Bringing the new year right....12/31/2011

So new years is only a few minutes away and all of my family is over my house. As we sit here and count down into the new year, the only thing that i can do is sit back and reminisce about everything that happened through the year 2011. And so far i can say that i have had so many positive things happen to me this year and i am proud to have had such an awesome year. And even more happier to be going into the next year with the people that i love...

An awesomely boring day 12/30/2011

So today was an awesomely boring day. I had to babysit my little cousin and boy is he hyperactive. He was running around and acting crazy. Boy this really makes me wants to stay abstinence for a while, and not only did i do that, but i also cooked dinner which was barbecue chicken and string beans. I also watched Hangover and Hangover 11. I soo love Alan.

12/29/2011

Overall today was yet another day were my mother made everyone in the house clean up. Today was kind of boring besides me watching my brother play the new Zelda game and me watching my mother do my sister hair in goddess braids. Other than that i have nothing else to say..

Another Acceptance letter 12/28/2011

Not only did i finish getting my hair done, I got accepted into Stevenson University although i didn't get any scholarship from there. I am still excited because out all of the three choices of schools that i was really interested into attending, I was not accepted into Hood College, Yet i was accepted into Stevenson, and i am still waiting to here from University of Baltimore. God has truly blessed me and i feel so grateful because as soon as i got the package from Stevenson i thought that i didn't get accepted but i did and i am so pumped three down and two more colleges to go. Thank You Jesus!!!!

12/27/2011

So today i really didn't do anything except for sleep and work on me and my mothers daily diet which consists of two pancakes, one egg, and a sausage for breakfast. Some thing lite for lunch and for dinner we cannot eat past 7 O clock, my mom is on this new health kick and she got me to be more responsible about my health. And also today i have a quarter of my hair done because i am in the process of getting goddess braids and my mom has to work tonight. So i have to wait until tomorrow in order for me to get the rest of my hair finished. I also learned that if you think that your slick and go behind my parents back and do something that you know is going to make them mad ( like making a twitter at the age 12) Run!!!! Enough said.....

No meat monday....... 12/26/2011

So today was overall the best day of my life. I was able to go to an outlet in Delaware with my family, and when we arrived there, it was so many stores. I was basicallyin a shopaholics dream land, there were so many stores to the point that it would take you all day to go to each and everyone of them. The main stores that i went to was Old Navy and Bath and Body works, i had so much fun with my family and we all shopped until we dropped (literally). I was in such a generous and charitable mood to the point that i helped out with a lot of things that i wouldn't usually have. I feel so blessed to have such an amazing and supporting family.

Snata came!!!!! 12/25/2011

So Santa came last night at 4:10 am in the morning. My mother woke us up early because she had to work, so for Christmas i got money, jewelry, and a pink north face jacket. I am so excited because so far this years Christmas tops out the rest. Although it didn't feel like Christmas outside, in my house it did. My stepfather was speech less for words when he found out that he had an Ipad2 with 3G. I spent most of the morning helping him and my brother, try and make tines accounts. And boy did that take a long time, by the time my mother came home from work it was time for us to go and visit my family. And we all had fun except for the usual drama that they commonly have. other than that i had an awesome Christmas! I have been truly blessed.....

Christmas eve.... 12/24/2011

I really didn't do anything today, except for making my family breakfast and dinner, along with my sister. Although it's Christmas eve, it feels as if it is just a regular Saturday.I tried to listen to Pandora Christmas station but it just doesn't feel the same. Where's the snow? I guess this is a sign that we shouldn't take things for granite. Well i cooked dinner which was Italian chicken with Uncle Ben's rice ironi. Hopefully tomorrow will be an awesome day to remember.

2 more days until Christmas :-) 12/23/2011

Today instead of me going to school i finished up some Christmas shopping with my mother and my sister Sha.lonte. We brought toys, clothes, slippers and etc., it was nice to actually give instead of receiving and or expecting to receive something. I love going shopping with my mother and my sister because we bonded a lot and we also was able to geek around and have fun. I was also able to get my secret Santa a present and also my best friend. I also watched Americas super nanny, and Oh my gosh these kids on this show are horrible, but what was worse is that the parents to these kids have no clue on what they are doing.

