Here upon my second year of high school, my first semester finals are finally fin and over with! Rejoice and be glad! I am so relieved to have them good and done! And I believe I did them very well! Well Honors Geometry might not have been the best, but I pray I did better then I thought. At this point, I am getting straight As! And I do not appreciate the Schadenfreude of "straight A students getting B's" right now. I have worked really hard to get those As. I want to keep them! I don't think I got a grade on any of my finals to change them though.
I am so happy I don't have to deal with the stress of them anymore! Maybe now I will finally have some worry-free, stress-free free time! I actually have two sticky notes on my wall entitled "Things To Do After Finals". That is just not right. But to be fair finals did go on forever because we got the weekend with it. I had big plans for last weekend and was so robbed. But now that the final doors are closed, I can forget about plans! No more! Freedom!
Well not entirely. I have to get back to my novel. I'm at 60800 now! I am doing well, just have to throw myself into it. It is getting good! I'm up in 100s in pages now. So cool! I think this one is going to go somewhere. And with my helpful friends pushing me to reaching the end by February, I should get there. Hopefully.
And second semester will start tomorrow. I am a bit nervous for my new schedule. It basically flipped over from last semester. Now I start of with my easy classes and end with hard. I personally prefer what I have now. But I will adjust and adapt. And only two of my classes changed and I have no new teachers. That is pretty good. And so begins a new 8-3, 5 day life for me!
C
Monday, January 19, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Book Review - The Memory Book
At last, I have returned to the reading world! I had a down point where I was hardly reading any books...that was a sad time. But just last week I checked out two random books from the library and the first was The Memory Book by Penelope J. Strokes.
This book is about a woman name Phoebe, who seems to have it all. She has just graduated law school, is engaged to a wonderful man, and has two life long best friends. But Phoebe has a secret past she has hidden from them, a past she returns to when she goes back to her grandmother's house she grew up in. Then she finds a memory book filled with pictures, letters, comments, and a death certificate bearing her own name. Phoebe discovers the memory book of a great aunt she never knew, who not only shares her name, but seems to have a parallel life style from the 1920s. When she finds her great aunts diary, Phoebe cannot ignore her feeling that all the answers she is looking for lies in the past. And then without warning she finds herself in the 1920s and playing the role of the first Phoebe. On this journey Phoebe desperately searches to find answers and perhaps change history.
This book is not the ordinary time traveling tale. It is filled with hidden terrors and secrets that never stop adding twists to the story. I loved each page and really identified with the story and Phoebe's troubles. This book is also the magic size of 5 by 7 inches. When I publish my won books, I want to make them that size. I was drawn to if as soon as I saw it and it did not disappoint. I highly recommend it to anyone. This book also teaches the valuable lesson that honesty is key weather it is with friends, family, yourself, or the higher power above us all. It also teaches that some things are just uncontrollable and cannot changed. We all must accept that and live on.
This book really made me step back and look at my own life. Sure I have secrets and boundaries. But I never thought about how that effected the world around me. There comes a point where you just have to be honest with yourself and see nothing is perfect and it never will be. I'll keep my secrets, but I won't shut people out to cover them up. I've decided it's time for some self-cleansing. Maybe a few changes to my self would do me good. Let's see if they work!
This book is about a woman name Phoebe, who seems to have it all. She has just graduated law school, is engaged to a wonderful man, and has two life long best friends. But Phoebe has a secret past she has hidden from them, a past she returns to when she goes back to her grandmother's house she grew up in. Then she finds a memory book filled with pictures, letters, comments, and a death certificate bearing her own name. Phoebe discovers the memory book of a great aunt she never knew, who not only shares her name, but seems to have a parallel life style from the 1920s. When she finds her great aunts diary, Phoebe cannot ignore her feeling that all the answers she is looking for lies in the past. And then without warning she finds herself in the 1920s and playing the role of the first Phoebe. On this journey Phoebe desperately searches to find answers and perhaps change history.
