So... Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson both died today. I'm sure you've heard. That's all I have to say about that bit of news.

Today, I finally got to go to the pool! (By "finally" I mean I haven't been to a pool in a couple YEARS.) I went with the boyfriend and three of my friends. We splashed around for a while. It was fun times. And then we went to get dinner at a pizza/pasta place by the boyfriend's house. One of the three friends left. We ate yummy food! Yay! After that, we figured out that we needed to go back to my house so that my friend could get her car so that she and her bf (my other friend) could go home. I guess he needed to be home by 9pm, which the boyfriend and I had not anticipated. The four of us piled into the boyfriend's car, headed to my house. We got there, and my two friends left. The boyfriend and I went inside.

And what did we do, you ask? Only one of the coolest things possible... WE WATCHED THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! HUZZAH! If you haven't seen it... well, let me warn you, it's kind of (by which I mean VERY) strange. But you should see it. Your parents might not approve, depending on who you/they are... but you should still see it. It's crazy cool. Hard to believe that Dr. Frank-N-Furter, aka Tim Curry, was the same guy that played the voice of GOD in "Animated Stories from the Bible: Music Video - Volume 1." lol WUT. (AND Nigel Thornberry from The Wild Thornberries? Sheesh.)

Anywho... After watching the movie, the boyfriend had to leave. He's sleeping over at a friend's house tonight. We talked about the movie for a minute and then he drove off. I went inside, craving something sweet, so I opened my fridge and BAM! Giant hunk of watermelon. My mommy left a chunk just for me, separate from the melon mix from fathers' day, because she knows I only like watermelon and not the others. At times like this, I can see how awesome she is. So yes, basically, I ate it and it was THE BEST WATERMELON I'VE HAD IN MY LIFE, I think. Yummy yummy.

Overall, today was a successful summer day! Yay!

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I am (hopefully) going swimming at the boyfriend's friend's house today! Huzzah! My house just got really hot... or maybe I am just toasty for no reason. I don't know. I think I shall go eat something, since it is now 3pm and I have not yet done so today. Hmm... oh mah gah I think I motivated the boyfriend a little more on the making our comic front! :D Yaaay. (If you didn't know this, we've been planning on starting one since like... winter... and it has yet to actually happen, although we do have characters and a general setting.)

If swimming does not happen today, then I will probably end up watching Rocky Horror (finally), so really it is a win-win situation. Yay!

Today feels like a good day. The end.

Psst, make sure you look at the links in my last entry.

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I just discovered a new webcomic that I like. It's pretty new (I think there are around 50 strips so far), so I read through the whole thing in like 10-15 minutes. If you like cuteness, bears, baked beans, or adventure (or a combination of these!), you should check out The Purple Hills Afar.

I saw an ad for it on the site for Pictures For Sad Children, a webcomic that I love, and it looked adorable so I checked it out. Sure enough, cuteness abound! Yay!

/end plugs

I've really got nothing interesting to say at the moment. I slept in really late today, so I haven't done very much. Probably going to eat something or whatever. Oh hay, I'll add one more thing.

I have this one ADORABLE dress that my friend gave me. Her mom bought it at Goodwill, but it was too big on her (she's tiny), so she asked if I wanted it. It turned out that the dress was too small for me. It zips up fine until about 1 inch from the top. I've had this dress in my closet for months now, not knowing what to do with it. I really like it a lot. I've decided that I'm going to try to get my mom to help me figure out how to let it out a bit, or add something to the back so that it is wearable. I would really like to wear it to the homecoming dance at the boyfriend's school next year, assuming we go.

It looks like this:

So yeah. That's all. BYE! :D

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Am I the only one who finds vintage bathing suits adorable? I'm talking about the one-piece ones that have a square top a lot of the time and you see in all those old movies. Most of what I've seen Katy Perry wear kind of resembles them.

Meh, I was just thinking about that and how much bathing suits have changed since then. I wish I could have lived back when these were still really in fashion. When I went shopping for my summer wear, I did see a few like this, however... but failed to actually purchase one. :'(

Oh well, maybe next year.

(Sorry if bathing suit entries are awkward or taboo to any of you. I just had to get that out of my system.)

My friend Kyle's birthday party is in about an hour and a half (hopefully, if his power doesn't go out again). Woo!

I think I shall check up on webcomics and waste a bit of time playing flash games.

The boyfriend and I finished Resident Evil 5! Yayyyy! :D It was amaaaazingly pretty, and a darn tootin' fun game, too. I highly recommend it (although I have to admit that I don't know what the gameplay is like on single player, since we played it full through on co-op).

Hopefully sometime this week, I will watch my newly bought copy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the boyfriend. I haven't seen it in a long time (so long that I remember absolutely NOTHING about it except that there's some singing and it's in a mansion or something along those lines). I'm pretty stoked. I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower earlier this year, and that movie was mentioned in it several times (kind of a big plot detail, but I'm not really giving anything away here by telling you that).

Speaking of Perks, HAVE YOU READ IT? I LOVED it so much! It was a really great book. I highly recommend reading it if you have not yet done so. It's fairly short (like 180 pages or something along those lines, if I remember correctly). It's from 1999, and it was set in 1991-1992, so there are a few pop culture references that may make you think back a bit, but nothing terribly hard to understand. The character supposedly writing the book, called "Charlie," made a reference to Harvey Milk at some point. I don't exactly remember why. I was reading the book right after the movie Milk came out, so I chuckled a little bit about that. So yeah, READ IT READ IT READ IT! :D

Alright, I'm done rambling. See you crazy kids later.

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Happy Fathers' (Father's? I GUESS IT WORKS BOTH WAYS!) Day!

I'm going to a minor league baseball game (which are really the best) and then coming back home for barbecue! Yum! Nothing like bbq ribs. :D :D :D After that, we will probably play Wii or something, since most of my family likes to do that. I got my dad a Wii game for Father's Day. It's Rayman: Raving Rabbids. It's supposed to be this really weird/crazy/funny party game, so I'm hoping it'll be fun.

Not much else to say at this point. I may edit and add more later, if I feel like it.

Spend some time with your dads, grandads, friends' dads, or people who are just like dads to you! Make sure they know how much you appreciate them! Yay!

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OK, this has been driving me nuts ALL day.

I was watching TV with my mom one time, YEARS ago, and we saw (I think) the beginning of this one movie. There was a boy walking down a street in a hoodie. It looked like it was probably really hot. He was bleeding, I think from his arm, and it was dripping on the ground. Then, some adult (I think his dad or someone else he knew) came by in a truck or a van or something. The adult was freaking out but I remember the boy not really saying anything or having a reaction to anything. He may or may not have had a skateboard with him.

And then the channel was changed, the movie never to be seen by me ever again.

For some reason, I was just thinking about that movie, and I was wondering if anyone out there on the interweb knows what I'm talking about. It's been driving me nuts. I keep filling the spot of the adult with Clint Eastwood, but I don't think he was actually in it. That's just my brain doing weird stuff.

SOMEONE FIGURE THIS OUT FOR ME PLEASE! Google is not being terribly helpful at this point in time.

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EDIT: So I put this up on Yahoo Answers, and some guy replied that I had seen the beginning of Arlington Road. I checked it out, and I think he's right! Yaaaay! :D

Nevermind.

Long story short: my family is not dependable for a lot of things, thus, after driving for two hours in the rain with the boyfriend and his father, we were unable to attain the Cubs tickets. We ate, and then went home.

Today was my good friend's golden birthday (woo, 17 on the 17th!). She had a party where we burned things and ate and played Rock Band. It was fun. Almost all of my friends from school were there, along with my boyfriend and a few other kids that my friend knows from outside of school. In total, there were 3 people attending that I did not know, 1 of whom my friend didn't even know. Yayyyy. :)

My sister's aunt died the other day. (All of my sisters are 1/2 sisters, if you're wondering how they have aunts who aren't related to me.) It was sad, I guess... I mean, I didn't really know her. She'd had cancer for a long time, so it wasn't really a surprise. It made me sad because my mom was about to cry when she talked about it, and my sister was sad, and I'm sure her dad was sad, since it was his sister who'd died. I wish I could hug my sister right now, though. I miss her so much...

I guess this would be a good time to introduce you to my sister.

This is an old old old picture. If my calculations are correct, this was when I was about 8, which would make her about 15. I'm guessing this was before she went to my schools Christmas Banquet.

I love old pictures like this... Also, wow, my living room used to be SO ugly. (We've since remodeled). Anyway... my sister. She's basically the most important person in my life. She's always been there for me. Even when we used to argue and get on each others' nerves, she was there when I needed her. I could always hang out in her room, and I loved watching her play video games like the Final Fantasy series. She's the reason I'm into gaming now, actually. She would randomly surprise me sometimes... like once, really early in the morning, she went to Jewel (grocery store) and bought some pastry things and some fruit and Cool Whip and we made a little breakfast before school. Another time, also really early in the morning, she bought the new DDR game and we played it before we had to leave for school. I never realized back then how cool she was.

