Tayler

Dear diary, August 16, 2008

This week has been so hectic. It was my first week of high school. I know, right? Scary. I was totally freaking out before hand but you know once I was there I was cool. I was mostly nervous that I was going to be late to class because my new school has a policy that if you are late to class then you get kicked out and you miss it. It is not good to miss any school because it is hard to catch up.

Well my first hour is Pilates. So far we have dressed out only two days and I am already sore. My stomach and thighs are aching. It is a hard class. And I hate that I have it first hour because I sweat like a

Thursday we ran 3 ½ minutes in the gym then we stretched and then we went outside and ran three laps up the ramp, across the building, then down the ramp and around again. It was the size of a medium sized building. And we had to jog it. Then we went back into the gym and did a bunch of squats. And then of course we went outside and ran up the ramp, across the building, down the ramp and around a big building. We did that twice and then we went back into the locker rooms to get dressed for our next class.

Friday was the hard day for me. I mean I hate running but when you get down on a mat and working our whole body as much as possible is tough. We were mainly working our core so my stomach is pretty tired for holding a crunch for an hour. I know this class is going to get harder and harder but I want to take it so that I can get into shape to try out for softball next semester.

My second hour is English. I love this class so far. My teacher is also the drama teacher so she is pretty enthusiastic and fun. I love this class because I am not friends with one single girl in there. I mean that sounds bad but it is just me and a bunch of my guy friends so there is no drama. I doubt I will make any girl friends in there because I will be with the guys the whole time and girls do not like that. But I don’t care.

My third hour is Spanish III. I am so nervous about this class. I already asked my parents to help me study every night because I am bad at Spanish. I do not want to do bad in this class. I really want to be bilingual but I am awful at speaking and understanding and those are the most important things you need to know! My teacher seems like he is willing to slow down for people who are having a hard time, so that is good.

My forth hour is study hall. I took this class because of how hard Spanish III is going to be. I wanted an hour in the day to be able to study and work on homework. This is the class I have already made a friend in. Her name is Kym. She is pretty cool and funny. Study hall has been pretty fun so far.

My fifth hour is Geometry. I didn’t do so well in Algebra last year, so I hope I will do good in geometry. My teacher is super funny. He made me crack up on Wednesday and Friday. He was telling us stories because we are already ahead of his other geometry classes. He wants them to be at the same pace so he was wasting some time. He is cool and it seems like an easy class.

My sixth hour is Biology. So far I do not care for it. I mean I like the people who are in it, but I do not like my teacher. She acts like she owns us and can keep us after the bell. Gosh, my last sixth hour teacher did that to us and I hated her the whole year. This teacher like the exact same way.

So far I am liking school. No serious homework yet, so everything is going smoothly. I think I will make lots of friends and have a fun year! Which is what I was hoping for.

Love,
Tayler!

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Dear readers, June 30th, 2008

After a long and difficult debate with myself. I have decided to move my music writing to another site. It is called http://clucked.com. I decided to do this because I was starting not to like this blog anymore and I wanted my writing to look more professional and better. I can’t continue doing song of the day because the writing is going to be longer and better over there, and it takes too long to do one everyday but I will try and do a post on a song or an artist as often as possible. And Clucked has a lot more music videos and songs to listen to. I already love it.

I will try and continue doing my diary here on 2011grad. Although nothing really is going on since it is summer. Which is just whizzing by unfortunately.

Thanks,
Tayler!

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Dear Diary, May 19, 2008

Okay, so you know I am in Spanish 2! It is a super hard class, and I am not good at Spanish. But last week we had our speaking and writing final. I think I did just okay on the writing final, she hasn’t told us yet. But I got an 18/20 on my speaking final! I was so shocked! Because I was stammering and I was forgetting what to say. Well it seemed that I wasn’t doing that well but I guess I was because I got a 90%! I am so happy! Nothing can bring me down.

Well something can bring me down. And it is bringing me down. I have a D in math this quarter. I hate myself for it too. I am disappointed with myself. I mean I did all my homework but I do really bad on test in that class. I need a 78% on the final to get a C for the semester. I can do it! I hope. Because I will be really sad. I just kept saying that I had time to bring my grade up. But I didn’t have time. I ran out of time just too fast. My mom even offered me to get tutored. I should have, because I really don’t want to get a D. I don’t want to go to tutoring and I really don’t think I need it, but I needed to practice more. When we are doing problems in class I do excellent! I know how to do it, but I forget all the time! So I am going to study really hard for this final.

