x[A Pirate's Life For Me]x's Journal

10:49PM - sorry.

I apologize for never updating.

I'm not going to update now, either. I've just been really stressed and completely miserable and I already cried myself into a 4 hour coma today... and I'm going to do it again.

Don't feel sorry for me. I'm just an idiot.

(for Captain Jack)

5:30PM - skdfjaklsjdfaklsj

Oops. I haven't updated in a week. WHATEVER.

Last week was really crappy and stressful. Stupid scrapbook. But I got it done and it was moderately cute. Hopefully she won't give me an F minus or something.

Friday was the Manchester game. I got to sit by Dionis, so that was nice... even though he ignored me the whole time :P. Jk, he's a boy. And afterwards we went to Hooters with Jenelle, Brian, and Dustin and it was... okay. Hooters is lame and their outfits are ugly. And they charged me for my honey mustards... those jerks.

Saturday was busy. Dionis came over around 12 and we played MARIO PARTY for FOREVER because we're 10 year old girls. Then we went to Jersey Mike's and got some subs. Mad love for subs. We came back and watched the end of the UVA game (they lost... duh) before he left. Right before I went out with my mom for the evening I remembered the show... and decided not to bail on my mom. So we went out. I broke my elbow in the door and it STILL hurts. I'm a moron or something. I somehow got it wedged between the door and the side of the car and then... snapped it off? Something like that. It sucks. We went to the mall and looked for shoes... but everything was really expensive and dumb. So we went into AE so I could get some pants and there was this gay guy working there who was really awesome. He was training and it was cute. And we got to go to Dena's for dinner! Ahhh... love Dena's. But they changed the lighting in there so the atmosphere isn't as nice. While we were eating I got a call from Dionis saying that he walked out of Applebee's... so that was stressful. I tried to calm him down and when I called him back later he decided to go back in. That was good.

I got up Sunday and went out to breakfast at Joe's with Dionis. It was really good and I almost exploded. We returned my mom's shoes and then went over to the mall. Nothing was open yet so we just sat at a table and talked about how we wanted it to be Christmas time. I can't WAAAIT for Thanksgiving. SERIOUSLY. First there's the food... then the christmas songs come on Lite 98... then we can put up the decorations!!! AH HOORAY. We're going to do our Christmas shopping together :P. ANYWAY. So finally American Eagle opened so he could go buy his pants. All the people in there were like "You're back!" and it was really embarrassing. Then the girl offered me a job? Ehhhh. No thanks. Apparently you got like 50% off of clothes which would be nice for my jeans... but it's too far away and I would probably hate working there. So yeah. Silly. Then we went to Hot Topic and Spencer's to look at Halloween costumes. There were some pretty awesome ones (Willy Wonka, Cat Woman) but they were all expensive. When we came home Katherine was leaving which meant no more little Marleh. :(. And... we played Mario Party again until he had to go to work. [GIRL.]

After he left I had to wash and clean out my car. That sucked. Then I had to do my god-awful government packet that took MY WHOLE LIFE. But I watched Titanic during it and I cried because I love it.

"I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now... only in my memory."

*SOB*

Anyway. Today was pretty stupid. I'm stressing over my application and I just want to sleep. Meh :(

(1 kiss | for Captain Jack)

6:04PM - I saw the sign.

I updated yesterday and I'm updating today? Wow. It's like a flashback to last year.

So, today.

I got up at 5:50 because I was dreaming and my bed was really warm. That meant I had to shower and get ready really fast and I was stressing out. I picked up Emily and we went to school. Unfortunately.

Biomed was stupid, as always. English was actually... nice? Only because we didn't do anything the entire time. I just talked with Chris, Jenelle, and Mallory. I got a 94 on my math quiz, and I'll get some points back for making corrections. Way to maintain an A in a math class, self. And... um... Latin was Latin. I really don't mind that class at all. I remember DREADING it last year. It's fine this year.

After school I took Emily home and then came home and did nothing. Dionis stopped by to give me his camera and the Family Guy Movie. Worrrd. We took some picture which I'll post at the end of this. Unfortunately, he had to go to work so he didn't stay very long.

Katherine and I went to El Paso for dinner. We were the only ones in there and it was awesome. I had the same waiter that we had Saturday night... so he probably thinks I'm really weird because I come every day. Oh well. And it took 5 minutes for them to make our food. Pretty sweet, I know. So I ate everything and then we went by DQ for dessert. Hooray for eating!

Now I'm here and... doing nothing. I'm going to post some pictures, go down and write some things for my scrapbook, watch the Stewie movie, and then Dionis is going to come get his camera. Hopefully.

( HERE ARE PICTURES FROM VARIOUS EVENTS. )

(2 kisses | for Captain Jack)

3:41PM - lovely weekend.

So I guess I have to catch you up on a bunch of crap. Dang.

Thursday
This was the day that I had a bunch of tests. Actually, I had a math quiz and a Latin test. Still. The Latin test didn't seem TOO bad, but I probably failed nonetheless.
After school Dionis was there to see me for the short period of time before band. That was cute and nice :) I like him.
Band was... okay. I guess.
Then I came home and did nothing I guess? I really can't remember.

