Twilight!

I saw Twilight last night and I LOVED IT!
Everything was perfect!
The cast, music, and the chemistry between Rob and Kristen was so Edward and Bella!
I want to see it again!

Recent events/happenings in list form...

1. Obama is president! WHOO! PARTY!
2. Twilight comes out in 11 days!
3. I am halfway through A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire.
4. Two of my friends are in a heated war now over some things that happened at lunch today.
5. I have my first high school academic team meet on Saturday, which I have to wake up at 5:30 for.
6. I am acing all of my classes.
7. I am in the school play Beauty and the Beast, but I want to get out of it. I only have two words in the whole thing, so hopefully it won't matter if I leave.
8. The band is going to Chicago for a band contest/school trip!
9. I want to explore new religious options.
10. I am hopefully taking three tests in academic team this year. Hopefully at least two.
11. I'm #1 in at least half of my classes.
12. We have to do 50 notecards for our research paper (I should do the five that I didn't get to start and completely today).
13. Thanksgiving is in 3 weeks!
14. I am an official Phunk sibling.
15. TWILIGHT IS IN 11 DAYS!

Twilight Soundtrack!

Today at the new Hastings in Richmond, I bought the Twilight Movie Soundtrack with my friend Laura. It rocks.
Here is what's on it:

1.Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
2.Decode - Paramore
3.Full Moon - The Black Ghosts
4.Leave Out All the Rest - Linkin Park
5.Spotlight (Twilight Mix) - Mutemath
6.Go All The Way (Into The Twilight) - Perry Farrell
7.Tremble For My Beloved - Collective Soul
8.I Caught Myself - Paramore
9.Eyes On Fire - Blue Foundation
10.Never Think - Rob Pattinson
11.Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine
12.Bella's Lullabye - Carter Burwell

This soundtrack is full of the genres of music that I love to listen to. It's awesome. GO BUY IT!

November

It is darling November already. Oh my. Halloween was a blast. I went a friend's house for a party and there were a few from our group of friends and we took the younger siblings trick-or-treating. It was cool. It was a Democratic party. There was someone dressed as a devil Sarah Palin. She was funny. I ate so much food, but it was good. Here's what got me: It was around 7 and people were going in for the night when there was ONE MORE HOUR LEFT!!! Oh well, it's over.
It's November and tomorrow is the election! I have play practice at 9 am. WOOT! Hopefully I'll be able to leave early since I have such a very small role. (I have two words to sing and that's it.)
TWILIGHT is in 18 days! I saw two commercials on TV last night. AHHH! The Simpsons and Family Guy were hilarious last night. Hehehe!
It is 7:31 AM. I have been up since 6:25. Daylight Savings Time is over. Oh well. Thanksgiving is in 24 days. WOOT! Christmas is in 49 days, WOW! You know, counting in days feels shorter than counting in weeks. Like Christmas is in 7 weeks. 7 weeks seems longer than 49 days, don't you think? LOL!

More conflict...

Two of my best friends are now in a rocky point in their friendship over something that was done MONTHS ago, and one of them can't help it, but the other doesn't really trust the other because she lied about it for those months and now just told her. It's so frustrating! I wish that one friend can be forgiven and the dee forgotten!

Friends...

There has been some conflict in my group over the past weeks of life as a high schooler.
One girl, my PDA buddy, is still torn over this guy she HAS liked and he's back with another girl he was with earlier this year.
She is wanting to leave school because of this.
So that she doesn't have to feel threatened or get so depressed over it.
I don't want her to, and I don't want her to leave either.
She needs to stay.
All of her friends are at school. I
f she wants to leave and go to our rival school or be home-schooled over some boy whose giving a rough time, then I say "That's just retarded."
She needs to just stop.
Just stop all together about this guy.
Completely erase him from her mind and let go of her "need" for a relationship.
We're all young here.
I'm still single and I'm 15 and I love it.
School is going great.
My friends are still my friends.
They are the best!
I wish she had my outlook on life, or something similar.

Wants!

I want:
~TWILIGHT!
~Obama to be president because McCain is just not right for this country and Obama is the change that America needs at this point.
~To go back to gymnastics because I have been teaching myself lots of new, awesome tricks and I want to improve my gymnastic skills, first getting my back handspring.
~NO GLOBAL WARMING!!!!
~TWILIGHT!
~Peace
~Love
~Happiness
~No more WAR, low economy, poverty, diseases, such and such.
~To be treated like a responsible young adult (15 year old) and not to be told when my freakin' "bedtime" is (what am I, eight?)
~TWILIGHT!
~To go to the Methodist and the Quaker church (because I am interested in learning about it) to become a Quaker-Methodist, instead of a Southern Baptist (which is just too conservative for my taste, especially with my current church, which has become boring, and too traditional).
~TWILIGHT!!!!
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TWILIGHT!!!!

