English Chocolate:)

Holy

Cow

Mother

Father

Sister 

Brother...

Thats all I gotta say.

English Chocolate is my favorite by far:).

I would put up a picture of me eating it but it would probably end up looking a little like this:

Well around that but not with the kids and everything. 

Plus I dont need a bad picture of me on the internet:)

A Big Thanks to Anna Garrett who sent it to me all the way from England!

I LOVE YOU ANNA!!!!

And a side note, since the punks that stole all my money from my wallet did that I couldnt buy the Skittles for you.

But I just got paid last night so you better be expecting them soon:)

Thats all I gotta say:)

I love you Anna!!!!!!

Last Minute Thoughts:

1. I may have said that I love Seth, but not all the time.

2. I love chocolate.... ;)

3. I want my iPod back:(

4. People need to back off when my life is none of their business. That was directed at my brother FYI.

5. I love The Killers.

6. Orange and Purple are my new favorite colors:)

7. My father is one of the strangest people I know...

8. I love the gospel! I dont know what I would do without prayer to my Heavenly Father.

9. HOLY mother of COWS! I love the new song by Beyonce - Halo. ITS MY FAVORITE!

10. I love eggs... Heaven thank the Chickens!

Love you All!!!

Andie

Fanatic

The definition of the word 'fanatic' is as follows:



"A person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics."



"A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause."


"A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects."



"Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea."



Or: (and this is my personal favorite)



"insane person," from L. fanaticus "mad, enthusiastic, inspired by a god," originally, "pertaining to a temple," from fanum "temple," related to festus "festive".



Now why would I decide to define this word? Because I really wanted to know if I was a fanatic for music - all types and kinds - and true to the word, I am!

I really cant stress enough about how much music is saving me and occationally rescuing me from the shallow waters of a high school. Shallow pools of people also.



Last night I had to finish the book '1984' by George Orwell.

I pray and hope to the heavens that I will never have to open that book ever again.

Being an activist of individual rights and small government, this book was a task that really took some strength to finish.

I could have just gotten on cliffnotes.com and read the summary and not have been as badly disturbed as I was.

The book is filled with betrayal, physical violence that is so grafic that I really was bawling through the whole book. It also included some sex, but that wasnt graffic, thank heavens!!!

There were a lot of things that made me bawl - and I am using that term right how it is supposed to be used, I was crying really hard - in this book. The betrayal was the biggest I would have to say. The main character was continually betrayed, not only by his suspected friend, but also by his love and by a person that he didnt even know at all, but really did like till he turned out to be a member of the Thought Police.

Then the invasion of rights was the second factor in my break down.

They brain washed him! They broke him down - his spirit - and filled him with awful things, with themselves.

Here is an excerpt that shocked me to my core:
'What are the stars? They are bits of fire a few kilometers away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the center of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.'

That was said by the torturour O'Brien.



I

HATE

THIS

BOOK



The last two factors to the bawling experiance was the physical violence that was inflicted, not only to the main character, but to everyone around them.

And last but not least, Fear.

Fear that this kind of society would actually happen and that I might see the beginning of it. I dont believe that it will get as bad as the book depics, but it could head in that direction.



I am one of those people who can feel pain of someone else if it is described or only mentioned. I felt the main characters pain.

I felt it to my core.



So the savior of this dark damp day was music. Frou Frou to be exact. They mellowed me down and got me to think. They cleaned me out and then set me to dry, just like washing laundry. I was pissed. I was irate, and at nothing really, but it was a big deal to me and I was so angry that I had to read it!

I feel bad for anyone who has to read it and I really strongly suggest that if you can get out of reading it, do that.


I love you all!


Last Minute Thoughts:
1. Punks are so annoying.
2. There is a special place in Hell for Theives.
3. I love spell check!
4. The spirit will always protect me when I need to be procected.
6. Abs are a really big turn on for me, especially if they are tight and nicely built;)
7. I love Facebook! I have reconnected to everyone from my elementary years!
8. The orange iPods are the best:).
9. Frou Frou and Sara Bareilles save me from myself.
10. The worst feeling is being scared for your life in your own house.

Love you all!!!

Outlook

So my outlook on life has changed a bit.
Since this has been one of the hardest and most cruel month of my life, I have learned a couple of things. Here they are:

1. Dont trust people you dont know. Make sure you take all the precautions you can before letting anyone do anything to or for or with you.

