Ragin' TayJen... The Beauty of J10

Yes, Ragin' TayJen is my new nickname. Thanks Mr. Worth.

But that's the beauty of this school and my grade. Because we will turn and stare at Ina for like a whole minute just cuz we want to make it awkward. Whoooooo!

But beauty can be other things.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ18nYos13o&feature=player_embedded

God i remember that dance..... ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow
Cute uniforms though(:

Beauty is having patience and love, despite wanting to kill someone. My mother's mastered it, my grandmas' have.... When i am?

Beauty is humor...... here's my quick Castle quote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selROK35M-I&feature=&p=EA207CF76E034170&index=0&playnext=1

More than one, i know. But it's so good!!!!!

So beauty is anything and everything... My family, my friends, my sports, and my second family. Yes. I am on a countdown to Skillet. But find beauty in everything.

Even in the pain of New Viva. (:

<3 Taylor Elaine

Thanks Castle!

First rant topic: Thank you Castle. For making me lose 8 hours of sleep last night. You know, some people get nightmares when you don't catch the mass murderer! Jeezzzzzzzz........

Second rant topic: Why am i the oldest?!!?!?!?! Why?!? It sucks.

Third rant topic: If Ahnika gets a cell-phone, I'm going to lock myself in a closet. Or Reed will do it for me, cuz he's mad at me. (: He's just depressed. I AM SO WINNING THAT BET!!

Fourth (and final) rant topic: I. Am. So. Sick. Of. Drama. And. Fighting. RWARRRRRRRRRR! Can i move to Alaska?

Random thoughts from Taylor:
Miranda and Logan are the CUTEST couple!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Harry Potter=sick. Phantom of the Opera=sick. Harry Potter+Phantom of the Opera=SICK!!!!!!
Halo music is surprisingly sweet.
Libby is so cute, until she poops in your room. Doggy......!
My brother drives me up to wall.
I wanna watch Sherlock Holmes!
Best actors are Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Robert Downey Jr, and several others that i cannot remember.
Mr. Worth gets surprisingly passionate about buying certain books.
And, for the love of high school, can i please not have so much homework? Blah!!!

<3 Taylor Elaine

Alayanna Leigh Knutsen(:

Dear Alayanna Leigh Knutsen,

My dear little Alayanna Leigh, i cannot wait until you arrive. you will be wonderful addition to our little family. You have two parents who eagerly wait your birth(:

No, i am not pregnant. But Brianna is! Because, to quote Dean, Brianna and i would make a cute baby.
We've combined our names, and little Alayanna Leigh Knutsen is two months closer to being ALIVE!!!!! kidding, kidding grandma Jill.

I would also like to announce the obsession i have with Castle. Since when do i, of all people, look forward to Mondays!? Since when do i plan my nightly events around this show?

Oh my god I've become my grandma.

But, I'll post my favorite quotes here.... Because they are awesome!!!

Kate: 6 months.
Richard: 6 months….what?
K: We dated for 6 months.
R: I didn’t ask.
K: Yeah, I know, you were not asking very loudly
R: I know, I'm like a Jedi like that

Beckett: Don't think this means you won the bet. All we know its they are connected, not how.
Castle: I missed you too.

Ryan: Looks like he is back in the town.
Esposito: Nice of him to call.
Beckett: Ok, you guys can stop pining for your girlfriend, we got a body full of holes

Ryan : Aren't famous people crazy and narcissistic?
Beckett : I don't know. Gotta ask Castle.

Beckett: You know Castle, sometimes I forget that you have such a capacity for pure innocence in your life.
Castle: Yeah, plus it was a great place to pickup chicks.
Beckett: Then you open your mouth and you ruin it.

Beckett: Either you are being a good cop or you just wanna go to the museum.
Castle: They have dinosaurs there!

Castle: Hey! Can we talk about this, please?
Beckett: There's nothing to talk about.
Castle: Well, at least let me know what I can do to make it up to you.
Beckett: You can leave me alone.
Castle: Yes, I tried that and it didn't work. Hey! I can buy you a pony!

Castle: Me? Scared? No way, come on. Now excuse while I change my shorts
Castle: Dad where are you? Dad are you all right? Dad call us right away. Dad can I go see Fame with Owen on Friday? Your concern is touching.

You see? You see why I'm so addicted to this?????? It's amazing. I love it. Only problem is that buried life plays at the same time. Why, MTV??? Why??? For the love of high school, can we switch times?
Now for one final quote. I'm in Spanish 2. Si! But even in this class.... People forget. Hence, this moment.

