Saturday, February 28

Strangeness

Today has been an ok day, gnat's been gone to a science thing all day, and my mom's been with her, it's a saturday, so no school, i got all of my chores done, and then some, and ive had some time on the computer today, and my email finally works.

And then some weird stuff has happened today.

First off: I come up from my shower (we all have to use the basement bathroom to shower, it's annoying, but we've gotten used to it) to see a package outside our front door. Ok, this is not unusual, but I love getting stuff in the mail, so I wanted to naturally see what it was. It was for my mom from amazon.com. Ok, so I can't open it. As I walk to the kitchen to put it on her place, I notice the dogs are all at the front door with me, before I even got there. They don't often do this. Usually they are in the kitchen laying on their beds. So I walk into the kitchen, Kryssi following, I notice on the floor is TONS of white fluff. The first thing that pops into my mind is: the dog's tore somthing up. note: they've been known for tearing small toys and towels, but nothing this big! As I look around for the object that had to be lying in shreds in order for that much fluff to be on the floor, I notice that this fluff is also on the counter, and nothing is shredded at all. There's just a bunch of fluff sitting where the dogs should be.
Looking around for the object the must've gave way to produce so much fluff, I spot the ceiling. It has a 2 1/2 X 2 ft hole in it. Great.
First thought: is this on purpose? You see, my dad was working in the attic today, and he was cutting holes in walls last I heard. Now, because this was the ceiling, I had my doubts. I closely observed the hole and noticed that the edges did not look cut but torn. My next thought: he must have fallen, is he ok?! There was hardly any noise coming through the hole, so I started to get panicked. But that was silly. If there was noise coming through the hole, that's when I should get panicky, right? Well, you never know with my dad so I called through the hole "are you ok?!". No answer. Great.
I move around the fluff pile to get a different view of the inside. I see him and he's working. Good. He doesn't seem to be hurt, just working. Why didn't he answer me? Well, he must've not heard me.
Nope, he was mad. He had been working hard and was standing on the beams like he was supposed to, but his leg started to shake, and he stepped back just enough to get his balance....and lose it all in one movement. I found this all out once he came downstairs.
Now the fluff is cleaned up, the hole is patched somewhat, and I'm really afraid of my mom's reaction once she gets home.
It's not that she overreacts, but she gets stressed easily now-a-days. She's supposed to get here in 15 minutes, and I'm wondering if today will continue to be ok, or if it will get into the "bad" zones.

Oh, I suppose I said there were more than one strange things that happened today, but that's about it. Besides the hole in the wall nothing of much consequence happened, except that my Aunt Paula called and we had a nice conversation. We don't get calls from anyone outside of GA very often, and as no one in our family lives in Ga, we don't get calls from our aunt, uncles, grandmas or gramps very often. So this was a nice surprise for me, and the fact that I was able to actually tell her something that was going on in my life, instead of saying "everything's good, nope nothings happening here", it made my day a little brighter.


So all in all, I suppose this title should have been "one thing strange", but strangeness seems more eye-catching dontcha think?

My Random Google for the Day:

helpful: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
www.answers.com/topic/helpful

Gardening Tips - The Helpful Gardener
www.helpfulgardener.com/

helpful - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/helpful

Dictionary Information: Definition Helpful - Description Meaning ...
www.selfknowledge.com/43732.htm

Patient Assistance Programs for Prescription Drug Medicines ...
www.pfizerhelpfulanswers.com/

Medicare.gov - Helpful Contacts: Search Criteria
www.medicare.gov/Contacts/home.asp

Helpful.com, Computer Consulting, Dental Solutions, Law Solutions ...
www.helpful.com/

A Helpful Guide to Search Engines, Top Page
www.monash.com/spidap.html

Helpfulvideo::Watch video,Share video,Upload video,Sell video,Buy ...
helpfulvideo.com/


Have fun with being helpful for the day!!

Friday, February 27

Once Again

I am currently procrastinating against Trig., for multiple reasons, one of which is that I am finally at home all day for the first day this week, and I'm taking joy in being able to procrastinate and still finish my schoolwork for the day.

