...la de da ta ti da ta da.... la de da ta ti da ta da...

I made a new blog! Ok, so not really. Remember that weight one I had that i never ever updated? Well I changed it into a 'where's Heather' blog. Now if you see my
"where's Heather?" status message on Yahoo or AIM, please do not IM me because chances are I'll be away from my computer for awhile since I bothered to put up a note saying where I am. Oh yea, the note that says where I am, for those curious, is going to be at http://wheresheather.blogspot.com I made that site because I hate how yahoo only lets you type a short bit for your away message, and I figured with this I can just type as much as I want. hehe.

Umm.. I was going to say something else... what was it....?

Oh yea, new link. Jade. She's 10 years old and posts lots! So there's always something new to read, which I like :)

...I <3 Happy Bunny!!!!!!!...

I love Happy Bunny!!!!!! He's so cute and funny!! When we went to Pittsburgh we stopped at a Pizza Hut and got stickers in one of those vending machines, and we were laughing like crazy at them. They're only 50cents a sticker if you get them at the vending machine in Pizza Hut in Pittsburgh, but they're $3 through the Jimbenton.com (creator) website. I think they're worth either price, I love Happy bunny! My sticker has the bunny and it says "not listening" and my bro's says "Whatever, you moron" Hoover's says "I just don't get it" and my mom's says "it worries me how dumb you are" lol. There is also a bunch of Happy Bunny stuff on ebay.com, like stickers, pins, license plate frames, and even a wallet. There's even a notebook for school that says "school prepares you for the real world. which also sucks". And there's happy bunny mints in metal tins, really funny ones. A bunch of hilarious stuff. I think they're hilarious anyway. I did a search on ebay.com for happy bunny stuff and I was laughing like crazy. I've heard you can also get the happy bunny stuff at Hot Topic, but we don't have a Hot Topic where I live :( So anyway, that's my latest want. I want happy bunny stuff!!! :)

...pick a number between 10 and 30...

And that would probably be the number of how many blog templates I've had. I really really wish I could say a definite number, but I can't because before when I thought we were getting rid of my computer I deleted all the template codes I had saved on my computer (all the templates/codes this blog has ever used were there), and now even though we kept my computer I don't have those templates. So I had to start over. Currently I have 6 (? I think) codes in the folder, so that means I've had 6 templates in like the past... 3 months? Maybe not. Somewhere close to that though. I can't even just look back at my archives to see how many I've had, because I made the simplicity template my main archive template because some of the old templates looked messy and unreadable in the archives. So, I've no idea how many templates I've had :( I just know I get bored with a template easily, I can love it one day and the next be ready for a complete change. I've done dark, light, bright, and in between. And fruits & veggies. I've had a string bean template, and a cherry template. I've had templates I used more than once, my record one was a dark black/blue-ish one that I used like 4 different times. I still like it, but thinking back on it I realize that it wasn't exactly organized very well. But then again, that suits my personality, lol.

So yep, I've no clue. If anyone has any guesses (like maybe amanda or amy would have guesses since they've been visiting from the beginning (even if they have stopped visiting occasionally, hehe) Anyway, if you have a guess comment it, I'm guessing somewhere between 10 and 30 templates. lol.

I got my ID for the plane trip. Well, it's an actual ID, not just for the plane trip. I got it through the driver's center, instead of my license because my car is broke. So we coughed up the $9 and just got me the ID instead of worrying about me passing my drivers test and fixing my car first etc etc. The pic on it is ok, it looks a bit weird but pretty much how I expected it to look. It almost looks like my lips and my skin is the same color though, so that's weird. And I form a triangle. Lol. My hair fans out at the bottom around my shoulders so it's like a triangle /'''\ like that. lol


This might be the last posting for awhile, seeing as how I think school starts tomorrow. The teacher said she'll put our IDs in sometime 'next week' (she said it last week) so mom's hoping that tomorrow when we wake up we can start school... but I'm not betting on it. I think maybe the teacher meant 'next week' as in like Wednesday. She said ASAP since she knows we can start because we have computers already, and the one middle school teacher told hoover to email her teachers on Monday... so maybe they will have us entered into the system tomorrow. Guess we'll see, right? Anyway, if I don't blog for awhile, I'm super busy. I promise I wll blog again before I leave on Saturday for AZ. And I'll put the new template up then, so all my wonderful guest bloggers will have a new template to post on. :) Oh, speaking of guest bloggers, Leesa and Roscoe I sent out your invites but it says you're not a member yet. Leesa I sent yours to the email that you have in the comments, I hope that's ok? If you need me to send it somewhere else just let me know. Roscoe, I sent yours to your @go.com one.

I'm sleepy.... goodnight.

...my mind is a blank...

wearing: my nightie
watching: I think SNL is on
talking to: chris & mochasomethingorother
surfing: through all the blogs on my list
mood: comfy. i took a bubble bath :)

I just got out of my bath, so i'm all ready to go to bed, I'm cozy and warm and slightly sleepy. You know that relaxation you feel when you first get out of a warm bath (or when you're in it)? That's how I feel now. Only problem is I don't want to go to bed. And I used this bath oil stuff and my fingers are all weird/soft and it's hard to type :(

I did have something to blog about. But after my bath, I forgot. sorry. Have a good night everyone.

...say it with me now-- sassy!

ok so, new template in case you didn't notice. please please please tell me if it's too hard to read or tell me what's wrong with it. I don't have a lot of time invested in it so if you all hate it I'll change it no problemo.

My dad got this bottle (to sell-- it's now sitting on my desk, hehe) at an auction, and I wanted to take a pic of it and figure out some way to get it into a blog template. I just love the bottle. We need drinks now adays called sassy. I just like saying sassy, lol.

