Can you blame me for wanting a super monkey?

He's fast! He's strong! He'll pop all your bloons!
School finally let out on Thursday. Classes were only 27 minutes long, but each class was the longest 27 minutes of my life.
And I wore a skirt for the first time in 2 or 3 years. I was girling it up. Flaunting it. All that good stuff.
Then we went to Dairy Queen and I got the crappiest dipped cone I'd ever seen.
It was like a mountain rather than a triumphant curlicue. And not a beautiful mountain. If there is such a thing.
And it tasted like a melancholy cloud.
It would've been poetic if it hadn't been so disgusting.
GROSS!
And the weather has kind of sucked since then. It was like, "Woooo, Summer Break!!!" And yet there are clouds in the sky, it's down to 50 degrees, and it rained today.
Fun.
I hate it here.
But we went to Seattle for the Mariners game, which made me love Washington again.
I know. We have a complicated relationship.
My dad and I sat right behind home plate, and talked about music ("Do you like Candlebox Twenty?" "....") while eating delicious pizza and full-fat ice cream.
Yeah, I'll be honest; I only got to baseball games for the food.
But I managed to pay attention...and we won! So that was nice.
The helmet cups were overrated. It's $7 for a helmet full of ice cream, and you say to yourself, "A whole HELMET? With whipped cream? $7? BRING IT ON!" So you troop over to the ice cream stand and wait in line forever, all while chanting and psyching yourself up for a whole HELMETFUL of ICE CREAM! It's 7-year-old Bill Cosby's dream-come-true. So you get up there and fork over 7 bucks and choose from a grand total of 3 flavors...and then they bring out the helmet.
It's tiny.
It's smaller than the $5 cups they use for ice cream.
It's a rip off.
But it's so darn cute!

Christians at an alehouse?

Despite the fact that I didn't get into bed until 2:00 AM last night, and then Tie stole all the covers, Grad Night last night was pretty bomb.
And yeah, I was the only one who didn't whip out a brand new prom dress for the occassion.
But my dress was one of those perfect, God-given shopping moments.
You see it and you just know.
Because my life is a romantic comedy with Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman.
Ew, I just watched "Kate and Leopold" and it was terrible.
They always describe Meg Ryan's characters as "quirky" and "independent" when the proper word would probably be "ditzy" or "clueless".
Anyway.
Good times.
And the pastors didn't give me questionable stares because of the amount of leg and cleavage I was showing.
Speaking of pastors, Pastor Mike hid under the stage for 3 HOURS during the "Clue"-esque production put on during dinner.
It's always the quiet ones...
...but it was really Milton Bradley.
And it was a little disappointing pulling up to BJ's in Tacoma after a seemingly endless drive, but the Pizookies were totally worth it.
And the flatbread pizza.
Mmmm, vanilla bean ice cream.
And our waitress was all wise and actually enjoyed her job.
Why that was memorable, I don't know why.
But she was nice.
And had cool hair.
And gave Josh an orchard full of lemons for his homemade lemonade.
Harry Potter seems like perfect summer reading material.
Because every book opens in the beginning of summer, when it's hot out and everyone but Harry is lazing about.
And then, while you laze about yourself, you get to read about a school 10 times cooler than yours will ever be.
Even if it's always cold there.

