I had the strangest dream again last night. I drempt that I was at Lola's house, but she was still at work. She didn't work at the eye clinic though, she worked at the site where they were rebuilding the Pentagon after 9/11. It was down by memorial drive. After a couple of minutes I left to go find Mahinda. So I walked down Memorial drive, and found her, and Lola. As we were walking up Memorial a plane crashed into "the Pentagon" and Lola said I knew this was going to happen again. Apparently it had happened more than once and they jus kept re-building. So we started to run, and Mahinda being the one in the sport passed both Lola and I but we all ended up at the top in no time. We looked north to where the Trade Center Towers were built. They were in the McDonald's parking lot I believe. And there was smoke coming from there too. So we booked it back to Lola's house, and then ended up at my house. So I grabbed my camera and took a picture of the smoke rising over Crappsville. It didn't smoke for very long though. It was out in a few minutes after we arrived at my house. I only got one picture.
I also had a dream that I woke up and my mom had cut my new bookshelf in half, placed it on my desk, and moved one of my other bookshelves. So there wasn't enough room to put my books again. I was furious.
But enough of my subconscious although I'm pretty sure that's not how it's spelled. So yesterday my mom took me room shopping again, for some finishing touches. I bought a really cool painted vase at Target, and a Monet calendar at Bed Bath and Beyond. My computer jsut went crazy, so I'm going to post this befoer it dies.

Hello All. So i come home from church today, and as soon as I walk in the door my mom pulls me inot my room and has me removing nails and screws from the wall, as she paints my windows. "Now fill those holes in with the putty stuff, and I'll paint over them soon." I haven't even had time to change out of my church clothes yet. Then she has us move the mattress out, and the bookshelf in. as soon as I sit down she goes, "Your drawers need to be sorted!" (I sorted them two weeks ago). At that point I decided it was time for a nap and left her to paint windows. I swear this woman is on speed. She took me two days ago on a 5 1/2 hour shopping trip. That should really be illegal.
After my nap I checked my e-mail, and Wonder Woman had sent me a message from the great land of California. She wrote to tell us she's on the wrong time schedule, and hungry. Apparently she didn't get as much breakfast as she wanted. But we all know that it's hard to get as much breakfast as she wants when they have to serve other people as well. That's all for now. I'll blog when there is more interesting stuff to talk about.

So last night I had an incredibly crazy dream. So I had to have surgery, and it turns out MAhinda and Giles are going to do it. (I think they must have offered a deal, because they weren't doctors) They didn't put me under, so I was laying on the table with this huge inscion(I don't know how ot spell it) in my stomach, and Mahinda and Giles are digging around in there, and they can't find what they're looking for, because it all looks the same. So they decide they've done all they can , and leave my inscion open, so the next day I can see a real doctor. It was so wierd. The strangest part was nothing hurt. I tihk this may have been a look for the hidden meaning dream,a dn what I got out of it was that I should never let Mahinda and Giles operate on me. Pretty deep huh?
I also had a dream that I walked into Mr. F's room for yearbook, and Abner was in there getting help on his prob and stats I would assume. That one was quite a bit shorter, if you can tell.
Since Wonder Woman left yesterday my mom decided that now is the perfect time to re-do my room. So she's having me clean out the whole thing, and I got a new bookshelf, and new bedding etc. So today I'm supposed to go to Great Spoons with her and find some stuff for my room, like a floor lamp and pillows.
Oh and even bigger news, I got myself a job for the first week of school. My pastors are going to be gone, but they don't want thier kids ot miss school, so I'm going t be a live-in babysitter the first week. That's very exciting, because they pay realyl well. I also migth be babysitting for another family after school a couple times a week this year. Craziness.
Well I have to go get clean befoer we leave. Tata.

Have you ever noticed how smells can trigger memories more suddenly than most other things. Like for instance, Wonder Woman just washed her face, and I caught a wiff of tea tree oil, and bam it's January. I'm cold and tired. Whenever I smell hospital, bam back in Pittsburgh. The suave ocean breeze deodorant 9th grade. I wonder what the scent for this year will be? Maybe Yarn. damn the knitting. It's too hard. I can't even knit a scarf, and that's like the easiest thing to knit ever.
Sorry this was just a tangent I decided to share with the blogger community. Andi'm osrry if that's two mintues of your day you'll never get back. Muahaha. I have the power to steal time!

