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so. i smell like bounce dryer sheets, i have cool earrings, and i have a tiny little bit of work to do before school starts. or, i have a lot, either one :) but now i have to accompany the 'rents to the open house at bennett. laura's being an antisocial poop and not coming out of her room. i should get her to play some rummy with me later. i want this book: Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among Pirates. anyone feel up to buying it for me? pretty please??! also want a stroke 9 cd. hehe... oh, and i'm going to see Pirates of the Carribean again. me like! |
everyone should do this. suuuuch a good idea!
i have discovered that gatorade does not taste good if it hasn't been refridgerated. YUCK.
i hope all you yorkies are enjoying your last two days of summer :) wish i were up there to enjoy 'em with you. anyone have some really cool classes? i got a thick packet of paper from bennett a few days ago. it's weird, they don't give you your schedule, just a room number to go to on the first day. i asked ellie (a fellow "crip") at field hockey what the heck that meant, and apparently F3 is in the art/technologies wing. so maybe i have homeroom in the art room? that'd be nice :) hope the art teacher is nice too... no one will compare to mrs fero though. which reminds me, does anyone know who is going to be the new art teacher at suburban? i think i knew at one point, but i've forgotten.
does anyone want to make a group weblog thing? because that'd be cool :) lemme know! i'm off to do laundry, and *maybe* read. joy... |
*shake yo butt!!*
news clip of the day:agassi. because i'm sick of world news, and tennis rocks.
so sarah called me around 3:30 yesterday afternoon, just as i was trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my day. she said, "Hi! We're in Cambridge! Come see us!" so mom and i drove up, and met them at the Hyatt, of all places. how's THAT for spontaneity?! all i have to say about the hyatt in cambridge, is that it is COOL. infinity pools and indoor/outdoor hottubs galor. not to mention, they play disney movies by the indoor pool/hottub at night. let's go live there, sí? dinner was sub-par however, don't go eat at canvasback please. they steal your time and money and give you bloody lamb in return. but wait! they didn't steal *my* money! :)
then i drove home, after battling this intense case of the hiccups. i drove home IN THE DARK. hehe, and my eyes hurt. |
stupid winmx, at least i know the beginning of this song is great - thanks nate.
pirates of the carribean LIKE WHOA! aye aye mateys! johnny depp is so cool! AND THE MONKEY! arggg!
and now i take a nap. it's the 22nd, and you know what that means! joe's at UR, and all you suburban kiddies have 5 more days till schoooooool staaaaarts! wish i were there :/
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a few quotes from The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, which i am finding i can't put down.
"I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch... People took porches and porch time for granted back then. Everybody had porches, and they were nothing special."
"Those eagles, like angels, don't distinguish between work and play. To them, i tis all one and the same."
and here's one from ainee: "this [life] isn't a dress rehearsal." trite, i know, but it's true. pop pop just found out that one of his best friends has bone cancer. he went home and told ainee that they were canelling all their plans for the day and going to the beach. and they did, and he cried. when mom told me that i almost started to cry. so, please pray to whatever diety you'd like for Pop Pop's Poker Buddy. while you're at it, also think of sarah's grandfather, who i've just remembered isn't recovering very well. meh.
to end on a happier note, here's a bit of news: Ed Quirk called ainee and pop pop to thank them for helping him get into the navy. yes, THE Ed Quirk! ears and all. for those of you who haven't yet heard this story, ed was my mom's high school sweetheart, and they almost got married (she broke the engagement off because she didn't want to have to follow ed around because of his naval career). apparently he looked up "barfoot" online, found the beaumont drive phone number, and called it. luckily, my uncle bought the house when ainee and pop pop sold it, so my cousin emily picked up the phone, and gave ed ainee's new number. ed called it, and talked to ainee for half and hour, and pop pop for an hour and a half. he's been married once, but got divorced because his wife didn't want to have children and he did. now he's living in CA with 3 children, and is a captain in the navy, training what is the equivalent of the airforce's black hawk squad. again, it's the little things in life, mom lit up when ainee told her all this. thus ends my second entry of the night :) |
oh the popliness of POP. rocking harder than POP rocks.
my sister is in a bad mood. one of those bad moods where you can just tell that she's craving attention. mom and i just smile at each other behind her back. did i ever act like that?
update on the knee thing: i went to get fitted for braces, and none of the ones that they had at the store fit me. so, we measured my legs and ordered some. insurance covers everything. blue cross is my friend!
