FACEBOOK OR FACEDIARDY?

 Yeah, so Facebook can be a great thing. It’s a mind-blowing idea that you can talk to and connect with someone on the other side of the world! It allows you to socialize, let people know what’s happening in your life, and follow others’ posts. But Facebook can also be a bad thing. Instead of explaining why it can be a bad thing, I’m going to tell you a story that I think will illustrate my point very clearly. And just so you know, this is a TRUE STORY. Yes people, no matter how out-of-this-world it may seem, this story is very true and very recent. So brace yourselves. Here goes:

Once upon a time, there was a happy family. It consisted of a mother and a father and a couple children. Anyway, one day the father got in a very serious car accident and had to be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. The police that had arrived on the scene called the wife (who was at home with the children) to inform her of the accident her husband had been in. Immediately after receiving the phone call from the police, she hurried to the computer and posted the following on Facebook: “[Jeff] has been in an accident! Gotta run to the hospital ASAP!!!” A little while after the accident, the husband passed away.

Seriously, people!!? Who has time to post on Facebook that their husband is dying when he was rushed to the hospital thirty seconds ago!? Facebook has become a diary to some people. I’ve seen posts on that thing like “eating an apple right now”, then two minutes later another post comes up something like “mmm, that was a yummy apple”. I mean, people put their entire lives on Facebook! Do you see what I’m saying?? I don’t know about you, but to me it seems like people just have too much spare time, so they end up writing down every little thing they do and posting it online for the whole world to see!

Wow. Facebook. More like Facediary.

My Feelings About Math

My brain is a knot

Of numbers on paper.

All tangled together, combined into one.

My brain is confused

I can’t get it right,

These mathematical equations

Are crumbs of knowledge

Rolling around on my plate.

My brain is an amoeba

Of cells squished together.

I’m left brained –

Not right –

Maybe the other way around!

You know, I really hate math

But I love words.

Ann Romney's Never Worked a Day in Her Life? Yeah Right!

     This morning, a Democrat suggested that Ann Romney is no "economic expert" because she “hasn’t worked a day in her life”! When I heard that someone actually said that, I was so glad Mrs. Romney didn’t let that go! She immediately fought back, saying that raising her own five children was as much as a full-time job as her husband’s! Mitt Romney said that he considered it even a more important job than his.

    Mothers today aren’t respected as much as they should be. I mean, seriously! Stay-at-home moms spend their own precious time to take care of messy kids, clean, cook, chauffer, etc… The list goes on and on! This is all because moms care about their homes, their kids, their families. So let’s give moms credit for their full time, twenty four-seven job. Don’t forget they don’t even get paid! Someone would have to be very low class and unappreciative to make a prideful comment like, “Stay-at-home moms haven’t worked a day in their lives”! No one has the right to say something like that – something so prejudiced and snotty. The man who hurled that prideful comment at Ann Romney had a mother, right!? It seems almost like he isn’t thankful to his own mom for everything she did for him. If you have ever babysat even for one night, you know a little of what some moms experience every day! So lets give our moms the credit they deserve. They’ve done so much more for us than we even know.

My Favorite Quotes

“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the Earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.”

- Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, page 83)

“You are never alone………….except for when you are!!!”

-      Alexa Matthews

“Let thy heart rejoice”.

-      2 Nephi 9:52

“With death comes the very essence and beauty of life; without death, there cannot be life.”

-      Unknown

“There is no such thing as an ugly person. Only people who think there are.”

-      Unknown



“As long as I keep practicing, this is the worst I will ever play.”

      - Me!



"Smile until you're happy!"

     - Tori Sandholtz (did I spell that right???)

“The bud may have a bitter taste

But sweet will be the flower.”

-      William Cowper (author of God Moves in a Mysterious Way)

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

-      William Shakespeare

"The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him."

- Lamentations 3:25




“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glorification of God and the refinement of the Spirit.”

-      Johann Sebastian Bach

“Life is not measured by how many breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.”

“People stay where they are celebrated……not tolerated.”

-      Jeff Taylor

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

-      Albert Einstein




"Hope is good;
for He will help
all those that wait.

When in doubt,
call out His name:
He'll hear thy voice

So turn to Him
with all thine soul
He'll give thee peace."

Wordle!!!!!

