1-3-05- Hey people. Talking to you from the wonderful land of school. 2nd period & so far the day has been dead. I went to sleep at about quarter after midnight last night(estimated majorly) & managed to get up & out of bed in time to eat breakfast & catch the bus. I'm so proud of myself. Tried to sleep on the bus but...it didn't work. Back-to-school mental thing or something. I managed to catch 3 of my friends this morning that I don't usually see so that was cool. One of them was all hippie-ish today by wearing a shirt with "Peace" on it & said we should hold a protest in the school againast the war. I'm all up for it, even if I do get suspended. Sophomore year sucks anyway. & another of my friends managed to get her Dad not to talk to her by re-dyeing her hair black. Yup. Just another school day. & that was only before first period. First period French was dead because she decided to give us a break & just hand out papers, which was nice except that I had nothing to do. I cursed myself for not bringing a book or something. 2nd period orchestra, which is the class I'm "in" now, is dead too. Study Hall. So I decided not to waste it & come to the library to jabber here. (checks watch) Yay. I've still got at least 10 minutes for BS-ing(heh). I hate having my 2nd period class on one end of the building & 3rd period the other end. Especially when I have to run through these halls with a violin. Too bad I'm too nice or too lazy to be able to hit these people who just clutter around out of the way. They've been dubbed "cholesterol" in the bloodstream that is out school.
So I'm just gonna wait out the rest of the day..hope I don't go mad of boredom. & the projects that I have yet to do. Deep breath.
I'm definitely getting more sleep tonight. Early to bed & early to rise makes a woman.....go insane. Mm-hmm.
Adam decided to stay in Morgantown one more night so he's coming up today. No work tonight--me happy. Mm-hmm.
There are people talking about battles on the computers to their teachers right now. I am so lost. Not that it's any of my business..
1-2-05- Whooo it's 20-0-5! Happy New Year people. So long 2004. You were interesting. Well, I write to you on my last day of temporary freedom. Tomorrow I return to...(cringe)..school. Bleh. Ah well. At least I can now freely pray for snow days because I know I won't have another break until March. Although we do get 2 Mondays off in a row this month,hopefully one of which I shall be spending with my friends. But I had a good time this break. Got plenty of interesting gifts..went somewhere Tuesday through Friday...yup. Pretty cool. & my family & I stayed up till 3 Friday night after they picked me up from Kim's house after they went to First Night in Pittsburgh. My New Years wasn't bad. I FINALLY met Kim's boyfriend & he seems cool. Although he(& possibly everyone else at the party which consisted of a total of 7 people including me) probably thinks I'm on (cough)something because I was being this quiet little happy nonsense-speaking hippie person. Which wasn't too bad. I blew up a really big balloon & was cradling it while we watched "Bruce Almighty". Good movie. & then at midnight we went out into the neighborhood & made a ton of noise & stuff. That was fun.
I managed to finish off 2 of my gift cards this break, which is nice. Although I also lost all my bucks too. Oh well. I still have my paycheck(which will be considerably less because I took Wednesday off this week) & plenty of spare change. But it's not like I'll need any of it anytime soon. Major amounts of it, anyway. Not that I don't enjoy getting gifts for people. That may have been a little random, but it's true. It's fun finding things for people.
Adam went down to Morgantown last night for a party at his ex-job's building(<-should probably find a clearer way of saying that, but I'm too lazy to). He said he'd be back up today sometime. He gets to stay up here until the end of the week, which is super nice, as well as the fact that he doesn't have any major projects to work on. He's finished up with college pretty much because all he has to do now is a semester of student teaching down there, & he also quit his job because of course having 2 jobs wouldn't work when he's Student Teaching. His old co-workers & boss are still treating him as if he worked there though, only without the paycheck & stuff. Can't believe that after this he's gonna be out on his own..Mom's hoping he'll get a real teaching job somewhere in Pennslyvania & I hope so too. Although he did excellent on some teaching-test thingys so he'll be able to teach in all 50 states so you never know. Ah well, it's up to him & he's got plenty of time to think about it.
I have been thinking lately about my life. I have thought about how I have been living my life & if I have been doing it right. Have I been behaving & dressing & all that stuff in a way that was truly mine, or was it to just get people to like me? Have I been thinking in such a way that I thought I was being open-minded, but just projecting my beliefs that I thought other people believed? Am I going to experience love in my life, or am I just fated to be one of those people who never find someone they can share a love with? Sometimes I find my mind can be hypocritical or contradictory. & sometimes I just get so annoyed with how I may say something & people just ignore me that I just want to throw away being nice & be this quiet little wallflower that never says anything. That may not happen often, but things like that can sometimes stick in a person's mind. & frankly, it sucks. But that's my life. & maybe I just think too far ahead for my age to worry about, but that's me. & I can only make the best of it & one day be able to shrug off all these problems. I guess a good way to sum up a few of these things would be "screw it". & I probably should.
Anyway, I hope I didn't bore or confuse you too much. That's my stuff for the day & the week; past, present, & future.
