Thanksgiving

♫ Listening to: Tokio Hotel - Monsoon

Happy Thanksgiving! I found new love for Tokio Hotel today, so I am thankful for that.

I am also thankful for:

• my family
• friends
• myself (it DOES make sense if you think about it)
• mother nature
• the world in general

Now I'm going to go eat more food! =)

Pomegranates

♫ Listening to: Simon & Garfunkel - A Hazy Shade of Winter

There are 760 local varieties of pomegranates! Yum!

We just bought some from Costco and I'm so excited because now I can eat pomegranate whenever I want. Muhahaha. My friend has a pomegranate tree, which I am very jealous of. I would rather eat real pomegranate than drink the juice. What sucks is that the only time pomegranates are really in stock are during the winter. And they are so expensive. But it's worth the deliciousless!

Craving for Books and Music

♫ Listening to: The Carpenters - Sweet Sweet Smile
Two of my favorite groups of singers of ALL TIME are Simon & Garfunkel and The Carpenters. I love every single one of their songs! There's not a lot artists where I like all of their songs. Probably The Veronicas is one of them and The Beatles and Lights. Simon & Garfunkel have such a unique vibe and it makes you nostalgic and their lyrics are amazing. I can listen to their songs everywhere and anytime. On the other hand, Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters) has a gorgeous voice. They have some sad ballads and some more cheerful upbeat songs as well. Lalalalalalala. Anyways....

Have you ever been addicted to a book series? I have this very awkward situation at hand. I really like a lot of series like Gilda Joyce (I can quote those books from memory!) , but they're in the children's section and it's kinda awkward when I'm a teenager and I walk around among people half my age and size. Am I supposed to grow up and not read these books anymore? These books are like dear friends to me and I would like to keep reading them, but they aren't the thought-provoking books that most adults or teachers would prefer I read. Reading is more of a relaxing thing for me, when I read I want to be having a good time. I don't want my thoughts to be provoked. Those are snooze books for me.

Chocolate and Country

♫ Listening to: Lady Antelllbleleuhoweveryouspellit - Need You Now

Chocolate oranges are the best! If you've never had one, I deeply recommend you try one. Don't eat the whole thing at once. Eat like 2 slices a day. It's my daily chocolate fix. I got mine at Trader Joe's for $2.49 and Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreen's probably have them too. I think you can also order them online too. If you don't like oranges, you might as well stop reading this. If you don't like chocolate, well, get out! :)

Did I mention, I watched the CMA's yesterday because I had no school and I finished all of my homework. Taylor Swift awesome, but at school today, I felt a lot of people criticized her. People said that she didn't know how to sing and that she sounded bad live. Well, I thought she sounded pretty good and I think she definitely knows how to sing! The only problem I have is that I think she flipped her hair to much and the hair flipping seemed a little forced instead of natural. I don't think that made sense. Oh well.
Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley hosted. Carrie looked really pretty, but in the beginning she kept tugging her dress shoulder up and that was a sign of nervousness. We all get nervous but it was a little weird seeing someone so famous exhibiting nervousness.
I just realized that I think of celebrities as perfect people, which I know they are not, but they always seem perfect - on screen at least. Most of their personal lives are messed up though. Anyway, Carrie's dresses were really pretty, I like the ruffly orange one the best.
And Lady Antebellum's performance was really gooooood. Oh and just saying, I'm not that big of a fan of country music. I have a fair share of country songs on iTunes, but I'm not crazy about it. What I do like are award shows though. :)

Dundundun

♫ Listening to: Mandy Moore - Only Hope

"There's a song that's inside of my soul

It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again

I'm awake in the infinite cold

But you sing to me over and over and over again"

Tomorrow is a choir festival and I'm not looking forward to it much. :/ We don't sound blended and I hardly know anyone in choir. I think for a musical group to really sound good, we should all at least know each other!

Also, I've been trying to buy a guitar. My mom and I checked out some auction sites relating to guitars and we placed a few bids. I hope we win because I would like to learn how to play the guitar. A guitar is so cool because you can bring it anywhere. Not like a piano, which I would be crazy to try to roll around.

Good news! The brown pelican is now officially off the California Endangered Species List! Yay!

Mock SAT

♫ Listening to: Alexander Rybak - Song From A Secret Garden

Ok so... the quarter ended last last week and I got all A's. So I'm superficially happy. And also, I have the mock SAT this Saturday and to hell with it because I am not studying. I just want to see how "smart" or rather, how dumb I am before I study, and then by that measurement, I can rightfully decide what I should do to improve my score. Should I studying on my own or do some kind of tutoring program that's $3000? I have no idea. It depends on what happens this Saturday. Ooooooh. I feel more pressured now. Writing here did not help. At all. So much for blog therapy.

Christmas Songs, Veterans' Day, and Cream of Chicken!

♫ Listening to: Kelly Clarkson - My Grown Up Christmas List

Who says it's too early for Christmas music? We're singing this song in choir so I might as well get it stuck in my head. Today is Veteran's Day which to many teens means no school, which is true, but it would be nice if everyone paused for a second to think about the veterans. :) I'd like to visit a veteran hospital someday just to get a feeling of what fighting in a war is like, but I'll probably never really know.

Today I woke up at 9, got my daily dose of Rachael Ray, and ate breakfast. For lunch, I used some canned cream of chicken soup and added some potato and vegetables. As I have never used or tasted cream of chicken previously, I was quite horrified to open the can and find this gloopy stuff. I thought it would be like normal soup, you know, liquidy. It turned out pretty yummy though and I added water and milk. Okay that sounds gross, but it was delicious! Nevertheless, I will probably never try that again. :P