So I Totally Lied

Well I completely lied about posting at all yesterday, let alone an in the middle of the day post. So today's post should be extremely long because I have lots to talk about. So Friday afternoon my aunt and my cousins just drop by to spend the weekend. They have a habit of doing that and I think that it's the most annoying thing in the world. They think that because they are family we should be open to receive them anytime but that's really not how it goes. They are obnoxious and have a habit of treating my house like their own, which it is not. It's not okay to make a mess and then expect that I'll clean it up because it's my house. It's not okay to act like my mother when clearly you're not. Sorry about the rant about how much I hate my family. They are just the most annoying things.

Then that night, I finished my essay that has been ruining all of my thoughts forever. It's done, done, done, done. I never have to look at it again, except for one last edit sometime tomorrow. I also started working on my amazing English assignment. it's about Harry Potter. I love being able to write about Harry Potter for school. It lets me stretch my Harry muscles and makes me feel knowledgeable about things.

The next day I went to my dad's house which was really nice because I don't see him nearly as often as I would like to. I got to see my baby brother and oh my goodness as he grown since the last time that I saw him. He is able to understand simple instructions and he can say "all done", "mama", "dog", "nana" and other simple words. When he was a baby my step mom taught him all done and more in sign language along with some other miscellaneous words so he was able to ask for simple things without just crying.

We went for a walk in the park that is no joke dedicated to the Great Potato Famine in Ireland. In New York. What is the point of that? I have no idea who would build that, but they had a really awesome biking/ walking trail, and while you're walking on it, while pushing a baby car like thing, it is scary when bikers are coming full speed at you and you don't know which way to go. But we survived, barely.

Around bridges I get REALLY paranoid that I'm going to fall off. I'm not good at balancing as is, but bridges I am terrified of. While I was walking with my brother, all I could think of is what would happen if he got out of the car and then ran towards the side of the bridge. He's so small, and he falls a lot, so it would not be hard for him to fall off accidentally. I'm always SO paranoid that some freak event is going to happen.

Then today, I sat around and played guitar all day, pretty much. I'm just learning the guitar and I'm getting pretty good at it. I'm missing one of my strings though so I don't know where my finger goes on that string for any of the chords, but whatever. I've been obsessed with Lauren Fairweather's music lately, and I learned some of her songs on my broken guitar. The one problem with my music is that I cannot sing. I am completely tone def, so it's really unfortunate that I like music so much. Even though my love for writing trumps my love for music.

My friend also came over and we worked on a graphic organizer for our APUSH class that's due with the essay. We have a lot of holes in the essay so my friend is going to be getting the rest of it from her twin brother who is also in the class, and who had it done long ago.

Oh! This morning I also went to AC Moore for my art supplies and they are so pretty! I got new drawing pencils and charcoal and acrylic paints and chalk pastels and new kneaded erasers and a new sketchbook. I'm an art geek and I love new art supplies, so much.

Essay Writing, Oh Wow.

So my entire day has been consumed with writing an essay for history class. So this post will be brief.

The only interesting thing that happened was that my Aunt and my cousins stopped by for a visit until Sunday. I'll talk more about that later, I am REALLY tired right now. Maybe I'll post a middle of the day post tomorrow instead of my usual right before bed posts.

I also finished watching season three of Buffy and can't wait to start season four, I just need time and lack of school work to get that done.

Thank you Jews.

So today I had off of school because of Rosh Hoshanah, and it's very possible that I spelled that wrong. I started writing the essay that has been plaguing my thoughts and managed to get two pages into it, so I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow and do some form of editing. All of my facts are completely wrong, but that's no big deal. I'll just research what I need to in the ridiculously huge books I took out of the library. Who knew that George Washington could have a whole biography series about himself.

Other than writing the essays I watched my little brother and sister. They were annoying as they always are. I also learned some new songs on guitar which was fun. Only now my left fingers hurt because I have really crappy strings. One of them is nonexistent and the other one is half broken.

