My New Hobby

Fish, my new hobby is keeping fish and I have been working on actually keeping them alive. It started when my brother won a small goldfish at the fair. He got so excited and was all for taking care of it and everything. He even bought his little fish a friend. Soon the fish Noah won at the fair died and Noah was all for getting another. After that I realized that keeping fish could maybe be a fun hobby, and I decided I would start off with a small tank and I brought home two goldfish. I named them Koda and Harley. They were small, and orange and white. Noah decided to put his fish in the tank I bought in exchange for food and other fishy supplies. Harley lived about a week after that before I woke up one morning to find her floating at the top of the tank dead. At that point I thought it was because Noah had not cleaned the tank earlier in the week like I had asked. I am still unsure however. Even so I continued with my fish, wondering what had killed the one. A few days later Noahs replacement fish died despite my attempts I think he suffocated to death and so I bought an airrator for the tank. With only two fish left I went up to the store with my friend and bought a Marbled, Lyre molly. He is stunning and I have named him splatter, I will post a picture of him fairly soon, that is if he doesn't die first despite my attempts. With him I also bought a live plant called Anacharis. It is supposed to help keep the tank oxygenated while taking in carbon dioxide and fish poop. Lets hope it works. Still I came home from school today with Koda floating at the top. The sad thing was he was absolutely fine when I left. Maybe Noahs fish is a bully... I have seen him chasing the others around before.

         Now that I have had the fish for a while I hope to get a bigger, more acceptable tank for them and start raising mollies. *Cough, Cough, My birthdays coming up, hint, hint.* With a bigger tank will come the need of a heater for the mollies and a small filtration system, and hopefully another Marbled Lyre.

A Creative Idea

I found this great site a while back called Colour Lovers, where you can design patterns and what not. You can also make material out of your designs so I decided to play around with it. Well, now I have a great Idea for birthday, Christmas, and moneymaking. I already made a design that I want to turn into a pillow for Landon, just as I thought it might be a cool idea... Watch out, you never know what could be coming! Now I just have to find a pattern and then figure out how much I need!

Okay, I get the point..

Okay, I get it, I'm a slacker. I haven't posted on here since you know, like April, and a lot has happened since then. Maybe I need like a blogging schedule, I don't know.
         Anyway first of all in my time absent from this amazing spot that I use to vent, I AM NOW A BLACK BELT. I know, I stink, I just had to wait two months too write this,  Like I said, SLACKER .  Still I am glad that me and my Grandma pushed through and earned it, with the help of our instructors of coarse, and I must say I was quite exhausted after the test, tiered enough to go to bed without taking anything off, including my dear tennis shoes.
          The next thing I am so eager to tell you about would be my amazing new project that goes by the name of, The Blond Menace. Not only do I ride him whenever I get my butt down to the stables, but I also got to ride him in a show this Saturday. I wasn't on him for ten seconds before he began bucking, and I ended up on his neck, holding on for dear life until he stopped. After I got myself back in the saddle he proceeded with the bucking until I had to finally dismount and lunge him before my dressage test. He only bucked once or twice after that, but it is not the end of the story. During my Cross-country part of the event, My dear Menace decided it would be fun to try running, and he actually enjoyed bolting off after every jump. Which may I inform you is a ginormous accomplishment, as my crop was much less than needed during the venture. Oh my dear Lucky. He did finally decide to calm down though for the last event, show jumping, and we got a clear round. I can't tell you where I placed or anything because both me and the one person I was competing with in my division both had enough refusals to be disqualified. Her and I agreed that we both had tied for first.GO Horses!
         I now have a new blog I will be posting my stories on, it is located: Here. My friend and I will also be posting our book reviews and suggestions on the same blog. I will continue with this one also, so don't worry.
         Anyway, I will leave you guys with that for the moment. Have fun, keep reading, and just be you.

- G. Alyssa

~Giant Update~

As you all know, I didn't update at all until yesterday. So I decided to just make one GIANT update.

1. I am currently training for my black-belt with my Grandma. If we get pass our cut this Saturday we will continue training until June when we will test for our black-belts.

2. In school we're in the fourth quarters and I have awesome classes, and I have some.... not so great classes, like Utah Studies for example.

3. Spring break was and is this week. So far I had Black-belt class Saturday morning and then me and my Bestie, Haylee, went up to Heber to spend some time with Aunt. G and Chasy. Chasy was a big brat and I got reared at, almost bitten a few times, and well, we can't forget stepped on now can we?

4. AZ peeps. I've already been in the pool, felt the Sun, and had Ice-cream. What could get any better? Oh yeah, and for you guys enjoying the wonderful rain In UT well, just know that we're here and having a great time in the SUN!