So I have decided to take a fatalist view on this my senior year of high school. I'm ready to start tomorrow, just so I can get it done with sooner and go off to college. It just seems so pointless when I just have a few friends left, and most people in my grade don't like me anyway. I am excited to teach sunday school though. Leila and I got a 3rd grade class this year, and so we get to make our own lessons, and have our own room. I'm excited. I think we're going to get rid of the chairs and tables and have the kids each have thier own pillow to sit on. And I found tons of cool stickers in my room when I cleaned it. Yey.
I might be taking an oil paiting class. Leila is in it too. It coudl be quite fun. But that's only if I can't get discrete my first semester. What I'm most afraid of is that I'll be in the painting class jsut long enough to get excited about stuff I can do, and then get put in discrete. WE'll see how it goes.

So the Ox Cart festivities wound down last night, with the fire works show finale. It was pretty good for a Crapsvilel presentation. They even had a 16 inch shell. Whatever that means. I believe it was the biggest one. The most enjoyable festivity aside from the Miss Crappsvilel pageant of course was teh book sale at the library. A bag of books for $2! My mom went a little crazy and picked out every book printed befoer 1950. She plans to re-sell them to antique book stores if she doesn't like them. I got about 3 bags of books, and am in sore need of another book shelf. I found a ton of really cool art books too. I found a four book series on the art museums of Europe, and a mutiple bok series with different artists, and even slides of their work. It was tons of fun.
I had an exciting shopping trip today, I got some new sheets and curtains, apparently I am now re-doing my room. I also got my Miss Crappsville pictures one-hour photoed, and found a new sweater for this winter. All in all pretty productive.
I was a rather depressing day though, in just a few days everyone leaves for college. It's getting more and more depressing. Wonder Woman is having he last sleep over with one of her long time friends, and I can't help but think this is how it's going to be for the next year.
But on the bright side my parents finally caved and bought us a scanner. I spent the evening scanning in pictures ot my hearts content. it wasa blast. But I'm muy tired now, so I'm going to head ot bed. Good night to all and to all a good night?

Hola. Last night capped of my delightful day. Uma held a kareoke night at her house, and invited some of the EGS drama people. It was tons of fun, we did some oldies, and some female power songs, some Jekyll & Hyde, Wicked, Rent. Good times. I decided that this year, Leila Mahinda and I are jsut going to have to hang out with the EGSers, because no one at our school is terribly attacked to at least me, so why not. Our homecoming game is against EGS this year, and we're oging to lose, because we're going to suck this year sighting the drug habits of the team. It should be a real fun Homecoming dance. Just don't go with a football player.
So today I got my wisdom teeth out. It's really not as bad as alot of people say. I was asleep for the procedure, so that wasn't painful. They numbed my entier mouth, so no pain for about 3 hours afterwards. And they send you home with pain pills, so it feels alot like you just got your braces tightened, which is certainly bearable. When I was in the waiting room, this morning, I ran into one of my friends from pre-school. I hadn't seen her in years. She was getting her wisdom teeth out too. She didn't take the recovery very well though, It could here the nurses trying to calm her down, and I think she was crying. Poor girl.
Last night, since I was at the kareoke night I had my dad tape the gymnastics finals for me. I was watching that after I got home today, and wouldn't you know it, the tape ended with as Romania was going up for their last event, to decide the medal order. I did get to see all the US performances, but I wass till somewhat dissapointed. Oh well the men's finals are on tonight, so watch for Aleksei Nemov. He's really pretty. Ciao.

Get you tickets! To the annual Miss Crapsville pageant. There will be a few good talents this year, Leila is going to dance so yey! But there are a few singers that may even hurt me, and I'm tone deaf. It should be an interesting night.
In other news Leila decided to quit tennis. That news made my day. I felt bad leaving her alone with those people. But now it's all okay. I'm so glad I quit though, the new JV coach is horrible. She was a senior on the team when I was a freshman, and she was cruel. I was terrified of her. I'm pretty sure Mr. head coach man hasn't noticed that I quit yet though. He'll notice when it's time for the video to be made. But yey for Leila. That makes me so happy.
It's a good day, I also got two packages from Amazon. I love packages. I got the script for The Nerd! I love it. It's probably good I'm having such a good day today, I get my wisdom teeth out tomorrow, so I'm going to have some not so good days in the next week, but oh well. It has to be done, or I'll have to do braces all over again. Oh and the Women's gymnastics team finals are tonight! Super. Have a wonderful day. I sure am.