Life needs an auto-adjustment button

My monitor's still fuzzy.
Good pizza today, unlike yesterday. And ice cream sundaes, courtesy of Soren.
Pepperoni: a good omen.
When you're sitting in history taking notes on Hinduism and Buddhism and you hear screaming and cheering coming from the history class next door, it makes you feel lonely inside.
I have such weird/amazing friends.
Alexis is drawing tiny portraits of everyone in her planner.
Mrs. Williams did NOT want to give us the donuts.
So Sarah bought strawberry Hi-Chews.
So much better than Green Apple.
Or the Big Apple.
Or tart apples.
But not apple pie.
The holiday baking cookbook is so tempting...AND expensive.
Only gourmet ingredients in their kitchen.
In OUR kitchen, we bake cake from a BOX!
"Le Fils de Requin" was sort of weird...with an offbeat ending. I sort of understood what she was getting at.
Mr. Anspach asked which brother, Martin or Simon, would be prefer to be with.
You know, if we HAD to choose on or the other.
It was a tough pick. Martin was essentially "nicer", and he was pretty deep, philosophical, and sensitive and whatnot, but his favorite book was "The songs of Maldoror", which is about a man is who is completely evil, hates God, and kills babies.
Why would I want to spend time with a psycho who ENJOYED crap like that?
But the other brother, Simon, has anger issues, and doesn't really emotionally connect with stuff. While Martin's all deep and talks about angels and stuff, Simon doesn't realy...get it. Anything. And he sort of assaults Martin's girlfriend.
So it was a messed up movie.

Sorry, forgot your name

It's really entertaining to type each letter really slow like people who type 5 words a minute.
PIZZA!
There was this GINORMOUS piece of pizza in line today, and I was first in line, so, selfishly, I took it.
And it was the best piece of pizza I'd ever had at school.
Really cheesy, but not too cheesy, with a nicely cooked crust. And greasy, too, like it should be.

Your Pizza Says:

You have simple tastes. You don't like too many things going on with your food. There are a lot of flavors you don't like... or you don't think you like. Pizza Topping You Should Try: Roasted garlic Stay away from: Eggplant pizza

The Pizza Test

I've been hanging out with Ben for 2 weeks and he didn't know my name until today?
Wow. Thanks.
History was a free period. Meaning we were free to discuss owls and Christian Bale as much as we liked.
We're now watching uplifting Disney movies in French, but there aren't any English subtitles, so we're on our own.
We were GOING to watch "La Belle et la Bete", but the French 1 kids were like, "WE'VE SEEN THIS ALREADY!!"
Psh. So we're watching "Sleeping Beauty".
It sucks when you can only garner information from pictures and random words.
Tyler is Britney Spears. He shaved his head and showed up today with a pink wig.
Mrs. Hamblet gave us candy. Because I asked her to. Kay wants to know if I'm God. Or at least a prophet.
Hurray for artificial banana!

A movie critic's dream

So I'm currently at Kristine's house with her and Sierra and we're just chilling and watching movies.
We've watched some "Monk", a very well-known Anthony Hopkins movie ^_^, and "Stardust", and now, for some reason, we're watching "George of the Jungle".
Agh, this space bar is impossible, and Thomas Hayden Church is creeping me out.
Mmmm, pizza.
But my dad didn't deliver it. :(
I was so looking forward to it.
AAAAAAAAAGH I HATE Old Town so much. Driving around it is the equivalent of Sunday School.
Ha, pretty much.
Which means it sucks, by the way.
For some reason, Ed REALLY seems to hate me, and I don't know why.
Because when Phoebe and I both screw up, he's all up in my face, but not so much in hers.
I don't blame her, though, just Ed.
He probably thinks that because I resemble a man, I can take criticism like one.
Phoebe is the ONLY person who's noticed my teeth without me telling her.
It would be cool if we were going to the same school.
But no...she's a coug.
AAAGH Brendan Fraser. Hatred, hatred, hatred.
Him and his buggy eyes.
Has he HONESTLY never seen a girl before?
"Stardust" = most romantic movie ever!!!
Too cute.

I parked your car because I'm NICE!