Wish me luck!

Love,
Tayler!

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Dear diary, May 18, 2008

Wow.. You’ve missed a lot. Okay so.. two Tuesdays ago, I had my last band concert… ever! My parents are disappointed that I don’t want to do band anymore in high school. But I have been playing the clarinet for five years! I just don’t like it anymore. I like the final product at the concerts but not working to get there. Plus, in the high school I am going to, the main band is the marching band. I absolutely do not want to be in marching band for many reasons. For one, you have to get to the school at 6 A.M! Are they insane? No. Not doing it. Not only do you have to go in early but you have to stay late. I don’t know how late but probably till 6 a couple nights a week. Nope! Not doing that either. Plus, if I go into a concert band, nobody cares about concert bands there. Marching band is the only band they care about and I don’t want to be in marching band.

A couple weekends ago I went to Relay For Life which is where you walk as much as you can for people who have died of cancer or who are surviving cancer. The reason why I was there was because my Nana’s work donated some money, and my nana wanted to go. So I said I would go and help out. It went from 6 P.M to 6 A.M on a Saturday. I walked maybe 8-10 miles. I was there with my Nana and my sister, Kelsey. We also sold bracelets and Italian soda, which all went to cancer research. I got to play DDR (dance dance revolution) which was cool. Haven’t played it in awhile. I had a lot of fun. I didn’t think it was going to be so much fun but it was. I can’t wait till next year.

My dad cancelled our cell phone service. No I didn’t get in trouble! I’m a good kid. Which really stinks because I use my phone for everything. As a camera, a phone, a mp3 player, my alarm clock, my calendar.. Everything. We will get new ones when school starts again. Hopefully.

Ninth grade formal!!! Formal was a dance at my school , everybody calls it formal because you had to dress up real nice. The weekend before (the day of Relay for Life) I went to the mall with my friend Kashawna, to get my dress. I ended up getting it at Macys for only 55 dollars. When I went up to the cash register I thought it was going to be 70 dollars, but this real nice lady gave me 20% off. My dress was purple with a bow right around my torso and it was about knee length. It was a gorgeous dress. I was happy I found it. Although this other girl named Taylor! (Haha) Showed up with the same dress! But her’s was pink! thankfully. Little dress stealer.

My friend Amal (Girl) invited me to go out to dinner, with some other people just before going to formal. Because formal was from 7:30 till 9:30. So we could eat right before formal. Sounded like a good plan but we just needed to actually make the plan. Like where to eat, who to invite, etc. I was getting so excited the week of formal. But I really needed to make the final decisions with Amal. So Thursday rolls around and Amal is absent from school! I don’t have a phone so I can’t call or text her to see what’s going on. So the next day, Friday, (DAY BEFORE FORMAL) I am nervous that Amal won’t show up at school. If you aren’t at school for at least four hours the day before the event than you can’t go! So if Amal doesn’t show up, she can’t go to formal and I don’t have a date. I have lunch with her, and at first I can’t find her anywhere. She usually comes up to me while I am in line for lunch but she hadn’t. ten minutes into lunch and she still isn’t there! I start freaking out! But then she came, finally! I ran up to her, gave her a hug, and said we needed to figure something out! Then she tells me that she wasn’t planning on going to formal, at all. She made a new plan to go to Mariah’s for the people who aren’t going to formal. I was so mad! She invited me to this, and she is flaking on me. That’s messed up. The day before! But somehow I knew that she would do that to me.

I didn’t want to show up at formal all by myself so I asked Kashawna if she wanted to go out to dinner and then go to formal since she didn’t have plans either. I think I had more fun with Kashawna than I would have had with Amal. Her sister picked me up at my house and my dad paid for our dinner at Applebees. (He is the best) we got to formal like 15 minutes late, and already there were a lot of people there. I took pictures with Kashawna and my other friend Ana. The came out just okay. I wanted to take more pictures but they closed the photo thing early. I was pretty sad. But I was having so much fun! Then, guess who shows up!! Amal! I didn’t say anything mean to her, I just gave her a hug and said hi. I was really upset, because not only did she show up but she came with a friend. Whatever, she said she wasn’t planning on going but her friend showed up at her house. I don’t care. I mean I believe her, because she has never lied to me. It just makes me mad. I don’t act mad because it is just not worth it, to get mad with one more week of school.

