i just typed up a whole long blog for you people. It didn't post.
I won't retype it now though, cuz that just made me mad.
:p
Friday, March 20, 2009
Driver's Ed.
Hey, I found my other thing I wrote before about Drivers Ed, this is it. Yea, it's better than that quick one I wrote up just now.
This week Driver's Ed. started.
Basically, it's ten days, 3 hours a day, all on weekdays. This week was three days(Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). Then all of next week and only Monday and Tuesday of the week after that, and then I will be done!
Hopefully I'll pass my permit test.
It still doesn't quite seem like I'm old enough to be learning how to drive, like I shouldn't be doing this, but I guess we all grow up, day by day, whether or not we accept that.
Well, so far, the class is all right. There are mostly all people from my school and my grade. That's nice. I don't really like doing stuff where I am without anyone who is familiar to me. I feel kind of lost in places unfamiliar to me and being surrounded by strangers. Which is strange, I don't think I was always that way. But whatever.
The man who teaches us is, well, sort of boring. I don't mean to sound or be mean, because he seems really nice, but yea, he is a bit on the aburrido side.He basically tells us what to read for the next class and then he pretty much reitterates what we did read.
For instance, Wednesday night we read about road signs. Today he spent an hour (an hour! And yes, I kept count--there isn't much to do and today I had a good view of the clock), he spent an hour talking about yield and stop signs. Then he said, 'So that's basically yield and stop signs in a nutshell'. In a nutshell?! It was an hour of talk and scenarios about yield and stop signs! Maybe that doesn't sound crazy to you, but it was sort of frustrating for me.
Ummmmmm.....
This week not much happened. Except for that Driver's Training. And I'm not used to having something after school, and it runs from 3:30-6:30, so I get home, eat, do homework, shower, do more homework, devotional, bed. Pretty much that is all I've been doing. No time for reading what I want at home, no time for perusing movies on Netflix(new hobby--if-you-can-call-it-that), no YouTube, no typing up little stories or chatting on MSN, no time to go update my Facebook(all right, i just checked it now), no time to spend with my dog or cats or outside at all, and it was nice earlier this week, now it's cold again :( , and of course no time to type up a long blog in which I seem to go on and on about my problems and who really wants to read that anyways? Basically, I'm having a hard time adjusting, and am really tired by the time I get home from Driver's Ed. I will be happy when this is over.
I am watching 'Sister Act' (starring Whoopi Goldberg) right now with my mom. Well, I'm not really paying attention. It has it's funny scenes.
F.Y.I. - Catch Me If You Can is definately a favorite movie of mine!(I don't know if I've mentioned that before) I like it so much! And yes, Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredible young actor in this movie!
Oh, an awesome upside to Driver's Ed. is that I have to ride the bus over to the town next to mine. I get to ride next to my friend, Vickie! And then I get to see Bailey and Kinzie and Milan too! And everyone else. Yea, I like riding the bus now. I rode it once when I was in Kindergarten, my older brother rode it too, and I thought he would look out for me like he does at our house. I was wrong. There was no place for me to sit and I was so little and shy that I squeezed in next to him with like half of my bottom on the seat and the bus went around a curve and I almost fell off. Plus all of the boys were making fun of me because I was so little and scared. My first bus experiance was a terrible one. But now it's all good.
I am going to leave you to take a longed-for hot bath. This was an incredibly LONG week!
This week Driver's Ed. started.
Basically, it's ten days, 3 hours a day, all on weekdays. This week was three days(Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). Then all of next week and only Monday and Tuesday of the week after that, and then I will be done!
Hopefully I'll pass my permit test.
It still doesn't quite seem like I'm old enough to be learning how to drive, like I shouldn't be doing this, but I guess we all grow up, day by day, whether or not we accept that.
