Speech Group

Blue, the kid in my speech group. Is. So. ANNOYING!!
So I put a lot of effort into designing the PowerPoint we were going to use. That was my job-- to design the PowerPoint. Then he says, "Can you send it to me? I want to see it. I'll make changes if it confuses me, then I'll send it back to you." So I sent it to him, and he completely destroyed it. He changed the fonts, everything. I originally had it so that we (him, another kid, and me) could tell whose slide what whose, so we wouldn't be confused. But then I guess Blue had another idea, so he put picture backgrounds behind the slides and changed things up. It used to look professional on some level (with the color scheme and the placement of the words) but now it looks like something a sixth grader made.

Voice... Is Back! (Kinda...)

My voice is kind of back... It still sounds really rusty, though. I'm eating cough drops. They're apparently from Elizabeth's mom.
Elizabeth, you'll get this, but no one else will cause you're the only one that speaks Chinese and I know know how to say it in English: It tastes like shuan mei.
Okay, well... great. Now Elizabeth knows what it tastes like (it's not something bad, it's a kind of food that doesn't really exist in America) but you guys don't...
Whatever. You probably never have eaten it, anyway.
But, for the record, it's a kind of sliced up, dried prune or something coated in sour stuff. I only like certain kinds of it...

Homework Again!!

Ugh... WHY DOES BIOLOGY HOMEWORK HAVE TO INCLUDE LITTLE TINY PIECES OF PAPER??

Beethoven!

We were listening to the radio during dinner, and when a familiar song came on my mom said, "Four Seasons!" Um, NO, mother, that would be Symphony 6 in F Major, Opus 68, 'Pastoral', Beethoven. How would I know? We played it in orchestra last year! So I whipped out my orchestra binder, flipped to that song, found where they were playing, and looked along with it.
I think orchestra's a little too interesting for me than it should be...

!!!!!!!!!

Anyone remember 'Are You My Mother'?

YAY SAM!

YAY!!!!!!! SAM FINALLY POSTED!!!!!!!! And she probably won't even be reading this post...

Lollipops and Candy Canes!

I have been instructed to eat hard candy (lollipops, candy canes, etc.) because I lost my voice and eating hard candy helps. Yep.

And I was going to help my World Geography teacher do a video where all I had to do was read a line off something, but I lost my voice and finally halfway convinced my friend to go and take my place. Lucky for her, my teacher's phone wasn't able to transfer videos, so she got out of it.

'1812'

My orchestra sightread the entire '1812' overture today.
Whew!

Writing Contest

This kid in Chinese class challenged me to a short story writing competition. The guidelines are it has to be between one full page to three pages, Times New Roman twelve point font, 1.5-spaced, and no space after paragraphs.
We won't put our names on them, and then we'll pass them around and see which one people like better.
I'm wondering which story I should use...
I don't even know if he's going to write one, but I'll have mine just in case. ;)

Voice

I'm losing my voice, and even so my mom is asking me a lot of quesions... I can't answer! I can't talk! Well, I can, but my voice is fading.

Elephant

Elephant (the girl who got beat up) is back at school! She looks okay, like nothing happened...

UGHHHHHHH

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...
Ch1k3n's so... Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... *crashes head on desk*

Chair Test

Right now I am in the middle of recording my chair test...
Like I was doing about two weeks ago... except for some reason, it didn't send in the right format or whatever, so it didn't get to my teacher so that she could open it.
So now I'm doing it again using another software.
I'm stopping for a minute or so cause Ch1k3n is vaccuuming his backpack, and I can't record unless I want vaccuum in the background.

YAY! Magazines!!

I just got the magazines I ordered...
I got them in seventh grade, then my mom was making fun of me reading then (it's one of those 'girl' magazines... Called 'Discovery Girl') so I didn't order them in eighth grade. I got a Christian 'girl' magazine instead, and no offense, but that was really boring... So I switched back to the other one, which is longer and has more... stuff in it overall.

*sigh*

I just got back home from, like, three days at my grandparent's ranch (we left Friday morning) and I only have four new emails...
Two which are from teachers...

Sorry...

Sorry, I haven't posted in a long time...
That's cause I was at my grandparent's ranch, and I never had time to tell you that.
So, yep.

