It's cold outside.
I had a busier day than normal today. Woke up at 7:50 cause I forgot about an english assignment that I thought I had to do before the chat at 9:30, and while it was only one assignment it was a huge page of reading, and after procrastinating (also known as instant messaging) for way too long I finally buckled down and started on it at 9am. Didn't finish it, so I was stressing, because I thought I had to have it finished before the chat at 9:30, and since it was 9:28 and only halfway through I gave up and went to the chat anyway. Turns out I needn't have stressed, because she was extremely happy that I had even started on it, and a few of the other kids hadn't even done that. go figure.

Around 4pm today I went outside because even thought it was very cold, I wanted the fresh air. I took the dog outside with me, and put up our little child gate/fence so the dog couldn't escape off the porch and go chasing the stray cats. So, then I sat on the porch, froze my hands off, and drew the view directly across from me, which is just a building (it triples as an auction house, a day care, and something else but I forget what), and the parking lot. I got about 9/10ths done with the drawing when Gidget (the dog) started howling after what I assume was a stray cat, but I couldn't see it so I really couldn't tell. So, I gave up, and brought the dog and myself back inside to the nice toasty warmth.

I've been feeling 'girly' lately. Isn't that weird?? Especially for me. But for the past 2 days (yesterday more so than today) I dressed up, put my hair up, and was smiling all day. For no reason that I can think of. It's weird. I'm not sure if I like it.

What do you think of the new design? In honor of Valentines Day I guess. But it doesn't have to be. I just liked it. But I am going to try to leave it up till at least after Feb. 14th. No promises though. And no tag-board either, because not only did it not work half the time, but I didn't feel like figuring out where to put it in, lol. Lazy lazy me. It has problems if you scroll down and look...2 entries back I think it is... The date thing gets messed up, but I don't really care, sorry. lol. Just don't look at it, or better yet, don't care that it's messed up and I don't want to think that much to fix it. :)

I love salads. They're just so perfect, and crunchy. And you can make them any way you want. I usually go for a creamy/crunchy thing, and just use lettuce, carrots, hardboiled egg, bacon bits, and ranch dressing. The only bad part about the salad is that I can only eat it when it is really really fresh, if the lettuce is even wilting a slight bit I can't force myself to eat it.

Did you know salad dressing expires? Well, maybe not expires, but it has a "best if used by...." date. I didn't know that. We have 7 bottles of outdated salad dressing. I didn't even know we had seven bottles of salad dressing, but I was hungry for ranch on my salad, so I open the fridge, see only Catalina, and then start searching all of the cabinets. Turns out that out of the 9 bottles we had, only 2 were good. Mom says salad dressing doesn't really expire if you never opened it, but I'm hesitant to use it just the same. Why would they put the dates on there if they didn't mean anything?

Oh, the person who commented annoynomusly (sorry, not spelled right, I know) you don't have to. Just make up a name, so that way I know it's you, even if that name is billybob (or Billyboheart like my character on Harvest Moon, lol). Just so I know that it is you, if you decide to comment again. What if someone else comes along and says they're anoynomus, but they're not, and we have 2 annoynomuss? annoynomuss? annoynomuses? whatever, you should know what I mean, lol. So, yea, leave a comment saying you were Mr/Ms Annoynomus, please?

I'm in the mood to blog. I typed that and almost typed "Im in the mood for love" but that wouldn't be true cause I don't feel very lovey-dovey right now. Actually, I was just really really really happy 2 minutes ago, but then I realized I'm tired and it kind of fizzled out.

I should really go to bed, seeing as how it's 12:37am and if mom catches me awake and on my computer she's going to freak out. that would be a good thing, me going to bed (not mom freaking out) because I'm sure this is all rather boring, but I'm in the mood to type, and as I started feeling sorry for the people I was IMing with, so I decided to take pity on them and put it all in my blog instead. From the comments, or lack thereof, nobody reads this anyway so I can just babble to my hearts content and not have to worry about coming across as an idiot. Yes, I do worry about that, amazing as it may seem. I'm sure some of my idiot-ness has snuck under/through even my screening process and made it onto my blog, but generally I try not to let it through.

On to another subject........

