Taylor!

Taylor is proof that first impressions aren't everything. When she first came in my LA9 class freshman year I thought she was really annoying. Then me her nad Desiree did a book group session thing and we became friends! In the Spring of freshman year we had spanish together. We were Mirandork and Tayloritard. Ever since then.. nothings been the same!

We have a LOT of good memories. Most of them were from our 10th grade year. It's funny that you can have a billion classes with someone and then when you become friends the next year you end up having none. That is what happened with us. Freshman year we had a ton of classes! Then 10th and 11th grade we haven't had any! Hopefully next year we will!

Last winter stated a whole world of traditions for us. She is the friend we make traditions and keep them. We were in Cheerleading together so we saw eachother every tuesday. Then every weekend we would hang out! Always basically at her house. One time we went to the movie two nights in a row (snuck in both times) and saw the same two guys who went two nights in a row and snuck in both nights too. It was really fun. We also made a snowman one weekend. We named him whatever. We loved him very much but we had an accident moving him from the baackyard to the front yart. He kind of.. died.. It was really sad. We also play with beads alot. It may sound childish and lame, but its actually really fun! She is also the person I let listen to my piano songs before anyone else. I don't know why but I'm really picky about that. Shes the lucky one:)

We have also had funny times of making cookie dough wrong, walking to hyvee and back (takes forever), and shopping at hyvee. We seem to do that alot. Were best friends. What else can I say?

Taylor is a great friend. She is the friend that worries about me the most. She makes sure I am making the right decision. She listens unjudgementally and give me honest unbaised advise. Everyone needs a friend like that. I know she comes to me for help too which makes it equally great. When I feel sad taylor knows how to make me feel better. Its like she knows what to say always. Its not anything stupid cheezy and lame either. It is real. Which is ALWAYS nice.

Last summer when all my friends were blowing me off Taylor and my friend Brittany were the ones that were there for me. They were the reaal friends. The true friends. I know that no matter what me and Taylor will be friends forever. Its not a SUPER DUPER EXCITING friendship, but it is honest and definately needed in my life.

Desiree!

Desiree is one of the best friends I have ever had. It isn't how well we connect, or how often we hang out. Desiree is one of my best freinds because she is a great friend. She never does anything to make me mad, tell ANY of my secrets, blow me off, or lie. She is a great friend peronality wise. She also puts up with all my crap which is always bonus.

We meet freshman year during volleyball season. I was the nice new kid and she was the one whos been here forever looking for a change. We were both looking for normal friends and we just clicked. We had a little group of our volleyball friends that we hung out with but we were the best friends in the group. Her mom loves me which is a plus!

A lot of the best memories we have are at culvurs. The tradition started after my talent show when me her jenna and nicole all went. All of our guy friends were working which worked out perfectly. Throughout last summer we randomly would go to culvers and get rootbeer floats. We drew on the table with mustard and salt and pepper. It is where we went when we didn't have anyplace to go and wanted to hang for a while. Its where I met my stuffed animal Scoopie. It is where we sat for a hour and a half and played cards on the fourth of July waiting for all our friends to stop working. Ben! It holds a ton of memoires for us. But things change. Boy relationships end, social groups switch, and looking back at the memories feels like a different time and place.

Most of our hanging out now takes place in her car. She was the first one to get her license and a car in our group of freinds. It really let us mature together by spending long nights at friends houses or new places. We have had a lot of wild great memories together.

Desiree has treated me better then any person ever in my life. Of all the three years of memories we've had, I know that Desiree will be the person I will meet up with at culvers when were 50 someday and things will never change. Always a laugh. :) Kool Kats for life.

Jenna!

Once a best friend, always a best friend. I haven't had more fights with a friend then I have with Jenna. At the same time, some of the best memoires I have are with her. When times are hard she is usually the first person I call. She is also one of the few freinds I have had my whole entire high school.

We first became friends in Winter of our freshman year. It started when we planned on going to WPA. We had choir together and talked alot. Then in the spring we had science class and tech class together. We started talking and hanging out alot. We became good friends fast.

Jenna is one of those friends that is really hard to be friends with. She is completely herself, which sometimes scares people away. While being herself she also tries to be a crowed pleaser. That is hard because she does a lot of things she doesn't want to do, but she does for other people. It probally doesn't make since that she can be herself and be a pushover at the same time- but if you knew Jenna you would understand.


