4.24.02 | 1:38pm

still haven't completely fixed the site but with the exception of the little "site" button at the top everything appears to be working decently well.

i hate being busy. i used to love never having a spare moment but now i'm lazy and i like to sit around. i will be extremely happy when baton is over because right now it is monopolizing my wednesdays, thursdays, sometimes fridays and saturdays. i have a bunch of stuff i need to get done but i don't do it on the days i can (all 2 of them) because i'm savoring my time away from baton. so...i have to do this thing for mr. J by friday...OH MY GOD SHUT UP LEX! i love my puppy but he's sooo noisy and irritating when he's in his pet taxi and i can't get anything done at all when he's out running around. so on top of baton and mr. j's thing we have like 500 different hamlet projects going on right now...plus i have to make up my recital solo and perhaps *practice* my miss majorette solo. i'm going to be so busy at recital it's not even funny.

on the happier side...i should be getting my spider-man cartoon maker today or tomorrow. i'm also expecting the new issue of movieline, considering i subscribe to it and i STILL haven't gotten it when all the stores have had it since last thursday. it's all good.

i want lex to grow up so i can have him out of his pet taxi without having to watch him every second. i have a headache. it could be directly related to lex's screaming. soo...yeah. i'm going to go throw my dog out the window. nooo i promise i won't do that. i would never! i'm just venting. so anyway. yeah.

4.22.02 | 7:25pm

new layout's up...i updated a bunch but there's still more i need to update. and i haven't checked to make sure everything matches and is in good working order yet. i don't plan on doing it tonight. i know for a fact that the "site" button doesn't work. i'll deal with it later. you're not missing out on much. i have like 20 things to do this week so it'll probably be next weekend before i get anything else done. for now just enjoy what you can of the spider-man layout. ;)

4.18.02 | 9:39pm

hello hello my good people. i cut up the new layout. might actually post it one of these days. i am rather tired so if i start babbling nonsense - that's why.

today i actually read act VI of hamlet. i don't know what possessed me to do it. it makes me happy that tomorrow is friday. except for the fact that i have baton tomorrow night. that won't be the most fun thing ever. i might survive though.

saturday i have to get my homework done. it's not important stuff. government packet that we may or may not turn in...this thing mr. j wants me to do and i have no clue why...and i have to memorize something from hamlet. that's the kicker. might take awhile.

lindsey and i are attempting to make anti-prom party plans. we want to go to cedar rapids...angie and emily too. there's an incubus concert. yup. maybe we can get tickets. if we're cool enough.

*yawn*...i hope i can get to sleep tonight. 2 nights ago i was having serious difficulties sleeping. not a happy thing. speaking of sleeping...we're leaving sunday at 7:30 for statewide (baton competition) so i'm going to have to wake up way way earlier than usual. blah. at least we'll be done by 1. i'll be home with 8 hours to spare before off centre. ;) aldjsfoiwena i'm tired. so...bye!

4.14.02 | 11:35pm

guess what everyone...it's star wars promotion time! i'm rather excited. hayden is on the cover of magazines and will soon be on the cover of more.

i'm tired and i honestly have no clue why i am online right now. i am so majorly excited for spider-man. am i a dork? i'm reading the book right now. it's very cute.

*if this is sight i'd rather be blind* i don't want the weekend to be over. i was at baton way too much this week. AND this weekend. but we finished robin hood and it's really cute. we put a nice dramatic end on it. drama is good.

TNT knows drama. at least that's what they say. but then they show EdTV and you're like "this isn't a drama." but i like matthew mcblah i can't spell his last name's accent. subtle, but it's SO there. lol. sorry. i'm out of it.

speaking of accents, i watched winning london tonight. go mary-kate and ashley!

oh man. i forgot i made a new layout! i was going to put it up today! shoot. well, maybe tomorrow. i don't really have much to talk about. i made laura watch the shining. freaked her out. which was the point. it's the only scary movie i've ever seen that was very scary. although the others was pretty decent. laura and i went to applebee's last night. our table was right next to jaime and adam. and, while we had a clear shot of them, james dean was blocked by a weird wall that was just sitting in the middle of the restaurant for no apparent reason.

i'm leaving. just because.

4.12.02 | 3:27pm

i just made a new layout...it's really simple so i wouldn't get excited if i were you but.. i'll probably post it sometime late tonight or tomorrow afternoon.

i have to get ready for baton pretty soon. the wonderful friday baton classes.

i'm excited because i got an A on my spanish test. only three people got As. i am very very special. lol. when i took it i thought it was pretty easy so i'm glad i was right for the most part.

last night mi madre highlighted my hair so it'll be nice for my baton pictures tomorrow. sandy wants us to wear our silver pants. EWWW!!! they are SO unflattering. but hey. i need to come up with an individual pose. i might use one from a few years ago. i'm not creative enough to make up another and i've done a couple of really cute ones that i might as well try again. i think britt and i should get a buddy pose. wouldn't that be the cutest?