Uncle

My uncle's getting mad at me for typing fast.
"Why can you type so fast? How many words can you type in a minute? Twenty?"
"NO!"
"Twenty-five?"
"...no... more like ninety?"
"Why don't you type slower? Can you... please... type slower??"
...aaaaaaaaand my aunt just fell asleep on the couch. She's snoring.

Haircut?

I might get a haircut today. It's getting so long I can't do anything with it.

Close Call

We were at my school today, dropping Ace, Jojoba, and Ch1k3n off to play tennis at the courts, and when we were about to go down to a duck pond that was supposedly nearby, my mom got a call.
Then, when she got off the phone, she said, "There's a huge fire right next to the studio."
So she and my dad jump into the car and drive there. My aunt, Elizabeth, Jojoba, Ace, Ch1k3n, and I stayed at the tennis courts. They played tennis a while, then Rayne came very confused, and when she finally found the parking lot, we left.
My aunt got a phone call from my mom saying that everything was okay, and the fire didn't get to the studio.
When we got home, I spotted Toby, who didn't ever show up yesterday, under our neighbor's truck.
As soon as the car stopped in our driveway, Elizabeth and I jumped out to go find him. We didn't see him at first, but then he came out, meowing. I picked him up and we started to walk back home when my parents drove by in our van. Nice to know that everything was okay.
Elizabeth took pictures of Toby, and I combed out a lot of fleas. It was gross. He has a ton of dead flea parts in his fur. *shudder*

'Little Princess' Movie

I'm reading 'The Little Princess' because I really didn't have anything else to read. I tried watching the movie, but it was way too boring...

Park!!

Today Elizabeth and I went to the park for, like, two hours. We shot a lot of random video and took pictures.
BUT TOBY WASN'T OUT TODAY!
Sad face. :(

Poptropica

Poptropica is funny... especially when you're going bonkers and it's late...
According to Elizabeth, it's funny "when you go bald."

Movie

Elizabeth and her family are here, and they're at the movie theater watching a movie. I can't, cause I'm about to go to violin lessons (of course).
When Ch1k3n came up to tell us that they were leaving, he asked, "Wait, aren't ya'll going?" and I said, "Elizabeth is," and then he got this look like, 'You're so awkward. Why don't you go? You never do anything with us' and says, "Why don't you go, then?" WELL, Mr. Smarty-pants, I HAVE VIOLIN LESSONS. Ha, well, that's ONE thing you don't know! Why don't you just find stuff out before you get upset at me for it?

Update on Elephant

Here's an update on Elephant, the girl who got beat up.
She didn't come to school today. She's probably in the hospital or something.
Another girl in my World Geography class went to the Attendance office the day that happened, and Elephant was sitting in here, waiting to be brought home. Her face was completely black and blue, and her eyes were all purple and swelled up.
So... yeah. She'll probably never come back.
She wasn't all that nice to some people, but she was nice to me. Probably cause I'm so short, she thinks of me as younger.
I guess that's a good thing.

Website

https://sites.google.com/site/beingmeerikali/
Here's a website my friend in Thailand set up.
Go check it out!
(By the way, 49 Baht is about $2.00, and if you order, she obviously wouldn't get it to you within a week, cause she's in Thailand.)

TOBY!!!!!!!!

ELIZABETH, YOU WILL SEE TOBY TOMORROW!!!!!!!!! ...hopefully...
I LOVE YOU, LITTLE TOBY KITTY!!!!!!
(He waited for me and ran up to when I was walking home! I got more picture with him, by the way.)

'A Stolen Life'

I'm reading an autobiography by Jaycee Dugard--

the girl who got kidnapped for eighteen years by this dude--

and... yeah.

FINALLY!

I am FINALLY finished with the homework that I didn't really know about until earlier this afternoon. I had to read chapters three to five of 'Animal Farm' and write three-fourths of a page a two-column style dialectical journal... Yeah... fun.

TURKEEEEEEEEEEE

Elizabeth is coming to my house tomrrow.

