From the pages of My Crazy Life and How it Began...

So besides the 81% grade on my math test today has been a good day--I was sick when I took the test; I am lucky I did that well. I was one of the few people in my math class that understood what we were doing. I got to take a long nap before work because I only got four hours of sleep because of my brother and his wife--whose sleeping schedule sucks because Jack works night shift. Work went really well. No strange people or cranky people either. We were really busy though.
I gave my mother my cold. My dad's belief on getting rid of a bug is to give it to someone else. Well, the bad part about it is that my mom got my bug worse than I did. She's hacking and croaking around the house. I only really got a slight croak and the occasional cough... explain that one. And for once at work today I did not have a cold sweat. YAY! NO Fever!
I finished my lab report over an hour ago. I noticed that I am getting faster at doing them. This is only because I am the only person who writes them. I think my lab partner is really happy that I am writing them. Do I mind that I am doing most of the work??? Hmmm... yes and no. Let's just say my lab partners grades are a little scary. I don't want to be dragged down with her.Just to let you know I did not choose my lab partner. She kind of attached herself to me. This actually happens a lot. Anyway I guess I don't mind that I am being used because I am going to have the "opportunity" to write lots of them in the future. It's better to get a lot of experience doing them now rather than later.
Anyway, I think that's all for now. I will write whenever I get on LJ. Heh yeah right... I've been on LJ off and on since the time before I last posted and not wrote anything. I guess it's whenever I don't feel lazy anymore.

Haha... It would be great, if no one said anything about how it has been almost a year, since I updated. Anyway, I would just like to bring you up to date on the things going on right now. There are three weeks until winter quarter is over. I think I have A's in all my classes. I am currently taking Chemistry, math, music history and appreciation--that class is just to fill in the space and credits because what we are going over I already know--, and Studium Generale--I usually sleep through it... the little theatre seats are not the most comfortable things to sleep in. Next quarter is going to be my last quarter at PC. I just have to take 17 credits to get my AA degree. On February 10th, or something like that, I turned in my transfer application to UW. I'm pretty sure I'm going to get in, but stranger things have happened. God is in it, and I think I am going the right path. My mother says we really need to get out of PA. I don't doubt her.
I am going to miss Jeremiah. I hardly see him as it is. My mom claims he might start visiting me, when I move, but considering he doesn't even attempt to see me during the week, I do not have much hope for that happening. You never know what will happen. About Jeremiah... I'm pretty sure he likes me. Evidently, Jeremiah and I are the joke of our families. My brother said he said something about Jeremiah and me to his sister Emilee and she just started to laugh. Jeremiah's sister Sarah teases him like crazy, and whenever I'm around his dad, he usually ends up teasing us both. Which results in Jeremiah glaring at him. That might be because I was in his room and his dad came by and checked to see what we were doing. His dad started making comments about me sitting on his bed and something about not making out--he was not being super serious about what he was saying. Jeremiah was glaring at him though. I do not really know how to explain his behavior. My mom said that he is possessive. She told that the one time at the Christmas party held at his house, when she came down to get me, she said he was like a territorial growling dog. This might also have to do with Ren being in the room. Ren was in one of my college classes and we were talking about our grades. Anyway, my mom said she did not know he was so possessive and here I thought the whole time Jeremiah was ignoring me. I just do not understand guys... GRRRrrrr....
And now on to another topic. I have finally gotten over my cold. On Tuesday when I had to work, my nose was so runny. I would go to help people and my nose would start to drip. The stuff was like water. I felt somewhat like crap before I went to work and by the end of work it went from crap to horrible. I kind of made mｙ assistant manager really worried, when I almost kind of tilted over during a dizzy spell. After work I bought some Niquil, drove home, had a break down--involves lots of crying... normal occurrence when I am sick--, ate some soup, took niquil without gagging, and went to bed. I did not go to school Wednesday. I just slept the whole day. I went to school Thursday because of a math test. I think I bombed the first question. I went to work feeling a lot better, but I guess I still had a fever because I had a cold sweat the entire time. There was no school on Friday and I did not have to work. I mostly slept and caught up on some of the Japanese and Taiwanese dramas I had not watched yet. Saturday, I was not suppose to work, but Sarah called and asked me to work for her because she was sick. Ember the other closer went home with a Migraine--her boyfriend picked her up because she could not even see straight. That meant I was the only closer, so from 7 until 10:00 I was by myself closing the Deli. I actually got out around 10:24. I could have got out sooner, but the floors would of looked like crap. I figured since I probably would not get done at 10, I would do a good job on the floors. I also had a cold sweat the entire time I was at work. I guess I still had a fever... eheh..
Anyway that is all for now. I guess I will update, whenever I get to it.

Lots and lots of news... tired... don't know if I want to write it all right now. Here is a short version. I will do a longer one tomorrow or whenever... okay anyway... I have a job at Safeway (Deli Clerk); first day of closing that I have experienced. It sucks. Bought a $111.56 pair of shoes today.. well yesterday now. Makes me realize I have a shoe fetish, but then again I already knew that. Jeremiah and family still in Europe. Jeremiah said he would bring me something back. Looking forward to it. I have to clean my room and the upstairs bathroom tomorrow, I mean today.. whatever. I'm REALLY, REALLY TIRED. Okay going to bed now...
These are the shoes I ordered.

Yesterday night and earlier this evening I have had the opportunity to baby-sit two beautiful, sweet, adorable girls. One is five and her name is Tessa and the other one is ten, her name is Katie. Katie is very into horses so she has a lot of things that have to do with horses. She recently has her own personal horse. She showed me a picture of it. I really enjoy baby-sitting Tessa and Katie.
Jeremiah was sick yesterday. Mr. Smith had said that Jeremiah had called him and told him that he was puking. I added puking his guts out to that phrase. He went to school today even though he said he still didn't feel good. He forgot to bring me the chocolate he said he was going to give me. He said that I need to remind. So I called him and left a message for him to bring them tomorrow... Anyway, I'm extremely tired, so I'm going to bed. Good night.

