Long Time No See

I know it's been a long time since I've written. I think about 3 months. I meant to start writing a week and a half after my last post, but somehow ended up not doing that.

To be honest you haven't missed a ton. We had our first snow 4 days before Halloween. I was going to write about it, but procrastinated. I lost my angel Halloween costume and had to dress as a rainbow sock monkey for Halloween. The funny thing is that we found my angel costume in the Christmas decorations. I've put it with the rest of the Halloween stuff.

We had a huge thanksgiving dinner which is pretty normal for my family. We usually make everything. Turkey, stuffing, potatoes, yams, veggies, pie, rolls, etc. We also have a tradition of watching the national dog show on TV after we eat. It's always a great time for family. During Thanksgiving and Christmas we always play a lot of board games. Me not so much because I can't stand being stuck sitting at a table for a long time. I usually go do my own thing. Sometimes I'll play, but not a lot.

Christmas is always full of treats. We really love to snack around the holidays. We also make sure we all get presents. We don't usually get a lot, but what we do get is amazing. I'll share what I got in a future post because I need to get pictures.

My favorite thing about the holidays is that all of my family is usually there. We are usually all together only twice a year. We all live in different places, so it's hard to get together. The other time of year when we get together besides Christmas is on my birthday in July. That's always fun.

Anyway. I've probably forgotten some stuff here, but honestly you don't have to worry about missing stuff because even when I forget to write about things I usually remember later. I just had to write something. I don't want anyone to think I've quit using this blog. I'm still here and I will have plenty of posts this year. See you soon!

November Recap 2/2

Let's just be consise. I feel no need to do OCD posting n ow. If I miss posting I can just do this and not worry about back posting for every single day.

To start with I should mention I got this new hat I've been wanting for a long time. You see on the 15th I probably had my worst French test. For some reason Chapter 4 was pretty hard. We worked on stuff like how to give commands, how to use verbs like venir (to come) and prendre (to take). also other stuff like family, what we did the week before, transport vocabulary, and more about the verb aller (to go). It was a pretty challenging chapter! I also made the mistake of not going to the tutor for this chapter. That was pure dumbness. I thought I would get 30 out of 100 but I luckily ended up getting 58/100. it wasn't the end the the world. I got ice cream, but didn't feel like I deserved it.

Another hard thing I went through over the past two weeks was seriously getting into my English paper #5. We made our paper outlines, and cracked down on research. We also started doing peer reviews and helping each other with our structure. With the help of the book's outline combined with the outline I found online I was able to construct a pretty great outline for my exploratory research paper for English on Depression and Anxiety. I also got some pointers from Chase (our professor) about my paper. I also began putting my paper together. It went well

I shared this story on facebook. "Saw that hand foot and mouth disease is trending. It brought back memories of me catching it from one of my nieces. I then proceeded to accidentally cause an epidemic at school. Yeah, if any of you got that in High School I'm sorry. Haha. I've never said anything until now. Can't even tell you how embarrassed I was when the school sent around the letter warning people about it. It's not horrible, you just break out in red sore spots. They don't hurt a lot, but are uncomfortable. Most contagious thing I've ever seen. It spreads like a wildfire. I was glad when it passed."

I created a secret pseudonym. I wanted to be able to openly talk about Donald Trump in private, plus I thought having a secret fake name (initials V.I) would be fun. this originated on Twitter.

I watched big Cat Rescue save five Tigers from Colorado in the biggest big cat rescue in American history that we know of. Actually it wasn't just big cats but bears too I think. They were saved from a failed sanctuary.

 We started chapter 5 in French (weather, past tense, clothing, etc.) I cracked down on Dulingo, and made a lot of progress. I was going to work on my vocab, but somehow ended up just reading for the whole of Thanksgiving vacation week. I finished the Anne of Green Gables series and "The Alchemist". I am currently not reading anything new and won't until school is done.

I was very tired, which is why that week I ended up taking a break and read a lot.

I ate too much at Thanksgiving. We had turkey with gravy, stuffing, yams with marshmallows, broccoli, cheese sauce, rolls, and sparkling juice. Later we had pie (pecan and pumpkin) and played games. I got burned out from listening to election talk at the dinner table. This is when I went downstairs to finish "The Alchemist". We had a lot of left overs and like I said I ate too much. I did this for a few days. Too many potato chips too. Pecan pie was great, I ate that for 5 days I think.

Black Friday we had a very busy day at work. I helped clean, but didn't buy anything. I'm still not buying anything even days after.  I'm trying to last tuntil the end of this week. So far I'm doing great! I've had to go hungry a little because I couldn't buy food at school, but I've been alright!

