"I can dream, can't I?"

Lol, "High School Musical" is pretty much my new favorite movie. Sure, Troy had the FREAKIEST EYEBROWS and Gabriella was a total loser ("He obviously doesn't like me. I'm not going to sing. I'm going to join the Decathlon team thing! So there, Sharpay!"), but other than that, it shows that even weird piano players or freaky science freaks will probably end up with a hot basketball player. And I pretty much loved the scene in the lunch room where everyone's confessing. The nerdy girl was seriously all, "HIP HOP IS MY PASSION!" "Huh?" "I love to pop and lock and brake!" And then she, Zeke the baking basketball boy (not the hot guy, his name was like Jason or something like that), and Hi-I'm-a-skater-and-I-play-the-cello all start dancing on the tables with imaginary cellos and creme brulee (how do you spell that? Oh well, I bet it tastes good).
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH IT'S ALMOST THE END OF THE SEMESTER AND THAT MEANS..............ONE MORE WEEK OF COLLEGE ED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HURRAY! But I still have PE with my old science teacher. Hopefully we'll just talk about running and team sports and NOTHING ELSE!!! As in...*hint hint* Yeah. Ew.
I poured a whole bowl of instant oatmeal down the drain after school. I hope no one gets mad at me and hands me those twisted "wasteroo" stickers. But seriously, I didn't stir it and I didn't put in enough water, so it was all congealed into disgusting little lumps. How am I supposed to eat THAT?
Sadness: there was a chance I could switch to Advanced Band at the end of the semester, but that would mean switching algebra teachers and it's like, "How bout...NO!" I mean, yes, I want to join Advanced Band, BUT I'M ALREADY BEHIND IN ALGEBRA! Well, not me, it's just that my algebra class started way late. So we're only on chapter 5 while everyone else is on 6-3 or something. And I wouldn't want to join another class where they're in 6-3!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, Jocelyn and Kara told me to put this on my blog, so I will (actually, they probably said something totally differnt, but oh well, I have bad memory): I have striped flip flops that are pretty much awesome, and I didn't tell Jeannie, so she's going to kill me. And Kara said that. Okay. Yeah.
Random thought: Best quote from "High School Musical" is, "Chad, we're not Charlie's Angels." "I can dream, can't I?"

It smells.....of.....nail polish remover...

Okay, I want to get this off my chest before I say anything because it's driving me insane: All you Health teachers out there, PLEASE STOP TELLING ME HOW MY GENERATION IS SO FAT AND STUFF! Duh, I know we eat junk food, bla bla bla, but you're the people allowing school lunches to consist of, uh, tacos, pizza, fries, and oh, what's that, BURGERS? And you only have ONE salad bar. Gee, my fellow peers, what's it gonna be; fries or lentils? And maybe we'd get more exercise if PE was a YEAR LONG class instead of making us take COLLEGE ED for one semester before hand. (To all you of logging off and calling the mental institute, this is one of the reasons I was manically depressed yesterday ((no clue why, so please don't ask)) and people are always telling me to "verbalize" my feelings, so here I am.).
Wow, I feel so much better now (no, I'm not being sarcastic). Hello, ladies and gentlemen, here we are again. It's Saturday. I repeat, it's Saturday. Which means I have to: visit Luke (nooo, he'll bite me!), eat a non-healthy lunch, practice all three stinkin instruments (piano, trombone, drum pad. Which isn't really an instrument. And I actually enjoy practicing. Except for rolls, which I can NOT figure out, no matter what my percussionist friends tell me), and ponder whether or not I should wear a different shirt (Scott said I could never be a prep. I wish he was right. My hormones are taking a backwards turn and turning me into Paris Hilton. Only with a significantly larger IQ. Darn, that reminds me, there was a book at the library called "Prep" that looked seriously hilarious, but I couldn't check it out because all these teens were coming into the teen room and glaring at me and looking at the authors that started with P.).
FALLING UP IS THE BEST BAND EVER! That was my writing topic yesterday, cuz we got to pick whatEVER we wanted. So I just scribbled, "FALLING UP IS THE BSET BAND EVER!" all over the notebook page. That and, "BESIDES SKILLET! I LIKE KIDS IN THE WAY AND SEVEN PLACES TOO! AND...I'M GONNA BE A...DRUMMER!!" And then I scared myself by writing the entire chorus to "California" on the margin thingy.
William lost the remote. And no he's mad cuz he can't make the Xbox work without it. It's probably on the recliner. Nice one... WHO WANTS A KRISPY KREME? ME! ME!

