It's been a couple of days since I was last on here, but I've been pretty busy. One night I didn't go on because I rented Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea. The next night I didn't come because my brother wanted to go on. Last night I wasn't on because I had a Star Party to go to for my Astronomy class. (The class meets up with the teacher so he can show us the constellations that we're learning.)

But I'm here now, so I might as well blab on about what I've been up to.

Dawn was absent earlier this week due to being sick. I was very sad. But she was only gone one day, so it was all good.

There was a fundraiser for "Grad Night" at one of the pizza parlors in town, and Steven said he was going to volunteer there. I convinced my dad to take me over there. We got pizza for dinner, since we were there anyway, and while we were waiting for the pizza, Steven and I talked for about ten minutes.

That same night, I watched Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea. I also watched the little short Pikachu movie that came with it. The Pikachu short was rather disappointing. It was like watching Teletubbies or some other show created for five year olds. The narrator was translating for the Pokemon, and it looked way too corny. What happened to the good Pikachu shorts from when I was younger???

The actual movie was great. The plot was interesting, but there were spots where the dialogue was way too cheesy and didn't seem right. There are new voices for Ash, Brock, and the members of Team Rocket. I was very put off from Ash's new voice; I think it's much too harsh a voice for him. Sadness! I miss the old voices! But, alas, every good thing has to end sooner or later...

Anyway...yesterday I went to the Astronomy Star Party. Luckily, it's located not even five minutes from my house! My dad drove me there, but he was going grocery shopping and said he wouldn't be able to give me a ride home. So, I asked Steven if he could give me a ride. (Steven is in my Astronomy class, if I haven't already said that somewhere.) Steven just recently shed his "provisional driver" status (that's what it's called when you can't drive minors, right??) and he gladly gave me a ride home. He's got a really nice car. Don't ask me to name whether it was Honda or whatever...I'm not a car person.

So, that was my really busy week! I'm going to go now because I've got a headache. I hope I'm not getting sick!

karia_roses

I woke up this morning at about 9:00 and read a book until 9:30. Then my dad came in saying that we were going clothes shopping today because I needed jeans and shoes. I didn't really want to go, but I went anyway.

We went to a fence store to get prices of fencing. We want to build a fence around our house so that we can let Bandit, our new puppy, out without having to worry that he's going to run around and get into trouble. There was a machine in the store that sold candy, so I bought some Skittles and ate them while my parents were talking to the guy about fences.

After that, we went to Wendy's for lunch. I got my usual kid's meal hamburger with pickles and ketchup only. I know I'm seventeen, but I still like getting kid's meals. I'm cool like that. My meal came with a little puppy stuffed animals that was SO CUTE! I named him Dublin. Isn't that a cute name for a puppy stuffed animal???

When we finished lunch, we went to Wal-Mart. My mom and I tried some jeans on there, but none of them fit right. All of the ones I'd grabbed were low-cut "hip-hugger" jeans and I HATE those! I think they're stupid because they cut right across my little pudge of a belly. Dawn wants me to wear them, but I hate them and refuse to wear them. Bleh to hip-hugger jeans!

Anyway, I did buy something at Wal-Mart! I bought My Sims, a DS game where you run around as a little Sim and fix up a town so that tourists start flocking. It's really fun!

We went to Kohls next to find some more jeans to try on. My mom and I both found TWO pairs of jeans, which is a big thing for us because it takes us FOREVER to find jeans. The funny thing is, the jeans we got are the exact same style, just different sizes. So, my mom and I pretty much have the exact same pairs of jeans!!! I'm okay with it though, because my mom hardly ever gets anything for herself, and we're built so much the same that us having the same pairs of jeans was bound to happen!

I also got a new pair of shoes at Kohls!!! They're a pair of Vans. I consider them sneakers, but you could call them "skater shoes" too, if you wanted. They're black, red, and white plaid. I need to put in different shoelaces though, because I don't like the shoelaces they came with.

So, today was a good day! YAY!

a happy karia_roses

Not MORE rain!

Stupid, flooping rain!

Actually, it didn't rain as much today. It was WINDY! It was so windy, it was hard to use an umbrella! My umbrella almost flew out of my hands!!! Oh, yeah...I got my umbrella back from Dawn. She left today to do her Winter Guard competition. I wonder how she and the others did?

Today was pretty boring. Nothing very exciting happened.

In my Teacher's Aide class today, I sorted slip cast molds and typed up a list of the inventory of molds for the teacher. It took me all period to do just those two things! I love being an art T.A.!!!