Anyway, that has been the past two weeks. Things have been fun. I see the finish line in sight for school. I know I can make it! Oh yeah, and I also went to see the French tutor this week for an assignment. I had a partner and we had a short conversation with him. He signed an assignment paper that I am going to turn in soon.

Anyway, that is all for now. Hopefully I don't have to do this again.

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving was great! I couldn't slept the night before though so I was up at 4:45am it was crazy.  My mom was up starting on the rolls and putting the turkey in the oven that early. Things were pretty busy. I wasn't the only one that couldn't sleep ha ha. I just turned on my computer and listened to music. I also set up my new deviantart account tat I hadn't used for a few months. I'd been meaning to move my stuff there for a while since I anted a new name but I never got to it until Thanksgiving. 

My church had an activity around 9am that morning, we went to the park and they played football. Both girls and guys. I didn't play since I have really bad hand eye coordination. I ate a sprinkled doughnut though. Actually I ate a maple one as well ha ha.  There was hot chocolate there as well. It wasn't to cold though, just a little. I didn't have to wear my coat, just a light jacket. The skies were clear and blue and there wasn't any wind. The weather was great.

After that I went home and just took a shower. Not to long after I got out we started going over to the church. We got the whole church reserved just for our family it was great. My mom brought a big thing of dough to the church for the rolls, she hadn't made them yet. The church kitchen was really busy, There were pies, turkeys, and other things all over the kitchen. My aunt graded some cheese for cheese sauce. I kept on picking at the graded cheese it was good. I never got caught. My hands were clean I might add. I helped my mom put the roll dough into the cupcake pans for the rolls so I had to wash my hands. There were so many people in the kitchen.

Slowly we brought out all the food into the church gym. There were tables set up all the way across the gym. We have a lot of relatives so that was smart to fill the whole gym with tables. All my aunts and uncles and cousins came. There were SO many people there. 

There were 2 or 3 turkeys, a lot of stuffing, 2 or 3 things if yams and marshmallows, mashed potatoes, salads, fruit salads, chips, rolls, butter, honey butter, etc. There was a lot of pied as well I might add. I had a little bit of everything. I as so full by the time I was finished.  During the dinner my aunts came up one by one, and my mom and they told which family was which and how we were all related, and some really good stories about the family. It was a lot of fun being together like that.  

After everyone ate we played games. All the kids were running around the church playing hid and go seek and tag.  We also made paper turkeys, the kids had a lot of fun with that it was awesome. we played card games, and I think board games too. I was making a turkey, and didn't pay much attention to what everyone else was doing ha ha. 

this went on for a few hours. When it was time to go home my 8 year old niece didn't want to go home. She was mad at my dad for making her go home. Shes so funny sometimes.  

After we got home we played more board games and stuff. My family was playing "Solarquest"  while I went back downstairs to my room and set up my new deviantart some more.  We just did this for the rest of the night and watched TV and stuff it was great.

My aunt Martha and uncle Doug came down from Wyoming and stayed fora  few days at our house. My sister too came down from California this week. 

The house was pretty busy this week. Our cat really hated it, she doesn't like it when a lot of people are around it spooks her.

Yeah, so hat was my Thanksgiving.

Oh here is my new deviantart account.
http://www.kalystia.deviantart.com

I'm Thankful For

I'm thankful for my mom, my family, my dog, our house, my life, my hair, my clothes, all the inatimate objects in my house, the mountains, the hills, the lake, the sea, fish,  the Olympics, God, church, friends, fruit, candy, digital art programs like Paint. NET and Photo shop and SUMOpaint, computer speakers, a new mouse, all of my socks, my slinky, the radio, our fine china, my sister being a rock star, the flowers that bloom in the spring, jobs, our new president, gum, Canada, my grandparents, sticky notes, sharpies, grape vines, trees, my precious birtch tree, greek myths, fairy tailes, manga, anime, online friends, facebook, blogging sites XANGA, Twitter, COLOURlovers, Gmail, ice cream, English tofee, presents of any kind, words, clay, cell phones, church, jesus, everything about my LDS faith, sidewalk chalk, colored pencils, dishwashers, dreyers, washers, bounce sheets for the dryers, comedians, Smallville, TV shows, Jigsaw Puzzles, mazes, oldschool Win95 games, flash games, fruit, the sky, the clouds, the monsters under my bed, the marshmallows I stole out of your cupboard, humor, stupid humor, Sam,  Dylan, all the people I've had a crush on in the past, school, teachers, libraries, DVDs, video tapes, my green floor, snow, rain, Porcelen Dolls, old dolls, barbie movies, old movies or old things in general, okay now I'm going to eat.... *runs off*