2011

Books read: 

1. Othello by William Shakespeare
2. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5. Maximum Ride: School's Out...Forever by James Patterson
6. Percy Jackson Book 1 by Rick Riordan
7. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
8. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
9. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
12. The Final Warning by James Patterson
13. Percy Jackson Book 2 by Rick Riordan
14. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
15. Percy Jackson Book 3 by Rick Riordan
16. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dia Sijie
17. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
18. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
19. Zombies VS Unicorns by Various Authors 
20. Paper Towns by John Green
21. Percy Jackson Book 4 by Rick Riordan
22. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare 
 

Unfortunately I only read 22 books in 2011. Even more terrible is the fact that at least the first 20 were done while I was still in high school. I got busy with my job and school stuff I guess, which by the way, my grades totally suck. But 2012 is a new start and I'm planning on working my butt off this semester.

So, since about 2008 I've been creating blog posts on my various blogs that include a list of interesting things I did last year, and a list of goals I wish to accomplish this year. So here we go:

Things done in 2011:

1. I got into The Hunger Games, which was an amazing and sad series, but totally worth the read. (Thanks to tumblr and my younger sister Sarah for convincing me).

2. I helped my class pull a senior prank in which we covered the hallways in tape and sticky notes and other Dollar Tree items, and then went swimming at my best friend's house until midnight (and during this time was convinced to start watching Doctor Who).

3. I graduated high school and stayed out all night after the grad party.

4. Watched the final Harry Potter movie and cried all the way to the car.

5. Baked an obscene amount of cookies while snowed in during the crazy amount of snow we got here in CT.

6. Was introduced to the world of British television, including Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Catherine Tate Show, Sherlock, Skins, and more recently, Being Human.

7. Got my first job.

8. Finished my first semester of college.

9. I finally found a hair color that I like.

10. I found new bands to love, including Marina and the Diamonds, The Spring Standards, and Angus and Julia Stone.

11. I watched Parks and Recreation, which is literally the happiest show I've ever watched.

12. I started listening to podcasts.

13. I got an iPod that wasn't made in 2005!

14. I became a legal adult.

15. Saw Bon Iver live and it rained and was magical.

16. Went hiking a lot and tried new things.

17. Nearly drowned while tubing in a river but still had a great time.

18. Got most of my family to enjoy Doctor Who with me. ;)

19. Started a new drawing project.

20.I quit Glee. It was a proud moment.

Things to do in 2012:

1. Read 40 books.

2. Get my license.

3. Finish my drawing project, or at least continue it since I'm not sure it will be possible to finish within the year.

4. Get good grades in all my classes.

5. Save my money for school or traveling.

6. Try new things, i.e. I want to do more "adventures" like hiking in new places and such.

7. Exercise more.

8. See The Hunger Games movie at midnight.

9. Bake a cake...in the shape of a TARDIS or something, I don't know.

10. Finish my NaNoWriMo thing that I barely started.

11. Try a new hair color.

12. Start the sibling podcast my sisters and I always talk about.

Okay, I really wanted to start watching Miracle Day before I go to bed, so I'm going to hop off. I might add to the list of goals but for now these are all I can think of.

I had a wonderful year, and I hope everyone else did too.

Here's to 2012, let's make it a good one (since the world is ending in December anyway)!

Christmas Time!

Why hello!
Since my last post things have gotten better, including the Nutrition class thing. I'm not failing! I'm not doing well either, but I guess that's okay. I was pretty stupid about my first semester of college. I'm actually skipping right now as I write this, but only because I already learned tonight's lesson in high school.


Anyway, it's finally December, my favorite time of year. Christmas is the best. I have lights up in my room, a fat snuggly cat laying by my feet, and a feeling of excitement about presents. I still can't seem to sleep in Christmas morning, and this year I'm totally getting an iPod that's not from 2005!


In other news, I was trying to wait for Susie to watch the final Harry Potter DVD, but I caved and watched it Saturday without her. I got very emotional at the end, as always.
I also saw Breaking Dawn at midnight, and it was horrible, but I loved it.


For once I'm actually looking forward to snow. It feels so right when it snows for Christmas. I'm recording The Polar Express on ABCFamily tomorrow and I cannot wait! I love that movie. I saw it in 6th grade for a field trip and cried, but then again I cry at everything.


I always feel super inspired to write a blog until I actually open the text post and totally forget what i was going to say. So I guess I'm done for now. I just want to tumble and watch Doctor Who for a while.

