Zombies + Bunnies = Easter...?

Finally, the day has come. The day where Jesus rose from the dead and we celebrate with rabbits breaking and entering into our homes leaving rabbit droppings or chocolate for your kids..

Again, how a Christian celebration and a German pagan tradition coincide with one another to create a huge American excuse to mass produce chocolate, I'll never know. But hell with it. We don't question these things and just go with it no matter how weird it is. We never question Jesus's birth and a fat Nordic guy going into your home and putting presents in your socks so why should we question Easter?

Well anyway, my start to my spring break has been nothing but laziness though I should be getting my homework out of the way so I don't procrastinate like an idiot. Also we're getting in hardwood floors which is gonna be fun so we don't have to do much vacuuming downstairs.

As for fun stuff, today we're going to a friend's house for dinner and game night and by this week I hope to finish Mockingjay and some stories I'm working on. Wish me luck!

A great man once said...

"You're going out there a hysterical screaming queen, but you're coming back as a big, great, passing for straight, Broadway star!"

So finally, opening night is among us all as the last rehearsal was performed special for the teachers and tomorrow, all those seats will be filled to see The Boyfriend! Our weeks of rehearsing, set building and fixing lights are finally paying off for this weekend of fun! Actors are ready to sing, dance and act like there's no tomorrow and they are amazing! I may be tired and slowly catching up on my homework from a couple sick days but it's all worth it in the end. I'm so anxious just thinking about it that I don't wanna go to sleep. Plus I haven't blogged in 9 days so what the heck.

So not much besides the musical in the past week. Oh right there were the CAHSEEs which were super easy and I totally forgot about them. And uh... Yeah nothing. How's that for an eventful life? I don't get spring break till the first week of April and that'll be like an eternity till then. I could probably rant about some odd topic but it's late at night so maybe tomorrow or sometime this weekend when I'm not super busy.

XOXO,

Liz

Chim Chiminy Chim Chiminy Chim Chim Cheree

So I was watching Mary Poppins yesterday and this came to me as I was watching the Step in Time dance scene. What if it was done as a flash mob?! I looked up on Youtube and the only Mary Poppins flash mob I've seen was in Germany or something to the Broadway version of Supercalifragilisticexpialidoscious. But here's the full scene if no one has memory of the Step in Time scene.



Now would that be a cool flash mob or what?! You'd just need the perfect time and place to do it since quite a number of people would be needed to dance to this particular song. But it'd be amazing and fun!

Anyway my vacation is drawing to a close and it's mostly just been pure laziness. I still have Algebra 2 homework to do which is super easy anyway and I finished my Spanish stuff.

My mom's birthday party was yesterday and I still find it hard to believe that she is turning 41 on Tuesday. We had friends over and we gorged ourselves with cake and tacos. And boy that was some good cake! I will be enjoying the sweetness of that cake tonight.

And today we had a rehearsal though everyone went to the band room because some people were still working with lights. That didn't keep me from helping with set building... sorta. I was left for an hour and half with no help because the two guys I'm working with forgot and slept in. Luckily I spent that time painting a palm tree since I can't do much else. Add on to that, we're running out of plywood and some of the paint we have is as old as time itself and we can't use it. It doesn't help that we're falling behind because there are only 19 rehearsal days left, barely anyone else shows up and the two guys I do work with mess around which is slowly decreasing my patience with them... Hopefully the people I call tonight will actually show up to help us, or maybe this week the guys I'm working with will pick up the slack and stop goofing off. Ugh, I can dream can't I?

Well that's all for now folks. Keeping my fingers crossed that this will be a good week.

XOXO,

Liz

I'm sorry I've been reduced to a couch potato

Finally, the one week vacation I've been anxious for has finally arrived. I've been wanting this vacation for a loooong time and now it's finally come. It's only Sunday and it's already been a good vacation... I know it's probably gonna get sucky when I gotta do some homework which honestly is super easy.

Saturday was a rehearsal day so I went to help the guys to build the set which we need three different sets for the three acts of The Boyfriend. Had to leave for an hour for a dentist appointment for a quick cleaning and came back.