Today Wonder Woman and I got really bored, so we decided to go to target to relieve the boredom. So I set up my VCR and intructed my dad on how to record so I didn't miss and gymnastics. On the way home I started thinking about past olympics. (much facilitated by the sappy song For good) I remember in 1992 Wonder Woman and I sat up in our shared bedroom with the little TV on our bed, and watched the gymnastics. Wonder Woman was scared of Shannon Miller, because her last name was Miller, and that is another word for moth. (Wonder Woman is terrified of moths.) I remember the 1994 winter Olympics watching the skaters eating our salsa con queso with tortilla chips every night. Then the 1996 olympics I remember being envious of the magnificent seven, and Wonder Woman and putting on our ace wraps and wrist supports to be like the real gymnasts. Oh childhood memories.
Well after I got home, I was watching the gymnastics that was still on, and told my mom who had seen the first rotation not o tell me what happened, because Iw anted to watch the tape. So what does she do? As soon as the rotation we were on was over she announces that the US team was struggling, and two of them stepped out on their floor routines. I couldn't belive her, she ruined the Olympics! Bad mom!
Well those are my thoughts on the Olympics.

Ah, another day another day. It was a rather uneventful one, but oh well you're going to have to hear about it anyway. Muahahaha. So I went in and registered for my senior year of high school. Seems very strange that I'll never have to register at high school again, but at the same time feels damn good. I got my schedule, and it's all wrong of course. I am only in three classes I didn't wan though. that's not a horrible percentage. I am currently taking oil painting 1, beginning foods, and a study hall. Now if I can't get Discrete and Finite first semester, I think I mught just stay with the painting class, that could be fun, but I'd realyl rather have Discrete. But there is no way I'm taking begining foods.
After registration I went on a bike ride, and later in the afternoon watch Wonder Woman play in the summer tennis tournament. Yep.
Tomorrow we go to see Leila in Chicago. How exciting. We're going to dress up, and maybe go out for coffee afterwards. It sounds like a really fun night. I can't wait. I also can't wait for the olympics ot start. I'm really excited for the gymnastics. I was reading up on the team on the internet and they sounds pretty solid. I've watched most of the girls compete in the nationals the past couple of years, adn they are very level headed. I was sad to see that Holly Vice didn't make the team though. She's one of my favorite gymnasts, she's way flexible. I haven't really heard anything about her for a few months though, I'm beginning to suspect that she is injured. That's really too bad.
Ciao!

Let's celebrate! I finally finished putting together my powerpoint show for my Ukraine talk this weekend. Yey. I've accomplished something recently. I really need to start doing stuff, there are only a few more weeks until school, and I haven't cleaned my room, learned how to knit, or even learned greek. I just don't know what to do with myself. If I'm this unproductive during school I could very well fail my senior year. Wouldn't that suck.
Upon the completion of my senior pictures I realized that I wasn't incredibly excited about getting them back or choosing my favorites etc. It was more a feeling of well that part of my senior year is done, now I can do a different part. Is it wrong for my senior year to feel more like a chore list than a great journey? But really I'm just getting this stuff done so I can go on to bigger and better things like college. Right? Maybe my attitude is all wrong. I am excited for this years prom, because I'm going to have so much fun with my dress, but otherwise the most exciting part seems to be graduating and being done. Maybe it's just this traditional stuff you do when your a senior that doesn't thrill me. I don't know.
And now to completely change the subject I have an amusing little anticdote for you. Last night Wonder Woman was washing her clothes, and she had to use some iron out because the water softener was empty when she washed them. It says on the bottle that you shouldn't inhale the fumes, well Wonder Woman has never been very good at directions, and did it anyway. So she comes upstairs, and asks me what to do if her lungs were burning. I told her there probably wasn't much she could do, and she should just wait until morning and it would feel better. Then she decided that she wasn't ready to die,(She planted the dying idea herself) because she has never written a will. So at 11:30 she dictated her living will to me, and then signed it to make it legally binding. She then felt secure enough to go to bed knowing her things would be properly distributed if she didn't wake up in the morning. Now I don't know about you, but I don't know nay other 18 yr old who has a living will. That girl is an odd duck.