Wow! I haven't wrote anything for almost 4 months. The funny thing is that I have been on LJ multiple times, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to write anything. Hmmm... Reasons.. Well, I was extremely sick for almost a month. My grandpa died. I mad rushed to finish my Scholarship Notebook. The first 5 pages looked really good and then it went all down hill from there. I also found out while I was doing my Scholarship Notebook that I was ranked 17 out 330 for the Senior class. Now I am #15. The other reasons I wasn't on was because I got side tracked.
Oh, I can finally tell you what Jack (my brother) got me for my birthday. It was a computer and I am currently typing on it. Jack also bought me a DS Lite and 3 games, but I have to pay him back. That will be happening very soon hopefully. He might not get paid back until Summer when I get a job since getting a job right now is currently put on hold because I'm going to be playing Lacrosse. Unless the Job is night shift that is, but I don't think that is happening. I would probably end up killing myself doing that. Stupid workaholic genes.
Speaking of Lacrosse, I have to get a physical today. Ohh joy... a physical... Practice starts Monday the 26th. I don't have any of the gear for it. I think they use cleats so I can probably use my softball cleats. Jeremiah said I can probably use the stick he is borrowing from Brad since he is not going to be playing this year. Which is somewhat disappointing, but oh well.
My most recent on the Jeremiah and Kaitlin situation. I have no idea what's going on. Kaitlin has basically disappeared off the face of the Earth and it sounds like Jeremiah is trying to avoid. He told me on Valentine's Day, after I jokingly asked if he was going to give a Valentine thing to Kaitlin (he had printed out a bunch from VG Cats and was giving them to just about everyone), that he wasn't going to give her one. He said she claims that he is stalking her. Which is quite funny since it is really the other way around. She probably also claims that Caleb is also stalking her. She still hasn't forgiven Caleb for dumping her. You should here her go on and on about what Caleb is doing and what he is doing with his new girlfriend to Caleb's twin sister. That woman is psychotic (Kaitlin not Caleb's twin sister)!
I have a skit to do tomorrow in Japanese. Tara skipped Japanese so we were not able to go through our skit. Carl infuriates me sometimes. He said he wont read Katakana or Kanji. It's really sad when 2nd years know more than Carl who is a 4th year student.
Another note, I am now a library TA during 5th period. The librarians like the fact that I read the shelves. So right now I'm kind of trying to get the library shelves back into some order. I really, really like to organize the shelves.
Today I gave Jeremiah a ride to Driver's Ed again. This is his last week in Driver's Ed, which is great. Not that I mind giving him rides. It's on the way home, so it works out. I just happy he is getting his license.
Which reminds me, I really, really need to clean out my car. Megan has filled it with trash.... and I need to clean it soon. I have no idea how that much crap got in there but there is a lot in there. I also need to vacuum it out. Argh...
Some other new, almost 2 weeks ago someone ransacked my car. They took my registration and my insurance card. I have no idea what they are going to use it for; I don't think I even want to know, but it just makes me mad that they took it. We reported it to the cops, but we probably wont get anything out of it. I have a new insurance card and my tabs expire this month, so when I went to get tabs, I got a registration paper. I just hope it doesn't happen again.
Anyway I think that is all for now. I might write more later. Hopefully we will go get my physical done sometime soon, so that I can get it done and over with. I will try to be more consistent with my entries, but I might not because my mom has recently been on me about getting my Senior project done before Lacrosse starts. I can probably write the first half before Monday, if I quit procrastinating so much. Anyway, Good-bye for now!

Today I found out that I have a Japanese vocab quiz tomorrow. A quiz on a lesson with like 200 vocab words. Not only this, but I have an exam in PoliSci ugh... And another thing, I have to get up at 5:25 am because I have a 6:15 Wind Ensemble rehearsal (are they trying to KILL ME). I will also be going to Naina's house to get my dress takes in like 4 inches ON BOTH SIDES, but that is after school. And I might be able to get my early birthday present from my brother. I really want to know what it is... I have a few guesses, but again I am not going to say them.
I went to the library today to get "Day of the Scarab" off hold. I got two other books. My book I had on hold wasn't on the hold shelf so I had to go up to the front desk instead of the express check out. When I went to check out my books, I was told that I had a $4.00 fine. I was confused how and so I asked her why. She looked it up and said it was for a missing barcode and the author thing on the spine on the book. The problem about this is that they put the charge on a book that was still checked out to me. I had just turned in that book and it still had not been checked in. Not only that the charge was made 10/27. I didn't even go to the library on Saturday (I was going to but I didn't have time to... which is good thing right now otherwise I would be having to pay a fine that wasn't mine). Not only that the fine was put on by someone from Sequim. I have never been to Sequim's library and I don't even know where it is. I told this to the librarians and I had 2 very confused librarians on my hands. So yeah, hopefully it gets sorted out soon.
I ran 6.5 miles in 1 hour and 5 minutes on the usual machine. My stride has increased to 170 from 130 which is good. Which is good. In my 5 minute cool down 132 strides feels like I'm walking.
I kind of blew my ignore Jeremiah thing, but I believe it was his fault. I successfully ignored him in band. I avoided him during lunch by going to the library and dealing with that irritation. I ignored him during Japanese or tried to. I didn't mean to make eye contact with him, but I did. And then there was the time when I was talking to Nick about anime and he came up there and found an opportunity to talk to me. When class was over I was sure I left him behind me only to find him almost walking beside me on the grass... He was still in the classroom when I got 10 ft away from the door. He must of been walking fast to catch up with me. He started to talk to me then until we reached the band room and then we parted. See it's all his fault that I failed at ignoring him... well maybe it's partially my fault..
This morning was the first frost of this year. I spent like 5 minutes scraping my windows, while Jack sat in the car and complained. When he could have been helping me scrape. It also didn't help when I was going to college that the sun was super low in the sky, so that I was blinded and couldn't see anything. It didn't help that oncoming traffic didn't turn on their headlights. I really couldn't see where I was driving for vast majority of the ride there. The nice thing about it is that after a couple of weeks we wont have that problem... Now all we have to do is get blinded for a couple of weeks. Argh...
Anyway, I have to go finish studying for my PoliSci class. I will study for Japanese tomorrow, when I have free time. Waiting for Megan to get done, waiting for 2nd period to end, lunch, and 5th period. Plenty of time... at least for me. Only thing I have to worry about is the Kanji and the stupid counters.