Our set's looking good so far with the progress we got and I hope we keep that up until the musical opens next month. Hopefully we'll still have people come in to help because the past week was NO fun without help.

I was stuck one day without help until 4:30 and even when someone came we had nothing to do because for the most part, we need the table saw to work with and only one guy knows how to use it and he was stuck doing an English project without telling anyone else. On top of which, people who signed up for set building AREN'T showing up, but it's part of their grade with them being a part of the drama class. So jokes on them. We had some guys show up on Thursday but they're only able to work with us on Thursdays... We also have a sign up sheet where people put their names AND numbers on them, so I texted them to show up and only ONE guy responded and he said "Nope". Think I'm happy cause of that? Of course not. Maybe I'll try calling them when we get back if we're not getting anything done...

But I digress.

After rehearsal, Marina did a bit of shopping at TJ Maxx and we went to a Chinese place in Gilroy for dinner which was amazing! I ordered Vermicelli Duck Curry Soup and it was spicy heaven! I've never had duck before and it was really delicious. After dinner, we went to Barnes and Noble where I purchased The Hunger Games! Everyone's been saying that it's good so I thought I'd check it out especially with the movie coming out next month and obviously the book is always better than the movie.

Hey is it weird that I want to check out Twilight and just read it to see what's so great about it? I'm just curious...

Anyway, today I did absolutely nothing but sit on the couch like the vegetable I am.

As for plans for the rest of my vacation, I'll be seeing The Secret World of Arrietty with friends as a group thing for Anime and Manga club. And... that's pretty much it.

XOXO,

Liz

Must.... Type!

Ugh... Five days and it feels like forever since I posted anything! These school days are slowly starting to feel longer as the semester starts drawing to a close.

Superbowl party went off with a hit. Had all of our friends over and watched the game. Congrats to the Giants winning. And we STILL have a crap ton of leftovers...God I don't want to take those for lunch tomorrow. Just got off the stuff and I don't think my mom wants to load more food in our fridges. Nothing like taco meat and lasagna eh?

But I digress.

Slow week has been slow as we're starting to think of what classes to take next year. Here's what I'm considering for my six classes for the next year.

• American Literature AP
• US History AP
• (Spanish AP?)
• Physics
• Pre-Calculus/Trigonometry
• Advanced Art

Now I have Spanish AP in parentheses with a question mark cause I'm still considering to take said class. Now I could just take it Senior year but I'd have to take something in place of that class. My chemistry teacher did say he was going to recommend me for Chemistry AP but I don't want to have too many advanced course classes on my plate. I'm already in Advanced English 10 and I want to take AP US History because regular World History is beyond easy. Add on a difficult math course and an advanced art class, it's quite a lot isn't it? Still thinking of what to take...

A couple weeks ago, our advisory classes filled out little surveys that give us our Valentine's matches. Of course it's not based off of anything to really be in a relationship with someone and shouldn't be taken seriously. But I bought one to humor myself with whoever I got. As did my friends. It's really a fundraiser thing, and it's a cute idea. And my results were as expected: a bunch of people I don't know with an exception of a few friends. Someone filled theirs out as Justin Bieber and I got them on the opposite section so I thought that was hilarious.

The matchmaker also includes some trivia like how many days old you are and what happened in history the day you were born. Apparently my birthday is the same day as the national day of Norway (which Jamie spazzed about because she loves Norway from Hetalia). They even included who would be your celebrity match based on the Western zodiac.

1. Tommy Lee Jones
2. Prince Harry (of Wales)
3. Jim Carrey (Ewww he has a daughter my age!)
4. Kid Rock
5. Kevin Costner (Almost 60)
6. Patrick Dempsey
7. Orlando Bloom
8. Benjamin McKenzie (.... WHO IS HE?!)
9. Bill Murray (Again.. Almost 60)
10. Tom Felton (Jamie calls dibs so I can't have him)

How they came up with these random choices is beyond my imagination. But then again I just spent two bucks on this just for giggles and I got giggles so mission accomplished.

Got nothing planned for this weekend. Probably watch some anime and write a bit. Wish we had our one week off already...

XOXO,

Liz

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

Sweet lord almighty hooray for weekends!

