First off, Happy Christmas! This is my favorite holiday. I love this time of year when everyone’s off work/school and you can just hang around with friends and family and be lazy. I enjoy getting presents but just being able to be home and hang out with everyone and be with my family is the best. I really don’t want to go back to school at the end of January, being home is just so much...

I'm a freshman in college and like many college students, I got to experience having a roommate. I was hoping to have a good roommate experience. Did that happen? Nope. Let me just say that I'm wondering how anyone could put me and my roommate together from our compatibility sheets, we couldn't be more different. I know that things could be worse though, two of my friends also have bad roommates...

First off, I’ve made a Tumblr and since I felt like it needed a purpose, I’m using it as a place to review books, movies, music, etc. It’ll probably mostly be about books because I go through so many and my family only listens so much when I want to talk about them. Check it out, it’d be nice to have someone actually read my posts. I also found a great blog to check out on the website....

First off, Harry Potter. Harry Potter has been my life for the past ten years. When I sat in the theatre this summer and watched the final movie, I cried like a baby, it was like someone had died. These books and movies mean the world to me, they taught me to love reading and writing and they’ve always been there as a source of entertainment and comfort since I was eight. I’m so upset that I...

I’m a freshman in college and that means a dorm room and roommate, whoo. I can’t complain about my dorm room, I got one of the newer buildings on campus which means it’s a double room with a bathroom in the room (toilet and shower) plus a sink right outside the bathroom in a little entryway where my closet is. It’s a nice sized room and a micro-fridge was included which was a big plus. The...

For my creative writing final, we had to pick a topic and use it in a short story and three poems. My topic was time. I wrote my short story (Five Fifty-Five if you wanted to check it out) and I was kinda happy with it, it wasn’t my best but it wasn’t my worst. For ten points for the final, we had to submit our short story and two poems to the local community colleges literary magazine.Today I...

This year has been good yet eh at the same time. There’s been more good than bad for me, though.The good stuff about 2009:I went to Bamboozle and a Twilight Convention where I met the Hillywood showI saw Paramore twiceI got a jobHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince finally came outMy creative writing and advance comp. classes are greatI turned sixteen and had a Halloween-themed sweet sixteenI...

In my last journal I said that my next journal would have pictures of my bookcases like the one I put up in July. Since July I’ve gone to the bookstore and had my birthday, sweet sixteen! Here are my bookcases. The pictures were taken Tuesday or Wednesday and since then I’ve gotten four or five more books.First off, my fiction/non fiction books:The order is: first shelf – favorite authors,...

This year for one of my electives I’m taking Creative Writing. We have different units for everything we do and we just finished the second unit. In each unit we do six assignments, two classwork, two homework, and two notebook assignments. We have four days to do those and on the fifth day of the unit we present the assignment that we think we did the best on.For this unit we were working on...

So, as you can tell from the title, today was my first day of school. I’m now a junior! I’m excited for this year, for the most part.This morning I woke up at six, the earliest I’ve woken up since June, got ready, and then went to wake up my sister. She’s a freshman this year. I woke her up by jumping on her bed and saying, “First day of school! First day of school! Wake up, wake up!...

On Friday I went to TwiTour 2009 with Jessi and my mom. We left the house a little after nine to get to the hotel for 11:45 for registration. We got there early, went to Starbucks, and went to the first vendor room. We got a few things and then went to registration. We got purple bracelets and then we were allowed to go into the main vendor room. Mom wasn’t allowed in since she didn’t have a...

So, as the title says, I’ve had a good day. This morning I went to breakfast at my grandma’s house. My mom, sister, and I usually go to my grandma and grandpa’s house on Sunday morning for breakfast but lately we haven’t been able to. My grandma’s been sick and she has to get a biopsy which worries me. She’s such a strong force; she’s what keeps our family together. Without her we...

Last year my best friend Shana moved forty-five minutes away. We try to see each other as much as possible and hang out but sometimes it’s hard. The summer’s been kinda busy but this weekend my family was having a BBQ and I didn’t have work so I had Shana over.She came over Thursday night and it was nice to just review everything that’s happened that we haven’t talked about online; we...

This morning I went bowling with Jessi, Jess, Kelly, Skippy, and Mike. We got to the bowling alley a little after noon and got two lanes for two hours. Our teams were Kelly, Skppy, and Mike and Jess, Jessi, and me. My team had bumpers while the other didn’t. We ended up playing three games in the three hours. The first two everyone played and the last one we were just going as quickly as we...

Yesterday Jessi came over and we worked on our English essay. We’re going into Honors English this year and our summer assignment was to write an essay about the stages of Huck’s moral growths and their consequences in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. We found six stages and decided which ones each of us would use so that we wouldn’t be accused of cheating. Then we wrote our rough drafts...

I was thinking about this last night for some reason. Which career would be most enjoyable for you, being an author, actor/actress, or a musician/singer?For me it would be being an author. With being an author you can create so much. You can make your own world and create so much. You can basically do whatever you want as long as it isn’t plagiarized. This is my dream job. I’m writing a book,...

For the past few days I was down the shore with my family, the last time we went to the beach with everyone was two years ago.We left Wednesday morning and check in for the motel was at two, we got there a little after one and they let us check in. Our family friends were at the beach already so we just hung out at the pool and read by our room until about six when we went over to the house they...

The first chaptered book I read was the American Girl books, usually the Molly ones. Then in third grade I read Sorcerer’s Stone and then I loved reading. I would have the Harry Potter books in school and I would read under my desk when I wasn’t supposed to. I don’t think the teachers ever caught me; it was usually the people who sat around me that told me to put the book away.I got Goblet...

Yes, this is yet another Half-Blood Prince review. Last night I went to a concert with Jess and Jessi, we saw the Cab. It was fun, very hot but I didn’t pass out so it’s all good. Jessi and I slept over Jess’s house and this morning we decided to see Harry Potter, Jess couldn’t because she had camp. The three earliest showings were at 9:15, 9:45, and 11:15, we decided on the 11:15 one...

If you read my two journals about my books then you saw that I have a lot of Harry Potter books, I have a Harry Potter wall, and just a lot of Harry Potter stuff. If you haven’t figured it out, I love the Harry Potter books. They’re my favorite series and nothing will replace them. Since the sixth movie is coming out this week I thought I should write about some of the things I love about the...