Shopping. Eww.

As you may know, I don't really like shopping. At all. But this evening my mom and I went to Sunvalley Mall and got me shoes fromVANS!!!! Now, this is actually quite exciting for me because I've never had Vans before. I'm not what you might call "into fashion", plus the fact that I don't like shopping is kinda the reason I've never had them before. And I'm also excited because I REALLY REALLY REALLY needed new shoes. I basically have one pair of shoes that I can wear to school for PE, and those are my very comfortable but quite ugly running shoes. I mean, if my math teacher found out how many shoes I own and actually wear, I think she'd die of shock. My math teacher, Mrs. Moser, told us that she has more than 70 pairs of shoes in all. She is just about CRAZY!! I mean who needs that many shoes?! I probably never had that many shoes in my life!!! But it's ironic because those of you who know Mrs. Moser have seen for yourself that she doesn't have *cough cough* the greatest taste in clothes and such. So it's funny how she is so into shopping and shoes and stuff. Oh, and my math teacher also has more than 20 pairs of glasses. Not THAT is undeniably one of the most insane things I've ever heard in my life. COME ON how many people really truly CARE if your eyeglasses match your outfits?!

Wow, I got WAY off track! Anyways another exciting thing happened while I was in the Vans store. I say a woman in there that had a plastic shopping bag that was green and said PAPAYA on it!!!! I seriously flipped out when I saw that!!! Well, not really, but inside I was really excited. See, my friends and I - well, me and a couple of my friends - give names to the boys we have crushes on. Usually the nicknames are fruits. The guy I currently like we named PAPAYA so I was ecstatic to see that shopping bag! So after we left the store I went over to the map thing to see if it was a restaurant or a clothes store or what. Because I don't go to the mall enough to know the stores in it! It turns out that it's a women's clothes store, so I was disappointed. I mean I didn't really wanna go clothes shopping (plus who would name a clothes store Papaya? And who would shop at a store called that? Of course, who would nickname the guy they like Papaya. That's the real mystery right there) but if it had been a restaurant or something we could've bought something random just for the bag. Then I would've submitted to actually bringing my PE clothes in a bag so that I could bring that bag to school so that all my friends that actually got the joke could laugh with me! But maybe I should start bringing my PE clothes in a bag anyway like everybody else. I've never done it before 1) because I'm too lazy to bring an extra bag to school along with my backpack,  2) because I don't have a locker to put it in ( I probably could've gotten one but I've never had one before because I thought I'd forget all of my stuff in it) and 3) because I'd probably leave it in one of my classes. Yeah, I don't think I'll start bringing my PE clothes in a bag unless one of my friends lets me use their locker.... Wow I how do I keep getting really side-tracked on my blog?

So ta ta for now!

It's been a LONG time!!!!

Hi everybody!!! Yes, it has been a VERY VERY long time and I apologize and I hope everyone besides Maddie is still checking it! (Thank you for your loyalty Maddie!) Well, so much has happened to me since I last blogged, so I won't even attempt to catch all of you up on that. I'll just talk about what's happened recently.

Well. Today the YW in my ward for church went with the YW from the other ward to this apple farm, and to this other apple and fudge farm. It was pretty fun, but I've had SO much junk food I'm gonna be feeling so sick tonight! I've had enough, what with the doughnut I had in the car on the way there and the apple pie and the white chocolate and the rock candy. Wow! I'm gonna be on such a sugar high!!! 

And lets see...last night I went to this meeting for the Jr. Theatre group that I'm doing. They talked about the trip to Atlanta that the group is doing, and I am S O excited for it!!! But the problem is, I need to raise part of the money for the trip, and it is REALLY expensive, so between now and January I've gotta make some money. I'm still working on how I'll actually do that, but for now I guess I won't worry about it. 

Is it too late for this discussion?

Okay, yesterday my school had this assembly. You know, for 9/11? Yeah, this motivational speaker came to my school. He was hilarious, like he did all these awesome voices, kinda like Robin Williams. And he's apparently very professional. Well, as funny as he was, he hit some very serious topics. Mostly, about bullying, and violence, and being disrespectful. He said things like just because we are in a nice area doesn't mean there isn't bad stuff going on. He told us true stories about kids who were so picked on and tortured by bullies at school they ended up doing awful things. It was all very sad. And usually after assemblies everyone is always like to their friends "Omigawsh, that assembly was SO boring and stupid" but this one actually hit home for people. How mean to each other we really are at school, and how its not OK. A lot of people were affected by it. Several were crying (call me heartless, but I'm glad I wasn't one of them). I hope the people at my school who actually do bad things LISTENED to that. But the sad thing is, the people who really need to here these things are the ones that don't listen to them. 

Yesterday and today, I was feeling kinda depressed about what he said. I'm glad he said it, and it was all true I know, but it really is the truth that hurts the most sometimes. So yeah, I was really sad about what he said, but it's also kind of a relief that he said it. Maybe all the other knuckleheads in middle school will realize how bad things are getting with respecting each other and all that. I'm glad he said it for all to here and understand.

So, hope you all can get something out of this. One last thing he said that is so true is this: "Sticks and stones break my bones, but words can break my heart." Remember people, watch what you say to one another. Words can hurt if we're not careful. 

Its been a while.

