Sunday, January 22, 2012

Rubix Cubes and Football

Who here can solve a Rubix cube? Sigh I've been working on solving one alll morning and, actually, it's not too too bad. I mean, I can solve one side, no problemo. It's continuing that's hard. SO FRUSTRATING!!!! Well, that's all. I'm passing the time with Rubix cubes since I am too too too lazy to do anything like flute or alto sax or something.
Well in my defense I practiced alto sax for nearly 2 hours yesterday!!!!!! And flute, one hour.
Football. Superbowl (Super Bowl? Hmmm...) is close....right????? I think.
The teams left, I think, are New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco Forty-Niners, and New York Giants. (Hey, that's what kind of knowledge you get with a football-crazed dad, brother, and cousin that's staying for the weekend!) As I type this they are sitting on the couch, watching TV with no idea that I am blogging about them HAHA!!!! So right now is Patriots vs. Ravens. I really don't have a favorite team. I don't care. I'm just thinking, like, isn't New England a couple of states? Thought these teams were city teams...
Well the next game after this one is Forty-Niners vs. Giants. Again I really don't care. My brother/dad/cousin are all Forty-Niner fans-the team is relatively local. I am not sure if I told this at any time but I live in the Pacific Time Zone. So yeah. I don't care but forty-niners are the miners that came to California for the Gold Rush, most coming in 1849, thus they were called forty-niners. Actually that Sam or whatever his name was divulged the "Gold! Gold in the ____ River!" (I forgot the name of the river) information in 1848 but it took a long time for the info to travel. So I guess I'm interested in the forty-niners but more because of the gold rush fact than the local team thing.

Question of the Day: Is peanut butter a solid or a liquid? (I mean, we can rule out gas!)

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Initiation

Initiation is the thirteenth book in the (on the?) AMAZING Canterwood Crest series written by author Jessica Burkhart, and AMAZING author. I commented on her post, but I only posted what I liked. Here is the "what I liked" part of my Initiation review, if anyone's interested.
It took me two hours, 49 minutes, and twenty-three seconds to read Initiation. (Stopwatch.)
What I liked about Initiation was the drama about Lauren's secret, and the very vivid descriptions of all the characters' clothes, appearance, and personality. Lauren seems like a sweet person. I enjoyed reading about how Lauren tackled the workload at Canterwood while still having enough time to bond with Khloe, Lexa, Jill, Clare, and Riley. I won't say anything about all the girls' personalities, but please read my blog post about it.
And now, my aforementioned blog post about Initiation.
I don't like Lauren Towers.
At all.
Weeeellllll, maybe a little bit. For example, we both LOVELOVELOVELOVE tea (part of the reason why I made my name Chamomile for the blog....) and my fave color is sky blue too. (Rhyme not intended.) But I LOVED Sasha. I nearly cried when she wouldn't be the narrator anymore. I told myself that Lauren would be just as awesome.
She wasn't.
She has a mean streak. And an attitude. I don't know if anyone agrees with me-only one of my friends does-but Lauren is definitely MEAN, in my book.
It started with Chosen, the super special book that announced the arrival of Lauren Towers.
She was SUCH a snob towards Charlotte. I was actually SO mad at Lauren (and so obsessed with Canterwood Crest) that I wrote SEVEN fan fictions on Chosen. SEVEN. That's a LOT. Because I was really THAT mad at Lauren, an imaginary character! Which, yeah, does indicate the Jessica Burkhart (Ms. Burkhart?) is a very talented writer.
And Lauren was REALLY mean to Riley. Yeah, Riley wasn't very nice either. But Lauren was just so...unfair.
Again, I loved the drama, the descriptions, and the cliffhanger at the end was SO interesting and I am literally counting the days till Popular comes out.
In the end, love the book, LOVELOVE the book, actually, and don't like the narrator. I won't say I hate Lauren, because I don't. I don't dislike her so bad. I agree with her on some things-like the fact that it was ENTIRELY her fault that Riley had to tell the girls at the sleepover about Toby. I agree that Riley was not supposed to be int he skybox during her audition, but SHE was watching Riley's audition, so who is Lauren to talk?
I don't like Lauren, but my friends love her.
It's a good book, whether you like Lauren or not.
I really suggest you read it.
Initiation by Jessica Burkhart.
The post was for a contest that authorJessica Burkhart (Ms. Burkhart? I don't know!) is running.
Read about the contest at http://jessicaburkhart.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html
Question of the Day: I've asked it twice already. I don't know author Jessica Burkhart, so I only felt comfortable slapping an "author" in front of her name. What is the proper way to address her?