So I was thinking recently about how I spend my spare time. And I've realized I want to read more. I feel like all I ever read are trade magazines, with an occasional Time or Newsweek. And of course the perfect trifecta of every teenage girl: Cosmo, Glamour, and Vogue. (Ok, maybe that is every Californian Teenage Girl. I feel like I grew out of 17 when I was 12. I'm not even 17 yet.) I want to start reading more books. I need suggestions. I have already read Harry Potter and Twilight. And Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. I would like new suggestions. So, I pose to you:

What is your favorite book? Or, rather, what book do you most think I should read?

I AM ALIVE

Here is a preview for Dadnapped to prove it:



And for real my life has calmed down now; with all my Disney stuff going on, and Haley's Broadway stuff, and I could go on and on but finally my life is calm and happy and good and I shall return to faithful (or near faithful) blogging immediately.

I have been horribly busy recently and of course, when I get busy, I neglect everything in my life including this journal. Also including my sense of style, as evidenced by what I wore to that Halloween party I had to attend:



Basically this is me saying I'm not dead! I have nothing exciting to report! Except for all the busy I've had but I'm like too busy to even mention that so I promise things will calm down soon; we've just had Disney stuff and Dadnapped and Soccer Mom and they've been squeezing in stuff for my album and I've been going to auditions for other things so I have something to do this summer and it's just insane. Legit I am going in. sane. with busy.

In other news: VOTE VOTE VOTE. There, that is my public service announcement, sorry I'm not cool enough to do anything official like Selena or the rest of you. Eventually.

I pretty much felt how Miley looks during the filming of this entire episode



But this is my way of saying new Hannah episodes will soon be on your screen! And they are full of hilarious Miley and Lily hijinks! And more great songs from Robby Ray! And of course the epic battle of Jackson v. Rico continues!

But seriously they are fun episodes, this third season might just be the best season yet.

Soccer Mom is selling fairly well and the reviews aren't horrible, so I'm happy with it. And Dadnapped comes out soon! And then Thanksgiving! And Christmas! And then eventually I turn 17 and can get my own car! AWESOME!

( Private )

I mean I might as well, right?

Here's a cute bear to make you want to anonymously comment whaaaaat



(Oh and if you'd rather just say something to my face, say it)

Soccer Mom came out today! Go and buy it!



If you have 7 minutes to kill and don't listen to me talk enough on a daily basis.

In other news, I want to meet more people. So if I do not know you please say hi to me. Or if I do know you you can still say hi to me. I'm trying to spend less time in my house and more time out and about, and I mean, I do have a car, even if it's not as great as that Mustang I saw Nick driving the other day.

( Tony )

( Private )

I've been fairly busy recently, hence my absence, so I thought I'd show you some lovely pictures of me.

First, I went to the Emmy's on Sunday. My dad gets an invite every year and we don't always go but this year I decided to get all dressed up and hang out. So here's a picture of me in my ~high heels and ~red dress because now no one can ever wear that combination without thinking of the Jonas Brothers.

( Emmys! )

And no the Emmys are not named after me but I wish they were.

And the day before that was the premiere for Soccer Mom, I would have invited you all but it was so boring be thankful you weren't there.

( Me and my papa! )

My dad is pretty much awesome. I don't talk about him nearly enough. He's pretty much my favorite adult in the world and we have always gotten along really well, except for when he does stupid things like STILL not let me see certain movies, or still refuse to let me buy my own car, but really he's just trying to "protect" me / make me manage my money well but it's still super lame. Also I did not use that purse by choice.

( Cody )

( Private )

I'm really into this video right now:



The bridge is what gets me.

And NO I have not seen the referenced video

And NO I do not want to

So please do not try and trick me.

Other than that, I wrote a new song and I want to see if I can get it on my album but I'm not sure. Like, I already have enough songs but the album isn't close to being done so I figure maybe I can make it happen. Maybe I'll make a crap copy and upload it here for you guys and you can tell me what you think.

Dadnapped and Soccer Mom are coming so soon!! I don't know if either is having a proper premiere but I will do my best. I figure there will be a Disney party for Dadnapped at least. We can all see each other, awesome!

Oh and the mixer was fine. I saw all the drama but thankfully there was none of my own, except for Jennifer dear please don't switch my seat without asking me first ever again thanks. I would have said no problem.

I can't decide which dress to wear to the mixer, please advise. I want to look cute but classy.

( 2 choices under here )

I feel like black and white is a good combination for something like this, right? So I won't like stand out or overshadow anyone, but I'll maybe still be memorable. And are these dresses formal enough? I don't even know what's going on with this event. Am I even close to picking good dresses? Someone help me.

Hey everyone, I'd like to introduce you to something called "Me and my Awkward Smock"



I am counting down the days until I don't have to do crap like this anymore.

I promise my album does not sound like that. It is actual music. Please buy it when it comes out, Disney is slowly but surely destroying any musical credibility I may once have had.

So I hung out with Oller the other day. We had pinkberry and of course it was delicious and it was a wonderful friendly chat with someone I don't see almost every day, which was intensely refreshing because when Hannah is filming I pretty much see the same people all day every day. I mean, in general I'm either on set or at home sleeping, sometimes not even that, sometimes on set sleeping, and while it's great and obviously I love you guys, it can get overwhelming.

