TAKE UP A HOBBY

Hobbies have filled our country with fun things to do for many people over the years. When people hear the word "hobby" they usually think of something really boring such as collecting stamps (no harm was intended if you collect stamps) However there are such things as fun hobbies. Fun hobbies include scuba diving, surfing, play sports, make cool stuff, or maybe just simple like stamp collecting which may seem fun to you but not to others. One of my personal hobbies are surfing and scuba diving, both involve the ocean which I find to be my happy medium, whenever we feel like we need to get away or relax we all have that thing that soothes us, mine being the water. OK now back to hobbies. A cool hobby to try out that you would not regret would be training animals to do many things. You also have to be more of an animal person to do this, but training a dog to be a service aid dog for a blind individual or a deaf one, is rewarding to know that what you enjoy doing helps people out in some way.

Happy Hobbying :)

BAKE SOMETHING YUMMY!

There is always a time when we crave to eat cookies or brownies. However, when you go to store and buy those sealed cookies or packaged brownies, they may taste like heaven, but deep down you know that you crave the taste of a home made cookie or brownie. The taste is hard to described in why they are different other than the fact then they just are! Homemade bakings are also a great way to make someone feel special by saying that you took time to make it for them. Here are a few things to try baking:

• cookies
• brownies
• cakes

and for those cookie fanatics, here is an amazing recipe:

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
  1 tsp. baking soda
  1 tsp. salt
  1 1/2 cups unsalted butter (melted)
  2 cups brown sugar (firmly packed)
  1 cup white sugar
  2 tablespoons vanilla extract
  2 eggs
  2 egg yolks
  3 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips or chunks

  Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease cookie sheets. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in one bowl. In another bowl, cream melted butter and both the brown sugar and white sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until the consistency is light and creamy. Mix in the flour, baking soda and salt from the other bowl until blended. Stir in the chocolate chunks by hand. Drop 1/4 cup of dough onto the prepared cookie sheets. The cookies should be about 3 inches apart as they spread a bit. Bakefor 15 to 18 minutes at 325F or until golden brown. Let sit on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

Text Someone

SMS texting has dominated the teen world as the most common form of communication between each other 18.5 billion SMS messages are sent each month!! It has also become a great past time and maybe an obsession. Surveys show that 77% percent text while driving which is the one place you SHOULDN'T be texting anyone. Texting while driving is becoming one of the greatest causes of car crashes as the year moves on. Another fun fact would be that 79% of people who text text while using the bathroom!! This trend may soon one day even replace the human language. Texting is a good thing in that you can say basically anything without emotion, for example you could write "lol, or lmao" when all you're really doing is reading the text.

happy texting!

PUT UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

Christmas is just round the corner and the spirit is in the air. With the all the commotion about what to buy and what to cook on Christmas, people are forgetting the best part of the spirit! Putting up christmas lights is absolutely tiring and requires patience but at night when you pull in to your driveway, it is absolutely worth any blood shed or ant attacks. I began putting p some up yesterday after school, and so far so good, so who ever reads this post stay tuned for an update with ' a picture of my house finished (by the way the picture with the house and lights is not mine,  im not THAT patient.)