New Purple Template :) I know I said I'd make one with my eyes, but frankly, I don't like my eyes. I like their color, but my eyes themselves always look tired and droopy. Lol. So I used this purple template instead.

Oh, and I decided against using a tag-board, and went with a Zonk-board instead. Neither of them would have fit on this page anyway, so you can find the zonkboard here (or go to the side navigation and follow that link).

ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!! what is it with young girls that make them think having a boyfriend is so cool? I mean yea, guys are great, don't get me wrong. But you don't need a boyfriend, especially not at ages 11-15. It really truly irritates me to hear a girl gushing about her boyfriend when she's only 13. I mean come on! You're 13. Be a kid! Guys are great enough as friends, you don't need to have one as a boyfriend yet! gahhh! For example, the girl I'm talking to now is saying how weird she feels cause she's the only one in her group of friends (mainly 13year olds like she is) that hasn't kissed a guy yet. Come on! You're 13! You're not supposed to be getting serious! Yikes, and she just told me he's her 3rd boyfriend. And yet she says she doesn't really need to have a boyfriend. Then why have you had 3 already?!?

I had a list of things (a mental list) that I wanted to blog about, and that wasn't one of them. That was a spur of the moment rant. I blame the Blog-a-thoners for my need to blog. I was going to wait until I had a new template, because I really am starting to despise this one, but I couldn't hold back any longer. My next template (I'm hoping) will include a pic of my eye/eyes, because I see so many pics of eyes in templates and I always thought it'd be cool to do a template with my eye(s) because I love my eye color. Gosh, I hope that didn't sound as vain as I think it did. Too bad if it did, it's the only physical thing I really like about myself :P All i have to do is find a template that I'm allowed to change the colors/pic of, and then it'll be up. haha, might be awhile.

Oh crud. I've completly lost my list. That's the problem with mental lists of blog topics, you tend to forget the list. At least I do.

ugh. I feel like I have a chunk of plastic in my mouth. But I do, so that explains the feeling.

I got my tooth pulled today. It doesn't exactly hurt, it only throbs sometimes when the IBUProfen wears off. It is annoying though. I feel like it's either going to fall out, or like hit against my other teeth and hurt (which it hasn't so far). I think it will be better once the swollenness, from having my tooth pulled, goes down. the best time so far with it has been when I took a nap today, then I didn't even notice how I have a bunch of plastic in my mouth. I hate eating with it in, and I'm not allowed to take it out when I eat. Today I've ate a blueberry pancake, drank a tiny bit of water and even tinier bit of ginger ale, and that's it. I'm hoping once the gums heal it'll like sit in my mouth better and it won't annoy me when I eat. And right now my gums are still bleeding (he said to expect it for 10-15 hours) so all the food tastes nasty. it looks nice though. :D

I might go to see Finding Nemo with my granny and cousin. lol

Oh, and we have the right keyboards for our 'new' computers, I just thought it was weird that the whatchama call it was so big. I didn't know they made adaptors for them though, that could prove helpful when my dad's trying to sell the computers, he can just say "oh you can buy an adapter for it" lol

Hey ya'll. This is my first posting while not having my own computer. It's depressing. I'm sitting here typing on my mom's computer, and if I turn around and look at my desk I see my poor, little, defenseless computer, that never did anything wrong to me, sitting in a deep dark box all by it's lonesome. The keyboard, mouse, and powercord that are in with it do not make good company. I think it would much rather prefer being out of the box and on my desk humming away while I type up pointless blogs. Poor computer. Poor me. I miss my computer :(

Ok, I'm done with that, for today anyway. I'm on my mom's computer, as I've already mentioned. Her keyboard is strange, it's one of those ones that we got at the auction on Friday. It's a Microsoft, and it has this wrist thing that I guess is supposed to support your wrist, but really all it does is give your palms a place to wrest while you're typing. It's kind of weird, I never realized that I don't type the 'y' key with my right hand like I'm supposed to. I usually just reach my left finger over and hit the y, but this keyboard has the keys seperated in the middle so you have to type with the correct hands/fingers. I'm not sure if I like it yet or not.

