It's Official

Yes, it is. As of yesterday at twelve-ish...
it's official.




IT'S SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D



God, I am SO excited. My favorite part is that I don't have to work :) Until September, that is. That's TWO WHOLE MONTHS OF DOING ABSOULTELY *NOTHING*.
What could be better?
Ahhhhhhhhh.
Summer.
I didn't wanna post about my past week, like I usually do, because it would go something like this:
Study, exam, study, exam, study, study, study, study, exam, exam, exam, exam, study, exam, study, study, study
EXAM.
:(
And it would depress me.
So instead I'll talk about the future.

Five things I look forward to in the very near future:
1. Renovating my blog again to make it summery. I swear, this will be the last change until September. PROMISE. I just want to make it really summer-themed so whenever I look at it it will cheer me up. I'll do that later. Au revoir, poulets.
2. Waiting till the sun comes out, and then going for a swim in my backyard pool.
3. Writing more of my story.
4. Having a sleepover with my friend Alexis tonight, at her house, and staying up late.
5. Being Happy. :)

I've acheived #5 so far :)

Five things I look forward to in the a-bit-distant future:
1. Getting my braces off in a few months.
2. My mom coming back from her business trip to China. (She left this morning from the Vancouver Airport and is staying 12 days.)
3. Getting my report card... I usually do well, and I get money for each A, and that means SHOPPING :)
4. Going on vacation. We'll probably go to Hawaii :)
5. Going to the beach with friends.

Two things I dislike:
1. My mom being in China.
2. My AMAZING friend Claire leaving for Korea this summer, and then in the coming-up school year going to BOARDING SCHOOL >:( I'm going to call Boarding School B.S.

One thing I love-love-love:
Summer.

Some Poems

-Just a few little thoughts and feelings I scrapped together-

First Poem.
“Filled up.”



I’m filled with hope,
I’m filled with glee,
I’m filled with sorrow,
And sympathy.

I’m filled with happiness,
I’m filled with logic,
I’m filled with gratefulness
And a tad neurotic.

I’m filled with love,
I’m filled with warmth,
I’m filled with opinions,
I’m filled with heart.

I’m filled with thoughts,
Of what could be,
I’m filled with dreams,
Yet still loyalty.

I’m filled with longing,
I’m filled with satisfaction,
I’m filled with honesty,
Different moods, different actions.

I’m filled with all these things,
Inside me,
And sometimes when things happen…
Big things,
Surprising things,
Terrifying things,
Saddening things,
Angering things,
Difficult things,
Confusing things…
Sometimes I feel
Like I’m going to
Overflow.

Second Poem.
“Circle.”



A
Circle.
Round, and
Perfectly shaped,
Never out of its order,
Never out of it’s place, but
Sometimes the circle will break and the raw, terrifying edges
Will appear so suddenly,
You don’t know what
To do with them,
Except learn
How to deal
With the
Unusual
Truth.
Nobody’s a perfect circle.


Third Poem.
“A Face in the Crowd.”



I’ll be talking; talking like normal,
About the
Weather.
It’ll start off
S
L
O
W
And proceed
S
L
O
W
But when I see you walk by,
Like you always do;
You always walk by;
Then my speech startsto slur togetherandIcan’t makeouttherightwords
AndIfumbleandstumbleandsoundlikealunitic
butit’sallworthitbecauseIfeelsohappyandenthusiasticwheneverIsee
Your face.


Fourth Poem.
“Rule the World.”



Have you ever wondered what would happen
If you could change the world?
If you could turn it inside out, fold it around,
Stretch it or bend it however you could?
You could make people adore you,
And hate who you hate,
And everything would be
In its
Exact
Perfect
Place.
No homework, or drama queens,
Or those awful,
Pesky,
Stinging bees
That you’re allergic to.
It will be fine, and perfect,
But what if perfect
Isn’t really
p
erfect
At all?!
What do you do then?
You could re-
Re-
Re-
start, but that might
Even be worse,
You could try,
and try,
and try,
AND TRY!!!!
But it’s no use, it’s already cursed…
What would you do if
YOU were in charge?
And you lost control…
Do you still want things perfectly,
Exactly,
Correctly,
Your
Way?
I don’t.