Nothing much to say today. I kind of almost blew the ignore Jeremiah thing today... well, actually I did. It's not my fault that he sat next to me in Sunday School and then proceeded to mess with the pencil and highlighter container. Putting pieces on wrong. He wouldn't let me fix it either. He kept pushing my arm and grabbing my wrist. I don't understand this, but oh well. Another thing that caused me to blow the ignore Jeremiah thing was that I told him about these old fashion donuts that I had before. Normally old fashioned donuts are dense like pound cake. I had some that were so soft and light that they squished in my back pack. They were extremely delicious. I made up for the ignoring thing when I went straight upstairs and didn't talk to him... at least until he started talking to me about a statistic in Evangel magazine he was reading and then there was tootsie pop comment. It's pastor appreciation month and pastor had received some tootsie pops. He mentioned it during church. I like tootsie pops; they are so good (except for the lime and chocolate flavors). And then there was the time where my mom and I were telling a story about our family and me mentioning that my mom sicks Megan on me ALL the TIME because she can't handle much more of Megan. Also, about the time where I said, "Mom! Dad's being obnoxious again!" And then there was the time he said good bye to me and I said bye back (but does that really count). All in all, I think I totally blew my ignore Jeremiah thing.. He is partly to blame...
Well, I guess I'm done for the day. So BYE!

Today I was and still am in a great mood. God has been answering my prayers; I guess. I have been at peace about the whole Jeremiah thing. I keep singing the song "His Eye is on the Sparrow" and I've been super cheerful. What makes me say that God has answered my prayers happened today. Evidently, Emilee (Jeremiah's sister) had called to invite me to a movie night at her house, but I didn't get the message. My dad had picked up the phone and for some reason it didn't answer and she ended up leaving a message on my answering machine. I didn't find out about it until it was over and Cody had told me about it. I know I would of had a hard time ignoring him if I went to his house. I think his whole family knows I like him and they seem to encourage the relationship we have(wacky as it is). Anyway, so I missed a movie night that I would have really enjoyed.
More good news. "Day of the Scarab" is done being processed and it is now being held for me at the library. Hooray! I've been waiting almost a year for the library to get this book. I will pick it up Monday during lunch when I'm avoiding Jeremiah.
More good news. I found out I'm getting an early birthday present from my brother and I will get one from Amber too. The birthday present, I think, is going to be somewhat expensive (like $100 or so). I make this assumption because he got Megan a digital camera. Megan got her present before mine (even though my birthday is a day before hers and our birthdays are like a month away) because Jack said that the place he was buying it from did something (or something like that). I hope he doesn't get me a digital camera because I'm not really into that kind of thing, but I think he knows that. Anyway, I have a small guess about what it is he is getting me, but I wont say what I think it is. You will have to wait a few days and see. Nya :p!
I made an observation today. Megan and Amber are extremely similar. It's kind of scary. No wonder Megan and Amber fight so much. My mom said it's kind of bad because Jack is basically marrying the sister he always fights with. I hope and pray that once they're married that their marriage will bloom and prosper.
I'm reading another wonderful book by P.C. Cast, called "Goddess of the Sea." I have only read like 40 pages of it but it is pretty good. Carp and Crackers! That reminds me I need to study for my PolySci test and do my Astronomy homework early because I wont have time to do it.
Ohh, I found out yesterday that my LJ time thing, that says when I post, is like off by like 6 hours. I corrected it yesterday and today. I need to remember to so when I post again.
Anyway, that is all for today. Bye! Good Night! And God Bless!

My first misery is that my Wind Ensemble dress is like 2 sizes too big for me. I called Gail and asked her about it and she is like oh that's normal. You can just put some darts through it. Hah! She hasn't seen me wear it. The dress is so big on me that I have like 3 to 4 inches of fabric hanging out under my arms. My dad calls them bat wings (much to his amusement). Gail wasn't interested in exchanging my dress for a smaller one so I have to get it taken in. I thought maybe I could get Robbin to do it. I told her about it, but she said that in order to take it in like I need it to be I would need to actually take the seam out on the sides and cut the fabric. So what I really need is a tailor or a seamstress and all the ones in my church are currently have major family issues. I want to know how they screwed up so much on the measurement of my dress. I haven't lost that much weight since Gail measured me. Anyway hopefully we can get Jessica to take in my dress. She doesn't know if she can do it but we will find out once she has a look of it on me. Well, anyway enough of that rant.
My second misery is Kaitlin, the bane of my existence (well not really). I'm beginning to get extremely jealous of her. At first I was indifferent to her. Her conversation with Jeremiah today has put me over. Due to Jeremiah's promise to himself that he would never date, Kaitlin is upset about that. She asked if he didn't have the promise would he still go out with her and he said yes. He said he liked her. But for some reason he kept looking back and forth from me to Kaitlin the whole time. I'm a little ticked at Jeremiah currently. I guess I have to go back to ignoring him. I think I will start eating lunch at home (except on Thursdays, Honor Society meets on Thursday and maybe Tuesday because Jeff comes on every other Tuesday). My lunch account is almost empty anyway.
Ignoring him helped last time. I guess it's what my mom says... if I start getting hurt I need to pull back. Make him flounder out in the cold for a while and make him work for my friendship. I think what happens is that he is so used to me being around that it doesn't matter as much. Hopefully I will be able to ignore him. I had a hard time last time and I'm probably going to have a hard time this time. I'm going to start praying that God helps me with this. Though I want to pray that Kaitlin hurries and likes someone else but that is just my own selfish desire. I think my problem is, is that I usually like one person for a very long period of time. The current one is three years. Sure I think other guys are cute, but usually is a guy I like starts to go out with a girl, they are off limits to me and I kind of give up on them and try to move onto someone else.
I don't think I have a third misery... OH wait I do. I did so poorly in Astronomy this week. I got like 3 or was it 4 (I hope it's 4) out of 10 on my quiz. I don't want to get a 'B' in this class. If get a 'C' I am going to be extremely upset. Argh... I need extra credit points and I know how to get them. I just need to be pro-active about getting them.
Ohh... I have a 4th misery. Jeremiah has lost Animal Crossing. Not that I would be playing for a while now if he did find because I'm going to start ignoring him. I feel bad about using him for Animal Crossing... So I guess if and when he does hand me the DS with Animal Crossing in it I will hand it back or have him pass it to Megan. This a big step for me.. Trust me. I am a Animal Crossing addict. Good-bye mushroom room how you brightened my day.
Something tells me I'm going to be reading more books now. Great now I'm going back to my loner habits... Anyway enough of my miseries that seem minuscule to some peoples.

