Hello, my name is Haley, and I am a very big Harry Potter fan, and just a huge fan of books in general. Everyone needs to read the Saffron Kitchen, by Yasmin Crowther. It just might be better than Harry Potter. Maybe.

New Year's Resolution for 2008: Exercise more. Sleep more. Laugh more. Do laundry more often. Be more organized. Maybe I should have said Resolutions?

I like reading, listening to music, hanging out with my mom and sisters and friends, texting like a maniac, watching reality tv, going to the beach, shopping.

WHY THE CRAP DID KATIE HOLMES RUN THE NEW YORK MARATHON WITHOUT A BRA? Does she want to be like the women you see on National Geographic, who have saggy boobs because they can't afford bras? She has mucho millions, hello!

I like way too many favorite television shows to mention. I am like a reality TV addict: The Hills, Project Runway, Real Housewives of Orange County, Whose Wedding Is It Anyway, Top Chef, America's Next Top Model...and then there are shows like Gilmore Girls, which I have watched hundreds of times, and it never gets old!

I truly do believe that it's better to have like, three real friends who are always going to be there for you and whom you can tell anything, than a huge group of giggling, gossipy girls that you feel like you're always hiding stuff from. Don't get me wrong, be friendly to everyone, even those who annoy you, but that doesn't mean you have to be friends with everyone.

My sister's dog, Edie/Edith when she's in trouble, who is practically my niece, thinks that she's a lapdog, when in reality she is an 80-lb Rottweiler.

You know what I've come to realize, the more I hang around guys and get to know them? The really hot or cool or totally drool-worthy ones very often turn out to be complete idiots, which just makes it that much funnier when girls are going crazy over them before they've even said hi to them...but then again...

Target rocks.

My student council advisor scares the crap out of me and the other officers. And, sadly, when I think of school, I think of all the time I spend in the Student Center and all my jobs for SG, rather than any of my actual classes, like Yearbook or History or whatever.

Btw - I totally knew Lindsay was a lesbian, and none of you believed me!! All I have to say now is, what now suckas?? chyah!

As for that whole thing with Miley Cyrus making out with a girl or whatever, worse things have happened in Hollywood, but sweetheart, people questioning your actions isn't "Satan attacking". It's called growing up.

OMG! Why is a whole cable channel devoted to a bunch of guys hitting little white balls with silver sticks? Although my own father LOVES the Golf channel, so I really can't complain that much...and it's playing in the background right now. Huh. Wait, maybe that's ESPN.

Some Really Cool Quotes: (I love all of these quotes, and try to let their wisdom--or sometimes idiosy--flow through me, but the quotes in bold are the ones that I really try to live by)

"You know, I've always wanted to just stick my foot out in the middle of the aisle during sacrament and see if they trip." -Me talking to my madre

"Bye, Tampon!" -Matt to me...long story. don't ask.

"There can be no rainbow without clouds without clouds and a storm." -Anonymous

"If being sane means like everybody else, I'd rather be completely freaking mental." -Angelina Jolie

"Have you ever seen the human heart? It looks like a fist wrapped in blood." -Closer

"My friends...you bow to no one." -Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King

"You are the most selfish person on the PLANET!" "That's just silly. Have you met everyone on the planet?" -Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant (respectively) in Two Weeks Notice

"Empathy is your pain in my heart." -Chinese Proverb

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find ways in which you yourself have altered- Nelson Mandela

"Better a little girl with a flower, than a little boy with a horse and a stick." - That princess chick in a Knight's Tale

There's this quote that I really like, but I have to tell you the story behind because that's just how I am: So I was taking this placement test in school to see if I'll be the next Bill Gates or Oprah or Kim Kardashian or whatever, and there was this passage where the author is describing all the challenges and adversity he or she faces, and then they start to doubt themselves and think who am I to try to change the world, but then they snap out of it and the line that I will always remember is "And so I just went doggedly to work, and therein lies whatever salvation I may attain". But the stupid test didn't say who the author was, and I've googled it and everything, but I've yet to find he or she.

Care more than others think is wise. Care more, love more, be more...

