Fat Tuesday

Our Winter Homecoming has come and gone yet it still feels like yesterday I was going deaf at the rally from a bunch of screaming girls.

Our theme for this homecoming was TV channels which was a good idea but spirit days were kinda boring cause I didn't see many people dressed up. Seniors had Nickelodeon, Juniors had CartoonNetwork, Sophomores (my class) had MTV, and Freshmen had ESPN. Spirit days in order were: PJ day, Safari day, Celeb day, Jersey day, and Mardi Gras colors day.

To be honest PJ day is the most useless spirit day EVER in this school. When they say PJ day, they mean "the Sobrato pajamas" that you have to buy. Guess how many people actually buy them? Not a lot. So on Monday I see people in those ones-ies that are oh so comfortable and the yard duties send you to the office and force you to go home and change. Also, it counts as an absence. Ugh.. ASB really needs to rethink their spirit days.

Celeb day was really hilarious cause two of my friends Travis and Lovisa dressed up as the Olsen twins. Not. Kidding. Travis had a bra, hair extensions and girls' clothes on. I'm surprised that he wanted to do something like that but it was amazing! I wish I took a picture but I didn't have my camera on me at the time.

And of course the day of the rally was quite eventful. Freshman skit: not as eye catching. Sophomore skit was pretty okay. They started singing 1985 by Bowling For Soup to represent old school MTV (when it was good) and then switched it to what they have now in the 2000's (which is now crap [sorry I don't like MTV with what crap they have on]). The dancing didn't amuse me all too much except for my friend Jon. If anything, he knew how to shake his butt better than the girls. And that's saying something! Junior skit was very, very good. They did dances from the old cartoons like Scooby-Doo and the Powerpuff Girls. I saw my friend Sara dressed up as Velma in the skit and she looked adorable and can run in heels! Senior skit was.... so-so. God I don't even remember it. Oh wait yeah, they made a remix of the Rugrats opening and I felt sad. And.... Yep it's all a blank slate.

That night I went to the school's annual Mardi Gras dance. Yep, instead of a Sweetheart Dance for Valentine's Day, we do a Fat Tuesday Dance. Mardi Gras is supposed to be the best dance out of all of them and they're right. In this dance they have a chocolate fountain where you can put in strawberries, pretzels and all sorts of other goodies in, and they have Black Jack tables, Roulette, Craps, and a Wheel of Fortune. And of course at the other end of the gym there's the DJ and "dancing" but I spent my time playing Black Jack and eating from the chocolate fountain.

I know how to play Black Jack and let me tell you, it's quite addicting. The second round I was playing I got two aces so I played the two separately, and guess what I got when I hit both of those once? A Jack and a Queen. How lucky can you get to get two 21's? Pretty damn lucky I figured. That was only the beginning of my luck. As I was waiting for Jamie to stop playing Wheel of Fortune, a random guy came up to me with all these chips in his hand and he went, "Hey, do you want these?". In disbelief, I said, "Are you serious?". Turns out he was and I took about six thousand dollars in chips from this very generous guy. Now THAT is just plain freaking lucky. So I split this massive amount of chips between me and Jamie and we keep playing to our hearts content! By the time all the games closed there was not much else to do so I went home and watched a bit of Sweeney Todd before going to bed.

As for today, my room looks the neatest it's been in ages. I was able to get the old TV set that's been sitting in my room and collecting dust out and get some pictures hung up. I really wanna have my own artwork displayed and I tried using these adhesives that are some sort of clay/Silly Putty material that stick to the wall and stick to whatever you're hanging up. Yeah, they don't work. Not just because the paper I created my artwork on is heavy, but those adhesives just eventually fall off. DON'T. BUY. THEM. They suck. Well anyway my room looks neat and like a human being lives there so that's a good thing. Still have some clothes to sort out and find which pairs of jeans I have still fit me. But overall, I say it was a success.

Now my mom is decorating and cooking for tomorrow's Superbowl party! We're gonna have about 30 people come over along with some small fluffy puppies who will be running a-muck the household. I guess who's cheering for who is whatever but the bright side is that the cake will be decorated in red, white and blue icing so we don't have to choose sides. Still a disappointment that the 49ers didn't make it to this Superbowl. Oh well.

Time to chill for the rest of the night in my favorite comfy pajamas.

XOXO,

Liz