T=Taco Salad

1/2 pound of Turkey -- cooked- Turkey like the food we had on Thanksgiving at my grandparent's house. The turkey was always moist and delicious and Eric was still there. I could still talk to him but only for a little while because I would soon get sucked into playing with my cousins. The best Thanksgivings.
 
1/2 cup of onions -- chopped- Making a salad for dinner with my mom. First she shows me how to cut the onions then she tells me that it’s my turn. I start to cut but I have to stop quickly because the onions are making me cry. My mom goes upstairs and gets me my sunglasses and we finish the salad.
 
1/2 cup of bell peppers -- chopped- Camping with my friend and on the second day a stomach bug breaks out. Everybody is going home and puking. I am not sick yet but I am starting to feel the sickness coming on. For dinner that night I have green peppers and onions on tortilla chips. Long story short I can't eat green peppers anymore. 
 
1 jar of taco Sauce (8 oz.)- Making fresh salsa during the summer. We get the tomatoes from our garden and as a family we cut up the tomatoes adding them to the other foods the salsa is soon done. It's the best salsa and within a day it is gone and we have to make another batch already.

1 1/2 table spoon of unbleached flour- Making chocolate chip cookies with mom and the next ingredient is flour. My mom tells me to get the flour but as I get it I stumble and the flower falls on the ground. Instead of yelling at me, my mom comes over and throws some flower at me; soon we are having a full-fledged flour fight in the kitchen. 
 
1 package taco seasoning mix- It Taco Tuesday at the Hill residence and only one more thing needs preparing, the beef. Up in my room I can smell the aroma of the taco seasoning mixing with beef and I know that dinner is almost ready I wrap up my homework and come downstairs to my favorite meal, tacos!
 
1 cup of cheddar cheese -- shredded- Everyday of 7th grade I had the same lunch, ham sandwich. I loved them and remarkably for the whole year I never got tired of them. Besides the ham there was two other ingredients, mustard and cheddar cheese. Now whenever I have cheddar cheese it brings me back to 7th grade.
 
1 cup of Monterey Jack Cheese -- Shredded- Fresh Palatine Monterrey Jack cheese from Gade farm. Every year this is a must have in the Hill family, we go through it at amazing speed. My dad and I are cheese fiends and we tear through the packages, having the cheese on everything from salads to trisect.
 
1/4 cup of tortilla chips -- crushed- My dad's favorite food. Every night before he goes to bed he has a handful of them and he has them regularly throughout the day as well. This has been his habit for many years and slowly I have become accustomed to hearing the crunch of the chips every night. 

Recipe form:  http://www.internationalrecipes.net/find/Taco%20Salad

Famous Poem Starters

"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." The words of Robert Frost echo in my head as I walk along the dirt road leading into the desert. I have been walking for seven days now with barely any breaks. I take just enough time every night to sleep for six hours and then I am up and walking again. It has become fairly routine by now and I don't have any problems waking at four in the morning anymore. Undoubtedly by now people would be wondering where I have gone by now but if I had told them they wouldn't have understood. In the words of Robert Frost "I have promises to keep" and it is essential that I keep this promise. For about a month before I set off on this excursion I could see them watching me. I could tell that they were reaching their tipping point and if I didn't go soon then they might take drastic measures. So I set off the keep the promise that I made. I needed to keep my word because once you lose that you lose all credibility in life. As I trek across the desert I keep on replaying that fatal moment when I made that life altering promise. I feel so stupid for doing that now and I rue that day with all my heart. But for now there is nothing else that I can do. I have to follow through with this now and I have to be a man of my word. And as I travel farther and farther into the desert I slowly fall into the state of blankness and just keep on walking.

Nersury Rhymes ARE Relevent to Life

I've been workin' on the railroad,

All the live long day.
I've been workin' on the railroad,

Strumming on the old banjo.

Just to pass the time away.
Don't you hear the whistle blowing?

Rise up so early in the morn.
Don't you hear the captain shouting

"Dinah, blow your horn"?

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow your horn?

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow your horn? Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah.

Someone's in the kitchen, I know.
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah

Strumming on the old banjo. Fee, fie, fiddle-e-i-o.

Fee, fie, fiddle-e-i-o.
Fee, fie, fiddle-e-i-o.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes/railroad.html

When I hear this nursery rhyme it reminds me of my life today. In the rhyme it is talking about working hard and getting up early to work. I could relate this nursery rhyme to school but I feel a more fitting thing to relate it to is my running. I have been seriously running for more than a year now but it feels like so much more time. I love running with all my heart and I cannot imagine my life without running but it is very hard work. In order to be good at running and be able to compete on our school teams at a high level you have to work very hard. This involves getting up early on the weekends for runs that you don't want to take at all or after a long day of school, after which all you want to do is sleep, you have to go to practice. Running can be very mentally taxing and extremely hard work both mentally and physically. Even though the running is hard work I still continue to do it because I love it and I cannot imagine my life without running and that is why I continue to work so hard at it. 

Transformation Blog

The test was then next day and I was very cocky
I felt that I knew everything on it and was very set
So I didn't study and I ended up failing

I was stunned at first, how could I have failed
I was so certain that I would ace it
But then I remembered that I didn't study




From that day on I vowed to study
For anything no matter how larger or small
And to never fail a test again



The next test I had I studied for
And I passed with flying colors
And from that day forward I never failed a test