I Thought I Should Let You All Know that I Am Still Alive and Breathing, If I am Sane is Purely Your Opinion

Long title, huh? I love long titles, but you know what I love more than long titles? The idea that one day, one great day, some author or something will come to ABQ that is not LDS (aka- not Brandon Mull, he was great though!)! Have you guys ever noticed that everything happens in New York City, the place I am slowly trying to make my parents take me to, even though they still like the idea of London- which I like too, don't get me wrong, but New York City is New York City.

FANG IS NOW OUT! AND IT ROCKED AND STUNK AT THE SAME TIME! AMAZING! AND I HAVE TO GO AND HUNT JAMES PATTERSON DOWN AFTER THIS SO YOU BETTER BE GRATEFUL THAT I AM TAKING THE TIME TO TYPE THIS WHEN I SHOULD BE HITCHING A RIDE TO FLORIDA AND FINDING A PHONE BOOK SO THAT JAMES PATTERSON WILL LEARN HIS LESSON (AND I CAN GIVE HIM A HUG FOR PUBLISHING 3 BOOKS A YEAR FOR KIDS MY AGE- THREE). And yes, that was all supposed to be in caps.

Different yet slightly related topic. Did you know that for some award the finalists for best book that I have read are Catching Fire and City of Glass so I know 2 of the 5 books. And for the best author I have read MAX by James Patterson, The Last Olympian (obviously) by Rick Riordan, and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins- three out of five! How awesome is that?

So I am alive, I believe that the above paragraph has proved to you that I have lost some sanity, but still have more than four brain cells- which is really good because I still have the giant state test that isn't really that hard for me, or half the people that I know at school, but we still like to pretend that we have to think! Oh, yeah! I went to California. Maybe I'll talk about that later.

-Emily

P.S. How do you like that mention about California? Did it make it sound like I didn't care about it at all?

It's that Time of Year Where The Family Schoolers Question Their Supposed Sanity

I fear the time of year after Winter Break. Why, you ask? Because it is at that time where we are usually doing three or four GIANT projects in about two months. Pure torture. No. It's school.

Don't believe me? As of last week we were working on:

Inquiry Two

Inquiry Three

Writing Project

Self Assessment

Along with our regular homework.

Do any Family Schoolers possess sanity? Your call...

I Am Losing It!

I spent pretty much all of today dizzy while doing probably about six hours of homework. Does anyone see any problem with that besides me and my parents? Good, I am glad that you all had the sense to agree with me. I am looking forward to going to bed (possibly, I took a small nap today, so we will have to see how that affects me) and not having to do anymore homework right now. These are the days where I would love to leave Family School. Those days were I am near a breakdown and I can't stop doing homework because of how intense our school is. I think most kids feel this way about school sooner or later, and I can tell them, when you have weeks were you are doing 20+ hours (all you Family School people are wincing and remembering all of those weeks where that happened to you...) you begin to think that college might actually be easier than this (though your parents tell you that you are wrong.)

Sorry I just had to rant.

(Now I know that you are all thinking, why didn't you do more homework yesterday? Because I actually wanted to remember what it felt like to not do fourteen million hours of homework in one day. Does that make sense to you?)

Let's See How that Bet Turned Out, Shall We...

The bet did not work. After about one day, the kids were risking their lives and we were in complete and utter terror at all times. But we still went to the movie today! THANK YOU MOM AND DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was as awesome as it could have been. I won't rant about anything because I would bore you all to death, instead I will say that it was a great movie and I suggest seeing some time (okay, let me rephrase that, see it if your kids want to see it). We all had a blast and it was pretty darn funny.

Enjoy the Olympics!

A Week of OLYMPIC Standards, and Mom and Dad Lost a Bet To the Three Kids

Two things, this week the Winter Olympics started (I think you all knew that... right?), which was a big thing for our family. We have all been looking forward to it and our enjoying ourselves a ton.

Second thing... and it is a BIG thing. Yip, yip, yeah. Mom and Dad are taking us to see the Lightning Thief on Monday because they lost a bet to us kids. Okay, let me tell you something. Mom and Dad might not actually take us because they are quite unhappy about losing the bet (if Dad couldn't put on our new screen door right, they had to take us all to the movies on Monday). They should keep their integrity and take us, but, honestly, I wouldn't bet much on it though (nice pun, right?).

I will let you all know on Monday if that actually, like, take us to the movie. Hopefully they will... or else.

Vote For Me and I Will Grace You All With My Blogger Presence

My mom showed me this today.

This is the picture for the school bond election. Do you recognize anyone. In the front is Gabby (1st grade), the adult in the back (I don't know what to call her- but adult seemed to fit) is Ms. Heather who is my teacher again this year. The two girls in the back who have the same shirt are Evia and Katia ( 3rd grade) and the pretty girl next to them is moi (2nd grade)! Aren't we just the most awesome group of girls? I even want to vote!

See you all!

I Needed Something to Blog About- Because I Am SOOOOOOOOOOO Bored!

So when I'm bored what do I blog about- my upcoming death, of course! Or more correctly this movie!

Those turned out a lot smaller than I thought it would, but I'm too lazy to find a new one... so- in case you can't read what this is (prepare yourself)-it is the Lightning Thief movie. (Boy, that was a complex sentence!)

Now I have to post this because I feel like it, so go here for the movie trailer. At the present moment I am trying to force myself to want to see the movie. (Maybe I can convince the parents to get it from Redbox and let us have some friends over to see it.) I must say I am doing pretty well, I haven't jumped up and run out of the house yet!

By the way, Shelby Acton had her first dance lesson and I wanted to congratulate her. I'm too lazy to just leave a comment! Good job, Shelby!

See you all,

-Emily: Who Will Soon Rule the World