Besides all that drama I had so much fun! It was great! Kind of he last thing as a ninth grader! Ohh.. Just saying that makes me nervous. I had so much fun at formal. It was great. A blast!

Love,
Tayler!

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Dear diary, April 10, 2008

Thank goodness this week is almost over. I had Terranova testing which like AIMS testing except it is for ninth graders. I is like a placement test for high school. It was exhausting. Actually it wasn’t really hard but it is was just exhausting! All the students have a messed up schedule! Like we go to our homeroom first for two hours while we test, then we do SSR (silent sustained reading) and then we go to lunch. Then we go back to out third hour for class. It is kind of good because we have short classes plus we get to miss a different class each day. Except we don’t get to miss sixth hour because of sports. I actually like the messed up schedule because I LOVE my third hour. It is so much fun, plus because ninth grade is done with the testing and eighth and seventh are not, we just get to watch movies. Its fun!

I also got this really neat book that is called “Your Study Guide”. It is a book designed just for me. They took my AIMS scores from last year and put things I need to work on in the book and it shows me how to do it. I think it is super cool! It is going to be good if I actually do the work in the book. So far I am just reading it because it is really interesting. J

Love,
Tayler!

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Dear Diary, March 30, 2008

This weekend has been so much fun. Friday night, for the first time, I went ice skating. My friend Ana just invited some people to go with her and I was one of them. I was so scared that I was going to fall because I broke my arm rollerblading and ice skating is similar to rollerblading. Everybody who went had been ice skating before so I was worried they were going to go super fast and I would be all slow. But Kelsey and Maudy helped me and I didn’t fall once. Ana wanted to go really fast and I didn’t want to, so when I held on to her she would go really fast, even though I told her not to go fast! It was scary. I was surprised how much it was like rollerblading. I used to love rollerblading until I broke my arm. You ice skate the same way that you rollerblade except it is harder. It was really slippery on the smooth parts and it was really bumpy where everyone was skating. I get really nervous with all the people there because if they fall in front of you or on the side of you, then you are going down with them. But luckily I didn’t get near all those people.

Then yesterday me and Nina went to the Renaissance Festival. We were going to go last weekend but it was so crowded that we ended up going to Golfland. She is a way better golfer than me. The Renaissance Festival was fun! My favorite show was London Broil. That is a show of three jugglers that tell jokes while the juggle and there really funny. I thought the jousting was really boring because this year it looked really fake. All the other times that I saw it, I didn’t notice the people purposely falling off their horses. I used to love the Ded Bob Show but every year it is the same thing. Nina and I saw it this year and yep, same thing! Not that it isn’t good material but it is like going to see your favorite comedian and him/her saying knock knock jokes. I was happy that I got a turkey leg. It was really good and I think this was the first year that I ate all of it. I wish I found where they were selling corn, because the Renaissance Festival has the best corn on the cob! Delicious! I had a lot of fn this weekend. I even think that I am going to a movie today.

Love,
Tayler!

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Dear diary, March 17, 2008

Thank goodness it is finally spring break! I have been waiting for spring break this whole quarter. I just need to relax! Today I went over to my Nana’s because it was Jesse’s birthday. So we had a birthday dinner for him. He is 53. My Nana is 60. Ha-ha I guess my family goes for younger men. My mom is also older than my dad by two years. Well at least it is only two years unlike my Nana and Jesse, they are 7 years apart. Ha-ha. Other than that I haven’t really done anything for spring break. I talked to some of my old friends Ciara and Emily, we are making plans to hang out. I haven’t seen Emily since Nina’s birthday party in California and I haven’t seen Ciara since my friend Chelsey’s party a couple years ago. I miss them.

I am kind of sad but relieved at the same time. I told my friend Yolanda that I couldn’t be in her quince. I really wanted to be in it but she was putting so much stress on me. First of all we have to buy our own dresses which are like 100 each. It wasn’t that big of a deal but I really didn’t want to. Also we had to commit to practices on every single weekend. Her quince isn’t until June so we would have to practice in the summer also, truly I don’t know if I could do that. Last summer we left at the beginning of summer to go to Albuquerque. I can’t help when we go, so if I wasn’t able to make its better that I tell her now before she than and she can’t find someone to take my place. I asked this guy, Blake to be my partner back in October or November, whenever it was. And he said yes of course, so I felt bad when I had to tell him that I pulled out of it. Actually he was happy because he said he wasn’t a good dancer and didn’t want to be in it. I asked him why he said yes to me in the first place. And he said “Because you asked me”…. awww… he’s so sweet. I love Blake. Everyone thinks that I like him as more than a friend but honestly I don’t. He is a really good friend though. And I meant what I said about loving him, because I do! But as a friend. I just had to set the record straight that I only like him as a friend! Because no one believes me. Ha-ha! <3

Love,
Tayler!