Friday
CRAZY BLUE AND WHITE DAY OMGGG! Stupid, so stupid. I have no school spirit.
We had a pep rally so I got to get out of Physics (yesss)... but pep rallies are stupid. I danced all by myself, and I have mad love for the step team. I aspire to be them.
Dionis was there after school again because he had to go get a recommendation from his teacher, but it wasn't ready or something so it was pointless. We ended up going to Applebee's and to WalMart for no reason. Then we came back to my house so I could shave my legs and put on my homie shorts before going out to get some dinner.
Naturally, we went to Taco Bell. Since I live there and everything. After eating my chicken quesedilla he took me to band. The parade was so unbelievably dumb. We walked through the whole neighborhood to drums and then the one time we played the fight song it sounded like crap. Seriously, kids. Whatever. It's the homecoming parade. It doesn't even matter.
We got to rest for about 5 minutes before going back out to the game. Thanks, Shaff! Everyone was there (Dad, Betsy, Katherine, and Mom), so that was different. Oh, and Dionis was there too. That's a given. Jenelle and I danced and tried to gain acceptance from the awesome black girls, but I'm not sure we succeeded. Alas. Oh, and Dionis saw us, so that's really embarrassing. When we were warming up before our show, some enormous flying grasshopper landed on my leg and it was really scary. I think I crippled him and then I felt bad. Meh.
Our show was pretty lame, I thought. Oh well. I'm glad Carmen was Homecoming Queen and not one of the cheerleaders. That was nice. After halftime I talked to my family and Dionis for a while. They didn't want to be there anymore so they left and I went and met Dionis' ex-girlfriend. ...Yep. Then I went and sat in the stands and was dumb but I got over it.
I was the first girlfriend to come out of the band room, like always. You're welcome, dear. Apparently the guys always call who's going to come out first... and it's always me. Dionis and I had planned to go to Friendly's for some icecream, but we ended up going to Applebee's with everyone instead. I've never been there after a football game. It was kind of crazy. We sat with Manda and David and they're funny. I like them. I got my chicken fingers basket and was a content little girl. Um... then it got all late and I went home.

Saturday
This day was rather busy.
I woke up around 9:30 and played with the "Marley-Pewp", because he is very small and adorable and I love him. I'm his aunt. Tee! :) ( LOOK AT HOW CUTE MARLEY IS. ) Anyway. Then I got ready and went out to lunch with Dad and the Fam. We ended up going to Uno's which was cool. I actually DID NOT GET THE CHICKEN THUMB PLATTER. I know, omg. Instead I got the Numero Uno personal pizza and it was quite delicious! And spending time with the family was also nice. We talked about college. Meh. I don't enjoy that conversation. Annie got braces and an expander, so she was hurting the whole time. I could sympathize because I had to have an expander. For all of you children who don't know what that is... it's something that you put in the roof of your mouth, and when you stick a key in it and turn it... it expands, gradually widening the roof of your mouth. It's lame. So... she couldn't eat anything and was crying and I felt bad for her.
BUT OMG. GET THIS. We went to Coldstone and.... wait for it... THEY HAVE CAKE BATTER ICECREAM AGAIN. AHHHHHHHHHHH! It totally made my LIFE. So naturally I got that and it was so wonderful. Lovelovelove. I think I'm going to get a coldstone cake for my birthday and it's going to be the sweetest thing ever. I can't wait. Anyway... so then I said goodbye to everyone and we went our separate ways.
Katherine and I went to Ukrop's and I made her listen to Hanson. She knows she likes it. It was blasting out of the car with the windows down and it was really awesome. But then we had to go pick up 2000 gallons of icecream for my mom and it was embarrassing. Oh well.
When I got home I had to get ready super fast. I wore the same dress from last year and pretty much didn't do anything to my hair. How boring of me. I don't care, though. Dionis came over and we took some pictures.


( There are more pictures under this link. Enjoy. )Then we had to wait because Dustin was running late so we just sat in the kitchen and talked. Later he told me that watching the three of us talk is really funny. And apparently we gang up on mom. Sorry mom... but you really did throw the channels section away.
Dinner at El Paso was very nice. I am in love with the white sauce, forreal. Unfortunately we weren't the only ones who went. But we were the first! So there. We went to Applebee's to see Brian for like 2 seconds and then we went to WalMart. IN OUR HOMECOMING ATTIRE. Yes, awesome. Then as we were leaving some other kids were coming in, but we already did it. We won.
THE DANCE. We showed up and stood in the parking lot for a while. When we finally went in I danced for like 2 seconds before going into the senior courtyard and hanging out. I talked to Manda for a while and then felt like a bad girlfriend for not dancing. That was the only unfun part of the night--- feeling bad for not dancing. So... I went and danced with him and it wasn't as bad as I was going to be. He's really... strange and embarrassing but it's really funny and that's why I like him. So we danced for the rest of the time until some crappy song came on that Dionis didn't like... then he decided we should leave. But we got to slow dance to one of our many many songs. :P Silly.
We met up with Jenelle and Brian at Friendly's, and then Rick, Tiffany, Chad, Chase, Ben, Dustin, and his brother showed up. I ate huge amounts of icecream and almost exploded before coming home and falling asleeeep.

TODAY.
I had to get up at 8 to get ready for breakfast at Gma's. We brought the little Marleh and he ran around like a psychopath. It was really adorable. Running kittens are my favorite things ever. The breakfast casserole was delicious and a nice treat since I haven't had that in a really long time. Mmm.
I went to the barn with mom after breakfast and went and got Kit all by myself. It's a huge accomplishment, really. Then Dionis came and saved me... but Mom got done at the time we were going to leave... so it was kind of pointless. He came over and watched sports or something and I fell asleep on him. Bad girlfriend!

Now I need to go do a bunch of English and it'll be lame.

Edit: Sorry about the horrible picture quality. I don't know what's going on with that.

(1 kiss | for Captain Jack)

6:00PM - chiggitty chiggitty!

Today was pretty random.

Before school I was sitting in the commons and I thought I heard something so I looked over and... oh man. A couple seats down were 2 black guys just... free styling. For no reason at all. It was so sweet. I hope they didn't see me because I think I just stared at them for a really long time with my "what the heck is going on" face. But seriously... it was awesome.

