Friday, December 30, 2011

Drive-Throughs Don't Work Without Cars

It's a truth universally acknowledged.  I'm convinced that the day you start your job as a drive-through cashier, you're given a list of rules that must never be broken.  Taking orders only from people in cars is definitely on that list.  Although, now that I think about it, maybe I need to conduct more experiments before I can reach that conclusion.  I've only tried it at a few Burger Kings :\ But for anyone reading this, the one across the street from the bowling alley does not take your order if you walk through the drive-through.  Jerk-faces :(

Thanks Dan and Nicole!
Haha, but what actually happened in the past few days.  Monday I went shopping with the fam and finally got myself an actual bag! When I go out I usually just stuff everything in my pockets, but now I can just put it in my handy dandy (notebook!) fossil bag! It'll probably pop up in pictures on saturday since I'm going to the city with some people :) Anyway, that night was spent girling it up with nicole and mara.  After some delicious red mango, we picked up mara, bummed around, and then went to nicole's....where she surprised us with presents! I got a really cool sketch book, a box of watercolor pencils, and a woven bracelet with "sonya" on it!  That bracelet is probably one of the cutest things I've ever gotten, thanks nicole :)

Artsy art supplies

Eeep so cute!


Leggoooss
That night I watched "P.S I Love You".  I was a little disappointed by it since I had already read the book, and I felt like the movie didn't do it justice :( but nevertheless, a good movie.  Loved the irish accents haha.  Tuesday I went to the doctors and got two shots. Yay, fantastic.  Built some legos with Courtney in the afternoon! We got almost halfway through the Robie House. Holy shit 2276 pieces is alot of pieces.  Every couple of steps we'd realize we missed a step and have to go back and correct it lmao.  Anyway, she gave me a jewelry tree! It's a little metal tree that you can hang earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and whatnot from. It looks so cool by itself though and casts nice shadows.  That night I went to panera with emma...and she stole green tea! What a bad ass! Lol it was deserted and the cup of green tea was sitting on the counter for like an hour. So i guess it wasn't that badass, but still. Then we went to mara's and watched "My Idiot Brother".  Everyone was texting and playing on their iPhones, but I actually watched the movie, and although it seemed really pointless at first, I ended up really liking it.  What's up with me watching so many movies lately? Three in a row!
Hahahahaha 
Wednesday was really fun. I woke up relatively early to get 4 tubes of blood sucked out of my arm.  Awesome! Lol but in all actuality, the rest of the day was enjoyable.  My nose was mass-producing mucus, but I managed to go out and have a life.  Went shopping with victor, jammed with the band, bought 5 big bottles of soda for $5, and went to the secret santa party at nicole's! Her basement was all decked out with christmas lights and a disco ball.  I gave mara her gift, which were oxford style booties.  I had to make her a customized shoe box lid since the box it came in was lidless?  Go figure. Dan got me art supplies! Lol my friends know me so well.  From him I got soft pastels and assorted sketching pencils!  I lovelovelove art supplies even if I don't end up using them.  I just like looking at them and having them...is that weird?  Some girls splurge on useless shoes....I splurge on useless art supplies hahaha. Anyway, the rest of the party was pretty chill.  Danced a little, crashed a few pictures, and ate some (really super duper) delicious cookies.

The Mara Lid
Lol me and victor picture-crashing.
I drew mara a sharpie tattoo....it's an amputee unicorn.
Today I tutored for almost two hours, what the poop, ate, and took a shower.  By then it was 5 already hahaha.  Went to the school to pick up art stuff and realized it was completely dark, depressing, and very much locked.  I have a painting due on tuesday! After my haircut tomorrow, I'm gonna try the school again.  I forgot to bring home paper and paint before the break haha...crap.  Anyway, I went bowling with some people tonight.  Well, first we played cards for almost an hour at the bowling alley, waiting for a lane.  A certain someone brought their asian girlfriend along.  A certain very-good-looking someone.  Anyway, we played kemps, bowled two rounds, and then went to the BK lounge for some midnight munchies (and got denied when I walked through the drive through). I'm too tired now to type so I'll just end it there lmao.  It's 3:17 am. Whhyyyy. Gotta wake up at 10 for my haircut!  Haven't gotten it cut in over a year jesus christ.  I'm surprised it isn't full of split ends by now.  Anyway, good night! Time to go do what my sister's doing in this last picture. :)

Monday, December 26, 2011

Ring-A-Ling

Merry Christmas!