Not much to say today. We finished watching Howl's Moving Castle in Japanese today. My Grandma Banner came by. Megan cut her hair and then she cut my hair and my mom's. I got a cool door cover thing. it has many colors and cool drawing on it. I'm tired; I have a headache; and I need to take a shower, so bye until... I guess tomorrow or whenever I remember to get on again.

What happened to my Sunday entry some of you might ask. Well... I kind of got distracted and I was reading a very good book and Megan wouldn't shut up... hmm maybe I should explain myself. Due to my somewhat recent interest in the book "Goddess By Mistake" by P.C. Cast (it's been a few months since I briefly looked at the summary), I finally put it on hold at the library and checked it out Saturday (you heard about this visit). It is a very entertaining book and it keeps you pretty enthralled. I'm curious to know how things turned out for Rhiannon after she switched places with Shannon. Maybe P.C. Cast will write a sequel about it. Then again maybe not. The author was painting her as a villain, so I don't think she will due to the fact that the author has caused everyone to hate her. Though I think a good story would be about her getting judgment for her evil deeds (he hee hee). All the while Megan was playing Animal Crossing and interrupting me while I was reading with mindless chatter.
Today Mr. Gailey was gone so we had my mom's friend was the sub. Thank you God that she can conduct and read music (which kind of goes hand in hand I guess but anyway). The annoying trumpets were bickering. Gabe supposedly split his lip, his throat is sore, and he can't hit the high notes. He kept trying to pass 1st part onto Brian. More bickering. I'm surprised it isn't an all out war between those guys. Brian doesn't want to play first part. Which I think is a good thing because Brain isn't that good. And a few people in the class decided to bait the teacher about "Tacatta for Band." Mr. Gailey made the mistake of telling us that Mrs. Merrillo didn't think we were ready for "Tacatta for Band." Were not going to start playing it until band festival time anyway (which is in four months or so), give it a rest.
I went to the gym at the college today. Amy and some other girl I don't know were on the machine I wanted to go on, so I had to wait for them to get off. Someone else was on the cycling thing so I ended up doing a very brisk walk on the tread mill (however you spell that), for 11 minutes. Then I cycled on some pre-programmed course on the cycle machine for 33 minutes. By the time Amy and her friend were off the thing I call the stride machine. Kind of like a stair climber but you run. I tend to run backwards on it. Don't ask me how or why I just do. It's more comfortable for me to go backwards on it. You can go either way. They encourage you to do both. You will be proud to know I ran forwards today. Miracle of all miracles. I ran for 36 minutes or so. My strides per minute has increased about 5 to 10 more than what I did last week. Hooray! And I guess according to the scale I lost like 4 or 5 pounds. That is always a plus unless you're anorexic, which I'm not and never could be, but I could look anorexic if I weighed 150 pounds. Stupid big, heavy bone structure. Though it's kind of nice when people are trying to guess your weight and they are off by like 30 to 40 pounds. That's how much weight my bones add to me. Kind of depressing. Ohh well I don't my bones will break as easy since they are big I guess. Well I haven't broken any before so I wouldn't know. My sister has but she is a total klutz.
Anyway, I have to go bathe my wonderful, cute, stinky dog before I get in trouble. So Bye!

Where have I been some of you might be wondering, well.... The reasons I haven't been on are: I had many, very, bad headaches; I had lots of homework; I got distracted; I was playing Animal Crossing; I was too tired; and most of all I forgot.
Today was the Home Coming Dance. Jeremiah got asked by Kaitlin to go as "friends" to the dance with her. He told her they were going as friends (notice how there are no quotations... yeah I bet you did. His reason for going with her is just as friends unlike her who has an ulterior motive and is coming of a rebound from Caleb)(I think Caleb is a coward though, he dumped her with a letter, A LETTER!!!). She likes him a lot. It is really kind of irritating how he attracts clingy, annoying, psychotic girls. Katlin reminds me of Amanda, but not as blatant sexually as Amanda.
I should probably tell you about Amanda. Amanda started going to our youth group for some reason; I don't remember why. Anyway, when she first started going, she was convinced she liked my brother and they started going out. Guess after a month she dumped him for another guy, still claiming she liked him. The really sad thing is that Amanda's longest relationship is a month. Amanda doesn't really know who she likes. She goes out with a new guy almost every week or so and even then she is still is hitting on other guys. Well, after a year or so of knowing her, she decides that she likes Jeremiah. She was constantly around. When she did finally tell him she liked him (took like 3 months or less) he turned her down saying he only thought of her as a friend. She avoided him for a couple of months but she told Emilee (his sister) that she still really liked him. This was around the same time that she told me she still really liked Jack. Do see what I'm trying to get across here. I was kind of happy when she moved to Silverdale to live with her mom.
I have a pretty good idea once Kaitlin gets over Caleb or once Jeremiah turns her down, Kaitlin will move on to another guy.
Ohh big news. On Thursday, late night, our water heater blew. Causing 58 gallons of hot water to flood in the street and down the alley towards A Street. So we had no hot water for showers or dishes and other things. We did get a water heater the next day for like $390 or so. You know what the ironic thing is... my dad looked at the manufacturing date for our old water heater; it said 10/12/96. Our water heater it had a 10 year warranty on it. Guess when it blew 10/12/06. That has got to be telling you something right there.
I went to library today to pick up my books that were on hold. I turned in 9 books. I had only read 1 of them through and a huge chunk out of like 2 of them. Now that school has started I hadn't had time to read as much as I did during the Summer. It sucks but oh well. Did I mention I had 10 books on hold. Did I mention I still have 12 at home. Did I also mention that I checked out 2 other books besides. And did I also mention the limit at the library for checking books out is 24 (which I found out the hard way). You do the math. I barely mad the cut off for how many books I could check out. Stupid library and their stupid check out limit.
Anyway, I should probably be going to be now. Good Night!

