Being a twelve-year-old girl from the south

First off, the birthday party yesterday was fun. We played and epic game of quidditch that kind of turnes into "How violent can we be while shoving the ball past the keeper", and I met two other girls who like Harry Potter. One of them likes the vomit flavored Bertie Botts ("they leave a sweet taste in your mouth") and the other is a ginger (though her hair is quite redder than mine).

I have a question. Why do people use twelve as the little kid age? Okay. I'm twelve. I've liked guys but never really dated one, not because I'm young, but because I am unattractive. I know some girls my age who have had sex and others who want to. One girl said that she is going to have sex by the time she is fifteen. We aren't little kids. Other people say that middle-schoolers have a naughty sense of humor. I do have to agree to that, though not all of us do. Boys in particular seem to be the ones to say things like, "You judged a girl? That must mean you're a lesbian!" I wouldn't do that. I do say things like, "Emma Watson has to be one of the prettiest women on this Earth" but I'm not a lesbian. Now every now and a gain I will make a sex related joke or say "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID" but only when it's appropriate.

Being from the south is a disadvantage because when you mention that you live in South Carolina, people automatically assume that you love country music, know how to do anything with an animal or a farm, and talk like a hillbilly. None of these things describe me. I love ROCK music (slipknot, Paramore, MCR, PATD!, etc...); I don't know how to mik a cow or harvest crops, nor have I ever been camping (church camp doesn't count as "camping"); and though I might have a slight southern accent, I don't really notice it, except when I'm really mad it sometimes slips out. So you can throw away your southern stereotypes and get to know people for real.

And being a girl just sucks for "certain reasons" that you will know if you are one...

Church was sad today. My interem pastor preached his last sermon for us this morning, though the new pastor will actually be here next Sunday (and he's Scottish, so that'll be fun. Gerard Butler is Scottish, so maybe I can close my eyes and only listen to the accent).

I actually wrote a decent-sized blog! Heck yeah! Bye <3

Famous Deaths and Harry Potter... =(

So, Michael Jackson died? And Farrah Fawcett? Wow. Not fun day for famous people.

Moving on... So today a horrible thought popped into my head. What if I missed out completely on the Harry Potter fandom? What if they stop having conferences before I get to go to one? What if all the awesome internet people forgot about it before I got on there? What if Jo never writes anything else... ever? How would my life be? What if Wizard Rock bands stopped touring and making albums? I think I would die. And my way off in the future children? They won't get to experience anything. This is a depressing thought. It makes me so sad that I decided to go blog about it to about one person. Yeah. It's not like Twitter or anything, where random people follow you for no reason. I guess it's just my way of venting my feelings.

Loose 30 Pounds

So, right now, I'm watching Super Size Me. And I have decided to loose 30 pounds by the time I turn 13. That's in February, so I can take it nice and slow if I want to, but I'm hoping to loose it by The end of November, beging if I can. My rules:

• Eat out as little as possible
• If I have to eat out (I can't drive, so I usually have to go where my Mom takes me) then I will get either a plain or grilled chicken salad with water and the lowest fat dressing they have
• Jog or walk around my neighborhood (about 0.7 miles) every day
• Eat dessert no more than twice a week
• spend less time on the computer and more outside
• cut back on soda
• Do wii fit daily (or as possible)
  

Anything else I do will be either on a whim or random.

Weight: 143 (I know, it's sad)

In Response

Now, Kayla, your excuses are pretty good, but mine are better. You see, I've been at softball camp this whole week, so I had no time to blog (or check twitter...). This whole week I had to get up at 7:00 a.m. then leave at 8:30. I stayed there until 8:00 p.m., then promptly crashed when I got home. The two days before that, I simply had no inspiration.

Things done since my last blog:

• Slept
• Ate
• Went to camp
• got an un-sexy tan line from my shoes and sliding shorts
• smushed brownies and tried to spy on the kitchen workers
• made two friends
• Got hit with a ball several times
• typed this
• made this short to go pack for TN

Bye. <3 you lot's (if anyone reads this)

TiNT

So there's this little thing from a long time ago that I never did. It's called This is Not Tom. It's really hard and frustrating, and part of that might have to do with the fact that I started it at midnight last night. I don't get it! So last night I figured out that we have to find the final fear, but every time I search "final fear" on google, I come up with nothing that makes sense. Also, on the website, there is a picture, under the picture there is the pangram, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Supposedly, that is a hint. However, I noticed that there is no "i" in "quick", so it is spelled "quck". Now I was wondering, is that a typo or a clue? Someone help me!

