Hello world.
I finally set up the networking! It cost $105 (which is an awfully lot, it seems) to get the router and most of the cords we needed, but it's done now. We now have 3 computers sharing internet, with my mom's to be added as soon as she gets an Ethernet card for her computer (we found out that the 3 computers our school supplied had ethernet cards). Well, anyway, we're connected. And it's so much faster! I heard 6 times faster than dial up, I don't know if I believe that, but it's probably at least twice as fast.

Today I networked. And I helped my mom set up her computer that she just got back from my uncle. He put Win98 in it (she had 95 before) and some games and stuff, so I had to check it out.

As a review of yesterday's comments, we got the cable router thingy at Staples. We took the dog for a rabies shot, and she was so busy sniffing the room where they had her that she didn't even notice the shot. The vet lady was really good. I think they had us take her to a room where the cats used to be kept, because Gidget was really sniffing, more so than normal.

The 'work' we had to do wasn't so bad, just dumping rainwater out of old bottles. It wasn't too bad, I hardly got wet at all. And our one friend brought their daughter over, that I used to babysit for. Julianna. She's adorable, I think she's around 2 now. She came up to me and said "Up Up" so I would hold her, and after I picked her up I said "you're gonna get me all dirty" (not that I really cared..) and she started giggling, then she took her hands and wiped them all over my face. She wanted to make me dirty! Lol. I called her a brat (nicely, not meanly) and I 'got her' back. She's really cute. I love kids at the age where they first start realizing they can get into trouble, and they try to push the limits of their parent's rules.

I got a comment on my Art Vocab. that I have to do, which is a pain in the butt. I have to list the word, then find the dictionary's definition of the word, then pick out key words in the definition and find the key words definitions, then list MY definition, then put a sentence saying I understand the word.
Example:

LINE

Dictionary: A mark with length and directions. An element of art which refers to the

continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point.

key words:

Element of art- The basic components used by an artist when producing works of art.

Mark- A visible trace or impression on a surface, such as a spot, dot, or line.

My definition: A mark made by an artist, in whatever medium he or she chooses.

My sentence: On the glass vase there was a blue line that went entirely around it.


A major pain, when you have 12 words to do. Takes forever. Then the next lesson, is the same thing, but only 8 words. Blah. I got an "excellent job Heather!" and an A+ on it, so I guess it was worth it, lol. Still annoying though.

Well, now that I've bored everyone to death with my schoolwork example, I have to go. Luego. (later)

Yay! I finally get to post! We now have ONE computer on the internet. Cable internet, much faster. Tomorrow we are going to RadioShack to see if they have the networking thingy we need, forget what it's called, a router? Something like that. Hopefully they'll have it, so I can go back to my computer. I'm on my brothers. blah. Ummm.... Ok, I figured since the Friday Five questions are interesting, and I actually have the computer to myself now, I'll do them this week...

1. What are your favorite ways to relax and unwind?
I love to listen to music to unwind. It always cheers me up, or helps me wallow in my misery farther, which is sometimes just as helpful. Music. I'd hate to think where I'd be without it...

2. What do you do the moment you get home from work/school/errands?
Well, since I'm always home..... after chores and stuff, I go on the computer more, or listen to music. tv sometimes, depends what's on. Nothing is usually on, so I usually just go on my computer. IMs. :)

3. What are your favorite aromatherapeutic smells?
Lavender. Lavendar? However you spell it, it's my favorite smell.

4. Do you feel more relaxed with a group of friends or hanging out by yourself?
By myself. I'm just not a people person. I'm ok if I"m with my cousin, we grew up together, but even then I'm constantly thinking about stuff, so I'm not really relaxed. I'm my own best company, I think.

5. What is something that you feel is relaxing but most people don't?
Soda. I need caffinated soda before I go to bed, or I can't sleep right. Strange, cause caffine is supposed to make you peppy, but it never does for me. I can't get hyper if I try. Though I did get hyper once after I drank 1 SoBe drink while I was working outside, at 3 in the morning. I got extremely hyper. But wait, I'm off track, hyper isn't relaxing....