One work induced week later, here's the weekend!

Not much to really report in. Just a normal week I usually have with school work and tests. I had my chemistry teacher recommend me for AP Chemistry for next year. Still thinking whether to take it or not. Been really antsy for a few days as I'm slowly finishing editing one of my stories I've been working on for over a year. I really, really love how it's coming along as I edit it from crap to pure genius!

My story is called Fixing a Broken Heart and it follows 14-year-old Erica Parker becoming friends with outcast, Zack Carter. As the two become friends, she learns of his dark and depressing past and the horrors he lives with now. Can she get him to come to his senses and run away from those horrors?

Um... Yeah that's about all I can give out without spoiling it. I think it's a really good story and I've gotten positive feedback about it too from my DeviantART watchers who read it. Maybe I can get it out to my readers of my blog.

Well, that's all for now anyway. Gonna watch anime for the rest of the night.

XOXO,

Liz

Go 49ers!!

So nothing much is going on now that I'm back in America. I just gotten over a small cold I had due to shifting from summer weather, to the super cold, to the moderate weather of California and thank God since I've been feeling like crap. Already my teachers are tossing work at us like mad people which is pure insanity since I'm trying to avoid having to take home twenty pound textbooks on my back. Luckily we have our three day weekend for MLKJ Day and I can relax again. Maybe I'll actually catch up on some writing and finish reading The Help.

American football's become the current craze of my household as we do plan to host another Super Bowl party and our team, the San Francisco 49ers, just beat the Saints today! So if they get into the Super Bowl at the next game, my house will have everyone and their mother for the Super Bowl (figuratively speaking of course). So keeping our fingers crossed.

Last night while I was checking my e-mail, my eyes caught an article about a 9-year-old girl that died from Huntington's disease and was cyber-bullied by a neighbor. An adult for that matter. This extremely ticked me off. Apparently this neighbor named Jennifer Petkov was posting pictures of the girl, Kathleen, with her head with crossbones and pictures of Kathleen's mother, Laura who died three years ago of Huntington's disease, next to the Grim Reaper. On top of which, her truck had a coffin attached to it when she drove around the neighborhood.

I don't what this lady's problem is honestly, but just why? Why would you purposely bully an innocent girl who has a serious problem? Are you just stupid or completely heartless or both? For those who have no clue what Huntington's disease is, here's the best definition I can give in layman's terms:

What it does is that nerve cells in the brain waste away, ruining the ability to do... well everything. Swallowing, moving your eyes, learning, writing, and it just simply makes you slow in doing anything plus it cause the muscles to jerk and contract. It leads to dementia, depression, OCD, and bipolar disorder. Usually it begins in the 30s and 40s but because of genetics, people can get it in their 20s and younger too. The more people in a family that have Huntington's disease, the higher chance of developing symptoms at a younger age. With children like Kathleen, they can get seizures and have problems with motor skills and behavior. Eventually it gets worse over time and a person with this disease loses the ability to walk, talk and to take care of themselves. People can take medication for the symptoms but there's no actual cure for it.

So it's sad that a little girl had such a terrible illness and all her friends, family and neighbors knew that she would eventually die. And it's frustrating that someone would be so cruel as to bully a sweet girl who has a serious issue. To be honest, I don't care what Jennifer Petkov's stupid excuse is. You never ever say or do crap like that about anyone; much less someone with Huntington's disease. I hope she's proud of the hate pages on Facebook and negative comments she's gotten.

Yet another rant released from my brain.

XOXO,
Liz

Unexpected Weekend

Whoa how long was I gone from Blogger? This new posting stuff looks funny... Well whatever.

Hell week has passed with long days of studying and NEW material being covered BEFORE Finals. Talk about disorganization huh? Luckily I got all my studying stuff and have been going over a little bit before tomorrow. We get half days so for the first time in six months I have to sit still in my classes for two whole hours. Luckily we get a brunch in between and by 12:30 it's lunch and we get to leave. Only have to deal with three days of mayhem and testing and then we're on break for a couple weeks.