This is actually the american hi fi template from blogskins.com but I edited it a bit and changed the pic to my Sassy bottle. I don't normally do that, unless the designer says to leave credit to them, but this designer said nothing about leaving a link or anything on to them, so it's ok to edit, right? Anyway, what do you think of the sassyness?

I'd post more, but I'm tired so goodnight. I get my photo ID tomorrow, I'll have bags under my eyes. lol. but I usually do so no big deal.

...What is that noise?!?...

Sometimes at night I can hear things rustling in the kitchen. Like that sound chip bags (which we have lots of) being opened. It's not gidget, no, she's curled up on her pillow dreaming silently about whatever dogs dream of. It's not anyone else, they're all upstairs sleeping, and this noise is definitely coming from the kitchen. Now if it were just one night this happened I'd write it off to an over active imagination, but it's been quite a few nights this happened.

At the risk of sounding crazy, I think it's possible it's a ghost. Although I've never seen him/her/it. It's just that as soon as I turn on the light, or even go into the kitchen, the noise stops. I've decided it can't be that a squirrel or some such creature got in, because Gidget is a basset hound/beagle mix, and is very sensitive to any smells/noises an animal makes, especially squirrels, and she barks at them at every opportunity. Even if a squirrel is just outside in our yard, and Gidget can smell it somehow, she howls and howls. So why wouldn't she howl at this? So I'm going to assume it's a ghost. But I've never seen it, which bothers me because I've seen others (honestly, I'm not crazy, I really have seen ghosts). I'm not scared or anything, I think most ghosts are just souls that have something left to do before they move on. Even so, I'd rather there not be one in our house. Especially since I don't know what the ghost is about. I don't think it's evil, or we'd probably all be dead by now. But just the same, to put to rest some lurking thoughts of the ghost possibly being mean, I'm going to get some sage and put it around the house. Sage is supposed to ward off evil (maybe just evil ghosts? not sure), in case you didn't know.

And now for an update on school. Well, not an update, but a re-date. Not that that's a word, but I'm tired so you're just going to have to pretend like that made sense, ok? I met my senior project advisor (she's also my world lit. teacher) and she is super nice. And she's also slightly crazy. but in a good way, lol. She tells me I have to show up for graduation ceremony and do the whole cap & gown thing, which I was trying desperately to avoid having to attend. But no, I must attend I'm told. It's june 11th. My mom was ecstatic to hear that, which I told her just because I have to attend doesn't mean she is going to. lol. My dad was happy (jokingly... i think?) when I said mom won't have to go, because as he said "if she doesn't have to, I don't either". But it doesn't matter, because she's going to go even if I don't want her to, because she says at the very least for all the work she's done with/for my school, I "owe her" to get up on stage and do the whole cap & gown thing. And my mom told my grandparents about graduation (it's in Pittsburgh), and they said "oh I don't know if we can travel that far, we'll have to see when we get closer to June". I didn't know they wanted to come! Ahhh! Not that I don't love my grandparents, I do, but if I don't even want my mom to come... I don't like getting up on stage in front of people I know. Getting up on stage in front of people I don't know and will never see again I'm fine with. But to actually have to go on stage in front of people I know?? yikes.

Oh also, about the graduation ceremony, instead of bringing her flowers as traditional she wants chocolate. I guess because she'll be like my senior advisor and a major part of my school success I'm supposed to bring her flowers when I graduate? seems backwards to me, shouldn't I be the one getting flowers?? Anyway, she said she wants chocolate not flowers, and the bigger the chocolate bar the better. And she's partial to almonds. Oh, and she also said, at the beginning of orientation, that even though all the other teachers at orientation were probably younger than her (she's about my mom or dad's age, around there) she is the 1) smartest and 2) the prettiest. And anyone who agrees with her gets an automatic 'A'. lol. And then after orientation was over (2 1/2 hours long) as we were leaving my dad turns back to her and says "by the way, you were right" and she's like what about? and he says "you are the prettiest" and she does this hilarious little dance/jig and says yes yes! Like how the football players that get touchdowns dance, it was a weird little dance like that. Anyway, to sum it up, she is super nice and quirky. Yes, that's a good word for her, quirky. Hehe, she's great. And all the other teachers/administrators that were there were really nice too. I think I'm going to like this school, really like it. I'm almost sad that I'll only have a year there. And only about 3/4 of that year left. I'll probably change my mind about being sad at only having a year left once I get piled with work, but for now I like it and am looking forward to it. Someone please do me a favor and remind me that I was actually excited about it, once upon a time, when I complain in a couple months.

Oh, and I have to do that senior project in front of people! AHHHHH! I'm supposed to actually get up on stage and present my project for all the people to see. AHHH!! My advisor said that if it would create a hardship for us (aka driving 7 hours each way to Pittsburgh) she can come to our house and I can just present it for only her, since she has relatives that live close to my house anyway so she's up in my area quite a bit. Or, she said, it's possible that she might allow me to do a powerpoint presentation instead. Which I don't know how to do, but if it entails me not having to do a presentation, believe you me, I will learn. And I will learn how to do powerpoint quickly and extremely well if she allows me to present it that way. Anything to avoid presenting it in front of anyone. lol. Let's just hope she doesn't somehow get my URL and read this. I don't want her to know how much I dread some of the things I mentioned.

Oh and may, now that I told you my spellchecker doesn't stop at lowercase words that should be capitalized, it changed. grr. stupid evil spell checker. who needs capitalization?

