Prince Rock!

Yesterday I didn't post because we went to Prince Rock with our cousins.
It was a long drive, and when we got there we had to wait in a line to get in. We got in not too long later, and then we started up Prince Rock. I brought my jacket, my water bottle, and a bag of pretzels. We lost some pretzels because, well... do you know how hard it is to climb and hold onto a bag made of thin plastic and not let it break?
We finally got to the top. It was easier than I expected. The view was pretty cool. Then my dad mentioned a cave, and I really wanted to go. But because CHICKEN had gone before with his Boy Scout troop, he thought that he knew EVERYTHING about it. "That's not a good idea for us to go in there, because it's pitch black, and you need a flashlight. And in the end it gets all wet and you need to crawl the rest of the way through tight rocks, and... yeah, it's really just not a good idea at all." We somehow ignored him. My mom stayed behind to watch our stuff.
My dad only had two flashlights, so he had one (it was really more of a light attatched onto a band that you put on your head) and Jojoba had one. The rest of us used our phones. I had taken a picture of pure light before, so I set it as my wallpaper and flipped it up and down so it wouldn't go out. The cave was really fun. It was dangerous at some points, like where you had to drop down foot-first through a little hole onto a rock underneath, and where you had to put your feet on one side of a crevice and your hands on the other to get through, and where there were steep drops next to where you were going through. Let me tell you, it was NOTHING like the 'Natural Caverns' we went to in first-grade field trips, where you walk through huge rooms of cave walls with metal handles attatched to the sides for safety. Most of this cave was crawling carefully. It was fun.
At the end when you got out, you could either try to make your way through a series of rocks or you could run up a steep side of Prince Rock. Jojoba, Elizabeth, and I crawled up the side, which was really fun, but extremely tiring. If you stop, it's kind of hard to not fall over, and it's harder to start. After you start up again, it's harder to go up. It was really fun, because I knew that if I stopped, it wouldn't be good...
Okay, I'll finish this later, cause I have to go wash clothes... I never get more than fifteen minutes on the computer every day... *sigh* Someone's ALWAYS on...

Fanmail!

Elizabeth and I woke up early today to write fanmail. She wrote to someone on Disney, and I wrote to Ciara Bravo from Big Time Rush. I chose her because I thought it was really cool that she's my age, although she looks a lot younger... like me! My letter was very random. It really had no point at all... But it was fun to write. I had colorful stuff around the edge, really random things. And I splashed my favorite perfume/spray on the edge, drew 'splash' marks around it, and wrote, "Smells so good!" next to it. Elizabeth did the same on hers, but all she wrote was, "Smell." I think that's funny. Nothing wrong with it. If the letter was for me, I would definately smell it.
I folded the letter and wrote "Ciara" on the 'front side' and put three matching gemstones around it. I was going to make the seal of the letter fancier, but I only had time for a couple of stickers and a few random words, because the mailman came...
You would have thought it was the ice-cream man the way we raced downstairs. Luckily, he didn't leave yet, but Elizabeth didn't have time to put the name of the person on hers... Hope it gets there!!

Camcorder...

My dad was pretty upset about the whole camcorder thing...
He didn't get mad to my face, but he went on sighing and putting his head in his hands after I left the room...
But he seems calmer today. I'll see if I can get a new one.

TOBY!!!!!

What is wrong with TOBY??????
He's fighting too much!
Today he came home with a torn ear, a torn claw, a gash next to his eye, and mats of blood under his fur...

Lunch? ...Yay...

My mom's not home, and she told me what to cook for lunch.
But when I got to the kitchen, my grandfather was already busy. So I let him do whatever he was doing, because it seemed somewhat right.
Bad mistake.
Well... it's not like I could have stopped him.
He mashed everything that we had for dinner last night together in three pots and set them on the table.
Noodles... and then he told me to get the rice into bowls.
Okay.
Let's just say... not the greatest lunch I've ever had.

What Am I Going To Do??

Okay, so I just broke my dad's $189 camcorder.
Well... it's not his. It's our church's, but he's the one that uses it.
It was on the tripod, which got knocked over, and the part that the screw goes into broke. I was able to untwist the screw, but I can't get the bottom part back up...
I mean, the camera still works... it's just the bottom...
Here, let me try to fix it...
Well, I got the ridge under where it's supposed to be. It's just tilted now.
I'll show it to him and let him push the rest of it up. I don't want to push it up so that he can't see it.
Pray that this works out...

