Spring Break and Stuff

Just to warn you now, sadly I don't have any pictures. Sorry. But there are a few different things I'm going to talk about.

Last Friday, in Creative Writing, we walked to the China Wok and Roxberry to do a restaurant interview. Last semester with my teacher's old class, they went to a nice restaurant and had a bus, but because of the economy, we had to walk to a closer one. China Wok was good, but even though my teacher had called and told them about how around 40 students were coming and when ahead of time, they only had two people working. One cooking, one serving. So while half of us finished our food, the other half hadn't even ordered yet. Oh well...it was still fun, and I got to ride home with a friend who's house I'd never been to before!

Monday-Wednesday this week, my mom and I went to my Aunt Janet's house. Some highlights from that were, playing with Ozzie (their dog) and his dog friend Tess (who apparently comes over to play every day when she gets bored). I also FINALLY started the quilt that mom let me buy fabrics for. While we were there, I finished reading "The Titan's Curse" to my mom (she read to me when I was little, now I read books to her that I have already read and that I love). It is the third book in the Percy Jackson and The Olympians Series. Best books of all time. I have all of them, including the Demigod Files. The last one "The Last Olympian" comes out May 5 if anyone is interested. You can read the first chapter online!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the cover is amazing!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway................I also watched Lord of the Rings while I was there (one of my favorite movies!), got a new shirt, and all that stuff.

Last night, Alien spent the night at our house. I was able to watch the last episodes of this show called Avatar (this series she got me into)that she brought the discs for. We also walked my friend's dog (she's gone right now and I'm taking care of her pets) and made up a new game. After playing truth or dare (but only doing truth) until two-thirty in the morning, we finally went to sleep. In the morning, we watched Robin Hood (it's a BBC tv series. Also one she got me into.........)

And that about sums up what I've done over the Spring Break Holiday. Oh, but I am dying for inspiration. I kind of started a new series. Well, it's not new, but I haven't worked on it. Well, I have but I always kept changing the ideas. But now, it is officially going to be four books instead of one (or seven, like the original plan.............). I was so excited, because the idea was a lot cooler, and I even brought in Keelan, this amazing elf dude who I already had a story for that tied into the series!!!! Keelan is the coolest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But when I started writing it, since it takes place in kind of medieval magical world, you kind of have to write it different. And it sounds cheesy. So I've kind of been struggling with it. So I want to start with some fresh new ideas for something completely original, a brand new story. If you have any inspirational ideas, just say so (not a story line, but maybe some cool objects. I got inspiration for Keelan's amazing original story from a bronze saddle [I didn't actually incorporate this, but it helped me come up with the idea], a silver sword, and golden coins! So stuff like that should do the trick!)

Well, anyway, Mom, Karlie and I are going to watch bedtime stories now. Don't forget to keep Grandma in your prayers! Love ya!

Walmart!

Last week, the new Walmart opened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alien, Dom, Tanner and I went last Wednesday after school. I'm starting to love that store more and more! After visiting that day, we walked to our elementary school, in hopes of saying hi to our sixth grade teacher, Mr. Willmore. His lights were off and he wasn't there, but the door was unlocked. We ended up talking to our fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Spigarelli, who refused one of the doughnuts Dom bought because she was "trying to lose three pounds." She let us use a bag to put a doughnut in and put on Mr. Willmore's desk. We wrote him a note (which was very interesting with lots of stars, hearts and rainbows. Don't ask.) After putting the note and doughnut on his desk, we wrote messages all over his wall. Fun, huh?
Alien, Ashlie and I went on Saturday when the young men in Alien and Tanner's ward were giving out free hot dogs. The three of us played Rock Band, drank free milk, and ate free cotton candy! And Alien's little sister won a prize basket full of stuff! Dom met us there later, and Trevor was going to, but we had already left by the time he got there. So anyway, here are some pics that Alien took when we went on opening day.



This is the front of Walmart.



Here is Tony the Tiger. A lot of other people came, including the orem owlz mascot, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, the Easter Bunny, Chester Cheetah, Spongebob, etc.



This is a Star Wars Clone Trooper that is at the front of the store. It is made completely out of legos, and it's pretty awesome!