12/22/2011

So today i was supposed to go out and do some last minute Christmas shopping, but of course my mom suddenly forgot and when i brought it up. She had an attitude with me and she told me that i wasn't getting that much money for Christmas so i had to think and choose wisely, on how much i was going to spend. Well once we had the money issue solved my mother told me that we were going to send my friend her Christmas present to her home, but in the back of my mine, i know for a fact that when i bring it up again, she is going to make it into a big fuss. My mother had an attitude with me today because i burnt the pork chops. I didn't know that i had to cook tonight let alone make dinner. Now i must admit that i was being lazy, but it still shouldn't be any reason for my mother to fuss me out over it, while making me feel like I'm worth less. Sometimes i look back into my child hood and i just wonder. "How was i able to make it out OK with a dysfunctional family." My mother sometimes act like she don't care and it's like she is controlling my life (literally) i have no say so on what i can and can't do. That's probably one of the main reasons why i am somewhat non sociable. And yet other time i thank god for my family because with out them i don't know were i would be now.

TABB...12/21/2011

T-Thing you will take awayA-Action you plan to take
B-Barrier that could cause the action to end
B-Benefit of seeing it through
Visitor: Lindsay
 One Thing that i will take from Lindsay's speech to us about college life would be, when she told us about Precollege. When i get accepted to the college that i really want to go to I will plan on taking the precollege classes. Just so that i can have a bit of a head start. The Barrier that could cause my plans to end would the transportation issue. Seeing that i don't have a car yet my mother would have to be forced to drive me to school. And sometimes my mother can be a bit reluctant. The Benefit of me seeing this through would allow me to have somewhat of an head start and to get some of the easy classes out of the way.

Meeting up with a old friend....12/20/2011

Today after school i saw one of my closets friends, who went off to college last year. And that was Saria Rudolf, we had a brief conversation with each other. She talked to me about college and how it's hard. She said that she took Chinese and Japanese language, UNIV- freshman seminar, and also English 101; last semester. She said that college is crazy hard and that she had to write a lot of essays and most of them were due on the same day. She talked to me about her roommates and how she was apart of different organizations at her school. She said that she will be out for a month (winter break).

A much needed conference with a house member....12/19/2011

I will be more then welcome to help out Kaia Glanville because she really needs my assistance. I read that she needs to stop talking in class and instead of talking back she should have listend and tooken the criticizism as a true leader should have. She also came to class unprepared,  and she procrastinated her pupmkin project. I think that Kaia needs to put first things first because in order to be a leader, you must first portray leadership skills. I don't understand how she can show up to two class periods, missing both of her Volume review packets. I really wish to have a heart to heart conversation with her because she obviously needs someone to push her and to tell her what she needs to do in order for her to succeed through out her high school years. I think that it would be beneficial if i should talk to her when atlas have there next house meeting because it is important for her to be aware of her mistakes and of what she can do to make up those lost points.

Wow you really do care :-) 12/18/2011

Today i found out that i didn't get accepted into Hood College. I made a mistake and hurt my mothers feelings by not telling her first and  i posted it on facebook. Thinking that my mither wouldn't care, i didn't think to tell her first and wow was i wrong. My mother gave me a very inspirational speech about how i should take some college classes during the summer so that i won't have to spend so much money on some of the classes that i can easily take at a community college. So yea my mother made me feel a lot better because she told about her past and how she is dealing with college now. So yup, my mommy came through and made me feel better by actually having talked to me. I love my mother.

12/17/2011

Today i washed and pinned my hair. I am also about to work on my AP Psychology hw because it is so much that i have to do during this break. Why is our teacher doing this to us, there are so many pages of words that we have to define and then put in specific things about those specific words. smh God please give me strength to carry on.

12/16/2011

Today was an overall ok day. Although i had to take two tests in my AP classes, i am pretty sure i didn't do well on my AP Bio test. Other than that i am pretty confident that i did well on my AP Psychology test because it was an open note test. So far my day was good and i spent it stress free, until when i got home and my mother told me that the key to the mail box is still broken. I need that key to be fixed because my admissions letter from Hood College may be in the mail box. Ugh why do the key out of all of those days when my sister go and get the mail, want to break when it's time for me to and get the mail.

