Goodbye 2012

2012, in a way, felt like the shortest year for me. In fact, all I can really remember about it is the 'end of the world', Kony, too much time on tumblr, writing, reading, and my birthday. However, I also remember other bits and pieces of 2012 as well, such as the time in my ninth grade English class that my teacher made us sit in a circle to talk about Night by Elie Wiesel. I also remember other memories of that ninth grade English class, however the memories seem to be a bit more recent, meaning that I cannot remember much before 2012 started.

The same thing happens to other non-2012 memories as well; they soon are forgotten as newer memories start to bury them even deeper into the vast contents of my brain. The memories become dusty, having a very small chance of ever being remembered again. The only way, I (or anybody really) can remember forgotten memories is if they are recorded in some way. Whether it may be a journal that I wrote, someone else remembering it, one of my yearbooks, pictures, etc. And it doesn’t matter if it is the most amazing memory that I would remember forever or the most horrible memory that I will kick out of my mind, if I had the chance.

This leads me to my next point of ‘conversation’. For all 365 days of 2013, I shall write two sentences. One sentence will be completely fictional and story like, it’s to help encourage me to write stories whether it is on paper or in the brain. The other sentence will describe my day, so I can remember my life. The reason for this is simply to remember my life, so I can draw inspiration from it as I write my stories. Plus, I think it will be fun in a way, as I laugh on the last day of 2013, about some of the silly things I will do in the upcoming year. And it also might help me accomplish my 2013 New Year’s resolutions.

Speaking of New Year resolutions, remember that post that has some of my 2012 resolutions. Well, it now ended up looking like this. 

*bold - I have done it for a short while. 

• Write everyday (Camp Nanowrimo counts in my book)
•    Read everyday (read at least 90 books this year) (only read 79 out of 90 books)
•    Get on the internet less often
•    Spend more time with family (mainly because the internet started to get a bit boring)
•    Sleep at a normal time
•    Eat healthier
•    Learn how to drive
•   Write on my blog nearly every day
•   Work harder in school (pretty self-explanatory here)
•    Stop procrastinating
•    Do something active (it was mainly for school). 
•   Write a complete novel (before June 30)  (Immortality Doesn't Exist) 

Well, I feel a bit ashamed to say that I only completed two of them, and kind of did four of them throughout the year. However, it is better than not completing a single one, in my opinion. Hopefully, next year will be better.

Happy New Years to the people on the other side of the world and Happy New Years eve to everyone who’s time zone hasn’t reached or passed 12 AM. And have a year that you at least like. 

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A nice Christmas break

Opening a bit too many Christmas presents
Silly little lies
Hanging out with my family

Testing out my new camera

Watching movies while eating cookie butter and drinking some peppermint tea

Playing with stuffed animals with my siblings (don't ask)

The chocolate factory
Shopping
Archery (resulting in a bullseye and slightly sore arms)

This song

Too much television 

Cooking too much food as well as eating  it  

Missing glasses (now found)

Watching too much season five Doctor Who episodes
Reading late into the night
As well as this song

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Merry Christmas. ^.^

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Have an amazing Christmas, you guys. ^.^
And I truly hope that you enjoy the gifts that you have received today, whether they are practical or impractical in some way.

Also, I know that this may be a bit late, but Happy Hanukkah as well. And Happy Kwanzaa as well.

However, if you do not celebrate any of these holidays, then I must say, have an amazing December 25, kind of day.

Also, don't forget that not everyone is heartless. 

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A failure and a book

The end of the world turned out to be an epic fail. However, the epic fail will happen all over again around 2015... maybe.

But, this book, The Raven Boys  isn't a failure. With characters who makes hard choices, isn't entirely romantically in love with one another, and visions that may or may not come true, with a pretty unique plot, it certainly landed a spot on the list of books that I have to have. It also deals with psychics, which is better than having to deal with all of the vampire and werewolves who falls in love a bit quickly somewhere in the book of Twilight. (But I must admit Charlie Swan is a pretty cool character).

And now I present to you, The Raven Boys animated and kind of creepy book trailer that I couldn't help but laugh at.

P.S. Only three more days till Christmas and the new Doctor Who Christmas special. ^.^

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Remember when...

You saw your first snowfall?

You spoke your first word?

You laughed your first laugh?

You smiled an actual smile?

You actually learned something mind-blowing?

You wrote your first letter of the alphabet?

You read your first book or at least your first word?

You wrote out a word that eventually led to a sentence that led to a paragraph and so on?

You heard about how the world is supposedly going to end?

 You listened to this song?

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It's time

For a song by Imagine Dragons.

 And for some reason, I think acoustic versions sound a bit better than their cousins who do not use acoustics. 

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On 12/12/12 at 12:12 AM, I was...

A) Supposed to finish up homework
or
B) Sleeping
Instead, I did this:

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Pretty but cold.

It snowed the other day around where I live. However, being in the non-mountainy part of Utah (or at least where I live), the snow is already melting. This means that it is nearly time to kick my boots off and go back to wearing my gray, not made for snow, shoes. But, I want it to snow again simply because it is December and the snow is pretty. However, I do not want the cold that comes with it. Simply because I feel like it sometimes chokes me (literally) causing me to take deep breaths as I force myself to endure it. Same thing for cold showers.

Now I admit that my memories are starting to fail me at this young age of sixteen. Meaning, I have no clue if I ever felt like this whenever I went outside in the cold in the past. And I don't know if this requires any medical or physiological attention, but if so please tell me. But for the moment I don't think I need any help because it isn't getting worse, just bearable if that makes sense.

But moving on. If snow could not be cold but warm in a way and almost fluffy like a marshmallow, I would be happy. It seems better than the cold snow that melts in a couple days time that my part of Utah keeps on having. However, I'm not complaining (much) because it looks pretty darn amazing during this time of year especially with Christmas just around the corner. If only it could stick around though. Which reminds me...

