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.