But anyway the point of this is that he said something that has gotten me thinking. I told him that I'm not good at relationships - because I'm not - and he was like, no, that's not true, you just haven't met the right person yet. And while a part of me thinks maybe that's true, the larger part of me is like, no, it's not. I'm not good at relationships. I'm not good at devoting all my time and energy to only one other person, I'm not reliable, I pretty much am always sure that the guys I'm with could do better than me - I just don't have the right temperament to be in a relationship.

So my question is, where do you guys stand on things? Obviously a lot of my friends are in relationships right now, so maybe your thoughts are skewed that way. But is it possible for a person to just not be meant for relationships? What about bachelors, or spinsters, or people like George Clooney. George Clooney's not good at relationships either, and I refuse to believe that he just "hasn't met the right girl" yet because I think George Clooney has met more than enough people.

I don't know. I've just been bouncing these thoughts around in my head for awhile. So I thought I'd write them down.

Oh, and p.s., Cody? I totally got my paddles out a few days ago and am ready to demolish you at ping pong. Just so you know.

I was stuck inside practically all day cleaning my room. My mom was like "Emily this is enough! You must clean!" So... four hours later I am done. However I would like to dedicate this post and today to the genre of music that got me through the day:


White Boys Rapping.

I started off with a little old school Vanilla Ice.



Then I moved onto everyone's favorite younger sibling, Aaron Carter.



And I ended with one of our own, the ever-brilliant Mitchel Musso.




TODAY COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE!

You guys probably haven't seen this yet so I'm going to post it:



It's the trailer to my movie Soccer Mom which is being released September 30th. I actually managed to film something that wasn't Hannah related! It's a fun movie; Missi Pyle plays my mom who is obsessed with Soccer so she disguises herself as an Italian soccer star to try and get my team to win. You know, average Disney Channel fare. It sort of reminds me of The Big Green which is an AWESOME movie. My dad makes a cameo too! I've always loved playing soccer so this was a good role for me.

So yeah. The trailer being released is like the most exciting news I've had in awhile. End of summer is so boring, with people who go to school going back to school and all that jazz. August could definitely be better.

I realized today that I had horrible taste in music when I was like 12 years old. I was looking for my Ultimate Macarena CD to burn for someone (but I promised not to say who so I won't) and I noticed all the other crappy CDs I own. I always forget about them since I just use my iPod now and didn't transfer the bad ones. Here are some choice examples:

Clay Aiken: Measure of a Man
Ryan Cabrera: Take It All Away
David Grey: I have 3 CDs by him. THREE
Lindsay Lohan: Speak

and of course my most ashamed CD

98 Degrees... and rising.


Seriously I listened to 98 Degrees like non stop when this CD came out. I couldn't get enough of it. I'm pretty sure it is like the best CD ever made in that genre. Who am I kidding, I don't regret this at all. I am however impressed that I survived the early 2000's and can now distinguish between crap and brilliance.




In other news I feel like I've been patching things up with old friends and its a weird feeling becasue its like, I didn't ever really realize I was fighting with them. You know how sometimes you just... stop hanging out with people, or you don't call them as much, or you no longer tell them secrets only meaningless stories? Isn't that a natural progression in a friendship? But then it's like... suddenly something happens and you realize: hey. I missed that person. I guess we were fighting and I didn't even realize it.

Well, that's what has recently happened to me and I'm glad I've at least realize it now but it worries me that I didn't really realize it (or at least I didn't acknowledge it) before. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, if we used to be friends and we sort of aren't now, let's be friends again, ok?

So I was watching youtube today, because in case you weren't aware, I love youtube, and I stumbled across Cody's youtube show, which I didn't know existed. So now I feel like I am the only person on the Disney Channel planet who doesn't have a youtube show. I mean, obviously there's the Miley and Mandy Show, and Demi and Selena have theirs, and the Jonas Brothers have theirs, and I think Alyson has one or maybe she just posts a lot of videos, and Mitchel doesn't have an official one but there are a ton of videos of him on youtube and basically I'm just saying that I'm really dropping the ball on having my own youtube show.

But then I realized, what would I talk about on my show? How would it be formatted? I came up with a few ideas, and then quickly threw them all away, but here they are anyway.

#1: The Buddy Show. I mean it's obvious from my list that this is a popular format. M&M, S&D, Co & Ro, it seems to be easiest to just grab your BFF and sit down in front of a camera and talk about whatever. I don't think this will work for me because #1 my non-Disney friends aren't interesting to the general public and my Disney friends all already have their own show.

#2: The Update-on-my-project Show: If I did anything interesting I would do this but I really don't. I mean I'm either filming Hannah or in the studio and I don't think anyone wants to watch me sing harmonies for three hours. But this does lead me to my next idea

#3: A Hannah Montana Expose Show: Wherein I sneak around set with a video camera and take ~backstage videos~ and let the entire world stalk us more than they already do. Now I know the producers will never let this fly BUT what if I pretended like it was actually backstage but it wasn't. Like a parody. Like I could film Billy Ray eating BBQ ribs without a shirt on and then they call him to be on set and quick he pulls a shirt on and wipes his face on some wet naps. Or I do a documentary on Jason and his epic quest to beat Wii Bowling.

I think #3 is my best idea so far. But I don't know if I have the energy for it, it feels like it will take a lot of work. Who knows. Maybe someday soon you'll see the Emily Osment Show almost-live on your computer screens!