Hmm, well there's probably more I could say, because I'm feeling unusually chatty for it being after midnight, but my fingers and my toes are freezing, and my eyelids are slowly starting to shut, so I guess I should go to bed. Ahh, my nice warm comfy blanket awaits me there...

wearing: jeans and navy tank
watching: bro's watching 'who's line is it anyway?'
talking to: nobody. grr.
surfing: nothing. too tired to surf
mood: sleepy

Hello everyone. I'm very very very tired. It was an approx. 7 hour drive each way so that's like 14 hours in a van. Granted, we did have a lot of stops to go bathroom, get food, etc, but it was still a long trip.

I got tons of pictures, but they're mainly of clouds, lol. Coming home there were these awesome puffy (cumulous?) clouds, and they were all different shades of gray/white. And I love clouds, so I took about 25 pics of clouds (digital camera, not real film lol). I took about 5 or so pictures of the tunnels that you have to pass through on the way to and home from Pittsburg, and 1 pic of my sister and me, 1 of my brother, and 1 each of my mom and dad. So, I got a bunch of pics, and I'm happy. Tired, but happy.

I still didn't unpack, and we've been home for 3 hours now. I've just been lazying around, watching the season premire of Gilmore Girls, and the series premire of...I forget the title, it's on after Gilmore. lol. one tree hill? something like that. Anyway, they were both only ok. I did manage to put a load of wash in the machine, which is the only thing mom requested I do so I'm ok with her now I think. ZzZzZzz.

Our new school looks great, it's very efficient and organized. I'm taking:
Psychology is something I've always thought would be interesting to take, and it counts for a Social Studies credit, which is a big plus because I hate regular social studies, lol. Oh, it's only a half credit (only one semester! yay!), but that's ok because I have tons of Social Studies credits from previous years.
Geometry I hate math. all math. From what I've learned of Geo. in previous years, Geometry will be no exception. But I have to take it if I want to do semi-ok on the SATs (which I bet I will do horrible on in math)
Chemistry I needed 2 lab sciences, had Bio already, so Chem is this year
World Literature I loved American Lit, so hopefully this will be just as great
Social Issues hehe, I don't know what this is about, it just sounded fun. 1/2 credit, 1 semester course, so even if I hate it it'll only last 1 semester
Career Planning I don't know why I picked this, I just did. same deal as Social Issues, 1/2 credit- 1 semester.

A sad thing about this new school is that on the computers they are supplying us with, we are not allowed to install anything. at all. Not allowed to email anyone from them, or Instant Message, or go to any other sites not related to school, etc. Nada. yuck. Oh and we have to do 30 hours a week, 1 hour per subject per day (5 days a week) pretty much. We can mix and match though, 6 hours 1 day, 3 the next, as long as we get all our assignments done and at least 30 hours in. And since I'm going to AZ in Oct. for about a whole week of school, I'll have a TON of stuff to make up. grrr. :( But I guess Arizona's worth it, lol :) I just wish I won't have so much to make up.

Well on the long drives (mom drove the whole way) I thought of a bunch of things I'd like to blog about, but frankly I'm too tired. So expect a better, longer update sometime soon.

Oh yea, and the Blogger invites went out tonight, so hopefully you all (Leesa, Roscoe, hoov) got them, and if you didn't please let me know (contact info is in top left corner or tag the chatterbox) and if you do guest blog... thanks!

ok now I'm really really tired, and now some people are going to come on messenger, because that's the way it always works out, and I'm going to be so happy to see them that I won't want to go to bed... lol. Yea well, might as well get in the talking while I can before school starts, right?

pics and farewell!!!

wearing: my blue granny sailboat design nightie lol
watching: the news i think
talking to: Roscoe!!!
surfing: angelfire, while uploading pics
mood: wishful...

Ok so I had all this typed up earlier, and then I had to restart my computer so it said want to save changes? and I clicked yes... where'd it save them too?? Anyway, I'm writing it all over...

Ok so since I'm leaving for Pittsburg tomorrow I thought it might be kinda cool if I posted some pics I took the last (also the first) time I was there. Because I don't want to throw my alignment of the design off, or force anyone who doesn't want to look at them to see them(although you should see them, they're cool pics. well, I like them lol), and/or to save site loading time, they're going to be links to pics. They were taken over a year ago, so I'm not exactly sure of the reasons I took all of them, but I like them. all were taken with my mom's regular 110 film required camera. There's 5. They are:

a cool perspective- the view from our hotel room window. I like this perspective, it's not exactly normal. I love the crosswalks! lol

another view from window- also a skyline/clouds pic. I like this one.

leaving Pittsburg- I really really like the colors in this pic. I think part of the blue tint is the window, and part is the time of day/lighting that there was. I just like it. I'd love it, if not for the giant coors lite billboard. grrr. Why'd they have to stick that in and ruin the view? Coors sign or not, this is my fav. pic out of these

went for a walk, got this pic- this one just seems kind of empty to me. lonely almost. I like it though, and I like how the bridges look in the background (bridges are what I was originally taking the pics of, oops misfocused)

another bridge- well, I just liked this bridge. Again, snapped on the walk. We ended up walking to the Heinz Ketchup museum. hehe. that was..interesting. lol.

Ok so that's it for pics of Pittsburg, how about one of my new haircolor? lol. I just colored it today. My mom was laughing at me because I took the pic, but I wanted to. So :P mom. I had flash off on the camera (mom's digital this time) so it's close to the real color. But not exactly. It's a bit brighter in the pic though, it's darker in actuality. and not so sand colored/ mud colored looking. and it's not quite that orange. well, it's a bit orange/red, but that'll fade because it always does, and I only just colored it today. lol. here's the pic.

