I think that...

today was my first day of school.
i didn't really have any expectations for this day, but I was pretty darn nervous.
Today had a few surprises, one of them being the number of kids!
I had no idea! the school was packed!!
I had classes with 40+ people. Crazy right?
Another surprise was the people I had classes with, not really going to say who.
I'm glad I had classes with my friends because of course, no one likes to be loner (well some do).
I seen a lot of new freshman faces. It seems now that most of the school is 9th graders.
I kinda felt like one myself though.

My Classes:

0 AP US History
1 English Honors
2 Chemistry
3 Latin 3
4 AP Psychology
5 Pre-Calculus

I'm pretty happy with my classes. At first I hated the idea of having AP Psych but the teacher's cool soo... i think it well be cool. I'm looking to get a 6th period elective though, because I hate only going up to 5th period.
Pre-Cal diagnostics test tomorrow. I'm kinda nervous about that.

School starts for me Sept. 10, that's two days away.
I'm not prepared at all. I haven't even gotten my clothes yet! Hopefully they'll be delivered tomorrow. If they're not, I'm pretty much screwed. UGh..and I still haven't finished all of my summer work. I waited to the very last minute to try to memorize this history stuff, hopefully I learn it before the test, which I'm pretty sure it's going to be the first day.
I also had some other mishaps. For example: not winning a locker in the first lottery, thank God my sis' friend is going to let me share with her. To top off all this stuff I might have AP Psych, which i def do not want because I didn't even do the summer work for it. I'm currently trying to get out of this class and I pray that my efforts work. Oh, and I forgot to mention how terrible my yearbook/school id photo turned out! It was so horrid!! I was all sweaty and stuff!!Hopefully the rest of the year is better than this shaky beginning.
I really don't know what to expect from junior year. I can't wait to see what awaits me :), but then again :| ...

A new iPod is allegedly suppose to be released tomorrow.
I'm pretty excited to see what it is.
I've heard some pretty cool stuff about them, like the nanos and itouches are going to get cameras.
I also heard that this new thing called the iPod Widescreen is supposed to be coming out.
I hope it's true.
They look like the coolest thing EVER!!!
I want it so badly!!!
The whole thing is touch screen.

this morning i woke up and thought, "i want to make a soup."
we had just bought a bunch of veggies yesterday so i had a lot to work with.
i made a broccoli, cabbage, and shiitake mushroom soup. :)
it came out pretty good. it has like a nice spicy flavor and everything.
i should of cut up the mushrooms though.
i was kinda scared during the whole process.
i was afraid it was going to come out tasting like water, but it didn't. Yay!
it too forever though and for a second, i thought the pot i used was too small.

i am currently making scones. i was just watching t.v., then all of a sudden scones just popped into my head.
i think i did it wrong though; but, i think it will taste good.
i used a recipe for lain ones; then, i added vanilla and lemon juice, which made it a teensy bit wetter than it should have been.
i also wanted to add some lemon zest but i couldn't find the lil hand shredder.
i tried to get some of with a fork. fail.

i think now people should call me the barefoot contessa. (i do wear shoes. :) )

I just love this commercial. I also like the little song in it. Every time this commercial comes on, i like to sing along with it.




I love this commercial too. It's so entertaining. The little kids are sooo adorable. They remind me of my little cousin.



this commercial is so funny. unfortunately, i could not find a good version of it.

I'm sure by now you have all heard of the not so new dance craze, "Jerkin' ". To tell you the truth, I'm seriously getting tired of it right about now. Don't get me wrong I love jerkin', the reject, and such dances. I also like these crews who are doing it well and making a name for themselves. The people I have a problem with are these amateurs.

These novel jerkers are pretty much ruining everything. I don't like how they are trying to cash in on the "fame", if you will. These big jerking crews have been doing this for years so they deserve to be recognized, but these new jerkers are trying to take advantage of the dance's popularity but all the while killing it.

Why would you try to make a crew after jerkin' has gotten big? T he worst part of it all is that the amateurs are merely copying the big names, and not well either. Most of these people coming out of the wood works like termites are really lacking in skill. Could you at least try to step your game up a little and at least be mundane? These videos popping up on YouTube are absolutely shameful.

To sum it all up: it's alright to jerk if you're just dancing to music at a party or something. It's even alright to have fun making jerkin' vids. What I suggest you not do is make a fool of yourself by making a video of your crew you created two weeks ago and actually try to call out other crews, especially when you suck. Just sit back and watch the already established, venerable crews in awe while they are appearing in music videos and dancing at concerts, also try to be a little more coy and a little less ostentatious/arrogant.

