Check out http://www.pandora.com. It is so amazing! It's an online "radio" station. You can create an account for free and enter your favorite artists or songs, and the radio chooses similar music, and creates a station for you based on that music. A friend of mine told me I had to look at it today, and I already love it dearly. You can bookmark your friends and see what music they're looking at too.
So go- shoo shoo!
Friday, May 22, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
CooCooCa-Choo got screwed...
Yeah, I just love that line there. It's from the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie. It was my favorite line in the whole movie, almost as epic as JK Rowling's Harry telling Ron "It probably means you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmellow or something..." But that is a book quote, and they are therefore in completely different catagories.
All I can say is I'm ashamed that I've been so sporadic with my posts lately. I can explain. Really. Okay so, I've started writing again- and I mean really writing. About 1500-2000 words per night. That's a heafty amount for me, and I've kept up the pace for the past week or so. I didn't want to break the habbit too early, becaue I know myself better than that. If I distract myself too soon after gettinga good writing scheduel going, it falls apart like a four year old with a massive ADD problem. This means stay away from reading, blogging, internet surfing, most television, unnecessary snacking, and, when necessary, homework. Oh, come on- I don't abandon my homework alltogether or anything, and besides- most of my classes are in end-of-the-year review mode. But I need to follow all my rules or else the juice will cease to flow. If you are now wondering what the heck I'm doing blogging now, I can assure you that my 1500 words are already completed, and I intend go dive back in for a second time after this. I just felt like I was neglecting my blog, and I hate it when the dates skip around so much when looking back at my posts. Also, I really wanted to use that quote in my title.
On an ending note, I will leave you with my current favorite word: spulunking. Curious? Go look it up, I've got to get writing.
All I can say is I'm ashamed that I've been so sporadic with my posts lately. I can explain. Really. Okay so, I've started writing again- and I mean really writing. About 1500-2000 words per night. That's a heafty amount for me, and I've kept up the pace for the past week or so. I didn't want to break the habbit too early, becaue I know myself better than that. If I distract myself too soon after gettinga good writing scheduel going, it falls apart like a four year old with a massive ADD problem. This means stay away from reading, blogging, internet surfing, most television, unnecessary snacking, and, when necessary, homework. Oh, come on- I don't abandon my homework alltogether or anything, and besides- most of my classes are in end-of-the-year review mode. But I need to follow all my rules or else the juice will cease to flow. If you are now wondering what the heck I'm doing blogging now, I can assure you that my 1500 words are already completed, and I intend go dive back in for a second time after this. I just felt like I was neglecting my blog, and I hate it when the dates skip around so much when looking back at my posts. Also, I really wanted to use that quote in my title.
On an ending note, I will leave you with my current favorite word: spulunking. Curious? Go look it up, I've got to get writing.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Whew
Just a post to let everyone know I'm still alive. It was AP testing week at my school. Thursday was AP English, Friday was AP US history, and today was my last, AP Physics. So... I don't really want to write about those, I'd rather just forget all the problems and essays.
But nevertheless- I am alive and kicking. But almost needless to say, dince the past three weeks have been study-central, I want to read (or re-read) my books. So I will cut this short and go snuggle up with one of my favorites- Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. Whee!
But nevertheless- I am alive and kicking. But almost needless to say, dince the past three weeks have been study-central, I want to read (or re-read) my books. So I will cut this short and go snuggle up with one of my favorites- Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. Whee!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The New Kid
So tomorrow I am going to drive in to school for the first time, and park in the junior parking lot. Obviously, this is the parking lot waaay behind the middle school that's really a big flat space filled with tiny rocks (= no official parking spaces). One of my friends (codename Aries) who gets a ride in to school with a fellow junior warned me that everyone is really possessive about their "spots". I put that in parenthesis because there are no white or yellow lines to mark where to park. Aries told me not to park anywhere along the tennis court fences and to say clear of parking close to the middle school- they are already taken, and their usual possessors will be angry. Once the junior who she gets a ride in with warned he'd key any one's car found in his space. Yup. And then the dean that signed my permission slip advised that I might want to be careful, because everyone parks really close together: there are a heck of a lot of juniors with cars in a relatively small space.