"Hey! Wait! If the day of the dead is coming up, when is cinco de mayo?!"- Grahm
"It's in mayo, Grahm."- Huston
"It's in may."- Violet

Yes, cinco de mayo literally translates to 'fifth of mayo.' Hey. It happens!!

<3 Taylor Elaine

Freedom to the_________! (insert choice here.)

Freedom! Sweet freedom! Summer here! FREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

Ah.... No. Sadly. But that's what i think about when someone says freedom. Summer days. Lazy and slow, or fast and hot. My favorite summer memory is up north, both years. I spend a whole week on the tube. What else can you ask for? I love being at soccer with my team... Not always my coach.... but my team for sure! I spend a lot of my summer at Grace's.... Watching thunder and lightening in a hundred year old house after watching hours of ghost hunters and having battle royal with the hoses. (Lars's face when he pulled in- haha!) I love when I'm free to spend my day at Casey's...... and next summer is gonna be even better, when i can drive!!!!!

Freedom is hard to come by these days for teens.... Well, me at least. I get all the freedom America guarantees me.. But nothing in the Constitution can limit the restrictions put on me by my parents... We have constant fights about what i can and can't do. (Going to Casey's- no. Riding with Dan- no. Getting my hair streaked- no. Belly button piercing- no. Going into town more than once a day- no. Spending my weekends away from home- no. Babysitting 24/7 and still getting screamed at because i act like the 'princess'- yupp!)

But i have one freedom that I'm looking forward too.... November 13. Skillet. With Marcus. And Casey. And Amanda. (Nicole? Natasha? Michelle! No? What is her name? I give up.) I'm pumped to spend my day with my babo and Marcus. I love you boys!

The coolest thing i have to mention on freedom right now is the most recent miracle..... The soon to be holiday... La dia de los treinte y tres! (The day of the 33). For those of you who don't watch news, i was glued to my TV watching all 33 of these guys come up to the surface. They were half a mile (2,300 ft) underground. And they were there for 69 DAYS!!!! For 17 of those days, no one knew if they were alive.... They brought all 33 of them, plus 5 or 6 paramedics to the surface all yesterday. And get this. IT WENT PERFECTLY. Normally, things like this take weeks.... and go wrong. Nope. The first came up, i believe, around midnight, and the last was brought up at 1010ish p.m. Damn. For the love of high school, lets never have this happen again.

 The capsule that brought them up..

And here's a shout out to every man or woman that are fighting, leaving to fight, or coming home.... You're all heroes, no matter what anyone says. And now we stop and remember the billions lost in every war this earth has ever seen........

And now my closing quote..... "Well! That's illegal!"- Dean Anderson   (: I need a copy of that book!!!

<3 Taylor Elaine

Can i qet a quote unquote from the Rhinestone Cowboy?

New idea for blog posts! I'm going to find quotes, decide what they mean to me, who taught them to me, and what lessons i got out of them. So.... Without further ado, here are.... Taylor's Life Lessons!

“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” – Anonymous

Who taught it to me: Lady who hit us in January

Life lesson: ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT!

“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.” – Bertrand Russell

Who taught it to me: Every drunk driver

Life lesson: Hey, being drunk isn’t always temporary suicide. It can be forever. You know, when you die.

“What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

Who taught it to me: Allison

Life lesson: You can run the high kick dance four times, and running it once more will not kill you. It only feels like it. And next time, it’ll be four times easier.

“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.” –Harriet Woods

Who taught it to me: Grandma Mary

Life lesson: Walk with your head held high. But never let it get high enough that you can’t see the ones around you. Don’t look down on people. Help bring them up to your level.

“Fall down seven times, get up eight.” –Japanese Proverb

Who taught it to me: Winona Soccer

Life lesson: When the girl trips you, get right back up and deal with it. Or you know, take her down with you!

So there are five quotes.... I have more saved!

Now for my daily amusement.

Allie sucks at math. 26-18= 8. 10-8=2. Tada!

Skippy looks like a girl.

Fashion sense was wack in the early 2000's.

Reid has a cool scar!

Brooke needs band aids on her fingers. (I'm making ramen's right now. I'm extra careful.)

I beat Logan on the bus! What!

Rhinestone Cowboy has never been kissed. (it's the glasses- I'm telling you!)

Libby(my puppy!) got a hair cut and looks like a rat.

And, for the love of high school, can someone PLEASE tell Brooke her laugh can be quieter, and it will not kill her?

<3 Taylor Elaine

Return Address- Afghanistan and Justice... For April

I don't know much about justice. There's only one thing that i really know about justice, and it sucks.