OH! i forgot to bring ginger inside when she barked. lol i better go.

4.10.02 | 8:33pm

i am SO not having a good day. okay, i take that back. i'm not having a good night. up until sunset i was fine. it's just a bunch of little annoyances that have me in a bad mood. for starters, i haven't eaten since 11am (*11am...by now you think that i would be up but the bedsheets shade the heat of choices i've made*...sorry...gotta <3 and="" b="" incubus="" s="" that="">never good for my mood. plus i spent my last 4 hours at baton.

so i come home and wash my face. problem: i'm out of the stuff i USE to wash my face and i have to use my mom's. this is bad because i have sensitive skin and i can just FEEL it turning red and splotchy after using that junk. which is great...i really want to be red and splotchy for baton pictures on saturday. then i went to get myself some cereal (since i haven't eaten forever, you see) and there weren't any clean bowls. i'm fully aware that it would take me like 3 seconds to wash one but i just was not in the mood so i haven't eaten anything.**

THEN i discovered that i forgot to change the time on my TV for daylight savings so when i set the VCR to tape dawson's creek (i swear i only watch it for charlie!) it started an hour late...so i missed the whole thing...blah. then when i was writing all this to amy in her letter my favorite pen ran out of ink and the pencil i picked up to replace it ran out of lead three lines later. see, small things.

i still need to make a new layout. i DID update quite a bit the other day though. so that's good. ho hum. i'm really hungry. but i'd rather not eat than wash a bowl. i'm just being stubborn but you're gonna have to deal with it.

yeah...no one cool is on icq and i have no email...happy happy. since i have nothing to WATCH i think i might continue reading spider-man. i just realized that i'll never finish watching hamlet before it's due because i freakin' have baton every night. OH! i thought of one happy thing: diamond dave's reopened! laura and i <3 after="" and="" angie="" are="" b="" baton="" course.="" dave="" diamond="" go="" going="" night.="" of="" re="" s.="" saturday="" supposed="" to="" we="">the sweetest thing on friday. after baton. yes, we seriously have baton on friday night. i think i'm just going to go faint or something so...bye.

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**this is still something I would do

4.8.02 | 5:22pm

well, i made it through the first week back. it even went sorta fast. amazing, i know. some slightly interesting things have happened. a cookie incident...shopping...stuff like that.

on saturday my mom and i went to des moines and i got a big big big star wars poster...for episode 2...it's the one they have in theaters with hayden and natalie portman back to back...ya know? yeah. i love it.

saturday night laura, emily and i watched the usual suspects. i didn't find it that thrilling. not bad, but not a favorite or anything. i stayed up really late and i don't really know why. maybe there was tons of caffeine in my mocha freeze.

i need to update really bad. i might actually do that tonight. no good tv...no homework. well, mr. laville said last week that we had a hamlet quiz tomorrow but today he said we had a totally different quiz after we read act II or whatever. so i guess we don't have a quiz. i'll finish act I just in case.

shoot, i forgot to fill up my water bottle. oh, i have a date to remember: April 30. vanessa carlton cd comes out. yep. so i'm going to go fill up my water and then i'll try to get some updating done while my songs download. ;)

3.31.02 | 9:38pm

I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL TOMORROW. okay. had to get that out.

my brother is having a fit because i asked him if he knew where my computer headphones were and he thinks that he borrowed them but put them back or some such thing and now he can't find them so he's yelling at me about how he's looking for them instead of doing what he was in the middle of doing, which he claims was much more important. okay, it's not MY fault he lost my headphones.

anyway. i'm downloading remixes of heaven is a place on earth. i need a baton solo song by this week and i thought this would be cute.

OH MY GOD laura watched life as a house and liked it! that's like two for two...she liked that AND moulin rouge and i didn't think she'd like either one.

on the topic of movies...i saw panic room and clockstoppers this week. lol we were really bored last night and clockstoppers was a last resort. we enjoyed it. you have to make the most of what you've got. ;)

it seems like i had something interesting to say but i guess i don't. at least i don't remember it if i did. i really really don't want to go to school. :( i think the math basic skills test it tomorrow. seniors don't have to take it...but...does that mean we have 3rd hour? or do we not? i'm confused. nobody seems to know. i guess i'll just show up and see what happens. okay i'm gonna go download more stuff.