Last Poem.
“Superficiality.”



Superficiality.
Seven syllables,
Fourteen letters,
Scribbled in my navy blue pen
Illegibly.

Depth.
Noticing details, wondering what
They could mean.
Could they mean something?
Expanding your thoughts.
Reading between the lines.
Thinking,
But not just thinking.

Really thinking.

Do you really think?

Heehee.

I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself. I have committed two offenses in the same day.
1. I went ahead and posted before my designated post day.
2. I changed the background of my blog to little chicken-things :)
If you don't like it, too bad. *I* think they're just the cutest.
Please bear with me; I've just finished an English exam and I'm really tired of studying, and just want some
fUN!!
So please,
be nice to my new little chicken friends?
Don't tease them.
-Kaleda.

Oh, and By The Way...

You know that teeny-tiny story I posted a long time ago?
About the ants, and the girl?
Well the answer to the question was...
Drumroll, please!!!
*Bang-bang-bang-bang*
NUMBER ONE:
Observant 8]

NUMBER TWO:
Imaginative @- - :O

NUMBER THREE:
Optimistic :D

NUMBER FOUR:
Lonely :'{

NUMBER FIVE, AND FINAL:
Shy <:|

:) And the winner of the one who got it MOST CORRECT... ISSSSS....
Drumroll?
*Bang-bang-bang-BAAAANG!!!*

Um, nobody. Because nobody guessed.

x]

That's okay, though. Whatever.
I mostly post these blogs for my own amusement anyway :) Though I would love to hear your thoughts, it's quite okay if you're busy.
I'm not one of those people who's all,
"COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT NOOOW SO I'LL LOOK COOOL."
Nah. I'm okay with whatever.
But I do value your opinions, so don't hesitate to critique my posts ;P
Love you all,
-Kayla.

Oooh, and P.S? I changed my whole blog lay-out, as you can obvs see. The picture at the front is the title page of my new novel, "A Summer to Remember." Click on "A Summer Story" to read the story :) [it won't let me change the title to A Summer to Remember. But oh well]
Enjoy! :)

2day

So my random blog post of this sunday is....
AIRES!!!!!!

"wtf?"

AIRES!!!

"kayla, seriously, what the hell are you talking about?"

You haven't heard?

"...no...?"

Okay. I'll tell you.
Aires is pronounced "air-ees" like the sign, but spelled differently. It is the name of a band, with four guh-orgeous girls, filled with sweet guitar, lovely clarinet, beautiful piano, and stunning vocals. They're the next big thing, you just watch ;) And guess who's in the band?
Kieran,
Madeline,
Hannah,
...
and me :)
I play guitar and sing a bit, and I can also play clarinet and piano but since Madeline and Hannah already do that, I just play guitar :) And sing. A bit. But Kieran is by faaaar the best singer :)
So today, we went to a recording studio... eeek! I know.
I completely expected a huge fight to break out over WHY DIDN'T YOU GET IT RIGHT or WHY ARE YOU CHANGING IT NOW?! or some other bloody thing.
But guess what? It didn't :) We were amazing, if I do say so myself ;)
Hopefully it'll be a hit, but I don't know... I'm happy with how it is now, our very first song on a private soundtrack.
So we've had a mini-photoshoot (photo credit to us, Kieran's mom, and Brian, our instructor) of us jumping on the trampoline, sitting on a playground, and on rocks surrounded by flowers with our instruments (except piano... haha) and now we've gone to a recording studio, and next we'll be preforming some old songs at a senior's centre!
It's gunna be so fun :)
And I'd upload a photo from our shoot--I truly would--but we haven't uploaded them to the computer yet because it's out of memory so we can't save them... Ah well, we will later :)
This has been my random venting of the day,
And I hope you somehow enjoyed,
-Kk.

P.S--check out my new story, A Summer Story, if you feel like it. I don't know how to enable commenting on it, please tell me if you find out, but in the meantime you can just comment on this blog and tell me what you think, or if you have any suggestions :) Thanks a bunch! -Kk.

