December

Damn. It's been a long time. Did my imaginary readers notice? I suppose not.

November 27th, 2009 at 9:37 I lost my grandpa. A man I love. I just want you to know Grandpa, you'll always be in my heart. I love you.

We're all doing okay, I guess. Christmas was a little hard, but I was impressed at how well we all held up. You see, he always had his pocket knife on him, ready to help open gifts. Of course, he was a big part of our Christmas.

Enough about that. Normal life since November 3rd? Hmm. Friday the 13th I went ghost hunting again. We caught some pretty amazing pictures. Some pictures my mom and I snapped at the same time and got the same orbs. I promised pictures from the 31st, so I'll give you the most impressive. There are tons more, but I like this one best.

It would take forever to upload all of them, but I will show you one taken November 13th, 2009. As I'm sure you noticed, there is also a concert picture at the beginning of this entry. I didn't want to over do it, so I only posted one from each event I've mentioned.




Okay, so now you know about November. Yay!

~Jadyn

Summary.

God. It's been a long time since I wrote last. Over a month, almost two. Since September, I have gone to a concert (another This Providence), a haunted house the day before Halloween, gone ghost hunting and to a college football game. Obviously, I've done tons more than that, but those four are the most exciting.

The concert. It was amazing!! Danger Is My Middle Name was the opening band, followed by This Providence- the best band that there is... ever. All four band members remembered me, and that was amazing with in itself. Dan sang a couple songs at me which also.. well, kinda made my life. :D I loved it, it was the best Tuesday night ever!!!!!!

Haunted house... it was okay, not fantastic. But that night I also went ghost hunting at a local, truly haunted home. I got some great pictures of appiritions and orbs and all sorts of neat things. I'll try to post some pictures in my next entry.. with concert photos.

The football game was just awesome. I've been to a couple, and my parents are season ticket holders. I love football. :)


Now, as for normal life:

Today was kinda boring, but it was alright. In history, we wasted about ten minutes debating all sorts of different sports. Pretty boring. Then we had ITEDs, which I hate. But instead, since I'm a sophomore, I had to NWEA, too. I purposely took forever. I did pretty good too. Then, in art we did artsy stuff. Not the most fun class, but not awful. I actually kinda like it.. just not when she's lecturing. Then lunch, which was pretty mediocre. English was fun. I always like English. We finished watching Poltergist which was an odd movie.

In Geometry, nothing real exciting happen. We're doing proofs. But it is so amusing to me, nobody cares enough to learn my name so they call me Colts. I earned that nick name by constantly defending my team, talking about them, and being absolutely in love with them. This week in Spanish we have a quiz every fucking day. No fun.

And that's how my school life is going.. academicly. Not exciting? Hmm, I wonder why. But I'm not going to get to in depth with my social life.

Winner!

Both my fav. NFL team, my fav. college team, and my high school team are currently undefeated!!! NFL team 1-0, college 3-0, high school 4-0. :D :D

I guess I'm just a good luck charm. ;)

~Jadyn

Cry

Okay, I made myself cry today telling the story of my cousin to my English class. I'm such a looser. :D

~Jadyn

Life in General

Okay, let's fill you in. It's been a rather long time. I've taken a trip down south to visit family and friends. I had a blast!! We went rock crawling, to Santa Fe, we visisted an Alpaca farm, and countless other things.

School started about three weeks ago, and I've found it challenging to get back in the groove of things, but it's really not too bad.

In three days, it'll be my 15th b-day!!!!! I'm a sophomore, so I'm still the youngest of the class, but b-days are exciting, right? I'm really looking forward to that.. and the football game on Saturday. :D

In about a month, it's homecoming. All the guys are asking girls and all that.. but I'm not going to lie, I'm a little disappointed I haven't been asked yet. I'm not sure I'd agree to go, but being asked is always nice, right? Some flattery. And I guess I have high standards after being asked by three seperate guys last year...

Haha, oh well.

That's a quick catch up. I'll do my best to blog soon!!!