For this Christmas vacation, likely chance says we're going to a friend's house again for a Christmas party. And come New Year's the family's going down to Costa Rica and we'll be spending a few days surrounded by jungle. Sadly the status of my step brother, Steven, coming is kinda low seeing as how he's been having trouble with his passport. But hopefully that'll get fixed and he'll be able to come. Nothing like spending a week surrounded by nature. It'll be a photographer's paradise.

So this has been a rather unusual weekend.

For starters my step dad found a kitten chilling at our house and fed it and eventually brought her into the house. He wanted to keep it and named her Butter. Why? I really have no clue. My step dad loves cats ever since we reunited with our cat Chip and he also is allergic. Not quite sure how that works. But now we have a new addition to the family who has given mixed feelings to our other four animals. Maggie wants to be friends but fails to remember that she's 140 pounds compared to a tiny kitten who's a few months old by our educated guess. Stella is ecstatic about a new friend and Butter seems pretty mellow around her. Chip has no clue she exists (poor old man), but Butter hissed at him so she doesn't like him. And as for the used to be baby of the bunch, Kline, is losing his mind. It's actually the first time anyone's heard him make a hiss. Butter appears healthy despite some fleas which we gave medication for and she loves everyone.

And another unexpected event happens to be the death of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. How's that for shocking? A reporter apparently claimed that he died from "overwork" after "dedicating his life to the people" AKA a possibly stress-induced heart attack. Nothing like falling out of power via heart attack, eh? So from what I saw South Korea placed an "emergency alert" and now that Kim's dead who knows what'll happen? Let's just keep our fingers crossed that North Korea will be one less power crazed country to worry about.

Well time to get back to reading Homestuck. Best comic ever!

XOXO,
Liz

Hot Showers = Greatest invention ever!

Another week down and another week closer to finals. Time to start studying like a maniac along with managing the crazy homework teachers still give us.

Had to take off on Monday since I was still sick and just spent the day watching anime. Next day: Too much work! Well at least I got sick before finals and academic focus week. Bunch of easy work in all my classes.... Well I do have a research paper to do in English which the rough draft is due Monday and I luckily got a head start on it. And I need to memorize a script I made for a speaking final in Spanish and I have to perform a tap dance with a group of people and all other crazy stuff.

Friday was my best day out of every other day this week. I performed my choreography final in Dance first since my mom had to go somewhere today and I did amazing. I danced to a piano version of an opening to one of my favorite animes: Air TV. A lot of people thought I was beautiful and I even almost made people cry, including my teacher. I was so nervous having to be the first one to perform. But I went at it and I did amazing!

Adding on to that, the formal was also last night! I went with my sister and her boyfriend and met up with friends at the dance. The red dress I'm wearing was in fact my mom's dress that SHE wore in high school. Same size and everything! I was so happy I got to wear it. We even have her prom dress but I don't think that'll fit either me or Marina any time soon. My mother was a tiny woman when she was in high school. Anyway, had a lot of fun with my friends dancing and acting like morons (in a good way). And I wish they made formal shoes for these dances that don't kill your feet. Flats hurt so much. Well anyway it was a great night. Other than Adele playing twice in a row. It's not that she can't sing it's just her music is on ALL THE TIME. Nothing like coming home tired of having a good time.

Lemme see... Going to a friend's birthday party today and trying to finish homework... Yep that's gonna be my weekend. And then it's Hell Week AKA Academic Focus week where we spend the time preparing for finals. Ugh... I just wanna be in Costa Rica already...

XOXO,

Liz

Hooray for feeling like total crap

Feels like forever since I was last on here.

School's been a bit hectic with finals coming in two weeks. The teachers are rushing to make sure we've learned everything we're supposed to by the time finals come. All it is is just pure insanity. Just a lot of work in most of my classes including English which involves researching for a paper where I'm supposed to argue on a current issue. I signed up to perform my final dance this upcoming Friday so I'm pretty anxious to perform. I've been working on my solo for a little over two months now so I feel like this is gonna go great. Crap... I just remembered I need to have a speaking final to do for Spanish. Sheesh... This is what I get for signing up for the Honors class. Well I kinda have to finish two years of a language as a requirement.