I have been warned, and frankly, I'm a little nervous. Where the heck do I park and what if I take someone else's space? Aren't we too old to quibble over these things- like we used to do when a new kid sat in our seat in elementary school when there weren't actual assigned seats? I have decided to park in the farthest corner from the middle school/tennis court corner of the lot, and hope for the best. At least I'll be close to the road to get out, right?
Well, here's to tomorrow!
I have been warned, and frankly, I'm a little nervous. Where the heck do I park and what if I take someone else's space? Aren't we too old to quibble over these things- like we used to do when a new kid sat in our seat in elementary school when there weren't actual assigned seats? I have decided to park in the farthest corner from the middle school/tennis court corner of the lot, and hope for the best. At least I'll be close to the road to get out, right?
Well, here's to tomorrow!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
All Tangled Up
Wow. I never knew this licene stuff was this complicated. Seriously. There are about fifteen things that I'm restricted against with this class DJ stuff. The one that annoys me the most is I cannot drive on a pulic highway unless I am going to or coming from a job. WHAT?! So, anyways, all the more reason to take Driver's Ed this year if my school ever decides to announce it.
My friends and I were planning on going to the drive-in movies tonight (pictured above when it first opened in 1949) and I was psyched because I would get to drive. Well, I can drive to the movies, just not from the movies. It's the time limit thing- they end after 9pm. Anyway, I asked my brother if he's mind coming with us so he can drive us back home. He said sure thing- he's such and easy going brother, you know? So now I need to ask my friends, codenames Aries and Artemis if they are allowed to ride with Jay driving. It should be fine, because if they were okay with me driving (who has only had her license for... four days?), they should be just dandy with my bro who has been driving with a license since Feburary 2008. He's also done a load of driving classes- Driver's Ed and Defensive Driving. I hope it all goes well now.
We want to go and see 17 Again starring Zac Effron. Not because we love Effron or anything, we're certainly not fan girls, and I personally thing his mouth is humongous and should be featured on a Honeycombs commercial. It just looks hilarious. I love the trailer that's all over the TV and the internet. Bring it on.
My friends and I were planning on going to the drive-in movies tonight (pictured above when it first opened in 1949) and I was psyched because I would get to drive. Well, I can drive to the movies, just not from the movies. It's the time limit thing- they end after 9pm. Anyway, I asked my brother if he's mind coming with us so he can drive us back home. He said sure thing- he's such and easy going brother, you know? So now I need to ask my friends, codenames Aries and Artemis if they are allowed to ride with Jay driving. It should be fine, because if they were okay with me driving (who has only had her license for... four days?), they should be just dandy with my bro who has been driving with a license since Feburary 2008. He's also done a load of driving classes- Driver's Ed and Defensive Driving. I hope it all goes well now.
We want to go and see 17 Again starring Zac Effron. Not because we love Effron or anything, we're certainly not fan girls, and I personally thing his mouth is humongous and should be featured on a Honeycombs commercial. It just looks hilarious. I love the trailer that's all over the TV and the internet. Bring it on.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Bad Mood Day
Motivation. I totally lack it when it comes to schoolwork. Not to say that I'm a slacker, or even that I choose to take the easy courses, or that I don't do my work. I take the AP and UniversityHS level classes, and I have an A in all of my classes minus UHS Pre-Calculus. In seventh grade I chose to skip a year in math and science each so I started high school courses in eighth grade (a lot of other kids got the option too- it's nothing too unusual in my school). I participate for the most part, hand in my work on time and finished, and I've never skipped a single class. I am ranked at number 38 out of a class of 378 (or something close to that). My friends are all smart people as well, and we are a great group of non-partying people. Parents, I'm sure, would love to have any of us as their children. I have a few extracurricular activities: dance classes for 8 years, debate club 10th grade, newspaper club 10th grade, and best buddies organization this year. See? I'm really a good student, but why do I feel like I'm so slow? Like I have no motivation? I do most of these things not because I "want to challenge myself" or any of that nonsense, but because I know colleges will like me better or because I want to have a class of people I like rather than sit in a class with all the kids who really REALLY don't care about school. I took the 'easy' chem class last year, and since I'm a year ahead of my grade, I was stuck with the grade above me = I knew no one. Everyone wanted my answers on homework or wanted to be my partner so they wouldn't have to do any work, ext. I was so sick of them all. Hence, I'm now in the upper level classes so I can be with people I know, and like, who won't constantly try to cheat off my papers and then get angry at me if they copied one of my wrong answers.
