And we're back from the land of Yearbook camp. No more Picas, no more layouts, no more pagemaker until Septemeber!! Though Mr. F did send a camera with me to take pictures of communtiy events throughout the summer. But I can handle that. Camera's make me happy. I also re-met an old Knowledge Bowl acquaintence, who is quite fun to talk to, except I negelcted to gleen his e-mail address from him, and with the help of google and hotmail, have located his profile, but alas no e-mail address to accompany. Not really sure what to do next, so if anyone has an ideas let me know.
This is frusterating, I'm off to the Cities ina few days, and I don't believe I'll get ot see Abner before he heads off to college. I'm kinda bummed, it's the beginning of the great friend decline. Whoo hoo. But life goes on.
I"m now contemplating my senior pictures clothes, and hair styles. I don't know what to do. My mom wants one in my prom dress *sigh*. I wanted one in my new green dress by the fountain in UND. I don't know how that's going to go over with my mother. I have a hunch this is going to cause the first big fight between my mom and I since maybe 9th grade. Oh well, we've done so well for so long, it's about time.

Hey blog viewers, I'm here at yearbook camp, apparently you can get outside contact.  It's pretty boring, today we learned about picas in one session.  We learned about picas the first day of yearbook last fall.  But some stuff has been really interesting, we learned how to take better sports photos, I learned a bunch of cool stuff on photoshop even though I don't have access to it out of school.  But still.  Yeah, not too much to talk aobut.  We got here, and there was no alarm clock, let alone a regular clock in our room, so we had to take an emergency run to Pamida to buy a clock.  We found a lovely timex number for approximatly $5, don't know who to set the alarm obviously, because it has yet to go off at the right time, but it does have a nice little nightlight that lasts for apporimately three seconds.  Yes life at yearbook camp is grand.  But we have team time now.  Time to make up a sports page layout, and many other fun things.  Have a lovely rest of the week.

Hello blogger community.  This is my first transmission from the world ofyearbook camp.  I can't talk. Have a happyday.  Session is starting. *mwah!*

Hello Hello everyone.  So last night I had my first school dream of the summer.  I do admit I am starting a tad early this year.  It may have something to do with Yearbook camp, but I'm really not sure.  But as usual.  I was up until 3am, hadn't finished my homework, got to school, couldn't find my homework.  And of course I didn't even know my schedule.  And to make things worse, the class was overfull, and I didn't get a desk, because I was late, because I didn't know my schedule. 
I had an interesting dream during my nap too.  I drempt that I was going as Elphaba (the wisked witch of the west) for Halloween, except i couldn't find the green face paint, and everyone left without me.  We were trick or treating in this huge city too, as we stepped outside, there was this giant capitol building.  That was really cool by the way.  But I never got to go, because I didn't have a costume, I didn't have a hat or broom or anything.  The green face paint was my costume. 
I'm kind of jumping all over the place tonight, but I thought it was really interesting what Aden said about his friend turning into a druggie though.  I really don't know about some of my friends, I've had alot move away, but Leila is my only childhood friend that I stil talk to.  I've noticed that my friends change alot from year to year.  Is that a bad thing?  You know, if I do the same thing with guys, that could cause quite a problem with the whole manogomy thing.  None of the people that were my friends in Kindergarten are my friends now.  Granted I never had many friends through middle school up to well last year, but still I've only held on to a couple.  It kind of worries me.  Of course if I move to a city I might find a whole life's supply of friends, because here there's really not much to work with.  But still, I hope the pattern stops.  I don't think it's a healthy way to do relationships. 
But anyway.  I'm going to go finish my laundry and let my brother have the computer, he's been buggin me for a while.  Have a happy day.

Hello blog viewers.  Today is a thursday.  And tomorrow I get to .... Go Shopping!  My mother is freaking out a littel bit since Wonder Woman is leaving in about a month, so she has been super nice to both of us lately.  And she decided to take us school shopping tomorrow.  And we get to school shop in the cities too. 
So I went to grocery store this morning.  My mom needed bleach so she sent me off.   I was going to buy some frozen meals, but I was like well, I have one at home that I got last time.  So I get home, and Wonder woman had eaten both my dry pasta bowl and my frozen meal!  She always eats my food.  But if you drink one of her Frappacinos it's death to you. 
I've noticed that my blog has been losing it's ability to communicate lately.  When I came home from Pittsburgh the chatterbox started to flounder, now recently my comments have been struggling.  Next thing you know my quote of the day will lose the will to quote.  I just don't know what to do.  my poor blog.
So in conclusion Con: Wonder Woman is leaving Pro: I may end up with a nice wardrobe, food, and closet space. 