Books read: 

1. Othello by William Shakespeare
2. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5. Maximum Ride: School's Out...Forever by James Patterson
6. Percy Jackson Book 1 by Rick Riordan
7. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
8. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
9. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
12. The Final Warning by James Patterson
13. Percy Jackson Book 2 by Rick Riordan
14. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
15. Percy Jackson Book 3 by Rick Riordan
16. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dia Sijie
17. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
18. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
19. Zombies VS Unicorns by Various Authors 
20. Paper Towns by John Green
21. Percy Jackson Book 4 by Rick Riordan
22. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare 
Currently reading:
Percy Jackson Book 5 (STILL!), and some book of poems that I bought at an antique store. It's an old library book and the last time it was checked out was 1922!
I don't think I'm going to make my goal of 40 books by the end of the year. I'm going to try and borrow some books from Susie and Sherri and at least get to 30.

2:07am

It's very late and I really don't need to be blogging, but I can't go complain to my tumblr at the moment so I'm here instead.
Usually my tumblr is filled with any/all of my thoughts even if they're personal, but it's not exactly like these are my thoughts. I'm upset because I think I'm failing nutrition, I never get enough sleep, I'm constantly annoyed by dad and louise, and my job is pretty boring. But all of these things are almost nothing compared to the shit other people have to go through constantly.
Today I had a nice dinner with most of my family, and I played video games and watched Doctor Who and just felt content.
But then I read my best friend's post on tumblr, and I feel like I should say something, but I don't know what. And I want to help, and I look at everyone I know on facebook happily caring about stupid things, and I think they're so ignorant because they don't understand what life is like when it is actually hard. They think the worst thing that can ever happen is that they got their phone taken away for a week when they were 12 or something. And this all sounds hypocritical because my life is rarely too difficult; I'm generally a very happy person. But the fact that my best friend is having such a difficult time and I didn't even notice or ask kills me. There's so much going on that I'm not even aware of and I don't know what to do.
I guess for now I'll settle with going to sleep.

My LIIIIIIIIIIFE

(because i'm logged in)
WASSUP?

No really I can't be doing this I have to get up for work in 8 hours.

I only have a few things to say though.
1. I suck. I fail. I am the worst. I am only at 3600 words in my NaNoWriMo. UGH. FAIL. It's truly terrible, but I'm hoping I'll get back into it. I at least know who my main characters are; I'm just having trouble showing who they are to the reader. It's a lot more difficult than I thought it would be.

2. I finished series 2 of Doctor Who last week. Even though I knew what happened to Rose due to spoilers on Tumblr, I cried like a baby. Just, that show, ugh, it makes me so sad all the time!

3. I bought the final Harry Potter on dvd and wanted to cry due to leftover emotions from the previous night (see above: Rose Tyler). I also bought series 6 p2 of Doctor Who and a Doctor Who shirt! I'm pretty excited about it.

4. Today Susie and I bought tickets to see Breaking Dawn at midnight. But like, I hate Twilight. Yet the 14 year old in me still loves it so I go see them and buy the dvds every year. ~Laaaame~
But whatever, no classes tomorrow night, just me, susie, and obscure Twilight quotes until we go see the new one. Today I sent her "Charlie: famous ladies man", "You're like a drug to me", and "I'd rather die than stay away from you". Oh my god, it is truly awful.

Tomorrow I plan on texting her  an obscure Breaking Dawn quote, in which Edward says "fetus" all like eeewww.

Yep I am hilarious.
I can't remember why I'm posting this. I had SOMETHING to say besides all that nonsense.
Oh well.
BYEEE

Quick Update!

WOO I turned 18! Then we lost power and I didn't have work all day until today. And school's been canceled and it's canceled tomorrow too. Hopefully Friday also xD

Anyway I don't have much else to talk about.
Well, I do, but I don't exactly have time. I'm doing NaNoWriMo this month. I'm already at 962 words.

A few random things:
1. The novel I'm working on is a mix of all the ideas I've been having for like 2 years and I'm amazed that I didn't try combining them before.
2. I had a wonderful birthday
3. I got a 92 on my sociology exam woooo!
4. I just made an on-the-go with christmas music on it and i'm listening to polar express and LOVING IT
5. i saw hpdhp2 deleted scenes today and loved them and i hope more get released whenever the extreme ultimate awesome possum edition gets released (dvd out in 9 days though!)
okay i need to stop procrastinating and just write a novel!

no booklist today cuz i'm too lazy to copy and paste plus i still haven't read anything new :(

Climb to the Top

Currently listening to To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra and feeling poetic, so here, have a blog post! 


Lately I've been super busy with work and school, and whatever down time I have is spent either sleeping, eating, hanging out with my friends, or watching TV shows on Netflix. I lead a pretty simple life.


Recently I've decided that I need to go on more adventures. I want to go hiking, and there's a really cool corn maze near my mom's house that I want to see. I realized I'm sick of sitting around all day waiting for something to happen; I'm going to just do something fun.


I've started walking every day for about an hour after I get home. My mom calls me on her lunch break and we walk around and talk from 1 until 2. It's been nice; my legs are kind of sore but I feel better knowing that I'm doing something that's good for me.


