I love kittens. They are so fluffy and cute and fun and I WANT ONE. I have wanted a kitten forever, and no, I do not have one yet. My friend recently got a new kitten, and it just made me realize how much I want one. I actually had a kitten for about a day when I was around three years old, but then I had an allergic reaction, so we had to take it back. Poor cat. WHY ON EARTH DID MY BODY THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO BE ALLERGIC TO CATS?! I could have a cat today... but I don't. Now, my mom loves cats too, and also wants one. So, why don't I have a cat? Because I have a dog. My dog is crazy, too. My parents don't think that she would get used to a cat or a kitten, or any other animal being in the house. I disagree, because I know people who have way crazier dogs than I do, and those dogs got used to the cats, so why can't we just have the dog get used to the cat? My parents also say that they spend enough money on the dog, and they don't want to have to spend that much money on a cat. Well, first of all, the dog get sick or injured every 10 seconds, and I guarantee that the cat wouldn't do that. Also, they say that I don't take care of the dog enough. Well, I don't have to take this cat for walks now do I. No. I don't. So just buy me a kitten already.
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So, I have no real topic to blog about, so I'm just going to talk about my week just so you know what it feels like to be me. So this week was red ribbon week, which was pretty fun I guess. It made the week before Halloween a little more interesting. The week before Halloween is always a really slow and sort of depressing week for me. I love Halloween so much, it is my favorite holiday. The week before I am always so excited for Halloween to come, so I just can't wait to each day of that week to end, so life gets mad at me for that and makes each day of that week go by very slowly. Red Ribbon week made it go by not so slowly. I got to wear a cool hat to school that had a turtle on it, and I love turtles, and then I got to wear the most comfortable pants to school, because it was pajama day and I often sleep in them, and then I got to dress like a pumpkin on wacky day with my friend, which was SUPER fun. I really enjoy dressing up because it reminds me of Halloween. This week it was more difficult for me to do things, like my homework, or participate in gym class, because I would get distracted by daydreaming or talking about Halloween. And then, on Thursday when I was just having a great day and enjoying the fact that I was dressed like a pumpkin, I came home from volleyball and got some news that really crushed my mood. I'm getting a C in gym. A C. In GYM. Just think about that for a minute. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO GET A C IN GYM?! My first explanation was the fact that my gym teacher just hates me. (I hope she doesn't see this). But then I talked to her, and she said that I talked to much and that it needed to stop. Wow. SHOCKER. Thanks John. So, my mom grounded me this weekend. Oh yay. It is the weekend before Halloween and I am grounded with nothing to do but think about the fact that Halloween is in four days. At least I got to Halloween shopping with my friend. During shopping a scary lady came up to me and asked me and my friend it we wanted to be models or it commercials and that she had been watching us in American Apparel and that we have real star quality. Creepy. Then I came home and watched some Friends. I love that show. And then I woke up today, made and apple pie, and then spent about 10 hours doing four math problems. I'm a loser and this is my life. #foreveralone
So I know many people have talked about music already, But I think that it is my turn to give my input. It is like nature's medicine... or drug. I am proud to say that I am addicted to music. I love it. I live it. I'm not sure what I would do without it. I sing all the time, and I love to just listen, too. But there is a certain kind of music that seems to be really big right now, and it just isn't my thing, and everyone thinks that I am crazy. Country. I can't stand it. It is always about the same thing and it all sounds the same. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind a Taylor Swift song every once in a while, but she is more pop country. I just have a problem with country. It's not like the people are bad singers or musicians or anything. I just don't like how it all sounds the same. I like a song that sounds like nothing I have ever heard before. People always say, "How can you NOT love country? It is so chill!" There is other chill music out there people... I'm a big fan or Indie music. All of those clever and very talented undiscovered artists. They really inspire me. They may not have as many fans as Lady Gaga, but they just keep going for the sake of music, and it is just really cool. These people aren't in it for the money or the fame. They are in it because they love it and they have a gift so this is what they were meant to do. Like my dad. I recently got really into a song called The Big Bang by Rock Mafia. It's some good stuff. I'm listening to it right now. Anyway, I just love music. But I love different music than most people.