One thing that has really been bothering me lately is 3D movies. Not all movies need to be in 3D and it's annoying when they make a part of a really good movies series in 3D, Like Toy Story 3, which I am still yet to see, and Resident Evil. I'm not sure which Resident Evil it is, but seriously? Making it 3D? That's really not necessary. Everyone was perfectly fine with the movies and thought that they were kickass before you 3Dized them. You really don't have to. I'm not sure who the you that I am talking to is, but you, stop making good movie series morphing into 3D.

Two shows that I am OBSESSED with started today and that makes me really happy, but at the same time scares me because during the week, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to spend two hours each Thursday in front of the TV screen. Destination Truth started again, and normally I can't watch shows like that like every week. I would watch an episode now and then, but I wouldn't fight over the TV for it. But this show is sooo good. I am in love with Josh Gates. It's just amazing. Also Vampire Diaries. I know, I know, you probably don't approve but it is soo good. And it's my guilty pleasure. I eat dramas like that up like candy. And there's the return of the mysterious you! I don't know why but my mind is really happy even though I'm really ready to go to sleep. That sentence doesn't make sense. Oh well, bye, I guess. Best Wishes.

I LOVE Sleeping In.

Second day of school was today! Woo-hoo, I guess. I didn't have to go in until third period which is SUCH a blessing. I LOVE sleeping in in the mornings. I can wake up when my family is leaving and then get ready and then go to school in peace. Now, thanks to them Jews, we get a four day weekend. In which I need to write two essays. I've already started one of them though, so it shouldn't be too bad.

School today was awesome. I start classes with an art class and then end them with an art class. So my day is just surrounded in art. I really like my English class so far. Our first assignment is a personal essay about evil. So if anyone is actually reading this, if it turns out okay I'll probably be posting it here. That's not due for another week or so though so I probably won't be starting it anytime soon.

My Forensics class was horrible again. The teacher had us play a game where we throw balls at each other saying our names. Then we had to do Two Truths and A Lie which nobody really cares about. It has the potential to be such an interesting subject if the teacher wasn't so awful. I actually started my work today after school! Normally I would procrastinate all of it until Sunday, but this year I really gotta get my ass into studying mood.

After school today though, I was wearing a DFTBA bracelet I made and somebody that I'm sort of friends with understood what it meant! It made me the happiest person in the world that there is another nerdfighter in my school. One I'm already friends with too! It's awesome!

I'm exhausted right now but I really want to blog before I go to bed, so this probably won't be as long as my usual blogs.

I made a Cream Cheese Pound Cake to celebrate going back to school. Making it seem like a good thing in my brain so I associate school with good memories rather than bad ones. It was delicious! It took an hour and a half to bake it though, and I still have a bit of clean up to do before passing out but that's okay. It was totally worth it.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cream-Cheese-Pound-Cake/Detail.aspx
That's the recipe for anyone that's interested. I also added two teaspoons of vanilla extract and some lemon zest. It is sooo good. And I put confectioners sugar on the top. I love baking. I don't do it very often because I'm always so busy, but when I do I have a lot of fun with it and I like making big things. Like the cake.

Okay, I desperately need sleep, so I will most likely be blogging tomorrow. No promises. Best wishes!

School, Meh

School starting today was okay. The only class that I will potentially be despising is Forensics and that's because the teacher already really annoys me. She's one of the, oh it's the first day of class, let's all go around and introduce ourselves type of teacher. I also had three teachers stress about how demanding the work load is. They teach a forty minute class every day and then think that one hour of homework for their class is acceptable. There are eight periods a day and if I took an actual class every period I would have eight hours of homework to do a night! Thank goodness I don't though. I have first period free everyday so I get to sleep in! It's such a blessing. It allows me to stay up late, which I would normally do anyway and not be tired when I go to school!

I also went back and visited the teachers from last year that I really liked. They were happy to sit there and talk, and while I was wasting time during my first period free today, we had to go in on time for an assembly and a small meeting, one of my favorite teachers ever waved really enthusiastically as I walked down the hall. It made me pretty happy.

