out with the 6^th since Nitasha and Megan’s sisters are in the concert. They also need community service hours for Honor Society. I got my hours during the summer, so I am done. I get to go on the trip to NYC to see another Broadway play I wonder what we are going to see? I’m excited to find out ;D

I also have a Leaders Club meeting sometime this week. We have to decide what we are going to use the money we raised for. We had different holiday charity ideas, but we are deciding this week. We raised $3000 at the Halloween dance and we are donating it all to a charity. I really want to donate it to an orphanage, but we also might help out at a Cancer “Fun Day” event. Either one would be cool.

OH YEAH. I totally forgot. I bought a new domain and I got it hosted by Tamara. Visit it here. Yup, my mom finally said yes, and I was like “WHOA, okay!” XD. It was exactly 9.17 for the .org domain. I got it from Namenova which is where we paid for my sisters domain and it’s a great place to register your domain name. I moved subdomain hosting there since I dont have much space on Paper-Cranes. I might move Paper-Cranes there, but I really don’t want to leave Bubble. Haha, I just being in the Bubble community ! XDD. Eh, I’ll think about it. You can apply for hosting there and just keep the current hostees on Paper-Cranes. But new hostees will get a .daintyhearts.org subdomain. Eh, what do you think? Any suggestions? That would be really nice

Questions

01. Do you ever run out of blog titles? Hahah yes, all the time. Oh by the way, the title to this blog is one of my orchestra songs XD
02. What do you think I should do, move Paper-Cranes or not? Eh, I don’t know.
03. What’s the weather like currently? Super sunny, but super cold.

update

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New Layout
2 new Scribbles

Random title, I know. ;D

My Thanksgiving break is over. I am going back to school tomorrow. *sigh* Well, it isnt that big a deal, since I like seeing my friends at school. They make going to school worth wild! Ah, I didn’t see many of my friends over the 4 day break. I only saw one of my friends. I did see my sister’s friends though! My sister came home from college for the break and we hung out with her friends. I them! They are like family to us!

Every year, firetrucks in my neighborhood go around with Santa on them and they through these popcorn balls onto our lawns. It is their little gift to us for the upcoming holidays. I didn’t get any though. This weird little girl goes around our streets and takes everyones when she sees the firetruck going down the block. The girl took ours -_-. I remember last year, I was about to go and get it, [literally walking across the grass] when the little girl runs and takes them! I was like WOW. I’M LIKE 3 FEET AWAY. Haha, so yea. That’s why I’ve never had those popcorn balls before! My neighbor gave them to me since she doesn’t eat them. I don’t really like them though. I’d rather prefer eating regular popcorn rather then popcorn balls. Eh whatever, I’ll give them to my friend Kristen, who loves them!

*GASP* I just found Casey lying on her STRAWBERRY bed! LOL My sister bought her a little strawberry looking bed for Christmas last year. Casey really likes sleeping on her normal bed, but she was randomly sleeping on the strawberry! I took a picture to show you guys It’s kind of dark . Ha, and you wont really see the strawberry shape/look of it. But, oh well, I think she looks adorable!

Haha, yea, here’s a full view of the bed:

Yes, it’s dirty XD.

Questions!

01. Favorite smell? Home baked cookies! YUM
02. Favorite smiley? Hmm it is between and xD and :P
03. Last book you read/are currently reading? Currently, My Sister’s Keeper

Happy almost Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it ! I hope everyone who is off enjoys their break! My parents are making Turducken for Thanksgiving. If you dont know what that is, it is a Turkey with a duck inside it and a chicken inside the duck. Yes, we will have leftovers for who knows how long afterwards It is just so yummy though! I have a 4 day break, including Saturday and Sunday. I am gonna spend time with my cousins on Thanksgiving at my house, and we are def. going shopping on Black Friday. Me and my sister have been looking through the ads for any good sales. We are definitely going to get some movies. We are gonna get Up, My Sister’s Keeper and any other movies we can get cheap! I wanna get The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, since I got the first one last year for $2. I dont mind that it came out a couple of years ago, its a good movie and if it’s cheap, why not buy it?

Hehe well, I am trying to convince my parents to get me another domain and possibly paid hosting. We might get a reseller so that me and my sister can share the same plan but have separate Cpanels. Hmm, we’ll see. I am in no rush to get it. I just need help thinking of a name.

Oh well, a few people got their report cards on Saturday, but I didnt I know my main subject averages though! Here they are: Math: 96, Science 98, English 96, Social Studies 99, Italian 100. Whoop! Haha yea, I’m a nerddd Psh, I’m suprised I got a 99 in Social Studies. My teacher is really not that good, and she gave us only one test this whole quarter! It’s like 10-12 weeks of school and 1 test. -____- we are dreadfully behind in Social Studies.

Well, I have a terrible cold. It is mainly just an extremely runny/stuffy nose. I absolutely hate it. BLAH. But while i was sick, I got to make a cool emoticon set. I was really bored since my parents went to visit my sister and I didnt want to go since I was sick. Besides, I am going to see her on Tuesday when she comes home.

Haha well I shall end here becuase I have an annoying throbbing pain in my head.

Questions

01. Any good domain name suggestions? I can never think of any good ones
02. Ever hear of Turducken? Yeah. My parents made it sometimes last year.
03, Favorite snack to munch on when you’re bored? Fruit; strawberries, grapes, nectarines, peaches, apples, etc

Ahh yea, so Friday, the first quarter of school ended ! WHOOP! I made it through a quarter. Now, next mission, make it through the 2^nd and pass the midterms. This year, the school added another final. We are gonna have Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Italian and now, Health. Blah, 6 finals. That sucks. Thankfully, this year is my last year in the school, so I only have to take it this year. If I was in 7^th grade this year, I would have to take it this year, and in 8^th. I should get my report cards by like next week or something. Maybe if I’m lucky, I’ll get it on Friday ! I just wanna see how I am doing in my classes. I think i actually did good in gym ! That would be a first.

Right now, I am looking at Black Friday Ads. For some of you who don’t know what Black Friday is, it is the day after Thanksgiving. A few years ago, we would stay up all night outside waiting for the stores to open on Black Friday. You probably think I am a freak since it is almost winter, and I use to stay up all night, outside in the freezing cold. Well, we stayed up because you can get really good things if you stay up late. We stayed up one year for a laptop that was half the original price. Then the next year, we stayed up to get a flat screen TV. Last year, we didnt stay up, but in the morning we went to the stores to go shopping. We got lots of stuff, clothes, like 20 DVD’s, games, etc. Oh, how I Black Friday. What great bargains! I wonder if we are gonna stay up this year…depends if anything worth staying up for is on sale.

So I’ve been thinking about getting another domain name, but my parents arent letting me get another one, at least not anytime soon. They don’t understand the whole thing about having multiple domains. Maybe, if I sit down and explain to them, they will actually understand. They arent very website-savy XD. I am hoping to get a free one, somehow. Got any suggestions? I want to use the domain as like a personal site, with like my doodles, blog, and just random stuff, since I have a wordpress blog, and hosting but its kinda annoying since I cant like personalize the CSS without paying. Hmm. *Sigh* XP

Questions
1. Do you ever go shopping on Black Friday?
2. Suggestions on a way to get a free domain? Competitions? Something?
3. What shampoo do you use ? [RANDOM :D]

Answers
1. Yup ! So much fun
2. Hmm you tell me please !
3. Head & Shoulders ! XDD