F-A-L-C-O-N-S! FALCONS!

Oh boy oh boy oh boy, today we had a PEP ASSEMBLY! YAAAAAAAAAAY! As if. Sure, I guess they're sorta fun. Okay, I admit, I enjoy them immensely, but seriously. WHAT IS WITH FRESHMAN ALWAYS WINNING EVERYTHING? The stupid 8th grade judge was all drawing everything out and it was like, "Shut. Up. We KNOW we lost, quit RUBBING IT IN, YOU FREAK!!!" Only you can't say that to adults. Which sometimes makes me MAD! But seriously, she was all, "Oh, bla bla bla, sevvies lose. And now, it's between the blue...and the white. The white did very good, but the blue was very loud........and.........the second place winner is..........*pointing at freshman, than points at wedgies* THE BLUE! *freshman scream*" And there was this warped twisted contest where two people from every grade would spin this "genre wheel" and whatever music genre they got, they had to dance to. No offense, but us sevvies got OWNED! The really sad thing: the other people weren't even that good. They were just a lot better compared to US! :( I hate life.
Today was an interesting day. I got yelled at alot, especially in 1st and 6th period. Sorry. I just realized I don't like dissecting frogs, which is what we had to do today. Ew. They smell like rubbing alchohol and vinegar. And how are the teachers NOT puking when all the fluid spills out?
Note: A lot of you are probably going, "Wow, Lauren sounds manically depressed." In a way, I am, if you count mood swings. I have no clue what it is, but at about 12:30, life starting stinking and I got really tired. And mean (so say some). And semi...never mind, if I say it, it'll just offend a bunch of people. So yeah. That's my post for today, in the mindset of Edgar Allen Poe. Because he, like me, was manically depressed. I need help.

"I am your wife."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH yesterday was actually a good Wednesday! I got 1/2 pounds wortha chocolate. And I actually enjoyed piano. I must be sick. And Lost was last night. Omg, I predicted like EVERY LINE, it was HILARIOUS! Me: She's gonna be all, "I am your wife." Sun: "I am your wife." Me: OOOOOOOOOOOH! My favorite part was when I was all, "He died." Jack: "He died." Next week, someone's gonna pull a baby Moses and send Turniphead (Aaron, my bad. Not.) into the ocean in a basket and Claire won't believe Charlie and he'll be all, "I'M TRYING TO SAVE YOUR FLIPPIN BABY!" Wow, that was weird.
THURSDAYS ARE UNBELIEVABLY SLOW! 6th period seemed to drag on FOREVER, it wasn't even FUNNY! -_- And I keep stealing books from my college ed teacher. Well, not stealing, I bring them back when I'm done, but he has such good books and I DON'T! And I kinda got no books for my birthday OR for Christmas (don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining), but COME ON! I'm lacking in reading.
THE DRUMS ROCK! Actually, I haven't touched a real drum set ever in my sad existence, but my dad got me a drum pad for my birthday (:D) and sticks, and he's letting me borrow an Accent book on percussion. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! I'm pretty much the best percussionist ever. Not. Lol, I'll turn into that girl I saw on TV when channel surfing with my brothers (I swear, I don't even know what show it was.): "I'm a drummer, and I can lay down a beat and rap." Lol, it was really funny the way she said it, and she was white, so yeah.
I should write soap operas for a living. Seriously, I finally started writing again (yay) and the story's okay, I guess, but there are some parts that I've written that make me laugh when I reread them. And I've discovered that Shakespeare's theory doesn't work: Person A likes Person B likes Person C likes Person A. Unless one of those people was gay, that's not gonna work. Come on, Willy, explain this to me! How did you get it to work? Cuz I can't figure it out. :( Oh well.

Happy Birthday.....and a corndog!

