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Oh lord, it’s been how long? Well, on behalf of my irresponsible sisters and I, I’d like to (again) say sorry. But my life is well… a life, and I just write on this blog to feel famous. Not really. Anyway, I had something really awe-inspiring to pronounce, however it has escaped my mind. Instead, I’ll direct you to the title just above the cartoon me’s adorable head. A good t.v. show used that for a commercial and my mom apparently has the cd. I looked it up on youtube, it was funny but that guy can sing.
On another note, school’s been hectic. And Apple as always is rolling out the many (seemingly the same products). Such as the giant itouch, ipad. Aside from the slightly strange name and oh so unique idea, it looks… well, okay. My grievances? For one, I’ve always hated ipod touches. It seem so cool in the beginning, however the typing and weird web browsing turned me off. Then it broke. Anyway, if I ever bought an Ipad, I’d probably prefer a laptop, and would still buy one. Also: They are creating this whole ‘book store’ thing online, just like music. If I’m correct, it was actually an old app. Anyway, it’s sort of like some product Barnes & Noble came out with. To be honest, I prefer books over weird computerized e-books that provide the sound of the page crinkling when you swipe it, which after a few minutes gets only a little annoying (based on the app version). Still, the great thing is the ipad only costs about $500. Well, I’m just skipping from topic to topic here, so here’s a picture of Stevie and his pad.
In other news… First off, I never thought I’d be talking about anything other than me and my life on here! Okay, so in other news: lots of things are going on in the world. I hate to be so serious, but right now I’m doing a lot of–well unselfish things, I think. It seems strange since on here I tend to be anything but selfless. Well, I’m planning to donate shoes to other countries in need (think shoe drives!) through a site called Soles4Souls. Other than that, you can be sure that I pitch change in the help for Haiti cans whenever I see them. Let’s make this year a caring year. After all, we have so much to give, if only we could give just a little bit of that–think how much good it could do! Lots of people, myself included have an excess of shoes, clothes, food, things we end up buying but not using. Even in a school environment, I see lots of kids who don’t truly value, appreciate, and understand the simple fact that they get to go to a school–especially in such a nice neighborhood. It’s sad and something we can’t really get around. So the most we can do is give a little here and there.
Well that was serious. Anyway, my mom is going away to Philadelphia tonight. She’s taking the red eye and is coming back Sunday night. To say the least I am devastated. I guess I’ll end up living with my parents until I’m forty and slightly balding (not to say that all 40 year olds bald/slightly bald.). However, I’ll continue! The nature of her visit is related to photography for a competition that she is a finalist in- ONWARD. Note: she’s the first one. I’m greatly excited for her, and I know she’ll win. At least, she deserves to.
Well, so long everybody, have a wonderful rest of your life.
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If you haven’t noticed, the past week or so has been filled with… well, nothing. Not surprised? Technically, due to our crazy activeness in writing posts, you might have seen this coming. So. I have a more valid excuse this week, at least it’s a little less vague as “I was busy.” And way better than a disappointingly honest “I was just too lazy to give a cat’s whisker.” Although the last two are usually true, this week Jehovah has decided to at least give me an alibi for all of this blog’s millions of viewers.
My terribly horrible (no, I mean it was truly terribly horrible) reason is this: the internet. Or rather, airport. Or that little black box with the blinking green lights that’s plugged into the computer. I don’t really know the difference, and one day I’m going to ask Steve Jobs exactly why those little white boxes are called airports. It doesn’t really make much sense to me. All I know is that all of those things have decided to quit, or go on strike. Either that or they’re going through puberty as moody adolescents who throw fits and have mood-swings. If you didn’t understand my analogy, I mean that my internet sucks. When it works it works for an hour or less and only connects to one computer. In fact, it’s a miracle that I’m able to even publish this, since this is really an old post that I’ll be saving (and then publishing) when my internet connects for more than five minutes.
Have you ever gone camping? And not your lame excuse kind of camping where you pitch a tent in your backyard (or neighbor’s yard, if you want an adventure), but I mean in the (sort of) untouched wilderness of Utah, or Montana, or um… the park down the street. But anyway, the point is that things, things that normally don’t matter begin to become a hassle. Like washing your hands for example, brushing your teeth, avoiding bear wastes, or producing wastes. All of these things are hard to do whilst in the wilderness (might or might not apply to neighbor’s backyard). When you finally decide to take the long trek to the outhouse at night, everyone jumps up to go with you, you all need to take care of unfinished business. Right?