Birthday!

Today is my fifteenth (15th) birthday today! WHOO! PARTY!

Happy October!

To all of my beloved readers (Laura and Taylor), Happy October, or in romaji Japanese: Happi Okkutoba!

Today!

Today is Hannah's birthday and my neighbor who lives across the street's birthday as well. For my neighbor, me and two of our friends made signs last night, and while they were making pancakes, I put the signs up and we showed them to her. It was fun.
My birthday is in exactly one week.

Today and Fall Break!

Today at school today I had to take two tests, my Honors English test and World Civilizations Unit II exam. Both were easy. The English test was over October Sky. It was basically a higher-levelled thinking version of our study guide with two open responses. It was shorter. Lots to write, but easy.
My World Civ. test was easy, but I bet I missed at least 1 question. I got most right. I just know it. We even had a going-away party for a senior on our academic team who's leaving us. It was fun.

Life...

Today in Geometry, I took a really easy test. Tomorrow is picture day for high schoolers and first official art club meeting. On Friday, Student Council meeting 3rd period, YAY!, and I have an English test and World Civ test. yay... On A Separate Peace, I'm almost in the 100's. After school Friday, we will have a going-away party for one of our seniors who is moving to Georgetown (where I think he came from) and who's a traitor, so for the next two days we will follow him around and stalk him. We might even follow him home and "help" him unpack since he will be packing, or he might be done. Yeah. PARTY! Hopefully there will be cookies!

Depression of a friend...

I have a friend at school who was very depressed today over an idea to get this guy she really likes, can't stop thinking about, and who keeps either rejecting her (as she said) or going out with someone else (which she thinks about too much and gets really depressed) to hook up with her. I seriously think that she needs to be patient....relationship-wise. We're only freshmen here. She acts like it's almost the end of the world (which it will be in four more years). It's annoying. She needs to enjoy her youth.

More school and yeah....

School is going like it's suppose to, I guess.
I was so happy today. Our class president, who has a bitchy attitude, snaps back at people, who whines and complains all the time about EASY WORK because she's so lazy and retarded, who fights with teachers every chance she gets to, and she's just not a very good president (LIKE I WILL BE NEXT YEAR!) Yeah well, she was gone with the choir to EKU on an all-day trip. I missed my Laura and Taylor and Kaylyn and other people who aren't the freshman class president. LOL!
Today in 1st period, we just reviewed yesterday's work.
2nd period, I relearned how to use Microsoft Excel and I just listened to AccuBroadway radio. It's really cool. The site is www.accuradio.com. There are a lot of genres and sub-genres to choose from.
In 3rd period, we just did stuff. I finished October Sky last night, finally, and we started on a new book for Honors that is okay so far. It's a nice read I guess. I'm only on page 6. I'll probably finish it over the weekend since it's only 194 pages. Then I'll finish this two-book-in-one-volume novel I'm reading called Wicked: Witch and Curse. [Note: It is not the book that inspired the musical.]
In 4th, we went over yesterday's work. I actually waited for cheese sticks at lunch until there was only 10 minutes left. I really wanted cheese sticks. They were the best! We also had hashbrown casserole. It was good.
In 5th, we had an easy quiz, I only missed one question. I mixed Portugal and the Netherlands up. I was at least close. We also did this notes page thing-a-ma-bobber that was actually quite easy. I went over my thesis statement and outline for my paper with my teacher. I was somewhat scared for no fair reason. He thought I was good to go. He helped me. That was a relief.
In 6th, we played out in the sun on the bleachers. They were working on the football field for tomorrow night. They had the sprinklers on. We envied the field.
So, today was a hard day, but it was a usual high school day.
Football game tomorrow night. We'll march to the first two songs and play the third one just standing in a formation. We'll feature the majorettes on the last song like always. I'll go into details tomorrow.
Spoonbread Festival starts tomorrow. My best friends Claire (from Pippa Passes) and Kayla (from Louisville) are coming. YAY! We all went to Kindergarten and first grade together. We are all Twilight lovers. ;D

Happy Birthday!

Today is the 21st birthday of Bella Swan (Twilight). Happy birthday!

Progress Reports...

We got our progress reports at school yesterday. Here's my grades:
They messed up with the percentages so I recalculated three of them.

