Christmas in a List (actually three lists)

Hey girls, it's Tuesday. My room is really hot, hold on. *turns on fan* Ah, that's better. Anyways, I'm really glad were going to start posting regularly on here again, I've missed it. I'm also excited for the group chat we're planning on Facebook. I don't even know when its gonna happen and I'm excited.

So, how were the holidays you ask. Well, they were awesome! Okay, I actually didn't do a whole lot for the holidays but they were still fun.

As far as presents go, my family decided that this year no one could spend over twenty dollars a person (my Dad totally broke this rule by buying my Mom like seven different presents). Here's the list of presents I gave to my family:

To my Mom: A pair of slippers because she's always saying her feet are cold.
To my Dad: A Chess set because he absolutely loves chess and as always wanted a really nice wooden board.
To Daniel (brother): Two Doctor Who comic books and the first comic in the Justice League series. Also, a monopoly card game.
To Kristina (sister): A necklace and earrings (black).
To Rachel (other sister): A necklace and earrings (silver) (not the same one's I got for Kristina but admittedly they were on the same rack in the store).

I also bought Kristina and Rachel a painting set (one a picture of a horse and one a teddy bear), but I forgot to send it to them (their both in Michigan). So... yeah, maybe I'll get around to that at some point.

As far as my presents go, here's another list:

From Daniel: A picture (he's into photography) of a horse which he then turned into a unicorn using some digital magic. Also, he added in a rainbow... John Green would love it. As do I.
From Rachel: One of those bath set things. Which I love, although I'm always a little concerned when someone gets me a bath set, does that mean they want me to take more showers?
From Kristina: It hasn't come in the mail yet because she's broke and was waiting for the rates to go down and now its January and she hasn't sent it because she's either busy or forgot or has been lazy. Either way, I don't know what it is.
From my parents: A basketball thing that hooks on to a door. Which I love because it combines to of my favorite things, not leaving the house and balls (twss). Also, as a stocking stuffer they got me a yo-yo, a maze game thing, a kaleidescope, and a candy cane.

Aside from presents here's a list of things I love about the holidays:
1. I love that my parents still put things like "from Santa" or "From Comet" on our presents even though we all discovered the Santa lie a long time ago.
2. Pumpkin pie.
3. I like that even though I'm in Virginia and it usually doesn't snow like ever, it snowed just in time for Christmas.
4. I like that its perfectly acceptable to do nothing.
5. And on a cheesy note, I like that it brings the family together no matter what the circumstances surrounding Christmas are.

As far as New Years goes, let's just say I hate a lot of chips. Emily I'll read you tomorrow.
DFTBA
Tenley

Currently reading: "Eat, Pray, Love" and "Nation". I couldn't decide which one to read first, so I'm reading them both until I get so into one of them that I can't put it down.
Currently listening to: "Crushed and Created" by Caitlyn Smith
Comment question for those of us who are terrible at coming up with things to comment on: What's your favorite kind of chips? Mine is definitely Cheddar and Sour Cream Ruffles. They have to be Ruffles though, any other kind are just not as good.

Back to Blogging

Hiya girls, It's Sunday! Well, for those who have been reading the Facebook messages, we're getting back on track with the blogging thing! We're going to have preselected themes so it will be easier to write and there shall be punishments for a lack of blogging! I don't think we're going to count this past fall where no one blogged though, that'd be too difficult to punish people for...
Okay! This week's theme is the Holidays!
I've already written about what I got for Christmas and what Christmas means to me, but there is one Holiday topic I have not covered yet and that is the most depressing day of the year...
THE DAY ONE TAKES DOWN THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
Yes, I know that it must happen eventually, but it's really sad when it does happen. You have to take all the pretty ornaments off the tree, throw the tree in the woods, vacuum the pine-y stuff, put the villages in the boxes, super glue broken village pieces, take off the stockings, put away the carolers, taken down the awesome pictures of your older brother sitting on santa's lap, throw away the advent calander you never finished, put all of your pet's christmas themed toys away for next year... Really, it's all a bit depressing. Christmas is all about joy, family, friends, and love and when you have to take all of the stuff that represents the season... it's really sad. I think I cried when they took away the tree. My cat was upset too because she really enjoyed climbing that tree.
On the subject of sad things I would like to mention that my life is now pointless... David Tennant is engaged. NO! Okay, okay, I'm just kidding. I'm happy for him. He's engaged to Georgia Moffet, who is the actress that played Jenny in the Doctor's Daugter and Lady Viviane in Merlin. Congrats, but David, if it doesn't work out, I think I'm gonna be available for a while *wink*.
Jasmine I will read you tomorrow!
Less than Three,
Katie Z