12-20-04-Well lately it's been interesting. This weekend...let's see. Friday, nothing memorable, Saturday I took my first bath in over a year(I take showers every other day, by the way)& then at about 3 I started working on my art project, which was to do 4 paper mached(accent over e there) balloons. They are called "A gift to the School". Of course, Mr. Hawbaker gave us a week or more to work on this...but I guess i'm lazy. Or something. I started working on a few beforehand but..whatever. Anyway, worked fairly late on them, Sunday started working on them at about..11:30 am? & I kept working till....midnight pretty much. I stayed up later than I normally would because I discovered we had a 2 hour delay(yay!) on Monday. So..LOTS of work. & I got my extra sleep this morning(Monday) & I got even more because my Dad drove me to school because I had all four of my Paper-mached balloons with me. I got to finish up my balloons today during ALL my classes. See, Mr Hawbaker gave us each a sheet to have our teachers fill out so we could work on our balloons all day. I was happy because all my teachers signed, even my biology teacher. I'm failing her class with a 57% & she still signed it! She didn't even say anything. If there was any lady who didn't pay attention to the No Child Left Behind law, It's her. But heck, I'm happy. It's not like Bilogy is the most thrilling class anyway. Anyway, yeah. So I hung out all day in the art rooms painting & stuff with one of my friends(Jill) who's in the other Drawing & Painting 3 class(only class doing the "gift to the school thing") & this other dude(Nick) who is actually also in my biology class. It was AWESOME!!! We painted one of Jill's balloons with jabby motions with the paintbrushes & made it all colorful, put a face on it & called it George Bush. Don't ask. Nick & I were also sent to paint random balloons like snowmen, but we didn't get much done as we pretty much just threw things at each other & chased each other with paint. I painted my hand entirely black & chased him around. I got black paint on his hoodie! I am so proud. He also wouldn't stop touching my penguin balloon, which I got a lot of compliments on. At the end of the day I started getting irritated & kept growling, yelling, & telling him "DIE!!!". All in good fun, of course. But iwas awesoome. Then we hung all the balloons up in the hall. So I enjoyed my day. I also have pictures! I made an account on a photo website so now you all can see my pretty pictures(see below-below with other links[doggy photos, sketches, those ones...] )! You can view them under "Paper Mache Monday". I wish I could give them comments, though...Oh yeah guess what! Adam's coming up tomorrow YAY!!!
Oh yeah, check it out. My results from a quiz thingy one of my friends found. Girl's Version & Boy's Version.
P.S. I had sometrouble thinking & typing this. I am in a very cold room & am having difficulty thinking straight & typing correctly.
12-12-04-I had a great day today. I went over to Ashley's house for a Ninja Chrostmas party with her & Camille & Kim. IT ROCKED!!! I love those guys. Even if I don't get to see them as often as I like, I still love them. In fact, sometimes that can even make things stronger between, methinks. But it was awesome. Camille wrapped her head in tissue paper for a ninja look, I wore my brother's old karate jacket & a pink cloth thingy on my face(not long though) & Ashley's Mom picked her up a ninja set at the dollar store. It had a plastic nunchuck with plastic throwing stars & a cloth thingy on her head. It looked like a head thong. & all the stuff was purple!! Kim was having fun with the nunchucks & throwing stars at people. Ashley & I handed out gifts(she got me a fashionable blue pocho[smile])& then we went on the computer & looked at movies & stuff as well as check out her Sims 2. & Ashley's dad took pictures of us, then we took the camera & took more pictures which Ashley will hopefully put up somewhere on the internet. Then Kim & Camille had to leave late afternoon because Camille had a church thing to do, which was a bummer. So it was me & Ashley. We watched "The Princess & the Goblin", which, I might add, disturbed me. After that we went to her living room where her parents were watching the football game(They are heavy duty fans. They startled me a few times with thier yelling). & Ashley had fun pestering her Mom. Then we went on her computer & stuff. & then my Mom picked me up at 8 & while Ashley's Mom & mine talked for 25 minutes. We watched the near end of Indiana Jones & only sat down just to sit up the minute because our parents finally decided to stop talking. But all in all, it was great fun. & next, we'll have to have our New Year's Blast! WHOOO! & somebody's bringing a camcorder(grin).
& oh. I am wearing that poncho tomorrow to school. I'm not fond of wearing clothes or the style that preps wear but dangit! THIS PONCHO WAS A GIFT, I LIKE IT & NO FEAR OF BEING FASHIONABLE WILL STOP ME FROM WEARING IT!!!
Lines of the weekend BLACK JESUS BABY!!
Set your hand on fire for bravery!
12-5-04-Well, here comes the shopping season. I managed to get 2 gifts at Michaels on sale so that's a tenth of my shopping done. At least I have plenty of ideas, which I will NOT discuss here because of obvious reasons(wiggles finger in a "naughty, naughty!" fashion). But yeah. Um..let's see... what else...Oh yeah. Started SAT prep class this week. Just great. It was on Tuesday & Thursday. How convienent(sp?). I had a difficult time staying awake considering I went to school, went to work for three hours & didn't get to go home at all those days. I actually fell asleep on Thursday when the teacher gave us a 5 minute break. I woke up to her asking me if I was alright, which made me embarassed. Yup. Thursday didn't go well. & added to the fact was that while I managed to remember to bring the textbook & my CD player with me(which I ended up not using), I forgot my calculator AS WELL as a pencil. I hated myself that night. & it was my Mom's birthday. But that went well because my Mom was happy because she got chocolates & a spiffy...something-or-other that makes margaritas & chops up stuff for you & stuff. She was pleased. (smiles)
Refering to my last update, Here's my surprise!: I GOT MY HAIR CUT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE.....kindergarten? I like it. Except it doesn't do me much good because I still wear my hair in a ponytail, which made it difficult for people to notice I had my hair cut. Old habits die hard. I'd like to get it cut again(3 inches maybe?) because it's feeling long again but I know my Mom wouldn't do it because she'd say it'd be too short for me to be able to pull it away from my face where it would get in my way. Oh well. Maybe when I get in college I can do with it what I like.
Ugh I'm feeling kind of ugly right now. I got this book from the library about flattening my stomach(which I need) & improving my posture. I saw my posture in the mirror last night & my GOD. I was such a hunchback. Ick. So I'm trying to work on that but it's getting painful which is not a good sign. I also was looking at those pictures from my haircut & saw a brownish stain around my mouth. I've noticed it other times too. I HATE IT!!! I don't even know what it is! I mean, I wash my face every night. I don't get it! I also don't really like having glasses anymore & want to get rid of them. I want normal eyesight now. No contacts, no anything. & i'm going to state the obvious: I'M FEELING SELF-CONSIOUS RIGHT NOW. (snarls)
& oh yeah, here's our holiday turkey! & my pretty painting I did a while back.