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 Dear diary, February 17, 2008

            Friday I went to my friend Savannah’s party. It was a lot o fun. About fifty people were there. Everyone was just hanging out and having fun. There was a big dance off. I recorded it on my phone. There was a pool table so everyone was taking turns plaing pool. When it as my turn I didn’t do so well. Brett and Cameron kept hitting my stick to mess me up. Sometimes I do well at pool but sometimes I am really awful! It was a fun party. I want my party to be like that. Just have a bunch of people hanging out. That would be fun but my parents don’t like house parties.

            Yesterday I went to my friend Zoraya’s quince. She didn’t invite a ton of people like Savannah did. Only like seven or eight people but about a hundred people were there. She has a huge family. When I first got there with my friend Ana the pastor was talking. He was talking in Spanish so Ana had to translate for me. The pastor was saying “even though you are grown up, you still have to listen to your parents. You can’t party any time you want and stay young. Don’t go get pregnant and turn into a mother because you’re not ready for that.” And this pregnant young woman stood up and left. It was funny. I am so soar today because we were dancing a ton. I was excited the whole night for the dancers to come out because I wanted to see what I would be doing. Finally they did. The dances were sort of boring. They did four or five dances and they were just stepping side to side and then Zoraya was in the middle and she did some turns. But It wasn’t like a big twirly waltz. And then everyone else went back to the dance floor. Since quinces are for Hispanic people, 90% of the songs were in Spanish. I had no idea what the songs were but it was still fun. I had a great time.

            My sister and I were thinking that we were going to have our birthday parties at the Renaissance Festival. I think that would be a lot of fun but I would only be able to invite up to 15 people. That wouldn’t be a bad amount of people it is just that I want to invite a lot more people and do something like Savannah did. Having a party at the Renaissance Festival would be different than any other parties. The reason why it would be with my sister is because the Renaissance people only stay in town for about a month and a half. My sister’s birthday isn’t till the end of April but if we were going to rent a 15 person van we would split the cost and go at the same time. The only thing is I wanted it closer to my birthday and my sister wants it closer to her birthday. She wants it in the middle of March but my birthday was at the beginning of February. Ohh well I guess that would be okay. I am excited to just have a party though.

Love,

Tayler!

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Dear diary, February 8th, 2008
Yesterday was my birthday! I am now fifteen years old. In seven months I will be getting my permit! I am so excited. Well at about two o’clock in the morning my dad came in and gave me 15 spanks and a pinch to grow an inch. And then my mom woke me up early to give me some gifts form her and my dad. They gave me the movie Blades of Glory with Will Farrell and Jon Heder, it looks really funny. They also gave me a fuzzy coloring book, a shirt that says “Girls just wanna have fun”. They also gave me a ribbon that says “Birthday Girl”, and a crown that says “Princess” . and some candy bracelets and some strawberry kisses. They also gave me 200 dollars for my birthday party. My sister got me some awesome make-up from one of my favorite stores. It is a bunch of eye shadows, every color you can think of. I like how sparkly each one is. She also got me a Hoops&Yoyo card that on the front it says “your present is hidden in a top secret place” and then you open it and Hopps&yoyo say “Awww you found it” I love it. It’s so funny. When I got home from school my mom, sister, and I watched this movie called Sydney White with Amanda Bynes. It was good. And then my dad made a fantastic birthday meal of steak and stuffed mushrooms. You haven’t eaten until you have eaten stuffed mushrooms made by my dad. They rock! Ha-ha.
It is a tradition that every year on my birthday my mom takes me out to breakfast or lunch and a movie and then a little bit of shopping. But this year I wanted to go to school on my birthday because it is so much fun going to school on your birthday so everyone can wish you a happy birthday and give you hugs. So today my mom took me out to Ihop to have some chocolate chip pancakes. And then we went to the store and I got plaid shorts that are blue with pink and yellow in them. I also got two t-shirts. One says Peace is the way and the other has a bunch of peace signs all over it. And I also got a plain white t-shirt. I am happy about that! And then we went to go see a movie. We saw Fool’s Gold with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. It was really good. It had a lot more action scenes than I thought it would. Even if you don’t like action movies at least you would get to see Matthew McConaughey with his shirt off! Ha-ha. I love our tradition! And I like missing school to go see a movie! I had fun these last two days.
Love,
Tayler!

