Tayler

Dear diary, August 29, 07

Wow! It has been three whole days since I have written in here. I need to write in here everyday. I have been sick all week and it stinks. My throat is what hurts the most. I am coughing and my throat is dry and when I speak my voice is really cracked and squeaky. Last night I could not breathe at all because my nose was all clogged up. Plus two people in my weight training class have strep throat. And they came to school so I might have strep. But I doubt it and I pray that I don’t. I had strep once before and it was not fun. Well yesterday I asked my mom if I could go to a football game today after school but at first I could not get a straight answer. Because at first my mom said we would have to see when my sister’s open house was. Then it was like what time is the game at? Who is picking you up from the game? So we finally figured that all out and my mom said I could go! We had plans that on my parents way to my sister’s open house they were going to drop me and my friend Kayla off at the football game, and then Kayla’s mom was going to pick us up and bring us home. But today in second hour the vice principle came over the intercom and said that they were changing the school because of problems in the field. So when I came home today my mom was just about to take a nap but before she fell asleep I told my mom that they changed the school. But this school is a little bit farther but in the other direction. My mom said no that she would not drive that far. I knew it all day but I was still hoping maybe I could still go. But my mom said no. What makes me mad is that my mom could have taken me, she just didn’t want to. And she shouldn’t have to do something she doesn’t want to, but yesterday she said I could go! So I missed out on that. Well my parents just left to go to my sisters open house. It is also date night for they are going to be out almost all night. I am glad they are going on a date night, they rarely get time together. And when they do, they go their separate ways. Well anyway we are selling magazines at school. I usually sell about four or five magazines. And win a pen or a marker, nothing special. But there is ipod speakers this year! I want them! I have been wanting them for a long time and haven’t convinced my self to buy them yet. But that would be awesome if I got them for free! I have looked at some stores for them, and at each store it was around fifty dollars. But I am not going to try to get that much, I am just going to sell what I sell. Well that was my day, I got to go do my homework.

Love,

Tayler!

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Chris Brown is a really awesome artist. He mostly does hip-hop and R&B. I really like him! He is so so so cute! But he has really great music too. My favorite song by him is “Say Goodbye” it is so good. It is slow and nice to listen to. It is about him saying goodbye to his girlfriend and can’t figure out how to break it to his girlfriend that its over. And that he is leaving her for me. I also like his song “Run It” it is a fun song to dance to. He has such an adorable smile too. I think he is working on another c.d. because I have seen this music video of his song “Wall To Wall” and it isn’t on his last c.d. and it is a really good. I liked the music video but it is scary. It is about vampires and he looks cute and scary. But I like the song.

Love,

Tayler!

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Another artist that went solo from a band that I really like is Gwen Stefani. She started out with the band No-Doubt. But after they broke up she went solo just like Fergie. I think that she is doing better solo. She also has a wide voice. She can do some hip-hip and also some slow songs and hold a note. I never listened to No Doubt because they were out when I was kind of young and didn’t really care about music. I just listened to whatever my parents listened to. But I really like Gwen Stefani’s music. Plus I like how many different kinds of songs she can sing. Plus she is very bold on her style and I like that she dresses uniquely. She is a great artist and I love almost every one of her songs.

Love,

Tayler!

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Fergie was a part of a band called The Black Eyed Peas. But since then she has made a c.d. solo called “Dutchess” and this girl has proven that she can sing. I mean on this c.d. she does so many different types of singing. She sings some songs such as “Fergalicious” or “London Bridge” where she is rapping and singing hip-hop. And there is a song “Big Girls Don’t Cry” that is slow and powerful. I did not realize that she was such a great artist untill I heard “Big Girls Don’t Cry” I didn’t even know it was her singing untill I bought the c.d. I only thought that she could hip-hop from Black Eyed Peas but no she has a voice and it is really good. She even sings a few songs with her old Black Eyed Peas member Will.I.am. As much as I like both Black Eyed Peas and Fergie, I hope remains going solo because she is doing well. But I also hope that she takes a break to make a c.d. with the Black Eyed Peas. Because I would like to listen to both of them, she makes good music with a band and by herself.

Love,

Tayler!