Listening to: I CAN"T SMILE WITHOUT YOU
Watching: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 7!!!!!!!!!!!
Eating: Mac and Cheese o_O
Quote: "I thought you were going to have me tortured and killed, but instead you went all Dumbledore on me!" -Willow
Playing: Pokemon Red
Hoping: for life to be simpler

One week - two posts

Hallo Mädchen, es ist Samstag!
Which translates to: hello girls, it's Saturday! As you might have guessed...

I have no idea what I should write about, since we have no theme yet and I already wrote about my new years eve on Wednesday and nothing really happened since then.

Nothing?

Nothing.

My life is absolutely boring, especially when I have vacations. Well, actually, it's always quite boring. I don't even have anything nerdy to tell... I finished watching all my TV series, so now I need something new, although I should finally continue with Doctor Who. I'm at epidsode six or seven of the Ninth Doctor, so way to go!

I am still thinking if I should buy a calender for 2011 or not. There are many options here and I can't decide what I want.
a) Use computer and iPod.
b) Buy a calender.
c) Buy a plain notebook and make my own calender.
d) Print a calender on a sheet for every week (I already started that, but I'm pretty sure I will be too lazy to always print it and it might get messy soon).

Do you have a calendar for 2011?

And I have another question for you: you can't think of a cool Twitter name for me? I want something new, but I just can't think of anything... I wanted iSarah, but that's of course taken... stupid people with the same name!

Katie, I'll read you tomorrow!

Sarah

Listening to: something German, I'll skip: Rihanna ft. Eminem - Love The Way You Lie Part II (yes, I still like that song even though you hear it ten times a day on the radio)
Currently reading: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Quote: I never have quotes so I'll just post the last thing from my Tumblr: 9 Deadly Words Used By A Woman

It's Friday and I'm SUPER tired

Hey Girls, it's Friday. I just got up again today. I just spent the entire evening babysitting my younger siblings plus their annoying friends who are staying with us for the weekend and I'm now really tired. Those kids are heavy to carry and very whiney. We all fell asleep watching their movie which means I had to carry them upstairs and get them into pjs. I also had to make dinner and clean up dinner. And when I say make dinner I'm not talking making frozen chicken fingers but I'm also not talking michelin star cuisine. I made them spaghetti, big meat raviolis, and three cheese raviolis that weren't raviolis but I can't think of what they are really called at the moment. And I had to cook sausage to add to the spaghetti sauce to make it  into meat sauce. I also made a caesar salad which was very delicious if I do say so myself. It was all really good, and that's a lot coming from me seeing as I usually can't stand pasta of any kind. In other news I'm addicted to Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I'm on season three and it rocks. I'm gonna fall asleep but one last thing, on the topic of themes starting up again, I think next week before we get to far away we should talk about our Christmas/ Chanukah presents.


Sarah I'll read you tomorrow.


Love you all.


-Hannah

Hey girls, it's thursday AND EMILY'S BLOGGING!

Hi, so yeah... do you ever forget what day it is? I do... and I did yesterday... which is particularly bad because wednesday is uniform day at my school, so that should be a reminder...

