Showing posts with label Pride and Prejudice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pride and Prejudice. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Back to School...Blah!

Today was the first day back to school for me. I just got home from soccer practice a little while ago. Practice itself was fun but school was long and tiring. I felt slow all day, messed up this watercolor piece in art, and made an 80 on this paper in last period (that was a definite bummer.)

Even though its gone, the break was great! Originally, we were going to go to Dallas on New Year's Eve, but there was a change of plans. Instead we stayed home and Michaela had a friend over. It was a lot of fun. There was fried chicken, chocolate chip cookies, lights in marshall, and the six hour version of Pride and Prejudice (A&E's.) dIt's definitely the best book to movie relation but I usually make do with the shorter Pride and Prejudice film that I got the Christmas before last, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. That's really great too and captures the feelings from the novel very well for so little time to do so.

I don't know why but I've been really cold lately. I got home shivering and began watching an episode of Danny Phantom on Netflix. Not one minute into the episode I find out that Danny (the main character if you couldn't tell) was facing a cold spell of his own, how fitting. The show was very enjoyable while I ate my baked potatoe.

That's basically it, oh wait! I almost forgot. I wanted to share my New Year's Resolutions: (here it goes)
  • Run more on my own
  • Juggle and practice soccer at home 
  • Write in my journal (I like writing down my memories but I hardly get time to.)
  • Write letters to my friends *cough Tally cough*
  • Scrapbook (I have a ton of supplies and photos but hardly take the time to.)
  • print pictures
  • $ Save MONEY $
  • get a job or babysit more
  • don't procrastinate!!! (I'm really bad at this one.)
  • Use Rosetta Stone (my mom gets it with a huge discount since she's a teacher)
  • remember to log driving hours (when I get my permit, which will be soon!)
  • practice piano
Yep. That's them. It's kind of a lot but I think I can do it if I work hard, also it can't hurt that I taped a list on  my bathroom mirror and on the lamp on my bedside table. That way, I won't forget! Wish me luck with those and I hope that you all had a great holiday. 


Tuesday, December 13, 2011

12 Days 'til Christmas!

That's right, today was officially 12 DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS! It's time (if you haven't already) to bring out those decorations, scavenge for those Christmas classics, (*cough cough *The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, maybe even A Nightmare Before Christmas, or Gremlins,) hang up some lights, and crank your radios to stations where you can enjoy Christmas tunes all the way from the "Jingle Bell Rock" to "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out."

Even if you don't celebrate Christmas this is a wonderful time to be with family and be grateful for everything you have. If you're moping around, or in other words not on this seasonal high, please get it together! Bake some cookies, call up a friend, watch a great Disney! I don't know, just don't sulk, this is a time for cheer! So please, if you're down, cheer up and if you're um...up? then great. I hope that everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season, and a Happy New Year!

Those of you who are going to be out shopping and in a lot of traffic, please be careful! Drive safe and be patient. It's annoying to hear but it's "better safe than sorry."

That's almost all I wanted to share for now other than the fact that I can't wait for this week to finish, then Christmas break will have officially started! Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

p.s.
Just a quick note. I finished Emma. I loved it so much (Jane Austen rocks! definitely recommend you read some of her work) that I decided to re-read Pride and Prejudice! It's great!