What an awful day I've had so far... 12/15/2011

Today turned out to be a day where i stay home from school because i really don't feel well. I literally found myself being reclined to my bed all day except for when i had to go to the bathroom. I didn't do anything all day except sleep, i didn't eat anything except for now, when i am eating a bowl of cereal at 2:22pm. I somehow found the strength to get up and eat a bowl of cereal and and start typing up this blog. So far my day was drowsy and hopefully it gets better.

Facing reality 12/14/2011

My mother made me face the harsh reality that i can't be as generous and buy everyone a gift for  Christmas because she said that i didn't have a job and that this was only my Christmas money and she didn't want me to spend it all of others. Although i already had a plan on what i was gonna get everyone, i have to now lower the price and get them something else. It's kind of crazy because my mother is taking my family Christmas shopping at the Delaware outlet after Christmas, and it is going to be insanely packed. And also tomorrow is the day (i think) that i will know if i will get accepted into Hood College.

 

Yet another beautiful day 12/13/2011

Overall i think that today, was sort of an ok day. My day didn't get better until i got home because that was were i was able to unwind and just relax with my family. I was told by my bus driver that we had to start bringing our school ID with us when we get on the bus because someone had gotten jumped on Friday. I can't really tell you the whole story because i forgot it. Anyway as soon as i got home from school and as i walked into my room and laid in my bed; it's when it felt as if a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders. So while my sisters went to leave to pick up my brother from school, I sat down at the kitchen table and I started working on my art homework as I at a tangerine (I guess that's what it called?). And then after that i ate dinner and i did a few Christmas shopping online, yet I have to wait in order to pay for it.

Accepted....12/12/2011

I was accepted to Virginia Union University. I thank god for allowing me to receive this blessing. And also today in Mr. Covert class myself and Ebe were told to present our song about respiration and i just froze. I didn't mean to leave Ebe high and dry, but she had most of the lyrics on her paper. I know that there shouldn't be any excuses. LOL i am so sorry ebe. I started to mumble some of the words and then I just completely stopped. Hello! Embarrassment!!!

Christmas Shopping online 12/11/2011

Christmas Christmas Christmas.. Don't you just love the way it sounds. It has such a certain and joyful ring to it. I spent most of my day cleaning the kitchen and cooking dinner, but most of all i started my Christmas shopping and i am so excited because everything with my purchase will be 50% off and it really lowered the price. At first i thought that i would be spending up to $200 but it all came down to like $94. and some change, I shopped on Hot topic :-). That is a blessing and i thank god for allowing myself and my family to see yet another beautiful Christmas. Thank You Jesus!!!! An amazing Christmas present to me would be if i get accepted into Hood College, yet the only thing i can do is pray. I hope and i feel like this years Christmas will be the best yet.

Why didn't anyone warn me...12/10/2011

Clean up... The only thing i did was clean up and then after that i talked to my mother about my interim report. My mother wasn't too happy when she saw that E in AP Psychology, she automatically said that i needed to go to  coach class and that i needed to have a confrence with my teacher to see if there is anyway that i can get my grade up. Why me. Why do i have to take this stupid class. Why didn't anyone warn me that this class would be the hardest that i would ever take?

Interm Report report 12/9/2011

I really don't like my interm report because the E on it from my AP Psychology class was what stood out the most. Now the reason why i got that E is because i didn't do well on my test and our tests are worth 50% of our grade. I don't know why i took this class because if i knew that i was going to fail it. Then i wouldn't have taken it in the first place. I really don't like that class because he didn't upgrade our interms and he just ask for too much and when i do my hw assignment fully. He always find something wrong with it. What an I going to do because i can't afford to fail this class.....

Why does this song have to be so complicating.. 12/8/2011

Why does this song have to be so complicating. Mr. covert told the class that we had to either make a poem, rap, and or song about cell respiration. And boy is this hard, i never thought that writing a song would be this hard. We had to work in partners and i partnered up with ebe and boy did we make some progress. Although we only had a few verse to the song we are  working diligently on this project. We exchanged Skype names so that we can keep in contact. We chose to do TGIF by Katy Perry instrumental. And so far so good, it's  a good thing that the song is not due until Monday. So far this is what we have. Don"t Judge me, at least I'm trying to make it work lol.

