Liggy the Authoress

i'm pretty sure i lost a few followers since my last post...GO ME! =D

2011-04-26T19:59:00.000-07:00

Noooot much up right now. School's essentially over except for my sci-fi/fantasy class - "Cinderella" was over a couple weeks ago and I freaking bawled my eyes out after curtain calls...Cuz, y'know, it was my LAST show with that class, a class I've been in since it began. And at graduation next month? I'm gonna need an entire box of Kleenex...

After giving up MST3K for Lent, I have been immersing myself in the show since Easter morning. Apparently tirol9's YouTube account is back - knock on wood - which confuses me greatly but hey, I ain't gonna knock it.

Work's been going well. Last Thursday night a guy and his daughter - regular visitors - were leaving and I overheard them talking about getting pizza for dinner. Jokingly, I said, "Man, I could really go for a pizza right now..." And he was all, "What kind do you like?" I thought he was kidding so I said, "Cheese." Half an hour later, the guy comes walking into the Y and gives me a pizza.

Awesome, no?

Recently I found out that "The Dark Knight Rises" is gonna be filming in freaking PITTSBURGH. CHRISTIAN TOO-SEXY-FOR-WORDS BALE IS GONNA BE WITHIN A 300-MILE RADIUS OF MY HOUSE. Needless to say, I am slightly psyched about this. One of my friends and I are gonna go *ahem* see him....There will be no stalking involved. Much. And definitely no need to file restrainment orders against us...

A THOUSAND CURSES UPON THEE, YOUTUBE!!!!!!

2011-03-24T18:22:00.000-07:00

Sorry - again - for the five hundredth time - for not posting in a while. I've been busy finishing school, prepping for college, struggling with writer's block, and coming up with other lame-ass excuses for why I haven't posted in a millenium.

For starters, I am currently super-uber-extremely-rage-guy-pissed at YouTube because they freaking REMOVED one of my favorite channels. A channel that has uploaded roughly a hundred episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 to the site, thereby enabling addicts like myself to watch the show peacefully online. AND NOW ALL OF THAT IS GONE.

*deep breaths* Zen, Beth, zen....be calm....relax....find your happy place.
Oh wait, my happy place is watching MST3K.

Screw it.....

In other, less distressing news, Jessie and I saw AVENUE FREAKING Q last night and it was just AMAZING. Words can't really do the show justice....it was totally worth waiting all these months for, I'll tell you that much.

Derp, school's pretty much over for me except for my co-op classes. Which is very nice. I was planning on using this free time to do stuff like *sniff* WATCH MST3K......

Okay, I'm done for now because I keep getting the urge to smash the computer with a sledgehammer and I don't know how well my parents would react to this action.

la la la la la l- OMIGOSH I'M POSTING!!!

2011-02-08T22:04:00.000-08:00

Yep, I am actually posting for the first time in FOREVER...Okay, admittedly it's only been a little over a month but it FEELS like longer. Just wanted to let people know I didn't fall into a black hole, never to be heard from on the blogosphere again.

There are a couple reasons I haven't been updating lately:
a) I lack enough interesting things to say. I try to balance my reports of my recent activities with halfway-intelligent commentary about other things, but I have trouble coming up with such commentary, as well as finding things on which to commentate.
b) I've become addicted to my Tumblr. I like it because the posts can be just one or two sentences and I can post several dozen times a day without feeling like I have keyboard diarrhea.

But I really will try to update more regularly (yeah, I know I've said that before, but I legit mean it this time....I think...).

Still have major doubts about college. I went to the departmental scholarship day several days ago, and I guess the interview went all right, but I'm not very confident. Hey, if I'm going to be a writer, community college works just as well.

Not much else going down right now. Jessie and I have a show this Saturday - a kids' show. We're singing several Disney songs and doing an interactive skit that promises to be....interesting, since we've never practiced it with, y'know, actual kids before....I'm a little apprehensive because we've had exactly three two-hour rehearsals (for those of you who aren't strong in math, that totals six hours of rehearsal time), but it should be okay. I hope.

Oh yeah, instigating a new tradition in an effort to increase reader traffic (translation: WAAAA PLEASE COMMENT MORE OFTEN!!!! *cries*), I'm borrowing a page from the book of the oh-so-great-exalted RayWilliamJohnson, of YouTube fame, and beginning a comment question of the day thing for the end of every post. Cuz I'm bored. It's quite simple. I ask a question at the end of each post, and you, lovely readers, post your answer in the comments section. And then I read the answers and laugh and maybe mention my favorite(s) in the next post. So you have no real incentive to participate, I'm just doing this because I feel like it. And because I can. Whatever.

COMMENT QUESTION:
Where's Waldo?

attention, senioritis: leave me alone

2011-01-05T22:24:00.001-08:00

Somewhere back there I missed my blog's second birthday (or is it the third?)...Oopsies. Happy belated birthday to mah blog, I love you. ^.^

Soooooo currently I seem to be experiencing the equivalent of a mid-life crisis - I believe Erikson called it a "moratorium". Translation: I've decided that being over the age of sixteen kind've sucks, that I am not overly fond of my current job, and that I'm not even sure I truly want to attend college next year. I don't want to be one of those people who ends up living with their parents and working at McDonalds until they're 30+ years old - that would REALLY suck - but, I dunno, I don't feel prepared to leave home yet. I usually pride myself on being mature for my age but in some ways I'm really only about ten years old. The notion of being on my own, making my own choices, having a place to live that's all mine, that's kind've enthralling. But there are so many things I'm not prepared to do. Like balancing a checkbook. We didn't totally cover that in consumer math. And cooking? I can make pasta, grilled cheese, and french fries, and that's pretty much it. I hate grocery shopping, I hate doing laundry, I hate pretty much all household chores...

But that's still four years down the road - at least. I still have to get through college, and that's a whole different set of worries altogether. How will I, one of the worst frigging procrastinators EVER, keep up with the workload? How will I deal with living away from home, with a total stranger as a roommate? How will I react to the different professors after having been homeschooled since fifth grade? How much of a loan will I have to take out - I'll almost definitely have to do that - to pay for tuition, and how do I pay it back once I graduate? On one hand, I really want to go, to meet new people, improve my writing abilities, make new friends. I love most of the people I've met there, professors and students alike, and I feel excited about many of the learning opportunities. I just don't know if I can handle it. Mom says I don't have to go right away, I can wait a year or so before going, but that'd just be weird. And I can barely even comprehend NOT going at all, because for most of my life, society has taught me that you finish high school, you go to college for four years, you graduate. Boom, end of story. I've always felt that to be successful I'd HAVE to attend college. I know that's silly - but my brain is silly sometimes.

Supposing - just supposing - I didn't go to college. I'd have to live at home and keep working at the YMCA for an unspecified amount of time. And I'm less than in love with that job. I mean, most of the people I work with are great, it's really very easy work (apart from answering the phones - doing that still freaks me out), I only work two or three days a week, a lot of the people who come in are nice, and it brings in a steady paycheck (okay, so I make minimum wage - money is money). But my boss just makes me nervous. Are all jobs like that? Am I just being a whiner? Am I going to be scared of my boss no matter what my job is? Or are there jobs out there where you can actually be friendly with your boss and not completely tense up whenever they're in the freaking building??? Seriously, every time she and/or her daughter is working while I'm on shift, I get really bad tension headaches. Every. Time. Is that normal? Do most employees have similar symptoms? Jeez.....Yeah, I know I should be thankful to have a job in this economy (crap, bad idea for me to mention the government, cuz I could rant about THAT for hours.....), and I am thankful, but...I wish it didn't feel like such a struggle to go to work each week.

The only solution for all these problems that I can currently come up with is this: within the next year or so I must write a bamfalicious book, get it picked up by a publisher, and have millions of copies sell so that a) I no longer need to work and b) college is pretty much unnecessary.

Yeah, THAT'S gonna happen.....

OK, end of rant. For now. Part II may or may not be forthcoming.

CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A WHITE CHRISTMAS?????

2010-12-23T11:11:00.000-08:00

Here we are at my grandmother's house in Massachusetts. My sister and I have lapsed into full vacation mode (although I still have a sociology test to finish...oops...) and have spent the past 24 hours watching TV. Commence brain atrophy. We finally got a decent snowfall yesterday, not sure if people back at home got the same. PA people, did you guys get any snow?

Our plans for staying until Monday have been changed, because a big storm is supposed to hit Sunday night and we can't afford to risk getting snowed in up here, so we're prolly leaving on Sunday. Which is a bummer because my godmother was planning on coming down from Maine to visit on Monday :/ Oh well, I'll see her for graduation.

Last Saturday Jessay and I went to the mall and saw SANTAAAAAAA!!!! =D And we got our picture taken with him. And he gave us candy canes. And it was awesome and if you're not feeling envious right now then you SHOULD be. Because Santa's the man. Oh, and I also bought my first pair of Converse - for fifteen dollars. I LOVE SALES. And bonus: when I went to pay for them the guy working at the counter was like, "Hey, how are you? How are your parents?" And I said we were all fine, cuz I figured he was just being friendly, albeit a little weird. And then he's like, "This is so weird, I haven't seen you in forever!" and I started thinking, "OK, whooooo the heck is this person who apparently knows me?" Meanwhile, Jessie and the other person working at the counter are laughing at the utterly confuzzled expression on my face, and the guy was like, "You don't remember me, do you?" Turns out he was a guy I had frigging grown up with - his little sister was born two days after me, and our moms were really close friends at one time, so we saw each other all the time - I even had a crush on him at one point. So yeah, it was awesome seeing him again :)

That's pretty much it for news. I'll post again after Christmas is over. Merry Christmas everyone!!!

shameless plug

2010-12-11T13:11:00.000-08:00

So this isn't really a post, as I have nothing worth talking about right now.....However, I just got a tumblr, which I imagine I'll be updating with random junk much more often than I update here, so if you're just interested in what goes on in my head from day-to-day, check it out:

http://liggytheauthoress.tumblr.com/

SO EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!! What's everyone going to be doing to celebrate? =D

of harry potter, canceled birthday parties, and SANTA CLAUS!!! =D

2010-12-03T16:50:00.000-08:00

And I have returned to my habit of not posting in forever....Oopsies. Well, for starters...DEATHLYHALLOWSDEATHLYHALLOWSOHMYFRIGGINGGOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............Yeah, uhm, needless to say it was about seventeen flipping types of awesome.... The Ron-Hermione-ness alone - aka the main reason I go to see the movies - was enough to make my head explode. Only objection? AAAARGH I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL JULY FIFTEENTH FOR PART 2. AAAAAAAHHHHH.

I had to cancel my super-awesome birthday party because I got sick xP Oh well. Fortunately I didn't get sick until right AFTER the movie. If I would've had to miss the movie I would've killed something.

Last night there was a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony half a block away from the YMCA, and I found out that Santa was gonna be there - so as soon as I got off shift I legit ran over just so I could say hi to him ^.^ I love Santa.

Tomorrow is the Snowball dance for homeschoolers in the area and a huuuge group from my co-op is going. Which automatically ensures that the dance is gonna be bamfalicious.

I thought I'd mentioned this earlier, but apparently I haven't so I'm mentioning it now: Jessie and I are going to see AVENUE Q at the State Theater in March. SO. EXCITED. There's a good chance we'll get thrown out within five minutes because we're being to frigging loud but...whatever ^_^

what? two posts within twenty-four hours? shocking!

2010-11-13T09:32:00.000-08:00

Yeah I know, I'm breaking my tradition of taking forever to post, but I have news =D TODAY I GOT MY ACCEPTANCE LETTER FROM DESALES!!!!
Okay yeah, that's really all I had to say.....

of birthday parties, prisons, paranormal occurences, and happy stuff like that =D

2010-11-12T20:49:00.000-08:00

Aaaaaand yet again with the blog-neglecting. Eep. Ok, SO....updates....

Halloween was pretty aweshum. Rose and I went to the bonfire and hung out with Maria and we visited the horsies (I got to see Mac =D) and tried to freak each other out cuz that place is reeeeally creepy at night... And the next day Rose and my sister and I spent most of the day getting our costumes together and watching random movies (Jurassic Park FTW) until it was time to go trick-or-treating. Y'know, I miss the way trick-or-treating was when I was a kid. When I was a kid (crap, I sound like someone's grandmother....) you went out and usually found yourself immersed in a huge group of other kids - total strangers - all hyped up on Halloween-adrenaline, and you would just spend the night going from house to house with them, even though you'd never met any of them before and would probably never see any of them again. It was part of the magic that was Halloween. Anywho, nowadays, you even make eye contact with someone and it's awkward. I complimented one teenager on his Mad Hatter costume, and he didn't say a word, just walked away. WELL THEN. Okay, that was my rant for the night.

School's been going pretty well. I sent out my FREAKIN COLLEGE APPLICATIONS about a week-and-a-half ago, haven't heard anything yet (although DeSales, aka my numero uno college choice, sent me a birthday card last week). My friend Kyle got accepted to DeSales though, which is cool =D Classes-wise, the only subject I'm seriously hating right now is Sociology, mostly because I'm taking it by myself at home and you can't really take a sociology class by yourself. What with it being the study of SOCIAL psychology and all.....Anywho, the classes I'm taking at the co-op are going great. I just had to write a horror short story for Sci-fi & Fantasy, and I think mine sucked but we'll see...

The glamor of having a job has pretty much worn off at this point...But I'm willing to bet a lot of teenagers feel that way about their first jobs, no?

In very recent news - like, in the past 24-hours - my little sister had her birthday party today. Our mom drove the two of us, Rose, and my sister's friend Emily to Philly to visit Eastern State Penitentiary, to which I've been before but still find AWESOME. We're rapidly becoming convinced that the prison is legit haunted - at least Cellblock 14. MAJOR coldspots.

After the prison tour we went to a little place to eat, and the most notable thing about that place was the fact that one of the waiters was BEAUTIFUL. My mom said I should leave my number on my napkin for him but I decided against it xP Oh well.

Closing thought: OMGOMGOMGOMG HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS COMES OUT NEXT WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *spazz* *has a cow* *continues spazzing as the nice men in the white coats put me in one of those nice jackets that make you hug yourself and put me in one of those comfy rooms with pillows for walls...*

of bonfires, halloween, and sniff sob deceased actors :(

2010-10-28T18:25:00.000-07:00

For starters, some terribly sad news: James MacArthur - Danny from the original Hawaii Five-O, NOT the stupid remake - DIED. *sobs* Danno you will be sorely missed.Moving on.... Uhmmm.... *tries to distract self from intense grief* Halloween's a-comin'! I'm shopping for my costume tomorrow, talk about letting it go until the last minute.... I'm gonna be a dead/dark/goth/emo/punk Alice in Wonderland =] Rose is coming over to trick-or-treat with me. She's coming as post-snake bite Cleopatra. So we both gonna be dead ^.^ Us? Morbid? Naww..... And when we get back we're gonna stuff our faces with candy and watch the original House on Haunted Hill. Let's hear it for cheesy horror movies!!

On Saturday I'm going back to the farm where I volunteered for a thank-you bonfire, which is gonna be awesome. I get to see MAC again!! =D

Work at the YMCA is going very well. I'm slowly getting over my phobia of answering the phone - a definite disadvantage to someone who works at the front desk....