& a step-by-step thingy I did on my hair before I got it cut.(sniff) I'll miss being able to do that with my hair....
11-28-04-Well, it's Sunday evening. I watched some movies with some pals tonight, which was cool. & don't judge me by my tone, I really did have fun. I'm just a little sad because my brother went back to West Virginia today & went I got back a little bit ago the house felt empty because I knew Adam wasn't downstairs working. So I'm a little down & I'm not sure about tomorrow: I don't always do well on days-before-returning-to-school. But there might be a few things to do. Might go to Jo Ann's or Micheals, or check out the library or half price books; Might finish up my book if I don't do it tonight, & I've still got a bit of homework(been weighing on my mind all weekend grr!). But yeah. That's my life. & I've had a great Holiday Break. Saw family, had fun. I needed it. But, inevitably, it's back to the grindstone. But at least there's about four weeks till Winter Break & I see Adam again YAY! But eugh..Tuesdays I now have to do work as well as PSAT practice. Wish I hadn't signed up for it......I won't get home on Tuesdays till about 9:30 which totally(excuse myself) SUCKS. At least it's only once a week. I hope...& I don't even know how long it goes on for. Better check.....UGH IT'S GOT A TOTAL OF 7 SESSIONS THAT GO FROM NOVEMBER 30 TO JANUARY 20. I really want to bail out & get my money back. & I really don't care if my score gets better from this. I don't give a (pardon me)crap & I want out NOW!! Ugh I'm going to go watch Harry Potter. & oh! On a lighter note(I'm not always unhappy..in fact I usually am quite happy..or content)I have a surprise for you people if I can get my lazy can in gear & show you! I WILL! Hopefully....Ok Harry Potter time! & I feel better now. P.S. I haven't been on the comp for the past two days! I'm so happy. Yeah that makes no sense...but trust me, it's a very good thing.
11-8-04- I felt sad. I was listening to Coldplay's second CD when I suddenly felt terribly depressed. I didn't know what to do; I didn't feel like going to parents when i was crying, even though I knew they'd be sympathetic & ask me what's wrong & try to comfort me. I just go to my parents as a last reseort for sadness...I don't know why. But I felt sick & figured I should talk to somebody...So I went to the one friend who I know well & who I knew would understand. She gave me some good advice & a few words & now I feel better. Just goes to show you how important friends really are..
10-28-04-Wow work can be amazing when you're with two "certain" people. Ok, I was working today...& one of my friends & her boyfriend(I think) came up & visited me. So we were basically just standing around while I was sorting books & talking & I was sniffing & stuff & I thought I heard my friend ask me if I was sniffing myself. Then all 3 of us started cracking up for like 2 minutes. It was amazing. Then we hung around while I put the CD's back on their shelves & you'd be amazed at the sort of CD's you find at the library. Tomorrow I get to get out of school!!!! I'm going with the Book Club to see some authors in Pittsburgh at some talky-booky thing. It should be amazing, seeing as Kim is going(smile). & I don't know who else is going. Guess I'll see!! This is one of those ngihts where I'm happy. "Life is a swing; constantly in motion with so many inevitable up's & down's..." -Moi
10-10-04-I am desperately wanting my own e-mail right now. I don't mind getting my e-mails through my Dad's e-mail right now, but I JUST WANT MY OWN!!!! It'd be so nice....anyway life's been amazing recently. The play's been going alright, although I gotta work on some stuff. We're doing our performances this week which be a little nerveracking because I'm gonna be worried i'll forget a line or something. But i'll do my best. My cast is having a mandatory rehearsal today to make sure we got everything down pat & then tomorrow we're having our first dress rehearsal. Fun! But first I have to go to the library to do my last Sunday volunteer hours! YAHOO I hate working in the library bookstore on Sundays. No more will I have to! & I also am going to be WORKING at the library now I hope! An opening for shelving books has appeared & I'm taking it for $5.15 an hour, 9 hours a week. I need the money; I wanna go with the orchestra to Toronto this year & it costs $700 & i'm not the greatest fundraising person. I just can't go to people's houses & ask "Hey you wanna buy something?". I'd feel like a Jehova's witness. Well I should finish up there & tell more later. Toodles tootsies.
9-21-04- I don't feel well. What's wrong? Probably not enough sleep. Maybe a bug. I hate this feeling. What do I do?
9-12-04-Hola all. How have you all been? I�ve been good. I�ve been having a good time lately. I auditioned for a play, �The Glass Slipper�(Cinderella), & I did well. I was very happy. & got the exact part I auditioned for, which is totally awesome. I haven�t acted or anything since....5th? 4th grade? & even then it wasn�t much. I was very pleased & wanted to hug the director.& i�m playing a very fun character. I play one of the evil stepsisters of cinderella, the dumber one, & its going to be so cool because my �sister� & I get into fights & scream & whack each other with fans. Plus she�s a very charasmatic person, so we�ll get along just fine. Plus I get to stay after school like every day & stuff. Fun! Currently, I am home alone, which is nice. Even though I haven�t really done anything except read �Tomb Raider�(computer game) fanfiction, look up Tomb Raider screenshots, eat a weird shrimp-noodle thing my Mom made, listen to classical/opera music & empty the dishwasher. My life alone is so exciting. At least I can do all this in my time, alone. I like it. It�s been a little more than hour since they left....I�m not sure how long they�ll be gone. At first my Mom said they might be gone for 4 hours, but then It apparrently got changed to 2 hours. Man that stinks. Oh well. If I recall, the last time I was left alone to my own devices & updated this site, I wasn�t wearing pants. I have a good reason why I wasn�t. They were wet. & I didn�t feel like putting on dry ones quite yet. I was very hyper. So fun.