So here I am, facing 3 AP exams in early or mid May, 2 UHS finals in June, my second SAT in June, plus all of the other finals and state regulated exams also in June. And I don't feel like studying. Lame, aren't I?
And then what? So say for kicks I get into the college I want. The work is just harder in college anyways, right? Will I be one of the "burn outs" that was good in high school but used up way too much energy and flunk out of first semester? I am really worried about this now... yet still I cannot muster up what it takes to sit down and write practice essays or compete problems 3-37 odds. Does this mean I can't be as worried as I think I am? That deep down I'm just waiting and expecting to turn into a flunkie?
I am so confusing myself here, and undoubtedly anyone else who is reading this. The easy solution that you must be screaming at the computer screen is JUST STUDY THEN! I know, I get it- I'm not stupid.
Secondly, I'm having a bad hair day. I have a whole army of flyaway hairs that are all around my face and stick out like the rays of the sun that little kids draw. Or like a lion's puffy hair that frames its face. Not half as flattering on a human girl, let me tell you. I've pulled it all back, dried it, put smoothing serum in it, let it down again- NOTHING makes it better. Stupid hair.
So here I am, facing 3 AP exams in early or mid May, 2 UHS finals in June, my second SAT in June, plus all of the other finals and state regulated exams also in June. And I don't feel like studying. Lame, aren't I?
And then what? So say for kicks I get into the college I want. The work is just harder in college anyways, right? Will I be one of the "burn outs" that was good in high school but used up way too much energy and flunk out of first semester? I am really worried about this now... yet still I cannot muster up what it takes to sit down and write practice essays or compete problems 3-37 odds. Does this mean I can't be as worried as I think I am? That deep down I'm just waiting and expecting to turn into a flunkie?
I am so confusing myself here, and undoubtedly anyone else who is reading this. The easy solution that you must be screaming at the computer screen is JUST STUDY THEN! I know, I get it- I'm not stupid.
Secondly, I'm having a bad hair day. I have a whole army of flyaway hairs that are all around my face and stick out like the rays of the sun that little kids draw. Or like a lion's puffy hair that frames its face. Not half as flattering on a human girl, let me tell you. I've pulled it all back, dried it, put smoothing serum in it, let it down again- NOTHING makes it better. Stupid hair.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Zoom Zoom Zoom, Sib @ Eighteen, Best Day (LONGEST POST EVER)
How could I have forgotten to mention that I can drive now? Liscense drive- alone or with people other than my parents, at any hour I want, to wherever I wish as long as I can get there and tell everyone where I'm off to. It's really, really, really, nice. I passed the dreaded test two days ago- first time around, by the way. It was a little odd at first, but it wasn't a huge shock as I'd had my permit and been driving for a little over a year already. I can now choose my radio station, iPod music, volume, control the air and heat, and put down whatever windows I want. So far three of my friends are able to ride in the car with me, but one can't yet- I need to give her mother a ride before she approves of me (she plans to do that to everyone though, so it's nothing personal). The other mothers assume that the child of the insurance people will know how to properly drive. But by summer I bet we'll all be just fine. It's funny- now my car really feels like its mine. Before, yeah, I knew it was my car, or going to be my car... but it's different once you really get to drive it yourself, alone. It's my baby now. I'll find a name for it later, or maybe it'll just come to me. I name everything if I hadn't mentioned that already. But driving = good, sense of direction = I have none. We'll see how that mixes...