So, there you go. Now you can all comment. All.... who even reads my blog? I'm assuming Arue does, cause she comments, but does anyone else? I don't really mind, it's more of a place for me to vent, but I do like comments :) Lol. Ok, I think I needed to blog, since it's been such a LONG time (ok, 3 days...). Tomorrow we're finding out about the cable thingy, so cross your fingers for me. Oh, and after that we have to take my dog for a rabies shot (yikes), then go pick up my mom's computer from a relative that hopefully fixed it, then go to work for my dad. I'll mainly be dumping rain water out of old, musty, mildew, scummy bottles. Sounds fun, huh? blah. At least it's not dirt? LONG day tomorrow, I'd better go to bed. Or watch a Friends rerun on tv, then go to bed. bye

I can't post on my blog for a little while. This will be the last for a week probably. I have to concentrate on schoolwork, I don't want to get behind. Plus, I apparently went over my allowed internet hours from our internet company, because they shut off my account till next month. I have no clue how I went over, and my sister didn't, because she's usually on the computer LONGER than I am. sigh. I won't get more hours till next month, so they told me to share my bro or sis's account, they have plenty of hours left. strange.

So, quick update, school started, I like it so far....My grandma went back to Arizona today :( ......I ran out of internet hours.....I emailed 3 people 4 days ago and NONE of them have responded yet....I haven't talked to my Australian dude for about, 5 days? something like that. sigh. I think he might have ignored me, but I have no clue. He doesn't answer my IMs. grrr. .....ummm....nothing else to update on, at least I don't think so. If you want to talk, email me, or post a comment on this blog cause I'll be able to check/reply to both, just not time to post on my blog. blah. I hate not being able to blog!

Hola.
Today I did..... nothing. Well, that's not exactly true, I wrote up a description of something for my mom to put on Ebay. I listened to Eminem's song 'I'm back' (or whatever it's titled) off of yahoo. Just listened to it, as I don't have a cd burner. Umm, I folded my wash. That's about it. Pretty dull, huh?

School MIGHT start tomorrow. We had to send in new forms for the new year, so school starting depends on whenever they get our papers processed. As sooon as our papers are processed, they will send us any materials we may need for our classes. I think a couple of my classes are all completely online, so I'll have stuff to do till the materials gets here.

I'm kinda looking forward to school starting, and kinda dreading it. I mean, I'll be in 11th grade. That's old. That's 2 years from college and the rest of my life. That's scary. On the other hand, I'll be in 11th grade! That's old! and only 2 years from college! lol. I'm all mixed up about it. It's like, I want to go to college, but I don't want to. I almost want to stay home. lol, mom said homeschooling through college is definetly out. Not that I'd do it, because I think college will be cool, I just don't want to have to make the decisions that come with going to college. Like, for example, where should I go? local? across the country? too many decisions, and most of them should probably be made this year. Not to mention I have 3 semi-major tests to do. The PSSAs, which is I guess PA's standardize testing, and the PSATs that I actually should have taken last year but didn't. Blah. for all of these I'll have to go to a school with people. A public school. blah. I'm making sure it's someplace far away, not the local P.S., because I don't like the kids in my town. Well, what I know of them anyway. I'd rather not know them anymore.

I think I'm getting to be a snob. sigh. Is a snob and being antisocial the same thing? or are they different? I'm hoping they're different, and I"m just antisocial. I'd hate to think of myself as a snob. I hate snobs. I don't usually think I"m better than anyone, which is what a snob does, right? I just don't want to associate with people. Does that mean I'm a half snob? I'm an anti-snob. or a snob-social. snob-anti? Ahhh! Hopefully I"ll get over this before college. I plan on coming out of my shell in college, being forced to be more social. Which brings me to a decision...join a school with tons of school spirit? even though I hate 'pep'? hmmm. Did I mention I'm not looking forward to making this decision?

I was going to say that I need something to rant about.... but once I started to type about college it just kinda came. Sorry. But, I think I'm done ranting for this blog, so I'll just say bye. bye.

