Tayler

Dear diary, December 30, 2007

I have been kind of depressed lately. I don’t know what it is but I have been taking my anger mostly out on my dad. Which makes me really upset because we are such good friends. On Christmas, after we left my aunts house, me and my dad sort of got into an argument. It was about my grades for this last semester. He basically was telling me that I ruined my chances of getting into Stanford. And that was making me really upset because I just support from my family that if I want something that I can go get it. My mother was with us and she told me that I might have to go to community collage for awhile until I would be able to go to Stanford. Which was also making me really upset. Who wants to go to community collage the first year the out of high school. I told them I had gotten English grade up but it seemed like they just didn’t believe me.

Well I got my report card yesterday and my grades were:
World History: B
Advanced Band: A
Spanish 2: C
Science: A
Weight Training: A
English: C
Algebra: B
My parents both acted like they were shocked about my English grade. They said they were expecting a D in that class. Because my teacher sent out an email and I had a D in the class but I told them I had gotten the grade up! And they didn’t believe me. Well at least it felt like they didn’t believe me.

All I want is for my parents to be proud of me. Especially my dad because I respect his opinion so much. And I fell that he isn’t proud of at all. Even thought he tells me and my mom tells me they both are. I fell like they don’t. it might be because all the arguments we had about my grades or it might be that I am not proud of myself. I feel really stupid lately. Like I say something and it comes out so stupid and my dad says WOW like I belong in the first grade. And the other day we had to get ice and go somewhere else and I asked him which one he was going first. All he said was well since we don’t want the ice to melt we should probably go to the other place first. And than yesterday he told me that we had to go to circle K to get ice and go to home depot to get a heater for his office. He asked me where we should go first. I said we should get the heater first so that the ice doesn’t melt. He just says yeah now you’re thinking. Like I have never thought before. He makes me feel so stupid by making mean remarks like what did I say about smoking crack and lay off the crack. I try to blow it off but how long can you blow off feeling stupid? It really hurts my feelings. I have told him before that it really makes me sad. How can he be proud of me, if I am stupid?

I am not trying to tell anyone that I have bad parents, I have wonderful parents. My dad doesn’t think I am stupid I know but he jokes a lot and I have been taking it seriously because of my grades. I didn’t do as well as I wanted so I am probably making myself sad and blaming the wrong people. I just feel stupid all the time now.

I am going to try harder next semester, so hopefully I can show everybody including myself that I am smart.

Love,
Tayler!

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Dear Diary, December 26, 2007

The reason why my family opens gifts on Christmas eve is because we like to split up the gifts we get from the family and the presents we get from Santa Claus.

This year from Santa I got a new DVD and VHS player. It is just one player and it has DVD and VHS players in it. I got that because I broke my other DVD player. Well I didn’t brake it, it broke on its own. And of course I got a stocking like every year. The stocking is my favorite part. I don’t know why but I love looking at all the stuff inside it. This year I had Pirates of the Caribbean: at World’s End, an Itunes Gift card for 15 dollars, a Starbucks gift card, chocolate, a sterling silver bracelet, lots of gum, a toothbrush, lip gloss, and a interesting looking book called Buried Onions by Gary Soto. I started it and it is confusing so far but still looks like it will end up good. When I was younger I used to get a banana and sometimes an orange or an apple in my stocking. I always thought that was super funny. I don’t get fruit in my stocking anymore. Ha-ha. I would also not care about any of the toys I got I would stop everything and eat the chocolate that was in my stocking first before I even looked at the toys or anything else. I love Christmas.

Like I told you before I didn’t really want anything for Christmas this year. I already had everything I needed. But than after I got everything I realized I did want a lot of things and I got them all. I am going shopping with my mother tomorrow. We are going to go to the mall and I don’t know where else. I want to use my Starbucks card to get a caramel frappuccino. I have been craving one. I also want to get a hair cut. Right now I have 305 dollars. But I am not going to spend 120 it because that is on my money tree and I don’t want to mess up my money tree. I also got 140 dollars from my other grandparents. I am rich! Ha-ha. I don’t want to spend it all. I just have to buy clothes that’s it. I like to shop though and I will probably end up spending it all.

Love,
Tayler!

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Dear diary, December 26, 2007

My family has a tradition of opening gifts form the family on Christmas eve instead of Christmas day. I like the tradition. It is different. I got a lot of stuff this year. I love everything! I just wanted to tell you all the great stuff I got.

From Mom and Dad I got new pair of boots with the fur! One hundred dollars to go shopping with my mom which came in a box with a SpongeBob ornament. And Ipod speakers that I have been wanting for a super long time! They aren’t just regular speakers either. It is slug bug speakers and it is also a alarm clock and a radio. Last year I knew every gift I was getting before I got it but this year I had no idea. Now what I got for my Dad was a Dallas Cowboys hat. And I got my mom a Zoo Lights ticket.

