Pourquoi? You're asking me?

Little children are infamous for asking questions. Teenagers are notorious for answering none. Adults are famous for answering themselves. Oh how many whys there are under the sun...

Just a little ditty to set off a hopefully fruitful post. Tomorrow I leave for home with my parents. I'll be in Taiwan for about a month, and then off to boarding school. Summer, by the standards of time, is grinding to a halt. School is hovering as well as work and obligations abounding. However, the weather seems convinced otherwise. We have had about four days of 80+ degree weather. Fortunately, for most of said hot days we were at the lake, with easy access to cool waters. Unfortunately, most Alaska dwellings are not equipped with air conditioning units. In short, I am melting. Why do we get only 2-3 months of summer vacation? Why have we set society up so that it is like that? Why can't we just abandon all ties and obsession and delve into spiritual and physical well-being. Let's revert to our hunting and gathering ways altogether!

But that is extreme, like our current lives. Maybe, just maybe, humans will find a happy middle ground, discrepancies and all.

Peace and love,

-Kaiyuh Rose-

Cupcakes & Kaiyuh V.S.Technology

In happy agreement with the last post regarding family, I want to post just some little tidbits about life with family. Our family is truly unique. As my cousin said in her last post, our family is laden with special talents. From story telling to epic flatulence, our family has got it all.

Last night Kayla, my best friend, cousin and fellow blogging sista, spent the night with me at our grandparents' house. I'll tell you, there is nothing more wonderful than spending a night reading and watching Veronica Mars in comfortable silence without a thing to worry about. To better the entire situation, Kayla supplied us with possibly the best cupcake I have EVER eaten in all of my existence. Picture this:

Red velvet cupcake (moist and unbelievably soft-and velvety) topped with smoother-than-reality cream cheese frosting. And sprinkled with some sort of yummy nut flakes. In short, I'm quite sure I dreamed about it.

I remember falling asleep in joyful relaxation. It was the epitome of a youthful summer night. Just like the night (4th of July) that my entire family shot of fireworks into the night, or the night my fellow blogger wrote of, where we were all just enjoying each other's company. As if I haven't said enough...it was freaking awesome.

In other news, I had a most epic battle with technology. For the first time in my life, I am the owner of a cell phone. My pocket now holds an iPhone 4G with an electric purple case. Since I have always sworn off cellphones, proliferating that I didn't need/want one and that they were not good for people, I had a bit of a complex surface about my newfound ownership. At first I felt elated, happy to join the 21st century. Then I was avalanched in guilty dread. I couldn't figure out how to buy songs on iTunes, and to top it off, my computer decided to automatically shut down in mid-use and jumble all of my files (thank god I found them all and fixed everything). All in all, I figured it all out. Not without a few tears, of course. I learned my lesson: do NOT try to battle technology. You will lose. Miserably, with a tear streaked face and trampled pride. Maybe someone else would have made it through unscathed, but not I. I just need to roll with it. Or else commission someone to figure it out.

Otherwise, things are pleasantly calm in the fam damily. I am happy, healthy, and peaceful, and at this moment, everything seems alright. Hope it lasts.

Peace and love.

-Kaiyuh Rose-

Family=Happiness

Family... people who make u feel loved, wanted, adored, and special. They are there to help you though life and all its challenges.

Yesterday i got to see almost all of my family including the ones from different states. We celebrated my uncles birthday and had a blast. There is nothing like a good old birthday song from us!

When we all get together we tell stories and share some hidden talents. Like, my little cousin was singing the Justin Bieber song ,Baby and never missed a beat. Then one of older cousin was singing Joyful Joyful so beautifully she could have made someone cry. It was a concert right in my grandma's living room. My aunt was taking amazing photos to keep this wonderful memory alive,so that one day we could look back on July 20th, 2010 and remember how wonderful it was.

Monday Musings

It's as inevitable as thirst and as irksome as Cartoon Network.

We cannot avoid it, no matter how much fun the weekend is, or how exhausted we are from going to bed later than eleven every night for the past week.

Mondays.

Secretly, I don't mind Monday. Excuse the blasphemy towards all my fellow teenagers. It gives me a focal point for the week, and assuming I don't have anything adverse to do that day, I honestly don't mind them. Take today, par example: today was my second to last day of driving instruction. It was also a Monday. After pulling four consecutive VERY late nighters, I was a wee bit wary (and weary) of driving about town. Fortunately, all went well. Tomorrow is my last day, and that evening I will take my road test. If all goes well, I will pass. Send good energy, dear readers.