Ketchup Cookie?

I'm eating a chocolate-chip cookie out of a napkin that has ketchup on it. (Or catsup. Haha!)
Yeah... does not taste good.

Poor Elizabeth...

Elizabeth is going through the well-known phase of, "Unhhh!!!!!!! I wanna be FAMOOOOUUUUUUS!!!!"
I know the feeling...

Obama

Thanks... Obama.

Outlet?

Nothing happened today (besides the fact that I accidentally broke, like, three small plates when I was taking ONE off the top... don't ask, cause I don't know.) but we went to the outlet mall...
I didn't really want to, but it was okay.
And I saw one of my little dancing munchkins! (Which is really weird cause I just saw her yesterday at the restaurant I had lunch at...) And I saw a girl in my English class... She's okay, but her friends kinda creep me out...

Christmas!

So, as you know, today is Christmas.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Buy we aren't doing anything today, because we 'had our Christmas' yesterday.
That means my grandparents came (first time in a long time they saw my cousins) and we had supper and opened presents.
I got a soap loofah (one of those net ball things that you put soap on when you shower... I would post a picture, but I'm not on my computer, and I don't want to save a picture on, so just go look it up) and a pack of four lemon-scented soaps from Chicken, hair tinsel (you can either tie it directly on your hair or put it on clips), a mix of Chex mix stuff from my Grandmother, a calendar with pictures of really cool scenery from Elizabeth, a black feather headband from my mom, three origami cranes stringed onto thread from one of my little dancing munchins, a box of Ferrero Rocher from another little dancing munchkin, and a shirt that has a cat baking bread from my dad. Those were the presents that were actually a surprise. (Well, I kinda guessed the origami one...) JOJOBA, GO AWAY, I DON'T APPRECIATE YOU READING WHAT I'M TYPING! ...good.
But the presents I knew I had was black boots, paper soap (can't wait to try it out!), and those black dress shoes I picked out a few days ago.
I am happy with my presents...
And because we had Elizabath's family over and three grandparents (we usually just have our family and two grandparents, the ones from my dad's side), we had so many presents under the tree... Around seventy!! (It's kind of hard to count when it gets to that many...)
And what I GOT for people-- a scarf for my mom (and it just so happened to match what she was wearing when she opened it), SpongeBob gummies for Chicken (quick funny story-- last night before we went to bed, I asked Elizabeth what the thing was called that Chicken gave me, and she said, "...Krabby Patty?"), Coca-Cola in those circular bottles for my dad, a circular box of handkercheifs also for my dad, and Skandie's book, Young Falcon, for Elizabeth.
Christmas well spent. :)

SORRY!!!!!!

I AM SO SORRY I haven't been posting...
Elizabeth's here, so that means ONE of our brothers is contantly stationed at the computer...

Elizabeth!

Now Elizabeth is at my house!

Creeeeeeeeepy!

Hale and Nikki came over yesterday and we created this awesome creepy script for something we'll hopefully film next week...

Painting

I painted a painting last night.
It's one of those that's kinda abstract, but at the same time it's really realistic.
What you do is you put a big picture of yourself (I used my actor's headshot) under a piece of glass. You paint the highlighted parts of your face with white, and the dark parts with another bold color (something like hot pink or cobalt blue--I was being safe this time and used brown). It's okay to paint over the parts already painted, because at the end you turn it around and you don't see the layers. Then you mix the two colors together to make something a little lighter than the original color, and paint the almost-darkest spots. After that dries, you put more white into THAT color to make almost white, and you paint that over the whole thing to fill in the missing parts, which should be the parts that were somewhat lighted. After that dries, you CAN paint over the whole thing again with the darkest color just to make sure the coat's thick enough that everything's covered.
Then you're done! You take your painting (if you're still calm after painting a painting and not knowing what it looks like) wait until everything dries. Or you could do what I did and take the painting by the edges and hold it up and look at it through a mirror... it's quite amazing.
When I showed it to my dad, he didn't believe that I had painted it. He looked at me with a weird look and said, "Now how did you REALLY do it?" so I had to take him into my room and explain the whole process using the original picture.