Wordle is so much fun!!!!
Check out some of my creations:

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5116377/Sheer_Delusion

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5116342/Viola_Hair

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5116365/JAWS

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5116363/Flame_Boat

Movie Etiquette

     So today after school, (no, Mr. Thompson, this isn’t one of those blog entries where I’m just going to tell about my day. J I actually have a point!) my friends and I went to the movie Hunger Games (again). I was really anxious and excited to see the movie all day, but it was a disappointment when we all got settled down and into the movie when six, obnoxious teenage guys with the attitude “I’m too cool for you,” strutted into the movie theater and sat down right in front of me and my friends.

     First of all, their heads blocked the screen. You know how much that bugs!? The entire movie I had to lean to see over their giant spiked lumps sticking straight out of their head that they probably called hair! Everyone appreciates kind people with etiquette during movies. Now what did these annoying teenage boys do wrong? Oh, just wait. The story gets better and better. 

     So the first thing that bugged me was their heads and hair in the way right as soon as they sat down. They were not off to good start! But as the movie continued, they continued to laugh (very loudly), make fun, and text with their phones on very bright!!!! I was being driven crazy!!! During the saddest part of the movie when Rue died, these obnoxious guys laughed and said “ANYONE NEED A TISSUE??” sooooooo loud that my friend sitting next to me put her feet up on the back of their chairs and pushed forward. Apparently they didn’t like that (they weren’t meant to!), so they pulled their arms back and pushed my friend’s feet off their chair!

   

     By this time, everyone was watching, and I was practically fuming I was so mad, that I just plain kicked their chairs! They got mad and turned around to see who had kicked them, except they thought it was my friend who had done it!

     The moral of this story is: 

1) NEVER TURN ON YOUR CELL PHONES AND TEXT OR DO ANYTHING WHATSOEVER DURING A MOVIE!!!!!

2) NEVER LAUGH REALLY LOUD DURING A MOVIE

3) BE KIND

4) REALIZE THAT EVERYONE ELSE IN THE MOVIE THEATER PAID THEIR OWN PRECIOUS MONEY TO SEE THE MOVIE, SO DON’T BE OBNOXIOUS!

5) DON’T MAKE FUN OF SAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN - YOU WOULD CRY IF THAT HAPPENED TO YOU TOO

6) DON’T SARCASTICALLY ASK IF ANYONE NEEDS A TISSUE

7) DON’T MAKE LOUD CLANKING NOISES WITH YOUR POP BOTTLES 

8) NEVER SPIKE UP YOUR HAIR AND SIT RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE IN A MOVIE

9) DON’T THINK IT’S FUNNY WHEN PEOPLE GET MAD BECAUSE YOU’RE ANNOYING

10) DON’T BE RUDE!!!!!!!!

I wish I remembered that you can always go tell a worker to kick people out of movies. 

Lindsay Stirling: Not Your Average Violinist....

     Most people think that the violin is strictly classical. Well guess what? It’s not! Sure, there’s Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart who are phenomemal musicians (like the best out there!), but there’s other great, modernday composers too! Lindsay Stirling is one of my new favorite role models. She plays the violin. But she doesn’t just play the violin, she dances while she plays!

     Lindsay Stirling was born in September in 1986, and began her studies with the violin by taking private lessons when she was only six years old. She is twenty six years old right now, but stopped taking private lessons from a teacher when she was eighteen. That’s twelve years of taking! When she was young, she took jazz and hip hop dance lessons. Lindsay served an LDS mission in New York City and currently goes to college at BYU (Provo, Utah). She has also performed in places like half-time basketball games, “America’s Got Talent”, and many more!

     I love Lindsay and think she is a great example to young violinists. Most people think that the violin is a classical instrument, and sometimes it even gets looked down upon by people who don't appreciate classical music. But Lindsay is changing the way people see the violin. It doesn’t have to be Bach and Mozart anymore. It can be pop music and hip hop dancing!

     Lindsay loves to compose her own violin music, make up a dance, then film herself in cool places. I first found out about Lindsay Stirling on YouTube. After she records herself playing, she posts her videos online. She records her playing in cool places like the woods, old ruins with graffiti all over them, Medieval castles, and even man-made ice castles! I’ve seen lots of her movies, and my favorite of her videos is when she spontaneously picks up her violin at the beach and starts playing in front of everyone!

     Lindsey Stirling has inspired me to keep practicing my violin, and maybe even to do what she’s done and learn to do hip hop dances at the same time!

    If you get a chance, you should look up Lindsay Stirling on YouTube. When you’re finished watching, you’ll want to play the violin!