Being stuck in Government for 3 and a half hours could have been worse. I always get caught up in the discussions (ARGUMENTS) because I guess I'm really liberal. Usually I don't speak up and just have a lot of really good points in my head and say nothing. Today, however, we somehow got on the topic of gay marriage and were talking about it for like... an hour. I made a really good point in support of it, too. So if these conservatives are saying gay marriage can't be allowed because the Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman... does that mean that anyone who doesn't follow everything in the Bible can't get married? Is marriage ONLY a Christian thing? No... people of all religions get married. Agnostic and aethiest people get married, and they don't even believe in God. But if a person who just happens to be homosexual says that they're a Christian, people get all defensive and say "BUT IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN YOU CAN'T BE GAY!!!!" That's... so stupid. Do we all follow EVERY SINGLE THING in the Bible? No.You can't HELP if you're gay. It's not like you just wake up one day and are like "Yep. I'm going to be gay now." I don't think the entire basis of Christianity is that you have to be heterosexual. Isn't the basis of Christianity like... acceptance and forgiveness and how "God loves you no matter what"??? I just don't understand. It really pisses me off, but I'll stop.

Blah.

So just recently I rediscovered the library. Now I got there to study and do my homework and stuff. Yes, I'm a nerd. I don't know, it's just nice and I can actually focus and not fall asleep or start watching TV. Actually, in the 2 days that I've gone there I've seen quite a few people that I know. The library must be what's up. I saw Rick there today and it was really random.

That is all.

Oh yeah... and Homecoming is in... 3 days? Well, I'm glad I have no idea what I'm going to wear or where we're going to dinner. Awesome!

(2 kisses | for Captain Jack)

4:57PM

I haven't updated in a week. WOOOPS.

So last week was interim week. I got all As and 2 B+s, so naturally my mom questioned why I had B+s and not As. Omgomgomgomgomg. Fury.

Friday was double date night with Jenelle and Brian. Well, first Dionis and I met Jenelle up at Taco Bell and we got our eat on. They definitely know who we are there. We're loyal customers. Anyway. Afterwards we went to the animal shelter to see about volunteering, but the woman said we had to be 18 to volunteer. LAAAAME. What a jerk. I was pissed.

When Brian eventually got there we all went to the mall so Dionis could buy some polos or something. Jenelle and I held hands and counted the number of weird looks we got. People are so judgemental. Jeez. Dionis couldn't get some shoes or something so we went to Joe's Inn for dinner. I... don't really remember.

I don't remember anything, actually. Sorry. I'll try to update more frequently so I don't forget absolutely everything ever.

Meh.

(2 kisses | for Captain Jack)

4:06PM

Uh, I don't know.

Friday was the game. The band sucked but the team won, so whatever. Afterwards Dionis, Jenelle, Brian, Aaron, Adam, Andrew Holt and I all went out to Uno's. I didn't get the chicken fingers. What the heck was I thinking.

On Saturday I had to get up all ridiculously early and go to band again. Lame. We practiced and I got mad and then we got on the buses. I <3 Grease. I guess our show was horrible since we got a really bad score. Way to go, us. Thankfully I got to go home with my mother and sister instead of on the bus. We went out to eat at Ruby Tuesday's and then to ARCH'S which is really awesome and horrible for you. <3. Omg then I got to go see MARLEYYYYY. He's the cutest thing ever.

( More... )

Mad love. The ride home was excruciating because we were both on the verge of falling asleep. I met Dionis at Bird and he came over and... played MarioKart or something for 2 seconds. Nerdy.

Gm and Gdad came over for breakfast on Sunday. Pancakes, bacon, and sausage. Hooray for congestive heart failure. I had to go rescue Dionis from wandering aimlessly through Chesterfield Meadows. Poor thing. We got gas and came back to the house where he did his homework and I fell asleep and then flipped out because our computer sucks SO MUCH. Really. FURY. Uh... then I took him to get his car and we went to Taco Bell and were embarrassing. He went to work and I came home and did homework and slept because I'm so lame.

Yesterday SUCKED. I really hate odd days a lot. They make me tired and want to die a little. I came home and napped some before going BACK to school for stupid County Band Night. Lame to the max. On the way there I rubbed my eye and my contact dislodged. I couldn't find it forever and my eyes were red and I was crying. Then in warm ups I realized I could see a little, and when I took my contact out it had ripped in half. So I marched the show with one contact in... and drove home with one in. Safe. Really safe.

This morning in Biomed my eye started hurting so I went to the bathroom and pulled out the OTHER half of my contact. How freaking gross is that? :(.

I got some scholarship application that could potentially get me all my tuition and fees paid for VT for 4 years. That would be sweet.

Uh, after school I went to Taco Bell with Dionis and Emily, and Jenelle and Julia were there? Crazy. So we sat with them and Julia's really funny. She makes me feel super lame :P We had to jump Jenelle's car. Poor thing.

Okaybye.

(3 kisses | for Captain Jack)

9:21PM - roman candles light my sky, I release the greatest sigh

Ha. I remember on Tuesday being like "I'm definitely going to update blurty today!"... and I forgot. Who cares.

School this week has been... uninteresting? I got a 96 on my calculus quiz today so that's good, I suppose. I like how my classes aren't completely impossible and stressful like last year's. That sucked all the time. I actually have time to take naps this year! :)

Last night I went out to dinner at Applebee's with Monica and Andrew Holt. Dionis was having his waiter traininig so we sat in his section and were really obnoxious. I stole all of his straws :D ... Yeah. I'm lame. Andrew is such a funny kid. I'm going to miss him. We both like chicken fingers with 2 honey mustards! Aw. After we ate we stood outside for a while like creepy kids and talked about how I'm tall and chased cats. Then we said bye and Andrew has a way nicer car than I do.

I didn't get to see Dionis because he got off 2 hours late and it made me really sad.

Todaaay... was okay.

I had to go to the freaking dentist and it sucked. I somehow hadn't been in like... forever... so she was saying how I had a bunch of tartar. I wasn't able to be like "well I always brush AT LEAST twice a day so shut up" because she was continually stabbing me in the gums with her little pointy untensil and making me bleed all over the place. And when she flossed she did it all violently and it REALLY hurt. My mouth is super sensitive so there was blood everywhere and it was just FABULOUS. Maybe that's why I hadn't been in so long... because it SUCKS. Then at the end she was like "your mouth might be a little sore tonight" and I was like "YEAH. WONDER WHY, JERK." This was all internally, of course. But I guess the bright side of having my mouth broken was that I got to go to band late. Huzzah. Matt McCann like... stole my car and touched my butt and I couldn't pass off my children properly.