Fight

There was this whole fight thing at my school the other day.
Apparently Elephant, this girl in my World Geography (the class we were in at the time) got another girl upset at her in the morning. During lunch, Elephant ran to the lunch bathroom to hide, but the other girl, along with fourteen others, found her, pushed her to the floor, and started beating her up.
Elephant got a concussion and countless bruises.
The other girl got put in one of those places for 'troubled teenagers' or something.
All I saw of this was about fifty guys run into the girl's bathroom to watch. It was... quite a sight. When the teachers went in to get everyone out, so many guys piled out the restroom and ran, laughing, back to their table. Apparently fights are funny?
A girl took a video of it on her phone, and uploaded it onto the internet. Then her phone was taken away cause it wasn't supposed to be out.
Elephant didn't go back to class after lunch.

Bluecoats and the Wedding

You see this trailer? Yeah? I touched it.
It's the Bluecoat's trailer. The Bluecoats is this marching band that competes in the Drum Corps International and probably has the best percussion section in America.
It was doing something across the street from where I was playing at the wedding, and when Ch1k3n saw it he went crazy and went to take a picture with it. He didn't touch it, but I did. But, then again, he got a picture with it, so I guess that evens out.
About the wedding... I played violin and flute while Rayne played piano. I totally bombed the violin part, but did really, really well on the flute ones. It was really embarrassing how bad I did on the violin... But the flute made up for it.
It was a weird wedding. It was this Burmese girl, and all her Burmese relatives and friends brought all the little Burmese children. There were so many of them... There were probably at least forty that were there. And there were these two specific kids who went up to the pastor, bride, and groom, and started walking around. Their parents didn't even care. Then the little boy started stomping on the bride's trail from her dress, and then he ran up and hugged everyone's leg.
After the ceremony, there was a dinner. Nothing fancy, just one of those Asian food-on-big-long-tables-lined-up-and-they-don't-even-match-so-get-whatever-you-want things.
That's pretty much it.

Wrong Video!

Ch1k3n was chatting with a friend when his friend sent him a video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2nAbvuvMY0
(again, I know you can't click on the link.)
He watched it, and it's this random old-ish dude being funny or something.
And he goes back to the chat, really confused as to why his friend sent it to him, only to see that his friend typed, "Wait, sorry, wrong person."
I think someone's a little confused. Don't you think?

Amazing Picture

This picture is so cool...

!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My dad's getting annoyed at me cause he says I've only been bloggin... um, no!!!!! He wasn't even here! He can't say I did when he doesn't know it!

Club Penguin!

I'm playing Club Penguin in German! I don't know what to think of this...

Club Penguin... in German?

You can play Club Penguin in German. Mind blown.

Wedding

My cousin, Rayne (Elizabeth's sister) came to rehearse wedding songs with Ch1k3n and me. We're playing at someone's wedding at my church tomorrow...

Locked Out

I was locked outside today. Why? Let me tell you the whole story.
The bus didn't come until 4:30, almost thirty minutes late. The bus driver was TERRIBLE, and kept screaming at the kids in the back. "There is a video camera in this bus! I will take this video to the principal tomorrow morning! They can see your face and what you're saying!" Anyways, my mom called and asked where I was and if Ch1k3n was on the bus. I forgot he wasn't, so I said he was. Then she asked him if he had the key, and he had said he did, so I told her that he did. Originally, cause she was going out to teach dance class, she was going to leave the key out where I could get it and go inside, but then she decided the just because Ch1k3n had they key she wouldn't leave one for me. I didn't know that, though. So I got off the bus and walked home with Toby, the adorable little kitty that walks around our neighborhood. Before I went inside, I took picture of him on my phone. Then I went out back, with Toby still following me, and looked for the key where she said she would leave it. It wasn't there. Then I thought that it would be okay, because Ch1k3n would be home soon. I sat at the outdoor table in the backyard and did my homework, while Toby was trying to eat the eraser off of my pencil. Then he saw my cat, and they hissed at each other until I finally managed to unhook Toby's claws from the window screen and drag him away.
I was done with my homework and had already been outside for thirty minutes, so I started wondering where Ch1k3n was.
I started to write a little note to him saying I'd be at my friend's house across the street, but when I was trying to figure out the best way to hang it on the door, his friend drove up in a truck and Ch1k3n jumped out. Why was he so late? His friend was at a Quidditch team meeting.
So, basically, and hour after I got home, I finally got to go in the house.

Bed!

Going to bed now. It's early. 9:15pm. Have to get to school at 7:00 or so. Earlier than the Woods of Brent. Huh.

Chair Tests and Whatnot...