This weekend was a very fun and interesting weekend. I got to go to Pittsburgh to visit my stepsister who goes to college there. At first I didn't want to go, but now I know that I would regret not going. The first fun part was actually the 7 hour car ride. I slept and watched The Hunger Games and Grown Ups. Great movies. When we got there, we went to Julia's (my stepsister) apartment. It was really cool and I really wanted to live there. After that we went out to dinner. I had a salad. WITH STAKE AND FRENCH FRIES IN IT!!! It was amazing. After that, we went back to the hotel and slept because we had a big day ahead of us. The next day, we woke up, had a nice breakfast buffet, and left the hotel to take the trail to Heinz Stadium where we would watch the Pittsburgh vs. Louisville football game from the student section! It was really cool because the student section is right behind the field goal! I really enjoyed meeting all of Julia's friends, too. They were all very funny. I don't really understand football, but I get it a little more after watching it. In the end, Pitt lost, but it was a great game. After the game, we went shopping for some new Pitt stuff. I got some awesome sweatpants and a T-shirt. I can't wait to wear them! Then, at about 4 we had lunch... it was a little late for lunch, but I don't really care about that because it was still food. After lunch, we almost went swimming in the hotel but then didn't feel like it, so then my other stepsister Rachel did my hair and then at 9:30 we went out to dinner to a fabulous seafood restaurant. Then I went to bed because I was so gosh darn tired. We woke up on our last day and gt some bagels for breakfast. After that, we went to an amazing place called Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.It was an amateur photographer's dream! That would be me... You will see some of the pictures I took at the bottom of this blog. I took about 100, but those are my favorite. We left finally and went to a place called Peace, Love, and Little Doughnuts. They make little doughnuts that taste like gourmet cake. And that was it. After we eight our little doughnuts, we started on our wonderful 7 hour car ride home. I wish Julia lived closer so we could see her all the time!
Hi my name is Lizzie and I hate scary things. So as you may know, it is around the time of year where scary things happen.... October... Halloween... Scary Movies.... Haunted house... I hate it all. Except for Halloween. THAT I can deal with. I have some friends though who love the thrill of being scared. My good friend Maddie, for example. Tonight, Maddie wanted to go to a haunted house in Melrose Park called "Dream Reapers". We didn't think it would be that bad at first, and we thought that we would be okay going on our own, just us two. Then we really thought about it, and we looked at some pictures, so we decided that it was a little scarier than we thought. We thought it might be a good idea to invite some more people. Only a few could come, and we thought, okay maybe just three of us will be alright. Then Maddie said, "Hey, let's watch a video of someone in this haunted house, because then we will get to see what it is like inside!" And I thought, 'Okay, it can't be THAT bad, it's just people in weird costumes'. So, we watched the video... HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL. It was so very scary. There were bleeding babies, Jack in the Boxes eating their own toes, and bloody clowns running around with machetes screaming "AYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!" We thought that we should invite some more people. Well just our luck no one else could come, and our third person bailed. It took a while of arguing, phone calls, and stressed out moms to figure out if we were going to go. No. We weren't. We just didn't feel like dying on this fine Sunday night. So we may have chickened out on this one, but maybe I will try a little harder not to freak out next time. I'm trying to man up a bit and face my fears of scary things. Let's hope I can get through this October without getting crazy scared.
There is an actress and her name is Ariana Grande and I love her. She is really funny and pretty, but the thing that I love most about her is her hair. Her hair is naturally dark brown, but f you haven't seen her hair recently, she has bright red hair, but it is a sort of fake red. You could also look at the picture on this blog. In this picture is when she had much darker hair, and at the end of this blog is a picture of her brighter hair. Anyway, ever since I saw Ariana I always wanted her hair. The first time I saw her I was like 9 though, so my mom wouldn't let me die my hair, which is reasonable. But, as you know, I went to a Northwestern, and my mom made a deal with me. She told me that if I pass my class at Northwestern that she would think of something for me to do so that I could earn the money to die my hair. I passed the class, so about a week ago, my mom said that I could die my hair this Friday. I was so very very very excited. She called up my friend's mom and I got an appointment. I had been nervous all week leading up to it, but I was also so excited and I just couldn't wait! But I had to. So on Friday, I looked at the clock so much. I got more excited and nervous period after period. Finally, tenth period was over and I sprinted outside to go to my friend's house. We walked there after school and her mom started right when we got there. It took a very long time of just sitting and waiting. Once she finished, it looked great! But, I wanted it a little more rad. I'm a little picky. Then, we had to do it again. After the whole process was finished two hours later, I LOVED IT. I'm really glad I did it and I am so thankful that it turned out OK and that my friends and family love it, too! So, this is sort of a positive rant about The Hunger Games. I recently finished the last book in the series. The series was very good as a whole serious, but each book got worse by a little bit. None of them were terrible, but the third one lacked a little bit. I felt like the author didn't know what to do with some of he characters, so she killed them off for no apparent reason. I know that the author had gotten a lot of complaints about the first two books and that they were disturbing and that the author was sick-minded, but I never really agreed with that until the third book. I felt as though some parts were very disturbing and too graphic. But, the third book did have really good closure and a very unexpected ending, which I will not reveal on here. After I finished all three books I watched the first movie. It was really good compared to the book. I feel like they did a really good job even though some of the characters were not as I pictured them... Peeta especially. But, even though he didn't look the part, he really felt the part. Which was awesome. They left out some minor details that made the Games a little creepier, but it would've been hard to explain them, so it was ok that they left that part out. I am so very excited for the second movie. I saw the casting list, and I think that they did a pretty good job! I hope that they do the second movie justice because it was so good. I am a little nervous though because someone else is directing the second one that the 1st one. I think that it will be OK though, since most of the original actors are still in it. I would love to here other people's thoughts on The Hunger Games!!!