Alien and I stood in these hot dogs beside the Oscar Myer weiner car. I normally wouldn't have had the guts to do such a crazy thing, but Alien was pretty forceful...and it just worked out!



This pic, I love! It's Tanner posing next to the Clone!

So that's what I did at Walmart last week!

The Best Day Ever!

Before I get all wrapped up in my excitement, I have to say, HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!! Okay, there I said it. Now I have to tell you everything that made my day so amazing!

1. In Chorus, we watched a video on this musical group from England called STOMP. They use everyday objects to make rhythm. So I got all beatified with my binder, pencil and chair.

2. In CTE, we got chocolate.

3. Today, I went to a deaf couple's house and read to their four-year-old daughter (she isn't deaf). I am going to every week! GO ASL!!! And I could actually communicate with the girl's mom really well!

4. (This one's the very best!) In creative writing today, I got back my last unit. For one of the assignments in this unit, we had to put half of a photo of ourselves on a paper, and draw on the other side with your Alter Ego. Mr. Brooks(who is the COOLEST teacher of all time) really liked mine and he is using it as an example for his creative writing class next year. We also had our Poetry Circle. Basically what that is is that we bring all our desks in a big circle around the room and put a desk in the middle and we take turns reading a section of our story, poem, etc. Oh, and we eat food! This time, we got ice-cream! Our current Unit is poetry, so we got to read any poem that we wrote. I read part of my narrative poem about the greek myth Orpheus (the max lines we could read were 25, and mine was 40, so I read the last part. Mr. Brooks loved it, and he asked me for a copy. So I am typing it up tonight and giving it to him tomorrow morning. His English classes are learning about the Greek myths, so he is going to read it to them!!! And I get ten points extra credit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So that's my exciting news! Love you guys!

Honest Scrap

So I was tagged by my sister to do Honest Scrap (more like Honest's Crap)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So here are the rules:
A) First list 10 honest things about yourself--and make it interesting even if you have to dig deep.
B)Pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spirit of Honest Scrap...

Alright, here it goes:

1. I am WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY freaked out by clowns! They're supposed to look entertaining, but their facepaint is so creepy and abnormal. Now, I think a lot of people are scared of them. In my opinion, I just think they're weird!


2. Shots make me feel queasy to think about. I'm not really scared of the actual shot, but the anticipation is horrible at first! I can never watch when they stick it in my arm, and it bleeds a little, which makes it worse. And I think it's going to hurt, but it never hurts as much as I think it will. It's really weird.....


3. I am a crazy reader. Sometimes, I'll love my book so much that I'll get into a reading craze and finish a book a day, and then after that little streak, I'll hate to read, even if I like my book! Or I'll just read moderately. My list of books I need to read is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long! You don't WANT to know how many books are on that list!



4. I LOVE emailing! I LOVE typing! I LOVE writing on the computer! I LOVE the computer! No more needs to be said!


5. I am always willing and/or in need of inspiration!


6. I have tried and failed many times to compose piano music at lots of different ages. It takes me forever just to come up with some lame part for just the right hand! Dom, I don't know how you do it!


7. One time, I was really crazy. My mom, my cousing Brinlee and I went to a harp concert with this girl that we knew from Georgia performing. I took a program and started writing scenes that I imagined for each song. Brinlee tried it, but said she couldn't do it. But then the songs all started to sound the same, and I had a hard time coming up with ideas! :)


8. I've only ridden a horse about two times in my life: One I was on with my mom, and I can hardly remember, the second was so I could get certified for a job at this horse place I used to volunteer at by my Jr. High. I would love to ride horses more often!


9. I like to dress up and play around with makeup! :p


10. I am a gum atict!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Every time we go to Wal-mart, I always get a pack of gum. Little did I know that my mom got me a big box of 18 packs of Orbit gum!!! Hehehehehe..............

Heather is Here!

Heather Breanne Standage was born on Thursday and 3:32 pm. She weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces and was 20 inches long. She is (as my sister calls her) Baby Incredible, and we are so glad she's here! Congratulations Daniel and Stephanie!

Writer's Block!