Whew, I just got back from taking my senior pictures. That was an ordeal, but overall it went pretty well. My mom had launched into her freakyouty thing before I was even awake. I was eating breakfast and she comes in, "Now I need you to get me all the shirts you need ironed, so I can iron them right now." So I brought out the two shirts that we could iron, and I showed her the purposly wrinkly one and told her she shouldn't iron that one. She ripped it out of my hands, studied it for about 3 mins and finally read on the tag that no, you really aren't supposed to iron it. Once we got to the studio she did relax somewhat though.
It was a long dya, but we got some fun shots, I took some wiht my old books, and one with my camera. I took some wiht my prom dress for my mom, and some in my new green dress by the fountain at the college. That was cold!! It wasn't so bad until the wind picked up, and started spraying me with water, in my strapless summer dress. Brrr. I think they'll be pretty though.
We also went to a fabric store afterwards, and I think I found the fabric and the lace I want to make my prom dress. It's almost mint green satin for the fabric and a wide white lace. I'm excited for my dress. It'll be very different from everyone elses I believe. (It may actaully be a costume pattern, but we don't have to tell people that. )
Tomorrow I'm doing even more shopping, for school supplies. Frighteningly school starts ina couple of weeks. But I have freedom unitl then. Yey for quiting tennis. It feels soooo good. Have a delightful day.

Hello, I'm back from my week hiatus from blogging. I just returned from a delightufl holiday in the city. Well, more like the cities and small towns, but still. I would like to say I made a full recovery from my little run-in with Mr. Mean Musical Man. Though get well presents are still begin accepted, I prefer cash or sparkly things. The trip was highly uneventful, but most enjoyable. We started off with a few days doing absolutely nothing at the lake, followed by a rousing drive to the cities with a trip to UofM for my dad and I to talk to a freshamn counselor about some ?'s, then off to the Mall of America to retrieve my sister and rest of family. My dad and I got a short bit of shopping in, I found some new jeans that actually fit. I don't think I've ever owned jeans that fit. I have no butt, so they are always lose, but it is no more. I also found a really expensive, but really pretty shirt which i bought myself as a b-day present. then it was off to Macaroni Grill for some good italian food, and then the used book store, where I didn't find many things on my list, but i still found many things. Then finally we went to the museum, which turned out to be simply a photography exhibit, but it was very interesting, and then since the science museum was a block down visited that too. and we capped of the cities with a trip to Albertville, where I found more jeans, a new wrap sweater and Calvin Klein bras! It was a good trip.
Once we arrived back at the lake, my mom had the great idea that since my Grandma's cabin is only a few minutes away we should have to quality relative time. Booo relative time. So we get to my grandma's cabin, and my uncle opens the conversation with So Wonder Woman, how are you going to fit in in California? You know, what are you going to do so you don't stick out? Now how do you respond to something like that? I don't think you can. Things settled down to pretty normal(by my families standards), the kids get kicked out on the porch to eat, kinda like dogs, and the adults sit inside. We did get to use the metal silverware on the porch though, but I've heard it can blow away. Then my grandma comes out and starts a new conversation with You know there has been quite an outbreak of Whooping cough here. 300 cases in the state. Say, (to my cousin) you haven't been immunized have you? No, I didn't think so. you know it's realyl contagious, and can be deadly, so if you get a cough at all you need to go right to the doctor and tell them that you've never been immunized for whooping cough. Then she goes on with, you know there could be an outbreak of small pox too. With the way people travel these days, it could be and epedimic. (looking right at my cousin and I, who just returned from Ukraine and Germany.) My grandma the conversationalist. And they wonder why I don't want to go to family reunions and meet more of my relatives. I know plenty thank you very much. Well, I think I've talked for qiute long enough. Have a happy day.

Well, there is excitement here in Crappsville, I just had quite the encounter. I added a guy to my msn that I had talked to at knowledge bowl a few years ago, and saw again at yearbook camp. When I talked to him he seemed like a perfectly nice guy, even funny. Well, I started talking to him on msn tonight, and we talked about yearbook, knowledge Bowl, and then got on the topic of Musicals. He told me that he thought Rent sucked, so I asked him what he though a good musical was. I though I was only being fair, considering I loved Rent, and didn't yell. Well then he goes on to tell me about a composer/writer he really liked. I asked him what musicals he had written, and this guy responds with, and I quote "Wow, you really don't know much about musicals do you?" Now I was wondering whether I should take offense to some of the things he said earlier, but decided not to. After this though, I was shocked, and informed him that it wasn't nice to make fun of people who don't know as much as you. Then we got in a big fight, he didn't play fair, called me a bitch, stubborn, pretentious, and judgemental. I was impressed, I've never been called stubborn before. You know I think we could really turn out to be best friends. Oh wait.... I don't know why I blogged about this except I need somewhere to relieve my shock. Well, no he has blocked me, so I gues I don't have to worry about it anymore huh? It's just so wierd, he seemed so nice. I don't think I'm a good judge of people.