How are things with you? Things are cool here... busy... I'm working on editing one of my short stories to be submitted to the scholastic art and writing awards and I have play practice after school everyday and this weekend I was supposed to go to North Carolina for a debate tournament, but it didn't work out, so I'm judging at my school's speech meet intead and then next week I officially go varsity in debate... and then I have districts for debate and then there's stat and then I'm planning to go to Harvard for my first national debate tournament... feeling pretty psyched. I also have this author project for english. I chose David Foster Wallace as my author and I'm probably going to be reading thousands of pages... so that's going to kick my ass.

I also applied for an exchange program to Australia...

So yeah, a lot is going on and things are good, but stressful. Agreeing with Sarah:
-We need themes.
-We need to blog more.

We also need to comment more.
Also, I suggest giving the other girls something to react to in their blogs or commenting on what another girl says in her blog in you blog? We need more conversation. Okayz.

What I'm reading: Lots of David Foster Wallace.
What I'm watching: way too much buffy... not saying anything more in case of giving it away.
What I'm listening to: I've had Baba O'Reilly by the Who and Skip Divided by Thom Yorke stuck in my head for days... they're both fantastic songs, but...
Quote: "your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace/ so one man has and another has not/ how can you love what it is you have got/ when you took it all from the week hands of the poor?" -Dustbowl Dance, Mumford and Sons

Sarah has something to say and can't wait until Saturday

Hey girls, it's most definitely not Saturday and I can't even pretend it is, so I hope you'll excuse that I write now - one of my new years resolutions is to write regularly and I don't want to skip already the first Saturday of the year (literally, since it was 1.1.2011). Okay, technically I did, but if I catch up now it's okay?

I think that we should set some new rules for our blog, so that we write more regularly. I'm not sure yet what those rules will be, but I'm certain we can think of something together. I also think that we should return to having themes. The problem was that we lost track of who has to set the new theme and in the end we didn't have any at all - so we could already agree on the themes for the next seven weeks (that sounds long) if each of us thinks of a theme now and thus we already know what the theme is. What do you think?

Can you think of something more to keep us motivated? And just to be clear - if nobody comments here I will write you on Facebook, be warned!

My new years eve was pretty... okay. I don't remember too much of it :D As Hannah already wrote, the legal drinking age here is 16/18 (16 for beer and wine and 18 for everything), so I can drink whatever I want and believe me, that ended quite badly this new years (why is new years eve called Silvester in every language except English?). Girls, don't drink! It's bad! You will end up with pictures of thermometers on your camera and have no idea why.

I still have vacation until Monday and I really enjoy doing N-O-T-H-I-N-G. Except playing Xbox, my sister and I bought Xbox with Kinect for Christmas and it's great. GREAT.

Sarah over and out.

Tenley in 2011

Hey girls, it's Tuesday. Welcome to 2011! Things have started off pretty well for me. My resolutions for the year are to write everyday and read 100 books. The writing challenge is going well, I haven't missed day, and I haven't gotten to that point where its a chore, so that's good. As far as reading goes, I finished "Stargirl" and now I'm working on "Underground". So... yeah.

In New Years party news... I hung out with a few friends, I guess you could call it a party. But we're all huge nerds so it was mostly a night filled with video games and pizza. Is that party? I don't know... but it was fun.

Other than that, school starts up again next Monday. I'm mostly looking forward to the Psychology class I'm taking. I haven't had a Psych class since high school, but back then it was a cool class so I'm expecting it to be about the same. But, we'll see I guess.

That's about it though, so I'm gonna go read because I'm kind of at a good part right now.
Emily, I'll read you tomorrow.
DFTBA
Tenley

Currently reading: "Underground" by Jean Ferris
Currently listening to: "Mirror Song" (the Erase This version). Also, you know that moment during Mirror Song where... uhh... how does a non-musical person describe this? The vocals stop and its just like ding, ding, ding... kind of... Do you know what I'm getting at? Well, I've determined that its impossible to be anything but happy during that part of the song. Seriously.