Now, she's all grown up and in college and engaged (to a really awesome dude!) and... she's in Georgia... which is something like 14 hours away from here, I think. I would kill for a teleportation machine that could zap me right to her, whenever I wanted. I miss her so much... every time I visit her, I start to cry as soon as I'm either pulling out of the driveway or getting onto the plane... within 10 seconds of being able to see her, I just about fall apart. I hope you guys have people that you're connected to like that. No matter what happens, no matter if I do something really stupid, or if all hell breaks loose in my family, I know my sister will be there for me.

Hum... I think that's enough blogging for one day. Later, kids.

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Resident Evil 5 is such a beautiful game.

The boyfriend and I are now 2/3 of the way through.

The end.

Since it's summer, I won't be posting as much. This is simply due to the fact that noteworthy things happen in the summer 75% less than during the school year.

I went shopping with the boyfriend yesterday. I got 4 new pairs of shorts and a swimsuit! Woo! After that, I went home and my best friend came over. We went and rented Wario Ware: Smooth Moves from the video store and played that for a while. We then watched Stand By Me (which we'd also rented), and then went to sleep. She left this morning pretty early.

Later, I got up and went to Starbucks with my mom, where I met up with the boyfriend. We'd pre-planned a snuggle day (yes, we do that), so that we could just hang around at his house and... well... snuggle. Haha. We went back to his house and watched Run Fatboy Run, which was actually really cute. I liked it a lot. His mommy went to the video store for us and picked up Resident Evil 5 for XBox 360, so we started playing that on co-op. It was pretty... the graphics were pretty, I mean. The actually game is kinda gross, haha. I'm quite partial to slicing things rather than shooting them, just so you know. Anyway, we ate dinner and then went back to gaming. After that, we snuggled up on the couch for like half an hour and then my mom came and picked me up. A lovely day overall... probably one of the best I've had in a while, actually. :D

Now, I'm sitting at home, typing in my blog. (Gee, I wonder if you already knew that...) I'm debating whether or not to play some Sims 3 before going to bed. We shall see.

I want to hang with my friends soon. I kinda bailed on them the other day... not really, I just wasn't up for going out that particular night. But hey, we have the whole summer, so I'm not too worried about it.

Speaking of friends, one of my friends is having her golden birthday this Wednesday! Pretty exciting. :) I think I need to get her a present... hmm... Well I'll figure that out tomorrow or something. For now, I shall say good night!

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As per Maggie's request...

Here are some funny things that my mom found. I kept these ones from going back into the box because I feel as though I can find a special place in my room for them. They just remind me of an easier, more carefree time in my life, and I think we all need those reminders sometimes.

I have no idea who this first one came from. I don't even know what grade it was from. It just makes me laugh.

A card from a friend.

Here's a close-up of the front. If you can't read it, it says "From Danny to Norah." The speech bubble says "your my friend." I was good friends with a boy named Danny in second grade. He's Maggie's little brother! Can you believe it? Friend with one sibling and then years later, friends with the other.

Here's the inside of the card. If you can't tell, it says "hey Norah I just wanted to give you this card. I have no idea why I'm giving this to you I guess because were friends." I think what makes this so funny is the message as well as the funny little grammatical errors. Second grade... what a great year.

Skip forward to fifth grade (I think?). It was my turn to be "Champion of the Week." I read through all the papers like this I received, but wanted to share this one because now I'm good friends with the girl who wrote it. Back then, we were just classmates, if I remember correctly.


If you can't read it, it says "I'm glad your in my class. You have a nice family. I like your bear. You have cool tropheys." I guess along with being "Champion of the Week," we had to do a little show-and-tell. From what all the other papers said, I assume I brought in Orson (my teddy bear), my karate trophies, and some pictures of my family. So thanks, Maggie, for the kind note! lol.

Hope you enjoyed my little blast from the past as much as I did!

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I did not post yesterday! Oh my.

There is a very good reason for this, however.


START OF LONG STORY- SKIP THE BOLD TEXT IF YOU WANT TO SKIP IT. I'LL UNDERLINE ANYTHING IMPORTANT.

You see, the boyfriend invited me to his friend's birthday party. I went. We were hanging out at his house, and then we all went outside (at this point there were like... 8 of us?)... and then someone decided it would be fun to walk down to the railroad tracks (it's just down a hill behind his house). After that, someone else decided we would walk down the railroad tracks to this one bridge. And when we'd gotten about 3/4 of the way down, a red light by the bridge went on.

TRAIN.

Luckily, there was this weird spot where there was cement on both sides of the tracks, and on one side there was a cement slope you could go down. We all went down the slope, and I realized that the "weird spot" was actually a bridge over this little creek. We hung around, basically in the bushes, and watched the train go by. I tried to take a picture on my phone but I'd thought of it too late, so I didn't get the shot. Oh well. Instead of climbing back up the slope, someone decided to walk into the woods. We were going to go see the "killing circle." I was not pleased, but I went along with it anyway. Some of the people had on shorts/flip-flops/both, so I felt bad for them. I, unfortunately, was in my favorite jeans and my brand new maroon One-Stars. :(

We started to walk. We went through tall grass, which freaked me out because there could have been animals in it (someone saw one at some point and we found fresh deer tracks). Then, we got to a wet spot. Oh joy. My feet got kinda wet, but not too bad. We all kept walking, through the grass and bushes and trees. We went up a hill that smelled like poop (apparently there was a farm nearby) and then down the other side and through some more trees and finally made it to the "killing circle." Apparently it's called that because it's almost entirely surrounded by hill. Nothing all that interesting. Bugs starting eating us, so we decided to leave. Someone decided we would go another way.

We started to walk, and then it got wet... and wetter... and wetter. One of the guys said "I think this is the marsh... we don't want to go this way" but we walked a bit further. The leaders started laughing and we realized that we'd been pranked. They then took us back and we took a real way back to the house. I think maybe we got a little bit lost... we ended up at the creek that we had crossed earlier (somewhere past the first meadow of tall grass)... and decided the best way would be to walk through it. I took off my socks and then put my shoes back on, rolled up my jeans as best I could (although they were skinnies so it didn't work all that well), and walked across. The water went about 10 inches below my waste. :[ Someone else walked over to this close by cement thing and we realized that had we crossed there (it was about 10 feet away from where we had crossed), the water would have only gone up to mid-shin. I was pissed.

After crossing, 1/2 the boys decided they wanted to try to build a bridge next to the cement thing (which I guess was also attached to an old beaver dam). We ended up staying there for like an hour, while the one other girl with us and I slowly started to freeze our butts off. Once it was about to start getting dark, we went back... We got back to the house and I looked at the time on my phone, only to realize that we'd been out in the woods/meadows/creek/etc. for THREE HOURS.

We all went in after some people changed/hosed off... and proceeded to have a pretty good time. We ate, talked, played games, and so on.

I went home around 10:30 and looked at some more old stuff my mom found. (Maggie, there's something from you from 5th grade and another thing from Danny from 2nd grade that I want to show you!) I then went to bed.

I slept in until 1:30pm. I usually don't do that, but I guess I got exhausted after yesterday.

Today, I played Mario Paint with my SuperNes, which we just found! We have other games, but the only controller we have is the mouse, so I can only play Mario Paint for the time being. I'm looking to borrow a controller from the boyfriend.

There you have it, the last day and a half of my life.

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I just went through a few more boxes with my mom. Today's were better than yesterday's because they were old school and art projects by my sister and me. Some of the stuff was just friggin' hilarious. Other parts were adorable. Allan will appreciate this especially: according to my mom, after looking at some of the "artwork" that I made as a child, I went through an LSD phase. I should get some of the stuff I drew/made and take pictures or scan it in. It was just so funny. We were also reassured that I was the only person in my kindergarten class who could spell... sort of... at least enough that you can decipher the words I was trying to write.

EDIT: Here is an example, for your viewing pleasure.


At some points, I laughed until I cried.

Nothing else to report for today. I think I'm just gonna chill at home tonight because I'm kinda exausted for whatever reason and I'd like a night to myself.

What else?... hmm... Well everyone I know is now done with school (or is taking a summer class so that next year will be easier), so that's awesome. I'm pretty stoked for summer now. The only thing that would make it better would be my mom getting a job so that I can have some time home alone... and I guess having a little more money would not hurt, but I'm not complaining. We're still comfortable.

I think I'm done now. Byebye!

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Today... wow.

