I got BLOGTAGGED on the ning! (Anyone who is looking for my 5 facts on the Ning, I hope you thought to click on my website link.)
Anyways, I ‘m supposed to share 5 AWESOME facts about myself. Ugh….this is going to be hard!
I couldn’t walk as a toddler. While Ginny, my twinny (ha…rhyming) was walking around our house, I was knee walking. This was concerning to my parents, so they took me to a child walking specialist at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. Anywho, I finally walked at almost 3 years of age, and the doctors and my family were happy because I almost had to have leg braces. The only repercussions are that I have knee problems, but it’s been gradually getting better. And I can walk, and run and whatever. (I also have low muscle tone, which may have been the cause of me not having strong enough legs to hold me up. My mom thinks it was because Ginny took up all the room in her..umm..womb, i guess, and she didn’t leave my muscles enough room to develop.)
WoOt Obama! I’m a HUGE Obama fan! Yay for the 2008 presidential election!
I’m a math geek in denial. That’s what my friends say, at least. I love literature, art, music, and films, but I am hopelessly left-brained. (Stupid thumb test…) Anyways, I like the conciseness (?) of math and how straight forward it is, but I also like creativity. I don’t know, I guess I have a good balance of both areas ( math and art), which is good, but quite confusing when considering potential majors and careers.
Only 2 left! Okay, the fourth fact about ME is that…I hate cliques! Specifically, I hate how people band together by sports team. It just takes the fun out of doing a school sport.
Last one! I know you’re sad. Let’s see..the last fact about me…I’m dead scared about getting my license! No lie. They get us so freaked out in school, doing mock car accidents and whatnot. Ahhh….I have NIGHTMARES!
Well, that’s it. Interesting me.
Now for awesomeness! Ministry of Magic video below! Love them!!!!
Sorry I haven’t updated in awhile! This week has just been SO hectic, you don’t even want to know! Anywho, I have a lot of questions to ask you…
Is stealing music (cheesy music, if i must) off of the internet bad? Because it was just ‘The Llama Song’ and ‘We’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard’. Well, and maybe ONE Blue October song. But only one! I swear!
Should I audition for the musical at school? I’ve been having nightmares about auditioning, and I’m nervous as HECK right now.
Remind me to give that book back to Stefana. Sorry it’s not a question, but whatever. 30% of questions are statements in disguise anyways. (Love it? Blame Emma…or Dr.Phil)
E. Lockhart. Doesn’t that name sound famous or familiar? It’s the author of the book I’m currently reading, and I don’t know where I’ve heard that name before. Does anyone have an idea?
‘Bioré’ products are awesome! Try the ‘Blemish Fighting Ice Cleanser’ and the ‘Pore Minimizing Moisturizer’. Works REALLY well. (Endorsement not paid for by the ’Bioré’ Franchise.)
Hmm…what else…OH! Raise your hand if Kerri is the bomb! (If your hand is not waving frantically in the air, I am not your friend anymore) She rocked yesterday at Listening Lunch! You go girl! (Wow…just…wow.) Any record companies out there, Kerri is soooo ready for a contract!
Also, raise your hand (frantically, please) if you think it is an AWESOME idea for me to do a nerdfighter collage in my art class! You know, Hank and John, the hand star trek (wars?) thingy, DFTBA, etc…Comment!
Check out the AMAZING video below! It’s ‘The General’ by Dispatch. Those of you that were at Listening Lunch yesterday might recognize it…it’s actually one of my favorite songs. Really good lyrics. Listen to them. Inspirational meaning about war and how it’s…stupid.
If blogging is an indication of loneliness, I must be extremely lonely today.
So, I just wanted to rant about spontanaeity. I hate that the world is always on a schedule, and we all think that by shirking times and responsibilities, the world will combust and our reputations will be shattered.
I don’t think that made very much sense, but whatever. I just wish, sometimes, that I could randomly go somewhere, anywhere, without my parents breathing down my neck. I just want to…go for ice cream, go to the zoo, walk in the woods, pet a giraffe, without it being a big deal. I wish my life was a teen novel. That’s it. That’s all I want. I want…something real. A life without boredom, responsibility, planning and expecatation. I want to discover new things, laugh freely, drive down the road without a care, not wondering if I’m late for the next big thing.
I want to relax. I want…my life to be interesting. It’s the same old thing every single day. Wake up to the shriek of my alarm clock. Hit the snooze button. Drag my butt out of bed. Get to school. Talk to my friends. Learn stuff. Go home. Eat an apple. Do my homework. Check my e-mail. Call my friends. Do something, maybe. Watch TV. Listen to music. Run on the treadmill. Go to singing lessons. Try to stay awake in Science Class.