Hi people. Sorry, yeah, I know, its been a while. Sorry. Let's see what's new... oh, two Saturdays ago I went to the Scottish Games in Pleasanton with my family. It was so much fun! To all of you non-Andersons they might sound weird, but they are SERIOUSLY fun. I had so much junk food there... like that funnel cake I had...wow. And at our clan tent thingy (go Clan Rose!) there was this guy we are apparently very very distantly related to, and he was super funny! He was totally like one of those ultimate nerdy people who aren't afraid to me and it was HILARIOUS! So that was great.

Also the night before we went there me and my cousins and lil' brother made this "Anderson Idol" video for YouTube which my cuz Sahara might actually put on. I was the one singing. They told me I did great and all, but I'm really not sure if I want my singing to go on YouTube. I mean dude, that would be kinda...embarrassing? Weird? Yeah so I dunno what I think about all this. I'll tell you guys if it actually gets on YouTube.

Oh, last Wednesday I started a jazz class at Dance Connection. AMAZINGLY fun. It was just me and Maddiemoo and two other girls, but our teacher was really nice and I actually DID dance kinda good. Except (and this was SO frustrating) okay I could TOTALLY do a pirouette (a full turn) at the beginning of class, but by the end of class I TOTALLY couldn't!!!! It was so embarrassing. And I was gonna practice pirouetting this week (along with practicing voice and cello...haven't done any of that in a while though) but I didn't and the next class is tomorrow. Dude, I hope some magical power has come into me this week so I can actually do a pirouette without falling over. Hopefully.

OH OH OH auditions in orchestra at school are this week. I'm scared. I really hope the sixth grade cellos this year aren't that great cause I honestly (like I said earlier) haven't practiced my cello much. Even though my lessons have started up again. Yeah, in case you can't tell, I'm a TINY bit *cough cough* irresponsible when it comes to practicing...well...anything at home. So I hope the same magical power that will help me pirouette in jazz will come upon me when I audition. One can hope. 

OH OH OH OH and I had another voice lesson on Friday. It was AWESOME I think I am totally getting better!!!! It is so much fun singing in this new way. I don't sound good yet, but I'm STILL like so excited about my lessons! Oh that reminds me, I need to practice for my next lesson on Friday. Haven't done it yet. Beginning to see a pattern? I am. Like, really.

And then on Saturday (sorry this is a long blog) our church youth group thingy went on an AMAZING beach trip that was so awesome! We went to Sunset Beach, which is south of Santa Cruz, I think. I jumped in the waves a lot (and got knocked over by several of them) and we had a barbecue dinner and we watched a beautiful sunset and it was basically all that a beach trip should be. Although I was SUPER tired on the 2 hour drive on the way home. And I was kinda in a bad mood then, but the rest of the trip was super super fun. 

Today in PE we did volleyball. And I was on a team with a lot of.....well....interesting people. At first I was like "Oh great, this will be so fun (not)" but it was actually really entertaining watching all these obnoxious boys all get so worked up about volleyball! It was probly the most exciting class of the day. And for PE, that's big.

Okay, one final thing. I need to raise, like, a LOT of money for this Atlanta trip I'm going on, and I need ideas for raising money. So, any suggestions would be appreciated greatly! 

Alright, love ya all!!!!! <3

School Started. Omigawsh. (copyright)

Ok, well APPARENTLY I copied the title from my cousin. So I had to put the copyright thingy.



School started. Wow!!!!!! Okay in the last few days I've had things to post, but I didn't and right now I don't have anything. So...here's my schedule:



1st period: Garner, science

2nd: Iglesias, Spanish

3rd: Wetterholm, Orchestra

4th: Flores, PE

5th: Moser, math

6th: Victor, English

7th: Victor, English



So yeah. It's pretty exciting. But I miss all of my old classes. You know what's weird? Last year I didn't have too many friends in my classes, but they were still fun and had (pretty much) good kids in them. For the most part. But THIS year I have a ton more friends in my classes but besides that my classes are BAD. So, it's like, either I have a lot friends in bad classes or just a couple friends in good classes. What the heck!

I'm listening to David Archuleta's new song right now. Just so you know I'm not like a HUGE David Archuleta fan, but this song is so cute! I have it on CD (and on YouTube of course!) but I also really want it on my ipod, so that when I want to listen to an awesome-cute-sweet love song that's not about breaking up and hating ex-boyfriends I can listen to this one!

Well, I went out to dinner tonight, with some of my extended family. It was so much fun! My cuz Laralu and I sat across from each other and just LAUGHED the whole time! It was so much awesome stupidness! Our cuz Katy was there too, jsut laughing with us at our stupid arguments and our ridiculous efforts to diss each other. About half way through she's like "Wow, I wish I had a video camera on you guys!" Yeah we're that hilarious. Then we thought that yeah, that would be great because us two and Annadee keep making randomosity videos for YouTube and it would've been perfect! But oh well. It was so much fun!

Luv y'all!!!!!!!!!1

He's gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW to those of you that were wondering my name thingy is Emmajojo because missamandarose called me that one day to keep me seperate from EmmaStewie so yah...............

Dude, MY BROTHER LEFT FOR COLLEGE LAST FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!! I am SO sad i can't believe he's GONE! :-( I even cried a couple times about it! And I can say that here without shame because he probably doesn't even know I have a blog.... I miss him!

Also, sorry I haven't emailed/blogged in a LONG time I haven't been on the computer in almost TWO WEEKS!!!!!!!!! (gasp, I know its a record)

Should I read Twilight?

Hi all! Yeah I know I just posted. But this is important. In a couple years, when I'm like 15, should I read Twilight? I welcome any and all opinions on this matter. So comment and tell me if I should!