My mom got a speeding ticket yesterday! she was supposedly going 59mph in a 45 zone. Even though we thought it was 55 speed limit, it was a highway for goodness sake. And there's a bunch of other flaws in this ticket. anyway, let's just cut to the chase... $132 fine! Sheesh! That's like $10 for every mile over. That's crazy. And even if you do want to fight the ticket, plead not guilty, you have to pay a fee, of like $50. What a rip-off!!!!

Ok, so Roscoe and Hoov will blog for me when I'm gone... and maybe Leesa? Lol, you don't have to if you don't want to or think you can't think of anything, but if you want to, let me know and I'll send you an invite to my team. Roscoe and hoov I'll send your invites on Wednesday probably if I don't forget. :)

Ok, so now it's time to say goodbye...to all our company...m-i-c WAIT A MINUTE. lol. oops, I was going mickey mouse club on ya *cringe* Anyway, this is probably the last time I'll get to blog until at least Tuesday night, possibly Wednesday. Don't forget to visit my blog when I get back, ok? Lol, I'll go away and then everyone will forget about me :( lol Well you'd better not, seeing as how I'll only be gone for 1 night, 2 days. :p

underwear quote, explained...

wearing: my 'daisy duke' jean shorts, and my black perfect circle band shirt (i don't like the band, love the shirt)
watching: the emmy's is on, I think
talking to: nobody. gosh. i do talk to people, honest! i'm not some loser that never talks to anyone.
surfing: http://drivingmenuts.blogspot.com
mood: happy i guess

Ok, for those who were curious, well, it didn't seem like anyone actually was, but anyway... the quote was from when we went to Kmart yesterday, and the guys underwear (mom had to buy some for my dad) was priced stupidly. Like, 5 pairs for $9.99 or 6 pairs for 7.99 (of the same brand/make!). And then some were like 5 for $5 and 6 for $6. So their prices totally didn't make sense. So right in the middle of the guys underwear section at Kmart I said "why is guys underwear so complicated?!?!?" hehe, my mom almost killed me. :)

And that's that, explained. And now my mom lost her Credit Card, so I'm going to help her look for it. cross your fingers for us. Update: I found it! yay for me. lol. It was in her wallet, inside a paper. I said, do you mind if I check your purse again? and she said no i don't care, and so I went through her wallet, found it, and said "found it you dork." and she was so busy getting over her near heart attack that she didn't even mind that I called her a dork. She said "I don't care that you called me a dork, so long as you found it" lol. So yea, I just wanted to say I found it. So you don't have to keep your fingers crossed though. I know you would have if I hadn't posted that I found it, and I don't want your fingers to get cramps ;)

wearing: black shorts light blue tank top (boring, lol)
watching: Trading Spaces
talking to: nobody again! well besides myself :)
surfing: hm. nowhere currently
mood: in between happy and eh.

hoover said I should have guest bloggers during the time I'm in Arizona. that'll be probably the 4th until the 14th. Maybe only the 5th-13th, it depends. But anyway.. if you want to be a guest blogger just let me know, and then I'll add you to my team and you can just blog anytime during my vacation. I'm not giving people any certain days, just whenever and however much you feel like it. Hoover already said she wants to, does anyone else?

My quote for the day is: "why is guy's underwear so complicated?!!!?" (said by me, today, at Kmart)

There was something else I was going to say, but the underwear quote made me forget. lol.

...like those annoying things on tv, this is only a test...

wearing: black shorts white tank
watching: MST3K :)
talking to: nobody :(
surfing: nothing
mood: eh..

...grrrrr @ Isabele...

Isabel is a hurricane, in case you're on the other side of the country (or world :) and didn't hear about it. We were lucky, I guess, we only lost cable (and internet) a few times, but kept our power. The street up from ours lost power due to a power line falling, and a bunch of other places lost power for a couple days or so. They might still be out of power, I'm not sure.

I'm very tired. I just woke up though, I slept from 8-10:20pm lol. I shouldn't still be tired. but I am.

My dentist appointment went well, except that the office cancelled the appointment because they thought I didn't want it anymore since I wasn't getting the plate thingy. I can see how they could get confused, after all, my mom did say "Heather doesn't want the plate anymore, but we still want to keep the appointment so she can talk a few things over with the dr." *rolls eyes* how could they misunderstand that? But it doesn't really matter, my 2:45 appointment came at 2:50 instead, and I got my questions answered, so it's ok. only a 5 minute wait, that's not bad lol.

I get in there and he fixes a couple things on my flipper (that's what the dentist calls it, lol) And then he says "ok now I'm not going to read you the riot act But...." and he asks me about how I care for the flipper thingy and everything. He was really nice about it, and I do take care of it so I didn't really care because I have nothing to hide. He told me how to take care of the thingy, and I followed his instructions exactly. I do, however, have an infection in my mouth though. grrr. He said it's because of like bacteria getting in there and cause you have to keep the plate thingy super clean. I do! I think the idea of not keeping the thing super clean is disgusting. But apparently stuff got in there anyway. A side effect of whatever infection I have is that you can see an outline of the plate in my mouth. (Only if you look with one of those mirror things, you can't just look at my mouth and see it, lol.)
I got a perscription, along with the assurance that this whatever it is (he was trying to explain it so me and my mom would understand, and he gave the example of a yeast infection! eeew! I have a yeast infection in my mouth! eeew lol) oh I lost track...uhh.. oh, whatever it is isn't bad or contagious or anything, some people have it for like 50 years and don't notice it... but "if it can be treated, why not treat it?" So I'm getting rid of it. asap. eew.