Integrated Science = 101/A+
Computer Apps = 96/A
Honors English I = 94/A- = 95.7(96)/A
Geometry = 93/A- = 98/A+
World Civilizations = 94/A- = 98.86(99)/A+
Band = No Scores Posted For This Course.

VMA's and stuff...

I watched the MTV Video Music Awards last night and it was cool. Russell Brand talked about politics and said to vote for Barack Obama! WHOO! He made comments about that 17-year-old teen who had sex and got pregnant and that she was from Alaska. He said wear a condom and be safe and that stuff and made a "slogan" that was pretty hilarious. "Wear a condom or become Republican." I was just like :O. It was kind of shocking that he would say something like that. It was funny. Rihanna performed Disturbia, which was awesome. Britney and it even looked like Lindsay Lohan was put back together and is right in the mind now. Good for them.
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Launter, and Cam Gigandet aka the Twilight cast presented Paramore's performance. I wish they had a longer time on camera, but at least they were there. YAY!
Leona Lewis was amazing! T-Pain was okay and fine. His entrance rocked. But Lil Wayne was just a big joke. I really hate rap, but I respect rap artists and all, but he was just a big joke last night. He comes out shirtless, his whole upper body covered in tattoos, and he his pants and belt were down to mid-thigh and 98% of his butt was showing. TALK ABOUT CLASSY! *rolls eyes now* Why do people bother with people like him? UGH!

Japanese...

I stayed up until 3:30 in the morning writing down words that have significance to me in three different types of Japanese: romaji, Katakana, and Hiragana. My name in romaji is Bureden Keri Misuzu. Here are the pronounciations of the vowels: A = aw, E = eh, I = ee, O = oh, U = Ooh. LOL! I also got Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, Academic Team, hippie, green, PLH Brigade, peace, love, happiness, and October. Hehe!
Laura will love this, and so will the rest of the academic team.

Football game, Half-time show, and life...

Our high school football won their game last night (Sept. 5th) and I was in the half-time show playing/marching in the band. We played/marched to "Twist and Shout" and we also played "Can't Buy Me Love" by the most awesomeist hippie band ever: The Beatles. We didn't march to the second song. That was to basically feature our Majorette squad (baton). It was a good night. I was shaking like hell a lot from the nerves, but I still played well and the nerves didn't control me. I only have two more performances for band this football season. I don't know if I'll be in Band next year because I really want to take Spanish I next year and Spanish II my junior year and I also want to take AP Spanish senior year so I can get the Commonwealth Diploma at graduation. I wonder if I can still play pep band and be in Spanish at the same time. Hmmmmm.
Life is good and fair. Tonight's weather was perfect for football and September and Fall in general. Plus, it is possible that I am acing all of my classes. I know I am. I have a 101% in first period, so I am probably the smartest in that class because Chrissy got a 100%, but I may slip up somewhere, so we're still equal I guess and Baldwin's retake test was easier than the first test, so I probably got 29/29 or at least a 27/29, but it's more 29/29. LOL! Today was Club Day at school and I'm actually going to do Student Council. I just need one more signature for my petition. I got 49 in three to six hours. YAY! Academic Team was good today. Our team lost as usual, but I got to be captain because SOMEBODY wasn't paying attention. LOL! Just kidding Laura!
I love my friends. They are the best. Especially when we all have the same interests. Like Twilight and reading in general and being the top of our class (those are just true examples). I use LOL too much. Laugh out loud. Haha! So anyway, it's fun to hang with Laura, Heather, Hannah, Lekey, Jon-Jon, Sebastian, etc.

School!

School has actually been really easy so far. It's a ton of work, but it's mainly reading, taking notes, homework, and studying. I'll adapt to it. I have to do all of those things for the next three years of high school and four years of college after that. Of course I'll have to do book reports, essays, short stories, research papers, etc. But I can manage. I actually find research papers. very fun. I mean, come on! You get to research WHILE you do the paper. Is that not cool or what? I've had to do a lot of essays and papers on one of my Harry Potter RPG's in the forums and I did excellent. LOL! I'm such a dork! Twilight Rules!

Situations and emotions...

I have this friend who's been thinking about one of our friends and that friend is really depressed about it and my friends and I are trying to help her. We are trying to understand her. This one friend and I took to taking a dictionary, turning it spine-down, and relax and let our fingers and minds flow with the dictionary and we'll usually find words that are related to that situation. It's really cool. Like a ouija board, but not really occult, demonic, or satanic.

Academic Team..

Today after school at 3:30 was the second Academic team practice, first quick recall practice. The seniors from last year got to write questions and answers apparently, so we had some interesting questions:

-All mammals are this...
-Who is buried in Grant's tomb?
-Lots of questions about Brave New World and The Da Vinci Code.
-Lots of usual academic team quick recall questions.
-Blah, blah, blah.

