Em’s Blogtime Fun

    Did anyone else see the snow flurries the other day?  I want to say that it is too early for winter, but then I look at the calendar and realize it is already November 10th.  In previous years it has already snowed several feet by now, so I should be sending my love to the skies.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the snow very much, but I am just not ready!  I dug my winter coat out today.  I believe I put it off for as long as I could.  It has become necessary.  It is far too cold to bundle up with just a couple hoodies and a scarf.  The thing that makes me resent winter a little bit are the illnesses it brings.  I was miserably sick all of last week with a cold.  I am getting better, though.  Is there some sort of rule that says you can only get sick once every few months?  I sure hope so, because I have done my time.
     Another thing about the winter months is that the days seem to drag.  I love the cozy, laid back-ness of them, but I hate how long the days are.   It leaves to much room for me to lose focus from important things, like school for example.  I think that I have been slacking way too much.  I missed several classes last week due to my cold, but I really did not mind.  I always find other things to do instead of homework.  I shouldn’t do that, though.  I missed a lot of a homework that I now have to make up.  Along with other assignments that I put off.  I feel very congested with school.  In reality, though, I do not have that much work to do.  It just is so much less fun in comparison to say, video games.   Maybe if they made homework into a video game I would do it.  But, then again, how fun could that game really be?  I should just buckle down and do my work.  Afterall, it is my education, my time, my money and my future.
      A few friends and I recently participated in a competition.  We heard about it through Iowa Western and thought it might be an interesting thing to do.  We had to use a plastic bag in a creative way that is also environmentally friendly.  We also had to create a 3 - 5 minute video about our creation.  Click on the picture below to watch our awesome video!  Everyone cross your fingers that we win something!  Maybe the combined wishing of everyone will make us succeed.

     Tonight I will be spending my time working on homework.  I am very excited.  (Not really.)  However, I am watching the movie Frida for an assignment.  I’ve always wanted to see that movie.  It is about the life of the artist Frida Kahlo.  I learned a lot about her during my high school years in art class.  She’s not my favorite artist, but I think her life story is very interesting.  I don’t know much else about the video, but the cover shows that it won some stuff.  I don’t remember what stuff exactly, but hey, it won.  So, somebody somewhere thought it was good.  After watching it I have to write a movie review.  I hope I love it and can write a very sincere and passionate response.  It’s always more fun when you either really like or really dislike something you have to write about.  I will post what I think of it in my next blog.

(The Frame by Frida Kahlo.)