I finally figured out what to do for my art final project. It's the last project due for my art drawing class, which makes me sad, and I think I had put a mental block up so I couldn't think of anything creative to do, as a way of making the class last longer. In actuality, all that my mental block would accomplish is my having to rush through a crappy drawing on Feb 11th and get a failing grade. Not likely, especially now since I have the project in mind. I was thinking maybe I'd scan some of my drawings and put them here, or maybe a link here instead since it would be better, and then I can share my nontalent with the world. I'm not a bad drawer, but I'm not very talented either. Check out my yahoo profile if you want to see the eye I drew. I got an A+ on it :) It's not that good, some imperfections (pupil is crooked) but all in all not bad for a first attempt. So, yes, I finally figured out what I'm going to draw. It's hard to explain though, maybe even impossible. When I went to Arizona the other year, years ago now, I brought back this little wooden creature thingy that they have everywhere out there. It's a mythological creature I guess, playing a horn, and I think (not sure, but I think) it's supposed to bring good luck. Well, I'm going to draw a bunch of those creatures, dancing around a campfire at night, and that will be my project. Creativity is 10% of the grade. I think that's creative, but I don't know how well I'll do on the other 90% of it, but.... yea well, at least it'll be over with. Then next semester I think I'm working with charcoal :)

Ok, that was rather pointless, I'm sorry, but comment anyway if for no other reason than to say I'm here because I'm starting to doubt you are. Or maybe I'm not. That would make more sense, cause I know you're there, because I read your blogs. Hmm. I'm tired, goodnight.

1. What is one thing you don't like about your body?

Ok, I'm going to skip the obvious weight one, and go for my teeth. I hate my teeth, not how they look, but I probably have more teeth filled/resined than I do natural. it's pathetic. but mom got her teeth out at like, 26 or so, and dad barely has his teeth... so I'm doomed, lol


2. What are two things you love about your body?

My eyes, I love how they're dark and can be either brown or black depending on the light and/or my mood. And my hair, now that I let it grow it got curly/spiralish like it was when I was younger. Sounds conceited, but the question asked and I answered, hehe.

3. What are three things you want to change about your home?

It needs a yard. A non-cement yard. It needs to be bigger, because we have no room for anything, and I really wouldn't mind having my own room. And... maybe someplace not here. My town. Well, my town's ok, but I dunno, if I were to change 3 things that would be the third I guess.

4. What are four books you want to read this year?

4 books I want to read.... I'd settle for anything I haven't already read. I really can't think of four books offhand.

5. What are five promises you have kept to yourself?

I don't normally make promises to myself. And if I do I usually break them, lol.

There ya go, the friday 5 Comment, blog, etc. :)

Sorry for the lack of blogs for the past few days...

I've been in pain. Physical, not emotional. The other day my tooth started hurting (really hurting when I touched it), and yesterday it started giving me headaches and earaches and whatnot, so I had mom call the dentist to see if he could take a look at it. After xrays were taken (which were painful cause if it hurts to touch the tooth it hurts like heck to bite down on a plastic piece), it was determined that I have an abcess. Apparently it's a pretty bad one, cause they gave me an emergency scheduling for Saturday. They don't normally work on saturdays, but... he said the next appointment without saturdays would have been in May. So, Saturday, 12noon I'm getting a root canal done on my front left tooth. I'm on medicine, it's supposed to be 4 pills a day for the next week (even after I get the root canal done I have to take it) but today I was to take 5 to get the meds in me.

Well, that's an update on me, I don't feel much like talking now, sorry.
**Updated now..umm...4:26pm**
It was earlier when I wrote about my tooth, like just after I got back from my dentist appointment. Well, I took my medicine, and it made me sleep! I slept for like 4 hours, and I think it was just because of my medicine :( I don't know how many blogs I'll get done till after Saturday, maybe longer, cause this hurts and it makes me sleepy, which in turn makes me a little grumpy.... I hate being sleepy. I hate being in pain though too. AND i hate being grumpy.

My family got a REALLY REALLY UGLY couch and chair today. and I mean REALLY ugly. See?
And that's all I have to say, the couch robbed me of my words.

I don't think I have to get rid of my blog! Yay! Well, I'm not entirely sure if I do or not, but mom hasn't said anything else about getting rid of it; I'm just going to try to remember that other people read my blogs, lol.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. My mom has that disco thing on tv, and Aaron Carter just came on. He's not even in the right key. AT ALL. You should hear my dad. He's funny. He said "I'll tell you what, you have to have a lot of GUTS (he used a different phrase but I'll keep this PG) to get up on stage cause he was Freakin HORRIBLE!" lol. I agree. He sounded like someone was treading on his tail. sigh. Why do they have to put people on that are just mooching off of their sibling's success? not that Nick Carter deserved the success, I'm not saying that. But at least he sort of got it on his own (with the help of a 2 year old writing it, people playing the guitar/keyboards etc for them, stylists, record companies, etc). Ok, so it wasn't on his own. But Aaron took it to the next step, in my opinion. *shudders in revulsion* ahhh, commercial :) No more Aaron. :)

Grrr. It's back on. But it's only Disco, and not really so Disco-y that it's Disco, so I can stand it. I don't know if I can honestly say if I like disco itself or not, cause some of the songs they call disco aren't really disco sounding to me.