One of the best times we had together was fall break of 10th grade. I spent the night at her house two nights in a row. We walked, went to the dentist, made collages, took pictues, did my hair, twice, got yelled at, and laughed a lot. It was clear that that's when we became the best of friend. That is also the weekend that eventually changed our friendship completely.

Other great memoires include playtime poppy: 101 dalmations and Frog and Toad. Going shopping making me try on stupid dresses. Making balloon familys. Dying easter eggs. And basically just hanging out with all of our friends. I have had many groups in highschool and jenna as always been apart of them. Me her and Katelyn. Me her and Nicole. That plus Desiree. Jenna has usually always been there in my life.

Im not blogging about my friends to talk about how good they are. Im being honest. It has taken me a while to blog about Jenna because she messes with my mood everyday. Either shes distant and I want to be close again, or shes over the top nice and nosy and thatss annoying. There has been so much that has gone with us throught the past year and a half. She has made some pretty bad choices as a friend. But because I can tell she is actually trying reallly hard to be a good friend now, I feel like I shouldn't give up on her.

Im not the type of person to have friends that I don't like. And Im not saying I don't like her, but at times I don't want to be her firend. But at the end of the day, she is always there for me, and I will always be there for her. So even though she can't speak her mind, and shes not her self lately, and she tries to hard, and she pouts when she doens't get her way, and she makes all of her friends feel like we don't matter to her, in the end, she is one of my best friends.

Alicia!

This is one of the most random friendships I have ever been in. We wern't freinds by major choice. We didn't ever have that just friends stage(no not like that). We either didn't know eachother, or weere best freinds.

It all started one speech night of my 10th grade and her 9th grade when I knew she was my neighbor and needed a ride home. She gave me one, but while waiting for her mom we started talking. We talked about who we liked and blah blah blah, usually not talk you talk about to basically strangers. Throughout the rest of speech season we bonded and got to know eachother pretty well.

By the spring time we started walking home together. On those days we would vent to eachother abotu our daily problems (ironically mine were usually about nicole). We were never afraid to tell eachother things. I don't even remember us becoming good friends. We just kind of were. Because of our location we were unconsciously forced into freindship. Its good we get along! We went to two sleepover parties over spring break and I think it was obvious to everyone there that we were best friends. It was totally obvious.

On those walks we usually planned on spending every single day of the summer together. Unfortunately our scheduals were completely opposite. Either it was her camp or my vacation and just random stuff like that. When we were both in Cedar Rapids we hung out. We even made an excercise video for youtube! (please don't look it up) It wasn't the summer experience we were hoping for, but it was basically good enough.

When school started I started bringing her more into my friend group. It is REALLY hard to have a bestfreind that all of your other freinds don't know. Luckily, my freinds love her. We have spent this whole school year together. We have never had a real fight, which is scary because all good friends have at least one fight, so I HOPE we dno't have one soon soon--or ever! And im not entirely sure we will because me and Alicia arne't really just friends.. we are more like sisters. I know all bestfriends say that, but we live by eachother, we yell at eachother(never serisously) and we hang out every single weekend. When we don't hang out it feels like im missing somthing in my life. I know that sounds super lame but its true.

The thing that sucks is that the guy she's liked for a billion years likes her now and they might go out and I will be sad becaues it seems that all my good friends who get boyfriends/girlfriends that they really like tend to change their personality and ditch me. She better not. It would be sad. We are really random. We tend to yell loudly, have the same thoughts, and like the same things. Everyone knows me and alicia are bestfriends. On facebook she is my bestfriend, sister, neighbor, and wife.. nad COUSIN! it works in the end. She by far is one of my top bestfriends EVER.

