Sort of. It has been a month. School is out and... I have a summer assignment. That I am kind of avoiding while doing my own personal research. I am putting together my Book of Shadows (BOS) and it is kind of long grueling work that can't be done all at once. Information has to be gathered, written down, organized.... I did find a great site for creative ideas. Because normally I just write things down on notebook paper in binders and notebooks. Which means it is basically spread all over everywhere and I have no idea where anything it or what it does....it kind of sucks.
http://www.yourbos.com/
So...yeah...this girl has definitely inspired me to really get to work on it. And I guess it isn't just that I am avoiding doing my summer assignment, because it will get done...its just I really want to get this done to. I think I deserve to be able to have all of the personal religious study I want to. I'm thinking about that as a major actually. A major in religious philosophy with a double minor in English and creative writing....depending on where I go. Or I could be one of those insane people with a double major and a minor.... I know a girl who going to triple major and have a minor for all of them. She seriously scares me sometimes...she looked old when I hung out with her a lot....not sure I want to know what she'll look like at forty. Maybe that is harsh...a little... I don't know. But either way....that is just insane.
Gots to get back to work so...ttfn
6.09.2009
5.10.2009
Winding down...and soon winding up
Almost the end of the school year. May 28, and I will be free....for less than two weeks. After that, I will be volunteering at the local library. Which is fun. I really like being there, its nice and quiet...even when the youth section is stuffed to overflowing with kids. And the other girls that volunteer are fun, too. I am the oldest volunteer there, but that's fine and dandy. Only some of them act their age. I have this feeling that there is going to be a summer assignment for me, as well. What with me deciding I could do an AP class next year. As you can see, waiting for summer as if there is no tomorrow.
And I have decided to learn how to spin (that is why I am the not so average). And by spinning, I mean to make yarn of my own. I am more excited than it seems, really. Possibly, more excited than I should be...if I were normal at all. And maybe, after I am done, I will find a pattern for a lamb amigurumi and make it. With my homespun, all natural yarn. I know it will probably look bad at first...because I have never spun, but you never know. :)
And I have decided to learn how to spin (that is why I am the not so average). And by spinning, I mean to make yarn of my own. I am more excited than it seems, really. Possibly, more excited than I should be...if I were normal at all. And maybe, after I am done, I will find a pattern for a lamb amigurumi and make it. With my homespun, all natural yarn. I know it will probably look bad at first...because I have never spun, but you never know. :)
5.05.2009
Amigurumi
The Japanese art of crocheting small dolls or animals. I haven't ever attempted one before...but now is the time for me to try. And what more - I'm not using a real pattern.
Why? Because I'm not. I don't have any real reason why I'm not...except that I tend to do things the hard way. No offense meant, but I think it might have something to do with hanging around to many Floridians. I want to make a doll that's like me...which will be hard. I am well-endowed, short, and stumpy with red and black hair. But it will be fun. But I don't have red yarn, so I think I might just go with teal blue...because I can (and I have that), with black underneath...like my hair really is. And I have plenty of googly eyes to go around, so that won't be hard.
YAY! So, that's what I am up to today.
Why? Because I'm not. I don't have any real reason why I'm not...except that I tend to do things the hard way. No offense meant, but I think it might have something to do with hanging around to many Floridians. I want to make a doll that's like me...which will be hard. I am well-endowed, short, and stumpy with red and black hair. But it will be fun. But I don't have red yarn, so I think I might just go with teal blue...because I can (and I have that), with black underneath...like my hair really is. And I have plenty of googly eyes to go around, so that won't be hard.
YAY! So, that's what I am up to today.
5.01.2009
Friday Nights
Friday nights I spend at home. I don't talk to people, and I don't go anywhere. I sit and listen to my music while hitting the stumble button on my internet browser over and over and over again. Tonight, I remembered something that I stumbled upon awhile ago. It was directions to make a plastic 'yarn' from plastic grocery bags. The actual crocheting is harder than it looks, but I did just barely start. In a few days, when I have the whole thing finished, I will type up directions and take pictures to post...cause that's how I roll.
I am so tired. But I won't be able to get to sleep. I will lay down and toss and turn in the room while trying to get to sleep, but I know I won't ever actually get there. Oh well...guess I will work on my bag for now...I think I need more plastic grocery bags....
