Archive for January, 2009

Where’s the Smiling?

I’ve completely forgotten about my things to smile about!  I went all the way back to my last one and found out that I last listed #16 way back in “Maximum Capacity For Awesome.”
So. To make up for the ones I’ve lost, here I go….
Reason to smile #17:  Knowing the coolest people in the world.
#18: Having [...]

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Happy Birthday, Michael!

So today is my friend’s, Mike’s, birthday! Last night, on Facebook, he changed his status to “Michael turns 17 at 3 am tomorrow… Hope everyone knows.”   Well. I’m a big one for birthdays. So I told him, “I’m going to tell you happy birthday at three tomorrow!  I will. I”ll set my alarm!”  
Now, [...]

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One of the most awkward things in the world…

You know that favorite pen of yours? Or maybe it’s a really nice mechanical pencil. You use it all the time and, even though you know better, you like to think it magically improves your handwriting.
But  one day, you can’t find it.  You settle for other writing utensils, maybe consider buying a new one of [...]

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Everything is easier in theory.

In English, we just finished reading Beloved by Toni Morrison (phenominal book). In it, there is a stream-of-consciousness section.  Every week, we have to do two journal entries: One assigned, one that we choose. Today, we wrote our own streams-of-consciousness for our assigned journal entry. 
After I got through the initial I’m-writing-with-a-blue-green-pen-because-my-purple-one-won’t-work-right thoughts, I ended up [...]

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2009

So 2009 has started out as the best year of my life.  I have so many great things going on for me. Here’s a genera overview of my life in 2009:
1. I MADE MARIA IN MY SCHOOL’S PRODUCTION OF THE SOUND OF MUSIC!!!
2. I’m really making friends and loving meeting people in the play. I [...]

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