(it is very frustrating not being able to practice with field hockey. if anyone starts thinking i'm a slacker, which i am NOT, well, we'll see how things are whenever i'm able to play again. bwhahaha)
lunch has been scheduled with granny tomorrow, joy. i hope we go to ainee's for labor day - being in shadoof for extended periods of time tends to dampen the senses.
i am preparing to live vicariously (hah! vocab word! waappppsh!) through numerous people in york, so get ready guys :) now it's off to either read seventeen or do SAT prep stuff. i hope hope hope joe calls, even though it's his last night in york for awhile, and i'm sure he'd much rather be spending it with his friends than on the phone with me.
one last note: talking to a fish is both relaxing and endlessly amusing - he swims in little circles to answer me! it's the little things in life, i swear. |
so mom's asleep on the couch, which is currently in our dining room. there are drop cloths everywhere since the painters will be here all this week painting the "den"/foyer. i have no idea where my sister is, since she's not locked in her room watching tv or something (what DOES she do in there all day , anyway?). dad is outside mowing the lawn on his expensive masculine john deere tractor. and i'm sitting here with ice on my knee, but not my kneebow, alternately drinking watermelon gatorade and deer park water. ahh, life.
knitting is cool, i would like to continue on my poncho, but alas i have no idea what i'm doing.
go bennett field hockey! we so would have tied them, but no, silly ref. now, if only my knee were all better and i could actually play... 5 minutes at the beginning of the game doesn't count - especially when during that 5 minutes i sucked like i've never sucked before as a result of the pain that was probably taking up about 99.5% of my brain activity. so frustrating. off to watch the simpsons, maybe i'll draw something later tonight? |
it's funny how now all i want to do is SLEEP. well, sleep and read. i suppose i got used to pretty much no physical activity/no hard classes at whoops, and then the laziness of summer. now i have to get up at 6 every morning, go run a lot, and then painfully come home to eat, drink water, and sleep. right now i really just want to go home :
but tayn called and made me very happy :) i am elyana's favorite! yay! "move your foot in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!" oh goodness, heh. wouldn't it be wonderful if i could go back to suburban for my senior year? man, i'd be the happiest person alive. on that note, i'm going to go drink more water, read more of Little Altars Everywhere and maybe call joe. i'm sure he's uberbusy, but going from constant joe-ness to sitting here reading, sleeping etc... is no fun. lalalala |
just got back from practice... again, i'm dead tired. well actually, not so tired, it's just that my knee isn't feeling so hot. i have a doctor's appointment at 2:45 tomorrow (right after our first scrimmage vs holly grove... apparently they're pretty damn good, meh), and i hope he'll be able to tell me what's up. oh, and i hope everyone's proud of me, because i ran 2.25 miles in 16 something minutes, on an injured knee and at 7 AM. go me :) haha but then we scrimaged, and i got whacked... on my knee... = oww + SHIT. now i'm gonna go lie down, ice, and read. i should probably start thinking about doing some summer homework, eh? fun fun...
the betta is doing great, he's (or she's?) perked up quite a bit. went to feed it this morning though, and now there's fish food all over my desk. phish food on my desk would be oh so much better, yum! trail mix is also good, go eat some now.
any ideas for a yummy chicken dinner? i volunteered to cook :) |
good song to listen to while the crickets do their thing outside.
