This Is Depressing

I had an OKAY first day of the new school year. If I can say anything at all it's that I hope tomorrow or at least sometime in the year is better. Sigh* I really don't have much to say. Today was quite boring. And more than once it was a let down of sorts. I thought I was kind of excited for school, but I didn't really see it coming. I wish I could escape.

Later...

I counted my poems and I now have 97 fair quality poems. They just accumulate and what am I to do with them? I think a book of poetry would be so nice.

It's Coming

1 day more. I am somewhat reluctant to start school. But we have no choice so might as well try to be happy about it.

Pros on Starting School

• Seeing everyone
• Having stuff to do
• Getting to be with friends and other people everyday
  
• Seeing people
• Learning(I guess)
• ...I can't really think of many more...
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If anyone else can think of any other pros let me know k?

Also, I was doodling on my leg with a sharpie earlier and, wow, I never realized how potent the sharpie smell is. xP

Today I... got up at 9:30 after getting only 5 hours of sleep, saw my grandma, checked my email, read, wrote poetry, checked the blog, watched Olympics (wooh! More on Olympics later), went back to sleep and slept for three hours and consequently did not eat lunch, watched more Olympics, read, doodled, made pie, ate dinner, ate pie. I'm tired now so I'm headed to bed soon. Yawn* Anyway about the Olympics, has everyone been watching? What are your favorite events? Mine are the Men's diving and gymnastics. I'm so tired! I really need to get back in to the sleep routine so I can get up early for school. G'night all!

Bringing It Back

Okay, wow, so I'm really really happy. Wanna know why? I got roller blades! I got them online but I'm pretty sure they'll fit me because I looked at the sizing and all and it seems they should fit. Yaaaaay! The main reason I'm so happy is because I've always wanted to try rollerblading but I've never gotten to it. I have never EVER even worn a pair of roller blades let alone tried skating in them. I really enjoyed when we did rollerskating in gym class plus I've grown somewhat fond of ice skating so I think I could really enjoy rollerblading. Also, I searched for arm warmers and fingerless gloves online and I found a lot of really cute ones. I just think they're so useful. Somewhat stylish, plus they keep you warm. The ones I made aren't really that good when I think back on it so I feel the need to get some made with either a knit or a t-shirt sort of fabric. But those can wait to be bought until fall when I'll actually be wearing them. Anyway enough talk about my shopping needs, how is everyone? Still good perhaps even happy I'm hoping. My grandparents are in town right now, so that's another thing for me to be happy about. I love my grandparents and well, all of my family. Family and friends. That's what matters.

Later....

I wrote some poetry today and I thought I'd share this one....

Lullaby

Oh sweet lullaby as calm as the ocean

Soothing as the waves

You who lull me

Your soft rhyming words like sweet nothings in my ear

With a tune light and gentle lead me to sleep, for I go willingly near

You lure me to lands of rest and of dreams

And for that I go not reluctant

So that I am almost unwilling to stay awake

Don't Fail Me Now

Yawn* I'm tired, and I may take a nap soon. Let's seee, today I hmmmm I emailed people, I rated shoes, I decided I'd like to learn how to rollerblade eventually, I sang a little, and I vacuumed. So, wow can you believe how fast the time has gone by? Back to school in *gasp!* 5 days! I'm kinda happy now that we're headed back to school. Okay maybe not happy, but I'm okay with it. I've spent my summer as I wish and now I don't mind getting back to school. Plus I'm excited for the new school year. It's gonna be fun... right? Let's hope so. So what are all of your feelings towards the new school year guys? I'm happy a lot of us are on the same teams although it stinks that poor Sophia is on visionaries while I'm on discoverers. sob!* We'll miss you Soph! Okay it's not lke she's moving but still, her locker isn't even near mine! Hopefully we'll all have the same lunch though. I certainly do not want to be that last lunch of the day. How awful! I'd starve. Actually it probably says my lunchtime on my schedule I just haven't checked yet which one I am. (runs and checks schedule*) So my extra team time is at 8th period... does that mean I have the last lunch???? NOOOOO! I'm going to die! I'm going to pass out in the middle of the day! I'll starve!!!!!!! ...actually, I'm kinda hungry right now. I'm gonna go get dinner in a bit. Milk and cheese sticks and biscuits. YuMMy! ... I really hope discoverers and visionaries have the same lunch. For anyone who wishes to know Soph and I think we're going to try to sit at the same table we did last year in the same spot if we have the same lunchtime so... yeah. (We're chatting in gmail right now.) Mom's calling me too dinner. ...Oh yeah and one more thing, I love the smell of dish soap. Especially Mrs. Meyers Lemon Verbena. Very soothing and strong scent.