It's going to be a short entry today. It was freezing cold today. I decorated the new addition to my house on Animal Crossing since Jeremiah said I could. I accidentally pushed power without saving so I got reamed out by the mole. Who is making himself ill because of his yelling. The Japanese students will be at the school tomorrow. I probably wont get to seem them because of my schedule doesn't line up with theirs. I have another headache and the anime Princess Nine FINALLY finished downloading. Jeremiah has the DS right now. I will probably get it back tomorrow. I am going to bed now. I am tired and I have a horrible headache. Good Night!

I just got another bad headache. I hate headaches and they never seem to leave me alone. I just got a headache during choir practice at church. I'm going to go to bed soon so I will make this short.
I paid off the mortgage on the house in Animal Crossing. Now I am adding a new level. I will decorate it tomorrow and not tell Jeremiah. I will see how long it takes for him to notice what happened. I also began catching bugs, though it is not as rewarding, in my opinion, as fishing. Anyway, I will do a lot of decorating tomorrow, or some.
Tomorrow the people from Mutsu are coming. I can't wait to meet some of them. Hopefully I wont have a headache tomorrow.
Youth group went fine. Jeremiah couldn't come because he had to finish an essay for his English class. I have claimed the cow cup in Bambi's class room, even though it is Emilee's cup.
Anyway, that is all for tonight. I am going to bed now. Good night!

I find it severely sad that I haven't written in this since December of last year. What happened??? Good question. I don't know. It might of been because my mom kept on interrupting me when I was typing up entries... hmmm.. Anyway, even though I haven't written in a long time I will not, I repeat, I will not do almost a year account of what I have been doing over the past 9 months or so. I might do a day though.
Today, after yesterday, I feel so much better it's not even funny. I had one of the worst sinus headaches ever. It also didn't help that my stomach decided to hurt also. Why? I have no idea. What does sinus headaches have to do with stomach pains?!? It certainly wasn't cramps. I notice the immediately how bad it was yesterday, when I went to play my French horn today. My tone quality was so much better. I could actually play the music and I wasn't cringing the whole time. Yesterday I was crying during Wind Ensemble; I was in so much pain.
One of the good things that happened yesterday was the fact that Jeremiah (my mom says he is my incognito boyfriend... the only people who don't know they are going out is them... --literal quote that is not true... were just friends) no only gave me the DS almost fully charged, but the charger cord so now I can charge the battery when it threatens to go dead, while I'm playing Animal Crossing (I have been told I'm addicted to Animal Crossing).
On Animal Crossing, I was given a orange in the mail and Jeremiah told me to plant it and take very good care of it. The orange tree lasted about 2 minutes and I somehow managed to kill it. The good news is I found a coconut on the beach the next day. Jeremiah said he would plant my trees for me because I killed the orange tree. The bad news is that Jeremiah accidentally dug up the coconut tree. Officially killing it.
Today in Japanese we were finishing our welcome signs for the soon to be coming Japanese students from Mutsu. I helped Nick, Stacie and Miles's group color. Miles can't color worth beans. Due to almost all the male population in Japanese class, who play Animal Crossing, finding out I play Animal Crossing, I am constantly having then come talk to me about Animal Crossing. I think something is wrong here. There is at least 5 guys in that class that just wont leave me alone. For some reason they are extremely happy that I am wasting away hours mindlessly on a came console. I told them my mom never allowed video games in the house and they were severely shocked (that's my explanation of my addiction to Animal Crossing).
Today was the Tuesday that Jeff, my youth director, comes to eat lunch at the high school. I was going to remind Jeremiah, since he forgot but I remembered on the way to Mr. Valentine's Room that he had a chess game to play against David. I ended up turning around and going to where Jeff was. Jeff gave me some Chewy Runtz. They were good. I called George over. Emilee and I talked to him for like 5 minutes. I gave him my little bag of Doritos, Emilee gave him her juice, and Jeff gave him some Runtz (not chewy).
I finished my Astronomy questions that were due today by midnight. They were pretty simple. I should probably do the quiz, but I don't really feel like doing it now. Actually I should do it now. I probably wont have time tomorrow, with youth group and choir afterwards.
Sometimes I just want to quit choir. I get tired of all the politics in there. What with Rita being a control freak, me not being able to control my random spurts of unintelligent phrases, and feeling like it's a waste in time in general. But the thing is I like, no I love to sing for myself and for people. I don't know if this is the right state of mind to be up in the choir at church or not. God wants us to use our gifts for him. Sometimes I just want to get out of the obligation. Megan's constant nit picking gets on my nerves. I have more than once wanted to quit because of her that and Rita and Vera. Those two don't know when to stop.
Hopefully, Jeremiah will come to youth group tomorrow. I like it when he is there. He keeps me entertained. I like to talk to him. I hate to admit but I like to poke him too (*laughs*).
Speaking of Jeremiah, evidentially the fact that Jeremiah let me borrow his DS is a big shock to Emilee and George. I guess I should feel privileged that he let me borrow it. Tough it took a lot of hinting (saying Animal Crossing over and over again) and annoying begging (whinny voice and all) and permission from Stephen (since is technically Stephen's DS), Jeremiah let me borrow his DS and even gave me the charger. Which I am eternally grateful for.
I talked to Jon today. It's been over 2 months since I last talked to him. He says he has been extremely busy and very stressed. I still haven't gotten Hilliary's e-mail but hopefully it will be forth coming soon. I talked a lot he just acknowledged what I said. Sad isn't it? But that's how just all my conversations online with people go. But then again all the people I IM are guys. Which I don't totally understand...
Anyway, it's getting late. I have to remind Jacky-boy to write out the 3rd and 4th horn part to Espree de Corps (or something like that). I hopefully will write more tomorrow, if I have time. I might have more to tell about Animal Crossing too (*laughs*).

