Scary, Yet Awesome and the Same Time!!

Today was really scary, yet awesome at the same time!!

Something was wrong with me so I signed up to play "River Flows in You" for my school's CJH idol assembly for the talent part. I was actually feeling sick the day that I entered myself, so maybe that's why I did it. All yesterday and today I've been wondering what I was thinking when I put my name down, and I still have no clue. So I practiced a lot yesterday because I didn't want to mess up, but I was messing up all over the place because I was really scared, which made me more scared. Today I was nervous, but I wasn't all freaking out like yesterday (well, technically today's Saturday, but let's just pretend it's Friday still!). I practiced playing my song in the Drama room then went to my 7th period class (which is first and first period is last on assembly days). I got to get out five minutes into it to go into the gym to set up and practice. This girl named Mckenna was also going to play a song on the piano that she composed herself and singing. We just hung around and talked and played the piano a bit while waiting for the assembly to start. I was fine as long as I didn't think of the actual playing the piano part. I knew I was performing, but if I didn't think of actually playing, I was okay.

So too soon the assembly started and we started out with a talent from two girls who did a dance which was trying to do some sort of slow hip hop dance. The music was good, but they didn't know it very well, and one girl kept her eyes on the other girl the whole time because she didn't know what to do. Mckenna was up next and she was amazing. Her song sounded so proffesional, and she has a really good voice. Everyone was surprised that she composed the song herself. We then had a guy do stuff on a unicycle, and then the third place winner in CJH idol sang for us. My turn next. When Mrs. Rigby announced that I'd be playing "River Flows in You" tons of girls gasped at the same time, it was so funny! I knew I chose a good song, any song that has to do with Twilight in the slightest is sacred to them. I had Mckenna sit next to me on the bench to hold the music in place while I played because the stupid air conditioner kept on blowing over the music earlier. So I started playing and I, miraculously, didn't mess up the first part. My leg on the pedal was shaking super bad though and it wouldn't stop vibrating. I was also a bit distracted because I could hear people whispering. When someone who is super scared is performing, shut up! It doesn't help them to hear distractions and wonder if they're talking about their vibrating leg! So I messed up on a part near the end, which I've never done before, but I didn't care too much. When I was done, I kinda bowed and felt like an idiot bowing. Oh well. At least it was over with, and I had a cute guy to sit next to when I was done.

Afterwards was a guy who danced to some song starting with a T that sounded like an idian/foreign song that was awesome. The guy, Jon, is Chinese and he just started dancing like crazy! He always does that during school dances and people gather in circles around him. So everyone was clapping and screaming while he danced. It was so funny, yet awesome at the same time. I love that kid!! When he was done, everyone stood up and clapped as loud as they could. It reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite when he did his weird dance but everyone loved it. Then a guy did killer tricks with his yo-yo, the 2nd place CJH idol sang, two guys played the piano, and these two girls did a super good professional dance. Then the CJH idol winner sang, we clapped, left the end. I had tons of people tell me I did a good job. I'm just glad to have it over with, and now I want to do it next year, despite it being the scariest thing I've ever done in my short life. I usually only play for 50 people in a recital, but this was hundreds of kids.

I'm so glad Grandma and Grandpa got their mission call! I'm not sure whether I'm jealous or not that they are serving in Mongolia. Mom looked up some of their language stuff and it looks hard! I would also be scared. It was really cool having a lot of our family on the phone on the same time and to hear people hundreds of miles away in every direction trying to talk over eachother on the phone. Special. When Grandma said that it would be April 20, 2009 to October 20, 2010, I was a bit confused. I was thinking, but then they won't get back until next year. And then it dawned on me. Dang, they're going to be gone for over a year. No visits and games and fun :( And they'll miss my 15th and 16th birfday (my 16th birfday by two days). That's crazy, I'll be 16 when they get back. That's wrong, just sickly, unfunnily, horribly, wrong. 16.... I'm getting scary thoughts now (high school, boys, dates, jobs, driving, older....) I'm still just 14, I don't want to think about being 16 for another 626 days.

So I called people to see if they could come over to my house tonight to watch movies and have popcorn and other bad food. Most of them were being losers, so only Joye, Megz, and Sariah came. Oh well, we had fun without them. We watched "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and played rock band. It was pretty fun, and I almost killed my cat. Accidentally of course, but she was fine. She's tough.

That's been my scary/fun day! Hopefully next time I play for people, my leg wont buzz and spazz out, and Grandma and Grandpa will be gone. And Charlie (my cat) will still be alive.

Fun Fun Fun

I usually don't post two days in a row, but I have more stuff to mention. I had a fun day today.