~Jadyn

Long Time 2

It's been a very long time. While I don't have time to contemplate life and our very existense, I just wanted to write again. Another post soon, I promise.

~Jadyn

Hello

Today is July 7th!! 9 days away from my trip down south. I'm very excited. I have nothing to say/write. Just posting.

~Jadyn

Been a While

Sorry, (if anybody reads this, that is), that I haven't posted in a while! I've been remotely busy, obsessively reading Harry Potter (arguably the best books ever written, I plan to finish reading them for what will be my second time this summer and intend to read them a third before the movie comes out. Which happens to mean I will have read each of the books near ten times with the exception of the last.)

I went to opening night of the new Transformers movie- it's fantastic. I've seen it twice since it's come out, and it failed to disappoint me. Very well done.

Here, we are busying ourselves with preparation for the 4th of July party tomorrow. We intend it to be an enjoyable day devoted to eating and chatting. My parents are stripping the ribs and getting everything ready so tomorrow is easy. I wish you all a Happy Independence Day and hope I do not neglect this blog much longer.

~Jadyn

Iron Man

Just for the record, Iron Man is one of the best movies ever made.

Life has been rather boring, but even though I doubt anybody reads this, I felt it necessary to post something because I haven't in a while.

~Jadyn

Strawberry Fields

My title is irrelevant.

There's not much going on in which I can blog about. My friend likes this guy, and he kind of indirectly invited her to go to this concert. Of course, she then invited me. I was babysitting so I couldn't, but it sounded like it would've been a good concert. She didn't go either, but it's kind of a funny story :).

I've been doing very little lately, but felt it fair to give some kind of blog update.

~Jadyn

Harry Potter

I consider myself a Harry Potter fan, I've read all the books several times and I own all the movies. I'm terribly excited for the new movie to come, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

I'd have to say Ron is my favorite character, he's so normal, but so brave. I've already purchased a T-shirt, with just Ron's face. I'd like to get two more T-shirts because I can...

Anyways, just wanted to talk a bit about Harry Potter...

~Jadyn

Thursday

Couldn't think of a good blog title, so Thursday it is. Well, needless to say, today is Thursday. I don't have any great plans, I might go to the pool or something. I'll probably wait for tomorrow, come to think of it.

I know, my life inquiries are terribly interesting, are they not?

I've been doing a lot of biking, reading and redefining who I am at the beginning of this summer. Change is important, and I'm glad I'm redefining myself. I hope I learn something along the way. Here's a thought I came to ponder back in April:

"Sometimes, I believe you must grow down, to grow up." This is my own quote, and what I mean by it is don't you believe in order to understand the world you have to experience it. So, by becoming more laid back and accepting of the world, you grow up. Even if it means being more immature but having fun. I don't know if that makes sense to anybody, but that's my thought process. And I'm hoping I run across another thought that insightful as I'm redefining me. I'm not asking for a big change, just something that brings the world into better focus, once again.

My ramblings must be boring...
~Jadyn

Between the Trees

I just found out that one of my favorite bands is going on tour this summer. Unfortunately, they are not coming to my state, so I'll have to be patient and wait until they can. I'm talking about Between the Trees! But, more exciting (for me), their new album is coming out in early August!!! I can't wait. It's been three years since their last album, but I only found it on iTunes a year ago. Immediately, I fell in love. Their music is so passionate. Their 2006 album, The Story and the Song is very good. I'm excited for this album, they've titled Spain.


I know I've talked about Between the Trees before. I believe it was in April that I had one of my blogs titled after their song "Words", which has a lot of meaning to me. Check them out, you won't be disappointed.

Today, I have no life inquiries, just excited for my summer months.

Yours truly,
~Jadyn

Long Time

I haven't written in a while. Thought I'd show my enthusiasm that summer is finally here!! I'm going to have a crazy summer.. hopefully :). I'm so excited!
Not much to say,
Yours Truly,
~Jadyn

Oh, and the song you should be listening to right now is Summer Hair=Forever Young by The Academy Is...

The Academy Is...