I often find myself pondering different interesting situations. As I was washing my face, a bunch of random ideas led me to this set of questions: if a set of identical twins were to marry another set of identical twins and children were produced would they look a like? Then, I thought a little bit further: would they be genetically siblings?Maybe even produce a set of "twin cousins", an idea I came across when I was being lied to by a fellow class mate in elementary school.

If you consider the fact that identical twins are genetically exact copies, two sets of them would produce genetic siblings. Thus leading to the idea of "twin cousins", and twin double first cousins at that. Although this ever occuring is extremely rare, I find it completely plausable. If the right DNA is given to their children it could definitely happen.

As I write this blog, another idea dawns upon me. These twin cousins could even be different ages. They could be so much as months or years apart in age! They would most certainly be genetic miracles. And it could have already happened. Who knows, there could be a set of double first twin cousins who are 3 years apart walking around.

Tsk, Tsk, tsk. shake my head.

I don't understand how the star of the most innocent movies in the world, the High School Musical series, could be involved in this much scandal. I guess I forgot that the actors aren't really like the characters they play.

From my understanding, she has a set of new nude photos being distributed throughout the world as I type. How could she be caught in this same situation again? Yes, people do make mistakes but when they are as big of a mistake as this, why would you repeat it.

I know that she is an adult and can do whatever she pleases but why take nude photos. when celebrities take nude photos, they end up being seen.

Hudgens knows as well as I do that being a celebrity means lack of privacy; so, I have to wonder: is this some sort of publicity stunt? Is she trying to break away from her good girl image once and for all? That would make since because most of the world is looking at her as if she was a teen star not a grown woman. This might foreshadow edgy and more adult roles. Who knows though?

My computer has contracted a virus. I don't even know how it happened. One minute I was googling ways to put the music on my ipod in my itunes library, then, the next thing i know i have something popping up saying my computer is infected with 32 viruses and that I should download some program. At first, I ignored it, I didn't realize that it was a virus. I thought it was just some company trying to sell me an antivirus. The pop-ups about the virus really started to annoy me so i decided to just download the program.

I wish I hadn't of done that, now my computer is just all messed up. I don't really know what to do. I tried to download this antivirus program but my computer won't allow me to open any programs except for Internet explorer.

Ignorance is bliss and knowledge is power.

Those are two ideas I pretty much like to live by. Some people say things like, “You can’t do that. It would basically make your life a contradiction,” but both of these idioms, phrases, or whatever you may call them do transpire in my life.

Ignorance helps me to avoid the problems of the world, which is basically what it is meant by “ignorance is bliss”. If I ignore the tacit fact that this world is a crazy, cruel place I can remain happy until reality actually sets in. I guess you can say I’m naïve and some what optimistic .

I definitely believe knowledge is power. Education is one of the most important things to me, beside my religion and family/friends. This value has been vehemently instilled in me by my father and grandmother since a very young and obviously impressionable age.

I do also value general knowledge. I have to risk sounding nerdy and admit that general knowledge is one of the coolest things to have. I’m like always impressed when someone knows a lot about a random subject.

Or bananas to the common man... uhhm that speaks english instead of spanish...and that has no idea what that word means :)

Bananas and i have a love hate relationship. i like them only at a very particular time. i call that time "when the bananas taste like orange juice" phase. yes, i do think that when bananas just turn yellow they taste like orange juice (btw i looove orange juice :] ). many people have have told me that i am crazy because of that, but u know what i say? i say they are the crazy ones ( << note how i used italics to put emphasis on the "they". i'm so clever, arent i? :] )

after bananas are passed the orange juice phase, i'm not to wild about them. i pretty much despise ripe bananas. and i absolutely abhore them when they are cooked.

why should i even like them? most of the time i can't even spell "banana" without sing "Holla back girl" by gwen steffani. You know that part where it says, " this sh*$ is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s." oh and, that doesn't make me dumb, i know alot of people with that problem because you must admit, that is a pretty confusing word.

im done

(i didn't bother adding a picture of them because im pretty sure we all have seen them before, unless u are not capable of see at all, but in that case, u wouldn't be able to see the picture of the bananas any way.)

today, i went to the dmv to try to get my permit for the first time.

when i got there, it was relatively early, just about 8:30. even though it had only been open for 30 minutes, there was a good amount of people, not nearly as many people as when i left; that darn line went around the outside of the building.