I drove yesterday!!! A lot!! Yay for me. WTG heather. lol. I'm tooting my own horn. lol. My parents said I should take my test sometime. Because it doesn't really matter if I fail, it doesn't cost anything until I think the 3rd time you fail (which I hopefully won't fail that many times lol) and then at least I'll know what I have to work on, assuming I fail. Which I probably will, because that's just how I am. I took my permit knowledge questions test twice. It was down to the last question... if I got it wrong I fail, if I got it right I passed. I got it wrong. But it my defense, it was a weird question. Like, how far do your lights shine when on low beam and you're at a stop sign? Or maybe it was you're going uphill, and you need to park on the hill, what way do you turn your wheels? I didn't (still don't) know the answer to either of those lol. I sure hope the officer doesn't ask me any questions when I'm driving. lol. So sometime this week I guess I'm calling up the place and scheduling my test. yikes.

...they're back....

the titles, that is. Somehow the title coding got deleted from my template, even though I *know* I had it in there before. grr. But it doesn't matter, cause they're back now :) And I've decided I'm not going to go back and put titles on each blog that I did, that would take too long. With the exception of yesterday's blog, because I already had that in there. And now I'm off to get ready for the dentist :)

...so...notice any changes? haha...

Ok so yea I changed things around. But not really. The only new additions are the chatterbox and the titles. This template I already used, but I can't find one I want to use right now, and I'm too lazy to look around more. lol. So here you go. This simple one, for the time being at least.

I've a dentist appointment tomorrow :) I'm looking forward to it actually, there's a few problems with my plate that I'd like to discuss and hopefully he can fix them. So cross your fingers for me please.

My mom's been complaining about how I'm always on instant messenger and not doing things I should be doing such as thinking of what I'd like to take with to Arizona. So, while on instant messenger the one day, I (with some help from wobbie :) made a list of all the things I need to pack for my AZ trip. This is what I have so far:

Books

pool towel

pillow- because I don't know how many my grandma has, and because i like mine

camera and TONS of film

roscoe's address so I can send her a postcard :)

gum for plane ride- so my ears don't pop/explode

clothes- I have them listed individually on my handwritten list, but I don't feel like putting them all on here

nighties

toothbrush/paste

hairbrush

razors (don't want hairy legs in AZ! Lol)

That's all I have so far. It seems as if I should have more, but I don't. So if you can think of anything else I'd possibly need for a little over a week away from home, let me know please? I can take plenty of stuff, my dad bought me a HUGE suitcase after I had already bought my cute little-to-normal sized one, when all I would have really needed was another little-to-normal one. I can use the big one for college too so it's not like it was a waste of money. I can take up to 3 suitcases (I think it was 3, either that or 2) and one carry-on. So, I can take as much stuff as I want, that's why I decided to take my pillow. I love my pillow, and usually when I go to other people's houses they don't have any pillows that are perfect like mine. I mean, I use them anyway, but mine is just better. for me. lol.

oh, and may, I tried to post this in my comments earlier but it didn't go through, and then looking later I couldn't find the comment where you asked, so I'm giving up and posting it here instead :) Thanks for telling me about that free ad free site, but I think I'll just stick with blogspot for now. As much of a pain in the butt as blogspot is sometimes, I'd have to learn how to do FTP and all that stuff, and time is extremely limited this month. And next month it'll be even busier... so for the next 2 months at least I'm sticking with blogspot. Thanks though, it does sound cool. :)

I read somewhere, on some blog, that you can type with a bunch of typos as long as the first letter and the last letter are correct. Tihs wulod be an eaxmlpe. I thought it was interesting and I'd like to post the link on the one yahoo group I'm on, but I can't find it anymore. So, if you happen to know either the blog (or any blog) of where that was posted with a link, or even the link to the article itself, please let me know :)

I don't know about the archives things, if you can really make them go away or not. So I'll just keep them for now. And as for the titles, I'll think about figuring that out for my next template. No, not my next template. Well, it depends if I find a new template or not. I have one for when I go on my trip to AZ, but I might put another template up before that one. So, I'll think about putting the titles in my template after I go to arizona. Yes, that's what I meant to say. I'm tired. lol

I've been out all day. We were going to my grandparents early this morning, but we kept getting distracted and didn't leave until about 11:30/12noon. Then on our way to my dad's work (to switch cars) we saw that our one friend and his friend were sitting in front of a McDonalds on the lawn-- and next to them was a badly wrecked car. Turns out that he was going straight on the highway when this 79 year old lady turned to cross his section of the highway even though she didn't have a green arrow to turn or anything, she says she didn't see him coming, and he hit her car, bounced off of it, hit the curb, where witnesses tell him his car flew 20 feet up in the air before bouncing off of a street light pole, and bouncing into a ditch in front of Mcdonalds. Neither him or his friend were badly hurt, thank god. They probably both have concussions though, they were a little spacey. Oh and his friend has a bit of a smashed face, and had a broken nose, but it was broke before the crash and he said it feels better he can breathe now, so we're thinking that the crash snapped it back into the right place.

And then after making sure they were alright, had a ride, let them use my parents cell phone, etc. we went to my grandparents. Had fun talking to them, but now I'm tired. And there's a movie on I want to watch so I'm going to go chill for awhile. It's been an exahusting day.

as per request my blog now shows 15 days of posts. I don't want to make it too much. I was even thinking of doing away with my archive links, because mom doesn't like the idea that people can search for certain things and find my blog. So, what do you think of getting rid of the archives?

it's my blog's 1st birthday! woohoo! I would post something really profound and amazing about how this year of my blog has changed me, but i'm not in a profound mood so instead you get a big YIPPY SKIPPY!!!!!! MY BLOG IS A YEAR OLD!!! :)

image from here

Ok, so this post will be about credit cards.