I'm rather bored. My grandma was supposed to come over tomorrow, but my aunt called me to tell me that my grandmother no longer has a car to come up and visit us with. My grandmother's car is in Arizona, since she took the plane back to PA. She was using my cousin's car since my cousin has 2 cars, but the car my cousin's car broke down (not the one my grandma was driving, the one my cousin kept for herself) so now my cousin had to take back her car from my grandmother so my cousin can go to work. Was that coherent at all? Anyway, she's not coming over. But it's ok, I think she's saving Wednesdays for us and visiting every wednesday.

And now my back is starting to hurt, and I'm getting annoyed at all the typos- due to having a strange keyboard- I have to go back and correct, so this is all for now. Tata.

The computers are old. Windows 95. They have really big keyboard cord hole thingys. Lol, I know I'm not good at describing things. The keyboard socket thingy has to be a really big circle, compared to the normal little semi-circular socket thingy. One has 16mb RAM (we're not keeping that one) and the rest that we tested have 32mb ram. hmm... what else is there to say about them? The outside of the cases say "Swan" on a green sticker. I think it's definetly going to be a step-down from the computer that I'm on now, but hopefully it won't be too bad.

Today I went through My Documents and deleted all of my stuff. Do you have any idea how depressed that made me? Pathetic as it sounds, I was attatched to each little file. Pictures, quotes, artwork, etc. Everything I liked over the past 2 years I've kept. All gone. I put a couple things on disk, such as my high school transcripts, but not much. Not near enough for me to look at my computer and be able to tell it was mine for the past 2 years. I might as well use the library computer for how personal mine is anymore. I even deleted my Outlook Express email accounts. But I still have them in the online version (meaning I go to the websites instead of outlook), so my email is still technically alive and working.

I've eaten like a pig the past few days. Don't bother going to my exercise blog, I haven't updated it since I started (although to be honest I've only done 1 mile on the treadmill/stair thingy since I started the blog, so not much to blog about there). I've had that pint (pint- I pronnounce it so it rhymes with squint, as opposed to pInt) of Karamel Sutra ice cream, some cinnamin rolls for breakfast... yummy stuff. Although before my ice cream I had a nice healthy huge yummy salad. So that made up for all the calories/fat from my ice cream, right? :p

I might be off the internet for awhile, if we send our computers back to our school. So if I suddenly disappear from the blog/IM world, that's why. Hopefully it won't be too long of a sabatical. We have to figure out how to upgrade from Windows 95 to 98, because our internet/network requires Windows 98. But in the mean time we might send back our computers that we have now, leaving the 3 of us kids (that are on the internet almost constantly) with only 1 computer to share with my mom who runs her ebay business off of it. So there won't be much free internet time to just do whatever, which is why I might disappear.

And I promise a new template soon, I just have to find one I like, and then find some free time to customize it.

Hi.

I went with my parents to an auction yesterday. It was a cool auction, my dad bought 15-20 (??? somewhere close to 20 I think) computers, and like 40 monitors for $31 (it was $40, but he sold one computer for $10 at the auction, and all of the monitors were only $1). Oh yea, and he bought like 60 keyboards for $10 too. And he traded a guy 2 keyboards for 2 mouses (mice? do you change computer mouse/mice?). They're all older, and we've no idea if they work, but... yea well.

The only bad thing about the auction was that I was leaning over to pick up a monitor and I totally wrenched my back. Now it still hurts a lot to bend at my waist. And it happened yesterday and it still hurts like crazy! It's very slowly getting better though.

We're getting a new couch. No more ugly green flower one. In fact, we couldn't have the green flowered one back if we wanted it, because it's outside and got rained on. Our new couch will be bubble-gum pink, lol. But this one is actually kind of cool.

Well, I just finished watching the movie "Phone-Booth" which I think was pretty good. I'm not sure if I only think it was good because it went the way I predicted it, or if it was an actually good movie. I'm undecided.