So Much HW... 12/7/2011

I had to complete so much hw. My fingers are hurting by typing this. I had a lot of hw because i just remembered.I also talked and gave my friend some good advice to help the situation that she is in. She is packed with a heavy work load and she has to make tough decisions and i want to be there for her so that she won't feel like she is alone.

Understanding 12/6/2012

Today was like all of the others, long, tiring, and i learned a few things from the classes that were actually interesting. Why is that it seems like everything that i do, doesn't seem like it's enough of what people expect of me. Do some people not realize that life is hard and that it is hard being a teenager. Some parents are like well i was in your "shoes" before, so therefore i know what your going through. But in great honesty they have no idea, times have changed from since my parents have been in high school. There is more peer pressure, the academic curriculum is more advanced and challenging. Why can't they understand that sometimes us teenagers like to be left alone, and that some adults have no clue on how we feel and what it's like to be us. If they only knew, then there views would be 10x's different. They would understand what it is like to be a teenager and maybe they will be a little less harder on us. Some of these parents and adults just need to let us teenagers be teenagers..... And stop trying to make us into something that is so not relevant to who we are as a person. We are not animals.. you can not train us to do what you want and anytime you want it. It takes time. I just wish that these adults now a days can fully understand what it is like to be us and what we go through and may be just maybe they will understand.

A day filt with hw 12/5/2011

Today was a day filt with hw as soon as i got my self fully situated i started to work on my hw which was from 4 to like 7:30ish. I completely made my self motivated by staying focus and not letting any distractions get the best of me. Today i was kind of frustrated with my house because we had so little time to get our board done and not everyone was lolly gagging around but honestly there were a few of us who was to doing what we had to do in order for us to get a good grade. But the others were procrastinating like crazy and i was looking at the time and  my head just began to hurt because we was cramming so much stuff down in like the last five mins. of class;  because so of my house members weren't really participating. And yes this mini project came up unexpectedly but honestly we are the house of Atlas, we are supposed to able to handle what ever comes our way.

What an Awsome 12/4/2011

I went over my grandmother's house to watch the ravens play with my father's side of the family. I was able to see my grandmothers brothers and there wife. And it felt good to tell them about how far i am exceeding in life. As i attempted to not watch the ravens play,  i hung out with my cousin Cinamon and my sister Sha.lonte. We sat around talking about the future and what we thought about we were going to be doing 10 to 12 years from now and everyone last one of us had very ambitious goals. I also ate cookie that my cousin Anthony gave me because he was allergic to chocolate.

This is a brief video of my grandparents singing gospel songs.

Welcome to the family Peter and Sally 12/3/2011

Today was an awesome day. Not only did i take the SAT's today, but i was able to successfully pin curl my sisters hair. I think that i did OK on the SAT's, and seeing that this will be my last time taking it, it means a lot for me to do well on it. My family have two new additions to the family and they are Peter and Sally. Now i know that you may thinking to your self who is Peter and Sally, No there not adopted kids, and No they are not pets. Peter and Sally are two elves, Yes i said elves, and they are the cutest ever. My mother put them in front of our Christmas tree, so that the can protect the tree from gift burglars.

Tis another day 12/2/2011

It seemed as if today went by fast because all of a sudden i am almost falling asleep in my AP Psychology class and when i opened my eyes, everyone was packing there stuff up and getting ready to go home. Soo I decided to take the SAT's again and i am supposed to take it tomorrow. So i hope that i do well on it. I have been so pressed with the whole application process to the point that i forgot about everything else. Before the end of this month i would have filled out my financial aid form. And also today me and my mother talked about how we were going to situate what college that i was gonna go to. And to be completely honest, i don't think that my mother knows what shes doing.