CLOSING SENTIMENT: WRITER'S BLOCK IS THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE!!!

of shakespeare, horsies and "clumselthroughs"

2010-10-18T10:18:00.000-07:00

"What is a clumselthrough?" I hear you asking. A clumselthrough (not sure if that's the correct spelling - I think the spelling may be optional, actually) is what the cast of a show sometimes does when they're doing the first readthrough of a script. My friend Jessie discovered clumselthroughs while doing "Pippin" this summer. According to her, during the readthrough, the actors get up and move around, doing their own blocking without any instructions from the director regarding their movement, while they're reading. It's usually messy and always hilarious. Anyway, the music theater class did one last Tuesday and it went relatively smoothly. Meaning nobody ran into each other or fell over or anything. Rose and I are gonna be hilarious as stepsisters (according to our castmembers, anyway). Oh yeah, does anyone share my opinion that Cinderella and the Prince are really flaky? Cinderella is just an annoying goody-two-shoes, and as for the Prince, he's all, "Oh, I want to marry for love and blah blah blah...Oh look! A hot chick! Imma marry her!" Seriously? Okay, ranting done...

On Thursday we went to DeSales for the PSF Willpower workshops, which I attend every year and always LOVE. This year they did "Hamlet", which I had never read or seen before, but I surprisingly enjoyed. Okay, so it helped that the actor playing Hamlet was absolutely GORGEOUS (Jessie and I, along with our friend Gracie, managed to get our picture taken with him), but that's neither here nor there. The acting was superb and the sword duel at the end was totally badass.

Over the weekend I helped my friend Maria at the educational farm where she volunteers - she had organized a tour-event-thingy for Girl Scouts and needed help. Saturday was awesome despite the fact that, because of the wind, we were freezing all morning. In fact it was so awesome that I decided to volunteer again on Sunday. ^.^ Mostly so I could spend more time with the horsies. I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but horses are one of my passions. I used to take riding lessons but I had to give them up because they cost too much - bummer. So this weekend was fantastic for me, because I hadn't been around horses in forever. I even got to ride one for a few minutes ^.^

This is my new boyfriend, Mac. He's a 26 year-old Belgian Draft horse and I love him.

Kiwi (left) and Jenny (right) are also Belgian Drafts.

This is Princess. She's Percheron and has a bit of an attitude, but she's beautiful.

And this is Margaret, another Percheron, who is really sweet and I loooove her =]

of deer, hiking, and rifles

2010-10-11T19:07:00.000-07:00

Today I got to go shooting with Jessay and her family and it was AWESOME. I got to shoot a revolver (which I hated because the trigger was finicky), a little tiny handgun that I can't remember the name of, a Kimber (not sure what kind), and two rifles, one of which I don't know the name. The other was an AK-47 and I LOVED it - almost no recoil and fairly light. Pain to aim though.
The second gun in this picture is sort've like the AK-47 we shot - I don't really know guns too well...

Anywho, after we left the shooting range, we went hiking at a reservoir in New Jersey, which was fun except for the fact that we took a detour off the trail and walked on the shore of the reservoir for a while, until we got to a dead end and decided to walk up this HUGE hill to get back to the trail. Walking up that hill alone was one heck of a workout. And then we went along this insanely uneven, rocky terrain for like another forty-five minutes so by the time we got back to the parking lot I was ready to collapse - I am NOT exactly an athlete. But on the up-side, it was a gorgeous day, the reservoir was beautiful, the views were fantastic, and we got to see a bunch of deer ^.^ And on the way up the hill we found a really cool animal skull - we think it's a deer skull but we aren't sure.

i'm portia! =D

2010-10-05T17:29:00.000-07:00

Well auditions for Cinderella at my co-op are over, and the casting is done. I got the role of Portia, one of the stepsisters, which is a role that I've been wanting for several years =D And my friend Rose got the part of the other stepsister, so that's just gonna be awesome. As for the theater group's musical revue, we had our opening night last Saturday and it went extremely well, apart from a few little technical hiccups that the audience didn't even notice. My only problem was that I didn't really feel like I was a part of it at all. I didn't get the adrenaline rush I usually get on opening night of a show, I basically sat backstage for eighty percent of the show... I mean, I know I had a chance to be in a couple numbers, but I had good reasons for declining - for one thing, I reeeeeally didn't want to look like a complete idiot in front of lots of people, and for another thing, I didn't audition and I didn't want people thinking that I had gotten in simply because my mom was on the board. I plan to at least audition for their next show, though.

Started my job at the YMCA last Wednesday. I worked two days and it went pretty well - didn't do too much, mostly just sat and watched, learned how the computer systems worked. I also had to answer the phone a few times which I friggin HATE....It's weird, I just have this bizarre phobia of answering the phone, even at home. Odd.

Ohhhhhhmigoshness, Deathly Hallows Part One premiere is NEXT. FLIPPIN. MONTH. *goes into major spazz attack* The paramedics are gonna have to haul me out within like ten minutes.... Does anybody know what part of the story they're gonna end the first movie at? Not that it matters, no matter where it ends it's still gonna be humanly impossible for me to last until Part 2 comes out.... I SWEAR, IF THEY MESS UP RON AND HERMIONE'S KISS, I SHALL DISEMBOWEL THEM. I MEAN IT.

the internet gods were pissed at me for a while, but it's all good now...

2010-09-27T13:07:00.000-07:00

I have a semi-excuse for not posting in a while - my Internet was down for about a week (which really pissed me off to NO END because I luuuurv the Internet......). Only we got it back a few days ago so I could totally have posted forever ago..... So, not much of an excuse, really. ^.^ By the way, it is SUCH an ego-boost when you log onto Facebook after not checking it for a week and only have seven notifications.... <--(slight sarcasm there)

My sister has apparently decided to participate in NaNoWriMo, thereby making me feel like a complete slacker for having decided NOT to participate....It's just that I can't write under pressure, and writing a whole friggin novel - 50,000 words - in thirty days sounds like it would make me go on a psycho chainsaw killing spree about two weeks in.... I mean, sometimes it takes me twice that time just to come up with a decent plot without letting my writting ADD get the better of me.... *curses Too Many Ideas Syndrome into the yawning depths of Tartarus*

Crap I just made a reference to Greek mythology. *puts on crash helmet and hides under table waiting for Voyagefan to react*

The opening night for the musical revue is this Saturday, and I'd be really nervous/uber-excited if I was actually IN it.... Okay so maybe I'm griping a little too much. I had my chance to be in a dance and I declined, and I have one scene onstage plus I get to hold up the sing-along sign during a number ^_^ But sitting through rehearsals every Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday gets a little old....Oh well. I don't regret getting involved, because everyone is really fun and AMAZINGLY talented (although I do get more than a little envious at times....why can I be talented too?? T.T)

In other news, I HAVE A JOB. I'm gonna be working at the front desk at the YMCA, which, granted, is only a minimum wage job, but ya gotta start somewhere. Plus I like the Y.

Auditions for my co-op's production of Cinderella are this week and next week, and I feel like I SHOULD be nervous...But I've been in the music theater class for six years, and the auditions are super-low-pressure. Plus it's my senior year (O.O WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? WHEN DID I BECOME A SENIOR???) so I've got a good chance of getting a lead. *crosses fingers*

Closing thought: Bored? Go on Facebook, pick the profile of a random friend and go to their "Mutal Friends" section and proceed to yell "HOW DO THEY KNOW EACH OTHER???!??". Is fun.

blog negligence police are gonna catch up with me....

2010-09-08T13:39:00.000-07:00

Whoooaaa I haven't posted in a while. Oopsie. *sheepish grin* Not that ever have anything interesting to SAY, but I like keeping my blog up to date.

Okay, so here's a rundown of all the halfway-interesting events that have occured since I last posted.

First off, I managed to get out of dancing in the Broadway revue because I. Cannot. Dance. I told my mom that I wanted to be in it but that I didn't want to look like an idiot. So I have a tiny acting gig in one number and that's it. I like acting much better than dancing, cuz, y'know, I can actually ACT.......

Last Friday Jessay and Skye came over and we FINALLY had the campout in my yard that we've been talking about for about two-and-a-half years....It was pretty awesome. We stuffed our faces with junk food, made super-ginormous smores that we didn't finish eating, walked around my huge backyard in the middle of the night scaring the crap out've each other (we also discovered that there is apparently a bat living in my barn), and fell asleep around two-thirty after being kept awake by the tent flap making creepy noises in the wind....Yeah, definitely a success ^.^

On Sunday we drove to my grandparents' house in Benton to bring the pickup truck they'd lent us back, and for some R&R time. Sunday and Monday basically consisted of sitting on the couch, almost comatose, watching HGTV and other random stuff. And fighting over the cats. After we got home Monday night, Salty came over and we stayed out on my porch until 3:30 having deep meaningful discussions about everything from theology to Pokemon.

And yesterday my friend Maria came over and we planned out what we'll be teaching our little minions - ahem, I mean, our students - in theater games this year. Super excited!! =D

CLOSING THOUGHT: Lame, low-budget horror-sci-fi movies are my newest drug XD

productive writing? me?

2010-08-21T06:56:00.000-07:00

Wellllll not much going on. Ma Washington friend Kiersten was here on Tuesday and part of Wednesday, and seeing her was frickin AWESOME. We watched a lot of random movies but we didn't get to watch the Dollhouse Murders which left us feeling a little depressed (yeah it's a stupid movie in every way with no redeeming qualities but we LIKE IT). She should be coming back today =] But she leaves tomorrow *sob* T.T

Good news: actually getting some writing done. As in, productive writing, not crappy free-writing stuff. *gives self cookie* Let's see how long I can go before writing myself into a corner or just running out of steam. Prolly not long XP Oh well, we will see. It helps that this is an idea I've been kicking around for, literally, years, so I have the plot more or less planned out already. *crosses fingers*

So last time I went to rehearsal for the theater company thingamawhatsit revue (for which I am gonna be the production assistant, I guess), my mother told me that apparently I am now dancing in one or two numbers. Gee, thanks for the warning, Mom. I mean I love being in productions but I. CAN'T. DANCE. Unless it's the Cotton Eye Joe or the YMCA, I SUCK. And it didn't help that I didn't go to the rehearsal where they learned this particular dance so I had to learn it insanely fast. Embarrassing? Just a lil bit. Eesh.

of college visits, being abducted, and nonexistent writing projects

2010-08-14T20:25:00.000-07:00

My interview at DeSales went very well ^.^ I'm fairly certain than when I apply I'll be accepted...now if someone could help pay for tuition.... Any volunteers? Donations will be gratefully accepted. Send money now and you will be helping to fund the college education of a future world-famous novelist who will certainly mention you in the dedication of her first novel.

So yesterday Jessay - I've spent like 80% of my week with her... - kidnapped me AGAIN and we went thrift-store shopping (we went to this really awesome store that played music from like the 80s and 90s which was aweshummm), watching Blues Clues again (and concluded that the show is just one ginormous acid trip), finished watching Anastasia, took her neighbors' chihuahuas out for a while, and then went to see Despicable Me, which was really good =D

Ohhhhmygosh my friend Kiersten from Washington gets her in two DAAAAAAYS!!!!!! Very very very very very excited *spazz*

Writing-wise....I've been trying to pretend that I'm being productive by spending hours on writing prompt websites such as: http://dragonwritingprompts.blogspot.com/. Plus this really awesome RPG community site that I love - I don't play RPG games, like, ever, but it's extremely inspirational: http://strolen.com/. The likelihood of anything inspired by aforemention sites turning into decent writing is.....not good :/ All this reinforces my theory that you have to be at least a LITTLE masochistic to write.

very tired, very anxious...bad combination

2010-08-11T06:44:00.000-07:00

Today I am visiting DeSales University for my interview with Admissions. SLIGHTLY NERVOUS HERE..... Here's hoping I don't screw everything up lol....

So yesterday I attended a teacher's meeting for my co-op (can't believe I'm gonna be a teacher this year!!), then Jessay's mom kidnapped me and Jess and I spent the afternoon watching Blue's Clues (which I hadn't seen in forever) and Anastasia. FACTOID: Steve from Blue's Clues attended DeSales for a couple of years =O

AAAAND one of my BFFs in Washington is coming to visit like NEXT WEEK.... But we'll only get to see her for a couple of days cuz she's got two billion other people to visit and my mom and I are helping out at a YMCA summer camp thingy for a couple of days. Still, I'm essited!!!

Closing thought: popsicles are good.

sleep is such a laughable concept....

2010-08-05T22:49:00.000-07:00

It's currently one-forty-eight a.m. where I live and I have yet to go to bed. SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK. Anywho, first off: yaaaaay White Forest is back!! Which makes me ever so happy =)

Yeeah, I thought of a really good, profound subject - no lie - for this post but I neglected to write it down and, you guessed it, poof. Away the idea went. Ho hum. But instead of waiting for something worthwhile to say I figured I'd just post. Cuz I'm bored. And don't want to go to bed.

Breathing a huge sigh of relief because I finally finally FINALLY finished the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command fanfic that I started in April. Of last year. Let's here it for procrastinators!! But yeah, that's why I prefer to stick to one-shot fanfiction. Less pressure.

My writing life is more frustrating than ever, stupid f$#%ing TMIS syndrome..... XP You'd think with all my writing staples - plenty of coffee, ambient music from Grooveshark playing in the background, a buttload of different solitaire games - I'd be able to turn out SOMETHING creative. Grrrr.....

Closing thought: Jessay and I recently stumbled across this really awesome toothbrush sanitizer. I need one.

EVEN COOLER: the ninja one...

info dump

2010-07-20T10:39:00.000-07:00

Nothing exciting going on around here but this'll prolly be a long post anyway cuz I'm really bored ^.^ First off, I'm involved with a new theater group that mi madre started with several other people. I didn't audition for their first show - Mom said I prolly wouldn't get in :/ - but I'm gonna do props and set and stuff. Get my foot in the door for future shows, heehee. And my friends Salty and Jessay both auditioned and got in, aaaand I'm super-essitted cuz my best friend from elementary school, Sarah, also got in, and since I haven't seen her in forever it's really awesome to have a chance to catch up and reconnect =]

So yesterday I went to Jessay's house and we made brownies and watched The Lion King, which I hadn't seen in FOREVER, and then she cut my hair ^.^ So now it's really short and easy to take care of and I luuuuurv it!

Writing has been going....well it's not really going at all. I've been turning out a TON of random free-writing crap that will prolly never see the light of day, but nothing productive dangit. I'm trying to start doing picture writing prompts in the hopes that they'll kickstart my creativity *crosses fingers*

Closing thought: Sum 41 is friggin amazing. The end.

i is corrupt >_< heehee

2010-07-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

So, what to do on a hot summer day when you're bored out've your skull?

Go movie-surfing with Salty, his brother Vincent, and our completely psychotic friend Justin, of course.

Yes, technically movie-surfing is less than legal, but it's not like we're HURTING anyone. And it's fun. And it makes you feel like a badass, which is also fun. Best of all, it's CHEAP. Cheap is good.

So a couple days ago I went with the aforementioned friends to see the A-Team movie (yes I saw it again - I have a problem, I admit it), which we paid for, and then we went to see the Last Airbender (in 2-D because we forgot to bring the 3-D glasses we'd stolen after seeing Avatar). Um, Last Airbender wasn't very good.

*dodges fireballs hurled by Gandalf*

Well it wasn't! The dialogue was horribly written, the acting was unimpressive, the kid playing Aang was unbelievably annoying, the guy playing the banished fire-bending prince (whose name I can't remember and I'm too lazy to find out) wasn't nearly as gorgeous as the character on the show. The only the thing the movie had going for it: the special effects were good. And I had fun shredding it to pieces with the guys, heehee.

Backtracking a little, but...they need to make an A-Team sequel ASAP. And have the character of AMY ALLEN - aka Face's soulmate - in it. Or I will kill someone. Gandalf, Voyagefan, back me up here.

it. is. too. hot.

2010-07-06T14:11:00.000-07:00

While there are many things I love (or at least really really like) about summer - e.g. Rita's, no school, etc. - there are many things I really really HATE.

Like, the temperature.