Reflections on my Week

Blahblahblah:

Monday, June 7th,
Pretty much just another ordinary day, except that the Bachelorette was on that night. Hunter got sent home, because he just didn’t *click*, I guess, with Ali. I felt bad for the poor guy… and every other innocent guy that got kicked off, for that matter. I mean, how horrible would it be to appear on T.V as a reject? Embarrassing, annoying, frustrating, aggravating… I suppose it’s all for the risk of love, but for the rest of your life you’ll be known as That Guy Who Got Voted Off. I’d hate that… Soon the label would wear off, though, and it would all be okay. Hell, maybe a nice girl would see them on the T.V and later find them and marry them :)
Who really knows.
I like to find out what happened to those guys when the after show airs, and I especially like the happy stories of them finding a girlfriend after :) Love makes me smile.

Tuesday, June 8th,
In the morning, I woke up, and it was *pouring* rain outside! It seemed so gloomy, like the sky just got dumped by her boyfriend and was sobbing. It was raining hard. Rain makes me feel sad, and I don’t know why.
Did someone, thousands of years ago, just decide that rain was sad and sun was happy? I wonder how that came about. And I wonder, if that person instead decided that rain should be happy, would I have felt happy on Tuesday June 8th, when it was raining?
Anyhow, it soon became sunny, in the second half of the day. Like the sky found a new date :) And I felt happy, and inspired, and the world just looked so lit up and cheerful.
Everything’s so much brighter, happier, when it’s sunny.
Why is that?

Wednesday, June 9th,
A good day, I’d say. I always enjoy Wednesdays because at my school it’s a “late” day, which means we don’t have to arrive until nine forty. This way, I can sleep in, and relax, and maybe do some homework I didn’t feel like doing Tuesday night.
As usual, I went on Facebook, checked my blog, updated it, and then suddenly…
“KAYLA! COME QUICK! LOOK!” my dad shouted from downstairs. I quickly ran down, and he said, “Oh, I think it’s gone. But just a second ago, there was a big black bear walking down the street.” So I ran out onto our front deck, to the very corner, and I saw it.
It was huge—I don’t think I’d ever seen a bear before! It was walking up someone’s driveway, on all fours. It was weird, that it was on all fours, because I always imagined bears on their two hind legs, with their front paws above their head, claws out, growling ferociously at you. Huh. This bear looked kind of… peaceful. Confident. Sure of itself. It was like it owned the whole world.
I want to look as confident,
as that bear.

Thursday, June 10th,
In the morning, as I was getting dressed, I was loudly singing Pink music and trying to remember all the songs, in order, from her album Misunderstood. I got up to about number seven.
Some of the songs are so sad, and meaningful,
Some are glamorous, and confident,
Some are bold, fearless,
And some are just heart-wrenchingly amazing.

Friday, June 11th,
Had a hellofa time figuring out my gym locker combo… A very awkward Sex-Ed class again… Science was okay, on the third floor, but when I finally reached the first floor, and began to leave, I realized I’d forgot my jacket and had to run all the way back up… In band we just sat and listened to people playing their solos (I already did mine the last class)… Lunch was fun except I spent HALF OF IT TRYING TO GET THAT DAMN GYM-LOCKER OPEN!!! Haha. And I got dragged down this ramp-thing by Claire, and there were all these little bumps and I was like “AH-AH-AH-AH” and it tickled… But you know what? It was all worth it because now it’s summer,
and I’m free!!!!!
FREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Wait.
Partly free.
Crap.
Exams.
NOOOOO.
>:\
So much for that.

Lol. I enjoyed my lil week :D
And a big shout out to ngozia545… Check out her awesome blog at http://theenviednotenviers.wordpress.com/
I was her very 1st reader of her blog :D YAY MOI.
You were my first reader too, that I didn’t know in real life :) So that makes you special!!!
Xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo,
and a thousand more,
-Kayla.

Writing Away...

Hey guys!
Stickin’ true to my schedule :)
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means!!!
Writing Wednesday!!!
Ha. Corny, I know.
So anyway, here’s a lil poem I wrote, about Playland.



Rides, rides, and more rides
Fit for fun, laughter, and good times
You’ll get a thrill on the humongous drops
You’ll feel fulfilled, after the ride stops
Challenges; accomplishments.

Cotton candy tastes so great
Melting in your mouth, and that yummy taste…
Those mini doughnuts—I always want more
I love that taste of fresh popcorn
Happiness; pleasure.