I also got back into drawing recently. I took out all of my art supplies and brought them to Susie's house. She mostly read magazines while I drew pictures of her, my cat, a unicorn, and various Doctor Who characters in crayon. It kind of makes me want to go to school for art, but I really don't know what I'm doing in school right now. I just show up and do my work without expecting much from it.


After looking at my book list I got sad. I'm only halfway to the 40 books goal I set for myself. And I'm not helping by rereading Perks and This Lullaby. I stopped reading Percy again; I really have to be in the mood for that one. But ooh I hope Percy and Annabeth officially become a couple. ^-^


Alright, I guess I'd better go soon. I'm supposed to hang out with the sibs tonight and catch up with Veronica Mars and Doctor Who. I watch too much tv. Also I want to have a band like Karen and the Babes, because they are perfection.


OH! Also I'm turning 18 in a week, so yay! Maybe I'll do a birthday post. I'm planning on doing all those cliche things you do once you turn 18, so we'll see how that goes. I might make a video & post on the hiiiistacie youtube. :))


Okay, bye bye byeee (bye bye byee)

Books read: 

1. Othello by William Shakespeare 
2. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5. Maximum Ride: School's Out...Forever by James Patterson
6. Percy Jackson Book 1 by Rick Riordan
7. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
8. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 
9. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
12. The Final Warning by James Patterson 
13. Percy Jackson Book 2 by Rick Riordan 
14. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
15. Percy Jackson Book 3 by Rick Riordan 
16. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dia Sijie
17. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
18. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
19. Zombies VS Unicorns by Various Authors 
20. Paper Towns by John Green
21. Percy Jackson Book 4 by Rick Riordan
22. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare 
Currently reading:
Percy Jackson Book 5, and I'm rereading Perks and This Lullaby. :P

Fall, TV, the usual...

When Fall gets here it is pretty much my favorite thing in the world. We get a ton of rainy days, colorful leaves, and of course all of my tv shows come back on. I can't wait to go apple picking or for Halloween. Susie and I went to the Halloween store and saw a Regan(sp?) from The Exorcist thing whose head spins around! Talk about terrifying... I still don't know what I'm being for Halloween since I sort of have class that night. I might skip if I actually make some plans! I'm thinking about being a Doctor Who companion.
I've been so into Doctor Who since the beginning of summer. I'm watching series 2 now, and I'm watching series 6 as it airs each week. I'm very excited for The Wedding of River Song. It's going to be crazy.
I'm supposed to be doing my nutrition homework. Crap. I have my first test tomorrow in that class and I'm actually really nervous about it. I've been doing well in my other classes though, so hopefully I can keep that pattern going in this class as well.
Tomorrow night I'm going to a high school football game and seeing my friends that I haven't seen since graduation night in June. I'm so excited to see all my lovely band friends!
Also, since getting a job I've been spending too much money. I keep buying coats and copies of Marie Claire. I must stop myself! I have a magazine addiction, especially when they have cool people on the covers. I've watched a lot of good movies recently also. I watched Love and Other Drugs, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Never Let Me Go in the past month, and I loved them all! I gave The Kids Are All Right a chance but I didn't love it like I thought I would. The sibs and I have also gotten back into watching Tim and Eric Awesome Show. We can't stop quoting Mr. Henderson. "You piece of trash!"
Gah, there are too many shows for me to watch. Along with Doctor Who, I'm starting to watch Mad Men. Plus my DVR is slowly filling up with a ton of shows. Mostly Doctor Who. And Parks. GAH!
I had a lot to say but I think that's just because I don't want to do my homework.
It's been a busy month since I last posted. The house flooded, the other house flooded, my dad got married and I stayed with the sibs while he was in Florida for the honeymoon, my cat moved back in, I've been working, going to school, etc. It's been really crazy.
Maybe I can do an actual blog post soon. I've been way to busy! Weekends are amazing now since I don't have work ever or school. CRAP I just remembered that I forgot to check my schedule again. -_- I'll call and ask tomorrow...Bleh.

Okay I really have to do my homework and possibly shower and definitely sleep at some point. Goodnight.

Books read: 

1. Othello by William Shakespeare 
2. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5. Maximum Ride: School's Out...Forever by James Patterson
6. Percy Jackson Book 1 by Rick Riordan
7. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
8. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 
9. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
12. The Final Warning by James Patterson 
13. Percy Jackson Book 2 by Rick Riordan 
14. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
15. Percy Jackson Book 3 by Rick Riordan 
16. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dia Sijie
17. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
18. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
19. Zombies VS Unicorns by Various Authors 20. Paper Towns by John Green21. Percy Jackson Book 4 by Rick Riordan
22. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare 
Currently reading:
Percy Jackson Book 5 (I actually got maybe 1/3 of the way into it. Oh, Beckendorf, why did you have to leave?)
I'm searching tumblr for some more book recs since I haven't been reading as much as I should.


*Ooh we got our first Perks set video today and I cannot waaaaaaaaaaait!!