Sesame Street turns 40!

Hello there!

Thank-you google for celebrating the 40th birthday of Sesame Street! I remember when I was little, and I watched sesame street in the morning with my mommy before I went to school. I loved all of the characters, especially elmo! The next time you go to google, look at the adorable picture of one of the Sesame Street characters!

I think that if you find a way of doing this on google, you can see all of the "special googles", and there you can find all of the Sesame Street characters they've featured during the week.

Bye-Bye for now!

Holidays!!!

Hi guys,

I know that it has been a while since I've posted anything, so I'll get right to it then. I know that it's only November, and that we still have Thanksgiving coming. But I'm just SO excited for the holidays! I really can't think of anyone who does not like the holidays. I mean, if you are in school you get a break, maybe your family goes on vacation, or maybe you get to see your family, if it snows where you live you can have some fun outside, you get gifts, and so much more!

So I want to know what you love about the holidays! What do you do? Are you with your friends, family, or both? Do you have a wishlist?

I'll be posting my wishlist in December!

I can't wait!

Fun Funds

Hello there!

So I decided that I am going to make a new category that I am going to write about called "Fun Funds", because I am so big on community service. It will include brief information about funds and organizations that I have learned about! The first fund I would like to talk about is called "Darius Goes West". Darius Goes West is actually a documentary of a project about a boy named Darius, who suffers from a disease called DMD, or Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The reason why I am writing about this is because this is a disease that can be cured in our lifetime!!! Although everyone everywhere wants to cure cancer, AIDS, etc. we still have lots of research ahead of us before we can cure the epidemics. But DMD can be cured because there have been many breakthroughs in DMD studies already. Please visit the following websites to learn more about how you can help Darius, and many other boys all over the world!

http://dariusgoeswest.blogspot.com/

http://www.dariusgoeswest.org/

Owl City

Hey Guys!

So I recently just fixed my iPod and was searching through iTunes to add some more songs, and I was looking at the top 10. Usually I am not the kind of person to buy music from the top 10 because it doesn't really have my kind of music, but they have this song called "Fireflies", and I cannot stop listening to it! I think that the words are beautiful, creative and original, and the music video is simply adorable. I highly recommend buying it. Listen to the song or watch the music video on YouTube by clicking here, or download the song on iTunes for your iPod like I did! Just to do something a little different than before, I am going to post the lyrics to the song below. Tell me what you think in the comments box!!

You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep

'Cause they'd fill the open air
And leave teardrops everywhere
You'd think me rude
But I would just stand and stare

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems

'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance

A fox trot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
When I fall asleep

Leave my door open just a crack
(Please take me away from here)
'Cause I feel like such an insomniac
(Please take me away from here)
Why do I tire of counting sheep
(Please take me away from here)
When I'm far too tired to fall asleep

To ten million fireflies
I'm weird 'cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said farewell

But I'll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
'Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
When I fall asleep

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
When I fall asleep

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams

Build-A-Bear

Hi there,

Have you ever been to Build-A-Bear workshop? Because I have decided that of all my childhood memories, that was one of the places were I truly had the time of my life. At Build-A-Bear, you can pick out an animal, give it a heart, fill it with stuffing, dress it in whatever clothes you want, give it a name, and more. There is something magical about creating your own stuffed animal when you are from the ages 7-10. Okay, that's a lie. I still find it magical! But you can't blame me!! Every animal you make turns out so adorable and sweet, and people just adore them as gifts! For my 11th birthday, my little brother and my mom went to Build-A-Bear together and make me a puppy that was white with brown spots. In its hand was a little orange and red cupcake that said: Happy Birthday! I still sleep with this stuffed animal every night, although I have detached the Cupcake and put it on my desk. Of course now, there is this whole additional virtual world of Build-A-Bear, but to get the experience you must actually go. I think that it is very cute that during the special holidays, they have some feature bear. If you go onto the website right now, they have a while bear with snowflakes for winter. To go to the Build-A-Bear Workshop site, just click here. Of course its fun looking at the website, but go with your friends to Build-A-Bear and, (oh gosh, here comes the really cheesy part) and Build-A-Bear today!!

Really, it's so much fun, no matter how old you are :)

Build-A-Bear is located (in Manhattan) at 565 5th Avenue in NY, NY

Use google maps or mapquest to find the specifics or directions

Mother knows Best

Hi guys,
I know, I know. So many posts in what, two days? I just love this blogging idea! Anyway, mother knows best is really my way of saying that during the summer, my mom had this brilliant idea. It is not completely original, but I still like the idea anyway. Since I'm sure you have all heard of Pinkberry, Coldstone, Tasti D-Lite, etc. So my mom though: why not have a store where you make your own cereal? For example, instead of taking chocolate ice cream and adding chocolate syrup, M&M's, marshmallows (as great as that may sound!!), you have Honey Nut Cheerios, dried fruit, raisins, etc. Then you could go there and customize your own breakfast! My addition is that if you paid extra money, you could get your cereal put into a regular sized cereal box, so that you could have your creation for a while. But the company would probably have to charge a lot of money for that, because of the cardboard you put it in, if they need to use plastic to hold the actually cereal, and so on. But still, I think that my moms idea is pretty creative. What do you think??

Vampire Weekend

Hi there!
Vampire Weekend is an indie-pop band that started in 2006, and is one of my favorite bands right now. The group members are Ezra Koeing, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson, and Chris Biao. First of all, before you jump to any conclusions, this band has nothing to do with the twilight books or movies. All of the band members have just graduated college, and have a very happy, light, and sweet tone. They are often compared with a similar band called Pheonix, who I like as well, although I prefer Vampire Weekend. My favorite song is called "M79". I like this song because they are talking about the M79 crosstown bus in Manhattan, and they mention the city in a lot of other ways. The city probably influences lots of their music because they all attended Columbia University. They have one album on iTunes called "Vampire Weekend", and an album coming out soon that is called "Contra". I am very excited about their new album, because their old album is incredible! All of the songs put me into a good mood whenever I am feeling tired and stressed, and I think it is very important to have music that does that. If you have seen the movie "Step Brothers", their song "A-Punk" is used somewhere in the movie. Their music videos are also very creative. I own two of them, and I watch them on my iPod all the time. The first music video I have is called "Mansard Roof", where the band is playing their music on a boat while sailing around. It shows them laughing, eating, and just having fun. Their other music video I have is for the song I previously mentioned, called "A-Punk". This music video is the most original music video I have ever seen, but in the best of ways. All of the band members are dressed in brightly colored clothing, and are all singing the words to the song, but the video is edited so that sometimes they are moving quickly, and other times are moving slowly. It is very difficult to describe what is going on, but it is certainly one of my favorite music videos! I highly recommend at least watching one of their music videos or listening to one of their songs.

To listen to their songs, you can do one of the following:
1. Search Vampire Weekend on iTunes, and click on the album cover like the picture above, and listen to any of their songs.
2. Unfortunately, their website is very minimal. But it still is a very cool page to visit! I think you can listen to two of their full songs for free.
3. You can go on to youtube, search Vampire Weekend, and listen to their songs.

To watch one of their videos:
1. Search Vampire Weekend on iTunes, and look at the previews of all their different videos! (Again, I highly recommend watching A-Punk!)
2. Go to youtube and search Vampire Weekend, and watch some of their full videos for free. Here is the link to A-Punk on youtube:

Tell me what you think of them in the comments box!