9-2-04- Hello! Hey I got a little random surprise for you people. It might not make any sense to you people, but it's up for my own enjoyment anyway. I was over at a friend's house & we were messing around with her camera & we took some pictures, & we were eating pizza, & here's the result! Have fun.....& don't worry, we are perfectly sane. Pizza!. & I'm getting used to school, its not too bad. Even though I don't have classes with some people I'd like to, I still get to see them in the halls & such. & I know their phone numbers. But other than that, school's not too bad. I kinda like it, & my English teacher is cool, like last year. Although she's older. But she seems very nice. & I like my World Cultures teacher too. I'm happy. P.S. I will put another background picture up sometime. I took the other one down because even though I like it, it's hard to find a good color for the text so it will show up well. & I got other stuff around so.....P.S.2. Yes, that hideous site above IS me, in the morning......
8-12-04- Yellow(hello in color)! Well I finally got the vacation pics all set up(although there are few of them). & I'm doing good. That's all I can think of now, so yeah. & I have no comments on the picture above.
8-9-04- Hey peoples. Well I don't know what else to do right now so i'm writing. On our NEW COMPUTER! We got a new computer that came on July 30th(my Birthday, though not a gift) & its pretty cool. I like it, although I don't think my Mom does because twice today she squawked at me when she was having trouble on the internet. It would be so much easier to help her if she stayed calm instead getting all indignant & hollery at me. Yeesh. But also I realized I forgot I had volunteering at the library today & ended up missing it, although I don't think the librarians will notice much because I signed up to help with the Summer Reading Club for little kids but they ended up having everything taken care of by the time I got there so they just sent me off to cut stuff up. Wow, I missed alot. & I just realized that I had books due today. Oh well. I have to go in tomorrow anyway. But I should head off now since it's late & my Dad will get all huffy & puffy if I don't get off soon. So au revoir & i'll put up vacation photos sometime soon.
7-27-04- Howdy peoples! I'm BACK!! The trip was great. It was wonderful seeing all the relatives on my Mom's side!! I actually wrote a much longer update of my trip earlier but my computer was being stupid so I lost everything I wrote. Major bummer. But i'm sure you people wouldn't have read all of it anyway, except for those of you who are dedicated, interested, &/or really bored. But yeah, it was all fun & I must again thank my grandparents & Auntie for the gifts & everything(smiles). Well, as for life since I returned home, I got a letter from CCAC about driving school this fall!! My parents(mostly Mom) isn't too sure about the timing(thinking maybe next summer) but I think I could make it. After all, teachers don't usually give heavy duty projects/homework at the start of the year(knock on wood). & I also got a gallery on elfwood(very cool art site)! Here's the link, although I don't have too much up yet. But I got more ideas! & have a few pictures from the trip that I have yet to put on this site. I also took some short movies with the digital camera but I can't put them on here right now because they're too big & I don't know how to fix them so yeah.....But yeah, that's pretty much it for now. Oh! Like the background? A little Oil pastel thing i did a while ago that I really liked. & the dude above? My very cool 9th grade English teacher. Why is he up there? Because I felt it would take some computers too long to load this site if it had this very active background & an animation on it. I know the feeling.
7-15-04- To whom it may concern.....I am going to be in Florida & Georgia for the next week & a half!! So....not that it matters because I never update this thing anyway(bad bad bad webmistress!) So this has been a major update in my life. & my Aunt gave me a set of tatting needles, a tatting book, & we went to Michael's & she bought me string! So I plan on making a tat medallion. I'll show you when i'm done. If I can remember to. But yes!! I can actually do some actual tatting!! Thank you Aunty!!! & oh! Lemme see.....(updates picture thingy & whatever)....Holy geezus heavens(yay for corny qoutes!!)!! Well the image above this update is my first official GIF animation!!! Yes folks, this is history in the making. I only wish the thing weren't so darn big.....Oh well. Still fun!!!
7-9-04- Added a few sketches. Too lazy to say anything more. Have a nice day!
6-6-04- AAAAAA FOUR DAYS LEFT OF SCHOOL!!! I have to get my Finals over with & get my homemade yearbook(all credit idea goes to Marissa G) & get photos & such. Actually right now I should be working on my Art Final but I'm lazy. Its due tomorrow. Yay!...? Wanna know about my weekend? Friday night went to Barnes & Nobles. Had to, since I had to do something since I didn't go to see Harry Potter on friday because It wasn't related to the school as I had thought & they only had one ticket left & I felt bad if I had taken the ticket without Kim since KC was going somewhere anyway so etc etc. Friday night hung out with Camille & her family at a POPS concert at Heinz Hall. It was interesting & before we went to the concert we went to a restaurant where Camille talk about her Mom loving the dog more than her for 15 minutes. Had her Mom, Grandma & I in stitches(laughing really hard). Then after the concert we went to the very top of a parking building & waited to get out for 15 minutes.(continue later. Need to get started on Art Final since its 9:00pm Sunday)(I'm BACK at 5:15 Wednesday) It was funny because her Dad had the music blaring this rap/pop/party & we had the windows open & we were dancing all crazy. I was dancing a my dorky way & then this guy(high school?) & his parents were watching us & Camille hit me in the chest. It hurt ow! But it was funny & she kept ducking every time she thought she saw him. I didn't get a very good look but apparently Camille thoguht he was cute. Then we finally got out of the jam, got her Mom & grandma & went to Kings where we found a weird kiddie ride that was a smiling cactus & horse like something out of a Disney movie.Yup that was Saturday night. I'll get to the rest later. I'm lazy. TOMORROW'S THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL WAHOO & BOOHOO!!!
