... i wish ...

i wish that wishes came true

i wish that bubblegum pop groups never existed

i wish that i had the body to go with my daisy duke outfit

i wish that i wasn't so worried about my schoolwork

i wish that i wasn't on the verge of getting a B or C average in geometry

i wish that i never said i'd do nanowrimo(.org) for my senior project

i wish that halloween wasn't over yet

i wish that winter would just go/stay away

i wish i could freeze time

i wish that my dad wouldn't drink

i wish that my dad didn't have bi-polar & add & alcoholism

i wish that i could pick which college to go to

i wish i knew where to start looking

i wish that i wouldn't feel guilty for things

i wish that i was a 'typical teen'

i wish i didn't think so much

i wish that i had my drivers license

i wish that i could use messenger on my school computer

i wish the justice system was actually fair

i wish that I could find my webcam disc

i wish that life wasn't always hard for some people

i wish i knew what you wished

...trick or treat!...

Well, it is now officially 9:51pm on October 31, 2003. And what am I doing? Blogging. I missed my blog something fierce during my break. And I even kept visiting it, just to see if people commented. and they did. thanks :)

I wasn't as good about doing my schoolwork as I had hoped, but I'm getting there. The first 2 days I barely did any school, because we went out and to my grandmother's. So I didn't get stuff done then, but I hope I made up for it the rest of the days. It was hard.

My halloween trick-or-treat night was yesterday, and frankly, it was pathetic. Trick or treat lasts from 6pm-8pm in my town, and last year we got at least 80 kids (which we weren't prepared for) so this year we made up 80 bags of candy for the treaters and guess how many came. 22. twenty-two! That stinks! This is a breakdown of my night.

5:15pm - pick up my dad from work, and I drive (yep, me) home, rushing so I'll have time to get ready before the treaters come.

5:30 - arrive home, get dressed up in my short shorts and my black tank with sorta-plaid shirt overtop so I vaguely resemble daisy duke. No time to curl my hair. I did however have time to put makeup on my eyes and lips and I must say I liked how it looked.

6:00pm - 6:37= no trick or treaters

6:37= 1 trick or treater, that was so scared/timid she barely managed to take her candy bag. I didn't let my bro scare her, much to his disappointment.

6:38 - 6:58- no treaters

7:13= 1 trick or treater, almost passed by our house till a neighbor told her we were giving candy out. barely managed to say thanks. sigh.

7:26= 2 little boys- 1 in stroller, 1 walking.

7:35=4 kids

7.38= 4 kids

7:58=7 kids - a few neighbors, which turned out to be the biggest group of the night :(

8.02= 3 kids

8:03= come inside, but keep the porch light on in case some kids stop by and want candy.

9:00= give up.

... this stinks...

well, it does. I'm not going to be blogging for a bit. Starting tomorrow. Until at least Friday night/Saturday sometime. I'm bogged down with school, and I have too many distractions. Wonderfully fantastic, lovely distractions. I'm going to miss them dearly this week. But I've come to the conclusion that as much as I adore talking to everyone on messenger, and blogging my day, and reading other websites, I just can't do it this week. I'm essentially grounding myself, before my mom has to resort to grounding me. I got done maybe a total of 25 hours of school last week, when I need 30. And the way today went, this week isn't going to go much better unless I resort to drastic measures.

So, I'm very sorry, and I luv ya all, but... I've never gotten anything lower than a C on my report card (once, 4th grade, math) and last year I was straight 'A's with only 1 B the whole year... but it's already the end of the first quarter this year and I still have like.... a month's worth of assignments to do. oy.

I feel like my world is horribly close to teetering off it's axis. And once it falls off, it's over with. I get absolutly miserable when I get a B or lower on my report card, I cry, I don't eat, etc etc. And I think I'm close to that B now because of not having work handed in, so I'm going to use this week and work my @$$ off in school so I'm all caught up. And then I'll be ok. hopefully.

So.... see ya saturday.

