Bronchitus

Bronchitus + Athsma= a very bad bad deal.

It keeps you from swimming, and makes you hack and cough. And not sleep.

And mess up your perfect attendance.

Gah!

But... on the plus side, it makes your mom make you chicken soup, which is always nice.

New Old Poem of the Week

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends

okie dokie. so my old post was wrong I think so here ya go! enjoy...

Black.Friday.

Ok, so here is the story of black friday....

i go to bed around 1 in the morning, wake up around 2 in the morning, meet brittany and patrick and steph at denny's around 3, and wait out at best buy til 6!!

A lot of interesting things happened at best buy. we made a tent thing out of my blanket, and we almost saw a shooting (we think) but the people who were chasing the car just kinda walked away. Oh well, it was still interesting. Brittany got her head lit on fire, just a tiny little bit. Taylor cuts us in line, and almost has to pay the people behind us off. Then, we all rush in fast as we can, and I trip over my purse and go down when I was trying to keep up with Tay.

Next we go to the mall, which is PACKED. but, they had a lot of really good sales. I got quite a few people their christmas presents, but not everybody yet. a

And then lastly we go to target. Nothing really exciting happened there.

But, the traffic was ridiculous! people obviously never should have got their license if they don't understand that, in fact, pulling out in the middle of the lloyd into oncoming traffic, because they want to get the sales, is DANGEROUS. hello! it's not that difficult to think through. Oh well. I'm a very impatient driver and i get irritated easily. maybe it's just me.

but, anyways, that's the story of my black friday. not it's about 5:30 in the pm, and i still haven't got any sleep in like 24 hours, so i'm going to go to bed, but i had an awesome time!

Annabel Lee

Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.



Poem of the week #3 :)
I really love this one..

HoRoScOpE...

So, something else I forgot to ever mention about myself is that I an COMPLETELY obsessed with horoscopes. It's pretty often that mine is usually right... kinda freaky, but hey, it's fun...

My sign is Aries, which is kinda cool. Supposedly I'm adventurous, energetic, pioneering, courageous, enthusiastic, confident, quick witted.. and also selfish, quick tempered, impulsive, impatient, foolhardy, and a daredevil.. haha sounds about like me! Oh well, everyone has their good and bad traits. I just think it's kind of interesting :)

I'm making a link on my blog for a daily horoscope if I can find one.. everyone should check this out! it's pretty fun :)

Just scrolllll to the bottom of the page, and find your own sign!

Poem of the Week... #2

She Walks In Beauty... By Lord Byron


She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!



... what does everyone think? leave me some feedback... would be appreciated :)

♥ Calla

Post!

I'm making a post now, because I thought I had that covered, but apparently not, so here is a new one.

Update? I am no longer an employee of Voyles Shopworth. It's really sad but... I think I shall survive.

Also, swim season has started! We have an amazing team this year! and I really think we have a pretty good chance of having a winning season! And I'm especially happy Bird has rejoined the team :)

In more recent updates, I added some links onto my page. They all are links to different authors that I think are particularly talented, and you should check them out! Just browse through, and I think you won't be disappointed.


And lastly, I have decided to start doing a poem of the week! This is my pick for this week...


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.


This is one of those poems that say one thing, but if you look deeply enough you can find lots of meanings in them.

So that's it!!!

Happy 2 weeks until Thanksgiving!!!

Blaugh

Well, first off, I would like to talk about how disappointed I am that blogger no longer lets me type in color. ??!!?!?? It's utterly dumb. Next, I would talk about how disappointed I am in myself for not blogging for a while. I haven't had anything to talk about. Now I do :) So let's begin.

Quotes?!

Yeah, we laughed too hard & acted way too immature, but we wouldn't have it any other way.

Love will hit. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, maybe forever.

Meeting you was fate. Becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you... that was beyond control.

Those nights where you just can't sleep? Maybe you're starring in someone else's dreams.

We'll make growing old together look so good.

Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize exactly why it never worked out with anyone else.

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.

There's always hope. Remember that.

It's hard to wait around for something you know may never happen, but it's even harder when you know it's everything you want.

You miss people.. Not enough to want them back in your life, sometimes just enough to hurt.

You won't be his first, his last, or his only. He's loved before, he will love again, but if he loves you now, what else matters? He's not perfect, and neither are you, and the two of you will never be totally right, but if he makes you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and admits to being only human and making mistakes, hold onto him. Give him all you've got. He's not going to quote poetry, he won't think of you every moment, but he'll give you a part of him that he knows you can hurt. Don't hurt him, don't change him, and don't expect too much from him. Smile when he makes you happy, cry when he makes you sad, and miss him when he's not there. It's what love's all about.

Only Hope

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This is only hope by Mandy Moore... I had another video on here, but I think I like this one better. It's just a little slower, a little bit more smooth, and takes the tone a little easier. This is from my favorite movie, A Walk To Remember. The movie is about a couple that loves each other despite the odds. The boy is a rebel and caught up in his own life when he meets the girl and accidentally ends up loving her. A few months after they meet, he finds out she has leukemia, but they make the best of what they have. They both love each other fully, knowing fully that they will get hurt eventually, but also knowing that it is worth it. It's a cute movie, even though it's very sad. But, it shows a good lesson. Don't take life so seriously. Breath a little deeper, and love a little stronger.

MacBeth~!

So, I already wrote a blog referring to our wonderful day of adventure, but I didn't really talk about the play.

To start off with, it was awesome :)
The actors were very professional, and I could tell that they knew what they were doing,and were really well practiced. They delivered their lines flawlessly, and were very friendly and open to questions at the end of the performance.

However, I wish that since they modernized their costumes to set it to today's standards, they also could have done the same thing with the linguistics. If they had only taken out the older style of language, and changed the words so that we could understand them but without changing the meaning, I think that I would have understood it a little bit better.

