Tayler

Dear diary,

So, Saturday was the dance! I do not know if I told you, but I asked my good friend, Michael, to the dance. So I was looking forward to this the whole week. Before the dance, my friend Rachel, her friend/date, Dani, Michael and I went out to dinner at Outback. Me and Rachel are the only people who actually ate! We both got a chicken Caesar salad. It was really good but it was awkward because I didn’t want Michael and Dani, just sitting there watching us eat. Yeah, but that was really fun. Then DanI and Rachel left to go to Starbucks. And Michael bought me coffee, which was really nice. I wasn’t expecting it. But is was good.

Then we went to the dance and at first it was really awkward but Michael made really good friends with Hailey’s boyfriend, Christian. So Michael and Christian were being wild and it got to be a lot more fun. Michael was having a little bro-mance with him. It was cute except me and Hailey were like… uh… okay. Ha-ha. Michael was a terrible dancer but it made me feel like less of a dork. Michael was a gentleman the whole time. like he picked me a rose off a bush! Ha-ha. He made the night special and really fun! I am glad I had him to go with. He thinks he was my last resort but I was hoping to go with him. He is one of my best friends.

After the dance, my night was still not over. I DID go over to Hailey’s house. Only Sarah and I showed up. Geneva wasn’t allowed to and Jessica wasn’t allowed to at the last minute. Something about her staying out too late. I don’t really know. Well all we ended up doing was watching Christmas movies like Fred Claus and Elf. They were funny. I had a lot of fun over there too.

Over all, it was a pretty awesome night! I had a lot of fun with everyone. So far it was the night of my life. I can’t wait until all the other dances. I want to get of my junior of senior friends to ask me to prom so I can go to prom this year! It will be the time of my life!

Love,
Tayler!

• Leave a comment... (0)

Yay! I might be able to spend the night at Hailey’s house after all! Last Friday, after school, I went to the mall with Jessica, Hailey, Sarah and Geneva so we could buy dresses for winter formal. Jessica and Hailey already had their dress. So it was me, Sarah, and Geneva searching for the perfect dress. We finally found some cute ones at Dillards. I got a gray one and Geneva got a silver one and a purple one.

We had so much fun at the mall. First shopping, but also stuffing into the photo booth, and getting a picture with Santa. I haven’t done that for years, but that was fun. I love hanging out with them. They are just so much fun. I know it is mostly for younger kids, but Santa doesn’t care.

Monday, Geneva and I went back to the mall, mainly looking for shoes, but mostly getting accessories. I had a lot of fun that day. I just went home with her and we shopped until eight o’clock when I finally went home. I was zonked but Geneva, the shop-aholic she is, went back to the mall on Wednesday with her date to the dance, Cameron.

I hope I can go to Hailey’s! That is what I will pray for this week!

Love,
Tayler!

• Leave a comment... (0)

I am 15. My birthday is in February, so I will soon be 16. But I feel like a child. My parents say they trust me, but do they really?

My friends (Hailey, Geneva, and Jessica) and I had a plan to go to winter formal. There was going to be like ten of us going all together, so we were going to rent a limo so we could all go together. Then we were going to formal then after it was over we were going to spend the night at Hailey’s house. A sleepover. Does that sound so awful? Well apparently it is not good for my “safety”. Whatever that means.

My parents say they want to know that I am safe. I can go to winter formal. And I can go to a sleepover. But I can’t go to both. They don’t want me going to two places in one night. I didn’t want to argue with them because they are not going to change their minds. But I still don’t understand why. It is a sleepover! I already offered that Hailey’s grandma call them when I got there. But they said no to that. But all that says to me, is that they don’t care that I am there safe and sound. It is something else, like they don’t trust me.

I really want to go to both of these things. I want to find a way. My parents are pretty reasonable, so I don’t know why they are saying “no” so fast. I want to offer that I can come home after formal so that they can see everything is fine (not drinking, not doing drugs, not pregnant, I don’t know) and then have them take me over to Hailey’s house. But I am afraid they are going to cut me off and just say they already made their decision. And I certainly don’t want to hear more excuses like “I don’t want to drive that late!”

I most definitely do NOT want to hear “You will understand when you have a 15 year old daughter.” Because I am not just another 15 year old. I am sick of people discriminating and treating me like just another 15 year old. And my parents should know better than not to trust me. I DON’T even know what could go wrong!? Whatever. I will find a way! There has got to be a loop hole!

Tayler!

• Leave a comment... (0)

Dear Diary, September 28, 2008

Wow. This year is passing by real quick. I am just loving school. Just a quick update on all my classes.

First hour, Pilates, is awesome. I am loving the cardio days. It is a lot of running but I am getting better and I like seeing the improvement. And now we are starting to input our nutrition online. Which helps me notice how much I am eating.

My second hour, English, is doing fine. Do you ever have one of those classes where you have an easy going teacher, hardly any homework, and a really easy class? Well this class is one of those classes. Think that is a good thing? Well not for me. I tend to get so wrapped up in my hard classes that I forget to study in the easy class. I am trying really hard to work the same in every class.

Spanish is getting harder and harder. We started reading a book that is all Spanish. HARD! I was really confused until I started focusing and breaking stuff down. My teacher is getting annoyed with our class so he is graded harder too.. And that is the last thing I need.

Study hall is still cool, but we got a seating chart so I can’t sit with my friends anymore. But that might be a good thing, so I can actually study.

Math is getting harder too. But luckily I have a couple of good teachers. I think if I get behind at all then I will go ask them for help. We are doing proofs, and they are hard but I think I can do them.

Biology, my sixth hour, is my worst class. It is not the hardest but I hate my teacher. She is so stupid! I mean it. I do not understand her directions at all. How can you learn, when you don’t know what you are supposed to do? I am not the only one feeling this way either! My whole class is confused. I have a lot of friends in that class, so I always text them on what we have to do for homework and they are not sure! Drives me crazy.

But I am doing really good this year. I got either an A or a B in all my classes. Which makes me happy because I am no longer grounded. I want to do good this year. Nothing would make me more happy.

Love,
Tayler!

• Leave a comment... (0)

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!

• Leave a comment... (0)

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!

• Leave a comment... (0)

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!

• Leave a comment... (0)

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!

• Leave a comment... (0)

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!

• Leave a comment... (0)

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!

• Leave a comment... (0)