I still don't understand that corndog thing. Probably never will.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAY I'M FINALLY 13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY ONE MORE YEAR UNTIL I CAN VOLUNTEER AT THE HUMANE SOCIETY! THAT ISN'T EXACTLY A PLUS FOR SOME PEOPLE AND I SOUND LIKE MS. AMERICA BUT COME ON! I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME NEW FACES...AS IN DOG FACES!! YAAAAAAAAAAAY! Okay then, I'm done.
"So....how was your birthday," You ask. "PRETTY MUCH SUPER AWESOME!" Why? Well, I saw "Glory Road". *sniff* That's a beautiful movie. Except for the part when the black players walk into their rooms and the walls are covered in blood and stuff. And that one part where they all hated each other and were like, "YOU'RE A CRACKER!" was really dumb. But I liked it. And it had an ending kinda like "Coach Carter" (even tho I've yet to see that) or "October Sky". Except no one became a miner or a mathmetician or a stock market freak and they won, not lost, the NCAA tournament.
What a surprise...I got quite a few duck things for my birthday. Even things totally not related to ducks had duck stickers or something on them. :) I love ducks. Just not as much as horses. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY I GOT "SKY HIGH" I'M SO HAPPY YAAY! I spent at least half an hour watching special features last night. "AAAAAAH there's Will, but he's not in his awesome outift. :("

HAPPY SEVVIE DAY!

Duh, I know "Sevvie Day" isn't a national holiday and is actually illegal in most schools, but WHO CARES? I'M PROUD TO BE A SEVVIE! NYAAAAAAAAAAAAH! So what exactly do you do on Sevvie Day? Well, if you're an eight grader or freshman, you threaten the sevvies with thoughts of swirlies and all sorts of terrible things (ooh I'm shaking with fear. SAVE ME! As if. I'm taller than most eighth grade guys. Hahaha). If you're a sevvie, you make the hex sign at eighth graders/freshman and scream, "STEP AWAY! KEEP YOUR DISTANCE, I CAN'T BE WHO YOU WANT ME TO BE! CUZ RIGHT NOW THERE ARE THINGS INSIDE THAT I DONT WANT YOU TO SEE!" Lol, those are actually the words to a John Reuben song and, no, you don't scream them on Sevvie Day.
Moving on...THREE DAYS TILL MY BIRTHDAY! Oh joyous days, when I get to acquire presents and see "Hoodwinked". *sighs happily* Aaaaaaaaanyway. We had the MLK assembly today. :P Sure, MLK was cool and all, and probably one of the best Americans that ever lived, and one of my heroes (even tho I don't consider people "my hero". If I'm ever asked that question, I'll just be all, "Jesus is my hero." "No, really, who is you hero?" "Wa'el Khouly." "?"), but we don't need a gospel choir and a speech from the vice principal about how we shouldn't just appreciate the three day weekend, that we should appreciate what Martin did for us. If he hadn't done it, we wouldn't be going to this diverse school, and on and on and on. Which is a great speech (kinda), but it causes everyone in my class to be all, "If it weren't for Dr. King, I wouldn't have some of my best friends in the whole wide world!" Uh huuuuh. Yeah. Okaaay.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH in band today we had this sub who is TOTALLY not musically talented, so she had another STUDENT direct. Oh. My. Gosh. I have NOT heard such playing since I went to a kindergarden band concert. :O What the world needs now is COUNTING, sweet COUNTING!

Big Black Cloud (THAT MAKES CAR NOISES!)

