Happy Birthday to Me!

  Yesterday, I turned a whole year older.  :]  I've never been quite so old in my life!  XD

  I had an absolutely awesome birthday.  :]  On Friday, I had six of my best friends over, and we just hung out all night. :3  We listened to music, Gangnam Style'd, played Apples to Apples, made pizzas, ate cupcakes, opened presents, and just had fun being the awkward girls we are! XD

  So, they all the spent the night, and on Saturday we went to our local coffee shop and all got a frozen drink of our choice.  ;]  Then we went shopping downtown, which was lots of fun!  :D

  Well, I was extremely tired yesterday, due to the fact that we stayed up . . . quite late.  XD  We all fell asleep at different times, but I was the last one to fall asleep, and I just so happened to fall asleep at around 4:00 in the morning.  LUCKY ME!  XD  Then we got to get up at 8:00 to get ready to leave.  Oodles of fun!  XD

  We took the girls home at 11:30, and the rest of the day was spent however I wished.  So, we opened presents, and I received some absolutely awesome presents from my family.  :]  I am so thankful for them all!  We also went out to eat for supper, which was very yummy!  ;]

  Now, along with my birthday comes . . . MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL!  :D

  Yes, I finally got one!  I'll be posting vlogs, random videos, dance videos, and anything else I feel the need/want to post!  ;]  So, I really hope you subscribe to my channel!  :3

{{I'm also sorry if I'm disappointing anyone by saying that I'm not going to be making American Girl videos.  I've lost quite a large bit of my interest, so . . . yeah.}}

  And this part's off-topic, but I got Taylor Swift's Red CD, and I am ADORING it!  :D  I'm not really a "Swifty", but this CD might make me become one, honestly!  I really recommend y'alls get this CD.  :3

  Well, I had an absolutely amazing birthday, and I wouldn't trade any of these memories for the world.

xoxo,
Carolyn

November in General ♥

  Might I just say that November has been absolutely lovely thus far, and I just can't wait for the rest of it.(:  Since I'm just great at compiling lists, why not make one right now?  XD

NaNoWriMo

  NaNo has totally took over my life lately.  XD  I'm a little behind right now, but I think it'll all be alright.  ;]  As of right now, I have 7,487 words, and I still am nowhere near done for the day! :D  I should probably have 10,000+ words by the 15th, since it'll be half-way through the month . . . or maybe I should have 10,000+ words by . . . TODAY since NaNoWriMo winning starts on the 24th!  XD  Who knows, but I really hope I'll get it done.  XD

ANTICIPATION!

I am so anxiously awaiting so many things right now.  XD

• My BIRTHDAY! :D
• My birthday PARTY! :D
• TAKE ME HOME!
• REACHED!

  Seriously, I am beyond excited. :3

Pinterest!

  I recently got a Pinterest, and I am ADDICTED.  O.O  You can follow me here!  :D  So yeah, please do!  XD

Reading

  I JUST finished The Maze Runner by James Dashner, and it was AMAZING.  It was a terrible cliff hanger, though, and I read the first two chapters of The Scorch Trials, and they're terribly cliff-hanger-like, too.  XD  Y'alls should all read it.  Really, really, really.  :3

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  I'm obviously excited and happy about a million other things, too, these are just a few that came to mind.  ;]

  But anyways, I'd really like your help.  I really hate asking for people to follow me and such, but I really want to have my goal of 75 followers by my birthday.  If you guys remember, my birthday just so happens to be on this Saturday-or the 17th!  :D  I'm at 67 followers right now, guys, so I'm not too far away.  Please help?  I'd really appreciate it!  :D

Here!  Enjoy this random picture of a bok from who-knows-how-long ago!  :D

  November, I quite like you.  :3

xoxo,

Carolyn

Goodbye, October!

  So, I haven't posted in a long while . . . eek.  I apologize.  XP  I last posted at the BEGINNING of October, and today's Halloween, or otherwise known as the last day of October.  I really am extremely sorry, guys.  But I do hope you forgive me!