I can't believe it has already been a week since my last post. Friday was unproductive. Saturday, Christmas Eve, is when everything started happening. My dad's side of the family always has a gathering, where we open presents; eat spaghetti; and make fun of Ryan, my cousin, for farting in his sleep and also that his fly was open. Evidentaly, my amazon sister is taller than my cousin Brad. My cousin Brad used to be the tallest cousin. Now, my sister is. I got to enjoy a poem I hadn't heard before, or maybe I had, but I was just so young when I heard it, I couldn't remember it. My uncle Phill, had taken time to memorize all these old poems and stories from his grandma. Whose grandma learned it from her grandma. These stories and poems are very old but they are neat to listen too because my uncle Phill tells them a certain way. It is hard for me to explain.
For Christmas my grandma got me a light green and white coat and my aunt Laurie got me some flannel pjs and a $20.00 gift card to Fashion Bug. After eating and opening gifts, we went home and opened the presents we got from my parents. I got this really neat shirt. It's brown and it will match my skirt, that I only have one shirt that will go with it, FINALLY. I don't know if it was the caffeine, in the root beer, I drank, or if it was the pjs that made me too hot, but I couldn't get to sleep until 4:30.
When I went to church the next day, I was extremely exhausted. Jeremiah didn't show up so I couldn't give him his present. After church we ate lunch at Jack-in-the-Box, the food there, I hate. I spilled ketchup on my shirt, ohh crackers. When we went home, I took a nap; to be, later, rudely awakened to go to my grandma's house so I can peel potatos for the mashed potatos. My sister was being a pain in the rear and she left me to clean up her and my potato peelings. After the potatos were boiled, drained, and mashed, my family enjoyed a lovely dinner of turkey, stuffing (which I hate), mashed potatos, salad, fruit, and rolls. My cousin Aaron and his new wife Shaelee joined us for a while. They later went to visit her grandpa at Sherwood to decorate his little, apartment-like living area. After we ate our dinner, we waited HOURS for my aunt Laurie and her family to come so my grandma can open her birthday presents (her birthday is on Christmas). When my aunt finally did come, my grandma opened her presents and my grandpa gave us his Christmas present to us, which was money. I can't really say that the adults got $50.00 because some of my cousins are from the ages 23 to 27 (adult age) and they were given $20.00 just like my siblings did. After gift opening, we delved into my grandma's birthday cake. I was an ice-cream cake, with half pralines and creme and peppermint. I favored the peppermint side of the cake, as did the rest of the family. It got to the point where you had to take pralines and creme, whether you liked it or not because the peppermint side disappeared, quickly. After we finished our cake, we went home and I couldn't get to sleep until 4:30, again.
I have been having this horrible headache and it wasn't going away with ibuprofen, but that didn't stop me from dragging my self out of bed at 8:00 to go shopping. Oh, how stupid that was. I found out that the shoes I wanted, were not $24.99, like I thought they were, but $39.99. I would have to wait until Tuesday, the next day, to get them for $29.99. My mom got me a watch. It has 5 interchangeable bands, with the color green somewhere in it. We had gone to Walmart and my brother bought some weird energy drink, that reminded me of carbonated, liquid sweet tart candie. And he also bought "Scamper the Penguin" movie, for Scamper, to show her why we call her Scamper. After that we went home, with plans to visit Fashion Bug the next day, so I could get my shoes. I was staking those shoes out; being that I have size 10 feet and there is usually only one pair of those shoes at that size. I tried to hide them, which was quite hard because those ladies, that work there, go to the shoe place every two hours or so and straighten the boxes up. Later, Scamper (nickname)and Jack got on the bus to Aberdeen; to go see Scamper's mom. I went to take a nap because my head was killing me; that is after I TRIED to call Jeremiah. My dad had told me, I should call and ask when I can come over and give him his present because my dad would take the family there. While I visited Jeremiah, parents would be able to visit Robbin and Jerry (his parents). I kept getting a busy signal. I called with 10 to 20 minute intervals too. Argh. I only got an hour of sleep; I was shrieked at, by my sister, to get up and clean the house becuase my grandma and grandpa Banner were coming into town, to give us their leftovers. And also to play the card game Hand and Foot with us. Reasons being that my grandpa is bored to death because the roads are closed, due to weather, so he can't work and also because there is no way they could finish off all those leftovers themselves. After putting food in the oven, we sat down to play Hand and Foot. It didn't take long for me to have to go to the computer, get on the internet and print off the rules for Hand and Foot. Seems they forgot how to play the game. I remember to some extent, but not all the rules. After one practice round (which was spent getting the rules stuck into peoples heads), we began our game. After the 2nd round, the food was warm and we ate a dinner of Christmas leftovers. We played our last and final round, where I was finally able to get into my foot. We also found out my dad had been sneaking drinks of my mom's sparkling cider. Which he knows he is not suppose to, scratch that, can't drink because of the surjury he had. He is in a great deal of pain after he drinks it and he releases the pent up gas from the bottom, not the top, like we would like him to do. My grandma and grandpa Banner left sooner after my dad's embarassing (at least to my mom, sister and I... my dad was just proud)expelling of gas. Again, I couldn't get to sleep until like 3:30.