At my house, we only have air conditioning downstairs, so it's like an oven upstairs and only the most daring people can brave the heat in order to sleep up there. So, basically, apart from trips upstairs to the bathroom we more or less live in the dining room (where the air conditioner is) and the living room. We all sleep downstairs too (fyi, the living room floor = NOT comfortable).

Needless to say, this gets rather old after a while.

Apart from the horrible heat, not much else going on around here. Knight & Day was really good. Predictable but very good. Rose and I smuggled our own snacks in, we're so bad ^.^ After the movie we realized that we were stranded at the shopping complex (where the theater is) for the next few hours, until my mom got out of work. Our solution? Go to Walmart, of course. We looked at the entire toy section and some of the movie section before heading over to a little Chinese buffet for dinner. It was a pretty awesome night.

On a completely random note, this is a little something for Gandalf. This is a post from a writing prompt blog, and the prompt isn't why I'm posting a link: it's the picture accompanying the post. Gandalf, it should be pretty easy to guess who it is ;)

http://dragonwritingprompts.blogspot.com/2010/06/prince-of-sieves.html

of broken rear axles, new cars, and movies

2010-06-30T14:40:00.000-07:00

Rewinding in time a little bit (I kind've left out some of my other news when I posted about the A-Team movie - I was just a tad excited...) with a list of events that I regard as more or less blogworthy:

- My friend Hannah had her Sweet Sixteen birthday party a couple weeks ago and it was sooooo fun. It was the first pool party I've been to in years, and although nobody I knew could make it I met some awesome crazy new people (including two girls who like country music AND one who is a staunch Team Edward supporter - Team Edward people are few and far between these days, unfortunately). And there was really good cake.
- About a week ago, we planned to go see the A-Team movie with Salty, Rose, and Gandalf, but on the way to the theater my mom starts swerving like crazy and manages to pull the van over. Flat tire? Nope. Broken rear axle. So there we were, stuck on the side of the highway on a hot, muggy day in June with a very good chance of rain at some point in the near future. But, gotta love my friends, they made it almost fun. We swapped riddles and sang random songs, and talked to the workers who were on strike nearby, they were very nice. My dad finally came to the rescue, only our other car is currently a pickup truck, so he couldn't rescue all of us at once. Luckily, Salty had left his car at our house, so he went back with mi padre to get said car. Meanwhile, the rest of us walked to the gas station across the street and got food and stuff. Needless to say we didn't make it to the movie. Rose and Salty came back to my house for a while and we just hung out instead.
- Part II to the previous news bite is this: last Saturday we spent all flippin morning at Brown Daub. About 5% of this time was spent actually choosing a car. The rest consisted of my parents ironing out the paperwork and crap like that, while my sister and I were stuck watching ESPN. For like, three hours. Fortunately they were showing FIFA World Cup footage, and soccer is one of the few sports that I actually understand, so it wasn't that bad. Still, we were glad to get out've there.
- Tomorrow Rose and I (and possibly my sister, she hasn't decided yet) are going to see Knight & Day, which looks soooo good (I don't even LIKE Tom Cruise and I think the movie looks good). There are so many movies that have either just come out or are coming out that I need to see: Toy Story 3 (NO I HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET, DON'T RUB IT IN), Predators (I think it looks cool), Inception, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Last Airbender, Voyage of the Dawn Treader... (oh, Eclipse is not on this list because the first Twilight movie sucked so I've decided not to see any of the others. Doesn't help that I hate Taylor Lautner with a burning passion) PLUS DEATHLY HALLOWS PART ONE!!!! Words cannot express how psyched I am about that.... @.@

ahem OOOOOMIGOSHOMIGOSHTHEYFLEWATANK!!!!!!!

2010-06-27T13:55:00.000-07:00

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!

Sorry. We just got back from seeing the A-Team movie with Gandalf. Since Gandalf, Voyagefan, and I are all hardcore fans of the original show, we were EXTREMELY over-enthusiastic... Luckily we didn't get thrown out of the theater... Anyway.

IT.
WAS.
AMAZING.
PLUS EVERY SYNONYM FOR AMAZING AND EVERY SYNONYM FOR THOSE SYNONYMS.

Liam Neeson and Sharlto Copely were fabulous, the dude playing B.A. was awesome, and even Bradley Cooper wasn't as terrible as I thought he would be.

And they flew a tank at one point.

One more spoiler and then I'm shutting up - words cannot convey the spectacularness of the movie. If you've seen the show, STAY UNTIL AFTER THE END CREDITS. Dirk Benedict (the original Face) and Dwight Schultz (the original Murdock) have cameos :D

of smurfs, pirate songs, and impossibly sweet proposals T.T

2010-06-13T11:11:00.000-07:00

So, open house for the homeschool co-op was on Friday, and we didn't get many people stopping by the display for theater games but I'm not worried, we're sure to get more kids signed up. After open house I went back to Jessay's house and we watched "Freshman Father" on Hallmark (okay movie, the mother was a flippin b*tch... but there was an awesome psychic played by Annie Potts from Ghostbusters and a really cool professor who made everyone sing Wheels on the Bus - don't ask - so they made up for the movie's weak points), "Pippin" (and we laughed at every single adult joke because our minds our permanent residents of the gutter), some of her old dance recital tapes, and "The Smurfs and the Magic Flute"..... We got to sleep around five XP Anywho we watched Lion King 2 in the morning and then I had to get back home because my family had to go to a Renassaince Faire that Gandalf was participating in.

Omigosh the Faire was SO. COOL. They sang a lot've songs that my sister and I knew (we almost died laughing when they starting singing a song from Muppet Treasure Island.... we have no lives, I know...), everyone was HILARIOUS, and the day ended with several matches on the list fields (where jousts are held) and the lead actor altering the ending so he could propose to his girlfriend (c'mon, say it with me: AWWWWWW!!!). And then we went back to Gandalf's house and ate pizza and watched Godzilla. Awesome day.

of proms, harry potter movies, and jake gyllenhaal's muscles

2010-06-07T10:14:00.000-07:00

I apologize for neglecting my blog again..... Every time I go online I tell myself, "OK, I'll post today," and then I get sidetracked and forget... (>.<)

- I went with a bunch of friends to the homeschool prom two weeks ago and apart from the fact that most of the music they played SUCKED, it was pretty awesome. I met this really tall nice guy who likes country music =]

- My friends Jessay and Skye had their dance recital the day after the prom and they were aweshummm.

- Salty and I went to see Prince of Persia, and it was pretty good... Kind've predictable but Jake Gyllenhaal and his lack of shirt in some scenes made up for that, heehee....

OK, I just saw the Deathly Hallows trailer today and I completely SPAZZED.... SO EXCITED!!!!!!

BAYONETS!!!

2010-05-27T20:28:00.000-07:00

Well we are back from vacation. IT WAS FABULOUS. I was gonna wait to post until I uploaded some pics I took but I can't find the stupid cable for my camera so the pics are gonna have to wait :P Oh well. Here is a rough synopsis of our trip:

Day 1: Left for Lancaster right after Church. Got there, checked in, spent the afternoon lounging in our rooms watching TV, and ended the day with a trip to Garfields for some of the universe's best curly fries.

Day 2: More mindless TV watching, curly fry-eating, and general lounging.

Day 3: Breakfast buffet (THEY HAD FROOT LOOPS, I WAS SO EXCITED!) then a drive around Lancaster (Mom got some great shots, I'll post some) and - yup - more TV. We also went swimming and I tried out the hotel's hot tub for the first time. LOVED.

Day 4: Waaah good-bye amazing hotel room with the balcony overlooking the outdoor pool and the ginormous beds..... Onward to Gettysburg. First stop: visitor's center. I got a copy of an article written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (squeeeeee) in the early 1900s describing the 2nd day of fighting. We also toured the center's museum and I took pictures of almost everythig (course, the pics pretty much SUCK cuz flash photography was prohibited :P). Next stop, the main event: Little Round Top, site of the historic bayonet charge led by my favorite, Colonel Chamberlain. I took some pictures of where my friend Hannah and I should build our treehouse..... Anywho, on to the Pennsylvania Monument with its killer spiral staircase - I HATE THOSE STAIRS. But the long, long, VERY TWISTY climb is worth it - the view is incredible. Now comes the not so great part of the day - we discover that the hotel's pool is not yet open (although their website CLEARLY STATES the hotel is open May to October). Other general complaints about said hotel - virtually no decent TV channels, retarded elevator system (trust me on this) and, here's the killer, BAD COFFEE. I tolerate a lot, but bad coffee is unforgivable. Still, the day ends on a good note, with dinner at a little Italian place in Emmitsburg and us watching MythBusters and NCIS until bedtime.

Day 5: Got up early, bid a happy goodbye to the Days Inn, and headed back to the battlefields. Today we visited the PA Monument again, as well as Devil's Den - which would make an awesome Halo battlefield - the site of Pickett's Charge, and the spot where General Reynolds was killed on the first day. And I just realized that unless you're a Gettysburg fanatic like me, you don't care about anything of this information..... Ho hum, it's a lonely life being a Gettysburg geek. Anywho, we left Gettysburg around twelve and got home around three. Back to my regular life :P

about twelve hours till vacation, i can make it.....

2010-05-22T19:52:00.000-07:00

AAAAAAH LEAVING FOR VACATION TOMORROW MORNING!!!!!! I am sooooooooooo ready for this break, BELIEVE me..... On Monday I am gonna be comatose. Looking forward to several days of sleeping, reading, watching TV, swimming, and eating. Oh, and freaking out tourists in Gettysburg for a couple've days, can't forget that.... And I'm very good at that last one, just ask my family.

Today I babysat a couple of kids who go to my Church and to my homeschool co-op (which is over for the summer, UNBELIEVABLE, I'm a friggin senior now....) and I had a blast with them. They're very precocious children but quite immature at the same time (well, not so much the case with the eldest, Paula - she's smart but not immature - but the others, Derby and Justine, are just completely NUTS) and I absolutely LOVE THEM. We went to the playground near their house, played with the kids who live down the street (but we had to go inside because it started raining :P), played Apples to Apples and Blokus, and watched Nanny McPhee which I haven't seen in FOREVER. Oh, and Justine made me her co-queen. Don't ask.

of kitties, waterfalls, pixies, fluffy little bunnies and first-person shooter games

2010-05-16T19:32:00.000-07:00

As my sister has already said on Preteen English Major, yesterday we (including Salty who is still staying with us :D) went to visit my dad's parents in Benton, PA. Which is the coolest little town ever. So there. We had to get up at an ungodly hour so I dozed/slept for most of the trip, but I got plenty of rest there because when I'm in Benton my muscles automatically vanish and my brain goes to auto-pilot - my stress level goes into negative numbers. So Benton pretty much is the most therapeutic place in the world for me. We basically just hung out, went to the waterfall and the park, chilled with all the kitties... Added bonus: my amazing badass Aunt Margaret stopped by for a while which made my day, I LOVE HER. Only downside of the trip was that we drove past The House and saw how the people who now own it are fixing it up and making it all beautiful and I'm dying of envy :( Ho hum.

Anywho, yesterday, after we got home, we stopped at Salty's house and got his family's old X-Box so we've been playing Halo 2 practically nonstop. I suck. I'm marginally better than my sister but compared to Salty (who says he isn't that good, HE LIES) I'm horrendous. But go figure, I still like it. I like doing campaigns with Salty cuz he just goes running into the battle, guns ablazin', and I just hang back as "backup"...ish. Just can't get control of that run-away-from-trouble self-preservation instinct XD

Tomorrow I have to go for my evaluation cuz my sister got sick so we had to reschedule. Salty and I are hyper cuz he can get his camcorder while we're there. YouTube is about to get a million times more epic.

i'm singing a song of freedom

2010-05-12T21:40:00.001-07:00

Gonna be a short post cuz I'm quite tired and I have to get up early (for me, anyway, considering I usually sleep until ten, at least) to go to my end-of-the-year homeschool evaluation thingamawhatty. Just wanted to announce to the world that I AM DONE WITH SCHOOL!!!!!!! Actually lived through junior year, UNbe-bloody-lievable....

Things have been pretty chill around here lately because one of my best friends is currently living with us for an indefinite period of time. Only we're both bored out of our skulls cuz there's nothing to do around here except watch movies - my house isn't within walking distance of anyplace we could hang out, which reeeeeeally sucks...... I need to get my permit ASAP......

I survived my chem lab final and I'm pretty sure I bombed - I only answered nine out of eighteen questions and I was only sure about a couple of answers. Soooo I'm more or less screwed. But at this point I honestly do not care. I mean, I plan on majoring in English when I go to college so my performance in chemistry isn't all that important. Just wish I wasn't so friggin horrible at it.

jlkjglfkjgldkjfdlk

2010-05-09T20:04:00.000-07:00

100th post!! And my chosen post subject is... Iron Man 2, just saw it tonight.

OHEMGEE.

IT WAS SO GREAT.

Iron Man + War Machine + Whiplash + badass special effects + bamfalicious soundtrack + Tony Stark's hilarious one-liners + Tony and Pepper FINALLY getting together = one helluva movie. End of story.

Oh yeah, and the line, "Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the donut."

Doesn't get any better than that.

Oh yah, saw the A-Team trailer again. Gandalf, you and my sister and I are all going to see that movie and get thrown out of the theater in about three minutes for throwing stuff at the screen and screaming, "THAT WASN'T ON THE SHOW!!!!!!!" Also saw previews for The Last Airbender, Robin Hood, and some Spielberg movie called Super 8, it looks so-so...

Out've stuff to say. Thanks to anyone who has kept up with my blog all this time. :)

2010-05-07T14:02:00.000-07:00

Woooowwww, after this post I'll be one step away from my 100th post. Cool.

Just a quick message to any of you artsy people who read this blog. This is the latest Seventh Sanctum art contest:

http://www.seventhsanctumblog.com/2010/05/new-contest-twilight-of-the-vampires.html

I'd enter but I can't draw worth sh** XD So instead I just follow the contests silently cursing all the people who are awesome artists - why can't I be talented like that? :P

title that has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual post

2010-05-05T10:10:00.000-07:00

Not much going on right now. My little sis is doing her standardized testing for the year, and I get to be the test administrator. Mwahahaha. Speaking of standardized tests, the SATs are behind me now - took them last Saturday and miraculously enough I survived. Who would've ever thunk it. The math sections were TORTURE and my essay sucked - I can't write coherently first thing in the morning - and half the people in my room were coughing their brains out, but it wasn't the agonizing experience I thought it would be.

Stressing out because my ginormous chem lab final is next week and I don't know any of the stuff. Can you say screwed? And it counts for 15% of my grade!! :P I am so psyched for the schoolyear to be friggin over and DONE WITH.

After waiting for several years I have finally begun to be initiated into the watching of the Friday the 13th movies. Originally I just wanted to see the first one (original, not the remake) just so I could say that I could... but I watched it and Jason wasn't actually IN that one. Needless to say I felt beyond cheated and rented (thank goodness there's still a Blockbuster open in the area) the second one. Jason was in this movie but I was like, "Where's his hockey mask??!?" So now we need to get the third one out ASAP. I know, I'm weird. But I'm cool with that.

2010-04-28T17:28:00.000-07:00

If you have not yet seen the Sci Fi Channel miniseries "Tin Man", I have one thing to say: WATCH IT. It's a totally bamfalicious revamping of the Wizard of Oz and it ROCKS. Good special effects, an imaginative (albeit predictable) plot, and a ton of hilarious nods to the original books and movie. Um, plus these guys:

Oh and despite what my sister says, DG AND CAIN FOREVER.

PLEASE no encores...

2010-04-17T18:38:00.000-07:00

Aaaaand the show is over and done with. Despite an absolute TRAIN WRECK of a first dress rehearsal and an average second dress rehearsal, we had a very good first show and an awesome second show. Just don't ANYBODY ask for an encore because we are all drop-dead exhausted. :P I'm 99% certain that I'm now getting sick. Ho hum.