EMILY TOOK ME TO TACO BELL AND I LOVE HER.

"Please openly judge me."

I also love Chicken Quesedillas, obviously. I'm really creepy and embarrassing and awkward and I just can't be taken anywhere. Taco Bell brings out the beast in me.

Right now Dionis is at an Orioles/Yankees game that the Orioles are losing horribly. I bet that makes him a happy kid.

I'm really scared because my guidance counselor hasn't talked to me about college and if I apply early decision (which my dad is like... FORCING me to do) then I have to turn in the application in like a month. Holycrappp I am such a failure. I'm just really terrified at the thought of college so I keep putting it off and making it worse. I can't look at it tonight though. I just can't.

MAKE ME DO IT, SOMEONE. PLEASE.

(2 kisses | for Captain Jack)

7:28PM - One year.

Oops. Sorry, blurty.

School has been lame but not overly hard. I'm just working on getting my work done early and not getting massively behind. Hooray for my little portfolio thing because it's awesome not having to bring home all of my binders every night. Sorry, I'm a nerd.

The game was kind of lame. We lost. I thought we were supposed to be the best? Apparently not. Dionis came and visited me during my break and I was all sweaty and gross and in a band uniform. He introduced me to one of his pretty girl friends and it was really embarrassing because I was really ugly and... in band. She probably judged me. I didn't go out after the game but opted to come home and fall into a coma.

William and Mary yesterday. Hooray for Jenellephant as my bus buddy! :) The shows weren't too bad, actually. Then during the down time I just sat in the stands with Jenelle and was comfortable and sleepy. Golden Corral made me explode, but the bus ride home was fun, I suppose. Minus the people breathing in my ears. And licking my ears. Ahem. Anyway... then Dionis came over and we played MarioKart for SERIOUSLY 2 hours. He's so mature. <3.

And todaaay... Dionis came over again and we watched... wait for it... THE WITCHES. I never realized how bizarre and kind of lame that movie is until today. Ha. "GREEEEAMMA!" It's still kind of awesome. But then I somehow threw my back out and started having horrible back spasms so I had to lay on the floor until he left. What a fun girlfriend I am! Then I went to the barn, hardware store, and El Paso with Mom. I ate until it hurt. Keep it real.

My back still hurts whenever I move certain ways or take deep breaths. It's rather unfortunate. Meh.

(for Captain Jack)

5:47AM - waaaaah.

Oooh. I'm updating.

Monday
BioMed: Do we ever do anything in BioMed? I doubt it.
English: Peer edited our papers. HOW EMBARRASSING. Mine is really dumb, but whatever. For most of the class I just talked to Dina and Monica and then migrated over to the other side of the room and talked to Jenelle and Chris. Hooray for learning.
Calc: We took a quiz and I thought it was really easy. I probably did everything wrong.
Lunch: "It's a battle every day!"... that about sums up the lunchtime experience for whenever we eat in the senior courtyard. We always end up in mortal combat with the bees. Nice atmosphere.
Latin: Oh, you know. Did Latin stuff.

After school I had to go to the doctor's because I have been sick since last Sunday. The appointment seriously lasted like 5 minutes. Waste of gas.

Tuesday
Before school I randomly ran into Patch and made him come sit at the table with us because I miss Patch. We've had classes together since 6th grade... and then this year we have zero. It's sad.
BioMed: Super-easy quizzes are the best.
Government: I wish she'd actually teach us before she gives a test. Oh well... I didn't think it was that hard... but since she is really random and stupid with her grading I'll probably get like a 5. URRRGGGH.
Lunch: I had a cute lunch with just Tana in the small commons at our own little table. We talked about a lot of stuff, including AIDS? It was random, but I love Tana.
Band: I was about to fall asleep the entire time, I swear.
Physics: I got a 100 on my quiz? That's weird. Then I was really tired some more.

Mom was there with my senior pictures after school so I looked at them with Mahcie. I'm... not feeling some of the pictures. There are some that are cute, though.

Band practice was long and hot. Luckily I have Justin to entertain me most of the time because he's... weird. Silly Justin.

Dionis and I went to the barn after practice and then came home for a second. He saw my senior pictures and likes some of them, I guess. JUST THE WINDOW PICTURE! Ha. I beat him in MarioKart and then we met Sharon, Jeff, Jenelle, and Emily at Applebee's. We were all squished into one tiny booth just so we could be in Brian's section. How comfortable. Anyway, so I ate my chicken fingers and it was a nice night.

BRI-ROB BROKE HIS ARM OR SOMETHING AND I'M REALLY REALLY SAD. :(. MEH.

Okay, time for school.

(for Captain Jack)

3:47PM - failure.

Yeah, I'm just a failure at blurty. I accept it.

So I'm still sick from Jenelle's party. It's getting pretty old.

Not much has happened. I went and got my senior pictures done on Tuesday, and I'm anxiously awaiting the proofs. I get those this coming Tuesday. Eep. I don't think there are like... any where I'm not smiling. I probably look really dumb and fake in all of them and I'm going to cry. CAN'T WAIT!

School is just... blech. I just try to push through and get to the end of each day. I guess my classes aren't as hard as last year's... yet. Hopefully they won't get any harder. I don't understand some Calc stuff, but that's about it. I think it's just the way she teaches. And her voice. GAH, hate it. Whatever, I'm just going to try to get all of my work done and not fall behind and stress myself out. I do not need that for my senior year.

Crap, I really need to look at the Tech application. I don't want to deal with it...

This weekend has been pretty uneventful. I went out to Uno's with my mom on Friday, saw Dionis some yesterday, and hung out with him a little today. We played MarioKart and watched home movies. TOTAL HUMILIATION. He'll probably break up with me now.