Well, the same goes for bad internet. When you haven’t used it in weeks and your email is piling up, or you haven’t harvested your crops on FarmVille and they’re all wilted, every chance you get to go do those things–you’ll take it. Which pretty much explains why my family takes a laptop with us wherever we go. If we’re at a coffee shop with free wi-fi: Get out the laptop! Cruising through residential areas: Get out the laptop! We’ve become first-class internet pirates. Although we don’t wear pirate hats or have parrots/monkeys on our shoulders, we are real deal. Taking over (not really) your internet for as long as we can. So beware, until I get my internet fixed, I might be parked outside your home, using your internet that you paid for with your own money (if you don’t have a password, that is) or rolling down your street at five miles per hour, looking for more internets to plunder. As a consolation, you should be honored.
At the moment, I am sitting here… sort of spacing out and watching T.V.. It’s a depressing Paid Programming ad on deprived children in Kenya. Which may sound sort of funny when you first read it but–they’re pretty flippingly deprived. If I could like… put money in a little envelope and send it to those funds, I would. Bella is currently… broke. Well, not really. Anyway, they have these very depressing shots of lone children staring spaciliy out at you with big, very sad and very depressing eyes. Thank Jehovah Gabby changed the channel or I would be broke and depressed. And let’s face it. I am not technologically advanced enough to send mail. It’s probably more complicated than putting a sheet on your grandmother’s couch (it was HARD, okay?! ).
Also, since I had to mention the Bad T.V. shows (in the title) as I was currently being unoriginal at the time, I shall enlighten you young chipmunks. This week I have watched a lot of really annoyingly bad T.V. shows that serve no other purpose than to disgust you and make you drool because it requires little to no brain power at all. Yes, it’s fun. So fun. It’s like reading those magazines that talk about all the weird random relationships of famous people that you couldn’t really care less about or haven’t ever heard of, or like the newest breakup, or John & Kate!!!! ….at the end of it all, it’s pretty draining.
And now… we finally come to the good part!!
Come on, you’re all dying to know what this miraculous miracle is (:
weeelll, we’re getting another birdy wirdy! cockatiel to be exact. although they’re known as the easier birds to take care of I guess? Size probably, but anyway: they’re very smart and adorable, and I CAN’T WAIT ANOTHER WHIPPING SECOND OR I WILL JUMP OFF A CLIFF SO HELP ME GOD.
so, since i do not have my bird as of yet, i have provided you with this wonderful image of men eating cannoli (cannolis?). the picture isn’t mine, of course. click it for the person who owns this prize-worthy picture.
…whoohhhhkay. but um, weird, spazzy-ness aside, I am super excited. Our last bird was Louie (r.i.p.), and I miss him very much. So that I don’t bore you/make you feel anew and afresh from my wonderful, tearjerking prose (fancy words i know), he was very chipper (#2) and effervescent (#3), our first bird. I’m wondering how our next bird will be. I opted for the other bird, one who I thought was a male (turns out, we really don’t know which is male or female now!) because he seemed more adventurous and peppy, looked slightly the same, and I thought it was a male (never know). Buuut, we went with the other which looked completely different and more relaxed. Surprising, but I think it’s better.
Wow. Deep. You totally needed to hear/read me rambling (point of a blog). Well, I want to start keeping a super cool whippingly amazing birdy wirdy journal! D:< Once we finally pick up the bird of course. I’ll bore you with bad quality pictures, carefully excluding myself (mystery girl x 100), and writing numerous paragraphs detailing my adoration of my new bird. yay!
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So… this week was… in a word: intriguing. I say that because it was both extreme and interesting. I went to California Adventure, got to go to the screening of a claymation/liveaction movie i worked on and also received a cold? As well as a major foot injury that means I’m going to walk limp around school in uggs (better than surgical shoe things) and be late for class. Oh joy! But, chronological order, please and thank you!
