love at first... frog?

one of my friends has a uper soft stuffed animal in her room and one day when we were talking, i was sitting there literally petting this animal. after about a half hour, she said "seeing how much you like that animal, i think i am going to get you that for valentines day." so this morning she presented me with the girl version of this said animal.

needless to say, i am soo excited about it!! its soo incredibly loveable and soft. (see the sheen of that "fur"?)

i said thanks with a plate full of cookies. :)


valentines day is soo awesome. yes, this year will be different because of the fact i am in high school. but thats really the only difference. oh well! happy valentines day!! <3 <3

life with snow

so we have been back in school almost a month and a half and so far we have had ONE (1) really monday. the first monday in january we had out because of winter break. the second monday, we had a one hour delay because of snow that we had gotten over the weekend. third week, martin luther king, jr. day. fourth monday, we had a normal monday... the first so far. then is last monday, we had a two hour delay because of icy roads and a snow storm that had come in. the two hour delay was nice. school didnt start until ten thirty so we only had five hours of school! woo hoo!! :)  happy campers baby... :)

but i aint complaining. the snow has been soo amazing. its allowed me to get a lot of extra needed sleep, but it has also stressed my teachers out, so weve had a lot of homework..... eewwww and because of the extra homework, do what i cant finish at night, in the morning! :-)

bottle ecosystems

that was our first biology project. today we did our final observation of the poor thing after like a month. my bottle (along with two other girls) was the control bottle of our two bottle experiement. so we had our lone fish die in the transfer so the teacher kindly replaced it. everything went well from there. our water wasnt neccessary safe to drink straight from the bottle, but it was better than one of my friends. but more on that later. the fish lived through the experiment, but i gladly stuck the poor fish back in the beaker.

but our variable bottle didnt have that much luck. we started out with three fish. one died in transfer, so we didnt bother to replace him. it didnt make that big of a difference to our experiement. if any thing, it proved our hypothesis. but about two weeks into our project, one poor thing passed away. we found him floating around on the bottom of the bottle, slightly starting to decompose... eeww. then last thursday, we found the poor fish floating hopelessly upside down, beyond the help of fresh water. then yesterday while i was walking into the class, i happened to glimse at the bottle. the first dead fish was plastered above the water level and slightly hole-y and very heavily decomposing. it was bad... and very repulsive. but we got the poor fish out of his misery today when we cleared out the bottle.


ok, so more about my friends bottle.
he and his group decided to test if half an apple would help or harm the growth of the aquatic portion and/or the terrestrial portion. his bottle held the half of the apple floating helplessly inside the water. about a week into it, we all noticed a smell emitting from the growth cart. his partner noticed that it was from their bottle. but it gets worse. when we went to check the dissolved nitrate inside his water, the data showed a disgusting thing. (pure water has a 0 dissolved nitrate level. drinkable water ranges from 0-10) his measured a terrible 362. absolutely gross... the smell continued to grow to a repulsive odor. almost as bad as a child's soiled diaper. so today when we were cleaning the bottles out so we could recycle what we could, his bottle smelled soo bad that the people in the back of the Science Lab could smell it and were repulsed. it smelled like a baked bean gas and a child's soiled diaper combined. it was sooo sooo gross.

needless to say, we are all glad that experiement is OVER...

what i see first

ok, so yesterday. me and my family were sitting there talking and my oldest younger brother goes up to his mother and asked her "what do you see first when you look at me?"
she replied, "your big brown eyes."
he kindly said, "yours too."

then he turned to me and said, "what i see first when i look at you is this big zit," touching a recovering hole from acne. the little smart alec.

i wish i had thought about it then and said to him, "what i see first when i look at you is that big spot of atheltes foot on your face!" (he has a spot on his cheek right next to his lip that he got from not washing his hands after using the bathroom and then touching his face in the same spot over and over again.)