Tired? Not!

I went to bed at 1:30 or so last night, and I woke up at about 8:30. Seven hours of sleep usually isn't enough for me, but somehow it was...

Nemo!

Nemo was FINALLY on Gmail chat today (which never happens) so I sent him a message and he actually responded (something 50% of people don't do)!
And the first thing he says? "Oach."
What. Is and oach??
...still puzzled...

News!

My mom was reading the news and she found a picture of herself... haha!
But that's normal, cause she finds pictures of herself on the Chinese news all the time...

WHY, SAFEEYES?

And NOW SafeEyes is blocking every single website except for Blogger.
UGH!!!!!!!!!!

WHY?????

My computer is being slow. AGAIN.

Ouch!

Skandie, you know how I was chatting with you earlier today and I had to go off cause Chicken was sitting on the couch behind me and petting my cat (meaning he was waiting for me to get off)?
Well, I let him on and went to pet the cat, and I wasn't even that close to her. I was at an arm's length, and she was calm until all I saw was this huge brown blob of fur and a paw coming at me, and before I knew it, my eye stung and I was on the ground, covering my face with my hand.
I knew she had scratched me, but what I was thinking was, "Hurry! Open your eyes! Make sure nothing happened!" So I opened my eyes, and my vision was blurry because her claw probably snagged onto my contact, but after I blinked a little bit, it went back in place and I could see okay.
My dad hear my scream, so he came over and asked if I was okay. I was busy trying to quickly take my contact out, but he said, "I can't see it if you're doing that." So I stopped trying and let him take a look at my eye, and guess what? My eye was bleeding. The cat's claws somehow went onto my eyelid, scratched the inside of it, and left a mark near the corner of my eye.
Thanks, cat.
And that all was in a matter of seconds, so, of course, I was crying out of shock, because I completely did not expect that coming. Like I said before, my eye was bleeding, so I was crying blood.
Gross.
It didn't really hurt all that much anymore, so I went to the bathroom, took my contacts out, and rested in my bed for a little while longer while my NICE cat came and rested next to me.

KITE/KITTY

I HEART MY KITTEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
And by that I mean "Kitty", but I wanted to spell it differently...
Here, I'll have her type something:
qqqqqqqqaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
yEAH. tHERE YOU GO. a MESSAGE FROM MY CAT. what????? sHE TURNED THE cAPS lOCK ON!!!

JUST Geometry??

This morning at 9:30 my mom, Chicken, and I left the house to go to math class.
After math class, we walked around Downtown of George. There wasn't much. We went into a little bakery, and it was really small. We were the only ones there, and there was this lady behind the counter, so we kinda had to get something. We got four little cupcakes. They were pretty good. I got Cookies and Cream, Chicken got some sort of chocolate thing, my mom got lemon custard, and we got a peanut-butter chocolate one for my dad.
Our next stop was the outlet mall, because my mom wanted to get new black dress shoes for me. I found one I liked at Bass, so we got it and got five dollars off for three stores, which, of course, we just HAD to go to because we had a coupon. Chicken was being really fussy ("WHY?????? I DON'T WANNA!!! Why do I have to go SHOPPING with you??) and at one store, some old ladies said, "Well, what a nice expression! Aren't YOU happy to be out shopping?"
We finally had to just make him go in the car while my mom and I went to the last store. I got black slacks and a black and white skirt. (If you want to know, it was at White House, Black Market. There, everything's mostly either black, white, or both. There's a little bit of other color, and if there is something other than black/white it's a reddish pink color.)
So, yep, we ended up getting home at about 4:40, when I usually get home on school days. Except the whole "school day" time was used shopping... ugh. That's a lot.

Shed

Someone opened our storage shed... but it wasn't one of us.
Weird.

Candy Bags and Presents

Yesterday my friend, Lexi, and I went with my family (except for my dad, who was somewhere else) and other people from our church to the apartments where some Burmese refugees from our church live. We gave them presents and bags of candy. Some of them didn't know we were even going to be there. But they accepted the presents for the kids, and the kids seemed to be pretty happy. They're learning English okay.
Anyway, at the last house, we had noodle soup that was REAAAAALLY spicy but good! Oranges after that really helped calm downt he spiciness.
When we got home, Lexi and I watched 'Kung-Fu Panda 2', and I will be happy to see the third one.
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"My son's... alive?"