5-30-04- Ok, this is getting annoying. I swear there's a little gremlin or goblin or something in this house that's stealing my stuff. First it was my keys, then my wallet, & now my scrunchy. & also there was the lipstick Mom gave to me, which I seemingly to have have lost, & was discovered in her makeup purse, even though I don't recall giving it back to her & no, my Mom didn't steal it back from me. & all this stuff has happened within 2 months, ever since I got back from my Florida Trip. I JUST DON'T GET IT!!! & its really bothering me, especially since all this stuff I need, excluding the lipstick. (groans) I really wish this would all stop. Or maybe i'm just going senile, but is that possible with a 14 year old?? AAAAAA. On a lighter note, I did get 100% on my retake, Adam's coming up tomorrow, & may go swimming with one of my friends, & this week I'm doing something interesting every day. & I GET TO SEE ADAM ON THURSDAY & SEE HARRY POTTER 3 ON FRIDAY AT THE IMAX!!! YAY!!! Plus I discovered My parents' Paul Simon: Graceland CD & I really like it. :) P.S. Sorry about the calendar from my last post. Can't wait till Summer...More time. But perhaps freaking SUMMER SCHOOL. AAAAAAA.......
5-26-04- Well its been wild lately. Ok, after school today I went in to take a retest for Western Civilization. My grade in that class is currently a 71%. I am confident I got 100%, so that makes my grade 73%-74%. But I still have to keep working on it if I don't want any C's on my report card for the end of the year. In W.C. anyway.....But I bet the Final will be DEATH. I am so bad at dates & people & who did what & etc. So I am going to have to work heavy for this. I was never really that good in history, even when I had an awesome teacher in 7th grade. It stinks. & so does Mr. Sobek, my Computer teacher. He's PSYCHO. He called my parents to let me know I was missing out on some projects of his. Okay, so that was important. But calling my parents? Okay, that's important too, I suppose. But its ANNOYING. The Dingbat! & what does he think my parents are gonna do? All my Dad has done is nag me about it & so does Mr. Sobek. But I can't do anything at home! I don't have the program he wants me to work in which is; a website. I already have a website(obviously...). I told him this the 1st time & he just said "so?". Dork. & he isn't even that friendly. That doesn't help either.
I finally got my oral presentation done with! I had to do an oral presentation in English & I did mine on Stop Motion Film. I think I did well, & the class liked the movie I made in 5th-6th grade "Revenge of the Cow". Cool!
Lots of events happening until the end of school! So here's a map-calendar thing. Works for me. & you, since you won't have to read endless gibberish.....Note: Not up yet. Its late, I'm tired, I need to take a shower & my nose is attacking me. I'm not up for learning how to make a whatever it'll be. Oh look, Country Music's on TV!
5-5-04- Have a new link to put up! Augie's Doggie Rescue. It's a site that helps dogs in certain states in kill shelters get transported to Pittsburgh in non-kill shelters. It's created & run by a friend of mine's sister. Check it out!
5-3-04- Pictures of my newest hairstyle! Warning: Picture of me in top undies. No click no see. Not permanent hair color. Late 9:16 pm. Hyper. Homework. Book Club after school tomorrow. Fun. FABIO!!!!
4-11-04- Wow it's been almost a month since i last updated. Or talked. But i've been busy. & a lazy bum. I had to get work done & stuff for the trip to Orlando for the Orchestra! I had 2 essays to work on, a french poster, & a presentation. LOTTA work. Plus the weekend before I left I went to a sleepover party which was fun except for these 2 girls who were pain in the butts but luckily they went & did their own thing & left the rest of us alone. So that worked out nice. We went bowling, where within the 1st 20 minutes we were there the building's kitchen caught on fire & we did a conga line in the parking lot & shouted to people on the street. Then later in the night we did Dance Dance Revolution which is very fun. But I think we may have messed up the pad-thingys we were using. Sorry KC! Then Thursday to Sunday I was in ORLANDO! 1st day we went to Wet 'n Wild, 2nd day we went to Disney, 3rd day was Universal & last day was Universal Islands of Adventure. Last day was my favorite. Disney was nice, but the rides just weren't that fast(or exciting) & I saw more food places & gift shops than rides. EVERYWHERE you walked. Sure it was nice but not the best. & my friend thought it was better than Kennywood. Kennywood! She's wierd.....So much more to DO in Kennywood! Less shops too. Anyways it was all great. Except that I didn't get as many photos as I wanted because 2(one of them my friend) of the 3 other people I was traveling with were just so busy to get places!! Seriously, slow down. Geez. Anyway, now I am on Spring Break which started Wednesday. 12 hours of sleep, very awesome. Then wall climbing near whole day, then semi-late night pizza with a few of the other wall climbers I went with. Thursday layabout day, Friday went with Aunt to see her boyfriend's 6 grandchildren(aunt & boyfriend are over 50) who are very nice, & all are brothers & sisters. I also got carrots thrown at me by the younger ones. Interesting......Then Saturday was wasted, & so was today! But today was Easter. But still wasted because I didn't do anything!!! & tomorrow is the last day of Spring Break!!! Sigh..........Oh well. Until later then. & Aunt Shar, if you're reading this i'm sorry I didn't call!! I ended up having near every minute busy anyway.
3-12-04-Well yesterday was nice. My fixed-up glasses came in yesterday & so did the CD I ordered; "Laura Turner: Soul Deep"! So far i've listened to the first 7 songs & it's....not bad. I really like the 1st 2-3 & the rest aren't bad, but they sound sortof like the songs Disney puts in some of their movies. I'll listen to that sort of music, but I can live without it too. But it's a nice CD so far. There's 7 songs I still have to listen to on it. At least it only cost about 4 bucks with 2 dollars mailing & stuff. Not a bad deal.
3-11-04-Man! Listen to me at the end of my last update! Hello bad-word-I-refuse-to-say. Borrowed 2 of Adam's CD's, Coldplay & Jack Johnson, VERY good, he borrowed my boom box. Went out last weekend & bough pajama pants & water shorts. Getting glasses fixed so I have to survive for now on an old pair. Bought a used CD for 4 bucks on Amazon. Great deal. Things are still going good. I went to my 3rd rock climbing session last night & it was as usual. Nice people there, though less than before. Learned to beliegh(spell?) Nice 10th grade guy there. Another boating meeting this weekend, 7-9 pm. The other girls in that group have invited me to, after boating, go out & eat somewhere, then do something else (I forgot what), then from 12-3:30 am go bowling. It'd be fun to do that stuff, although staying up that late on a Saturday night might be a bit much for me. So I have to figure out some stuff & ask some questions. Ugh do I have work to do. Poster for french class, map for Western Civ., essay for W.C., presentation for W.C.(luckily essay/presentation not due for while but still gotta get it out), science sheet that I don't totally understand, &.....thesis statement due tomorrow for english that will be put in essay. Yuck. Gonna get some done tonight. In fact,...I think i'll do some now, which is new as usually I start at around 8-9 pm. So bah bah for now...
