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Memorial Day Weekend

This was a very fun weekend. I stayed at my friend Tia's house for the weekend. We had a Star Wars marathon and watched two of them every day because she has never seen them all, which is like a crime towards humanity.

And I wouldn't want my friend arrested.

Anyway, she and I almost cried in Episode 3 and 6. This is emotional stuff, everyone!

When I went to Eugene on Sunday for my family reunion thing, it was very awkward. My mother didn't go, so it was very quiet. Usually she finds something to say and so people are always talking. Hardly anybody was.

It was so awkward!

And when we wanted to leave, it was weird not having to nag our mother about it. We could just... leave.

When we got back into town, we dropped off Grace at Dad's and headed over to Jacob's place to watch anime. :)

Today we went to Silver Falls and it was very fun. But I think we will be sticking to Three Pools this summer. Less walking!

Been A While

I haven't updated this in a few days. I haven't had a lot of time, due to excessive cleaning and.. being away from my house. But I'll give a quick check thing for the day and maybe a few other days too.

My play is next Friday at 8:15 AM in my school. Lame, right? You probably can't come. And I don't really want you to. It's not going to be very good. Terrible acting. Horrible costumes. And get this: We have to shorten the whole play so it only runs 45 MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enough complaining. My week was too good to complain.

On Tuesday I missed Young Women's because I went to a friends house and her sister fell asleep on the person that was supposed to drive me home, so I wasn't able to be there. I heard that the mini-triathlon was fun.

Yesterday I went to Susan's in order to weed for her. However, there were too many weeds for me to do, so instead I dusted and vacuumed her house. Now, any house you would think, "What? She's paying you fifty dollars for just dusting and vacuuming her house?" If you know Susan, and you have been to her house, you know that she has a HUMONGOUS house. It has three stories, and each level is the equivalent of 1 one story house, or possibly just an apartment. Either way, it's BIG! It went well. I only had time to dust her third floor.

Later that day I went to Salem with Dad for new shoes. My Miley Cyrus shoes broke apart after a few months. I recommend that you DO NOT buy shoes from her line. Anyway, we stepped into Famous Footwear, saw them, tried them on, and bought them in less then fifteen minutes. That is the shortest amount of time I have EVER spent getting shoes. It was great.

Today I went back to Susan's to finish dusting and vacuuming. FIVE HOURS! It is a big house, okay? I'm not slow worker.

So now I am home alone, getting ready to sleep, while my family drives away in Portland to pick up my Grandmother and Grandfather from the airport.

Tomorrow I have no Acapella Ignition practice. I also don't have to get shoes. My mother is leaving for the weekend with Jim and Case so Gracie is going with Dad and I am going to Tia's house. Yaaaaaaay! I'll be gone until Monday. Possibly Sunday. But I don't think so.

Certification Blitz

Last night I stayed the night at Renetta's home for our certification blitz. Instead of doing camp certification at camp this year, we did it beforehand so we would have time to have more fun, I guess? xD I'm not really sure why, but that's my guess.

I think girls camp will be really fun this year. Renetta will really lighten the mood with her hyperness. Only, guess what? SHE DOESN'T GET TO COME! :(

But all in all I had a good day, and we are about to go to the drive in to see two movies tonight. It will be fun. Only, guess what? You have to pay per person now instead of per car. Yuck.

Check The Twin of Junie B. Jones; I added a new one.

Singing

I often complain about the songs in choir. I say how I hate them and I don't want to sing them. But I find, that I only complain afterward or beforehand. When I am actually singing the song, it doesn't matter what song it is. If I'm singing it, I'm somewhere else. I'm a different person. Whether or not I sound good doesn't change anything. Through these 14 years of my life, there have been other houses I could go to to 'escape' my problems. But at these other places, I still have room in my mind to think about other things. When I sing, it doesn't matter where I am. When I sing, I can be a different person. I have no room in my mind to wander into the land of bad-things-that-have-happened while I'm singing.

MONEY NEEDED

I am saving for something very big. I cannot say what it is right now, but just know that I will be saving for like.. hundreds of dollars. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.

Which means... I'm looking for work!

Babysitting, yard work, gardening, cleaning, etc... I'm looking for it all. It doesn't have to be an everyday minimum wage kind of thing, and don't think that you need to find work for me. Basically I'm just saying that if you need help with anything, let me know. You get to choose how much you pay me and for how long it is. I don't really mind how much money you give me, because every little bit counts. Thanks.