i waited about ten minutes in line. then, i finally got up to the first station and she gave me a number, G079, and i had to wait about 45 minutes to be called.

i took an eye test and got my picture taken. next was the dreaded written test.

i was pretty confident when i took the test because i prayed that i would do well :). i was done fairly quickly. once it was time for my test to be graded, i got really scared. the guy in front of me didn't pass his test, that's what caused my worry to set in.

the lady eventually got to my test. the whole grading thing was quick; it took about 45 seconds. i decided to count her pen strokes to see how many i got wrong. in order to pass you could only miss eight. 1...2...3...4...5..6..then she paused. would there be a 7th or an 8th even a 9th? nope. i only missed 6. then, she smiled and said , "congratulations, you passed."

and that was the story of how i got my permit. :D

the drive home was more nerve wrecking than the dmv visit because i did the driving. i nearly gave my grandma a heart attack, despite the fact that i did pretty well.

she kept bugging me. "stay in your lane", "hit the brakes. hit the brakes! HIT THE BRAKES!!" she was worried for no reason. i knew what i was doing. i will admit though, i was kind of afraid too.
oh yes, and i would like to add: i did not pick my nose at any time while i was driving.

I'm not really in to expressing my inner most feelings. it seems like it would cause too many problems. people aren't very understanding, so when you say how you feel people get offended or mad.
i also feel that expressing my feelings would cause me to lose the last shreds of dignity i have. for some reason, when my feelings slip out i tend to become embarrassed and i don't live down well, at all. every little embarrassing moment since i was about 6 i remember. whenever i think about them i relive that moment over again and feel that same embarrassment.
while i'm on no subject in particular, i would like to take the liberty of saying: going on the Maury show is completely ridiculous. why would you want to go on that show and any other show like it to put your family business and your 13 year old daughter's promiscuity on display. and if you are going to be on t.v. for all of america to see, you can atleast act as if you had an ounce of class.

Thank you, come again. :)

Oh yeah, and drugs are bad.

I wrote this on my joint blog with Quynh, violatetheskies.blogspot.com <<(check it out) , not too long ago when we were still in school:

"Today, at work, a woman came up to the counter and asked if we made sweet and sour chicken. Before I could answer, she told me a really long recipe and said "I expect to see this on the menu next time I come in, or I will complain to the manager about your lousy work ethic". I work at Starbucks. FML"

^^^Wow! that is sooo dumb. why would she expect anyone to follow those wishes. its not like she even wrote down the recipe on a piece of paper. that is soo unreasonable of her to insist on having sweet and sour chicken at Starbucks. does Starbucks even have a kitchen?? and why would anyone even want that with their frappuccinos, i know i wouldnt. why cant she just enjoy their little pastries, they go much better with coffee.

"Today, I was at my girlfriend's house for dinner. Her mom gave me some seasoned cauliflower, which I didn't like. Not wanting to dissapoint my girlfriend's mom, I slipped the cauliflower of my plate and gave it to their dog. It turns out cauliflower gives their dog explosive diarrhea. FML"

Hmm... interesting. that is extremely disgusting and kind of outrageous. im not sure i can actually believe this entry. if it actually happened, i feel sorry for everyone in that house. the person who wrote this entry said they lived in China which is partly the reason i dont believe this to be true. I didn't even think they ate cauliflower in China and why would that of all things make the dog sick. now that i think about it though, maybe it's a little to dumb and random to make up.

Update (07/24/09) : turns out this really is from China, i don't really feel like explaining how i know, but i was pretty dumb to think they didn't have cauliflower there.

"Today, I was walking around town with the girl I have loved for four years and have been 100% faithfull to. A random girl thought it would be funny to approach me and pretend she was the girl I was seeing, and that I was cheating on her. My girlfriend believed her and broke up with me. FML"

^^^That is soo wrong. that really annoys me. i know people who would do something so just dispicable like this. i cant possibly understand why they would think doing something like this is funny. some people just have no regards for other people and their feelings.

"Today, while working as a cashier, I was ringing up an elderly woman's massaging shower head, when she said, "If I had a man like you, I wouldn't need this." She then gave me her number. FML"

^^^This type of situation seems to happen alot to people. ive always thought old men were pervs but the same obviously goes for old women.

