Resolutions '013

     So it is that time of year. When people make list about what they need to change about them self. Then 2-3 months (or 2-3 weeks) down the road they are laughing and face-palming  because they realize that they were an idiot to make such out of this world goals. They are seating themselves up for failure.

     WELL rather then explain to you how stupid I think resolutions are, ...why don't I join the fun? I mean if it last 2-3 months, that is still a big improvement over not attempting to change anything, ..for the better that is. But it dose suck when you try to reach a goal and you wind up worst than before. Like the "one step forward, two steps back" saying. I think that comes from the fact that their goals were so far fetched. WELL,--I am going to take my chances and maybe you will even get something out of this list.

Long Winter Breaks

     Well it is that time of year when kids get the longest break from school (other than summer). One week into it all my friends are bored  Some of them are unable or have too much pride (u know who you are) to come over do to do things because of lack of transportation or effort. Then when (and if) they get there, you do that that one scene from Spongboob.

     It is pretty much play Wii, eat, watch tv/movies, movies/mall, paint our nails (Haha I'm such a chick), blade/bike/skooter/ect., sleep,  or walk my moms dog/play with my cat or my sister's snake is all there to do.
     As the days, hours and minutes wire down I spend my time being a shut in. I haven't felt the light of day in over a year. I last saw light when I stepped outside into the world to see The Hobbit with Madison. Other than that, my last few days have been me convincing myself to do my homework and even get head if I can.

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MY HOMEWORK LOAD- I mostly worked on my history project the last few days. I caught up with most of the stuff for the hw packet (all but one). I have a photo winter scaverg hunt that I am half done and I'll post some of my photo stuff soon. I have a butt load of Chemistry. I need to do bookwork and a dreadful year long review packet. It has like 50 questions and I'll need Google for most of them. I did, or should I say attempted, my math hw. ASL deaf hours are coming up near the end of the month. I wrote one essay, need to write my other, and need 3 more hours. Should I do a blog post on that? I have no English hw, but I wanted to do my Spielberg Movie logs (a paper about one of his movies I watch) and the Screening Report on Oklahoma. This is so I don't have a butt load when I get back.

     As I do my history project, I see the clock tick away as this break ends. Yes, I wouldn't mind going back to school, but I am not ready to adjust to the hustle and bustle of everyday life. For the last two days, I spent my day doing what I normally do on my Sundays,...Staying in my PJS, eating, hw-ing, and slightly cleaning (besides packing for [said Parent's] house). I am going to have a PaigeTan by the end of the week. Yes, I do swoon over the beautifulness that is pretty pale and fare skinned people *ehhhem* Paige. But I will look like Kasper, Ladygaga (skin; not fashion), Michael Jackson (the white one), a vampire....SO WHHAT, my eyes will melt in the sun and my skin will either burn in flames or sparkle or worse. They will sparkle,  flames, THEN I BLOW UP (#Iamsquidward)....*hey kayla your taking this a bit too far*
     Yes, yes I know I just had to remind people that I'm flipin hilarious. Well now that is out of the way is there really anything left to say--*YESSS! The People want more.* Well I--*THE PEOPLE WANT MORE.*--i-I-I-*DON'T ARGUE WITH THE PEOPLE* Fine, to give you more (and distract you to get you out of my hair) watch this video. (sorry I can't post this to blogger for some reason)
~enjoy~

25randoms

I'm thinking of starting a new thing which I will randomly state 25 things. (Which means this wont last long.) I will post one when I have completed 25 random things to say. These could be witty things I want to say, small little notes to myself, or stuff out of context that I found funny.
~enjoy~

What went down on 12.21.12

In Chemistry

     Well hello there, Today is finally 12.21.12. Now as I type this I am currently in photo (first period). Now before I get a head of my self let me explain something to you. Earlier this week my school allegedly got a gun threat, by a Junior. A kid that is in my grade. A kid that, from what I know, has the same English and History Class as me. The point I am getting at is that this school is a ghost town right now. The threat was made for today and that scared some parents. Even my mom didn't want me to come. Also, kids are playing hookie because it is Senior ditch day, people taking their winter break a day early for trips and such, and also people rather spend their last hours with their family (or parting it up). Note to the Mayans watching this: There is always a Walmart or Target (or some calendar store) in spitting distance, so go power up your dang Flintstones and go down to whatever store to buy yourself a new freaken calender. Sorry, but us non-Mayans do it about every 365.25 day, 12 months or 8,766 hours. I say about because some of us are eager than others to get the new kitty cat or nature scene calendars.
-well for now I must go to chem keep you posted.

(Inseret the greatest put on hold elevator music here for IDC amount of time. I now type this from my room.)