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Black Eyed Peas, is a hip-hop/ rap band. It is three guys and one chick. This was the band that got me really into hip-hop and rap. I heard the song “shut-up” and I thought it was really good and funny. It also made me feel like dancing. They have a really up beat and unique sound. Kind of techno but not techno. The female singer form this band is an excellent singer, her name is Fergie. She went solo and I also bought her c.d. they just have great music. I don’t like all of their songs, but I do love most of them. I have had their c.d. “Monkey business” for about three and a half years now and I still enjoy listening to there songs. They never get old. I like listening to each of the guys and trying to figure out which one is singing at that moment. The Black Eyed Peas is a great band. I am not sure if they are still together because Fergie went solo but I sure hope they are still making music together because they are fun to listen to.

Love,

Tayler!

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Panic! At the Disco is one of my favorite bands in the whole wide world. They sing alternative and punk. The first song I heard by them was “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage” I heard it at my friends house, I liked it because it is up beat and unique. So I bought their c.d. and all of their songs are up beat. It makes me feel like jumping up and down. I usually listen to hip-hop maybe rap and some pop. But I am truly a rock girl at heart and this is a excellent rock/ alternative band. Plus the singer is a cutie! My favorite song by Panic! At the Disco is probably “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” it is about a bride cheating on her groom on there wedding day. And in the music video, their faces are painted really weird. So they are just an interesting band. They only have one c.d. out that I know of, it is called “A Fever You Can’t Sweat out” but hopefully they will come out with another one real soon. Panic! At The Disco is great band and probably my favorite band, although I love all kinds of different music and bands this one is spectacular. And did I mention the singer is a cutie!

Love,

Tayler!

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Dear diary, August 24^th, 07

Yesterday when I wrote my diary in third person, I thought it was going to be easy and just act like I was writing a book but it wasn’t it was super hard. I made a few mistakes because I said I on some things so my dad had to fix the mistakes for me. So I don’t think I am going to do that again. Well that was why it was so short was because it was really hard to explain my day and my felling when I wasn’t talking about my self I had to write Tayler, it sounded like an alter ego of myself. Well anyway today is Friday and it going to be nice having two days to sleep in. well I just went to school and it seemed to pass on by. We had a fire drill in 1^st hour which stunk because it was so hot outside it was hard to stand out there in the sun. usually I like the fire drills because I get out of class and take a break for a little while but not when it is over 100 degrees outside. Well I also found out that my band teacher (1^st hour) is bringing in two more flute players so I am on the end of the clarinet players so I will get pushed back into the 2^nd row again. I hate sitting in the back row it doesn’t feel right. I have sat in the front row the last two years but when I sit in the back it doesn’t seem right, maybe because I wont be able to see my teacher right in my face, which is probably a good thing but I enjoy sitting in the front row. It makes me feel that I am good at playing the clarinet. Well then in second hour is my Spanish class. I think I am getting better at remembering what I learned last year. So that is good but I am still trying to study to refresh my memory. Then in third hour we read and watched a really gross video. Third hour I have science. So we read our individual books. I am reading “Tangerine”. it is a pretty decent book so far. Kind of boring, I am not really sure what it is about yet. Hopefully I will find out soon. Then we watched this gross video that had to do with photography. It was all about how you could catch something on a special camera that you could see by a naked eye. It was interesting but gross because we found out this really nasty fact. I couldn’t believe it, but I am sure it is true. The fact is that people have just about as many insects and bacteria on them as there are people on Earth. Isn’t that disgusting. I was shocked but I am sure they know better then I do. Well then it was weight training time. We actually worked out today. We did the bench press, we also did shrugs, and some triceps work outs. It was pretty cool. My partner is my friend Amal but I ended up working with about 5 other people. It was kind of cool because I am getting to know some other people in my class. Then I went to English. I really like that class. I really like my teacher too, she is really nice. We had a pretest but I finished early so she said we could do homework from another class so I took out my Spanish homework and I had a few questions on some things. Well she had told us that her husband speaks fluent Spanish so I thought maybe she would know the answers the questions, so I went up and asked her. She didn’t know so she offered to call her husband to ask him. I thought it was hilarious because we were in the middle of English and she was calling her husband to help me with my Spanish homework. So he helped to find out the answer. I thought that was really nice and cool. So I finished my Spanish homework in my English class. But I still have about 50 left out of 84 problems on my math homework. Math is my longest hour of the whole day. Which stinks because it is my 6^th hour and so my day seems to last forever because I am stuck in math! And my teacher is kind of being mean to us. When the bell rings she waits a whole minute to let us go. I think that is not fair because as soon as the bell rings we are out of school so we should be able to leave but according to the student hand book the bell does not release us the teacher does. But then why do we have a bell. I don’t some things in that book are stupid. Well so I was walking home and as soon as I got in our yard my dad and my mom pull up!!! Yay! I haven’t seen my mom is a week because she was in Austin, Texas for business. And I missed her very much. My Nana made a plan for us to go out to dinner at Black Angus tonight to greet my mom home. I thought it would be nice and it was going really good. But I was sort of getting annoyed because everyone was talking at once and so I could hardly get a word in. then my sister kicks me from under the table so I asked her if she would not kick me. So she starts shaking her foot at me so it was hitting me in the leg. So I said firmly stop kicking me. I was hoping to get my parents attention so they would ask her to stop so that I didn’t have to. But they were in a deep conversation so they didn’t hear me. But because my sister is stubborn she kept kicking me and insisting that she wasn’t. so I yelled stop! And she yelled back I am not kicking you. So I scooted over and yelled lour to get my parents attention CUT IT OUT! My parents were really mad because I ruined the family dinner because of out immatureness. I agree that I should not have yelled in a restaurant but I was so starving for my parents attention to make her stop that I didn’t know any other way. And I don’t have any idea to make my sister to stop in less my parents hear me and they butt in. but what else was I supposed to do whisper to my sister to stop kicking me or try and whisper to my depth parents to ask her to stop. Not that my parents are truly depth, they are just hard of hearing. That is just how I felt I know my sister will have a different story on her website. But I don’t care I know what happened and it’s the truth. I apologized to my parents of course because I didn’t let them finish their conversation. Well my day was fine except for that little incident. I got over it real quick because I know I was right and so it doesn’t bother me if people disagree because it doesn’t matter because I know the truth. Well that was my day.