Well, so far, the class is all right. There are mostly all people from my school and my grade. That's nice. I don't really like doing stuff where I am without anyone who is familiar to me. I feel kind of lost in places unfamiliar to me and being surrounded by strangers. Which is strange, I don't think I was always that way. But whatever.
The man who teaches us is, well, sort of boring. I don't mean to sound or be mean, because he seems really nice, but yea, he is a bit on the aburrido side.He basically tells us what to read for the next class and then he pretty much reitterates what we did read.
For instance, Wednesday night we read about road signs. Today he spent an hour (an hour! And yes, I kept count--there isn't much to do and today I had a good view of the clock), he spent an hour talking about yield and stop signs. Then he said, 'So that's basically yield and stop signs in a nutshell'. In a nutshell?! It was an hour of talk and scenarios about yield and stop signs! Maybe that doesn't sound crazy to you, but it was sort of frustrating for me.
Ummmmmm.....
This week not much happened. Except for that Driver's Training. And I'm not used to having something after school, and it runs from 3:30-6:30, so I get home, eat, do homework, shower, do more homework, devotional, bed. Pretty much that is all I've been doing. No time for reading what I want at home, no time for perusing movies on Netflix(new hobby--if-you-can-call-it-that), no YouTube, no typing up little stories or chatting on MSN, no time to go update my Facebook(all right, i just checked it now), no time to spend with my dog or cats or outside at all, and it was nice earlier this week, now it's cold again :( , and of course no time to type up a long blog in which I seem to go on and on about my problems and who really wants to read that anyways? Basically, I'm having a hard time adjusting, and am really tired by the time I get home from Driver's Ed. I will be happy when this is over.
I am watching 'Sister Act' (starring Whoopi Goldberg) right now with my mom. Well, I'm not really paying attention. It has it's funny scenes.
F.Y.I. - Catch Me If You Can is definately a favorite movie of mine!(I don't know if I've mentioned that before) I like it so much! And yes, Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredible young actor in this movie!
Oh, an awesome upside to Driver's Ed. is that I have to ride the bus over to the town next to mine. I get to ride next to my friend, Vickie! And then I get to see Bailey and Kinzie and Milan too! And everyone else. Yea, I like riding the bus now. I rode it once when I was in Kindergarten, my older brother rode it too, and I thought he would look out for me like he does at our house. I was wrong. There was no place for me to sit and I was so little and shy that I squeezed in next to him with like half of my bottom on the seat and the bus went around a curve and I almost fell off. Plus all of the boys were making fun of me because I was so little and scared. My first bus experiance was a terrible one. But now it's all good.
I am going to leave you to take a longed-for hot bath. This was an incredibly LONG week!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
My Weekend @ My Cousins'
I haven't updated you in a while.
Here I go.
I didn't go to school on Friday. I was sick, but mostly I think it was just stress. I sort of was freaking out.
I went to my cousins' house on Friday evening. I love being with them, I smile and laugh so much that my cheeks are sore and hurt. I had a great day, we pretty much just surfed YouTube, found some hilarious videos, and I introduced my cousin Nick to the most addicting and cute game I have ever played on the computer. It's called Super Stackers. We beat Super Stackers 1 pretty fast, then moved on to Super Stackers 2 which has 40 levels (Super Stackers 1 only had 12).
By the time we finally went to bed Friday night, it was actually like 2:30 or 3:00, we were past level 35, I think. We were stuck on 36. So, the next morning when I woke up really late, my cousin was already up and had been up for like ten minutes and passed the level. It was awesome. We sort of get obsessed over stuff like that.
Then Ashley came downstairs, she went to bed before we started playing Super Stackers, and we showed her what it was and how to play and she was really good at it; she got us through two really hard levels.
Me and Ash were sort of getting sick of the computer, but Nick was only staying like another hour before he had to go to the gym (he's a gymnast, and a very good one too!), so we stayed with him and helped him with some levels and watched. Then it was just me and Ashley. We never know what to do, we just keep saying 'What do you want to do?' 'I don't care, what do you want to do?'.