     Class was not your typical day. They made it where we have both odd and even today because they wanted us to have an equal  # of hours in each class. How many people where in my classes? Well instead of me spelling it out, let me just paint a graft.

class-# of kids(not counting teacher or me)- comments/what we did 

photo- 5- this class had a good % seniors, but 3 did show up. I listed to music and emailed my Nana

*passing time*- talked to the gang for a second and got a cool present from Sergio (Im name dropping w/o your permission Jeronimo) that looked like it was wrapping paper that was wrapped up. I planed to open it at lunch. Kyra gave me body butter in the car ride to school. It was a little sweet for my taste (because Kyra is 2/3 part surgar pie (2/7 parts human, and rest is crazy juice)), but it was still good. Kyra gave Sergio a leggo Patrick Star key chain. I  must break its legs. (I accidently did that to 2 of kyra's keychains.) Kyra got a Sponge Bob poster from Sergio. Also I for got to mention that both Kyra and I got a BestFriendsEver ring from Sergio. They were made from wood because he takes wood shop. Also, they happen too express another SpongeBob reference.

ChemistryH- 12-  I believe there was high turn out because it was an honors class or people like the teacher or playing his xbox- i played with my phone, eaves dropped, asked one chem question, and took a pic of the board

*Small 17m break- I hung out in history with a few of my friends in my history class. I didn't feel like hunting the gang down so I walked strait their.Sergio had history too (different class), but couldn't track down his friends. So he popped his head into my class, finally wearing the Mike Wazowski green shades I gave him. We talked with a few of our other friends in the room, then the bell rang*

History- 13- this is because this is a big class (like 43 kids)-we took 2 notes and watched 2 clips. One was of Ferris Bueller's Day Off it showed the 2 scenes/montage of Ferris trying to beat his parents home from playing hookie. My teacher gave us candy canes.

fancy board in math

Algebra- 6- we worked on 5 math problems and did a raffle (We get tickets for passing out papers and writing work on the board) I got 2 chocolate bars.

ok I will stop because this is getting out of hand.

*Lunch time* I passed out my brownies to people. I gave Sergio his 2 bottles of silly string and homemade paper clip SpongeBob necklace. I opened the thing I was carring and it was a poster of 20 cats with headphones. First thing, I thought was to tape sunglasses on the kittens.

Sponge Bob is referenced so much between
my friends.

ASL-10-did as we pleased, but we had to sign for 25points, I played pictionary and ninja with my friends, Amanda and Madison.

English- 9- we just talked as a group. The girl next, Alexa, to me described it as the breakfast club. I would agree, but I also saw it more of a nice version of TMZ, were my teacher/classmates would tell stories and at one point we went around the room asking what people would do for break.

That is if my teacher was this.

Hope you like that the world didn't end.

smileface(:

As the day went on, I noticed that a few kids too pictures of their class (candid; not a group posed :D type of photo) they wanted to make a collage out of them and show the people, like the ones who ditched, what it really looked like.
Maybe next time, I'll try to look ahead like that. It would have been cool if I did that.

sorry, with the excessive pictures.

Back to the...Storyboarding

     Recently, I have a lot of time on my hands. Maybe this is because 4 weeks ago I had the ASL  Show (Where my ASL class preformed songs in ASL ) and that took 2 nights of 5 hour practice and 2 nights of 2 hour performance. That is when I learned to be more productive with the time I have on hand...Maybe I am just getting better at getting my my time management-To that i say "HAHA." Maybe my teachers are giving out less work, because I can't tell you the last time I had English homework.
     In English and History, we have been learning about film elements. Please don't get your panties in a twist, the classes are made to learn though the use of film and the exploration of the film elements. Every once and a while, I have moments when I wanted to go strait home, dust off my DSLR, and try to film something, anything, just to experiment with. But when I arrived home, stuffing my face with food and plopping myself in front of the talking box sounds better. Little do I know that my work will soon be plastered in the media that I was consuming.(And I'm not talking about the food) Haha...I am being full of myself. But hey, you never know! :D

     As of right now I have no inspiration for a big blockbuster movie, but I just wished to find a scene to fiddle around with my camera and moviemaker. Something that I can practice filming with multiple angles and get a feel for stuff. Then as reaching over for a tissue, that was out of my reach, it hit me. I remember watching a silly YouTube video of a guy tiring to reach the TV remote from his bed, but it was out of stretching distance. He made it so dramatic...well it is not really that dramatic, but it does earn some TeeHee's (SHOUT OUT too any Nigahiga fans out there?).
     Also during lunch yesterday some of my friends came up with the idea to make a movie. I don't know if we are actually go through with it, but whatever. Now it will be cool tiring to brainstorm a scrip and whatnot. I mean I thought about interviewing one of my friend's about her weird dreams and maybe create a scene that follows the idea that she gave me.
     Come to think about it, my last movies I filmed were pretty much the same. In 8th grade, I made a movie for English about a girl who gets kidnapped and I played the role of the girl. Then last year, in ASL II, the project was to make a movie using medical signs and I played the role of the injured girl. This year in photo, I played a roll of a girl that got chased and then headbutted to the ground. I was technically the star roll in all of them, but that was because of default. Both of them involved my character to get physically harmed by the bad guy and cops (& a doctor for the ASL one, and a wizard for the photo one) had to help save me.I need more variation. I need a new story plot.
      So for now I'll keep you posted about my movie related things.

