FINALLY

So, i finally figured out how to get piccys from my phone to my computer. This is great bc now i can post my AFI concert piccies :D. I hated it bc these pictures took me standing on my tippy toes holding my phone up over my head... i looked like a doofus i bet.

I'm so exhausted. Thursday night i went to a friends house for a slumberparty and stayed up till 3:15 AM playing DDR.

It was awesome, but playing Dance Dance Revolution is killer on a tiled floor. So then today i walked around walmart for two hours and then after that i ran from the garage to the computer runing tiles back and forth. my feet are KILLING me. :(

LAST DAY OF SCHOOOOOOOL!!!

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR ME!!! We wouldve gotten out yesterday, but today is a makeup day for all the snow we've had in January-march-April. Right now i'm sitting out in my moms classroom waiting for her class to do this paper rocket project. don't worry its not REAL rockets. She bought this rocket launcher from one of her old college teachers a couple of years ago. This is the only picture i found of it on a blocked school internet site :(

Its a PVC pipe contraption hooked up to a source of pressure(air compresser, etc). then you make a rocket, which is a rolled up piece of paper with a penny taped to the end of it for  landing purposes. you can even make wings to put on the end of your rocket.

Heh, rough sketch of what the rocket looks like. not too shabby :D

My yugioh card

Aloneness....

I'm not in a good mood today. At all. So im kinda ticked bc one of my friends is upset at me. I'll explain:

So, I think homosexuality is really, really, really, REALLY, wrong. But i have friends who are because, everyone, it is wrong to judge ppl. And my gay friends are probably some of the nicest ppl i know. so my motto is: hate the sin love  the sinner. I let them know its wrong, but its what ever they wanna do.

So today one of my gay friends tried to get me to hold her hand to be funny and all. But i knocked away and didn't say anything about it. She tried again and she was like "Your treating my hand like its the plague or something." And i finally said, "I don't want people to get the wrong idea about me." And my poor friend, has depression problems and she's super sensitive. And i didn't say it mean. Just... saying it. And guys, she was just kidding with the holding the hand thing, but i don't want ppl thinking im gay. I am straight straight straight straight straight. As a line. STRAIGHT.

Now she's upset at me. Im also annoyed at the other friend (who is also straight) bc she thinks that she can act so darn hyper with this stupid high pitched voice thinking she is an ANIME CHARACTER. Gosh, it gets on my freaking NERVES. Because
1. I know its not her real voice.
2. I hate it. I hate it.
3. Its such a fake voice.

Ok, gotta get to class, so i'm going to get off my high chair.

I look back on 9-11 and wish I was at least the age I am now so I could grasp the enormity of the that fateful day when the two planes crashed into the Twin Towers. I was only seven when it happened and I wasn’t even that upset about it. All I remember was that the teacher of my class at the time turning on the TV murmuring something about some “bad plane crashes,” and then the next thing I knew was that the whole school was going home early. I was excited about getting out of school at twelve, but still didn’t really know what was going on. I wasn’t scared either until I found out that there were bad men that were trying terrorize the nation and I was scared that they were going to fly a plane into my house next, but the fear didn’t last long because seven year olds aren’t really understand it. To them, fear was the decorations hall in Target on Halloween.


I believe we as kids don’t really try to understand the news or politics under we’re about 13 years old, because it’s a little high over our heads, and the fact that children kind of focus on their small little world and not the bigger reality around them. For me, politics was just a regular old social studies lesson, where the government was divided into three branches and so on. I guess it was really a good time to get into politics when I was in 8th grade because that’s when Obama v. Clinton v. McCain’s race for president started. That was what got me into watching the world news every night, and today I still do.

During a dictatorship, children are the most susceptible to fall under brainwashing because they think what the dictator is doing is just how the world is. Anita didn’t really know about Trujillo until she listened in on what her father and Tio Toni was talking about. Her parents were lucky that she went to an American School were they didn’t really praise Trujillo besides her going to the academy that Lorena went to where they practiced

reasons why i keep wanting to watch labyrinth again. and again. and again AND AGAIN. Thx to mom, who suggested i started watching it yesterday.\

i am now a HUGE jareth fangirl.(but isn't every girl who watches labyrinth?!)

