Another Letdown....

Unfortunately things have just not been going my way. I didn't get what I had set out to do in the very first place. Even more so it seems that everyone else has gotten what I wanted. Now that may sound petty but honestly I couldn't care less. I'm not angry at them or anything. I'll get over it and work harder next year I suppose that's the only thing I can do.-H

I have a ton of flower pictures so I'm going to share some more.

WPIAL Championships

Just got home from the Western Pennsylvania Swimming Championships! I had a great day for swimming, not so much for pictures, though! It was a two day competition, but the sun was only out on Day 1 and I didn't have my camera! Oh well! Did the best I could!


This is where the meet took place.



The whole side wall is made up of all windows. Too bad it wasn't sunny!



This is supposedly a "fast" pool.



The pool is so big! Its dimensions are 25 yards x 50 meters!



Stakes were high for some swimmers, and they resorted to shaving their heads bald to be as fast as they could!

 -A

Good Luck!

I would just like to say good luck to all of our WPIAL swimmers today and tomorrow! Including our very own A! You guys are going to do great! And now here's some pictures.... -H

I climbed the Currituck Beach Lighthouse!

Crabs. We're learning about them in Health.

I wish a guy would give me flowers.....

Or even a picture of one....

One of the many Buddhas on my family's property.

Clearly I'm obsessed with flowers....

Clearly....

This sad flower reflects my disposition..... just kidding

LaSt OnE yAyYyY!!!!

Lunchtime

Actually, I am a vegetarian, but I live in a house where meat is consumed every single day. Especially chicken. I figured that since I have this cool picture of spoons, I needed something to go with it, because it'd probably look dumb if I just had some spoons. So while the chicken was on the stove, I tried to make it look as appealing as possible.

-A

Story Time

“Get up!”

The girl awoke with a start. Elizabeth had heard her dreaded step mother call from upstairs and she was in no hurry to greet her. Who could blame her? The wicked witch of a wife and a mother was unkind to her husband and his daughter. This unfortunately was her, Elizabeth. Then Elizabeth’s father had gotten himself cancer. His death had left a small fortune to his wicked wife and nothing for his sweet, innocent, daughter. Then the step mother made it her life’s mission to make Elizabeth’s life a living hell. If that wasn’t bad enough the twins, Amanda and Taylor came along for the ride. They were just jealous Elizabeth supposed, she had the good looks and the smarts, while they were short, fat, and ugly. The only way that anybody told them apart (even their mother) was Amanda having a lazy eye and Taylor missing a quite noticeable tooth. A thing Elizabeth often pondered on was what their real father looked like. Not very handsome she supposed. The Step-Mother was pregnant and dropped out of high school. She often blamed the father for making her do that and throwing her life away.

Another yell from upstairs brought Elizabeth back to the present. She sat up and looked around. Unfortunately she had fallen asleep on the couch again. The coach is much more susceptible to devious attacks from the twins. One time she had fallen asleep and they had dumped ash on her face. When she woke up and looked in the mirror she had almost fainted. It took five showers before the final soot had gotten out of her gleaming blonde hair.

The Step-Mother thought that Elizabeth was taking too long so to make her go faster she screamed, “IF YOU DON’T GET UP HERE IN LESS THAN 5 SECONDS I WILL PERSONALLY SEE TO IT THAT YOU DO NOT GO TO COLLEGE!”

That had done the trick. With a start Elizabeth dashed up the stairs and started her daily workings of catering to The Step-Mother’s every need.

“What is it?” Elizabeth said as kindly as she could muster.

“Brush my hair” The Step-Mother commanded. Elizabeth reluctantly obliged and brushed the mousy brown graying hair. She was due for another dye job. While The Step-Mother was talking Elizabeth noticed that the prosthetic pumped lips were curved in a “I’m laughing but trying to hide it” smile. She looked into the mirror and saw that her beautiful hair was dyed a raven black with pink tips. Elizabeth was mortified. Her face started  furiously blushing. The Step-Mother noticing that Elizabeth finally saw her hair had started hysterically laughing.

“Darling the twins were just looking out for your best interests, now they don’t have to be worried about you being labeled a dumb blonde. And while you’re here I need my laundry done and breakfast made. I’m thinking a sunny side up egg. Oh yeah, and the pool needs cleaned. So hop hop get to it!”

“Yes ma’am” Elizabeth grabbed the hamper and headed downstairs. She was going to wring their fat stubby necks the next time she saw them. As she descended down the stairs she had her chance. Amanda was leaning against the railing and smirking.

“I like your hair.” Taylor said from the other side of the room.

Elizabeth looked at her and weighed her options.

End Chapter 1; How do you like it? My internet was down and I was bored! I also just watched a Cinderella story so excuse me for the subject matter all copyrights go to their respective owners. Also,excuse me for any spelling mistakes. Anyhow still working on some pictures should be up soon! -H

Nature vs. Nurture

Actually, this isn't about that biological discussion topic, but since we talked about it last week in bio, thought it'd be a good title.

Welcome to our blog.

Leaf.



The horizon.

The front door.

Look up!

The woods behind my house.

A branch.

A fallen tree.

Floral Photographer

I planned on posting some flowers for Valentine's day, but have been so busy that I haven't gotten around to it yet! But I figured that I might as well just do it, even though Valentine's Day was on Monday. So I'd just like to thank everyone for the Valentines! I loved them all!

These first two were taken on my iPod, so the qualities not really there.

These ones aren't really romantic, but whatever:

-A