Another reason is because I got a low score on my first Physics test and I'm bummed out b/c of it. My last reason is one you might have heard already from D, if you have read her blog recently. My dad has been cut down to half a salary, and it is almost like him getting laid off, because when he was laid off we survived off of our savings, which is now less than half of what it used to be. So if you look at it that way, we're almost in the same position we were in 4-5 years ago. But that doesn't mess with me, because I know God will take care of us, as he's always done, and I actually have my own "job" right now and it won't change the things I enjoy as of now, like going to church and having friends there. The only reason why I'm rambling on about this stuff is to show you that I have some things on my mind and that is one of the reasons why I am procrastinating.

Well then! I've been trying to look at Brian's layout, since it's new, and figure out how he did it, but I have no patience to look at all that HTML, so I gave up. I used to love HTML, but now I'd prefer not to have to look through all of that. I guess I really liked it because it was something new and at the source. That excited me at one point. Now, because I know it's there, I can use it, but I need time and patience.

It really bums me out that I got a 58% on my physics test. That was not cool. I guess I don't really understand it as well as I thought. Grr now I'm going to have to go through it ALL and figure out what I didn't understand. Though it's not a great amount of stuff, it's just confusing and complicated.

I've already done some writing in my journal (remember when I said I have lots of notebooks? I use most of them, and the rest are there for future use. I only have one actual journal though. It's of stuff that's personal, so it's the equivalent of a dairy I guess, but when I think of diaries I think of "Dear Diary, blah blah blah boys blah blah" and pink stuff, so I don't really like the diary word :) so..yeah, back to what I was saying), so I'm almost written out for the day, but as you can see, enough is bouncing in my head that I can write for much longer than I think I can.

I wonder why when I have written lots of words out on paper or on here, that random words come into my head, just like they're escapees. For example: wonder, random, wish, wilt, whatever, can, over, many, will, how many, could would should...ok now I'm going into helping verbs.

I wonder what I should google today. I already googled blogger layouts, to see if I could find something I liked and could put it in here, but I ended up not doing that (as you can see). Hmmm....

Bored, Trig, relapse, under over through, might must may............

End

Tuesday, February 24

There and back again.

I have been at church planters monday and tuesday and even though I had to do my work ahead of time so I wouldn't miss any physics work or trig work, it was WORTH it!

I had so much fun at Church planters, for many different reasons, one of which is because church planters is a mix of regular church and summer camp. So, really it's like summer camp for adults...it's so much fun to be producing that kind of environment for those people, even if you're doing what I did and sitting backstage on the headset, ready to jump up and do whatever is needed at any given moment :)

The environment is so uplifting and if you get a chance to stand still and worship with the band, you don't want to stand still, you're just so filled with a kind of energy that only comes from about 400 people worshiping [oops Brian, Hannah, this IS the correct spelling ;) ] all at the same time!

It was so much fun and I wish it was longer than two days because going back to my usual life will be quite a downer after being able to contribute to that kind of a function. That's what it must feel like after being an intern at bigstuf all summer and having to go back to school after all of that energy has been a part of your daily life.

So I used this title because it struck me to use it, mostly because i didn't know what church planters would be like, and now I do.
Aaaaand, this came from Lord of the Rings, as it was the title of Bilbo's book, "There and back again" by bilbo baggins. :)

And anyone who knew that, I bow to you....


People are so smart...and if you couldn't tell...I'm feeling smiley :)

  1. www.imdb.com/title/tt0858479/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_People
  3. www.stevepavlina.com/
And there you go, smart people looked up on Google. :)

Have a great Wednesday tomorrow, as for me, I'm babysitting again!

Saturday, February 21

Couldn't help it:

I was organizing my bookmarks of sites on this computer, and I came across one I had stumbled a LONG time ago...

I couldn't let the moment go by and I have to share it with you guys:

http://iamneurotic.com/

It is the best (and most hilarious) site I have ever had the privilege to read. Please, share my joy in reading the quirks of this world, and look up the site. I promise you will get either a giggle out of it or will soon feel better about yourself. I have the privilege of occupying both places :)

Warning: some of the quirks written are of sexual content, but it's pretty easy to ignore them.