my room smells like bounce dryer sheets, mmm. i haven't even opened them, they're still in the target bag. speaking of which, i now have a hanging closet organizer thingy, chocolate hershey's kisses, new white hangers, and a beta fish. well, the fish and the kisses came from wal-mart, but that's almost target, right? here's my beta fish story: i've wanted one for awhile, and when laura and i were walking through wal-mart, and saw those poor fish in their little plastic cups with blue water, we promptly bought two, and fish bowls, plastic plants, beta food and gravel. mine is sitting on my desk happily swimming around in it's fresh new gallon of water. pretty fish! any ideas for names?
practice was not so fun. my knee is hurting. hopefully the doctor will be able to tell me what's wrong when i go see him on wednesday afternoon. meh. i hope they don't put me on jv because of all this, i'd rather be a varsity sub. that is, assuming that i'll be able to recover and whatnot. and why do the mornings seem so long? i feel like i need to fill my days with fun... but i don't know where to look for it, and it's driving me crazy. i miss my yorkies :( hehe, yorkies, oooh boy.
wrote some letters, cleaned up a bit, then messed everything up again, and will now go on to icing my knee and reading while waiting for my dear dahling josé to call. natanya: expect mail soon. |
so i just took a drink of water, it started to go down the wrong way, but i still had this huge mouthful of water. i was thinking, "shit! i can't breathe!" and then i realized that when that happens, you tend to choke, cough and turn blue. i did all three of those things. coughing does not work well when you have a mouthful of water. needless to say, my wall is now water stained. ::grin:: and i am still alive, and doing chores while singing to OAR. i want to be twirled!
HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY TO ZAREEN! (even though i was there.) your fortune: today will be a good day for you. |
i feel the need to mention the fact that i had a weird dream during my 2 hour nap this afternoon. it involved me not going to bennett this year, and going to whoops instead... only it was really scary. don't ask me why, i don't remember most of it. when i woke up it took me awhile to realize that i was fine, and that the dream wasn't real. maybe i've been thinking about this too much, i know i'm really nervous. freud would have a field day with me, i'm sure. :)
van anh (s/p? i still don't know!) left today for uzbekistan i suppose. 2 and a half years is a long time, and i hope she has fun and learns as much as possible. i think i'd like to do something like the peace corps eventually, but mom has already vetoed that idea. HA-HA. right tayn? hehe. gonna go put stuff in a scrapbook now, y ayudo mi madre con la cena. yum! |
first of all, i saw this this morning and was happy. then i looked at my alarm clock, and saw that it read 7:23. i was not happy. so yes, i missed most of the second day of field hockey practice because i woke up late. i wasn't really going to practice though, because my knee is still hurting, and i'm supposed to take the weekend off (yay!). anyway, yesterday was fun. michelle, laura, mom and i went shopping in the afternoon - and let me tell you, we hit every sale possible, it was wonderful. i've told many people about this already, but i'll say it here too: i got $15 jeans, a $5 tank top, $5 flip flops, $1.50 underwear, a $3.50 necklace and then a pair of earrings for the same price. i am GOOD. then we got home and watched the ring ~ i still got very scared even though i knew exactly what was going to happen. :)
if anyone's heard from natanya, could you let me know? everyone here is still worried about her and whether she got to NY alright what with the blackout and everything. gracias.
my to do list for today:
* read Little Altars Everywhere instead of starting Gulliver's Travels. bad bad me.
* WD40 my door and chair.
* laundry (yes, more of it), and clean my room.
* get toothpaste, more dryer sheets, and dark chocolate hershey's kisses at wal-mart.
* put that stupid writing book up on half.com. any takers?
* write some letters.
* attempt to fix my computer.
* call people.
* knit!
