Hello All

I am such a bad blogger. Really. I haven't posted in 5 days. So I should probably fill you in on the horribly uneventful and monotonous thing called my life. Let's get started! [fake enthusiasm]

I haven't actually been doing much. My mom had surgery on the 3rd. She won't let me talk about her bodily functions on the Internet, so I can't say what it was for. But anyway, she's been home since the 4th. With me. Every day. And she can't even drive, so we can't go to the mall or anything interesting like that. 

Instead, she's taken me to the rec center pool down the street. She checks out the lifeguards while I swim. It's really quite entertaining. Some people are just so funny.

AN UNFORESEEN LIST! 

5 Signs That You May Be Addicted To The Internet:

• You don't go on the computer for 2 days, and it takes you an hour to go through your email and blogs. 
• Same scenario as number 1, and it takes you 2 hours to go through and watch your Youtube subscriptions. 
• Your friends send you multiple emails, and you, never receiving them, are surprised when they send one with the subject Fwd: RACHEL'S GONE MISSING. SEARCH PARTY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
• You have more than 5 email addresses.
• In those stupid forwarding game/things, you send yourself the email, just to see if it really works. 

5 Signs That You're Addicted To Harry Potter:

• You were EXTREMELY disappointed when your 11th birthday came and the Hogwarts letter didn't come. [I've still got 4 possible chances]
• You had to read the end of The Half Blood Prince and all of Deathly Hallows with a box [or two. or five] of tissues. 
• You try to 'convert' your friends from Twilight to HP. 
• You read Deathly Hallows in 8 hours. 
• Say 'She's such a Lavender' or 'He's such a Snape' or 'He's such a Lord Voldemort' when someone is either A) annoying, B) annoying/mean, C) EVILLLLL

I had a REALLY strange dream last night. I was in some fraternity house/ school thing, and there were a whole bunch of my friends partying. Except we were all college kids. And then for some reason, me and my friends [Becca, Stella, Victoria, Kristina, and Chris] decided to take showers. And there were actual showers, too. Stalls and what not. So we're all showering [ and singing for some reason], and some of our guy friends come in. We [the girls showering] scream, even though we all have towels to cover up with and all. The guys retreat to their respective stalls to change and shower. Except for a few guys, who decide to hang around and talk to us. Including the guy who I used to like. So I walk across the room to the sinks, where he's standing. But I only have a towel on. I try to be all nonchalant and cool, just going over to fix my hair and get my clothes. And then, he starts toward a stall, grabbing my bag with him. And I'm all flustered and fake upset. He goes in the stall, and starts to get undressed. I push the door open, and he's got his shirt off and the belt half off. He says, 'You want to join me?' and I'm like, 'Sure.' All nonchalant, like I said. So I take the towel off, and he's all like, 'Holy cow.' He LITERALLY said 'holy cow'. So we started making out and then I woke up. 

I shouldn't eat chocolate chip cookies or s'mores ice cream before bed.  

BYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEE

Summer Summer Summer

Hello all! It is Wednesday. Boring, plain old Wednesday. 

I have been very productive in my reading in the last week. The books of Summer 2009 are: 

• The Year of Secret Assignments, which I absolutely adore. The ending literally made me laugh out loud. I wish I was Lydia. Seriously. It's extremely witty.
• Just Listen. It was really deep and amusing, like all of Sarah Dessen's books. 
• The Boy Book. I can explain. This book is the second in the Ruby Oliver series, by E. Lockhart. It sounds really stupid and mundane, but it's actually really well written. It has these entertaining and funny footnotes, too. Throughout the book.
• Devilish. It was different than all the other Maureen Johnson books I've read. More fantasy than the others. And of course, not real ending. But a good book nonetheless.
• Someone Like You. Also by Sarah Dessen. I like how she always writes her books about friends and how they have to struggle through such crazy situations. 

I'm reading Wintergirls right now, which is by Laurie Halse Anderson. Her books are really good. Wintergirls is a tad confusing. 

I think the library is annoyed with me. I'm there almost every 2 days, and I always check out 3 books at a time. I just recently found out that all poetry is nonfiction [don't judge me], so that brought on a whole new cornucopia of book options. They don't have a very good selection on Tuesdays though. 

Well, I'm going to go now. Bye people!

P.S. I have been told by a friendly person commenting on Youtube that there is no universal plural form of platypus. Is this true? 

Happy Birthday To Me [=

Hello everyone! My birthday was kind of ho-humish. Only a few things of note today, and none of which had anything to do with my being a year older.