I had major printer problems today. It was awful. I needed to print out a graphic organizer for APUSH that's due tomorrow and we haven't used our printer in ages. We ran out of ink and never got new ones so my mom had to stop by Staples on her way home from work and purchase that. Then we were trying to set up the printer and the cord that connected from the printer to the wall was nowhere to be found! We checked in the bag with a lot of miscellaneous cords, we checked in my mom's closet (where our printer was hibernating), and we finally found it behind our towel holder which was in front of the plug area where it used to be plugged in.

After that fiasco, we couldn't find any paper. My mom had brought home some paper in a folder, which she then brought back to work and left there. So we were unable to find any of that until we found a sketchy yellow envelope like thing containing loads of paper in the closet with the printer. After that my computer was just being mean and not responding a lot, but I got my freaking graphic organizer to print, and it looks beautiful and I am happy.

My friend procrastinated all of her APUSH work and this afternoon I furiously scrambled to help her work with it and I edited her essay (I actually only wound up reading it because it turned out to be a pretty good essay and I couldn't think of ways to make it better.)

I spent an hour and thirty one minutes watching Revenge of the Nerds and it was time well spent. I could have been working on the godawful essay that I have to do this weekend, but nope. I watch a movie from the eighties. It was a really entertaining movie. Time well spent.

I kind of can't wait to go to school tomorrow because it's nice seeing my friends again and being able to interact with adults that will actually listen to what I have to say. The work load is also virtually non-existent right now so I am in the loving school mode!

The rest of my day was a nonevent so there's nothing really to talk about there.

This morning I got to actually eat breakfast! I drank tea and watched Degrassi while I waited for Freshman orientation to be over with at twelve. I'm friends with a lot of Freshman so it's awesome having them at my school and actually being able to see them everyday rather than just seeing them on Friday's when I volunteer at an after school program in the middle school.

Oh, I'm also trying to convince my parents to sign me up for Driver's Ed, but it is ridiculously expensive. I really hope that they can say yes so that I can actually learn how to drive. It would really suck if I wasn't able to do it. I just wish that I had the money to pay for it. Oh well.

Whew!

Today I have managed to get the worst part of my summer work out of the way. You can be I happy danced! Now I just need to finish Sometimes a Great Notion and read One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest before it become apparent that I haven't already. I think that I can pull it off.

I start school tomorrow and I'm having mixed feelings about that. I'm excited to have structure to my day, and relieved that I won't have to sit around doing nothing. But I also am not prepared to enter what I hear is the worst year of high school: junior year.

And to start off my fantastic schooling I get to write an essay this weekend! Oh boy! That's what I get for putting off my summer work for so long though. My friend is going to come over Sunday and we're going to work on it together and proof read each others essay so that we can make sure we're not turning in anything too crappy.

I'm really happy that I'm going to be able to see all of my friends again and see people whom I haven't seen in months. It'll also be nice to see my teachers. One thing about my school that I love is the teachers. They actually care if you do work and try to teach you. My favorite memory of last year is one day after school, this kid Chris and I went to talk to our English teacher and after talking with her our global teacher came in and we had one huge conversation about pop culture, media, the internet, our families, and anything else that came to mind! I get really attached to teachers, to the point where I consider them to be my friend and I actually enjoy talking to them and finding out about their weekend. It also helps me learn and pay attention in that class if I share a connection with that teacher. It makes me feel as if what they have to say is more important.

I guess that relates to how I model my behavior to match those that I look up to which I talked about a few blog entries ago. I've been working all day again and need to get to sleep at a decent time tonight so that I'll wake up at a decent time tomorrow so I guess this is goodbye until I post another blog post. Tomorrow's post will hopefully be interesting and full of how much I love school! Although I severely doubt that.

Damn, Two Hours Late

I have been doing the summer work that I've put off for months all day. This books are painfully horrible. They eat at my soul. They are making me hate reading which is a really hard thing for me to hate. Tomorrow will be the same, me reading the worst books in the history of books. Sorry this sucks so much. I've done nothing all day but read shit, my brain is mush.