So before school I talked to Mrs. Rigby about the CJH idol assembly at our school (people try out to sing and those who make it sing for the lunch and then the school votes and the top three people get the money prize and sing in an assembly where other people do talents) so she just said "oh, go and sign that over there and we'll talk later". Okay... cool.

During second period, they called kids down who were doing the NAEP test. I had gym and didn't think much about it, but when I went out of the locker rooms, my coach told me and three other girls that we were taking it and we should go down. I asked if we should change, and she said "no, just go down and see what they want". So I went into the cafeteria where there were about fifty other eight graders. I sat in between two (awesome and cute!!) guys and I was told that we were going to take a 90 minute test. Great. I wished I could've changed into regular clothes instead of sitting there in my baggy gym shirt and shorts with my unshaved legs. It was a great feeling. This other girl was wearing boxer shorts for gym. So for all of second and third period, I took the test. Everyone had a different subject, and mine was math. Oh goody. One problem that I never got, that wasn't multiple choice, is what is the next number in the sequence?? 35, 240, 1280, _____? Does anyone have any idea? Grandma?? So finally ten minutes into fourth period we were done. I was talking to the guy next to me (Kellin Black oooh same last name) and we were saying how we should get pizza or a cookie for doing this, and that we'd be upset if all we got was a pencil. Wha'd'ya know? We got to keep our pencils.

My fourth period teacher (Mr. Dart) scares me sometimes. I'm very good in his class because I don't want him to get mad at me. They sent an announcement over the intercom saying that us special test takers should be back in our classes soon because the test is done, but I was still in my gym clothes. I walked through the gym and everyone was staring at me. It was weird, so I just went in and changed and hurried to my locker and to history. I was scared before going in there. I don't think he saw me go in late, so that was a relief and I don't care if he marked me tardy. He was at his desk.

After school I had to go to Mrs. Rigby's room because I was part of the CJH idol talent thing. She just asked me about the song and how long it was. She then said "okay, we'll just have Ms. Swallow's piano out for you to play on during the assembly okay? You can go now." Thank-you.... Now I'm scared. I barely made it to the bus and I intended to practice the piano until my back broke in half, but I freaked out when I realized I left my sheet music at my piano teacher's house and I couldn't go get it because she was in the hospital (I knew because I had a lesson that day but couldn't go because of that). My computer was weird and didn't print the music right, but I finally got it to print a small version so it's hard to see the notes, but at least I have it.

I ran to mutual later that night and played the song (oh, BTW, it's River Flows in You) for the Mia Maids. We picked up Alyssa and had fun with her dog! We then went to my leader's house and watched American Idol and youtube videos and had caramel popcorn. Mmmmm It was so fun!!

Now I need to practice the piano, because I'm really nervous!

Wow...

Do you like my new layout?? I saw Grandma's layout and she got it from an awesome website, so I went there and found tons of new backgrounds that I love. I might be changing my background more frequently now because they're so cool.

A thing that bugged me was that it was just a background, but it didn't include the thing in the middle which is the background of my posts so that you guys can actually see them. So even though I had the butterfly background, I still had the blue thing in the middle. That's not annoying. So then I messed around and did stuff that I have no idea about so my blog was a complete blog wreck. I finally just undid all of the HTML and went to Pyzam and found a white tiger layout with a white middle thing. So I had that for my layout, and then I just added the butterflies instead of the tiger, though it still pops up at first when I go to my blog. I then had to add my BNY widgets and "Special" blogs stuff which was a pain. I got 2 BNY widgets, one to watch videos, one to just listen to music. Nifty!

I'm learning to draw eyes in art right now.

We're playing ping-pong and badminton in gym.

I'm trying to get a song down for solo and ensemble which Amanda is supposed to be playing on the piano for me, and I'm super nervous.

I think I might try out to play the piano for our school's CJH idol assembly, but I'm scared.

I sent in a form to be in Honors English.

I didn't do 4 of 32 circles in art, so I have to do the dumb assignment over again.

I didn't realize William had a blog, until two days ago (no one bothered to even say "Look at William's blog!" and then I'd say "huh??" and they'd say "his blog!" and I'd be like "he has a blog??" and they'll reply "where've you been dummy?" and I'll say "IDK" and then they'll say "well look at it, I'm sure you'll want to find out about California tax refunds!" and I'll say "oh goody! I'm glad you told me now, instead of 2 1/2 months after he got it, that would've been annoying!") Anyway, now it's one of my "special" blogs.

The litter box was undelectable today, so much that I almost gagged.

I finished a really good book today called "Buried"
(Click on the title)

I went to piano lessons today.

I forgot to put my name on a History paper today

The nephew of my awesome Young Womens president substituted in science today.

I'm super tired.

