Basketball

OK, so yesterday{1/30/11} I started basketball. With my stake. There were like, mostly people from my ward. I was pretty bad first off, but I got better! I can shoot a ball and pass and everything so that's good. But now, I'm kind of sore. It wasn't as bad as when I was sore playing Just Dance 2.. but yeah. Every Saturday!!! I'll take a pic of my shirt when I get it! We are the Evergreen Pterodactyls{?!?!}. I suspect they'll tell us the back-story! G2G! Later!

QUIZ {sort of}

I found this thing on my mom's blog. Hmmm:
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
3) Tally your total at the bottom.

(*) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(x) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
() 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(x) 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling NO DUH
(*) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(x) 6 The Bible
(*) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
() 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
() 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
() 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(*) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
() 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
() 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
() 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
() 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
(*) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
() 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
() 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
() 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
() 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
() 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (Tried it. Hated it. Scarlett O'Hara drove me NUTS.)
() 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
() 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
() 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
() 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
() 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
() 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
() 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(x) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
(*) 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
() 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
() 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
(x) 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(*) 34 Emma - Jane Austen
(*) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
(x) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
() 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
() 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
() 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
(idk) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
() 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
() 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
() 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
( ) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
( ) 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
(x) 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
() 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
() 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
() 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
() 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
() 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
() 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
( ) 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(x) 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
( ) 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
( ) 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
() 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
( ) 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
() 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
() 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Tried it. Hated it.)
() 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
( ) 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
( ) 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
( ) 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
() 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
( ) 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
() 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
( ) 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
( ) 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
() 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
(seen the movie :P) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
( ) 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
(x) 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
( ) 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
() 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
( ) 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
( ) 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
( ) 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
( ) 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
( ) 80 Possession - AS Byatt
(seen the movie :P) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
( ) 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
() 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
() 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
() 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
( ) 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
(x) 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
( ) 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
(*) 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
( ) 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
( ) 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
() 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
( ) 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
() 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
() 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
( ) 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
(*) 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
(*) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(x) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
() 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total: 11... YIKES. Total of *:11

WELL, I guess I can find a book to read now!

It WAS a SNOW DAY!

Today is the 15th of January and GUESS WHAT? I had a snow day a couple of days ago on Wednesday the 12th! We had one on the 13th also because some of the snow wasn't cleaned up yet. WE had a N'oreaster(a blizzard that lasts all day) and it was pretty awesome. We got about a foot and a HALF of snow, which makes it even better. IT was cold though and the power in our house went out for about 10 minutes, then it came back on. My dad has shoveling OCD though. He was out there for about um, I don't know, three hours give or take a few minutes SHOVELING the driveway(even though we have a snow-blower......). OH well. AND we played Just Dance 2  which was really fun. I beat EVERYBODY in my family officially. By like, 1,000 points. It was pretty awesome. And over Christmas break I kind of dominated everybody at a game called Blink. It's really fast and you have to have really good eyes! My Uncle Adam beat me ONCE. But not really because he was cheating somehow. I do not cheat. Even though pretty much my whole family thinks I cheat on games I win. Such as Just Dance 2 also. IT IS THE FUNNEST GAME IN THE UNIVERSE. ME and my friend Haley played it when I went over her house on Friday to sleepover(the 14th). I like the Medley mode and we played just the game for 2 HOURS and 3 minutes!! Then when I came home on Saturday, I played it for probably an hour and a half. AND MAN am I sore!!! My shoulders are killing me!!!

As for books, I started back on reading Fablehaven Book 2: Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull which is really good. I finished Chasing Vermeer by Blue Baliett which was SO good! It's almost like a book I read called The Mysterious Benidict Society which is really good too. I recently went to Barnes and Nobles to get some 39 Clue books. They are called the Black Book of Buried Secrets and the Agent Handbook. They're basically guides to the book. I also got Percy Jackson and the Olympians:The ULTIMATE Guide. That is pretty filled with information just like the 39 clues books. Yeah thats my reading for awhile.

School: I have about 10 million projects. One in Social Studies, one in Science and two in Language Arts. OH well. See ya later!

I KNOW, I know, it's a little too late for Christmas and I already posted this, BUT, it's so AWESOME why not?
Crashing through the snow on an automan horse draw sleigh,
Over the shields we go, Kronos' minioins exploding away,
Bells on Blackjack's wing, Riptide shining bright,
what fun it is to slash and swing our clubs and swords tonight,

Oh! Kronos smells, Kronos smells, Percy's on his way,
Fighting lots of monsters as he comes to save the day, Hey!
Kronos smells, Kronos smells, Mrs. O' Leary's come to play,
Chewing the heads off monsters as she comes to Percy's aid,

A dream or two ago, I saw a rising tide,
a horse and eagle fight,
a thunder bolt by my side,
the eagle got hit and sank,
some time the horse had bought,
Posiedon's face turned blank,
as he foiled Zeus' plot,

Oh! Kronos smells, Kronos smells, Percy's on his way,
fighting lots of monsters as he comes to save the day, Hey!
Kronos smells, Kronos smells, Mrs. O' Leary's come to play,
Chewing the heads off monsters as she comes to Percy's aid, Yay!

Kronos smells, Kronos smells, Percy's on his way,
fighting lots of monsters as he comes to save the day, Hey!
Kronos smells, Kronos smells, Mrs. O' Leary's come to play,
Chewing the heads off monsters as she comes to Percy's aid.

CHRISTMAS!

Hi! I'm HOME! Utah was really awesome!! They didn't have snow there when me and my family got there which surprised me! Over here we have like, 18 inches of snow! I can't WAIT to play in it! I got some pretty awesome things for Christmas! I got some books too. SO, here are the books I got:

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Baliett

Blue Baliett is such a cool pen name! Or at least I THINK it's a pen name....

Harry Potter Film Wizardry by ???

 

 

 NO clue who its by.. maybe the cast and crew or something? AND THEN I got another book that has little crimes in them and you can solve them yourself! For most of them so far I have to go to the answer page to see who did it!!! I'm really bad at doing those kind of things! I got some Harry Potter posters of Harry, Ron, and Hermione and they all look something close to this:

except, you know, Ron and Harry have their own faces on it...

 

Yeah. I can't wait to hang my Harry Potter calendar and the posters in my new room! I've already started to read the Harry Potter book as an extra book, as in, I could come back to it later. I think I might HAVE to put Blue Baliett to the side FOR NOW because I'm GOING(as a New Years' resolution) to finish most of my books next year, in 2011! I can't wait to read it though! Here are some other things I'm finishing:
Sense and Sensibility
Maxium Ride
The Hunger Games series
Chasing Vermeer
and a  lot of other books that are around my room but I can't think of them right now.... oh well!


AND by the way...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

OK

I just re-designed my blog.... AGAIN! I hope you like it! Sorry I haven't been blogging much--I've been busy. I got my report card{straight A's}so I'm in Term 2. Also, I have not ONE but TWO concerts this week. And yeah. Oh yeah:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just wanted to say....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I am thankful for my family, house, and car and all the support my family gives me.

Sorry the pic is kinda bad--but I liked it

Turkey!

AND BY THE WAY...

I'm 12!

And ALSO....

I suggest you exercise after today. Just saying.