Silence is NOT Golden

Everyone who knows me knows that I can hardly be quiet for two minutes, well, this past weekend I decided to try 36 hours without speaking.

I started at noon on Friday, right after my last class for the day so that I wouldn't have any troubles in my classes. I'm proud to say that I made it to 1 am without much trouble, then the trouble started... let's just say I exploded with words.

I would have made it, I'm sure, just complications came up, and I wasn't able to handle it quietly.... but I did go 11 whole hours without speaking! Proving that I do have better self-control than I thought.



Other than that I'm doing pretty well at SUU. I'm getting good grades, and starting to make good friends. Still no gentlemen of note, but I'm sure one will come around in due time. There's a formal dance this weekend with the Institute, and I'm really wanting to go, but it's boy's choice, so it would take  miracle for me to go, thankfully, I believe in miracles!


Have a fantastic day, and read on to see my Halloween post!

-PenningJade

Back To School

Well, here I am, starting my senior year of high school. I have some killer classes this tri., two of which showcase the two dominant, yet opposite sides of my personality. Preschool (which showcases my future-homemaker side that loves to bake, and care for little ones) should be fun, but it will also be a ton of work ( I counted 8 essays, I think, plus all the other stuff i have to do in that class). The other class is Theater 3 (which showcases my love for fun and expressing myself in a unique way). Those are my 4th and 5th periods, so a great way to end the day, right? along with that I'm taking Psychology 1010, English 1010, and Math 1050.

I'm not really fully awake right now, so I'm going to use bullets rather than try to string two thoughts together.


First impressions (school):

• There are some cute people in my math class, so that should be good, seeing as it's math, so I will need as much help as I can get.

• I have the same B.A.M.S. teacher this year, and she's just stinkin' awesome (she's grown on me over the past 3 years).

• The new drama teacher still scares me. Actually I'm almost terrified of her, but I'll get over that soon.

• I'm excited because the Shakespeare competition will be the weekend after Conference, instead of the weekend of Conference, so I don't have to lose that family time.

Summer Quickies:

• I baked at least 30 dozen cookies this summer. (I call baking my new nasty habit)

• I burned myself baking cookies this summer (actually there was a story behind this: I was baking cookies to put in my purse when my friends and I went to the premier of the sixth Harry Potter movie, and burned a dozen, so as i was scraping them into the trash, I got distracted by the conversation I was having with my best friend, Stu, and i rested the still-hot cookie sheet against my arm. Needless to say, I burned myself good. Well, he went to Disney World this last week, and he brought me back an oven mitt so that I wouldn't burn myself... I thought it best to remind him that every time i burned myself this summer (4) I was wearing an oven mitt.)

• I got to take care of my beautiful older sister Summer's girls for a few weeks. That was probably the highlight of my summer they were cuter than a box of kittens, and so well behaved. I want 3 just like them when I'm much older (like 7 years at least). But it was a blast. I got to meet some awesome people. The Riches, Lacey, and the Simpsons left the most lasting impression, but I also loved Sis. Butler, and all the little beehives (Summer's Hurricane ward is pretty sweet)

• I attended what might unfortunately be my last year of girls' camp as a youth, and LOVED every minute of it. I got to be YCL for an exemplary group of 13-year-old girls. I hope they had a good time. I tried my best.

• I went to Lagoon (where fun is) with my best friends, Nick, Nick, and Nicie (Stu, Wallace and Nicie). We had a blast, I think friends are the family you get to choose, and sometimes have to lose. ( but I hope I never have to lose these 3 because they make me happy)

• I made a quilt this summer too with the help of my awesome friend Kenz. It's really cute. it's blue and green. It is only a rag quilt, nothing extremely fancy, but it makes me happy.
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• I started a new book (Frog Eyes and Fairy Tales) It's about Nick, Nick, Nicie and myself with many of my other friends thrown in. I took major creative licence on the characterizations, but I tried to keep the reasons I love each person in their characters. The book is actually written for Nicole, and I don't know how many others I'm going to let read it, but I may if you send me a special request.

Well, that's all for now, folks. I gotta go work on MATH HOMEWORK (blech!)

Nothing to blog about for my last blog of the year....

i really don't have anything to say but i figure that writing a blog is better than sitting on the couch watching the Disney channel all day....

merry Christmas to everyone! (a week late, but all the same).

i love to think over all that i have progressed this year. there are a few things i would have liked to say i accomplished this year, but some of them i didn't.

• i didn't get my drivers license.
• i didn't lose the 20 pounds i set out to lose.
• i didn't write three novels.
• i fought with my sisters way too much
• and i didn't get a job.

it's really my fault with all of these. i didn't get my license because i forgot to get the paperwork all put together before yesterday. and the rest of my goals were a little unrealistic (it's really really hard not to fight with your siblings when you share a bathroom)

but there were a lot of things i did manage to do.

• i got my hours for my drivers license
• i finally accepted that i am not a twig, nor do i want to be a twig.
• i wrote one really great novel
• i have gotten used to the fact that my sisters will pick on me a lot, so i just need to ignore it (much easier said than done)
• and i applied for a job, and plan on applying for more.
• i got a 4.0 for two trimesters.
• i made a friend out of an enemy.
• i went on my first date, and my second one too. (both were setups, still not been asked)
• i learned how to share a cell phone.
• i made a lot of amazing friends.
• i even lettered in academics.

i am pretty proud of my accomplishments. i did a lot of things that i never thought i could have. 2008 has been a pretty great year!

i am, however, excited to get past this milestone. my sixteenth year. wow. i'm almost seventeen!

i hope to do a world of good next year. here's a basic overview of what i want to accomplish in 2009.

• get my license
• get a job
• go to prom (most likely by myself, but i'd love to be asked!)
• get all my classes ready for graduation.
• get into the advanced drama classes for next school year.
• do the school musical for next school year.
• apply for colleges
• get into college.
• and date some boys (that's a carryover from last year's list)

i also have a few major goals that are a bit bigger. they fall into four catagories: spiritual, physical, social, and intelectual. i have mad a goal for those catagories as well as an overall goal for 2009.

• spiritual- write in my journol. i am good about blogging big events, even journoling them, but i need to get better about writing down the little mercies in my life.
• physical- workout 60 min. a week. most years my goal is to lose a certian ammount of weight, or to excercise alot. but in reality, i'm not that into sports and excersize, so i've decided that 60 min. a week is perfect for me.
• socially- tolerate stupid people doing stupid stuff that i catch myself doing from time to time. Hypocracy isn't my favorite thing, but i catch myself doing it alot, so i've decited that it will be eiser to like others if i excuse them of my faults.
• intilectual- study for 30 min. a day increase to 45 min. for test week. i've decided that in 2009 i'm going to try somehting new: studying. i have usually gotten A's with no effort, but lately that isn't so. so i'm going to actually study every day! weird huh?!
• OVER ALL- i've decided that in 2009 i need to learn to like myself better. i need to learn that i have faults, and learn to be okay with that. if i learn to lie me, i can more easily learn to like others. and to accept the fact that people may actually like me!

this year has been great! but lets say hello to 2009 in style!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (a little early...)