I got 6th chair in my not-school orchestra chair test. And guess who got first (in the second violin section)? Joy. Don't you think it just a liiiiiiiiittle weird that she never told me about the chair test (she knew I wouldn't be there that day!) and ended up getting first chair? I'm kind of wondering if she did that on purpose... Well, I don't think she would do that. Yeah, she wouldn't. But I'm really wondering why she never even told me about the test...

And as for school orchestra, I just finished recording my chair test. How was it? Terrible. I didn't get to use the professional recording device this time, so I had to use this super-sensitive Webcam. It was so sensitive that I had to put it all the way across the room and go into the hall and it still had points in the recording where it was too loud and has a buzzing sound. Then again, though, it's not like I'm expecting a high chair. It's school orchestra. I'm second to last in the first violin section. Everyone just thinks I'm only lucky to be there. So what does it even matter?

Best Video!!

I think this is quite possible the funnies video I've ever seen!
(I'm sorry, I know you can't click the link...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYe4EqwBgnU

DIM

In a computer media class called DIM, my two assigned partners, Pistachio and Martin, and I worked on a video. It's a ninja video, but Pistachio, who wanted to be the ninja, wouldn't wear anything but his blue jeans and one of Ch1k3n's long sleeved black shirt that I forced Pistachio to wear. He didn't have the trademark head thing. I mean, what kind of a ninja doesn't even have that? You couldn't tell at all.
The filming went okay, but I didn't think that we got enough shots (now that I think of it, Martin was supposed to be the director, Pistachio the cinematographer, and I just the editor, but I guess that didn't quite work out, cause Pistachio ended up being the main character and... I kinda took over the directing, and Martin ended up shooting the video) so we're shooting the whole thing again next class, with me being the ninja. Pistachio just... didn't work out as a ninja.

A Post...

This is a post.
A what?
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A what?
A post.
Oh, a post.


I miss theatre soooooo much... I absolutely love the glow of the lights and how they almost completely block the audience from view... The thrill of the moment just before you go onstage to the relief that washes over you right up at the last second... And the lights dim down, the applause roars like thunder, and you know that you've done well.

Writing Time!

FINALLY got more time to write on 'Saving Professor'! I wrote five pages tonight. :)

Great Going

Ch1k3n asked if he could "quickly do something on the computer", which is usually print out homework or something.
But, no, he went on Facebook and some band website to download marching band videos.
Great going, Ch1k3n. Great going.

A Change, Maybe?

Did Blogger change? There's more... blue instead of orange on this text box...

--Phobia!!

I found a list of phobias...
And I thought this one was funny--
'Bathophobia' is the fear of jumping off a high building or platform and dying.
BATHophobia. 'Bath'-ophobia. Hmmmmm... No. I don't get it.

Movie Cat!

While I was searching up a picture for the next post, I found this one.



This cat looks like it's in an intense movie dialogue scene... You know, one where he finds out he's been betrayed or something?

Toby!!

I LOVE YOU TOBY!!!!!!!!
(Okay, that's not a real picture of Toby, but it's the closest I could get.)

All-State

Racket made All-State... surprise, surprise.

What...??

WHY is my Dad listening to a little kid rap/sing in Thai?
That's weird...
Hey, this kid has good rhythmn...

Okaaaaaay, now that's just getting annoying...

Ohhhhhh... TwilightLover.

This is TwilightLover.
The next post (the one I just posted) is a reaction to this picture.

(A Quite Amazing) Facepalm

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Accent!

I was at Subway today and there was this lady behind me yelling at the phone in a British accent! It was so cool!

Whoa... Scary

So I was just downstairs and was about to walk up the stais when I blinked, and RIGHT before I blinked I saw this black figure walk into the kitchen. I mean... it was kinda like a blur of someone wearing black (I only really focused on the legs) walking really fast into the kitchen. And when I opened my eyes, it was gone, and there was no one in the kitchen, cause everyone was already upstairs.
It freaked me out.

STOP It!!

It's so annoying when my dad comes up behind me when I'm on the computer and just stares at whatever I'm doing!!

Chair Test Tomorrow!

Uhhhhh... yeah.
Chair test tomorrow.
Which I didn't know about until last Wednesday.
Yep.

