1. For his son who died for me…without him our sins wouldnt be forgiven.

2. For Friends!… I have been so blessed with amazing friends through my years, we may be going seperate ways next year but I will always be thankful for them and the joy they bring me : ).

3. For Family- even though I seem to be the child that never comes home, I am thankful that they are there for me when I do.  I love them all and I am trying to savor every minute of living at home because I am going to miss it next year.

4. For Music- Whether it be country, rock, pop, or holiday music and whether you be singing, dancing, or playing…music can be very inspirational and soothing and I love it!

5. For Chocolate… I love it when my mom makes my favorite kind of brownies! ha so i figured out this weekend that they are called seven layer brownies and no one else in my family likes them except me but my mom still makes them for me : ).

6. For my dog Rocks- Our family would not be the same without our golden lab named Rocks.

7. For sleeping in my own bed! I love to sleep and I love my bed.

8. For my independence. I am my own person. Even though it may be hard sometimes, I am glad that I have the freedom to make my own decisions.

9. For Sports- I love watching, analyzing, and playing sports and I am thankful God has given me a healthy body to do so.

10. For the joy of the holidays- I love how Thanksgiving and Christmas is a time of friends, family, and fellowship and it brings joy to many people.

Okay so it is my senior year, and I really have been stressing about which college to go to. When I started thinking about my time left in highschool, the song “Wheels” by Foo Fighters came into my head. I really like the song and it gives me a little motivation so here are the lyrics:

And everyone I’ve loved before

Flashed before my eyes

And nothing mattered anymore

I looked into the sky

Well I wanted something than

we wish for something beautiful

wish for something true

Been lookin’ for a reason

Something to lose

WHEN THE WHEELS COME DOWN

WHEN THE WHEELS TOUCH GROUND

AND YOU FEEL LIKE ITS ALL OVER

THERE IS ANOTHER ROUND FOR YOU

WHEN THE WHEELS COME DOWN

You can also listen to this song on youtube

So a while ago i wrote about my top 25 most played songs on my ipod and i didn’t have time to finish it and I only made it to the top 10 so here are the 15 that are left. Sidenote: I did break the 3000 mark in my total songs but the top 25 still is the same

11. Teardrops on My Guitar by Taylor Swift- Taylor Swift is an amazing performer and she is only 18. Her songs are easy to listen to and they are meaningful, especially for highschool girls.

12. Close Your Eyes by Edward Bear-This is also a great song to fall asleep to i mean it even says it in the title to close your eyes!

13. Night Moves by Bob Seger- Yes I am seventeen years old and I am a Bob Seger fan! My dad introduced me to Bob Seger when he bought the greatest hits album and everytime I listen to it, I think of singing to it on the way to the lakes in the summer

14. Lullaby by Creed- My dad also introduced me to Creed when I was just a youngen and for some reason the songs never get old.

15. Hold My Hand by Hootie and the Blowfish- This is yet another band I would listen to when I was little, although I really didn’t know what the lyrics meant I loved to sing them… and I still do.

16. I Love Rock and Roll by Britney Spears- I do love rock and roll and I do love this song, someday I will karaoke to this song without making dogs bark.

17. Hey Stephen by Taylor Swift- I like this song because its bery light hearted and lovey dovey and sometimes everyone needs a good dose of that.

18. Wildflowers by Tom Petty- You belong amoung the wildflowers, you belong in a boat out at sea.  You belong with your love on your arm. You belong somewhere you feel free.

19. Meet Virginia by Train-A classic, my predictions is that is will be on a 90′s hits cd someday.

20. Hallelujah by Kate Voegele- This song is very powerful and religious, it has very nice acoustics and Kate has an amazing voice!

21. A Different Kind Of Pain by Cold- I listened to this song ALOT freshman year so it was at the top of the list for awhile.

22. Kindly Unspoken by Kate Voegele- Someday I am going to learn to play the piano and learn how to match a pitch and then sing this song with all my heart

23. L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole- Nat King Cole was very clever in making thi poem about love I can’t think of the name of it when each letter stands for something (Mrs. De Groot help me out!) ha if you know let me knwo

24. Don’t Stop Dancing by Creed-At times life is wicked and i just can’t see the light… whatever life brings, I’ve been through everthing and now I’m on my knees for I know I must go on….Children don’t stop dancing believe you can fly away.