Christmas morning! ...2 am.
Before I recap on the past few days, I should probably blog about today, right?  So incase you didn't infer from the first two words, today is Christmas! I was woken up around 9 by my sister's  excited screams (that were approximately 6 inches from my face) and stumbled downstairs still in a stupor.  She was so excited that santa came :) Ahhh kids are so adorable.  So anyway, we opened presents! (Be prepared for a picture dominated post)  I got my mom a nice scarf, and my dad three records.  One of them is Adele's album "21".  She's his new American music idol.  I approve.  Much better than Avril Lavine if you ask me (yes, he had an Avril phase).  From my mom I got a bass guitar case and from my dad I got a lego architecture set!  I'm excited to assemble all 2276 pieces of it lmao. After presents, a quick(?) shower, and some ramen, it was family picture time.  Ugh, it's such a hassle, but I changed and dragged my butt downstairs and onto the piano bench.  I trolled so many of the pictures hahaha and the best part is that my parents didn't see me do it, so when they looked at the pictures later, they were appalled by how awful some of them look. What can I say, I have a natural talent for ugly faces :) After pictures we chilled out, listened to the vinyls, and ate some delicious pot stickers for lunch. Yuumm.  After lunch I did what I do best: nothing.  Finally decided on watching a movie, and saw "One Day".  It was amazing! Ed recommended it to me and said that it made him cry at the end....I was crying my eyes out the whole time lol.  But all in all, a fantastic movie (screw the critics).  I got a little sucked into the movie and it had me feeling depressed for a while after I finished watching it.  According to our AP Psych teacher, that's a mild form of hypnosis.  Apparently we might be getting hypnotized in his class after break! I am so excited lol. Going back to the movie, Jim Sturgess is so ridiculously good looking (just like Derek Zoolander!)

Angry bird hat I got my sister! It's so warm ^_^
Now moving on.  After the movie I got sick.  Haha how is that even possible you ask me? I have no idea.  It kind of just hit me.  Sore throat and a pounding headache.  Also that weird feeling you get when you're sick where your nerves are extra sensitive so you can feel your clothing scratching your skin and cold water feels that much colder. Yeah... I'm supposed to be sleeping now. Whoops I'll make this quick then.  Got dragged into playing rockband with my family. Haha it was literally me wheezing away on vocals and my parents and KayKay attempting drums.  She had the red drum. My mom the yellow. And my dad was in charge of the green, blue, and bass pedal. Lol.  We had to tear my sister away from the drums in order to have dinner.  Dinner was amazing and consisted of delicious left overs.  After that I played some more Rockband with the fam, and then switched to karaoke.  Needless to say, my voice was shot after all that.  Even a big mug of steaming green tea didn't perform any magic.

Yeah, I'm not a morning person.  On the other hand, my sister apparently is.
Hahaha I dunno when my dad took this, but it basically sums up my feelings toward christmas pictures. 
Ugly(?) sweaters courtesy of nicole's mom....
...I think they're actually kinda cute....
That pretty much sums up Christmas! Now a quick run down of the past few days.  Friday I freaked out all throughout school trying to finish gifts, notes, and whatnot.  Got some of my teachers prezzies to  thank them for helping me get into college :).  For our friends, me and emma baked a shit load of cookies and put them in these cute christmas-themed chinese take out boxes! For ryan and miller I burned them each a CD and wrote a note.  You can tell how different they are just from listening to the CDs.  Miller's has Eminen, Sarah Barailles, and Colbie Caillet on it, and Ryan's has LMFAO, T-Pain, and random remixes.  Also I snuck in some Adele for both of them hehe. After school I went to the mall with cc and that night sam was hosting an ugly sweater party!  The party was pretty good, the food was amaazzinngg (mara I love your spinach dip) and some people brought guitars and we all sat around and sang songs.  I felt like I was a little awk during it since there were alot of people I either didn't know, or barely knew.  But hey, a party's a party.  Also I discovered my love for raspberry ginger ale.  I need to buy some of that stuff, pronto. Afterwards we went driving, and took some more christmas creepin' pics :) Saturday was present-rush day! Still managed to sleep in until 1 though lol.  All day I was shopping and wrapping and decorating, holy poop i'm surprised my hands didn't just wither and fall off! All I remember is that dinner was delicious. Hurray for authentic take out :)

Live entertainment
Lol yes.

One of my personal faves. Yes we bolted after this one (lol flash)
Wow I feel shitty, time to stop blogging haha. Hopefully when I wake up, I'll be cured ! I need to be healthy for this week! Good Night!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

TUBE.