I don't use them, and I don't really want to because I've seen the 'evil' side of them where people are thousands of dollars in debt. And if someone's offering you 'free money' then chances are there's a catch you didn't notice and you'll only get in trouble with it. So I don't use them, and don't intend to.

That being said, I always open my mom's junk mail credit card offers (she lets me). She rarely ever even opens them, even when they say the exciting phrase "choose from 8 great designs!" I love seeing the different kinds you could get. I'm partial to either black (my favorite color, but I've yet to see an almost all black credit card) or see through blue. But then again, there's the Silver Platinum one. Or Gold. Either color makes you instantly think that person has $$$ because they got that card. So which one is best? You can fool people into thinking you have money with the Platinum/gold card, even though you may only have a $300 limit, or you can go for a color you actually like. I think which color I would pick would depend on where I am in life. Like, say they let you get a credit card at 17 (which I think they do, as long as you have parental permission?), well then I'd get the one I'd like-- the blue one. Because I'm still in high school and don't have to portray that I have money. But when I'm a big fancy lawyer, shouldn't I have the platinum/gold one so when I take my clients out for lunches they'll be impressed? Or maybe they'll be impressed more with my individuality by having a non-standard see-through blue? See, picking out a credit card is confusing. One more reason I'm not going to get one. lol.

tada!!!!! here it is. Cheerful, isn't it? I love it :) It's kind of great having such a cheery template, since when I look out my window now it's all raining and dreary. :( But I have my template, with my favorite flower, and I'm happy. Thanks Satin-Kisses!!!

Are you ready?

Another new template change is coming!! And I am soooo excited about it!!!! It's that daffodil one that I've been dreaming about. Lol. Sounds silly but I really love this template. Krissy from Satin Kisses did an amazing job!!! I am very very happy. In case you couldn't tell ;)

It was a sad day today though, with Johnny Cash and John Ritter both dying. I just realized they were both named John. That's a weird coincidence. Sad though.

Oh yea, my sister hoover has a new template for her blog. The template is one of May's and she really likes it, so thanks may. :) Maybe it'll make hoover blog more. hahaha. Anyway she said she'd feel more encouraged to blog if she had people visiting. So if you have the free time and feel like it, you should visit her blog. And leave a comment/tag cause otherwise she'll have no idea you're there cause she took away the site meter because it depressed her. lol.

Oh yea, I wanted to ask, what does everyone else's blogger posting window look like? Hoover was posting on hers and I noticed it's completely different from mine. Mine has a box where you type your message, and below that it has your old postings and a calendar. Hers had just a box where you type a message and a button to 'preview this post' and then the setting/posts/template tabs were completely different from this. What does yours look like? Did I just miss the update somehow?

hmm nothing else to report now. Well, I have a head ache and my nose is stuffed (I pronounce it stufd cause of my nose lol) and I sneezed a record 8 times today, but you didn't really need to know that. lol.

new template. simple. i made the header image :) (aren't i talented? lol)

And Ruger Roscoe!!!!! now has a blog, and since she's pretty cool her blog is bound to be, right? She already has a much better first post than I did. lol. So be sure to go visit!

Oh yea, that reminds me. My blog's birthday is soon. September 15th to be exact. So be sure to wish it a happy 1st birthday, or...well, you're mean and it'll make my blog sad. :p

So, for a quick recap of what I did today... cleaned. And cleaned.

I cleaned the living room, and the kitchen. I swept the kitchen floor (with a broom) and then I vaccumed the living room and office rugs. The office rug was annoying because my dad got sawdust all over it, and it got like ground into the rug. So I had to really sweep that. grr. And I folded about 9 loads of wash (not exaggerating), and I washed 4 shirts by hand... (things I didn't want to go in the wash machine but probably could have). Oh, and I cleaned my room. It was a disaster area. A real toxic dump site. Dirty (and clean) wash everywhere, mixed with books. So I piled all my books onto my bed, and put all my (and my sister's) wash in the wash machine (took 4 loads lol). And I cleaned out the refridgerator (yuck!!!)

And now I have to get this down while I still have the thoughts in my head. Cause otherwise I'll lose track of what I was saying and this will just come out all jumbled. although knowing me, it's going to be jumbled anyway. And now, I open OpenOffice because this subject deserves proper capitalization. :p

And a big big big thanks to Ruger Roscoe for the topic idea!! :)


As I'm sure you all know, it's the 2nd anniversary of the World Trade Center collapsing. I didn't turn on any of the programs that were on tv for remembering the tragedy. September 11th is something I try to forget happened. I have to try to forget it happened in order not to live in fear. And in order to not cry. For everyone. I think I really grew up on Sept. 11th. I finally realized that my dad was right all those years. He always said that I will see a war in my lifetime. That he hopes to God he's wrong, but he knows he won't be because too many people hate the U.S.

I was talking to someone in a chatroom the other day and they said “everyone in the US is horrible people.” And I just said 'oh, really? I try not to make generalizations like that because I know that what you hear about on television or in magazines isn't a portrayal of everyone in a country. We're not all shallow, greedy people. There are good people in the U.S., you just don't hear about them as often as you hear about the bad.” And I believe that, I really do. As much as I don't like a lot of the things I hear other countries do, I never hate a whole country. I try not to hate, period. Cause what's hating going to get you? Bitter. Nobody ever feels better for hating someone/something. It eats at you.

Today is the 2 year anniversary of when my school opened. Lol. I guess a school that was scheduled to open on a day that was a national tragedy is almost bound to fail, isn't it? (and no we didn't have school on sept. 11th, once the towers fell our school opening was postponed)

Today also marks the 2 years we've been chasing after Osama and his goonies. Isn't it disgusting how we supposedly have all this technology and yet we can't find one guy? I never thought of people in the Middle East as being as loaded with technology as they apparently are. I mean, when I used to think of the Middle East I thought of desert and sand and a bunch of people in turbans (i know, horrible isn't it? Aladdin influence there I think). I never thought of there being people with money and power in the middle east. And what a rude wake up call I had.