Later...

Okay it's official, sewing is cool and I am awesome. Have you ever heard of fingerless gloves? :P This is one of the pair I made!....


And they can be in all kinds of fabric. Soooo, I got bored and decided to make some. I'm super happy with how they look. Anyway I think they're pretty fun. They are a teeny bit tight, but still, very cool. Right?

Thunder And Lightning Aren't So Frightning

Okay so, wow. Big storm last night, er well I mean it's only 8am so it's still going on, but I don't want to get up and do stuff because the rain makes it feel so much earlier that 8o'clock, but I'm not tired and I can't get back to bed because I know I should be up doing something. So I'm here! I just hope our house doesn't get struck by lightning. Ha! Of course, I think a bigger problem would be one of the many huge pine trees in the back getting hit by lightning and falling on the house. :P So did anybody else hear all that loud loud LOUD! thunder from the storm? That was around, er, well the entire time. The different thing about this storm sort of to me is that it started around 5 and the fact that it lasted all night until now, it was such a long storm (it actually stopped raining hard at 7ish I think but there's still a lot of thunder and lightning going on) Yawn* I feel like I've gotten up really early but seriously, it's almost 8:30am, this is the time I'm supposed to be up around. I think the other reason I feel like it's really in the morning is because all the lights are still off because mom and Spencer are still asleep. Anyway, I'm off to go feed myself, because I'm not anorexic and I do hope I don't actually "really sound anorexic" :P ....I need to get some malted milk balls, those are so delicious. And now it's raining again.

I'll Lend My Heart To You

TU-bing??? tubing? huh? :P Anyway I got some more music and right now I'm listening to "The Best I Ever Had" by Vertical Horizon. I really like the song, and pretty much all their music. I also got more music by The Goo Goo Dolls, James Blunt, and Maroon 5. Lots of good tunes. I was getting a little bored of the music I already had after listening to it all over and over during our trip. I wanted to add some new song to the mix. Augh, we went to walmart today(we also went to target and kohl's) to shop and we got some more of this "Indulgent Trail Mix" It's soo tasty! It has white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, peanuts, cashews, almonds, and white and red raisons. YuMMy! Soooo... Er... Um... Oh yeah! A day or so ago I was on etsy(the artisan site where I bought my purple sock monkey named Emma after "The Great Emma" who often visits this blog) and I'd been looking for skirts but I came upon some paintings and there was one I really liked so I printed it out and sort of traced it, although I changed quite a few aspects, and then I scanned it onto the computer and added the black(it's a silhouette picture) on microsoft paint (I know I know, if I'm doing something like this I should really use a better program) Anyway I'm pretty happy with the turn out. I actually kind of like the tracing without the black in it a little better than the filled in one. I kept making little changes to the black one so I have two different styles of hair for the girl in the picture. Here are the pics of the white one and the two black ones:

Isn't that so cute?! Now I'm listening to "Must Get Out" by Maroon 5. I really like Maroon 5, I haven't listened to their music for awhile and I'd forgotten how much I enjoy it. Oop, now it's their song "Control Myself". It's nice too.

Heat Lightning, Hot Houses, and Tiny Pagodas

Home again, home again. How sweet at last it is to be out of the car and home! My only annoyance right now is that the air conditioning upstairs was off the entire time we were gone so it is so muggy and hot!!! Did anybody else last night around 9 or 10 see the sky flashing? I think it was heat lightning or whatever it's called but I'm not sure. Sooooo, did anybody else go to see Dark Night? Just wondering. Oh yeah, I lost a tooth. I now have nine teeth saved in my little tooth container. Wooh! (and yes I have lost more than 9 teeth in my life so far I've just misplaced the other ones) And now the gum where the tooth was is really bothering me. Okay this heat is becoming unbearable, I'm getting a fan. ... ... That's better. It's this nice little Chinese folding hand fan that I got at a stand along with three tiny porcelain pagodas for my zen garden at the Quincy Marketplace. Has anyone else heard that there might be a heat wave coming to our area. Oh yeah, this is kinda funny, my cousin is working on Obama's advance team and helping set up events on his campaign trail and she accidentally slipped and told us where he's going next. And people aren't supposed to know where he's gonna be till he gets there. Safety reasons I guess. Anyway, my lips are sealed.


Also... It is in my most educated opinion that when riding a small but fast boat on a calm day one should maintain a speed no less than 40mph. Now that is fun. Sitting at the front of the boat bouncing on the waves, wind blasting in your face as you speed along the water at 40 or 50 mph. Very fun indeed.