Mmmmmmmmmmm...

Don't feel much like posting now, but I'll write this one just to get something up for today...

Wedding... again.

I'm playing in someone's wedding again today.
I switched two songs that I played violin on to flute for this time, and exxed-out a really hard on that I did on my violin last time. Then I added a new one for violin, so now I have:
Two flute songs
Two violin songs (CH1K3N, TURN YOUR MUSIC DOWN!!!!!)
(repeat top two if necessary)
Song when bridesmaid/flower girl/ringbearer come in (flute)
Wedding song (flute)
During the candle-lighting thing, one flute song
The wedding march--violin.
(I bet you didn't even read every word of that list...)
So, yep. I have a lot more flute songs than violin, cause I totally failed my violin last time... And the weather was probably affecting the sound and making it sticky... But today's a sunny day! It shall be good. :)

TOBS-TOBS

I LOVE TOBY THE CAT!!!!!!
And I love my Tavikins, too!!!!
And I pet Cassie so that she PURRED, which is actually reaaaally rare for her... (For those of you who don't know, Cassie is the fat, fluffy one.)

Strange?

Does anyone else think it's strange that I get in trouble for my grandfather making his own dinner?

ARGH!!!! Computer!!

There's something wrong with Internet Explorer, and it keeps crashing! Then I have to pull up the task manager and make it delete the webpage, and THEN I can go to ONE other webpage before it crashes again, and then... yeah.

Short

How does this happen?
World's shortest woman, age 18.
Wow.

One-Fourth...??

There's this kid in my Speech class (well, WAS in my Speech class, cause Speech is over now) who I thought was Italian, but apparently he's a fourth Japanese... Weeeeeeeird. I thought he was Italian cause besides his really dark hair (that's wavy, not straight like Asian hair) his eyes are green, and that's definately not Japanese...

Tamale

I found something in my tamale, and I don't think it's edible...
The plate is on my lap, and the fork keeps sliding off of it... So annoying!! And I can't put it anywhere else, cause the computer desk is too small...

Toby

Again, when I got home, another cat walked up and Toby started hyperventilating.
This other cat was black and white, had a really skinny and somewhat deformed face, and had a collar that said, "Boo." It was really sweet and let me pet it, but Toby was still being unaccepting.
I had to go back, put Toby in my lap, and attempt to calm him down. He kept being nervous, although Boo was long gone... Toby's still outside growling...

NO MORE FINALS!!!!!!

YAY! FINALLY DONE WITH FINALS!!!!!! ...for 2011 at least...

DON'T WAAAAAAANT TO!!!!!!

I don't want to study for my Speech final... I took a long time doing the review, and I haven't even gotten HALFWAY done yet...
It's my last final I can study for... Cause the other one's DIM and I can't study for that cause my final for that is making a video...
But I have to take eight finals. One for each class. Not just the core classes.

No Rehearsal?

I was supposed to have Music Man rehearsal today after school, but the trombones, bass, and cello didn't come, so our director randomly said, "You know what? We're just missing too many parts. You guys go home." Then he pulled out a bag full of cookies and chocolate and said, "You guys eat these. My students give me so much junk food. Do you like these? TAKE ALL OF THEM! I don't need them. I'm already fat as it is, I don't need this. Who likes chocolate-covered almonds? Take them! Handfuls! Handfuls! Take them all!"
So, yep. Good day.
One more day of finals!!

Math! ...and Emails!

Eighteen... plus five... plus... nine...
Eighteen... twenty-three...
Three... nine... UMMMMMMM...
Nine... three... seven...
Thirty-two!
Yay! There you go. That's how I add... in my head... I get it... you may not...
AND CH1K3N IS SHAKING THIS CHAIR SO IT'S EXTRA HARD TO TYPE AND MY BOOKS ARE FALLING OFF MY LAP!! MY FINGER JUST SMASHED THE TABLE AND HE THINKS IT'S FUNbn!TG OH NO MU OGOK VOOx OFF OLI LAP !!!!!!@E I'M SORRUY YOU CAN'TS READ THAT IT'S HAR D TO TYPE RITHT NOW,,,,, THIS WAS CH!@K#$RN IDEA /ij skONOT MY,er
WHEW! UH OH HE SMASHING ME BAK AND FORTH AND TURENEINL IT&UKYty CHA* ER SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!
That made no sense...