The most Unenthusiastic person I know... 12/1/2011

So on my way home from my NaNa's house, i talked to my mother about Hood College and how i was waiting to for transcript to get there so that they can give my decision. And mother was ok with it and she then asked "Well where is Hood College" and I said "it's in Freddrickville MD" "Freddrickville Maryland? Who is going drive you  all the way out there because I'm not" Now isn't that something, she said that it was too far away and then she told me that it was an hour away. So i thought to myself what if it is only an hour away that shouldn't be bad and then i added "well by then i can drive myself there." And she said "The gas prices are too high" and then the whole entire time that she was talking to me she didn't sound the least interested. How is that supposed to make me feel. The only thing i wanted to do in the car was cry. Because she made it seem like Hood was too far away and that my bests bet was to live on campus, which was what i was already planning on doing. Now don't get me wrong my mother means well. It's just that she can be so mean and not interested into anything at times and if it has anything to do with money, then you just shouldn't ask and or say anything.... Sometimes i think to myself and i wish that my mother would be a little more enthusiastic about the choices that  i am making in life. And it seems like the only person who cares is my stepfather.
P.S. Today is his 32nd birthday.

And the cycle goes on 11/30/2011

Today was like all of the others except for the fact that i had a test in AP Bio and in English 12. I know for a fact that i did well on my English 12 test, but i think i failed my AP bio test because some of the material that was on there i didn't really remember. Other than that my day went rather the same like the other days. So this year my father decided that we were going to do secret Santa. And we all had to put our names in a hat and on the same card as our name we had to write three things that we wanted for Christmas and it had to be above$10. So we all then picked a name from the hat and who ever we got, on Christmas day we have to distribute gifts to them. The gifts must be over $10 and it must be wrapped. The person that i got is pretty easy and i have a hunch on who have me. And everyone decided to get my grandfather something because of his disability. But any way I am really excited to see what everyone got for each other.

Shift Happens 11/29/2011

Today in AVID we talked about statistics and we watched two short videos called "Shift Happens". Those two videos made me realize that life is not going to be easy. It put me into perspective, and it made me want to further my education  because like one of my fellow classmates said "An undergraduates degree is like getting a high school degree." The jobs out there will begin to vary. And i also agree with Amber and Kennedy when they said that you can be the most unintelligent person and still be successful because as long as your doing something that you love to do. It will be like your own piece of happiness. I think you should live life to the fullest and worry about the other essential later because life is too short to be stressing yourself out over some of the littlest things that you can easily accomplish. If you try diligently enough and work for what you want there's no telling what the outcome may be.

Making some progress 11/28/2011

I am excited because me and my aunt have successfully set up a date when i am supposed to be going to driving school. I will be going to Elite Driving School, in February, and i am really excited about that. Other than that today was like any other day, except for the fact that my mom made turkey soup with all of the scraps from the turkey that we had from Thanksgiving. I have also completed my application for Hood College and the only thing that i have to do is to send in my transcript and then i will be done. And i gave the Ms. Dell the rest of the information that she needed to complete my application, so now I'm waiting for her to tell when she has completed.

My reaction 11-27-2011

Today i watched my Friend Khalil's video on YouTube. Which was of him playing the violin to various songs. I thought that it was amazing and he is a true artist and he is going places. I have also successfully finished my Hood college application and the only thing that i have to do is to send my transcript and then i will be DONE!!! Yay me!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wPlbS5du28

ThanksGiving 11/23-11/26

So today i am going to write about all of the days that i have missed which would be 11/23-11/26. So on Thanksgiving I ate so much to the point that it felt like my stomach was going to bust wide open. I will show pics of the food that i ate as soon as i can find a way to upload it to my dads computer. I had an over all amazing weekend with my family. I was also excited to have had made Honor roll and hopefully i can make it next quarter too.

Tis another day 11/22/2011

So tomorrow I have to bring in my food choice for the food rag and there may be a slight dilemma. I am bringing my dish in a crock pot. And i also ride the bus so either i won't be able to bring my book s and stuff with me to school just to make room and or my sister may have to sacrifice her seat on the bus for me. I guess i will just have to hope, pray, and see how everything will go tomorrow. Today, like all of the others , was pretty much the same, although it was raining hard and my mother decided to go food shopping for thanksgiving. Yet so far today i talked to ms. dell about my application for Virgina union which i completed my part and she has yet to do hers. I am panicking a little because this is really important to me. So she told me that she will get it done over the our three day weekend. Boy i hope she does.....