Easter Egg's

Easter, such a great time of year, right? Yep, or at least I think so. You get to paint eggs and celebrate the resurection Plus there's.... CANDY. But the bad thing about painting Easter Eggs is that they go bad, and even if you made the coolest egg ever you're not aloud to keep it because of coarse it's rotten. Today however, whilst all of Noah's friends, and Noah himself were painting the hard boiled kind of Easter Egg, I was making Everlasting Eggless Easter Eggs. Sounds cool right? Well it starts out with getting all the yoke and whites out of the egg. To do this you have to poke a hole in the top and a hole in the bottom of the egg after you shake it up. Then you blow into one of the holes and the insides drain out through the bottom. Often looking like snot. And well once that's done you wash them out and dry them and then paint them. And guess what... You get Everlasting Eggless Easter Eggs!

Horse Show's and other things....

I went to a horseshow yesterday called the Extream Horsemans Challlenge, It's a mix of cross country and another kind of show that I don't know the name of. Anyway I got eighth because I had to beat buck over most of the obstacles, and I dropped the bucket... Still I made it up during the cooaperation event were you had one minuet to go into this arena that was filled with random obstacles, you then could go over whatever you like, but each was worth a different amount of points. The things I chose were, the weaving poles (10) the tarp (20) the weaving barrels, (10) and then the tarp again. So I got a total of 60pts and one that part of the event in our group. Eathier way I had a great time and am sunburnt from head to toe!

Other than that, my Birthday is only... Eleven days away!

Ok Sorry

OK, Sorry I haven't posted in a while, with a new school all my activities and honors to keep up with I don't have much time. I'm in two honors classes, English and Math which is actually English, Reading, and Pre-Algebra. Not only that but Mondays and Tuesdays I have Karate, Wedness days I have Youth group, and Thursdays I have horseback. In Karate I am now a Blue belt. In Horseback I will be working on: Dressage, show-jumping, and cross-country that way I can start participating in show's next year. Another thing I am doing right now is seeing how many grains of rice I can donate using free rice this month. Whow!

Summer :) -> :(

Oh Summer, It is almost over, the start of seventh grade looms ahead. Times of laying around and having fun with friends is to come to a stop when the first day comes. 7th grade 7 periods many more than 7 friends and 7 books to read in endless time comes to only spurts latter in the night, but I get up earlier, but get home earlier except on Fridays when we get to sleep in. I still can't decide between being happy... or sad.

Last Days

My last day of school was a week ago Thursday, and I have been thinking about it ever scince. I cried and I laughed and I was happy and I was sad. It was really strange leaving the school for the last time as "Students". I am excited for the rest of summer vacation but I will miss my teachers and the school, It just has so many good memories with it. At least as we left the school we left a "Legacy" behind. We were the first to start a new tradition were we all walk through the school one last time with the other students lining the halls clapping and cheering, their faces bright and smiling with the prospect of summer vacation ahead of them. Some of us were teary eyed and laughing as we left. But there was another "Legacy" we left behind. We were the first BrookWood sixths graders in tweleve years to beat the Staff in SoftBall!

Awsome Movies

There are only two movies I will watch over and over and over again, The first is Lion King, but I have a problem cause I don't have It! the other I got yesterday and it's Avatar! I love that movie.

Wow

What's up with school these days, I mean I have had three big projects to focus on in the past two months,
1: Reading fair, I worked on this with Haylee and katlynn and we got a perfect score. At least were done, or I would go CRAZY!

2: Autobiography, ANNOYING, I have to write a chapter about each year and it's due on wedness day each week. Still going on

3: Country Report, I chose Kenya and now I have to have a rough draft of it's history on Tuesday! then I have a whole bunch of other stuff due every Tuesday for it!!!!

Sometimes I feel like they just want us to be buried, cause I still have homework from my classes too!

Paint?

So I said we weren't going to paint my room in my last post but we ended up painting! all the walls except my closet wall are green and my closet wall is a chocolate brown! My room seems so much bigger! I love it!

Thanks Grandma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Bronchitis

OK so I haven't been feeling well and we went to the doctors yesterday cause we thought I had strep. Well I didn't and I never have had strep anyway, but now I have Bronchitis. We were supposed to paint my room today or tomorrow but now we can't cause I am sick.

Happy BirthDay!

Happy BirthDay Haylee and may it be your best one Yet!

A little Somthing I have realized about writing

We say we cannot write a story because we have no idea what to write about. Well we have plenty Ideas and we already have one chosen. The real problem is finding the time to sit down and put your thoughts on the papper. This is hard because Emotion and thoughts aren't expressed in words it seems but rather in images that only you understand. Trying to put those thoughts into words is a big challenge. Thats why a good book is so hard to write, because you have to express your thoughts in a way others understand. A good book is truly a great book.