karatetentacles

Well.

I think I'm officially throwing in the towel for the 50 Books in a Year thing. I'm tired. I'm busy. But mostly I want to save the few I was going to read for 2010, when I'll try again; this time I'll do it.

I just got 100 subscribers on YouTube. I don't even care about subscribers. But when I saw the number hit 96, I thought, "Hmm. That's close to 100. I can get four more." And I did. Sure, a good 10 of them don't really "count" -- theselovelypeople, 7awesomebookworms, zefronnekkid... haha. But still.

It's been a weird year. It's been a weird decade. It's been a weird life. I'm proud of myself. I like the person I am. I came up with a few resolutions for myself in July.

I told myself I'd blog all year. Accomplished.
I told myself I'd win NaNoWriMo. Failed, but I'm not too upset with that.
I told myself I'd do "the usual." I've been trying to stop a few bad habits for a while now, but this year... well. Let's just say it'll be on next year's list.
I told myself I'd actually make youtube videos. Accomplished.

I'm telling myself:
the usual
to get my driver's license
to get a job
to get decent grades
to maintain my youtube channel
to write
to read 50 books (before Sierra)
to keep my room clean
to waste less time

I'm going to run for stuco executive board and I'm going to go to wizard rock concerts and I'm going to have money and I'm going to apply to college this year.
I'm going to be myself and love myself and love those around me this year.
I'm going to be happy.
I'm going to be happy this year.


if you're bored then you're boring

yeeeeeeh.

1. pajamas mmm cozy
2. highliters score!
3. multicolored G2 pens score!
4. jingle bells? idk
5. "unique shape" sticky notes lol
6. cinemark, barnes and noble, and iTunes giftcard
7. $50 prepaid visa thingy (basically a gift card for whatever I want)
8. some hershey's kisses <3 nomnomnom
9. the hunger games which I already own so I'll return it for probably God Says No or something else McSweeney's
10. slipper boot things
11. ku sweatshirt
12. new bedspread thing
13. a booklight which came with...
14. A PINK SNUGGIE LOL

lol my life is great <3

I love my siblings.

I decided to go down to the living room, which no one ever sits in except on Christmas when we open presents, to read a little in front of the fire. My sister* sat down next to me, reading the second Harry Potter book. I read a little bit of it to her and then she took over while I immersed myself in my book. Next time I look up, my brother is sitting in the chair above me reading**, and my other sister is reading*** on the couch. It was adorable.

After Thanksgiving, in our typical tradition, my dad had the Christmas lights put up and we were set on turning on the lights timed precisely with the lighting of the Plaza.*** Typically, we christen the occasion by jamming to some Christmas tunes, but this year I announced I wanted to listen to Michael Jackson instead, and my lovely sibs backed me up. Despite my mother's pleas, we marched outside and demanded to listen to Thriller. My dad was all with us, though he was a tad on the drunk side (then again, so was mommy). So there we were, right after eating our late Thanksgiving dinner, ready to turn on the lights, listening and singing along to Thriller.

Only sometimes.

I guess the holiday isn't so bad, though.


*The youngest, Clara. She's been working on Chamber of Secrets since last Christmas break... meh. She'll learn. She's only in second grade.
**He's reading House of Leaves. His name is Evan. He is 15, a sophomore.
***That's Ellie, the second youngest. Fourth grade. She was reading The Report Card, written by Andrew Clemens, I believe.
****The Plaza is the big shopping center/main hub of the city. Every year they have one of the most spectacular Christmas lights in the country or something.

SOPHOMORE YEAR
1. everything is illuminated
2. the average american male
3. inferno
4. life of pi
5. othello
6. all quiet
7. slaughterhouse-5
8. a separate peace
9. wizards (collection of short stories)
10. cat's cradle
11. with the old breed
12. one flew over the cuckoo's nest
13. 13 little blue envelopes
14. extremely loud and incredibly close

SUMMER BOOKS
15. youtube: an insider's guide to climbing the charts
16. timequake
17. how we are hungry
18. liberation
19. mcsweeney's book of lists
20. the bermudez triangle
21. running with scissors
22. you shall know our velocity!
23. the life and times of the thunderbolt kid
24. suite scarlett
25. breakfast of champions
26. walden
27. best american non-required reading 2007
27.5. harry potter and the sorcerer's stone
28. harry potter and the chamber of secrets
28.5. harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
29. harry potter and the goblet of fire
30. a river runs through it

