This week, I have a lot of things to celebrate, and here they are!

1. I am officially a SENIOR in High School! 

2. I already know where I am applying to college.

3. I know what my college essay topic is.

4. I am seeing the plastic surgeon on 6/11 to begin the oh-so-lovely (sense the sarcasm?) process of scalp reconstruction to get hair growing again. This is actually a really exciting thing that I have been waiting for for the past 6 months! 

Bloghopsx3: Feature and Follow, Celebrate the Small Things, and Movie Remakes

AHHHH!!!! I'm TRIPLE  booked today! I have the Feature and Follow Hop, Celebrate the Small Things, and the Remake Blogfest. I am going to make this easy and just put it all in one really long post. That way, you can easily read all three entries.

Q: School is out! What is your favorite Summer Reading book?

Hmm... tough question! I could take the easy way out and say, " Anything that I am not forced to read for school!". While that's true, it's not a good enough answer. I really don't have a true favorite, but I love reading in summer in general. One of my favorite series of summer is 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' (maybe because the books take place during summer?). My all time favorite in the series is the first one, and the movie is amazing as well. I try to read as many books as I can in a summer. My record for a summer is 7- we'll see if I can read more this summer! Comment how much you think I can read! We'll see what the trend is!

I have so much to celebrate this week!

1. I scored a home run in kickball in gym! Yes, I am in high school, and I still play that game...

2. My english paper that is huge was supposed to be due tomorrow was pushed back to being due Monday because we're having a substitute teacher tomorrow, and the main english teacher doesn't trust the sub.

3. I will be a senior in high school as of 6/7/13!!

Best: Freaky Friday. The new one is so good at depicting the typical high school student, while the old one was outdated. Gotta love Lindsay Lohan, although not so much anymore since she has drug problems!!

Worst: Annie 1999- Please, DO NOT WATCH this movie. It was so bad that I felt like I was just watching little girls in a preschool play. The 1982 one with Carol Burnett is way better!!

Mean Girls 2- Nothing can measure up to the original movie. Trust me. I watched the second movie, and it's nowhere near as good as the first one. 

Feature and Follow Friday

Q: Happy Mother's Day! Who is your favorite mom from fiction?

Hmm... This is a very hard question!! I would have to say that my favorite mom is Sara Fitzgerald from My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult. Sara's life is a balancing act. She has two daughters-Anna and Kate- who are both competing for her attention. Kate has leukemia, and Anna is suing her mother for making her donate her body parts to Kate. Sara is determined to do the right thing for both of her daughters, but does not always know what that is. She is determined to save Kate's life at the expense of Anna's well-being. She is determined not to loose Kate, but has a hard time knowing when to let go.

Attacked by Mr. Annonoymous!!

I logged onto my blog this morning, and saw that I had 2 new comments from early on in the A-Z challenge. As you might have guessed, this was a Mr. Annonymous! He was trying to persuade me to visit his blog and buy some sort of detox product- not gonna happen! As much as I appreciate a visitor, I only like valuable comments, not spam! Because of this incident, I have no choice but to change my comment settings. Don't worry- I'm not turning on CAPTCHA! I just want to make sure that I know who is commenting from now on and that they are actually interested in my blog. I also removed his comment immediately. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Any comments from my followers are always appreciated! Please know that this blog is going to be more secure from now on.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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This is one of my all-time favorite books. Even though it's meant for kids, I still love it! Here's the review from www.edwardtulane.com: Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely.

And then, one day, he was lost.

Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline take us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle — that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.

Avoidance

Avoidance is never a good thing, especially when you're avoiding writing a ten page english paper due in a week! Well, the draft is due in a week....

My paper focuses on how the media's perception of women contributes to negative body image, which in turn leads to eating disorders. I've done countless hours of research, revised my thesis, and have written not one but THREE outlines! I am so sick of this topic- sick enough to avoid writing a paper on it! I never thought this would happen, but it was inevitable...

I had the opportunity to interview a social worker who specializes in eating disorders. Though the process was slow (aka I had to nag her), she gave me some awesome answers, and I learned more than I ever wanted to know. Yes, I wrote her a thank you note..

Any tips on how to make myself write this paper?

Feature and Follow Friday

Q: Give us a sneak! What are you reading? Tell us about a fun or fail scene in your current read.

Right now, I'm re-reading A Child called "It" by Dave Pelzer. It's so powerful and inspiring. One of the most powerful scenes in the novel is when Dave begins stealing food when his abuser (his mom) refuses to feed him. Every time I read this book, I still cannot wrap my head around that scene- especially since this story is true. I really wish I could meet him someday just so I could tell him how much I love his book.