Going to Carolina in my Mind

So my dad (Like he's been wanting me to for a long time) took me out to look at all the scenery and such. We drove to this beautiful park/woods, and walked through it, and it was just so tranquil. It was really beautiful and i want to go out and take pictures one day. It brought back a lot of memories of when i was little and our class would go hiking through the woods or go to the park. I was feeling so nostalgic.

It didn't help that then we went driving to another place that he's been dying to show me. It's this beautiful little street with big houses and HUGE front lawns. It secluded away from everything else, and it's just beautiful. It rememinds me of my old babysitter's house....in a way. I guess it was the huge lawns and white picket fences. She had a really nice house, to. I think either she or the house next to her had a donkey. I don't exactly know who's it was. I have a lot of memories from there.

Wrap that up with the fact that its the first day of october and definatly feels like it, and you've got a very peaceful girl. I'm not a fan of winter, but i love fall. It's just got that chilly feeling where your cheeks are really cold, and you still love it. I always liked autumn best.

I love North Carolina.
Title (c) James Taylor

Trunk.

OKOKOK.

So I get a ride to church every morning from a boy who goes to church with me. On Friday morning, we had to pick up two kids who go to a boarding school and also need rides. We're running super late. The class starts a 6, and it was past 6 when we got to their school.

So we're driving down the interstate, and one of the girls says to me, "Is that supposed to be like that?" And points backwards. I look back, and the trunk is wide open. We quickly tell our driver, who (naturally) sort of freaks out.
In the backseat, the girl and I are trying to pull the trunk down, hoping that none of the stuff fell out of the trunk.

We were running so late that our driver says, "We're late enough! I'm not stopping!"

So we drove 60 mph down the wet interstate at 6 with the trunk wide open.
It finally got closed at the first red light.

But it was SO funny! It really brightened up me morning. :)

I feel so old!

I feel really grown up.

I just ordered a pizza, all by myself. And I'm paying for it, all by myself.
Also, this week, a rep. from SCAD came and I got permission to miss class to listen to him. It sounds like a really great college and now i want to go there. :)

Also, I'm in high school. I can't come to grips with that. IT IS SO WEIRD.

Keys to the Kingdom.

EXTREME SPOILER ALERTS

I finished them.
I finished all of the Keys to the Kingdom books.

I don't know what to say. I've been reading them since I was younger, and I don't know how to cope with the ending.

I don't like how Arthur became the new architect. That makes me pretty upset. Also that the universe got destroyed and he remade it. The book makes it so God doesn't exist, and I don't like that either.

But, the ending was so not what i expected! Nearly everyone died! FALDKJFASLDKFJHA
I was scared the book was going to end with the one line, "The Universe had returned to the Nothing from which it had been made." (Lord Sunday, Page 303)
That would have scared me to bits.

But I'm really unhappy. I mean, I expected him to just get the last key, put someone else in charge, and return to his normal life, like he always wanted to! But he doesn't! All the things that happened still are there, his mom doesn't exist anymore, and tons and tons of the charecters are dead! I am really upset! Also, I don't like how he spilt into two people, his mortal self and his architect self. I can't comprehend them being the same people. I am REALLY upset about this.

I guess it's because I thought the ending would be different for so long, and now that I'm wrong, I can't cope with it. But it really is annoying!
The first books (In many series, acctually) have such a feel of innocence. As the series prgresses, it gets more and more dramatic. This is why I think the last book was the most......suspensful, but it also has a bigger effect.

Oh gosh, I am really annoyed right now.

Bye.

The Keys to the Kingdom (c) Garth Nix

Despite my last post, I'm still up, putting off going to bed.

Okay, so another thing i've discovered (Or rediscovered) is books.

BOOKS!

And no no no, not manga, but NOVELS!
I mean, yes, I read. I love reading. I used to read and read and read and read and read and read all the time, until about 7th grade. Then I started to focus on other things, like the internest, for who knows why.
Over the summer I reread a book that i loooooooove.
It's called "House of many ways" and is by Diane Wynne Jones. It is the sequel to "Howl's moving Castle", which is not only a FABULOUS movie, but is a STEOUPENDOUS BOOK.

Wow. I totally butchered that word.

But the ending just made me really happy. It had such a great fairytale ending. I love it!

OKOKOK. So what I acctually wanted to write about in the first place, was the series that i just picked up again. It's called "The Keys to the Kingdom" And is by Garth Nix. I had read the first.....3 and a half when i was in elementary school, but......left off. Some parts just seemed to drag. And i grew bored, i suppose.

I restarted them last year, when i found that a boy who i liked was reading them.
Yeah, that's not the best reason to read them. But it wasn't the only reason. I recognized them and acctually wanted too, okay? Okay. By the end of the school year, I was half way through book 5, and.....I sort of forgot about it.
I went the whole summer without reading it, and this week I picked it up again.

WHY DID I PUT IT DOWN IT WAS SO GOOOOODDDDD!!!!!?!?!?!?!??
I went through the 6th book in just a little over 1 day. And i'm about half way through the 7, and last book now. I can't say much, other that i think it is totally amazing. It's just so good.

Okay, so I'm a little repetitive here, but it's true. They're great books. Especially as you get along into the later ones.

It's late, and i need to brush my teeth. (And read a little more)
Good night!