Howdy people.
Today was well, ok. I didn't do much, I've been feeling sorta restless, but have nothing I want to do.
So, today I watched Monsters INC. Well, sorta. I watched the first 45minutes or an hour of it. Then I made the mistake of stretching out on the floor and laying down to watch it... I fell asleep. I'll probably try to watch it again though.
I watched '40 days...' again this morning, with my mom. Lol. that was a funny experience. The movie is, well, about sex, or rather, a vow made by a teenage guy not to have sex for 40 days and 40 nights. lol. Let's just say it makes for an...interesting movie. lol. My mom liked the movie ok, but she said it could have been made better. I guess it could have, but a lot of movies are like that, so....
I've learned not to expect too much from Hollywood. Except for the movies "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back", "Dogma", "Idle Hands", and a "knight's tale". Those are my absolute favorite movies.
Well, I'm going to go try and find something interesting on tv. doubt I will, but I'll try. Sorry for the boring blog...

Hi everyone.

I had a semi busy day. I helped my dad at his work today--he owns his own business so I can do that. I got moldy, smelly, dirty, and gross. yuck. I'm allergic to mold, and I don't like getting dirty, so that wasn't much fun. But it was ok, I dealt with it.

We went to the video store, and rented 40 Days & 40 Nights starring Josh Hartnett and that girl from the movie a "Knight's Tale" (I forgot her name though...). I watched it, it was great, IMO. I won't spoil it, but just a warning---it definetly deserved it's 'R' rating. Also, we got 'Monster's INC.', didn't watch that yet... and 'The Rookie', didn't watch yet.
Well, that's about all I did today, but I guess it was enough. my cold is getting better, almost gone. and I don't think I have the bump on my head anymore, or at least it doesn't hurt if I do have it. hasta luego.

Hi Peoples.
My cold is still the same. Except now my nose is raw feeling. Just thought I'd update you all.
I was voice chatting yesterday, and I put my microphone on 'talk' so I wouldn't have to keep pressing the talk button, I leaned back in my chair... and SLAMMED my head off of the one wooden post by my desk. Owww. I still have a bump on my head. Stupid thing is... you would think that I would have learned after the first time I slammed my head, but no... I leaned back a little more carefully, and still managed to bump my head, not slammed like I did the first time, but.... Then, I decided to be 'smart' and prop a blanket beneath my head when I leaned back. Well, I leaned back and blanket slipped....again, oww. Lol, I'm just one oww after another lately.
Umm, today has been pretty boring... My mom unistalled my webcam. I was sitting in the living room watching tv while she was looking up how to fix her computer... when I hear "uh oh." I don't like hearing uh-oh's while someone's on my computer. I asked her what she did, and she said she was looking in my "Add/Remove Programs" part, and forgot that it was my computer she was on, not hers, and figured she didn't need the camera! How she could forget such a thing like that, when my computer runs Win98 and hers is Win95, I don't know. So, I had to reinstall my webcam. It wasn't hard, but it was still a pain in the butt. I told her to stay away from my 'Add/Remove' part of my computer, to which she said "you have too many things on your computer". blah. maybe I do, but I'm not getting rid of anything.

My cold isn't so bad today, I still feel like I'd like to cut my nose off though. Lol, it's mainly all in my nose. I hate being sick. I rarely get sick though, strong immune system I guess *knocks on wood*. I woke up at 7 today! That's very very early for me, considering I only went to bed around 1 or so. I just couldn't get back to sleep once the garbage men woke me up while they were getting the garbage (my window is right above the street). I was tired, physically, but my head wouldn't stop thinking. My mom was actually mad at me I think, because I figured since I was awake, and couldn't go back to sleep, I might as well go do something. Namely, go on messenger :) She didn't like that too much, and dad was teasing me about my IM obsession. I don't think I'm obsessed, I can deal without it for about....half a day. That's not obsessed right? I mean, think about it, 6 whole hours without it.... That's a long time. I actually start to NOT look forward to vacations cause I'll be away from my computer. sigh, I think I may need mental help. lol.