It's only 8:35, and I'm getting tired. Pathetic. I even slept kinda late today. That's what I get for staying up till 3am for the past week or so. I was late for my American Lit chat, which I felt bad about cause I actually like going to my American Lit chats. It gets a little annoying when one person tries to force their view of religion on you when you're not really even talking about religion. But it was ok. I got to go to some of the chat today, and my teacher was talking about diaries so I told her about my blog :)

And I really don't have a rant in me right now, not that you guys are used to them from me or anything (since the majority of my blogs are about what I did that day, instead of really cool blogs with rants and all). But yea, none in me right now. I'm happy. dangit. lol.

Ok, I'm not really feeling up to a 'rant' blog, but, since I promised, I'll try, and you'll just have to excuse it if it's not as 'rant' as it's supposed to be.

Did you ever see those commercials on tv? The ones that say about the poor children of Africa or wherever? I hate those commercials. They make me feel so guilty. I don't have the money to donate to them. And frankly, as horrible as it sounds, if I had the extra 80cents a day, I doubt even then I'd send it to them. I'd rather give it to a charity that I know does what they claim; where I can see the results. Still, those commercials make me feel guilty for not giving. The commercials are right, the only thing 'wrong' with the children is that they were born into an extremly extremly poor family, and that it could have been me that had been born into that family.... And that makes me feel guilty, cause of course I'd want someone to help me if the situation was reversed. sigh. I don't think the charity would even take money from me anyway, because I'm under 18, but it's the principal of it all that bothers me. It's like they're forcing me to feel guilty, and to help the children through their foundation as a way to atone for my guilt. But it doesn't work like that. sigh.

I had a chat for my American Literature A class yesterday. My teacher told us about this new assignment she had up, which we were to read and possibly discuss on Monday at 10am (the date/time of our next Lit. chat). I'm not exactly sure what to call it, if it's a story, or a book, an article, or what. I'm just going to call it by it's title. It's Sinners In the Hands of an Angry Godby Jonathan Edwards. I actually found it interesting. It wasn't so hard to read once I got used to it, and the descriptions he used to describe things were really vivid and interesting. It is rather long-winded, and it does get a little repetative and a tad boring, and I was glad when I was done with it. But it was more interesting than some of the other things I've had to read for my American Lit. class, so I'm glad I got to read it. The title above is a link to the story, so if you want to read it or look at it, there it is.

I don't really have much else to say. Oh, I do have a blog topic, to rant about, and I wrote it down (because I'm so forgetful that if I don't I will forget the topic), but I'm just not in the mood to rant and rave, so it'll have to be tomorrow, or possibly later tonight.

OHHH!!!! Guess what? Nevermind, I'll tell you. My mom is going to call, probably on Monday, about joining our local 'meals on wheels' chapter. That's that volunteer service that delivers meals to senior citizens that are housebound, or mentally or physically disabled and don't get out much. We want to volunteer for it, I've always thought it would be fun (I like seniors for the most part). Mom saw the flier when we were at the Bank, one of those rip-off flyers where you rip the tab off and call the number for more information. So, that's what we're doing, I hope. Not only will it make us happy to volunteer, but I needed to do something 'community' wise for my upcoming college applications anyway. And think how happy the seniors will be to get some company. Fun for all involved, I can't wait. : )

New template. The other one was just too hard to read. And it messed up at the bottom. So this one is here for now. Maybe for awhile...maybe not. Who knows. depends if I get bored or not.

Today's FridayFives are kinda boring. But since I'm bored, I'll answer them anyway:

1. Where are you right now?

At my house, in our 'office,' in front of my computer.

2. What time is it?

5:42pm

3. What are you wearing?

Hehe, I forgot to change after doing Tai bo. I don't match, and I hate that so I guess I should go change... ok, here's my outfit...bright bumblebee yellow shorts, with a dark navy blue shirt. Told ya it didn't match. But don't worry, I did match when i went out today. I had jeans on earlier (same shirt).

4. Any people or animals around you? Describe them.

My sister, describe her....um, better yet, go here. my bro is here, and right now he's kinda cranky cause he might have gotten an F on his one assignment cause he didn't turn it in on time.... and my dad is in the living room (like 10 feet away from me, our office and living room kinda blend together) watching to see if he's going to freeze when he goes to work on Sun. That's not really a description, but since he's always watching the weather channel and all, it does kind of describe him.