Mom and I went through some of the boxes in the basement. All of it was present wrapping stuff (boxes, bows, paper, etc.), so that was no fun but it didn't take long.

Dad came home and took me to my friend's house.

We spent (I think) about 3 hours trying to pick a movie to watch. We settled on Sweeny Todd, but then stopped watching that after about 5 minutes. Then, we started watching Equilibrium, and stopped after about 15 (horribly boring) minutes. After that, we picked Jesus Camp (that documentary about some kids in a charismatic church), and watched about 10 minutes of that before being creeped out enough to stop watching.

Finally, we settled on the Onion Movie (as in the Onion News), which was fun. I ended up leaving before the end, but that was fine because there wasn't much of a plotline, anyway.

The only thing that really stood out tonight was the fact that my friend's brother was actually NICE to me... He kept talking to me in little chunks, and my friend (his sister, duh), but not very much of it was us making fun of each other... we were just nice... well... nice and then later he hit on me. Here's how it went down:

Me: Am I sleeping over?
Friend: I dunno. I kind of want to sleep tonight.
Me: Like when?
Friend: Like 10... that's in an hour.
Me: I think I'll go home then, I want to stay up later.
Friend's brother: You can stay over tonight. *smile*
Me: ...
Friend: You've already dated one of my friends, you can't have another one.
Friend's brother: Well I'll only be here for three more weeks, anyway. *wink smile point*
Me: ...Ok now I am thoroughly creeped out.

So in writing it does not look as weird as it felt to me... but I dunno. It was just strange. I am probably making a mountain out of a molehill but I can't shake the feeling like maybe he was not kidding 100%. Maybe only 95% joke, 5% serious.

I DON'T KNOW. IT WAS WEIRD. THE END.

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Went over to the boyfriend's yesterday. We watched Deadliest Warrior for a freakin' long time. Fun fun fun. You will also be happy to know that we ate pizza puffs! (In case you weren't already aware, I LOVE pizza puffs more than breathing... in fact, I would not mind breathing pizza puffs instead of air.)

It was a good day overall.

Today has been boring. I've done nothing but eat a bit and play Sims 3. I would be hanging with friends, but we've already hung out a lot in the last couple of days, so that can wait a bit. The boyfriend is at his dad's house and my bff across the street is working today. There's nothing but computer and video games at my house, so that is what I ended up doing. Tomorrow, I will begin the first of my summer chores by bringing up a few of the boxes from the basement and organizing them with my mom. It actually might be kinda fun. :) I like looking through old stuff sometimes.

Sometimes I worry about getting really horrible diseases. I guess that's normal... I just always wonder what I'd do, who I'd tell first, and so on. I also wonder about the people who inflict pain upon themselves. I can't imagine why they would do it. I don't just mean like cutting or what have you, but anorexia and smoking and whatever else you can do to hurt yourself. To me, it makes no sense, even though I know people have their reasons.

My brain is running wild today since I've had nothing to think about except keeping my two sims alive. (Well, it was one until she got married, haha. What a nerd I am.)

I don't think I've got much else to say. Byebye, kids.

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So I'm not going to be able to get my dad a father's day present because my mom hasn't gotten a job yet. And now I'm really upset... my dad feels like he keeps getting the short end of the stick when it comes to father's day, so now this is just making it worse.

All I wanted to get him was some crab claw oven mitts. They are hilarious and if you know my family, you'll know why I would want them. Maggie's probably the only one that will get it. Two mitts, with shipping, are like $20. It's a little pricey for oven mitts, but it's not like it's anything all that expensive... But there's no money for it. I'm gonna try and figure out how to get money for them, but at the moment I've got about zero options... I guess I could try selling some stuff. GameStop will probably buy some of my games. I think that's what I'll do.

Peace out, homies.

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I won't be able to post tonight, so I figured I'd post now.

I'm heading over to Maggie's pretty soon. We are going to party it up. (Ok, she and a few of our other friends are already partying. As usual, I am the latecomer, due to the fact that the boyfriend is coming but he couldn't leave his house 'til about 10 minutes ago.) I'm pretty stoked. I got all dressed up for summer! Yay!

I played Sims 3 a ton today. It is a fun fun fun game. I'll probably go through withdrawl tonight, as I will be spending the night at Maggie's. Oh well, I have a full day tomorrow...Sunday...Monday... the entire summer, even. But I will not spend my entire summer playing the Sims 3, don't worry. I will be going on college visits and to the fair and hopefully some shows and Six Flags and all sorts of fun places like that. Also doing lots of chores so as to earn money for my trip to France. Huzzah!

Today, I am wearing purple eyeliner. Just thought you should know.

My school just called... all I heard was my mom saying hello... I wonder what it is.

Guess that's all I've got for now. Peace.

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Yay for being done with finals!!! :D

Also, yay for GETTING SIMS 3 TONIGHT! HEEHEEHEE. My daddy is going to pick it up now or within the hour, with or without me (depending on whether or not he wants to ride his motorcycle). Yes, I am spoiled. But I do have to actually earn it, so nanner. I'll end up with chores and yardwork and suchly. But it's worth it. So so so worth it.

Tomorrow is my friends' last day of finals (I was lucky enough to have 8th period study hall, so I don't have an 8th period final, which is the only one tomorrow). After that all gets done, we are celebrating at Maggie's! Woo. We are eventually going to have a paper-burning party, although I will not be burning anything from French, or most likely English. Trig and bio, however, can disappear.

I got my schedule for next year!!! :D It goes like this:

Semester 1:
Advanced French (H)
Graphic Design 1
Drawing 1
Creative Writing
Lunch (but this might get changed since everyone starts with 5th lunch)
Study Hall (I might get this changed)
Drama Studies
Doctrine & Apologetics (Bible)

Semester 2:
Advanced French (H)
Shakespeare
Digital Photo 2
Faith & Culture (Bible)
Lunch (same deal as semester 1)
Economics & Personal Finance
Ceramics 2
U.S. Government & Current Issues

Basically, it's the most beautiful schedule I've ever seen. It's a work of art, even. I should post this in my art blog, that's how beautiful it is. Haha. I'm so excited to be a senior!!! WOOOOOOO.

I think that is all. Much love, kiddos!

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D: I'm gonna have a C in biology for the semester. Poooooop. Hopefully my mom will understand that that class is the worst possible class for me, no matter how great the teacher is. (And he is awesome, I must say.)

In other news... I went to my friend's house and a few of us watched Robin Hood: Men in Tights, which is SUPER AWESOMETOWN and you should watch it, if you haven't seen it already. Cary Elwes + Dave Chappel (I think that's how it's spelled?) + Mel Brooks + more awesomeness = AWESOMENESS TO THE MAX.

Sailor Moon levels on Little Big Planet disappointed me. There was one 1/2 decent one. The rest either had no plot actually related to the manga/show, or else they were impossible to beat for various reasons. Made me sad. However, there are a few good Napoleon Dynamite levels. Bahahaha.

I don't know what else to say, so good night!

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I went and saw UP.

Here are some thoughts:

1) Super cute short before the actual film, as usual. Mega awesometown props.

2) Lovely animation

3) Great plot

4) Just overall a fantastic movie. I would see it again. A+++ with a big smiley face.

To top it all off, I will tell you something slightly embarrassing.
At one point, I actually CRIED.

Now, this may not seem like a big deal (girls cry at movies all the time, right?), but for me, it is. You see, I've NEVER cried at a movie in my life, so for whatever reason, I guess this one was just extra special. There were just some parts that made me want to sob like a baby. Even the boyfriend said he got a little choked up.

So there you have a little bit of non-spoilery input from me!

What else, what else?... Picked up a pizza and just hung at home with the boyfriend. We cracked open the chocolate egg that his mom's Finnish friend gave them. (It was an actual eggshell that had had a hole drilled/cut into it, been emptied and whatever else, and then filled with SOLID chocolate. Amazing.) It was yummy yummy. Who knew the Finns were chocolatiers?

The boyfriend left, but not before I gave him back the little blanket and pillow I'd sewn for him for our 6 months. (I'd already given it to him on our six months, which was a while back. They had velcro on them so that they could stick together and hug, but the velcro was coming loose so he wanted me to reinforce it, which I did.) He wanted to detach the blanket part, but I told him to keep it and make it smell like Old Spice (which is what he wears, heehee) and then give it back to me if he wants. We are just weird and like to keep little things to remind us of each other.

I suppose that's about all I've got to say for tonight.

OH AND I GOT A 91/100 ON MY SPEECH! HUZZAH!!! :D :D :D

For reals, now, that's all.

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I just wrote a 5 page paper about 6 songs. Woot. I feel very accomplished. I was feelin' the project so much, in fact, that I made a COVER PAGE for the damn thing. AND printed out all the lyrics to the songs. AND made a pretty cover for the CD that goes with the paper (as per request of my teacher). Sometimes, I really think I can do anything if I put my mind to it.