2. Stuff is just stuff. You can get new stuff anytime:).

3. Boys never look more than 5 minutes a head in to the future for consequences.

4. Boys are relativily stupid. Dont take anything they say seriously till they are about 25.

5. When nothing is going your way and everything seems to be crashing down on you, one of the best things to do is Pray to Heavenly Father. Even if it seems like no one is listening - especially him.

6. My mother is one of the most amazing people I know! I love her so much and I just hope that I can be as great as her!

7. Seth is my rock. He helps me keep a grip on my sanity. The other night when I was crying - well more like bawling - about my iPod being stolen, he came in and completely made me laugh my head off. He is one of the greatest brothers and I dont know what I would do without him:)

8. My father is one of the funniest people I know, and I am so glad that I chose to be put into his family.

9. Being the oldest in the family has its drawbacks and its perks. I always get stuff first - Phone, iPod, Drivers Licence, car... etc.. etc. But I am the fall back girl if my parents need help. I always have to meet to the standards or else I get in trouble. Oh and I get away with murder;).

10. Family is very important.

11. Sleep is my favorite time of the day.

12. When people are so wrapped up in themselves that they cant see pain even if it bites them in the nose, they arent your true friends and sometimes its better to just be rid of them.

13. Music is my life and I love it:).

14. Im kinda like a 25 year old trapped in a 13 year olds world. I am so much more mature than anyone I know and yet I have to sink to their level of understanding sometimes to get anything through to them. I hate it!!! I just want to be done with High School!

15. There is a good chance that I am switching schools next year to either Woodscross or Davis. I am sick of Bountiful.

16. God doesnt forsake his children. When the door closes, a window does open.

17. Some of the geeky guys are more hilarious than the more popular guys:)


Well there you have it:) My life lessons in a nut shell!:)

Last Minute Thoughts:
1. I love chocolate:)
2. Im getting English Chocolate - directly from England!!! - in the mail:) Thats right! Be Jealous:):):).
3. I love my brother! Just a couple of sundays ago, we were looking for mom to go home and I asked if she was in the Relief Society room and he said "What do you think? A bunch of ladies coming off a spiritual high and you dont think mom would be in on that?" He cracks me up!!
4. Laughter is the best medicine.
5. Meetings that go over 1 hour are too long.
6. American Idol is only good till they go to Hollywood Week and then its stupid.
7. I love my phone:)
8. I love Bluetooth!:)
9. I really think blogging is good for the soul:)
10. I am starting my book! I dont know what its about or where the setting is but I know the characters:) they are formuated in my mind and they are so cool:)

Well I love you all and cant wait to see you in person!:)

I DONT KNOW WHAT MY PROBLEM IS!

So today.... well today I did something really stupid.
I left my iPod in my backpack.
Now usually this is a really safe place for it and I just have it there for when I need it - this is like every single class period cause I get my work done really early.
Well low and behold, I leave my back pack out in the gym locker rooms, and when I come back to dress:
Its Gone.
Along with my pack of gum and ten bucks in cash.
The worst thing is: The person is in my Gym class. I don't know who it is, but I know that they are in my class. I kinda screwed my self over with this one.

I ONCE SAID I WOULD DIE WITHOUT MY IPOD.
GOD IS OBVIOUSLY HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR.

I HATE THIS!!!!!!!!!!
First goes my calculator and now goes my iPod. I am thanking my lucky -not so lucky really - stars that I put my phone in my locker where people couldn't get to it.
I would seriously be completely raging mad if I got that stolen too.



I really hate this.

If you know why this would happen or the lesson that I must learn from this please give me suggestions.
I have said many MANY times that music is my life and I completely stand by that statement. But when I cant escape to my Nirvana, I get pissy and moody and to tell ya the truth, I AM RIGHT NOW.

Ok.
I'm Done.
I hate this.
My life sucks at the moment.
This whole month has been a shit hole from the beginning.
I need to get a grip.

No Last Minute Thoughts today.
There would be a lot of expletives if I did do it.

I hate life,
Andie

Photo Shoot Continued:)

Back By popular demand: THE REST OF THE PHOTO SHOOT PICUTRES:) Hope you enjoy:)

(:Photo Shoot:)

So me and the kids were bored this Friday night and so I decided to do their hair and dress em' up and take some photos!!!

Have fun:)

Aidan was one of my favorites to shoot:) He has all this personality that comes out when people show him some attention!

This one was just supposed to be a joke but I think its one of my favorites:)

SEE?!?! SEE THE CHARACTER?!??