New music obsession! The Academy Is... I've listened to them before, but I recently bought their latest CD and it's amazing. I'll remain loyal to This Providence, but I can't stop listening to The Academy Is... right now.

With Your Music Update,
~Jadyn

Sunburnt

I'm extraordinarily sun burnt from my 8 hours time outside yesterday. I spent 5 of it reading on my deck in direct sunlight, 2 walking my dog on 2 separate occasions, and 1 hanging out at a friends house.

Been up to nothing other than homework, scrambling to get caught up. In my dull life, of course I had time to blog. But blogging feels pointless with nothing to write about...

With nothing further to say,
~Jadyn

Yeah!

I'm almost 100% better! Took long enough.. I had four sick days. So, that being said, I haven't done anything exciting or worthy of blogging about. I don't have any spectacular and argumentative insights on life, hope or anything else. I'm just me, and I just wanted to let you know I'm here.

~Jadyn

Third Sick Day

Staying at home, watching movies with Joe Anderson and Jim Sturgess, listening to good music like This Providence and Between the Trees, and other dull things. Sigh. I hate being sick.

Lots of Love to All You Healthy People,
Jadyn

Sick

Ugh... I'm home sick. What a lovely day.

So, watching Across the Universe and laying on the couch. Great day. Soon, I'll go outside and read or something. I hate being sick.

Bored senseless,
Jadyn

Just Like the Crow Chasing the Butterfly

So, as stated in an earlier blog, I'm super into Shinedown right now. That's all my blog title is referring to.

I kind of had a bad day today. Woke up, argued with Mother and sister and just had a crap day. Until after school when I was talking to Jake and Tiff and Cassi... fun times.

The detail of my day is rather dull, but I wanted to post!

~Jadyn

Happy

I had a really great day. I don't know why, but I just seemed to take everything well and with a smile and laugh.

I went to my lil' sister's vocal concert earlier this evening. It was pretty entertaining. Her band concert was last night, and that was a little slow, but oh well. I'm there to give my moral support, so what else can you do?

I've been enthusiastic and a fairly happy person this week. But it seems some people are taking a step away from me. And I'm not going to lie, it hurts. But then so many people are learning who I really am. I am confident, and lively. And I guess people are just starting to learn that. I accept myself for me and that shows. I think it really shows.

Last year, I was weak. Self-conscious and just very little. Now, I'm so strong. So independent. I can't say I regret any of the hurt. It made me who I am today. And that's important. I still have much to learn about myself and the world, but I've made a major step.

Life is exciting, and painful, and happy, and depressing, and naive, and wise. Life is something nobody should have to give up until they've lived it to the fullest. I feel as if I gain everyday I'm alive. (At least when I'm in optimistic moods like today) And it's important. I think the moment you accept yourself, everybody around can make their choice.

But I'm also guarded. There is so much people don't know about me and never will.

I'm done rambling and contemplating life for tonight,
~Jadyn

Hope, Dreams and This Providence

The title is referring to all of this month's blog titles. I just realized how wonderful they sound together.

I've been listening to some really sad music, and I can't figure out if that's a cause or an effect of my increasingly sad mood. I don't know, I just hurt. I've been listening to Shinedown a lot, and I always listen to This Providence. But a lot of Shinedown. Their CD is really sad.

I just feel forgotten, cast aside. A lot of people have been less enthusiastic toward me, which results in me taking a step back. No body's been cruel or unkind, just indifferent. And in a way, it kind of stings. And it could be that I'm overly-perceptive. And maybe I've been spacey.

As I ponder life,
yours truly,
~Jadyn

Hope

I'm terribly sorry my writing style isn't fully developed yet. I'm trying to write less dry, and more intriguing, and I kind of use this as my practice space.

Saturday, I did mow the lawn, and I did go shopping. I found nothing suitable for my mother, and didn't spend a dime on anything. So today, I cleaned the entire house before Mom and Dad got home, and I thought that would be an acceptable gift. She was pleased, and I know she didn't want a gift because that's how she is.