It's here! My MIT tube! Filled with confetti and balloons hahaha.  Also came with the red band I'm wearing in the last picture that says "Strong Force" and has "MIT 2016" on the inside :)

Hahahahaha my face.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Aged.

Drew this for a school art project, (self portrait using a mirror).
Oddly appropriate for how I'm feeling this week.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Christmas Creepin'


Our glorious 3 minutes of fame. 
Yes we are creepers, I won't deny it.  But that's the second half of this post. So on sunday, I woke up bright and early (like 9 am jesus christ) for marching band! Long story short, we journeyed all the way to giants stadium, ate lunch, warmed up, and ran onto the field for halftime. Then approximately 3 minutes later, we ran off the field.  It was kind of embarrassing doing that in front of tens of thousands of people, but hey, it was pretty cool standing there for 3 minutes.  A player got hurt, so we weren't able to do the show because he was still on the field.  Oh but funny story, I watched this trumpet girl trip and completely eat it while we were running onto the field.  It was hilarious hahaha. So we got off the field, with all the fans pity-cheering us lol.  Then we just went home. It was pretty anti-climatic.  The bus ride was pretty fun though, me and miller just listened to music on the way there, and then me and mike listened to music on the way back lol.  I tried to find out what kind of music miller likes since i'm burning him and ryan CDs for christmas.  Found out that he likes Sara Bareilles hehe. After band there was a lot of drama and confrontations.  Still don't know if that's solved yet, but that's why my blog is suddenly private.

At Starbucks!
Anyway, that night I went to the dinner with some people, and then journeyed on over to Starbucks and DD with Mara and Nicole!  It was really relaxing hanging out with them! On our way home, we hatched a brilliant idea....to creep on people's yards and take pictures with the craziest christmas decorations!  Hahaha trespassing has never been so fun :)  We probably spent like an hour doing that before my dad called and said that I should've been home half an hour earlier.  Some people party on the weekends.  We take pictures with christmas decorations. Go figure.  It was fantastic, I felt like I was in middle school again or something.  Obnoxiously running around and laughing; I loved it.  As you can see, some people had reeeaaaally nice yards.  Talk about Christmas spirit hahaha.

They had outside speakers that played christmas music and everything lol.
Me and mara being "nubs" in Dunkin Donuts. 
Creepin' in a tree.
A Charlie Brown Christmas!

Monday, December 19, 2011

Bubbly

Saturday morning came faster than expected.  I somehow managed to make myself fall asleep around 2 am, even though my mind was working overtime.  Slept pretty badly, woke up a bunch of times for no reason (usually I sleep like a rock for 11 hours).  Then 12:15 pm rolled around and my dad ran into my room freaking out about how I was "going to be late" for my decision.  Decisions are released at 12:17 pm on the mit website.  I can't be late for a decision!  But of course, I was wide awake in an instant, and sprinted to the bathroom.  Probably took the quickest pee of my life.  Then bolted into the computer room and quickly typed in the MIT Admissions url into the address.  And guess what happened?  "Safari cannot display this page".  Hahahahaha somehow it just seemed so funny to me.  See the thing is, earlier in the week, miller told me I was going to go check my decision and the internet would break.  Well, the internet didn't actually break (is that even possible?) but miller was right.  The page actually failed to work.  So there I was, laughing my butt off, while my dad was growing increasingly anxious.  Meanwhile, my mom  was sitting next to me trying to get my sister to stop complaining about food.  After a couple minutes of failure, I managed to convince my mom to get my sister something to eat, and she grudgingly agreed and left the room.  My dad was still freaking out, and logged onto the other computer, hoping for better results.  That didn't work either, lol.  Eventually, the page loaded (about 12:30ish) and the log on screen appeared.  At this point I was nervous as hell and didn't want to log on.  Eventually I was parent-pressured into checking the page, and BOOM I GOT IN.  Actually, it wasn't as instantaneous as that.  At first I was reading the acceptance letter and not understanding what it meant.  Sadly, my dad was the first one to register that I had gotten accepted and shouted "YOU GOT IN!!!" Then it kind of hit me, and I burst into tears.  Legitimate tears of happiness. This year has been an emotional roller coaster, holy crap.  First crying at nationals, and now this? Anyway back to the story.  So I ran downstairs, half blinded by tears and shouted to my mom, who sprung out of her chair and started to hug-crush me.  Then my sister ran to us from the other room and gave me a huge high-five! .....and then she burst into tears because I was crying and she was scared lol.  After we finally calmed her down, we went upstairs to read the letter in its entirety.  At this point I was completely composed. Hahaha just kidding, I was still crying like a baby.  My parents finally left me alone and went to order celebratory pizza (I ate a slice of white. Just wanted to make sure I remembered the first thing I consumed after getting accepted).  That's when sarah called me to ask if I got in, and to congratulate me.  It was pretty embarrassing actually because I was still crying, so I sounded absolutely terrible over the phone.  Thank god she couldn't see me though, that would've been even worse.  I kind of lost my grip on time for a while, so I don't know exactly how long I cried for, but my guess is about 15-20 minutes. I calmed down enough to post "MIT !" as my facebook status, and text emma the good news.  She freaked out! Hahaha, later I saw her mom, and she told me how excited emma had been. Running around, screaming, and everything! Oh Sucker :) I was on an emotional high for the rest of the day.  After making myself more presentable to the world (trust me, I looked like a banshee at that point) I drove me and emma to panera to meet up with mara, nicole, and abs.  When they saw me walk in, they immediately ran across the restaurant and tackle-hugged me.  Everyone probably thought they were crazy, but I think I have the best friends ever :) All day I received texts of congrats, and people I didn't even know that well posted on my wall!  Something I realized that day is how nice people are.  That sounded like a pretty stupid sentence, but I don't know how else to say it.  So many people going out of their way to congratulate me on getting into college!  It made me feel so warm and surrounded.  Oh wow, that sounded cheesy too, i apologize, but I can't help it.