18 NEW MESSAGES??????

WHY DO I HAVE EIGHTEEN NEW EMAILS??????
THIS HASN'T HAPPENED IN... FOREVER! AND I MEAN FOREVER!
...and I thought twelve was a lot... but that was back last year or whenever.
Except... that one time Jestar Neomailed me fifty-something times that one day way back in sixth grade... haha! I laugh about those times... XD We were so serious about the Warriors books...
I yelled at people who weren't serious.

Ummm... Hello?

My dad's getting annoyed at me for not 'trying harder to prepare for the finals.'
How am I supposed to study with this?

A fiction piece (10 questions)
A literary nonfiction piece (10 questions)
A poem (10 questions)
Propaganda (10 questions)
An essay

THAT is all I know about the final. And are there any notes over any of these? NO. How am I supposed to 'prepare'? Well, you tell me.

Wow, Kid.

A guy in my English class came to school today with this shirt on:

I am offically proud to know him.

*gasp!*

How do I have no grades lower than a ninety? (I don't know if I have a flat ninety or not... I just checked for anything starting with an eight, and there was nothing!)
This is highly unusual, considering the fact that I'm extremely bad at World Geography and Biology, and usually have something around an 85 in those classes...
Then again, it's finals week, and that can change everyyyything...

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Kitty Drama!

I met Toby kitty on the way home, and he was taking a long time following me. He was getting distracted easily, and kept wanting to plop down on the ground and roll in the grass.
I finally got him to follow me home, and at the door I put down my backpack and sat down so he could crawl on my lap. He did-- and then started growling. Behind me was another cat that looked almost exactly like him, but it was skinnier and a lighter shade of tan. I had seen it before, but it had run away before I got the chance to pet it.
Toby kept growling and growling. Do you have any idea exactly how scary it is to have a cat growling like it wants to kill someone?
It sounds literally just like a tiger. Kinda makes you want to run away.
But I held him close and said, "No, Toby, it's okay. I'm here. It's okay. It's just another cat," until the other cat ran into the bushes. Then, because Toby was still hyperventilating, I picked him up and carried him, still growling, into the backyard.
There, I called my dad and had him come watch Toby in the backyard. I gave him food and left him with my dad.
Then I went back and tried to persuade the other cat to coming out of the bushes, but it just sat there and gave me the evil eye.
Which is really scary when cats do it.
I must have looked like a crazy person, sitting there on the walkway, kneeling down with my head in the bushes.
I gave up and went back to Toby in the backyard.
He hadn't eaten his food, and he was still really jumpy. I managed to get him into my lap and eating for a couple of minutes before he got distracted and licked water off a leaf.
I left him there.
I wonder what's up with him and that cat.
Whatever it is, I wish it wasn't there, cause I like Toby the way he usually is.

Whew!

Whew! Finally done studying my TWO AND A HALF hours of World Geography!
And now onto Geometry...
And tomorrow morning back to World Geography...
And then the finals. :X

Post!

I feel like posting something.
Now I will get back to studying.

What??

Okay, apparently I found the entire script for 'Elf' on the internet.
It's not exact, though.
But is this even legal??
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/elf.html


Apparently this is legal! Whoa! Now I'll read movies, not books! This is so cool! I can practice cold reading!

Elf!

I really want to rent 'Elf' and watch it again! We were watching it in Speech class and it's so hilarious!!

Christmas Party!!

At our 'Care Group' (group of families from our church where we meet at one of our houses weekly for dinner and a devotional) we had our annual gift ornament exchange... was fun.
PICKLES!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a German tradition to hide pickles in Christmas trees.

Vacuum!!

WHY DOES SOMEONE NEED TO BE VACUUMING RIGHT NOW?????

Shopping!