Love,

Tayler.

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Dear diary, August 23rd, 07

Okay, me and my dad were searching my name Tayler on Google. And we couldn’t find it so I have decided to right an article in 3^rd person and see if I can find my name on Google in a few days. So Tayler got up yesterday. Tayler has been missing her 10 hours of sleep each night. Now she only gets 6-8 hours of sleep each night. Tayler gets ready for school and as soon as Tayler walks out her door she sees two piles of dog poop outside her door. What a nice morning! Not! Tayler was furious. She knew right away it was Duchess because of the way duchess was acting. Duchess is the dog Tayler’s dad volunteered to dog sit while his friend was in California. She was supposed to go to her real home about a month ago, but Tayler’s dad’s friend decided to stay in California for another month. Tayler bets that if she didn’t have his dog then she wouldn’t blame him for wanting to stay in California! It is so nice there! So Tayler went and woke up her father and told him that she had to clean up a few messes real quick. So Tayler’s father went back to sleep. After Tayler finished cleaning up the dog poop she went and woke up her father again. But he rolled over like he didn’t even hear her and went back to sleep.

So she went downstairs to use the bathroom and then for the 3^rd time went back to wake her father. By then Tayler had about 5 minutes to get to school for A’ hour. Tayler’s dad got her to school about 1 minute late so she went into the office to get a pass. Her day went by kind of fast but it was just like any other day.

Today Tayler got up kind of late because she was so sleepy and tired. When she went downstairs her father was already awake and on the computer. So she got ready and they left. Her dad brought her into the office because he was going to excuse the tardy from the day before. Today seemed to last forever. Tayler has 84 problems in math for homework but thank goodness they are not due until Monday so she has 4 days to finish them. Tayler had to do more coloring in science. The class had to make a sign on the safety rules, or had to do something with safety. Tayler’s teacher said it would count more if it rhymed. So Tayler’s saying was “sandals do not go, wear closed shoes to protect your toe.” Ha-ha. She thought it was so funny. The guy’s who sits behind her, was, “don’t take a puff of this toxic stuff” and the girl that sits next to her was “don’t point your finger at your partner to blame when it was you who set the flame.” so there was many funny ones. She thought it was a interesting project and fun to do. But there was coloring involved which is weird because she is now in the 9^th grade and she is doing more coloring then usual.