I woke up with another horrible headache, but my desire for those shoes was just too much to stay in bead. My mother forced me to eat. I don't eat breakfast, so when I try, I feel like throwing it up. I had to eat a small amount and eat it very slowly, otherwise I would of been visiting the toilet. After we ate, we went to Fashion Bug. My shoes were still there. My mom made me try on some skirts. The shirt I had on didn't exactly go with the skirt so my mom had me grab a shirt that would look okay with the skirt. I forgot to look to see what size the shirt was and ended up grabbing a shirt that was a size too small (*laughs*). I found an outfit and I was suppose to, later, tell my aunt Laurie about it because she said she would buy me one (it was for church). While trying on clothes, my mom had set down the box that held the shoes, that I had not yet purchased. She couldn't remember where she set them down. I was not thrilled... Luckily, when we asked one of the ladies about it; she said she had found a the shoes my mom set down. We were able to leave the store with my shoes, things for my sister, and a church outfit for Scamper.
Then we went to Walmart; to get more dog food and shampoo and conditioner for me. I got some blue beads for Bambi's skirt... Oh, did I mention; I didn't get the skirt done by Saturday... I was a bit busy. I looked to see if they had green shinny bugle beads. They didn't so I asked my dad if we could go to the bead store, downtown and he said we could.
That is after we went to Safeway. We spent and hour and a half in there. An hour and ten minutes spent talking to some ladies from church. I decided to wander and I saw Rex. Rex was adjusting the lights, so you could see the fruit stands better. They should of invested in a better lighting system; when they remodeled Safeway and made Safeway's color scheme darker. My sister dragged me off in the another direction, while I was in the process of saying,"Hi!" to Rex. I was able to wave and recieve an acknowlegement wave, before I disappeared behind an isle. She, later, bought me a pizza stick.
Once my parents were able to escape the clutches of the old ladies from my church, my dad drove to the bead store downtown. My mom wanted to explore the new store that sold things from India. I forgot the name of the store. I went to the bead shop and the owner had evidently went somewhere and they would be "back in a flash" (written on the note). So I decided to visit my mom in that store she was exploring. The lady who owned it wasn't Indian but an Indian wanna-be. But I can't for the life of me figure out why she had a little pony tail on top of her head. My mom told me, later, that she couldn't look the lady in the eye because she would burst out laughing. My sister came in a minute later to retrieve me, but not soon enough to stop me from saying something about seeing the exact same thing in the bead stores window. My mom is used to me thinking out loud... I guess. My mom didn't seem too mad about it.. hehehe (*nervous laugh*). Anyway my sister retrieved me to tell me that the owner of the bead store was back. She didn't have the beads I needed but she did have some pretty teal seed beads, that I had to restrain myself from buying. The owner of the store was really nice. She told me to try the bead store on 8th and Cherry because they have more bugle beads than she did.
After admiring the glass beads a little more, my mom shooed us out of the store, so we would be able to convince my dad to let us go to the other bead store. Unfortunately the other bead store is closed to January 8th, I think. I was planning on visiting Mcfee's (a small store) later, but I was able to convince my dad to take us to Mcfee's. I was able to buy some Haichu's. They had two new flavors, passion fruit and mango. I also got Jeremiah a marble pop. Which is a pop, that is in a glass container and it's opening is sealed by a marble.
I tried calling Jeremiah again, but I still heard a busy signal, so I went to sleep because I had a headache. I woke up at 8:00 and convinced my dad to let me watch "Pride and Prejudice" on TCM and then "Time Machine" (the old one not the new one). I went to bed at 3:30 and woke up at 12:00. My parents told me to get dressed because aunt Laurie was going to take me to Fashion Bug later; to buy the outfit I chose out. I had enough time before she came to go visit the library and turn in some books. In November, I found out that the limit of books you could check out is 24. I had to wait until the library staff checked in my books in order for me to check out new ones. I sat in a chair reading "Farside" for 30 minutes. Some guy, in his 30's, held the door open for me when I went into the library. I had the feeling that he was watching me. Every time I looked to check if he was, he would quickly advert his eyes. Sometimes it is bad to look older than you really are. I was able to check out my books, but the little detector thing kept going off when I went through it. He just let me go through after the second time of it going off.
My dad took me up to the college to pay my fee so I could attend classes at the college this coming quarter. After that we went to meet my aunt Laurie at the hospital (she works there) and then my aunt Laurie and I went to Fashion Bug. I ended up getting 2 outfits. My aunt Laurie as two-faced as she is, is very giving. The second outfit, I probably wouldn't of ever wore the shirt that went with it. I only tried it on because it matched the skirt. Much to my surprise, the shirt looked really good on me. It had a positive, instead of a negative (like I thought it would be), effect on me. My mom was very pleased with my second outfit choice. She didn't even remember seeing the top, the day before.
I went to youth group. Jeremiah came and after I complained about not being able to get in contact with him, I gave him his present. It took around a minute to open and after he saw what he got; he HUGGED me. Which he has been doing a lot lately. He used to run away from hugs, or freak out when people gave them to him. I'm not much of a hugging person... so I can understand why he wants to run, but he actually hugged me. He initiated it.
Youth group went okay. I found out Corey's wife, Jessica has Lupis (not sure on spelling). She is 19 years old and evidentally Lupis will eventually kill her. Lupis is when your body attacks itself.
Well nothing really happened today and except I got yelled at for no reason. I have to go to bed. So Good Night!

