One Quick Do

I'm stuck on hair. I know I did another post on hair styles, but I discovered this super quick and easy way to do your hair, if you like waves.
This should work on any hair length that is longer than your neck.

1: Take a shower at night.

2: Towel dry your hair so it's drier, but still damp.

3: Braid hair in three braids, two at each of the sides of your head, and one at the back.

4: Make sure there are no loose strands

5:Sleep on it!

6: When you wake up, take out the braids and foof the hair between your fingers. (Don’t use a brush, it will be frizzy.)

7: If you have an extra minute, braid your bangs to the side of your head.

8: Enjoy those nice waves!

Best Songs Ever

I'm not typically one to rave over songs, to obsess over artists, but these next couple of songs just BLEW me away.
This first one is called Safe and Sound, by Taylor Swift. I'll be honest, I'm not exactly a die hard Swift fan but when it came to this song, I absolutely fell in love. When I first heard it, I um, cried. ;P Then I listened to it over and over and over and over and over- times twenty-one... yeahh, 21 times. Don't judge. Anyway, it's actually a song made for the new movie, "The Hunger Games," which is coming out on March 23rd. It's like a lullaby, and basically if your a girl, or a boy who likes slow songs, you would like it.
The next song is an oldy-but-goody, it's by "The Verve," an 80's band, called Bittersweet Symphony. Call me crazy, but I adore this song. It starts out with violins, then in comes some rhythm with drums, and I don't know, the whole thing just speaks to me.
This last song is called Jesus Pick, by "The Katies." The Katies are an undiscovered sensation. I listened to them a lot when I was real little, and I always liked them. Jesus Pick is one of their best songs; I also like Noggin' Poundin' and Miss Melodrama. I suppose their genre is pop-ish, but it sounds more like rock to me.
So check these amazin' songs out if you get the chance. Here, I'll even make it easy for yah...

Safe & Sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFEDTtKaFzU

Bittersweet Symphony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9u9mZz-o-g

Jesus Pick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOzS623Yn8


Enjoy!
-Sammy Jo(:

Hello, to the few people that look at my blog! As you all have realized, I'm pretty horrible about keeping up with my posts. But! Oh my gosh! Could it be? Sammy Jo is doing another post within 3 months? No wayyyy! So yeah. This post is going to be about Blue jeans. No actually, it'll be about Painting your toenails. No. I always post girly stuff. I'm not always such a girly girl. I four wheel! I dirt bike! I jetski! I fish and play soccer and occasionally spit on the ground! Anyways, I'll tell you about fourwheeling. It's so fun! My friend and I drive the fourwheeler around her relatives's woods and jump jumps and miss trees by inches! My friend had this awesome jump in her yard and I was really getting some air until her mom said it was too dangerous. Oh well. When I go through mud puddles and get the fourwheeler dirty, my daddy makes me clean it. But it's a small price to pay for the fun I get out of it. If you don't have a fourwheeler, you should get one. They're worth it. Same with a dirtbike. My dad got me my first dirt bike when I was two. Of course I didn't drive it until I was like 5 or 6. Now I have a 100 dirtbike and my dad has a 250. That means it's really loud and really big. Everyone in the nieghborhood can hear that thing when he starts it up!
When I was first learning how to drive my dirtbike, I drove straight into the trash heap in the marsh. Not pretty. I've skinned my knees and hurt myself and all that but it's all part of learning. If you don't get it the first time, don't give up. You'll get it. You know what they say; Practice makes perfect right?
I guess this post turned out to be all right. It kinda started off as a disaster.
See ya.

5 Super Cute Hair Styles

As you all know, school is starting. Even though that's a bad thing, we could make it a little better by going to school with a fresh look. These styles might just do the job for you...

#1: THE SIDE BRAID AND PONY TAIL. The name speaks for itself. All you do is braid your bangs or the hair to the front of your head and clip it so the side so it stays. Then you put the rest of your hair in a loose side pony tail. This works for long, and medium length hair, although if you have short hair, you could always do a side french braid with no pony tail.

#2: THE TWIST. This one is really simple. You first make a pony tail. Then you make a space in your hair right above the hair tie. Then you loop your hair through the hole and pull.

#3: THE ELEGANT CURL. Curls are coming back in style. The BEST curling iron (in my opinion) is the spiral curling iron. It gives you pretty little wringlets, that you can brush out, then hair spray.

#4: PIGTAILS. This isn't like kindergarden piggy tails where they're like at the sides of your head way above your ears. These are low pig tails. Also you want maybe some bangs down if you have bangs. This style looks best with straight hair.

#5: THE TRIPLE CLIP. This one is really easy. It would look really good with either curled hair or straightened hair. You start at the top of your head and pull two strands or hair back. Then you go down a little bit and putt two more strands back. Then you go down one more time and do the same. You could do as many clips as you want, but I prefer three.

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13

I hear 13 is a very unlucky number. Hopefully it won't be for me, because... I'm turning 13 in seventeen days! The rest of my classmates are turning 14, so I'm young for my grade. I used to hate that. But now I think, hey! Guess what? When you're 40, I'll still be 39! So ha! What's it like to be 13? Is it any differant from twelve? I decided to interview some people and here are the answers I got:
It's the same as twelve.
You'll then be a teenager.
Then you'll be a young adult.
You'll be more mature.

I guess I'll have to wait and find out. But wow. A teenager? When I was little, it seemed like teen years were decades away! But I made it. 13.

Wish me good luck!

The Stinky Yucky Evil Jellyfish

Have you ever gotten stung by a jellyfish? Some people that live in the middle of the country probably haven't. But, let me tell you, it isn't pleasant. I just got stung yesterday, while swimming off my dock. My brother dodged the little devil but it got my arm. So, it makes me wonder. How do jellyfish really sting you? So I learned that a bunch of little dart things jump out at you whenever something brushes against a tentacle. That's why my mom makes me scrub my arm with a seashell. To get the dart things out. Then my mom put vinegar on it and then this stuff called Afterbite. The Afterbite actually worked, but I have no idea what good the vinegar does. (Other than making my arm smell like a pickle.)
 
In Australia, the Jellyfish are vicious. Those Jellies can kill people. Like the box jellyfish. And the Portuguese Man Of War. The Portuguese Man of War is super long. And you can spot it by its blue bubble thing that stinks out of the water.
 
A Jellyfish once cut my Grandpa open. It wrapped around his leg, and not only stung it, but also made little cuts along his leg as well. If that had been me I would have forced my dad to run over it with his boat.
 
But, for as much as I hate Jellies, they do serve a purpose. They actually make the water clearer, and less mercy.

Moab Was Great!

Moab was awesome!! We went off roading in rented jeeps, and road up some gnarly, rocky hills. (Where is my dirt bike when I need it?!) We also went mountain biking on two differant days. The first day was really extreme, but fun. We went biking on a trail called the Intrepid Trail in Dead horse Point. The second day was ten miles downhill; I had a blast!
I saw my cousins, who came up from Tuscon. While we were off-roading and climbing rocks with our jeeps, the girls and I screamed all the way.

My dad driving on a trail actually called Hell's Revenge :p

There were ups and a couple downs (e.g. me passing out in a walmart in Texas) but, all in all, I had a great time. :)