... it's a car! no, wait, it's a computer ...

my mom's computer makes a bunch of noises. I'm sitting at my school computer half-heartedly doing my schoolwork, with a watchful eye on mom's computer where I have my Instant Messengers on. I kept waiting for a window to pop up, someone kind enough to relieve my boredom and rescue me from the evil trenches of chemistry. Alas, no messages popped up. I did however notice that my mom's computer makes crunchy noises. Right before something happens, such as a window popping up (I noticed this before, not tonight because as I said nobody wants to talk to me tonight) or going to screensaver, it makes a weird noise. It sounds like it has to turn all of it's rusty gears before it can do anything. Even now, when nothing is going on (no screensaver, no windows popping up) it's making those gear noises. It's a strange thing to listen to.

My mom keeps complaining about the silence. I found out it's nearly impossible for me to concentrate on World Lit., Chemistry, or Geometry with the tv on. My brother and my sister can't concentrate with it on either. So, for about 6 hours a day, we turn the computer off, and all you can hear is the occasional typing, mouse clicking, or the muttered "darnit that's not the answer" (from zac or heidi) or even the under-the-breath "geometry sucks" (from me). Other than that, we're pretty much silent for most of the time. Occasionally one will mention an amusing story we've read, or get up to answer the phone, but mainly just silence. My mom hates it. She turns into a little kid. Or, more accuratly, my grandfather. My grandfather always has to instigate trouble, or be the center of attention. I'm noticing that trait in my mom more and more with each silent day. Someone will be concentrating on an assignment and she'll walk by and poke you just so you say something. Or she'll throw something at someone to get a reaction. I swear, she hates the silence. Twice today she said "it's soooo quiet in here!", which, in case you didn't notice, spoils the silence.

Did you ever notice how when the house is missing one person, it gets so much quieter? Usually my dad isn't home during the day, so with him gone (he has a nice but LOUD personality) and us doing school, it's quiet. As soon as he gets home, the dog (a beagle/bassett hound) starts howling, everyone gets up to say "hi how was your day" etc and the noise level goes way up. It's kinda crazy, and kind of nice at the same time because I think we'd all go crazy if it were silent here all of the time.

Anyone ever hear Blur? the band? Wobbie recommended them, let me hear them on 'voice' in yahoo messenger (and I heard his aussie accent! woohoo! lol), and from what I heard of them I like them, but I was just wondering if anyone has any song/album recommendations for them? Anyway, if you do please let me know in comments/email/IM. thanks :)

...well, it's a bit messed up, but here it is...

So, yea. Here it is. My halloween template. Crappy halloween template. I'd like it lots more if it weren't so smushed up against the left of the window, but sorry can't fix it. And you'll only have to suffer through it for a little while lol. I got the pic from sxc.hu and edited it and flipped it around etc to get those 2 pics up there. They're kinda misaligned. but yea well, deal with it :p

I wanted a pumpkin (pronnounced poomp-kin) layout, and now I got one so as long as I squint I'm happy with it. lol. Oh please let me know if it's too hard to read, I'll change the font color. Rather have visitors than a pretty template!

I'm swamped in school right now, so I can't blog very often. sorry.

...this title field kills my blog...

That title field distracts me. I might take it out. I'll have a blog all nice and formulated in my mind, but then I see the title field and realize I have to put something in there that alludes to what is in my post, and it deflates my imagination.

I always think through my posts before I post them. The only one that I can think of where I didn't pre-write was my tomato plant smell post. Usually it's now while I'm typing it, usually i have planned almost exactly what I want to say. When it has a good topic that is. When it's just random babbling about what my day was, it is just that- random babbling. But stuff like... wow, that's pathetic, I haven't had any good posts in awhile. Why on earth do you people keep coming back? I mean of course I'm glad and everything, but it's dull. I don't know if I'd come back to my blog if I were a reader.

Hmm ok so a post that I didn't actually think out before hand. One that is a little less boring then those 'what i did today' posts. Well, this one sort of relates because the conversation I'll mention happened today, but it's not quite the same. Here we go...