I just ate a whole pint of Ben & Jerry's 'Karamel Sutra with a caramel core' ice cream. uhhhhh. very very good, but I do not recommend eating a whole pint.
Okies, I have to go test out the computers with my mom. If any of them work we'll be giving our school computers back (which we have to do anyway) and keeping these for our use until the school gives us our new ones next year. We only brought 8 of them home, we're going to test them all out tonight I think. cross your fingers!

well tomorrow I (we, meaning us kids) are going to do something with my grandmother. We're not even sure of what we're doing yet, or even what time she's coming tomorrow morning. My dad called her to find out details, but after finding out the details while he was on the phone, he somehow forgot most of his conversation when he got off of it. frustrating. But anyway, all I know is that it's going to be a day (or half day) with my grandmother :) It should be fun. She's the one who goes out to Arizona for like 9+ months of the year, and then comes back to PA during the summer months. We've only seen her 2 times since she's gotten back a month ago, and both times were at family gatherings where we could never just talk to her without a zillion cousins running around. Not that I don't love my cousins, but sheesh, give her some breathing room every once in awhile. Anyway, tomorrow we're probably going to go see a movie, or rent one, and then come back to our house and play some games (rummy/dominos, something of the like). Or maybe just the movie. Or maybe just the games. Like I said, we're not quite sure what we're doing yet. I'm just glad to finally get to spend some time with her :)



I have to get a new template soon, this one's too peachy.

I can't see every first letter I type on a new line. I adjusted my screen width (it shrinks sometimes to like half the screen, and only lets me adjust it back to normal sometimes) and now I made it just a bit too big. Yea well, I'd rather have it too big than too small. That half screen was annoying.

I wanted to get MS Word for my computer, my mom has it for hers and a lot of my teachers say we can send files to them using Word instead of Notepad/Wordpad, and since Word at least has spell checker it'd be better if I got it. Plus maybe it'd be better when I do the NaNoWriMo thing, to have something other than Wordpad/notepad. It's not much on Ebay.com, but I think instead I might try Open Office. The site says it's a free download and some searching I did says it's better than Word, but I'm not sure. Anyone out there ever try it? I'm almost afraid of breaking my computer, since if I break this one I definetly won't be getting a replacement from my school since the school's leasing contract with Compaq is up. So, yea, any opinions on Open Office would be appreciated.

I know I said I'd be doing NaNoWriMo this year, but I'm not sure if I will. It takes a lot of guts, because my parents/siblings/people will want to read it, and I hate having people judge my papers/stories. Plus it's a lot of work, I think the longest paper I've ever written was when I did my 10,000 word Marilyn Monroe report. Granted this isn't a report but a story, but still.... Plus I'll be in my Senior year. So I'll be busy. Hopefully I'll have a job by then too. Or a license. Either/or. lol. Plus in August something might happen (though I pray not). I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Did I ever mention I'm an impatient person?

Ok so there you go, a reasonably long blog. Probably even longer looking in the little peachy column. Did you get through it all? Kudos if you did. :p if you didn't (although I dont' blame you, I wouldn't read all my babbles either, lol).

Okies, I'm kind of bored right now, so I looked for a bunch of Monday things to do, and I found 3 that I liked, so here ya go.

Monday Moaning

1.) Is your family close?

Depends on who you are talking about. My immediate/household family, yes, extremely. If you mean like all of my aunts/uncles/cousins and the other hundreds of relatives (seriously, each of my parents has like at least 50 cousins/uncles etc), then no not at all. We only get together with them when absolutly necessary, and even then we try to get out of it because they're very snobby people. The only relatives we're close to is my grandparents (both parent's parents), and a few of my aunts and uncles.

2.) Describe the kind of family you want for yourself.

I love my family that i have now. The ones that live with me anyway. We're quirky and nutz, and we like to have fun and argue and get into big debates, you know, the fun stuff. So, I like us how we are. I could change a few things, but for the most part I'm happy. I don't really want to be close to the relatives we could be closer to, because they're not our best friends for a reason. Plus, we get along with out our millions of relatives, so everything's fine there.

3.) What do you consider to be a family?

I consider a family to be those that are blood related or adopted. I don't consider my mom's best friend family, I just consider her a friend of my mom's or the family. I think people can be like family, but they can't really be family unless they are family. If that makes any sense...?

4.) Do you believe in loving and tolerating a person for no other reason than that they are family?

It depends. I won't ever hate anyone. I won't. It's just not what I believe in. That also doesn't mean I have to put up with the junk they try to do either. So no, I don't believe just because they're family it makes them automatically immune from me being mad at them. I don't automatically love someone just because they're family either, I think love is not something you necessarily have to earn, but it's not automatic either. I don't just find out your my cousin and automatically love you. I love people not their positions in my life.

