Cupcake earrings

I don't really wear jewelry all that much unless its from my boyfriend. Although this morning i was looking through my earrings and saw vanilla cupcakes with cherries on top. My style is usually pretty simple so when i decide to wear something like that i like to show them off. I have seen banana, donut, and oreo earrings. Who knew food was stylish?  Its cute, its fun, and it shows you like your treats.

A Clean Slate

It's a new year, new classes, and new people. The beginning of the year is always exciting, even if a bit stressful. Nobody is over-loaded yet, andeveryone is somewhat motivated for the new year. I for one, enjoy the first couple weeks of school. It's a clean slate, there are no grades in yet, and the year is still full of possibility. Even though old routines set back in and the year will eventually become long and drawn out, the beginning of the year is still a relatively low key time. As of now, we are able to make this year how we want it. Our grades aren't down the tube yet, our teachers don't know who we are yet, and first impressions can still be made. New year means a clean slate, something I cannot wait to make amazing.

scared.

There is one thing that I am absolutely terrified of.
It's not spiders, or kidnappers, heights, or the dark.
I am completely and utterly terrified of growing up. And I can feel it getting closer and becoming an even more legitimate fear with each passing day. Last Sunday, my older brother left for college in Oregon, and my other brother will be leaving for UNR this Thursday. I'm already miserable, just thinking about life without them in the house.
The thing is, it's not just that I'm sad that they're leaving, even though I'm going to miss them terribly. It's that nagging thought that my childhood is coming to a close.
I keep thinking, "Wow, pretty soon here, things will never be the same."
I think of Christmas mornings when we were little, waking each other up early in the morning to go check our stockings. Or I think of last week, all three of us eating ice cream in the kitchen at 2 AM, talking about our lives. And it sucks that we're getting older, and moving on...
And I'm just really scared.

Bye Bye, Vikings

School started last Wednesday, and I can finally say that I successfully survived my first week at a new high school. I only got lost once trying to find a class, and during the mad rush of lunchtime, I was able to find where all my friends were. I'm adjusting to the change well.



The last two years I spent at Oakmont were average to say the least. I knew half the school population, my teachers were pretty decent, and my best friend was there. Even though I didn't completely despise the school, there was a lot about it that I could not stand: the air conditioning always being turned off due to our lack of money, our old, dirty, and non-taken care of campus, the lack of school spirit and lastly how terrible almost every one of our sports teams were. I always knew Rocklin was a better school, I never heard anything except great things about it. However after this last week, I was abosolutely shocked at the differences between the two schools.


At Rocklin I feel like I'm in a different world. The entire campus is new and clean, it just shows how the staff takes pride in this school. Every new person I have met has been so welcoming and friendly, I already made several new Facebook friends! However there are two major differences between Oakmont and Rocklin that I have discovered this week. Spirit. We had our "Welcome Back" rally and dace on Friday. The rally shocked me. Kids were standing up, cheering, screaming, wearing class colors, participating in games and singing the fight song-the students actually care. Oakmont rally's look totally lame compared to the one I witnessed a few days ago. The kids in Roseville just sit there and will occasionally let out a cheer or two. It's always the same people participating in the games, but there isn't any desire for competition. Just when I thought Rocklin couldn't surpise me more, it did. I show up Friday night to the dance, decked out in my indian attire, and my mouth dropped. So many people were there! They actually filled up half the gym. In addition to that, they were actually dancing; not just standing there acting too cool.



I guess I could say that I love everything about Rocklin more, except one thing. The dress code. Being used to wearing anything I want at Oakmont, the second day of school I got busted for a quarter inch of my stomach showing. I guess I can see why they don't approve of that, but if anyone could please explain to me what is so sexual or inapporpriate about showing your shoulders, I would love to know.



That's all I have to say about the two schools for now, I'm sure as the year goes on I will learn more and more about Rocklin. I haven't bought lunch from the cafeteria yet, but I must say Oakmont's food will be hard to beat!

Procrastination

Unfortunately, summer has been and gone once again. Like many others, I procrastinated my homework until August, which was when I figured that I really needed to finish. That summer mentality has stayed with me through the start of the new school year. Today, I got home from school, sat down to do my homework, and what was the first thing I did? I checked my e-mail, facebook, the news, cell phone, etc. The phone just rang, and I jumped up to answer, just so I wouldn't have to work on homework. Hopefully, I'll be able to kick this habit by the time homework is overwhelmingly being handed out in every class. All I want to do every day, is either fall asleep, or slump on the couch and watch television. Instead, I have to do homework. I don't even have a heavy load of homework since it's the beginning of school, and my schedule isn't as bad as many people's are. Today, I had a tiny bit of homework, and now I only have one worksheet left.... I looked at the first question and decided to blog instead. Every year, people say to me, next years going to be hard, next years going to be hard, and this year, I think it will be. Many high schoolers feel the pressure of school, homework, friends, and sports. I am merely one of them.

The Book

Even before the school year started, I had this ambition to finish or at least, write half of the book I am currently writing. But ever since the school year has started, I've been having all the inspiration I had from the beginning- slowly drift away, leaving me empty headed on what I should write and how I should write it next.
So I guess that until I get the inspiration again, my book will just sit in my laptop, waiting for another year while I focus on school? Nah!!! I'm not giving up and I'm certainly not giving in to the hardship of the school homework. Leaving it until school is over might be the easy way out, but you should always go for the hard obstacle in life and overcome it. Right :3?

...it's here...