It all started before a basketball game.  Wonder Woman and I were late for the game.   Wonder Woman was driving my car, The Vibe.  She sped around, forgetting about the trailer behind us that was being used by the men re-siding our garage.  We almost cleared, but she smacked the right front corner into the trailer.  Strike number one.
A few weeks later, there was a big thunderstorm.  Now there is an evergreen tree right next to my parking spot in the driveway.  This tree is three to four stories tall, and last year a quite sizable branch at the top broke, but didn't break enough to fall off the tree.  So towards the end of school we had a huge thunderstorm.  (I loved it I was watching out my window of course)  As I was watching I looked over, and saw the lose branch of the tree plumet from the top and bounce right off the top of my Vibe.  And I thought, well that probably wasn't very good for my car.  The next day I went out on my way to school, and it turned out that I had a couple dents in the roof, my back windshield wiper broke off, and there was a hole in my bumper.  I was not please. 
Now while I was in Pittsburgh my dad got all this fixed, and I was so happy, when I came home I had a car that worked exactly how it was supposed to.  Two days ago I told my dad I was really bored, so he suggested I clean out the inside of my car.  I said okay,(that's how bored I was) and when I was done cleaning I though i saw soemthing on the outside.  It was a scratch.  And it's not the only one.  Apparently there's a dent too.  I'm convinced my car was a horrible person in a past life.  My car has horrible karma.

Hello My blog viewers.  Today is a very slow day.  I was supposed to work at my part time job today, and was very excited.  As you have probably picked on,I've been slightly bored lately.  Now my part time job is fairly part time.  I work one nigth a year.  Oh and it's a fun job.  Every year my dad holds what's called a plot tour, where he invites his customers to come and see new kinds of grain and other crops available, and after they do that they get a free meal.  So my sister and I have been serving rootbeer floats at this for probably 6 or 7 years.  Last year my brother joined the team.  And more than serving floats our job is to laugh at the farmers aweful jokes.  My little brother on the other hand rolled his eyes at all the farmers, and gave them funny looks.  I hope he did better this year.  But I wasn't allowed to work this year, because I'm sick and for some reason my paretns don't want to contaminate all my dad's customers.  What is that? 
Oh well.  I got to spend some quality time with my wardrobe, sorting out my clothes.  I haven't done that in a while.  I was amzed at some of the stuff I found.  I haven't found my Korczack shirt yet though, so I should really get back to it.  Have a wonderful evening.

Bored Bored Bored Bored.  Really Really Bored.  You konw what?  I'm bored.  There's nothing to do here.  I really need a job.  We had church this morning, but that hardly lasts and hour in the summer.  I wish I could get a job, but who's going to hire me for two weeks?  No one, that's who.  Do you know how bored I was today?  I bought a college agebra book in Pittsburg, and I got it open, and almost started learning.  (I just couldn't do it, too many painful math memories)  Then I thought, well I liked spanish alot better than Math, and I bought a second year spanish text book at the library, and I pulled that out, and started to read, except I had no idea what they were saying.  So then I went out and tried golfing into a net with my brother.   That didn't go well.  It only takes me like 5 mins to hit the balls now though.  I'm improving.  Oh, I coudl never be a housewife.  Well I"m off to try to find something midly entertaining.  Tata!

Woah! look at all the buttons.  Someone changed blogger again.  Lets play with it shall we?  New font.  Ooooh Aaaaah   New color.  Woah, that is pretty neat.
  But back to the task at hand.  You know, I've noticed I get distracted easily lately.  I wonder why that is.  Oh look a butterfly! 
  So after my minor freak out due to lack of human contact, I got relief. Giles invited me to go with him the next morning (thursday hey that was yesterday morning) to an auction being held on acount of Crazy Dayz.  Now I had never been to an auction, so I'm like ok, if it gets me out of the house.  We met at the used book store, very fun place.  Then headed down to the auction.  it was pretty interesting.  Giles and I joked about the merchandise and the purchasers.  I saw about $20 worth of cigarettes smoked.  Don't you love the smell of lung cancer in the morning?  I know I do.  And I really like it when I see the EMT's chain smoke.  It makes me feel real safe.  I mean what do you do when your EMT has a heart attack while trying to save your life?  I didn't bid on anything.  Ooh speaking of bidding I need to check my ebay stuff.  Ok I checked it.  But there was this lady sitting in front of me, who kept bidding, and the auctioneer would look at her, but very much in my direction and say amounts of money, and I'm like no no I don't have any money.  Giles bid a couple of times though.  Oh you better believe it was intense.  And he won a tool box.  Wee.  I was then happy, because I had had my human contact, and could face the rest of the day until Wonder Woman returned. 
  When she got home she decided since she didn't have to work friday (that's today) we should do something fun.  So we went to Great Spoons and shopped at target for a while after going to the Urb, and then we went to see King Arthur.  Now some one (that may have been me) forgot that even though it's hot outside it's not necesarrily hot in the movie theatre.  So even leaving Target I was really cold, and I sat throught the whole movie (2hours and 10mins)  curled in a ball in my chair shivering.  A t-shirt and shorts are not adequate for a movie theatre.   This wouldn't have been so bad, except tat the movie got the story all wrong! (We went to King Arthur by the way)  The only similarities I saw between the story I know and the movie were that Arthur and Guienevier fall in love, and it was set in Britain.  In my opinion, don't waste your money, and read the once and future King instead.
 

