Baylor and Switchfoot... nice.

Today at lunch I got something kinda interesting in the mail, but didn't even notice it at first. I get stuff from colleges all the time now, so when my Dad threw this postcard from Baylor at me I didn't think much of it. Actually, I didn't really even look at it. But as I was leaving to go back to school, my mom mentioned something about it talking about a Switchfoot concert, and then I was suddenly interested! Apparently they're having a concert thingy, and it's free!! Ok, maybe I'm not as big of a Switchfoot fan as I was a year or so ago, and they may not be Nickelback or Three Days Grace, but I still think getting to see them live would be awesome! Just thought I'd share that, lol.

Ok, and I just took this quiz on Seventeen.com that told me my fall color is... plum. Hmm, I don't think so, lol.

Random rants again

So, today has been good so far. I actually made it all the way through my computer class without getting on the internet once! I have to stop being a slacker now, because I got my report card today... not pretty. At all. And what's even worse is that I don't feel very worried about it... and I should. What's wrong with me? Anyway, I'd rather not think about it at the moment...
Track has officially started, and that same nervous feeling from 8th grade always come back the period before athletics. Dread. But by the end of practice I feel so glad that I'm in track this year. I can't believe I considered not doing something that I really like. I want to do well this year.
Prom is really still pretty far away, but everyone's already getting excited about it- including me! I started tanning again yesterday, and I'm ready to start looking at dresses... but I'd really like to get in better shape first, lol. Plus, I now have a date! :D Exciting stuff, haha.

Hmm... what to say about today? TAKS was pretty easy, although the essay topic completely sucked. I'm sitting in Computer Programming halfway listening to the lesson. I don't really feel like working today, but I know I'll be mad at myself later for not listening well enough. I just have other stuff on my mind... which I guess I'll have to talk about later because we're starting a new program! Woops...

One more day

So, staying up after midnight last night was not a smart thing to do. I must start going to bed earlier, geez. But thankfully this year I have discovered a little something called caffeine... and it is great! haha.

Well, I don't have much to say about today really. The pool table that was supposed to arrive didn't, and won't until Friday. But that's ok. Also, the U.I.L. meet is actually here in town this weekend, and I'm probably going to get to compete in computer science! Yeah, so maybe I'm terrible at it. That's what practice is for... and I really want to do well in it, along with my precious journalism events, of course. And then I'll have lots of homework to do today after track, which started yesterday and I am so happy about!

Other than that, just the usual stress of life... bleh. It's just great, isn't it??

Time for a LOVEly week... hehe

Wednesday is Valentine's Day, and- call me stupid if you want- I actually really love this holiday. I have a lot of friends who think it's kinda pointless, but what's so wrong with a little box of chocolates or flowers or stuffed teddy bear (or puppy dog if it were my decision, hehe) to show you care? My little sister (bless her heart) has finally gotten to that age where she has that hidden hope, like all girls, that a mysterious "secret admirer" note, or something of the sort, will make it's way to her on that day, lol. It's so interesting to watch her get older and go through the same emotions that I feel like I've just barely gotten rid of in the past year or so. I love that girl to death!
Another thing on my mind: Why do girls have to be so mean? I'm including myself in this too, but I will have say that I try to at least respect everybody. I'm not going to tell the whole story, but I'm just amazed at how cold some people can be to others just because they decided one day that they weren't going to like that person, or they don't agree with everything that person said, or that person had a bad day and was rude. I mean, cut people some slack every once in a while! We all fall short at times... geez.
Okay, that's my rant for now... until next time.

Feeling down

In tutorials again. Man, am I tired. Not really physically so much as emotionally. You know when you have those days where you're just sad and don't know why? That's me yesterday and today. And really, nothing is wrong, but I'm just depressed. Wierd, I know.
So I have decided to start working harder... in everything: school, athletics, health, attitude, taking care of myself, etc. I've always had the drive to overachieve in school, but I'm also so lazy, so I want to improve that. The dream of valedictorian has kinda burned out lately, and although I don't think it will happen, I'm gonna at least work to bring up my averages. But then, that's not really the problem either. I really don't know enough. I'm good at grades, but I'm very behind in subjects like history and science, and have been for... well, always. I've gotten by on little knowledge, and that just stresses me out! So I'm going to start reading the news more often and such, even though it bores me just a little... oh well.
Anyway, no one really wants to read this, and probably no one does anyway (except for you Brady, so thank ya) so I'm gonna quit babbling about boring life stuff, lol.

Random stuff

I'm now sitting in the computer room during my favorite time of each school day: tutorials. It's a great time to sit back a little before athletics and surf the web or read a good book... or homework, if I absolutely have to. But today I have decided that the two-page history report can wait until I get home. I want to blog! And I have something to add because I have nothing else I want to do and it's the stuff I read when... there's nothing else I want to do! haha. I just read two articles off of my SBC yahoo home page that I think kinda relate to me. Shows you the stuff I think about all the time... kinda sad, I guess.

Body image
Racing against time (the first part makes me think of myself, lol)

My first rock concert

So, Saturday I had quite an experience! The concert was just as scary as I was expecting, but also just as much fun!! It's invigorating to let out your wild side every once in a while, and I feel like I definitely did that! It was one of the few times in my life when I didn't give a flying flip (haha, I said "flying flip"..) about what anyone was thinking about me and just enjoyed myself. It was amazing!! I'll elaborate on it a little later, but right now I'm headed to a Super Bowl party with the family to eat a bunch of yummy appetizers and laugh at the commercials while pretending like I know what's going on in the game :P Ahh... isn't life great??

Starting out

Yay! Finally my own blog! This is great, and I don't know why I didn't think of it seriously until right now. I would always post occasionally on Myspace, but now I can post random thoughts on a website that is meant specifically for that! Haha.
So let's see... what's going through my head right now?:
1. The Birthday Bash is tomorrow!! I both scared and excited about it. Most people probably don't picture someone like me going to a play or event like that, and I think that's mostly the reason why I'm going! I hate being predictable :P
2. My Job Shadowing yesterday. It was great, and I still can't get over how much I would love to be doing something like that (being a web designer for the Daily Herald). I'm sure it would get dull eventually (like any job), but I know I would enjoy it. It cleared some things up for me. But then again, I'm still somewhat stuck in my previous funk about my future. There are just so many things that I'm interested in! I now know that I love web design, but there's also health, pyschology, journalism, writing, and music. Hmm...

Well I guess that's it for now. I also just realized that I'm still on the daily webcast for the Herald website. Guess Ryan hasn't gotten around to changing it yet! You can view it here: http://www.myplainview.com . I'm kinda proud of it even though I look stupid, lol.