For my World Lit. class I will have to pretend I'm a couple from one of the stories I've read and write marriage vows. I was talking this over with wobbie (remember him? he doesn't read this "bloody blog" anymore hehe) today. I was telling him it was going to be easy to write because I'll just have to get into character. But now I'm not so sure. I mean, what do I know? I've never been in love. Sure, I read romance books and know the general romantic tone but it's not the same thing. I won't feel like my words are coming from my heart, because they're not. My heart has never been in love like that, so I'm afraid the characters are going to sound wooden almost. Like they're reading from a script. Because that's basically what I'd be doing; writing a script for them based on other scripts I've read or saw on tv. I've no memories of past loves (since there hasn't been any), no heart breaking assunder at the mere thought of being parted from the one I love, nothing like that. I know what I hope to hear someday, or hope to say someday, but I don't know if it'll work in the story because this couple is supposed to have one of those eternal loves. Oh and also I can't get over the fact that it's not my vows to write. There's a reason the story was printed, because the author used his words and brought forth emotions. Doesn't it seem a bit arrogant to say well even though he didn't see fit to write these vows I can do it? I mean yes, I will do it, because it is an assignment. I just think it's a rather difficult one given that I've nothing to base the feelings on.

Well there ya go. I didn't think that out one bit, so if it sounds crappy or confusing, that's why :)

New template... coming soon.... I know, I keep saying that. sigh. but this time I mean it cause I hate how my posts look in this template. update @ 1:55am: I have a template all ready. well, not quite, it still has to have the blogger and commenting codes put in it, but my pics are uploaded etc etc. So the hardest part is over with, and I'll have my new template up hopefully tomorrow morning, but if not then tomorrow night. I'm too tired to do it now. goodnight.

...no new template so far... sorry

Hi guys. I'm sorry, I don't think you're getting a new template anytime soon. At least not tonight. I'm sick of html. lol. I tried so hard to make my own, but it looked stupid so I gave up. And then I decided to just find one I liked, which was hard to do and I scrapped like 3 of them (after I had downloaded them) because i kept deciding they weren't right or they didn't work out. sigh.

...sooo.....

soo....My birthday was great, we went out for pizza and went and saw "the School of Rock". It was pretty good, a bit cheesy at parts but it could have been a lot cheesier I think. It was definetly funny, my dad was laughing a lot. We all were, but he's harder to get to laugh sometimes lol.

Then we dropped my brother and dad at work, and went home... and mom, hoov, and I watched "the Italian Job" which I really enjoyed. Funny, full of action... I recommend with 4 1/2 gold stars (out of 5). hehe.

Today we watched "About a Boy" with Hugh Grant. It was ok, I laughed a bit because of the sort of dry humor. And then tonight after my dad got home from work we all watched "4 feathers" which I think was ok, but I fell asleep (off and on) during the last hour and a half so I really can't say for sure.

A new template really will be up soon. I just have to find that darned winzip. grrr.

School is going ok, I'm not doing as many hours as I should be doing, but I really do plan on getting on track this week. I'm all caught up in my World Lit. class, and there's a couple classes I can't/don't know where to start in... but other than that it's pretty good. Oh, side note: I hate geometry.

I filled out the application today for a department store close to my house (at a mall, about 2 miles away). I've actually been wanting to work there for 2 years [since i was 16, gosh i feel old!] but they only hire 18+ which really stinks. But anyway, pleeeeeease cross your fingers for me, as I really want this job. I think it'll be cool. Plus the extra money would be great, seeing as how we're getting into winter and that's my dad's businesses slow season. I think I'll like working at this store, mainly old people shop there, and I really like old people. Well, maybe not really like, but I like them more than kids my age. I just can't talk to people my age, I dunno why. a slight flaw I guess. But with older people, I can talk. So I want to work at a place with older people. There's a few younger (my age... and in early 20s) people there, doing the cash registars and stuff, but the customers are mainly older people.