3.28.02 | 10:12am

why oh why am i dying? i'm supposed to go to lunch with my mom in an hour. i really don't feel like getting ready because i'm SICK but i'm also hungry so i'll go. then i'll have to plead with her to let me stay home tonight. i don't know, it's like she doesn't believe that i don't feel good. well, it's true so deal with it.

last night i rented on the line. it was terrible. i'm not even going to review it. for real. i'm not just saying that because i don't like nsync. speaking of nsync...yesterday was the big concert in ames...they apparently had a day off on tuesday and spent it in des moines. thank god i wasn't there. they actually had a segment on the news with all the nsync sightings. i about puked.

i need to update around here but i don't know when i'll get it done. maybe after lunch. i hope i feel better tomorrow because stacie and i NEED to do our spanish video. spring break is going way way too fast.

hmm. i think friends is new tonight. next week is one of those clip episodes. some are better than others. i'll hope for the best. meanwhile i am going through gilmore girls withdrawl...are they EVER going to finish the season?

blaaaaah i hate the death cold that i have. i hope my mom isn't trying to call. i need gas in my car. i hate getting gas. i don't know why. i'll have to do it after we eat. ho hum. i guess i'll be off for now.

3.24.02 | 2:42pm

yaaaay for spring break!!! the first 2 days have been rather uneventful. on friday after school laura came over and watched moulin rouge and...she LIKED it!!! aren't you amazed? she actually said "that was a good movie." then i rented donnie darko. that was one odd movie. but i liked it.

**yesterday i fainted at hobby lobby. fun, huh? apparently i was sick. i got to say "tengo ciento y dos grados de fiebre." i feel a lot better today though. which is good because tomorrow morning i have baton (we're working on our robin hood routine) and then laura and i are going to iowa city. actually right now i'm supposed to be deciding when i want to leave. baton is over at 10:30...i need some time to go home and change...but other than that it's all good. i could probably manage leaving at 11. then we could get there just in time for lunch. ;)

yeah...i WAS going to shop yesterday in des moines so i wouldn't feel the need to buy things in iowa city but then the fainting incident happened so we went home. which means i will indeed feel the need to buy things in iowa city. oh well.

tonight the oscars are on. that should be fun. oh, but i'll have to tape off centre. unless it's a repeat. probably is. what else do i need to do today? i need to pack. and i need to burn a happy car cd. my brother is the biggest cd waster i've ever seen. he burns like 5 cds a day, i swear. i NEVER should have taught him how to do it. it's so stupid because half of them he's just copying cds he already has in case he ruins one. okay, no. that's just dumb. but he seems to think it's perfectly logical so there's not a whole lot i can do about it. but anyway...if i get the chance (which i probably will) i'll start working on a new layout for the site. fun fun. now i'm going to go do something interesting. ha.

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**I really buried the lede here. Also I just recently saw an actor on The 100 that I recognized as one of the leads from Off Centre, so that's fun.

3.20.02 | 1:52pm

so...it's wednesday. unfortunately it feels like a thursday but i'll live. today in government we did our political party presentation. wow, alliteration. anyway, it was fun. now i just have to get through baton tonight ad tomorrow. a day and a half until spring break!

once again i am typing with one hand because lex is sleeping on the other. it is extremely frustrating that i have to type this slow. i decided to start drinking lots of water. my goal is 5 bottles a day. yesterday i had six. i'm on number 4 for today and it's only 1:48! :) i don't know how long i'll be able to keep it up but we'll see.

so...baton tonight. shouldn't be too terrible. our term papers are due friday. i think i'll just leave mine at 10 pages long. i seriously can't add much else without making it sound totally confusing and stupid. so if i don't add anything...i'm done. which is good. good to be done.

laura and i want to go to iowa city next week...we're either going to go tuesday (if laura doesn't have to work) with stacie & elisabeth or just us on monday. i don't know if mi madre will let me spend the night but ya know...it doesn't hurt to ask.

uh oh, lex is up again. ho hum. ohhh i have spanish homework. i should do that before baton. do i have anything else i need to do? i don't think so. that's good, it's hard to get stuff done when you have to watch a puppy. i mean, i love my puppy but i can't wait for him to be a little older and more well-behaved so i don't have to watch him every second and whatnot. i'm going to post this now, even though i have a suspicion blogger will be dumb and it won't work. adios!

