Behind the Masterpieces

This is a painting of my beautiful out door pond just a little ways down my backyard. I can sit at the edge of this pond and just intake the beauty of its colors and unique plants it grows beneth. I love to see the schools of fish wiggle around the roots of the water lillies and pop up for food. I chose to paint this painting because of the happiness it brings me just to enjoy my time and finally relax here without the stresses of the real world. This place brings me to my own paradise where nothing can go wrong. I named this picture "Water lillies" because of the intreging flowering that bloom from the waters here. This piece here has to be one of my most favorite pieces yet because it's somewhere I honestly enjoy being and such a gorgeous scenery it has to it.

If I could have my childhood again I would......

If I could have my childhood again I would take every moment and spend it carefully. Childhood is a part of your life I feel goes by the fastest and yet sometimes people always want to grow up too fast. For me that's the exact opposite, I'd love to take back my childhood and re-live it all over again. My childhood was great, it was always filled with new adventures everyday. I would take advantage of nap time at noon again and all the days just playing on the playground at school. I would love going to sleep early with all my toys and wake up to my mom making my lunch and sending me off to the easy life of school. When you're younger many more things are less care free and you don't have much to worry about except what toy you have and when recess starts. If I was a little kid again I would take pictures of all the people that came across my life that I no longer talk to so I could reflect on them later on in life. I would spend as much time as I could enjoying actually not worrying about whats going to happen next and take life as it comes at me then.

Heightened Description

I was just about to turn off the sink and close the top of the cold crisp water bottle my mother just asked me to fill. My short tiny legs could barely reach the handles of the sink so I pull up a stool to stand my self on. Closing it tight and just about to leap off the stool a flash before my own eyes had happened. A huge swipe of taking one wrong step lead to a bloody mess all over my clean pearly white bathroom. Frantically screaming all over the place like a chicken with its head cut off i dash to the living room where my mom currently was. Springing from her chair she rushed to my assistance and staring in complete awe. Signaling my older brother to dial 911 i felt the sensation of the thick blood run down my face and drip onto the floor. My mom pressed a warm moist wash cloth to the wound and sat me down. The world around me felt fuzzy and almost like I was on a merry-go-round. It felt like seconds but I heard the loud booming of the sirens pull into the drive way and the heard of EMT's pile into my living room. They slapped open the stretcher and raced me to St. Peters hospital, come to find out I had to get 20 stitches in my left eye had to stay over night in the hospital from smacking my head against the sink of my bathroom.

Optical Illusion

• http://voillusions.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html
• http://totallytop10.com/entertainment/arts-culture/top-10-3d-side-walk-illusions
• http://voillusions.blogspot.com/2010/10/girl-riding-tiger-illusion.html

1. I see a couple of people riding in a raft going really fast into a bigger body of water and looks like an alligator is there
2. I see a girl riding a big tiger
3. I see a sail boat sailing in a lake or water

"A wild ride"

I race down a speeding river
my raft is heading to the deep
as I see a curious evil head
surface the blue water

I hop off my raft and jump
on a fierce orange and black tiger
rampaging through the forest we  
reach the blue lagoon

Sailing through the thick
tropical air I make it to
the shore and embrace
the new home land I now call home

What I Don't Want and How to Get It

How to get fired from your job:

1. Being consistently late
2. Don't have the courtesy to call your boss/supervisor when you're going to be out
3. Being very undependable
4. Not putting effort into your job
5. Having a nasty attitude
6. Being disrespectful to co-workers
7. Doesn't follow work rules
8. Doesn't even show interest in your own work
9. Make costomers or clients angry 
10. Missing meetings with co-workers about job
    

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TU Tuesday - Presidential Speeches

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/gettyb.asp

I chose Abraham Lincoln's speech "The Gettysburg Address"  after the success over the win of the American Revolution. This speech brought a more of an uplifting and more positive mood over the mourning aspect of it. Abraham's speech was incredibly well thought out and written and put a huge impact of gratefulness over our own nation.  The two minute speech was given right after Edward Everett's 2 hour speech the audience was said to have been in shock because of the tone and grace of his speech it was such a great piece. In the whole piece I'd have to say my favorite part is "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live." I like that part because it states that not only did they come and fight until their final deaths but that the nation will still progress as one after all that it's been through through out the time fighting. Even at the end he writes "that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The ending is so powerful to me because it means that they are ready for a new start with our nation and are ready to pick up the pieces and start fresh. This speech is an amazing example of success and pure breathtaking master piece.

Bucket List

1. Become a RN for the NICU in a good hospital- My dream has always been to become a nurse just like my mom is. I absolutely love babies and I think working with sick babies and try to recover them will be such a great impact on my own life.
2. Travel to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii- Right after high school and from there I want to travel to these places because they are all absolutely beautiful and I want to go surfing on their beaches and explore around the areas.
3. Do a cross country road trip- Me and my best friend Lexy have always dreamed of doing a cross country road trip at some point of our lives to visit each of the states and experience new life styles they live in.
4. Jump off a waterfall- I would like to jump off a water fall because it seems so exhilarating and extremely fun to do. I always have seen pictures of people doing that and have been dieing to give it a try!
5. Fall in love and get married- Nothing I want to rush into because I'm so young still but I want to see myself married with someone I can spend the rest of my life with and have the possibility of staying with that one exact person for the rest of my life and grow old with them.
6. Sing country karaoke with my best friend in front of a huge crowd- At the fair each year in Altamont I always see people sing karaoke and have never gotten the real courage to do it but honestly this year me and my best friend are just going to do it for real.
7. Ride in a kangaroo's pouch- This is honestly so out there but I have always been urging to do this since they look so inviting and I just want to hop around in a pouch for an hour or so and see if I like it.
8. Discover something useful- I want to discover something that would be an actually impact into someones life style and that I would actually become famous for it.
9. Go crowd surfing- Honestly who wouldn't want to go crowd surfing? Its like flying on peoples hands and it's a brilliant idea
10. Give a stranger $50.00- Don't ask me why someone would just give away $50.00 but I would love to see the expression on someone's face of them receiving the money and if I was the stranger getting the money you best believe that would make my day so why not make someones day?

Creative Contest II Blog

      “Don’t be insecure with others around, imperfection and difference is the true beauty and always have the courage within to be yourself”

R = Ruby Tuesdays

My restaurant is Ruby Tuesday's which is not only located in Guilder land in Cross gates mall but it is a chain restaurant that is spread across the United States. Ruby Tuesday's has an amazing salad bar that comes with a lot of the meals that you purchase and for me person think they have really good hamburgers there. In the restaurant it's usually dim and does have almost like a sports bar like feel to it but at the same time you can go there to have a really nice meal. The restaurant has really cool pictures and things covering the walls and the waiters are really comfortable with having a good conversation with the costumers. They never take too long with serving you the meal that you ordered even when the place is really packed, they get right on the meal. I feel the prices for Ruby Tuesday's are completely reasonable for a family dinner or just going out to get a quick bite with friends they serve a wide menu with many options you can chose from but is mainly your typical all American food type restaurant serving hamburgers and pastas with great steaks too. Ruby Tuesday's has an excellent dessert menu so you can go to this place for your Birthdays to celebrate and get awesome deserts to go along with your meal.