I'm going to stop posting now, I've ran out of exciting stuff.

Mom's Birthday

I think Hannah's mad at me.... Because I made her give the computer back. I got off for 2 minutes to have Mom email me a picture, and she gets on. She stares at me on the computer and waits for me to get off. And right when I do, she's on. She's like one of those pelicans on Finding Nemo who always say "mine, mine" and never leave you alone. Sorry Hannah, I love you!! <3

Right now, Mom is watching Lost. She's supposed to be doing her homework, but she ran out of things to procrastinate, so she started watching Lost. She started either last night or this morning, and she's probably on season 2 by now. I remember when I was younger, I saw one of the first episodes when the plane actually crashed and this guy got sucked into the engine. I asked Mom when the "movie" would end and she said that it would go on for years, probablye, and they'd show just an hour each week. I remember thinking whoa, I could be 18 by the time this movie ends, that's a long time! I didn't realize it was a TV show like Spongebob that goes on forever.

Speaking of Mom, hopefully some of you have noticed that it was her birfday this week. I had a great idea of a cake and I told Dad and I mentioned to Mom that I could make her a cake. I totally forgot, and I had hoped that they would forget that and buy a Wal-Mart cake. Nope. I came home from another horrible day of school, and found myself face-to-face with Dad who said "oh, by the way, you're making Mom's cake". (We had to celebrate her birfday on Wednesday, the day before her actual day of birth, because she would be at school and Dad had work until midnight on the day in question.) I didn't really mind, I was happy to put my ideas into the cake. So I made the cake using the easy box where you just put the powdery stuff, water, veg. oil, and eggs in and you're set. I let it sit for 20 minutes after it got out of the oven, and then I took it out of the pan. It broke in half, and then in fourths, and then in eighths, and then I knew that it was the end of that cake. :( I had to make another one which made it so Dad couldn't put dinner in the oven. Nice job Celeste. But by the time it was ready to be taken out again, I had to go to mutual. Dad said he would put the frosting on, and then I could icing it when I got back.

I had a great time at mutual, we did little skits according to the ways to be or whatever it's called that's in the Matthew and something else books (do you like how clear I am??). Mine was mercy. I had two boys and Ashley on my team, and we had to use a heart, a picture of Jesus, and a game to act something out. We had no idea what the game had to do with it (Parcheesi). So we had me and Ashley somehow playing it and moving the pieces. When it was Ashley's turn to roll, I looked away as Matt Wilcox (who played the Devil) told her to turn the dice into sixes, and she did it and won. When I saw what she had done, I got really mad and started getting into the about-to-be-violent-mode. But then Michael Packer (an angel) told me to do what Jesus would do. I thought about it, but still wanted to hurt my sister. He then gave me the metal heart and told me to have mercy. I said maybe I should have mercy and then the "devil" said throw it at her so I would say maybe I should throw it at her and I was about to when, with the "angel's" encouragement, I had mercy. So I hugged Ashley and said it's okay, I know you didn't mean to cheat. I thought ours was the best. :P The others were hilarious to watch!

After that, I stayed to play basketball with the Young Women for fun and practice. After playing for 20 minutes (and managing to hit someone with the ball) something made me think of Mom and how we're celebrating her birthday that night. My heart stopped. So I grabbed my jacket and yelled "sorry, I gotta go, bye!" I ran the whole way home, no exaggeration, and I was hoping that Mom wouldn't be there. I got there, and everyone was playing Rock Band downstairs, and Mom wasn't there. I quickly put icing on the frosted, taken-out-of-pan cake (thanks dad!!), but the letters were fat and it looked bad, before Hannah pointed out that I was supposed to put one of those decorating icing caps on it to make the icing pretty. Dang. So after wasting a lot of icing, I took it off so the cake looked really bad, and tried to squeeze out enough icing to still do it. I didn't like it too much, but Mom loved it. I forgot I haven't told you my idea, but I think you will get it after viewing this fantastic picture of my marvelous cake. Ta-da!!!!

It actually did turn into a cakewreck because I messed up on it a lot as you can see....

So she got a stocking full of presents because she didn't get one for Christmas.

Something I think is funny is how Dad got Rockband for us on Mom's birfday, and last year on Mom's birfday, he bought himself a new blackberry phone. Does anyone see something wrong here?

Anyway, I think her fake birthday was better than her actual one. She came home the next day mad because she had to sit through a boring class, her hair stylist messed up on her hair, and something else.... So she made us be quiet and angelic while she watched Grey's Anatomy in her room.

