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     It was so sunny this morning! It was sunny (but windy) at my house, and at school all was pretty much the same. ...at 7:30. When I walked out of the library at 9:00 it was pouring!!!! The wind was blowing the heavy rain at you in sheets and it was so much colder. I was soaked and freezing by the time I made it to the PE complex (about a 3 minute walk from the cafeteria or library respectively) only to hear Ryan and Mike (classmates) great me with a very sarcastic "Class is canceled. Aren't you psyched?" lol. We all grumbled about our open time and plans for the next hour and a half and then we morosely headed back into the rain to go right back where we came from. Man! I won't get to dance at all today! *sniff* Maybe I'll go home later and do a salsa workout or DDR or something. This is SO depressing.

    Oh well, there's always rock climbing.

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I swear, my iPod knows me better than I do

     This will probably be the last time I blog in a while. School starts tomorrow! I am..I suppose a little more apprehensive than excited. There will be quite a few changes this semester. Unfortunately, because I didn't get around to getting my drivers license this past month  I will have to take a bus to the rock gym. I can't say it's an experience I'm looking forward to. I'm going to have find out my routes beforehand which I really need to do. I know I'll be fine. I am perfectly capable of getting my lonesome self from point A. to point B. without stranding my butt somewhere in Livermoore or being late for class; but still! It is the unknown, and the unknown is always to be feared. Why did Jessica have to take that stupid math class? Why do I have to take the stupid bus? Why do I have to wait around at the gym and Starbucks doing homework until 6:00 because Jessica's last stupid class doesn't get out until 5:45(two and a half hours later than my last class I might add)???   I have no idea.
Ooooh! I just bought myself some rock shoes! They are so amazing! they fit like a dream. I can't wait to try them out!! They are a cute color too. As far as rock shoes go. Some of them are truly hideous. The other ones that fit me well were a bright navy blue with neon yellow laces. I really liked this lavender pair, (the purple ones were mens, the green ones were women's. go figure) but they were too long for my feet. hopefully I'll  be happy with the Mythos.    

     I have been soooo busy lately! I'm not sure if the start up of school means that life will speed up or slow down. I'll probably still work a lot, so I guess speed up. Lol, one of my lovely (male) cousins questioned me (jokingly) if I found my job (babysitter/all around maid) degrading. Actually I find it quite the opposite. Even if the fact that these kids obey me better than they do their parents wouldn't make me feel good, there is something very gratifying about coming into a dirty, messy house and leaving it tidy and clean. I can hold the heaviest 1-year old on the planet, and move furniture at the same time. I get to choo-choo train around their kitchen floor on a towel to dry it off and see how marvelously clean it is. I transport my mop and bucket with the very comfortable knowledge, that I am wonderwoman.

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Freedom!!!