So, I started finding Supernatural vids on YouTube, because I'd shown her and Nick a few episodes before and watched a Halloween-type episode of Season 3, I think, at their house with them. So I asked if she wanted to watch an episode and she said okay and told me to pick a good one.
Well, I chose 'Playthings' since I had just watched it not that long ago and it has a few good lines/scenes that I really like. Then I thought, 'well, she should see 'Pilot' since it's the first episode and sort of explains why they are how they are.' So we watched Pilot too, I forgot, I thought it had their dad in it, but it doesn't.(Well, except for in the flashback part, before the fire.)
Then we went upstairs, I absolutely adore their house, it feels like home to me.
We talked to Ash's mom, my Aunt Sally, and then we left, the 3 of us, for Northwest Bookstore. It's an absolutely awesome Christian bookstore that I love.
Ashley loves it too, and we could probably spend hours there.
I got two books, I don't remember what they're called and I don't want to go look right now, but both of them look really good. I can't wait to read them, but I need to finish at least two of the books I've started before I start another one.
That's what I've told myself at least.
Then we went back to their house and I saw 'Baby Momma' for the first time, they have it. It was pretty good, but I'd have to see it again to figure out if I like it or not. It's weird, I'm like that a lot with movies now, I like watching them twice before I say whether I like it or not. Unless it was totally awesome and I loved like the whole thing(that would be Pirates of the Caribbean 1&2, National Treasure, and The Outsiders, to name a few).
Hannah, I am really sad to hear about you closing your blog. Are you still going to read mine and Vinz's?
I am going to look into getting some Underoath music and also Children 18:3, and I need to check out this band, I think it's called Me Without You, but I'm not sure. I've heard a few of his songs though, interesting.
Thanks Anna, I really love music now and am exploring a little bit by myself, of course with tons of help from The Refuge. :-)
♥
God bless!
♥
~Tara
Here I go.
I didn't go to school on Friday. I was sick, but mostly I think it was just stress. I sort of was freaking out.
I went to my cousins' house on Friday evening. I love being with them, I smile and laugh so much that my cheeks are sore and hurt. I had a great day, we pretty much just surfed YouTube, found some hilarious videos, and I introduced my cousin Nick to the most addicting and cute game I have ever played on the computer. It's called Super Stackers. We beat Super Stackers 1 pretty fast, then moved on to Super Stackers 2 which has 40 levels (Super Stackers 1 only had 12).
By the time we finally went to bed Friday night, it was actually like 2:30 or 3:00, we were past level 35, I think. We were stuck on 36. So, the next morning when I woke up really late, my cousin was already up and had been up for like ten minutes and passed the level. It was awesome. We sort of get obsessed over stuff like that.
Then Ashley came downstairs, she went to bed before we started playing Super Stackers, and we showed her what it was and how to play and she was really good at it; she got us through two really hard levels.
Me and Ash were sort of getting sick of the computer, but Nick was only staying like another hour before he had to go to the gym (he's a gymnast, and a very good one too!), so we stayed with him and helped him with some levels and watched. Then it was just me and Ashley. We never know what to do, we just keep saying 'What do you want to do?' 'I don't care, what do you want to do?'.
So, I started finding Supernatural vids on YouTube, because I'd shown her and Nick a few episodes before and watched a Halloween-type episode of Season 3, I think, at their house with them. So I asked if she wanted to watch an episode and she said okay and told me to pick a good one.
Well, I chose 'Playthings' since I had just watched it not that long ago and it has a few good lines/scenes that I really like. Then I thought, 'well, she should see 'Pilot' since it's the first episode and sort of explains why they are how they are.' So we watched Pilot too, I forgot, I thought it had their dad in it, but it doesn't.(Well, except for in the flashback part, before the fire.)
Then we went upstairs, I absolutely adore their house, it feels like home to me.
