Update on Chameleon

SO it is close to Christmas I am totally excited but I'm also kinda sad see my student teacher for Drama leaves today so I'm not going to be able to see her everyday anymore. Also I kinda want to perform at my school's Christmas assembly but I'm not sure if my partners do and the teacher has to choose which groups and there are tons of really awesome groups my only hope is that they will decide that the other scenes have inappropriate materiel (like kissing) and that they will choose us but I know the odds of that are slim to none and it seems mean to think about it like that. I have finished reading all the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books in a week and had a cool idea for a similar series. A freaken' HUGE spider just ran past my desk and there it is again ewww creepy! I realized my old crush is a total Jerk and yeah so what else let me think...........I have an annoying cold that won't go away. I am auditioning for a play on Tuesday and am totally nervous cause its a musical. I am watching Red High Heels and trying to ignore the idiots in my class. Now Wild at heart Next I'm going to try and find some Taylor Swift Christmas songs. "He kissed her she said mister take an inch and I'll give you a mile" " 'Bout midnight he tells her I ain't got no come on lines. well I love you or I'll try to We ain't got nothing to lose but time" "That rebel moon is shining those stars burn like diamonds" I love country music!!!! I am bored and now I'm listening to Lady Antebellum need you now its so pretty (cause you all want to know what I'm listening to) I wish nobody else was here I really want to sing along but that would be embarrassing. Now Toby Keith love me if you can. I keep getting distracted from the song I really want to hear "You may not like where I'm going but you sure know where I stand hate me if you want to love me if you can" "I stand by my right to speak freely but worry about what kids see on TV" Now Broken from Toby Keith's Movie Broken Bridges. I love that movie. Are you sensing a pattern here? I can't find my purple notebook which has the story that I want to write in it. I just wrote all the words to broken. Oh yeah ULC was so much fun and my friends made me dance with two different guys one I was in real dance position with because I was in ballwoom for years and so that is normal but his hand on my back kept going lower and lower (creepy much) then my friend literally dragged me over to this hot guy and shes like will you dance with my friend and hes like sure then he didin't ive me time to do dance position he just put his arms around my waist and started dancing cause I was to busy mouthing the words "you are so dead" to my friend at least his hands didn't go down to low. I was so red. There was so much more that happened but it takes to long to talk about before I went my mom told me that I had to participate and that she would be able to tell whether I did or not but I don't think I'm acting different. Now I'm going to stop trying to multitask and just listen to music. Bye

Update

AAAAh! GG4 comes out June 15 2010 AAAAH! Ok freak out over right now I just got my email saying my story is published you can go read it here http://authspot.com/short-stories/secrets-chapter-one/. It is almost thanksgiving break and I'm going to see new moon tomorrow I am so excited for everything and I really want to write some poems about thanksgiving and maybe read them on thursday or put them on facebook. I am also trying writing poems that don't rhyme. Nothing else is really going on at least not that I can think of oh wait my group in drama split into two groups so I get to do a scene from charlies angels with two of my friends it should be fun that is all. Bye

My first hug

So you want to know how jaded and nieve and invisble I am, Your about to find out. Today I was in Drama and our student teacher wasn't there yet cause turned out she forgot, anyways my class started a game of Freeze (FYI Freeze is a game where to people go to the middle of the room and have to act out a scene using improv. when somebody wants to go into the scene or just change it they say freeze and tap one of the people on the shoulder they then have to get into the same postion the other person was in and make up a new scene. it's a lot of fun and gets you out of your bubble) so we were playing and I had gone up a few times which is totally unusual cause I usually just sit in my seat but I was feeling outgoing today or maybe just not as pressured cause both the teachers were gone so I said freeze and went into the scene, then this smokin' hot guy named, well I'm not going to tell you his real nam efor embarrassment reasons, "Jesse"said freeze and took my scene partner out we had both been sitting on the floor pretending to be at a slumber party talking about boys which is probably his inspiration for what happened nest cause the words out of his mouth were "so there's this boy" oh my gosh I totally wanted to say there can't be a boy you are to hot to be gay that would just be horrible to take away such a smokin' guy from the female population, But I didn't I just went along with the scene so eventually somebody said freeze and we took him out of the scene later he said freeze when one girl was standing and another was kneeling and he took out the kneeling girl then pretended to be proposing, it was so funny. Later I had been in a couple of times and had fun so I wanted to go in again without thinking about it I said freeze, "Jesse" had been pretending to be posing for a painting and it gave me an idea I acted like his girlfriend and started saying things like I'll be waiting for you when you finish the race so then he runs like five feet and pretends that he won the race and then he proceeds to hug me. It wasn't even awkward but I was totally embarrassed I'd never hugged a guy unrelated to me. Then I totally blushed and as soon as the bell rang I texted my mom to tell her that I hugged a boy how lame is that. So yeah oh and as for my invisbleness I was in my sixth period and was sitting by a friend in that class when the girl who sits across from her who is in like four of my classes says "what are you doing here you aren't in this class." So yeah I'm blushing and invisble a great combination