In other news, Kayla and I broke all bonds of the Twilight sisterhood and went to see Eclipse without our fellow Twilighters. We were at my Grandmother's house surfing the internet for trailers, and the fever hit. And it hit hard. IN a matter of minutes, we were bidding goodbye to my mother and speeding out the door. She agreed not to tell anyone, but the girls found out anyways. It was great, but I won't divulge anymore until Sarah and our other Twilight-obsessed cousin all go together.

As you may have noticed, this has not exactly been a slit-my-wrists and bleed-my-heart-out teenage blog. For privacy purposes and internet safety, I am not going to pour my personal gripes and moans out for the world to hear. I speak for myself, Kaiyuh, and not for my blogger sisters, but, just in case you were wondering when the blood and gore started pouring forth. Worry not, however, if anything REALLY intense happens I will let you know. "You" being the operative word, considering I have no idea who "you" are. So, "you", peace, love, and thanks for reading.

-Kaiyuh Rose-

Feeding the addiction.

As fellow avid twilighter with my other two blogger sisters, I will post this token twilight post on their behalf.

Well, a couple of summers ago, my cousins and I went stark-raving mad about the Twilight series. We spent the better part of our summer holed up couches with our faces far too close to our pages. As relatively young teens, we took full liberty of the stories and fantasized about Edward/Jacob and other good looking fantastical creatures. I take some pride in the fact that our family is so close, but when someone read ahead and insinuated something or other about the books, tempers flared and we were lucky no one attacked anyone else for spoilers. We even graced the midnight book release of Breaking Dawn, fully clad in Twilighter apparel (I spent hours making my hair wavy and drawing bite marks to pass as a 'bitten Bella). While the initial fan-fever has abated, we are still revved up to see the latest installment in the movie series.

ECLIPSE!

We intend to see Eclipse sometime this week. In the mean time, drivers ed is going well. So well in fact, that I have started writing a story about it. You must understand, dear readers, that we have some VERY interesting characters. One boy laughs at anything and everything (including information on water bottle labels), one girl has never spoken a word-to anyone, there is a pair of fraternal twins who nothing short of socially odd(but they are nice), and of course, they are ALL gamers. Thank you cosmos that my cousin Milo is there to endure it all with me. And help me recap the daily hilarities to our family.

Until next time, dear readers (whoever you are), and don't hesitate to leave comments.

-Kaiyuh Rose-

Is anyone out there? feels like i'm writing to myself.

You know blogging is not our thing in fact writing is not our thing. Yet here we are sitting on the couch pondering about what words will sound the most intelligent and captivating for you few followers.

There is a start to many blogs in the future.

signing out till next time Sara Marie and Kayla Annie

Driving

Hello Blog world. I am Kaiyuh, one of the three girls authoring this blog. Keep in mind, dear readers, this blog is very new. We have not quite worked out what we want to write about, or if we just want to wing it and see what comes of it.

The ability to drive a car is a most wonderful thing. Your world is opened up to the open road (provided you have a vehicle) and you are free to drive it. We drive because it makes things easier. Commuting people rely heavily on transportation, namely commuting by car. So why is it that my Driver's Ed. class drags us through two hours of painful "education" before we actually get to drive?

Said education revolves around our teacher filling our heads with horrific stories of backing up into small children and what happens when you don't look in your rear-view mirror every five seconds. Granted, the information is valuable, and they run a pretty good program, but sometimes I wonder what the point of listening to 2 hours of stories (possibly made up) about stupid people doing stupid things behind the wheel. Fortunately, the driving structure himself is awesome and hilarious. Unfortunately, today I spent most of my energy during class time trying not to vomit all over the place. Forest fires in the area socked us in with smoke, and it didn't settle very well with me. As I write this, my headache is only just beginning to abate, and the nausea is all but gone.

Alas, why do people invest so much on the ability to drive? Heck, I'd be perfectly pleased to buy a great bike and pedal everywhere. Driving is fun. Driving is fast. I love to drive, but why organize our lives around the vehicles that take us places? Some people say it's the American culture, some say it's the automobile companies...I honestly don't know. All I can say is that if/when I get a car, I plan to invest in a zippy little eco-friendly hybrid, and feel better about my carbon footprint. And so goes the story of my first two days of driver's education. The plan is that I will have my licence by the end of the week.

Hopefully.

-Kaiyuh Rose-