The next day was a bad day of school (I never seem to have good days...) I had to go to school in a skirt *shiver* it's not natural, it's not right. So I came home, got some fattening food, and read a good book in my room and fell asleep. I woke up at 5PM to take Emma to her friend's house, went back home, and fell asleep again in my bed and didn't wake up until 10:30 PM. Dinner was left out because somebody didn't feel like cleaning (that wasn't my job that day) so it was all crusty and gross looking, so I just had chips and cereal for dinner. I then went back to sleep. Happy Friday!!

Today morning, I woke up early, and Hannah, Amanda, Chelsie, and I (happy that I used good grammar Hannah?) went to sewing lessons. Mom and Marjorie thought it would be a great idea to have us do it together. It's actually pretty fun, and we're going to make cupcake and heart pin cushions next week!!!

When we dropped Amanda and Chelsie back at their house after sewing was over, we started driving away, which I assumed meant going home. It took me about 10 minutes (when we were by mountains that indicate we're going to SLC) to realize that we weren't going home. Mom then couldn't resist saying a sarcastic remark about my smartness. Mom had to do something at the doctor's office which took her 5 minutes, then we went home. The whole time, Hannah and I texted each other.

I then had to do my chores, and the only reason I mention this is because my job is kitchen and the kitchen was disgusting!!! I was about to pass out when I realized I had to clean it up, just me! Eeeewww!! Just doing the dishes took me 20 minutes. That took me forever, and then I did other Celestial things to pass the time before I'm back to the torture of school, including listening to this over and over again =D. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUM9k1A1nU

This concludes another Celestial Confessional Confession Session!

Barbies

Hey everyone! My life has been so exciting, I can barely describe it. Actually I can, here we go!

So the semester is over at last, and tomorrow, I start a new one. Yay. I don't have French anymore which is a huge relief. And no health! Ugh... health... *shiver Once again, I'm cursed not to have the same lunch as my friends, and I only have one class with Sariah. Dang.

It's funny I should mention Sariah, because I've been spending a lot of time with her.

On Friday, she came over and we were bored. The peoples across the street's daughter got married, so I got some of her old clothes, and Hannah and Emma got tons of awesome barbies. We were bored, so we got out the barbies in my room. We then went to Sariah's house to get stuff so she could sleep over at my house. While we were there, Ryan came over and asked if we wanted to come over to Austin Jackson's house to play nightgames. We said we were going to play barbies, but we'd come over if we felt like it. So we headed back to my house and continued to set up the barbies. But then, a bunch of boys came over to my house and begged us to come play nightgames, and they promised popcorn, hot chocolate, and a movie too. Being as kind as we were, tempted by the food, and by the variety of boys, we went and left our barbies in my room. We played Becca for a while, and then me and Sariah ran home because I had to go to the bathroom :P After that we watched a show with Heath Ledger in it. He's sooooooooo cute!!!!!

After that, we went back home and made a barbie video. It's sooooo awsome! I love it! I did all of the animation and voices and Sariah recorded everything. It's on youtube right now. My computer is being retarded, so I'll just give you the adress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5WRP75lwaU
Enjoy!!!

The next day, we made another video, which was so awesome. It's called Barbies and the Vortex. I had to split it into 2 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW8McBaPyZs&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qq-RwvSeJ4&feature=channel_page
I like this one a lot because it's not as strange, but it's still funny. I had Hannah help me do a couple of the voices (the fairies and GET OFF) and move the barbies.

The next day, Sunday, I did my regular church activities. I wanted to point out, however, that Mom asked me to make dessert for Family Home Evening. I looked through the Lion House Desserts cookbook and found Chocolate Brownie Pudding. I tried making it even though I had no idea what it was. It was weird, because in the 9x13 pan, on the bottom was the batter stuff. On the top was this brown water stuff. I read and re-read the instructions, but I didn't think I did anything wrong, so I put it in. It came out wonderfully. It was so delicious, and either my family liked it or they are good actors.

Chocolate Brownie Pudding

2 cups all purpose flour

2teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1 tsp. salt
1 cup milk
2 tsp vanillla
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cups walnuts, chopped
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
3 1/2 cups hot water

Preheat over to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x13x2-inch pan and set aside. Measure flour, baking powder, sugar, 1/4 cup cocoa, and salt into a bowl and mix together. Add milk, vanilla, and melted butter and mix until incorporated. (This can be mixed by hand or with the mixer.) Stir in the walnuts. Pour into prepared pan and set aside.
In a large bowl mix together brown sugar and 1/2 cups cocoa. Pour hot water over sugar and cocoa mixture and mix together. When well blended, slowly pour over the flour mixture in baking pan. (The baking pan will be very full, so handle carefully when putting it in the over.) Bake for 35-40 minutes. Cut into 15 squares.