FAIL

I didn't blog yesterday. I FAIL MAJORLY. Ah well. You can't change the past. Yesterday I gave some advice that really reminded me of some that Maureen Johnson gave in her advice blog. My friend got a text from her best friend's boyfriend saying to call her when she got the text. She asked me what to do, and I suggested calling him up and doing something strange, like screaming, and then hanging up. Then when he called her back to ask about it, she suggest that he was hallucinating, fell asleep, or is crazy. Or she could've ignored the text. She chose to tell him to stop playing with her and her friend's feelings. why do people not listen to me? My life is just so boring that I have nothing to blog about, other than a House marathon is on right now and it might be my favorite show.

Hot Topic Sizes

Ok, so this confuses me. Everywhere I go, I buy medium sized clothes. sometimes I can even get a small, though very rarely. But when I go to Hot Topic, I have to get a large for it to fit me like a medium usually does. So are their clothes built for little anorexics, or are they just meant to be super tight? I have no idea, but this is a question for anyone out there to answer. Please, I need to know. If I go to Rue21, I get a medium, if I go to Aeropostale, or American Eagle, or even Walmart. Hot Topic is the only place I ever get a large. Why??????????????????? Oh, I got a Slytherin shirt on clearance there today... =)

Pandora

So recently I've been on this website called Pandora a lot. It makes an online radio station that plays music based on what you said you liked. It's really cool. It has introduced me to a lot of new artists like Cartel, Fire Flight, Yellowcard, and several songs by bands I like that I've never heard before. It's really brilliant. I certainly recommend that you check it out. Man, this is a short blog, but I have nothing else to say.

Ugh, Twilight

So I have decided that my last post was not my BAJ post for today. Today we (by we I mean myself and possibly my best friend) shall discuss why Twilight is no good. You see , I used to be a fangirl, and I'm going to describe the decline. So, I was obsessed with Harry Potter, but then I read Twilight. So I'm thinking that, you know, this book is awesome, and I kind of forget Harry Potter, though I still liked it. Well, when I got finished with Breaking Dawn, I still liked it. Then I re-read the series and realized how poorly written it was. It was still okay. But Breaking Dawn was the worst to me. Then I discovered the outer reaches of the Harry Potter fandom, and that's when I gave up on Twilight. It was still okay. I still freaked out and went to go see the movie (and hated it). But Harry was dominant. Before then, I'd never heard of Wizard Rock, or The Leaky Cauldron, or any of that. But I saw that Harry Potter taught lessons and built friendships, not just let me meet screaming fangirls. And the more I think about it, the more I realize Twilight is trash. Stephenie Meyer really needs to take writing classes if she plans to write more books. The wording is awkard, the dialouge sounds like something I would write (I just got out of 6th grade, so that's not a compliment to her). I can't deny that the general story idea is good, the romance fantasy. But the plot is terrible. The characters have little depth; the setting of the whole series is Forks and LaPush (other than one scene in Pheonix in Twilight and one in Vulteri or whatever in New Moon); there aren't many characters; Edward is an over-protective, abusive stalker-boyfriend; there was no action in Breaking Dawn, they just said "Oh, yeah , whatever, we'll your off the hook this time, after we came all the way over here with all these vampires". People say it's not wrong that Bella and Edward had sex so young, they loved eachother, why wait. I say why not wait, they had enough time. Plus the imprinting thing is weird. So you go through your life not caring or noticing someone, then all the sudden you become obsessed with them. That's just strange. Oh, and Quil imprints ON A TWO YEAR OLD. Then Jacob is suddenly in love with his old love's daughter, something he hated until that moment. My rant is over.

BAJ

I say we bring back BEDA, but as BAJ: Blog All June. So anyone that likes this idea, you do it, too. This is for all of us who didn't have blogs during BEDA. Wow, this is short, but I just wanted to propose my idea.

Erm...

So I go to http:www.hottopic.com because I love that store and wanted to stare at the Harry Potter merchandise. On the homepage I see a New Moon shirt. So I go to the little search bar, thinking it will be funny to laugh at how little merchandise they have for it. I see that they have EIGHT PAGES. WTF? There are only three pages of Harry Potter, and EIGHT of New Moon. That makes no sense. Did no one actually see any of the last movie or the new Moon trailer? What has this world come to? I was pretty upset, so I chose to blog about it.