I have tons of other bookmarks, but I won't bother you with them unless you either ask for a post specifically composed of my ridiculous amount of bookmarks or I get a particular good one again.

Hope you had a good Saturday!!

Welll...

I was going to talk about how I tend to talk along rabbit trails, and less ramble, and how maybe I should change my name? But nope, everyone else has the names I want, so it stays the comfortable electronic ramble.

So right now I'm on an account called Ikariam, it is a random thing I stumbled that's like managing a town....its different and just a time consumer....

Thinking thinking....you know its so hard to think when people are talking at you. Which is like talking to you except that you aren't even showing interest in what they're saying and they're still talking. hmmm

College prep. is the pits. Being a homeschooler makes it horrible to try to get into college. Ridiculous stuff you have to do just to get into a college. I hate it. Makes my whole day messy.


Oh we have been watching Jon and Kate plus eight for a few days now, it's almost addicting, which is weird, b/c its like watching someone's home videos.....it's almost creepy. lol

But I do enjoy it, despite its creepy thinking/sounding-ness.

I am drained for some reason. Maybe it was the hope that I finally was able to find a college that wouldn't be to hard to get into, and it looked like it had a major I might do well in.

OH, btw, I'm now thinking about going into engineering instead of Architecture, because my mind naturally thinks in the engineer's way. I want to know how things are put together, and if I can take it apart I will....along with the fact I automatically think of how the product could have been improved on. Mostly how things function. So yeah, that's an addition to my life.

Oh and I'm going to be babysitting again right after Church Planters, starting wednesday. So I'll be getting an income again, hopefully enough to pay for camp this year, + being able to have some money left over for other things, like paying for my bed that i want for my new room after it's done, which im having rebelling issues over as I really dont want to go prime anymore. As I said, rebelling issues. On my part. :P

I'm listening to Skillet, the older I get right now, and......yeah i guess I just assed that in order to say something, as I'm out of things to say, I'm still drained, and I don't feel like being awake anymore. Which is a bad combo. Depression? Idk, ?I hope tomorrow and Church Planters will help me with perspective.

Aaaaagh.

Over and out.

Friday, February 20

Boredom and Trig.

This week I had a break from school, as we live in Cherokee county, and Cherokee has a 'year around' school system, where the summer break is shorter, but the other breaks during the school year get longer. So, me being homeschooled, my mom follows the public school system b/c Natalie is in public, and she tries to have us in or out of school at the same time.

Soo, because I have church planters this coming monday and tuesday, I have to do Trig. and Physics lessons while I'm on vacation. Well, that's fine, but right now I'm getting restless to DO somthing and I feel stuck. I dont even know what I want to do. And I have chores I need to finish in order to be able to pay for my phone bill.

So I want to be able to go to cummer camp this year, since it's going to be my last year in highschool (unless I become some sort of leader, but I can't see myself doing that) and I'm going to miss summer camp as it is. So I need to be able to babysit again (hopefully wednesday I'll start up on my normal schedule) and be able to save up enough to go and hopefully be able to put money back into my bank account.

It's really cold down here. I was hoping the weather would hold out and be nice, but nope, we're in georgia....we get maybe a week of nice spring weather, then we go inot winter again....YUCK!
I'm wearing short sleeves and my fingers are starting to feel like they're arthritic....


oooooook I still have to take out the kitchen trash, do at least one trig lesson, two physics lessons, and empty the dishwasher again before I can go do anything. Though I don't know what to do...

Ugh.


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!


(that's how bored I am)



and a haaaaaapyyyy neeeeewww yeeeeeeaaaar!!!!


dun dun dun dun...............................

da da dun! (splash)

Thursday, February 19

Alrighty, videos

Ok so I got votes about the vids, and it looks like four people do want to see my sisters and I in all our glory. haha

So I have so many weird videos, I'm not quite sure which ones to post.

I'm going to put these two up (mind, it is late at night ;) ), and I don't know if they will be entertaining or not, but here you go!






