Wonderful Time

Most Interesting Part of This Class:

Listening to people's stories.

Its so fun and weird to hear people you thought where all shy and stuff break out of their box and write a story that makes your skin crawl and your teeth chatter in fear. Then again it was just fun to hang out with these people a exchange ideas. It's really helped me grow as a writer.

Most Boring/Useless Part of This Class:

There wasn't really any part of this class that bored me to tears. I didn't like the road trip assignment or having to do the essay on big fish, but I under stood why we did them so no big problem. This class was one of the best I had this year.

Hardest I Laughed in This Class:

Any one who knows me knows its hard to get me to laugh, but in this class it was just easy to do. Form the silly things Mr. B would say to the stupid stories boys like Noah would write. I always came into this class with sigh and left with a smile.

Thing That I Learned That Will Be Most Useful to Know in the Real World:

This class helped me open my eyes to the world and see the good stories that are hidden beneath the surface. Its just a good outlook to have on life.

Best Thing About Brigs as a Teacher:

He is supportive, giving suggestions when your stuck, but not changing your story to something that not you. He aways was so happy an up beat, which helps keep students engaged.

Thing Brigs Could do to Make This Class Better For Future Classes:

Give them a bigger break between writing the stories. Seriously towards the end there I had no fast ideas left.

And now, a couple quotes from this semester to make you chuckle:

"R'ite"

"Life is like a box of oreos you never get them all."

If I had to rate this class I'd give it 5 stars

The Dread of choosing the wrong Wedding Dress

People say the luckiest color a bride can wear on her wedding day are pink, blue, and of course white. Other colors such as green, black, or purple are thought to bring the worse of luck on the day and for your future life. Personally I think luck is what you make of it. If you are determined to work hard to make the life you will love then no silly color can get in your way. The most important thing for you to do on your wedding day is to relax and realize that you are about to be marred to your best friend and the person that will help shape the rest of your life.

In the end mythes and superstitions only have truth if you give them that power. So use your head and decided for yourself if things other than you and god could have control on your life.

Looking Forward

Right now I'm looking forward to summer break. I ready for the days when I can sleep in late then get up and do nothing but read all day. Summer is just wonderful, with its little adventures that can take a whole week or a whole month to finish.
In three months I will be celebrating my 18 th birthday. I can't wait to do to be an adult and do something you can only do at that time. As my parents say already act like an adult so I don't think much will change in the rule department.
In a year when I graduate I'm looking forward to my sister's wedding and getting ready to go to the college of my dreams.

Mostly I'm looking forward to having a family of my own and a career I don't dread getting up for every morning.

My Top 10 TV shows

1) Bones
I love how she this smart woman, but is so dumb about the world around her.
2) Criminal Minds
Its mind bugling and suspenseful, whats not to like.
3) House
He is the most uncaring person on this planet, but he has the answer to all your ailments. Just don't expect to get a hug.
4) CSI: New York
This the only CSI that doesn't have something really weird going on with its people.
5) Charmed
There powerful women with every day problems.
6) Closer
She's polite but finds the answers.
7) CSI: Las Vegas
It use to be my number one but now with all the wierd things it doesn't even make my top 5.
8) Saving Grace
This is a women with some major problems. It just shows that god has got your back no matter what you've done.
9) Without a Trace
I hate it when the person the are looking for dies.
10) Bathroom fix it
I only watch this one when I have too. Its really my dad's favorite show.

CONFLICT

To tell you the truth I have not ever really had a major internal conflict in the last three years, this is do mostly to the fact that I decided that you only get one life to live so why fight your way through it. A little conflict I am having right now is that people keep wanting to change things that depict my soul or imagination. I understand they are just trying to help, but it's just so personal for some to look at your work then completely tare it apart. So when I have to go back and alter my creation I just do in a way to sought my viewer. I'm not saying all of the ideas for change are bad, some of them will actually really help, but it's hard to change the things you know work for you and others just to please others. To tell you the truth I can't wait for the day when I can do things and not have to tare them apart to please another person.

My Dream Guy

Crystal ice blue eyes that would great me every morning with their glorious sparkling laughter. His strong face matches his muscular form, with hair chestnut colored hair that is long enough, but not down to his shoulders. He loves scary movies, but can also sink his teeth into the classics and comedies. The outdoors are his arena and he is a handy man with a screwdriver. He is also a big dog lover. Peeves he hates when people use profanities just for the heck of it and guys who think its okay to mistreat their girls. He can tell what is wrong with your engine with just a sound and can rock out like an AC DC child. Weakness is me.
He also has to be over 5 feet 4inch so that he has to lean down to kiss me, not the other way around. His color doesn't matter to me as long as he's my prince. His attitude on life should be carefree and fun, but he also needs to know when to be serious and understanding.
I have always like the names Aaron and Philip.
P.S: There is no perfect person out there you just got to pick the best one for you and then go for it. Anyway perfect would be boring.