So today is my older bro's (codename Jay) eighteenth birthday- so go Jay! He can now officially: get married, join the army, the air force, the navy, coast guard, marines, move out, get a credit card, buy a motorcycle, sign legal papers, go to prison, rent an appartment, buy a house or condo, move to Svalbard (look at a map, it's real), and buy cigarettes, tobacco or cigars. Yay, my bro is growing up! Of course, he will not be buying cigarettes, or going to jail, or any of the bad stuff... but anyways, happy birthday! We went out to eat at Red Robin to celebrate (it's tradition). My dad signed our family up for this birthday deal thing a couple of years ago- the birthday person gets a free burger, ice cream, staff to sing to you, and a BALLOON. Since all of our birthdays are within two months (two in march- me and dad, two in april- mom and jay), keeping your weight under control is an issue for this section of the year. We had one of our neighbors as our waiter, and he was really nice. College kid, lives (used to live?) kiddy corner from my house, really cute, nice, and funny. Mom kept asking if she was allowed to ask him if he had a girlfriend (really, Mom?), and my mortified answer was always no. But anyways, this is about my bro, so again- happy adulthood and I will see you on the other side next year (oh, no)!
Other part of my post is my description of my wonderful day today with my friends, code names Sparkles, Aries, and... urhm. I need to give her a codename... I deem friend number three ARTEMIS. Yeah, I'm really sorry if you don't like it, or if anyone else is jealous of the name, but seriously, I can't think of anything else. Leave my fried brain alone. So as I was saying, Sparkles, Aries, Artemis, and I went to Sparkles' house today to have a photo shoot (she and Artemis are in a photography class, and she needed models). It was great. We got all dressed up and I brought over a ton of stuff in my car and we all went outside and frollicked around for a while. When all the rolls of film were used up Sparkles produced some tea and cookies and we had a nice tea party. Yes, we are sixteen and seventeen year old having a dress-up tea party (complete with frills, parasols, dresses, blanket, and tiaras) in her back yard. This would be the second tea party, the first such one being at my house, which is much worse because of my more public and open neighborhood compared to Spark's more isolated house. And we are okay with that. The tea party-dress up thing, that is. Even Aries participated in the frilly shoot, and she's not exactly the first person you'd think of when the word 'frilly' comes to mind, as she's more of a blue-black-gray-brown clothing colored person, who is more apt to wear jeans and a sweater than a sundress and straw hat. To put it lightly. But she did it with us, and she had just as much fun at it as we did. Sparks did get a little jealous once the shoot was over because she wasn't in party clothes like we were and she wanted, to quote her, "be a fairy princess too!" So she went in and changed and brought out tea. We drank some of it and had a cookie each, then just laid around on the blanket in the sun talking about everything from Gilmore Girls to summer vacation to driving. I had to break out my SPF 30 oil free sunscreen after a while- I was afraid I'd burn (I told you I brought a ton of random stuff), and then I had a parasol arranged so it shaded my face (didn't want to put the sunscrean on my face 'cause of all the makeup). I think I only tinted my face a little, so that's good. Sparks said we should do a tea party once a week in the summer, and we all gushed about how we wanted to go to the drive in movie theater soon. Then Artemis pointed out that we only had three days left of spring break. That was quite a downer. I proposed a motion to skip the month of May (with all of its reviewing and AP testing and ickiness like that), and unsurprisingly the motion was passed. Aries wanted to add an amendment to also extend the month-skipping through June, but that met some opposition in the ranks. Now we just need to alert the rest of the world that there will be no May this year... hmmm...