Running around with your friends, screaming
Laughing, chatting, and “oh em gee”ing
Going on scary rides, together
Knowing your friends will be here forever
Friendship; bonding.

All these things, from one big place
Rides, candy, friends, and Horse Race
Yes, Playland always makes me smile
I never want to leave—can I please stay just a little while
Longer?



Thanks for listening :) In the comments, please don’t hesitate to give me more ideas for poems to write about!

And I have one more writing exercise for everyone!!! YIPPEEE :D Haha.
Please do try this, and post it on your blog if you find it helpful.
Thanks to a fellow Lisi Harrison Blah-g commenter for sharing this with me!
Alright, so the task is:
Pick five characteristics, of a person (i.e., loyal, kind, sporty, girly, etc.) and write a story of a page or so, and try to portray all the characteristics you were going for in an obvious way. Then, your friends can guess which ones you were going for, and you’ll tell them if they were right or wrong, until they figure out all five!
Okay, so my characteristics are—oops! Can’t tell ;)
Take a guess… And here goes…
(By the way, the characteristics are of the main character, who's thinking.)



I sit on the lowest step of my house entranceway, watching ants march across the pavement of our flat driveway. It’s a sunny day, and when the sun rays glint off the ants’ tiny, black bodies it makes them look slightly reddish-brown. I wonder what ants think—what they feel all day. Maybe they’re just like us, and deep in those anthills they have communities just like humans. Maybe there are Police Officer Ants, and Lawyer Ants, and Criminal Ants (someone has to punish those pesky little picnic-stealers), and—oh, maybe even Girly Ants, with really long, curly antennas.
I watch one attempt to climb a bright green blade of grass, and quickly fall. Nobody notices, but me; nobody really cares. Sometimes I feel like I, too, am a tiny, meaningless ant. When I struggle in life, nobody notices; nobody cares. I don’t have any friends at school, and I’m not very smart, either. My mom says I have an eye for detail, and that’s a positive thing, but that’s just her trying to cheer me up…
I sigh, aloud. The wind from my mouth pushes a baby ant back wards and it falls on it’s little reddish-brown back. I lift out a stubby finger and gently guide it to it’s upright position. My finger must look like a mountain to that teeny, tiny ant…
If I had friends, I’d definitely share my ideas, and theories on the world of ants. But that’s just the thing—I don’t. And I never will. Whenever I try to go up to someone and say hi, something inside me just freezes and I tell myself, Forget it. Tomorrow, I’ll talk to someone. And I never do… I never do. I can only dream of what life would be like if I had someone to talk with, and laugh with. What’s that like? Is it good? It seems like the best thing in the whole world, to me.
And some day, I will get that. I’ll do great things, someday. My guidance councilor is slowly helping me increase my social abilities—slowly but surely. My tutor is slowly helping me increase my grades—incredibly slowly, molasses slowly, but surely… surely. Someday I’ll have what they call ‘friends,’ and someday I’ll graduate from High School along with them and go off to a big, bold, famous life.
I have great hope inside me… much great hope.
I wonder if they have Councilor Ants and Tutor Ants…? And if so, who do they help overcome problems?
I wonder if they have ants like me.

The end.
Well—can you guess them? ;) There’re five. And I didn’t use any of them in the story, or in my example of characteristics to use.
Well, if you’re bored, you can do one of three things.
a) You can comment on my blog and tell me your guesses, or
b) You can go to your own blog and make your own story, or
c) ALL’A THE ABOVE!!!

I strongly recommend C.
Hehe.
Just a few more quick things…

SHOUT OUT to Alexis Ola !!! my bffitwww. :) haha
I kinda just made that last part up on the spot… lol. It means Best Friend Forever In The Whole Wide World. I have lots’a those :) SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY FRIENDS!!!
AS SOON AS YOU ARE DONE READING THIS POST,
AND DOING A, B, OR C,
IF YOU’RE STILL LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FUN TO DO,
GO OVER TO HER BLOG!!!!! http://alexis-ola-z.blogspot.com/
AND HER OTHER ONE!!!!! http://alexis-ola-writes.blogspot.com/
Check ‘em out!!
See y’all Friday.
Mwah!
(Air-kisses)
-Kay.