Things of Note:

• I went to my friend Koni's party today. T'was a blast. 
• Received various monetary amounts from parents, friend, and grandparents.
• Went to the beach [at Koni's party] 
• Got whistled at as I tried to cross the street with my friends. 

That was all of today's exciting events. 

Oh. I should probably explain the last bullet. 

Well, we were at the crosswalk, trying to get the people to slow down so we could walk across. Just to note this, I was with 4 other girls. All of which are beautiful, and all of which were wearing bathing suits or shorts shorts. So here come these guys on motorcycles. They zoom past us, and a few of them whistle. And all us girls start cracking up laughing. 

We didn't think to highly of their whistling. 

My roof is very comfortable. I was up there with my dad last night, watching him set rat traps, when suddenly, a GIGANTIC hawk flew down and tried to grab this squirrel that was running. [This was all happening where the bulldozers took down all the trees. The trees that they did leave are surrounded by little fences. The squirrel was running between two trees.] The hawk couldn't get it. So it just gave up. 

Wait. That makes me look mean. It's not like my dad just sets rat traps for fun or anything. There is a genuine rat problem at our house. We've had a maximum of 10 rats on our tree at one time. That's WAY too many rats for me to handle. So we [he] decided to 'thin the herd'. All I did was sit on the roof. I didn't help with the trap- rigging process. 

I think I'm going to sneak to Koni's house at 1 a.m. on her birthday and leave her a lavish birthday present on her doorstep. Wearing ninja-gear, of course. 

Well, I should be going now. I've got a total of 16 pages in my story. I think it's going quite well. 

I say going way too much. 

Bye peoples!

Really? It's Raining? Again?

It's raining again. As you can probably tell. I'm not too happy about this sudden precipitation. It's killing my summer mood. 

I was supposed to go to my friend Sarah's house today, but her parents had to close on a house [her father flips houses] and then they couldn't find my house, etc. etc. Luckily, I'm going to my friend Koni's house tomorrow for her birthday party/thing. Even though it's MY actual birthday tomorrow. I really can't be bothered to do anything special, so it's nice that I'll be seeing my friends. Even though they're not there to see me. And we're going to the beach, because Koni lives directly across the street from it. Literally. I'm MapQuesting it right now, and it's LITERALLY across the street from the beach. 

I've written more of short story/novel. [= You should be proud. It's now 8 pages long. It's about a girl named Beth Hawthorne. Her father's an architect and her mother's a clothing designer. She lives in Colorado and goes to boarding school in Florida. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 'Isn't that idea a little bland? Someone's probably thought of that before.' Well yes, you are right, but I don't actually care. Because I'm just writing this for my personal benefit. So point your disparaging finger somewhere else. *Oh yeah, that's right. You just got told*

Well, I must be going now. Much to do. Actually nothing to do. Bye then! [= 

My Awesome Library Experience

Ok, ok. I said I would tell you about it, so I'm going to. My library experience. 

Before I go on, I just wanted to say that this is just going to be a lot of rambling and stuff. So if you don't want to read that, go now. Save yourself. 

Ok. I live near a St. Pete college campus. They house our library. They suck. The college, I mean. They tore down all the trees behind my house so they can build their stupid parking lot that they don't need. 

We [me and my parents] went to the library on Tuesday. We had to drive there because my mom was feeling ill. Otherwise, we could've walked there. It's only like, 3 blocks walking distance. 

It was amazing.

The first floor is a Starbucks, new books and DVDs, etc. The check-out is there too, as well as some computers. The little kid's area is in the back, decorated like a castle. It's so cute. Then there's a staircase. Once you walk up those steps, you step into a whole new scene. There's at least 30 computers. It looks like there's miles of books. Shelves everywhere. There's a little island in the middle where the library assistant is. There's a teen room on the right. 

But the thing I love the most is the view. There's a long wall of windows up on the second floor, with chairs. The wall faces West, so you can watch the sunset. And plus, there's a view of the woods and the pond [actually it's more of a lake]. 

The books for 'Young Adults' are actually really good. Nice selection. I checked out The Great Gatsby and The Year of Secret Assignments. I finished Just Listen yesterday, and started The Year of Secret Assignments. It's extremely witty and funny. I was going to check out The Catcher in the Rye, but I thought that would be too much to read on top of everything else. Obviously not. The books are all 28 day books, which is nice. 

Listening to 'It's Raining Men' makes me so happy. Seriously. Especially when the part that says 'It's raining men! Hallelujah!' I scream that part. But it doesn't work when you're standing in your driveway and there's several people out and about, staring at you. It's so fun. 

Well, I'm going to go work on my novel/short story/thing. See ya'lls tomorrow! Bye! 