3.18.02 | 10:07am

back to school. blah. my school is so WEIRD. okay, i wake up this morning, go to school...no one is there. i find this rather odd. i think to myself "is it such a nice day they decided to cancel school?" because there is seriously no reason i can think of. i go home and call angie. apparently we have a 2 hour FOG delay. right. i don't see any fog. but i'm not going to complain. my classes don't start until 11:10 today. fun fun. i hope i still get out at 1:40. i'm not sure...i think we'll probably have 4th hour before 3rd hour today. cuz they have to have lunch around a certain time. or something.

my poor puppy is crying. he isn't happy unless he's sleeping or he's WITH people. i have him in his pet taxi so he can sleep but uh...he's not. i feel bad, but i can't watch him constantly.

on friday stacie and i ended up going to a different theater and seeing the royal tenenbaums. and laura really was surprised at her party. it was nearly impossible to get her home though.

ohhh poor lex. now i'm typing with one hand and holding lex in the other cu i czn't stand to listen to him cry, it's hard to type this way, so i'm going to go now.

3.15.02 | 2:58pm

yaaay for friday! i actually kinda have stuff to do this weekend. tonight stacie and i are going to ames. we're going to go to fazoli's and see a movie. we don't know what yet. it's either going to be a beautiful mind (she hasn't seen it yet and i think i could handle it again) or we were soldiers. then tomorrow i should probably work on my term paper and get it all done so i don't have to worry about it again before we turn them in on friday.

tomorrow night...well, i'm assuming laura doesn't visit this website when i say this...we're throwing her a surprise birthday party. i hope people show up. lol it'd be really funny if i brought her home and like 2 people were there to surprise her. i would laugh. oh! tonight we're bringing Lex home! i'm kinda sad i won't be here until late because i'm going to ames with stacie...he'll probably be sleeping or something when i see him. maybe if my mom goes to get him RIGHT after she gets off work he can be home before i leave. it's doubtful, but there is a slim possibility.

i'm already plotting a new layout for this site...i won't DO it until spring break probably but that's okay. ooh i went to wal-mart the other day to pick up my puppy pictures and i saw that they had moulin rouge on video finally! yaaaaay! i

3.12.02 | 11:00pm

stacie and i decided we like shakira because we can sing along with her and sound terrible but it's okay because in reality she does too, she just pulls it off a lot better than we do.

okay be WAY proud of me...my rough draft is DONE. it could still use some work but that's why it's called a rough draft, right? yeah. i'm on icq...i hardly ever get on here, i don't know why i decided to tonight.

ginger came home today. the poor thing has this big purple cast thing...she limps around and whines...i feel so bad for her! :( on the positive...tomorrow is already wednesday! of course, i am very anti-wednesday and thursday night because of baton, but still.

i want my cold to go away. i swear it hasn't completely left since like october. ahh my poor puppy! her leg just kinda sticks out at odd angles when she moves and it looks really uncomfortable. poor baby! then she looks at me with her big puppy eyes and it makes me feel even worse for her.

i'm cold. i think i will go to bed soon because my bed is warm. jor is telling me "the jaime story" again. he already told me but apparently he doesn't remember. i told him he already told me but i guess he missed that. so i'll just humor him.

aww! my poor baby puppy! i'm sorry, i just hate to see lil' animals cry.

laura has a prom date. she asked jim. she says she "didn't mean to, it just sort of happened." riiiight. that's good though. elisabeth just im'd me..."I guess i have a boyfriend now." uhm. okay. people are being weird tonight.

i don't like school. it makes me bored. i have gym tomorrow. which means i should go to bed soon so i can wake up on time.

3.11.02 | 9:42am

i need a new guestbook. my old one is gone forever (thank you very much, envy.nu) and i hate the bravenet one so yeah...eventually i will have a new one. i'm just blabbing. right now i'm not at school because i woke up with a nasty headache. it's better now so i think i'll go to school after lunch. i only have 2 classes then, but it's all good. i posted reviews for hart's war and the time machine in case anyone is interested. hmm. yeah. yesterday i went to visit my puppy. he's just so cute! we might get to bring him home this friday after all. it depends on how ginger is doing after her puppy knee surgery. if she's in a bad mood we'll wait until the 22nd to bring lex home. i want him NOW! :) i'm going to go work on my rough draft and get it over with so i don't have to worry about it when it gets closer to spring break. 11 days!

3.8.02 | 4:39pm

okay the new layout's up...i don't know if everything is right because i haven't looked at it but if there *is* something wrong i'll get around to fixing it eventually. i had to take down the wallpaper pages and the gallery because of the weirdness over at virtue & envy. i don't know if i'll redo them or not...they're kind of a pain. no, they're really a pain.

3.7.02 | 2:44pm

i have successfully created a new layout. however, i was not thinking when i did it and i made it one of those stupid hard to make look right ones. lol you know what i mean. it probably will frustrate me to the point that i won't use it. but i'll give it a shot for the team.