When Tayler came home, her dad had good news. His website is doing really well on Google. If you search Jesus vs. Muhammad his site will come up first. That’s really cool! It is always good to get good news and know you are making progress. Well that was my day.

Love, Tayler

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Dear diary, August 21, 07

Wow! I haven’t written in here in so long. I have been so busy. I mean I knew high school was going to be hard but I have had more homework in the last week then I have had in the last two years. Well at least it feels like it, I might be over exaggerating. This past week has been fine for me, a little boring. I have been exhausted all week and all weekend, I am not getting as much sleep as usual. I am starting to stress because I am so nervous that I didn’t finish all my homework and that I will be too tired to pay attention in class. It is just difficult to stay focused. But to do that I have to cut out some of the things that I like to do. And that might include not writing in here everyday. But I am going to try my best because my father showed me that this site was getting some hits! I was so excited, and sort of surprised because I haven’t been on here in a week and it doesn’t really have a lot of content. Anyway my dad showed me that someone searched the words “blonde chunks” and my site was 7^th to come up in Google. The funny thing was that I didn’t really write anything about blonde chunks, just that I used to have them, And my sister used to have them. I was shocked, I have only been working on this site for a month and it is already on the first page of Google if you search blonde chunks. Usually it takes years to get your site on the first page of Google even if someone was searching any topic. It was pretty cool, it also makes me nervous because I don’t want it to start out good and then get worse because then I wouldn’t feel like I had anything to back up my page with, so that it could keep its spot on the front page. Well that makes sense to me but my dad says it will only get better. So I am going to trust him since I have been trusting him on everything on this site and it turns out he was right! Ha-ha, I knew he was right the whole time.

My friend Erica has been bugging me lately well a lot of things bug me but she keeps acting like she is smarter than everyone. Well she may not be doing it on purpose but to me it seems like she wants the people around her to feel stupid. Like today my friend Leah said something and then Erica interrupted her just to explain it to Leah even though it was exactly what Leah said. I know nobody around us noticed but I feel like I see right through her. But maybe I am just over exaggerating again. I just am very impatient when it comes to her. Maybe just because I don’t think she is very smart because one time I was quizzing her on the Bill Of Rights and I asked her which Right is the peoples right to say what the want or feel, and she wouldn’t answer for a long time but if she had just listened to the question, and if she knew what the word SAY means then she would know the answer is freedom of SPEECH. I mean how hard could it be? That may sound a little mean. Especially since she is my friend. But she makes me mad sometimes when she acts smarter than everyone around her.

My mom is in Austin, Texas right now. She had to go for her work. I miss her so much. But she calls every night to say hello and ask how we are doing. At least I get to hear her voice. I was telling her on the phone that in all my classes I have been doing a lot of coloring. It is weird, you would think 9^th graders wouldn’t have to color very much that seems like an elementary school thing but I have colored at least 5 assignments in my classes in the past week. It seems like I am going backwards. It’s pretty funny.