25. You Don’t Know What Love is You Just do a your told byt he White Stripes- This is a very interesting duet and it has an amazing beat and guitar.

So there you have it! My Top 25 Songs! Now that you have heard my favorite songs what are yours? and what is your opinion of them?

A difital footprint is what information is on the internet about someone. I hope that I leave a postive digital footprint that isn’t to revealing of information. I hear so many stories about different people gettting stalked on the internet by their facebook and myspace profiles. This seems very scary and I cannot believe there are people out their like that. I have facebook, but I patrol who I am adding as friends and make sure that I know them personally. I originally thought facebook was safe, but from what I hear it is very dangerous. That is why I don’t update my facebook status but I do put pictures online because my friends and family would like to see them. I hope colleges or future bosses don’t look at my facebook page just because that seems to be the wrong way to judge a person.  The simple words of pictures put online does not define who a person is. That is why I am sick of technology being the way we communicate with people. What happened to the good ol’ face to face communication? We have seemed to lost it in this day of age, and someday I hope technological communication goes out of style.

I accept that I already don’t want to do this decent everyday assignment, except my conscience elicits me to  lay down eat a piece of pie for dessert and call up your principal who’s losing his mind.  It’s getting annoying how every day Mrs. De Groot leads me  further through where we’re supposed to be at in our paper. Between sitting here and there among students, I lie about how thorough my two less interesting essays are setting on the table. Their principle in effect of my papers, is to bring peace to the illicit desert near Nigeria. I’m all ready loose enough to throw this paper farther into descent in the garbage which smells so bad I can’t breathe.

Recently, I read an article about plagarism and cheating in school. I had to do this for an assignment, so if your completely bored by this, I’m sorry. The article is found at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2002152271_plagiarism16m and it gets into details on how to solve plagarism. I think plagarism has gotten to be really bad, but it is very hard to monitor it. In the article it talks about a website called turnitin.com. On the website, students enter all their homework in online, and then the computer checks to see if anything is plagarised. I think if a school were to do this, it would unveil the stupididty of highschool students. Most students these days cheat non-stop. Like the article said, 90 percent of students admitted to cheating at this specific school. So if they were to try and set some restriction on it, the world would be alot dumber. That could end up teaching more students to actually learn and it could be good. In my opinion, I think they should teach more honesty in school, so the children feel guilty when they cheat and maybe that will lead to no more cheating!

Okay many of you may know this, but I am only seventeen. Now call me crazy, but me and my friend Abby have this wierd obsession with listening to records. It’s not like we were alive in the day they used to listen to them, or that we can’t find the songs anywhere else, there is just something about watching that record spin and controlling the the song being played by a needle. I don’t know why…I just love it.

In the corner of my room, I have a record player that I inherited from my mother and it was collecting dust for quite a few years. Finally, last year I went out and bought a needle for it and started going through all her old records. I enjoyed researching artists and the different types of music they played and all the different records they came out with. Before you know it I was rummaging through garage sales and making trips to Savers with Abby to find a hidden treasure of a record. So if your bored in the summer and your into music, start listening to records!

My favorite record (so far!) would have to be The River by Bruce Sprinsteen-it was the first record I ever listened to. If you want to listen to the song about the river click here.   But its more exciting listening to it on record player

My favorite song on a record would have to be the Old Songs by Barry Manilow- now its a little bit queer sounding  but it makes my wanna be old and listen to the old 45s!  just click here and listen to it before you go to bed it will make you fall asleep!…okay the music video is kind of embarrassing but o well 

Okay does anybody here love the weekends? I know I do specially since school is back in session and it makes the weeks seem really long. So once that bell rings on the Friday most kids are dartin out the door to go do various things with friends, families, and significant others.

 But does anyone ever feel like rushing home, locking yourself in your room, and sitting there doing NOTHING?  because I DO! so once I get this blog done and all of my other stupid homework I am going to do that very thing and enjoy it!

….but then I’ll proly get bored and go off and do something with my friends or head off to a football game….. ha

So I was sitting on the computer, trying to find an excuse not to do my homework. So I went to this website called Pandora Radio that my friend Shantelle told me about. It’s a really cool site that plays music according to your own personal songs.

All you have to do is enter your favorite song and they will create a stateion for you! Check it out!