Ice Skating and Birthday Cake

I went ice skating today.
It was fun.
There was this little (like... really little) girl who was really good... she'll be famous someday.
I like ice skating.
About thirty minutes after I got home, my grandparents came and we had dinner and an amazing German chocolate birthday cake for Ch1k3n and my dad.

Toilet Cat!

I'm going to toilet-train my cats!

Why Is...??

Why is Yahoo my homepage? I DON'T WANT YAHOO TO BE MY HOMEPAGE.

Birthday Party

Today's Ch1k3n's Spongebob 16th birthday party... ohhhhhhh...

Names!

I have a piece of paper that has a list of names my dad thought about giving me. Here's the list, along with comments I have--
Aimee/Amy (too popular a name)
Alicia (I like!)
Amalia (What's an Amalia??)
Amelia (It's... okay.)
Anita (Eh.... too old-lady-ish.)
Christiana, Christine (Hmmmmmm... no.)
Elena (NO.)
Francesca (I like! Sounds Italian.)
Hannah (Waaaaaay too plain.)
Elise, Ilise, Ilyse (What's up with these wacky spellings? I don't even like that name.)
Juliana, Julianne (I like! I like Juliana better than Julianne, though.)
Karen (NO. WAY.)
Linita (What? No! Sounds like some sort of washing machine soap!)
Lucette (Waaaaaay too 1800's.)
Nancy (No. Just... no.)
Natalie (Ehhhhhhh...)
Oriana (What?? Sounds like a whale constillation...)
Tanya (I like it, but it's really old sounding.)
Tiffany (I like! But it sounds really Asian.)
Viviana (Ohhhh no.)

And for names that Ch1k3n was almost named--
Abel (Reminds me of Cain and Abel...)
Allen (Well... this is a family name, so...)
Ariel (I think this was supposed to be on my side...)
Arthur (Can't stop imagining an aardvark.)
Christian (I've never liked the name.)
Daniel (It's okay... really popular name, though.)
Dominic (I like this one!)
Grant (I like this one, too!)
Jonathan (Ummmmmmm... it's okay, I guess?)
Mason (I like this one.)
Matthew (Too regular.)
Michael (It fits Ch1k3n... he looks like he could be a Michael.)
Nathaniel (Pretty close...)
Oliver (I like it, but it's so not Ch1k3n.)
Owen (NO WAY.)
Prentice (Haha! I like it! Sounds like 'apprentice.' Skandie, you should use this name in your books.)
Reuben (No. No. No.)
Terry/Terrence (Uh... yeah, no.)
Vincent (NO WAY.)

So, there you go, that's the end... and I will say goodbye for the night!

Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
I want to go there!

Shirley Temple

Looks like Jo-Single, right? I think so.

The Incredibles

We were watching The Incredibles in Speech class today, and I think that girl who plays Violet (I don't know who it is, but I'm about to go look it up) has a really annoying voice.
I know I probably can't do much better, but, seriously, I'd think they had a better choice than that!

Sorry... I'm being really critical...

WHOA-A-AAAAAAAAAAA!
Okay, the person who plays Violet is FORTY-ONE YEARS OLD!! That means she was only thirty-three when they made that movie...
No wonder!!
And get this-- you know Edna? That one really short, pushy lady with the huge glasses who made their suits? She was played by a forty-seven-year-old MAN! I mean, he was forty-seven when he played her, cause he's now fifty-four! He was the director of the whole movie, too.
This is interesting...
Movie business.
Hmmmm.
Makes me wonder.
Straaaange, strange.

PUPPY-PUPPY-PUPPY-PUPPY-PUUUUUUUUPPY!!!!!

PUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CCCCCCCCCCCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTEEEEEEEEEE!

Stop it, Cat!

I'm trying to eat ice cream, but my cat's on the table and she keeps sticking her tail in my face!!
This is chocolate ice cream, not cat fur ice cream!
OWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! SHE JUST POKED MY FACE WITH HER CLAW!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

'Love Gives Me Hope' Post

This is from Love Gives Me Hope, a website that I like:

"I am a tomboy. So I'm not exactly 'favored' by boys.
Yesterday, one of my guy friends got up on the cafeteria table and yelled, 'I want the most beautiful girl in the room to go out with me.'
I was looking around for the girl when he threw an empty juice box at my head and said, 'I was talking about you, Sky.' Cole, your LGMH."