Bored, Bored, BORED

The Second person in my class to finish the assignment, actually we finished at the same time but the teacher went to the other person first cause he was closer. I was reading a book last night called "Let It Snow, three holiday romances" it was so cute and totally made me blush I love books that do that (not that its hard to make me blush it totally isn't) I sound like a freaken' cheerleader with all the totallys and likes I use FYI I don't really talk like that (I think). I'm listening to still in love with you by the Jonas Brothers. So my great grandma is now in an old folks home and we did all of our holiday traditions with her so we have to rethink it all and come up with new traditions so far we decided For thanksgiving we are going to Andy's and Mimi's house and we might go bowling (I know random) For new years we might go to Nevada an don Christmas day we are going to my aunt Jackie's, So I have no idea what I'm doing for Christmas eve how sad is that. In my drama we are starting scenes and of course I got put with the people that are worse than me in the not-going-to-actually-act department so I am going to do the all the work and the scene we got I'm not really a big fan of so on top of getting them to act I have to find either a four person scene or two two people scenes thankfully I have a list of plays to take them from so and since I'm the one doing it I know I will like the scene(s) and if they don't thats to dang bad, Another problem is two of my sorta friends are in my group and so if we do two people scenes I don't know who to do the scene with. I am so excited/terrified for ULC and I am crossing my fingers that it will go well, now I am going to finish ranting and find something else to do so Bye

Amanda

As I walked up on stage, my heart pounding double time
all the words seem to exit my mind
apparently they don't want to see me fail.
I am seriously considering running offstage
then I look down at the people watching below.
I see a face, only one in that vast crowd
as the words flow into my brain and out my mouth
I silently thank you. You saved me again

Gallagher Girls

I've read the books time and again can't stop comparing it to my best friends.
The characters could have been them it wouldn't suprise me at all to see my friends on that cover standing tall. They are so much alike and there is more to them then everyone sees.
Lashelle is Macey: Determined, strong, and sure
Dezey is just like Bex: Strong, Dramatic, and outrageous flirts
Amanda is my Liz: Smart, Sweet, but silently strong
They are all beautiful and loyal and know how to make me laugh when I want to cry
So with these amazing talneted wonderful friends I have just when question where do I fit in.

please

Life is funny sometimes right one day everything is sunny the next its black as night. My life was going great friends family boys and school then you walked out of it and nosw its all wrong there is no more color I forgot my song. Why did you leave did I do something I am truly sorry for everything I have done. If you would just come back I promise I'll be good just please come home