Monday, February 16

I missed a day

Soooo, yesterday I never got around to writing anything, thus breaking my pattern of writing once a day.

At least this means I will be writing two days worth of stuff and you guys can be entertained for a little longer.

So I totally just made a weird typo with the keyboard...my head wanted to type longer, and my hands typed long.=er. Amazing, isn't it? lol

I got to have fun yesterday b/c Hannah and Mrs. Jenny invited me to lunch at five guys, I was so excited! I get stoked when people invite me to things, as I don't usually get to anything and I never invite myself to anything. It feels like I'm being rude.

Anywho, after five guys Hannah and I walked around old navy I think, and then we went to Starbucks and talked about random stuff for a while. That was fun. I love having friends :)

Which is funny 'cause Jen French and I were friends (well, we still are I guess, though we're not close anymore), but I consider myself to actually have friends now. Maybe it's because whenever we got together it's so that she could vent. At least that's how it felt for me. I'm sorry if this is gossiping, it's just what's going through my head right now. If you don't want to hear anything more go down 2 paragraphs. :)

With Jen, whenever we got together it felt like it was about her newest drama in her life. Usually about her newest guy or her family, it felt like a continual cycle of drama. I have begun to despise drama because of this over-exposure. Yeah, she did ask me "so how are things with you?" , but it never felt like she really wanted to know, you know? More like she was just being polite and she knew how to continue on a conversation without me getting mad at her. Idk, it just left a bad feeling in my chest, and I'm feeling it right now as I'm talking about it. So we talk every once-in-a-while, but we're definitely moving apart. Which, if I was to be truthful, feels good. I guess I should feel bad about it, but it's almost a relief to know that she's chosen a path I cannot and will not follow down. Frst becuase she's married, second because what she considers to be life and fun are not my ideas of life or fun. We're just not in the same world anymore. And I guess I'm glad we're drifting b/c that helps me understand that I don't have to try anymore. I had to try so hard with her. Try to help her understand, try to not make her mad when it came to guys (she always thought I was stealing her b/fs and flirting with them, I hated that b/c I never conciously was), try to balance understanding with what she was saying and balancing what I understood about the whole situation, trying to understand that she found some things fun that were wrong, trying to stay myself despite who I was becoming when I hung out with her...just trying too much. It was a mess, none-the-less, and I'm relieved that I almost have permission to stop trying.

Alright, I have that out of my system now, I'm sorry for those who read it and didn't want to, but it's your own fault, I did warn you lol

About the sermon this past Sunday, and how there are your button pushers, and those who energize you, it felt weird to say it outloud, but talking on here seems better. If you're reading this at all Brian, you're my energiser. :) I just wanted to let you know that you were the one I thought of when John was talking about those type of people.

Ok so now that I've completely exausted the emotional part of my mind I shall move onto the nonsense part.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense

http://nonsense.sourceforge.net/

http://www.nonsensenyc.com/

And yes, I did look up nonsense on Google in order to make that sentence ridiculously literal. :)


Thanks for reading, and being my precious stalkers!!

Friday, February 13

Tomorrow

Alright, confession, I refer to V-day as the 'evil holiday'. Sorry for those out there who enjoy it. I'm happy that you do, I really am, I just would prefer it if it would disappear for me. :)

Anyways, how I'm spending tomorrow is waking up at 8:15 am in order to get a shower in and get myself ready and leave the house by 9:30 am, so that my entire family can go to Atlanta for Natalie and a potential opportunity for her to win a scholarship to this one camp that I don't know much about.

Anywho, we're going to be spending an hour or so in Gerogia Tech. in a conference of sorts without her, because she'll be doing some activity thing. After this conference is over, my family (minus gnat..oh, btw, that's what I call natalie, if you didn't know..it's loving I promise :) ) is going to IKEA for the rest of the time and as I've never seen, let alone been in, an IKEA, I'll be roaming around exploring.

Hopefully I'll enjoy myself to some extent tomorrow, because after we get home, I have babysitting around 6:00 pm till whenever, maybe into the morning.