If you were wondering, the project was basically to analyze 6 songs from 2 consecutive decades (so 3 songs each). They had to be decades we studied in history, and they had to be post WWII, so I picked the 70s and 80s. I know, there was a LOT of crappy music at that time, but there were also some gems. It was hard picking songs to write about, though, 'cause I had to weed out all the relationship songs and the songs about nothing and such... I came up with these 6. (Please note, I don't necessarily like all of these songs, but they were interesting to read/write about.)

'70s:
1) War by Edwin Starr
2) American Pie by Don McLean
3) Let It Be by The Beatles

'80s:
1) Ebony and Ivory by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (kind of an lol)
2) Dancing in the Street (covered) by David Bowie and Mick Jagger
3) 99 Luftballons by Nena (English version called 99 Red Balloons, even though that's not the right translation, as "Luftballoons" just means air balloons or simply balloons... not to nitpick)

So there are my songs. I analyzed them and wrote about them and blah blah blah. American Pie had to be the most interesting one. 99 Luftballons was probably the most confusing/difficult to explain in actual words, haha.

ANYWAY... well really, there is no anyway. I haven't done ANYTHING today. I started reading up on songs at about noon today and just finished printing and putting everything in a folder about 15 minutes ago. I think that my writing was crap, but I don't care because it was so interesting to read about all those songs (and lots of other ones... do YOU know what the song Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood is about? I do! ;) I'll think twice about buying a "Frankie says Relax" shirt from now on and will laugh at those who wear them).

Not much else to say. LEAVE ME COMMENTS. Ok not really. Do what you want. :D

Peace. ♥

Unfortunately, I have nothing of interest to post today.

Here's what went down today...

1) Played a helluva lot of Little Big Planet (tried to figure out how to build cars and played lots of community levels)

2) Went on facebook for like a minute

3) Talked to the boyfriend on the phone for an hour and a half. We've finally established the fact that we are not *planning on* breaking up before we graduate and do intend on at least attempting to make the relationship work going into college. If that doesn't work out, then fine, but it's worth a shot. Needless to say, I'm pretty happy about that.

4) Was picked up from my house by the boyfriend. Went to his friend's house, hung out, the boys finally started their game of Axis&Allies about 30 minutes before I left.

5) Got home... which is where I am now.

Tomorrow, I will be doing the entirety of my history project, which should take me about an hour, haha. All I need to do is compile a mix of 6 songs (3 each from the 70s and 80s) and analyze them. Add an intro and conclusion and bam, I'm done. It's pretty much as simple as that. I may also end up seeing the boyfriend again, only this time in the context of just the two of us, which would be nice. Even when I get to see him often with other people, I still miss having alone time... I guess that sort of makes sense?

I guess having nothing to say really turned into having a few things to say. Hello, world!

♥

Huzzah! Today was my last Friday for the school year!

I went to a party (not really a party party) today. Nothing major, just hangin out. The boyfriend and I went to get pizza for everyone with his other friend (who may have been smoking *something* in the back seat).

Weird music was heard.

I don't have much to say, now. Bye. :)

p.s. I really don't like all the break-ups that have been happening lately. :(

I don't know what to post!

A follow up to a list of 100 things that I like seems rather difficult.

I watched Apocalypse Now (the Redux version, I guess?) today with the boyfriend. That was one of the more disturbing/weird/icky movies I've seen in my lifetime. I mean... it was a good movie, compelling and all that, but... sad and gross. And I don't feel like it was very representative of the Vietnam war. I guess I can't really say, since I wasn't there, but... riding in a boat and then (SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER)? Just doesn't seem quite right to me.

So that was that.

Today, I cried... for the first time in a long time. One of my best friends is leaving school. Today was her last day, even though the school year ends in a little under 2 weeks (including finals). She's just got some stuff going on (this is the one with the sick relative) and I think she just needs to be at home right now, and spending time with her family. She's gonna take a couple classes this summer and graduate early, so she won't be coming back next year, either. This is so weird... this person... I can't imagine spending a week, let alone another school year, without her. Sure, I'll see her often (as promised/demanded, heh), but... I dunno. It's just a strange thought that she won't be with me to make jokes during class and complain about projects and doodle on random things. And... to be honest, I'm kind of afraid. Yes, my 4 other close girlfriends at school are amazing, but it's weird to think that one of our six won't be with us as often... the one who I feel like I can most relate to, at times... I love all my girls, don't get me wrong. But she's the one I've been able to talk to about stuff all along... I dunno, I guess I'm just rambling here. My point is that my friends and I all sobbed together at the end of the school day... it sounds so dumb when put into words, but that's what happened. I'm probably going to go cry some more after I get done posting this. =/ Jay Bee... I love you so so so much. I hope you know that. You are an amazing girl and remember that I'm ALWAYS here for you, no matter what. Who else could be me and my 49 (or 196, or 7, or 1, or 4 or 2 or 8) selves? I know we'll stay close, but we've got to work hard, okay? Okay. Good. (Remember that? haha.)

I guess that's about everything I've got to say.

Hmm... oh, I finished writing my speech... I need to edit it a bit but whatever. I'm giving it on Thursday, which means lots of practicing tomorrow.

Not really anything left.

Peace out, kids.

♥

p.s. If you know someone who means a lot to you, don't be afraid to tell them, kay? It was weird... for maybe the first time, I looked my friend in the eye today and just said "I love you," right before we all went home. Maybe you don't need to do exactly that, but don't hesitate to let people know that you care about them. It really is for the best.

100th post!

Hello there, anyone who is reading this! This is no ordinary entry in my blog... you see, this is my

100TH POST!!!

I'm pretty stoked about it, so I've decided to celebrate! First, a list of 100 things that I like! Heehee.

1. blogs
2. converse
3. cherry chapstick
4. music
5. the color orange
6. dresses
7. dancing
8. cooking
9. s'mores
10. pizza puffs
11. pugs
12. One Headlight by The Wallflowers
13. white cran-strawberry juice
14. good books
15. Good Eats (tv show)
16. The Princess Bride (movie&book)
17. star tripping
18. B.G. (my stuffed kitty from teh bf)
19. webcomics
20. The Sims (JUNE 2, BABY!)
21. cameras (of all shapes, sizes, and types)
22. PaRappa the Rapper (for Playstation original)
23. Macaroni Grill (or any restaurant that puts out paper tablecloths and crayons)
24. summer
25. rain
26. the words "enthused," "indeed," and "vernacular"
27. cute text messages
28. big headphones
29. arm/leg warmers
30. beanies
31. my Poang
32. Ikea
33. Cocoa Wheats
34. sales!
35. filling out forms
36. getting good grades
37. V8
38. thinking about being a grown-up
39. but still being a kid
40. lunchtime at school
41. making funny faces
42. Pandora
43. 10 Things I Hate About You
44. study halls spent outside
45. French
46. making fun of stupid things
47. the Magic Bullet infomercial
48. not having an iPod
49. my birthday

50. regular holidays
51. facebook
52. bands that change their names
53. cosplaying
54. college mail
55. making lists
56. talking to people on AIM
57. l337
58. being the youngest one in most situations
59. digital clocks
60. my comforter
61. Guitar Hero
62. karaoke
63. being home alone
64. attractive boys
65. Cosmo & wedding magazines
66. Filthy Gorgeous time.
67. good smelling shampoo
68. giving people presents
69. ...okay and getting presents, too
70. roller coasters
71. going to the arcade
72. pretending like I know how to scrapbook
73. having smoothly shaved legs
74. going to normal-ish places in a fancy dress (i.e. bowling or Steak & Shake)
75. having a TV in my room
76. The Regular Guy (only Chicago-area people will get this, unless they listen to his podcasts)
77. meeting people I admire
78. the smell of lilacs
79. carnations (favorite)
80. syncopation
81. MS Paint contests with friends
82. trying to do the Thriller dance
83. horribly awesome movies (Evil Dead!)
84. attempting to sew
85. backspace
86. funny faces
87. band shirts
88. lolcats & failblog
89. bobby pins
90. not being in the frosh-soph hallway anymore
91. Homecoming week
92. telling stories
93. poetry
94. fresh notebooks
95. hot cocoa
96. jumping in piles of leaves
97. painting random things that most people don't paint (like shelves and shoes)
98. hugs and kisses and snuggling
99. Scattergories
100. Wikipedia

There you have it, folks, 100 things that I like!

And now, a picture!!!

I took this from the car, while my mom and I were on our way to Tennessee to see/meet Alton Brown at Opryland! It was by far one of the most amazing experiences of my life! (Good Eats, his show, is on the above list.)

