What's on my iPhone 2020!

Hi guys!

This week, I'm doing an updated What's on my iPhone 2020 since I've now had my phone for a bit longer. I hope you enjoy!

-Izzy

Why I disappeared + what's been going on

Hi everyone!

You guys might have realized that I've been a bit silent on the blog lately, and while there hasn't been one specific reason, it's been a lot of small reasons, so I thought I should fill you guys in on everything that's been going on in my life.

I honestly don't even know where to start with this, there's been so much! I would like to say I'm pretty much officially in high school, thank the Lord above. If any of you who know me are reading this, you know how much I hated middle school with every part of me. Middle school wasn't absolutely horrible, but when most all of the kids are all immature, and also never shut up, that gets on my nerves to no end. Plus, a bunch of my best friends are in High School so I am so so excited to be with all of them.

There's been a lot of changes going on at my school with leadership, so I've been processing all of that. Also, our show that was supposed to happen in July got cancelled, which is really sad. I was really excited for it.

Planning. Planning. Planning. My sister graduated this year, so it's been absolutely insane to plan her graduation, a recital, and a party, all while trying to socially distance. We've been having to re-do our backyard since it isn't too great for a party. We've been paving the muddy side yard, getting an Arbor, hanging up fairy lights, etc. I also washed off our treehouse for it one day, and since we never use it,  it may or may not have not been washed in about 9 years. Let's just say the wood was a color I didn't know it was..... 😂

I'm trying to go ahead and start training more for my dance class at school next year. My hip placement isn't correct, and a lot of my dancing really just needs working on, so I've been trying to do ballet barre and turnout exercises to really get ready.

👏 I'M SO EXCITED FOR FRESHMAN YEAR 👏

Me and a couple of friends have been having zoom lunches every Monday for weeks now, ever since school started. I honestly recommend it so much, because it's so nice to stay in touch that way, it brings routine to your week, and it's just so much fun.

I did a choreography class assignment, and I had to carry a tripod all the way up to the sidestreet in our neighborhood. I looked insane dancing in the middle of the street with my huge tripod. It was hilarious.

We took pictures for my sister's graduation photos. My other sister actually took them because of Covid, and they turned out SO well. It was fun adventuring around my downtown area.

I went driving for the first time the other day, it was so fun! I'm only 14, but I want to be ready to get my permit so that I can quickly get my license!

The amount of times that I've rewatched High School Musical the Musical the Series is pretty unhealthy, but I just love it so much.

I've been really enjoying learning more guitar songs lately. I absolutely love playing guitar, and love teaching myself. I really like playing Scared by Jeremy Zucker, and also Common Sense by Joshua Bassett.

We had a senior dessert time the other night and it was so much fun. We have a tradition where we all go out the night before graduation (aka graduates and their families) and the people there were so much fun to hang out with. It was so so fun.

We officially had our school's graduation last night. My sister and 4 other kids who have been my best friends since i was 9 graduated, and let's just say I'm not okay. I always knew this day was coming, but it's really hard knowing that they aren't going to be at my school any longer, when they've been my family for years now. Graduation went really well, and it didn't rain thank goodness, but it was still extremely sad. I didn't cry half as much as I expected to, but I definitely did at points. It was in a barn, when it was originally in a theatre, but it actually ended up being gorgeous. The actual graduation and performance was in the yard, but the reception was in the barn. It was so beautiful.

So yeah! That's about it that's been going on with me, sorry again for disappearing. What have you guys been up to? I've missed hearing from all of you!

-Izzy

Grwm for an "event"!

Hi guys!

Since I'm stuck in quarantine and very bored, I decided to go back to my old blogging style and make a youtube video!! I hope you guys enjoy, let me know what you think in the comments!

-Izzy

My April + May Playlist

Hi everyone!

I've been finding some really good music lately, so I thought I would share what I've been loving listening to! Let me know in the comments what you've been listening to lately and your recommendations!