     I am in the school library. I just finished my final final, and now I have a month off of school. Oh boy, I miss class already. I am also however, looking forward to getting something other than school done, and of course CHRISTMAS IS IN A WEEK!!!!  Gah! I am so glad all my shopping is done. Have I mentioned I hate shopping? It's terrible! I feel like my brain is leaking away and I'll never get it back. I wish I could shop. I love having clothes and things, but I hate having to buy them. Seriously! I think there's something wrong with me. I have a shopping block or some kind of mental condition. I was standing in the Macy's junior section the other day, (Oma took all of us girls shopping for Christmas) completely surrounded by cute clothes (a rarity for Macy's) I knew I could get anything I wanted if I wanted it, but I couldn't think, I couldn't...shop. All my sisters were running around finding cute stuff and I was just stuck in the same spot with out any idea if I liked what I was staring at or not. It was bad. Rachel tried to help me (I really can't do it without help) but I still didn't get very far. The thing is too, I LOVE surprises. I pretty much don't care what I'm getting as long as I didn't have to pick it out and I have no idea what it is before hand. Than you've pretty much got a 90% chance that I'll love it. That is something I've been discovering about myself. When it comes to decisions, with anything not monumental, I am a jellyfish. A complete jellyfish. I can't make up my mind to save my life and I'll do whatever you suggest (even if I don't like it!) as long as I don't have to decide what it is. I just find a person I know knows what they are talking about and let them rule me. I let will do pretty much anything Trevor or Scotty suggest in rock climbing, even if it kills and I'm completely dead afterwards. (or it's just completely pointless) At the beginning of the semester, I couldn't turn in a single piece of homework with out Rachel at least looking at it. Oh, and don't even ask me to get myself decent for church with out at least asking two other person's opinion. But that's pretty much how I roll. If I'm trying to make myself do something or get something done, it's difficult and I don't want to. But on the flip side, if someone else expects it of me, I will get it done. No matter what. It's like I don't even have a choice.
     Finals were so ridiculously easy. After how the midterms went I was not worrying over finals. I'm pretty sure I'll get them same grade. I'm usually around a 95%. Of course I already know I got an A in rock climbing, but that's not hard as he grades on *effort*. I will say I'm pretty sure I climbed the hardest route anybody did in the finals. (me and two other personages) Coach is so funny. Jess took a class with him last semester and he had talked about her to me. (he actually recognized me and my last name immediately. "did I have your sister in another class?...She was one of my favorite students") He says funny stuff like "you girls are nice people" or when she came in the gym right after my final and he was telling her that I was "a nice person like you. A good climber too." lol. Which reminds me! I gotta email him for some of the guys. *sigh* I really need to get that done.

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"Life sucks, and then you die. " -just kidding ;)

Ooooh, it's been a long time since I've media blogged. Why don't we have some good old movie and book discussion. I haven't been seeing many movies lately, and none good. I have been finding myself in a very bored state of mind. It takes quite a bit to actually interest me these days. (fiction wise) *goes into cheesy, sympathetic PSA voice* You're concerned about the amount of time they spend watching boring movies, you're afraid they'll make a mistake. You don't want them to have any regrets! But you can't force them to make right choices. You can't tell them what to do or how to live; but you can talk to your kids. You can help them get the information THEY need, to make informed choices about watching bad movies. *sympathetic smile* For a better tomorrow, we need to stop wasting time today.    lol, if only right? So these are some of the things I have been wasting my time on recently.  Warning: I am a little tired, and very much jaded with my entertainment of late. In the below I'm not so sure I'm going to be able to play fair.

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army - I never saw the first one, so I don't know how bad it was, but this one sucked.

Twilight- Hahaha, I am going to spare you the rant and just tell you what bugged me MOST. It wasn't the fact that I had just totally wasted two perfectly good hours of my life. Not even necessarily that it was so (unnecessarily!) untrue to the book. It was more the fact that it was a book killer. I was having total flash backs to that horrendous Eragon movie they made. It epitomized everything that people said was lame about the book. It was completely filled with the reason why you roll your eyes and smirk into your sleeve when you hear the words "vampire romance". What bugged me most is that all those lame people who never read the books or knew anything about it but made fun of it anyway, were proved right.

The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian- So this one I watched the most recently. I finished it about an hour ago. Okay, I know a lot of people are probably expecting me to go off about how untrue it was to the book and bla bla bla. I'm not saying it wasn't, (because, believe me, it was.) but let's just throw the book out the window for a minute. Honestly, I was bored. Two and a half hours LONG?? Really? An hour of which was completely superfluous added plot that dragged the movie down. It was such a melodrama! Every little thing was drawn out and painfully long. Every little piece of action sequence or dialogue was ridiculously over dramatized. After about an hour and a half I just stopped sighing and started laughing. It seemed very dark for the juvenile audience it was obviously written for. But so ridiculously PG with not one tiny drop of blood throughout the almost continuous battle scenes for the older audience that could have handled it's darker edge. (haha, apparently people in Narnia are a rather dry lot) And the characters were all so annoying! Prince Caspian was so ...one dimensional. Even if he IS cute, he was still boring. Can Susan do anything other than glare and shake her head? It seemed like that's all the poor girl gets to do throughout the entire movie. (ok, fine, there was that lame love twist scene thing she got to do at the end) My goodness she's a whiny pain in the butt! Peter was a self righteous, arrogant little pansy who SORT of got his act together for the last half hour of the movie. But you can't make up two hours of "oh please just shut up" with only a half an hour of "ok maybe you aren't a total screw up" For me, Edmond totally stole the show. With his bravery, his chivalry (that was one thing the other two boys seriously lacked), and his totaly lack of bad attitude and lip. Or maybe I just liked him because he didn't have very many lines.  I'm not going to pull the book back in the window, because once you get started that direction, there really is no place to stop.