And then Sunday, supposedly I'm scheduled to be on production, even though I haven't gotten a schedule confirmation thing from James. Oh well, I hope that comes along ok.

So this wasn't necessarily much of a ramble, but I just decided to write, b/c I feel like It's not right if I don't write for one day.

Hope you have a great V-day!

Thursday, February 12

Quotes:

Alright so I found a site that has my favorite quotes all on one page, and I'm going to give you a sample of them:
  • "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
  • "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
  • "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
  • "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
  • "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
  • "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
  • "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
That last one I hope is true, because I've made it a habit to prefer to be asleep, and I really wish I would prefer to stay awake some day. :)

  • "Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
  • "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
  • "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
  • "If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
  • "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
  • "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.

    "What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.

    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
Alright that one right there, of course, is from Twilight. I find it kind of funny that this quote would be in the midst of a bunch of quotes that were made years and years ago...and that this quote is my favorite one from the entire series...it's kind of creepy that I would find it on the best page of quotes ever!!

  • "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
  • "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
  • "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
  • "A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
  • "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
  • "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
  • "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
  • "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

Ok so this became more than a sample...as I had too many wonderful quotes to show you to hold myself back...

I got these quotes from: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes
There are pages and pages of these quotes, and I only looked at the first one!!!

Forgetfulness

Do you often battle with forgetfulness? Is it something you just battle with with other people? I have my times where I completely forget what I was saying, but usually its more along the lines of being patient with those who forget something themselves.

I used to consider their forgetfulness an indicator that I wasn't memorable, that I didn't stand out enough. Now, I realize it's just something that comes with getting older. You forget things, and sometimes things get in the way of remembering.

Why I brought this up is because currently I'm waiting to see if my mom remembers that she told me that after her walk she would see a movie for school with me. Maybe she does remember, but wants me to come to her first.

But there's a problem with that in my mind. If I go to someone twice in a row about something, I'm being a nag or annoying. Yes, just going to someone twice makes me feel like I'm being annoying. I guess this isn't normal, because I've been told I worry too much, among other things.

Well, I want to end this on a good note, so I'm going to transfer to another less meaningful subject to my mind and talk about imaginary numbers. That's what I'm doing in Trig right now. I had an extremely easy lesson today about adding and subtracting imaginary numbers. I like those days. :)

Peace, piece, pieces peecees, reses, reesees, mices, meeces, wet womp woop. That's my contribution to meaningless words for the day.

Thank You. :)

Wednesday, February 11

A Super-Short Ramble

I am only writing this ramble because I wish to explain the picture to your right, and because it's a new day and I've gotten into the habit of writing once each day.

So the hatpin: I am assuming you all know what a hatpin was used for... I don't believe they are used anymore today. The dictionary definition of a hatpin is:

hat⋅pin

–noun
a long pin for securing a woman's hat to her hair, often having a bulbous decorative head of colored glass, simulated pearl, or the like.

Origin:
1890–95;
I, being a smartalec, made a tiny hat out of a really small piece of paper (I learned how to do this in 3rd grade) and found a pin to put it on. It is now literally a hatpin.

I love making something so literal it becomes ridiculous. :)

Monday, February 9

Bored, and a copyist.

Well, since Kara did this, my mom did this, and Brian sort-of did this, I'm going to do it.

Here we go:

  1. I hate, I mean HATE change...as in jingling change in your pocket change...If I have it, and someone wants it, I feel like I'm getting the better side of the deal.
  2. I love to see plays/musicals. I grew up going to them once a year at Christmas, and I guess it stuck.
  3. I also love amusement parks. They are the fav. If you gave me a week with nothing but amusement parks I'd be the happiest kid alive. No joke.
  4. I dislike fish to a great extent. They are useless, and should only be used as food for other animals. They are the world's greatest moochers.
  5. I tend to write/express my emotions as if I'm an extremist, but I find it irritating when someone does the same. I'm such a hypocrite.
  6. I like to randomly organize things. I used to organize the white label sheets at church by the amount of labels on each sheet, least to greatest with least on top so that whoever was using them would use up a sheet before they started another one.
  7. If you didn't notice from the last one, I also don't like wastefulness. It bugs me.
  8. I apologize alot. Well, I used to apologize alot, then people started to get mad at me for apologizing, then I apologized some more, so I realized that to stop that cycle was to stop. I haven't completely, but it's toned down more.
  9. I see letters and numbers in color. This is called Synaesthesia. This is the only thing about me that makes me feel special.
  10. I am an auditory learner, except when it comes to directions. I am horrible at directions. If you can give me a land mark to look for, then maybe the directions will work. If you don't, however, be prepared to find me a map.
  11. I've already gotten pulled over once since I got my license. I didn't get a ticket, but it freaked the heck out of me for like three days straight. Never get pulled over.
  12. Now whenever I drive I have people passing me because said pull-over has made me jumpy and I go too slow.
  13. When David Isbell first came to our church, I had to meet him twice in a row because one night I wore my glasses, and the night after I put my contacts in. He wasn't very happy that I'd fooled him, and that started our friendship. :)
  14. Last summer was the best summer I've ever had in my entire life. I'm sure I'll never be able to top that summer. I met too many people, laughed too much, and had too much random fun for that stuff to be topped.
  15. I like Kangaroos and Seahorses for the same reasons: they both have a really cool pouch attacted to their front. I think I wanted to have one once. I guess that's what started my containers fad.
  16. This is a really long list, and I wasn't expecting it to go this long. At least I'm not bored anymore.
  17. My favorite dog is a Burnese Mountain Dog. I was able to take care of one this past fall, and I was so syked as I had never been near one before. They're really expensive dogs. If you don't know what they look like go here: http://www.berner.org/
  18. This number is my favorite. It also happens to be orange in my mind. Sorry Kara. :P
  19. I really dislike snakes and jumping insects. Both scare me. Grasshoppers make me jump, but they're ok. Jumping spiders have made me scream before. Outloud.
  20. I sometimes feel one-upped by my sisters and it really used to bother me when I was younger. When they surpassed me in something I would give it up. That's why I don't have any hobbies anymore. My sisters got better than me at them and I gave up. It doesn't bother me anymore, unless someone asks me what hobbies I have, and then I'm reminded of why I have none.
  21. I prefer star shaped things to heart shaped things. I don't know why.
  22. I have one certain backpack that I bring with me whenever I sleep over at someone else's house. I don't think I've used anything else since I got it when I was 6 or so.
  23. I don't really like my last name, but I wish it would stay in our family just because it's dying out. The line from Paul Perkins (my dad's dad) has dead ended with all girls. It's a shame.
  24. I love maps and floor plans. I can be entertained by putting me in some random place with a map (or even without one) and letting me roam.
  25. I am almost sad ending this. I guess I actually do like talking about myself now. It's strange how much people change in a few years time.

Surprise Blog

Ok, so I've already done my 1 post for the day, but I went cruising around blogger and it AMAZES me how often you come across people cussing. It's ridiculous! I'm pretty sure I knew this already, but goodness-double-gracious do you have to speak in cussish???

I guess I need to get out more often, but it's a total weird-out when all of your friends are Christians with relatively healthy minds, and then you go read some of the junk that's posted on this site. I guess I'm being judgmental. hmmm.

It's so hard to read that stuff though and not wonder why? Why is that "just what you say"? And the content of this stuff too....I was just reading girls' posts, but it's pretty much the same stuff over and over. Cat-fights and not trusting people, and if it's not that, it's about guys and flirting...seriously, is that all that they're doing in their lives?


I suppose it might have to do with the ages of the girls, but as I don't know their ages, I can't say for sure.


Please excuse my rant. I needed to get that out of my system....


What makes you stand in wonder at our present culture?

Braces

So I've had braces for almost a year now... It'll be a year this may I believe.

And I've had two difficulties so far with my brackets coming off my teeth, thus creating a loose wire. The first bracket that came off, I swallowed. It was on my top left back molar, and they just clipped off the wire and let me on my way.

