Been a while

Hey, so yeah, it's been a while since I've posted anything. Sorry about that. Life sure does get busy during the week, especially with school and all. Let me fill in on what happened this last week. I've been feeling kind of sick, if you remember from my previous entries, but even so, my friend Mary came over on Monday to hang out. We watched the first two episodes of Buffy, walked to Walmart to buy some snacks, got hit on by a car full of guys while walking back (they just honked and waved at us), then played Just Dance on the Wii while eating our snacks (yes, I know, counterproductive). Then, on Tuesday, I went to school, where I found out (during choir class) that our choir teacher was leaving and that we have a new one in her place. It was a big cry fest, especially since most of us have had her since junior high, and not just as a choir teacher, but also as an orchestra and band teacher too. Anyway, after we had all hugged her and got all the crying out of us, we sang our Les Miserables medley. And might I say, we're getting pretty darn good at it, too. Then, in my sci/fi/fantasy class, we watched most of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We're going to (hopefully) finish it today. Then, yesterday (Wednesday), I went to school, like usual, and had a pretty normal day. Then, for mutual, we did extreme volleyball. A friend of mine and I decided to dress up crazy for it, including bright tights, awesome shorts, and headbands. :) It was pretty fun, although I managed to twist my ankle before I even got into the building by dancing to the music that someone was blasting from their car. But it didn't hurt that much, I still played and everything. It wasn't until this morning that it really started to hurt. Yeah, that's all my news so far. :) Drive safe, people.
~Laura 

My Sunday :)

Today was pretty much a typical Sunday. Went to church, had a great time, came home, ate lunch, and went to sleep. And boy, did I sleep for a LONG TIME. I think it has something to do with the fact that I am absolutely exhausted from having little kids around the house and the fact that I think that I'm getting sick. :(  But it was a good nap, so it's all good. I don't remember my dream, but I do remember that I had one. I hate when that happens, I like remembering my dreams. They make for very interesting stories. Anyway, then I talked for about two hours on the phone with one of my best friends, Mary. We're planning on hanging out tomorrow and watch Buffy, play the Wii, maybe take a walk down to Walmart or Shop Kwik (yes, I know ho to spell quick, but that's how the store spells it, kwik. Weird, right?) Anywho, I also talked to my "sister", Devaune (a really close friend who's more like a sister than a friend to me) for a little bit, mostly about boy troubles, and Celtic Thunder, whom we both happen to love oh so very much :) Now I'm going to go and watch a movie then go to bed. Yeah, peace out!
~Laura

Revision

I just want to say in regards to my former post, that holding a baby in your arms can instantly change your mood from bad to good. :) That's all.
~Laura

My house is being over run with little people!

So, this morning, my mom went to go baby-sit my nieces for my sister, and came home with them. Now, I don't usually mind it when my nieces come to visit, even if it is ALL DAY, but today, I was in a bad mood. No, that doesn't even begin to describe it. I was in one of those absolutely awful, terrible, horrible, dreadful, deplorable moods. And the fact that I'm stressing over my research paper for English and the fact that I could have gotten my license yesterday except that we couldn't find my birth certificate (which, by the way, I found today) and that I really, really, REALLY want to get out of my car pool but now I can't even if I had a license because my sister-in-law is borrowing my car for the next two weeks or so wasn't helping AT ALL. And other things, too, but they were smaller. So, today wasn't really the best day for me to have anyone around me, much less my nieces, and now that they have finally arrived, my brother and his family, complete with yet another niece and my nephew and their super-annoying-follows-me-practically-everywhere dog. AND my sister and her youngest daughter are coming for dinner, so that's pretty much my whole family, minus my other brother and his wife, and aunts/uncles/etc...
So, about my research paper, I went to the library today (with my mom and nieces) and got 8 books, which by the way, contain only part of the information that I need for my paper. I am so mentally tired right now from all the research that I've done today, trying to decipher what all these people who clearly don't want anyone to understand what they're writing because they insist on using all these words that are super long and that I've never even heard of before in their writings. I'm a pretty smart person, I can usually understand that kind of stuff, even if I have to re-read it a couple times. But not some of these. Five times, at least, and I am no farther in understanding what the heck they are going on about. Anyway, so I got a lot of stuff for my paper, but I still need a periodical source, and an internet source. I certainly have my book source covered.
Ok, scratch the whole being just mentally tired thing. I am also physically exhausted. And in no mood to deal with people at the moment. And I'm going to have to, all night tonight. I think I'll just hide in my room till everyone either goes home or goes to bed. That sounds like a good plan to me. Then I won't snap at anyone and get people mad at me.
On a happier note, I absolutely love it when my brother sits down and plays the piano. He is soooooo amazing at it, and I love just sitting there and listening to him. I now have one more qualification for my future husband that I would absolutely love him to have; being able to play the piano really well and with lots of feeling and to play it often. And, as the song says, "I want a man to stand beside me, not in front of or behind me" That's a good song, I was listening to it not that long ago. And, even though Sadies isn't for about two months, I'm already trying to come up with a group to go with and a day date for us to do. I'm really excited for it. The only bad thing about it is that Prom comes after it, and I have a bad feeling about Prom this year. That I will A. either not be asked at all, or B. be asked by someone who I don't want to go with because they're a complete creep or something like that. I don't know what I would do in the second case, it would be mean to say no, but at the same time, I don't want to go to a dance with someone that I am not comfortable around and who I wouldn't be able to be a very good date to because of my un-comfortableness. I would probably be trying to ignore them the whole night, or something like that. I don't like creepy guys, I don't really know of anyone who does like them, really.
Oh! And today, there were three marathons of amazing shows that I love on tv today. Buffy, White Collar, and America's Next Top Model. But, unfortunately, I only got to see a couple minutes of any of it before my mom brought my nieces home and we went to the library. :( Sad day. Well, I think that that's enough ranting for one post. Hugs, not drugs, my friends.
~Laura