Nothing else big and eventful going on as far as my knowledge goes. Well then again I'm starting to feel sick which is kinda ruining my ability to think straight. Such as saying thanks for making pancakes when I was being made waffles. I'm just not working. In fact I haven't been all weekend. Sore throat and nasal congestion is no fun at all. I'm amazed I was able to go to my friend's birthday party last night at all. Was worth it teaching people how to play improv games and the awesome chocolate cake. Spent most of my day today watching Harry Potter weekend on ABC Family and seeing the sixth HP movie; not really one of my favorite movies from the series due to the raging hormones part distracting from what's really important.

Should take a Nyquil soon so I could possibly consider going to school tomorrow. If not, well I'm in some crap..

XOXO,

Liz

I want it to be Thanksgiving already..

So a three day weekend has passed and the next vacation won't be until next week when he have the entire week off for Thanksgiving.

Thursday went by ending with a bunch of homework, of all days before a three day weekend.. By the end of this week we have to finish talking about the industrial revolution and finish reading Julius Caesar. And drama had their Chile's night which was sooo filling. Nothing like a bacon cheeseburger to end my night.

With Veteran's day off and nothing to do, I decided to have my movie party. Got help from my step dad to set up an old VCR he had cause I seriously wanted to watch The Thief and the Cobbler. Look it up cause it's an awesome animated movie. Along with that we also watched The Producers (2005 version) and Hetalia: Paint it White! My friend Jamie got it on that day and was able to come over so we could watch it. Everyone got their fill of Hetalia for the day making a bunch of happy otaku girls.

Weekend went by uneventfully with really nothing to do. God, I don't even remember yesterday. Oh yeah... I helped finish building the set for the school play that's coming out this Thursday. The set looks just great and made Mrs Brown so happy. It looks like my great grandmother's house and we love it! My sister and I even got a hug too she was so happy.

I feel kinda bad she can't be all bubbly like that in my first period class because she has to put up with a bunch of obnoxious kids who can't shut up. She had to give a girl a referral to the office because she lost all of her participation points for the day. Sounds harsh but I can't blame Mrs Brown if I was in her position. I'd be losing my mind. Heh, actually I'm losing my mind because I have to be in the same room with these people. It really annoys me when people just stop caring about their grades and would rather fail than try at all. And it sucks cause it happens in Algebra 2 as well. I swear I'm gonna lose my mind the next time I hear someone say "When are we gonna ever use this later in life?" Is it really THAT difficult to just do the stupid homework? You need three years to graduate so deal with it! Math is used for pretty much EVERYTHING. Without math, the human race wouldn't exist right now and neither would all the technology we use. So just use the brain God gave you and think before you say crap like that.

I just irritated when people think they know everything when they don't and it annoys me and I'm sure a lot of other people too. Not just in academics but in the music we listen too as well. Like Lady Gaga and Marilyn Manson. I just get so mad when people bash on music artists for the stuff they create. If no one has seen Lady Gaga's music video to Judas, you can imagine how many people would go berserk to someone portraying themselves as Mary Magdalene. I gotta admit that when it first came out, I was really shocked that Lady Gaga went that far with her music career but hey, it grew on me. I like her music and that song because it's about FORGIVENESS. Take a few minutes to let the song go through your head and you'll understand. It has nothing to do with her bashing religion, or being stupid and a slut which she isn't. People, she went to Julliard for God's sake! Lady Gaga is actually a smart person. She's just different because she wants to be an idol that says "It's okay to be yourself" and that's what she is doing and is proud of it.

It's the same thing with Marilyn Manson. He's a unique guy and I just feel like bashing someone's head in every time someone blames him for contributing to violence and murders which he DOES NOT. My friend Maribeth loves Marilyn Manson (She even has a sweater that she was wearing when she hugged him) I have not seen any violent behavior out of that girl. Marilyn Manson grew up in a rather messed up childhood which led to a rebel phase when he was in high school. He makes music so kids who're like him feel that there's one in society where they will be accepted instead of feeling like they're freaks. It's all going back to being yourself and proud of who you are.

Wow... I did not expect this rant to come out..

XOXO,
Liz

Argh...