Well, I could probably think of more to say on this, but I'm not sure how all that came across so as it is, and it's 11:15pm so I only have 45 more minutes to post it otherwise I'll have to edit everything to say “yesterday was the 2nd anniversary” lol.

Ok, cover your ears please.

UUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

ok, you can uncover them now. Thanks.

That ^ was due to me being fed up on how people blame music for their actions. It's pathetic. Have you no brain people? Can you not figure out that when someone says you should kill someone, no matter how much you may listen/like the band, it's your fault if you actually kill someone? You killed them. I hate that people now-a-days don't think for themselves. They're so quick to pass the blame. If your child is being violent, it's not the music. In my opinion, music is a way to relax. Even loud violent music just makes you scream along with it, and hopefully get it out. An outlet, if you will. If you think hurting someone would be a good thing to do because a band talked about how they hurt so-and-so, well then isn't there something wrong with you in the first place? If you're that much of a sheep that you follow what someone 'cool' tells you to do, then don't you have a problem? And why blame music? You could just as easy get as many ideas off of the news. Should we not have news shows too? Should everyone just live in a little plastic bubble, never escaping to view what reality is? To quote (may not be word for word but dang close) Eminem "I've heard music can alter moods and talk to you. but can it load a gun for you and c0ck it too?" (put c0ck so I don't get a bunch of sickos here searching for it). my point being, if you're a parent and you're worried about your children doing horrible things because they heard about it from their favorite rapper, well then you mustn't have taught them right. They should know right from wrong. At least know killing or hurting is wrong. And if all it takes is a rapper's lyric to make them forget what you told them, well then you need to be a better parent.
Just my opinion, of course. Feel free to comment (I love comments!) whether you agree or disagree I'd love the chance to talk about it. Oh, you can IM me too if you want. Or email. I don't care so long as you talk. lol. :)

I have so much to blog about, I don't know where to start.

<rant>See, my problem is it's all pretty much superficial stuff. None of the stuff I want to blog about really matters and it's nothing anyone will remember past a minute after they read it. That depresses me. I wish I were the type that could write really meaningful blogs, that get you thinking, or rip out your heart and stomp it to shreds, but it's just not me. I'm more the type that (hopefully) entertains you for a minute or two while your other thought provoking blogs you read load in the next window. blah. </rant>

I'm sick. ick. If you talked to me at all on Instant Messenger in the mornings for about the past 3 days, you know how I said I was cold. Well, apparently 3 nights of waking up with cold feet in the morning equals one really annoying cold. I'm tired (even though I slept 13 hours last night, 5 hours today...), my throat hurts, I'm achy, and being in front of this screen is starting to make my eyes hurt.

I do however feel a bit better after my bath. Yup, I took a bath tonight. Only like the third time I've taken a bath in the year and a half we've lived in this house. I'm more of a shower (get it over with so I can start the day) type person. But tonight I figured what the hey I might as well take a bath, maybe it'll make my throat hurt less. And it did. I feel almost good as I was before. I was going to say good as new, but I wasn't new before so :p

hmmm... what else. Oh, did you know you can find my blog by searching on (I think it was) google for huge weeners? According to my site meter, someone found my site by searching for that. I bet they were terribly dissapointed. lol. Try it, it's kind of funny. Oh, and no before you jump to a whole bunch of perverted conclusions, I do not have huge weeners on my site. lol. Google grouped those two words from one paragraph about a 'huge' fight I had, and from another about the halloween weeners (trick-or-treaters). If you ever happen to find my site while searching the web and it's something unusual, please let me know, I think it's kinda cool :)

May, in my tagboard you said I should post more. Do you mean regular posts like this, or depressed posts like the one from Monday...or posts on my tagboard...? Anyway, I'm going to try to post more. I can't post 20 times a day like you, lol, I'm not near that creative nor do I have that much energy to think of new stuff :)

I might not have time to post more often though, seeing as how school should be starting sometime soon and since I'll have to catch up to where other kids are, I might be stuck doing school for a long time each day. Also with my trip to Arizona (yay!) I'll be busy. But I'll try, honest I will.

And I think that ends todays post people.

I want to go back in time, and relive my childhood. Is that so much to ask?

Today while sweeping our 'yard' (50?x3feet of pavement/blacktop/concrete) I was suddenly jolted back to my childhood.

I'd forgotten how tomato plants smell. That may seem weird, but did you ever smell one? I think they have a distinctive smell. New, fresh, and tangy almost.

Today I brushed against my mom's tomato plant that she has growing in a pot outside, and it startled me because all of a sudden I remember being approx. 4 years old and 'helping' my mom in the huge garden we used to have behind our old farmhouse (this was several houses ago). I hadn't thought about it in awhile. I tend to hate digging in the dirt because I hate looking/getting dirty, so I avoid gardening any more then my mom makes me.
But today when I swept against that plant it reminded me of how i used to love to get dirty, to play in the dirt, and really not care how I looked or what people thought of me. It's sad, I'm not like that anymore. What happened to that little girl that didn't care? The little girl who went up on stage at a dance recital and only half-attempted to do the planned dance but mostly made up her own? The little girl who didn't care that her favorite shoes were cowboy boots and made her look ridiculous. The girl that did things just because she liked to do them. Where'd she go? Is it just growing up that made me care about how I appear to others, or is there something that happend along the way that made me suddenly care? I want to be that little carefree girl again. The girl that was oblivious to parental arguements, money problems, and anything negative except that her brother ate the last popsicle.