but i was recovered when i tackled him and licked from one cheek to his forehead, to the other cheek. it felt soo good to finally get a respectible payback

my eco footprint

did you know that you can see how many earths it would take to sustain the current population of the earth if they all lived exactly like you? you can!! you take this little quiz on http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators . its pretty awesome. i learned that if everyone on the earth lived like me, i would have to have 4.1 EARTH's to eventually sustain them all. and then there are little things that you can pledge to do, to reduce that number and it is pretty darn cool!! man, its soo legiate. :) i might take a lot of earth to sustain, but its better than some people... not mentioning any names

out with the unused, but not in with the new

in last weeks sunday paper there was an article in there about a family that had given up half of everything they had. they downsized from a three story house to a house about the same size as mine, but a little smaller. they gave away half of their clothes and even decided to give up half of all of their extracurricular activities. and over a year, just through the money they saved on their mortgage payment, they were able to pay for two epicenters in africa and were able to actually go out and see the families and communities that they gave a life back to.

my dad decided it was probably a good thing to do to our house and we decided to go through our closets and donate the clothes that we havent worn in a while, or were to small. me and my sister are now down to the fifteen shirts that we wear regularly and the clothes that are necessary for the upcoming season. my little sister ended up giving like three quarters of the clothes in our closet just because they didnt fit her or she didnt like them, or she was never going to fit her. but know i want to give them to those in haiti. but i dont know of anyone that is taking clothes for them. i guess that something i'll be doing to fill this otherwise empty, day. :)

happy, happy, happy days!

no school tomorrow!! woo hoo! im soo excited! originally, the chance of a good amount of snow wasnt very good. but that was this morning. i got a call from the the district a little while ago, and it gave me the most amazing news ever!! no school! which means another day to do that cursed geometry homework... ugh. but it also lets me SLEEP IN!! yes...



and news on katherine. all is good. turns out something next to her pelvis had started to leak excess fluids into her body, thus upsetting her stomach and making it very painful. she spent about eight hours in the ER yesterday afternoon, but all is well now. the doctors gave her a couple of shots and prescribed her tylenol. lol (turns out her quack of a doctor was down right WRONG) heres a link to her blog. she blogged about it too! divergirly.blogspot.com. hope it works!

but thank goodness that she is all better! and im looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow. woo hoo!

school

this semester is going to be interesting. ive already turned two projects in (thankfully in different classes), but i'm working on a third we'll have to turn in. biology is really hard. i dont enjoy the dense, college level reading that i have to do, almost nightly for it. really super annoying. geometry is so hard, yet. proofs arent as bad as some people built them up to be. but chapter three is where its starting to get hard... :( not cool. but i guess thats life. computer apps is nice. the class has been working on microtype, which ive already done before. so ive been able to get some of my geometry done before i get home. which means more time for biology... eek!

but now im really scared. one of my friends is in the hospital because of a serious stomach pain. tuesday she spent throwing up everything she ate and not feeling delightful at all. this morning i got a call telling me that she was going to the emergency room sometime today. not the best time to tell someone. so ive been breaking school rules all day and texting between classes to get updates on her situation. her best guy friend and she have been helpful in that. but around two thirty, she shot me a text saying that she is in the emergency room. at the time, her stomach was all constricted and it was painful to even breathe apparently. the doctors ran some tests after she got there, and we are now waiting for results. (such a nail-biting, nerve-racking experience.) the best thing i can do now is hope and pray all goes well

guitar

ok so my expectations in my husband just got a little longer, because of one of these:



and this song:

by this guy:

yep!

i went to one of my friend's birthday party on friday night. one of the guests gave her the gift of a his playing skills. he played several songs including "free falling", "i lie by you", and "bubbly toes". uuh, soo amazing. hes really good and has good rhythm and a good voice and hes all around really good. with the song "i lie by you", we forced another guest to go and sing it with him, because she is one of the best singers in the bearden high school chorus. :) and o my goodness. that duet was soo gorgeous. the party was buckets of fun and i learned alot about random people. :) (always nice at a party) lol

a new year

this year is going to be a lot of fun. we are half way through our house project and im starting the hardest year of my entire school career: honors biology, honors geometry, computer applications, and band. ok, so maybe not so much computer apps and band, but geometry and biology are going to be HARD once we get pasted the review stuff and start on the legitate work. ive already got my first project in sight and im kind of nervous about it. and i have no idea what it is. but its going to be interesting at least.

my resolutions for this years consist of collecting 200 dollars and getting a savings account, getting a drivers permit, and beating my PRs for freestyle and backstroke and getting those times a whole lot faster. and im going to try to get at least a double on a rifle and saber. assuming that i get a rifle and saber before the end of the year... :)