Study Guide.

Tommorrow, another school week begins. I'm not sure if I'll be able to drag myself out of bed this time. I swear, the only reason they keep us in school after testing is to torture us. At least, thats what my science teacher seems to think. On Friday, we got a 187 question, fill-in-the-blank study guide thats due tommorrow. I'm just thankful she gave us the weekend to get it done.

Also, I seem to have forgotten to tell mothers out there Happy Mothers Day!! I love my mom, but I have to admit, I was relieved this morning when my dad told me he got my mom a present in my behalf. I totally forgot until Saturday night!! How horrible am I? I don't know how my parents put up with me.

Blue Nailpolish.

Hey there. Mikah here.

If you don't know, my favorite color is blue. I got some new nailpolish thats a metalic blue. It's so pretty. So, of course, I'm wearing it. It's chipping off though, so I think I'll do another coat tonight.
Besides knew nailpolish, a lot has happened. I found out what it's like to have a guy disrespect you, learned what a diffuser is, and joined the track team.
Track is SO FUN! I love running... a lot. So, it didn't come as a surprise to my parents when I signed up. I'm a sprinter, and I like competing in the 100 meter dash. I think I might die if I did long-distance. I'd probably be passed out on the turf before I finished.
I also made my own playlist for my iPod, finally! It's got 50+ songs that I like on it, so I can just turn that on instead of skipping through a bunch of other songs to get to the ones I like.
I also had a whopping fail when I tried to make a smoothie yesterday. I didn't put enough fruit in it, and ended up adding all this sugar to make it taste better. Hopefully I'll get better at it, because I'm really in the mood for fruit... like strawberries, which are my absolute FAVORITE!!
I skipped school today, mostly because it's the Friday before Spring Break, and we're not doing anything today. It was very nice to be able to sleep in. But I had to run down the street to my school counselor's house at 7 am because I forgot to turn in my enrollment form. I'm sure I looked horrible, with my hair standing straight up, and my eyes all puffy. I also ran blindly, since I didn't have either my glasses or contacts on at the moment. I was lucky I didn't trip and fall.
At the school bookfair I got the book 'Beastly', the one the movie is based off of. It's so good!! I want to see the movie really bad, so my mom and I made plans to go get lunch and catch the movie during Spring Break. Normally I'd hang out with Riley, but her family is going to New Orleans for a late Marti Gras celebration. I hope she has fun.
I've become a tad bit clumsy in the last couple of months. Okay, that's an understatment. I'm accident prone, always running into walls and tripping over my own feet. Somehow, I've managed to not take anyone out with me yet, but I'm sure it'll happen soon.
I'm also doing the thirty day picture challenge on facebook, so look me up, and you can see all of my awesome pictures. Actually, they're not that awesome, but I still want to be your friend!!
I've got to go help my little sister, so I'll post again soon!!

Tackling my brother.

It seems like my brother, Nathan, gets more annoying every day. Maybe that's just because he's my twin. Maybe it's because he's better than me at a lot of things. I don't know why, but sometimes, things inside me snap, and I go crazy for a moment.

Well, luckily, today did not include one of those moments, it was just play. But tackling him felt good to do all the same. :) We were over at Riley and Tucker's house (another set of twins our age that are our friends) with Ashlea Bucher too. We decided to go out in the yard and play around. We romped around a bit. We laughed. We shreiked. And I almost sprained my middle finger with a football again. It was awesome! We also ate popcorn out of a popcorn machine! It tasted just like movie popcorn!!

All in all, I love hanging out with them. They're really fun, and, over there, I can tackle my brother without getting in trouble. So that was the highlight of my day. And that's about as good as it gets. <3 I love my family.

Movies.

Hey there. Mikah here.

Yesterday, I went and saw UNSTOPPABLE with my twin brother, Nate, and my friends Riley and Tucker (who happen to be furturnal sister/brother twins too!), and their parents. It was really good and really suspensful! It was about this train thats had nobody on it with no airbrakes that was barreling on the railroad tracks at 70 mph, heading toward several trains on the main track. Two engineers named Frank and Will tried to stop it. I thought I would die from the suspense at the end.

There is another movie I want to see really bad; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I. And it comes out November 19!!!!!! I'm so excited I can hardly wait!! :D So, you'll probably know where I'll be at midnight on November 19, huh?!

Until then!

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.