Free write post: Knitting

Shaleena keeps stealing my ideas, every time say I am going to do something she takes my idea and does it first. This blog post will be about knitting just like Shaleenas' because she took my idea. 

Anyway, I started Knitting like two months ago. My teacher Ms. Hegeman taught me how to knit and supplied me with all the materials. I started off with greenish needles and white yarn. With those things I made a headband. Now I am making a bracelet with a pearl technique for practice. Whenever people ask me what I am making I say a bracelet, they always make suggestions on what else I could make instead and I always say I want to practice so I am making a bracelet. 

A lot of people say they like knitting because its relaxing. I haven't really found it to be relaxing because i make a lot of mistakes. I like knitting because I get to create something for myself and I 
get a sense of accomplishment when i finish something. 


For Christmas I am asking for yarn because I  want to make a scarf over Christmas break. By the end of the school year I want a winter set of knitted stuff. 

The yarn I want for Christmas. It has silver string in it.

  

      If loving you is wrong is a great and entertaining show. It reminds me of ABC's Desperate Housewives. The story line and the over acting almost mimics each other. I almost gave up on Tyler Perry because of his movies, they are filled with black stereotypes and mindless comedy. The first few movies that were more on the serious side were good they had a message. I feel like the more mainstream his movies got the more Tyler Perry decided to focus on being funny and outrageous. Thats why I like Spike Lee's movies better than Perry's because he didn't loose his massage through fame.

   I wonder how people write TV shows and movies. (screenwriters must have gotten 100's on their essays). Where do the ideas come from, what do they know is good. 
    

Capital One 11/05/14

For the last two week I  have been overwhelmed with work from my internship with Capital One. I was given a budgeting project in august. I had to create a life for a Investment banker, get him into a deficit ,and then budget him out of one. My partner Aaliyah and I decided to call our family the Stewart Family. The family consisted of Brandon(the investment banker), Marcia(his wife), Christopher(his son),and Andrew( his youngest son). They lived in the Hamptons and commuted into Manhattan everyday for work. Planning out what they spend a month was simple(they spend $100 on clothes, $2,000 on mortgage etc.). Were we came into trouble was how much an investment banker in new York really makes. My mangers at Capital One believed that investment bankers mad a lot more then what our group was saying. But according to the internet investment bankers made a lot less than what was depicted on "The wolf of wall street" even though i haven't seen the movie I thought it was about the people on wall street. 

Another problem my group ran into was time management. As i stated before we were given the project in August . It seemed easy because we had a lot of time to do complete it, well it was easy, until school started. I had no time to actually work on the project and school work. So I stopped working on it until there was only two weeks left till the due date. I worked literally all day and night on the project. I think the final product came out good. I think my group did a great job. But we lost, to Shaleena's group. Congrats to her!!! 

My passion - 10/22/14

I don't really have a set passion. I want to do a lot of things but I'm not sure on anything. The only thing I would say I'm leaning towards is owning a business. But, I'm not sure on what type of business I want it to be. I like baking,cooking, nail art, and making things. I do know what ever I end up selling will be a product that I make myself until production gets really big and I can no longer do it by myself. Even though I know I won't be doing it by myself. Most likely I will go into business with my sister. I wouldn't trust anyone else because at the end of the day no matter what types of motives we have it, will benefit the campbell family. The development of our family and our future will push us through the Corruption of people,money, and society. We will not be the cast of "gossip girl" backstabbing, lying and conniving against our own family.  

When I was younger, I used to be passionate about being forensic scientist, a d.j, a realtor, I feel like I sorta wanted to be a screen writer, and a marketer. Then there was a period of time when I didn't want to be anything. I never thought about what I wanted to do or who I wanted to be Until I got the capital one internship. I was in a real work place with real people. That experience ignited my fuel to want to work. Because it was always just a fairy tale to me to think that I would actualy be working.  I guess dreams of my career just got sedated over time. They just fell into the background. But now I feel like I'm ready(prepared) to do that part of being an adult. Now i just have to  comprehend all the other parts of being an adult. Sometimes it's to much to think about. 

Fahrenheit 451 - 10/08/14

     Just from the title of the book I could tell that the book was going to be boring. What does "Fahrenheit 451" even mean? Only being 17 pages in, I have know idea. I would like to think it is just a temperature, but that would be to simple. 

     Not only is the title of "Fahrenheit 451"  boring, the cover is to. Who picks a purple and orange color scheme for a book they want people to be interested in. The picture is eve worse. An old foggy picture of a book on fire and a pheonix. The quality of the photo is dodo. But it is sort of interesting , that's about the only thing that is appealing to me. 

    Although, I'm only a few pages into the book I think the book is about opposing authority and doing what you want even though it's against the rules. It sorta reminds me of the hunger games books. A fairy tale world with people in it who aren't afraid to do different  than what society says. 

   

    Even though it may seem like I already have a negative view on the book, I will continue to read with an open mind. Because I really want this book to be good, I want to enjoy reading it. I don't want to be bore for a unit of English. 

First Blog post (9/23): Zina's nail colors

       I really admire people that can flawlessly do their nails. Bubble less nails and intricate designs are hard for me to achieve. But every weekend I try to recreate different nail designs, sometimes it ends in success and other times failure. I try to improve my nail doing techniques by watching YouTube videos and practicing different techniques. I mostly buy Essie and Sally Hansen nail polish because they are long lasting ( I hate having to redo my nails during the middle of the week). The nail art design polishes and pens are usually cheap because those don't really matter. One technique that I think I will never get, is Ombre. Ombre NEVER works for me and I end up wasting a lot of nail polish and sponges when I try to do it.

       I like nails and doing them so much, I thought about opening up a nail salon with my sister. It would be the most posh, chic, and urban nail salon you would ever go to. We also would hold more services then just nails, massages, make-up, and more. But that's just a thought I don't know what I want to do.

      My favorite nail colors are usually light purples, grays, and blues. I rarely ever buy dark colors, I own a few but I barely wear them. They make my hands look dark and when it starts to chip it is more noticeable then light the light colors.
   
 My favorite color ..............................


 I want to try this next................................