Sweet 16!!!!

Today I had my sweet 16! I had a whole party and everything! Ok, so my birthday isn't for another 2 weeks, but hey, what does that matter? I can just have another one then!
ok, i'll start at the begining.
Shifra I, Shifra KAA, and I decided that we wanted to have a sweet 16. It'd be really cool, y'know? To have a big party and celebrate and all that good stuff. And Shiffy KAA and I had always wanted to have a joint party. Her birthday is Oct. 8th, and mine is Nov. 10th (remember that, ppl!) so we thought that it would work really well. Then Shif I wanted to have it with us also, and her birthday is Sept. 13th. So we figured that we could all have a big one, together, in the middle of all of our birthdays - around Shiffy KAA's in october. But that was on sukkot, so we had to push it off a little. We also decided that it would be very cool if we could have the party at Shif I's house, in West Hartford. So we spent the last couple weeks planning what to do, what to eat, and the biggest fiasco- how everyone from providence and sharon would get there. That was such a big mess, i'm not even going to tell you about it. I promise - you don't EVEN want to KNOW! There ended up being 4 drivers. My mom drove our mini van, my dad drove his car, mr./mrs. shafner (sarah's mom and dad) drove their car, and mrs. schectman (adina's mom) drove her mini van. We had about 15/16 people come, and it was really really really great!
At the party itself, we forst went to a corn maze. You had to find your way around, and find all these little numbered signs. My group found all but 5 of them! It was great! We wanted to be there when it got dark - we had a ton of glow sticks and flashlights and twizzlers - what more did we need? But our parents insisted that we leave before it got dark (we had like 2h to go.... lol). When we got back, we had pizza, and salads and stuff that Mrs. Isaacs made for us, and then a HUGE tub of ice cream and a HGUE ice cream cake. It actually turned out that though it was none of our actual birthdays, it was the real birthday of one of the girls in my class, Shira. So we partied with her too. It was a lot of fun. Then we went outside, and played with the glowsticks that we hadn't gotten to use at the maze. It was a lot of fun in the dark on the front lawn. It was funny, one car slowed down really slow to see what we were doing, and her neighbor came out to watch us. It was really funny. Then, after a group picture (which i mention sinice it took FOREVER, as all group pics do) we had to head home. But you know what, a lot of my friends were there, and it was a lot of fun! It was a great Sweet 16! (And i might even get to party again in 2 weeks for my real birthday! YAY!)

long time no post

Hey! I know that it's been a long time since i've posted, and i'm very sorry about that. I meant to post earlier, but.... lots has been going on. School, PSATs (i prolly got like a 20 on them - thats what you get if you answer every Q wrong.... the highest is an 80, average is a 49....), leah (a new girl in my class) came for shabbat, well the whole weekend, i'm trying to plan my sweet 16, my family is getting a boarder starting tommorow, who's staying in my big bro's room since he's away for 10 months (and nobody bothered to menition it to him until today, and lots of homework and tests and blah blah blah. So i'm very sorry.
I know that almost everyone has heard this already, but i can't help it. Over sukkot, it was "bring a friend" week at this dance place that my friend goes to. So i went along to class... hip-hop class. IT WAS AWESOME! I totally stunk at it, but it was so much fun, adn i really want to learn to do it for real! I just watched "take the lead" last week and "save the last dance" (again) last night.... AND NOW I WANNA DANCE! I'm really jealous of all the people who can. Its really really cool! And so not fair... i don't think that my parents are really gonna let me take it.... but i can always hope, right?
Now, Esty, does this satisfy your need for a post?
Oh, and to all of you who have helped me to reach this momentus occasion in my blogging career, i thank you. What occasion, you ask? hitting 1000 views, of coarse!!! YAY!

my new obsession

I am totally hooked.
So here's what happened:
I read this book called Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. I also read its sequel, New Moon. (Its about a vampire and a girl who falls in love with him. I like weird fantasy. I know, i'm a little abnormal, but i also have a thing for books written from the girl's perspective about really cute guys who are totally in love with them.) Turns out she has a web site, too. On that, i saw that there's a MySpace group about Twilight. So i went to that, and read some of the forums [you know like chat rooms (sorta)]. On there, some people were talking about these things called FanFics. As in fan fiction - stuff that fans write, either continuing the story or write how they think it should have gone. Or write all those "what if this happened instead"s. So i'm now TOTALLY in LOVE with these! So the reason that i haven't been posting or going on IM is that i've been... well... actually trying to write my own. And i did, and now it's DONE! YAY! I think i'm going to publish it on the fanfics site. I'd tell you guys to read it, but it won't make any sence since you haven't read the books.
But anyway, i'm in love with reading these fanfics. A lot of them, contrary to my initial opinion, are very good!

vaca!!!

Finally done with school. Today went on forever.... i mean it. On thursdays we have like 11 classes!!! and only like 4 are in the morning. ok lets count. Ready? Chumash, chumash, physics, pre-calc, LUNCH, history, english, service, yirmiyahu, HLA/dikduk, halacha. Thats 4 in the morning, and 6 in the afternoon. Thats only 10 but close enough. I don't like thursdays.... it seems like no matter how many classes i've had, there are still a ton more.
But now we have vacation, and i'm sooo excited. I'm gonna go to the library, and i'm gonna read my head off, cook, decorate the sukkah, eat inthe sukkah, sleep in it, shop with my big sis, and juat have fun. And i'm really excited about it! YAY!