Now, I have a bottom right back molar bracket that has come loose, and I haven't swallowed it. I wonder what they'll do. Tomorrow, I have an appointment at Dr. Jernigan's office (my orthodontist, and the best one EVER), and I'm wondering if they'll try to glue this one back on, or if they'll just clip it off like the last one.

I'm supposed to be doing schoolwork right now, but as I just got out of the shower, my mind has too much stuff in it bouncing around, that I needed to just write before I got started on Trig. or American Govt..

On the subject of flowers: I have never really had a favorite flower, though that sounds weird to me, because my mom is a flower person and she has always known stuff about gardens and such and I should think that I might have a favorite by now. My mom's involvement with flowers/gardens have always reminded me of my dad's involvement with cars.

On the topic of computers: I want my own so badly! I'm starting to not care if it's a laptop, a really old one, or a flat screen....I just want my own! Of course, that's not going to happen for many-a-year now, as money is tight, but I can always hope on here, can't I? :)

On the point of new rooms: My new room is coming along, though not as fast as I would want it. It takes forever to paint primer on walls. You get all high (my dad calls it a low) off the primer and your head starts to swim, so you leave the room and once your arms have stopped aching you don't want to go back into the room, thus making the process slower. Very irritating cycle.

For the discussion of hilarious mistakes: The other day a friend of mine had an argument (well, more of a discussion) with my sister about the spelling of a certain word, as he wanted to see if she could spell it correctly. He, of course, had taken the natural course and had looked up the word on Google. This, however, was a mistake. Google tends to allow you to write incorrect wordings and act as if you are, in fact, correct. Evil Google. Once my sister had spelled the word (correctly, if I might add), he then protested that that spelling was incorrect, as he had looked it up the day before on said Google. We protested with him that she was right, and he proceeded to look up the word on dictionary.com on his phone. Dictionary.com is a much more reliable source when it comes to spelling mistakes, and, as my friend abruptly found out, more superior than Google. That was indeed a funny exchange. :)

I wonder if I should put up videos? Brian intrigued me with his 25 things vid., but I shall resist temptation and not do the same.

However, my sisters and I have made quite strange vids, and I wonder if anyone would like to see what we're like late at night together....when we're getting along, that is. I think I shall make a poll.

Have a good monday!

Sunday, February 8

Touching

So this inspiration is from...drumroll please.......



Brain Morris! Woot!



Lol no seriously, most of my blogs have a mention of him in it, don't they? I guess I'm just really thankful to be in his posse. :)


So, the subject of touching. Some people thinks it's creepy, others annoying, others essential.

For me, I suppose my view changes from person to person. It only matters to me what they think of it. If they consider touching to be a bonding thing, then I play along.

If they're some kind of germ-o-phob. or just don't like touching, there's no point in making them freak.

I guess I enjoy just making people comfortable in their own skin. That's one of my goals I guess...one of my subconscious goals. You know, those kind that have been programmed into you? The one's you have no idea how they got there, but you have to look way far down into yourself to put a name to them? Yeah, that kind of goal.

That's why, I guess, I don't really approach people unless I know they either:
  1. Don't care
  2. Don't mind
  3. Want me to be a part of their life
I tend to get the first one more often than the last. But, of course, I have been known to see myself in a weird light before, but I think that's how it goes with most people.

Oh! I just remembered! We're going to Lookout Mountain for summer camp! It's beautiful up there, so I'm pretty happy. I hope most of my friends go.


I don't know what else to say, so I guess I'm going to go for the night. Hope you all had a good Sunday!

Friday, February 6

Explosion

So I've already written today in one of my notebooks (my mind was wandering as I was doing my Trig. ) and because of this occurrence, this post is going to be smaller than usual.

By explosion, I mean the people who have suddenly decided to get a blog....First it was Brian, then me, then Gnat, then Kara, now D....and I don't think it's going to stop there.

This is fun though, having friends make blogs...I get to read into someone's life/mind everyday without asking the creepy question: "What're you thinking?"

Yes, my friends, I am a stalker, I do want to ask you those questions, and I am intensely interested in how your mind works. Despite this, however, I have been taught proper manners and you shall never hear me talk of this again, in person or otherwise...capisci (kapeesh)?