2-28-04-I should update more often. I did rock climbing wednesday!!!!! It was SOOO cool!!! I love it!!! So i'm joining the rock climbing group at school. The people are awesome & they do a bunch of activities too, like today is boating/canoeing/swimming thingy at the high school, then there's also camping & something about slippery rock sometime. It's awesome! Oh man this morning was not fun. I wasn't sure if the boating thing was this morning or evening & mom said "well it has to be morning because it's too late in the evening. Last night I shaved my legs for the 1st time in maybe.......3-4 months? I got a few nicks. Ouch. Then I set my alarm for 7:45. The boating thing is 9 to 11. We left maybe 9:30, then found out it's this evening because the pool was being used by the swim team. Grrrr. But at least we got back around an hour later. At 10:30 that's usually when I wake up to watch TV. I got in an argument with one of my friends last night. She called me in the middle of dinner saying she wanted to "chat it up" on AIM(wierd?). I got on maybe 20 minutes later & she started asking me who was on my buddy list. I didn't want to tell her(I forget the reason why....er..) so I told her no. She asked me near 20 times even though i told her no & that if someone says no they usually mean it & you leave the subject alone. God was I annoyed. I told her I was near cussing at her & when I start getting to the point where i want to cuss, you KNOW i'm irritated. I don't cuss unless i'm qouting something & even then the worst you'll ever hear out of my mouth is "damn" & "hell". I was so ticked off. Then she said "i'm not wasting my time" & logged off. She said that after near 15 minutes of asking me. Then I went & blew off some steam by telling my family. Adam went to check his e-mail online & I still had AIM on. She had logged back on after 5 minutes. She's psycho!!!!! She is so immature. Of course that may have something to do with the fact that she hasn't gone through puberty yet even though she's a year older than me.
2-19-04- I added a link to the Great Sites page: bored.com. I found a LOT of very interesting stuff on there, like a robotics-like page, a parody songs page, & other stuff. Oh, & a little something I found on there......Will the real HusseinGreat Sites!">please stand up? It has a cuss word in it, but it's bleeped out. VERY funny. I did a paper last night talking about the 3 top characteristics in a leader. They asked for examples of these characteristics & I put Hitler, George Washington & Osama Bin Laden. It was late, I wanted to get it over with & I had, earlier that evening, watched the above link. Good thing my teacher's a loose guy or he would have thought I was crazy. I have to work on a late project for Beginning Coputer & I really don't want to. I am never going to take a class like this again. The guy's like "What are you doing?" "No no no!" "Don't you ever challenge my power!" Okay, so he didn't say the last one. But the way he acts certainly says it. I was in the library watching some online movies with 2 people. ONE of them, the less trustworthy on computers, went to a movie link(ok, so I was the one that noticed it. & was curious.....) called "groovin' grandmas". It was very odd. Of course it was only on for about 5 seconds. Selfnote: http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/Documents/smoky-mountains.jpg
2-15-04- I'm am going to take a test at CMU today that decides whether or not I go to a special computer thingy class over the summer....for 6 weeks....every day.....from 10 to 5....I don't know what to think. I suppose It wouldn't be too bad to get signed up, but apparently it isn't easy to get in. I think i'll probably fail the test because they gave us sample questions in the packet & I didn't get any of them. But I can't have that kind of attitude so good luck ot me! Plus I'm waiting for a call today. I'm going to have to plan my day sortof. Plus I want get my homework out of the way. Luckily I don't think it's alot.
5:34. The test was irritating. They put "have fun!" in the packet. I don't think anything related to fun should have you wanting to fall on the floor sobbing in bewilderment. It was very confusing, I bet I did really bad, & I didn't even answer all the questions. So goodbye summer class thing at CMU! I missed a call while I was taking the test too. I turned off the cell phone because I didn't want to disturb anybody & Dad tried to call to tell me Olivia called. She's not home right now, but she did give my Dad their cell phone number. So the question is right now, "to call or not to call?"
2-12-04- Haven't updated in a WHILE. Well it's been cool. Did a bit of interesting dancing in gym class & this week in school was Dance-a-thon week where anyone who wanted to could dress up according to the theme that day. Monday was 50's-60's, Tuesday was Salsa, Wednesday Disco, today Western, & tomorrow hip hop. Tomorrow should be interesting. I dressed up for all of them so far except Tuesday. There is one movie I am going to see at some point: "The Triplets of Belleville". I saw the trailer online & it's really cool. It's also got some awesome music. It's also supposed to be pretty funny, but a little strange. It's an animated french film going along the lines of a silent film with a few exceptions. It should be cool, but the only showing of it within 20 miles of my zip code is supposed to be Regent Square Theater in Pittsburgh. Oh well. But i'm seeing it!! & also "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra". THAT one is along the lines of the corny B-movies of the 50's. Awesome. For the 1st 3 days of this week i had forgotten some homework. Very odd. Have to go to an orchestra meeting tonight. Fun. I think I have a 3-day weekend. Hopefully yes. AWESOME!!! I wanted to hang out with my friends this weekend. So far as I know Adam is going to come up every Friday, sleepover that night & leave Friday. Unfortunatly he's been busy lately so....bummer.