Not saying that I didn't understand it, only that it would have been easier to understand.

I also liked how the play was set up. I liked that there weren't a lot of props to clutter the stage. It also made it better because there were no breaks to change the scenery, or things like that.

All in all, I give them an A!

The Scottish Play!

So today we saw Macbeth and... I really liked it :)
The actors were pretty cool. And other than the fact that I had to pee so extremely bad that I was about to run out of the room it was a good experience.
The Spaghetti Factory rocks! :) It was some seriously good food. And the conversation at our lunch table kinda upped the fun too :)

However, I do believe that the best part about the thing was the mall. Delias?! Amazing. Crazy fun. Need to do this whole thing again.

And the bus ride was interesting too. Haha... I love Billy Joel now, thanks Birdie! Next time though, I vote we wake up at like noon and just stay the night, rather than going BEFORE the crack of dawn. Was crazy.

My thought of the day

Somehow I managed to find even more quotes!
!!!!! :D

Live for the moments you can't put into words.

Speak your mind, even if your voice trembles.

You can stop the dreamer but you can't stop the dream.

and... my favorite.. cause it's SO true


Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for.
Being brave for.
Risking EVERYTHING for.
...and the trouble is,
if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.



I really enjoy talking about these kinds of things. I think that reading quotes and poems makes one broaden their perspective on life, and see things through a viewpoint that they may have never noticed before. I think when a person starts to think about life and love and how valuable those things are... well it makes their tiny and trivial everyday problems seem so much smaller, and it makes them realize that the world is really a beautiful place with amazing things to do and even more amazing people to meet. I think that with the right words anyone can turn from a bitter person into a hopeful one, dreaming of a new tomorrow. So... just think. Imagine what can happen. Imagine what you DESERVE. And usually, that's how you find love. You have to want it, without looking for it. You have to know it's there, without getting impatient and trying to get it to show itself to you. But it's worth every second of the wait.

She....

So I'm really kind of loving this poem that I found....
I might love Lord Byron.

Anyways, here goes.

She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies
And all that's the best of dark and light
Meets in her aspect and in her eyes
--Lord Byron

Isn't that amazing?!

Jeesh... I love mushy love stories/poems/quotes like that.
:D

Believe

SoSo...

Here's all the things that I believe in :)

I believe that organized people are just too lazy to look for things.

I believe that somtimes you need to remember what you deserve rather than what you want.

I think that sometimes nothing's better than sittin outside at night tryin to catch fireflies with your best friends :)

I think some days are a total waste of makeup and effort.

I REALLY believe a little smile can go a long way.

I think everyone should trust one person without questioning and always desire without inhibitions.

I think today is a gift. That's why they call it the present!

I believe in apologizing when I should, and letting go of what I can't change.

And lastly... I don't think life is about finding yourself. I think it's about creating yourself.

XD

Finally-- the best quotes.

So I realized that I had a lot more quotes that are saved on my computer.. And here's the rest of the ones that I couldn't remember :0

Well behaved women rarely make history.
In the end when we look back it won't matter how many breaths we took. Rather, how many moments took our breath away.
It all comes down to that one person you think about before you fall asleep.
Sometimes people put up walls not to keep others out, but rather to see who cares enough to tear them down.
Life's about change. Sometimes it's painful. Somtimes it's beautiful. Most of the time, it's both.
Laugh more, gripe less, ignore critics, say yes, order dessert, live life.
To the world you're just one person but to one person you may be the world.
It's ok to have one person be NOTHING short of your EVERYTHING.
If it didn't really matter you wouldn't be spending so much time thinking about it.
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow.
Be the change you want in the world.
The way to love anything is to realize you could lose it.
Don't make somone a priority if they're only making you an option.

Sooooo...

SO.
Just another day in Sim's class.
I've been getting pretty frustrated actually.
Wanna know why?
It's all because I cannot figure out how to use this blog.
I can add a picture... and post a blog.
AND THAT'S IT!
ahh...

Anyhow, it's all good in the hood. My blog is supposed to be about poetry but I dunno quite how to do this? Do I make a new post that's a poem? or... what?

Oh, I have an idea. This isn't a poem but.. Here's some of my favorite quotes. :) Just to show you all my 'deep' side.

People say we're too young to know love but, just maybe they're too old to remember exactly how this feels.

Hate is easy. Love... that takes courage.

All any girl really wants is someone to want her, too.

Love is like war. Easy to begin. Hard to end. And impossible to forget.

It all comes down to the one person you think about before you go to sleep.

If you can't get somebody out of your head maybe they're supposed to be there.

Sometimes you have to let go of what you had to realize maybe it was worth holding onto.

There's nothing like the end to make you appreciate the beginning.

You've never really lived until you found something worth dying for.

Every oak tree started as a couple of nuts that stood their ground.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about dancing in the rain.

Love doesn't make the world go round. It's what makes the trip worthwhile.

Dreams are the answers to questions we haven't figured out how to ask.

:D

About ME

Hola. :)
As you can see if you read the about me.. My name's Calla.
I'm basically the average teenager.
Like to drive, like to text, like to swim.
My favorite plate to go on vacation is Colorado.
It's amazing.
I hate bugs, with a passion.
SO bugs... beware.
I like fast cars... a lot. My favorite is a Ferrari f430 Spider.
I know I probably won't ever own one but... I'm happy with my white G6.
I'm on the swim team at my high school.
Seventeen years old!
Senior this year, and planning on going to Purdue next year.
Favorite color is yellow. Or purple. Depends on my mood.
China wok is my favorite place to eat EVER.
I think I've grown up more this year than I have any other year.
And... I think I'll grow up even more still.
Any more questions or comments?
Just ask. :)

Laterrrrr