What else is there? I think nothing, so there you go. Happy 100th post to me! Heh. Hope you were not too annoyed by this post. ;)

Lots of love.

♥

Star tripping is my new favorite thing to do at night. Hahahahaha.

So I had a bonfire at my house last night, and there were I think 10 people there, give or take. It was super fun. We had hot dogs and s'mores, listened to music (mini dance party... Maggie taught us how to Pop, Lock, and Drop), told stories, tried to play Red Rover (did not work well), had a piggy back race (technically Bryan and I won because we touched the fence first, even though Kyle and Lauryn were actually faster I think), sat around the bonfire, and of course went star tripping. Overall, I would call it a successful welcoming to summer vacation! (1 week of school and 4 days of finals left!)

Today is my best friend's graduation! I am so excited!!! Last weekend was her 18th birthday, and now it's her high school graduation! She's so grown up now, it's crazy. It's also crazy to think that a year from now, I'LL be the one graduating!

I thought maybe I would write my speech for English today, but I just don't want to, so I'll write it tomorrow, unless I get inspired today for some reason.

That's about all for now, kids.

♥

EDIT: Graduation was good. I kept myself busy while they read off the 500+ names by reading them to see which people were skipped and imagining why they were gone (kicked out, didn't feel like it, forgot, didn't have enough credit, etc.). It was fairly short compared to the other graduations I've been too. So now, my best friend in the world is a high school graduate. That is somewhat crazy to think about.

The bigger reason for this edit ('cause the graduation stuff really could have waited) was to tell you that tomorrow, I will be celebrating my 100TH POST!!! Woooo. I'm thinking up some fun ideas about what to post, so be on the lookout! Can't believe I've made it to 100 this quickly. (What a nerdddd.)

Hello, yet another fantastic day. I'm really enjoying this! :]

Maybe it's not that my days have gotten better recently... maybe I've just begun to appreciate them more. Not sure about that one. I guess it would make sense, though. Either way, I like it.

School was pretty good. The end.

Tonight, I ate dessert first! It was excellent. The boyfriend and I both had root beer floats at the ice cream shop near his house, and then we went back to his back yard and played a board game. It was fun until the bugs starting eating me, so we went inside and played Uno with his mommy. I love her. She is one of the best people ever, no questions asked.

After the Uno, the boyfriend and I decided that we were hungry for reals, so we went and got Subway. I will tell you something here that you don't want to know: my favorite/only order from Subway.

6 inch Italian herbs and cheese bread, with ham, American cheese, pickles, and chipotle southwest sauce

EVERY time I order that, I get the same weird look from the people around. So what if I just like to combine a whole lot of good flavors? Make your own sandwich if you don't like how mine sounds! heehee.

Anyway, we went back to his house and I got very sleepy. We snuggled and watched some TV, and then it was time for me to go home, which is where I am now.

I have nothing else to add, at the moment! ta ta!

EDIT: I forgot to add this:

Guess who decided it was a good idea to just start drawing on me? I am now not only my own canvas, but also my boyfriend's. heh.

Not much to report, once again.

For the past three days, I have been, for the most part, happy. It's been incredible. The only thing today that made me sad was reading the blog about my friend's family member (the one who is essentially dying, I posted about it recently). The blog itself is very encouraging. It's all about him, and how even though this mystery disease is changing everything about him, mentally especially, some things still stay the same, like how he is very warm and welcoming to people. The thing that made me sad was how I realize I don't spend enough time making sure the people I care about know how much I love them. Sometimes I just take them for granted, which is stupid beyond belief. Sometimes, even though I can be perfectly nice, I act out for the smallest reasons (even yesterday, I was being a grouch to the boyfriend with absolutely no good reason). Sometimes, I just neglect to say what I feel. In any case, I'm realizing more with every passing day that I should be making the most of this life, and that includes making sure that people know I love and care about them.

Hum.

In other news, I am absolutely DETERMINED to get working on the comic with the boyfriend soon. I want to at least get a basic plotline down so that I can start writing strips so that he can start drawing them, but we never can seem to plan very well. I know part of it is how busy we've both been with school, so hopefully the summer will be helpful in that sense. I really want this comic to work. I think it could be incredible.

I guess there's not much else to say for the time being.

OH WAIT. I thought my ps3 was broken today, because it just showed this wave that goes across the screen (it's the main background) but no menus or anything, so I was freaking out... I tried restarting it and unplugging/replugging it and nothing worked. Then, I decided that maybe Google had an answer for me, and you know what, it did! I guess I just had to restore the file system, but I didn't know how to do that before and now I do.

Anyway, I'm really really for reals done now.

Have a nice night/day/etc., peoples!

♥

OMGEEEEZ.

I got 100% on my biology test! It's the first thing I've aced ALL FREAKING YEAR, haha. 33 out of 33 correct. Better yet, it was the test ON THE FROG DISSECTION! Haha. I don't mean to brag, and hopefully it doesn't sound like I am. I'm just HAPPY! :]

Today was overall an amazing day... as was yesterday! I'm hoping my week keeps up like this. Heehee!

It's getting warmer outside! I love love love love love it! Warm is my favorite.

I guess tomorrow or so I should get working on my persuasive speech for English (the outline/intro are due Friday).. hopefully it won't be too hard. I think I'll be fine. 60% of the grade is for the paper, the other 40 for actually giving the presentation, so I'm shooting for at least an 80-85%. (I set my standards low for things like this). CRAP! I also have to do my proposal for my history project. Guess I'll do that now. Shouldn't take too long.

Have a nice evening, kiddos.

♥

I BEAT LITTLE BIG PLANET!

Geez, it took forevs, yo.

Oh and I got signed up for the Playstation Network so if you have an account on it, let me know and we can play ps3 games together maybe! Haha. :]

In other news... well, there is no other news

♥

Also, I think I want to write for a living.
(I know, I've changed my mind about 45 times on this...)

Specifically, I'd like to write short books.
Children's books.
Teaching books.

And I would like them to be in English and French.

I think it's what I'm going to do. It's what I would be good at, anyway.

Some asshole is trying to start drama on facebook. xD

If you don't have the Honesty Box application, I'll explain it to you. Basically, you post a question like "What do you think of me?" or "Do you like my hair?" or whatever, anything you want people's honest opinions on it. I asked why people are facebook friends with me, since I didn't really know what else to ask. This was MONTHS ago, and I've since nearly forgotten about the application. Recently, someone posted that that was a dumb question. I responded in a slightly hostile manner, but only because 1) They should get their own if they want to make a better question and 2) That doesn't actually ANSWER what I asked, now does it?

So then they responded and I responded. I said nothing mean, although maybe a little harshly-toned, and they have since called me a douche AND said I "look like a dyke." I'm a little miffed now, since I don't really like people being assholes to me, but more because they're being anonymous about it. If people have issues with me, I'd like to know who they are and if it would be at all possible to resolve things. That's just how I am.

Also, I "look like a dyke?" Does that imply that this person doesn't actually KNOW me? -_- Also, way to use a derogatory term while stereotyping at the same time. Pretty cool, huh?

People are just so STUPID sometimes! Sheesh.

(Yeah, ok, that was a little mean but ... eh...)

In other news, I had a really good day today! The boyfriend and I went out to lunch and finished playing through Halo 3! We snuggled a little and then he drove me home, which is where I am now. I love days like this. They make me that much more excited for summer!!! Heehee. 3 weeks left of school, one of which is finals week! Yahoo!!!

Mucho love, friends and people I don't know.

♥

Decent day. Not much to say about it except that I did not get a new bathing suit. The first one that I really liked was white, which seems like a bad concept (white+water=see through) and the second one that I really liked was $50... not worth buying, even adding in the reversible-ness factor.

Oh wells.

Today was just basically decent. The end.

Today is Friday! Huzzah!

Nothing happened at school today. Nothing ever happens at school. Sheesh.

Okay, I lied, there was a good chapel speaker today. I am not exaggerating when I say it was the FIRST good one of the year. *le sigh* Makes me kind of sad.

Also, my friend was upset today but she wouldn't tell anyone why. I'm worried about her. I love this girl so much... I just hope that everything is okay. I won't go into too much detail, but I will say a little bit. This girl has been going through this ongoing struggle since freshman year (we're juniors, nearly seniors). A member of her family is dying, and she's hurting. A lot. And today she said something about not being able to make plans this weekend even... up until now she'd been saying for this summer, but today she said this weekend, so I'm pretty sure that this family member is not doing too well. Even if she's been kind of waiting for something to happen, it's still gotta be tough and scary. I just hope that she'll be alright. She's strong, but this has still got to be hard. I just want to hug her.