I did call Jeremiah and his dad said he was in the shower. You know, that is the second time I called him and he was in the shower. Two times is coincedental, considering I have only called him six times these past three years. More so this past month. Well, anyway I found out that yesterday he went to Seattle to go Christmas shopping with his family and then they met up with some of his other family that lives in that area. The left for Seattle very early Wednesday morning and came back around midnight. They would of gotten back sooner, but the arrived at the ferry right when it was leaving.
Tooo many people IM-ing me. Have to go. Merry Christmas!

Jeremiah, where are you?
I went to movie night last night and Jeremiah wasn't there. I could of stayed for both movies but Jack and Scamper (nick-name)wanted to go home. They didn't like the first movie; that we watched. Either did I. Just because Johnny Depp is in it, doesn't mean we have to watch it. Annoying Johnny Depp crazed fans, need to think about the content of the movie before they play it. I mean witchcraft? Jayden shouldn't even have brought the movie.
Not only was Jeremiah not there last night, he wasn't at youth group tonight either. Emilee and his mom weren't there either. I wonder where they could be? I'll have to call him tomorrow and ask and also ask if he is ready for me to tutor him in Japanese.
Oh, that reminds me. I have to hurry up and finish Bambi's skirt so I can give it to her on Sunday. I hope the skirt turns out okay and I know she will be thrilled to get it.
Last night, while I was laying under the coffee table, Mary decided to pull a string, that she saw hanging down from my pants. I told her to stop and was able to keep her from taking more string off my pants. Well, that one string she pulled ended up, like, taking the seem out of a part of my pants. I made a deal with my sister. So now if I finish the skirt by Saturday, she will sew my pants. She is so conniving. Did I mention she is good at blackmailing.
Oh and on a happier note, the tree is now decorated, with much arguing; I might add. My sister and my mom some how managed to break a string of lights. If you look at our tree you will start noticing a theme; the theme was my mom's idea. My mom will only allow the colors Blue and Gold on the tree and of course some white, but the main colors are blue and gold. Getting the colors blue and gold together in christmas decorations is really hard. Usually you can find christmas decorations in blue and silver or gold and red. When we got those decorations, we had to search every store in Port Angeles and Sequim. It was crazy. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that there is some red on the tree. It's a red ribbon with shiny, white stones glued onto the red ribbon. I forgot the symbolism for what the red and white stones mean.
I once again, had to give my stinky dog a bath. Which is no easy chore. I usually have to chase him around the house. Once I somewhat corner him, I throw a towel over him and carry him into the bathroom (I forgot to mention he is kind of a small dog). Then once the water warms up, I put him into the tub and wash him. He isn't so bad once you get him in the tub. He shakes during the whole bath. And when you try to put him into the bath, if you don't face him away from you, he will somehow attach himself to your shirt. How? I do not know.
Well, enough for today. Note to self, call Jeremiah, so he will actually get his present and wont fail Japanese. I don't want him to fail and transfer out of my class :(. I would miss him. Jeremiah, I wont let you fail! AHHHHhhhh.. heh uhm anyway, I have to go. Bye-bye! And Merry Christmas!

Much to my mother and sister's unhappiness, I have refused to help put up any Christmas decorations. Though, that hasn't stopped them from making me get the containers, that hold the ornaments, from the crawl space and get the fake tree out of our very cluttered garage. Once this was done, then began their daunting task of putting together the tree together. Unfortunately, I think my brother threw away the directions last year; thinking he was a man, now that he was almost 18 (this was last year) and he didn't need no directions to put together a stupid fake tree. Oh, how wrong he was. Thank God my sister is mechanically inclined and has a better chance of figuring out how to take apart things and put them back together again, than any "man"; if he has directions or not.
This year has been a strange year; with my brother, who ACTUALLY managed to graduate from high school, and my mom who went back to school (meaning college). Usually, by the beginning of December we have our tree and decorations up. I guess my mom was just too stressed about college finals, her wacky new math teacher, and other things to worry about Christmas decorations.
Some very, recent news (like 2 minutes ago), I found out that the grades are posted for my college classes. I was also told that my brother failed Calculus; it's his own fault for not trying to get help when he needed it. Well, anyway I got a 3.6 in English 111, 3.8 in Bio 105, and 4.0 in SOCSCI 101. I want to know how I got a 4.0 in Contemporary Issues (SOCSCI). I mean I got a C- on his first test. How did I manage to get a 4.0?!? I will have to ask Kristen and George (and maybe Kyle, if I ever see him again... sigh)what grade they got.
My dad is laughing his head off at my mom and my sister. They were arguing about which direction to start the lights, from the top or the bottom. My sister said the bottom and my mom said the top. My mom won. Now my sister is trying to make this as difficult as possible for my mom. My sister is really demanding and irritating. She just told my mom to stop singing. LOL! Like that is going to make my mom stop singing. In fact, my mom has made her singing more annoying. My sister just called my mom a "Royal Pain," and I thought I was the only "Royal Pain" in the family. Enough about the tree, I will tell you the outcome of THAT, later.
On another happy note, I got the books I ordered from Amazon. I hope Jeremiah likes them; they are his Christmas present after all. Evidently, my mom has taught me to be a human torture device. Jeremiah's present is not only shake proof, but it will probably take him 5 minutes to open. I first wrapped the books in newspaper (made my hands turn black), then placed books in box. Then I stuffed wadded up newspaper around the books, so they wouldn't move. After that I taped the box shut and then wrapped the box. Then I taped a ribbon around the box; added a bow; and then put a tag on it. Now, you might be thinking,"So what if it the books are wrapped inside a box; that shouldn't be too hard to open." Ha... you don't know the perfectionist personality I have. I want every thing to be perfect smoothness (no wrinkles in paper and tape) and I want it to stay put. Meaning I use lots of tape, lots, lots, and lots of tape. Would you believe me, if I told you, it took my grandpa over 30 minutes to open, a gift, that I wrapped for him and he was USING a knife, a very sharp one too.
Tonight, my youth group is having a movie night at Bambi's house (youth leader). I hope Jeremiah actually comes. And, I so claim the spot under the coffee table, for it is my official spot now. I hope the movie is "Little Shop of Horrors;" a movie about a pet shop that has this giant venus fly-trap that always says,"Feed me!" Well, anyway I have to go. Happy reading and Merry Christmas!