If I bugged them enough, their real 

actions and personalities came up and it was so much more fun:)

He did these poses all by himself! I didn't have to tell him anything and he just did these!

Me being me...

Some of these shots were OK and not perfect..

We were getting tired and I thought 'what better way to get some serious poses?!'

This was the funnest one to shoot:)

They just started posing and they didn't know it so sometimes when they got a really cool fun shot, I would yell "FREEZE! Don't move!!!" 

They loved the attentions:)

Did this all on her own:)

By far my FAVORITE picture of them all!

I think that this is one of the best photos of me that have ever been taken.... SHOCKING. I am actually pretty here!:)

This was the very first one that I took of Sydney and I love it :)

She has so much pizazz!

~Trouble~

Believe it or not, I am having problems with friends... well friends that are posing to be my friends. So not-friends. Its confusing.
Unamed and unwanted they screw me over and repeatedly beat me down. I cant take it anymore. I even wrote a 9 page text - so text pages that are 160 letters = so 1440 letters - to the person I was irrate at. 9 PAGES!!! Who does that?! Or the right question is who actually deserves 9 pages of a complete beat down?
Ding Ding Ding! We HAVE A WINNER! Those people that are continually bashing my skull in.
This weekend I seriously cried my eyes out every night!
Now usually I have a more up beat blog post, but its really been hell for a good 3 weeks now. Next post will be just peachy in report:)
Back to the freaks of nature.
Boys.... Gag....
Ok, thats the problem really. They dont think more than 5 minutes into the future so everything they do that causes problems are because of spur of the moment ideas.
EARTH TO BOYS!!!! BAD WAY TO GET ANYTHING IN LIFE!!!!
I am done.
With anyone who treats me like I was treated last weekend.
I Am Done.
Frustration and disapointment cant be a constant thing with me or else I go insane - I should say more insane - and rip off vital body parts and shove them into a blender... Sorry for the grafic explination.
Remember this when your raising boys.
Teach them to be respectful and kind to EVERYONE. It will save some girls life in the end. This lack of respect and kindness almost killed me.

Last Minute Thoughts:
1. There is only one way to go but up!
2. Modest Mouse is a good band.
3. New Semesters are just fun:) - no sarcasm there:)
4. Chemistry 4th period with Peterson is just a snooze fest...
5. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
6. Sorry I had to get it out...
7. A good cry every month is good:) But every night for a week is a little bad... Unhealthy.
8. Tip your waiters and waitresses.
9. YAY! I get to go to gym tomorrow:)
10. I think I would die without my phone/iPod/Twilight Series.


Love you all and hope you have a wonderful day:)

Disappointment

So what do you do when the guy - or girl - you like yells at you for doing nothing?

Yesterday a girl in my school died in the morning due to an accident when she was skiing (I didn't find out till the last period of the day cause no one told me!). So everyone was in a pretty crappy mood. So in seminary - it was the last time we were in the same class so about everyone bore their testimonies and - the guy I like (Lets call him James) stood to bear his testimony. It was one of the best testimonies I have ever heard and it just strengthened the 'like' I have for him! Then after it was done and we were walking out we were talking and he was asking me if it was a good testimony and I was completely sincere when I said, " James, it was one of the best testimonies I have ever heard. I was deeply touched." He had asked me like 5 times whether it was good or not and I said something like that every time. HE STILL DIDN'T BELIEVE ME. Dumb butt.. 

I'm gonna just do dialog cause its easier.

"Andie, I'm sure that you would say that to anyone who bore their testimony."

"No James, I wouldn't. I'm not that nice." So we continued to walk and then Sydney needed to go talk to Bree and left.

Me and James were left alone to talk and then all the sudden in the middle of the conversation he stopped talking! Like:

Andie: "So James, blah blah blah blah?" (I cant remember exactly what I said).

James: "................"

Andie: "Never mind, It wasn't that funny" I smiled.

James: "................"

He seriously didn't even say a word. He just looked at me and stared. So I turned around to talk to my other friend and when I turned back around James was looking at me.

James: "Why did you leave me?"

Andie: "You weren't talking to me!"

James: "Sorry I was thinking"

Andie: "You can think and talk at the same time."

James: "I'm bad at multitasking."

So we left to the car cause Syd - thankfully! - came back right then.

We were in the car and I was singing to a hip-hop song and James yelled,

"WOULD YOU TURN IF OFF!? I'M TRYING TO FEEL THE SPIRIT!"