5. What are your plans for the weekend?

I don't think I have any plans. Nothing that I know of anyway. I'll probably do something, but I never know until like an hour before I do it.

Well, there ya go. the friday five

I'm getting a new template!!!! A SPRING one. Using my favorite flower. I'm working on customizing it now. I am sooooo sick of winter, so I thought rather than waiting for spring to put this template up, I'll use it now and then maybe cheer myself up :)

I am reallystressed right now. Anytime I think of the upcoming PSSAs. not PSATs, or SATs, but PSSAs. The test itself is no big deal, it's just a state issued standardized test so they can make sure us public schooled kids (since I technically am now) are getting enough education. The really stressing part is that I have to take this test with 30 of the other 11th graders at my school. People I've never met. I've never met 1 student from my school in the 2 years I've been attending. So, getting thrown in with them for 5 hours (4 for the test, 1 for lunch) is going to be stressful. VERY. I'm already stressing about it. And it's a month away (Feb. 13th or 19th) I would be fine, if I could just go there, sit down for 4 hours until I get my test done. But noooooo they want us to have breaks, and an hour for lunch. Who really needs an hour for lunch?!? Not only is it stupid that I'll have to go there, but they're having it at 5 locations throught PA since the kids come from all over. Well, I seem to be the only one that doesn't know anyone, but that's besides the point. We're supposed to pick our closest location, and go there. The closest location is 1 hour away. So, figure an hour and a half, just in case we get lost or something. Test starts at 9 (ends at 2:10). So that means we have to leave by at least 7:30. Which means I have to be awake by at least 6:30 for my shower and primping and all. Did I mention I'm not looking forward to this????

Well, one good point of this whole test.... No MATH!!!! That's in April. Apparently since I"m an 11th grader I have to take the test twice. Once in Feb. and another portion of it in April. GRRRRRR. That's so annoying, stressing my stress out. sigh.

Ok, I know that had to be incredibly boring for all of you to read, but I really needed to rant. I actually feel better now.

I've been doing Tai-bo. Well, I did it 2 1/2 times, lol. On Monday I did the 45min tape, but then my legs hurt on Tuesday so I only did like half of it, the arm part. Today I did the whole tape again, and I don't hurt as much so I mustn't have did something right the first time, lol. It's fun though, punching and kicking and whatnot. Makes me want a punching bag to punch. My cousins used to have one, but I think they got rid of it.... yea well, guess I'll just stick to Tai bo. :)

hoover has a new template. So go on over there and yell at her for not posting, lol.

Well......

I tried to use the Bravenet Messenger. It looks really awesome, you can pick an icon to represent you, surf and chat at the same time, etc etc. It even cordinates with your Y!, AIM, ICQ (which I don't have) messengers. But, alas, it won't work for me. Something about my internet/firewall. I have to figure out what my http proxy server IP connection thing is. I was thinking that it was just my IP adress, but I put that in and it wasn't it. So I uninstalled. Sad. :(

I'm thinking of removing the chatterbox. It gives pop up ads. I think it's the chatterbox anyway, since I didnt' have the ads before I put the chatterbox on....

I've been working on my dad's business blog. Adding pictures, etc. I would give ya'll a link to it, but I can't because it's too personal. Sorry.

My fingernails are growing! I know, that may sound really stupid to you (it does even to me). But I never let my nails grow, I always either bite them off, or use a scissors/nail clippers/file to get them down. But recently I've just let them grow.... and they're sorta long. I can actually see pretty much 'white'. lol. Yup, this was a stupid topic....

I honestly did have something to rant about the other day....but I forgot it. Sigh. Next time that I get a really really good blog/rant, I'm going to sit right down at my computer and type it RIGHT AWAY. So I don't forget. yea. that's the plan anyway.

The one public school in PA will have to go until the 3rd week in June. Going till the beginning/middle of June is kinda normal for Pennsylvania students because of our snowy weather. But this wasn't even because of the weather. This is because the teachers decided to strike, so the kids couldn't go to school and now have to suffer. And now with all the snow, they're thinking about making the kids go on Saturdays. I feel so sorry for those kids. I mean, yea, I go to school pretty much all year round, but I don't have to sit in the chairs for long periods of time (I can get up and stretch, etc), and I don't have to do however-many-hours per day. Or give up my saturdays. It just seems unfair to me that because of the teachers they have to stay late. Not because of the weather, but because the teachers and the school districts couldn't put their student's needs above their own. sigh.

ok, I tested this to see if it works. it does. I'm making my dad a blog, for his business. it's not working. grrrr.