A hour is really wearing me out. Because I have to walk there everyday and it is an extra hour in my day. It’s tough but I bet as soon as I get used to it, it won’t be hard at all. My Spanish 2 teacher only spoke in Spanish yesterday. I was kind of lost but I got about 35 percent of what she was saying. I could pick out some words she was saying but I couldn’t figure out what sentence she was saying. It was interesting. I thought I was the only one who didn’t know what she was saying but it turns out almost everyone had no clue. So that was good to know that I wasn’t alone. I told my family that and they said that is how you learn Spanish, by to listening to it. And I agree with them because that is how most people learn Spanish is when they go to Mexico and they hear it daily. Thursday is open house; I don’t think my dad is going. But that’s okay. I don’t really see the point because the first week the students aren’t really in any trouble and they haven’t really done any work so why are the parents going there? How can the teachers say anything about us, they don’t even know us yet. I had a substitute teacher today in algebra and he told us a story that if you live in Alaska to pass the 8^th grade you have to pass a survival fitness class. You have to take it so that you know how to survive if something happened. To know that they truly know the material they take them out on an island around Alaska with one adult in case of emergencies. They also give them one match and a tent and sleeping bags. Then they leave the class there for three days for the 8^th graders to survive. I was shocked. I mean it is good because they live in a scary place where they could freeze or fall into the ice. But I was just in 8^th grade last year and if I had to do that I would be so scared. I don’t think I would be able to handle it, maybe if I was older but in the 8^th grade kids are so immature and I would not want to have my life depend of 30 other immature kids. That would make me just a little bit scared. Plus I wouldn’t want to be there for 3 days. Why can’t they take a written test just like every subject? It was kind of interesting.

My dad has Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday off from work so he can take me to school these days. It is so nice because I don’t have to get up so early and I don’t have to walk to school. In weight training we have been learning a few lifts and how to do things in the weight training room. Tomorrow we have to do more sit ups and push ups though. We did sit ups and push ups last week and I was sore up till yesterday. I hate being sore because I couldn’t really do anything and my mom thinks it is the best time to tickle me because I cant tickle back because I hurt too much. But when I was sore I was surprised to find out how much I really do use all my muscles. I was taking off my shirt and my arms were so sore and hurting and I was simply doing a daily task. It was interesting to notice you use your muscles more than you think. Plus it doesn’t seem like you are working that much just doing a simple task like taking your shirt off but then you are sore and you realize how much you use your muscles and it not even hurt. Well that was my week I guess.

Love,

Tayler!

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Dear diary, August 14, 07

My second day of school was today. I went just as well as the first day of school did. I got up a little late because I was so tired from the night before but I still was ready to leave the house at 5:30. I got up at 5:00. I went to my Nana’s and I she didn’t even notice that I came in so I realized I can scare her everyday!!! Ha-ha I won’t though. I stayed there for awhile just watching music videos, then I left and started walking to school. It was so hot today! I was all sweaty it was nasty. But we did this thing in A’ hour where to get to know everyone’s name we had to say our name and something that starts with the same initial in our first name to bring to a picnic. Like I am Tayler and I am bringing tacos. Well anyway it was really hard because you also had to name everything that was in front of you, you had to say their name and what they are bringing to the picnic. So I had to name about 16 people and what they were going to bring. But we haven’t finished so we will finish playing it tomorrow. I feel bad for the people that have to go tomorrow because they have to remember everyone form today and then all the ones tomorrow. After that was done I went to band and I was really happy because I got moved up to the front row in band. I was really upset that I wasn’t in front row this year because I have been in first row for the last four years in band. My mom and my sister told me that it was going to happen but I wasn’t open minded about getting moved up. But they were right and I am really excited. But my band teacher said it might change, but I hope it won’t change. Then I went to Spanish 2. I really like my Spanish teacher, she is really nice. And she gives you chances to do extra credit, and she gives out pesos where you can buy all kinds of thing to help your grade your you can buy a hall pass and stuff like that. I think it is really cool because then I can buy something if I need to of want to. But I hope I won’t have to by a hall pass, but I never leave the classroom. So it all good. So then I went to third hour and I am hungry at this time again. In third hour science we played another game. We had to find someone who had a bird at as a pet and had a drivers permit and many questions that were hard to answer, but the whole part was to get to know the people in your class. We also did an experiment. We had to put water on a penny and see how many drops out of a dropper. Well that was all we did then I finally got to eat lunch and I had a better lunch but not a great lunch. Then weight training and we have a test tomorrow that is in the weight training room. I think that I have it! I am pretty sure I know them all. Then I went to English and I changed my opinion on my teacher I thought she was really mean because of what I saw from her last year but now I think she seems really nice and funny. She seems like a good teacher, we also have to make a name plate that says our name going down and then we have to write words to describe us that start with each letter of our name next to it. Then I went to math and we took notes and got more homework. We have like 40 problems but I already got them done. It was real easy. Well that was my second day of school.

Love,

Tayler!

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