Research Paper :(

Jan Berenstain: A Beary Good Artist




Jan Berenstain and her husband, Stan, have entertained children with their Berenstain Bears books for over the last sixty years (Stoneman13). The illustrated books talk about wholesome family morals with a funny, lighthearted approach and a family full of bears who lived in a tree house. The adventures the bears encountered in the books mirrored Jan and Stan’s own family life and everyday obstacles. While raising sons Leo and Micheal (Berenstain 125), the Berenstains spent countless days in their office thinking up of new ways for Papa Bear to mess up, Sister and Brother Bear to get caught in the middle of it, and Mama Bear to fix it all up. Jan’s deepest passion, her love of art, has built up a beautiful career with the partnership of Stan and has brought her from scribbling in her father’s illustrated books (Berenstain 11) to making her own beloved children’s books.

Jan’s love of art started early and followed her up through college where she met Stan. Her art obsession was probably inherited from her father, Alfred Grant, who was a carpenter by day and attended art school by night (Harris 22). Jan would get her inspiration for drawing from the Sunday cartoons because she felt like the finely-drawn comics would “challenge” her to draw them (Berenstain a. 28) After she graduated high school in 1941 (Harris 22), she attended the Philadelphia Collage of Art (McLeod 1) where she met her future lifelong partner. According to Jan, her and Stan’s first meeting was “love at first sight” (Harris 22). Within weeks after they met, Jan and Stan were starting to the movies together and on drawing dates to the zoo to draw their favorite animals which were bears (Harris 23). Their plans to get married, however, were interrupted by the bombing of Pearl Harbor (Berenstain b. 73). Stan was drafted by the army to become a medical artist (Berenstain a. 28-29), while Jan went to work at a factory that built wing parts for sea planes (McLeod 1).

After the war was over, Jan’s career as an artist kicked off when she married Stan in 1946 (McLeod 2). The worked together on many cartoons to send out to multiple newspapers and magazines a week, but none were ever accepted (McLeod 2). After having about a year’s worth of rejections, the couple went to go confront the editor of the Saturday Evening Post (McLeod 2), John Bailey (Berenstain b. 119), for advice on why none of their cartoons were selling (McLeod 2). Bailey suggested the Berenstains did a cartoon focused on something different, like family life (McLeod 2). Following his encouragement, the Berenstains created their first successful cartoon called “Its All in the Family” (Harris 23). The cartoon was featured in magazines such as McCall’s and Good Housekeeping (Harris 23), and in 1951, the Berenstains published their first book for adults titled The Berenstain Baby Book (Harris 24).

Interested in the children’s books their sons were reading, Jan and her husband were inspired to do a children’s book of their own (Berenstain a. 29). They wanted to grab children’s attention with a humorous approach they way Dr. Seuss had done with his new books at the time and felt that they could write stories based on their own family humor to little kids (Berenstain a. 29). Soon enough they got a contract with Beginners Books (Berenstain b. 141) and joined together with Theodore Geisel, Dr. Seuss himself, to work on their first book (McLeod 3). The Berenstains had an idea of a book with a talking bear family as characters who lived in a tree house, while Geisel pushed them very hard on what the bears where really about (Harris 24). According to Stan, he would ask them questions such as “Who are these bears?...Why do they live in a tree? What does Papa do for a living? What kind of pipe tobacco does he smoke?...What sort of family is it?....” (Berenstain b. 145-146). Finally in 1962 (Berenstain a. 29), the Berenstains published their first children’s book titled The Big Honey Hunt (Harris 24). The hard work they put into making the book showed, because it was so popular it was practically disappearing off the shelves. Geisel was immensely impressed and called the Berenstains demanding “More bear books!” (Harris 24)

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