5.) What - if anything - would cause you to cut a family member out of your life?
I don't believe I could ever cut a family member completely out of my life, if we were ever that close to begin with. True, I don't associate with some of my family members now, but that's because I was never that close to them to begin with. My aunt and my grandparents aren't getting along at all for the past couple of years, my grandfather has even gone so far as to say as far as he's concerned she's dead to him. I could never ever do that. I think it's horrible, rotten, mean, and everyother negative adjective I could think of.

6.) Does your family have any skeletons in the closet? If yes, haul them out and tell us all about them

Ugh. Trust me, my family has too many, you don't want to hear them all. It's not even worth telling, they're all different varying degrees of shocking, so... Don't get me wrong, I'm not embarassed about any of them, it's just not something I feel comfortable sharing with the whole wide internet, lol. And besides, you wouldn't really want to hear them anyway.

Daily Double

1. What was the most embarrassing dream you ever had?

Hmm. I don't think I've ever had an embarrassing dream. At least none that I remember. Sorry.

2. If you could live in any past time period, which would it be?

Ok well my first instinct is to say the Renaissance period, simply because I love the dresses the ladies had to wear. But then, upon reflection, I'm not so sure. I mean, yea I like the dresses, but I think that's only because I don't have to wear them. I have a feeling if I did have to wear them the novelty would wear off quickly. So, I don't know what time period I would live in. They all have their positives and negatives.

5ive Minute Stories
instructions:
Five minute stories are unfinished by nature. The general idea is that one person chooses a word and everyone writes for five minutes about whatever comes to mind. The knowledge that the stories leave the writer with no obligation to complete them should allow for greater creativity.

This week's word is: flavour
Ok, I was going to do this, really. But then I've decided it's too hard. Lol. I'm taking the easy way out, and not doing it. But the link is there for anyone else who wants to try, I thought it was a cool idea.

And since I'm not doing the 5ive minute stories, here's some more Monday Moaning

1.) Do you have an accent? What kind?

Well I don't think I do. I've been told I do though. Some guy I voice chatted with (in australia) told me I do, haha. And someone else told me I do, but I guess it's just cause I'm from the Northeastern part of the U.S.? I don't know. Compared to everyone else where I live, I don't have an accent. And if I do, it's certainly not as pronnounced as like the British or Australian accents, maybe more like a (much) softer New York accent. With a little bit dutch/german thrown in cause I tend to speak weirdly sometimes, lol.

2.) What accents (if any) do you find sexy?

Ahhh. All of them? ;) No, my absolute favorite accent is the Australian. And then the English/British. And then like southern/cowboy guys accents. *sigh* And then maybe the Irish, but not in a sexy way, I just think it's cool.

3.) What accents annoy the heck out of you?

The ones I can't understand. Lately it's been the middle eastern/Egypt accents that tend to annoy me, just because they're hard for me to understand (not because I'm prejudice, because I don't believe I am).

4.) Do you judge people by their accent?

I don't automatically think anyone is stupid/smarter because of their accent. Nor do I think of them as trashy or rich because of their accents. So no, I guess I don't.

5.) Do you ever adopt a random accent just for the fun of it? (If not, you should - it's fun!)

Yep! One time my cousin and I went to Baltimore and stayed in a hotel and we spent the whole day talking in this one weird accent that my cousin made up (or so we thought...) and when we were on the elevator the one time (we were riding the elevator up and down all day for hours at a time, it was great fun) these 2 women stepped on and were speaking in our accent! We had never seen them before, so we knew they weren't copying us and we weren't copying them, it was just a coincidence, but it was hilarious. Here we thought we made up this accent and it turned out to be a real one, just one we've never heard before. Oh, and yea, I do southern type accents all the time (sometimes unintentionally when I'm singing/talking). It's fun.

6.) Do you find it difficult to read dialect in print?

I used to, but my English teacher made me read Julius Caesar last year, so now I think I've got the hang of it. For the most part anyway. There's still the occasional sentance that throws me, but I'm getting better since some of my books have like Scottish dialect in it, so I got used to reading it more and am getting better.

