Alphabetical About Me

This is perfect! It's so organized. =)

A. Age: Fifteen and almost 1/2

B. Bed size: I'm not sure. My bed is very tall, though. I have to jump into it. Actually, when I first got it I had to get a running start, but now I just fling myself into the air.

C. Chore that you hate: Washing windows.

D. Dogs: I love them, I petsit them, and I've never owned any of them.

E. Essential start to your day: Coffee. Self-explanatory.

F. Favorite Color: I really like all of them at different occasions.

G. Gold or Silver? I usually prefer silver.

H. Height: 5'7". I consider it the best height. ;)

I. Instruments you play: Piano and Irish tin whistle. I used to play recorder when I was, like, 6.

J. Job title: Student, I guess.

K. Kids: I consider them a blessing from the Lord (yes, even my own siblings...)

L. Live: On planet Earth.

M. Mother's name: I can guarantee you it is not Oliver.

N. Nicknames: Izori. =)

O. Overnight hospital stays: I think I stayed in the hospital for a week or so when I was born because of a lot of complications (like a paralyzed arm, thank you very much oh-so-helpful nurse)

P. Pet peeves: I hate it when you look at a turn lane and all the turn signals are blinking out of sync. It bugs me so badly.

Q. Quote from a movie tv show: "I...see...nothing!"--Sergeant Schultz from Hogans Heroes. =)

R. Right or Left handed: Right, with some lefty tendencies.

S. Siblings: Three. Peter, Kara, and Galdor.

T. Time you wake up: Seven or so.

U. Underwear?: And we are...moving on!

V. Vegetable you hate: Eggplant and zucchini. They squeak.

W. What makes you run late? : Life. Not being able to find my shoes. All the stuff I have to haul with me everywhere.

X. X-rays you've had: Mostly on my teeth.

Y. Yummy food that you make: Mac 'n' Cheese, pot roast, cake without dairy, eggs, or nuts, and stuffed eggs.

Z. Zoo Animal: I've always enjoyed the big cats. I love cats.

I got this off of Treble Clef.

Izori

*Ka-Chunk!*

That was the sound of me falling asleep on my bedroom floor on Thursday.

So yeah, my new blog-theme is supposed to be less complaining/whiny/boring. I guess I'll just try to pull a moral out of this somehow, because morals make a lot of things important.

I am propping my eyelids open in the afternoons for the first time in my life. I am drinking coffee in the morning and being absolutely zonked at night for the first time in my life. I am feeling very old for the first time in my life.

Wednesday went by like that. Do you ever get that feeling when days just zip past and you feel like you were so busy but accomplished absolutely nothing? Yeah, well Wednesday was one of those days.

But it was busy for a reason. No, I didn't get the schoolwork done that I wanted to, and no, I wasn't bright and peppy at the end of the day, but I didn't waste my time. I cooked dinner, I played soccer, I taught piano, and I had fun with my friends. I ate lots of dessert (always makes the day worthwhile...=), laughed a lot, and collapsed into bed at 10:30.

Not every day will be an efficient, goal-meeting, professionally-scheduled day. There will be times when your plans and schedules go out the window with a whoosh.

On Wednesday, I had been planning to do a lot. History, geometry, cleaning...and I ended up bumping that all to Thursday (by the way, I eventually bumped it to Friday because Thursday was one of those days, too).

So I guess the moral of my story is that the best days aren't scheduled.

What a moral. =)

Izori

I'm Back!

So, as you can see there's a lot of changes!

First of all (something you might have noticed right away) is that I renamed my blog. Now, even though some people do that every three months or so and there's nothing wrong with it, I've never liked changing my blog's name unless I was really tired of the old one. This new name is a bit more to the point.

I've also redone the tabs, so check those out as well!

Finally, I chose an autumn theme for the blog. Red and orange are some of my favorite colors. =) Ya like it?

I still might be posting only once a week or so, but I'll make an effort to put greater meaning in my posts!

Izori

Announcement--Blog Under Construction

Hey, y'all! This is just a super short post to say that my blog will be temporarily private so I can do some work on it. I'm going to try and do some re-arranging, as well as a re-focus. Lately, I've noticed a pattern of me-centered, boring posts, and I don't want that to happen. I started this blog to be encouraging to writers. Now I have a writing blog with iGirl, but I still want this place to be encouraging. So when this blog opens again (hopefully by next Saturday at the very latest) I hope it'll be a much better place.

Until then,

Izori

9-11: We Won't Forget

I cannot believe it all happened ten years ago. To me, it feels like it was just last week that my mom came running into the family room with the awful news.

I was only five, but I can remember things crystal clear. I've always wondered why my memory marked the event, because at the time I wasn't even aware of how horrible everything was. The images of the billowing smoke and the American flags among the rubble have been seared into my brain, even though I didn't even know what it all meant as I saw them on the TV.

So this is just one of a million posts that you'll see today as everyone drops their memories into the collective bucket. But I honestly think there can never be enough posts about this stuff.

Please send up a prayer or two for all those affected by 9-11.

Izori

Stating the Obvious Here

This is just a confirmation of the evidence. School and work has kicked into full swing, so I am going to tell you right now that you won't see a lot of me this school year. To make a long story short...I am busy. Very, very, busy. So if you hear from me once a week, consider yourself lucky. Very, very, lucky.

This is also an apology, of sorts. I haven't posted anything that matters in a long while. I was thinking back as to how my blog used to be so fun to do, how many blogs I visited regularly and enjoyed, and it's not like that anymore. So, even if I wasn't so crazy busy, I would be taking a long break anyway.

See ya around!

Izori