Silly Bands, Really??

I think that schools took the right step in banning the Silly Bands.

Recently, even in the high schools, kids are trading, and playing with these animal shaped rubber band bracelets in class. I see it every day! They wear them on their wrists, and trade them amongst each other."I'll give you my flamingo for your dolphin?" and this goes on through out the days. However, and I'm willing to bet this occurs mostly in elementary schools, they have caused quite a distraction. Kids play with them during class-when they are supposed to be paying attention-and when they trade, they find that they just might want their seahorse back. Besides this, the Silly Bands are simply a fad. Next year, they are all going to wonder why they wore animal shaped rubber bands half way up their arms.

a product of bloggers block

This morning, I could not think of a thing to blog about...until I came along Bridget Fitzgerald's blog, and decided I would steal her idea. She wrote a little about the things she loves, and I thought that it was a brilliant idea because everyone loves different things, so here I go:

I love...

My family. They have always been there for me, no matter what. If I need my mom or dad to count my laps for me as they watch me run the two mile in track, I always know they will be somewhere near the finish line every time I pass by. The rest of my family is fantastic too, although I wish I saw my cousins more often.

Laughing. I will at almost anything. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who laughed, and sometimes I will think of something funny earlier in class and still laugh about it-but I can't help it and most of my friends feel the same way sometimes, so it all works out hahahaha(:

Running and crazy as it seems, I love distance running. Since I run cross country and track, I kind of have to. But there's something relaxing about going on a long, 8 mile run during summer, in the middle of nowhere(we did this at cross country camp last summer). There's also a great sense of accomplishment after every early-morning practices, again during the summer for cross country conditioning. I always feel happier when I have finished any sort of running whether its a long run or a track work out to build up speed.

Summer. I honestly dont know how the kids in China survive going to school year-round. With out summer, we would have absolutely nothing to look forward to! And I can't possibly imagine sitting in the school in the middle of July or August. Summer is when I spend days on end at the pool or with friends.

Baking. Baking is one of my favorite things to do when I'm at home. Some of my favorite things to bake are brownies and peanut butter cookies(the best cookie dough ever!!).My mom always made chocolate chip cookies when I was little, and I would always help her make them(but of course it was only because I knew I'd get some chocolate chips and cookie dough out of it). Now I actually like the baking part, but the love of cookie dough clearly hasn't changed.

Art. Anything creative, painting, drawing...I love it all. Ever since I was little I have loved it and someday I hope my career will involve art of some sort. When I draw, I don't know how much time passes by and when people ask me how long something took me, I absolutely no idea!

Friends. I don't know who I would be today if I didn't have the most amazing friends here with me. They too, like my family, will always be there for me. I have a group of best friends, and some are more like sisters to me. I know I can trust them with everything, and count on them for anything. We have been through a lot, and we would never want to lose each other.

I now have well over 400 words in this post, so I'm going to stop it here. Sometimes its fun to see really think about things that you love, even if they are really random.