Okay, you guys know that I'm not usually a huge fan of shopping. Elizabeth especially knows this.
So whenever I want something, I know what exactly it looks like. I look for it wherever I go, and if I find something close to it, I don't get it. It was to be absolutely perfect, just the way I pictured it in my head.
I don't do the go-out-and-get-something-bring-it-back-home-and-not-like-it-anymore thing. It has to be perfect for me to want it.
So I went to Kohl's in search of a jacket.
I saw flip-flops that I really liked. They were navy blue, "So" brand, and they were those kinds that has the wide straps made out of a canvas-like cloth. I loved them and they were usually really expensive, but they were half off. So I pulled my mom over and showed her, and she said, "No, wait till they're 50% off."
"Ummm... they are."
"You really want those?"
"Yeah."
"Merry Christmas, then."
"But I don't know whether they'll fit in the summer. The next size up is pretty big."
"Don't get them, then. You'll cry when they get to three dollars."
So I didn't get them. I'll just wait. I think they'll still be out sometime later. I really like them, though.
Instead, I found this white jacket. I really like it-- and, again, as I said, it had to be perfect for me to get it. It was perfect. I loved it.
So we waited in the long line (which really didn't take that long cause they had one line for four registers.
I love my jacket!

*gasp!* and a Christmas Party!

I am so sorry I didn't post yesterday...
As soon as I got home I had to leave again to go back to school for my orchestra party.
Everyone had to bring Christmas snacks, so I made fudge and sprinkled peppermint over it. The only thing is, whenever I make fudge someone thinks they're brownies. And they try them and think, "This is a gross brownie." Um, YEAH, cause it's NOT a BROWNIE!!
Anyways, there weren't that many people there (only about twenty or so) and I played Apples to Apples. There was this girl, Myle, who was trying to make it all serious by explain EACH and EVERY green card that we had, and making everything all nice and neat and putting down serious cards. It was really annoying, cause no one really had fun cause she was being all bossy and didn't even realize it.
Then we did the White Elephant gift exchange. White Elephant gifts are pretty much supposed to be random and funny, right? I mean, Christmas-themed gifts are fun and good sometimes for White Elephant, but I'd really rather get a unicorn Pillow Pet or something.
I brought a bottle of mayo and a potato, but the girl who got it probably really wanted a Christmas present instead. I kinda wished someone else got it... someone who would have appreciated the randomness. Instead, she was trying to get someone to steal it.
I got a bottle of shampoo. I'm really glad I got something random. :) Anyway, whatever I got, I wouldn't ever try to switch it out with someone, cause I know that even thought I have no idea who brought it, they would feel bad if I didn't like it.
Then someone (I don't know who) brought a ton of Play-Doh. That girl, Myle, got it, and she just kinda looked down at it while everyone else was like, "Play-Doh!? Awesome!" and then she said, "Well, at least my little brother's birthday is coming up soon." And everyone was really shocked and didn't say anything, cause any one of us would have been really glad to get Play-Doh, but she both didn't like it and showed that she didn't.
Luckliy, another girl, Jess, stole it from her and that girl was looking for something she could give to her brother. She didn't want the Nerf gun or anything else. I think she ended up with... I don't even know.
Xylaphone's sister ("I'm not Xylaphone's sister. Xylaphone is MY sister!") got a whole pack of Twizzler-looking candy, and she was passing them out, so I got one. I was drinking punch with it when someone, Sun, asked, "Is that a Twizzler?" I just kinda kept on drinking and shrugged, while Ron, Jess's brother, said, "Haha! 'I dunno, but it's good!'" Then he gave me an Oreo with red frosting. It was kinda gross. After I ate it I told him, "I would give you some of my present, but I got shampoo, so that would really work out..."
I went back with Monique, who had to leave early because it was her dad's birthday and her family was going out to dinner together. They took me home, and I found that there ARE indeed the 'Happy people who makes jokes that don't make sense at all but they laugh really hard anyway' type of family. It was quite amusing.

Orchestra Concert

Just finished orchestra concert... meh.
Racket, our concertmaster, had a bow hair break in the middle of a piece. Huh. That's happened to many times I'm beginning to wonder about it...

Oh, Ch1k3n...

Ch1k3n is going to wear a black shirt with a pink tie.
And he just walked off, giggling...
Ummmmm...
What to think of this?

Six Views!