Okay, so I love Fourth of July and everything, but it was REALLY NICE to take a break from the annual family reunion picnic and stay home for a while.
Seriously. I spent maybe 3 hours at the picnic and then went home and watched movies with Tie and my Dad.
It was kind of weird being home alone, but Tie was sedated, therefore cooperative, and Dad came home early, and with him was a pizza he'd made at work.
Then we watched "Last Holiday" and "Material Girls" and both movies kind of sucked.
"Last Holiday" wasn't too bad, because Queen Latifah is the best, but it was SOOOOO cheesy.
And, you know, "Material Girls" was...yeah.
I'm reading some writing I did like last year or something, and it doesn't suck. It's sort of suffering from Paolinitis, but it's really NOT HORRIBLE, and that makes me pretty happy.
Heh. Silas.
"Last Comic Standing" and "The Baby Borrowers" make TV pretty fun to watch.
On TBB, my mom totally hated Morgan, but I kind of knew where she was coming from. We both hated Alicea, though; what is her problem? Etta was SOO CUTE. But that weird guy kept calling the babies "bugs"? "Okay, now take your little bug..."
LCS last week made me SOOOO mad. They chose 4 of the least funny people from the entire group and let them go through. Especially Jeff Dye and that blonde guy. HATE! But Paul Foot is rather hilarious. This week was better. Louis got a standing ovation,a nd Eliza Sussinger made it, which made me happy. I like Esther Ku, but my mom despises her because she's not very "experience". Whatever, she's funny.

Twins! Clones!! Britains!

I was going to go go-cart racing with Paul and Alexis, but my mom dragged me up to my grandma's house to weed the garden.
However, with the nice, freezing Washington weather, and the sound of "Low Voice" and "High Voice" from Blink-182 (my dad's names for the two vocalists) blasting through the speakers, and a lesson in dead-heading, it's been pretty fun. Dead-heading is cool. Snap it off at the pineapple ring!!!! Then my mom gave me clippers and made me cut up all the soleil. I don't want to brag, but I'm pretty much the best soleil cutter in the entire world.
My grandma ordered Dominoe's pizza, and it struck me that homemade pizza IS actually better. But not if it's made with Krappy Kraft mozzerella.
OMG, "The Prestige" is the coolest movie I've ever seen!!!
Christian Bale's British accent got a little annoying, and Hugh Jackman's character was a jerk, but it was well made, well written, and the acting was half bad.
The ending didn't blow me away quite as much because I figured it out (for the most part), but it was still like, "Whoas!!!"
THE TOP HATS!!!
Although both magician's were sort of jerks, it was a little easier to identify with Borden. Angier was sort of asking for it.
No more band concerts. It's all over.
I still have to go to jazz band on Monday, though. What's up with that?
Yay, I'm Most Valuable Musician or whatever in Jazz I.
I can't wait for high school band!!!!

Who WOULDN'T want their stomach pumped?

Oooooooooh, I just realized Drew probably thinks I'm on drugs, or otherwise "experienced".
It's not true!!!!
I can't remember, I can't remeeeembeeer, I can't remember the last time I cried.
CEREAL!
Seems that Doomsday's come early this year.
Cheerios!!

You Are Cheerios

Like other Cheerios eaters, you want to be a responsible adult. But you can't help but still be a kid at heart! You try to make good decisions. You're a clean cut, conscientious person. You're the type of person who would never skip breakfast. Part of you thinks that breakfast is too important to miss... But a bigger part of you knows it's too fun to miss!

What Kind of Cereal Are You?

Open arms, we embrace tomorrow!!
Track was pretty fun. The core workout was ladders again. :) It seems harder than it is, because it's really only 6 and half minutes or running, which isn't so bad.
Oh. I am a sleek black bra. I guess you didn't need to know that.
I was aiming for cotton.
The cotton!
Do it for the cotton.
Sorry. Just in a really good mood today.
Mr. Faxon passed out "Cartoon Symphony" today, and that's a pretty spectacular song. I can't help but want to play bassoon, though.
Um....

What's Important to You... And What Isn't:

For you, primal needs like eating and sleeping are your top priorities. You find getting things done to be incredibly stressful. You don't like having things to do. You attend to almost every priority in your life. You don't neglect much. You want thinking to be a high priority, but you don't take enough time for yourself.