My Friday

So, I was talking yesterday about how I didn't know what I was going to do all day, but then I wake up and surprise surprise, my mom left a note asking me to basically clean the whole house. Now, it's not unusual for her to ask me to do the dishes on Fridays, but usually she has me do my homework on Fridays and leaves all the cleaning (minus the dishes, that is, since those are kind of an annual thing) for Saturday. The problem is, I slept in really late today, so now I have a little less than two hours to do all this cleaning before she comes home from work, and it takes me a while after I wake up to not feel sore enough to actually do stuff. I think I need to revise how I sleep, cause this is kind of getting old, the whole waking up super sore nearly every day. I might not get done by the time she gets home, but I will get most of it done. But until I'm done eating my breakfast/lunch, it will have to wait. I don't mind cleaning, I really don't. I actually sometimes enjoy it. Except for dishes, that is. And my room, but apart from that, I don't mind it. And I have more than enough homework to last me most of the late afternoon/early evening. Maybe even into the night, depending on how fast I can read and do my research. So yeah, my day actually looks pretty full at the moment. Maybe if I get done early, I'll watch some more Psych, or some White Collar in anticipation of the premiere coming this next Tuesday. Tomorrow's a different story, however. If I do all my cleaning today, and the majority of my homework also, what will I do tomorrow? Or Monday, since we have school off? And Sunday afternoon, well, I'm not too worried about that, I'll just watch a musical or a Jane Austen movie or something like that like I always do. Maybe I'll plan a hangout with one of my friends for Monday. Maybe. Maybe I'll just have a "me" day, you know, nothing super important to do, just do whatever I want, relax, stuff like that. Or, if the DMV's open, go get my license, that is, if my mom can find my birth certificate by then. She seems to have lost it right before I could test for my license. Anyway, I should really go and start cleaning. Love, peace, and chocolate :)
~Laura 

Wow, there's really nothing interesting to say right now.

Ok, well, as you can guess by the title, I really don't have anything mind-blowing to say, at least not right now.I am currently listening to Michelle Branch and watching some of her videos on youtube while waiting for my show that I've been trying to watch to load. It's taking a while. Any of you ever heard of Psych? yeah, I just recently got into it, and now I'm watching the show online trying to catch up. *sigh* I really don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I mean, I have homework and all, but besides that, nothing much to do around here. I suppose I could play my Wii some more, but I'm already super sore from playing it last time. Oh, wait, I do have something exciting to share. A couple days ago, I asked a boy (Ben is his name) to the Sadie Hawkins dance (it's a girl ask guy dance) with the help of one of my friends (Shirley). We rapped it to him, in front of a rather large crowd of people, might I add. By the way, I think that I'm probably the worst rapper in the world, but it was really fun and I really enjoyed it. Anyway, today during choir, the teacher announced that Ben had an announcement, and he got up and got everyone clapping, and then he rapped his reply to me, which was a yes :) So now, I have a date for Sadies, which is in about two months. The reason I asked so early was because I knew of a few other girls who wanted to ask him, and me being the kind of extremely competitive person I am, I wanted to ask him first. So I did. Literally, like, four days after Winter Formal. Wouldn't have happened, though, without Shirley encouraging me and helping me (actually, she practically wrote the whole thing herself, I just provided the rhythm to follow, which was the Fresh Prince of Be;-Air theme song. You know the one, "Now this a story all about how my life got twisted upside down" etc...) Anyway, apparently a lot of girls are mad at me, now. But I'm going to be nice and let them all have a dance with him, if he'll dance with them, which he will cause he's awesome like that. I just have to make sure to have the first and last dance with him. And some mixed in the middle. I wonder what the theme will be. I hope it's something really fun like it was last time. Last time was soooo much fun, 80's themed, at Skateland. Yeah, it was pretty epic. Anyway, now I'm just kind of rambling on and on. If you continue to follow me, you'll find that I tend to do this quite often. Although I can stay on topic if I really want to.
Eghh, I just remembered that I have a research paper for English that I need to start researching and everything. I usually love to research stuff, I really do, except for the fact that this time I happened to choose a kind of obscure topic that so far I haven't really had any luck in finding anything on that would be extremely useful. But I'll find something, and I'll write a really awesome paper and get a good grade on it.
Whoa, I just looked at how long this post is. Sorry about that. Wow. It's also really late right now. Whoops. Well, goodnight world. Have fun, be safe, and yeah. Stay cool. Peace.
~Laura