Man yesterday was a loooong day. Had to get up at 8:00 to shower and get ready and go to the church where we had the show. And then I - along with the rest of the class - was stuck there for like eight hours. We were all extremely nervous because of the aforementioned horrendous first dress rehearsal, but it all came together - it always does. We are total pros. First show went very well, despite one or two awkward pauses due to someone forgetting their line (seriously, if the pause is THAT long, Mr. Sound Person, START THE MUSIC CUE. Eesh).

Last night was insanely fun, though - Hannah and me went home with Jessie and pigged out on waffle fries, popcorn chicken, mozzerella sticks, mini-pizzas, chips, and MOUNTAIN DEW; played Truth Or Dare; and went to bed around eleven... Hannah fell asleep early (she fell asleep in like the middle of a sentence, it was hilarious) but Jessie and I stayed up till around one singing Taylor Swift. This morning we watched Mamma Mia (which I have never seen before) before going back to the church (it was a fun drive, since there were four of us - Jessie, Hannah, me, and my friend Skye - crammed into the back seat because no one wanted to ride shot gun, EVEN though Jessie lost the Nose Goes game.... rule-breaker) for the second show.

When today's show was over we had to dismantle the set and my family had to lug like ALL of the set and props and crap home - sometimes it's a pain being the director's daughter. But then we got Chinese take-out for dinner which pretty much made up for the inconvenience (I got my lo mein fix, heh heh).

Four more blog posts to my 100th post :) Not sure what that post is gonna be about, suppose it really doesn't matter.... It's not like anyone cares, lol....

meh

2010-04-13T20:21:00.000-07:00

Ohmywow the show is in three. Flippin. Days. Pardon me for a moment.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!

I'm okay now. I really have no reason to be stressed, cuz I have a fairly minor part and I know all my lines. Guess I'm just channeling the SERIOUS stress of my fellow cast members.

Grrr, my library is taking friggin FOREVER to get the last Leven Thumps book. I ain't gettin any younger here, people! On the bright side I got the third book in Eric Garcia's Vincent Rubio trilogy (at least I think it's a trilogy - it would totally NOT suck if it was longer than three books, though) so that'll keep me occupied. Plus some Stephen King, Michael Crichton... The bare necessecities.

Only a few more weeks of school then I am ON VACATION, YES. Crap, that means only a few more weeks and then I'll be a senior in high school. Again, craaaap. But we be going on vacation next month - Lancaster and then Gettysburg (insert excited geeky-Gettysburg-fan squees here). And mi madre has actually promised NOT to bring any work with her. Meaning she has promised not to do any curriculum planning for as long as we're on vacation. Personally, I won't believe that until we get home again - I KNOW what homeschooling mothers are like...

OMG Next month also means Iron Man 2. YESSSSSS!!!!! Tony Stark, here I come. And the month after? TOY STORY 3. Yeah I like Toy Story. Deal with it. It's annoying that so many movies that I wanna see are coming out at the same time. I STILL need to see Clash of the Titans, I'm planning on going to see The Sorcerer's Apprentice AND that Prince of Persia movie, and I might - if I watch the original version within the next couple of weeks - go to see Nightmare on Elm Street.... mostly because of Kellan Lutz o.O

Writing's been going meh-ishly (yes, I did just make that word up. Bow down to my word-making-up awesomeness) lately. Why do I pursue this hobby if it frustrates me so much? ....Oh yeah, because I either have to write a certain amount - even if it's just pointless crap - each week or my head will explode, that's why.... Seriously though, it's like there's a part of my brain, the writing part, that I can't ever shut off. Can't control it at all, totally involuntary. Meh.

CLOSING SENTIMENT: Jamaican accents are the coolest accents ever. End of story.

of animated movies, rita's, and guys on mini-motorcycles

2010-04-03T13:53:00.000-07:00

The sleepover with Jessie was aweshummm - even though we didn't go shopping or watch Whose Line... However, here are some of the things we DID do:

- Went to the playground across the street from my house and frolicked in the grass - gotta love spring - and made grass angels. There were also a couple of really cute guys there riding around on these little mini-motorcycles that were basically the size of tricycles.... We had fun watching them =)
- One word: RITA'S. And the guy who served us our ice cream was really cute (hey, what can I say? we're a couple of teenage girls, this is what we do...).
- Watched Lion King 2 (Kovu = HOT), Barbie of Swan Lake, Jammin' in Jamaica, and My Fair Lady before finally falling asleep around two-thirty, three o'clock.

- Discovered that tossing Cheez-Its into the air and catching them in your mouth is insanely easy.

- Watched Anastasia this morning. We would've done more but she had to get home to do schoolwork :[
- Oh yeah, worked on Who's On First? like we were supposed to be doing...

OMG I can't believe the show is in two weeks..... We. Are all. Going. To DIE.

Kovu..... O.o

We love him =]

who's on first?

2010-03-26T20:24:00.000-07:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I'm guilty of blog negligence again.... Sorry. Life's been dull lately so I haven't felt like posting. Ummm.... for starters I have yet to read "Fang", though it's been in my sister's possession for quite some time. Between my sis's account of how crappy the book is and the Wikipedia summary of the plot, I have postponed reading it indefinitely. Look, I read those books, first and foremost, for the Faxness, and unless JP shapes up in book seven he is in deeeeeeeep sh**. Got that Mr. Patterson?

On a more positive note I FINALLY GOT MY HANDS ON THE THIRD LOOKING GLASS WARS BOOK!!!!! FYI, Dodge is MINE. However I still need to get my hands on the fifth - and, omg, LAST - Leven Thumps book. Leven is mine too.

School's been going so-so. Finally done with my research paper, so that's one last thing to worry about, thank goodness. I'm a little behind in math, though. And Spanish. And chemistry. But other than that I'm okay.

Looking forward to this Friday - my friend Jessie is prolly sleeping over and we've got the whole day planned out. Shopping at Deb - she gave me a tip by telling me that all the cheap clearance stuff is hidden way at the back of the store - then Rita's, then watching Whose Line is it Anyway? and a good deal of practicing our lines for Who's On First? for theater arts. We plan to each get like a crateful of Rita's so that we'll be awake all night, then we're gonna film ourselves practicing our lines at like five in the morning while riding MASSIVE sugar-caffeine highs.... Fun stuff.

ohemgeeeeee!!

2010-03-11T18:58:00.000-08:00

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGSIXTHMAXRIDEBOOKCOMESOUTONMONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*squee*
*spazz*

Oh.
*ahem*
Sorry about that, got a teeny bit carried away. But SERIOUSLY, OMG. I would just like to say that if Max and Fang DO NOT stay together, YOU ARE GOIN' DOWN JAMES P.!!! Get it? Got it? Good.

Um in other news... Dad and my sister went to Hollywood Video's closeout sale (*sob*) and came back with a buttload of movies... 46 to be exact. Not sure if we have room for all those DVDs but I'm happy about the acquisition.

RITA'S OPENS IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS!!! :D Mocha Ritaccinos, here I come.

Max Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide.............

"i see a leprechaun..."

2010-03-03T11:23:00.000-08:00

FYI: If you have NOT seen Shutter Island yet, WATCH IT. I went with Salty last Saturday night and it was AMAZING.... Except for whenever the movie made me jump about five feet in the air and have a mini-heart attack. I felt really stupid for not seeing the ending coming, though, my gosh. I fail at life. ANYWHO, after the movie was over we went to the diner near my house, which was really fun because it was like two in the morning. Plus, they got a leprechaun there - decoration for St. Patrick's Day.

Yesterday at the co-op was the music theater class's first week of book. Um, let's just say we were slightly LESS than perfect and leave it at that... On the upside, I'm almost done with my research paper for english comp - turned in the rough draft yesterday and now I just have to write the final draft. Cannot WAIT til the end of the school year - my family is going on vacation in Lancaster right after school ends and then we're gonna spend a day in GETTYSBURG. :D I only wish I could take my friend Hannah with me, but they'd prolly throw us out of the military park after we freak all the other tourists out with our over-enthusiasm.... Oh well.

i'm bored and i feel like complaining

2010-02-24T19:52:00.000-08:00

Okay, I know that many people out there prefer the convenience of Netflix. It allows them to order and view movies without ever leaving their own homes. But personally, Netflix pisses me off to no end.

My family relies on two sources to rent movies. First of all, the libraries we go to. But their selections are rather limited, and usually only include movies that have been big hits (we like obscure films in my house, okay?). Second, places like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. Only problem is, EVERY SINGLE ONE of these movie rental facilities (excluding the libraries) has gone or is going out of business. Because ****ing Netflix is KILLING 'em.

"Why don't you join Netflix?" I hear you asking. For starters, if you rent a DVD from them, it costs about seventeen dollars. WHAT? Also, for that price, you can only rent up to three movies at a time. And that's the best plan they have. For the cheaper plan, you can order a whopping two DVDs per month for five bucks, but you can only get one at a time. Again, WHAT? Plus, it's kind've retarded to have to wait for your rented movie to arrive in the mail.

"Okay," you're probably saying, "So get Netflix's internet video streaming." Well, that costs money too. And some of us don't have very good computers. My family's computer isn't exactly top-quality technology, and its video-playing capabilities (with all due respect, Kyle) SUCK. We can't afford the last video software. And downloading all those plug-ins that slightly enhance the quality? Pain in the ***. It takes FOREVER and it clutters up our hard drive (this is a family with three writers and one teacher. We need our hard drive space) and just generally messes with our computer. Which is rather annoying.

In short, Netflix makes me feel like this:

Okay, I feel a bit better now. Thank you for letting me waste your time.

of educational fairs and giant rampaging lizards

2010-02-20T08:47:00.000-08:00

Well, I survived the fairs... Actually it wasn't that bad, I had a good time. Highlights of the evening include...

- Me trying to nonchalantly follow a reporter around the building in the hopes of snagging an interview, while trying to avoid the guy taking a restraining order on me. Um, didn't get an interview. Oh well.
- My amazing little padawan Gerry (Salty's little brother) winning the Future Fair Superstar trophy. Made my night. :)
- Seeing my friend Molly, who has been at college in Vermont but who came back home to visit for a while. With her boyfriend. <3
- General gossiping and laughing with a bunch of my girl friends :D Always fun.

MUST... SEE.... PERCY... JACKSON.... It's not enough that I have to wait until May for Iron Man 2, until June for Toy Story 3, and until friggin AUTUMN for Deathly Hallows Part 1, I have to delay my Percy Jackson-watching because of a stupid cold. Ok, done complaining, sorry.

For those of you who are absolutely tired of my sister and me not shutting up about Godzilla: Final Wars... Here is a brief summation/review.

Traditional fifties-style Toho opening.
Enter heavy metal music with shots of revamped Godzilla who looks about as badass as you can get.
Japanese soldiers fighting Godzilla at the South Pole.
Earthquake, Godzilla falls into a large crevasse. Soldiers shoot apart a mountain at the edge of said crevasse, thereby burying Godzilla. And there is much rejoicing.
Credits sequence (squee-moment when the Sum 41 credit comes up) with shots of previous giant monster films.

Now in the year 2004, Japanese airship/submarine/giant drill bit Gotengo is underwater someplace, being attacked by Manda (really cool Toho monster, one of my faves).
OMGOMG SHOT OF DON FRYE SITTING THERE IN HIS AWESOMENESS.
Haha, Don Frye doesn't need dubbing or stupid crappy subtitles.
Don Frye and the mutants Ozaki (HOT) and Kuzama (HOT, with major anime-style hair) kill Manda.

Backstory about how nuclear wars and pollution have "awakened deadly monsters" so the nations have banded together to combat the monsters, blah blah, MESSAGE. Oh yeah, also, backstory about how mutant humans are being discovered all over the world (although they all appear to be Japanese... huh) and have been gathered into an organization called The M Organization, in order to defeat Godzilla. Even though Godzilla is still a lizard popsicle buried beneath Antarctica. Okay then.

Ozaki and Anime-Hair (Kuzama to you) fight in a training arena with cool music and cool special effects and lots of mutant martial arts and close-ups of their faces so that you can see their hotness. Anime-Hair wins.
Random middle-aged dude who is apparently their boss comes in and tells Anime-Hair to stop being smug because he won the combat.
Ozaki and Anime-Hair talk about how Ozaki shouldn't have a conscience because the mutants are there to fight, not protect people.

Random middle-aged dude tells Ozaki that a mummified monster has been found off the coast of Hokkaido and that he will be accompanying the U.N. biologist who is going out there to investigate.
Ozaki objects cuz he doesn't want to be a bodyguard for a cranky old fart. Only the cranky old fart turns out to be a hot chick named Miyuki.
Ozaki makes epic faces during this scene, by the way.

Mummified monster turns out to be named Gigan, and is like a giant bird with hooks for hands (for anyone who has ever seen the episode of MST3K "Godzilla vs. Megalon", you will get a kick out of this....).
Scene shifts to annoying T.V. reporter Anna interviewing the new U.N. Secretary General about his job and his doggy named Clint (PLOT POINT).
Cut back to Miyuki, Ozaki, and random old scientist being transported to some random cave and talking to two UNBELIEVABLY ANNOYING little chicks who are Mothra's sidekicks who tell them about Gigan and blah blah blah... They also give Ozaki an ancient dagger that looks like it's made out of straw....

Then all hell breaks loose as all the big monsters (except Godzilla) start showing up all over the world and wreaking havoc and breaking stuff and stomping on people and generally being awesome.
Mutants show up to fight Ebirah (giant lobster) who gets sucked up into a flying UFO thingy.
Others monsters get sucked up into similiar UFO thingies.
Mutants: "Wha'?"
Giant ball-shaped UFO appears. Secretary General gets beamed down out of it and says that the people inside are aliens who saved him from danger. Head of the M Organization (some butt-ugly old lady whose eyeliner does nothing for her appearance) and some other guy get beamed up where they meet two of the aliens - a bald old guy and a REALLY HOT young guy - who tell them that some planet is gonna crash into the Earth in like a year, and that the aliens - called Xilliens - are there to save the world.

Over the course of the next several scenes, Ozaki, Miyuki, and Anna (who is Miyuki's sister by the way) discover that the Secretary General, the head of the M Organization, and some other people are actually aliens.
They get DON FRYE (SQUEEE!!!!) to help prove this.
Scene where Ozaki saves Miyuki's life. This is the closest they come to kissing in the movie. ANNOYING.
Anna proves that the Secretary General is an alien by making him believe that her dog is actually his dog.
Don Frye comes in and shoots Secretary General, who turns into an Xillien.
Bald alien starts to explain. Hot young alien shoots him.
Hot young alien (talking to earthlings): "From now on... you're cattle."
Bunch of mutants come rushing to to fight hot young alien and his minions.
Hot young alien takes over the mutants then teleports away.
Mutants attack Don Frye, Ozaki, Miyuki, Anna, and some other random guy who stays behind to hold the mutants off while the others escape.

Really awesome chase scene between Ozaki and Anime-Hair on motorcycles.
Ozaki whips Anime-Hair's butt. Ha ha.

Xilliens release all the monsters again and the monsters being wreaking havoc once more.

Don Frye says he's gonna take the ship Gotengo and go wake up Godzilla, get Godzilla to kick the other monsters' butts and the Xilliens' butts, then lock Godzilla up again.
No one doubts Don Frye's ability to do this cuz he's Don Frye.

Don Frye and company wake up Godzilla who follows them cuz he's still pissed at the humans for burying him in ice all those years ago.

Godzilla fights the American Godzilla (y'know, the one from that movie with Matthew Broderick...) and kicks his butt.
OMGOMGOMG SUM 41 SONG PLAYING IN BACKGROUND DURING THIS!!!!!!
Godzilla fights other monsters and whups their butts.