Hancock: Watched this one last night. I didn't get it at ALL. If you did, feel free to clue me in. Again, I was just bored.

All this movie talk is making me irritated. I need some new good books to read. When dad was out of town a few weeks ago we girls took the opportunity to watch the A&E Pride and Prejudice. It was so wonderful I had to read the book. Which was of course even better, but I finished it early yesterday and now I haven't the faintest idea what to do with myself. I am very much in the mood for something good.

While we're here, we might as well talk some music. The Twilight Soundtrack jumped to #1 the second it came out, and of course, I bought it too. I think it's pretty good. For the most part it's a style of music I don't really listen to. As a cd it's fine, but as a soundtrack for that particular movie I think it detracted. To me it felt like they didn't chose those songs because they thought they fit, but because they just wanted to force in those songs. It sounded more like they said "oooh! let's make a really cool soundtrack that all those angry, love-lorn teenagers will drool over!" They chose a bunch of songs that they thought were cool  and were determined to force them to work into the movie. For instance, Paramore wrote a song specifically for the movie, I like the song, and I think it is one that actually DOES work with the feel they were trying to create. But instead of playing where we could really here and appreciate it, they stuck it really quietly playing in the background of a store while the girls are shopping for prom dresses and chatting. And I just don't think that song would be what immediately comes to mind when you think "what song would work for quiet background in a clothing store scene where the dialogue was important?" To me, it distracted from the scene, instead of  adding to it's..authenticity. But, of course, anything that has anything to do with Muse is already half awesome (MUST see them in concert before I die!!), but I don't think I"ve gotten to know the other half well enough to say if I like it yet or not.

Come to think of it, it might have been the other Paramore song they play then. I'm not sure which one it was, but the other one fits even worse!

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo, any thoughts?

Currently Listening Coco By Colbie Caillat see related

     I just had to blog and share something that has been blowing my mind a little today. You know those random little things that make you stop in amazement. Make you realize how incredible something is? I had a moment the other day. As you all probably know I'm giving my informative speech next Tuesday. About an hour ago I finally memorized the whole thing. It's about two and a half pages long, and roughly 1,479 words. And it takes me about 7 minutes to say the whole thing. I'm also playing a bunch of new music that I am just starting to get familiar with. My muscles are remembering things, I don't have to read it quite so much. I feel like my brain is a really full filing cabinet that I keep stuffing more things in. It's just so amazing that God designed our brains to be able to remember things the way they do. I mean, the million things that you pick up in a day and can recall perfectly a week later. We are constantly adding more and more things that we think about and remember every day. How incredible and infinite and perfect the design.  
     I can get blown away by the capacities of the human brain when I'm by myself, and then I go out in public and realize that mine is nothing exceptional. On Thursday I was headed to speech class. It was about 7:55 in the morning, (I was running later than normal) so the classroom was pretty full by the time I got there. Because it was a speech day we didn't have the chairs in our normal circle around the room, they were in tightly packed, neat rows. They are the typical plastic chair with the connected half table-desk thing coming off one of the sides. When they are so close the only way to get in to them is to take off your back pack and bag first and sling them underneath the desk and then try and slide in the side. Cooper was sitting a bit close and started to scoot his over. I told him he was fine where he was and went to slip into the side. Apparently my backpack was hooked on the front or something, because when I put weight on the front of the desk, the whole chair did a nose dive into the floor dumping me and my backpack out on the floor. And oh yes, everybody laughed. Cooper tried to catch me on the way down, but never quite managed it. And Michael good naturedly informed me that that was why she sat on the end of the row.