I am so tired. But I won't be able to get to sleep. I will lay down and toss and turn in the room while trying to get to sleep, but I know I won't ever actually get there. Oh well...guess I will work on my bag for now...I think I need more plastic grocery bags....
4.29.2009
I am not very good at this
So...it has been like four weeks...I think. I'm not planning on checking the dates any time soon. Maybe I should. I should also probably start writing this more often because...well it is Days in the life.....and well...not very day-like.
School sucks at this point. End of the year, and exams are coming up and all of the seniors are talking about graduation and how they have to take exams or not (if they have an A for the second semester they don't have to). And this is really getting on my nerves...I have several more days and I don't want to listen to their optimism. I personally have another year of this crap...and then college.
But for now, I simply have to concentrate on this research paper for English. And seriously, could I have a more boring topic? Sure...parts of it were interesting, but mostly, I just want to get it over with. So after three hours of writing and reorganizing notes, I have a rough draft. Which I now have to turn in to be critiqued by my teacher. Then I have to fix it, and turn it in again with everything we have done so far: A controlling statement, a preliminary works cited, a preliminary outline, note cards (from at least five sources), an outline, a rough draft, and a final copy (5-7 pages, typed, double-spaced size 12-font). I have never had a teacher so finicky as this one. She doesn't like handwritten work at all, saying that it is sloppy and that she can't read most of it. Which I sort of agree with. And I probably should be printing out the rough draft and organizing my notes again to turn it tomorrow. Then I should be getting sleep or some other fickle thing.
But I am not tired and I don't have any drive to do so. Sort of. There is that tiny little prickly thing in the back of my mind that says "print it off...." over and over and over again. I am trying to ignore it.
I made a crocheted a pencil case the other day. I needed something to keep them all together because I despise searching through my purse for what I need. It was pretty simple, really. I used some yarn that was left over from a hat I made my sister the past winter and a G hook.
Row 1: Chain 25, chain 1 more, dc in first chain from the end.
Row 2: Dc to the end (25 st) ch 2
Row 3: This one is a little more confusing. Starting on one side, fdc across, ch 1, turn around and fdc on that side as well. sl st together and ch 2.
Row 4: Dc all the way around, DO NOT CLOSE THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SIDES OF ROW 3! Sl St.
Row 5 - 8: repeat 4. This is sort of like working in the round...I think, but a little different.
Row 9: turn it inside out and sl st the top together, about halfway. On one side slp 3, ch 3, sl st in next 4, ch 3, sl st in next 3, ch 3, sl st 3, ch 2, sl st. Here is where a crocheted flower can go to hook onto the other side, a button can also be sewn on, if you would like. Now sl st 3 more, ch 2, sl st 4, ch 2, sl st 3 and tie off.
This is the end and you now have a pencil case....that kind of resembles a shoe, but for all intents and purposes holds your pencils. Feedback?
School sucks at this point. End of the year, and exams are coming up and all of the seniors are talking about graduation and how they have to take exams or not (if they have an A for the second semester they don't have to). And this is really getting on my nerves...I have several more days and I don't want to listen to their optimism. I personally have another year of this crap...and then college.
But for now, I simply have to concentrate on this research paper for English. And seriously, could I have a more boring topic? Sure...parts of it were interesting, but mostly, I just want to get it over with. So after three hours of writing and reorganizing notes, I have a rough draft. Which I now have to turn in to be critiqued by my teacher. Then I have to fix it, and turn it in again with everything we have done so far: A controlling statement, a preliminary works cited, a preliminary outline, note cards (from at least five sources), an outline, a rough draft, and a final copy (5-7 pages, typed, double-spaced size 12-font). I have never had a teacher so finicky as this one. She doesn't like handwritten work at all, saying that it is sloppy and that she can't read most of it. Which I sort of agree with. And I probably should be printing out the rough draft and organizing my notes again to turn it tomorrow. Then I should be getting sleep or some other fickle thing.
But I am not tired and I don't have any drive to do so. Sort of. There is that tiny little prickly thing in the back of my mind that says "print it off...." over and over and over again. I am trying to ignore it.
I made a crocheted a pencil case the other day. I needed something to keep them all together because I despise searching through my purse for what I need. It was pretty simple, really. I used some yarn that was left over from a hat I made my sister the past winter and a G hook.
