Winter Weather & Twitter-pated Twits!

Its been forever since I've blogged, blogging takes so much time! So what's been happening since forever ago? I took Government and Short Story in summer school, and started off my school year with only one class needed to be outa here: College Writing. And Even If I did want to graduate early--which I didn't--I couldn't because College Writing was second Semester so I decided to keep my schedule. I dropped band and choir for second Semester so I could focus on what I love and am going in to, that being art. I took Sculpture last year, but I enjoyed it so much I decided to take it again this year along with Design Technology. I was down in this old building way off campus for my last hour of the day last semester, but I go out 5 min earlier than everyone else because we had so far to walk to get down there. Now that I have Sculpture in it's place, I find myself rushing to beet the rush-hour after school traffic of angst-y mind-melted teenagers with nothing on their minds but what terribly inappropriate things they're "so gunna do" that weekend rather than focus on their mad driving. But of course, my day is never complete without some jerk-wad screaming at me from outside the car as they walk out from school--in the middle of the road mind you!--"Nice Car, haha..." ...


Well! Excuse me for not being a spoiled-brat, mommy-does-my-laundry, daddy-gots-me-a-new-car-ima-wreck-in-a-week-anyways anal rich kid! Ugh... and honestly, my fathers hand-me-down '93 for escort station wagon is not all that bad...it runs, okay? Idiots...
Anyway, enough of my anal ranting. I often pick up my sister from school because I'm closest I guess.

We went to Texas for Christmas it was really nice to be able to go back after about 3 years of missing out. I got a spectacular camera from my aunt and uncle, it definitely makes my favorite list, really nice one. I got my Senior pictures done a while ago and had them ordered, now I have to hand them out =/. Richard got his wisdom teeth taken out Monday, no swelling at all that little weasel. Knowing me I'll be a blow-fish on day three when it's my turn to have my mouth slit and my teeth ripped out. He's off to Lambert's with his friends before he goes back to college tomorrow and mom's moping about him being gone tonight, it was supposed to be pizza night but we did it yesterday to satisfy her. Now she's standing in the kitchen making salad all comfy and what-n0t while my sister is at the computer probably "like"ing every facebook group in the history of it's existence.

I took the EN100 today, its a timed writing (50 min) essay sort of thing we have to do in College Writing. You have to write an entire essay in the allotted time and have a title. Titles are stinkin hard... my title ended up being "Angst, Angst" because the topic was on our one concern of this time in our life and decided to write about my Career Path and my indecisiveness about what I want to be, where I want to go, what I want to do, and where I want to end up. Hence the "Angst, Angst" title. =)

Well I'm off to do whatever it is I end up doing tonight, I'll probably just watch T.V. since my friends are all lame. Apparently there has to be someone to make a plan and considering we all are the ones who don't really care what happens as long as something does, we all end up doing nothing because no one actually gets around to planning anything. It's a vicious cycle.


Ta ta for now,

Me



Have a great and safe winter!

A New Frame & A Bunch of Nonsense

Today was hecktick, I had a test that I wasn't prepared for as well as I'd like to be, then I had to manage to finish it in time for a meeting where we had fun for two hours, and after school I headed to the eye doctor for a check up. After the checkup I searched for a new pair of frames and ended up getting the exact same kind...I just love change. ;)

During my favorite time of day I was told to write a poem about "Where I'm From" and despite my dislike for these types of poems, I found myself enjoying it in the end and am about to crack it out and finish it. Oh the Joy of a good poem...to have the ability to express through words. What a great opportunity God has given us!

VERY similar to mine, but mine are less square on top =)

In Fact, now that I think about it, These are the exact same frames all except for the part over the lenses...again, mine are more curvy to accent my eyebrows. I got ooober lucky with this google image!

Sunday & the Weekends Basically Over...

It feels great outside but I myself find it too early to really enjoy the weather. We'll be heading out to church in about ten minutes. Afterwards we'll all be coming back home and celebrating the Grandpa's 69'th birthday...he's pretty old isnt he =P. I havent checked back up on my plants since about noon yesterday but I did notice that my cactus was out of its pot and I'm considering shooting the cat, just for a heads up. I dont know what it is with her...its a CACTUS which means it has SPIKES on it and yet I still find the poor rootless cactus out of its pot and on the floor. I dont know if it will ever start rooting if the spawn doesnt leave it alone...hmf. It's very upsetting, as I'm sure you can understand. Quotes? OKAY!!

