Finally off Hiatus.

haha.
I declared that I was on Hiatus about an hour ago, after I realized I hadn't written on here for a good long while. My Thanksgiving break was fantastic!
:D
Some of my family and I went down to Southern California to do three college tours and Knott's Berry Farm on Turkey Day, and my dear mother's birthday (the day before Thanksgiving). One day we were in Hollywood, and I was somewhere else, but my mom thinks that she saw Jerry O'Connell standing behind her on the escalator! I LOVE him. He played one of my absolute favorite characters, Woody, in "Crossing Jordan." Unfortunately, that series ended.
:(
Anyway, I wasn't there to verify this possible sighting, but according to her, he was a very pleasant man--a very believable statement.
Knott's Berry Farm was really fun, and I've eliminated two schools from Southern California. USC and Pepperdine are two schools that don't quite fit my personality. I'm a big city girl who likes small learning environment. So, we'll see how everything goes.
Anyway, I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really don't want to go back to school tomorrow. And I got to spend some time with some great friends last night.
:D
Anyway, I'm considering doing home-schooling next semester...just to see how it goes. I always thought I wanted to, but never had the guts to leave my social life at school.
haha...




peace.

"Life's like...

an hour glass glued to the table."
-Anna Nalick

So today was not a very good day. Allyse is having jaw surgery and won't be back at school until after Christmas break!
:(
AND, one of my best friends' best friend's dad passed away this morning. It was very sad to hear, because he was like a second father to this friend of mine. And I know the girl, so it was just even sadder. He had pancreatic cancer, but had been improving, until last week...it just really makes me sad. So two of my best friends weren't at school today. I had a Pre-Calculus HP test today that I think I did okay on, I also had a Spanish IV test, and the History test was today...I still have two papers due tomorrow, neither of which are done.
:/
One of them is more than halfway done, though! :)
Tomorrow I'm going over to Allyse's house after school and I'm going to surprise her and make a smoothie for her...because her mouth has to be wired shut for quite some time! I may as well serenade her while I'm there...hahaa...
Also, for Thanksgiving break Julie (other best friend who wasn't at school today) was going to come to Souther California with my family and me to go on college tours and Knott's Berry Farm and all that good stuff, but now she's not coming because the wake is during the week. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a bit bummed just because now my little sister and I are going to bicker the entire time...ulch. Plus, I think it would be more fun having a friend to share all those moments with rather than family, but I"m absolutely not complaining!!! I TOTALLY understand that she would rather stay for the wake and I'm okay with that.
:)
SO I called another friend to see if they would actually be able to come with such short notice, but she already has plans..
:(
Anyway, I guess it has turned into another family vacation...Allyse was supposed to come too, but she had to go and have her surgery!
haha...I know it's out of her hands...
So I have to do one of my papers on Jefferson Davis, and I'm really not feelin it. I would choose math over English or History ANY day. Math can only have one correct answer. I don't have to interpret anything or do anything "in my opinion." I either do it right, or wrong. Cut and dry. It's that simple. For every problem there is an equation. Nothing that you have to read and analyze or comprehend, or know about literary devices and all that jaz.

Okay, really need to be doing homework.
ciao!




peace.

People just have...

talent.

And it never ceases to amaze me!

Example.  My older sister is a graphic design major and this is what she does (actually, it's more like what I make her do, but, you know, it's all the same...)

She goes into her class and comes out with cool little pictures with effects and whatnot to promote my music!  This is the most recent work of hers, and I think it'd be an AHHHHMAAAHHHHZING album cover...that's right.  I've got big dreams.

Now, I think that's just magnificent, because I know I could NEVER do anything NEAR something as incredible as that!
Anyway, I had something else to say, but then we ate dinner and go, figure, I forgot!
So, I'll write soon! Or maybe not, because I have two papers due tomorrow...
:/


peace.

"I change my mind...

...that's what it's for."

-Eric Hutchinson

Hahaha...that is so true.  Hey, guess what! I only have two more days left in my HECKtic week!

:D

Tomorrow Cornell notes are due for chapter 14 and 15, along with the test...that should be interesting...oh!  I have to remember to take the online prep-test becacuse he usualy uses three or four questions from there, and hey, that's three or four questions!