Not Together

Not Together by Emma Thurston

That right above this is the song I wrote on youtube.

Oh, and check The Twin of Junie B. Jones. I added a new one.

Video is still loading.. blehck

I took some pictures of myself while I was waiting for the video to upload, as you can see. :D

Second Weigh-In

Last Monday I was 129 lbs. I am now 126 lbs. Hurray for me!

I am just overly happy today. I don't know if this level is healthy. I am just generally happy. Because of this happiness, I am glad that nobody is home yet. This allows me to practice my music without anyone being angry with me about the level of noise. :)

One little flaw of my day... I think I'm getting seasonal allergies. I don't know why. I have never gotten allergies before. But I swear I have sneezed like.. fifteen times today, I have a runny nose, and my stomach is not happy. But I don't mind. Because I am happy.

Hurray for me!

Time for Change

I have been getting sick of how my room looks. Not the messiness ( though that is sometimes and issue), but the general arrangement of furniture. With all this warm weather, my room gets really hot. It's great to have a fan but because of my bed being in the closet, where I sleep is always hotter than everywhere else in my room. It's irritating, so I'm rearranging. It took an hour or two to get the bet in the closet and two minutes to get it out. Ha.

With all the furniture out of the way, it's not that little of a room. Hm.

Operation Protest: Failed

I told our teacher about our views on her decision for the play. She said, "Sorry, but this is what I have chosen to do." I told her that I'd rather just have Catherine do the whole thing. She went on to say that Catherine's schedule didn't give her enough time to be able to memorize the whole thing, and neither did mine. What? I don't do anything. I mean, yes. I have voice on Monday, Young Womens on Tuesday, and acapella practice Thursday and Friday. But those each take out, what, an hour of my time after school? I hate to be unrealistic, but I feel that I could probably have half the play memorized within a week. And from what I can tell, Catherine doesn't have that much of a schedule, either. I'm pretty sure she isn't doing any sports right now. So.. I don't understand what the problem is. I'm just going to have to accept that we aren't going to get our way.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

I am a little irritated with this little school play thing we are doing. I love Shakespeare, and I love this play. That is not what I'm irritated about. In class today, our teacher clearly stated that I would Hermia. I wouldn't have minded if someone else got it, but I had the mind set that I was going to be Hermia. The second I heard during lunch that we would all be sharing parts, I was not happy. Apparently, Kimberly and I get to be Hermia and Helena for the first two acts. Catherine and Chloee get those parts for the rest. And I'm not angry about having to share. I'm angry about the parts being changed in the middle of the play. It looks tacky. I'd rather have Catherine just be Hermia the whole time rather than have to share it with her. I like that idea more. I'll just be a fairy.

Of course, it is just a dumb little middle school play put on by the honors class. But I am so tiiiiiired of all the things the middle school does being described as 'it's just a little middle school play, it's okay if it's bad'. It's annoying. Why can't we do something that's actually good?

This video was inspiring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4HGQHgeFE&feature=player_embedded

Eyeliner

I love putting on eyeliner and I love how it looks in the morning. But I hate that by the end of the day every single day, it is smeared or drooping or doing something that makes it look not nice. Of course, everyone else seems to have some secret to making it last all throughout the day. Care to share the secret?

I guess I'm actually sort of excited for Girls Camp. Obviously, there are big parts of it that everyone already knows I don't like, but I'll live with it. Hopefully with Renetta there, we will have our moods lightened.

I need to look up how many calories are in a pack of smarties.

Dallas Aquatic Center

The Aquatic Center was alright. I didn't do much. I still didn't swim, and people thought I was pretty lame for it. Oh well.

My wrist still hurts, but not so bad. Just don't whack it or anything. Yes, Leif, I'm talking to you.

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I made it into Honors English at the High School! WAHOOOO!!!!! Although, I haven't heard of anybody who hasn't made it yet, though, so I'm beginning not to feel special. Haha.

I need to take a shower. So I believe that I will be doing that now.

Later.

School Lunches

School lunches are

a) greasy

b) soggy

c) full of calories

d) too expensive

So I have come up with the idea to make and bring my own lunches. A lunch at the school is about 700 calories, plus my breakfast equals 860 calories, and that only leaves 340 for dinner. So with my packed lunch that is about 420 with my breakfast equals about 550 calories. That leaves like.. 700 calories for the rest of the day. That's great!