It's Summer! And I'm Bored

It's the first day of summer! I'm really bored. I should be reading. Or swimming. Or at the beach with my friends. Or writing my short story that's not really a short story anymore. It's more of a novel idea/thing. Oh I don't know. 

I'd like to publicly [or semi- publicly, considering no one reads my blog], thank all the people that made this year awesome for me. Here's a LIST!

Sarah, for being my jonas-harry potter-country music buddy. [=

Becca, for helping me with my boy troubles and being you. [=

Scarlett, for being a crazy FM. XD

Chris, for being my Venezuelan buddy who can cheer me up always. [=

Koni, for being my Language Arts buddy who dances, acts crazy, and has Pink Floyd converse. XD

Stella, for helping me with my boy troubles and having some of the most fun and crazy AIM conversations EVER. [=

Victoria, for saving me from Scarlett's wrath. I am forever grateful XD

Kristina, for just being you. XD

Steven, for giving the best hugs ever. XD

Jake and Eric, for being the most hilarious dudes ever. And Jake, you're my twin. [=

Petar, Darius, and Erik, for being my Language Arts buddies. 

Danny, John, and Jabe, you guys are crazy and John needs a girlfriend, but Tech was SO much fun with you guys.  Danny's my red-headed buddy. XD 

Zoe and Shawna, THANK YOU [as well as Danny, John, and Jabe] for giving me the most fun Tech class I have ever had. Shawna, you are the best cat-artist ever. It's official. XD

Jason, for letting me copy off your review in Science. You smart Asian, you. [=

Sarah G, for being the crazy blonde that you are, and being so cool. Science was very interesting with you in it. 

Amani and Delaney, we had so much fun in Gym [and Reading, I suppose]. Our talks about Jeffery, dudes, and other stuff not meant to be heard by the public were so interesting and fun. XD

I love all those people. 

Oh darn, I was supposed to tell you about my library experience from Thursday. Oh well. That's for another blog. 

Bye Guys! See you tomorrow, maybe! [=

It's Finally Here! Or Was, Anyway

Well, the last day of school has come and gone. It was actually pretty good. 

I wore these short shorts, which was one of the crazy things of today, because I NEVER wear shorts. And when I do wear shorts, they're long. So this was quite a shock. They have squares in different colors of purple in them. And I wore flip flops, which was crazy too. My friend Lillie wore soffee's to school, and under them she had these pajama shorts from Target on. But she rolled them up so they're RIDICULOUSLY short. And she DIDN'T EVEN GET CAUGHT. It was shocking. 

I feel so rebellious. And bad. I violated the dress code, had thoughts of skipping class, and almost successfully skipped a class until I decided to go to another lunch. [Don't ask. I'll explain in a paragraph.] I'm also thinking about sneaking out over the summer. Okay, I plan on going to the library, but it still counts. 

At my school, we have three lunches. One is 'A' lunch, containing primarily sixth graders. The second is 'B' lunch, containing mostly seventh graders. And the third is 'C' lunch, made up of mostly eighth graders. I should be in 'B' lunch, because I'm a seventh grader, but since I have Advanced Spanish, I have 'C' lunch. So on days we get out early, the bell schedule changes, so that instead of 'B' lunch after 4th period, it's after 3rd. But that complicates my schedule, so I went to 'B' and 'C' lunch. It was pretty fun.

We had work in Spanish today. WORK. The eighth graders pretty much refused to do any work at all. We took pictures and videos of my eighth grade-buddy Brandon being a complete idiot. We left from 5th period too. 

It was so depressing. We all ran out from the halls, down the stairs screaming like crazy. Someone eventually pulled the fire alarm. I walked across the north courtyard, waiting for everyone to come out of the seventh grade hall. Meanwhile, there were various people standing around, hugging, crying, etc, etc. It was DEPRESSING man. Then came all my friends, streaming out of the hall, screaming, singing, crying, etc. I just kept walking back and forth between the middle of the north courtyard and the stairs, hugging people, having 'have a great summer!' and 'see you next year!' yelled at me, yelling the same things back. It was a great bonding experience. 

Even though I'm seeing at least 5 to 10 of my BEST friends on Saturday [my birthday] for my friend Koni's birthday/end of the year party. That's my highlight of my birthday. Going to my friend's party. 

Funny Quote Of The Day: Where the HELL did that bastard descend from? No woman would want to be pregnant with THAT. - my friend Kristina. 

I'm really bored. Tomorrow is my first official day of Summer 2009! I'll tell you about my library experience tomorrow! Bye Guys! 

Days Left In Seventh Grade: I'M AN EIGHTH GRADER NOW [=