You eat this with a spoon, so you might want to dish it out with a big spoon. This didn't click in my head when it said "pudding" so I did it with a spatula-ish thing, and I missed the pudding. And, they weren't kidding when they said to handle carefully when putting it in the oven. It was full and heavy, and I made Dad put it in, because knowing me, I would've dropped it and started a fire and everyone would've died.

On Monday, I went with Sariah and her parents to the Draper Temple open house. It is soooo beautiful in there. I had always wanted to see the Celestial room because I've heard it's so beautiful, and I wasn't disappointed. It had a huge chandelier and it was and amazing room. I love my name.... The sealing room and ordinance rooms were amazing too. I want to get married there now, but I'm sure that the other temples are just as pretty.

A few hours after we got back, we started making another video and we had another sleepover. We did Barbies in America's Next Top Model. I think it's stupid, and I don't really like it. We did a cooking show today, but it's stupid too. I'll have to see if it will make it to youtube.

I just barely posted a video of me playing the piano on my other youtube account. It's annoying because Emma is being really noisy, and Hannah thought she was helping by shushing her, but that just made it worse. Ugh. I still think it sounds okay though, and we finally got our piano tuned which made me really happy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdgBna0I510

Now I'm back to school tomorrow :,(. I hate school, and I don't expect to like this semester just as I've hated every single semester sinse I moved here. Let's pray for a miracle.

Random Stuff that has No Connection Other than it has to do With Me

It's Monday, the worst day of the week. Why? Because I get to sleep in for two days and then I have to go back to school. It's also the beginning of the week, so all I have to look forward to is school. When it's Tuesday, I can say, tomorrow's Wednesday. When it's Wednesday, I can say I have mutual tonight! I've always liked Thursdays, and Fridays, I get our early from school and have the weekend to look forward to. I don't know why I just told you this.... but I hope you found out some deep and unknown stuff about me today from this.

I'm wearing a shirt I got for Christmas before last and I forgot how cute it is because I haven't worn it in a while.

Some of my clothes are missing and it's driving me crazy! That's one thing of mine you DON'T mess with, unless you ask politely :)

I started learning this song on the piano called River Flows in You on the piano and it's super pretty! Amanda is really good at it and Stephanie is amazing (no surprised there). I just started playing it a lot last night on my handy dandy keyboard, and now I'm addicted and it doesn't sound too bad. I love my keyboard in my room, because then I can play to my heart's desire without people telling me to play the soft pedal (which means I sound crappy, and I'd rather not play than play with the stupid pedal) or one time someone told me that I actually sounded bad and he/she wanted me to stop. Now, I only play if Mom tells me to practice or if I'm already good at a song. I do the rest in private.

I was just thinking that my blog posts are really long compared to other people's... sorry. I can't resist telling you every single detail of my day, it's so fun! If you are really bugged, then let me know and I will do my best to make you happy.

So.... Saturday night was really fun! I went over to Ryan's house to play night games. I was the only girl and I didn't mind at first, but Ryan had brought over 5 guys from his school and that was a bit awkward, so I ran and begged Joye to join me. We played Becca and then went into Joye's house and played Apples to Apples and had popcorn. I told this girl at school about it casually, and she started freaking out. She was like "you have to take me next time! Omygosh that's so cool! Cute!" Hmmmm. It wasn't that Omygosh!!ish. I'm not sure I want to take her though. Playing night games and hanging out with the peoples in my neighborhood is the only time I have fun and don't feel like I'm forcing myself to be social like I do at school. She pretty much ignores me and I just follow her around while she talks about this party she had and how it was so cool. She literally did that today, and she's always talking about stuff she and her friends are always doing over the weekend. I don't care that I wasn't invited, but it bugs me how she couldn't be a little courteous and not say too much in front of me.

I have a bit of wisdom for you bloggers reading this blogger's blog: if you want people to read your blog, post something new! *coughamandasplutterbonniesneezecherylchokemarjoriegagsuziewretchmom-coughharderthanthelasttimegrandmaalmostfaintetc.etc.
Good job Stephanie, now that she's in Jerusalem, she's posting more! Yay!

I am currently finishing the 6th Harry Potter book for the 20th time! Can't you tell that I have nothing better to do (or can do)? I rarely go over to friend's houses, the last time I went to a party... besides Sariah's two birthday ones... were.... I can't remember.... I have to babysit my little sisters, Mom and Dad are at school and work, and all I'm doing is piano (but I'm DYEING to do tumbling). I draw, scrapbook, and write too, but I'm out of scraps to book (or in other words, pictures to scrap book).

The cats are still are weird and spazzy and schizophrenic and cute and annoying and funny and cuddly and furry and poopy and lazy and hyper and stupid as usual.