I found out that we're going to be doing an in-class essay on Tuesday in my English class. That means we get an hour and a half to write an essay on, "Should society put a monetary value on the lives of people?" All of the other students were freaking out, but I'm just a little worried. Whenever I do an essay on my computer at home, I usually get it done within half an hour. We're allowed to take notes about the topics we're going to discuss in our essay, so I'm going to write it all down to use on Tuesday!

I went to the library after school with my brother. I got a whole armful of books! I got:

1 through 3 of Fushigi Yugi "A Mysterious Play" (manga)

1 through 4 of Pearl Pink (manga)

Case Closed #2 (manga)

The Lost Queen: Book Two of The Faerie Path

Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret

Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

I get the books for three weeks, but I should finish the majority of them before then. I love having a library card! I love to read!!!

That's pretty much all that happened today! Wow, what a boring Friday...

karia_roses

ARG!

Stupid rain!

I know we need it, but does it have to be so flooping WET?

I've got two days to report on, since I got home too late yesterday!

I went to Dawn's Color Guard practice yesterday to take pictures of her for my photography project. The project is titled, "A Day in the Life of ..." and I had to fill in the space with whoever I was going to take pictures of. So, I did, "A Day in the Life of a Color Guard Member." Dawn and the other Color Guard members (most who I know) were very good about having me there taking pictures of them!

I got pictures of Dawn stretching, twirling her flag, holding her rifle and her saber, and some of her hanging out with the other members as they waited for everyone to arrive. It was totally awesome to watch, and I got to see parts of what they're doing for their competition tomorrow.

For those who don't know what Color Guard is, it is where a group of people get together and do a dance using flags. Winter Guard, which is really what they are doing right now, is the same thing, except they use flags, sabers, and rifles. (The sabers and rifles are fake, don't worry!)

So I got to hang out with Dawn all day after school yesterday. Right after school, we went to my house to finish some math homework that was due today, since we wouldn't have time to after the practice. When that was finished, we picked up her boyfriend, Cassidy, from work and brought him home. (Cassidy lives with Dawn because his parents moved to a different state. He's nineteen.) Once that was done, we headed over to our high school for her practice.

When the practice was finished (it went from 6 to 9 p.m.) we headed home. Dawn, being so used to going home after her practice, actually headed toward her house instead of mine. It took me a while to figure out that she was heading in the wrong direction! When I said something, she started laughing.

So, we turned around and headed for my house. It was 9:30 at night by that time, and I was starting to feel sleepy. We started talking about the pictures that I had taken of her and the other members of the Guard. We were laughing and just talking as Dawn turned onto the road that my street connects to, which is when...

WE HIT AN OWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a Barn Owl. I recognized the white, heart-shaped face and the lighter brown feathers on the tops of its wings. It hit the passenger side of the hood. I thought it had hit the window, but it didn't. I was sitting in the passenger seat, so it freaked me out the most.

One second, Dawn and I were talking, and the next...we were both screaming our heads off. She continued to turn and then stopped in the middle of the street as we both laughed and screamed and hyperventilated(okay, so I was the one who was hyperventilating). She asked if I wanted to get out and go check to see if the owl was okay, but I said no, I just want to get home.

I was still freaking out when we got to my house a few minutes later. My dad and brother were sitting on the couch watching t.v. and I told them about it. They didn't seem too excited, though. I guess it was probably because they weren't there when it happened.

It was the freakiest thing that has ever happened to me in Dawn's car! I mean, the owl seriously swooped out of nowhere! One second, we were talking...next second BAM we hit an owl!

I can't get the picture of the owl out of my head, either! It's like permanently etched onto the back of my eyelids!

Today wasn't as excited. I forgot my umbrella in Dawn's car because of the owl fiasco, so I got drenched walking around school. I got the most drenched walking to the bus today. The park that's in between the high school and school was flooded with water, and instead of going around on the sidewalk, Diana and I walked through the water. She had boots on, but I had tennis shoes that ARE NOT waterproof. So, of course, my shoes got soaked with freezing cold water. Seriously, it was FREEZING! To understand how cold it was, I'll just say that we could see our breath as we were walking.

Cold temperature + water + tennis shoes that aren't waterproof = numb feet

Stupid, flooping rain! There's been so much rain this week that the pond below our house has filled up. Our neighbor's driveway is going to get flooded! Oh, well. They deserve it, since they built their house practically on top of ours. Their HUGE house is barely twenty feet from our fence. It's front door has about four or five feet of space from the door before it turns into a steep little cliff that leads down to the pond. My parents got so mad when they found out they were building a house on the three or so acres of land. About two and a half of the acres gets flooded during this rainy season. They built the house on the last acre or so. If the cliff they built the house on collapes, they deserve it.