So yes, proofs on Tuesday. SO ANXIOUS, OMG.

Oh, and Katherine got a kitten. Jealous! His name is Marley Thurgood and he's very small. Look at him and feel the urge to run out and adopt a kitten:

His first day home!


Running around being small!


Aw, he's in the shower.


TEE.

I guess I'll go write that dumb english paper now. Kittens > paper writing.

(2 kisses | for Captain Jack)

5:54AM - it's the 5th day of school and i'm sick.

Guh.

Sorry, I've been slacking yet again.

Basically, school is really lame. I think I've got Senioritis already. Part of me is like "Yeah, maybe you can get really good grades this year since it won't be as hard as last year!"... but then the slacker in me just never wants to be at school ever. I really just dread going every single day. Luckily I have a lot of my friends in each class. I think that if I had left my schedule the way it was when I first got it I would really be loathing this year.

Anyway.

Friday was the first football game. Chris almost punched Yannic on the face on the bus, so that was interesting. I kind of wish he had because Yannic annoys the Hell out of me and I always want to yell at him. The show was pretty bad. I really hate it when people can't start and stop at the right time. I mean, honestly. It goes along with the music. You really shouldn't have an excuse if you're a senior. That really frustrates me, but whatever. I danced with Jenelle in the stands for about a quarter, and then we just sat down for the rest of the game. I HELD JACOB MERTZ'S HAND AT HALFTIME. YESSS. But so did Jenelle and she "won," so I guess I suck. Then something unexpected happened, let's just say that. Hung out with people during halftime on the hill and then sat down for the remainder of the game. It went on forever and it made me really mad because I wasn't going to be able to go to Applebee's. Stupid. When we got back I went and met Dionis at Taco Bell and ate until I had to come home.

Saturday was TAG Day. Really lame. We made $53. I mean, SERIOUSLY. We concluded that everyone is just afraid of me, so that's why we got zero dollars. Sharon's mom is awesome and took us to get some Fraps afterwards. I had to stay forever because I was on the stupid cleanup crew. DUMB. Dionis came and we went back to my house and watched various sports until it was time for Jenelle's party and work. Emily and I were late. Sorry, Jenelle. Her house was funnn. We just sat around and talked and watched people be morons. I enjoy doing that. She got a deer head from Rick and it was really creepy. I got stabbed in the head by one of it's antlers. Ouch. Manda randomly flat-ironed my hair and kept telling me how pretty my hair is. Personally, I think my hair is really annoying and I need to cut it off. Oh yeah, and supposedly I'm at the top of David's hot girl list (out of the people at Jenelle's house minus Manda)... so I guess my life is complete. Everyone left for the speakeasy and the remaining people played board games whilst Dustin and I napped. I woke up when Dionee came over and we all went upstairs to her mom's room and "chilled." There was some cricket killing. Funny. Then the boys left and we had some girl talk briefly, but we were all really tired so we fell asleep.

I woke up the next day to Jenelle turning off the alarm. I'm really sorry dear! I didn't hear it or was incorporating it into my dreams or something. I'm stupid. But I woke up really sick and came home and slept forever instead of going to Charlottesville. Then I did homework and went to the barn and ate burritos and saw Dionis for 2 seconds....

...and omg I have to go to school right now bye.

(for Captain Jack)

6:31PM - join the club.

So now that it's all fixed, here's my schedule:

1. BioMed [Baber]
2. AP Government [Bradley]
3. JT English [Brooks]
4. Band [Shaffer]
5. Calculus [Harding]
6. JT Physics [Hoover]
7. AP Latin [Carr]

Yeah. Hopefully this year won't suck as much as last year. It seriously better not.

Today was meh. I saw Patch for the first time! We have zero classes together. How sad. And then we had band practice and it was lame... but Dionis surprised me and was there when I was done! It was cute. :)

Now I really need to go school supplies shopping. Who knows when that will happen. I'm kind of busy. Tomorrow I have band practice... Friday I have a game... and Saturday I have freaking Tag Day and then Jenellie's party. Woot.

And lastly, Happy Birthday, Emmuhlee. And Happy Birthday Eve, Jenellephant.

(1 kiss | for Captain Jack)

9:58PM

Oops. I haven't updated in almost a week.

Friday: This was the night of the show. Dionis and I got there super early and stood around forever waiting to go in. When we finally did get in Chris, Jenelle, Dionis, and I decided that we wanted to go get some Taco Bell instead of listening to Kenny Schultz. So we drove over to Taco Bell with Backstreet Boys blasting while re-enacting the music videos. We're awesome. When we got back we... listened to shows? Dionis and I were in and out. We went and sat in the grass and got eaten alive by bugs and it was nice. Neighborhood Friendly was good as always... and I went home and slept because I had to get up super early the next day.

Saturday: Woke up to Dionis calling because my alarm was set incorrectly. We ended up leaving around 6:20 (crazy) and I drove the whole way up there. GOOD JOB, SELF! I didn't die or anything. We got there and rested for a while and I showed Dionis around the farm. Then the fishing began. Oh boy. This was Dionis' first time EVER fishing... so it was really adorable. He didn't catch any the first day. Poor dear. We took him up to Meade's house where he played football with Jake and Jack (cute), and then we took him on a tour of the farm via suburban. There were lots of smelly cows. When we got back to the farm house they Dionis, Dad, Jack, and Rebecca threw the ball around, and at one point Dionis threw it directly at my head while I was sitting on the ground not paying attention. Luckily I moved. Later we decided to play a family game of football? I have no idea how I got involved in all this. Dionis definitely tackled me and I almost died. That was fun. (My team lost, by the way.) We had tacos and hamburgers for dinner which was good. Jack caught a fish and I had to be nature-woman and stick my hands all down in it to try to get a hook. After that I took a shower and then played SPOONS. SO AWESOME AT SPOONS. I won, of course. Then... I don't remember. We probably went to sleep.