The Movie of My Life

Before I even start I would like to state that this movie would probable only earn a hundred dollars tops in the the box office, so it wouldn't get to DVD. The four people that would have to be characters in my film would be my mom as Julia Andrews (younger), dad as John Goodmen, sister as Nicole Kitmen, and my self as Shirley Temple. Mostly it would be about the adventures I use to go on as a little kid growing up surround by corn, but always dreaming of life in faraway places with knights and castles. Maybe that how the movie would begin, in one of my many day dreams as a child. Then abruptly stopping midway because mom calls me in for lunch. Upon returning to the yard I find a secrete passageway that leads me to the land of my dreams. I could get captured by a dark wizard and then the courages t knight would come and rescue me. Then as we road off into the sunset my eyes would flicker open to see my parents and my sister standing over me because I had fallen off the monkey bars banging my head which had created the vivid dream.

P.S: If these are not the real actors names its not my fault they blocked the sites for me to check.

The One Thing I Would Change

I wish I could go back in time to that day on Sept. 30, 2006 and not turn down that back country road.
Only had my license for a month, it was great I had freedom to go any where I wanted in my sweet purple car. It was just another day after school and I was just making my way home. Most of that week I had taken the long way home, but for some reason that day I decided to take the short cut down a country road. Everything was fine until I reached the stop sign. The corn was up and every country driver knows that when corn is up there are some roads that it hard to see what is coming at you. Well this was one of those road that is well known for antecedences at this time of year.
When I first started driving my dad had told me to stop like you would at a regular stop sign then ease up to see around the corn. It just happen on this day coming down the road saw me doing that and thought I was pulling all the way out. He swerved into the lane next to me trying to avoid me, but clipped my back end only a inch form my door. As my car spun out into the intersection my life flash before my eyes. It had to be the most scariest moment of my life.
Of course I was upset it was my new car and I thought it was all my fault. Needless to say the cop gave me the ticket because I couldn't remember exactly what had happened. It wasn't till later that night that I realized I hadn't done anything wrong.
By then it was to late to get the ticket off my record so I just went to the class. The worst part was my car was almost totaled and it took 3 months to fix. Even after I got my car back I was reluctant to drive.
So if I could re due one thing it would be not to have gone down that road that day. Who knows maybe I could have been a more confident driver if that hadn't happened to me.

Oh, When the Smell of Spring has come!

The most vivid spring smell that brings back memories for me would have to be the smell of freshly cut grass. That is when spring is really evident because then its not just the sun shin, but the colors that surround you outside your front door. The smell of that grass has the power to transport me back to a time were the only care in the world is what new adventure was awaiting me in my babysitters backyard.

Then there was the smell at the first spring fair. There is nothing like the smell of cotton candy, corn dogs, and funnel cakes to get you in the mood for spring. Their delicious smells can encourage any young persons mind to image the new things to do with their free summer months.

No matter what my problems for the past winter may be those smells will always bring a smile on my face.

Habits Good and Bad

Well my habit is not as bad as smoking or as weird as dressing up like a little school girl, but it is the only habit I've ever had. It is more like a thinking action that I do, you know like when people chew their pens or bight their nails. During a test I'll place my face as close to the paper as I can then grip my hair in my hand. I hold on so hard sometimes I'm surprised I have any hair left on my head. Most of us have little things that we do to concentrate, when we are scarred, or when we are nervous. Yes, some of our methods may be considered weird or bad by others but if it works and it doesn't harm you or another it's fine.
Then there are those habits people just find incredible crazy. The ones my friends remark on the most is that I read the same books over and over again. One time they actually threatened to burn the book if I didn't stop reading it. I really don't do this to get under their skin. Its just when I really like a book I like to read it over again to catch what I might of missed and relive the parts I liked the best. The stories I read also give me great ideas on how to right my own stories, so that maybe one day a person will want to read my story over and over again.
Well those are some of my little habits maybe now you don't feel as bad or weird about yours.