Row 1: Chain 25, chain 1 more, dc in first chain from the end.
Row 2: Dc to the end (25 st) ch 2
Row 3: This one is a little more confusing. Starting on one side, fdc across, ch 1, turn around and fdc on that side as well. sl st together and ch 2.
Row 4: Dc all the way around, DO NOT CLOSE THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SIDES OF ROW 3! Sl St.
Row 5 - 8: repeat 4. This is sort of like working in the round...I think, but a little different.
Row 9: turn it inside out and sl st the top together, about halfway. On one side slp 3, ch 3, sl st in next 4, ch 3, sl st in next 3, ch 3, sl st 3, ch 2, sl st. Here is where a crocheted flower can go to hook onto the other side, a button can also be sewn on, if you would like. Now sl st 3 more, ch 2, sl st 4, ch 2, sl st 3 and tie off.
This is the end and you now have a pencil case....that kind of resembles a shoe, but for all intents and purposes holds your pencils. Feedback?
3.19.2009
One more day has come and gone
It's 10:30 and I am tired, but I can't sleep. I will have to try soon, because I have school tomorrow, and I will have to think about the events of the past few hours.
I posted this thing on myspace that asked guys what they think about me. Someone replied, someone I am kind of interested in. Most of the answers were positive, and then he called me "cutie" with a little smiley face like =] or something like that. And I don't know how I feel about that. Faced with a high school career without a boyfriend, I have fallen for any guy that seems even close to liking me...including my best friend. Which made it awkward, especially when he didn't have the ass in his pants to tell me otherwise. Sighs.
I don't want to make a fool of myself. I really, really, really don't want to do that. And he has a girlfriend, or he said he did. And I can feel the little green monster creeping up on me. I want to be that girl...:( But then again, sounds like she's a bitch, and he said he is thinking about breaking up with her. What is the deciding factor if he does? And would he make the first move with me? Cause I don't know how to do that.
Life sucks sometimes.
I posted this thing on myspace that asked guys what they think about me. Someone replied, someone I am kind of interested in. Most of the answers were positive, and then he called me "cutie" with a little smiley face like =] or something like that. And I don't know how I feel about that. Faced with a high school career without a boyfriend, I have fallen for any guy that seems even close to liking me...including my best friend. Which made it awkward, especially when he didn't have the ass in his pants to tell me otherwise. Sighs.
I don't want to make a fool of myself. I really, really, really don't want to do that. And he has a girlfriend, or he said he did. And I can feel the little green monster creeping up on me. I want to be that girl...:( But then again, sounds like she's a bitch, and he said he is thinking about breaking up with her. What is the deciding factor if he does? And would he make the first move with me? Cause I don't know how to do that.
Life sucks sometimes.
3.18.2009
Long Time No Write
I lost track of how long it has been, surely only about a week. I haven't even been busy. Just tired. Nothing exciting has really happened to me lately. Maybe that is why I haven't written. I did take my last ever FCAT for my school career. Science FCAT, junior year, and it is finally over. They gave us 75 minutes for a 40 minute test, if even. We all sat there with our heads stuck up our you-know-wheres and staring around at the gym. Extreme boredom.
Then I had to go to fifth period where we started watching American Graffiti. And we are supposed to review the damn thing. It is a very boring movie. Then the next period was Fat Man Little Boy which may or may not have an 'and' in it, but that is how Ms. Wallschlag (sp) says it. And that was followed by none other than World War Two...:IN COLOR. I think that is supposed to be exciting, but it really wasn't. This was all on Monday.
Tuesday, we did nothing because all of the seniors were testing, and Mr. Johnson was out. Giant sighs. In Art we watched Sandlot, but I have never been one for baseball movies. We finished it today, thank goodness. My writing teacher got pissed off at the world and she spent the entire period in a huff. She can be so b****y at times.
And today, we did nothing at all. Mr. Johnson was back, but he needed to get grades in so it was busy work galore. Watched August Rush at lunch, I have it in mind to finish it at home, get it on Netflix or something. We also finished Sandlot, which was partly watched on Monday, but... I was not in attendance because the state was wasting my time. I also found our that I have to do a research project on an aspect of life from the twenties. I was thinking either woman's advances or advances in technology. I'll figure it out eventually I guess.