Blah. My cold got worse. I now sneeze, along with my voice sounding like a frogs. sigh. I absolutely hate sneezing, always did. I always thought about the merits of cutting off my nose, number one being that I wouldn't have to sneeze. Granted, I'd look funny, and never be able to go into water without suffocating myself, but at least I wouldn't get to sneeze anymore. Did you know nuns cut their noses off their faces in like the fourteen hundreds or something? I was watching "The History of Sex" on tv (lol, I'm strange I know) and it said about how nuns were getting raped all the time, so they'd cut off their noses (or give themselves other facial scars) to make themselves ugly so they wouldn't get raped. That's why there's that saying "Cut off your nose to spite your face", well, ok, so I don't know how much of that is true, but it is what they said on that show. Well, ok, I'm babbling, but I'm sick so hopefully you people will forgive me?

Hi Everyone. Just an update...it turns out Australian dude got busy yesterday that's why he was late (he came on at 11:30 but we somehow missed eachother, annoying yahoo messenger). it's ok now. :)


I totally cleaned my room yesterday. Top to bottom. I didn't vaccum though, just picked up the big pieces of fuzz or whatever. I dusted, I took all of the blankets that are in the blanket chest in my room and refolded them so they looked nicer, made my bed- which I never do- AND I made my sister's bed (we share a room). I put all my clean wash in my dresser, and then I did my sister's wash too! I don't know what was wrong with me! I never clean that much, but lately I've been on a cleaning spree. I just put my music on and dance around my room cleaning, lol. I close my door though, I dont' want anyone to see me dancing, they'd think I was posessed or something. lol.

Anyway...today... I'm sick. I hate being sick. This morning I couldn't get warm, I even had a blanket on when everyone else in my house was walking around in shorts. sigh. My throat hurts, and I can't talk much because it makes my throat hurt worse (my mom actually said "yay! about time!" when I said I can't talk much today). Well, I am going to hook up my web cam to my computer, instead of my sister's. That way I can be on my computer, instead of using hers. I like mine much better. lol. my baby.

Ok, I need to vent. You guys are the unfortunate victims. But then again, aren't all victims unfortunate? You might want to skip ahead.....

I spend what seems like forever trying to get my webcam working on my sisters computer. I never used the webcam feature before, and thus didn't have it set up for y! IM. It's one of those 3-in-1 camera things, called the Clever Cam. It's actually pretty cool, about the size of my hand length wise, and about an inch thick, looks kinda like a very strange, thick, marker. Anyway, it lets you take pictures (which I do a LOT, I'm one of those gals who will follow everyone around getting them to pose for a pic, but I never want to pose myself, yuck.) #2 of the 3 things is it turns into a camcorder and lets you have a 45 second video. I haven't used this, what good is 45 seconds? That's not even a minute! Well, anyway, This guy I"m talking to from Australia (who hopefully isn't reading this...) asked if I had a webcam, and I said no cause I don't technically, it's on my sis's computer. I finally get up the nerve to set up the webcam so we can see eachother and talk (he has one too obviously) and we were going to start chatting at 10pm tonight.... 27 minutes ago. grrr. He's not online yet. I don't really mind, I mean, I know the reasons he could not be IMing me.... broken computer, yahoo IM not working (as mine wasn't earlier), he found something better to do..., he forgot..... Lol, any reason could be valid. It's still annoying though. I tend to be early for things, so when people are really late it frustrates me. I don't think I would mind so much if I hadn't spent so much time positioning the camera (which is surprisingly difficult to find a decent angle with it), and then fighting with yahoo IM to let me use my webcam. grrrrrr.

Lol, just a note, Arue, you don't have to worry about me being like, "like, he said this" "then like, I said...." and so on and so on. Tonight is probably the worst I get for boring everyone with real life stories, and I only posted because I needed to vent :)
Phew, now that my venting's over with....time to IM him again to 'remind' him he's late *evil grin and evil laugh* hahahah. Lol, I can be a pain in the butt when I'm bored.