2-1-04-Well what do you know. The 1st of Feb.! This weekend was cool. Adam came by on Friday for a visit to the chiropractor's & managed to pick me up from school & take me to an orchestra performance at the high school. Of course that went fairly bad because the acoustics in the lunchroom are terrible. He also brought up "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" which is a neat movie(&, I might add, very well dubbed) & then on Saturday we went to Borders for a near hour & a 1/2 & then we just managed to get into a great art store 10 minutes before they were suposed to close. We picked up 2 good sketchpads. I needed one for art class. & then we went to Krispy Kremes where we each got a free doughnut. Adam loved that. Then we came home & Adam made dinner with Mom. Mmmm. Good pepper-stuffed chicken & sauce. He planned on leaving that night, but since dinner wasn't served until a quarter to 9, he had no choice but to stay the night(of which I had no complaints). Then he had to leave this morning, bummer. & then I mostly spent the rest of the day at a friend's house. It was nice, although later a bit she wanted to do some yoga, which I wasn't too up for at the time but did it anyway. At this one point when we were watching the yoga video we were supposed to be laying on our backs relaxing but my stupid finger kept trying to go numb. I opened my eyes & the TV had birdies & all that claming yoga stuff on it. Then the chinese yoga lady host came on doing this really weird/bad Richard Simmons-like dance. It was really.....odd. & oh yeah a squirrel was in our window earlier. I'd have gotten photos but Adam took the camera. It was cool because I came up the window & was like 3 inches from the little fuzzy psychopath. P.S. Added a sketch.
1-26-04- 10:00 pm. Well today was....alright. But not fair. It was very ugly weather today. And guess what. We didn't have a cancellation/delay because today was ALREADY AN INSERVICE DAY. GOOD WEATHER WASTED!!!! Ooooooooohhh.........Oh well. Hey, at least tomorrow the 2nd semester starts and that means DRAWING AND PAINTING 2!!!! With, also, the same art teacher my brother had. So that'll be cool. Plus I'm starting Western Civilization and that'll be cool too. Plus I found out that a girl I know and enjoy talking to is in that class so..yeah.
Eeeeee i'm turning in a poem I wrote to the Literary Magazine at my school. I wrote it at the beginning of the year, while I was sitting in a field watching the sunset. I had to abridge it though because it was near 40 lines and the minimum is 20. But I sent it to a friend for a review and SHE LOVED IT!! Eeeee i'm so happy and flattered. If you're interested in reading my(abridged) poem here it is. :) Enjoy!
1-21-04- WHAT THE HECK. Something is SERIOUSLY wrong with my AIM account. It's all screwed up! I even re-downloaded it & it's STILL messed up. So that means I can't blame it on the computer. Drat. So now, I am going to make another account to see if it's just my current account. Although that would be very annoying because I don't WANT to have to put all my stuff into a new account. Although I already have re-do all my stuff. AAUUUUUUGGGGHH!!! 8:03 Ugh. I got my AIM to work...but I had to get an older version. It's NOT NICE. So basically, until what happened is all figured out (& hopefully fixed) I have to live on this old version of AIM, 4.3. I had 4.6. I despise computers.
1-20-04- I think i'm finally done with my haircut! I got some pictures. First, here's my new hair & the best picture out of the near 20 pictures I took. This is me when I started to get frustrated because the camera wouldn't take good pictures. This is me on the 1st morning of my new haircut & my expression when I saw myself.
1-18-04-I want to do something today with one of my friends. I don't want to bother a friend to see if she wants to do something because we did something last weekend & I don't want to be a nuinsance, & I can think of another person but since we've never done anything together before I can't just call her up I suppose & say "wanna do something?" & since I consider AIM quite casual & she's not on....yeah. I suppose this'll just be another dead, wasted day. ON A 3 DAY WEEKEND, NO LESS. Waaaaaaaaa!! Why do I have to live in the middle of nowhere? Alll my friends live at least 20/more minutes away. Aahhw poopie.
1-17-04- Hallo. Saturday. 1st of the 3 day weekend. Aaaaaa. I'm not too panicky about it, so "aaa" isn't capitilized. Adam called today, & apparently he's been up to quite a bit lately. It was a good conversation. :) Seems he's working on a water fountain with one of his friends(also a professor). I'm sure it'll turn out really cool. Poor Adam. He's feeling old. Well, rather, he's got a couple of cricks on him. Pain in his neck, back & hips. He said one day he'll probably wake up & his leg'll fall off & he'll have to carry his head in a jar, ha ha ha!!! Gotta love the bruth'. Forgot to mention to him i'm getting a hair job. Not haircut. I'm getting a sort of bangs thing & adjusting my hair. Mom's doing it. I trust her not to mutilate my hair.
1-16-04-We had a 2 hour delay today. 1st of the year(both school & actual year). It was cool. Dad rented Seabiscuit & Freaky Friday. & I have a 3 day weekend. Not bad. Like the new picture?^ Another credit to Photoshop. & computer class, I suppose.
1-14-04-Guess what! I found out that the SCI-FI CHANNEL IS HAVING A MINISERIES ON MYST(computer game: super cool)!!! Unfortunatly I don't have cable. Meh, i'll get it from someone. & also, this Saturday "Monk" is on abc!! I love that show. I only saw 2 or 3 episodes, but it was so smart & funny!! I loved it!! If you haven't seen it, you should check it out. In my opinion, it's very good because it's intellegent, very good mystery plots, & it's funny. I can't wait. & it's after "liar liar". Good Saturday night. Drat. I still have to write that stupid English paper that was due today. I'll get to it. Ah, i had to forge my Dad's signature today. We had to get an interim signed, but i forgot. 10 points, so I had to sign it. At least I have an 84-85%, so that's nothing real bad. & i'll tell them my grade. WAHOO!!!! They're keeping Monk!!! :)
1-14-04-I just found out the reason why I should not be online more than a 1/2 hour at a time. Mom just called near 10 minutes ago. She's stuck somewhere with the old lady car. She called, impatiently asked for Dad, said something un-understandable when he got on, then said 2 clear cuss words. That's when I hung up. So Dad went out to get her, leaving me alone with the dog. I'll just end up sitting around doing homework, computering, or watching TV. No, scratch the last. Nothing on until 8.