Totally of on a ramble, did you know that was the correct way to spell "kapeesh"? It's Italian, and I had to look it up to spell it correctly. I had no idea it was spelled capisci. Now I do. and so do you. :)

I have a cat attached to my arm, as he is a very loving cat unless he wants to bite you. Yes, he bites. This, my friends, is Winston...

He may look evil in this picture...but hes just not photogenic. And he loves boxes.

The dude is 14 I believe, and has been with our family since California.

Oh, and he has about four different girlfriends...one of which cheated on him while she was still living with us with our other cat, Roman. The other three are humans, and have moved on from each of their brief relationships with Winston.

Dramatic...isn't it?

Truthfully, I'm trying to figure what else to write, as I'm done with my Trig. now, and I'm sure there's something.....

Ah yes! My pictures! I have TONS of pictures from many parts of my life. My family, I think, is obsessed with the camera. I can show you a picture of my 12th bday...or of my family's last camping trip....or I can show you that picture I was talking about in my last blog (see too rambletastic to title) about the pringles containers. They're the small plastic containers that would fit into a lunchbox. I collected them during 8th grade I think....heres a picture of most of them in a tower:
I remember I took that the day before I went to Bigstuf for the first time....I guess I was so bored/anxious to go to Bigstuf I did something with my hands....that's usually what I do when I get in that mood.

I guess I've shared enough for today. I hope you all had a great Friday!

Thursday, February 5

Too Rambletastic to Title

Alrighty, so I've been sick for the past four days...yummy.

For some reason, the main thing that messes me up when I'm sick is my lungs. I've had bronchitis more than once, and I think I had pneumonia when I was a child. My lungs just grab onto the sickness and runs with it. Yuck.

Ha, I just used a positive and a negative in a few sentences..and they're describing the same thing.

The funny thing about my blogging is that I blog just to push thoughts out of my mind just to vent.

Brian, however, blogs and has something interesting to say...EVERY TIME. Why? Why can't I sound smart like him? ...

Of course, I blog way more than him, so I just fill up everything with words that really have no meaning.

And, I only write to vent in the first place, never to really inform. So I guess that makes sense. I just wish I could sound intelligent every once-in-a-while. :P

It's funny how I write with each sentence making their own paragraph. It just feels like there's more space between each thought. I like space.

Speaking of space, I don't spend enough time under the stars. I love just being outside and looking at the stars. I don't think I'd like city-life very much, because you'd lose sight of the stars with all those lights everywhere.

Despite that problem though, I like to go to cities every once in a while....maybe its just a change of scenery.

Did you know that wealth is relative? If you think about it, the person you think is wealthy, or rich, or just well-off, might not think themselves that way. They might consider someone else to be better-off than them.

But of course, those who might actually read this rambling stuff probably already realize this. That's because all my friends are smart. And this stuff is just for taking up time and space.

Did you know that I am a packrat?

I collect office supplies. Well, more like I take more joy in obtaining office supplies than natural. Haha.

I also collect glass bottles and other containers.

I collect shoe boxes too.

I have a box of notebooks, a box of cool containers, a box of pens, a container of paperclips, a container of small tape dispensers, and a tiny stapler or two.

I also have a box of pringles containers...but that's another story. :)

I have a clutter/packrat room, and I'm wondering how I'm going to arrange all of my stuff in my new room.

Speaking of my new room, it's coming to the point that I need to start painting it again. I have the job of applying primer to the walls. I'm not done with this job, as I got sick on Monday.

I'm actually kind of excited in getting a new room.

I have a thing (I have lots of things) about rearranging myself. More like rearranging my room. When I get this urge, I usually rearrange my room and move my bed, and do weird things with the space I have in my room. Unfortunately, my room is probably in the best arrangement that is possible, as I have a limited space. I've done everything else I can with my bed. It's been facing my door, against a wall, across my room, and right now its perpendicular with my door. I have no idea how to arrange it so as to differ from what I've already done.

So...I'm excited to get a new room that I can organize my stuff in.

Aaand...now it's time for me to get to schoolwork....yuck