If you're wondering about the title, no, I'm not psychotic, it has to do with last night's LOST. Which was actually a really good episode. It talked about Ikko's life before coming a Christian and he was like a drug smuggler. And the plane that Charlie got his Virgin Mary statue from was one that Ikko would have been on, but was betrayed at the last minute. And one of the dead bodies was his brother.
Claire is such a loser, tho. She dumped Charlie and she's like, "Get away from me, Chaaaaahlie, you filthy drug addict." And Turniphead (sorry, Aaron) is gonna cry now and Claire's gonna regret dumping Charlie, but it will have been TOO LATE! Cuz he's going out with my friend now. (lol, we both wish) And everyone likes the new people. I mean, DUH, they like Bernard because he's Rose's husband and everyone likes Rose, but Jin seriously caught Ana Lucia a fish and Hurley helped Libby make a shelter/tent/thing. I think that's foreshadowing of a new "relationship". I hope. This island needs more drama.
If anyone's psychotic, it's gotta be Micheal. Seriously, he's taking everyone's shifts in the hatch so he can IM Walt. And he ALMOST got caught by Jack, but the screen went blank as soon as Jack looked at it. And then Jack gave Micheal this weird pep talk that was all, "Look, man, I have no idea what you must be going through, but we're gonna go find Walt, bla bla bla." And Micheal was literally like, "Yeah. Shut up, man, I wanna talk to my son!" Well, not literally, but it was in his body language. Oh yeah, next week, Micheal's gonna go mental and steal some guns so he can go rescue Walty-Poo. And in the previews, I thought Locke was dead, so I seriously screamed, "YAAAAAY!" But then he wasn't dead. And I got in trouble. :(
So, Lauren, how was your day? :P Wow, who knew the cold I caught yesterday would get WORSE? But it did. So I spent the day at home. It was weird, tho, cuz my mom instantly knew I was sick. As soon as my alarm went off and I didn't wake up, she came in and she was like, "Is it worse?" Grunt. "Do you need to stay home?" Grunt. Yep, that's me in the morning. AAAAH MATLOCK WAS SO WEIRD TODAY! It was like...TWISTED WEIRD. Seriously, the episode was called "The Other Woman" and it opens with this flashback about a crippled lady getting burned in a fire/car accident. Then her friend pulls her off to the side of the road and (this part ALMOST made me cry) the lady starts screaming and trying to run back to the car because her dog is still inside and then it blows up! The car, not the dog. Well, actually, the dog, too. And then at the end, it turns out she killed her husband because she has multiple personalities. It was the FREAKIEST episode of Matlock I have seriously ever seen. *shivers* Maybe I should practice now...

Sleep Walker Texas Ranger

Wow, I just found out I have a psychological problem with sleepwalking! Seriously, this happened last week too: I woke, thinking I heard my alarm, was wide awake, so I took a shower and when I come out, my parents are staring at me going, "What are you doing?" "Um, taking a shower..." "It's 12:30." A.M., people. But seriously, how am I wide awake after like 1.5 hours of sleep? Last week I woke up at 3:00.
But, guess what, sleepwalking does have its perks cuz I went back to sleep and woke up...FEELING SICK WITH A COLD! Actually, that's not so great. I'd rather be in school than feel like the Antonio Banderas bee in that allergies commercial (I don't care if that wasn't him, it sure sounded like it. A congested AB, anyway.).
LOST IS TONIGHT! AND IT'S NEW! YAAAAY! *starts singing "Duel of the Fates"* Oh boy oh boy oh boy. But it's still 7 hours away and I'm very bored right now. I could've watched Matlock, but they're showing these weird eppies that doesn't have Andy Griffith, it has some other scary guy. Maybe it is Andy Griffith. Oh well, it looks more recent and it doesn't sound or look like him whatsoever. MUST WRITE!!!!!!!!!!

The Big Skittle

So he's leaving us. Mr. Villiers is going to New York. :( Sure he'll only be gone for like three days or whatever, but nobody's going to see him again until NEXT Tuesday. Who knows, tho, maybe he'll bring the sevvie band back some Skittles like we tried to promise him to do. Actually, we didn't try to make him promise anything. We just chanted, "SKITTLES! SKITTLES! SKITTLES!" As loud as humanly possible. But then he got mad. No Skittles for the trombones.
I can't believe I actually LIKE Madeleine (I have no clue how to spell her name. She could've made it easier) L'Engle books. Sure, they're weird and way too complicated for my little brain to take in, but it proves that there's hope for all of us. Cuz Meg strongly resembled me (except I don't have braces ((yet)) or mouse brown hair) and she became like hot. It's like...whoa.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY I ALMOST CONQUERED THE GALAXY TODAY! I just need to humiliate the Empire on Endor and I'm good. Oh yeah, Endor was actually a place in the Bible. I wonder if that's copyrighted... Maybe that's the 11th Commandment: "Do not use real Biblical places in pagan movies." Lol.
NEW LOST TOMORROW NIGHT YAAAAAAAAAAAY I'M SO EXCITED! Kind of. Cuz it looks like Charlie might die. Either that or his girlfriend will dump him. And THEN he'll die. Or he won't die and it's just a figment of my imagination. And it's Ikko centered. My fave. :/ Wow, that looks extreeeeeeeeeeeeemely demented.
Oh boy oh boy it's 6 days till my birthday. I'm so excited. Not really. I have two more years on the toturous "puberty highway" and until my time is up, no birthday is worth celebrating. That and I'm still younger than...HA! I almost said his name, but I CAUGHT MYSELF! HaHA!