I was shocked so I turned around, "Are you serious?"

Syd: "I think he is dead serious".

So me and Syd kinda laughed at the uncomfortable silence that was on us and I turned the music completely off. 

We get to my house and he begins to ask for help to text his 'gal pal'. (She was really good friends with Megan the girl who died that morning. She was in a lot of pain) He didn't know what to say to her and so he wanted help from me. Syd was busy texting this guy that she really likes and wants him to ask her out to the valentines dance, so she was no help. 

So I sat there for like 10 minutes helping him out and every time I turned to go, he grabbed my hand and said, "NO. Don't give up now!" Like I was supposed to help him with this!

He was expecting my help for something that I had no obligation to do! 

I WAS PISSED! (that's just putting it mildly.)

I went home after I wrote the whole damn text and I could NOT be in a worse mood. 

I was so hurt. 

Being yelled at is bad enough, but by the guy that you have a HUGE crush on, that's even worse. 

So I had a bad week. Bad doesn't even begin to cover it really. 

 

The only silver lining in this is that I don't have any classes with him for the new semester! YAY! I don't think I would be able to handle that...

Last Minute Thoughts:

1. I HATE guys who grab boobs like they have a right to!

2. In hide and go seek base (lights out version) Make sure you were black and you cover your chest when anyone comes to feel who it is...... Stupid blankity blank blank....

3. Its so good for your soul to repent and replace:).

4. The only reason I go to school is to make sure that I get into a good college.

5. I hate high school with no real friends, and trust me when I say I really don't have any REAL friends at that school.

6. I hate feeling used and abused by people who have no right to.

7. NUTELLA IS SO GOOD!:):):)

8. "Like an apple hanging from a tree, I pick the ripest one I still got the seeds."

9. Liking someone isn't all that its cracked up to be.

10. I really don't like anyone right now and I am so glad I have that burden off my shoulders.

I love you all! Leave  comments!

Andie;) 

Change

One of my biggest flaws is that I freak out to everything before I see the whole picture. Now you could just call this "Dramaqueen-titus" or an 'F.O.' - Freaker-Outer. I answer to both:).
Having the transition to Highschool has changed me dramatically. I have become so much more independant in so many ways.
I dont have to have people be with me to make me look good. I can do something on my own and not feel bad because no one is with me. This is not common in school because everyone is afraid of looking 'unpopular' infront of their peers.
I am in fact 'unpopular'. I am not even remotely popular. But I think that we are using the word out of context anyways:).
To me I really dont care.
Im ok with being alone at lunch sometimes! It just makes going out with friends that more special.
This brings me to my next topic: Change.
We change constantly. Even when we stay the same, we change. I actually think that is from a song but it escapes me at the moment.
I just turned 16, but the change was not dramatic. It was like rearranging your closet, its different, but its not like someone died or left you or you won the lottery. It just is a nice thing to look at in a part of your life.
And then there are some of those changes. Like losing your Graphing Calculator.... Ugh... I dont want to think about it.
Or gettin a bad grade on your English Test. These are big things; but only in the moment.
You get over that you lost something and you either buy another one, or borrow one.
You Live.
That is one of the things that bugged me about reading the book 'Romeo & Juliet'.
Their lives ended, but their families didnt. They went on, they lived, and they loved again.
WE LIVE! - Unless we die, and then we still live but from behind the veil. And yet we still live in memories of people we knew!
When people leave, we go on. Our lives change with or without them. I have expericaned this with almost every best friend I have ever had. They might come back in the future - and some have and will - but I will not be the same! They wont either.
Change. Get used to it.

Last Minute Thoughts:
1. Time goes by slowly when your watching a broken clock...
2. End of Semester BLOWS!
3. Finals suck.
4. I love my phone:)
5. I dont like people who dont text back.
6. I probably dont like those people because sometimes I dont text back either.
7. Snow is cold.
8. Lame jokes are just that, but man sometimes they are hilarious!
9. I love my family.
10. There! I got to ten! HAPPY?!

Love ya:)
Andie

Schedule Change

Some Schedule changes are in the making:

1. English
2. Seminary
3. Algebra
4. Chemistry

5. Choir
6. Gym - LOYD!!!!!! Awesome because he is way easy:)
7. World Civ
8. Chinese.

Mainly these haven't changes except Seminary, Choir Gym and Chemistry. All the rest have stayed the same.