From my sister Kelsey I got a Zoo Lights ticket and I got her a Zoo Lights ticket. She also got my Dad a Zoo Lights ticket. So the plan is we are all going to go to Zoo Lights together.

From my Nana I got this really cool money tree. It was covered with ten dollar bills. I don’t want to use any of the money because the money tree looks so cool! It has twelve ten dollars bills ($120) if you’re wondering. A cute gray jacket with pink stripes going down the sides. Some vanilla bath things. I just got her Shania Twain perfume. Its her favorite.

From my Uncle Roger I got a jigsaw puzzle and some lavender lotion perfume and some shower gel. I love lavender! I got him some Antonio Banderas cologne.

From my Aunt Berta and my Uncle Curt I got a really big bath set of all kinds of good smelling stuff in there. It was coconut lime! Yum! Plus my Aunt Berta made everyone a stocking filled with goodies. Mine had some chocolate, an ornament, and a $50 dollar gift certificate to Wal-Mart. I got my Aunt a picture frame with a picture of me and her in it and a coffee cup with some bath stuff in there. I got my Uncle Curt a coffee cup that keeps coffee hot and it also cools down drinks. Plus a giant chocolate kiss.

From Jesse I got these gorgeous expensive earrings that are my birth stone (amethyst) and with three litlle diamonds on top of the amethyst stone! Last year he got me these really cool hoop sterling silver earrings with my name in the middle. I wore those so much but I broke the clasp so I cant wear them anymore but I am going to get them fixed because they are so cute. I got him some poker trays and dishes because he is into poker and games, that kind of stuff.

That’s what I got from my family but I also got some stuff from my friends.

From my best friends Nina I got a Harkins gift card for 25 dollars and some make-up.

From my friend Jessica I got like a whole movie set stuff including Red Vines, a Hershey’s chocolate bar, a bad of popcorn and a Blockbuster girt card, but I don’t know the amount.

From my friend Yolanda I got a stocking with a stuffed animal and chocolate inside it.

I also got a bunch of candy canes and cards from other people. Those were just some of the bigger gifts. Thanks to everyone, I really appreciate it and I love everything. Merry Christmas to everybody and to all a good night! Ha-ha.

Love,

Tayler!

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My second favorite movie of all time is The Hot Chick. It is one of the funniest movies ever. I have watched it a bout a thousand times and it still makes me laugh out loud. It is about the most popular teenage girl (Rachel Mcadams) and a middle-aged and hairy man (Rob Schneider) switching bodies. The movie starts out with Jessica (popular girl) buying a pair of earrings but what she didn’t know was that they would change her life. She went to a gas station with all her friends. As she waited and goofed off for someone to come out a pump her gas, inside the gas station the hairy man is robbing the gas attendant. He tries to sneak past the girls but they see him. To make sure they don’t go inside the gas station he just pumps the gas and than sees one of the shiny earrings on the ground. That night he puts the earring on and when they both have them in, they switch bodies. Jessica is disgusted when she wakes up and sees hair all over her body! She has to convince her boyfriend and best friend, April, (Anna Faris) that it is really her! The new male Jessica has a hard time getting a hold of being a guy but she learns that her friends are there for her. She also makes friends with people she used to make fun of since she really isn’t in a position to pass up friends. Rob Schneider does a fantastic job playing a stuck up Hot Chick. My favorite part is when male Jessica tries to sneak into her house and her Dad catches her and thinks he is a gardener. Jessica comes up with a new name for his/her new job. The name is Taquito! And the way he says it, makes me giggle! Jessica gets impatient to find her body because she has cheer competition and prom coming up. Plus her boyfriend doesn’t believe her about turning into a ugly old man. He thinks that the guy is a strange perverted weirdo. This movie is so hilarious with some crude humor! Will she ever get her life and body back? Well to find out you will have to check out The Hot Chick! Trust me, you’ll love it!

Love,

Tayler!

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Okay I have some more poetry but I think this is the last one I should put up because these are really bad. And I want to save you the time of reading them.

The Home We Live in
The home we live in
(loud and full)
The people we love
(forever and ever)
Who we are
(the youth of the nation)
The money we spend
(goes bye bye)
The world around us
(keeps on spinning)

Love,

Tayler!

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More poetry for English. This one is so simple.

Friends
supportive, fun
laughing, sharing, hanging out
loveable
Buds

Love,

Tayler!

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The last unit/ assignment we did in English was poetry. I had to do a couple of poems so I thought I would share with you how bad I am at poetry. Trust me I am BAD at poetry.