Talk about dumb

Okay, who here likes poetry? *sees no hands* I don't blame you. I mean, come on, limericks were cool in, what, 3rd grade? But I had to write a poem today in LAR. It was pretty much awesome. Odes are the only good kind of poetry because they can be totally random. Yeah.
MR. JANSEN IS BACK! YAY! (Mr. Jansen is my algebra teacher) Seriously, I walk into the room and he's sitting there talking with Mr. Fox about basketball. After about a month of subs (actually, it was only like two weeks, but we had winter break), that sort of thing is totally unexpected. It turns out something was wrong with his knee.
"Fantastic Four" is pretty much the dumbest movie ever. What's with Ben's whole, "I'm good as is," attitude? And why does he end up with the blind girl? She should be so glad she's blind... Jessica Alba is pretty much the best actress ever. If you don't count Natalie Portman and Alexa Vega (lol I seriously hope you're catching my sarcasm. Or like Micah would say, sarCASm).
Band pretty much rocks, as usual. Except we're playing this Bach song called "Fireworks Music". Apparently during the concert he played this at, the whole hall burned down. It's super dumb. But we got to play the Star Wars song, so it wasn't that bad. DUEL OF THE FATES IS THE BEST SONG ON THE PLANET!
I really need to cut my nails. They're the only things touching the keys. Which isn't right. Whoa that was random. Okay maybe I should stop...

Lauren's List of Awesome Books Part 3

(I have no clue what the exact title is, but it's something like) Nancy Drew Ghost Stories: Nancy Drew and her friends Bess and George must solve several supernatural mysteries.
Ooooh I'm soooo scared. Seriously, the description was all, "If you read this at night, the only sound you will hear is THE POUNDING OF YOUR OWN HEART!" Yeah right. More like me laughing. These are seriously the stupidest yet funniest stories ever. There's this one with these "ghost dogs" that weren't buried on this certain hill, SO THEY HAUNT THE MANSION FOREVER! It turns out that these guys who lived next to the mansion dressed up as dogs and made scratching marks on the door. One of them totally spills out everything, tho, so it's not even funny. "OKAY, I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING! It was all Matthew's idea. HE WAS ALWAYS CLEVER!" Looooser.

Who Killed the Homecoming Queen?: Even tho Goosebumps and Ghosts of Fear Street are two really dumb series, R. L. Stine did a really good job on the Fear Street series...by making them so darn funny. SERIOUSLY! There's like a stalker goth guy who has a crush on the homecoming queen (Tania) and Tania's stepbrother is all, "Man, you'd do anything to get near Tania, wouldn't you?" And goth boy's all, "Yes. I would." ISN'T THAT FREAKY? The end is kinda disappointing cuz goth boy and Tania don't end up together and neither do Eva and Jeremy (long story), but it is kinda funny. "Oh no...THE CAMCORDER JAMMED AGAIN!"

The Fellowship of the Ring: Young hobbit Frodo Baggins goes on a quest to rid Middle Earth of the worst evil there ever was.
Two Towers is so much better, but whatever, this is the first one. LOTR RULES! Pippin is my favorite, followed by Sam and Frodo, and Merry can just DIE! And Aragorn isn't as obsessed with Arwen as he is in the movies. Best of all...NO EOWYN! "A plague on ye dwarves and your STIFF NECKS!"

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: A girl named Lucy opens up a wardrobe and finds a magical land called Narnia inside, which is controlled by the evil White Witch
This isn't technically the first one (it was written first, but Magican's Nephew happens first), but it's one of the best ones in the CON series. Edmund isn't as bad as he is in the BBC version of the movie, but all of my friends seriously hated him when they first read the book cuz he's EVIL!!!!!!!! Yeah.

The Hangman's Curse: Twins Elijah and Elisha must solve a mystery surrounding an evil curse with a ghost named Abel Fry.
This book is one of the scariest books I've ever read. The second one's dumb, but whatever. ANYWAY. It seriously freaked me out the first time I read it. So read it. It's better than the movie anyways.