Today I woke up, and no-one was home. So I did absolutely nothing, until I finally decided I needed to wash my clothes because I didn't have any to wear. And about 20 mins before Womder Woman returned home from work I actually took my shower. This very boring day made me come to the conclusion that living in the country Sucks. I have had no contact with any one other than Wonder Woman, and I'm going crazy. And this is only the first day. Augh! I did however get an interesting phone call this afternoon.
So I was on the internet craving human companionship, and the phone rings. I look on the caller Id and it says Camp Emaus. Now my little brother Max is at a canoe camp there. So the first though that enters my mind. What bone did he break this time? So I pick up the phone, and one of the counselors asks for my mom, and I informed her that both our parents left for vacation for a few days, but that I'm his sister, and maybe I can help. And she informs me that Max is getting homesick and wants to come home. Well he only has a day and a half of camp left, and he is 14. And I know that generally they try to get the kids to stick it out for the whole week. Now last year he had a really bad experience with camp. He was put in a really bad cabin, and ended up comng home early. So that probably had something to do with it, because he's never had a problem with homesickness before. So (now you may find this cauloused but remember I'm cold and soulless) I told her to have him stay, because we really didn't want to come pick him up.
That's all that happened today! How boring! I have to move somewhere where there are people. In a city even if you live alone there are tons of places you can go, just to have some human contact. You can run to the grocery store, rent a movie, browse the nearest target. Augh! But I'm stuck here for another year. We do get to go on a trip to the cities this summer though. And we are going to the museum!! I'll stop boring you for now. But have a wonderful day.

I just got done watching Moulin Rouge, and I've determined that I've experienced too many tragic love stories lately. It seems strange for a love story not to end in a death. Rent, death, and many looming deaths. Romeo and Juliet two deaths. Moulin Rouge, a death. Wicked, much turmoil, a death.
Wicked is this really cool musical I just discovered, it's the story of the wicked witch of the west and how she became wicked. It's really neat, and I feel really back for the wicked witch. Her name is Alphaba in the musical. And she's an outcast, and decides she doesn't want to be held in by all the rules of society, and wants to do good on her own. Then she is declared wicked and hunted down, until the inevitable end. My theory is that the writer wrote Wicked just to screw people up when they watch the Wizard of Oz. I now feel incredibly sorry for Alphaba and rather despise Gelinda(the good witch). Most artists are a little warped though, they probably figured well, if we're warped they might as well be too. Well I had best be getting to bed. Have a wonderful whatever time you read this.

Hello my faithfull blog viewers. Today is a Monday. Yesterday was a rather eventful Sunday. We had church in the morning as always, but it was kinda fun to be back after my five week absence. Then we went home and slept for a really long time. Sleep is mucho good. And this was a Breathe week, so practice was at 6:30, and we had a new member of the tech team. A male version of Leila. We're going to call him Leeland. He actually knows alot more about computers than me which was very good when I couldn't get the computer monitor on unless I pushed the button and held it in. So he stuck a paperclip in it and now it works fine. And so go the normal fixes in the tech room. I think he could be a valuable asset to the team.
So today is the last day of Pennsylvania cousins, they are leaving on a jet plane in a couple of hours. Sadly I actually got to know all of them pretty well this summer, but I won't see them again for proably a year or more. Oh well that's how relatives are.
Oh and get this, one of the ladies in our church came up to me and asked me "Amanda, how was your trip." and I was like, you know my name? Are you feeling alright? You see at my church all the senile people have a very hard time keeping Wonder Woman and I seperate. Wonder Woman sings on the worship team, so they see her every sunday. I however am in the back in the Tech room, so they don't see me. We've become known as the Callihan girl. People come up to me after church, and say you did such a nice job singing today. Now originally I would correct people, but it took so long to explain that now I just say thanks. And before I left people would come up to Wonder woman and say I have things for you, but I forgot them at home. And she'd look at them and say things? You know, for your trip. And she'd said oh, great. So now we answer for each other, it's just too complicated the other way. Although they are going to be very surprised when Wonder Woman sundenly stops singing on the worship team, and flys back from California every weekend. Oh well.
I have to run though. I have an orthodontist appointment in Great Spoons in a little bit, Oh joy. I'll talk more later.

