The Band Bus

The following list comemorates all personal things that happened this year

The Good...
-Began high school
-Feb 25!! The best damn day of the year
-Switched from flute to oboe
-Saw the Lion King play not once, not twice, but 3 times!
-VIDEO IPOD!!! I'VE JOINED THE CULT!!
-GREEN DAY CONCERT!!!
-Friday Night Frenzy! No matter when I went, something fun happened
-The Ring 2! The movie sucked, but seeing it with a bunch of teenagers turned it from stupid to hillarious
-Star Wars Episode 3!! Going to the midnight showing with people that were far more geeky than me is something I won't soon forget. And it didn't suck as bad as Ep. 1 or 2!
-Started this blog, and started my obsession with AIM
-HARRY POTTER!!! The 6th book was...ok...BUT THE 4TH MOVIE ROCKED!!
-Actually donated to a charity when Katrina hit!! But felt like crap for not donating to the tsunami relief

The Bad
-Began High School
-An evil thing called Boyfriend started to cross my mind
-Slaved away in the Savannah House
-Started to loose a close friend
-Found out I hate the oboe
-Got...a...B!!! OMG I'M AN IDIOT!! I'M GONNA GROW UP TO BE A HOBO!!
-Got the traveling bug, now I'm never happy

The Ugly (actually, it's just a list of peculiar dreams)
-An elaborate info-mercial explaining how foam is harmful to male genetalia (something to do with chemicals and chafing)
-3 words: Tour Guide Vader
-At school, which was my house, and we were bunnies. Well, actually, we weren't really bunnies, because we looked like people, but for some odd reason we thought we were bunnies. Oh ya, and it was mating season. For man-bunnies, that included a lot of dry humping on a very large pile of multicolored Legos
-Quite a few ghost dreams. My subconsious mind believes ghosts to be greenish
-The first time in a long while that I've had a dream twice. It went like this: Zack, Brittany Young, and I were helping Mr. Manougian with something (I dunno what it was, I think it had something to do with safety pins and paper snowclips). All the while I was feeling completely useless, which is probably one of my greatest fears ever.
-At an Alpine Resort, I located some yellow snow, which of course means that the world is about to end. I begin freaking out, but know one seems to listen to my warnings of the completely logical omens. As I flee in terror of the pee, I bump into Aragorn, who has dropped the title of King and turned to a more humble field of work: Shop Keeping. He's a smart guy, so he follows me, and we both narrowly escape the ominous avalanch of yellow snow
-I had a couple dreams in the same forest. Both start out like a great dream, but they never end well. One began with me leaving my ghost friend (a blonde Luck Cash) for a lovely walk next to a river during a sunset, but it ended tragically as I realized I didn't have my camera with which I could capture the moment. After I frantically ran back to the cabin to get my camera, the moment was gone, and I woke up before I was able to take a picture. AHHHH!! The other dream I had was just as bad. Me and everyone were mauled by cartoonish Kodiak bears (and I think a polar bear or two)

-Woke up (11ish) and started playing Rune Scape
-Kept playing Rune Scape
-Tried to find another RPG to play, but went back to Rune Scape
-...4 hours later, still playing Rune Scape
-Dragged away from Rune Scape to go see my Aunty Joyce and Uncle Chuck and a bunch of relatives that I don't know and still don't know the names of
-Ate food. Mmm, delicious food...
-YES! PRESENTS! FINALLY!
-Saw pictures of penguins that my uncle took while he was in Antartica!! He's now been to every single continent!! SO not fair!
-Left the multitude of reletives *fwoo* and went back home.
-Got back on the computer and continued to play Rune Scape
-Decided to forgo corny Christmas movies for more "mature" entertainment: South Park and Blue Collar TV
-Went to sleep while visions of rednecks danced in my head

*written 12/18*

It’s snowing. It never snows here, but it’s snowing now. And am I home to enjoy it? Noooo…of course not. I’m at the beach, something which, under any other circumstances, I’d be extatic about. Here, it’s raining. God damn it, why did we have to go to the beach!? Does it ever snow at the beach? Oh, of course not. Spectacular. I can’t wait to go home and hear about the snow. After all my snow dances, after praying to every single god I could think of, after waiting 2 years, I don’t get to be there for the Storm of 2005. To add to my day of jollity, the Colts lost and this place doesn’t have a wireless internet connection. C’mon, I haven’t been that bad this year, have I?

Because of the change of seasons, I figured my blog needed to change with it. While people on the east coast are getting too much snow, I think this blog is the closest any of us in our area are gonna get to a snowfall. I'm not sure whether to be thankful that our highways aren't as slippery as the ice rink at the mall, or utterly disheartened because we're gonna have yet another Christmas devoid of even a flake. Our snow angels are made in fields of mud, and our snowmen are made from duct taping various sizes of rubber balls to eachother, and then, if time allows, spray painting them white. So, if a virtual flurry is the closest I'll get to a white Christmas, so be it.

Finally! I gave my speech today and, I must say, I don't think I did too bad. I was pretty freaked out about it. So was Aubrey. So was everyone in the honors house. Typically on speeches, I get 5's, except for delivery, in which I get a 4. So, you can imagine my surprise when those numbers were flipped. I felt somewhat peeved that I got a 4 on language, but I was more excited that I got a 5 on delivery. EeEeEeE!! So, that's one speech down, 2 more to go. Haha, fun...

The following are staples for my holiday cheer...

-Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer-its cornyness make it a must see for the corniest holiday of the year
-A Charlie Brown Christmas-I've cherrished my tiny tree ever since I saw this movie. I adored every last sugar coated moment of it. Plus, the jazz rocks
-A Christmas Story-"You'll shoot your eye out!" Ah, Ralphy, Ralphy, Ralphy...Is there a cold, heartless soul out there who doesn't love this movie? Hands down, the best Christmas movie ever made.
-Bad Santa-As raw as Charlie Brown is fluffy, and with as much comedy as a Christmas Story, but for a slightly more mature audience
-Nightmare Before Christmas-It's not really a Christmas movie, but it's good for any occation.

I hate this. I wish I could help, but I've never been one to give advice. I'm struggling to talk to one friend without betraying the other. Occationally, I even give up trying. It's just been a huge balancing act; I'm forced to balance friends with friends and friends with school. I'm a clutz. Balancing things just doesn't work. At school, I want to work and concentrate, but my friends distract me from doing so. The classes I'm doing the best at are the ones where close friends are absent. If I'm alone, I can concentrate on what needs to be done, instead of thinking about topics which have no relation to what we're working on. My friends, individually, I love, but when they break the barrier and intermingle, I'm always shoved out. I'm not assertive. I never have been and never will be. My truest friends are the ones that see that and understand it. Andrea used to know that, but she's become so self-consumed that I don't think she gives a damn anymore. All those near her have seen the change, but not one has yet confronted her about it. And intervention is needed lest we loose her for good. For the first time, I wish I wasn't the best friend. I don't think anyone else is close enough to give her the truth. I'm not the confrontational type so how on earth am I supposed to tell Andrea that she's being a self-centered bitch? Oh well, I'll think of something, because it's an unpleasant task that must be done. Aren't the holidays jolly?