Me Uncensored

Me uncensored (my thoughts from my head going straight on the page).I am so kicking the guys buts in my electronics class (not literally) I seriously did so well on an assignment that my cousin felt the need to take credit for it (don't worry it wasn't actually worth points) of course being me I didn't correct him. I gave a talk in church a couple of weeks ago. I have Don't chase me stuck in my head and I just did a scene in Drama where I got to yell at my scene partner. Lets see what else is going on oh yeah I didn't get to watch the new NCIS because I had young womens, and I am trying to get up the courage to email Ally Carter I just don't know how to explain myself. I am stuck just sitting around waiting to find out what the top ten poems are and it is driving me insane! Um....On the home front the future Mrs. Boye thinks I am a hubby stealer and is trying to look in the yearbook for a guy actually named Zachary Goode so she can embarrass me in front of him I haven't told her that he goes to the Blackthorne school for boys. Oh and FYI I do know that NCIS is just a show and that the Gallagher Girls books are well books so no need to freak. Speaking of Gallagher Girl books I got on Ally Carters blog and she is trying to decide how to reveal the name of GG4. I really want to go to ULC (Utah Leadership Conference) but Mrs. Boye is going and well she doesn't really like me so yeah but I think it would be good for me to go and have to get out of my shell plus our advisor says that they split you up into groups and don't put you in a group with people from your chapter I have to choose soon. I am bored. Oh yeah I texted my dad a bunch of times, no surprise he didn't text back, I am avoiding my step mom's and I keep having really weird dreams. Thats all I can think of now and I want ice cream so Bye

Update from Chameleon

Oh my gosh I am totally happy! the songs in my head are all good happy ones especially Don't give up by Josh Groban. My poem is in the running to be one of the top ten at poetrypower.com which means it will be in the book and may even get its own page. I remembered my brother is a totally talented artist so I need to ask him to help with the childrens books I am currently writing. I know it sounds like a big goal writing childrens books or any books for that matter but I promised myself I would do it. I need to stop promising myself things last time I did I ended up getting a guys phone number which by the way I am trying really hard to
NOT use. Bookworm and I are finally getting started on the fifteen music video. i have my monologue for Drama memorized and just need to get comfortable enough in front of the whole class to say it seriously while I was practicing in the hall with my friends this guy walked past and I was being pretty loud so I was kind of embarrassed but when he walked by again he told me I did a really good job. gotta go bells about to ring

me after midnight

So this is what happens when I'm bored enjoy:)

I can go to the ball and dance with a prince be some one else for a time, but when that clock strikes twelve I'll have to run home go back to being on my own and when i wake up I'll wonder if it was all just a dream in that harsh morning light I'll be who I was before timid, shy, and scared to be me, all my old insecurities.
(CHORUS)Because in the morning I'm not a princess I'm just a maid I'm the girl in the tattered clothes so afraid, I don't flirt and I don't shout I don't do anything to stand out I was cinderella at the ball, but I took flight and I'm just me after midnight
When the Prince sees me in the hall I'm not the girl he met at the ball i'm the one from way across town that girl no one knows, who walks looking down, books in her arms and a tear nobody sees in her eye, thats who I am to this guy.
(CHORUS)
Realizing why would I want to be, any one else but me. I see no problems with who I am I shouldn't change me just for them
Because in the morning I don't want to be a princess and I'm not just a maid I'm the girl comfortable in her skin but afraid, my own prince charming will see and thats who he'll want me to be. Then I won't take flight and I'll be me after midnight

story # 6

So I remembered the other stories and they both came from the same dream
First there is a rebellion that is having a meeting and one of the people falls down a cliff right in the arms of the enemy literally and then she has to figure out how to save her country
in the second one she finds out first that she is a princess and that she is on the side against her real parents also she is a fairy and she has a brother oh and her brother is some one she never got along with

Music videos #1

ok so recently when I've been listening to random songs I'll think of a music video for the song and here is the one I thought of for Taylor Swift's song fifteen
ok first it's a picture of a freshman girl and then it closes up on the picture it becomes a video of her walking through the door her freshman year then it shows random things from freshman year kind of following the words of the song and then when the second verse starts it's sophmore year and does the same thing when the bridge starts it's junior year and then during the instrumental it shows freshman closing up on her face then it does the same for junior and senior and finally it shows senior year this time moving out from the girl's face and as the song ends with the words "your very first day, take a deep breath girl, take a deep breath as you walk through the door" then it shows her in a cap and gown walking out of the same doors she walked in then it changes back into a picture being put in a box on top of the rest of the pictures as the lid on the box closes you see the word high school written on it
My version of love story is mostly the same but it's a duet and when they are running towards eachother in the field when he reaches her he drops down on one knee then the guy starts singing the "marry me Juliet part"