Sunday: Woke up really early and went fishing AGAIN. We were fishing forever and Dionis still didn't catch his fish. He was getting very upset and discouraged. So then we shot some guns. Dionis is good at shooting, I guess? And at some point Dad shot a groundhog right in front of the house and it was really sad. :(. We all ate lunch and then played Yahtzee. I definitely... lost. I don't understand because I'm usually not completely crappy at Yahtzee. Guh, whatever. I can't remember anything. We went fishing again at some point because Dionis finally did catch a fish. What an accomplishment :) Later that night Dad and Jack went to watch the Tech game at Meade's house so the rest of us stayed back and played cards. I won at Dionis' "Casino" game. Hooray. And... we watched TV and stuff and fell asleep. I can't remember. Meh.

Monday: We woke up really early and left. I drove alll the way home, too. Dionis and I went to Taco Bell.... Mom and I went to Gma and Gdad's.... and the barn.... and I don't remember. I'm so tired.

Today: Basically, today was lame. I hate school. I need to drop Arch. Eng. and take BioMed so my schedule doesn't suck so bad. Band was crap. We suck a lot. Dionis was at practice when it ended (something I wasn't expecting)... and we ended up taking his car to get inspected. While we waited we went to El Paso and had dinner. Sharon was there. Poor, poor Sharon. We stopped by Heith's to see if Rachel was working, but she wasn't... and we had to get icecream just so we wouldn't look like morons. OH MAN. Then we went to the pet store and they had the CUTEST LITTLE BABY BUNNIES EVER! HOLY FREAKING CRAP. I wanted them so bad. Their ears were so small! Okay, I can't think about it anymore. It just makes me want them again. So anyway... then we randomly went to Little Professor for no apparent reason. We came back to the car place and Dionis' inspection was.. not good. :( I feel so bad for him. His car and his bug bites.

Oh my gosh. I'm exhausted. Such a long day...

(for Captain Jack)

6:56AM - Idiocy 101

It's September first. :( This deeply saddens me.

However, I must press on and continue this updating streak that I've had going for 3 days now. It's good to have goals.

Yesterday was relatively boring and uneventful until about 5pm. I left and went over to MONICA'S HOUSE to pick her up and let her see my car. Apparently me driving is a hilarious sight. I almost ran over a little child on a scooter (not really) and just in general suck at operating a motor vehicle. We were at El Paso way about 30 minutes early so we decided to go to the Giftree (Gift Tree? I don't know.) to waste some time. I didn't realize that place had turned into a Red Hat Lady store. Because I am immature, I had to try on the hats, and Monica took pictures. Here's one for your amusement:

Yes, I know I look like an idiot.

Shortly after this was taken we almost got thrown out. We were both laughing, which must be outlawed in the Giftree, because the store clerk woman looked at us and was like "CAN I HELP YOU?!" to which I responded very politely "No, we're just looking." Upon hearing this, she continued to glare at us until we decided that this was probably a sign that we should leave. WE'RE SUCH BAD KIDS.

From there Monica and I decided just to go and sit down in El Paso and eat all the chips while waiting for Andy. I love the white sauce. LOVE IT. He showed up EVENTUALLY (we had already eaten pretty much all of the chips by this point) and we both got chicken quesedillas. It was a funny night because they're both very funny kids. We talked about college, nerd camps, cars, tennis, baseball, and my height, among other things. I flicked a paper football directly into Monica's face, which was probably the highlight of my evening. [Monica, you must admit that was pretty awesome.] Andrew pinched me REALLY HARD (probably for making fun of J. Sarg.) and I almost cried. I can't remember everything, but basically it was really fun.

Dionis came by after Applebee's again and I helped him with his homework. Cute. :)

Unfortunately, now I have to go to band camp. Boo, I know. And NO, I am not a senior guide, so I will not so you un-band senior guide children later.

(for Captain Jack)

6:10PM - Go me.

Dionis stopped by after work last night. He dresses like a gangster for work and it's... silly. But according to some people that's the "REAL DIONIS." Uh, okay. He smelled like Applebee's. Tee <3.

I got up this morning and was in a really bad mood. That's always a good way to start the day. So... I got ready and went to band. We were the first ones to get through and take our pictures, and it still took a long time. I got 2 pictures because I'm lame and I blinked. I fail. So then we just hung around for a while and played games until everyone else was done. Yeah.

Practice sucked. It was really humid and I actually almost got sick today. I thought I was going to throw up at one point. I thought maybe I was going to be able to go the whole marching season without feeling bad. I guess that was definitely wishful thinking. I just hope I don't have to fall out at all. That's always embarrassing. Anyway. At some point I think my ovaries like... imploded? I thought my appendix was rupturing but it wasn't in the right place. I was doubled over in pain in the back of Chris's truck and it was a lot of fun. [Sarcasm.] That only sucked for a little while. I guess I was just having... ovarian spasms or something. I'm sure those exist.

After practice I came home and ate lunch and then napped for 4 hours. How awesome am I.

And tomorrow I'm doing... nothing. YES. I've started reading HP, so maybe that's what I'll do ALL TOMORROW. Excitement.

(2 kisses | for Captain Jack)

8:36PM - Yeah, I'm updating twice in one day.

I forgot something EXTREMELY IMPORTANT from yesterday. Last night when I was walking Dionis to his car there was a little opossum sitting at the edge of the woods. It was really cute. Dionis was being mean and he was throwing stuff at it, but it wasn't even moving. It was really cute. Tee.

Today has been uneventful to the max. I watched Legends of the Fall and cried a lot. That's a seriously depressing movie. Meh. I really want to watch Beavis and Butthead Do America but I can't find it. My life is going to be over if it doesn't show up soon.

Jenelle stopped by on her way to NF practice. We looked at The Aristocats and just... talked. I like her.

Aaand... I guess Dionis might be stopping by on his way home from work? We'll see.

(for Captain Jack)

9:19AM - Oh. My. Gosh.

I'M UPDATING. CRAZY. CRAZY.