  So, October was a rather good month!  Full of fall colors, smells, sights, and sounds.  :]  My dad's birthday was the 19th and my brother's birthday was 24th, and they're both A YEAR OLDER!  :O  That's the oldest they've ever been!  :D  I've had lotsandlots of dance, which is AWESOME.  :3  And for Halloween, I didn't dress up, but I do have a costume to wear . . . for our Halloween dance TOMORROW!  <3

  So, I am very really extremely excited for November!  Let's compile a list of great things that will happen once November is here!

NaNoWriMo!

NaNoWriMo is starting tomorrow, and I'm going to try my absolute hardest to achieve my goal of 25,000 words!  :D  I'm writing the sequel to my first NaNoWriMo book, The Fall of Olympus: Storm!  :3  I'm really utterly excited to become re-acquainted with all my lovely characters!  :]

The Fall Dance!

Tomorrow is also the day of my first school dance of the year!  :]  It's a fall/Halloween dance, and there's a costume contest!  :D  I'm dressing up in an extremely comfy costume that's quite original, if I do say so myself.  ;]  What is it, you ask?

  And if you guessed Harry Potter, you're wrong.  Who else wears circular, black, glasses?

. . . 

WHERE'S WALDO, OF COURSE!  :D

  So yes, I am very excited for the dance.  I'll be slow dancing with my lovely friends, because we're all #foreveralone.  XD  {{#hashtagswag #hashtagsdontbelongonblogsbutidontcare}}

TAKE ME HOME AND REACHED!

The new One Direction CD comes out on November 13, and I am COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS!  Ahhh, so excited, as I am me, the obsessive fangirl Directioner!  :D Which reminds me, my Jack-o-Lantern this year was the 1D symbol.  ;D

And also on the 13th, Reached by Allie Condie-the third book in the Crossed series-is coming out!  I can't wait for this, either!  <3

MY BIRTHDAY!  {{And my mom's.  XD}}

I am SO excited for my birthday!  November 17th, only 17 days away!  :]  We're having our family birthday party this weekend, and my birthday party with friends will be on the 16th and 17th!  :D

My mom's birthday is on the 30th, too!  :D  We're both November birthdays!  ;]

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  So, I've got a LOT to look forward to in November, and that's not even all of it!  :3  November's going to be a good month.  I can just feel it.(:

xoxo,

Carolyn

Falling for Fall

  First, please let me apologize for not posting in A MONTH.  But let's not dwell on that.  XD  So, let's get on with the post! :]

  Fall is officially here.  The leaves are brilliant shades of orange and red, and they make such a satisfying sound as I walk on top of them.  The temperatures have dropped rather significantly, and it's basically the perfect weather for hot cocoa and reading good books.  :]

  I got rather excited when October came rolling around.  October means a lot of things to me, so I guess I'll compile a list of those many things!

1. Fall is officially HERE
2. My dad's birthday
3. My brother's birthday
4. Cool temperatures
5. Nutcracker practices! :D
6. Dance team!
7. My schedule becoming routine
8. Homework -.-
9. Reading
10. Warm sweaters, jeans, and tall boots <3
11. Halloween 
12. NaNoWriMo is near!
13. . . . And so is my birthday!
14. . . . Which means so is my DSLR!  {{Well, hopefully. I'm saving up!  ;]}}

  Needless to say, I'm excited for this month.  Oh so much.  :]

  I decided to take this opportunity to talk about some books I've read/am reading/am really excited to read/hope I get for my birthday.  XD

  So, I recently finished re-reading The Hunger Games!  It took me a REALLY long time to re-read it, as I had a lot going on in August and September.  But come October, I just powered through it.  XD  I did enjoy it a LOT, though {I mean, how couldn't I?  It's The Hunger Games, for goodness sake!}, don't get me wrong.  ;]