Oh! I wanted to say Arue, I read your 'about' page, and I throw salt over my shoulders when I spill some too. The only problem is, when you forget and throw it over both shoulders (like I do, lol) you could be doing the wrong shoulder last, thus spilling more salt and ruining the whole salt-throwing-over-shoulder curse-destroying effect. lol.

yay! It works! (You people may now comment :D )

Ok, is this how I do this? Type above the previous message? Lets hope so...
Today I was really really busy. I stayed up till 1 or 1:30 (maybe, 2, I forget) IMing last night with a guy from Australia. It was lunchtime over there, on the next day. That seems strange to me, but then again I'm strange and don't think about these things until I have to, so... Ok, so today I woke up around 8am to do some errands with my mom. We got a lot done, went to the bank first, then the tax place, then the post office...wait, have to tell you a little story about what happened at the post office. My mom is strange, and likes pretty stamps for her envelopes (even though they're just bills), so she always asks if they have pretty stamps instead of the normal ones. Today, the guy looked at her funny, then he looked at me and said "She wants Pretty Stamps?" lol, it was soo hilarious, the guy looked disgusted. They had no pretty ones, so mom ended up getting American flag stamps. Which, I guess are pretty in a symbolic kind of way, but not pretty as in flowers like mom wanted. The guy was so funny getting the other stamps out, he was saying them all and, for example, the one looked like the guy was posing for a mug shot. I think it was Andy Warhol, not sure, it was the guy who designed soup cans.... Anyway, that stamp just came out this weekend, but it's bad looking.
Ok, to get back on track, after the post office we went to pay our cable bill, dropped off a Playstation game we had rented, then went to a pharmacy. After that, Burger King (their ham egg and cheese crossoinwich made my stomach hurt, so it wasn't that great). Umm, after that we came home. It took us about an hour and a half for all that running around. Not too bad. Ummmm.... after I got back I was/am IMing. That's been my day so far, maybe I'll post something interesting later.

Ok, this is strange, I feel almost as if I'm talking to myself. lol. Here is my day so far today...
I woke up around 9:30 to my mom's horrible yell for me, she almost gave me a heart attack. She said she was calling me and calling me, but what she doesn't seem to realize is that when she's downstairs, and I'm upstairs sleeping I cannot hear her. Then she gets mad when I don't respond and comes up screaming. Talk about jumping out of bed.
Ok, after that, I....did something. lol, I don't remember. I must be getting old. I must have just went on the computer. That's pretty much what I do. Go on the computer, and do school. Since my school is on the computer, they're almost one in the same.
After a few hours of computer, I helped make Chicken Enchiladas, but with turkey. It's actually supposed to be chicken, and you use cream of chicken soup, but we only had leftover turkey (no, not from thanksgiving) so we used that. They were good. I only ate half, cause they're surprisingly filling. One wouldn't think something coming in a soft-taco shell would be filling, but it was.
After that, I watched part of a football game. I turned it though before I even saw who won. Football's not really my thing. But I love some of the touchdown dances, last year I based my favorite team on which team had the best touchdown dance. Needless to say, my team didn't make it to the Super Bowl.
Ummm, after that I answered a phone call for my dad. It was a business phone call, and he was upstairs working on some project, so I had to tell the guy he'll be down in a minute. I ended up saying "He'll be on in a moment". I don't know why, but after I said it, it struck me as hilarious. I NEVER say moment. It sounds too prim and proper. Moment. I picture some older secratary lady telling me I can talk to so-and-so in a moment while giving me a holier-than-thou look. Not only did I laugh at saying it, but then after I started laughing every site I went to had something about waiting a 'moment'. I was driving my sister crazy, because I was sitting in front of my computer laughing hysterically, and saying "moment, moment, moooooment" in all these different tones. I don't know, I guess I'm strange.
Ummm, since then I've been IMing, surfing (the net), and blogging. That's my day. wow, huh? I can't wait for school to start. The 23rd...