We talked to Ash's mom, my Aunt Sally, and then we left, the 3 of us, for Northwest Bookstore. It's an absolutely awesome Christian bookstore that I love.
Ashley loves it too, and we could probably spend hours there.
I got two books, I don't remember what they're called and I don't want to go look right now, but both of them look really good. I can't wait to read them, but I need to finish at least two of the books I've started before I start another one.
That's what I've told myself at least.
Then we went back to their house and I saw 'Baby Momma' for the first time, they have it. It was pretty good, but I'd have to see it again to figure out if I like it or not. It's weird, I'm like that a lot with movies now, I like watching them twice before I say whether I like it or not. Unless it was totally awesome and I loved like the whole thing(that would be Pirates of the Caribbean 1&2, National Treasure, and The Outsiders, to name a few).
Hannah, I am really sad to hear about you closing your blog. Are you still going to read mine and Vinz's?
I am going to look into getting some Underoath music and also Children 18:3, and I need to check out this band, I think it's called Me Without You, but I'm not sure. I've heard a few of his songs though, interesting.
Thanks Anna, I really love music now and am exploring a little bit by myself, of course with tons of help from The Refuge. :-)
♥
God bless!
♥
~Tara
Monday, March 9, 2009
HeartBeats
Am I weird, (Pakou will say yes), or do other people also like to feel their heart beat?
I mean, sometimes, I just like to put my hand to my neck and feel my pulse. The steady 'tha-thump..tha-thump..tha-thump' is so calming. Reassuring. I like it.
Last night I could not fall asleep. Seriously, I was wide awake and could not put my mind to rest. So I was feeling my heart beat, trying to calm down. Sadly, it didn't help like it usually does. But it made me think about it; how a heart beat can reassure me. It's steady and constant. I feel the blood pumping through me, and I am reassured that I am alive. Some times, like yesterday morning, I have to assure myself that I am alive and that I should live before I get out of bed. Sunday morning I couldn't. It took me hours. I just wanted to sleep all day and ignore life. I like sleep. I don't get to sleep much. Not as much as I want to. Blast insomnia! And with all of these weird dreams intruding on me, the sleep I have been getting is starting to wake me up. I had a dream in which I threatened a girl I know, I said I was going to kill her and I started to chase her. Luckily I woke up before anything happened, and then it took me a long time to fall back asleep after that. The dreams aren't even like normal dreams. They feel different. And they freak me out, not only with their content, but also because I cannot control them. Usually, in normal dreams, I have some sort of control over what happens, or else I can change it to my favor. In these dreams I've been getting, I have no control over anything that happens. Sometimes I'm not even me, I mean, I'm not in my body. It is so strange, I'm not used to it. I don't know if I will get used to it.
What was I talking about?
Oh, yea, feeling my heartbeat.
So, I find it reassuring and I like it.
Oh, and I found that on Sunday morning my mind finally wandered to my friends at school and then my grandma, and the thought of her is what made me get up and say, 'I need to be alive and live'. So, I asked my mom if we could visit my grandma and grandpa that day. And we did. I took a picture of them, I want to put it in my room so that when I wake up I see them smiling and I want to get up. Like encouragement. I love them so much.
Oh, on a whole nother note, my digital camera wasn't working yesterday.I tried to hook it up to my computer, but it would not copy the pictures over. It is completely full. I am hoping to work on it today and make it work.
The bell is going to ring in like five minutes. (Yes, I'm done with my assignment, it was sort of like a free day for me) [And Milan's slide shows are all AWESOME!]
God bless you peoples!
~TARA
I mean, sometimes, I just like to put my hand to my neck and feel my pulse. The steady 'tha-thump..tha-thump..tha-thump' is so calming. Reassuring. I like it.