Cool Summer Song

Wow, I was so desperate for a title, I actually subsituted the name of a Jump5 song for one. Scaryness.
AAAAAAAAH MY STUPID TAB KEY ISN'T WORKING! Lol I found this cpu key that says 'Oi Vey!' and you can replace Delete or something with it. I just haven't gotten around to that yet.
I CLEANED THE CHURCH YESTERDAY!!!!!! (*gasp* You did? Wow. Very good, Lauren!) Well not by myself. I had to do it with the whole youth group. Or most of the youth group. Whatever. I got to use a yellow vaccuum. Yes. Yellow. Oh yeah, baby.
Blaaaaaaaaah I don't even know why I created this post. Just for the sake of posting, I guess. Okay then.

Fridays are scary

You are SO glad you're not in my science class. We had to watch a movie called "Teen Dreams", which was about these two British kids (a guy and a girl) going through puberty. And, since it was a Discovery Channel movie, it was basically explained that we are on this world to reproduce, so those people can reproduce, and so on. Which makes no sense. Lol, it was funny, tho, cuz there was a part when the guy's voice changed during a play and he had to sing. It was EXTREMELY funny. And there was a part when this guy was all touching the girl's buaaaaaaaaaaaackside and her friend was like, "OI! I'm a mate, we look out for each other." And he dropped his hand right away. Hahaha. Then at the end, Darryn (voice boy) and Natalie (the girl) go out with each other. How touching.
BAND RULES!!!!!!!!!!!! We're playing "John Williams Movie Themes", which has HARRY POTTER IN IT, "John Williams Movie Adventures", which has STAR WARS AND JURASSIC PARK IN IT, and, best of all, WE'RE PLAYING SONGS FROM "THE LION KING"!!!!!!!! COULD MY LIFE GET ANY BETTER?
I can't talk today due to a violent game of Bunco last night. Yeah. That's basically it. Oh yeah, I'm planning on either stealing or borrowing one of my older brother's Zag hats. Okay, now I'm done.

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

People wonder why I don't eat sandwhiches at lunch. Well, maybe it's because they don't know how grossed out you can get in a lunchroom. And eating cold, moist bread and slimy bologna while witnessing/listening to these things is pretty disgusting and easy to throw up.
1. Don't watch somebody get hit on. Especially don't watch if the hittee is totally oblivious. Or if they're totally not. Just don't do it.
2. If someone is eating a burger with so much mayo that it drops out in clumps, look away or dunk your head in a pail of Gatorade (that was random).
3. Don't let your friends talk about what you're learning in science, especially if you're learning about a certain system that many teens find useful even tho they shouldn't be using it. (no, really, guess)
4. Don't sit near preps/cheerleaders/people that talk about bikini waxes and tanning beds ("I use one where you lay down.")

Yeah, that's basically it. Wow, I can't believe I'm actually enjoying college ed. It's AMAZING! It's also amazing how quickly early release days can pass. Seriously, I spent like an hour plaing Battlefront and it was already 2:30! Fine, an hour and a half... There goes my 90 minutes.
I GOT MY NEW BOOK YAAAAAAY! So I'm' gonna go waste time reading it. Even tho I'm supposed to be doing algebra homework (I thought I was good at algebra: WRONG! I got 9 out of 23 on my last assignment. So yeah, I need a little practice. And some Cheetos).

My last day of freedom

Lol that makes it sound like I'm going to jail or something tomorrow. Nope, just going to school again. *sniff* NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I find that very not awesome. Once again I have to listen to college ed lectures and weird science movies where guys ask girls to blood drives for entertainment. I'd rather not, thank you. But it's the stupid law. >:( The school board is going to receive a very angry letter...
Just a note: Apparently I have caused an uproar by not saying who the heck Will Harris is. I seriously said his name like once last night and about 4 people were like, "OMG WHO IS HE?" Scary. ANYWAYS, if you must know, he's the guy that plays Speed in Sky High, thank you very much. As I have said before, super speed is something I find ultra fascinating.
Why do people like football? Sure, I do find satisfaction in tackling slow people weilding pigskins, but I can't watch it. I swear, it's the slowest sport I've ever seen. Actually, that would be baseball, THEN football, and I don't see the point of soccer or hockey...so I'm kinda anti-sports...just not equine sports or basketball. Basketball rocks my socks.
I'm really hating the Empire right now. Every time I start a stupid galactic conquest, they let me down. :( You hurt me, Lord Vader. Rebels rock. Except for Luke. His hair bothers me.
Who knew Pokemon Emerald Version was so fun? :O I did not just say that. Okay, I'm done now.