The Priority Test

So Freshman is on Saturday, and the dance itself is probably going to suck, but all of my friends are going with their "dates" (I'm not the only girl going with a girl) and Amanda and I are going for dessert or ice cream or something after. And she's doing my hair.
It was kind of scary, because we thought we had the same dress and shoes, but we don't...I think.
Talking about pizza made me really want some pizza.
I need to cut my bangs again.

The dunking has got to end

Haha, "Sky High" quote. Whoa, also a basketball reference! Weird.
It feels sort of weird to be in jammies at 7:46. If the stupid snow hadn't soaked all my clothes, I'd be wearing those instead.
That's right. It's snowing.
It's that crappy kind of snow that's practically rain and NEVER STICKS, but oh well. Christmas miracle and all that (even though it's nowhere near Christmas).
The Basketball Banquet was tonight, even though the official end of the season is TOMORROW, but today was the only day that would work.
They held it in the HEALTH CLASSROOM!
I hate that class. And it's too small.
And 8 medium pizzas is not enough to feed 30 teenage girls AND all their family members.
But it was still pretty fun. Someone brought 3 boxes of those soft sugar cookies with the really thick icing. Oooh yeah.
Then the coaches handed out certificates and embarrassed all the players thoroughly. It was kind of like one of those daddy-daughter things where the dad starts bragging about his "wonderful" daughter and the daughter's semi-pleased and semi-mortified. I got Most Improved this year. Hm. Implying that I sucked before? It's all good, I know I did. I mean, at the beginning of the season, I'd be shooting 1/10 for free throws. Now I'm shooting 4/10! w00t!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh, the Freshmen Dance Committee met for the first time today. ALL OF US are girls. Last year, some of the more popular guys were on it, but not this year. We had to look through prom catalogues and choose ideas for the theme, and, being girls, we picked the most retarded (ahem, "romantic") ones.
I kind of thought most of these sucked.
A Night in Paris? A Night in Rome? Under the Sea? Sunset Beach?
That's practically only two themes, seeing as Paris and Rome, and Sea and Beach are so similar. I voted for "Enchanted" Evening (sounds super corny, BUT IT WOULD BE LIKE THE MOVIE!!!! I mean, who doesn't want a ball with glass slippers and giant dragons and a New York skyline?), but I was one of the only four that did.
The 9th grade class will vote Friday. I'm hoping the boys will have the sense to vote for Under the Sea.
Although, it's kind of hard to pick a prom/freshmen/formal theme that isn't really stupid. Really, really stupid. REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, "Thank God I'm graduating soon" stupid.

Orchestra is lame. Oooooooh.

Yeah, we had a practice with the orchestra yesterday, and it went badly.
Pizza was delicious today.
"Hey, Lauren, that pizza sure looks lonely."
"Well, so do you, but you can't have any."
Yay, I made a complex sentence.
Although John often forgot to put on his pants, he was a very nice boy with a wonderful singing voice.
Stayed after school to help set up for the concert, so I didn't get home until 1:15 or so. Then Paul, Alexis, and I just sat around in the bandroom talking and Mr. Faxon got mad. Apparently I can't play bass because I'm white and I'm not Connor, who's also Mexican. Hm....
I have that "Shut Up" song by Simple Plan stuck in my head.
What would you say if you peeled off roughly half of the skin on your head? Just wondering.
Hm hm hm. I wonder how the Sims are.
It would be weird to make a family modeled after my own...but it would be kind of cool. I would make William a toddler, Nathan a teen, and myself a kid, because then I'd still be able to customize features. Aaargh, don't you hate it when your Sim has like 5 babies that ALL LOOK THE SAME!! Michele and Elodie look exactly alike as toddlers, and the three youngest have the same skin color (dark), while Amelie has light skin. ???
Forget Veronaville.
Mmm, spritz cookies.
Ha. Now William's Sim AND his wife are pregnant. Lol.