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A quick little rant

My house - mainly my kitchen - is getting renovated.
There is only one kitchen in the house.
The fridge and the stove aka grill is in the cold garage.
The plates are in my room.
The utensils and microwave are downstairs.
And the only other sink is in the bathroom.
It's such a hassle to go get everything considering that everything that belongs in the kitchen is all over the house.
And it can't be piled in one spot because the building supplies and decorations took the whole living room and dining room table.
I'm also getting very pissed off with trying to find everything.
And the mirrors that my older sister insist to put everywhere in the house only show me a girl who is simply looking for stuff.
Eventually when I do find something (mainly the utensils) my appetite seems to have gone away.
But I force myself to go eat anyways or else I might faint with hunger.

Also the mirrors seem to be everywhere.
I think my older sister is slightly intent on turning the house into a crazy mirror place that you can go see at fairs and such.
My older sister is also very vain.
So of course she wouldn't stop buying mirrors or even put one down.
This is making me very angry and I am very tempted to throw a rock at one.
In fact, I will probably do that when everyone in the house (except me) is gone.
And once it is broken, I shall leave the house and let the door stay open for a bit.
So my other family members will think that a robber came.
If only I had the guts to do it though.
And plus it will be hard to get everyone including the handyman to stay out of the house and the property.

There is also the noise the sander and the saw and such makes.
And it is making me a bit distracted.
It's also hard to hear music or youtube videos when that thing is going on.
So it makes me a teensy bit irritated that I don't have any headphones or earphones to block that sound away.

Plus there is the remaining fact that my older sister thinks she understands me.
When in fact she doesn't even understand me much at all.
When I asked for TFiOS for Chrstmas her response was, "I'll get you something better."
That may not mean much to you guys but that comment isn't helping me feel any happier.
How is anything f****** better than TFiOS?
Doesn't she understand that is a book that I really, really, really (insert a bunch more really's) want?
Though I kind of hope she will also get me Doctor Who stuff and/or books for Christmas.
But knowing her she will probably get me toys and such.
She still thinks of me as a child.
I am a f****** sixteen year old, I am not a young little kid that wants toys and such.
Plus it's very annoying whenever she says that I'm a child and gets child tickets at the zoo and movies and such.
Again, I am not a little kid. 

I'm also very, very, very, very pissed off that my older sister basically rewrote my whole essay when I asked her to edit it for me.
And now because of her I got a B.
I hate it when my older sister think that I'm a dumb***.
Just today she taught me how to open a stupid door. (I'm not even kidding).
It's also annoying when she occasionally repeats the same stuff over and over again.
I also hate it when she forces me to do something that I don't want to do.
It's also very annoying that my older sister is giving me tips on how to be a successful writer when in fact I just want to write the story, not caring if I become famous or not. 
I also hate it when she says that I have to become a millionaire in life or something like that.
She will most likely use it all up anyways.
In general I'm just pissed off at my older sister right now.

I also hate the fact that the show I normally watch Doctor Who at, got rid of the only thing that made it worth coming back.
Which is a link to actually watch the show.
Meaning I have to hack into my older sister's netflix account.
It's also known as simply asking for her password.

I'm also pissed off at people who write alot instead of a lot. 
It's two words people!
Not one!

The End. 

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Something french

Turns out my french teacher know some pretty good songs. However they are in french, a language that I am beginning to understand in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. But I am far from doing the speaking part (kind of), so I decided to stick with the other three parts, especially the listening part.

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For the Whovians.

A musical written and directed by two brothers. They also did a Tumblr musical with Hank Green.

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What I miss about blogging

I miss blogging.

I miss sharing songs that I couldn’t help but love.

I miss the feeling of learning something new.

I miss opening my mind to new ideas and subjects that I would not normally research for.

I miss sharing my thoughts on everything and anything.

I miss telling you guys about my life (though I doubt that you really read those anyways).

I miss ranting, that it literally seems my throat has decided to clog up because it isn't ranting.

I miss writing posts that matters in some way.

I miss writing silly ones.

I miss having a blogging schedule.

I miss reading blog posts from other bloggers.

I miss having a place to share my writings.

I miss sharing my (kind of good) photographs.

I miss adding to my ever growing to-read list.

I miss seeing pretty photographs taken by other bloggers.

I miss the feeling of actually feeling something whenever I read certain blog posts (like this one).

I miss knowing what is going on in another blogger’s life.

I miss empathizing with other bloggers as well (though they might not ever know it).

I miss entering contents of some sort.

I miss connecting to other bloggers.

But most of all I miss connecting to you, the readers. Because you guys are actually willing to read my words, no matter how sucky or great or somewhere in between they may be. 

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NaNoWriMo 2012 is officially over.

Nanowrimo, where you attempt to write fifty thousand words in the month of November. Or if you are on the YWP version, it is when you try to write how many ever words you have set as your word goal. Many writers try, either winning but not completing their novel or they actually do finish writing their novel, while others lost due to some circumstances. But at least they had the guts to do the event because not many people would actually do Nanowrimo.

So, I want to say congrats to all those who actually did the Nanowrimo event. It doesn’t matter if you won or not, because you still had the guts to do it. And not many people do. I am honestly proud of you guys because you now have written a unique plot filled with characters doing normal to crazy things. You spread the magic of words around. And you guys actually had the motivation to do it. It doesn’t matter if you had a small word count or a large one; you still managed to create a story.

And that is what the world needs. Stories have given readers understanding, hope, and/or a place to get away from reality. Without them, than reality will be a boring place to live in.

Have a nice day/night, and don’t forget to keep on writing no matter what. 

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