• The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
  Benjamin Disraeli


• One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
  Kurt Vonnegut


• Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
  John Wayne


• Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
  Oliver Goldsmith


• The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
  Tryon Edwards


• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
  Oscar Wilde

A picture I took of a butterfly at the Zoo

The Art of the Succulent & The Roots of My Aggrivation

I asked and was granted the opportunity to take a few of my art teachers succulents home to grow them myself, and I was hoping for an easy ticket to fast, lush, and moderately unattended plants. To my severe disappointment, after four days I have seen no progress but I have witnessed my cat devouring them. Just because they're a cousin of the aloe plant, does not give her the right to eat them!

I'm fairly sure that one of the stems I have is unable to be brought back to life considering it has at least five puncture wounds and a brown, shriveling leaf. I'm trying hard not to over-water the plants and maintain my sanity, but if I can't even grow succulents—which are the basics of easy plant growing—I don’t know if I could ever manage any other.

The best luck I've had was with my air plants that require nothing but...well...air. It's beyond depressing and I'm verging on hysterics. Maybe I'm just being to anxious, or the soil isn’t deep enough, or I'm giving them too much light in the bay window, or I'm watering too much...either way I could REALLY use some suggestions on how to help these pretty little plants stay alive!! Comment and let me know?


The cat and her mischief:
My good plant that I'm hoping will continue growing:
My Cactus...I'm not sure about this little guy:

The three that are getting on my nerves:

Icy Weather & a Rant Or Two...

I enjoyed going to the youth rally in Paragould Arkansas February 19-21 but I'd have to say, it's good to be home and resting up. I'm happy to see that Amanda's baby is doing well and that everyone else that blogs is doing better than me at keeping up with this =P. Sad to be back at school again, but life must go on and on a sadder note; I have to continue in its path. Can't wait to see the baby cousin in March/April. There's a little update on my life, not seen much here but bad and cold weather. When we were in Arkansas the weather was phenomenal and I wish it had stayed that way, but here we are back down in the 30's. Guess i should pull out the ol' coat again...

I'm finding that my seeming obsession with oranges and orange juice in the past few months has not waned a bit, but--perhaps--worsened and increased so that I can’t think of anything but to drink orange juice and join an orange with my meals. But hey! Who doesn’t need iron, right? I am a woman and, when you lose as much iron as we do month by month, I might as well get it all in =D.

Happy to see that pretty much everyone is getting over the flu and cold just to have it again with this wickedly indecisive weather, but I'm glad people have stop obsessing over a flu that was around in the 70's but was blown out of proportion. For my own curiosities sake, does it bug anyone else when people say “no comment” about something, but by saying that they are indeed making a comment and have contradicted themselves? Well I do. I’m not real sure what got me to thinking about it, but it really bugs me. I guess you could call it a pet-peeve, but then again, one of mine is the phrase “pet-peeve” itself because it doesn’t make sense to me =). Well, I should probably end my ranting and sign off for the evening; I have things to do early tomorrow and can’t hinder my own sleep time ;). G’night all, sleep and dream well.

Eh...

Well it's Friday =D. And who doesnt love Friday's?! Going to a play tonight with some friends, hopefully I'll get some pizza.

Here's a few short quotes, hope all of you have an amazing weekend!

• Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

-Cullen Hightower

• Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

-Paulette Bates Alden

Book Quotes:

In Fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities they only dreamed of...
-(Picoult 40)~Handle with Care

I think he built a dam around his heart, with a reservoir of guilt backed up out of sight behind it, so his eyes seem to shine with innocence.
-(Adlington 444)~Cherry Heaven or The Diary of Pelly D

Vanity and Pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
-(Austen 42)~Pride and Prejudice

It's so hard to describe. It's not like love at first sight, really. It's more lik...gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her
-(Meyer 176)~Eclipse

Maybe if I push my face hard enough into my pillow, I'll sink into it and disappear forever.
-(Krovatin 63)~Venemous

Children see racial differences as much as they see the difference between pink and blue--but we tell them that "pink" is for girls and "blue" is for boys. "White" and "Black" are mysteries we leave them to figure out on their own.
-(Bronson 56)~Newsweek Magazine

Afraid? Of what? To feel the spirits glad release? To pass from pain to perfect peace, The strife and strain of life to cease? Afraid--of THAT? Afraid? Of what?

-(Hamilton 74)~Afraid?

Happy Turkey Day!

Hope yours was as great as mine!

Gotta love that Sparkling Cider!

• Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

-Jane Howard

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

-Ogden Nash

• No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

-Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata