Saturday, January 30, 2010

Have you ever had one of those days where everything seems to be going good and the day turns out to be wonderful, nice, relaxing and full of fun, all at the same time? Today is one of those days, I just had a good time, being home and going places. I just turned on the TV and was going to change it to a channel to watch one of my favorite shows when the TV turns on and one of my favorite movies is one TV. I decided to watch it, for one reason of I love that movie, and the other reason was because one of my favorite TV shows was delayed for the night. Well, the movie is made by Hallmark and I didn’t realize until tonight how many movies my family has that were made by Hallmark and we have been pleased by all of them. They are all just fun family movies, at least I like them in my family.

Well, besides having a good day today, I have made it through another week of school! That makes me really happy, and it went well. The bad thing is I have had a cold since Thursday and I haven’t exactly been feeling the best, luckily I am well enough I can go to school and stuff, the bad part though is I have been sleeping in later than I have wanted too. I never like getting sick, it is never fun, it always seems to ruin the plans that you have, do you think so? I mean, you plan to go on a run, or to the store, or somewhere fun, like I was planning to go to my brother’s basketball games, but I slept in because I was really tired from my cold and I had to miss some of the games that I was planning on going to. I made it to the other two games that we had today though, so I made it to half of the games my family had. As you can see, we have four games every Saturday and a game the day before on Friday. Luckily two of those five games are church ball games, but we still go to those because they are entertaining. Basketball games have a tendency of being quite entertaining, I am always into the game. Basketball is my family’s favorite sports and three of my four brothers play on teams, they all play basketball though. We just have fun playing and watching the game. I have some pretty entertaining stories from being at basketball games.

Guess who won the BYU/ Utah game? BYU!!!! I was so happy, I was hoping they would win and they did, my family is big BYU fans. Our neighbor hood has many BYU and Utah fans so it is always fun to see what kind of tricks are played on each other when the two teams are playing. Like for example my neighbors across the street, one of them is a Utah fan and so around Halloween we carved a pumpkin with BYU and put it on our porch and then carved one with a U on it and crossed it out and put it on their front porch. The wife got a kick out of it because she is a BYU fan. She has even put a big BYU flag on their yard to tease her husband, just to have fun.

Have fun everyone and SMILE!!!!

Laila Daae

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Who has read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series? If you haven’t you are missing out on one of the best books in the world. It is a book that just draws you right in, you don’t want to put it down when you are reading it. I felt that way exactly, my parents would have to tell me to put it down and do my homework or something. Well you should read the book, everyone that I have talked to that has read the book loved it. I am so excited though because there is a movie coming out that is based on the series and I can’t wait, yes I know it won’t be as good as the book, because books are usually better then the movie, but I can’t wait to see it and it is coming out so soon. The trailer for it looks amazing; I sure do hope it turns out good. I know that my brother and I want to go to it.

Well, from reading that paragraph you can see that I have read that five book series, well I love reading that is the reason. I would read all day if I had the time, but of course there is school, homework and all the other daily life stuff to do that I usually don’t have much time for reading at the end of the day. (*Note: I have probably already written about this on my blog.) I just finished The Illustrated Man, which was quite interesting, I mean all the space stuff and everything, and it was still good though. I would have to say that my favorite book that I have read in the past month is Pride and Prejudice. Yes I have written about this many times on my blog already but I love this book, it is amazing, I watched the movie again this past weekend. Right now I am reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, I have only read a few pages of it so far, but it is still very good, from what I have read in the first few pages. I hope to finish this book soon, hoping that I don’t have too much homework.

For those of you that don’t like to read, I would say that you should try to find a book that looks good and try to sit down and read it. Most of the people that don’t like to read don’t take the time to try and read, I know that from experience, I used to dislike reading very much, my parents had to ask me many times to get me to read for school. Now though, they have to ask me many times to put the book down, you see what I mean? If you just take the time you might actually find out that you have a passion for reading. You will find an adventure that you never though you could find if you just open up a book and give it a try. When I am reading I am in a whole new world.

Sincerely,

Laila Daae

Sunday, January 17, 2010

The end of the term!!!!!!! I am so happy, I have been waiting for this for so long, though I am a bit sad because now we have to get used to second semester. I really liked my first semester, I have to memorize my new one and get used to my new classes, oh joy. I can’t complain though because we don’t have to go to school tomorrow or Tuesday. That makes me really happy, I can spend time with my family, read, sleep, I will just enjoy those two days off of school. I hope that these two terms will be easier too, or just go on better then the first two did. Ninth grade is hard, I mean I have heard a lot of people say that, it is harder then seventh and eighth and it is considered high school so that gets everyone thinking. I know it gets me thinking. I was talking to my cousin not to long ago and we were talking about how weird it is that I am going to high school, and it is weird to consider my uncle a grandpa now, and my grandparents are great grandparent. It is all weird, I mean a lot of things changed this past year and a lot of things have already happened in these last few weeks in January. Well besides the fact that I think everything is weird I guess I could come up with a better topic to talk about.


This is scary; did any of you read the front page of the Deseret News this morning? The front page was about the earthquake that is supposed to happen along the Wasatch front and it could be in the 7 magnitude range. Isn’t that scary and the weird part of it is, I am using weird again, is that my friends and I were just talking about this in school like two weeks ago, about the Wasatch front and the earthquake that is supposed to happen. Ya, I was eating my breakfast this morning and I saw the news paper on the counter with a big headline on the front page and that is what it was about. Other that reading about that my day today was actually really good for a change, I mean my Sunday’s don’t usually turn out that good, but today was fabulous.


Ok, so I love cooking, but today, I was laughing as hard as I was looking at my brothers faces as they saw the desert that I had made, so it was supposed to be brownies with chocolate chip cookie dough on top. The cookie dough was a little dark and my brother’s faces were so funny, I was laughing so hard, and I think they tasted gross; those were the worst brownies I have ever made. I am usually a good cook, I mean my brothers usually love what I cook, today was hilarious though, I have a stomach ache from laughing so hard, and from tasting the brownies, though the rest of my family thought they were good.

Sincerely,

Laila Daae

Sunday, January 10, 2010


My last entry didn’t make any sense, at least to me, but my whole theory about my writing is that none of it makes sense. Well this past week sure has been a hectic one, second term is almost over and it seams like teachers are just trying to pack in a load of homework before the term ends. I mean it is insane, I have stayed up so late this past week doing homework, long assignments that to me seam like they were just jumbled together, something to fill in some empty assignment slots. For example, in French we had a test everyday for the past two weeks and sometimes there is more then one test in that class in just one day. Crazy, and then on top of all those tests in French I had tests in almost all my other classes, don’t teachers think we have enough to study for already, plus do the assignments they give us? Well that is just something that was bugging me a lot.

How about talking about something pleasing other than homework, like when school is going to get out! Though the weird thing is I will be going into 10th grade, really weird. My family is already talking about an idea for a family vacation for the summer. So yes the second semester hasn’t even started and my family is already talking about where we want to go for our family trip this year. Well one reason would have to be because we can’t decide if we are going to fly out there or drive. If we fly we need to buy our tickets as soon as possible and if we drive we need to pick hotels to stay at along the way. I can’t wait till the summer and I sure do hope that we go where we are planning.

I really don’t know what else to write about, I have just had so much on my mind lately but it is all about school and I have already written about school. Why not writing about what I am reading right now. I just finished Pride and Prejudice around a week and a half ago and I loved it. I have already watched the movie twice. It was amazing, I was really disappointed when it was over, I mean I knew the whole story line and everything it is just I didn’t want it to end there. I am always mad about how books end, I just want them to go on and on, continue the story don’t just stop it there, that is what goes through my mind after finishing a book.

The book I am reading right now is Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury and it is actually quite interesting. I have never read a book written this way, it is just totally different from the books I have read, which is good in a way. It is good for me to read different varieties of books. This book is definitely better then I thought it would be. It has really surprised me, I mean the part when he realized that he was alive, that just surprised me, I don’t think like that. That is just not the way I think, I like this book though and hope it ends good.

Sincerely,

Laila Daae