I want to go back in time. And all this started because of a simple tomato plant that I smelled today while sweeping the yard.

Ta da! I turned into a sheep, and followed the herd. Herd? Flock? Other sheep. Or maybe it's the Shepard. lol. Anyway, I did my very own 100(+) Things about me. And it only took 41 minutes. I'm sleepy.

Okies I have a pic of my lovely car. It's right here. But just a warning, it's a big file so you might not want to open it if you have a slow connection. I mean it's not huge, but it's not exactly little either. oh yea, and in case you were wondering, the words on my window (in white) says "Get in Sit down Shut up & Hang on. suiting for me, isn't it? :P

I got to wear my new shirt today. Well it's not new, I bought it at the beginning of summer, but I never got to wear it because it wasn't the right temperature. It's a black (kind of skimpy) tanktop/spaghetti top. I wore it with my new shorts that I got off of ebay. I love this outfit, i'm definetly taking it with to Arizona. Makes me look skinnier and i definetly need that, lol.

Today my sister and I were goofing off, taking pics with my mom's digital camera. It was rather fun and I enjoyed it, especially since I felt good about myself (sexy even) since I was wearing my new outfit.

And... I really do promise to have something interesting to write about soon. Promise. Cross my heart hope I don't cry (why would I want to?) stick a needle in your eye (hey, i'm not going to injur myself). Pinkie promise. lol. and all those other childish things that are still fun every once in awhile :P

I drove. I hated almost every minute of it. I'm told I'll find my comfort zone soon, the more I practice the more comfortable I'll get. I hope so, cause right now I don't like it. At all. But I got my mom and I home safely, with absolutly no mishaps. And I drove on the highway and in town/city traffic. go me. lol.

I didn't get to wash my car with the hose, my mom said no just take it to a car wash. She just kind of shrugged like yea well when I told her I can't cause I have no money. She'll probably take it (or get me to drive it) to a car wash sometime if I keep pesting her about it. I can't stand it looking dingy. and it's white, so as soon as it gets a coat of dust on it, it's dingy. grrr. lol. I'm looking to see where I put the pic of my car, as soon as I find it i'll get the link up. And I didn't take a pic of the suitcase yet.

I had a rant. about something other than my car. Honest, I did. But I forgot it now. Shucks. Maybe I'll try tomorrow. or later tonight. Hopefully it'll come to me then.

I'm going driving tomorrow :) My car finally got fixed today, and everyone do me a favor and cross your fingers that it stays fixed cause I should really get my license before I go to Arizona next month. So, tomorrow I will probably drive my car around at my dad's work, and then maybe drive it home. I'm so extremely nervous. Although, I did really well last time I drove, except for not slowing down enough when I was turning into the doctor's office. There was no cars there or anything that I would have hit (or I would have slowed down more) so I'm not counting that as a mishap :p Yea so anyway, I get to drive tomorrow :)

And, if we do end up bringing my car home from dad's work (it tends to just stay at his work, it's like a parking spot for it since there isn't much parking where I live) I might drag the hose out front and see if I can wash it. Right before it broke I dug up a huge extention cord from the basement and took the shop-vac out and vaccumed it out (and the car broke the next day practically) so it shouldn't be too dirty inside. Although, I know my dad worked on it and he doesn't really care if it's clean or not, so it might need to be cleaned. Hehe, I'm fussy about my car being clean. I allow (as if I could stop) people to eat/drink in it though, I'm not fussy like that. I just like how it looks (so cute!) when it's clean.
I keep telling mom it's a good thing I don't have a job, because I'd be out of money anyway because I'd spend so much on my car. I literally go through the store saying "hmm. i could use that for my car!" I need to get material so I can cover the back seat, because the material/upholestry that is on it now is cracking. So I have to get enough material to cover the back seat (it's bench seating, not bucket). Oh, and i need a steering wheel cover, maybe. I don't like how mine is, it's kinda gritty/grimey feeling. Although that might disappear if I spray some cleaning stuff on it, I'm not sure. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. And my sister found a squeegee window washer thingy at my dad's stand, you fill up the handle with water and then you don't have to keep redipping your squeegee into the water to get your windows clean. lol. I don't know how well it works, but it was free so I might as well give it a shot. lol.

Wow, a whole entry about my car. Sorry. I tend to babble when I talk about my car. I know it's probably incredibly boring to anyone that reads this, but if you saw my car, you would totally understand. lol. I even took a picture of it, maybe one day I'll give a URL to the pic of my car and the pic of my backpack/luggage (might be easier than posting the pics on here and throwing the page alignment off)

and now I'm going to post this before midnight, so it looks like I have a long 1 day entry rather than 2 days of short entries. lol

Long time no blog, eh? lol. Ok, I promise it's not cause only Leesa commented, it's just because I've been busy and/or had nothing interesting to blog about.

I got luggage! It was on clearance for only $15. AND it's really cute :) We went to Kmart the other day, and they had this really cute luggage bag with wheels and a handle, and it has backpack straps too so if I need my hands free I can just strap it on my back. It's really cute, I think anyway. I might take a pic of it later and put it on here, lol. Instead of putting it in the cart when we got it (at the beginning of our shopping trip) I wheeled it around the store. And at the one point I had to go in front of this elderly man, and I said "excuse us" and then when he was out of earshot "us, meaning me and my suitcase" hehe. My mom was laughing hysterically the whole trip and saying I should be in a mental ward. She might be right. lol.

and now I have to go, cause i'm on mom's computer and I don't like this keyboard. :)