Hello my blog viewers. How is everyone today? I'm excellent. I just got back from playing in the rain. I don't know how long it's been since I played in the rain. I love it. I found a really deep puddle, and I jumped in it for a few minutes, and Wonder Woman even came out to join me. It was so much fun. I'm definitly going to have to do it more often. I'm pretty sure tha last time I played in the rain I had a little pink polka dotted umbrella. I miss those days. I think I need a new umbrella. I'm going to have to buy one some day. I don't think I have one.
A while ago, I was in Marshall Fields with Wonder Woman, and we were looking at rain boots. I kinda wish I would ahve gotten a pair, but I wish more that I had gotten on of the cool umbrellas with a frog or a duck on it. Fun rain gear is esential for sanity.
But enough about that. I just looked at our calendar, and apparently, we're supposed to go to my grandma's lake cabin tomorrow. I think it would have been nice to be informed of that. But whatever. I'll have to pack a bad.
I can't think of anything else worthy of blogging, so I'll blog later. Oh and Abner, I showed my cousins your LotR spoof tonight, and they loved it. I'll see you/type to/talk to you all later.

I'm back form my few day break from blogging. It decided my blog need a vacation. It worked hard while I was gone.
Yesterday I went on a delightful trip to Great Spoons with Mahinda, Lola, Leila, and Wonder Woman. We went to the mall and I found a homecoming dress for $18. Then we went to target and got some lunch tot ake to the urb,then we went to the thrift store. That was fun. I found books, and really cheap dishes. I got salt and pepper shakers, and cups for under a dollar. Lola found a rockin' alarm clock/cd player too. It has gems for buttons, and it's pink. And the clock face changes colors! She named it Bitchin'. That's one of the best thrift store purchases I've seen so far.
Tomorrow we have relatives descending upon our house. I really hope it stops raining so we can kick some of them outside. Our house is rather small for that many people. We'll have seventeen people here. That's too many. Wish me luck, I have to get back to cleaning or my mom is going to suck me up in the vaccuum. Have a delightful day.

Ahh Air conditioning.
This morning I decided to bake cookies. This was a bigger task than I though. I searched through the cupboards for 1/2 hour trying to find all the ingredients. Finaly I had located everything except vanilla, and a mixer. And I'm like whatever this is close enough to make cookies. So I starte handmixing the dough, and was ready to put them on the pan, and I tasted the dough. It was pretty wierd, so I'm thinking, maybe the vanilla is a key ingredient in cookies. So I searched for 15 more mins, and finaly found it, right under my nose. I put them in the oven, and let them cook. I came back to check them maybe 10 mins later, and they're still pretty runny. I came back 5 mins later. They have spread across the entire pan, and doubled in height. I finally take the out, and they're kind of spongy. Oh well, I put in the remaining dough, and promptly forget about them. Twenty minutes later, I smell something, and remember that I was baking. I had to hrow those away. They hurt my teeth. Then I was washing the pan, and was using the sprayer. Their sprayer has a bad temper. I thought I had it under control, until I set the sprayer back in it's holder, and turned on the water. Vengance usually isn't a common thing for apliances, but needless to say, I am now in different clothes.
Later on this morning, I had to go with my cousin to my aunt's ofice,(he didn't know where it was) to get his menegitis shot for college. When we got to the hospital, we tried to take the elevator up to the fourth floor, we get in and push he 4. The crazy elevator goes all the way down to the ground floor. We're like ok, push the 4 again, and it goes up one floor, and then back down again. Finally it goes up to the 4th floor again. Apparently this happens alot.
Well this was a pretty long entry about nothing. So I'm going to go. See you all Tomorrow!

Can some one please tell me when it was that Abner changed his name to Karl? I did however figure out Paco's transformation into Steve. I'l see you all in less than two days. A Saturday poker night sounds really good to me. I'll be home! as long as I make my plane. Miss and Love you all. See you soon.