Yay! My little video has six views so far...

*SCREAAAAMS!!!!!!!*

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Windows MediaPlayer wasn't playing my video right, so I thought that it wasn't going to upload right. I waited for about ten minutes for it to upload, and... it works! IT WORKS!!!!!!!!
I think I sent you ALL the link... PLEASE GO WATCH IT! It's only thirty seconds long, and I put a lot of work into it!!
And guess what--it's even good, too! :P

SO LOOOOONG!

WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG TO UPLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS???????

...uploading...

Uploading is not going well as of right now...

Homework at the Library!

I did sooooo much homework at the library today... Augh! I'm glad I got it done, though.
And I got recordings of Avalon reading her lines for my commercial project. Which I am about to upload onto YouTube... which I've never done before. Oh dear. Home this goes well!

Speech

My group did our speech in Speech class today. We weren't ready. Blue didn't have his script for what he was presenting, but I guess it went all right... People said it was good, but it may have been because the one before us wasn't that great... Long-winded people!
I didn't say all that much, because I made the PowerPoint and kind of managed everyone, so I guess people think that I just didn't do anything... but I get graded on the part I DID present, so I think it's good. :)

For SKANDIE

VERY-ANN! XD XD XD XD XD

Cat Video!!

I just finished making this amazing video (a project for English class).
It's a commercial for cat food, and it has all my cats (including Toby) running around and then eating food... and then I'm going to have Avalon from across the street record some lines and add them in at the end.
It's so amazing!! I got to use my dad's huge, expensive, professional video camera, and it was really good, but reaaaaaally heavy!
Then I used AdobePremeire to edit it (that's what I use for all my videos now) and my dad showed me how to adjust the colors so that they're balanced and don't contrast as much during the switches from outside to indoor.
And then, because he wasn't in the room, I looked around for audio clips that I could put it, so I used one of those programs where you buy the audio clips and you can use them for anything (I think as long as you don't sell what you use it on).
I have to put it up on YouTube for my English teacher, so I'll tell you guys where you can find it.
It's pretty awesome, though!
I hope I get a good grade, because I was outside in, like, fifty degree weather with a t-shirt, jeans, and flip-flops trying to film a cat who was sticking to me like crazy.
I was also pretty disappointed that Arista wasn't doing what I wanted her to do, so she only ends up in the video, like, once, except for half of her tail in the upper corner or another shot.
Cassie was really good, though... Her and Toby are good kitty actors!! I am proud to call them my cats!

Duncan Family Baby... Again?

Why does 'Good Luck Charlie' need another baby? Is Charlie not cute enough anymore?
I bet the new one's going to be a guy.

CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!

WHY DOES CHOCOLATE HAVE TO BE SOO GOOD?????????
ChOcOlAtE!!
cHoCoLaTe!!
CHOCOLATE!!

New Years... Already??

It's almost New Year's Eve.
It's December.
Are you serious? It seemed like just yesterday when I was typing my last post of 2010 on someone else's laptop at their house.
This year has gone by so fast... and I can't believe it, either, cause it was supposed to be the year that dragged by-- I made the switch to public school this year.
You know, honestly, public school didn't really make a big difference except for the fact that I WASN'T AT BRENTWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
But it didn't affect me.
It was supposed to.
That's why I had to switch.
Cause it was SUPPOSED to affect me.
It was supposed to let me "see the world."
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Right.
Cause it just did, didn't it?
Uh... no.
I'm still me.
I'm still exactly the same.
Okay, maybe one difference-- I like boots and scarves a lot more than I did in the summer. And that only happened in the past two weeks.
But, seriously...
Let's see what next year brings.

Shopping!

THEN we had to go get presents for our Angel Tree kids. If you guys don't know where that is, it's where a family supports another family with children that are... less fortunate, you know? Don't have money for Christmas. So we get presents for them, so their kids are happy.
We went to Target, where I got my dream scart. I love it! I thought about it a lot, and didn't know if it existed or not. I knew exactly what it looks like, and I've been searching for it for a long time. I searched so many stores and never found it until I saw it at Target-- and I knew it was the one. I didn't get it, but today I did.
We went there and to Ross and got the rest of the presents... and, yeah.