  So, a couple days after I finished The Hunger Games, I decided to start The Maze Runner by James Dashner!  :D  I'd been wanting to read this book for some time, since I'd found it through Goodreads.  So, at the beginning of the school year, I noticed my English teacher had it on her bookshelf, so I checked it out as fast as possible!  I just started it yesterday, actually, and I'm loving it already!  <3  It's such an interesting concept, but it does have that Hunger Games vibe to it that I find in most of the books I read.  XD  It also reminded me a bit of The Heroes of Olympus series, which is another AMAZING series!  {{I'll return to that topic soon.}}  But anyways, it's really awesome, so you should check it out.  ;]

  So, speaking of The Heroes of Olympus!  THE MARK OF ATHENA CAME OUT NOT TOO LONG AGO AND I'M KIND OF FREAKING OUT.  :O  Seriously, I NEED TO READ THIS.  Bleah, if you're reading this, I read that you're feeling the same way.  XD

I'm kind of adoring the fact that my house now has a blue front door.  :3

  So, fall, I love you very much.  I am so happy that you're here, and I'm most definitely falling for you.  ;]

xoxo,

Carolyn <3

{{By the by, I'm ten away from my goal.  And I'd really adore that ten by my birthday.  Thanks so much for all the follows, lovely people!  <33}}

You're Probably Thinking, "Where's the New Episode?"

  Hey girls!  I'm sorry for not posting a new episode yesterday or yet today of my Back-to-School Series.  Why, you ask?  Well, on Vimeo, you have a limit of how much you post per week, and I'm at that limit for the week after uploading {or attempting to upload} todays episode.  I actually don't have it posted yet because of weird technical difficulties, so it's not working very well.  :p  I apologize, and I promise it'll be up by tomorrow, as I have a birthday party to attend in an hour and a half!  So, I'm sorry for not posting, and for the lousy post.  XD

~Carolyn

Thoughts

  My mind is filled to the brim with thoughts.  Some thoughts come in to my mind when I don't have anything else to think about, like how everyone is related because of Adam and Eve, the first people.  Or how we don't fall off the Earth when we're sideways or upside-down.  Or how we breathe air.  You know, things that if you thought about them too long you would tell yourself to give up, you just can't find an answer.

  The other thoughts are about how cliche the world is right now.  There's always the "in" style, the "in" stores, and even in the blogging world, there is a lot of things everyone wants and has going around.  For an example, it's only right to have a professionally made background, your header on the SIDE of your blog, and you can't capitalize things in the right places.  For a while the in thing was a totally blank, white, background and century gothic text.

  The crazy thing?  Most of that I have NEVER had.  I've had a professionally made background from Britts.

  But this isn't the first time I've ever posted about how cliche-y the world is lately, and the blogging world.  At that time it was all about century gothic.  That made your blog popular.  But then one popular blogger changed their choices in text, and then the next popular blogger did, and the next, and the next.

  Know what also bugs me?  So many people are copies.  They aren't very great at blogging, they're young, they don't have much experience, but they act as if they're sixteen and their blogs look too professional.  Their writing isn't always as fluent or well-written as the older girls.

  Also, most of the popular bloggers only pay attention to the other popular bloggers.  That really bugs me!  What, the bloggers with only twenty followers aren't good enough and can't relate to you?  No offense to anyone, but it kind of hurts.  They always say their "best blogging friends", and I check out their blogs.  They almost ALWAYS have one hundred followers or more.

  Well, enough of my ranting, here's a photo:

Mine!  No taking without permission.

  Sorry for the rant, I'm planning some posts about celebrating Thanksgiving and my family members' birthdays, NaNoWriMo, photography, and more. :)

SMILEEEE,

CaRo

One {other number}

  I am proud to say that as of eleven dash seventeen dash two thousand eleven, I am one {other number}.

  I have been waiting for this year for SUCH a long time, and I'm so happy I'm finally there, but then I start thinking about growing up, having to plan out more of my life, homework getting harder, school getting harder, etc.

  It's going to be scary sometimes, but I've got God here with me to guide me.