Things that make us us:
COUSINS!!
choking on plastic vampire teeth
spending 300$ on starbucks
eating a whole box of oreos
sleepovers everyother weekend
JUST DANCE!
Take it off (put it on)
Kiss and tell (and other KE$HA songss)
CARRYOUT!
Waking up Sarah at 8a.m.
hyvee chinese food
we live at target
and the mall.
Sasha:(
noel ridge walks!!
meet you at the corner in 5;)
SPEECH and playssss
sitting through playtime poppy/talent show
sitting through 10000000 hours of mime practice
laughing really loud
almost crashing the car everytime i get in it
gas station trips at 5 a.m.
secrets
bike rides!
shorts long sleves and tennis shoes vs. jeans tanktops and sandles
looking at stupid shoes and sunglasses
okay you get the picture
were bestfriends.

Nicole!

So I got the idea that I want to talk about the friends that mean the most to me. Friends are basically the most important thing to me right now. I have never had more boy problems then I have had in my entire life last week. It caused me to not study for any final--but that's a different post. This post is all about my best friend
FRESHMAN

Nicole is probally my bestest friend here. It is either between her or Alicia. The history of me and Nicole is very strange. Freshman year we went shopping with a group once, and then to WPA where she painted my entire toes. It was really fun, but our friendshipness didn't click then.


SOPHOMORE
The start of 10th grade we were basically eachothers only friend in World History class. Thats when we started talking about things and becoming close. We weren't anywhere near where we are today, but it was our great start. However, spring term we got just a little sick of eachother. At the time we both had another best friend Jenna, who we both separately have always been close with, and we started hanging out alot and nicole wanted to be included so badly she got really annoying. So we got in a huge fight and it was really terrible.

We let the summer settle our differences. We painted my room together and saw UP. That summer was really good for us. We only hung out a few times but it gave us time to end settle things with eachother and become best friends. Painting my room was literally the most talking me and her ever did. It was my officail mark of making us best friends.

JUNIOR
There is a diffrence between bestfriends.. and BESTFRIENDS. This is/ has been our schedual all year.
0 hour: together
1st hour: across the hall
2nd hour: together
3rd hour: right next door
4th hour: together
Lunch: together
5th hour: our only break..
6th hour: together
and honestly, I have never gotton sick of her.

The thing that makes her my best freind is that through anything and everything, she is/ will be there for me for anything. She puts up with all my bad moods, she buys me gushers when im craving them, she will let me control her ipod. It just works out for us:)

In college we have already decided that we are going to be roommates. We already have baby fights so we will make it. I didn't want to go to Iowa. I didn't want to stay. But since I have to, Im glad I got a bestfriend like her.

Books I want to write.

I went back to googling blog topics and it sent me to the same site i got the last time i googled blog topics. Again I chose books I want to write. Last time I got completely side tract and started comparing book love stories to real life love stories. This time I will try to keep the focus the same.



Authors like J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer have some of the most famous books in the world. They got lucky. They got to creat their own worlds filled with things that wouldn't normally happen. They can't really get critiqued on how acuarate they are because what they talk about isn't real (so we think). Unfortunately all the mythical stuff is famous, and anyone trying to creat their own stories abotu it is "copying" the more famous authors ideas.



One day I was trying to think of other mythical creaters or ieas that I could write a book about. I got stuck with mirmades and dinosaurs. I wrote a short story about mirmaids once. That was in second grade. it didn't go over well becasue i acidentally wripped the cover. Then I gave up. I know a LOT about dinosaurs so I think the book I wrote about that would be fun. But there is nothing really magical about them.

I don't think I want to take the time to write a book if it has no chance of being popular. It is hard to write stories about real life thigns. In my mind, i think things are correct or right, that might be inapropriate or wrong. I was thinking about publising my diary (as mentioned in an earlier post) but i think that it would be to contriversial. To anyone who didn't know me or my friends it might be a really good book, but I don't think it's worth it.

When I read books, I think of the characters as me. I often wonder if I got the chance to be in that particular movie which character I would be. I know that might sound lame, but it keeps me reading. Personally to me the only problem with reading books and watching the movie is that I always remember which one I saw/ read second. I like watching movies better usually, but there are times when I don't like them.

Books and movies I have seen/ read both of:

Twilight saga (so far of the movies that have came out- will see them all of course)
Bridge to Teribethia (bawled like a baby)
A wrinkle in time (def. better book.. only book ive read more then once)
To Kill a mockingbird (better book)
(and other related books ive read in class)
Alice in Wonderland(seen everysingle version ever made)
Disney golden books
and others that I can't think of off the top of my head:)