I'm not sure how many people remember the murder of April Sorensen. It happened April 17 of 2007. Ironic, huh, to die in the month you were named after? She was 27- full of life. She was also my cousin. Granted, we were several years apart, but that doesn't mean i don't remember her. She cut my hair. she ran. Oh, she loved running. She was beautiful and bright and always smiling. Yet someone decided that this beautiful girl had to be killed. Taken from us. Hit and beaten and killed, than burned. I'll always remember the funeral. The 22. My grandpa, who i had never seen cry, bawling. Holly, April's younger sister, struggling through a speech she wrote. The grief that plagues my family. And the worst thing is, whoever killed her hasn't been brought to justice. They might never be. It's a cold case. So all we can do now for her is run.

We run for her every year. This year, i worked it(as i have been for three years) and watched my dear Red Head in the Pink Shorts run by me.

This is April.

If you're interesting in helping, running, or donating to the marathon, the website is http://www.livelaughloverun.com/

The other thing is fairness....

Fairness is nonexistent. If you believe that life is fair, than you must believe in unicorns and leprechauns. Because it's not. If life was fair, two amazing kids would still be here right now. So would April. If life was fair, people would get the dads they deserved. Great guys deserve great fathers.... Not the ones they have. Fairness would mean that not a single man would be lost in a stupid war. It'd mean that they would come home safe. Always. Fairness does not exist. It never will. So... for the love of high school, I'm asking a god, any god, all gods, to keep him safe, and bring him home in time for the now annual volleyball contest. So now I'm off the make a facebook profile, so i can make Adam my new pen pal. Good luck buddy. 365 days in a helicopter. 365 days of danger. 365 days of constant worry. 365 days of letters. I feel some Dear John music coming on..... But seriously. Come home safe. please.... I'll miss you. Don't make stupid decisions. Do as i say, not as i do!!!!!!!!!!!! And watch your hips old man(:

<3 Taylor Elaine



365 days, 7 hours, and about 15 minutes, give or take a bit

Wow. A year is a really long time, isn't it? It's 365 days, 12 months, etc.... But is it enough to get to know someone completely, to know what they think, to know how they act, to know their faults and their goals, to know them truly? Ah..... No. Today is October 9th. Last year, on this date, i said yes to Casey Duaine. To me, it was only gonna be a little flirty relationship.. He was hot, quiet, and sorta, kinda, slightly ripped. And than somewhere along the line i fell in love with him. It might've been the first time i saw him cry, when he finally told me why he lives with just his mom. Or why he has no real cousins on one side. Or when i got to meet Renee.... Or the first time Lynda hugged me and told me she loved me. Or when Marcus sent me that text. Or when Renee thanked me for being there. Or the first time he told me he loved me. When i first rode on the Zuma. When i biffed it off the bed. When he told to shut up and just hit something. When i was invited to watch them get tattoos. When i was invited (blackmailed) to go shopping. When we sat there and just laughed for hours. Walking around the lake. Jellystone. Family reunion. Every time he smiled. When i realized that i totally, utterly, trusted him. He's not perfect, neither am i. A lot of my friends don't understand... Some only asked questions about him that i can't understand. He is mine and i am his... We've lasted this long and i hope it goes longer, because he is the only guy that actually gets me. He's not stupid and immature like the rest of our grade... he's got his head screwed on straight- no drugs, drinking, or cheating. For the love of high school, i love him..

<3 Taylor Elaine

mom, you're amazing.

Oh her eyes, her eyes
Make the stars look like they're not shining
Her hair, her hair
Curls perfectly without her trying

She's so funny
And I tell her every day

Yeah I know, I know
When I compliment her
She wont believe me
And its so, its so
Sad to think she don't see what I see

But every time she asks me do I look okay
I say

No, those pants don’t make your butt big
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you sing,
The whole world stops and stares for awhile
Cause mom you're amazing
Just the way you are

Her cooking, her cooking

I could eat all day if she’d let me
Her laugh, her laugh
She hates but I think its so funny

She's so beautiful
And I tell her every day

Oh you know, you know, you know
Id never ask you to change
If perfect is what you're searching for
Then just stay the same

So don't even bother asking
If you look okay
You know I say

When I they say I’m your daughter

It makes me so proud
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you cheer,
The whole world stops and stares for awhile
Cause mom you're amazing
Just the way you are
The way you are
The way you are
Mom you're amazing
Just the way you are

When I come home
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause mom you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you dance,
the whole world stops and stares of awhile
Cause Mom you're amazing
Just the way you are

Hey mom. Guess what.
I love you(:

<3 Taylor Elaine