Last night I could not fall asleep. Seriously, I was wide awake and could not put my mind to rest. So I was feeling my heart beat, trying to calm down. Sadly, it didn't help like it usually does. But it made me think about it; how a heart beat can reassure me. It's steady and constant. I feel the blood pumping through me, and I am reassured that I am alive. Some times, like yesterday morning, I have to assure myself that I am alive and that I should live before I get out of bed. Sunday morning I couldn't. It took me hours. I just wanted to sleep all day and ignore life. I like sleep. I don't get to sleep much. Not as much as I want to. Blast insomnia! And with all of these weird dreams intruding on me, the sleep I have been getting is starting to wake me up. I had a dream in which I threatened a girl I know, I said I was going to kill her and I started to chase her. Luckily I woke up before anything happened, and then it took me a long time to fall back asleep after that. The dreams aren't even like normal dreams. They feel different. And they freak me out, not only with their content, but also because I cannot control them. Usually, in normal dreams, I have some sort of control over what happens, or else I can change it to my favor. In these dreams I've been getting, I have no control over anything that happens. Sometimes I'm not even me, I mean, I'm not in my body. It is so strange, I'm not used to it. I don't know if I will get used to it.
What was I talking about?
Oh, yea, feeling my heartbeat.
So, I find it reassuring and I like it.
Oh, and I found that on Sunday morning my mind finally wandered to my friends at school and then my grandma, and the thought of her is what made me get up and say, 'I need to be alive and live'. So, I asked my mom if we could visit my grandma and grandpa that day. And we did. I took a picture of them, I want to put it in my room so that when I wake up I see them smiling and I want to get up. Like encouragement. I love them so much.
Oh, on a whole nother note, my digital camera wasn't working yesterday.I tried to hook it up to my computer, but it would not copy the pictures over. It is completely full. I am hoping to work on it today and make it work.
The bell is going to ring in like five minutes. (Yes, I'm done with my assignment, it was sort of like a free day for me) [And Milan's slide shows are all AWESOME!]
God bless you peoples!
~TARA
Saturday, March 7, 2009
So hey everyone. It's been a little while, I know.
I'm sorry.
I just got a Facebook. Literally, maybe like a half hour ago.
Yea, I don't know how often I'll use it, I don't really like the way that it's set up.
Anyways.
Now Emily and Hannah and everyone else can stop bugging me to get one.
I really wish I had more to say.
Oh, I know!
My friend Lidia and her mom and dad and three little brothers came over today!
Lidia is 9, but she is so mature. She wants a horse more than anything else I think. She also wants either a mouse or a rat, and she loves my two rats. Her and her brother Oden, I think he's like 6 or 7, and then Axel, who is I want to say 3 or possibly 4, had fun watching my rats. Lidia held Firenze for a while and Oden did too. We didn't let Axel, small kids tend to squeeze animals by accident and rats are fairly fragile, however, he did pet Firenze and Venice and liked watching them but he really wanted to hold one. He kept saying 'hold head' like he wanted to grab their heads, but he didn't. That's good.
I had so much fun! Lidia is just awesome!
We played a fun horse game she and one of her other friends made up, that was fun, she knows so much about horses she was trying to teach me. I learned a little bit at least.
We played Foosball too! I love Foosball, it's been so long since I'd played, no one ever wants to play with me. But we played, and that was so much fun. I don't know if I ever stopped smiling. She taught me how to play Crazy 8's. And we played War. It was so much fun, wow.
Then right before she left she wanted to help me clean out the rats' cage because I needed to clean it out. So she helped me. She loves animals, too.
I feel great today.
I was a little worried since it's Saturday and I slept in and I took my pill two hours later than normal, I was afraid I would get weird while Lidia was here, but luckily I didn't! I didn't at all today.
I had a crazy weird dream that would scare normal people but hardly phased me at all last night. I don't want to go into it though, people would find it disturbing. But I had to tell you all. I have been having tons of weird dreams.
Did you watch the new Mitchell Davis video that I uploaded? It was so funny, I watched it twice!
I will update again soon.
