For Kunal...

Hey blogging world...

College and (I'm ashamed to say, Facebook) have taken over my life, but no worries, college is out for the summer, and I will be trying to once again keep up with all of my computer/interweb things! Yay!
Now, for Kunal, some pictures of Makhtesh Ramone:


Pretty landscape
Sorry about the sideways-ness. This was the one oasis in the entire Makhtesh

Impressive, no?

Oooooooo! Look at the pretty layers!
As far as the eye can see
More layers!!!

School again!

For all of you who don't know...college is wierd!
I haven't yet felt homesick, but then again, I haven't really done any real school work yet either! It is like some bizarre summer camp. I feel like very soon I am going to get on a big yellow school bus and go home to my family! But part of me knows that I'm not, so I have this tiny aweful feeling in the pit of my stomach, and it is telling me that I will feel very homesick as soon as actual classes start. I don't know if I am ready for that! I am sorry that I have been so lacking in my checking up and posting lately, but I have had so much to do lately that this is the first that I have been able to do anything fun online!
I hope that you can forgive me! I also hope that all of you, whoever you are at the moment, are doing fantastically!
I also want to share something that I wrote late one night when I couldn't fall asleep. It's not very good, or finished, but if you have anything to say, please do! I need all the help I can get!

Poets are the moon.
In that, they aren't like the sun.
They can't give sustain life,
they can't give off their own light.
But rather, they are the moon.
They aren't steady,
they change and shift,
they go through phases.
Even thought they give off
neither warmth
nor life.
They light people's way
without blinding them with their greatness.
And though they don't
give off their own light
or beauty,
it's their "job" to find the
beauty of others and
in everything else,
and reflect it back
for the world to see.

That's it...sorry if you expected more!
Lizzie

Wow! Graduating already!

Oh my gosh! It just now hit me, that I am almost no longer a high schooler! Wow!! I really don't know what to say. Hence the very little being written.
In just a few short days I will graduate, and then all the time I spent in the walls and halls of my high school will be over, and it will be time for a new beginning.
College, don't even get me started on college! I don't know if I'm ready for that yet. And now it seems so, well, imminent...
Grrrrrrrrr
AHRRGHH!
(Yes I did just make that spelling of "arg" up, but it suits my mood, so there spelling freaks!! ;) Ha!)


I don't have a whole lot to say, other than thank you. Thank you to all of the friends that I've met on blogger, yeah, all two of you that have continually commented on my blog. Thank you!!
I know that I will continue blogging, but I just don't want to one day not blog for a while, and then never forget to thank you guys (Alyssa and Kunal) for reading, or sort of reading (I know that there were many times when I just "sort of" read) and not thinking that I was just some crazy girl with an overactive imagination and too much time, and way too much spunk for her own good.
So, yeah, thanks.
Thank you also for putting up with my interesting grammar, and days and weeks and months when I was not quite sane or myself.
Thanks again!
Hope to continue hearing from you (and Kunal, you can't just stop being amazing because I thanked you, you have to keep being amazing, ok?).
Lizzie~

What a year this has been, and will be!

WOW!! Oh my G-d!!! This year has been the most wonderful, crazy, hectic, aweful, terrible, sweet, amazing, bizarre, confusing, chaotic, creative, empty, full, overbooked, boring, and every other good or not so good adjective that means any of the above things ever invented in the history of the world in any and every language.

From Israel Study Tour, visiting Poland and Israel, to being a senior. From having the best boyfriend ever, to losing him. From having the most kick ass marching band show in the history of our marching band, to just barely missing first place, and knowing that we deserved it. From gaining many new friends, to feeling like I'm slipping away from my old ones. From writing some of my best "poetry" ever and creating a whole new style, to feeling like I couldn't write for a while. From starting speech, to finding out that the amazing speech coach, Mrs. Graham, is not going to continue to be able to work at our school any more due to faculty cuts that our school has been forced to make.

I don't think that I can recap the whole year in one post, so I don't think that I am going to try, just because no matter how much you like to read you certainly wouldn't get all the way through it.

I now need to make decisions about where I am going to go to college, and I have really NO idea how in the world I am going to make those decisions. I am so lost and confused about everything espcially about college and all that comes along with it.

I don't know what I am doing for prom. It is coming up just as quickly as the college deadlines are.

Also, when we came home from Salida where we went on spring break, the house next door was completely torn down. And I am really, well, torn up about it. I have told some of the people that I am close to how I feel about it, and all they have to say is "but it's not like it's your house".

And they're right. But, at the same time, it was a very influential house to me. I never lived there, but I learned many important lessons there. I learned not to kick down my neighbor's front door. I learned that my dog doesn't like water. I also learned that once the dogs get out the kicked in front door, it is very difficult to chase them down and get them back inside. So, as you can see, that house had a huge impact on my life!

Another thing is that just yesterday my older brother, his wife, and their little girl Tehilla all just came from Israel to visit. Now we have a little girl running around our non-baby-proofed-house. So, yeah, that will work out really well won't it?

Also yesterday, I made a huge realization. I am still "in love" with my exboyfriend. He is one of my best friends in the world and I still haven't ever felt like I was ever not in love with him and I wish that I could just get over it now and get it over with. What makes it worse, is that even though I don't think that he is planning on dating her (but there is some speculation) but he is planning on taking this other younger girl to prom. I am going to prom so I don't know how I am going to deal with the fact that he is with her, and even more so if he is planning on dating her!! Arrrrrrrgggh!!!!!!!!!! I don't know why I didn't go through this earlier. I know the dating thing changes things a bit, but I was feeling this before I found out, so I just don't know.

Last, bit definatly not least, I have been having troubles with my writing. I know that I still have some talent at it, but I don't find my own skills quite as great as I once thought I was. I used to really like everything that I wrote, and I thought it was all the greatest writing in the world, but now I'm not so sure. I guess I just seem to be floundering around and around and not going anywhere of any consequence. I just don't know why!

This year is almost over, and I just don't know what the heck I am going to do with the rest of it and how I am ever going to survive. Whatever!!

Lizzie~

Winter Break

Wow! It's been a long time since I've been on Blogger, but I am back! I only have a little time, so I will try to make this short. At our house, it has been a whirlwind, what with college preparations, remodeling, my brother's crazy antics, his friend's crazy antics, and the winter holidays all at the same time it has been seven kinds of chaos!
Our house looks really good now that we have been remodeling, and it is really cool to see the house change right before my eyes, but at the same time it is kind of sad at the same time.
College is coming up and getting closer and closer, and it is kind of weird to think about leaving next year.
Winter Holidays. What to say about that. Channukah came really early this year, and it was over even before we got out of school. Not to mention the amount of times that I have replied my wishes for a Merry Christmas, even when I was not planning on celebrating Christmas. Finally, in my tale of the holidays, I actually had the chance to celebrate Christmas. It was great fun! I love Christmas feelings that you get, and love decorating the tree (despite how small ours was, it was still fun!).
Well, I promised that I would keep it short!
Wishing everyone a much belated Happy Channukah, a slightly belated Merry Christmas, an “I-don’t-know-if-I-am-early-or-late” Kwanza, and a very happy New Year! To all you seniors out there, I know that I am not the only one, You Did It! Only one more semester left!! Yeah!!
Lizzie~