My school day was much less boring, mostly because Leif was there, but also because I was just relatively happy. It does help that a new chapter came out for a manga I'm reading last night so I was super happy when I feel asleep. It does help to not go to bed angry, yes?

My toes hurt from flip flopping. Ick.

I'm going to put on real shoes and mow the front lawn before it rains. And maybe snuggle with Brandy.

Tonight for Young Women's, everyone is going swimming. Yaaaaaay. Not.

It's not so much that it isn't a fun activity. Swimming is quite fun and should be done often. During the summer. And it doesn't help that I don't really like public pools. Swimming in the back yard, alright, whatever. But I don't like big swimming get-togethers. So I'm going, but not to swim. I guess I'll just hang out. Meh.

Lawnmower Injury

I have officially mowed a lawn on my own. I have also officially sprained my wrist because of it. :/

I suppose we don't actually know for sure if it is sprained, but we know it hurts very bad. The starter thing was pulled to hard and stretched my wrist a little longer than natural. So I had a hard time writing and typing and doing anything with my hands today.

In English, our honors class(which I am a part of) has decided to put on the whole production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It will probably suck, as it's being put on my 8th graders. But hey, it'll at least be fun. I definitely want a good part, but I'm not sure I want the very main part. I'm thinking it will probably go to Chloee. She's just a better actor than I am. I can sing, sure. But I've never really acted other than my fourth grade play. And that doesn't count because we all sucked back then. Now Chloee has been to acting camps and stuff like that, so she actually has experience that I've never gotten the chance to have.

Leif wasn't at school today, so for me, my day was super boring. We have every class together except fourth, so I'm usually pretty entertained. I wonder where he was. We are pretty close friends... so I am surprised he didn't text me or anything about why he is gone. Hope he isn't sick or anything.

I had no voice lesson today. But I actually hit a High C very well in choir, so I feel accomplished in that area anyway.

My good friend Tia made a cake for her mother for mothers day and nobody ate it, so I walked to her house after school to humor her by having a piece, to make her feel better. Of course, she needed me to watch the Notebook with her because I'd never seen it. And I will say it loud and proud, I did not cry. I wasn't even close. It was a very good movie. But I didn't cry. Although I remembered at like.. five o'clock that I never told my mother that I was coming there. She wasn't very happy.

Alright, I'll do it! After much complaining from a close friend of mine about eating school lunch and unhealthy breakfasts, I'll wake up early and have a good breakfast and pack a lunch! It will help me win my diet challenge.

I also took my dad up on a month long biggest loser thing. I'll be going against him, Christine, and Miranda for most weight lost each week.

So I wrote a little romance story that was only like.. a chapter long, but I got a really, really, good review on it, so I am seriously happy. Happy, happy, happy.

Motivation is Futile

I feel now that I absolutely need to have a journal, but I lack the motivation to sit down every single day and write down every single detail. Of course, you don't have to do that. But I find very often that if I do not write in every little detail, it isn't finished. And if I don't finish something, I beat myself up about it. So why would I want to do something that would add frustration to my day, right?

So I suppose I will be writing this 'journal' now. I know it won't be preserved forever and ever and ever and ever, like paper might. Or maybe it will. I don't know. But I do know that I should write every day. So I will try. Give or take a few days, I'm going to try treating this as a journal. Maybe it won't work out and I'll have to stop making a schedule for myself so I can wing it. But I've never been a good 'winger'. I think that's where my red personality traits kick in.

Yesterday I took the color code personality test. Look it up. It's a book that is very interesting. My answer is yellow, which is basically the care free happy person that has enthusiasm. But unlike a lot of people, I was only two points ahead of red, giving my secondary color. Most people don't have one. Red is basically the bossy-in-charge-of-everything-know-it-all color. So I'm yellow with secondary red.

Then there is blue, which is basically the compassionate color. The one that feels a lot of guilt and suffers for other people.

Last there is white, which is basically the person who tries to make peace with happiness, but because of that, has mental breakdowns when they hold in their opinions for too long because they want to keep peace.

Right now my family is downstairs having a family BQ thing. I'll go down soon. I just knew if I didn't start this now, I would never start it.