I want to do the cash registars. I just always did, I don't know why. I used to tell my mom I was going to be a cashier when I grew up.... (a cashier or a lawyer...hmmm, which one to choose?). Oh, and there was this period where I really wanted to be a waitress. My dream job would have been one of those jobs where you do the cashier sometimes, and waitressing others. I don't know, I was/am a weird kid. lol. My dreams have changed now though, I am definetly going to be a lawyer now. Although I might have to get a cashier/waitress job just to get through college, lol. But anyway, so yea, I have my application and am putting it in... either tomorrow or the next day. So cross your fingers for me, for good luck, would ya?

my bday

Tomorrow is my 18th birthday. yay. I feel old. sigh.

...sorry so short but...

I've a bunch of things to look up online and I just wanted to give Lyra the info on the archives. Wherever you want the archives you need to put this:
<BloggerArchives>
<a href='<$BlogArchiveLink$>'><$BlogArchiveName$></a>
</BloggerArchives>

and you might have to change the 'archives' tab under settings. if you have any problem maybe you can catch me on yahoo IM (alien4004) or AIM (aliengurl4004) sometime and I can show you then. Or you could just explain what you're confused about, or what I messed up, in the comments and I can try again. Let me know if it helped :) (and it wasn't a dumb question)

O yea Roscoe sorry I don't know where the ghost town was... I have postcards I can scan if you want to see if it looks like the one you know of? Or I can ask my grandma next time she calls... :)

Thanks for saying you like the pics guys, I love taking pics and I loved my vacation.

I'm off to search for stuff, tata.

...an update...

Pics will be up very soon. Or rather, a link to pics will be up very soon. At the moment the pics are downloading onto a CD on mom's computer, and I'm going to switch the disc over to this one and upload them to a site as soon as it's done DLing.

here they are.
Don't expect anything fancy as far as the picture album design goes, I think I'm just going to use an angelfire.com photo album template. hehe.

So... I guess this is the part where I tell you about my trip, eh? I don't know where to start.

I spent most the days trying to get up the energy to go swimming in my grandmother's park's heated pool. I know, I was lazy. but I enjoyed being lazy so :p

A few of the days we went to this one HUGE mall they had out there. It had 150 stores, and I bet we went in all of them. If not all, a good 120 of them. Mandy spent like $500 just there the one day, I spent about $20. I'm cheap. lol

We went up to Sedona. We did the one Pink Jeep Tour. That was a ton of fun. That was the best part of the trip, actually. It was soooo fun. You get driven around on a bright pink jeep, and you go over all these rugged 4x4 trails and you get to see all this beautiful scenery. My cousin and I sat in the seat that got the most bumps, and we enjoyed every second of it. We were screaming and laughing.... mucho fun.

We went to the Grand Canyon. I liked it and all, but I must say, it's a hole in the ground. I liked the IMax video about the Grand Canyon more than I actually liked visiting it. It's not that it's not amazing how big it is, it's very very huge, but after I saw it it's just like... ok, it's a hole. I think if I would have seen it at dusk or early morning it would have been better, but as it was it was like 4pm and all the colors looked rather pale. : /

We also visited Tortilla Flats, which has this really cool place where the walls are literally covered in dollar bills. You write your name on a dollar bill and they find some place on the wall or decorations or roof rafters to stick it and then it's there forever... or until it burns down again like it did 10 years ago. :[

Oh yes, we also visited this really cool ghost town. It was neat, it was just found one day... completely abandoned. And it was a coal mining town, so you could see the mines and such. We could have taken a tour of the mine but we didn't because it was hot and getting late.

And I think that's it as far as places we went. I really really loved the weather, 90 degrees (farenheit) with little/no humidity and sunny. ahhhh. I spent a lot of my time either in, or laying out by the pool.

And then when it was time to come home, it was a 5 1/2 hour plane ride. yuck. You don't know how numb your bum get until you've been sitting on a plane for 5 1/2 hours. We even had a stopover in Indianappolis on our way to Balitmore and we got to get up and change seats... that helped a bit but still... my poor bum. lol.