Ugh... Hate slow weeks.. It's cause we have a three day weekend this week isn't it?

Monday was the worse day of the week due to everyone remembering the shootings on Friday night (and still are). It was a Facebook event to wear black in memory of Tara Romero. It started off super terrible cause a fourth of my dance class had to sit outside because they wouldn't stop crying. I can't say I blame them cause I was close to tears too. These people knew her. Sweet, sweet Tara. Gone. But y'know you pick up the pieces and move on... some people more slower than others. That's what sucks about death is that it gets in the way with our daily lives. There's no time for emotion or it just ruins other plans. Stupid modern life... But whatever. Sometimes you just got to deal with it and live life how it's given to you. By the end of the day, most everyone's tears dried and we just went on with life.

Tuesday: Anime club day. We finally finished our game of Jeopardy and watched some anime clips online. Another stress filled day with school work and more school work.

Wednesday: Same but with GSA today. We made bracelets and T-shirts special for the club with fun paints and glitter. In Advisory we talked about whose responsibility it is to help students succeed and what not which I kinda found really stupid since I feel like we should have talked about how not to be affiliated with gang violence seeing as how one of the students was shot on Friday. But whatever... I think it should be common knowledge to never get involved in that stuff.

In fact, I'm watching the news right now and earlier they were talking about the shootings and raising awareness for gang violence. As it turns out, the suspected gang members were out looking for rival gang members and just opened fire on a bunch of teenagers. This just makes me more upset and angry at the people who took Tara's life and put two others in the hospital, fighting for their lives. I mean what gets people into that crap? What are they trying to fricking prove?! That the human race has no intelligence?! Well congratulations any and all gang members rotting in prison. Hope you are proud of yourself! All that getting involved in a gang gets a person in life is behind bars and hate. I don't care what stupid reason one has for joining a gang, it doesn't exactly end well for anyone. You wind up fighting other gangs over stupid differences and end up getting yourself killed or getting innocent people killed. Are you that stupid to not see that? Open your eyes before you hurt yourself. You're not cool or whatever for acting like a jerk and hurting innocent people, because it just makes you stupid. No one has a real reason for being a part of that crap, so just don't.

I just needed to get that little rant out of me.

Anyway...

Also drama's been doing a lot of set building and rehearsing and what not. We open up the play next Thursday which is pretty exciting. Been helping building the set and it just looks awesome. So anxious for opening night. And tomorrow we have a Chile's fundraiser night to help get the club some more money.

And this Friday is no school for Veteran's Day.

XOXO,

Liz

Chinese food. Yum

Another weekend of homework, relaxation and movies.. and now Chinese food. It's the reason I've been liking broccoli for years... Though this time I got more broccoli than beef so I'm full.

Another good week of school has passed. Played some entertaining Jeopardy in anime club and played the Dating Game in Drama club and stayed after school for set building for the play. Wasn't really that great since only about six people showed up and no one knew how to use the buzz saw which is kinda surprising to me. Doesn't help much that the director can be quite stubborn... But anyway I hope more people come and we get stuff done in time for the play which is in less than three weeks.

Academic wise the new quarter's going good. So far it's all A's and I'm doing great in my classes. Started tap dancing in dance class and I feel like just bursting out in dancing to great jazz music. My English class began reading Julius Caesar. Yep. Shakespeare.

And this past week was Anti-Drug week so people dressed up. And people will be dressing up on Monday for, you guessed it, Halloween. I'm really excited to show people my Mad Hatter costume and to see others as well.

Y'know I kinda wonder what happened to the purpose of Halloween. I mean it's a holiday where you dress up as generally something scary. Yet I see girls in short skirts and revealing tops and a lot of women's costumes that look that way. If that's scary then it's pretty scary indeed. Hahaha.