Story #5

ok so my grandma has my writing book and I need to get these down or I'll forget
The first one is about an heiress her mom died when she was little and she feels like her dad doesn't really care but he secretly does so he hires a team of people to protect her from the kidnapping threats she's been getting. this team has weird ways and they kidnap her to protect her without her dad knowing about this part of the plan it goes pretty well until the real bad guys kidnap her from her protectors oh and the guy in charge of the protecting team his son is falling in love with her
this one I came up with while swimming it's one of those books that you get one story and then you flip it over for another in this case it is the same story told once from one perspective and a second time from the other perspective it's two best friends that have never fought or anything until they both want the same spot in one very secret group can their never tested friendship handle the biggest test of all
there were two other story's that were similar to eachother but I can't remember them

Weird dreams 1

So here are my weird dreams
1: i was going into this room and all the all the disney and non didney princess were frozen in there and this guy and i unfroze one and she and the guy hugged and kissed and then she said what about your daughter and he said you mean our daughter then i was leaving a room with their three year old belle and we walked around and i was introducing her to the other children and we found amanda and then i left her with someone and amanda i and i walked down the hall to get food and charity came and joined us in line and they got food but i didn't then we were walking and they walked away then i was looking for my school schedule and i realized i was in the wrong pile so i looked in the other pile and found it then i went to look for my first class called goosebumps and i couldn't find it so i asked some one and they said it was just up the stairs so i start walking up the stairs and then i'm coming back down and there is the classroom and there is a ton of people waitong to get in and this one girl starts randomly getting mad at me for being late and i try to explain to her that i got lost and then the class changes but it's the same teacher and students and stuff so i sit at a table with the mean girl and this hot guy and one other guy and we start working then the girl gets mad and leaves along with the non hotguy and the two of us finish so we go get the teacher to show him and when we bring him back there are people gambling at the table in full vegas clothes we say something and they all leave and i realize the students that left earlier are with the vegas peope then i woke up
2: this dream i have had so many times i don't know wether it was in a book or i made it up but i wasn't in it and there was more to it then usual
3: it was me and mom at some hotel cafe on a beach and the owner was so flirting with mom and then he brought a not that was to be delivered to me and we opened it and i read and it was from Reba Macentire and it was a different name on it but it was for me and she said the owner was her good friend and then my aunt jackie and aunt sarah showed up and we were teasing eachother like family does and then everybody but us and the owner dissapeared and he came over and recognized me and said that his neice and nephew were big fans and they started talking about me being a singer and getting a movie part and starting on my other dreams and the owner told me that he had a friends son my age who was also a big fan i was only a little bit older by the way and he was totally flirting with my mom then i woke up.
in true Erica fashion I am turning the last one into a book

story #4

Vanessa is 18 she is amazing and she doesn't realize it she is to busy hiding behind her brain and friends to accept that she has so much more to give but when her security blankets aka her grandpa and best friends "die" she is plunged into a world of intrigue and lies and she will have to trust the person keeping the most from her but when she finds out that everything she thought she knew was a lie can she learn to depend on herself and live up to her name

Texas

So I am in Texas now be home on Wednesday and it is awesome here I love the golf carts and going on the lake plus i get to hang out with family more oh and i learned how to play poker hee hee hee they are so corrupting me up here! it rained a couple of times and it rained hard but nice and hot now we are going on the lake soon. Oh and I'M ALMOST FIFTEEN yay!

