How Could Life Get Any Better? -Nik Day. look it up

Cutest little boys. We HAD to draw Harry Potter scars on our faces before we played Harry Potter on the Wii. I love babysitting these guys, they're hilarious. Get this, I turned on Lenka at their house and the older boy Ty sang along, they're my kinda guys haha. Thursday night babysitting is the best. Plus he payed me in a bunch of 2 dollar bills, I love 2 dollar bills, not sure why but I do.

Tomorrow is the CV v. La Canada football game, big rivalry..wooo! I'm pretty excited you could say.

If you know me you know I love to memorize, mostly cause it's easy for me. As I previously mentioned I memorized the JSH 1:15-20 (First Vision) scripture mastery. I passed it off for my teacher and she was so shocked. She said I'm her only student, ever that has memorized that. hahahah maybe I should tell her I've memorized all 100 and the Living Christ. sorry that was my little bragging moment.

Maddie is happy.

take me out to the ball game

woah folks are you ready for this? I actually have real pictures, proof that I have friends.

Austin, Kenzie, Me, Gemma, Kelly, Madison, Maggie
yay for free blanket night!
Gemma and I.
We love Ethier.

9 friends+Dodger game+all you can eat seats+ funny people= a good time.

Joshua Radin will never get old.

I like it when random friends remember about me and send me a text. I like making bracelets for people. I like when we don't have to dress for P.E. even though it's the fourth week of school. I like when my mom has friends here and is gone all day having fun. I like when my math homework is to play sudoku online. I like when I get invited to go to a Dodgers game, all you can eat, free-blanket night. I like jumping in the warm pool. I like surfing and actually getting up a lot!! I like having friends. I like playing pounce (nertz), and winning. I like hanging up pictures in my room. I like drawing in my sketchbook. I like memorizing scriptures (I couldn't fall asleep last night so I memorized JSH 1:15-20, boo ya). I like finishing homework during school. I like realizing it's getting colder in Utah but still sunny here. I like not doing my hair. I like crackers. I like Power90 5 min. abs. I like going out to lunch. I like football games. I like sleeping in till 11:30 on the weekends. I like playing, or singing to the ukulele. I like funny people. I like blasting good music. I like making Kate say funny things. I like early morning seminary(gasp). I like when my Dad has Shakeology ready for me as I leave the house. I like writing blogs like this. It's good to focus on the positive, even if they are small things.

in touch with my inner brave

heyhihello. Today's picture(s) are inspired by two things. Tuesday was a big day for Kate Blake. She finally learned how to say my name!! YAY! It's about time since that's pretty much the only thing I say to her every time I see her, "Kate can you say Maddie?" "Bubba." "NO Maddie. I'm the one who actually babysits you, I'm the one you like, SAY MY NAME." She finally caught on. It's the cutest thing ever, she usually says Addie but today she's saying Daddy...we're working on adding the M, don't worry it'll come. The awkward picture of me in the middle was to show you my shirt. I made that lovely treasure, and although the sewing is pretty pathetic I'm pretty proud of it!

So basically I wish I was Indian, excuse me Native American, realllly badly. I just want a sweet Indian shirt like this sooo badly. I started just wanting a wolf shirt, but the combination of both (like the above) is beauty. There's a possibility I'm coming back to B-town for the halloween dance weekend, and if I do my date and I are being Indians and wearing these sweet shirts, maybe he can get a more manly one. I'm so obsessed that I've even incorporated it into my art project. (P.s. my art teacher is really cool and actually is a teacher unlike Magee at BHS). The assignment was to combine parts from the two kiddy bikes he has in the room and use them to make anything you'd like. I chose a dreamcatcher. :) I'll post a picture of it when I finish, you could say I'm really excited about it.

SPEAKING OF EXCITED!!!! ASDL FKJ

I mentioned I made Concert Choir at LCHS. I love it, it's so cool, we're singing a Native American song actually, with animal sounds and all. That's not what I was going to say though. We (concert choir and chamber choir) are going on a choir trip during Spring Break. guess where we're going, just guess. Ok you'll never guess.

ITALY

I've never been so excited for something in my life. It's all I can think about 24/7. But I have till March/April! Is that not the coolest thing you've ever heard though!?!? We're going to Venice, Rome and Florence. AHHH:) I just had to share that. I even have someone to room with, yes it's true I have some friends.

Life is good, and is getting even better because tomorrow is FRIDAY. Weekends are sacred to me these days. I get sooo exhausted during the week it's ridiculous. The frustrating thing is that during school I'm beat but when I get home I suddenly get so much energy and just don't know what to do with myself. My body needs to figure things out haha.

Oh gotta go my baby's calling my name. :)

Who died and made you King of Anything?

I've decided my blog needs more pictures, and seeing that I still can't find the charger to my camera I'm not really taking any pictures these days. SO I'll just take a photo booth picture everyday that I post and give you a quick update about life in the 91011. ( 9-10-11 easiest zip code ever)

AP Stats. What a glorious relief. It's so simple and I love it. It's allllll calculator work which = good for Maddie. There's a really nice girl I sit by that actually talks to me and answers my questions. It's great! The only problem is I can't remember her name. I feel too bad asking her cause it's already been two days and we talk a lot, so I guess you can say we're friends. Oh well, I'll figure it out one day.