*insert awkward transition to a lighter note here*

The boyfriend wants to hang out tomorrow. Upon asking me what I wanted to do, I told him to surprise me. I have a feeling he's not actually going to surprise me, and that I'll end up picking what we do (as usual), but it's a nice thought. This is just one of those days when I'm super super super excited to see him. Maybe it's because we analyzed "our" song in my history class today... which was actually kind of a downer, since it's such a happy sounding song with such a weird/bad/whatever background & meaning.

The song, if you wanted to know, is "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon and Garfunkel. It's "our" song because it's the first song I ever heard him sing. We were on the way home from a bowling alley after meeting a few days earlier. We weren't even dating yet. His cousin was driving, and we were in the back seat. My head was resting on his shoulder, eyes closed, and this song came on and just sang it softly in my ear. I nearly fell asleep. It was the best feeling... I don't even know how to explain it. But yeah, every time I hear it, it reminds me of that moment, and how perfect it was.

I guess there's not a whole lot else to say. See you kids tomorrow, then!

♥

p.s. If you're the praying type, could you perhaps please put in a prayer for my friend? Just for comfort and strength, I guess. Thanks. :)

Posted a couple of things on the Artsy Fartsy blog. :] You should go look. They are whimsical.

You have no idea how much I love you.

Happy birthday, bestfriend!

THIS IS WHAT IS SITTING IN MY FRONT WINDOW!

As it is my best friend's 18th birthday, my mom and I had to go crazy. Here is the ENORMOUS bag we found in which to put her 18 random items. :)

We also decorated her garage, but I don't have a picture of that except the one on my phone but that takes way too long to upload.

Just thought I'd share this with you all. Bet you wish you'd been living across the street from me for 14 years, eh? heehee.

OH MANNN.

So I went out shopping with my mommy and we found the best conglomeration of 18 presents EVER. I'll tell you about them sometime, once they are opened, because we wrapped them and now I can't remember all that they are. Teeheehee.

I am super excited to give her her stuff. Seriously. I find so much joy in giving my best friend weird presents. We are just strange people like that.

Last year, for my birthday, she gave me a sippy cup that resembled something that my last name sounds the same as. BUT I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT THAT IS OR YOU MIGHT KNOW MY LAST NAME OH NOES.

I haven't eaten since lunch... I should probably do that. There's some pizza, I think. Maybe I'll warm up a slice or two. Yummy. :]

Not much to report. I've now seen the entire first season of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. (It's only 7 episodes long.) It's pretty dern sweet. YOU SHOULD GO WATCH IT. It's on OnDemand. :]

I guess I will write more tomorrow night. Byebye, kids.

I have Jamie Foxx's "Blame It" stuck in my head. It's been there ALL day. What the heck?

In other news, my best friend and her boyfriend (who I used to be good friends with) just broke up. And basically, he is going to feel the wrath if I'm anywhere near him from now until she feels 100% over it, since it is (pretty much) entirely his fault.

I don't care if you want to defend him. That's what you've got your own blogs for. I don't care if you think I'm only getting her side of things. It doesn't matter. It doesn't make him less of a poo.

Basically, you best be on the lookout for the Norahzilla!

Well hello there, bloggers.

I am home sick from school today. Hoorah! I just watched a couple episodes of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency with my mom and then attempted (and failed, yet again) to play through The Bunker level of Little Big Planet. I don't think I'll ever end up beating that game. :[

I have a headache, which is the worst part of this dumb cold. I hate having headaches. They nauseate me after a while, which is no fun. I don't like feeling as though I'm about to blow my chunks. Oh well, it will probably go away or I'll sleep it off.

What else? Oh right, nothing, since I'm boring when I stay home.

How are you all doing?

♥

Good afternoon, folks.

I got home from school about an hour ago and I must say that, although I have one heck of a cold, my day has been going really well. I am fairly happy about life and suchly! :] Want some reasons? Here you go...

1) Summer is coming soon!
2) I have the best boyfriend EVERRRR.
3) My weekend was awesome and it made me realize how much I love and appreciate my friends.
4) Speaking of friends, I have a new one!
5) The sun is finally showing his lovely face, at least a little bit.
6) I get to stand up on the stage at school and get a French contest award on Monday... I know it seems dumb, but I'm actually kind of excited about it.
7) I'm already looking forward to the county fair, where I will get to see TWO awesome bands!
8) School is getting easier and more relaxed.

Now, these things are in addition to just the normal reasons I have to be happy, like the fact that I live in a nice house, my parents aren't terribly insane, and I go to a great school. So basically, life is good. I guess maybe here I should insert some encouragement to look around yourself and try to appreciate the little things that you have. I'm working on that, myself.

I'm off to hang with my mommy or something. :] Later, kiddos.

♥

Ok ok ok... this weekend was really busy. I'll just give you little bits and you can ask for deets later if you want them.

Friday: Went to the White Sox game... they got creamed, unfortunately. It was still a fun time, though. There were these 3 boys sitting behind my dad and me... they were maybe 8 or so. Too cute! I found it funny when they kept calling each other "peanut head."

Saturday: Shopped with dad for stuff at Menard's (hardware store). Then, continued shopping for mom's Mothers' Day present at Borders. We got her the first 3 books of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. She loves the TV show. Then, grocery shopped for Mothers' Day breakfast (still with dad). Got home and started to get ready for the Junior/Senior banquet. Got all ready minus getting into my actual dress (same one as prom dress) and then left for my friend's house. We all finished getting ready together and took a million pictures (rather, our moms took a million pictures). Two of my friends and I shared one boy, while two other friends shared another boy, and then the one couple within our group at school went together, so we were a lovely, fun, awesome group of 9. :]

We left for Jr./Sr. and to make a long story short, it was a BLAST! Yay! After that, we all went to Steak 'n' Shake! Those of us dating different schoolers invited our boys and then we brought our two freshman boys, too. We all ate and partied. Then, we went back to my friend's house (the one where we got ready) and watched a movie and just hung out... 'til about 4am. Heehee. After the boys left, the girls went to sleep.

Sunday: Dad picked me up from my friend's house. I got home and my daddy and I made breakfast for my mommy (for Mothers' Day!), which was yummy. I made crepes all by myself! They were nummy. I gave my mom her presents, which she liked a lot. After the presents and the eating, I hung out with some of my family for a little while and then my dad took me over to the boyfriend's house. He and I hung out and played Halo 3 and took a nap. (This was all over the course of about 6 hours, haha.) We also got a good talk in about our future(s), so that was good. I think we established that we want to try and stay together as much as we possibly can... pretty basic, but yeah. I kid you not when I say I would be willing to marry this kid. :]

After the nap, I came home, which is where I am now. I just posted a ton of pictures on Facebook and now I am writing this blog. So that brings you up to date. Sorry if you were worried or wondering where I'd gone all weekend! Lots of love!

♥

Woooo I'm going to a White Sox game tonight! :D With my daddy. Should be fun. I love baseball games.

In other news, Junior Senior banquet is tomorrow and as far as I know, it's nowhere near ready. Uh oh. I really hope they can pull it together. I'd be there helping now if I wasn't going to the game tonight. I think I'm going to help tomorrow if there is anything left to do in the morning. I feel really bad for the people there tonight, though, 'cause they're gonna be working hard until pretty late, I'll bet. Good luck, guys!

Speaking of which, we ALMOST had to deal with the drama of someone attempting to sign up for a seat at our table... which only has one person who is actually (or just pretending to be) friends with this person. I'm not trying to sound mean, but seriously... we have TWO of these events EVER, and then we're done... why would we want to screw it up by sitting uncomfortably with someone we don't like all night? Why would this person want to sit with a bunch of non-friends, anyway? So weird. Anyway, the deal ended up being that there was only enough room for a 9 person table, not 10 like we'd thought, so we had already filled the table. Problem solved. Hopefully this person will sit with actual friends, since that makes sense anyway...

Umm... so as to now sound like a total biznatch, I will say a little something nice.

I probably/definitely like you as a person if you are reading this! (On the off chance that I don't know who you are, introduce yourself! New friends are fun.)

Gotta go get ready. Buhbyeeee.

♥

BRUNSWICK ZONE WITH THE BOYFRIEND AND A MUTUAL FRIEND IS THE BEST.

(If you don't know this already, Brunswick Zone is a bowling alley/arcade. We went to the arcade part.)

I don't feel like posting a lot tonight, only this...

My boyfriend got a call tonight from his friend basically just telling him that his (my boyfriend's) ex had her facebook status as simply his name. It's not like it's a big deal, it's just WEIRD. If your name is Tom Johnson, and you are dating Jenny and you used to be dating Jill, how weird would it be if Jill posted her facebook status as "Tom Johnson?" And if you are Jenny, how do you feel?