Well this concludes my cheating of a blog. I do have actual stuff to blog, but I didn't feel like it, so you got this :p

Did you ever hear that song that the chorus goes "momma's little baby loves shortenin, shortenin, momma's little baby loves shortnin bread"? I remember I used to listen to it all the time when I was little. My dad bought me a record with it on (yep, record) and I used to dance around the house screaming the chorus. My mom used to ask me if there were any other words to the song, to which I swore there wasn't. Just the chorus. I miss that song. I haven't heard it in ages, I don't know what happened to the record (probably got overplayed and then trashed). I looked up the lyrics online, and the only hits I could find (which there wasn't many) didn't have the lyrics I remember. Apparently there's different versions of the song.

On another note, my mom broke her foot. Again. The same foot as last time. And this time (like every other time) she refuses to go to the hospital/doctor for it. At least we're pretty sure it's broken. It happened a few days ago, and she's been walking on it (painfully), but today it really swelled up because we went to the store. So it has to be broken or it wouldn't be so bad. At least that's our logic. So for now she's staying off of her foot as much as possible (or I yell at her to sit down). This is the second time she's broken the same foot. And then we went down to my dad's work today, and right as we got there he was hunting for a bandage because he smashed his thumb with a wrench while working on our 'new' (new to us) van. It wasn't serious though, it stopped bleeding within a few minutes. Sheesh.

Wow, did you notice I used proper capitalization throughout this whole post? What's wrong with me?!?

Some people just don't deserve the space their IMs take up on my screen. That was my thought for today. Someone IMd me for the sole reason of annoying me. It didn't work, because I knew that was their purpose, but just the fact that the person had that much time/energy to waste made me feel sad for them. How pathetic must you be to IM strangers and call them nasty (unoriginal) names?

We're getting a new bathroom floor. Our old floor was rotting through (bathroom water dripping in the kitchen--eww) and so today my dad worked on putting in a new floor for about 5 hours. Well, he worked at it for 2 hours, went away to work for about 3, and then came back and worked on it again for 3 hours. And its still not done. So far he has half the floor/wood laid down, just the part around the toilet, the bathtub has yet to be done. Hopefully tomorrow it'll all be done, and we'll be looking at our new linolium (that almost matches our wall color) compared to the wood and ugly broken tan linolium that is there now. It'll be much better. At least I'm hoping, seeing how my dad is working hard on this. I can't see how it couldn't be better, almost anything would be an improvement over having to put a bucket under various spots of the kitchen ceiling/bathroom floor, right?

I got a new desk top :) It's much better than my old one. This one actually covers my desk, where as before it only covered part of it. It's just 2 pieces of our old entertainment center screwed together to form one big piece, with lips on it because I was afraid one time I would kick my file cabinet harder than I intended to and I would end up with a monitor with a huge hole in it. That would have been tragic. I like my new desktop much more than the old one, it's much prettier looking and it actually is too big for my desk (there's about a 6inch overhang) so it's more room for my keyboard and I can slouch/sit much better.

Wow that was boring, wasn't it? It seems all I talk about is my day. Which is annoying since my days really aren't that interesting. Except today when I poured Chocolate Syrup on my mom :) I would say I'll try to be controversial and talk about things that aren't really relevant to my day, but I doubt that would last long anyway so I might as well not even bother.

On another note, I really really really need to get back into my exercising/water drinking mode. I'm off of it for a long time now, and there is no way I'll lose enough weight by October at this rate. grrrr. I'm lazy though, I know that's my problem. I think "oh, I'm not doing anything right now, I should go do a mile" but then I think how that involves changing my clothes, going upstairs, finding music/tv that I want to watch/listen to while I workout, finding a fan to put on so I don't die of heat... and then I think I'm too tired for all that right now. It's pathetic. Even right now as I'm writing this I'm thinking how comfy my bed is, and how I have a book I'm itching to get started. Even though I know I could knock out some situps/stair exercises instead of doing this blog. Grrrr. Hmm. I'm going to make I made a blog to track my progress. maybe I'll be inspired to do it so I can blog about it. Cause there's no doubt about it, I need to get back on track.