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-Adore You by Harry styles - Always just so good, I love the entire Fine Line album so so much.

-Cross Your Mind by Niall Horan - If you guys haven't listened to the Heartbreak Weather album yet, y'all seriously need to get on that ASAP.

-I wanna be OK by Caleb James - This sounds super depressing from the title but it's actually not at all.

-I do by Wild Rivers - Honestly just a super aesthetic song that I am loving.

-Common Sense by Joshua Bassett - His first ever single, and gosh this song is so good!! His voice is just perfection so......

-Scared by Jeremy Zucker - A friend of mine recommended this one to me and after listening to it a couple of times i've really gotten into it recently!

-IDK you yet by Alexander 23 - I just found this one on my Spotify page and GUYS LISTEN TO THIS IMMEDIATELY.

-Emerald Eyes by Anson Seabra - I think I just found this song about two days ago but I looove it. Also I have green eyes so 😂

-Hollywood by Lewis Capaldi - Just a generally good song ahaha.

-Trying my best by Anson Seabra - Sad but good.

-Joy by Bastille - Very peppy and just a really good son that I just found.

-San Francisco by Niall Horan - His entire album is super good like I said before, but this is just one I've been loving lately.

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So yeah! I've been really loving these songs lately, what have you guys been listening to? Let me know down in the comments. :)

-Izzy

April Wrap-Up

Hi everyone!

It is May when this is going up, and thats just so crazy. I can't believe April is over, it didn't seem like it lasted a long time. Although, we are obviously still in quarantine, so the days do go by slowly sometimes. April was a pretty good month, and I feel like this post is going to be good.

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What I'm loving -

I'm definitely loving being so close to being done with school! I've already done two exams, and I have two left. They are the harder ones, but I'm so excited to be done with those classes.

I might have mentioned this in a past post, but I've been playing a lot of guitar lately. I absolutely love it!! I know how to play "Everything has Changed" by Taylor Swift. I've been experimenting with creating some songs, and I just really love playing the guitar so far. I'm SO excited, I just ordered a capo and more guitar picks last night, so I cannot wait for those to come

I've started creating to do lists for each day, because quarantine causes everything to be so jumbled up. They really help me! Some days they don't help as much, but other days they help me get a lot done.

Everyday after I do school in the morning and after lunch, I go outside on my back porch on the outdoor chairs and tan. It's so nice. I'm already so much more tan than I was, and after everything else during my day it's so nice to just relax and do nothing for a bit. I love texting or listening to music while I do it.

Zoom and FaceTime calls are definitely such a lifeline. I do a Monday lunch zoom with some of my friends every week, and it's so much fun! Individual facetimes are definitely really fun sometimes too. Yesterday, I did a facetime with one of my friends and we tried on dresses from our closets and it was honestly just so hilarious and fun.

I honestly didn't enjoy reading before quarantine, but it's definitely given me the time to get back into it and I love it so so much.

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Tv shows and movies -

Gilmore Girls!! My forever favorite tv show. We're currently on season 6, and its hectic as always.

I watched High School Musical the Musical the Series in March and honestly still can't get over it. Cannot recommend enough.

Frasier is always pretty entertaining haha.

Still binging Austin and Ally on Disney+, because why not.

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Books I read this month -

*warning I read a lot*

100 Days of Sunlight - My new literal favorite book. I did a review on it, so go check that out here.

By Your Side - I swear I'm not going to say this about every book, but this one is my new second favorite book. Y'all seriously need to go read this one and the one above it because they are perfection.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - This one definitely wasn't my favorite one yet, but it was cute. I'm not sure why I didn't like it as much, but I just didn't.

This is What Happy Looks Like - This one i started about a year ago and never finished because I didn't enjoy reading as much then, but I re-read the beginning and read the middle and end for the first time and enjoyed it.

The Geography of You and Me - This one I got bored and read within about 4 hours. It was pretty good, better than some but not as good as others. It didn't have much interaction between the main two characters, which I didn't love, but overall it was cute.