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness." -publilius syrus--THAT IS MY MOTTO FOR LIFE! (and what I constantly mutter under my breath whenever in the vicinity of my SC advisor)

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” – Tom Clancy

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” – Mark Twain (AMEN, brother! lol)

"Hey, Papa Boritz, do you know what a Googleganger is?" - Me, after reading about CNN.com's list of Words of the Year. So. Do YOU know what a Googleganger is? Try googling it if you don't.

“Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.” – Peter Ustinov

"Wow, Edith really shelled out the big bucks for everyone at Christmas this year huh?" (Blank stare from my sister, his wife) "She's a purebred. She's classy like that." -Brian, my brother from another mother. Or, rather, my brother-in-law.

"No, heaven's not a place that you go when you die, It's that moment in life when you actually feel alive, So live for the moment, And take this advice, live by every word, Love's completely real, so forget anything that you've heard..." -The Spill Canvas

"I like how it's become just 'Boppy' as opposed to 'the boppy pillow'" - My sister, on this pillow she bought that is supposed to help you hold a baby better. That pillow rocks. It is as much a part of the family as I am.

"It's the so-called "normal" guys that always let you down. Sickos never scare me. At least they're committed." -Selina Kyle

"Those who stand for nothing fall for everything." -anonymous--figure out you are, and what you stand for, and then live that way

"And in a couple years, when you move out, I'm getting Reimerweiners!" "Whoa, dream big!" - Brenda and Juno in "Juno"

"Two rules to success: 1. Never tell everything you know." -can't remember where I found that...it was on someone's profile though.

"In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down." - Brian Weir again, never let uncertainty or lack of self-confidence allow someone to push you around

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." -E.L. Doctorow

"Seize the day." -Horace

"Where are you guys going?" (Dustin) "To Borders." (Cat) "Isn't that like a bookstore or something?" (Andrew) "Yeah..." (Cat) "How do you NOT know what Borders is?" (me) -A conversation between my sister, her two incredibly bright friends and I when we ran into them outside of Arby's at the Mall

"My teacher's like a Saddam Houssein supporter or something!" (blank stare from me) "I'm serious, Haley!" -Cat, my crackhead of a sister

"My mongoose drinks soup." - Alice! E-mail me you crazy!

There is no shortcut to fame and comfort, and all there is is to bore into it as hard as you can. -too lazy to go upstairs and find out who said that--note the irony

"All that is gold does not glitter. Not all who wander are lost." -JRR Tolkien

"Complete the following sentence: Land of the Free and Home of the--?" "Whopper?" -Family Guy. Haha.

"The flipping noise from the flipping cardboard keeps me up the whole flipping night!" -Moi. Yeah. You had to be there.

"Um, Mission Control, am, uh,I supposed to be folding this with two papers?" (me) "Haley, what did you do!" (Eliza) -a conversation during science class when we were pretending we were astronauts for some ridiculous simulated comet launch project. Yeah, I know.

"It won't have the meaning, Haley." -Eliza, my bestestestesterestesterestest, gorgeous, girl with the coolest eyebrows I know, friend.

"He seriously climbed out of his bedroom window with a rope?" -Moi talking to my sister

"I'm stepping on your shadow! I got you!" -one of the hilariously immature girls I call my friend

"You guys are at that age where you'll be breaking out, and I don't want you to be all 'Oh, I have to look pretty for this guy!'!" -Shelley

"If this is how you act when you give your heart away...take it back." -summary of a DracoGinny story that I can't remember the title of.

"Between the lines of fear and blame, you begin to wonder why you came...I would have stayed up with you all night/had I known how to save a life" -"How to Save a Life" by the Fray

"I'm so happy for you...I could cry." -"Happy" by Saving Jane

"I don't mind if you you don't mind, cause I don't shine if you don't shine. Before you go, tell me what you find, when you read my mind." -"Read My Mind" The Killers.

"What Hitler wants, Hitler gets." -Me (not referring to the actual Hitler, he was a freak, but someone I know who acts like a dictator)

"U make me smile everyday. U make my life worth living! Ur my best friend and my sister, always will be. Much mahalo for all ur love and support. Erin." -text message from mi muy bueno amiga to me.

"If I were lying, I would have made up a better excuse." -me

"If I wanted to trip you, I would. Simple as that." -me

"If I actually wanted to know what you crazy people were doing,believe me,I would have asked." -me

Every man dies, but not every man truly lives -anonymous

I'll find some better ones later...

Peace and love to you all...

Haley