Last Minute Thoughts:
1. There can only be a few cause I'm in a hurry.
2. I love cars.
3. I love other Countries as long as I'm not living in them.
4. Call me!!! I'm bored and I have rarely had any homework this week!

Love ya!

New Semester, New Life....:(

So the semester is ending and there are good and bad aspects of this.
1. I will get out of Accounting!!! YAY!!!!:)
2. I will get a change in my life.
3. I have Choir! Yay:)
4. I have more even classes. This semester my 'A' days are the hardest ones.
5. My last periods of each day are easy classes so I wont miss something if I decide to ditch:) Wait... did I just say that?;)


Bad things:
1. I have to have Gym..... :( I HATE gym! But I have it right before lunch so it cant be that bad, and I can take my time to get ready after its done.
2. I also have English first period again.
3. The Semester finals are just being packed on and I tons of things to finish before the end.
4. I have seminary 2nd period:(
5. My Chinese class is in the same period that it was before:(
6. Having some of the 'First-Day-Of-School' Syndrome again.

But that are things to consider, even though I think that my schedule is better this semester than last:) Except for stupid gym..... :(

Last Minute Thoughts:
1. I'm starving.
2. I love tuna.
3. If your hungry enough you will eat anything put in front of you.
4. Cottage Cheese on Doritos are just amazing:).
5. Enough with food!
6. It is supposed to snow Thursday.
7. Get on homework and some work you have to do early, it will benefit you in the long run!
8. I have NO HOMEWORK TONIGHT:):):):)
9. I love texting:) Having my phone gone for that long time made me more grateful for it!
10. I love my dad! Its no fun at home without him....

Love you all!!!

∞§Christmas - New Years - My Birthday§∞

I want to just start out and say that I had one of the best Christmas Vacations I have ever had.

My family made that possible and I have to say thank you so much!

So Christmas:

We went up to Grandma Thatchers house and it was by far the most memorable!

Instead of exchanging gifts to each other, we did a service swap. I loved that! It was so much better and more fulfilling than normal.

But the surprise came after the service and the games. My wonderful Thatcher family did an awesome crazy service for my family. They gave us Christmas:). They filled up the back of our car with presents and I have to say I was touched! 

It showed me the wonderful, awesome, creative, caring, fantastic, magnificent - is that enough adjectives? - people they are! 

I felt included for the first time in a long time up there and it was so terrific:).

I felt excited to go and open presents Christmas Eve night! I haven't felt that in a long time too!!! I have always known every year what present I get so I'm not really excited - but I was surprised and had no idea and it made it a ton more fun:). Thanks Thatcher Clan:) I love you all!

New Years Eve/Day: New Years Eve I turned 16! I am officially 16 people!!! Cool hu?!:)

So I went out to dinner with Grandma & Grandpa Thatcher, MaRea & Kyle, Lindsey & Riley, Kim & Lee, and Angie and her friend Lindsey. We went to The Copper Mill and it was some of the best food I have had! I truly loved going out with the adults:). It was fun!

New Years Day kinda hit me hard in the fact that my birthday plans kinda fell through. Me and a couple of friends wanted to go up to my cabin in Liberty, so I called up my grandma to ask if we could and she informed me that the main water pipe broke and there were 4 inches of standing water in the house!!! Crazy and annoying and sad and sucky all at the same time! Then all of the other options that we had fell through too. 

What I wanted most of all was that I could escape and have a weekend with just my friends before dreaded school started again. But that wasn't on the plan for me I guess. So I decided that just barely that I was just going to have a regular party at my house on Friday night. So anyone wanting to come feel free:). 

So that was my exciting news:).

Taking into account what MaRea wants, here are 10 Last Minute Thoughts!

Last Minute Thoughts:

1. "Don't let go! You got the music in you!!! We only get what we give!"

2. Pissy moments pass, but they suck no matter what.

3. Have fun with your New Years Resolutions!

Some Of My New Years Resolutions:

4. I want to get in shape and get more friends - expand myself in the social aspect:)

End of New Years Resolutions.

5. When guys play video games, they are mean, rude and impatient. Not to mention oblivious.

6. Not showering makes me stink..... :(

7. I love the little orange iPod Nanos!! They are so cool!

8. There are some awesome talented musicians out there!!! Under your nose even!

9. I hate shoot-em-up video games..... :( Mostly cause I cant play them worth a dang.

10. Having a drivers licence is kinda useless when you don't have a car to drive!

There you go:) 

Have a wonderful New Year:)

Love,

Andie