JUNIOR YEAR
31. bird by bird
32. the things they carried
33. the hunger games
34. zeitoun
35. an encyclopedia of an ordinary life
36. the key to the golden firebird
37. the wild things
38. the crucible
39. god bless you, dr. kevorkian
40. grapes of wrath
41. the mismeasure of man
42. v for vendetta
43. the scarlet letter
44. hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
45. catching fire
46. spanking watson
47. how I became stupid

the world in your head is never what it really is, but you don't know what you want anyway and you try so hard and accomplish so little and no one notices you but you try not to care and you try and hide your insecurities instead of trying to embrace them I am a million tiny feathers you have no idea what I've been through I was tame and now I am wild I have become something I never imagined for myself I have become something I've never wanted to be never dreamed of being it feels so good to be alive and on top but I cry but I have so little but I'll become my parents and no matter what I do I'm always myself because you can never hide because you will always find yourself and you don't need to run away and you don't need to go to Europe you are always with yourself and you always act like yourself you just don't act how others envision you acting and it's not your job to act how other people picture you because they don't act how you picture them and you can hide and you can cry and you can sleep it all away but eventually you will find yourself and they will tell you they can tame you, that they own you, that they will freeze you and break you, but I am the ocean. I will spread myself like wings. I am a million tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.

SOPHOMORE YEAR
1. everything is illuminated
2. the average american male
3. inferno
4. life of pi
5. othello
6. all quiet
7. slaughterhouse-5
8. a separate peace
9. wizards (collection of short stories)
10. cat's cradle
11. with the old breed
12. one flew over the cuckoo's nest
13. 13 little blue envelopes
14. extremely loud and incredibly close

SUMMER BOOKS
15. youtube: an insider's guide to climbing the charts
16. timequake
17. how we are hungry
18. liberation
19. mcsweeney's book of lists
20. the bermudez triangle
21. running with scissors
22. you shall know our velocity!
23. the life and times of the thunderbolt kid
24. suite scarlett
25. breakfast of champions
26. walden
27. best american non-required reading 2007
27.5. harry potter and the sorcerer's stone
28. harry potter and the chamber of secrets
28.5. harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
29. harry potter and the goblet of fire
30. a river runs through it

JUNIOR YEAR
31. bird by bird
32. the things they carried
33. the hunger games
34. zeitoun
35. an encyclopedia of an ordinary life
36. the key to the golden firebird
37. the wild things
38. the crucible
39. god bless you, dr. kevorkian
40. grapes of wrath
41. the mismeasure of man
42. v for vendetta
43. the scarlet letter
44. hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

to read:
44.5. hp5
45. hp6
45.5. hp7
46. some other .5 book
47. walk in the woods
48. catching fire
49. the restaurant at the end of the universe
50. life, the universe, and everything
51. so long and thanks for all the fish
52. mostly harmless

I'll probably end the year with my potters.

1. everything is illuminated
2. the average american male
3. inferno
4. life of pi
5. othello
6. all quiet
7. slaughterhouse-5
8. a separate peace
9. wizards (collection of short stories)
10. cat's cradle
11. with the old breed
12. one flew over the cuckoo's nest
13. 13 little blue envelopes
14. extremely loud and incredibly close
15. youtube: an insider's guide to climbing the charts
16. timequake
17. how we are hungry
18. liberation
19. mcsweeney's book of lists
20. the bermudez triangle
21. running with scissors
22. you shall know our velocity!
23. the life and times of the thunderbolt kid
24. suite scarlett
25. breakfast of champions
26. walden
27. best american non-required reading 2007
27.5. harry potter and the sorcerer's stone
28. harry potter and the chamber of secrets
28.5. harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
29. harry potter and the goblet of fire
30. a river runs through it
31. bird by bird
32. the things they carried
33. the hunger games
34. zeitoun
35. an encyclopedia of an ordinary life
36. the key to the golden firebird
37. the wild things
38. the crucible
39. god bless you, dr. kevorkian
40. grapes of wrath
41. the mismeasure of man
42. v for vendetta

cough cough cough cough ow my head *blows nose* cough cough *blows nose* cough owww my head cough cough cough *blows nose* *blows nose* cough *blows nose*