Concert Choir. So much more fun than Women's Ensemble. Most of the people are seniors and juniors and its just better. Maddie Likes.

I've never been so happy for a weekend. My body needs rest, my mind needs rest, and I'm excited to achieve it. I'm also excited to do something more than homework. I'm ready to do something fun tonight. AND I'm ready for the adventures of tomorrow!

Lets refer back to the title. Sara Bareilles new CD is gold. Look it up. I dare you. King of Anything is a good one, but they're all good. Also there's another little guy I like to call Ryan Innes. My friend JB and I were very impressed with him at the He Is We concert. He's much better live but still has a good CD. Give him a try. Tell me what you think.

Yesterday was the first football game at La Canada! I only got to go for about an hour but it was fun. Sooooooooo different from our beloved Bountiful High games. There is no student section, no one wears school attire, but it's still football so you can count on me going to the games.

annotate this picture

AP LANGUAGE BOOK:

Annotate, annotate, annotate. In my past english classes this word was never mentioned. Lucky for me that's practically all I do now in english; annotate an article, make a claim, write a timed essay. It's pushing me which is good but the teacher scares me a lot. This was the assignment today in class:

PROMPT: Pick a position on texting as it relates to technology and/or language in the 21st century. You must use 1. Logic [cause & effect]

2. Historical Allusion [3, from 3 different centuries]

3. 2 successive Rhetorical Questions

4. Analogy

5. Juxtaposition

6. Tone

That's it, you have ten minutes to argue your position and all 6 things must be present in your paper. GO

WHA?? That was hard for me. Luckily he was "easy on us this time" and we get to take it home and acutally rewrite the pathetic piece we attempted to write in 10 minutes.

Although we won't be so lucky in the future. He says he usually does a couple of these a week. And any term from the glossary is fair game for us to know how to use. Difficult, I think yes. haha

I'm sticking with this class because although I can't do this yet, I want to be able to. So I'm totally scared but kind of excited!

FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS:

I've gotta pretty good at making sweet friendship bracelets. At La Canada High School every class has a Theme and they get shirts that go along with their theme. The Junior class is "Jammin Juniors" using the jamaican colors. I thought it would be a brilliant idea to make

bracelets in these jamaican colors and sell them to only Juniors. The only problem is they take me forever to make. I'm almost down with 2 so we'll see how this goes!

SWEATSHIRT and BLANKET:

These past two days have been "cold" in California standards. California Cold= no sun, and 65 or lower.

I personally think this rainy weather is lovely and I'm only slightly phased by the "cold". But if you know me you know

I take any chance I can to be wrapped in a blanket and in a huge sweatshirt so naturally I am doing both.

Well my friends. Good day. I feel like I got a lot accomplished today.

#1. Switched OUT of my AP Calculus class and into AP Stats. I couldn't decide if I should make the switch but once my teacher started teaching the material by reading out of the book I was sooo out of there. That is not the way I learn.

#2. Had a quick audition with the choir teacher and was bumped up to Concert Choir! YAY. Now I'll be in a class with boys and girls my age.

#3. Showed my art teacher some of my sketches and was switched into Advanced Art 2! Go team.

Besides the tons and tons of homework, things are looking good.

Things to look forward to this weekend:

Thursday: Football Game

Friday: Assembly. watching Percy Jackson with Eliza and Morgan, and possibly the witch house

Saturday: SPENCER AND KATE COME HOME. yay yay yay yay yay. Act practice test...not so yay. Party that night...we'll see how that goes.

I'm sure you were all very interested in that little agenda. Well that is all for now.

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

GOOD:

- Having Eliza, Morgan, Maren, Kylie and Brit to eat lunch with.

- Having Ali at the school with me so we aren't both awkwardly walking by ourselves

-Being invited to go to lunch with Kenzie and friends

- Getting to sing 2nd soprano in choir

- Two nice girls in english who actually care to talk to me

- Art teacher is excellent

-We got breakfast at seminary today

- It's a long weekend

-Christopher who talks to me in calc

- 2 cute guys in my American History class

- We don't have to dress in PE till thursday. (it's PE here not gym...just to clear that up)

-I haven't gotten lost yet

- Fun mutual swim party on wed.

BAD:

- AP Calc. I just can't decide whether I should stick with it or not.

- Being one of the only 2 juniors in calc, therefore spending the entire period alone with your teacher while the seniors are at an assembly. awkward...

-Walking through the hall silently, no one to say hello to

-Mr. V. scary english teacher who is going to push me this year, good and bad i guess

-Already falling asleep while doing at homework at 8:30

-Being ready for school and seminary when walking out the door at 5:45

UGLY:

- Walking into the junior class assembly and sitting by myself

-Realizing it's only the 1st week of school

Obviously there are a lot more good that out weigh the bad. It's only the 1st week of school, it could have been A LOT worse. Life is still good.

This is really intriguing to me. What does it say to you? It's all how you look at it.

For me, Opportunity is now here. I've gotta take it and run with it.