Italy

here is an idea I had while driving through Texas in the rain (so technically i wasn't the driver but whatever) So this is two short stories put together in one book telling of two peoples experiences. First: Lilly is a total prep she is in every club and she is spending a month in Italy to help her future. Second: emily wants nothing more than to be a cowgirl and she is spending a month in Texas to prove it. When these girls plane tickets get switched, emily ends up in italy and lilly ends up in italy, Texas. these girls get anew appreciation for the world around them and they both learn more about themselves

poem

So a couple of weekss ago I submitted one of my poems and the contest is almost over I am so nervous cause it's like a big contest and I'm questioning my sending the poem in and whether it was a wise decision I'm so nervous and it's the first time I've ever really put my writing that far out there. For some reason I just can't think of my writing as good and I don't know what to do

Stories #2

This is my version of a Harry Potter follow up series and since I have no intention of anyone real seeing it here it is or at least the outline

Elizabeth just turned 11 and her world was flipped around that is what happens when you and your parents find out you are somehow well magic so she heads to Hogwarts where she immediately takes a liking to Albus Potter and Rose Weasley she becomes good friends with them Rose an awful lot like Harry, Albus like Ron, and Elizabeth a whole lot like her unknown aunt hermoine the teachers all notice these likenesses although they are not to worried until an accident strands the children in the worst possible situation with a man who not only knows to much about magic but wants to control it I put all 7 years in one story cause frankly I just didn't want to think about horrible things that could happen if I took the time to tell in detail all 7 years

stories #1

right now I am in a place without my notebook so I'm writing my stuff here

Prologue

Some one great once said a good writer writes what they know as a good painter paints what they see a good player plays what they hear and life is what it is well I have only ever wanted to be a writer my biggest problem now is I don't know much

Epilogue

So Back to that quote I have a few things to tell that great man if a great writer writes what they know then how do we have stories like Harry Potter, Twilight, and Dragon flight I doubt J.K. Rowling knew a wizard, a good painter can also imagine and if a good player played what they heard we would never have new kinds of music plus if life was just how it seemed that would be boring. So my edited version of the quote: A good writer writes what they want to know, a good painter paints what they want to see, a good player plays what they want to hear, and life is never as it seems

what we've been doing

This is what my family's doing

Mom is working both at her job and to get the house finished

texas girl is busy being the maneger at work

CJ, Alli, Boo Boo, and bam bam are excited about there new Ford

Ham and Britt are looking for a new house that takes dogs

Andy and Whit are getting more and more animals in their zoo

Charbear is cleaning and texting nonstop again oh and she has a date

I am trying to not be too nervous about my summer plans and making myself write those summeries Amanda wants plus I am completely excited for my family reunion and Lorinda's visit

Drock is still being a hyper child his ankle healed and he wants to do all kinds of stuff this summer

so yeah that is what we are all up too I am going to try and post what we're doing at least once a month we'll see how that works:)

I found out a while ago that I get to spend July in Texas With my sister I am so excited but we are flying down and I have never flew before i am really nervous I have heard some creepy stuff about airplanes I'm mostly worried about taking off, landing, and getting motion sickness. Oh and meanwhile I wrote this poem a while ago and am finally ready to get feedback on it so here is is a really rough draft FYI

HOPE

THE RISING SUN IN THE EAST LETTING ME KNOW THAT SOME ONE IS WATCHING, GIVES ME HOPE IN MY DARKEST HOUR. I AM LEARNING TO BE STRONG, LEARNING TO HOLD ON, KNOWING IT WON'T BE TO LONG TILL I'M WITH HIM AGAIN. SO I'LL KEEP MY HEAD HELD HIGH, I'LL SHOOT FOR THE SKY, STOP BEING SO DANG SHY, AND TELL MY FEARS GOODBYE. I'LL KEEP HIM IN MY HEART WHILE MY REAL LIFE STARTS. I KNOW HE LOVES ME I FEEL DEEP INSIDE HE WOULDN'T WANT ME TO HIDE SO TODAY I WILL DECIDE TO SHOW WHO I AM TO MAKE HIM PROUD AND TO PROVE TO THEM, THAT I CAN'T BE ANY ONE OTHER THAN WHO I AM SILLY, CRAZY, SWEET, AND LOUD. I REALIZE NOW WITH HIM WATCHING I CAN BE NO ONE BUT ME I CAN'T JUST BE ONE IN A CROWD. HE LOVES ME MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY AND WITH THAT LOVE I CAN GET UP AND WALK AWAY