Ozaki and Miyuki have a heart-to-heart conversation, during which he gives her the straw dagger thing, and during which they DO NOT kiss....

Gotengo breaks into the alien UFO and Don Frye, Ozaki, Miyuki, and yet another random guy (there's lots of random guys in this movie, hard to keep em straight...) are taken to a room where Head Xillien (aka hot young alien) tells Ozaki that they both have unlimited superpowers, then takes over Ozaki (even though he was previously unable to do this - plot hole, anyone?).
Ozaki attacks his comrades until Miyuki stabs him with the dagger-made-out-of-straw, thereby returning him to normal.

Ozaki and hot young alien fight.

The REAL Secretary General and some other people show up and escape with Don Frye, Miyuki, and the aforementioned random guy. Don Frye separates from the group in order to kick some more Xillien butt.

Ozaki beats up hot young alien and goes back to Gotengo, where the others are waiting.

Alien ship blows up.

Uh, meanwhile, Godzilla has been fighting King Ghidorah who showed up about three-fourths of the way through the movie. Mothra also arrives and kills Gigan, but gets blown up in the process.

Godzilla kills Ghidorah, then leaves because he's sick and tired of waiting for Ozaki and Miyuki to kiss.

End of movie.

i love referring to myself in third person

2010-02-19T08:27:00.000-08:00

See Beth. See Beth NOT wanting to go to her homeschool co-op's art, science, and history fairs tonight. "Why?", you may ask, since she participated in all three fairs last year and did quite well, even going so far as to win the trophy for Best History Project in the senior division. Well, I didn't feel like doing the fairs this year. But apparently - and unbeknownst to me until a couple months ago - participating in the science fair is a mandatory part of my chem lab class. FYI, I HATE science. It is my second least favorite subject and I am completely inept at it. Fortunately I managed to find a very simple project - finding out if salt water makes metal rust faster than regular water (which it does, I do enjoy it when my hyopothesis is proved correct. By the way, what's the plural of hypothesis?) - but my heart ain't gonna be in it today when the judges are interviewing me. No trophies for me this year, lol. On the upside, I get to see lots of my homeschool homies today. Except JESSIE, who is in my chem class but who isn't gonna BE THERE today.... Traitor.

I'm pretty much totally recuperated from my catastrophic illness. However I STILL haven't seen Percy Jackson, and my butthead sister won't shut up about how great it was.... Rub it in some more, why don't you, sis?

Oh, before I go, tomorrow is National Moo Day. Participants must say "moo" at least once tomorrow.

very pissed

2010-02-12T16:03:00.000-08:00

Well, I SHOULD be at the movie theater with my mom, sister, and a bunch of my friends watching Percy Jackson right now. But I'm sick. SO NOT FAIR. I have been waiting for MONTHS for this premier and the day it comes out I'm SICK. Is karma catching up to me or something? Eesh.....

In other news..... Uh, well actually there is no other news..... So to make up for the empty space I shall post some of the photos I took of The House.

Side view

My would-be bedroom, with a door opening onto the balcony......

The mega-huge, mega-cool, and mega-crap-filled attic....

The very very very comfy couch that I wanted to bring home with me :(

museum :)

2010-02-07T16:04:00.000-08:00

FINALLY made it to the museum to see the movie costume exhibit last Thursday, and it was pretty cool. Details later - my OCD tendencies demand that I describe the events of the visit in chronological order.... So, we spent about an hour looking at all of these items from different cultures, which was kind've boring at parts but on the whole, very cool. Case in point: REAL MUMMY. I kept looking around for Brendan Fraser but he didn't show up. :( Oh well. There were also lots and lots of sharp pointy weapons, all of which I said I wanted. Not likely to get any though. I hate the world. DX Oh yah, there was also this room devoted to taxidermy and stuff, and there was this dummy of an old taxidermist dude sitting at a desk. Scared me when I came in, it took me a few seconds to ascertain that he wasn't real.... But when I realized it was a dummy, I took no more notice.... Until suddenly the thing started friggin TALKING!!!!! SHEESH, I HATE animatronics sometimes... I thought I was gonna need a defibrillator after that..... Oy.

The costume exhibit itself was really neat. Even if there were only like three Edith Head costumes..... Highlights: DUDE I STOOD LIKE A FOOT AWAY FROM SOMETHING SEAN CONNERY WORE!!!!! :D Um yeah, I have a Sean Connery obsession..... Just FYI. I tried to find a picture of the costume online (we weren't allowed to take pictures of the exhibit) but Google Images was being crappy and I couldn't find one. However, I found some pictures of some of the other costumes....

The exquisite dress Grace Kelly wore in Rear Window. :) Designed by EDITH HEAD, by the way. <3

Me: OMG AUDREY HEPBURN DRESSES!!!!! *reads signs* Crap. They're recreations. *very pissed*

Now to end the post on a completely different note, here's me on the porch roof of The House...

rambling again....

2010-01-31T18:02:00.000-08:00

Dude I FINALLY saw Book of Eli... It was AWESOME. I went with Salty last night - well, actually we were gonna see Sherlock Holmes but we got into the theater and it's like, "Oh, it started at 10:45 instead of 10:55...." So we went theater surfing and ended up seeing Book of Eli instead. Oh yah, saw the A-Team movie trailer, and 1) Liam Neeson works pretty well as Hannibal, 2) I think I shall be pleasantly surprised with Sharlto Copley's performance as Murdock, 3) guy who is playing Face SUCKS at the part, and 4) WTF where was B.A.'s jewelry??!? OK done complaining now....

So we got out of the movie at like one in the morning, and on the way home Salty's like, "I'm hungry," and I said, "Me too, we should go to McDonalds." We get there and it's closed (since when is McDonalds NOT open 24/7? There should be a law against that....), so we go across the street to the Burger King. Also closed. So we're all, "Okay, we'll drive up to the Exxon station down the street and buy PopTarts, it's gotta be open." We get there, all the lights are off. WHAT?? Eventually we ended up at Walmart and bought candy instead.

Before I go, here is something that I know Salty will just love (ha I'm evil....).

Hee hee I love Max Thieriot...

neglecting my blog.... again....

2010-01-28T18:25:00.001-08:00

Yeah, yeah, I know I haven't updated in a while, but there's been nothing to say, and I refuse to waste my time by posting random things without saying anything in particular, unlike SOME PEOPLE (*coughcough*MYSISTER*coughcough*lol jk). ANYWAY. Remember the House I mentioned a little while back? The one I wanna live in? Well my grandparents are selling it. My heart shattered into a million little tiny shards of cardiovascular material when I found out. :( So, a week or two ago, my dad and I went up to help clean the house out. Let me just say that cleaning all that crap out was NOT easy. On the upside I got some pictures, some of which I shall post, AND I got to go on the porch roof. Not a total loss, I guess.

School's been going so-so. I'm in the middle of writing this gargantuan research paper about Edith Head, and I'm finding that there's a lot more to her career than I originally thought. Case in point: many of the designs attributed to her were NOT actually designed by her. I was kind've pissed when I read that. *sighs* Can't trust nobody no more....

Soooo sick of winter. Bring on the warm weather! I am tired of snow. Especially since we were supposed to go to a museum today, so we could see the movie costumes exhibit (which I have been looking forward to for WEEKS), but we had to postpone our trip because of the stupid SNOW. I hate the world. Oh well.

HOLY CRAP THIS IS SO GREAT!!!!

2010-01-06T18:05:00.000-08:00

Omgomgomgomgomg.

New.
Alex.
Rider.
Book.

*dies*

You people prolly all knew this already (if you did, SHAME ON YOU FOR HOLDING OUT ON ME!!!!), but I just found out that there's a NEW Alex Rider book. :O It's apparently called "Crocodile Tears" and it looks friggin awesome. MUST. READ. NOW.

For those of you who, like me, DIDN'T know, here's a link that proves I'm not making this up as an early April Fool's prank.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/anthony-horowitz/crocodile-tears.htm

I'm gonna go have a seizure now. Bye.

happy birthday to ma blog!!!

2009-12-28T16:24:00.000-08:00

As some of you might know (only if you really REALLY pay obsessive attention to dates, but I doubt any of you do...) today is my blog's first birthday. Apparently the past year has not been a total fail because at least a couple of you are still reading this blog... Tank hoo :)

Christmas was fantasmabulistic this year. Ma sista and I are super-happy cuz we got the first half of Season Four of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Unfortunately, we have yet to see Seaman Kowalski with his shirt off, dang it... Um, long story. Go to Voyagefan's blog for clarification. OH YAH, I also got a book of letters written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (and I think only my friend Hannah could possibly understand how insanely cool that is but oh well...). So far the book is very interesting.

I'm going to a Lord of the Rings marathon tomorrow!! Unfortunately I couldn't come up with a costume... Ho hum. I know it'll be fun, but it won't be nearly as fun as the one I went to at Gandalf's house a year or two ago... *sighs nostalgically* That was the historic day on which FIZZY ALE was invented.... Epic.

CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!

2009-12-20T11:06:00.000-08:00

Ahh, Christmas. Tis the season of holiday movies/TV specials, all those hideous inflateable Santa Claus balloons that people put up in their front yards, and annoying yet endearing Christmas carols that get stuck in your head for hours on end. I finally got my shopping done - didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would (of course, considering I can only afford to buy gifts for my immediate family, it's not that surprising...). I hope everyone survived the "great paralyzing blizzard of 2009"... I wasn't worried, since I know just what to do in a blizzard - reading the Little House books a gazillion times was a smart thing to do.

Well, I'm almost on Christmas break, apart from finishing up math, Spanish, and SAT prep... :P Not sure which subject I hate the most. On the upside I didn't have any co-op homework assigned to me during the break. :D

While my sister is going nuts because she can't get her hands on the movie "Stormbreaker" for another two days, I am anxiously awaiting "Iron Man 2". Sucks that I have to wait until MAY.... And there's also Part I of "Deathly Hallows", no idea when THAT comes out.... Who's got the longer harder wait here, sis?

By the way, this is my new true love, Wolf from "The 10th Kingdom".... I'm afraid that he's mine, sister dear - I saw him four years before you did!!!

IS HE NOT AMAZING?!?!?!!?

guilty of bloggage negligence

2009-12-10T17:37:00.000-08:00

Uh... yeah, sorry for not posting in forever..... Life is kinda dull at the moment. School's been going so-so - kind've behind in a couple subjects but I'm doing well with my co-op classes. I even actually understood what we did in chem lab this week (a real breakthrough for me, trust me on this...). Even math is going pretty well.

Aaaaah Christmas is a'comin'!! And I haven't even started my shopping yet.... crap.... On the upside, it's "Nutcracker" season - we saw it yesterday like we do every year (although last year I saw it twice, as Kyle knows well lol).

Oh yah, writer's block sucks. Just FYI.

happy turkey day

2009-11-26T09:28:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving greetings and salutations from Massachusetts! :) The drive up here was sooooo long, but aside from hitting some major traffic in the Danbury area we made pretty good time. FYI: MythBusters PWNs every other show on TV today. No contest.

Oh yah, my birthday party was last Saturday night, and it was awesome. And ma sista's party was the Wednesday before that, at the Philly Zoo. It was AMAZING. Pete told political jokes all the way up, I almost killed Alex, and a bird pooped on my arm. Which wasn't so cool, but it's supposed to be lucky. :/

OK I gotta go - mom needs to check her e-mail.

i am now a senior citizen :P

2009-11-16T18:56:00.000-08:00

Omigoooooossshhhh I'm sixteen now..... :O I had a fantasmagorical birthday, though. I got lots of awesome birthday wishes on Facebook - including some from people I went to elementary school with that I haven't even seen in years.... Prezzies-wise, I got two gifts from my sista: a pencil case (cuz my old one is falling apart BIG TIME) and ShamWows. This is why I keep this child around. She gets me SHAMWOWS for my birthday. <3 And I also got a CELL PHONE!!! And I got a phone call from my godmother who lives in Maine, and I'm looking forward to my party on Saturday. A very good birthday. :)

how to write the great american novel.....

2009-11-08T19:40:00.000-08:00

Holy craaaaaap my birthday is in eight days. :O I'm gonna be sixteen. I'm OOOOOOOLD. T.T Anywho, my birthday wishlist is: notebooks, money, bookstore giftcards, pens, more notebooks, a Vespa, a dragon, and my Hogwarts letter. The person who gets me one of those last three things will officially be my best friend forevers and evers. Thank you.

I'm feeling a lot better, but I'm super-pissed cuz yesterday I wasn't feeling better and therefore missed out on Salty's birthday party. *kills self* I hate the world. Dude, you need to have another birthday party just so I can come.

Oh yah, everyone who loves writing has to watch this vid that I found, because it's kinda funny and also because I SAID SO:
How to Write the Great American Novel

cough No, I don't have swine flu, stop brandishing that wooden stake at me.....

2009-11-02T05:48:00.000-08:00

I am ill. Oh joy oh rapture. It's a cold, that's all, but it's still a PAIN. I hate being sick. Of course, it IS nice to get a lot of attention...

Happy belated Hallowe'en to everybody (I love using the English spelling :D). For those of you who went trick-or-treating on Saturday night, I bet you anything that the weather was a lot better for you than it was for us. The party we went to was fun, but it was drizzling practically the entire time when we were out trick-or-treating. A couple of us got tired and started back for the house, and about halfway back it started POURING. My sister and I got absolutely DRENCHED. Needless to say, there wasn't any bonfire, and the party kinda broke up at that point.

The corn maze the night before was sooooooo fun (apart from the fact that, in the two-and-a-half hours we spent in there, we only found five of the nine items we were looking for). There were only five of us: Gandalf, Salty, Kyle, and a girl from FSA, Jo. We all almost broke our necks several times cuz it was so freakin MUDDY, we got lost about five billion times, and Salty and I scared the crap out of the others by hiding in the corn and jumping out when the others came past. After we got out, I made the mistake of buying a cup of coffee at the food stand. It was a mistake because A) I really shouldn't have caffeine anytime later than, like, seven at night, and B) the coffee was so gross that when I got home I had another cup (it was OUR coffee this time). I was up until five-thirty, six o'clock. Which, combined with the fact that I haven't taken my allergy medicine in a couple of days, is why I'm sick. :P Ho hum.

Oopsie......

2009-10-27T18:28:00.000-07:00

Crud, sorry for not posting lately.... I keep telling myself, "Aw, I'll post tomorrow," but I never do....

ANYWAY. My sister beat me to the really cool stuff. We went to Benton to visit my grandparents on Sunday, and I got the chance to go scavenging - they own this huge old house a few blocks away from their house, and they were renting it out but the tenants moved out unexpectedly and left all their crap behind. So my dad and sister and me went to the house and poked around a bit. I got a sweater, a few books (at first glance one would think that the people had been huge horror fans, but they obviously weren't - no Stephen King), and a Lord of the Rings glass goblet with ARAGORN'S picture on it (*dies*). Oh, and Dad got a blowgun. No joke.

I really liked the house though. Yeah, it was in worse condition than MY house (BELIEVE me, that's saying something...), but it was just so flippin COOL. Victorian-style with a wraparound porch, balcony, and two separate WINGS...... My dream home. But I can't live there. I hate the world.

WOOHOO! We're going to a Hallowe'en party on Saturday - we're gonna go trick-or-treating and then have a bonfire. And I think a bunch of us teens are getting together the day before that to go to a corn maze.... Not sure. :/ Oh yeah, what are you all gonna be for Hallowe'en? I'm gonna be a Gypsy (actually, the costume was originally supposed to be Angela from "Eragon" - I wore it to the Brisingr release "party"... But it's a reusable costume). So is my sister. Costume-repeated - that's what she went as last year. Jeez.

i am homeschooler. hear me..... crawl under the table and try to become invisible...