:)

I also have my Pre-Calc test tomorrow on chapter 3!

ohhhh my goodness, if you could see my book!  I have post-it notes comin out of the yin-yang on that thing! Only because this section is all about choosing the correct equation for the problem and solving for the unknown variable...it just takes a long time to solve for it.  Gee, that sure did sound a lot easier reading back over it than actually doing it!

haha...I need to get at least a 45 out of 50 in order to get an A in the class.  I think it's a lot harder to get an A in a class when you have a B.  Because you're SO close, you have to only get A's in order to raise it to an A, because it's all about averaging...if you score lower than your percentage in the class, your grade drops a little. And if you score higher, your grade raises by what seems to be the smallest decimal possible.

>.<

You know what annoys me?

When people talk smack about someone you care about right in front of your face.  It REALLY gets to me...yes, continue reading for an example:

At my little sister's soccer game on Sunday, I was sitting a little further away from the field because I had our dog and I didn't want to disrupt anyone with him.  So I'm sitting there watching the game, and all of a sudden these two moms from the other team walk up in front of me to watch the game.  As if blocking my view wasn't enough, they proceeded to talk about how "physical this team is"!  PUUHHH-LEEEAAASE.  If you don't want your kid getting banged up, don't sign them up for competitive sports (my little sister is in a competitive league).  Then, one of my sister's teammates bumped or tripped or did something to one of the other players and these moms go, "OHHH!!! Come on!!!" and they did the little turn around/couple-paces thing as they rolled their eyes.  Of course the referee did not make a call because you have to be aggressive if you want to stand a chance in this game.  Then later, their team had the ball in our eighteen box (that means they're getting ready to shoot for those of you who don't know), and we have a defender who is in the process of stealing the ball away and carrying it up the sideline of the field.  BUT, the other team's player decides that since she can't beat her, push her with two hands in the back!  It was really obvious.  Now, let it be known that I'm not complaining about the push.  I'm complaining about the reaction to the push.  The referee called it a foul and the two (now semi-sunburned) moms go UP. IN. ARMS.  "Ohhh, come. on.  What about that shove over here?!?!"  And you know what I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to do?  I wanted to explain to them that because your team now has a scoring opportunity created directly from that blatantly obvious shove, it is a foul.  She made it impossible for our player to defend her goal...and that is her job as a DEFENDER...do ya get it now?!?!?

Now, of course I most certainly did not say that, but boy oh boy, let me tell you!  It took every ounce of self control and frustration containment inside of me not to lash out on those two.  That's not even the end of it...one time our player went down.  I didn't see exactly what happened but I don't trust Momzilla and the Lochness Momster with their commentations.  Once again, the whistle was blown and we got a free kick.  Momzilla walked over to the sideline to ask a fellow parent what had happened only to return, eyes rolling, to say in a "gee, that's a surprise, let's just get all upset about something our child wants to do" voice, "Pshh...she TRIPPED on the ball...yeah! She tripped on the ball.  hm!"  Seriously?  Okay.  Way to set a great example for your children and getting all attitude-y on everybody for something that you absolutely cannot control.

Anyway, I've been needing to vent that, and I feel so much better.  There's more to the story, but I don't feel like typing anymore.  I'm tired.

On the bright side: 4 days until the first day of break!!!

:D

peace.

"I didn't wanna call you back...

...cuz I knew that I was wrong...yeah, I knew I was wrong..."

-Demi Lovato ft. Jonas Brothers

So just as  recap of the Sunday and today.

Not good.

Sunday, we travelled a good distance in order to see what I thought was going to be one of Grace's soccer games at 11 in the morning.  This required e waking up in the early morning in order for her to get to the game early, in order to warm up with her team.  Now I was lead to believe that we would go, watch the game, and then return to our humble abode.

yeah.

Not the case.

Fortunately for the team, they got to play a second game at 4 o'clock! UNfortunately for me, I didn't bring any homework with me or anything!

>.<

I was not the happiest camper around.  I would have written on here, but of course there was no wi-fi! ugh.

So we ended up not getting home until almost six o'clock...then I had a TRUCKload of homework to do, but the Amazing Race came on at seven, then Extreme Home Makeover at eight, and my piano was just calling my name...then I finally did some of it.  But THEN, Brothers and Sisters came on at ten!

so you can imagine...