School started today. well, I started it before but today I really buckled down and did it. I think I'll do ok, I'm hoping to be caught up with 6 weeks of missed work by the end of this week. Mom says I'm pushing myself too hard though, so maybe I'll slack off that plan a bit. I dunno now.

A new template will be up as soon as I can find my Winzip disc. Halloween template :) (sorry Chris, I don't want the plane anymore. you want it? lol)

...I'm baaaaaaaaaack...

Yup, I'm back. I just wanted to let you all know that I'm home, safe and, well, safe. I don't know about sound, since I've been telling everyone about my week and practically talking non-stop. I really really don't have time to type a long blog about my week, but I will as soon as possible, I promise! I've 3 suitcases/bags to unpack, TONS of school to start/catch up/work on, and so I just thought I'd write in quick to let you all know I'm back. I have 4 packs (rolls) of photos, so I'll scan some of them then too. I'm exahusted, I'm still on Arizona time which is 3 hours behind this, and I woke up at 7am today, which was really only 4am Arizona time... so I'm tired.

Thanks to hoover and roscoe for guest blogging! I read them, they were great. And thanks anyway for the effort Leesa, sometimes blogger is just stupid and won't let things go through, but I really do appreciate you being willing to blog :)

Roscoe, I got postcards, so as soon as I can (this week hopefully...) I'll send them off to you. I got yours, thanks bunches :)

Okies, school to do, more later, adios.

Howdy From Roscoe

Sorry, Hoov, we just thought you should be first... You are her sister.... lol.

Anyway, a guest blog for Heather.... Think about this I must.....
Here we go:

The Meaning of Insanity(okay, I am SO just kidding)

Nah, in all reality, if you ain't a little crazy, then you don't really have a life. Think about it. How many things in your life could be called "Normal"?

Then think about this: What IS "normal"...

Trust me, no one around here is "normal", (Though that is almost always what we dress as for Halloween, LOL)
But, as most if us would agree, "normality" is highly over rated. To be a "normal" teenager, I'd have to wear belly shirts, low-riding bell bottoms, have dyed hair and use more slang than most Webster Dictionaries know.

Not that's there is anything wrong with being like that, but it just isn't me, and the same goes for many other "normal" or "abnormal" teens. Sure, most of us do shop at Walmart, but if we all bought the same clothes... Ugh, how boring. We'd be like the Clones in "Star Wars"; nameless, faceless, and totally equal in every little way.

Uh oh, I changed the subject by using the word "equal". opps.....

By the word "equal", I mean in my different ways. We'd be "equal" in height, weight, hair and skin color, tastes, likes, dislikes....

It'd go on and on....
Whoa, and how boring would that be. There'd be no great movies, cause no one would be original enough to think of a boat load of cursed pirates or a three-thousand-year-old dead guy brought back to life by a curse...(I seem to be lingering on the word 'curse'). There'd be no great blogs like this one, or Hoover's, on even my Blog.

So next time you check this page to see what Heather or any of us, her guest bloggers, have to say, and you see we barely wrote anything or have written three pages of babble, just remember one thing...

At least we were original enough to do so!

(Making a painful yet somewhat funny point) Your Goof-istly and Truly,
Roscoe
P.S. No, I do not suffer from insanity... I enjoy every nano-second of it!

Dedicated to Heather and all her fans:

Just because I didn't blog for heather, doesn't mean that you shouldn't! come on people, get the guests blogs going! Anyway...

I just talked with Heather on the phone. She is fine, arrived in Arizona safe and sound. Good thing to. My mom and I were watching a movie about these 3 airplane waitress people (what are they called? I can't remember), and the one started out in this plane that was in very bad condition and stuff... this was while heather was flying into Arizona!