Lauren's List of Awesome Books, Part 2

Trial By Journal: A 12-year-old girl writes about her experience as a juror in a case about a murdered boy.
The ending was kinda sad the first time I read it because it was 3 AM and when I saw the ad about "Rat's Rest Haven" or whatever, I fell apart. Even tho "Rat's Rest Haven" isn't even sad. But the main character is really funny and makes fun of dentists and teachers. The only disturbing part is that everyone is named after an animal. Like the defense attorney's name was Mally Mute. Hahaha. Not really. The prosecutor was Golden Ray Treevor. And one of the not-very-animal-but-still-sorta-funny-at-3-AM names was Leon D. Vinci. Yeah.

Eragon: 16-year-old boy finds a dragon egg in the mountains and does a whole bunch of stuff involving Dragon Riders and weird scary bird men. (wow, that was a beauteous descrip)
TIME mag would've been proud. Anway... THIS BOOK RULES! There's this freaky-yet-awesome herb lady named Angela who totally kicks butt in the war/battle/thing...I'm giving too much away. But I listened to this book on tape version of it and Saphira had the coolest voice ever. She and Solembum were extremely funny. I only laughed at one part; the part where Murtagh reveals himself. It was kinda funny and over dramatic. But everything else was, dare I say it, GRIPPING! HA! SO THERE! I SAID IT! HA! HAHAHAHA!

Eldest: (lol Amber) The sequel to Eragon. That's all I'm going to say or I'll give too much away.
I liked Eragon kinda better because this one was way over dramatic. Arya is a jerk. And a bit ornery. What does Eragon see in her? Poor guy needs a girlfriend. But he can't end up with Nasuada. She needs to end up with Murtagh cuz there's this whole mutual liking deal going on between them. I mean, why else would Murtagh call her "a princess"? Weirded out. O_o Oh yeah, at the end, there's another Rider. Hehehe. I know who it is!

Circles in the Stream: Emily Fletcher discovers a magical stonish thing and finds alot of magical animal creatures in Ravenswood Wildlife Preserve.
Another beauteous description. *sniff* Anway, this is the first book in the Avalon series and probably the best one. It seriously and literally moved me. There were certain characters, tho, (*cough cough* Kara *cough cough*) that I personally thought should've dropped dead. Note: Don't get this one confused with "Song of the Unicorns" or whatever it's called because there are two Avalon series: the first one, and a second one that happens later called "Quest for Magic". Just a note.

(I'm not sure if this is the exact title, but I'm pretty sure it is) White Wolf: A wolf, raised by humans, has to learn to survive in the wild and find his place in nature's order.
I am so bad at descriptions. Moving on. THIS BOOK IS SO SAD! The little kid was all abducted by Indians after they killed his dad and the Indians were gonna sacrifice Snowy (what the little kid calls the wolf puppy), but then the little kid did something and was like, "RUN SNOW, RUN!" And from then on, the little kid's like not in the book. Hence the title, "White Wolf". Anyway, it's really good, but what I don't understand is if Johnny (I forgot his name, but I think that's it) was like 5 in the beginning, why was he like 20 two years later? Confusion.

Pass the raisins

Wow. I never want to see another Star Wars movie in my life, thanks to the all night Star Wars marathon we had on Friday. And Saturday. 14 hours of pure George Lucas. Only "Return of the Jedi" was totally remastered because Hayden Christiansen was at the end and he kinda wasn't 20-something in '83. He was only like 4 or something then.

So, how was my New Year's Eve? Well, I slept from 8 AM to 3 PM, stayed home while my family went out for Chinese food with my grandparents (I kinda wished I had gone, but my stomach would have released all that BBQed pork onto the carpet), ate raisins and popcorn for dinner (it has fiber; for those of you who are confused, i ate alot of chocolate, soda, and corn chips ((not holy chips)) and...moving on...), and watched "Prehysteria" (yes, Jared, I finally watched it. It's really dumb.) and "Snow Dogs" (it was the Saturday Night Movie of the Week. As soon as I saw Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the swimming pool, I screamed.). Then I went to bed. At 10:30. So, no, I didn't exactly get to welcome in the new year. Not that I wanted to, anyway.

I know I sound extremely bitter and stuff in that last paragraph, but that was pretty much the awesomest New Year's Eve I've ever experienced. Especially since my mom bought banana gum (do not ask). BOOK LIST PART 2 IS NEARING!!!!!!