Halloween.

"Halloween is coming, the pumkins getting fat. Witches, and Goblins, will soon be back. Coming up the sidewalk, up to your door! Scratching on the window, stomping on the floor! But you needn't worry, and you needn't fuss; 'cause witches, and goblins, are really US!!"
Thats a little Halloween song my family and I sing during Halloween time. Its supposed to go slowly; as to build suspense. I can't believe Halloween is here already! Even though its Sunday, my family and I are going to the block party our neighborhood is having.
My friend, Emily Jacobs, invited me over yesterday to carve pumkins! I carved out Frankenstien's bride, and it looks awesome!!
This Halloween, I can't trick-or-treat because my dad feels strongly about keeping the Sabbath Day holy. I'm so mad I can barely talk, because I'm not allowed to trick-or-treat once I'm thirteen, so this is the last Halloween I could trick-or-treat and get free candy!! :P
Other than that, Halloween has been really fun this year!

Music.

Hey there. Mikah here.

I find that music can help and influence people a lot. How, you ask? Well, first of all, it can make you feel better in tough situations or when things are hard to get through. I'm talking from experience. This summer, I moved to Oklahoma. It was hard for me because I had to leave a lot of my friends behind, and start over again. Music helped me a lot during this time by telling me things I needed to hear, or reminding me that home is where ever I make it to be. It still feels sad and hard at times, and sometimes it just feels like a big fat vacation, but music helps me feel like everything will turn out just fine.

Music also helped me in a different form too. Not just listening to music, but preforming it. In school, I signed up for Choir as an elective. That really helped me make friends who shared my same passion for music. My Choir teacher, Mrs. Singleton, is one of the nicest and sweetest ladies I've ever known. We sing beautiful music all the time, and I'm beginning to learn how to read music! That was something I thought I would never be able to do.

The third way its helped me is not by listening or preforming music, but by dancing to it. I am a ballet dancer. About a month after we moved here to Oklahoma in May, I signed up for ballet lessons again. My teacher, Ms. Pamela, helped get me back into shape. I've been dancing since I was 5 (7 years) and its become a big part of my life. Dancing helps me express how I'm feeling and helps me forget things for a while. It also helped me make new friends and begin to feel comfortable here.

Music can be big parts of our lives. If you let it, it can become a great friend. Music is our very souls being poured out to the people all around us. It can make you relize you are not alone, make you cry when you need to most, or put a smile on your face. Music is strong, weak, happy, and sad. Music is so many things. But most of all, music is beautiful.

Aggggg!! Oh, *pant*, its just you.

I don't know how it happened. In fact, it snuck up on me so quietly, I nearly peed my pants when it finally pounced. Somehow, my mental development was fast-forward to my teenage years. Woo-hoo! Not.

The thing about it is, I feel so moody all the time, like someone just punched my grandma. I get really hyper, then I'm stressed or drained the next second. And then I feel like life is horrible, that the world is falling apart... but its not! Why can't I etch that into my fist size brain, why can't I understand that?! I really do wish I could be happy all the time. In fact, it kindof annoys me when peoples facebook statuses read; "Life sucks." or "I hate my life right now." Why can't the world just be a happy place? I hear people talk about how horrible their life is, when other people have bigger problems, like their mom just died or something serious like that.

To us teenage species, it feels way more serious than it is. Ha, its kindof funny; we're not taken seriously because we are too serious about things. Maybe we should loosen up. What do you think?? I think so. But, then again, sometimes we can be too loose, like when we don't worry about getting caught while toilet-papering a neighbors house, and the next second, we're cleaning it up and grounded. Its so confusing!!

So, all teenagers need to do is to be serious, but not a stick in the mud, laugh, but not be delirious, and not get caught when toilet-papering. Well thats just splendid. Maybe we can just scratch that whole thing and be irresponsible teens. Like someone important said; "To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.". All this just proves my point; being a teenager is a stupid and confusing part of life. Deal with it.