House for Sale
Drip drop the leak sounds
In the basement down below
No selling this house

That is actually my best poem! I am most proud of it because it just came to me. I didn’t use a pattern or anything. Except it is a haiku. If you don’t know what a haiku is it is a poem that consists of five syllables in the first line. Seven in the second line and five again in the third line!

Love,

Tayler!

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This was my English teacher’s and my mom’s favorite. I didn’t really like it because it is so boring. My mom liked it because it describes December perfectly but I just think anybody could have written that.

December
December is winter whispers
The color of snowy white
It sounds like jingle bells
It smells like baked cookies
It tastes like eggnog
December- Santa is coming!

Love,

Tayler!

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Boys Like Girls is sort of a new band. I really like them! I first heard them sing The Great Escape! I fell in love with it right away! I loved how the song had such energy but than I heard Dance hall Drug and that became my new favorite song. That song has even more energy than The Great Escape. I thought that their best song was Dance Hall Drug but nope. They came out with an even better one called Hero/Heroine. The title deceives the songs meaning. It sounds bad because people think it is about heroine but I think it is more about a girl being a boys heroine. Like he is addicted to her, just like heroine is addicting. The singer is really amazing. He can hit really high notes! Now when I listen to music I like to sing. I shouldn’t but I do and it even cracks my own ears to hear myself trying to hit the high notes that he hits! I know it is really pathetic. Well I have only heard those three songs by Boys Like Girls and I have already bought them all on itunes. I love the songs that I have heard by them and I hope to hear more!

Love,

Tayler!

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Dear diary, December 20, 2007

Well not a lot has been going on. I got all my Christmas shopping done. I would put what I got everyone but I know read it, so I cant tell you yet. I will have to tell you after Christmas eve. It is a little weird but my family has always opened gifts on Christmas eve. My mom says it is because we get so many presents that we have to split up the days of gifts from the family and gifts from Santa Claus. It is a weird tradition but I love it because first of all we get to open our gifts early and because it is different from everyone else. This is year is kind of different for me, for some reason I just don’t want anything. I already have everything that I need. I mean I always want clothes and music. But I don’t care about getting any presents this year. The only thing that I really want, I’m getting from my mom. It is a pair of boots from Tilly’s! That is really the only thing I have thought about asking for this year. Usually I have a list of things I want but not this year. It crazy!
Can you believe we haven’t decorated our house yet? It is making my mom depressed. The only thing we have done in the Christmas spirit is make Christmas cookies. I invited Erica over to make them with me and than I gave her a box to take home. Katie went to her house and tried the cookies. She loved them. Erica’s whole family loved the cookies. Than I made some to my neighbor Carl but he was at work so I gave them to Carl’s brother, John, to give to him. But John ate half of them. John loved the cookies. Than when Carl got home he tried the cookies and loved the cookies. Today he asked me to make more for him. And of course Erica asked for more. And John and Katie asked for some. So I guess I got to make more cookies for all of them. Ha-ha at the same time it is a compliment but a curse. I am glad they like the cookies but I don’t have time to make so many cookies!
I have to go to the eye doctor today because I lost my glasses. I hate wearing glasses because they hurt my eyes. My eyes are near sited so I shouldn’t wear my glasses all the time because it will make my eyes lazy. So all day long I put on and take off my glasses and it hurts my eyes. And these last few days they were really hurting because I couldn’t see the board and I was straining my eyes to see far away. I asked my mom if I could get contacts, she said I could if I wanted to. I really want to! I hate taking my glasses everywhere and taking them off and on. Sometimes when I have to copy notes off the board and I take them off so fast to look down at my paper, it makes my eyes tear up. I am going to get my eyes checked today and get my glasses in a few weeks.
I am also not trying out for softball anymore because I was giving up WAY to much to just try out. I went to the counselors at my school to get my schedule fixed for next semester. My counselors said I would have to take another A’hour. I knew that because my other electives are full year. I was really looking forward to not have an a’hour but I wanted to be on the team so I was making a sacrifice to try. Than I found out if I don’t make the team I have to go into regular P.E. I was upset about that because I wouldn’t gert credit for being in regular P.E. because they made up this stupid rule that you can only get half a P.E. credit in ninth grade. I already got my half a P.E credit this year. I think they made that rule because they want you to get some exercise in the three years you are at the actual high-school. I was wiling to even do that because I know a lot of people trying out and they might not make it. So at least I would be with a bunch of friends. But than my counselor told me that the only way my schedule would work was to have my math class with EIGHTH GRADERS! Ohhhhhh heck no! I am not having a whole class with all eighth graders! No way! I would not do that! So I changed my mind. I will try out for softball in tenth grade.
I got out of school yesterday. I have exactly two weeks off. YAY! I am excited about that.

Love,
Tayler!

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