I love thinking back to what I was years before when I went out trick or treating. Lemme see... As far back as I can remember, I was Blossom from the Powerpuff girls when I was four. Heh. The costume came with the huge eyes that I didn't wear but I wore the wig/hair and dress. I don't remember who I was when I was five but I'm pretty sure I was a princess. That was my trend for a couple years to go as some sort of princess. My mom made my own princess dress when I was six with a tiara and everything. When I was seven I cut my hair short and I got my mom to make me a Snow White costume using a doll's dress for reference. I was a tiger at age eight with cool make up. At age nine, I was a pirate. Ten, the grim reaper (or Death). Eleven, (failed) Marluxia from Kingdom Hearts. Twelve, Captain Jack Sparrow. Thirteen, (another fail) Xigbar. And last year I was a ghost. And of course this year, the Mad Hatter.

Yes I still go trick or treating. Who says you're too old to get free candy on a yearly basis? And who doesn't like candy? Huh? In the past couple years, I got a Kool-Aid from one year and one of my friends got a can of peas in another year. Yes, a can of peas. No rocks so far. Hahaha.

So now I'm gonna go back to my relaxing weekend and trying to get through all four hours of Cleopatra.

XOXO,

Liz

It finally works!!

I mean the Home Access that allows me to see my grades. It's been down for about a week or so, so some people aren't able to log in. But luckily it now works so I finally get to see my report card! I got all A's and one B that's from Advanced English. I'm really proud that I'm doing well especially in Algebra 2. It's much more easier than I thought it would be... Let's just hope that won't be jinxed cause that'd be really really terrible.

So this past weekend I went to my friend Jamie's sixteenth birthday party and had a lot of fun. We played (violent) ping pong, made pizzas, and walked to Starbucks.... Some of us were cosplaying at the time which was quite fun but luckily we got no weird stares or anything. After getting Starbucks we went back for present time and cake. And let me say this: It's not everyday you get Happy Birthday sung in four languages on your birthday. That's why I love my friends. While being sung in English, it was also sung in French, Spanish and Swedish. And God was that the best chocolate cake ever!

So for this week.... Crap I just remembered I need a shirt for Wednesday to make a shirt for GSA. Well other than that I made an Anime Jeopardy! game to be played tomorrow and hopefully this Thursday for drama we figure out what to do for tech stuff. Oh, and it's Anti-Drug week so people dress up and stuff again.

XOXO,

Liz

Today should be Friday...

Actually yesterday should have been Friday. Ugh... Once again: Hate slow weeks.

Luckily everything's going better than last week so I don't feel like ripping out my hair.

So we're on the second quarter of the year, but I don't know what my report card looks like since the school wants to save paper by putting all our grades, progress reports and report cards online, and the website isn't working so I apparently don't exist... Along with a bunch of other people I know... Will try again tomorrow.

As for this week, it's been Breast Cancer Awareness week so everyone dresses up on certain days and stuff. Tomorrow everyone's supposed to be in all pink so that's probably the only day I'll actually participate in cause I'm bored.

Been practicing on some my choreography for my dance final and I have a general idea of what to do and luckily we get to practice tomorrow and bring in our music which includes iPods if we have them. I'm gonna dance to a piano version of a song called Tori no Uta. Yes I got this from an anime and it's really beautiful.

So the only thing I have to really really worry about tomorrow is an oral presentation in Spanish where we have to be like a news broadcast thingy... Luckily it's in sixth period and I have most of my stuff memorized.

And after that I go to a friend's sixteenth birthday party which I'm psyched for.

And now I'm thinking of whether to do my dance review which isn't due for two more months and I could finish in less than thirty minutes or watching Hetalia clips.... Think that's obvious

XOXO,

Liz

Most stressful week of the year...

Ever have one of those weeks at school where everything starts piling up and you feel like ripping out your hair or just wanting five minutes to shut your eyes? Yeah.. It's been one of those weeks. Just homework on top of homework and by the time I'm done, I'm so tired and all I want to do is just crash and never wake up.

Best cure for stressful weeks? A nice hot shower. Just taking one is so refreshing and it clears up your head from all that stress. Thankfully the week's over and I'm only left with some crazy Algebra 2 homework I can easily get help on.

So other than some stressing homework, all of the dance classes got to perform in the "flash mob" today. I put quotes around flash mob because you know how it's supposed to be a big surprise and stuff so no one else can know but those performing? Yeaaaah some people forgot or didn't know that. And it became an event on Facebook too. But other than that it went really well.