Then I had to go to fifth period where we started watching American Graffiti. And we are supposed to review the damn thing. It is a very boring movie. Then the next period was Fat Man Little Boy which may or may not have an 'and' in it, but that is how Ms. Wallschlag (sp) says it. And that was followed by none other than World War Two...:IN COLOR. I think that is supposed to be exciting, but it really wasn't. This was all on Monday.
Tuesday, we did nothing because all of the seniors were testing, and Mr. Johnson was out. Giant sighs. In Art we watched Sandlot, but I have never been one for baseball movies. We finished it today, thank goodness. My writing teacher got pissed off at the world and she spent the entire period in a huff. She can be so b****y at times.
And today, we did nothing at all. Mr. Johnson was back, but he needed to get grades in so it was busy work galore. Watched August Rush at lunch, I have it in mind to finish it at home, get it on Netflix or something. We also finished Sandlot, which was partly watched on Monday, but... I was not in attendance because the state was wasting my time. I also found our that I have to do a research project on an aspect of life from the twenties. I was thinking either woman's advances or advances in technology. I'll figure it out eventually I guess.
3.11.2009
Old Time Memories
I was watching Buffalo Dreams (a Disney Channel Original Movie) and it was all fine and dandy. I didn't get to the end. I found Stepsister From Planet Weird (also a Disney Channel Original Movie). I did, however, finish this one. Then I found...Horse Sense (in case you're slow and can't catch on, this is also a Disney Channel Original Movie). I had full and complete plans to watch the sequel, Jumping Ship. Both star Joey and Andy Lawrence, two of the three Lawrence brothers, in case you don't know that either. And the three Lawrence brothers once starred in what was once my favorite TV show when I was little: Brotherly Love. I didn't watch Hey Arnold or the Rugrats. I was not a Nickelodeon kid. I watched whatever my sisters watched (they are 6 and 10 years older than me) so I watched Brotherly Love. I don't know if you can tell where this is leading. But it is leading to the fact that I started watching Brotherly Love from the pilot episode and it is as good as I remember. But I feel sad that I am the only one that remembers. :(
3.10.2009
An Average Day For Me
I had so many things to do, I downright forgot to right...or type...last night.
So this is how I spend my day...my absolutely mundane day.
6:40 Wake up, go to the living room and pretend to watch the news.
7:00 Get read for school. Oh...how dreary.
7:20 Done getting ready for school. Watch Fox & Friends for the next ten minutes.
7:30 Go out the the bus, she arrives about five minutes later
8:10 Arrive at school. I then head directly for homeroom. Why? you ask? Because I have no life.
8:30 School actually starts. I have Latin first period.
9: 29 The bell for next period rings, I head to Analysis of Functions and Analytical Geometry....better known as an extra math class that I DON'T NEED!!!
10:20 Head to English...we are currently reading The Great Gatsby. We are only in the first chapter. But Mike is in that class. He is kind of cute, if a little slacker-ish (not that that is a word)
11:12 Lunch time.... I head for the soda and snack machines, and then off to the art room for a movie. No, I am not the only one.
11:52 Class actually starts, and we are joined by everyone else. I love the class, not so much the people in it.
12:39 Writing class. One more essay is going to drive me up the wall.
1:31 Physics class. My teacher gets off on rants that make us more confused than we were to begin with.
2:23 History class. I actually like this class. I am really good at it, too. Except for the nineteen-thirties. Not so good then. There were way to many Acts and Administrations. And they all sounded similar and did similar things. Pulled a 90 on the test though....
3:15 Get to go home. Sort of. I ride the bus...as mentioned above. It is about an hour ride.
4:10 I arrive home. My little brothers are still there, so I sit quietly and contemplate my day. When they leave, I watch some TV and between then and 10 I will have eaten and finished my homework.
10:00-anytime later I finally get to sleep.
And now you have a relatively intimate look into my day. Sounds like fun, right? NOT!!!
So this is how I spend my day...my absolutely mundane day.
6:40 Wake up, go to the living room and pretend to watch the news.
7:00 Get read for school. Oh...how dreary.
7:20 Done getting ready for school. Watch Fox & Friends for the next ten minutes.