* water plants.
that's nothing bad, right? i'm so taking a nap first though, i'm NOT a morning person. |
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that being said, i'm back in MD now, and getting ready (and sort of very nervous) for field hockey tomorrow, bright and early! getting up at 6 isn't my cup of tea. especailly when my knee is saying "lindsay you idiot, i HURT!" mrh. oh well, i now own a book called Salt: A Wolrd History whoohoo! more on my adventures later, you can count on it. :) |
hehe, i'm at natanya's house, and she's currently looking at soooooooo many pictures from alaska. and singing. we won't talk about that. but anyway, we're having fun, and guess what? i'm going to make a poncho! whoohoo! mmm, so fuzzy and warm. hahaha, yes. gonna go sleep or somethign now, or maybe check out natanya's pictures, some of which are "really really wrong." ahem, g'nite! |
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I'M ALIVE! and having fun! waaaaay too much fun to be sitting here on the computer. so, bye now. i'll see most of you soon anyway. whooppee! :) |
a rant on the price of [paperback] books
i now have 4 more books to add to my pile of stuff to read by the end of the summer... Ender's Shadow by Orston Scott Card, Gulliver's Travel's by Johnathan Swift, The Virginia Woolf Reader, and The Best American Essays of the Century. i'm really looking forward to the Ender book, because Ender's Game was SO GOOD. i sat down and read it for 4 hours, finished it, then read it again the next day. sooo good. i definitely recommend it, even if you're not into the science fiction scene. there's philosophy, and the entire book is basically about the human condition. brilliance. anyway, since this is supposed to be a rant, i'll explain what i'm ranting about. i paid $8.50 for Ender's Shadow. now, if it was a nice looking, high quality paperback, i would understand, but it's, well, not. i was expecting it to be around $6.50 or at the most, $7, but nope. and don't even get me started on the Virginia Woolf and Essays books... so much moolah. i'm so broke now : just goes to show you, don't go to Barnes and Noble without looking for bargains online, or checking out the atlantic book warehouse first. i guess it didn't help that i got an iced mocha from starbucks too. that's another rant in itself.
also, we saw Seabiscuit this afternoon, before we went to BN. it was pretty good, really well done, but i couldn't help being a little disappointed. i was expecting a few things that they didn't even touch on... this might be one of the only times that i kind of wish i hadn't read the book first. i'd still recommend the movie though, it's really an incredible story.
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so i've officially had this journal for a year and a day. makes me feel old, and like i'm wasting my time... sitting in front of a computer... yes. GO ME! |
i recommend this song, i like the lyrics and the piano - it's mellow. life has gotten a little better in the last couple days, probably because of mom's efforts. i think i forget how awesome she is sometimes... laura and i need to think of something really wonderful to do for her. we could call it a happy august present. let me know if anyone has any good ideas :)
thanks to caitlin i now know what homework i have to get done between now and the first day of school (which is sometime soon after labor day, i think). the AP us history (i'm not sure if i'm actually taking that yet) homework involves getting the textbook and reading the first 5 chapters and outlining them. for english i have to read gulliver's travels, four essays by either dillard, kincaid, woolf, or white, and then choose another book off of this long list she gave me. hmm. the writing assignments don't seem that bad, i could probably get both of them done in three nights or so, so that's good. apparently the AP english teacher is new though - that could either be a good thing, or a not-so-good thing. we shall see, i suppose. and speaking of not-so-good things, i think i've been blacklisted within the orthodontist world. that's right, we had to call FOUR orthos before we found one that was willing to take me. this is disheartening, for a have a big wire sticking up in the back that's pretty much poking a hole through my cheek. (STUPID TECH LADY). oh the joys of having teeth that everyone wants to "tweak a little, you know, make them PERFECT!" uggh, i like my teeth! geez... *shakes head* oh, and i'm still living on oatmeal and yogurt, though i've also graduated to bananas now. whoohoo!
mom, laura and i went to assateague this afternoon, and let me tell you - i have never seen it so crowded. this was weird however, because we started walking down the beach and i got very confused because there was not one person in the water. turns out it was like 60 degrees. my sister got in. not only did she get in, she stayed in - for a few hours. she got out and her feet and hands were white. then she went back in. she so crazy. MINE! hehe, we love finding nemo! so, you haven't asked the most fundamental question involved with lil going to the beach. go ahead, ask... YES, I DID GET SUNBURNED. i blame it on the water being so cold. we got there and i was so preoccupied with the sheer insanity of my sister actually being in the water that i forgot to put sunscreen on. i remembered 10 minutes later, but the damage had already been done - my butt and back are a nice shade of pink now. damnit. i always get so pissed off when this happens. i can't stand to look at myself in the mirror because i cringe so much. ekk. needless to say, i have lots of aloe on now. it burns. mrh. oh, and i spent half of the 6 hours we were there huddled up under a towel. i was pondering very philisophical things though. does anyone else ever think about the people that must have walked where you are sitting right now? i do that all the time, it makes me want to write a book.