'Gives Me Hope' Post

When my brother was little, he had just learned what the word sister meant, but didn't know brother yet.

Trying to teach him brother, I asked, "If I'm your sister, what does that make you?"

His response? "Happy." His love GMH

Oops!

I accidentally just called someone's wedding a funeral...
Oops!

At the Library

I saw Rodd at the library today.
The library.
I was in a study room, having my Geometry tutoring class, and she walked by with a weird expression.
Then, when I got out, I found Ch1k3n and I said, "I think I just saw Rodd..." and he said, "Yeah! She just walked by!"
Then, after a while, when I was waiting for Ch1k3n to come out, she came out of the study room she was in. She was talking to this man... but she didn't have books or anything... I'd really like to know what she was doing. She sounded like a tour guide, cause she was talking about how wonderful "it" was, whatever that thing was... maybe it was the library, cause whatever it was "has a wonderful children's section and even a little bookstore." She saw me and kinda looked surprised and waved...
I really wonder what she was doing there.
Bet she wondered what I was doing there.
But she will never know!
Muahahahaha!!

Are. You SERIOUS.

Okay, apparently I have a chair test in my other orchestra, and I wasn't there cause I was playing in the orchestra at NHS induction at my school.
Why didn't Joy tell me this????
Now I don't have time to practice it!

Really?

I'm looking up different Sound of Music scenes, and they're all horrible. The acting is terrible, there's not feeling to it, and the audience doesn't laugh! I don't blame the audience-- the actors aren't a bit funny!
Even the ones that have real adults as the adult roles are horrid. Like in one video, in the scene where Maria (by Kayle) says, "Thank you, Captain. Oh! I forgot to return your whistle-- Captain. I won't be needing it... CAPTAIN!" the lady in the video I watched just kinda went, "Thank you, Captain. I forgot to return this, Captain. I won't be needing it. Captain." And the Friedrich was just like, "I'm Friedrich. I'm fourteen. I'm a boy." Just plain, flat, monotonous. And the Kurt? "Brigita. You mustn't say a thing like that. I'm Kurt. ALMOST."
Wow, the Woods of Brent really IS a whole lot better... I'm glad I got to play in a performance with actual VALUE to it.

Whoa...

Cool pictures!

Toby

There is a cat at my house.
Or in front of my house.
It came Sunday night. We pet it (there were people at our house) and when they were leaving, they let the cat in!
My cat, Cassie, screamed at it, so I scooped it up and put it back outside.
And it's back?
I named it Toby.
It's not my cat.

WHOA!!!!

Umm, this is my one-thousand-thirty-third post... Whoa!

Teen, Inc.

This is a good book. It's amusing and overall just fun to read.
It's about a guy, Jaiden, whose parents are killed by an accidental microwave malfunction. The company that made it adopts Jaiden and raises hin. He meets a girl who he likes and tries to keep his true identity from her. Not long after, she finds out and tells Jaiden that her father wants to crash the company raising Jaiden. Jaiden then discovers the reason why-- the company, NECorp, is releasing mercury into local water streams in the process of manufacturimg a new product. Jaiden has to choose a side-- what he knows is rightm or the "family" he's always known. It seems predictable, but at the end, the story takes a big twist at the end.

Here are two covers that you can find. I read the one with the guy that has dark hair, but there's apparently another cover, too. I guess they both have the same idea...
And my cat os still sitting on my left arm, which means I typed this whole thing with one hand. It took a very long time. You're welcome.

MY KITTY-KITTY!!!

My cat is sitting on my lap. That means I am only typing with one hand.

When was It...

Today my teacher asked when the War of 1812 was. I didn't know.


(I know now, don't worry. :D )

Feed Kyle

A kid named Kyle in one of my classes has this shirt.
Awesome.

Lollipop, Lollipop, Oh, Lolli, Lollipop...

I'm eating an organic lollipop!

NHS Induction

My school orchestra played for the NHS Induction at our school.
It was so boring, and we didn't even practice the pieces that we played ever since the concert, which was, like, a month ago...
It was pointless for the orchestra to be there.

W-O-W, So Very Smart of Me

Elizabeth, I just sent a message to Rayne on Gmail chat asking if you were there.
*facepalm*
Kinda forgot she's at college...
And pretty much in the city I'm in, not three hours away, at your house...