Anyway, I completely underestimated the amount of work that was needed in order to finish my Spanish packet, so I stayed up until one thirty in the morning doing that...I woke up this morning at a decent time...

Then I arrived in Spanish class only to have my teacher tell us that the packet due date was changed to tomorrow because he added an assignment!

I was pretty heated.

I'm tired.  

This week is going to be HECK-tic.  I have a Spanish listening comprehension test on Wednesday, a Pre-Calc HP test on Thursday, a compare and contrast essay due Friday in English, a Research paper on Jefferson Davis due on Friday as well for History, and Cornell notes and a Test on chapters 14 & 15 in History on Friday too...oh, and I also have a Chemistry benchmark test on friday.

yip to the pee.

can't you just hear my excitement leap off the screen?!

I thought not.

Ugh.  Anyway, I'm going to brush my teeth and all that jazz as to try and make up for some of the lost sleep from last night!

peace.

"I'm so in love that I acted insane...

and that's the way I loved you..."

-Taylor Swift

Ouch.  Last night at the football game I was standing down on the track by the stands on the little curb thing.  So the stands were directly behind me, and I was attempting to hand my camera to Taylor, so I turned and whadda ya know...being the klutz that I am, I slipped off the cub toward the stands.  So I flung my arm around to catch onto part of the fence thing that people stand by in the stands and there was a protruding support-beam...it was on of those shapes that is kind of like this...  _I_ ...anyway, I was trying to grab something so I wouldn't glamorously trip and fall into the lovely moat of garbage that fell down from underneath the stands, and ended up slamming my poor little elbow into the beam of steel.  It hurt so badly, I couldn't even bend it for a little while.  And now it's one of those invisible bruises.  You know, those bruises that you can't see on your skin, but if you even barely run a pinky over it, you quickly react with a flinch?  Well it's one of those now.

:(

I'm tired and am craving a late-night viewing of the great movie Moulin Rouge!

It took me a couple times of watching it to actually hit me that I liked the movie.  But I guess that could quite possibly be because the first time I saw it, I was going insane trying to figure out where the main character is from..so if you haven't seen it, I'm just going to tell you now.  It's Obi Wan Kenobi.

Of course, my sister decided to let it torture me throughout the entire film, so I was completely distracted. ugh.

Anyway, I'm tired and I have a TON of homework to do tomorrow as I am simultaneously watching my little sister play in a soccer tournament.

wowee.

peace.

Gee, that was a close one!

So the football game definitely DID NOT go as expected.  There was a long period of time when our team was losing.

It was SO scary.

There's something you have to understand about our rivalry.  Our rival school is better at pretty much everything...they have a better music program in general, swim, track, soccer, I'm fairly sure they test higher than us, but my school is just cooler.  That's just how it is.  We beat them at football which is all people really pay any attention to.

So if we lost tonight's game, everything we had against them would be lost.

So for the entire game, actually, (correction from previous statement...refer back to the disclaimer in the beginning of my blogging days if necessary)

It was the fourth quarter, with 40.8 seconds left in the game and we were LOSING, 27-20.  This ABSOLUTELY NEVER happens.  ANd we're all fuhhh-reaking out because we can't lose to this team!!!

So we eventually scored a touchdown and with nineteen seconds left in the game, the score was now 27-26 and we were still trailing.  That was right after we had scored our comeback touchdown so we were going for the two-point conversion.  And guess what. WE GOT IT!

It was such a moment of joy...I think I got it on tape.  I hope so, anyway.

:D

Then, with 4.9 seconds left, the other team tried for a field goal from about half way out, and the JUST BARELY missed it, as the football tapped off the lower crossbar and the crowd grunted in unison.

it was INtense.

Also, I screamed really loud a few times, so I'm thinking that that didn't have a very good affect on it.  It feels like my throat is drying up every time I take a breath...not very fond of it.

:/

I'm extremely exhausted.  I want to sleep, and I want to be clean, but I don't want to put forth the effort in which it takes to get clean.  I just want my teeth to be brushed and my hair to be washed.  I don't want to have to physically get up, move over, and do all that jazz...yes, I'm very very lazy.  IF I can, I'll try to upload a short little video from the ending of the game...IF.

that's all for now, folks!

peace.