Anyway, I'm going to get going now. There are a few other sites I want to check out before I have to get off to go and wash the dishes. I wish it was my brother's night to wash, then I could stay online longer!

G'night!
a very wet karia_roses

I hate rain!

I hate when puppies pee on your pants!

I hate kids on the bus who have no idea how to NOT CURSE and WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT PERSONAL SPACE MEANS!

It's easy to tell I had a bad day, huh?

I'm so flooping mad!!!

My day started off with finding my high school yearbook in the living room. I immediately knew my brother had taken it out of my closet and left it in the living room, when I'd specifically told him (over and over and over and over again!) to put it away when he's done with it. I don't want something to happen to my yearbook, and every time he leaves it in the living room, there's a chance of it getting food or some sort of beverage on it! I made him put it away this morning so I knew that it was safe.

I was dreading my photography class today because of a project we're doing it. Of course, when I got there, I was just as frustrated as I thought I was going to be.

After school, my friend Diana and I walked together to the junior high, where we catch the bus that takes us home. We ride the same bus because we live in the same area. She hasn't been coming on the bus for a few weeks because she's a runner for our high school track team and she's been going to practices, so I was pretty excited that she was going to be on the bus because I'd have somebody to sit next to.

But, of course, on our way to the junior high, one of her guy friends showed up, right in the middle of our conversation. The rest of the way, Diana and her friend completely ignored me. Every time I tried to say something, it was like I hadn't said anything at all. I was pretty much invisible!

Then, we got close to the junior high, and she took off to go to get hot chocolate with her guy friend. She asked me if I wanted to go with them, but I refused because I thought that they weren't going to be going on the bus after all. Turns out, they DID catch the bus. I had already found a seat, but I guess Diana didn't feel like sitting next to me because she sat with her guy friend and his friends, who are sort of her friends, too.

So, I got left sitting with a rather large girl who took up more than half of the seat. I like my own personal space, which means that I don't like having any part of the person sitting next to me touching me, unless they are a friend. The entire ride, I was scrunched up against the wall of the bus while the girl next to me rocked out on her iPod.

The bus driver came back before we left the junior high to switch some of the seats the junior high students were sitting in. It's a rule on our buses that the junior high students aren't allowed to sit in the back, so she had to move some of them forward.

And, of course, I got stuck in front of two rowdy junior high boys who thought it was funny to call the bus driver all the fowl names they could think of. I absolutely can't stand cussing, which means I had to endure twenty minutes of the F word, the S word, the A word, and all of the other things they could think to call the driver.

Then, the stupid boys thought it was funny to slam their knees into the back of my seat, causing me immeasurable pain in my spine due to them ramming me. I leaned forward for a few minutes until they stopped, but they had a new idea to annoy me...

THE KID STUCK HIS CELLPHONE IN MY EAR WHILE IT WAS PLAYING A RINGTONE!

And I'm quite sure he had it turned up the highest it could go! Oh, and before I forget, the two rowdy junior high boys in front of me were ramming into the back of their seat, which meant that I was being rammed in the knees while being rammed in the spine.

Oh, yeah...not to mention the STUPID WINDOW LEAKED FROM THE RAIN while I was leaning against the bus wall, which meant by the time it was my turn to get off, my entire right sleeve was soaked through to my skin!!! (I was wearing TWO jackets, too!) I was not a happy camper when I got off the bus.

So, my brother and I walked home together. I told him about my horrible day and asked him to watch the dogs when we got home because I'm going to have to watch them the rest of the week by myself when I get home from school. He said he would because I'd had a bad day.

But, of course, I got stuck worrying about the puppy because he kept getting into things and chewing on my backpack. When we first got home, my brother let the puppy back inside the house when the puppy didn't go pee outside because he thought the puppy didn't have to go pee, when he really DID need to go, meaning the puppy went on the floor AND on my pants, which I'd just taken off to go put in the wash because they were soaking wet BECAUSE OF THE STUPID RAIN!



AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

I hate stupid days like this! I hate stupid rain, and stupid kids, and friends who ignore me, and how flooping cold it is!

::falls out of her chair::

I just want to pull my hair out right now and scream into a pillow!

And I thought today was going to be a good day.

It helps that I'm listening to Simple Plan really loud on my MP3 player, though! Loud music is always great to listen to when you're angry!

I think I'm done splattering my red hot anger all over today's post.

I hope tomorrow's a better day!

karia_roses