I am terribly busy with schoolwork, and have barely the time to even do this blog... but I will blog... for heather :)

I miss heather, I really do, but not that much that I'm sitting here crying my eyes out. believe it, or not.... but I ain't... I know shes coming back in a few days, so, I (surprizingly) didn't cry. I am a pretty big cryer... my family calls me a baby... but sometimes I just can't help it...
I know when heather goes to college I'll be crying my eyes out. my mom and I will probably use a billion boxes of tissues. hehe. oh well, life goes on... right? I think I say that on blogs alot... hmm...

this is kind of like a practise thing for when she goes to college, I guess. thats what I keep thinking...




want to know something that isn't very surprizing? the house is ALOT quieter without heather! I should really get a taperecorder, and record it that way I can let heather listen to it when she comes back so she will actually believe me. The only noise right now is the sound of me typing, my brother on the exercise machine upstairs, and the tv... no heather.... eww! speaking of tv! pok'emon is on, I don't like poke'mon (or wherever that thingy goes in it, poke'mon, pok'emon, whichever)... ewwww... I should turn it... but when my bro comes downstairs he will probably turn it back anyway.


wow, this is getting pretty long...

I now get to say that I was indeed the first guest blogger on heathers blog... I should be, anyway. it was my idea... or maybe I should be second... 'cause, did ya ever hear that saying "first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the hairy chest"? I remember heather, my bro, and I running to the car saying that... oooh, what memories, memories with heather *sighs* no, really, its not that bad. lol, that was just a little joke thing to put there.. hahahahaha, get it?
I doubt anyone is reading this....
okay, now I'm gonna go....
peace out!

...calling all guest bloggers...

you can now blog. i'm on vacation :) I'm at my cousins now, we leave tomorrow for the airport at 6:30am. *yawn* Anyway, I don't have time to type, i'm going to walmart and then a friend of my cousin's house. bye :)

...picture me, in that plane...

Hello people. This is the 'secret' lol. Some secret, isn't it? Not really even worth the hype, except I like it so :p I know it's messed up on the links/contact part, but I can't fix it, and I would try to figure it out more but I don't have the time to. Dad's talking about waking us all up at 7am to clean. *gag* It's 11:35 now, so that does mean like 7 hours sleep... but it still stinks. It's different if I have something to do, that I'm actually excited about waking up that early, but waking up to clean??? No thanks.

We got our Dell's today :) :) :) They have to be the best computers I've seen/used yet. They are amazingly fast, and they're black, with a 17inch flat screen monitor, and.... well, just amazing. They run Windows XP OS, which I know a lot of people hate but I didn't find any flaws in it yet. But then again, all I'm allowed to do with it is go on it for school (ABSOLUTLY NOTHING ELSE!!! I've been warned) so I don't really have a chance to play on it to find the flaws :( I don't even get to play the games that come preloaded in it. Or mess around with the music/dvd burner it has installed. Nada. All is offlimits to me. sigh. But still, it's a cool computer, and we got a really really fast and cool Lexmark PrinTrio X1150 copier/scanner/fax/printer. It's really really cool. And it came with the USB plug/powercords/ink that you need to use it. Very cool. I love it all. Can you tell? lol. I even love my little dell mouse, it has the laser instead of the wheel/ball thingy. And everything matches. hehe. The only thing that would make it better if I were allowed to go on regular internet/IMs on it. But I can't, they have a watchdog sort of thing (I saw it, it monitors everything, darnit). So, if I'm not on messenger or blogger much, it's because I'm either on vacation!!! or because I'm doing school, or because one of my siblings is on this computer, which is the only computer (besides my moms that we can only use when she isn't..) that is hooked up to the internet. Hopefully we'll be getting another 1 (possibly 2) computers online soon, but until then... this is it.

And now I'm going to end this, and say goodbye :( I'll miss you all, be sure to comment lots on this post (let me know what you think of the template) and make sure you comment on my guest-blogger's posts, I'm sure they'd appreciate it. I'm getting teary eyed thinking of being away from my blog/computer for so long. Sigh. But Arizona will be worth it, right? Of course it will be. I just have seperation anxiety. lol, who says you have to be a mom or a kid to get that? You can get it from your computer, too. lol. Bye everyone, and when I come back expect tons of pics to be posted, and stories of my 'vacation'.

...i usually forget to fill this in, and have to go back after i publish. not this time though!...