I'm eating cookie dough icecream, mmmmmmm :P!

You Can Take My Word for It

Right now I'm in French, my least favorite class. I’m supposed to be doing this dumb worksheet that only people who finished yesterday’s assignment have to do, which is me. Is this my reward for not talking and instead working hard on my assignments? I don’t even understand what the pages are saying. How about instead of making us doing stupid stuff that none of us understand very well, actually teach us the French words in class so that we can actually do it! I’m so happy though because I’m quitting French next semester and doing art instead. I took it all last year and hated it, so I must’ve had something wrong with me when I decided to do it again this year. People were confused why I didn’t want to do it. They said that it’s an easy “A” class and we don’t really do much. I don’t want to sit around for an hour doing nothing and getting an A when I didn’t exactly earn it.

Art will benefit me more, I think, and I’ve admired Stephanie’s artwork for as long as I can remember and I was always begging her to help me draw. Now I can get better and do the thing I’ve wanted to learn how to do well for years. I’m already not bad at drawing people, and lately I’ve started drawing things I find on my bedroom floor when I’m bored which actually looks pretty good, but who am I to judge.

I can hear the girls whispering next to me, and I think they’re talking about me. They were saying how weird I was. I’m not going to waste all class doing this dumb assignment, especially if I’m not going to be in her class in less than two weeks. So, why not blog? I’m only aloud half an hour of computer each day at home now and I don’t want to spend it typing the whole time. I don’t care what they think, I decided that a long time ago (well, in October or something). I’m going to get through school, get good grades (starting NEXT term), and try not to care about what people think of me.

I was a good girl and came home from school yesterday and did my homework right after finding something to eat. But tiredness overcame me and I fell asleep after finishing. I was planning to nap for only 5 minutes since the little sisters weren’t home yet, and I don’t know how long I slept. Not very long, that’s for sure. Mom got mad at me for that. I was trying to explain that it was only a 5 minute nap and then I was going to come upstairs, but she’s got a point. I should be waiting for Hannah and Emma to come home and not napping. Those two can’t be alone for five minutes. I would like to point out, however, that when I was younger than Hannah, I was staying home by myself and sometimes babysitting Emma. I wasn’t alone too long with Emma, but I did it. Why can’t Hannah babysit her for once? All she has to do is set Emma’s timer to go to the bathroom.

It started snowing yesterday while I was at school. So after I did the above paragraph, Mom took me to piano. Or tried. Traffic was horrible and it took us 35 minutes to go what was a 5-10 minute drive to my piano teacher’s house. I usually go on Wednesdays, but I can’t go the next two weeks because Mom has school and Dad has work, so I was going to take Marjorie’s kid’s times since they wouldn’t be there anyway. We eventually decided that Mom can’t take me to piano because she has school at Weber and Dad would have to pick me up and she didn’t want him to drive up there or me to be stuck at my teacher’s house. I’ve only known her a month. Mom suggested that she could drop me off at Marjorie’s house while she goes to school and hope Marjorie doesn’t stay out too late, which I thought would be fine. Piano, food, TV, all alone, and Porthose. I’m sure Marjorie would appreciate that.

In the end, Mom decided to take me to school with her. Yipee. As fun as college sounds… I didn’t want to go. But there was no choice. We arrived about half an hour after her class started. She gave me her book, “A Mile in my Flip-flops”. I hate flip-flops, I haven’t worn them since the summer before last. They’re pieces of foam that shouldn’t be called shoes. I tried reading while her professor droned on and on, but my mind kept on slipping and I was staring at the wall before I realized what I was doing. When her class had break, Mom took me upstairs to the computer lab. She gave me her password (yes!) and told me there were “really good fiction books” in the library which was in the same room. I got on and of course, went to facebook and talked to a girl I haven’t seen in years and Ashley. But facebook is really boring when there’s no one you want to talk to, no one else to be friends with, or ANYTHING to do. Facebook is stupid. I tried reading blogs, but no one posted anything new. I logged off and looked at the “really good fiction books” which were either long books that only Amanda’s family would read, or stupid encyclopedias. “A Mile in my Flip-flops” couldn’t even compare to how exciting these books were. But I restrained myself from reading, and I got back on the computer, and then Mom finally came. I got M&M's though, and some time with Mom in the car, it was okay in the end.

My teacher just called me over to read French. I had no idea how to pronounce those words so I just sounded all Frenchy, and it worked! She said that she understands why I’m taking art instead of French, but that she wants me to continue French next year or in high school because I’m really good. I plan to do it in high school, because it is cool to learn French. Parlez vous Francais?