2009-10-17T21:05:00.001-07:00

As you can probably deduce, I survived the PSATs this morning. Barely. Actually they weren't that bad. Reading and writing were INSANELY easy, and even math wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be. However - and I'm not directing this at the public schoolers who read this blog - I felt so horribly out of place there... Sitting in a cafeteria with, like, a hundred other teenagers, who pretty much all know each other and who all attend the school the PSATs were being held in (while I, in contrast, would have easily gotten lost within about ten seconds if I'd had to find my way to the testing room on my own...) made me feel just a tad conspicuous. I don't like feeling conspicuous. :P Seriously, I know that the teens there barely noticed me, and I didn't really feel left out or anything, but it still felt incredibly uncomfortable.... Oh well.

Um, the only other mildly interesting thing that's happened in the past couple days is that when my sister and I were watching Land Before Time IV (we got REALLY bored, okay?) two days ago, I yelled at one of the characters for being racist.... Well they were! Jeez....

Thou Art A Puny, Tickle-brained Wagtail. OOOOH, what now?

2009-10-15T12:05:00.000-07:00

First of all, the rather sucky news - I gotta take the PSATs on Saturday. SAVE ME. Please? I mean, reading and writing are gonna be a breeze - I was looking through the practice book and no sweat there - but MATH? I am going to Fail. Epically. So, this may be the last post I ever make, as I am going off to face my doom in two days. Sorry. Even if I survive the PSATs, you may not hear from me for a while. I mean, no doubt I'll have to go into therapy for a few months afterwards. Don't think they allow Internet access in the psych wards.

ANYWHO. In contrast to my upcoming personal Armegeddon, yesterday was AWESOME. I got up at around six in the morning (aka "this is the most ungodly hour to get up-thirty") and drove up (down? Over? Not sure where it is in comparison to my house) to DeSales University with my mom, sister, and Jessie and Gandalf for the Willpower workshop, which is organized by the PSF - Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. In case I've never mentioned it before, I have a bit of a Shakespeare obsession. *sheepishly gestures to Shakespeare shrine in corner of the room* Still, they allow me to come back to the workshop each year, so I guess I amuse them in some horrifying way.... I'm happy to announce, though, that, unlike last year, I didn't scare the crud out of everybody else there. See, last year, the show they performed was Much Ado About Nothing. Which is basically my all-time ever favorite play in the history of the universe. To put it mildly. SO, I was kinda excited to be there last year. "Excited" meaning "having the entire show memorized and mouthing every line along with the actors during the performance, in addition to have little mini-seizures every ten seconds during the pre-show workshops because I was so psyched to be there".

THIS year, however, they did Julius Caesar. While I enjoy that show, I'm not obsessed or anything. So I behaved fairly normally. The first workshop my group did was the Words Before Blows. Essentially, we just stood there yelling Shakespearean insults at each other for an hour or so. It was FUN - we got to keep the lists of insulting Shakespearean words, and I can't wait to use some of them on somebody. But the second workshop we did was just AMAZING. We learned a bit about stage combat, and they showed us some moves. Translation: we spent an hour pretending to roundhouse punch each other in the face and pull each other's hair out. Downside: the arm I used for the faux punch is pretty much useless right now. Upside: I can now torture my sister and my parents won't know if it's real or not. Mwahaha.

The show itself was phenomenal. As usual, the actors were top-notch - they make FSA's theater class look like a bunch of no-talent goobers (sorry, guys, but it's the truth. We're good, but the PSF people are BETTER). Which is saying something, cuz we're pretty talented ourselves. I was pretty much mesmerized for the full 80 minutes of the show (ok, truth be told, it didn't hurt that the actors playing Mark Anthony and Brutus were a tad easy on the eyes... Hey, I'm a fifteen year-old girl, what do you expect of me, people?)

Oh that reminds me. Forgot to mention that the FSA theater class's show was officially cast on Tuesday night. I got the part I wanted. Yay! I'm playing a beatnik named Misty, and basically I get to go around sounding like a stoner and playing a tamborine. But enough about me... We got ourselves a talented group this year. And I mean TALENTED. We gonna kick some serious theatrical @$$ this year.

2009-10-09T06:48:00.000-07:00

Since my sister chewed me out yesterday because I apparently "never post", I'll post right now. Happy, sis? Not that there's anything to post ABOUT.... Although I DID get to see David Lubar Wednesday night. He autographed my copy of "True Talents" - shweetnesh, no? And the dude is friggin hilarious, I don't know how he does it....

I officially love Theater Games at FA. All my little theater games homies are just the coolest peopleses EVAH.

OK, I gotta whine about something. I'm not trying to start a politics-related schism (gotta love that word...) among the people following my blog, BUT.... Obama? The Nobel Peace Prize? REALLY? I'm not even clear as to why he was ELIGIBLE for that award.... Someone said it was because he wants to reduce nuclear stockpiles or something, I honestly don't know.... Kyle, you wanna fill me in? Because I can't really rant about something til I know most of the facts.... Anyway, the thought of moving to a shack in the Australian Outback is becoming more appealing every day. Right now, I would definitely take kangaroos, koalas, and wombats over the government. No contest.

My future home......

need caffeine.......

2009-10-03T20:56:00.000-07:00

Ugh, I am soooooo tired right now..... Probably because I only got four hours of sleep Thursday night. Salty and Kyle randomly showed up at my house Thursday afternoon, so I went back to Salty's house with them. Kyle left, but Salty and Rose and I went to a friend's house and watched Final Destination (the original one). Which I thought was a bit depressing, BUT that's just me.... I'm weird. Anywho, we got back to Salty and Rose's house around midnight. Rose was the smart one and went to bed pretty soon after that. Salty and I stayed up til, like, three watching X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Without special effects. Which was interesting. Hugh Jackman is RIPPED. The next morning I was insane enough to get up at SEVEN, and I just chilled with all of Salty and Rose's younger siblings for a couple of hours until Salty got up. He actually got me to play Halo 3 with him. For the record, I SUCK.

And this morning I had to get up around seven-ish to go to a college tour thingy at DeSales. I'm 99.99% positive that I want to go there. The English department is phenomenal, and the English professor has actually invited me to come back this Wednesday to meet David Lubar (who I've met already, but who I wouldn't mind meeting again - he's friggin HILARIOUS), and she also invited me to shadow her creative writing class this spring. Also, I made a new friend while I was there. His name is Chris. I randomly started talking to him at one point and found out that he was a homeschooler. I must have some kind of subconscious homeschooler radar or something.... Chris is from upstate New York, he wants to major in Computer Science, and he's really nice and really funny. We exchanged e-mail addresses and I'm hoping that he gets a Facebook soon - he said he probably was.

Oh yah, Fireside update. AUDITIONS started last Tuesday. My big audition is this coming Tuesday, though. *fidgets nervously* I've got a 2-5 page rough draft of an expository essay to write and two days to do it in, and I don't even know what subject to pick. Meep. AAAAAND Hannah and I freaked out the entire English comp class.... I brought up the Battle of Gettysburg and we discovered that not only do we both LOVE the movie and the actually place, but we also both LOVE LOVE LOVE Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. I is getting scared. Maybe we are long lost sisters or something. *shrugs*

school SUCKS....

2009-09-24T18:55:00.000-07:00

Well, maybe not TOTALLY. FA Co-op doesn't suck.

Let me be more specific.

MATH and SCIENCE suck.

In case I haven't made it clear before, math and science aren't really my strong points. Math's the worst. I'm doing consumer math this year. That's basically just money, so it should be simple, right?

No such luck. I'm learning about time cards right now, and time cards have been obselete for what, like, ten years or so? That ALONE is annoying. But I honestly DO NOT get it. I spend hours looking at my math textbook waiting for an epiphany to come, for the figures in front of me to start looking like English as opposed to some alien gibberish. It ain't happenin'.

As for science - or more specifically, chemistry - it's even worse. Pretty much EVERYTHING I'm learning in chemistry right now is either really mathy - therefore I hate it with a passion - or knowledge that I will not ever ever ever ever EVER use once I graduate from college... Which is just plain sadistic on the part of the idiots in charge of the school district who say I have to have a certain amount of knowledge in science and chemistry, two years of a foreign language, algebra, geometry, blah blah blah..... If anyone reading this isn't sure what to get me for my birthday, a voodoo kit would be nice. My chemistry book is very lucky that Mom wants to sell it at the end of the year. Cuz I'd like to burn it once I'm done with it. Dang.

Co-op, Week 2

2009-09-23T13:10:00.000-07:00

I have found my food soulmate. Her name is Hannah, she's in a few of my classes at FA co-op, and she is having a love affair with ketchup. Like me. She also actually knows who Prince Derek from the Swan Princess is.... It's nice to know I'm not the only ketchup-obsessed person on the planet.

For English Comp we have to start writing an expository essay, and I'm actually excited about it. When I was in public speaking two years ago we had to give expository speeches, so I guess I'm just used to writing them. It helps that I'm an English/writing fiend.... :/

OMG Music theater auditions are almost here. ALREADY. I gotta get my butt in gear and pick out an audition song.... Kyle, you're lucky, you don't have to audition. :P

Oh yesh, I am alsho happy becaushe my writer'sh block hash dishappeared for the moment - I wash sho in da zone dis morning.... There I go wit da lishp again, shorry people...... It'sh fun, try it! XD

Updatesh

2009-09-19T20:51:00.000-07:00

Ash you can she, White Foresht hash shtarted a lishping epidemic on the blogoshphere... Shorry. Not my fault. Hang on, maybe I can cure dish.... *slaps self in the face several times* There, I think that's better.

I got bored with my profile so I gave it a couple DRASTIC changes... Yeah right. Edited the All About Me section and got a new Random Question (cuz the one I had originally kinda sucked...). And added Stephen King to my favorite books. Stephen King = EPIC WIN.

I've been rather indisposed for the past couple days - something's goin' around the co-op. No, it isn't swine flu, so would you PLEASE stop brandishing those wooden stakes at me? Jeez... Here's hoping I'm OK by Tuesday, because missing the second day of the co-op wouldn't exactly be efficient.

OMG I CANNOT wait for the restored Blu-Ray of "Metropolis" to come out. KYLE WHEN DO YOU GET IT?!??? (Sorry, that was kind've a random topic change, I'm watching the original version of "Phantom of the Opera" right now, and when I'm watching a silent movie I either think of "Metropolis" or "Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler"... BTW, am I the only one who thinks Christina is an complete, total, and utter IDIOT?)

Oh yeah, I would like to announce that I have recently been recruited by White Forest and Mishter Kitty to help take over the world. Just FYI. When do I get my bedazzled bracelet?

CO-OP!!!!!

2009-09-16T15:37:00.000-07:00

Well, we got through the first day of our co-op with no major disasters. We have some awesome new peopleses coming this year, but I really miss last year's seniors. Although my friend Tyler surprised everyone by showing up during sixth period. I didn't notice him come in, so he tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and didn't recognize him at first (he wasn't wearing his Hat, which he, like, ALWAYS wears...), and then I was all, "AAAAH! TYLER!!!!!" I almost killed myself leaping out of my chair to hug him. He was rather disappointed that nobody managed to get a picture of my reaction.

My morning was nothing but theater classes: Music Theater (which got really random... as usual), Theater Arts, and the little kids' class, Theater Games (I'm helping out). Theater Games was sooo fun, and the kids are hilarious. After lunch I have English Composition, which is shaping up to be an absolutely circus - we have twelve people, most of whom are notorious for being completely nuts. Then I've got Study Hall, then Chemistry Lab (which wasn't nearly as scary as I thought it would be, considering I'm just taking the lab part of the class and not the lecture part as well).

OK, I gotta go, my sister is waiting for me to get off the computer...

Familial Festivities

2009-09-14T13:44:00.000-07:00

My maternal grandmother's birthday party was held yesterday at my uncle's bar, The Waiting Room, in Rahway, New Jersey (pretty sure it's my uncle Chris's bar, but I have so many uncles that I get them muddled sometimes. Especially since all the uncles on my dad's side of the family look alike). Unfortunately, I'm six years short of the legal drinking age, so I was forced to drink water. Dang. But I did get a free shirt that says "Veni. Vidi. Edi. Bibi." (I came. I saw. I ate. I drank)

OMG OUR CO-OP STARTS TOMORROW!!!!!! *imitates Mole from Atlantis* I'm so excited! But mayhaps it would be a good idea to finish my homework before English composition tomorrow.... Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.

9/11

2009-09-11T06:38:00.000-07:00

RIP to all the victims of 9/11, and thank you to all the heroes who risked their lives that day. Our government might be completely screwed right now, but this is still the best country on the planet.

In other news... We went to a booksale at our library yesterday, and I made quite a good haul - three Stephen King books (including the first book the Dark Tower series - FINALLY!), several writing books, some Victorian ghosts novels, a horror story that's a bit below my reading level but still looks cool, and a book on paranormal investigation. Much as I love booksales, I hate the crowds. I'm rather claustrophobic - okay, I'm INSANELY claustrophobic - so I don't do well in really close, stuffy spaces. At one point I was stuck between to bookshelves with people all around me, about an inch of personal space, and I was sure I was gonna get caught in a crowd crush. o.O Luckily, my entire family escaped unscathed.

I Love The Freaks That Are My Friends...

2009-09-07T17:34:00.000-07:00

My weekend was AWWWWWESOMMMME!!! Around 2:30 in the afternoon on Saturday, Kyle called and invited me to watch District 9 at Salty and Rose's house. He picked me up, and we got there around 5:00 or so, but we didn't put the movie on until about nine o'clock, due to various incidents and delays... The movie wasn't quite as good as I thought it would be, but it wasn't as depressing as one of my friends said it was, and the special effects were REALLY good (naturally, it being a Peter Jackson/WETA film and all...). Then we ended up randomly putting on Sin City (which, I confess, I had not seen until then), which I described as being film noir/thriller on weed. o.O When the movie was over we spent maybe forty-five minutes stalking people on Facebook before finally going to bed around three. I woke up around four in the morning with a cat in my face, but that was the only disturbance...

Sunday, Salty and I went to Church, and when we got back were all hung out for about twenty minutes before deciding that we were bored sitting in the basement and that we should go mall-crashing or something. But we ended up just going to Blockbuster to get a volume of Avatar episodes for Salty and Rose's younger siblings... I know, we're so wild and crazy. Anywho, Kyle left pretty much as soon as we got back, Salty disappeared to goodness knows where, so Rose and I played a couple board games (and in my defense, the only reason she beat me at Movie Mania was because I landed on the flippin "Go Back to Start" space about four times). Eventually we found Salty, and he and Rose drove me home (we stopped at RITA'S on the way, and I got what was probably my last mocha Ritaccino of the summer... I wish Rita's was open all year round).

OK, I gotta go, Voyagefan wants me to get off the computer ASAP...

Comfort and Joy

2009-09-03T07:28:00.000-07:00

First of all, can we all say a prayer for my friend Jessie? Her baby niece just died. I don't know all the details, but I do know that her family loved that child with all their hearts, and must be going through intense heartache right now. :(

Now that I've succeeded in depressing myself, I guess the rest if this post is gonna be short... Yesterday I went with Kyle's family to Sight & Sound, in Lancaster. We saw "In The Beginning", and it was thoroughly incredible. All the shows at Sight & Sound are so uplifting and inspiring, I wish I lived closer to Lancaster so I could go more often.

Birthday Parties and Profound Late-Night Discussions...

2009-08-29T22:36:00.001-07:00

My friend Maria FINALLY had her sixteenth birthday party today. Originally we were gonna go mini-golfing, but it's been raining so much lately that she decided we'd go bowling instead. Now, normally, I'm fairly decent when it comes to bowling, but today I SUCKED.... Seriously, my final score for the second game was in, like, the thirties.... But then I creamed Joseph at the moose-hunting game and felt much better.