The boyfriend called a different friend to confirm, as the first friend could have been pranking/stoned, however it looks as though it actually was the way he said it.

I guess it's not a big deal, I'm just wondering wtf it's all about. The boyfriend said perhaps it was her little sister going on her account to mess with her. I don't know either the ex or the sister, so I can't say if that makes sense or not, but I'm just gonna go along with it as a plausible answer until I know what actually is the reason. :]

Basically, weird things happen sometimes.

♥

Not a whole lot to write tonight. I'm tired. :P

Oh oh... I'm officially a member of the Société Honoraire de Français! I got a certificate and everything! Also, my friend Maggie is going to be president next year and I'm going to be an officer with a couple of our other friends. Madame really likes us a lot, I think. Apparently she talks about me in her other classes? Which is sort of freaky but in a cool way. I love her, though. She's super cool.

The boyfriend came over tonight (before the SHF induction, and then he came to it with me and then we went back to my house after), so that was fun. We played Halo 3 and watched tv mostly. Also spent some time trying to figure out what to do. We nearly went to the arcade but then realized he had not so much gas and we are both mostly low on money and also we only had like 2 hours and take off 30 minutes of that for a ride there and back and it really would not have been worth it. We are lame sometimes. :] I love him, though.

Tomorrow is Thursday! Which means I have four 90-minute classes. On Wednesdays, I have 3 of them, starting an hour later than usual and getting out 30 minutes earlier, so all 7 classes happen between Wednesdays and Thursdays. Anyway, I really love Thursdays, because my schedule goes like this:

8:00-9:30: Honors English
9:35-11:05: Computer Apps.
11:10-11:50: Lunch
11:55-1:25: Intermediate French
1:30-3:00: Study Hall

Block schedule is really a beautful thing, sometimes. :] The bad parts are that I really can't stand Wednesdays (sometimes), because they go like this:

9:00-10:30: Honors U.S. History
10:35-12:05: Honors Biology
12:05-12:55 : Lunch
1:00-2:30: Trigonometry

and also because they make for two additional schedules to my week, which makes a grand total of FOUR SCHEDULES. That's right, ladies and gentlmen, there's the Monday schedule, the Tuesday/Friday schedule, the Wednesday schedule, and the Thursday schedule. The nice thing is that we have these lovely contraptions called bells, so I don't really have to worry a whole lot.

What else? Not much, really. I'm pretty boring. :P

Have a nice night/day/etc.!

♥

Postponing the t-shirt post until a day that is not today because I need to do my biology homework. (Insert a picture of me making a sad face here.)

I just got home from Junior/Senior banquet prep! It was really fun. I am very paint-y. My whole face looks ever so nice. ;] White paint all over. Good times.

I actually feel like we got a lot of work done! Hopefully that means we won't be scrambling to finish by the end of it. That's how it is every year, though, so I'm not banking on our year being any different.

What else, what else? I've decided that I am pro-choice. Firstly, I don't think it's my business to force my own beliefs and morals upon another person. (I would likely not have an abortion, however I would not want someone telling me I'm wrong/bad/etc. if I did decide to have one for some reason.) This is especially huge in my mind because basically the essential part of my faith is love, and if I'm forcing my beliefs down someone else's throat, I don't see how that could be "loving" them in any way. On top of that, I think it would be better for a woman to get an abortion in a hospital rather than try to do it on her own. It's much safer to get one in a hospital/clinic, obviously. I'd rather see one person (fetus/baby/"soul"/whatever you want to call it) die than two. I know that is definitely not a nice thing or really a "good" thing to think, but that's the way my mind works.

The above mentioned is open to discussion, however if someone starts sounding either like they are condemning my words or acting as though they are better somehow than I am, the discussion will be close or they will be cut out of it. This is my blog, I write about what I want, and I will not be criticized for it. I'm not saying that you can't dispute what I say, but be respectful and maybe even nice about it. Trust me, it works a LOT better than just being a jerk.

I dunno if I have much else to say right now. I'm tired and I need to get my bio homework done, so I guess I'll go do that.

Night night, friends.

I just went to get some laundry out of the basement (that's where the washer & dryer are!) and I thought of something.

I would like to have a post about my favorite t-shirts. Why? I think clothing, specifically t-shirts can say a lot about people. I already have a couple in my head. I think I will take pictures of them and then write about them.

This post is mostly a reminder to myself to do that at some point.

♥

Hello there, people of Blogger.

I just tried dill pickle-flavored Pringles. DELICIOUS, I must say.

In other news... I'm getting inducted into the French National Honors Society on Wednesday evening. That should be cool.

I finished Death of a Salesman and wrote a review about it for my English class. It was really good. I recommend it if you are a mature reader who would like to read about an old salesman in the... 40s?... who is basically loosing his marbles. Super interesting.

The boyfriend just called me to tell me that he's heading over to my house now... and then he told me that he was DRIVING while on the phone with me. I told him to get off the phone, but he just kept talking so I hung up on him. I know it seems mean, but I will not have him on the phone while he is driving, if I can help it. It's way too dangerous/stupid.

Speaking of which, we are probably going to finish Halo 2 tonight! Hoorah!

Okay, I'm bored of blogging for the time being. Peace out, kids.

♥

Hey there, Birthday Girl!

Hello there!

Just wanting to wish Maggie a happy birthday! Wow, 18!! That's so crazy! Here are some things you can now go out and do! (I know, we talked about this at school already, but I'm figuring it would be fun to have a list written out.)

-Buy cigarettes!
-Buy lottery tickets!
-Go to a strip club!
-Register to vote!
-Get a job somewhere that requires you to be 18! (I think the electronics part of Toys 'R Us is one.)
-Join the military!
-Get a credit card!
-Order something from a commercial! (I suggest BLOWPENS.)
-Get a tattoo!
-Buy pornography!
-Be good! (This is kind of a reverse thing to do, since now you can be TRIED AS AN ADULT!)
-Go to jury duty!
-Date old men!
-Get married!

Hopefully I haven't left any out. Anyway, Maggie dear, I love you tons! I hope your 18th birthday is as awesome as you are!

♥

p.s. If you aren't Maggie and you are reading this, then... well... happy Sunday to you, since it's probably not also your birthday. :D

Prom

Hello! As you already know, prom was last night. Ohmygoodness... so so so so so much fun!

I'm going to be crazy and put pictures up here! (Face included!)

Gotta rock the Converse, baby.

The boyfriend and me. This is my favorite picture from the ones my mom took. (Can't wait to see the ones his family took!)

I did not take any pictures AT prom. I think that was the only bad decision I made last night. Still, it's not like we were with my friends anyway, so I guess I don't mind it much. Next week, at the junior/senior banquet at my school, I'll be sure to take millions of pictures (especially of my "date" and his 4 other "dates!" What a pimpdaddy.)

So... What is there to really tell about prom? We got in, sat around for a while. They brought us dinner, which was pretty good. There was a LOT of food, actually. Too much, I think, but still. The boyfriend and I sat with the usual crowd, who I am getting to know a bit better each time we hang out. Then we opened up the favors on the table (no one believed me when I said that they weren't just decoration!! I kept telling them the bubble wrap underneath the tissue paper meant there was something in the packages!) and they turned out to be these cute photo cubes. I think I left mine in the boyfriend's car. Oh well, I'll get it back at some point.

After the dinner, there was much dancing. For some strange reason, I love to dance, even though I'm terrible at it. (Admittedly, so is the boyfriend, so it's all good. At least we look like idiots together.) Surprisingly, no one else there had my dress! I was so happy! And I got to spend like $100 less on it than most girls, so that was nice, too. Teeheehee. Anyway, I ended up getting a side cramp in the middle of Shout (you know... throw your hands up and shout! that song) but it calmed down during the YMCA, which was immediately after. I dunno why they decided to pair together the two old-school dance songs instead of splitting them up. Basically everything else was hip hop or pop. Just the usual dance mix. No Daft Punk. :'[ But still good.

Time passed by really fast, and all of a sudden it was 11pm, time to go. The DJ played two or three more songs and then everyone had to leave. Sad. But wow, it was so awesome! The boyfriend and I drove back to his house, where we changed into some of his clothes (I borrowed a t-shirt and some shorts) and then his mom drove us to his friend's house. There were maybe 15 people there, some who left early, some who arrived later, but it was about that many overall. The friend's dad was so nice! And wow, he kept bringing us platter after platter after platter of food. It was good. We all just sat around, listened to music, laughed, snuggled. At one point, the boyfriend was analyzing the "snuggle factor" in the room, talking about which couches were well-balanced and which ones needed a little extra snuggle to happen. It made me laugh. At that point, it was about 1:30am and I was getting really sleepy. My mom was coming to get me at 2:30, so I just stayed and snuggled.