Hehe. I answered at least 4 right. So I was okayish. It was just a really weird day. One of our captains wrote two pages of ferrets killing elves (which were her thoughts in 5th hour.) Our academic team is great.

Church and thoughts...

I was sitting in Sunday school think about Christmas. I had a song on my mind that was from It's A Charlie Brown Christmas. I am so excited about Christmas. I love Christmas. It is the most wonderful time of the year. My mom was right in saying that the best part about Christmas is the 24 days before just waiting for it. Decorations, lights, and Christmas trees. I love it.

I also love Halloween. The whole month of October, except for the 24th. That's when High School Musical 3: Senior Year comes out in theaters. If you ask me, it's not worthy of being in theaters, especially the same one that Twilight is showing at. Halloween is fun and creepy. I love the fact that it's all spooky. I love witches, vampires, and ghosts.

I hate how much publicity High School Musical, Hannah Montana, and the Jonas Brothers are getting. I have to endure the pain of seeing them EVERYWHERE! It's driving me insane. I hate it. There are better, underrated singers out there. I like the actors and actresses of HSM, just not the music.

I don't know what to do about church. I've been raised as a southern Baptist my whole life. I really need a change. I want to be a Methodist or a Quaker, or a Quaker-Methodist. At Silver Creek Baptist, I am the only 14-year-old freshman from Berea Community there. I'm lonely. I have none of my best friends there to hang out with. At Berea Methodist, I have Laura. Taylor and Lekey are Quakers. I don't know what to do. I want a change. I feel that my church is a little too conservative for me. The Methodist church, I feel, is more liberal. Plus, the music is a little bit nicer too. I even have my first-period teacher/academic team coach there. Plus, I just don't have Laura. There's a lot of my peers that go there and some of my brother's friends that he graduated with. I think that when I go to Berea College, I'll go to the Methodist church. It's walking/biking distance from the campus. I've planned this in my head for a while. That's probably what I'll do. It's legal. Everybody has the right to choose their own religion, unlike homosexuality.

Gay people rock! I don't know how they are "sinners". They're just living their lives with the people they love. It's the same as straight people. First attraction, kiss, date, etc. It's all about LOVE. I don't understand how love is as bad as murder. That is the abomination right there. Not homosexuality, but murder. I wish people would see that. They need to rethink a lot.

First blog!

Hey everybody. My name is Braden. My birthday is October 7th. My dad is Head coach of Berea College's men's basketball team, my mom is a part-time Health teacher at EKU, my brother is a 2008 graduate of Berea High School and is now officially a student at UK, and my cat Butter is the usual lazy, in-and-out, hungry, thirsty, precious kitty. I love him though.

I am a liberal democratic (I hate war when it's unnecessary such as the current one in Iraq) treehugging (Lekey!) bookwormy hippie vampire! *shows teeth* Grr. LOL!

I am a freshman in high school. High school is very different from middle school. I like high school. I feel more mature and grown-up. The classes are more fast-paced than the classes in middle school. In middle school, we learned one thing for a week. In high school, we learn lots of things in a week and take notes to record those things so that we don't forget them and use them to study for exams. Plus, there's a lot more homework, but it's been easy, but it'll get more challenging.

I'm on the High School Academic Team (which whenever someone wants to say something we have to introduce and re-introduce ourselves and then the others respond, "Hi [enter speaker's name]!" with an extended arm wave. When we're done, everyone else claps. LOL!) I also play clarinet for the high school band. It's fun.

Twilight is my current favorite thing ever right now. Books, upcoming movie (which was changed from December 12th to November 21st!!!). I was so happy when I found out. I told a million people. There was bad news too. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was changed from November 21st to July 17th due to box office reasons (*sob*), but I can wait. It adds the suspense. Now people are whining, crying, and are planning to boycott every other movie because this happened. Some people can be retarded and think it's the end of the world. Which it's not. Grr. I have school and Twilight to keep me busy.

I am in the process of writing a short story/novel. It's inspired from Twilight, but I am really trying hard to make it as different as possible. I have had two of my best friends Autumn and Laura reading it chapter by chapter and they both love it. It is possible I might publish it locally, or just publish one copy for moi'. ;D

So basically, I'm a nerd, dork, geek, whatever you want to call me. I also like some sports. Like gymnastics, tennis, and bowling. I have a muscular build though. I played basketball and baseball when I was growing up, but I've lost my interest for them. I've moved on. My whole family (including me) are all former basketball players (except Dad and Butter.)