The Book of Three - I had to read this one for school, and let me just say, never again.

Windfall - This one was definitely not my favorite of all of them. I love reading romance, so you know it's bad when I don't ship the main characters. I don't know, I just didn't love it.

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So yeah! That's about it for my month. What did you guys do in April?

-Izzy

Quarantine Day in the Life!

Hi everyone!

You guys really enjoyed the night routine I did about a week ago, so I thought I would do a day in the life! I'll probably cut off around where I started the night routine, so you can go check it out here. So yeah! Let me know what posts you want to see on my blog!

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10:00- Getting up late as always. I usually get up around this time, especially when I've had a week of early mornings.

10:30- By this time, I eat breakfast and just chill for a bit. I usually start school around now, and do it until around 12 or 12:30.

12:30- This day, I made myself a to-do list for the day, and also unpacked a bunch of stuff from my backpack because I never did that. Our school has officially been canceled for the year, but I'm still keeping some stuff in there for rehearsals.

1:00- I usually have lunch around this time. I've been eating a pita everyday which they are just SO good. My sister and I love to watch something while we eat, and lately we've been binging some good old Disney Plus.

1:30- After lunch, my back porch is really warm in the sun so I sunbathe for a while during the afternoon. I also finished a book I had to read for school.





2:30- I practiced guitar some, because I'm trying to get good at it.



3:00- I helped my mom clean her room for a while. :)

4:30- I worked out, I've been trying to do the Chloe Ting 30 day challenge every day. I don't really plan to do it for the full 30 days, but I've been doing it a lot.

5:00- I decided to help her make dinner, and we were making these really good meat pies, which are just biscuits with meat in them. They're really good, and they took a long time to make.



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That's where I stop pretty much, because my night routine picks up there. So yeah! If you want to see my night routine go check that out. Let me know what posts you want to see in the future! I hope you guys enjoyed!
-Izzy

My Quarantine Night Routine!

Hi everyone!

As you all know, life has become different because of COVID-19. I've been staying up later because this week was spring break so I didn't have any classes, and even if I did, I don't have to leave my house. So yeah! Don't judge me for this XD

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6:30 - I helped my mom make dinner. We were making pizza last night, so I helped roll out the dough, put the sauce on,  and do all of the toppings.

7:00 - On this night routine, I'm going to start a little bit later than I usually would, because we had a late dinner. So yeah, at 7:00, I went ahead and got a shower and turned on some music to listen to while I get my shower.

7:30 - The pizzas were ready, so we ate dinner. Spoiler alert, it was absolutely AMAZING.

8:00 - Since dinner was over, I decided to start a new book. I started this incredible book, "By Your Side", by Kasie West. I'm going to be putting out a review of this book soon, so watch out for that!

So um... I may have gotten a little sidetracked on that book...

10:00 - We started watching a movie around 10, but since it wasn't one I was as interested in, I went crazy and read more and more.

11:00- I finally finished my book at 11, (which I started at 8- I'm insane.), so then I just watched the movie with them.

11:30- If I'm gonna watch something late at night, I have to have some sort of snack so of course golden oreos were in order.

12:00 We were watching Pride and Prejudice the musical, it was actually pretty good.

12:30- We finally finished the movie, and it was good.

1:30- We just kind of sat around for a while, I talked to one of my sisters, and we just generally chilled for a bit.

2:00- I started getting ready for bed and doing everything I had to do before I could go to bed, which meant I journaled for a little bit and while I did that I used my Accelerator. My accelerator is something I use for my Invisalign for 20 minutes every night to hopefully speed up my teeth moving.





2:20- I finally go to bed, because I definitely need to haha.



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So yeah! That's about it. Also, I definitely don't go to bed this late every night but it was a weekend and it just ended up being a late night because of the movie my family was watching. I hope you enjoyed, let me know in the comments what you've been doing during quarantine and what posts you would like to see in the future!
-Izzy