2:30 came and I was nearly asleep. I waited for 5 minutes, then texted my mom. Waited another 5 and then called her cell, only to realize that it was not on. I waited 5 more minutes and finally decided to call the house phone and risk waking up my father. My mom answered and then left to pick me up. I was secretly happy she fell asleep because it meant an extra half-hour of snuggle time with my baby! At that point, we had managed to take over the loveseat and I was just curled up in a ball under his arm. It was nice. My mom arrived at about 3am and then I went home, texted the boyfriend goodnight, and promptly fell asleep.

A good night overall, I'd say.

Next weekend is my school's version of prom, the junior/senior banquet, which I am really excited for. I get to wear the same dress and I'm gonna be with most of my best friends. I'm so lucky that I get to go to not one but TWO proms! :) Except there won't be dancing at the one at my school, but still. Super fun.

Sorry for the long post. I just had so so much fun! Hope you are all doing well!

♥

AIM?

I know I keep posting way too much but I was wondering...

anyone use AIM? If yes, want to give me your screenname? We could talk and stuff.

:D

Maggie showed me today that you can get onto this website from the school computers. Most blogging/"social networking" sites are blocked for various reasons, but somehow this one has fallen through the cracks. Teeheehee. :3

Prom is tomorrow! Huzzah!

Related (to the huzzah): I changed my language on Facebook from English to PIRATE ENGLISH! :D It's super fun but I've managed to get lost a couple of times. It still makes me happy, though. Super funtimes, yo.

I discovered a couple of days ago that I can make my phone make this funny noise when I open and close it. I've been showing it off to everyone.

Have I mentioned that prom is tomorrow? :D I should probably charge my camera and paint my nails and shave my legs and make sure I know how I'm doing my hair and that I know where my nylons and my black Converse are. BUT BESIDES THAT, NBD.

I think maybe I'll play Sims tonight. Not sure. I haven't played in a week or so. Booh! I should maybe hop onto Fiesta (mmorpg that I used to play obsessively but it's starting to fizzle out of my life again) to make sure everyone knows I'm not dead. *sigh* I feel bad that I don't play too often anymore. It's fun, but not when you're too high of a level to be able to level up in less than 2 days of relaxed playing. =/
*end nerdrant*

OMGEEZ MAGGIE'S 18th BIRTHDAY IS ON SUNDAY! We're celebrating over lunch tomorrow (and maybe partying later on? Maggie- you should do something big! If you want, of course. Heehee)! So that should be fun. I got her a couple of things that I hope she will like. ;]

Oh and after lunch, I dunno if I've said this already, but I'll be getting ready and then going to prom! Wootsauce.

Tomorrow is a halfday, which means that we'll have 30 minute classes. It's gonna be super hectic, though. I have to disect a crayfish in bio! :[ Not that I mind the disection, just the time limit. And then I'm guessing test correction crap in Trig, and then in English we have a test thing, and after those I think I am home free. Computer Apps, French and Study Hall are generally stress-free periods. :]

So yeah. Crazytime, then birthday celebrations for Maggie, then prom! Lots of stuff happening but it'll be funfunfun. I'm so excited!

That's all for now.

♥

I feel like my blog needs to be prettier. Originally, I picked the layout because it had a star on it that reminded me of Converse shoes. No joke.

But now, I see all these pretty blogs and I want mine to be pretty! I feel so selfish.

Someone want to help me figure out how to make my blog prettier? :3

I think I would like this picture up, nice and big, somewhere:



Doesn't it just make you smile and put little warm fuzzies in your heart?

I was having a bad day, maybe a year or two ago... and I talked to my friend about it. She told me I needed one of those things ^ and so I looked at the picture in the link and it cheered me up. I have no idea where she finds this stuff, but it's one of the reasons I love her so much.

So yeah. Someone help me? (Probably I'll not want to wait and just look on Google for how to do it, but we shall see...)

I have to do some English homework, but it can wait.

I think I want to take a nap? Maybe? Or watch a movie or two. Or maybe none of that. I think I'm hanging out with the boyfriend tonight, so that should be fun. :) I miss him. I haven't seen him since... Sunday. (I know it doesn't seem like that long, but I am spoiled and normally get to see him like every other day-ish, so yeah.)

I've got the worst case of the yawns today. Geesh. Perhaps it's because I'm starting to become exhausted again.

School+college planning+getting hour-long phonecalls at about 1 or 2am on a regular basis = Sleepy Norah.

Aaaaanyway...I should probably figure out how I'm doing to do my hair for prom, since it's in two days(!) and such. It's short, so I believe I will just do a poof with my bangs and then flip out the sides. (Boys, if you don't know what a poof/pouf is, Google has a great deal of images that could show you.) I have these bobby pins with black flowers on them and my mom tied pink ribbon on them (to match the pink sash in the middle of my dress), so I'm trying to figure out what to do with them. I think I might only use one. Maybe I should go try that out like... now.

Hum. I guess that's all I've got to write for the moment.

Oh wait, one more thing.

Have you ever had one of those days when you feel like you're not really looking at anything? Like, you walk down a hallway and there are all these people and things around, and sometimes the people day hi, but you're just kind of walking along in your own head, not really paying attention but still managing not to run anyone over...? I had one of those days today.

Hello, crazy train.

Care to spare a seat for me?

I feel like you should be my bestest pal and it's freaking me out, quite frankly.
WHY DID I NOT KNOW YOU SOONER?
I get the new-friend butterflies from our conversations. Know the feeling? It's crazy-cool.
I kind of just want to give you a high five right now.
Or we could just bake a cake together. That would be cool, too.


It's funny how this applies to multiple people.

DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE ONE OF THEM?

Well if you feel like you are one of them, then you're probably one of them.

I have the greatest biology teacher EVER. Seriously. I am NOT a science-y person, but I like going to bio just because my teacher is psychotic but in a fun way. He has this red chair, and when he pulls it up in front of his desk that he teaches behind, we all know one thing: it's story time. And I don't mean biology-related stories. For the most part, he just tells us random stories whenever there's a little extra time in class (or sometimes when we just need a little pick-me/us-up). So today, he pulled up the story chair, and started talking about how he used to go to his grandparents' farm when he was a kid and how they'd let him feed the chickens with...

CERN CORNELS.

I started cracking up when I heard him say that. He then proceeded to go,

"Cern? CERN?!?!" and then started to laugh... if you knew him, you'd understand why the laugh is a huge part of the story. When anyone hears my bio teacher laugh, they automatically know that it's him. Do you know anyone like that, people you know are around just because of their laugh? If I could possibly put my bio teacher's laugh into type, it would look something like this...

aaaaaAAAAAA HA HA HA *wheeze* HA ha haaaa.....


I can't even begin to explain to you how hilarious it is.

What else? What else? Oh oh, prom is on Friday! Woot!

I managed to cut my ring finger on my right hand with ... wait for it... a HAIRCLIP today.

Today is my middle sister's birthday. (I have three older sisters. She's the middle of the three. Get it? haha.)

It's also my Grandma's birthday. She died a few years ago. I can't remember much about her, but the stories are wonderful. She was really beautiful when she was young. My youngest (but still older) sister looks a lot like her, I think. Evidently, my Grandma spoke French. I didn't know that until my mom told me today. I like knowing it, though. Makes me feel like we had more of a connection that I'd originally thought.

Ummm... I don't know if there is anything else worthwhile to say here. I might post again later if I think of something. We shall see. ♥

OMG ALL THE BLOGS I READ ARE INTERCONNECTED!

>_<

Basically.





Also, some new things have happened in my life this weekend. Nothing you should worry your pretty little head over, though. Just new. :] And that is all.

edit: p.s. Thanks to Allan, I fixed my comments so that if there is only 1 comment, it will read as "1 word of wisdom" instead of "1 words of wisdom." It just makes more sense that way. Allan, I hope you are not mad that I stole your idea. Imitation is the finest form of flattery, right? (I really like that f f f alliteration, there.)

Word Verification Word Of the Day! (I know I haven't done this in a while).

pebrain

(Speaks for itself, doesn't it?)

I'm going to see 17 Again with my friends in like 20 minutes. Not my first choice in a movie, but I'm going with them and they want to see it and I have 1 friend that liked it so... hopefully it will be fun. When it comes to movies, it doesn't matter what we are watching, as long as we're together. We're just like that. Movies are sort of our "thing." Well... that and Pristine Grapes.

You haven't lived until you've eaten a Pristine Grape. We were having grape-asms, I swear. They are so so so wonderful. Too bad they're kind of hard to find.

Anywho, it's been raining all day (and weekend), so I've decided to wear a nice, bright, orange sweater today to make the world a little less gray. I like doing things like that.

Gotta finish getting ready to go! Peace out, kids.