And now it's all over and I can take a weekend to relax and probably finally get to finish Gurren Lagann and catch up on other animes.

XOXO,

Liz

OMG Dr. Phil!!

The only thing on TV on a Wednesday afternoon besides a recording of Doctor Who and that's Dr. Phil..

Had no school on Tuesday due to Furlough day and if you don't live in California, it pretty much means, "We're getting budget cuts and can't have school on this day. Have a nice day off." One of the sad things about living in California and it's that we're broke...

Anyway, bright side is that after a day off we get to go to school later for advisory day. And today was twin day and me and my friend Jamie dressed up as Italy and Romano from Hetalia. Tried to pull off a curl but since my hair is already curly it kinda fails... Even with hair gel. I tried to give myself spiky hair but it just made my hair a blobby mess of gel and goo... Fail big time.

I now love my dance teacher because she's considering doing the dance we're learning and taking all of her classes and doing a flash mob on campus. The only problem is getting people to learn the dance and get it perfect if we were to do a flash mob. I still love the idea and I'm hoping that we could be able to do a flash mob.

In GSA today we just discussed about making posters for the homecoming parade and that'll be done tomorrow during Food Fair which we couldn't sell energy drinks even though there are people selling our back up plan, root beer floats, and coffee. Oh well... hopefully we'll get things situated to do the next food fair.

Oh and we got to wrap up a kid in advisory in toilet paper and make them a mummy. Nice to finally be doing something fun for once in that class.

And I'm so glad to finally be getting a new seat tomorrow in Algebra 2 because I can finally have some focus without having the feeling to rip out my hair. Second time's a charmer cause I asked before to get a different seat but I couldn't be moved without putting a troublesome kid next to the kid I'm sitting next to. But the teacher decided to move me towards the front and trade places with another kid. Now I'll be in a nice happy place.

Ugh.. I just want it to be Friday cause then I get to see my stepbrother Steven for the first time in... I dunno a couple years? He's in the Air Force so cause he's busy so much he hasn't come to see us in the longest time but we still have contact. He's even coming with us to Costa Rica for New Years' too. So I'm gonna be super psyched to see him soon.

XOXO,

Liz

Slow Week...

Yeah I don't think I need to explain much. This is too slow of a week for me.

As it turns out, the back to school flu season is in. It's of course the time of year where everyone starts suddenly getting sick with coughing and sneezing of the sorts. Now one of my friends can barely talk and my sister's friend has tonsillitis. How's that for a great time at school when you catch someone's cold?

Ugh.. and I'm so exhausted, my throat's scratchy and I still have a stuffed up nose. Had to walk home today in 90 degrees of heat which sucked. Thank God I don't have a ton of homework and I didn't have to carry it all home and will pick it up later.

So this Friday is Club Day where freshmen sign up for all sorts of different clubs. I kinda laughed to myself a little cause there's this club called the friendship club where you go there and make friends.... I feel like that'll last one meeting. That's why you sign up for a club in the first place; to make friends. And you do that by meeting people in your classes. Whatever, that club fails it's not my problem.

Anyway, I'm helping the anime club recruit freshmen and I'm the public chair so I made some awesome fliers. Can't wake to make more friends soon!

XOXO,

Liz

Even more getting used to things

So last Friday was our first school dance which went pretty good. I had quite a few friends go and we all had tons of fun dancing. It wasn't as scary as other dances so thank God. Turns out that when the teachers said they would see if people were dancing dirty to a certain extent, they were serious about it. So about every few minutes a teacher would shine a flashlight on a group of kids. It wasn't so bad cause everyone would just freeze if they were doing something they weren't supposed to. Was okay for me and my friends since we don't do stuff like that. Overall, really good dance.

Saturday went by like normal and Sunday we drove up to San Francisco for Marina to visit her boyfriend. We went out for tacos and Italian sweets and did a little bit of roaming around Pier 39; mostly looking at sea lions which were funny and plain adorable. Really good day.

And now a new week of school has commenced. Just the same old usual school work and irritation of people who don't care for their education. And anime club will have its first meeting next Tuesday and we'll be deciding on president and vice president and what not. Fun had by all.

XOXO,
Liz