"Today, I was on a train when an old man standing next to me very obviously checked me out, caught my eye, and winked. He spent the next five minutes rubbing his penis against my leg. When I turned to tell him off, the train lurched, and the old man fell face first into my breasts. FML"

^^^Prime example of old men being pervs. thats just disturbing but i will admit i almost died of laughter the first time i read it.

The Odds of Drowning in Bath tub: 1-in-9,377

The Odds You'll ...
Be a Victim of ID Theft: 1-in-465
Be sued by the RIAA for illegal filesharing: 1-in-4,666

The Odds of ...
Dating a millionaire: 215-to-1
Dating a supermodel: 88,000-to-1

The Odds of Winning Jackpot in ...
Slot machines: 1-in-16,777,216
Calif. SuperLotto: 1-in-41,416,353
Powerball: 1-in-146,107,962
Mega Millions: 1-in-175,711,536

The Odds of Believing ...
That it's better to be poor and thin, than rich and fat: 2-in-3
That the best way to get rich is to win the lottery: 1-in-5

The Odds ...
You've been caught picking your nose while driving, if you're a man: 1-in-2
You will get injured by a toilet this year: 1-in-10,000

i see it all the time

yup today was the first day. it was pretty fun but it was long though. 1 day down 4 more to go then i can go get my permit. hopefully i pass the permit test on my first try.

oh yeah and i saw this horrible movie in "school" today. it was so scary and sad. they showed this movies which i have forgotten the name of, but it was so horrid and gory. they were actually videos from car crashes. they showed people with their brains laying on the floor, people whose arms were detached, and people whose faces were smashed to the point of nonrecognition.

The way i look at things is if you are mentally and emotionally strong you don't need anyone to show you how to live. When i hear the phrase "cultivate your own garden," that's what i think of. I don't like people to tell me how i should think. The only person who i will allow me to help form my own opinions is Jesus.

I hate it when people say that people around you influence who you are. I think that only occurs if u let it. Basicly, what i'm saying is that you can be whoever you want to be not who other people think you should be.

It pretty much sucks so far. Today was pretty much horrible.

I took my little rebel sisters who don't like to listen to me to the pool. Like always they would not listen to me. When i was ready to leave the pool, i told them: okay it's time to go. as defiant as they are, they told me straight out "NO!" we went back and forth like this for like 1o minutes.

after just asking, i started trying to drag them out. there is three of these "precious" little girls; so, i had my hands full. i tried to do it for the first 20 minutes without getting in the pool. i tried to drag one out and lock them out of the pool area but that didn't work because there were other people there who kept letting them back in. eventually, i had to get in the pool with all my clothes on to retrieve them.

it was hell. i was getting soooo frustrated. i seriously wanted to cry.

i never got them out. finally, my stepmom came and watched them while they swam. she came right on time to because i didn't know what i was going to do. i was going to have like a mental break down.

not only was it tiring, it was also embarrassing. while i was having this battle with my sisters, a bunch of my stepmom's neighbors were at the pool. i got to look like a jackass in front of a lot of people. I'm sure they probably enjoyed the whole strenuous episode.

Ms. Adams is my psych teacher. I don't like her and I don't actually know anyone who does, although there may be someone who does, but to that i say "to each his own".
I'm going to try to say ten things i don't like about her. I'm not sure i actually can though.

1. I hate her hair. She has this Victoria Beckham-ish bob haircut, but it doesn't look very good on her. The way she plays with it and clips it also annoys me.

2. She is really short. There's nothing wrong with being short but it just doesn't work for her.

3. She loves to give teleparents and for the pettiest reasons. (teleparent: a computer system that allows you to send computer messages about what your child is doing at school to your home phone.)

4. She always has to figure out what nationality a name comes from. One day, she spent a whole period trying to teach our class how to recognize what part of Europe a person's family is from by looking at their last names, which has nothing to do with psychology.

5. She doodles different facts all over her board in a really dumb and annoying fashion.

6. She is a bad teacher. I heard that she has French 3 students who don't even know French.

7. Whenever you say something, she always wants you to elaborate on it. Why can't she just take what we said.

8. She brings guess speakers to class. I like that because I don't have to listen to her ramblings but it just hasn't had anything to do with psychology except for once.

9.She told my Latin teacher that I was being rude to her, which i don't think i was. Why did she need to involve my Latin teacher? ?That was so dumb.