So eventually we all headed back to Maria's house and basically chilled for a few hours. Salty came around 7 (PEER PRESSURE! I made him come. Mwahahaha) and Justin (who I haven't killed yet, oddly enough) showed up randomly around 7:15, 7:20. Several intense games of air hockey and Ping-Pong were played, and a VERY short, strange pool game was played that lasted maybe thirty seconds... Anywho, my mom made me leave around eight o'clock, but the party was pretty much breaking up around then anyways, so it really wasn't a big deal.

And then around 11:00 tonight someone knocks on my door and it turns out to be Salty, and he stayed here for like three hours, which was FUN - albeit kinda random. XD

:D

2009-08-25T09:44:00.000-07:00

REEEEALLY quick post to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BEST BEST BEST ACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, aka SEAN CONNERY!

Yeah, I'm obsessed. No need to tell me, I already know. But seriously, he's just so COOL. I don't know WHY, I don't know if it's is amazingly awesome accent or his screen presence or WHAT. He just rocks my world. Too bad he's married already and is turning 79 today. Oh well.

rose's partay!!!!

2009-08-20T09:05:00.000-07:00

Last Tuesday I went to Rose's 17th birthday party - it was friggin fantastic! A group of us went to Dorney for a few hours (until it started to rain :P....). I think I was the only one who didn't go on a billion rides. Dorney Park is kinda wasted on me because I don't like going on rides that go really high and/or really fast. So I went on the Tilt-a-Whirl and the bumper cars and that's pretty much it (Rose, Kyle, and Salty tried to get me to go on the pirate ship, but after watching the ride in action I was all, "There is no way in heck you guys are getting me on that thing.").

Anyways, after Dorney we went back to Rose's house for cake and presents, then after everyone left (a bunch of friends who didn't go to Dorney with us came for the second half of the party), Salty, Kyle, Rose, and I went out to rent a movie. Only it was after ten-thirty so all of the video rental places were closed... So we ended up at Walmart and bought "The Haunting in Connecticut". Note to anyone who HASN'T seen that movie yet - it SUCKED. However, it was sufficiently creepy to make us NOT want to go to sleep right after watching it, so we put on "Pineapple Express" and finally got to bed around five in the morning...

One final note: good luck to Salty, who started college today. We all know that you will kick some serious academic a*% during the next four years. :)

can't come up with a witty title for this

2009-08-11T17:24:00.000-07:00

Newflash: if any of you have NOT seen the new G.I. Joe movie.... WATCH IT. It was soooooo good! I went last night with Kyle, Salty, Joseph, Rose, Gandalf, and about two zillion other people (although we didn't take up an entire theater like I thought we would...) to see it, and we had so much fun. Some of the previews before the movie were fun too... There was on for RiffTrax, which is made by the same people who created on of my favorite shows, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (alas, no longer on the air, let us pause for a moment of silence). Kyle and Salty literally had to hold me back in my seat to keep me from catapulting into the screen. And a little while later there was a preview for the Percy Jackson movie. Took me about half the preview to figure out what it was for, but Gandalf and I must've figured it out at the exact same time, because at the same moment we both sat bolt upright and gave each other these "OMG!!!" looks. I CAN'T WAIT TIL IT COMES OUT!!!!!!!!!! *runs around screaming excitedly*

have to hurry up with this post because my sister's bugging me to get off the computer...

2009-08-09T11:54:00.000-07:00

Wow, THAT post title was unnecessarily long... Anywho, surviving junior year so far, yay me! I slept over at Rose and Salty's house on Friday night, and it was insanely fun. We watched "10,000 BC" (which was a terrible movie, but we had tons of fun mocking it...) and I FINALLY got to see "Iron Man"... And Salty showed me an episode of "Top Gear", during which I decided that I really want to buy an 1963 Opel Kadett and name it Oliver... Nothing else going on right now...

calling all fellow fantasy geeks!

2009-08-02T20:04:00.000-07:00

Gotta love the Internet - you trip over the most random stuff. Most of that tripped-over stuff is mediocre, but every once in a while you find something worth sharing. If you're a fantasy addict (like moi), check out this video: Unicorn Sighting

Surveys

2009-07-31T18:47:00.000-07:00

Well, my sister threatened to kill me if I didn't post these.... First, my names...

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME (mother's and father's middle names): Jean Patrick. Same as my sister....

2. NASCAR NAME (first name of your mother's dad and your father's dad): Bernard Herman - or, if you wanna spice it up, HERMAN BERNARD...

3. STAR WARS NAME (first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name): Wenbe

4. DETECTIVE NAME (fave color, fave animal): Black Dragon. Booyah! Love it!

5. SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, town you were born in): Jean Bethlehem. Me like.

6. SUPERHERO NAME (the word "the", 2nd fave color, fave drink): The Blue Coffee. Okaaaay then..... But, but, I already HAVE a superhero name - I'm THE SCRIBBLER....

7. STREET NAME (fave ice cream flavor, fave cookie): Chocolate Chocolate Chip. Gee, I sound tough... Really streetwise...

8. GANGSTA NAME (first 3 letters of your last name, plus "izzle"): Betizzle - aw, yeah, I sound so ghetto!

9. GOTH NAME (black, and the name of 1 of your pets): Black Rosemary.

Oh, and here are my answers for the quiz my sister made up (go to her blog and check it out, girls)...

1. B
2. C
3. E
4. C
5. E
6. E

And my results....

MOSTLY E'S.... "You are a writer or a bookworm. You have notebooks, books, everything. Keep on writing that stuff down! You express yourself through words. Remember, the pen is mightier than the sword!" DANG RIGHT, BABY!

it's almost midnight and i'm bored

2009-07-28T20:50:00.000-07:00

For those of you who don't follow the art contests on Seventh Sanctum (link) obsessively like I do, they announced the Extreme Character Contest winners today. And I was, to put it mildly, disappointed with the results. Sooo.... I decided to choose my own winners. Cuz I'm bored and feeling a bit random.

Grand Prize Winner: Amber Songsin - There's a dragon. Dragons = win.
First Runner-Up: Belladonna Rouge
Second Runner-Up: Tarot Ravenguard
Third Runner-Up: Lightning Seraphim - Just cuz it's so flippin cool

Honorable Mentions:
Sinner Zealot - Ummm.... mainly because he's amazingly hot.
Rage Aeon - Cuz he's CREEPAYYYYY...
Rogue Heartslayer

Oh, and here are the other contest entries, so, if you're ever as bored as I am right now, you can pick your OWN winners. And if you haven't done it already, check out the rest of Seventh Sanctum, cuz it's AMAZING.

2009-07-27T14:32:00.000-07:00

We started school today, and math was so refreshingly EASY. Happiness.... Oh, and we can get a refund on our drama camp money, so we're gonna go to Lancaster within the next few months. Yay!

Going over to my friend Grace's house on Thursday. She and her friend Valerie have their own two-girl band, and we've been talking about doing a song collab for a while (I can occasionally write decent lyrics, but I suck at writing music), so we're getting together this week.

Nothing else is really going on. "Salty" and Justin came over on Friday night and we hung out for a while. I seriously think we SHOULD shoot a low-budget horror movie in my yard....

bleah...

2009-07-25T17:59:00.000-07:00

We just got back from our church picnic. I only went on one ride - rode it twice, and then it started to rain and we had to go home, but maybe that's for the best cuz right now I'm REALLY feeling the effects of just that one ride. :P Trying not to hurl right now.....

I may or may not be going to theater camp in a week or so. I went last year, and it was okay, but I didn't really talk to anyone there or make any friends, and virtually everyone there was a better dancer/singer/actor than me, so I'm not overly-psyched at the prospect of going back. Mom says that she'll find out if she can get a refund on our money, so that my sister and I won't to go. I hope we can get a refund, because we'll be able to use that cash to go to Lancaster. :D *crosses fingers*

2009-07-22T17:18:00.001-07:00

Well, the Washington friends left today. As much as I love them, I was getting just a lil bit tired of the melodrama and dysfunction they brought with them.... Eesh. Sooo, we start school next week :O I'm a goner. On the upside, I'm planning on getting together with my friend Sarah next week, too, so we can catch up.

I've been having REEEEALLY bad writer's block lately, and it's flippin driving me INSANE. Hey White Forest, one writer to another, what are your most effective anti-writer's block techniques? Cuz nothing seems to work for me, darn it.... :P

I heard today that Russell Crowe might be making another Master and Commander movie. Which would basically rock my world. I looooooove Russell Crowe.... Well, not so much as a PERSON (I have trouble respecting people who go around chucking telephones at people), but he's really an amazing actor.

OK, well I should prolly go take a nap sometime soon, because I haven't gotten a decent night's sleep in, like, three weeks.

feeling better....

2009-07-20T07:01:00.000-07:00

Well, the BFF situation has suddenly become a whole lot better. Two nights ago, I left a letter on her bed telling her how I felt and that I needed to talk to her, and last night when she got back from Philly we went out on the porch and had a long discussion. And today, I'm feeling REALLY good. :D Thanks to ALL of you for your support (and for putting up with my long, depressed blog posts, sorry about that.....)

IN OTHER NEWS: We went to the art museum yesterday to see their temporary exhibit, "Fashion & Film". It was AMAZING. They had Alan Rickman's costume from "Sense & Sensibility" (I WAS STANDING A FOOT AWAY FROM SOMETHING ALAN RICKMAN WORE!!!! *has a seizure*) AND Colin Firth's costume from "Pride & Prejudice" (*has another seizure*). The only disappointing bit was that there weren't any Edith Head designs.... Oh well, I can't have everything, I guess....

family reunion

2009-07-18T18:36:00.000-07:00

Today we went to my family reunion (on my dad's side of the family), and I had soooo much fun. We were the first people there, which, like, NEVER happens, and no one else was there and we were wondering if maybe our relatives had given us a bogus date or something.... But don't worry, everybody showed up eventually. I got to meet my Aunt Margaret's new boyfriend (I'm the screening committee - she needs MY approval before she can seriously date anyone), and he seemed really nice. And I went for a walk with my dad and sister and was surprised that I DIDN'T get eaten alive by mosquitoes; I met my cousin Mark's fiancee (which was so weird cuz I remember when he was, like, ten); I freaked out over my little cousins cuz they are growing up SO FAST. And I was drooling over a couple of horses at one point (the park where we have the reunion ever year is right next to a horse farm, so lots of people go on trail rides and stuff), a beautiful chestnut and the most gorgeous bay I have ever seen. I was honestly contemplating Grand Theft Horse.... And I discovered that the picnic tables at the park are quite comfortable to lie on top of. Almost fell asleep. Anywho, we were originally gonna leave the reunion early because I had a birthday party to go to, but half the people invited to the party are sick so it's been postponed. So we got to stay at the reunion all day, yaaay! I love my family....

HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!!!!!

2009-07-15T09:49:00.001-07:00

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HP6 HP6 HP6 HP6 HP6 HP6 HP6 HP6 HP6 HP6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT WAS SO FLIPPIN SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah. Went to the midnight showing last night with my dad. IT. BLEW. MY. MIND. Except for that one completely random scene where they burned the Burrow, what was up with that? Oh, and kill kill KILL Lavender, I hate her sooooo much! But other than that, I thought it was definitely worth waiting the extra six months to see -SO GOOD. And the Ron/Hermioneness? I was having a seizure in my seat at some parts... My dad was all, "I don't know this person." But hey, can't help it, I'm an obsessive RHr shipper.... So sue me.

Was it my imagination, or was Alan Rickman's hair FEATHERY in this movie?

tired...

2009-07-12T07:05:00.000-07:00

Jessie's birthday party was yesterday (and the day before, cuz it was a campout....). It was FUUUUNNNNNNN!!!! Some of the highlights:
- I accidentally threw my shoe in a creek, and Jessie's friend Corin had to go save it cuz it was floating downstream.....
- We played about two billion games of Murder
- We did the Abbott and Costello skit "Who's On First?", as well as a political version with the characters of George Bush and Condaleeza Rice. Interesting to say the least.....
- I learned that I suck at badminton
- I slept with my feet sticking out through the tent flap because one of the girls, Michelle, didn't want to sleep by the door again this year
- I saw "Fame" (newer version with Irene Cara) for the first time and actually, to my surprise, liked it
- Jessie's dad decided to wake us up by shooting off his little miniature cannon three feet away from our tent

Anywho, I'm rather tired cuz I really didn't get enough sleep Friday night. :P But it was still an awesome party. Well, I gotta go get ready for Church now.....

2009-07-08T19:25:00.000-07:00

I survived getting my filling! :D It was SO annoying though, because y'know how you can't eat for, like, two hours after getting a filling? Well, about an hour after leaving the dentist, we went to Rita's. And I got a mocha Ritachino (or HOWEVER the heck you spell it....) which is my all-time FAVE thing to get at Rita's. BUT I COULDN'T FLIPPIN EAT IT FOR ANOTHER HOUR!!!! So.... yah, that made me more than a little frustrated. And now my cheek is really sore - didn't feel the dentist giving me the Novacaine shot, but I sure do feel the AFTER EFFECTS of the shot....

Just got back from the graduation/dinner/dance thingy - we left early cuz I'm on a really weird sleep schedule and I just got really tired really fast. I swing-danced with Joseph (not very well, but whatever), which was fun, and they made us do the chicken dance twice.... So yeah. Giggles is here again for the moment (she spent the last couple nights with some other friends), so I is happy.

2009-07-05T10:57:00.000-07:00

"Giggles" has been here three days and we've been having a flippin AWESOME time! We went to the local fireworks last night and had a ton of fun (except for when this old guy yelled at us for being loud, and then on the walk back to the car we started complaining about him, rather loudly, and I happened to glance over my shoulder and he was walking RIGHT BEHIND US), and we've watched lots of our favorite movies and taken two billion pictures and almost DIED because we burst out laughing like, every five seconds when we're together. :D As for the former BFF, I have no idea when I'm gonna see her because she hasn't contacted me AT ALL or given me ANY IDEA of when she can schedule me in..... If you ask me, it's her loss, because the three of us (Giggles, Voyagefan, me) have had an amazing three days.

My schedule's gonna be soooooo busy in the next few weeks. On Wednesday I've gotta go to the dentist to get a FILLING (:P) and then at night we've got a homeschooler Latin Mass/dinner/dance graduation thingy, and I've got to get Jessie's birthday present cuz her party is on Friday and Saturday, and THEN on the fourteenth I'm going to a Dr. Who marathon, and right after that we're all going straight to the release of Harry Potter 6, PLUS we're semi-starting school this week (we start early in the summer so we can take longer breaks during the schoolyear) - Spanish, math, chemistry, BLEAH! And next month I've got DRAMA CAMP! *pants* I get tired just thinking about all of it...... If you guyses don't hear from me very much, you know why. ;D

2009-07-02T04:45:00.000-07:00

The Washington friends arrive this morning - we're going to the airport to pick them up in a few hours. Well, pick ONE of them up, the younger sister of my former BFF (my sister, Voyagefan, has apparently given her the blogosphere nickname "Giggles"...). Giggles' older sister - my best friend of six years - is being picked up by the father of one of her school friends and is going to the seashore with that family. And THEN, when she gets back, she's gonna go to the house of ANOTHER school friend.

Reality. Bites.

Never MIND the fact that I've known her for about two years longer than all her dear school friends. Never MIND the fact that I've been looking forward to this visit ever since we said goodbye to them at the airport in January, and that I've been so excited these past few weeks, thinking about all the cool stuff we were gonna do. I was so happy because they had elected to visit US first, before they visited their OTHER friends.

Or so I thought.