~~Carolyn~~

{{Sorry for shortness!}}

PARTY ALL WEEKEND

{{Sorry, had to say that.  An extremely annoying boy in my grade was SHOUTING that the whole ten minute drive from school to my bus stop.  I JUST HAD TO SAY IT!  XD}}


Yesterday and today were SO fun!  Here's what happened:

  Well, I've been at a birthday party.  It started last night, and when we go there we just hung out, acted weird, and did random junk until we ate supper {AMAZING SLOPPY JOES!}.  Then we went to Happy Feet Two at our movie theater.  There was a LONG line for the Twilight movie.  XD  We waited outside for probably half an hour!  Then we FINALLY got in and I got Milk Duds and . . . that was good.  XD  Our principal was there and told us that she thought it was cool that we weren't at Twilight!  XD  So we saw the movie and it was SO cute!  All of us laughed at stupid parts and parts that the little kids didn't understand.  OH HUMOR THAT CHILDREN DON'T GET.  One of my friends {let's call her J} seriously started crying.

  When we got home we watched Rango until it started freezing up, and then only three of us were still awake, Sam {the girl who was having the party!} and Day {let's call her}.  We stayed up till 2:30 in the morning,  and then I GOT UP AT 7:30 IN THE MORNING!  :D  Why?  Well, my friends {who had gotten a good sleep} were up, talking.  Plus I had to go to dance at 8:30.  YES, I went to dance from 8:30 in the morning until 11:15 because the teacher wasn't there, so I had to teach her the dances.  XD  {{This was mostly the teaching.}}  For Irish {dance} Sam came {because she's in it with me} and all the rest of the girls watched us.  :)  AWESOMESAUCE.

  When we got home we ate lunch {TACOS!} and got dressed and ready, then we got in the car to go ICE SKATING!  This was SO much fun!  We were skating for probably . . . three hours?  It was SO much fun!  I've never done it before, but I wasn't too bad.  I fell millions of times, so I'm sore, bruised, and have blisters, but let me tell you, it was SO worth it.  :)

  This was probably the best birthday party I've EVER been to!  ♥

N♥vember

It's finally November.

  You do NOT know how long I've been waiting for this month.  Why, you ask?  Well, here are my reasons:

♥ It's actual fall weather!
♥ NaNoWriMo!
♥ My birthday
♥ My mom's birthday
♥ Mall of America//Birthday party
♥ First snow

~Actual Fall Weather~

  It's definitely fall.  :)  The leaves are beautiful, resting on the ground.  Their firey reds, oranges, and yellow vivid and fresh.  It's been raining.  A lot.  Especially today!  I've been at home today because I was sick.  I have been feeling outstandingly better the rest of the day, which is fabulous.  ;)  But it's been raining all day, and it even . . . I'll save that part for later.  XD

~NaNoWriMo~


  What in the world is NaNoWriMo, you ask?  National Novel Writing Month.  What do you do?  Well, write a novel, of course!  There's just one catch, you have to write the novel in a month!  I am in the Young Writers Program or YWP.  In this program you get to set your word count goal {how many words you want to type}.  In the NORMAL NaNoWriMo program {for adults} you are set 50,000 words.  My word count goal is 9,000 words, but I'll hopefully get to 10,000!  :D

  What is my novel about?  Well, that's hard to explain.  If you really want to know, COMMENT and I will give you the link to my story.  :)

~My Birthday and my Mom's Birthday~


  Go November birthdays!  :D  Yeah, my birthday is the seventeenth, but my mom might not want me to tell you hers . . . so, just don't ask.  XD  I'll be turning 1{other number}!  :)  YAY.  XD

~Mall of America~


  Yep, I'm going to Mall of America!  Some people know when {if you do, PLEASE do not say}, but I'm not going to share that here.  c(:  Anywho, I'm getting a doll and two outfits!  :D  I'm SUPER excited!  I'm also going with Sara {my best friend in real life}, so we'll have a BLAST together!  Look forward to photos and videos from the American Girl Place on my Picasa, here, and my dolls' blog!

~First Snow~

  That was today.  :)  Nothing crazy, there's so much rain that it was just a few flurries, but it's still snow!


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  November is a happy month.