we listened to the cocktail soundtrack on the way back , and i am now in love with a certain song. i think i hit the back button 4 times so we could hear it again. :) i reeeally want to be able to fix my computer so i can burn cds again. i am so incompetant... however you spell that. and now we're going to watch snow falling on cedars. my expectations are low though, because i didn't like the book all too much. love y'all! oh, and hurrah for heath bites and long phone conversations! a combination of the two could be deadly.
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yes, i am still awake. don't ask me why, please. you could call me sometime though! thanks a bunch.
this makes me sick. |
ah yes, the obligatory conversation with packard about love pills and stroons. [canadian accent] dis is what summer is all aboot, folks[/canadian accent]. yeehoo!
StarBlaze412: you should come back i havent seen you in so long
LiL6471: i know, it sucks
LiL6471: i havent been back since your last day of school lol
StarBlaze412: i know and even if uou have been back since then i got a hug then you left me in math class
LiL6471: i know :(
LiL6471: heh
LiL6471: but it was your LAST alg class ev-ah
StarBlaze412: indont find it funny...(snicker*)
StarBlaze412: true i forgot that
StarBlaze412: all i knew was that it was alg class
LiL6471: hehe
LiL6471: your teacher, whatshisname, looked at me like i was insane
StarBlaze412: i know
LiL6471: it was funny, and i was v. scared
StarBlaze412: it was funny
StarBlaze412: i saw that too
StarBlaze412: i just couldntlet you leave without a hug and you were going to
LiL6471: i was not!
LiL6471: and i initiated the hug, if i remember correctly
StarBlaze412: you were walking out that door and i stopped you
StarBlaze412: o no you didnt
LiL6471: you wanted a high five or some shit like that
StarBlaze412: yeah you did never mind
StarBlaze412: ....
LiL6471: :)
LiL6471: so there
StarBlaze412: sorry my deepest apology
LiL6471: accepted
LiL6471: (gifts of chocolate ice cream would be appreciated also)
StarBlaze412: thank you and hopefully we can forgive and forget and keep on loving
LiL6471: :)
StarBlaze412: okay ill do that
LiL6471: whoohoo!
StarBlaze412: when you come back to visit i will get you some ice cream
LiL6471: sweetness
StarBlaze412: promise
StarBlaze412: its in my profile so i wont forget
LiL6471: hahah nice!
LiL6471: people love me, yay!
LiL6471: lets spread the love
LiL6471: in little pills
StarBlaze412: all over the place
LiL6471: or capsules, the sugar coated kind
StarBlaze412: how bout we start a love train a love train
StarBlaze412: lol
StarBlaze412: to make sure it gets down
LiL6471: marketing will be a snap lol
StarBlaze412: right sweet and will last forever
StarBlaze412: cant get better
LiL6471: we'll set up trust funds for hungry kids in africa
StarBlaze412: exactly and give them all frosties cause theyve missed out
LiL6471: with those cool scoopy straw things
StarBlaze412: yes
LiL6471: :)
StarBlaze412: and why is the other end opened i never figured that out
LiL6471: because you can use it as a straw too!