This book is not the ordinary time traveling tale. It is filled with hidden terrors and secrets that never stop adding twists to the story. I loved each page and really identified with the story and Phoebe's troubles. This book is also the magic size of 5 by 7 inches. When I publish my won books, I want to make them that size. I was drawn to if as soon as I saw it and it did not disappoint. I highly recommend it to anyone. This book also teaches the valuable lesson that honesty is key weather it is with friends, family, yourself, or the higher power above us all. It also teaches that some things are just uncontrollable and cannot changed. We all must accept that and live on.
This book really made me step back and look at my own life. Sure I have secrets and boundaries. But I never thought about how that effected the world around me. There comes a point where you just have to be honest with yourself and see nothing is perfect and it never will be. I'll keep my secrets, but I won't shut people out to cover them up. I've decided it's time for some self-cleansing. Maybe a few changes to my self would do me good. Let's see if they work!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Venturing into 2009
I know it has been a while...and I am truly sorry. I should have gotten back to you and gave you a whole knew out look on life based upon some new finding or hope coming with the new year. But i am a firm believer in that your life can change at any time at all. New hope can spring up at any moment and you never know when it is coming. Why should it take a start of new set of numbers, a falling of a ball in Time's square, or a night that is just and excuse to stay up late? And also, whose idea was it to have the new year happen in the midst of winter? I am not saying the new year means nothing, I just think it does not mean all we give it credit for.
My new year's eve and beginning of the new year was spent playing rock band and hanging out in an outdoor hot tub at 104 degrees. And when it reached that magic hour of midnight and the official start of the new year, my friends and I view a free display of illegal fireworks from across the river. I will say this for New Years, it is an excuse to party, so it is fine by me. And if some people start anew due to it, that is all well and good too. People can do as they please, there is no stopping them. I might sound like a hypocrite because I did just post my new year resolutions, but I all ready had made plans to do all that. I would have done them anyway...
Moving along, my days lately have been hard. This was my finals week and it has been taking it's tole on me. But then today, on the day of my fist set of finals, school was canceled. Due to the cold. Who would have figured that? Well life goes on. Finals have me worried, next semester has me worried, all is just troublesome to me. But that is life, I suppose. We all have to live with it and within it.
So some updates...
My boyfriend finally gave me my Christmas gifts. He gave me my own hat, very soft and purple. And a necklace -- a gold heart with genuine ruby and diamond accents. Yay! I adore them, he has good taste. And is apparently reading this now. Cool! Now I have four viewers!
My nano novel is at a grand count of 57, 100 and is coming around. I had been on a bit of a writers block, but I am fighting it. Hopefully I can make it through. It gets better every day.
I also will be trying to make writing a priority. Hopefully my world gets to shine a bit more often and I make time to do what I love.
And I have a laptop now! Now I will be on the computer for half of my life! YES!
My new year's eve and beginning of the new year was spent playing rock band and hanging out in an outdoor hot tub at 104 degrees. And when it reached that magic hour of midnight and the official start of the new year, my friends and I view a free display of illegal fireworks from across the river. I will say this for New Years, it is an excuse to party, so it is fine by me. And if some people start anew due to it, that is all well and good too. People can do as they please, there is no stopping them. I might sound like a hypocrite because I did just post my new year resolutions, but I all ready had made plans to do all that. I would have done them anyway...
Moving along, my days lately have been hard. This was my finals week and it has been taking it's tole on me. But then today, on the day of my fist set of finals, school was canceled. Due to the cold. Who would have figured that? Well life goes on. Finals have me worried, next semester has me worried, all is just troublesome to me. But that is life, I suppose. We all have to live with it and within it.
So some updates...
My boyfriend finally gave me my Christmas gifts. He gave me my own hat, very soft and purple. And a necklace -- a gold heart with genuine ruby and diamond accents. Yay! I adore them, he has good taste. And is apparently reading this now. Cool! Now I have four viewers!
My nano novel is at a grand count of 57, 100 and is coming around. I had been on a bit of a writers block, but I am fighting it. Hopefully I can make it through. It gets better every day.
I also will be trying to make writing a priority. Hopefully my world gets to shine a bit more often and I make time to do what I love.
And I have a laptop now! Now I will be on the computer for half of my life! YES!
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