Sheesh it's chilly. "well heather, you moron, why don't you just turn on the heater?" Answer: because I like to sleep in the semi-cold, well at least not warm/hot, and if I turn the heater on now it will get hot in my room very quickly and when I go to bed I will be roasting. My bed is surrounded by the heater on 2 1/2 sides (the top/head side, my right side, and a bit of the bottom of the bed). The heater runs completely along 2 walls in my room, and halfway down another. That makes it very warm in my room. So, I don't like to have the heater on at night when I don't have to, I prefer my nice comfy cozy comforter/blanket.

I'm sitting here, munching green/string beans, with my blanket on my lap and a long sleeved shirt, jeans, and the hated socks on. grumble grumble. I'm thinking I should probably go to bed, but in all honesty I'm not tired. I fell asleep on the sofa around 8 or so, and slept for probably an hour, so I'm not tired at all. I still should probably try to go to bed, if for no other reason than I'm cold. Oh, and also because I will probably have a busy day tomorrow, because I have to go to the pharmacy and get my 'script' (perscription) refilled, because I won't have enough to last 2 weeks. And so I have to get that filled, and clean because on Friday a lady is coming to see about 'weatherizing' our house. Which is definetly a good thing, but still kinda a pain in the butt to clean for because we don't know exactly what they'll be looking at (will they need to go in my room? bathroom? basement?) so we have to pick-up/clean everything.

Leesa and Roscoe it still says your blogger team member invites are pending, so if you didnt' get it or want me to resend the invite let me know ASAP because I leave Saturday and it will be too late by then (Friday is probably the last day I'll be allowed online). If you changed your mind, and/or found out you won't have the time to blog that's ok, just please let me know so I'm not obsessing about it. :)

I still don't have school, hoover does though. So for now I'm helping her out (when she asks, like.. where's the Square Root button on the calculator) and waiting... impatiently... for my school to start.

I signed up for Nanowrimo, and (even though she said I have to sign up) when I told my mom she groaned. Apparently she thinks I'm going to be miserable to live with during my novel writing month. She thinks maybe I'll be obsessing about my book, taking a notebook everywhere with me and writing down ideas, spending hours in front of the computer, become more anti-social... *grin* does all that sound like something I'd do?? hehe... yup! So november should be a lot of fun, but probably only for me. Hehe.

And Chris B., you are not allowed to tell! Everyone else just has to wait until Friday...

...brr...

i'm freezing! Which, if you've talked to me on instant messenger at all today, you already know. Stupid pennsylvania weather. i hate it. I swear I am moving out west (or to australia *sighs dreamily*) when I'm older.

Today I went to walmart and got a light jacket to take with to AZ (my grandma said I'll need one for when we go see the grand canyon), and I got some undies, and a bra, and some deodorant. And now all I have to do is get my prescription filled again before I leave and I'm all set :) Mom even sewed my one shirt so i can take that with too. I'm a happy camper. except I hate camping, so if I were actually camping I wouldn't be happy. lol. So I'm just happy, forget the camper reference.

NaNoWriMo registration starts Oct. 1st! I was waiting exitedly for midnight, thinking I'd sign up right at midnight... until I realized that they mean pacific time... so I'd have to be awake till 3am. grrr. So tomorrow morning I'll register instead. Oh, for those wondering, NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. It's where you're challenged to write a 50,000 word novel in the month (30 days) of November. I was really excited about it a few months back, and then I realized how much work it will be and how much work I will already have in November so I started to lose my enthusiasm and change my mind, but my mom said "Heather, you should do it. You need something for your college applications" So, by mom's command, I'm going to attempt it. And now, as I think about it, I'm getting my enthusiasm back :) I'm going to need people to yell at me and encourage me though, cause it works out to about 1,666 words a day, and when you couple that with the 30 hours of school a week, plus the possible part time job I should probably get when i get back from Arizona.. I'm getting tired already and it's not even November.

And I'm bored, and I'm tired, and I'm cold. And that's too many 'and's, my english teacher would cry. Sorry. Goodnight.