So. Let’s see. Monday was uneventful. Tuesday… uneventful. Wednesday? Uneventful! Oh, but: my last week of art class was last week (or two weeks ago, technically) which was definitely very sad, but also a big relief. The classes were twice a week, 3 hours a session. Yeah. Which was some serious clay-forming, right? Well, it was very relaxing just… relaxing–just vegging out. But, that sounds very boring so Bella will continue on now. Thursday… I forget! Oh yes, more boring stuff. And Friday! We watched The Forgotten starring Julianne Moore. It was a really great movie, at first it seems creepy (what with the harsh blue color effects ) but… now–wait! I will not spoil a thing. Even though it’s a really old movie (2005), you should see it. I really enjoyed it, and at a certain part, I screamed until my… until I stopped screaming. Haha.
On Saturday: Here’s where the fun comes! I went jogging in the morning (super fit Bella), and ran a sort of quick mile, then went home, showered, and made my hair very cute. For all of you, I know this is probably the most interesting part of my recap of the weekend: It was still wet, so I braided 3/4 of my hair, and the other, tiny 1/4 I twisted (no braiding, just twisted) it around and around and sprayed it with strong hold hairspray (that didn’t make it all hard and stiff). Just so you know, it was quite becoming! Other than that, well, the rest was very… uninteresting really. But, I’ll tell you anyway. We went to the screening of my art class’ movie. We watched a few other groups’ projects–most were just random individual movies put together. Surprisingly, ours was really the only movie that was like a whole movie, as opposed to a dvd with fifty different random clips of randomness.
Also surprisingly, the movies were freakishly violent for little children! More, later? Anyway, from there were traveled to California Adventure. The journey there was spent testing my mother’s ability to stand young, adolescents’ music (well, my music isn’t the typical kind you might think). For the most part she enjoyed my music–is that a good thing or a bad thing? Considering that she does sometimes read this, I will say no more. (;
Since Gabby already bored you with the details, I’ll say that California Adventure was surprisingly fun! I just regret not going on that one ride similar to Supreme Scream at Knott’s Berry Farm. For further notice: I absolutely hate roller coasters, but I’m slowly building an immunity (yes, I went on Silver Bullet! wowzers). Anyway, it looked fun, but I usually let Siena try out rides I’m 50/50 about, and then if she lives, I go on it.
Back at home, I went to sleep with a tiny cough. Note: This is what we literature people call FORESHADOWING, boys and girls! Thank my dear friend for going to school sick. No, kidding, kidding. Not.
So I woke up all coughing and sounding like an old horse with the swine flu. I panicked. But now I’m fine (sort of), a few hours and four Zicams later! Then I tragically injured my foot whilst I was freaking out. To spare you from the gory details, let’s just say it’s quite painful and I blame myself and my own stupidity. Especially since the end of the year is coming up, and my Summer is going to be a blast! No, really. I hate being so pessimistic. I’ll be hopeful. Because it’s taught me to be strong and withstand lots of stinging feelings in my feet. Also the feeling of needles being jabbed into your skin, stinging medication being poured onto your open wounds, etc., I’m army strong.
…. always wanted to say that.
Well, so long & good night! That was another WEEKLY WORD.
Woooah kay… It’s been… It’s been more than a while. Like a month or two or a month and a half. I really have no clue. But over the course of (actually only a few weeks) some time lots of things have spontaneously combusted!!!
Haha no kidding. Well I went to my grandparents’ house a lot, finished The Super Beststelling Da Vinci Code (which I do not reccomend–more on that later. Um, I ate food, hurt my knee, made a few new friends, bought two dresses (homg I advance in WOMANHOOD), aaaand as of today, approximately oh… I dunno, eight or so hours ago purchased a miracle on earth! Well, not really, I just got an itouch. Hence the ‘i’ in front of the ‘zomg’ which apparently stands for: Zombie!OMG which makes no sense, and personally I prefer HOMG. Which reminds me of cows, but you know, i don’t know.
This new ipod is one that can do mindbending things such as surf the web (pretty well), listen to music, buy music, buy apps, have apps, etc., it’s fun. But not too amazing. So, yeah. By the waaayyy, this is the first of: Weekly Word, in which I describe my weekend, etc.. I think of it as a sort of ‘column’ of sorts. Hope you enjoy! I’m running out of things to say because I am braindead. My apologies! Oh, and Summer is almost here! Thank you Good Lord Almighty. o:
Everyone, have a wonderful Summer!