Okay, so I need to pick up with... 2 Wednesday's ago? Holy crap. How about I'm going to do a list since I only remember certain things from certain days. Okay? Good.

2 Wednesdays Ago, Holy Crap:
- Band camp 8-12
- First day outside marching. Being a section leader is actually nice when you have to do block and stuff because you get to fall out and check stuff instead of just standing at attention for interminable amounts of time.
- Dionis came to see me after band camp and... I don't remember what we did. Probably nothing.
- We went back to my house and watched an Orioles game with Kath. They probably lost.
- I had to count all the money in his change-holder from his car. He had over 20 dollars in change. I don't even have 20 dollars.
- Jenelle and Emily called so we went and hung out with them at Taco Bell. The Taco Bell people must know who we are now since we're there pretty much every single day.
- Dionis had to go buy Sin City because he's a geek.
- We came back to my house for the evening.

Thursday:
- Band camp 8-3, GUH.
- Justin (my little freshman who I march beside) is really dumb, but it's kind of funny and slightly endearing. Slightly.
- Dionis brought Jenelle and me Taco Bell for lunch. <333
- After practice I think I... went home and did nothing for the rest of the night. Yay!

Friday:
- Band camp 8-2. That's a little better?
- I love KVK. [That's Karl Von Kline for any of you kids who don't know.] It's not anything that he did on last Friday, but I just needed to put it somewhere. He's the man.
- Dionis brought me Wendy's for lunch. I have a VERY specific Wendy's order. 2 HONEY MUSTARDS OR DIE.
- Ha, this was the day that everyone threw Skittle's down my shirt and I was eating them during practice. No one even noticed! Dumb.
- Maybe I saw Dionis a little bit after band camp? Gah, I can't remember. :(.
- This may have been the night that Mom and I went to Joe's Inn for dinner. Yeah, it probably was.
- Joe's Inn lasagna (andbread) is really good. But Dionis didn't cook it since he was [illegally] sitting out at our table with us for most of the time that it was being made.

*Oh... yeah. This was the week from Hell. Ha, I almost forgot. I basically cried all this week and it was really emotionally draining. I wish my ex-boyfriend wasn't so immature and selfish. That's all I'll say about that.

- So I think this was the night that I was crying a lot and Dionis had to come over after work to... console me, I guess. I'm a moron, but luckily I'm with someone now who really cares about me. I'm a very lucky girl.

Saturday:
- Gah. I can't remember anything :(
- I know I spent this evening with Dionis...
- We went over to his house for some of this night... and then I was a confused little girl and messed stuff up... but we fixed it and it only made us stronger in the end.
- Was this the night that we watched The Notebook? I think it is. I cried a lot because I'm a girl.

Sunday:
- Yeah, honestly can't remember.
- 2 months :) I mean... 5 years. Yes. Definitely 5 years. :)
- This was the day of Dionis's second interview with Applebee's, so I sat in the waiting area FOREVER. I called Emily and told her to come over and entertain me, so naturally she showed up the second Dionis was finished. He got the job :)
- We decided to go to Jersey Mike's because Michelle kind of told me to. David Stuhldreher was there. Throw back to middle school!
- Dionis got some free stuff... but Emily and I wanted Taco Bell instead. On the way over there Dionis left his drink on top of the car and it spilled all over the windshield. My brain wasn't registering what was going on so I thought someone had vomitted all over the front of the car. Yeah, I'm pretty dumb.
- Mad love for some Taco Bell.
- We went to Walmart... so we were doing the exact same thing that we were all doing 2 months ago. Dionis, Emily, and me at WalMart. Emily and I played with the toddler toys while Dionis played some baseball game or something. We're really mature.
- We didn't get that fish, guys. I just realized that. I think we bought a toothbrush for Emily.
- Dionis probably came back to the house for the evening.

Monday:
- Guh, band from 7:30 to 3:30? Shoot me in the face.
- Dionis couldn't bring me lunch because he had stupid Applebee's training. BOO APPLEBEE'S. I had to eat lame pizza or something.
- Went home and got ready for my LICENSING CEREMONY! I made Dionis come with me because I was scared.
- I SAW MONICA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN APPROXIMATELY 2 MONTHS. I've missed her. And her mom. :)
- I was freaking out the whole time because I didn't think that mom was going to get there in time. Everyone thought I was stupid.
- Monica and I were called towards the very end and it was dumb.
- Dionis and I decided to go on a date after the ceremony. [Of course now I know that it wasn't date, according to Chris Bowling.] We went to Antonio's and it was lovely. My ravioli was awesome. And I think Dionis and I might have equally bad eating habits. That's comforting :)

Tuesday:
- Once again, band from 7:30 to 3:30.
- We had a cookout this day, so I didn't have to buy my lunch. Hoorah.
- I think this was the day that Jacob said several quotable things, such as "Shaffer[x]Core" (referring to the "Skyhawk Country" sign) and "L. O. L., pwn." (after the saxes did something better than the clarinets during sectionals). I really love Jacob.
- I believe this was the day that Dionis brought me a half dozen white roses. Awww. :( So cute.
- The days are really all running together, but maybe this was the night that we went to Shoney's. It probably was. MAD LOVE FOR SOME SHONEY'S. Haha.


Wednesday:
- BAND CAMP SUCKS.
- I was having to mark one of my sets with a dead snake carcass. Pretty gross.
- I tried to get kids to stay after to talk about the section show. People were being jerks and complaining. [AHEM, CHRIS WU.]
- Dionis and I went out to Taco Bell for 2 seconds before he had to go to work. We're dumb.
- I probably came home and napped. And worked on trying to write drill for the section show. That's right, I'm a huge nerd. I was really stressing out over that, though.