So on the way home, the roads were clearer and we got home faster. Dad made BLT’s (or maybe Grandpa did…) but the bacon was hard when I got to it. That makes me sad, I Love bacon! I was the one who suggested that we make BLT’s and I was looking forward to it. Well I ate the fruit though. The bell’s going to ring, I’ll blog later!

Hey! What d'ya know? It's later! About five hours later actually. Isn't it funny how last paragraph I was in French class, and now I'm home?! I think it is!! Just kidding *cough* back to business.

So the bell rang to end third period less than a minute after I said good-bye.

My eye had been hurting all day because of my stupid contact. I felt weird because my right eye (which you peoples see as my left) was blinking three times more than my left eye. I changed contacts when I got home in that eye, and now my other eye is irritating me. I can't win!

The next interesting thing that happened, was lunch *giggle*. My friend brought Club Crackers and Easy Cheese to lunch. We had kids swarming around our table like bees at a picnic, begging for food. I didn't have any, because I'm a bit sick of Easy Cheese at the moment. I told this one guy named Doug that I'd give him money if he squirted a ton of cheese into his mouth, and he was tempted by my $2 offer. But then the guy sitting next to him said that he can do it. He tipped it in his mouth and poured a sickly amount of cheese into his mouth and swallowed. I started laughing really hard, at the same time I was disgusted. A couple minutes later, this boy named Alex came over and stole a cracker and poured tons of cheese on it. Layers and layers of the orange paste, and then he ate it in two bites. Doug then got some crackers and added tons on cheese onto each one and stacked them together so they were a triple decker, overloaded cheese sandwich. Alex came over and started eating it. I was revolted, but I went into histerical laughing again and didn't stop until the dreaded bell to end lunch came.

After school, I worked on my project for science that's due tomorrow. It's called Adopt-an-Element and you have to make a poster following a certain format and look up info about it. I was planning to finish it before or during Christmas break, but of course, I was unable to do that due to my procrastination habits. It took a while and I had to itch my right side of my brain to get some creativeness out, but I think it looks super good. Mom only gave me advice on the rocket and musroom cloud, and I thought of and did the rest by myself. Whoa. You can take my word for it that it's awesome or look down below.



I had Fluorine which makes fluoride, toothpaste, rocket fuel, and it's really explosivey, especially with hydrogen. I think it's pronounced floor-ring without the g on ring. If it doesn't, dang-it, because my slogan is supposed to rhyme. And that F at the top is the symbol, and that's a tooth brush inside that I, Celeste Black, did indeed draw myself. I sense jealousness from you who don't have my toof-brush drawing skills. That thing on the bottom left is a toothpaste tube, and that toothpaste coming out of it is ribbon. I hope I did it right, and if not, at least I had fun right? No. I think some of you need to coment and tell me how amazing I am for doing this. I await your positive feedback =D.

Grandma and Grandpa are leaving tomorrow (I hear choo choo's, I wonder who's playing Ticket to Ride on their laptop?? *coughgrandmacoughsplutterchoke*) I'm sad, it's so nice having them here to do stuff. Also, the only time I can play Settlers and Ticket to Ride is usually when they're over, because most of my family don't like to learn games like that. They're not hard... after the first 3 times. I wanted to play today, but it's too late :(. Aw well, I'll live. We did play games.

I'll just sum the rest of the stuff up: my room smells like a guy's restroom in the middle of nowhere because of the cats, my eye hurts, I'm wearing my awesome Charlie the Unicorn shirt, I had pork chop stuff with rice for dinner, I'm jealous of Stephanie, and I don't have piano lessons for the next couple of weeks which sucks because I got a Jon Schmidt book and I wanted to start learning songs. That's about it.... hmmm.... Uh.... The End.... I guess......

New Year Happenings

It's only been a few days since I posted, but I guess I will since I'm bored and shunned from my mom's presence (love you mom!).

So Grandma and Grandpa Stevens did indeed arrive as promised in my previous post.

Sorry, I'm interrupting really quick. Right after I finished the sentence before past, Dad and I went to McDonald's to get our family dinner. Seeing the drive-thru sign reminded me of this funny yet strange youtube video musical thing that I'll show at the end. You also might be interested to know that we forgot straws :(

Anyway they came and they enjoyed very much the stew which I made. During dinner, some guys came to the door to see if I wanted to play night games (if you were at dinner, don't comment!). I went over and played 'Capture the Flag' with my friends until I went to Marjorie's. I must confess, I would've rather I stayed and play night games because the night wasn't very... eventful.