I hope.
God bless and watch over you this weekend.
Much love,
~Tara
I'm sorry.
I just got a Facebook. Literally, maybe like a half hour ago.
Yea, I don't know how often I'll use it, I don't really like the way that it's set up.
Anyways.
Now Emily and Hannah and everyone else can stop bugging me to get one.
I really wish I had more to say.
Oh, I know!
My friend Lidia and her mom and dad and three little brothers came over today!
Lidia is 9, but she is so mature. She wants a horse more than anything else I think. She also wants either a mouse or a rat, and she loves my two rats. Her and her brother Oden, I think he's like 6 or 7, and then Axel, who is I want to say 3 or possibly 4, had fun watching my rats. Lidia held Firenze for a while and Oden did too. We didn't let Axel, small kids tend to squeeze animals by accident and rats are fairly fragile, however, he did pet Firenze and Venice and liked watching them but he really wanted to hold one. He kept saying 'hold head' like he wanted to grab their heads, but he didn't. That's good.
I had so much fun! Lidia is just awesome!
We played a fun horse game she and one of her other friends made up, that was fun, she knows so much about horses she was trying to teach me. I learned a little bit at least.
We played Foosball too! I love Foosball, it's been so long since I'd played, no one ever wants to play with me. But we played, and that was so much fun. I don't know if I ever stopped smiling. She taught me how to play Crazy 8's. And we played War. It was so much fun, wow.
Then right before she left she wanted to help me clean out the rats' cage because I needed to clean it out. So she helped me. She loves animals, too.
I feel great today.
I was a little worried since it's Saturday and I slept in and I took my pill two hours later than normal, I was afraid I would get weird while Lidia was here, but luckily I didn't! I didn't at all today.
I had a crazy weird dream that would scare normal people but hardly phased me at all last night. I don't want to go into it though, people would find it disturbing. But I had to tell you all. I have been having tons of weird dreams.
Did you watch the new Mitchell Davis video that I uploaded? It was so funny, I watched it twice!
I will update again soon.
I hope.
God bless and watch over you this weekend.
Much love,
~Tara
Sunday, March 1, 2009
oh, i know!
By the way, for anyone wondering, the song that goes with the video Supernatural: Folsom Prison Blues is called Renegade by Styx
Thought that I'd tell you, because I have come to really like that song. : )
Thought that I'd tell you, because I have come to really like that song. : )
Gran Torino - Official Trailer
You guessed it: yesterday I saw Gran Torino.
I went to the theatre with no idea, really, of what to expect.
Of course Clint Eastwood was excellent and extraordinarily convincing!
The boy who played Thao was also very convincing and I rather liked him, he reminded me of Chi-Chi just a little bit, but maybe that's just because they're both Hmong. Is that prejudiced? Well, I'm not sure, but I also like the girl who played Thao's sister, Sue, I think she was my favorite character.
The movie was very well-made and deserves an Oscar, I'd admit.
However, you would not want to bring anyone to see it if they do not like swearing or have low-tolence for it. Practically every other word was cuss, especially with the gangsters. However, if the swearing wasn't in the movie it would've been very corny and unconvincing. They probably could've moderated it a bit, though.
I really really enjoyed the movie besides that. It seemed sort of slow but I thought it was paced just right. You sort of ease into the story and Walt's (Clint Eastwood) life. I would so give it 4.5*/5*, and it only looses that .5* for swearing. The ending, well, I'd be lying if I said I didn't see it coming, at least part of it, but I was still surprised on how it happened. I didn't think it'd go down like that. Wonderful and sad movie. Very bittersweet. I truly enjoyed it.
I don't want to give anything away.
This is the Trailer for it, they did a good job cutting out the cussing so that it's 'approved for all viewing audiences'.
Enjoy, I'd recommend it to some people but definately not everyone.
Tell me if you've seen it and what you thought!
God watch over you guys!
~TARA
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