Thursday:
- Last full day of band camp! I guess that's good.
- I told the section to stay after to practice for the section show. It was really stressful because it wasn't working out and no one would shut up, so I kind of flipped out on everyone and left. Nervous breakdowns forever.
- I got to come home for 1 hour before having to go BACK to band for the stupid parent preview. You could tell that my whole section was being really cautious around me. They probably thought I was going to blow up again.
- The parent preview was... dumb.
- Being a senior was nice because we got to get all the good food. AWESOME.
- I ate way too much and got real fat some.
- I tried to have another sectional with my section afterwards but they have absolutely NO attention span. I mean, really. If you think I'm bad, you should have seen them. You can't hold their attention for more than 5 seconds. Rage. So I told them to come in at 7am the next morning so we could practice.
- I was really stressed out and frustrated this night so Dionis came to visit me after work. He's sweet.

Friday:
- I got there at 7 and practiced with the section. We seemed to get it down.
- The section show was pretty stupid. I guess we did pretty... bad... but I didn't really care because it was OVER. And I never have to do another one for the rest of my life.
- In fact, I never have to do band camp again for the rest of my life! AWESOME. SO SO AWESOME.
- I love Mr. Huggins. He told Jenelle and me to visit him at Salem! <333.
- I saw Dionis some after band. He came over after college to hang out. I think we went to... Applebee's and his house. Oh the excitement!
- Mom and I went out to El Paso for dinner because I'm madly in love with the white sauce. Oh man. I want to go right now. RIGHT NOW PLEASE.

Saturday:
- I went up to Charlottesville with Gma, Gdad, and Mom to visit Katherine in her box.
- I actually like her little box-apartment! It's cute. All she needs is a kitten! :)
- We went out to Ruby Tuesday's and it took forever to get the food. We all know what I got.
- After lunch Katherine took us to some AWESOME icecream place. It was like a soft serve Coldstone. Oh man, I'm going there every time I visit Katherine.
- We came home and I got ready for the.... spanishpartyatDionis'shouse :X.
- The party was... awkward? I don't know. I was just COMPLETELY out of my element. I was the only white person there. And the only one that didn't speak Spanish. It was just crazy.

Sunday:
- Mom and I went out to Joe's Inn for breakfast. Very good breakfast buffet. Dionis was working it and it was cute. He's the omelet-maker. :) Giggle.
- The mother unit and I went to the barn after that. Uneventful!
- I took a really long nap because I'm always tired.
- I went over to Dionis's for 2 seconds but then he decided that he wanted to go to my house instead. DUMB. :P
- We watched Seven. He said he didn't like it and I got mad.

Okay. And now today is Monday and I have done nothing. HOLY CRAP. I swear I'm going to update like every single day from now on. Because really... that sucked.

BYE.

(2 kisses | for Captain Jack)

11:39PM - I fail at blurty.

I'm really going to update soon. Probably tomorrow. It'll be really stupid because these past 2 weeks have been super busy and everything's running together.

And now it's midnight and I'm going to have to put it off one more day.

(for Captain Jack)

11:42PM

HORRIBLE BLURTY USER. I'm sorry.

I really don't remember anything. We'll just see how this goes.

Sunday: This was the day that we went out to Uno's with my father unit. I got chicken fingers and everyone else got salads and I played with my dad's blackberry the end. I don't remember much. We went to Target to try to find a TV [and a N.S.], but we found neither. ALAS. After that we all went to Coldstone and got our eat on again. Oh how I miss you, cake batter icecream. I had to settle for french vanilla with a mix-in of cookie dough. It just wasn't the same. After the eating Mom and I split up from Katherine and Dad and we went back home. OH MAN. I had to go to Shaffer's this day :( I went to Bird and picked up Jenelle and Michelle and took them over there. We were all terribly frightened. We sat on the couch forever and just... watched TV and looked at Mr. Huggins and the hot guy. Then we went outside and played some retarded games where I had to say my middle name in front of everyone on the planet. If people weren't so obnoxious I wouldn't mind it, but they are. It was really quite a waste of my night. So I came home and watched some Family Guy (<3) with Dad before he had to leave for the night. When I realized that it was essentially my last night of the summer I decided that I needed to go out and do something else. SO. I called Dionis and he met me at Starbucks for a "last hurrah" frap, I guess. And we got some gushers from Food Lion because that's what we do. There was a giant white moth that couldn't fly and it was sad. Poor thing. And basically that was the end of my night.

Monday: Oh gosh. Band camp = death. I fear responsibility. I only have 2 little freshmen, so that's nice. Unfortunately the show music is really lame. As Jacob says, I'll "go out with a flop." That's probably an accurate way to look at it. We just did warm ups and sectionals and stupid stuff all morning. Dionis was there at 12 so that was nice. We all went to Applebee's and yeah. :(. Yeah. I think we all know what happened. That pretty much made me feel like a bad person for the rest of the day. I still managed to enjoy lunch because I have really fun(ny) friends. It was blazing hot so I came home and napped and felt bad for a really long time. So fun.

Today: SECOND DAY OF BAND CAMP. STILL HATE. I actually had to lead a sectional today. It wasn't that bad, surprisingly enough. Getting people to listen to me is kind of annoying. I made Ben do push-ups because he was being obnoxious. Hooray for a position of authority. After band Dionis and I went and got a HOT AND READY PIZZA FOR 5 DOLLARS. Aaaand we went back to his house and ate it and I talked to his dad, who I hope doesn't hate me. I like him. Dionis had to take his mom to the doctor so I went home and just... did nothing for a while. I ended up going BACK out with him to WalMart to fill out an application, which took FOREVER. And we got an application from Applebee's which took far less time. We went back to his house so he could install the Sims... and I played on the computer and talked to Nadely while he got really into some Madden or something. No idea. We went out to eat at Ledo's. I did not see Brittany Taylor. Sad face. There were some guys talking about Golden Girls and I seriously wanted to shout something like "ESTELLE GETTY FOR LIFE!"... but I managed to resist. It was so awesome/random. Um... then Dionis came over for a while after dinner and we watched girls' softball and parts of Ray. WHAT'S NEW. :P

We have to go OUTSIDE tomorrow for band camp. Seriously, meh. :(.

(for Captain Jack)