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Dear diary, January 17, 2008

I know I haven’t wrote my diary in a long time but I have been very busy and not to mention I have been sick. Well happy belated New Year. I didn’t make any new year resolutions because I am perfect already. No, just kidding. I just pick the same resolutions ever year and never follow through. So this year I decided not to make any.
Like I said I have been sick this week. I felt bad on Saturday night and I couldn’t sleep so I woke up early on Sunday and told my mom. Sunday I stayed in bed the whole time and than I stayed home from school on Monday and didn’t do anything. My dad has a thing about people who are sick. So I wasn’t allowed to touch anything and I was supposed to stay ten feet away from him. He hates being sick so he gets really mad if you are nine feet away from him instead of ten. I also stayed home on Tuesday but I went to the doctor to see if I had strep throat. While I was getting checked out my mom’s car was parked out front and this lady was parking in the handicapped area and accidentally did something wrong, went forward instead of backward, turned to the right, went up on the curb, ran into my mom’s car, pushed my mom’s car into the parked car next to us and than finally stopped. When we were about to leave the doctors office this lady asked if we had a white car. My mom said she was thinking “Not anymore”. I was really mad, mostly because I was sick and wanted to back home without waiting around for people. My mom made a good point that if your in a car accident you don’t want to be in the car. So I guess that was lucky that we weren’t in the car but I still wonder what that lady was thinking?! Why did she hit the gas so hard that she was able to go up the curb? She said that she just freaked out for a minute and I don’t drive yet but I know if you freak out hit the breaks! Our car was sandwiched in between two cars so it had 4,000 dollars worth of damage on it. We get our car back the 25th so right now my mom is driving a rental car. It is awesome! Its black and big. I don’t know what kind of car it is but I like it!
I was happy to go back to school even though I still feel bad. I love my third hour! When I got back my friend Shannon was like “TAYLER! You’re back!” and I just said “yeah” but than my friend Mariah burst out into a song. She singing “you’re beautiful. In every single way” and than like five people joined in “Words cant bring me down”. I was just laughing but my teacher was like Tayler you’re going to have to leave. He wasn’t serious. But it has happened before where I distract the whole class but I don’t do anything. Like when I got my haircut. Paige said she liked it, then Shannon noticed and said it looked good than Savannah said she liked it. And than Mariah wanted to see because my back was facing her and than everybody was talking about my haircut and the teacher had to settle everybody down. Its not my fault. I was a bystander. Just because they were talking about me I cant be responsible for their actions. It was hilarious though. It really didn’t distract class because it was during SSR. SSR stands for silent sustained reading. It is where everybody in the whole school reads for thirty minutes everyday.
Today my best friend Nina asked me if I wanted to go to Payson with her and her family for her sister’s birthday. I was like YEAH! Although it is cold in Payson that will be a lot of fun. She said we might go snow boarding. That would be exciting. I have never been snow boarding but I want to! We might not even snow board. I just am glad that I will be doing something this weekend. All I have to do is finish my homework that I missed when I was absent.
My math teacher is being dumb! I didn’t get a test signed so she want me to serve M.I.T. which is like a detention but it is where you do a bunch of math homework. At the beginning of the year my dad told my math teacher that I wouldn’t be able to go to M.I.T. because it is just a waste of his time. And over a stupid not signed test? I told her I cant go but she says that I have to. And people that don’t go to M.I.T go to a alternative day program during school. Which is stupid to get a student farther behind in two of their classes. And I am not getting behind because of her! I already used my M.I.T pass because I didn’t finish an assignment all the way. But I have never been to M.I.T before and not because my dad said I wasn’t allowed to but because I do all my homework and I almost always get the test signed on time! I am mad because that is just ridiculous. Plus I have been sick so I am forgetful. Oh well. She’ll see that I wont go.

Love,
Tayler!

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