I have the Shinedown CD, 'The Sound of Madness', and it's very good. Nothing beats This Providence, and never will. I really enjoy their music, and they seem to strike a personal level with every word, every beat. They are truly a spectacular band. I have digital formatting of all their CDs, which I bought off iTunes, but I'm going to buy the physical versions as soon as I can find where they'd sell them. If you know of any places that sell This Providence, let me know.

~Jadyn

Dreams

So, I had a rather disturbing dream the other night. It was about a ghost child and her troubled mom. Very disturbing, but I won't go into detail.

I've been semi-busy lately. By that I mean, not a lot of chilling and being with friends, but a lot of babysitting. Staying up all hours of the night with kids, etc. It's fun, just exhausting. And I have a hard time sleeping in so I don't always get my deserved sleep.

Mom and Dad are going to a wedding out of town today. Rachel, my older sister, is going to come and stay with us. To avoid any confusion, Rachel is truly my half-sister, but not in heart. Rachel is a college student and works at Target.

Enough about family, tomorrow is Mother's Day. Today I hope to go shopping with Knoel and maybe a group of people, and maybe not. I don't really know what today has in store for me. I hope it's more than just mowing the lawn.

It's funny, Nate, a kid in my Algebra class kind of figured out where I live- which is a long and FUNNY story- and he wants to mow my lawn, obviously to get paid. I kind of want him to too, but I know my Daddy would never go for that. But he might mow the lawn in July when we go on vacation.

I don't think I ever followed up on the trip to Adventureland two weeks ago. Basically, it was rainy and miserable. I hung out with mainly Tyler B., not to be confused with my best friend of five years, Tyler C. It was a fun day, just cold.

With very little left to say,
Yours Truly,
~Jadyn

This Providence

<- Gavin, Knoel, Me, Andy(left) Knoel, David, Me

My friend Knoel, Dan, and Me (In that order)

Dan Young- Sand in Your Shoes, what a cute song :)

Dan Young

Dan Young







Gavin Phillps




I haven't written anything in a while. I'm fairly sure nobody noticed because I'm positive nobody reads my ramblings, but anyways...

This Providence is my favorite band ever. I know I've mentioned them before, and the concert I attended was about a month ago, but I still think they deserve some limelight, even if it's from one of they're crazier fans :P. I thought I'd share some pics from the concert, because I really can't see enough of the pictures.

This is an insane number of pictures, that I am aware of, but I was to indecisive to pick less than eight favorites.

Thanks for reading, again :)

Facebook

Facebook is a rather fascinating addiction of mine. It gets really old, really fast, but it's usually entertaining. Espicially when you're on talking to people in chat.

Today was another semi-good, mostly-bad day. It's just not a very good week for me. But, if I put on a good show it can help me make it through the day. I'm pretty good at shows, covering up my mood.

Tommorow I organized an FGHA meeting. I got an announcement out, and I hope people show up. I'm the sorta-just-appointed leader of the club. I want to do Highway Clean-Up this Saturday or Sunday. This is where the true test of who cares and who doesn't comes in. Who wants to be a member and who just wants their parents to think they are doing something.

FGHA stands for Future Granola Heads of America. People who like to be outside and do things. We've gone biking, ice skating and soon I'd like to plan a trip to a local trail. The club is still young and so am I. Which means I have homework... :(

~Jadyn

Friends

Aren't we all so lucky to have them? I like to think so. I can't stand the idea of being without them. I guess you could say I only have two friends. Tyler and Knoel. Knoel is the most amazing girl in the universe, she's my best friend. Tyler and I have been close for years, but it's not the same as Knoel and I. He is definitely a best friend.

Then I have my sometimes friend, Tyler B., (there's two, so I'll specify). There's a lot of drama behind that guy..

But I also have a ton of acquaintances, or school friends. I'm pretty guarded and don't let many people in.

Then there's in between people, that aren't acquaintances or a best friends. Social trees are confusing.

Then there are my 'enemies' for lack of better term.

I don't really know what to say about my friends, but they are who they are.