LiL6471: it's ingenius really
StarBlaze412: but its so big and square at the other end
StarBlaze412: that i dont understand
LiL6471: i think we're talking about different scoopy straw things
LiL6471: i'm talking about the kind they usually have at like 7-11 when you get a slurpee, nice and not square
StarBlaze412: oo yes those are good but the dq ones are sucky
LiL6471: this is true
StarBlaze412: they are the square ones that i dont understand
StarBlaze412: the 7-11 ones are amazing works of art
StarBlaze412: not just a straw or a spoon
LiL6471: but BOTH
StarBlaze412: yes
LiL6471: like a spork
StarBlaze412: kind of
StarBlaze412: same idea
StarBlaze412: like a stroon
LiL6471: oooh clever!
StarBlaze412: yes lets try to market those too free with the love pills
StarBlaze412: as insentive for love
LiL6471: maybe throw in a slurpee
StarBlaze412: to fit with the stroon and love
LiL6471: yes. and we can wrap it all up in paper bag, and tie it with some string
LiL6471: voila
that being said, i would really like to LEAVE NOW. (you can leave now too, i shall be whining for awhile.) tomorrow would be ok, too. greyhound, so mom doesn't have to drive. (but joe does? wtf? i don't understand much anymore.) oh, and dear old dad just walked in to ask how my teeth are. i told him to go jump off a cliff. or rather, that's what i should have said. instead i mumbled something about how they hurt, and no, we haven't found another ortho. in a little i will go downstairs and ask him why the hell he thinks he has to make my life miserable. wish me luck?
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LYRIC SPAM! *whack* you know you love it ;)
On my way
I would like to reach out my hand
You know what they say about the young
Well pick me up with a golden hand
I may see you, I may tell you to run
You know what they say about the young
Well, I would like to hold my little hand
How we will crawl, we will
I would like to hold my little hand
How we will run, we will
How we will crawl
Send me on my way (6x)
Mm hmm
I would like to reach out my hand
I may see you, I may tell you to run
You know what they say about the young
Well, pick me up with a golden hand
You know what they say about the young
etc...
i think this my be the most used song in the movie industry. think about it, matilda, ice age... numerous other kid movies... it's because IT KICKS ALL THE OTHER SONGS METAPHORICAL ASSES! and i think it's funny how the "you know what they say about the young" line sounds like babada baaa babada BA!" that, and the rest of the lyrics don't make too much sense. yes. rock. |
i would like to preface this entry by saying:
there is an obvious lack of communication in this family
AND that i apologize for the excessive cynicism that i've been spouting as of late, but that's what my life's been reduced to... someone call me? please? i'm not exactly allowed to pick up the phone and call you
that being said, we continue...
- my dad enjoys doing things that will make other people thoroughly miserable, yet doesn't give a reason for doing this.
- my mother never talks about anything. period. like just now, she yelled up saying that she was going to leave for a few hours. i asked where she was going, her reply: "to register you, and do a bunch of other stuff." i was like, "aren't i supposed to be with you when you register me, because, you know, i'm the one who's going to be taking the classes?" mom: "well yeah, but you're not ready." me: "maybe because you didn't wake me up, and you never told me that we were going to go?" mom: "well, fine. whatever. bye now." smooth.
- i haven't seen, nor spoken with my sister in over 48 hours. and neither of us have left the house. this is direct result of her antisocialism, coupled with the fact that i am v. pissed off at everyone at this point in time.
- apparently we are going on "vacation" sometime soon. now, i have no idea when this "soon" is, and i only have a vague idea of where we're going. no one has decided to tell me.
so that's it. it's getting harder and harder everyday to be cheerful, or even pretend to be cheerful. it's so sad, i have less than 3 weeks left of "real" summer left, meaning the kind of summer where i don't have to be here for field hockey, and i haven't left this house in 2 weeks. a million thank-yous dad, you certainly make my life worth living.
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laura just called dad to tell him that none of us want to go on this proposed "vacation." after she was put on hold for like 10 minutes, he picked up. apparently he was silent when she told him, then said that his next phone call was going to be to the hotel in the outer banks to make reservations, and that he would wait, and that we'll "talk about it at dinner." close call. i'd be fine with a vacation in york, thanks very much - a 3 week vacation? then some serious field hockey and beaching for the remainder of august. i could turn this summer around yet. :) |
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