Baby Its Cold Outside vs. All I Want For Christmas

There has been a recent trend of "love song" Christmas songs becoming popular and two of those songs are be Baby Its Cold Outside and All I Want For Christmas. There are big differences between these two songs first of all Baby Its Cold Outside is a duet wile All I Want For Christmas is not. All I Want For Christmas is more of a belting song wile Baby Its Cold Outside is just playful type singing. Baby Its Cold Outside is also a older song and has a more old time but timeless sound wile All I Want For Christmas is more modern and has a upbeat sound. I have always loved the song Baby Its Cold Outside it has always been one of my favorites and for these reasons I would pick Baby Its Cold Outside.

O Christmas Tree & The Little Drummer Boy

Its getting to be that time of the year when stores start playing Christmas music and have other holiday festivities going on. With this you will be hearing a lot of the two songs O Christmas Tree and The Little Drummer Boy but the question is witch is better. Everybody has their favorite song when it comes to Christmas so what makes us like some and hate other which puts you in the holiday spirt. Even though both songs are probably my least favorite Christmas songs one is still better than the other. O Christmas Tree is mostly annoying because they are singing about a tree and lets face it has nothing to do with the real meaning of Christmas. The Little Drummer Boy probably has the most annoying tune and the drum beats are annoying because they never change and how many times can one song say per rum pum pum pum. O Christmas Tree has some positives like you know what they are singing about and the tune is not to annoying. While the positives to Little Drummer Boy is it does have to do with the true meaning of Christmas which is nice also I loved the movie growing up. For these reasons I choose The Little Drummer Boy even though it can get sort of annoying it is a lot better then O Christmas Tree and it has sentimental value.

Crashing

I have always enjoyed biking with my dad and we try to do it as much as we can. This summer I decided I wanted to do a century ride which is a 100 mile bike ride, I had done a couple before but had always taken short cuts because I would get to tired. This was going to be the year I would finish the whole thing. I did the Portland Century ride which is my favorite one to do because you get to stop at aid stations and eat pizza and cookies and just take a nice long brake. I started off strong trying to go a good pace that I could keep the whole time and I am really good at down hills I'm not afraid of going to fast so those are the points I pass alot of people. It is a great time that i get to spend just me and my dad.

We were riding along for about 70 miles when we reached this killer hill it felt like it when on for miles and at one point i slowed down so much that my bike fell over. Looking back it is sort of funny, but after riding that distance and falling off my bike I didn't think it could get any worse. I was two miles to the finish when we were riding through a old portland neighbor hood, there was tall trees on the street corners blocking some view but the intersecting streets had stop signs. There was a big group in front of us and they had just crossed the street and we were right behind them when a car pulled forward. The car had stopped for the other bikes but had not seen us coming explaining the pulling forward. That is when we got hit. I was very shook-en up after this happened and I didn't want to go on. The lady who hit me was upset to and felt super bad so she called a ambulance because they thought I would need to go to the hospital. After the ambulance got there and checked me out they told me I should go to the hospital. Before that my dad who is a Docter checked me out and said I was fine. I wanted to finish the race because I never had before and even though my hip was killing me and I knew I wouldn't be able to run for a couple weeks I pushed on and finished. That was my most proud finish ever and I can't think of one that could top that. Sense then I have not rode my bike or drove my car and I get scared really easily in a car but besides that i came out with no sierous harm.

The Election

We live in a free country and so we get to vote, sometimes not making the best decisions for our nation. I think we will look back in four years and see this election as a negative moment in American history. Not only did Obama not do much that helped our country during his first term but the things he did we will see hurt us in the long run. Romney is a business man and he obviously knew how to make money so why would we not want that for our country. Obama had already proven that he can't do it so why give him a second chance.

What I learned Nov 13, 2012

Today I read the article "Hurricane Sandy Reveals Life Unplugged" For Full Story Click Here. It was about how families are getting by without electricity. Parents have to find ways to entertain their children without power, no TV, computers, and no cellphones. People will find friends that have power and use their house as a recharging station and when the power goes out there they move on to the next house. It is nice for some families because they get to be together and spend some actual time talking and playing with their kids while some families hate the time together thinking they might kill each other. I would not want to be in these peoples situation I am lucky to live were I do but you never know when disaster will strike.

What I learned Nov. 5, 2012

Today I read the article "First Day In a Classroom, After a Hurricane" For Full Story Click Here. It was about what teachers are going through after the storm with their classes. While some students are responding well not all are, some are emotional, angry, antsy or just confused. The teacher told us that she would not teach anything but instead she would hear the kids stories and make the school a refuge. The school did not loose power allowing children to return on Monday and it was probably nice to get things back to normal after such a tragedy. Some kids will come strait out and tell you exactly how they feel and what happened and others are more reserved and wont talk at all, that is why it is important to do things for each individual child. I think it is terrible what happened and I hope that families are beginning to regroup.

What I learnd- Nov 1, 2012

Today I read the article "Plenty of Ghouls and Witches Manage to Haunt on Schedule" For Full Story Click Here. It was about what different people in New York are doing about Halloween after the super storm that had just hit.  Some people postponed Halloween to later in the week and others just did it anyways, children going to stores and having neighborhood scavenger hunts and parties. One person said that it was the biggest Halloween they had ever seen that everyone was making a even bigger deal out of it this year. It really depended on were you lived, in New Jersey all Halloween celebrations were postponed to either Friday or Saturday.  Even though Halloween parades were canceled families had the fun go on. It was probably hard to make sure that the experience was still fun for kids I would not want to be the one planning my Halloween around a hurricane.

The Best Halloween Costume I Ever Had

I have always loved to dress up for things and dressing up for Halloween is no exception.I had always been the typical princess or rock star but one year in middle school me and two of my friends decided we wanted to be different with our costume. We had to do something super cool because we were getting older and so the less candy we could get, the cooler the costume the more candy. In my neighborhood Halloween is a big deal people go all out and we will get over 500 people come to our door. After thinking about it for weeks we finally decided on something we had never seen before but had always heard of a serial box. We took big boxes and painted them to look like serial a box of course mine turned out the best. Our plan worked and we came away with a lot of candy.