It is all so…draining. I just want spontanaeity. Do you hear me? I want to be a character in a book! I want a life (not a fake life, like fake teenagers have) but an interesting, meaningful, exotic life. I want to go to an art museum. Or the aquarium.
So, even though I don’t recieve comments, I have been told that people have, in fact, read my post. (But don’t forget to read the About Carly, it’s way better!)
Anywho, this is the first post in which I will delve into the depths of…BOOKS AND MUSIC! WOO-HOO!
After going on a spontaneous excursion with two (technically three) pals to Barnes & Noble, I have had an epiphany. Well, not really an epiphany, more of a thought that was almost worthy of being written down. And, for lack of sufficient material, I have decided to put it in my post. Here it goes: Teen books rock the world! Not kidding you. When I think of getting older and having to read adultish books with boring covers, I almost gag. How can you LIVE without reading the great works of John Green, Maureen Johnson, Sarah Dessen and Scott Westerfeld?! You just can’t. It’s that simple.
Books I recommend:
‘Looking for Alaska‘ by John Green
‘An Abundance of Katherines‘ by John Green
‘Dreamland‘ by Sarah Dessen
The ‘Uglies‘ fourlogy(?) by Scott Westerfeld
‘So Yesterday‘ by Scott Westerfeld
‘Elsewhere‘ by Gabrielle Zevin
More books will come to me eventually, but that’s it for now.
*Don’t you just love how I write like I’m actually addressing an audience?
Sidenote- John Green is actually 1/2 of the brothers Green, more commonly known as the creators of Nerdfighteria. Check out one of his funnier videos below, I guess. I’ve never done this before, so I hope it works.
Well, thank-you for the kind welcome, internet. I assure you, it is well appreciated. So, I guess I’m here. And writing. About things. As you can tell, I am quite the imaginative writer. So, I’ll start off by directing you to the About Carly page. Check it out, because it says just about everything I want to say in my introductory post. I guess I’ll start ranting now.
Topics to Rant About: (that you will probably see more in depth in future posts)
Why is middle school so sucky? I’m in High School, but I go back to my middle school every week to tutor and, let me tell you, it is not pleasant. There is something so…crummy about middle school, it just makes me want to throw up. I don’t know why, but it does. It’s the awkward transition period between being a young kid, and being an old kid, and I just want to tell all of the inbetween kids that it gets oh-so much better up at the BIG school.
Why are people so fake? Why can’t we ever just say what we feel? I am so glad that I have the friends that I do, because they allow be to just…be me. No false pretenses, just ME. Don’t you hate all of the North Face, hair straightening, Hollister clones? Nothing against North Face (I’m sure it is quite warm), hair striaghtening (although wild, crazy fun hair is much more interesting than boring straight hair) or Hollister (some of the clothes are…not vomit inducing), but it’s the REASON why people are interested in all of these things. To fit in. But, why does everyone want to fit in? Why can’t we just all be happy with who we are, and find someone else who is happy with who we are, too? I just hate the world today. doo doo doo dah doo, I know but I can’t change. *catchy BITCH song by Meredith Brooks*
Why can’t we embrace our inner nerdfighters? (if you have no idea what I’m talking about, go on over to youtube and check out the vlog brothers or go to brotherhood2.com to be directed to the Nerdfighter Ning network.)
Why can’t I ever express my feelings efficiently through writing? It feels like it’s just…blah. It sounds like such an important thought in my head, but when I write it down I feel foolish.
What happens when we die? *Watch for my rant on ‘Elsewhere‘ by Gabrielle Zevin, amazing book* Why do I question heaven, and then feel like a horrible person?
How do you describe a color? Where did colors originate? Did they just happen?
Why do I ramble so much?
So, there you have it. A few topics that I like to rant about in my spare time. I hope you like this post and ,if you don’t, I don’t really give a flying poo about it, because what other people think, it doesn’t really matter to me all that much. Or, so I try and tell myself.
And I can walk, and run and whatever. (I also have low muscle tone, which may have been the cause of me not having strong enough legs to hold me up. My mom thinks it was because Ginny took up all the room in her..umm..womb, i guess, and she didn’t leave my muscles enough room to develop.)
Let’s see..the last fact about me…I’m dead scared about getting my license! No lie. They get us so freaked out in school, doing mock car accidents and whatnot. Ahhh….I have NIGHTMARES!