The Job I hate

Last summer I was a janitor for my church. Just let me tell you, binding over to clean public toilets is not cool. First there is that over powering smell that always seems to be worse in the boy's bathroom for some reason. Then there was the vacuuming, just take your house vacuuming and times it times ten and you'll get a small idea of how much I vacuumed this pass summer. The reason I took the job was to help my dad, the church out, and earn some extra sending cash. See, my dad is the building manager for our church which really means he fixes things then gets wined at that things are still broken. It really starts to pill on him after awhile. Well this past spring dad had to fire the cleaning crew we had. He had no clue who he could higher to take their place. Then I found out I would not be working at the Dairy Barn ( a local ice cream shop). So if offered up my help for the summer. Lets just say if they asked me to do it again I would say yes, but ask for someone else to do the toilets.

Childhood Toy

Oh, Mr. monkey how I loved to dance and play with you. I remember that rainy day in summer time when we spent all after noon play dress up in mommies clothes. You looked so funny in mommy's flower bonnet hat, gram's long pearls, and a pair of my favorite dress up shoes. You were the smile in my day and a confute in the dark making me feel safe and loved. Even now that I am older I still can see what a relief it was for a little girl like me to have a friend like you. I still need that friend today. I am still afraid of the thing I cannot see and need something to put that spark of a smile back on my face. So if by some chance you are reading it maybe you can drop me a line.
Miss you Mr. monkey!

Future Kids Letter

Dear Future son/daughter,
I just want you to know even think I haven't I have been there. I know what it's like to feel like the outsider in some situations, but I also know about how it feels to be totally over drawn in other situations. I know you live any a different age then me! Guise what no matter what age in time kids still have the same problems. I hope you can rise above the bad things in life and reach towards the light. I can't tell you I have always been the good person and sometime you can't be that person. You need to still strive to honor the love and encouragement you yourself were given. You never know when one act of kindness can lift another person's life. Maybe even changing it for the better. This next few weeks in high school are going be hard with ACT or what ever their having you take for college these days, but don't worry about it to much. In fact get out every weekend and just run away form the homework for a few hours. You need your time to get through your junior year. YES YOU ARE GOING TO COLLEGE!
Just have fun and know no matter what you do I Love you.

Love Your Future Mom

The Dream Never to End

Everyone has a dream that they wish would not ever end.

Mine is more like a space in time I could be swept off my feet or saved by my handsome knight is shining armor.

Usually in these dreams I am the warrior princess of the land, there is usually some parrel to over come as well. Most of the time it is similar to the story of Romie and Juliet. My love and I are not allowed to be together either because some familly fude or their ranks in soticity. Through all the odds some how in the end we end up together and ride off into the sunset. I guess the countiunes of this story would be for us to go live in a castle prefurbly by the sea. Eventualy have little ones of our own. Growing old with each other and still never becoming tired of each other.

Winter Jam 2008

The bang of the speakers is still ringing in my ears. My eyes are barilly open, but I would not traid the shouts of the crouds last night for anyting else. I still wish I could have had more time to sleep. BRING ON THE SNOW DAY AGAIN!
If you have never gone to a concert in Red Bird ariona before I highly sujest it. There is no bad set in the whole place and if you get close enoughe to the stage it feels like your cloths are vibrating. The only downside was that it was a school night and we were there till 11.
When you go to a concert though take a big group that is not afraid to scream at the top of their lungs and head bang to their heart's content.
Some of the top ten Young Christain rock groups were there just doing their thing. My favorite band was Scillet, I even got a poster.
So bring on the snow days if snow nights can be like that.

Rock on Jesus Freaks!
We are the choosen generation.

Fear

What did you fear when you were a child?

The crash of thunder then the spark of lightening. These things expecially in the middel of the night would always cause me to run into my parents or hide underneath my covers. Now that I look back I don't really know why the storm really scarried. I guess it was just the bright light and the loud shound that seem to eco forever. Then once I got older, but was older my grandmother finally told me some thing that made me feel at peice with storm. She told me rain is just God's tears for our pains on Earth, thounder is when he blows his nose. and lighting is him trying to bring the light back to our dark world. This veiw on it really released my fears.

Poems definition to me

What's your definition of a poem? Think about all the different kinds of poems you've read throughout your life, both in school and out.

My definition of a poem is a small work of either truth or fiction that describes a feeling, site, smell, or a moral value. Most the poems I have ever been forsted to read are kidish or have to do expressing one's anger towards a situation in a person's life. To tell you the truth I really don't enjoy wrighting poem or reading many either. I expecially dislike writing ones on my own life. My life is my own I have learn from it and the only other people I want learning from it also are my future children and my close friends. Why is that schools want you to read feel good poems that teach you things when you are young, then have you read sad and angry poems when you grow older? It's like they give us hope life is going to be a bed of roses then they trample over them.
Well that's my speal on poems.