Okay, don't freak out, this isn't what it seems! You must be thinking, "NO! How could Laura be having WRITER'S BLOCK of all things?!"
Well, it's in poetry. In Creative Writing, we are doing a poetry unit. I have been stunned by the elegance of examples we have read in class. And Dom (for siblings who don't know who Dominic is, he's my amazing talented guyfriend!) is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good at poems! For a project in English, he wrote a poem and the teacher loved it!!!!!!!! I love it too, but I am just not good at it! It's horrible! I struggle to even find a topic, and that's just the basic part! I'm no good at metaphors and using the right words. Basically, I'm struggling to be poetic. But I love poetry so much! It's killing me as the battle rages on in my rapid-thinking mind!
I'm being ecstatic, sorry. I have decided to put in a column with poems on it. I got the idea from my brother Stephen's blog, when they put one on by Robert Frost. I LOVE Robert Frost! His poems are great! One of his poems was in a book we read in English called the Outsiders. (This is an awesome book, even though it isn't something you would think I would enjoy reading! I loved it!) The poem that he wrote that was in that book was called "Nothing Gold can stay" I'll put it on the column as soon as I finish this post to replace the Mist countdown. Hmmm, I should put a quote column too!
So yes, I am on a poetry craze! And I just got in a reading craze too! I finished Inkspell. It's so sad!!!!!! My heart broke when it was at the Farid part. I almost couldn't read on, but then when Dustfinger......WAH!
Sorry, babbling. Please comment if you have any suggestions. I NEED them.
Love you all!

Some Updates

So I need to talk about a few big things that have happened in order of when they happened to be caught up with updates. Sorry I don't post often! :P Okay, first update:

First update: Last week Karlie, a girl living with us while she is student teaching (we knew her parents in Georgia) had her friend Tony over with his friend Kade. Tony is half Phillipino half Mexican, and he is a great chef! He made us an AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! phillipino dinner. The four of us talked a lot during the process. I was lucky enough that they let me do so much stuff with them even though I wasn't in college like them. It reminds me of how nice Daniel and Robert were to me when I was annoying and followed them around. Thanks again! :) So yeah, dinner was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! After dinner, we went upstairs and played DDR. Then they went to rent a movie and buy candy. They ended up buying the movie they wanted to see instead. I would have never EVER guessed college students were interested in this movie! They hadn't seen it yet, but they had the soundtrack for it! Can you guess????????????????????????? Yep, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3!!!!!!!!!!! It was majorly cheesy of course, but it was the best of the 3. Kelsi had the exact same flower teapot that Alien has. I got really excited when I saw that. Anyway...............................yeah it was awesome!

Second update: On Thursday, mom bought a new CD. She likes the artist almost as much as I do! DAVID ARCHULETA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah, he is so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Third update: Today Erin had her baby blessing! We went to Michele's church. A girl named Maggie McDonald from my old A.L.L. classes in 5th and 6th grade is in my sister's ward, and I saw her there. And two other people I didn't expect were also there! A guy from my speech class and one of the counselors at my school!
We had brunch at our house after Sacrament Meeting. The Keish was amazing! Thank you Michele and Mom! Ben's family was there too, so there were TONS of little kids downstairs. But I mostly hung out with Emily and Sadie, even though I had met Parson and Joshie Boy before when I played Mario Party 8 at their house. After the Heiner family left, The Poulsens and Daniel and Stephanie stayed around for a little while. Emily, Sadie, Katelyn and I made a fort. Sadie and Kate made a noodle dinner (tinkertoys) while Emily played with the recipe book (LeapPad). I layed around and read. :P

Fourth update: Heather was oficially due yesterday. Stephanie is so swollen! Heather needs to come SOON!!! We are all so excited for her to come! And I think we ALL want her to have that Coleman smile! :)

Fifth update: I have oficially passed Mom in Inkspell, the book we are reading. I am almost 100 pages past her now. Farid and Meggie rock!

Sixth update: I just started the third chapter in Charm, the sequel to Mist. Don't worry, I'm still editing Mist. I have some people at school reading and correcting it for me.

Seventh update: I am either sick or my spring allergies are coming. My face always feels hot, I am congested, I am sneezing, and my throat feels scratchy and puffy. It's probably just allergies.

Eighth update: I have put a lot of updates!

Ninth update: I'm done now! Love you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!