How to Become Charismatic

     So you want to be more Charismatic? *You shake head (left-right)* No? Well then do you want to look more friendly? *Silence, followed by no comment* Well, you at least want to trick people into thinking you are friendly? * "Ehhhh" and ehhhh faces D: * Ok Great :D we are getting somewhere.
     I on the other hand would love to enlighten you...But even more I would like to do my part and help rid the world of self centered people ("my friend" is the best example). Maybe I can almost do this by teaching them how to communicate to a point to when they could help trick people in to thinkin-- (i was going to say "thinking that they aren't  shallow or narcissistic")--ehhh what is the use. Just read my list and use it for whatever reason you may need.

This can be narrowed in to a few steps.

1) Acting interested in convocation
-There are times when you should be doing little to no multitasking when hanging with your friends.
When I learned ASL, They teach you to have your full attention on the other person. Well that can be a bit creepy if you stare, flat-faced, at the person. Taking stuff like that into consideration, you can at least take a headphone out, stop txting as much, or getting your nose out of your kindle. Yet again at times it is ok to txt, but not to much or it is disrespectful.

Example: One day during lunch my friend was like 2 feet away from my group of friends eating .When we would be talking she would let out a loud laugh or exaggerated her speech. It over powered our conversation and was very annoying. She did this for like 30 minuets of lunch.

Example: I was in my friend's car and she was listening to her iPhone  I ask for her to turn it down cause the stupid One Direction was making it where I can't here my own thoughts. SHE HAD HER FLIPPIN HEADPHONES IN TOO. She looked at me, shook her head, and laughed. Her mom did a more subtle laugh that meant "hey my daughter is being a rude brat, but I am not going to stop her"



2) Body Language
I hated being in elementary school and every one sat on the same side of the lunch table. You had to yell down the row of people to talk to a person. That's why I liked sitting on the other side so I can actually talk to people.
What I am trying to get at is that pick a good angle.Also,like in ASL, eye contact is good,but not too much or it be weird.

Example: When my friend met my other friend for the first time, she showed no eye contact and he called her out on it.


3) cheese stuff.

• Be confident - my favorite saying is "You're only human." so it is ok to screw up and laugh it off
• Humor is always great--if you use it correctly and not stupidly
• Be Ethical- look at stuff in different perspectives, in the other's shoes, ect.
• Take put downs like a grain of salt, but if you can't tell them in a way that doesn't sound whinny. Come backs are great too.
• What did I miss?

4) What I tend to do...
I tend to ask questions about the other person to get the conversation running. And what is great to do is if they/you throw the same question back that you/they asked them. This shows that they/you are interested to hear their response to the question. I tend to call this as the Meet-Me-Half-Way method. This is also a good chance to see if they care enough to through the question back at you or they don't or/and rather talk about something different.

5) other/fill-in later/What are your thoughts?

 See this for more info:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/deniserestauri/2012/05/03/5-qualities-of-charismatic-people-how-many-do-you-have/

Once again, here is this if you have another problems. I have yet found a use for it. Oh, when I do, ill for sure tell you.

My 2 cents...about 2 cents

     So you know the feeling? The feeling when you get money and the more you make transactions with it you end up with a crap ton of dimes, nickels, and pennies. Then you either have a coin purse, you toss it the bag to not to have to fettle around with the coin purse or drop it in your bag and you forgot that their is a black hole (or wormhole; I don't judge) in there so you go through this cycle of the loose change cluttering your bag, house, and car.
     Well when are you going to use that loose change? It is a pain to carry around and hear them clink. Its like they are the equivalent to a human cow bell. Nobody wants to be known as a Mr. Krabs. When you actually get to pay with them, it is a pain to have to take your time jumbling around all of the change while people wait on you.
     Yes, you can try to predict how much cents you need, but tax will throw you off. My solution to this is get a coin purse with a dollar amount in change. When you buy something for $7.46 you can give them your $2 in change, a Lincoln ($5 bill), and either $1 or two quarters. You will still get change back, but you have less coins than you started with. The other solution is to go up to the cashier and ask them to exchange your coins (or low dollar bills; $1 or $5) for dollars (or $10 or $20). They normally will be glad cause cashiers also have the problem for getting a bunch of paper money ($10, $20, $50, $100) from customers and so they will need some dimes, nickel, and pennies for the change back. It is like the cashier's have the opposite problem than us (even though they rather have $5 and$1 to break the$10, $20, $50, $100, but that is a different story). In the long run this would kill two birds with one stone. My last option is to make a bet and pay the person in change. My sister won a bet, but her friend payed her in $3 worth of pennies. You can't buy anything with 300 pennies!
     Also, YouTube & book author, John Green has some good points. It makes no sense/cents (blehhh puns are hard over txt) to make pennies and nickels when they cost twice the price to make them. I hope he doesn't mind me buying my VIDCON ticket in change. :D
(Yah, If you don't know. The Vlogbrothers invented Vidcon.)

ehhh

those days when you want to post but you get swamped with homework and procrastination.
Feel free to start chatter in the comments.

here is a pic; go crazy.