Ch1k3n Looked Different...

Ch1k3n finally got his braces off!
It really didn't seem that long ago when he was complaining all the way home from when I was getting a uniform skirt... He was still in eighth grade!!
Wow, that was a really long time ago, but it doesn't seem like it.
How come Ch1k3n has such white teeth?!
I use the 3D toothpaste and my teeth still aren't as white!
Well, anyways, Ch1k3n looks a lot better now...

Don't Like This...

Okay, I just figured out that I don't like the new look.
(Read the next post.)

FINE!!

FINE, Gmail, I'll switch to the "new look"!!

Random Post?

Here's a random post about... nothing. Just cause I wanted a post to be up for today.
Oh, did I ever tell you about the kid in Geometry class?
I was playing a Geometry thing on the computer and he kept grabbing my laptop (not MINE mine, just the one I was using cause we have laptops in just about every class) and trying to figure it out. It was annoying, and he kept messing it up even more. So I would have to get it back and then, most of the time, figure it out really quickly.
And what did he say? "You're a winner, winner, chicken dinner!"
Ummmmmmmm... ??

Hopefully...

I hope that I can get in my packet for the acting agency ready...
I've been putting it off, but finally my dad has my demo reel, so he can put it on DVD. That's the last thing that I don't have that I have to send it.
So I hope I can get it in by Thanksgiving...

Hidden Image in Painting

Whoa...
This is cool.
The artist who painted this had fun with painting the clouds and painted in a devil's face...

Just thought it was kinda interesting.

Birthday E-Card

I sent my dad on a scavenger hunt, and at the end he got a letter sayind, "Check your email," where he found the e-card...
He loved it...
I didn't think the card
was THAT funny, but apparently it was?

LAST Performance...

It was quite amazing.
The first performance we did warm-ups ('we' meaning the orchestra joined in with the cast and crew) and they. Were. So. Much. Fun.
They were really dramatic, and it would be embarrassing if you were by yourself, but because everyone was doing them it was just pure fun.
I looooove the 'Bananas of the World United'...
"Form the cow! Form, form the cow! Form the cow! Form, form the cow! Now tip the cow! Tip, tip the cow! Tip the cow! Tip, tip the cow! Now HAVE A COW! HAVE, HAVE A COW! HAVE A COW! HAVE, HAVE A COW!!"
(I honestly have no idea what it means to have a cow, but apparently it's an expression...)
I also love the "Form the house--in the house--rock the house!" one. But I really like, "There's magic in the theatre and the theatre is magic. And truly blessed are those who are able to share their talents with others."
Another one of my top favorites is when we all put our arms around each other and do the "What time is it?" "IT'S SHOWTIME!" "What time is it?" "IT'S SHOWTIME!" Cause we're all yelling so loud that it seems the building could fall over...
The first performance was okay. I mean, it was just little kids and their parents, with old people.
Before the last one, we did warm-ups, but didn't get to do 'Banana.' :( When we did the SHOWTIME!! one there was just so much energy and emotion, cause it was so many senior's last performances and every was really emotional, so we turned it into spirited yelling... And then a lot of people cried afterwards...
But our last audience was so good! They clapped loudly and was the first audience to scream along with clapping, and they laughed at a lot of stuff, even stuff that wasn't even that funny. I heard that it was almost a full house. Or... at least, two times more than what we usually get.
It was sad... cause it was the last one.
I mean... I was excited to go to IHOP afterwards, but... I didn't want it to be over.
We had to clean for a long time afterwards before we went to IHOP.
IHOP was fun. Mini John Travolta (most adorable little seventh grader ever!) sat at our table and got a bowl of fruit, then he only ate, like, seven pieces. I was surprised his parents let him go... Gretl went, too. It was late, though...
And at one point Mrs. Rod came and kidnapped Nikki's camera. When she got it back, Nikki made Hale go and take pictures of every table. When she got to Captain's table, she said, "Okay, I'm going to take a picture of you guys's table, okay?" and Kronkenator was being camera-shy and said, "No. Everyone except for me." Hale kinda got upset and said, "Okay, then, I'll take a picture of just you, then!" and he took off his hat and put it in his face, and that's when Hale got a picture that was quite... strange. I guess she got what she wanted? Well, it probably wasn't enough, or maybe it was too much fun, so she TOOK the hat and THREW it in a random direction... which happened to be at me.
Okay, I WAS just standing there and laughing at the scene, but suddenly his hat is in my hands (I'm serious, it just flew into my hands) and everyone else watching just looked at me, which was intimidating, cause... I don't like to be stared at.
Kronkenator was still yelling, "TEACHER! TEACHER! TEACHER!" and trying to grab the hat from her when he realized that she didn't have it anymore. I wondered if I should be on Hale's side or be nice... I decided on being nice, so I gave the hat back.
I dragged Hale back to our table and she handed the camera to Nikki. We looked at the pictures, and appanently when Kronkenator stood up to get the hat from me, Hale sat down and took a picture of Captain... It was a funny picture. It was awkward. But it was a pretty good picture, considering the fact that he only had, like, half a second to smile.
I still laughed at the picture anyway.
Thankfully, after THAT huge thing about Hale, we left. Meaning... I went back in her car.
Next time I know-- don't let Hale get away with a camera or strange and embarrassing things happen...