I've been staying up too late too, but that's not my fault (of course). lol. My parents bought me a whole box (about 60?) of books, that I'm dying to read. So once I get wrapped up in one of those books, sleep comes second. The other night I stayed up till 4:30am reading, and then I woke up at 9, and went shopping (Kmart). The cashiers were all saying how late they stayed up (1 was latest) and then mom said "and what time did you go to bed heather?" and I said "4:30" and they all almost fell over. It was funny. Of course I didn't tell them that I wasn't doing anything physically strenuous, just reading. That would have ruined it. But it was funny.

And now this blog was long enough, I have a book awaiting me. Oh my exciting life ;)

Hi everyone. Long time no blog. Sorry about that. I've just finally gotten a free moment, and I felt like blogging, so here it is.

I've run out of blogging steam lately. It's not through any fault of...well, anything. I've just felt like I've either had nothing to blog about, or I've been way too busy. But I think I've got my steam back (or maybe it was just the first caffinated (sp?) soda I had today in over 3 months..) so expect much better/frequent blogs.

How was your 4th? Mine was ok. It wasn't great, maybe a luke-warm good. I started it off horribly, I was extremly mad about having to go to this 4th Party/get-together at my aunt's house. I didn't want to go swimming, which I knew everyone would be doing, so I knew it wasn't going to be much fun for me, and yet my parents were still making me go anyway. So, I didn't talk to them except where absolutly necessary until 12/noon. And then we left at 12:30. I know it sounds childish to not talk to them, but it's the only way they realize the extent of my annoyance. I tried just talking to them when I'm mad at them, but they just brush me off. First I have to make them realize "Oh, Heather's not fun when she's mad" and then they pay attention. It's an annoying thing to do, because I like to talk, but yea well. I also can't eat when I'm upset (which is weird I guess) so I didn't have anything for breakfast besides a couple spoonfuls of applesauce that I had gotten but then discarded when it made my stomach hurt. So that was my morning. Not very happy, is it? Things got a little better from there though.

The best part was I got to hang out with my cousin (Cain- see pic below), who's only 8 months old. Well, I guess technically he's my 2nd cousin since his mom is actually my cousin...or maybe I'm his grand-cousin? Confusing. Anyway, I didn't want to go swimming today, so I volunteered to watch Cain while my cousin (his mom) went in the pool. His mom tried holding him while he was in the pool, but he hated the pool. It was his first time in any pool, and he just kept screaming and screaming, so I volunteered to babysit him since I wasn't doing anything half-decently fun anyway. Plus, he's a really happy baby (always giggling- until you put him in a pool I guess) so it was easy. This is a pic of him and me (taken by his mom):

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And then around 5/6 o'clock we left. Which was good because, even though I like watching Cain, I had had enough of being at my cousins. Normally my cousin (Mandy) and I get along extremely well, and we weren't fighting or anything today, it was just...akward I guess. Her boyfriend was over (he always is) and I don't really know him and I tend to not talk around people I don't know, so it was just weird when I was there. I kind of felt like the 7th wheel. (7th because there were 5 other people- Mandy, her bf, Mandy's friend Kyle, my other cousin that I don't really get along with, my other cousin and his gf) Like I said, I don't dislike any of those people (except one cousin) but it was just weird having to be there. It's much better when it's just Mandy and me, we can talk without akwardness. Yea well, life goes on.

"Whine Whine Whine. Want some cheese with that?" Sorry, I just felt like I was whining, which I guess technically I was. lol.

New template. I was sick of the gloomy one, even though I liked it. Everytime I looked at it it un-inspired me to blog.

Oh! My mom got me the best sticker! You know those sticker vending machines they have where you put 50cents in and it gives you a random sticker? Well if I like most of the designs in the windows I usually get one of those stickers whenever I go to the store. And if I like the sticker, I put it on my car bumper (so far it has 1, and another one in my dashboard because I don't want to put it on till the one that is on it falls off). My mom was returning a U-Haul we had rented, and she picked me up one of those stickers, except it's bigger (about 8x5?) and it wasn't random because the stickers were all sitting on a pile. Anyway, my sticker says:

T.G.I.F.
Thank Got I'm Female
haha, I just thought it was hilarious, since I (generally) think guys habits are disgusting. My mom said "I saw it and thought it suited you perfectly" :) I put it on my car bumper right away :)

Well I've better go, only one more load of laundry to fold and then I'm done. Till tomorrow anyway ;)