I had to lock up the cats in my room because Grandma Joan was staying with us (Gampa too) and she is allergic. They have stunk up my room because of their stupid litter box and they go through their food like crazy. Whenever I go in there, they start acting all cuddly and sweet like they haven't been loved in days. Yesterday (or was it today??) I went in my room and right when I opened the door Sylvester tried to run out of the room full speed and ran into my leg. Dumb cat. I bet he actually thought that out himself. Hmmm, maybe if I sit by the door all day until master comes back in, I can run right through the door when it opens! They are really funny and I love them, usually.

The next day was the last day of 2008, which means it was New Year's Eve. William's family came over and played games and pigged out with my family and the grandparents. Mom won Settlers twice in a row which was amazing because she never wins (I'm not being mean, it's a fact). I then started teaching Skyler how to play Fast Sundae which is a game Hannah got for Christmas. He kept on beating me and soon we had the twins and Hannah playing with us. It's a really fun and addictive game. Finally, midnight came, and everyone started saying "Happy New Year" and kissing and hugging eachother. I don't really see why they were so happy and celebrating. Yay, it's midnight, but it happens to be the start of another crappy year, and they're going to live to see at least 50 new years.

About 2 minutes into 2009, a thought, a wonderful thought, a thought above all others, occurred to me. The Brand New Year website is supposed to be opened on January 1st, and I was wondering if that meant it would be up and running right when the new year hit. I ran to the computer, pushing little midget kids out of my way and scattering McKenna and Emma's colorings. I quickly typed in the website and lo and behold! It was up! I was super excited, this is what I've been waiting for for months! I immediately started watching the videos and admiring how nice we sound and look. I searched for myself but didn't have much luck and went to bed that night bummed. I didn't care if I had a close-up, but I wanted to at least be able to see me so I can show that I'm there and be proud. The next day (or more like later that day), I watched the videos again and found me. I was the size of an ant, but I was there. Mom also found me which was pretty up close, but I didn't see me at first because I was towards the bottom of the screen. I'm happy now!

We went to Marjorie's house around 4 PM that day and William was of course there, and Chris. For those of you who have had their heads buried in the ground since August, or aren't part of the Stevens family, Chris is Stephanie's boyfriend. Well, I guess now it's appropriate to say fiance. That was weird. I'm sorry, Steph is my cousin and it's weird that she's marrying him in August. Anyway, he was really nice and everyone clicked with him instantly and they approve. People played dominos, which I haven't played in many many moons, or more like a couple year's worth of moons (something in there doesn't sound right, but I'll just ignore that). Later I played Fast Sundaes again which was fun, but I was mad this time. Hannah, Chelsie, and the twins were playing with it and they beat up the cards. Just the day before, I was shuffling them and thinking how nice and flexible and newish they looked, and now it's hard to shuffle and they look horrible because they're all bent and ripped. Hannah wasn't very happy and she said the twins did it which I don't doubt. The day before, they were being pretty rough with them. We played with the "big kids" instead and didn't let the little ones except for Hannah play with us.

That night, I stayed up a bit later than I should've playing the Sims 2 until Mom caught me. I then couldn't go to sleep because.... something's wrong with me. I pulled out my handy-dandy ipod and watched some episodes of Grey's Anatomy and eventually went to bed at around 4 AM. Right before I decided to try to sleep, I happened to look on my windowsill and I saw a big tall thing that freaked me out (I couldn't see right because it was dark). It started to move and then jumped, but it was just Sylvester. Stupid cat. I then went to sleep. But when morning came, those stupid cats (isn't it funny how much I say "stupid cat"??) started playing with eachother which means they were jumping all over my dresser, floor, bed, and me. Their claws were out too and they were like popcorn popping, just jumping all up and down and driving me crazy! I finally grabbed Charlie and held her really tight next to me in the hopes that she'd go back to sleep, but Sylvester started freaking out because she stopped playing and she was squirming. I gave in and let her go. If I could've, they would've been thrown out of my room.

I think I did something interesting today but I forgot.... Oh yeah! I took a really long bath-shower which felt good. You just turn on the shower, plug the tub, and sit down and let the water pour over you. I had my eyes closed for a while, and when I opened them, the water was pretty high. I plug the tub when I shower anyway so I can see how long I've been in there depending on how high the water is. I know you guys have been dying to hear that.

Also, my sims in The Sims 2 got married, two of the couples actually. I'd been waiting for this moment for about 4 days! Yay!

I had a comment from Mom about how she didn't like how I put "It was a goodish Christmas". I didn't mean that it was bad or I hated the food or my presents. It just would've been better if Dad's back hadn't spazzed so he couldn't walk right and he was on medication, and if we didn't spend Christmas Eve with only John, Julie, and kids for company. I was looking forward to Marjorie, William, and the talent show. It was a great Christmas, except for that.

Okay my parents are making me watch Wall E now. Yay. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmGVYki-oyQ