This weekend seemed like a normal weekend for most people. It wasn't long, no holidays big holidays, but it was actually very special for me. This weekend some family from my dad's side came into town. They drove about 7 hours to get to Chicago from Sheffield, Iowa. It's quite the drive, so I was thrilled that they were willing to do it in order to stay here for only a couple of days. But, even before they came, I got to do something special that I thought was really cool. I got to go to my dad's work and help him out. He works for a band called Wilco and they are going on tour soon, so I got to go help my dad get ready and prepare everything for the tour. I got to meet some cool people, too. After a hard day at work we went home and my Iowa family was already making themselves at home in our apartment! I was so excited to see everyone. Right away we ordered a pizza, watched The Hunger Games, and laughed or butts off. All of us had a big day, so at the end of it, we all crashed pretty hard. It was actually kind of funny because if you just walked in and explored the apartment, there were various family members sleeping in weird places all throughout the house. The next morning we woke up bright and early to go shopping in downtown Chicago. I found this activity special, which is strange because I live here. Funny how it takes people from out of town to get you to do something in your own city! We wanted to get out of the house at around nine o'clock, but everyone took a really long time to get ready, so we ended up leaving at about ten-thirty. We got into the city at about eleven-thirty, and everyone was hungry, so we decided to stop into The Cheesecake Factory for an early lunch. We all made he mistake of ordering HUGE meals, so we were too full to get cheesecake for dessert. My whole family was almost too full to walk, but we toughed it out and made our way over to H&M and some other stores like that. We bought some pretty cool things, like a hat I bought that I ended up wearing right after we got out of the store. After that we decided to walk to Millennium Park. We then realized that it was about 11 blocks away, and we had all been there before, so we decided to shop some more before we had to leave. We would have had more time to walk over to the Bean, but we got sidetracked by one of those "Tin Men" wearing all silver and silver paint. Once he stopped moving for a little, we started moving over to Water Tower Place. We bought some cool stuff in there, and even got frozen yogurt! Yummy!!! Our last stop was the Hershey Factory. We got some stuff for my little cousins back in Iowa, we got extra long Twizzlers, and a customized Hershey bar! After we were all chocolated out, we headed back to my dad's house. We packed up our stuff because my mom was coming to get my cousin Isabelle and me so that we could sleep over at my mom's house. We went out to a really cool sushi restaurant where your sushi comes to you on a boat. We go there every year as a sort of tradition. Then we went back to my mom's house and watched some TV and then went to bed. We were so very tired! This morning my family came to pick up Isabelle after a nice visit and breakfast of bagels and cream cheese. Now I'm doing my homework and realizing that this blog is way too long, but I have one more thing to say. Tonight is Rosh Hashanah, a Jewish holiday, and I'm very excited! This is my first blog, so here goes. For years I have been searching for a sport that I am truly passionate about, and I think I may have found it. Last year I tried out for Lincoln's girls volleyball team. I hadn't practiced much previous to the tryout, and I had never played on a team in my life. I barely made the volleyball team. Even though I was on the team, I didn't get much playing time due to my lack of experience. I know that if I want to make the team again this year I will have to work my butt off and train a lot before tryouts. My family helped me look for a good volleyball coach so that I could train with a coach to get better. My step sister also plays volleyball, so we started taking private lessons at Energy Volleyball. I have volleyball every Tuesday and I have had 2 training sessions so far. I really enjoy going and after to only 2 sessions I can already see improvements in my playing! Our coach works us so hard with multiple bumping, setting, and spiking drills. Sometimes I get so worn out during volleyball that I just want to quit and sit down right there in the middle of the court, but I know that I can't and I just have to keep pushing myself to get better. Last week's session was especially tiring. It was about 85 degrees outside, and inside Energy it was about 90 degrees. We did mostly spiking drills which is a lot of running and jumping, and on top of that we had to do 50 jump ropes on two feet, 10 jump ropes on your right foot, and 10 jump ropes on your left foot in between each drill after we ran to shag all of the balls we hit. After we shagged the balls , we had to run to one side of the court, bump a ball, run back, bump a ball and repeat that about 30 times. We also did various serving drills and every time we missed, we had to do 10 push-ups. It was all VERY hard work, but even though I was hotter than I ever thought I could be, and sorer than I was after hiking a mountain in Alaska, I have to admit. It is really fun. I can't wait to see how our coach wears us out this week. I'm really looking forward to it. After all, I'm working so hard, and I know it is going to pay off in the end. Why wouldn't I be excited?!?!
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