Sooooo..... I guess I'll just be happy with what I've got. I mean, I get to spend a few days with Giggles, at least. She's so much fun, and I love her to DEATH. And as for the former BFF? I suppose I might get some time with her. If she can manage to schedule me in, and at this point, that's looking rather unlikely. I KNOW she's got a lot of friends, and that she probably loves us all equally, but it still hurts. She gave the impression that she'd kinda be visiting us FIRST.....

I thought I was over this crisis. Guess not. Sucks, don't it?

2009-06-28T15:29:00.000-07:00

My mom's show was flippin AWESOME!!! I laughed so hard my sides were hurting for hours afterwords.... And it was SO GREAT seeing Sarah again - she sat behind me, so we were talking during intermission.

THUUUUUURSDAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Less than four days, and then my friends from Washington are HEEEEEERE!!!!!!!!! Needless to say, Voyagefan and I are more than a little excited right now...

JOSEPH: Since you're graduating, do I have permission to take over the Anti-Squirrel Task Force? Cuz someone has to take over if you're leaving, or we'll be doomed....
SALTY & ROSE: I'm still ticked that I didn't get to sleep over at your house two weeks ago. Hopefully we can arrange a sleepover soon. :D

where'd everyone go?

2009-06-26T21:07:00.000-07:00

Well, I'd apologize for not posting in a while, but judging by the comments board on my previous post, nobody's felt like reading my blog.... Unless you're all having the same problem as Gandalf - apparently the site isn't letting him post comments..... Meh, whatever, who cares?

My mom's SHOW is tomorrow, and I'm reeeeally psyched to go. It's an off-broadway murder mystery/musical, and a bunch of my co-op friends are going. But the person I'm really looking forward to seeing is my friend from elementary school, Sarah - we touch once I started homeschooling (yes, I DID go to school for a few years, and believe me, I don't miss it at all). She FINALLY got on Facebook, and we've sent each other a trazillion messages so far, and I really cannot wait to see her again.

The EXTREMELY exciting thing is that my Washington friends are arriving next THURSDAY!!!!! I'm doing OK regarding the BFF thing - I imagine we're gonna have a heart-to-heart when she arrives, but I truly believe we'll always be really close.

Oh yah, Gandalf - sorry about the carnival getting rained out! Doesn't it stink? I wanted to go on the Octopus so I could scream about how much I hate you..... Just kidding, you know I think you rock.

OK, it's a little late, I didn't get enough sleep last night, so I should turn in.....

i is tired

2009-06-19T21:36:00.000-07:00

As you can tell by reading this, I somehow managed to survive the dentist. Buuuut, I gotta go back sometime to get a filling. Oh well. And I'm feeling a bit better concerning the whole BFF situation - it still sucks though.

Tonight was insanely fun, cuz I went to Perkins with "Salty" and our friend Justin, and then we walked around the Walmart/Home Depot shopping complex across the street and I watched the guys make idiots out of themselves, and we did a lot of walking around being stupid, and eventually we went back to Salty's house. I wanted to sleep over, but that didn't really work out...

OK, I'm incredibly tired right now (which is weird because it's only 12:38 AND I slept really really late this morning.....). Buenos noches, compadres.

depressed

2009-06-18T06:33:00.000-07:00

To say that I'm not in tip-top emotional health right now would be a bit of an understatement. First off, the not so bad thing: have to go to the dentist this morning. :P I hate the dentist.

But going to the dentist in ITSELF isn't so bad...... I'm just going through a bit of a friendship crisis right now. I'm kind of bestfriendless, and I've never BEEN bestfriendless in my entire life..... and when you've been BFFs with a person for five years, and you really REALLY want to STAY BFFs with them, but you know that you can't really do that, it's..... it's hard. My friendship with her has kinda been on the skids for the past year, especially since they moved to Washington. And the other night I found out that, when she and her sister come to visit us next month, she hopes to spend "some time" with me, and a lot of time with her former classmates.

Ouch.

I had an epiphany that night (and not the good kind of epiphany where the lightbulb goes on over your head and everything in the world makes sense and life is good and blah blah blah). It was the BAD kind of epiphany where you realize that things have changed and there ain't nothin' you can do about it. Which, y'know, SUCKS.

The really lousy part is that, for five years, she's always been the friend I've gone to with my problems. I love all my friends, but SHE was the one I could really, truly talk to, tell anything to. And, I just don't know what I'm going to do without that safety net in my life. I mean, I can tell ANYTHING to my mom, but it's also good to have a friend you can share your troubles with. And I kind've don't have that anymore.

Soooooooo...... when she comes to visit we're gonna need to have a MAJOR heart-to-heart, which is gonna be HORRIBLE because I have NO IDEA how to go about this sort of thing, and I just know I'll say something stupid and then she'll get mad and I'll get mad and the whole visit will be completely ruined...... Suddenly the dentist doesn't seem quite so bad compared to this......

title - turtle - whatever

2009-06-16T19:31:00.000-07:00

*yawns* Kinda braindead right now . . . I should probably be writing, but my attention span is kind of nonexistent today. :P

The mourning period for Del Monroe seems to be more or less over in this house . . . I was so sure I'd get to meet him someday, dang it, why'd he have to die?

My friend Rose slept over last Friday night and we had FUNNNNN-A! We played games and watched movies and had pizza and I thought she and my sister were gonna lynch me because I kept creaming them at Letter Roll. Hey, what can I say, I'm good at word games!

My level of braindeadedness just went up several notches, so I think I'll sign off now before I cease to make sensetepwtojewporjtprotjr

TRAGEDY!

2009-06-13T14:58:00.000-07:00

Well, maybe not a tragedy for normal people. But for us VTTBOTS fans, I have some HORRIBLE news. DEL MONROE - aka KOWALSKI - is DEAD. DECEASED. GONE. *starts crying hysterically* This is so horrible!!!!! Gandalf, Voyagefan, we must support each other in this period of mourning.

OK I'm too upset to post about anything else right now. I'll post later . . . maybe . . .

Movie Rantings

2009-06-11T20:28:00.000-07:00

Nothin' new, really. I just got back with seeing Terminator Salvation with some friends. Considering that I haven't seen ANY of the Terminator movies prior to this date, I managed to follow the plot, more or less. For the record, I would just like to say that I HATE it when time travel is used as a crucial plot device. It's so bloody confusing. You know the whole time-turner sequence in HP3? I go cross-eyed trying to figure that out whenever I watch the movie. :P ANYWHO, back on topic, my friends and I can't understand why the critics gave Terminator Salvation such a lousy review. I mean, COME ON. The movie had robots trying to destroy humanity, more explosions than any three James Bond movies chosen at random, guns being fired left and right, AND Christian Bale. My conclusion is that all movie critics give EVERYTHING negative criticism. Except the movies that actually DESERVE negative criticism. Murphy's Law of Movie Reviews.

A couple of comments towards my friends:

Salty: I intend on renewing our "reverse engineering the human brain/building a perfect computer" debate next time I see you. THIS ISN'T OVER.
Kyle: No I don't have a Twitter yet (I know you haven't actually ASKED me that lately, but I just thought I'd let you know. Again)
Gandalf: WE. NEED. TO. SEE. STAR. TREK. We need to go see it so they can throw us out for throwing popcorn at the screen and yelling hysterically because the movie is so bloody awful even if Zachary Quinto IS playing Spock and even if Leonard Nimoy DOES have a cameo!

we got our computer back!

2009-06-10T17:04:00.001-07:00

Hey, sorry about the lack of postness - our computer was down. :P Infinite thanks to Kyle and his dad who, for the millionth time, came to the technological rescue!

OKAY, so. What's new with me . . . My friend Jessie came over today which made me HAPPY! We had a photoshoot in my yard and freaked out my neighbors cuz we were walking around in weird costumes but who cares? We also semi-planned her b-day party and were GOING to do a couple more things but we ended up just lounging in the living room watching movies. Still, FUN!

At the moment I am free from the evil suffocation of writer's block. Unless you're a writer, you can't even IMAGINE how insanely irritating writer's block is. It makes you want to kill something . . . So, I am VERY happy to be writer's block-free, even if it's only temporary. :D

And once again I am out of anything marginally interesting to say. :P Oh well.

2009-06-01T11:01:00.000-07:00

This post is gonna be short cuz I gotta go to the doctor in a little while - end of the school year physical. :P I hate the doctor's office. But I'd rather go there than to the dentist (I have an appointment next month! SAVE ME!). Jessie and Skye's recital was fantasmabulistic (if either of them are reading this: you guys rock my socks off!), and hopefully, Jessie can come over within the next week or so, and then we can plan our prank, and plan our campout with Skye, and take two million photos and have her break our tree again (long story).

WAAAAAH! Co-op graduation was yesterdaaaaaaaay! All my senior friends are ABANDONING me! *cries* Oh yah, Joseph, THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU for getting the slideshows to work because my mom would've had a nervous breakdown if they didn't work - she put weeks and WEEKS into finishing them. All hail Joseph! And Salty: hi! Didn't get a chance to say hello to you yesterday . . . Sorry about that. :)

Derrrrr, I can't think of anything else to say. Oh, I wanted to share these pictures that I drawededed a couple weeks ago . . .

Disturbing, no? Boredom is never a good thing . . .

PROM!

2009-05-30T13:14:00.000-07:00

Before I get to the actual post, I have some horrible news: Cruz is, apparently, leaving the blogosphere. Which SUCKS. Cuz we're all gonna miss her like heck . . . :( Hopefully she'll change her mind.

Now that that awful, tragic announcement is out of the way, I can move on to happier things. Last night I went with a bunch of my friends to a homeschooler prom in Allentown, and it was AWESOME! We had a girls/guys dance-off, and we kicked the guys' butts. Mwahahaha. And Salty and I were really happy because they played "High School Never Ends" at this prom - they didn't play it at the Christmas dance last December. Anywho, we all danced the night away (and believe me, I'm feeling that today - so stiff).

Tonight I get to go to my friend Jessie's dance recital, which means I get to see my other friend Skye (who I NEVER get to see) and meet some of Jessie's friends, most of whom I have heard quite a lot about. I'm kinda scared, actually . . .

CANNOT WAIT for HP 6 to FINALLY come out.

WHAT THE HECK?!? HAIL?!?!?

2009-05-23T14:49:00.001-07:00

Today, Gandalf, Voyagefan, and I went to Philadelphia with Gandalf's family. We went to the Franklin Institute and it was really fun cuz we saw the Galileo exhibition and had a BLAST with the interactive sports and science exhibits. Oh, and some guy tied Gandalf and me together and told us we had to try and unknot ourselves (the guy had to show us how to do it, in the end). And we got to go through a ginormous model of a heart, which should have made my claustrophobia act up, but didn't, oddly enough.

But on the way back home, it started HAILING. It was, like, eighty-something degrees when we left this morning, and now there's freakin' HAIL?!? Am I the only one who thinks that sorta kinda bizarre? We were all sitting in the car with our fingers in our ears - it was SO loud - and I was praying that the hail wouldn't start coming through the roof. But, thankfully, we got home in one piece. *exhales in relief*

Oh, yah, yesterday was super fun, too. We went bowling, and my friend Salty (well, Salty's his blogger name, not his real name) showed up at one point, and after we finished bowling I went back to his house, and I hung out with him and his sister Rose for a few hours, and then the family went to Latin mass and I stayed back at their house and read, and then when they came back Rose and I watched "Quantum of Solace" (and Kyle, Sean Connery could eat Daniel Craig for breakfast!), and I didn't get home until, like, one-thirty in the morning. Which was annoying cuz I had to be up at about eight because Gandalf's parents were picking us up. Eep.

Eh, nothing else to talk about, really.

HYPERNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-05-14T19:32:00.000-07:00

I am INSAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNELY pumped right now. As of tonight, I am officially DONE with tenth grade! YAY ME! *throws confetti and streamers in the air and runs around screaming* Summer vacation can now start. *starts dancing*

IN OTHER NEWS . . . Last Tuesday was the last day of my homeschool co-op. I'm not gonna see some of my friends til next fall. :( But I'm gonna get together with most of them this summer. Tuesday was fun, though. My imaginary friend Chuck came allllll the way from Africa to visit, only SOME PEOPLE kept trying to BEAT HIM UP (*coughcough*Kyle*coughcough*), and someone ELSE wasn't there to say hello to Chuck (GANDALF). He's going home this weekend.

I just realized that now that vacation is here I have NO EXCUSE for neglecting my writing . . . Or my Fanfiction.net account. Hope I still have readers there . . . Better go work on the next chapter for my fanfic-in-progress . . .

ramblings . . .

2009-05-05T19:54:00.000-07:00

FYI, this post might not be totally coherent, cuz I'm really tired right now and it was a long day at co-op and my brain is fried. :P

First off, random comment responses -
- White Forest: Wishing you super GOOD LUCK with getting your work published (and finding some way to get a website!) *crosses fingers*
- Cruz: Happy blog birthday! *claps*
- Kyle: Thanks for the Skulduggery Pleasant audiobook. Oh, and if you keep dissing Much Ado About Nothing next week, I shall kill you. Cuz Jessie's bringing the LANYARD next week, and I can borrow it! *evil grin*
- Joseph: What was up with the total not being there at the co-op today? You gotta sign my yearbook!
- Voyagefan: I just lost the Game, and Rowsdower.

I had my government final today, but luckily, I'm pretty sure I didn't fail. Failing wouldn't have been a good thing . . . And I had to do a presentation in psychology today, too, and I did okay, considering I put practically the whole thing together yesterday afternoon. Yes, I DO have a procrastination problem.

Random question: does anyone have any good ideas for easy-to-pull-off, doesn't-require-any-setting-up practical jokes? See, my one friend has a campout/slumber party for her birthday every summer, and last year, we pulled the LAMEST prank ever, cuz we kind of thought of it at the last minute. Needless to say, PRANKING FAIL. So, this year, we're planning it ahead of time. Any ideas? I'm kinda new at this . . . Please get back to me.

Oh, before I forget, do any of you remember my imaginary friend, Chuck? The one who works in Africa as a missionary? Yeah, he's coming to visit next week, and he may or may not be bringing his new girlfriend, Monica (Gandalf found out about this, and he was all, "Chuck gets a girlfriend before I do?!?" Sorry, dude). Happiness!

Summer's Almost Heeeeere!!!!!

2009-05-02T17:36:00.000-07:00

As you can probably tell from the title, I'm all hyped up cuz summer has almost arrived! Now, there are many things about summer that I DON'T like - the extreme heat, the insects, and the fact that my allergies go CRAZY. But there's a lot to be said for summer. Summer vacation, my friend Jessie's birthday/slumber party/campout, the fact that my two BESTEST best friends are coming from Washington to visit us for a while . . . Can't wait!

On the schoolwork front (I know, you're all just DYING to hear about this, right?), a couple days ago, I FINISHED math for the schoolyear! Honestly, I did, like, three weeks of math in one day. For me, this is quite a record. Also, we have two more weeks of co-op left (technically, we've only got two days, but since we only meet there once a week it's easier to just say two weeks . . . Did that make sense to anyone?). I have one last GINORMOUS government test, plus a big psychology project that I should probably get started on, because it's due on Tuesday and it's definitely gonna take me a while to finish . . .

Today we went to New Jersey to go to my cousin's First Holy Communion. My gosh, he's getting so big. I remember when he was BORN and now he's growing up . . . *cries* Then we went back to my aunt and uncle's house and I watched horse-racing (I love watching horse races because it's the only sport I actually understand). Kentucky Derby was today, people! Winner: Mine That Bird, with 50-1 odds. That's REALLY long odds. And a stupid name . . . "Mine That Bird"? :P

How come nobody's been commenting lately? Don't you guys like me anymore? :( Well, I know Gandalf's not commenting cuz his computer is down, but where are the rest of you? I miss you all!