1-8-04- I cannot go downstairs anymore. 2 or 3 times this week i've gone downstairs & fallen asleep. Last evening I woke up with a bad taste in my mouth. I fell asleep while trying to do my homework. & in the same chair I was before when I fell asleep. NO MORE NAPS. No matter how nice. Actually, maybe i'll test it tonight. See if it's the fire that's setting me to sleep mode. Probably will be. Anyway.......I don't know. I suppose i'll do my homework & workout & such. Oh yeah, I got an e-mail from my cousin today. Apparently it was sent the 20th of December & we recieved it now. Little confused there. P.S. English essay rough draft due Monday. Unnnnnngh. Essays are not nice.
1-7-04-They have some seriously mentally scarring pictures in those sex ed. books. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnhhhh eeeeeeewwwww it's CREEPY & ICKY. See if I let the doctor near ME when he says "Time for a check-up!" On a more positive note, Awesome art site Elfwood. I might have to contribute my own stuff. They got some cool stuff on there, though some is mature. But still AWESOME. People on there got talent!!!
1-5-04- Uuuuuuuuuuunnnghh..........I suddenly got a case of the sleepies. I took a short half nap downstairs in front of the fire. It was......painful. I woke up with a nasty crick in my neck, but I suppose that's to be expected if you fall asleep in a chair curled up in fetus position. Ow.
1-5-04- (Those under 12 might wanna skip all this) Not a bad day back, except that Kim was sooo bummed because she couldn't sleep last night. She might have taken the day off, but she's already taken too many off. Maybe she'll get better night's rest tonight.
Ugh. What a health class. We are now into the sex division. We had to study the chapter on the boys' reproduction/whatever stuff. I swear, if it were not for the fact that there were other people in the room at the time, I would have shouted, thrown that book to the floor & ran out into the hallway shouting mercy with my hands up. I swear, I DO NOT NEED to see a cross-section of a guy's crotch like that. I SWEAR....(cringes)....& then they also had to talk about what a guy should do to keep himself....good. I'm like, "I'm not a guy & i'm sure as @!#%(didn't really cuss) not gonna do those things for him. Why do I have to read this?" So I basically skipped those parts a bit. I like boys, but I don't really need to know what they do to take care of themselves. Just like some guys don't really want to think about what girls do. Actually, it made me sorta glad i'm a girl. Guys......"stuff"....is so fragile, they made it sound. Thank goodness all i have to worry about is a stupid pad every 28 days. Anyway, to sum all this up; "Yeek"
Beginning Computer class was.....Blah. I didn't really do any work & the girl I sit next to was psycho more than usual today. Plus I think she might've seen my password for my computer account. Blast. She was working on her picture today so that it would look like she was standing next to "50 Cent". I don't know who that is but i'm sure I don't really want to know. & she's all "Isn't he hot?!" & i'm thinking "Uuuhhh,.....not really...?" Then she said a few gross things & i'm just "PLEASE shut up!! I don't need to hear that!!!" But I didn't say that. I said something along those lines but much less rude. She drives me CRAZY sometimes!!. Oh well.........
No homework! KICK BUTT!!!!! Mmmm.......a night of reading, TV & computer. Exciting huh?
1-3-04-(Suddenly realizes school starts Monday, & that's it's 5:33 Saturday) (Gasps) (Runs around house screaming & crying in a panic) ALL IS LO-OOOOO-OOO-OOST!!!!!!!! Gasp-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-gasp-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-gasp-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. (Falls on couch weeping) I am distressed.......................
1-2-04-Took down Book thing. I just haven't gotten around to it so............ P.S. Do read below; It's a funny account of my New Year's, but I can understand if you just snort-laugh & do something else.
1-2-04- HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! My New Year rocked. I'll say what my parents said: I was in Hell. My Mom was a gar-girl & my Dad was a horny truck driver.
I'm sure that should raise many questions. Lemme explain. We were in the First Night Parade!!(Photos 'bove^) For those of you who were there to see it, we were the people in the gargoyle puppetry, & the van that was covered in red cloth following people carrying a giant red hand. & throwing "hell"money. My Mom & I got to dress up as the 2 gargoyles & my Dad was driving the truck wearing horns on his head. It was so much fun, although my Mom & I didn't act like gargoyles too much. We danced & jumped around. I did, anyway. Gawd, what fun. & it was funny because near the end, those of us behind the van LOST the van. It disappeared. I ran up the street screaming "WAIT!!!". We all also ran a red light. Can you imagine driving along & suddenly all these funny looking puppet-people run right in front of you? We found the truck, luckily. But on the way, I asked a woman if it was illegal to hitchhike(I was still dressed up as a gargoyle & was joking around). But a policeman was right there(I hadn't noticed) & said seriously "Yes it is". Eep. Then as we were walking some punk 12-year-old girl yelled at me "FREAK!!!!!" so I ran at her all scary & stuff. She screamed & ran behind her parents(cackles evilly). I'll always remember that. But it all kicked butt. But it was over way too soon. Then afterwards the lady who had gotten all this together, Tavia Foley, & Gary Huck(who may or may not be her boyfriend....? They share an apartment...) & my parents & I went to a restaurant. It was nice. Then they had to go home because Tavia was punked out. They're awesome people, & they're my parents' good friends, although Tavia travels alot. Oh, & Gary mocked me because I called him "Mr. Huck" earlier in the event. He's like(to my Dad) "You teach your kids to call people 'Mister'?....". Anyway, we saw the fireworks & that was cool. Then we went home & stayed up till 2:00. I did, anyway. & now I have to stop wr(Note: Because of some stupidity of mine, the rest of this got deleted. I will always be deoressed about this, although hopefully there was nothing important after this point).