I just noticed how incredably long this entry is! Holy typewriter! Neesless to say (which means I'll tell you anyways) today was an amazing day, and I wish everyday could be fasion shoot and dress-up tea party day. *sigh*
So today is my older bro's (codename Jay) eighteenth birthday- so go Jay! He can now officially: get married, join the army, the air force, the navy, coast guard, marines, move out, get a credit card, buy a motorcycle, sign legal papers, go to prison, rent an appartment, buy a house or condo, move to Svalbard (look at a map, it's real), and buy cigarettes, tobacco or cigars. Yay, my bro is growing up! Of course, he will not be buying cigarettes, or going to jail, or any of the bad stuff... but anyways, happy birthday! We went out to eat at Red Robin to celebrate (it's tradition). My dad signed our family up for this birthday deal thing a couple of years ago- the birthday person gets a free burger, ice cream, staff to sing to you, and a BALLOON. Since all of our birthdays are within two months (two in march- me and dad, two in april- mom and jay), keeping your weight under control is an issue for this section of the year. We had one of our neighbors as our waiter, and he was really nice. College kid, lives (used to live?) kiddy corner from my house, really cute, nice, and funny. Mom kept asking if she was allowed to ask him if he had a girlfriend (really, Mom?), and my mortified answer was always no. But anyways, this is about my bro, so again- happy adulthood and I will see you on the other side next year (oh, no)!
Other part of my post is my description of my wonderful day today with my friends, code names Sparkles, Aries, and... urhm. I need to give her a codename... I deem friend number three ARTEMIS. Yeah, I'm really sorry if you don't like it, or if anyone else is jealous of the name, but seriously, I can't think of anything else. Leave my fried brain alone. So as I was saying, Sparkles, Aries, Artemis, and I went to Sparkles' house today to have a photo shoot (she and Artemis are in a photography class, and she needed models). It was great. We got all dressed up and I brought over a ton of stuff in my car and we all went outside and frollicked around for a while. When all the rolls of film were used up Sparkles produced some tea and cookies and we had a nice tea party. Yes, we are sixteen and seventeen year old having a dress-up tea party (complete with frills, parasols, dresses, blanket, and tiaras) in her back yard. This would be the second tea party, the first such one being at my house, which is much worse because of my more public and open neighborhood compared to Spark's more isolated house. And we are okay with that. The tea party-dress up thing, that is. Even Aries participated in the frilly shoot, and she's not exactly the first person you'd think of when the word 'frilly' comes to mind, as she's more of a blue-black-gray-brown clothing colored person, who is more apt to wear jeans and a sweater than a sundress and straw hat. To put it lightly. But she did it with us, and she had just as much fun at it as we did. Sparks did get a little jealous once the shoot was over because she wasn't in party clothes like we were and she wanted, to quote her, "be a fairy princess too!" So she went in and changed and brought out tea. We drank some of it and had a cookie each, then just laid around on the blanket in the sun talking about everything from Gilmore Girls to summer vacation to driving. I had to break out my SPF 30 oil free sunscreen after a while- I was afraid I'd burn (I told you I brought a ton of random stuff), and then I had a parasol arranged so it shaded my face (didn't want to put the sunscrean on my face 'cause of all the makeup). I think I only tinted my face a little, so that's good. Sparks said we should do a tea party once a week in the summer, and we all gushed about how we wanted to go to the drive in movie theater soon. Then Artemis pointed out that we only had three days left of spring break. That was quite a downer. I proposed a motion to skip the month of May (with all of its reviewing and AP testing and ickiness like that), and unsurprisingly the motion was passed. Aries wanted to add an amendment to also extend the month-skipping through June, but that met some opposition in the ranks. Now we just need to alert the rest of the world that there will be no May this year... hmmm...
I just noticed how incredably long this entry is! Holy typewriter! Neesless to say (which means I'll tell you anyways) today was an amazing day, and I wish everyday could be fasion shoot and dress-up tea party day. *sigh*
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