E-Card

I was sending an e-card to my dad for his birthday, so I unchecked the things saying I wanted to get advertisements from them, and I previewed it, but they checked it back for me...
Ugh... I guess I'll be getting stuff from E-Card company? *sigh*

Late

It's so late and I still have to practice violin cause I have lessons tomorrow and I HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO PRACTICE and I have two new songs and... yeah.

Performance

We had a good crowd tonight. There were a lot of people, and they laughed a lot.
Afterwards, we waited outside for our rides. This car came up, the window rolled open, and someone started waving at the teachers. They said, "Hey. Hi. What you doing here?" and they go, "Ummm... who are... OH! JAMIE! What are you doing here?"
And, so, yep, it was Jamie... who graduated, like, two years back. Wonder what he was doing at the Woods of Brent...
Anyways, I didn't get picked up until 11:10. I was the last one... Which is humiliating, cause all the teachers had to wait for me... They were so mad... Well, I bet they were mad, but they just didn't show it.

NO! NOT THAT JOKE!!

Elizabeth put this joke on her blog--
"Why did the girl drop her lollipop? Cause she got run over by a bus!"
She told me this joke over the summer, and then I had a dream that night that Nikki got run over by a bus... >:( I am not on good terms with this joke!
(Haha... it's okay, Elizabeth, I'm not mad.)

Somewhat Creepy Thought

Today in Speech class this girl gave a speech about how her dad died and then came back to life.
His intestines were falling apart, and he was in his hospital bed when he actually felt his soul leave his body and from above, he could see his body still there in the bed.
Then there was this tunnel with a really bright light at the end, brighter than any light he had ever seen in his life.
And then he felt the hand of God reaching down and pulling him out.
Then he was back alive, in the hospital bed.
This has happened to quite a few people. And the non-believers who wouldn't have gone to Heaven felt this intense burning, and then the hand of God recuing them and giving them a second chance.
They became Christians.

Just a little thing for you to think about...
I used to wonder what it was like to die. Not wondering in a bad way, just curious about it. I never ever wanted to experience it, of course, but I would sometimes just wonder, cause I hadn't heard anything about it before.
I guess now I know?

DUCK!!

I'm typing with one hand cause I'm eating duck with the other...

About the Random Pictures...

I've been posting Random Pictures of the Day ever since... forever ago.
But because I didn't have any time whatsoever yesterday to do that, I'll just stop. I mean, I'll probably post some every once in a while, but I'll just call it Random Picture.
Yesterday I was two hours away watching this dance show... It was cool. Kinda. It was an hour of the same stuff. The same interesting stuff. Like the dancers were on an inclined platform and tilted towards the audience, and they would just dance really slowly and the spazz out and then go back slowly again... They're called the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Troupe, and their tour is 'Water Stains on the Wall.'
There was this reception afterwards for the people who were invited. We got to eat cheesecake. It was good.
And my mom started talking to the dancers, and she turned to me, pointed to one of the guys, and said, "All you need to marry is someone like this." Needless to say, I scooted wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay away... AWKWARD!! (She was just joking... I hope.)
And she talked to the director guy, who was a bouncy old man who's probably a ninja.
We got home after midnight, so I couldn't post... yep.