7:30 Go out the the bus, she arrives about five minutes later
8:10 Arrive at school. I then head directly for homeroom. Why? you ask? Because I have no life.
8:30 School actually starts. I have Latin first period.
9: 29 The bell for next period rings, I head to Analysis of Functions and Analytical Geometry....better known as an extra math class that I DON'T NEED!!!
10:20 Head to English...we are currently reading The Great Gatsby. We are only in the first chapter. But Mike is in that class. He is kind of cute, if a little slacker-ish (not that that is a word)
11:12 Lunch time.... I head for the soda and snack machines, and then off to the art room for a movie. No, I am not the only one.
11:52 Class actually starts, and we are joined by everyone else. I love the class, not so much the people in it.
12:39 Writing class. One more essay is going to drive me up the wall.
1:31 Physics class. My teacher gets off on rants that make us more confused than we were to begin with.
2:23 History class. I actually like this class. I am really good at it, too. Except for the nineteen-thirties. Not so good then. There were way to many Acts and Administrations. And they all sounded similar and did similar things. Pulled a 90 on the test though....
3:15 Get to go home. Sort of. I ride the bus...as mentioned above. It is about an hour ride.
4:10 I arrive home. My little brothers are still there, so I sit quietly and contemplate my day. When they leave, I watch some TV and between then and 10 I will have eaten and finished my homework.
10:00-anytime later I finally get to sleep.
And now you have a relatively intimate look into my day. Sounds like fun, right? NOT!!!
3.08.2009
Saying 'hi'
HI!
Haha. Not So Average American Girl....that's a mouthful. I am no social butterfly...wonder how many people I know would stumble across this and say "Do I know her?" But then, maybe I am known by more people than I realize and this is practically pointless. Who knows, really.
I enjoy reading, writing, and listening to music. I crochet and cross-stitch when I feel like it. I don't knit. Knitting is different. I don't know how to knit. My step-brother once asked me to teach him how to knit. His words were "Could you teach me to knit?" "No," I replied. He made that sad puppy-dog face that little kids make, and I continued, "I don't know how." That really got him confused. But I think you get the point.
I have a big family. I live with my Mom, her husband, and my little sister. And ever Thursday and every other weekend, my step-brothers come over...as well as every afternoon for a study session. My Dad and his side of the family (and parts of my mothers) live across the country...far away. :( And I live in the sunbelt...to bad I don't like the sun. Which reminds me....One of my friends once had another of our friends convinced I was a vampire and I was going to drink her blood. It was greatness.
I love my family, and I don't know what I would do without my Mom...other than not exist. She is my rock, and she helps me through the tough spots...and sometimes they are plentiful, and other times they just aren't.
I love the Twilight Saga...yes, I am a Twilighter. I lost count of the times I have read the first three. But the books, and Edward, were my escape for a while there. I have never been on a real date, never kissed a guy, and have lived for seventeen years as a single.
I have no social life.... ah.
Haha. Not So Average American Girl....that's a mouthful. I am no social butterfly...wonder how many people I know would stumble across this and say "Do I know her?" But then, maybe I am known by more people than I realize and this is practically pointless. Who knows, really.
I enjoy reading, writing, and listening to music. I crochet and cross-stitch when I feel like it. I don't knit. Knitting is different. I don't know how to knit. My step-brother once asked me to teach him how to knit. His words were "Could you teach me to knit?" "No," I replied. He made that sad puppy-dog face that little kids make, and I continued, "I don't know how." That really got him confused. But I think you get the point.
I have a big family. I live with my Mom, her husband, and my little sister. And ever Thursday and every other weekend, my step-brothers come over...as well as every afternoon for a study session. My Dad and his side of the family (and parts of my mothers) live across the country...far away. :( And I live in the sunbelt...to bad I don't like the sun. Which reminds me....One of my friends once had another of our friends convinced I was a vampire and I was going to drink her blood. It was greatness.
I love my family, and I don't know what I would do without my Mom...other than not exist. She is my rock, and she helps me through the tough spots...and sometimes they are plentiful, and other times they just aren't.
I love the Twilight Saga...yes, I am a Twilighter. I lost count of the times I have read the first three. But the books, and Edward, were my escape for a while there. I have never been on a real date, never kissed a guy, and have lived for seventeen years as a single.
I have no social life.... ah.
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