Look on the Bright Side of the Dark Side

Hellloooooo Fellow Bloggers,
Today I'd like to talk about staying positive no matter what. This is definitely something I'm always having trouble with. It's definitely a problem when your the one with the least problems and the gloomiest face in the house. As I sit here typing away, even though it's not new years I feel the need for a resolution. Why you may ask. Well I will GLADLY tell you. I was just watching a little kids show called Ruby Gloom. Now most people might remember Ruby from her clothing and accessory line that sold prominently at Hot Topic. My sister has stickers, posters, and a book of her. I have a Doom Kitty T-shirt. Back then I was an Emily the Strange girl myself. But you know what I love about Ruby. She is the happiest girl in the world, because she has an ever unfailing positive outlook on life. She see's the good and bright side of everything in her huge dark mansion surrounded by her unusual friends. That kind of inspires me you know. You can find inspiration anywhere when you least expect it. Even Rebbe Nachman thought it was one of the most important thing to be happy and that there was always something good in everything, and that we could elevate those things by finding the good in them. So that's going to be my resolution.

A poem for Girls

Helloooo fellow bloggers,
This is a really sweet poem I found that I'd thought I'd share with you.

Girls
are like
apples on trees.
the best ones are
at the top of the tree.The
Boys don't want to reach
for the good ones because they
are afraid of falling and getting
hurt. Instead, they just get the
rotten apples from the ground that
that aren't as good But easy. So
the apples on the top think
there is something wrong
with them,when in reality,
they are amazing they
just have to
wait for the
right boy to come
along, the one who
is brave enough to climb
all the to the to the tree.

The Week till Wensday

Hi there,
I'm am just taking this oppurtinity; until the girl I have to babysits comes home, to tell you about my week. I usually don't do this because my weeks are just so daily. But since I'd like to share some things, and I don't feel like putting them in a post each to their own, I will cram them all here.
On Sunday, I went with my friend to go see High School Musical 3. Yeah I know that sounds corny but we actually had a really good time and I liked it and thought it a nice addition to the first (I didn't like the 2nd). Then we went to a Friendship Circle training session. the Friendship Cricle is a group I'm in the has teenage volunteers work, and be buddies with children with special needs. It's an amzing organization and I'm proud to be apart of it.
Then on Monday, um...I'm not exactly sure what happened on Monday. I don't think I had a particularly good day, although it was productive.
I finally started to work on my latch hook again. I usually work on it while watching movies because I don't like to just sit there for hours and not do anything productive. It's coming along very well.
On Tuesday, we had monster snowflakes which as said didn't stick. Baruch Hashem I rescued my avocado plant. No harm came to it and I'm really relieved.
I'm reading the book of Joshua. I'm enjoying the commentary on it. I've also started learning Crossing the Narrow Bridge with my mother although I haven't gotten past the first chapter yet because my mother took it to work with her. The first chapter was all about serving hashem with simplicity. I liked this chapter alot, because it teaches you to enjoy saying prayers and not to be uptight about it and how to just pick one mitzvah and do it whole heartedly.
Well, I better go, goodbye until my next post...
P.S. This post is before the Snowflake one because I started writing it early on something else but then I erased that and instead wrote this.

The Rush of October!

Hello all you bloggers out there! It's little me, back from Paree! Not really but that's just a fancy way of saying i haven't blogged in a while. Why you ask? I will tell you. It's the holiday season and this year they all hit you fast. BAM! Rosh Hashana! BAM! Yom Kippur! BAM! BAM! BAM! Sukkot, and Simchat Torah.
So starting with the first, this year was one of the best Rosh Hashana's ever. I cleaned my room the day before because i'm very superstitious about Rosh Hashana and i didn't want to be stuck with a dirty room all year. We davened at the sephardi minyan this year and it was alot of fun. it was all in hebrew even the speakers speech, but i felt a nice connection there, it was lot's of fun.
now for Yom Kippur, lot's of people kinda dread Yom Kippur, but this year i was really looking forward to it. I bleached my white skirt to look as pure as possible and went with my family to shul for kol nidre. It's a special prayer especially for the spanish jew who converted to christianity during the spanish inquisition. This prayer is an anullment of vows like the vows they were forced to make.
I couldn't sleep in the next morning so i went to shul relatively early. i wanted to take every opportunity to be in shul and daven. I also had a great Yom Kippur. even though you fast it's a joyous holiday. I felt soo good that night, when neilah started i was ecstatic, on the way home i felt so free and new, i always feel that way after Yom Kippur! I also felt light headed, from not eating but mommy cooked us a great dinner.
Now for Sukkot. My papa and my brother Junior built the sukkah in one day, and what a sukkah it was, it's small but beautiful, with new wood and nice decorations. it makes the house darker since it's on our front porch, but it's nice to look at from inside. i had alot of fun on the first days, the only thing sad was that my brother left to spend the holidays with his friends and he was greatly missed. But he came back and that shabbat we had all our cousins up, and the house was full, but a comfortably full. It got really cold over the weekend and tonight we must go in the sukkah again. tonight is Hoshana Rabah then Shemini Atzeret, and then Simchat Torah, which is always alot of fun.
So I must go now and help prepare, have a good rest of the holidays!

Some thoughts on Perek Shira

While I was saying Perek Shira one day I began to notice some interesting facts about the certain psalms the creatures and things say to praise Hashem and how they related to them. The first one i notcied was the Spiders: "Praise him with loud clashing symbols." It called to my attention because the day before i had learned about sound waves and how they affect spiders. The next one i noticed was The day one: "Day to day utters speech and night to night relates knowledge" I liked this because during the day you should talk about and thank Hashem for all the wonderful things he does for us, and at night i learned we leave our body's and go up to Shamayim and we also learn things through the dream Hashem gives us. One very interesting thing i also found was the one the fox says: "Woe to him that builds his house without justice, and his chambers without lawfulness; that uses his friend's service withou wages, and does not give him for his hire." I think it's funny he says this when in steroetypical fairy tales or stories foxes are protrayed as devious trickster who love to fool people. Every day when i remember the say Perek Shira i always learn these little important things that i love. That is one of the reasons it's one of my favorite to say. It teaches you just how amazing and complex Hashem made everything in the world.