This is a rather pointless blog, but post a comment if you actually read it. I'd like to see who reads these, if anyone.

~Jadyn

Life

"Life is music, and you may not like the song, but you should still dance anyway." I'm not sure who said that, but that quote is really amazing.

If you go through a rough time in life, don't give up.

On a lighter note, the sun is finally shining. After the long, rainy weekend, the sun woke up. It just woke up five minutes ago.

My best friend got back from Chicago last night. Today we swapped weekend stories. It was great to see her, even if she was only gone three days.

With all love,
~Jadyn

Words

I only titled my blog that way because that's the song I'm listening to. Words by Between the Trees, actually it's quite the thought to ponder. The lyrics sing, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, your words, they surely kill." It's so true.

I don't know if anybody actually reads my blog, but I'm going to go ahead and assume you all know what hate feels like. When somebody takes a verbal jab at you, the generally know what nerve they are hitting. They are almost literally trying to kill you. The most effective way to hurt somebody is to get to know them, and break them down. And it hurts. How can it not?

It's still raining. It really sucks, but it's kind of pretty too. When I write these blogs, I almost always spend at least an hour pondering life after them. How odd.

As always,
~Jadyn

Rain

Today it rained. All day. Actually, it still is raining. I actually think it was kind of nice. I got some things done and chilled at home. Sometimes, those days are just nice. I went shopping, bought some useless things, cleaned the house and took some pictures during the rain. Hope you enjoy.

~Jadyn

One of Those Days

One of those days...

I mean that in every good way possible. It was 80 degrees, hot and calm. Everybody was in a great mood, myself included, which makes for a good day. I loved wearing my shorts confidently. I felt so chill, so relaxed. I got so much done, too.

Well, maybe that's an exaggeration. I mowed the lawn, suntanned, read a magazine and pet my dog. Tomorrow I'm going to Adventureland with a club at school. I expect that will be fun.

So, seeing as I'm a music freak, I'll let you in on another one of my favorite artists. (Nobody will ever top This Providence.) Between The Trees. They are amazing. I'm really into their songs, Fairweather and Words. I love all their songs on their album. (They only have one now,) but those two are my favorite.

As the night progresses, I feel stargazing is in order.

~Jadyn

Cats

'Cats' was actually an awful way to title my blog. I just saw mine and figured it would work as well as any. I was outside today, it's supposedly 78 degrees. But it's very windy which makes it rather uncomfortable.

Have you ever wondered what life would be like if somebody took a person, no matter how small a role, out of your life? Actually, especially them. You don't want to think about somebody important out of you life, but what if that kid who sits in front of you in Algebra suddenly disappeared? He makes jokes, and keeps a smile on your face during that class, but he's nothing more than that to you. Would your life be different if you never met him? You all have to know somebody that just makes life a little less depressing for you, but you're not close friends at all. He/she just makes you smile. I'm going to ponder that for a while.

Today was very much ordinary. Spent the day laughing at jokes, or at myself. Tripped a couple times, finished some class work. Not much exciting.

I take a class called 'Teen Living', it's useless. That's not fair to say, I guess, but it's a real easy class since Freshmen don't have many options. Anyway, we're making mash potatoes tomorrow, and I'm thinking that will be interesting....

~Jadyn

Wednesday!

Well, I figured I titled my last blog Monday, why not have a Wednesday?

Today was really good. Very emotionally calm. It means a lot to people who are as easily stressed as myself to have a fairly stress-free day. The laptop is up and running, my dad defragged it and basically created new log-ins so I'm rebuilding my iTunes library now. I had to transfer it from admin. to Jadyn. Vista kind of sucks.

It really helps my mood when the sun's out, so I was very pleased to see it out today. It'll be here for at least two more promised days!

Very little time again,

~Jadyn

Monday

It was a Monday, Monday's are no good. Ever. It's kind of like some kind of unwritten rule that Mondays have to suck. To the right, is a perfect example of how I feel on Mondays, but I believe that that picture was actually taken on a Wednesday.....