10. Lastly, she's just crazy. Point blank. I'm not sure what kind of mental disorder she has because I have barely learned anything in her class.

i was just randomly thinking of restaurants, and then i thought:
"man, i hate when i go to a restaurant and we all decide to pay for our own stuff but i end up paying for way more than i even ordered."
then that got me thinking about rules for restaurants.
this MY OPINION of rules for the restaurant, but some of these rules go for just eating in general (i wonder if there are like official written restaurant rules.):

• pay for your own crap. that means you cant go and by something more than you can afford. don't go and buy something for like $12.00 dollars if u have $12.00 or less. that's just dumb because you didn't even take into consideration the price for your drink or tax.

• not skipping out on the check is a given.

• not throwing food is a given.
  

• giving a good enough tip is kind of a given for me too. they live off of mainly tips so why not help them out.
  

• if someone (not including like your parents or grandparents ;] ) is treating you to dinner don't go overboard. don't go and buy the most expensive item on the menu, not unless you are invited to do so, but even in that case i wouldn't go and order filet mignon and lobster when they only ordered chicken (let alone that i don't even eat meat). i wouldn't order something too much more expensive than what the person paying got.

• don't rush people. just because you finished super fast doesn't mean other have to as well.

• but i really don't like when people eat super slow. i hate that because you can't leave until they are done and i really don't want to wait around an hour for one person to finish.

• try to talk with little to no food in your mouth. talking with a full mouth is pretty disgusting. i don't want your food flying all over me and my food.

• try to keep the noise down too. its hard to enjoy your meal when you can hear the group two tables over dying of laughter.

• wash your hands before you eat, a given.

• do not complain to your waiter. i really don't care how nice you think the waiter is, just don't do it!! its not a good idea to annoy the people handling your food. only God knows what they could have done to it.

• i definitely don't want to forget chewing with your mouth closed. it is so annoying hearing (and seeing) you chomp away at your food!!
  

• while I'm speaking of annoying sounds, I'd also like to mention moaning continuously because your food is so good, or atleast you say it is. that's just being obnoxious. i can ignore one moan, but i highly doubt that your food is so unbelievably delicious that you have to moan after every bite.

I'm sure most people have heard of that wretched website, "Twitter", and apparently sending people messages and what have you are called "tweets".
I have no idea where flipping Twitter came from. It just popped up overnight, I think this year.
All of a sudden I just heard every like news station talking about it.
I thought it was just made this year; people I talk to say that they've known about it forever (which is a lie because according to wikipedia, it was created in 2006. And even if it has been, you couldn't know about it forever because you haven't been live forever. Plus the fact that you can't know about this stuff until you learn to comprehend this stuff. Of course they were over exaggerating though. I just like to over analyze things sometimes. ;P ).
Today, I just found out one of my grandmas has a twitter, which is kind of weird to me because she's old. I guess old people have everything now. (Note to self: blog about old people on these social websites later.)

I think twitter is asinine, as Hank Hill might say.
I really don't get the point of it.
Like why have a twitter and a myspace. Myspace is turned in to so much crap lately. It takes the place of Facebook, Twitter, and AIM, or at least it tries to.

I really don't want to go on a website and make an account just to know what someone is doing right now at this moment.
I might end up getting one in the future though, maybe when myspace becomes obsolete and unused, but I will NEVER get a flipping facebook. I promise.

i was reading some of the stuff on fmylife.com. some of that stuff is really messed up.
its some what sad and some what funny. w/e though. you should check out the website for yourself.

i think boredom might be the leading cause of death in America, not like being shot or something. well at least that's how i feel. i am so bored in class. i've done all my hw for all of my classes even though we're on block scheduling. i have even organized my flipping notebook.

these past two weeks have been the most boring weeks of my life. school has been way more lame than usual. in these two weeks we've been having block scheduling due to cst testing. i absolutely hate block schedule.

everyone else seems to love it. they love the fact that they get to turn in hw 2 days after it is assigned. they also like how the only have to have 3 2hr classes a day. i would be fine with it if i didnt have pretty much boring classes. having 2hrs. of those classes in one day is HORRID.

these are my flipping classes:
latin 2
ap european history
psychology
algebra 2/trigonometry
dance(not so bad when we dont workout and actually dance)
english 2h

dont get me wrong. i do learn alot. i do like to learn (i mean who wants to be ignorant) and i do like my teachers and the people in my classes but school just isnt fun. i guess it wasnt really meant to be though.

yay! block schedule is over in like three days.

im outtie

I'm not quite sure why I made this blog like I pretty much hate writing stuff but since I have it I guess I'm going to utilize it I don't know if this is going to be a daily thing but I'm going to try to write one at least once a week :)