Orchestra

I then went to my orchestra concert. The concert started at 2:00. My orchestra's call time was 3:00. That was because all the younger orchestras just take that much time. (No, they really don't, but there were five before us and none after us, so...)
I was getting out of my car, holding my violin, Skandie's book, and my orchestra binder. I was trying to close the trunk when my binder fell out of my hands, and somehow managed to unclick itself, so ALL my music came out of it and fell all over the ground. And remember, it was RAINING. So there I was, staring at seven year's worth of orchestra music getting soaked up in the water. I stopped thinking and just started picking it all up, although it was hard to cause it was asphalt and the paper was wet. I shoved it back in the trunk and began to walk to the building when I realized that I had just been kneeling down on the ground with rivers of rain flowing downstream.
Needless to say, I was SOAKED. All throughout rehearsal and the concert, my legs were freezing, cause my socks were all wet and the air-condition was on. So as soon as it was over and I got back to the car, I changed clothes. Whew!
Now let's just hope that all my music is okay... I kept that for a reason...

Noodles!

Today was a super looooong day, so I'll just post from event-to-event.
Right after church, we went to this fancy Vietnames noodle place. It had a curved wall, a cool ceiling design, and... a really modern design overall. It even had an electronic self-order station!
The best part wasn't the noodles (but they were good!) The absolute, most awesome part was the-- *fanfare* bathrooms.
Elizabeth, you would understand... Asians rate restaurants on how fancy their bathrooms are.
So the sink had this valve that you pulled up, then the water poured out along a little tray-like tunnel thing, and then fell out onto your hands. It was so cool! And they had one of those awesome hand dryers that's shaped like a U from the side, so if you put your hands in it blasts air from both sides. You put your hands down, then up, then down... three times, then your hands are all dry.
It was awesome.
But what was even awesome-er was that I went back to B&N to visit Skandie. She was looking at me kinda weird... I guess she thought it was funny that I came back. I gave her three more color pens for signing. Then I saw Ty-Ty coming down the escalator, and he said that Hale was upstairs. I went up and sat with Hale and talked to Sammie until Hale's groups started singing. I could only stay for one song, though-- I had to go to my orchestra concert.

Angel Tree!

Just finished wrapping the Angel Tree gifts... whew!

YAY! BOOK!!

I WENT TODAY AND GOT THE BOOK SIGNED BY SKANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!
CONGRATULATIONS, SKANDIE!!!!!!!!!
I wish I could have stayed a little bit longer, but we had to go back home to pick Ch1k3n up for Chinese Yoyo class. :(

For Willa (and anyone else who likes Dear Blank Please Blank)

Dear world,
Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope. Now we have no Jobs, no Cash and no Hope. What are you going to do when I die?!
Sincerely, Kevin Bacon.

Dear tourists,
Go <3 your own city.
Sincerely, NYC.

Dear boyfriend,
Now that you work at Subway, you can make ME a sammich.
Sincerely, amused girlfriend

Dear vampires,
Aren't you worried about AIDS?
Sincerely, curious.

Willa

I am now with my friend, Willa. (She apparently just got a hole in her jeans. And is now laughing that I typed this.) ANYWAYS, I may have mentioned her before, but probably with a different name... and I have no idea what in the world I would have called her... so, yeah.

OHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today I just now realized that a brother/sister pair in my orchestra... No WONDER they looked so alike! Now that I think of it, it's so obvious that I can't believe I missed it! Our conductor even kind of mentioned it once...
Speaking of which, I told her that in my chair test recording there was a weird buzzing sound, and she cut me off, saying, "Oh, no, no, I just listen to the music and overlook the sounds." That buzz came from the Webcam I was recording with being too close (it was in a closed cabinet, and I was across the room, down the hall... still too loud!) and she took off three points and said, "Record further away."
Ummmmmmm... hello, did you not just say that it doesn't matter? I could be, like, fourth chair or something! Now I'm stuck in seventh cause you took three points off!

Candy or Medicine?

I've never eaten a cherry candy that tastes so much like medicine.

Hot Cocoa

Today we had free hot cocoa and doughnuts for no reason at all before orchestra.
It was fun.

Tired Legs

My legs are tired.
Like... you know when you're out of breath?
Except in your legs...
It's weird!