Anyways, I'd rather not vent to you guys because even though I doubt anybody reads this, it's just not cool to lash out at the world on the internet.

Well, seeing as I have homework to do, it was a pleasure writing.

~Jadyn

Hmm

It feels like I never have anything to say. I'm well aware nobody actually reads this, but I still feel like I must write, and write and write. I'm actually looking into screen writing, creative writing or journalism as ideas of what to major in. (Or photography, architecture, advertising, marketing, or management) It's safe to say I'm still quite indecisive as to my career choice.

In the past four days or so since I last wrote, I got over being sick, watched Superbad, went to a movie with my friend, talked about some really tough topics for both of us, ran into the people that always seem to hurt me the most, read 300 pages or so of my book, Fatal Tide by Iris Johansen, and enjoyed the sun.

As you can see, my life is rather dull. But I do recommend 17 Again if you're interested in seeing a movie, it was very funny. Zac Efron is pretty hot in that movie, and it's a huge step up from High School Musical, I don't mean to offend, but I hated those movies. I'm not into movie spoiling, so I won't write what happens, but certainly see it. (I love this whole talking to nobody thing...)

I don't have much to write right now,
~Jadyn

Another Day

Today was quite interesting, I was constantly laughing at something and I was just in a good mood. It's strange how you have those days where your just happy. A kid in my Mechanical Drawing class makes me laugh every day. Today wasn't too out of the ordinary, he unplugged my computer again, accidentally, of course. It made us both burst out laughing. Mr. L doesn't like me very much, I laugh a bunch in his class.

In Algebra, Jacob dissed my shirt. That was a fun conversation, he doesn't like the band This Providence. That's not sarcasm either, I had fun arguing as to why my favorite band is simply amazing. I won, mainly because he got bored and gave up. He didn't have any good backing to his "I hate that band" statements, while I had plenty (good statement backings.)

I got college mail today, that was really cool. It didn't say a lot, but it was fun. I also applied for another scholarship today.

I'm sure there's more to write, I enjoy this, but quite frankly, I'm tanning (outside) and my laptop is almost dead.

~Jadyn

For Starters

I just started my blog, set up the account and all that. I'm not sure what the purpose of my blog is yet, but I was inspired to start a blog by a discussion in class today and after seeing www.danyoungblog.com. This Providence, his band (Dan Young's the blogger), happens to be a band I truly respect. I briefly met each one of them at a concert I recently attended. I'll try not to talk about that too much.

I guess since this blog is about non other than me, so I'll tell you a bit about myself. I haven't received consent for this blog yet, so I'm not sure how much I'm willing to share until I run this idea by my mom. Yup, that's me, a teenage, high-school goody-two-shoes. I actually let her come to the This Providence concert with me. (Which was actually a great idea, she bought me things!)

I know how annoying people are about their pets, but mine are a huge part of my life. Especially my dog, Lucas. We rescued him from a shelter, and it's evident he was beaten. I could rant a little too, about animal abuse, but I'm not in the mood for such a heavy topic.

I've a slight obsession with music. My favorite band is This Providence (check them out on iTunes, or see the latest video 'Letdown' at their website www.thisprovidence.com) But, I'm really into The All-American Rejects, Between the Trees, VersaEmerge, The Hush Sound(they used to be my favorite band, but then my friend introduced me to This Providence, and The Hush Sound quickly lost that battle for #1), Katy Perry, Thriving Ivory, Taylor Swift, Paramore, and Nevershoutnever!. I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of any more off the top of my head.

As it's been implied, I'm a high school student. I'm still quite unsure what my college plans are or career choices. I've applied for a few scholarships, and we'll see where that takes us. (if you're looking at colleges and/or financial aid, check out www.zinch.com, it's truly amazing)

What to expect from this blog in the future is still fairly undetermined to me. I don't know if I'll continue this blog or if I'll quit, do to parental orders. My life is complex, as are many. Expect complexity, that's the best I can give you for now.

Your first-time blogger,
Jadyn