 Observing the mark the champagne cork left on our ceiling lmao
Anyway, the rest of the day was fun. I got some christmas shopping done with Nicole, and bought my secret santa person the best gift ever :) ....went a little over the price limit, but oh well.  Actually there is the possibility that she won't like it at all, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. Dinner was hilarious.  My parents decided to force me to drink champagne in order to celebrate.  So they popped open an old (and expensive) bottle of bubbly (I screamed when the cork hit the ceiling) and poured me a glass.  It tasted awful. But I somehow managed to down a glass quickly, and immediately opted for some ginger ale to wash the taste out.  Apparently I take alcohol pretty well! My parents were bright red after one glass, but I didn't turn color for atleast an hour.  And once I did, it was only a slight pink tinge in my cheeks.  After dinner, nicole picked me up and we drove around doing nothing.  Actually, we did go creep on some people's christmas yard decorations, but that was it.  Thomas invited us to gabe's, so we went there to play some Kemps, Pig, and Bananagrams.  All fantastic games.  Then I don't really remember what I did after I got home.  Probably just chilling and doing nothing for a few hours lol. I wouldn't be surprised.  All in all, an extremely fantastic day.
This is the email I got today! Love you MIT :)

Friday, December 16, 2011

I GOT INTO COLLEGE !

My first college!! Northeastern!!
Honestly, I was surprised at how ridiculously happy I got when I read the acceptance letter.  I expected that getting accepted by a college would feel good, but I didn't anticipate possible tears.  Like come on Sonya, really? Tears?  In my defense, they didn't fall out of my eyes, though they were dangerously close to.  Ahhh! Me! Accepted to college!  Also up to $80,000 in scholarship money and acceptance to their honors program!  So suck on that haters.  Northeastern might be expensive but hey, it's not so bad if it's $80,000 cheaper, hmm? :) Money is definitely an important factor, I agree.  However, you really shouldn't judge people who want to go to other schools that aren't as cheap as Rutgers.  Yes, it might be the perfect choice in your eyes, but it's not for everyone.  And regardless of if I get into MIT or not, I am glad I gave it a shot.  It might confuse you "why people would even apply to schools they know they can't get into", but the reason is simple:  They liked the school.  They grew attached to the school.  So yes, I will take my chances no matter how pathetically small they are.  Haha, how did this happy post become a defensive rant?  I better cut it here and go to sleep ! Ahhhh 35 hours till MIT decisions! Good night!

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

My Eyes Are On Fire Tonight, Fire Tonight

Goddamn it.  We have to give a presentation of an STD that was assigned to us, and I got Genital Herpes. So now I need to make a powerpoint....which means pictures.  Even when I try to avoid the actual pictures by using the word "diagram" or "cartoon", it doesn't work. Google Images likes to screw with me and display them anyway.  Even when I searched "herpes medication", pictures of infected genitals appeared.  WHY. My virgin eyes! These are so disgusting!

On another note, MIT emailed everyone yesterday telling us that the decisions will be released on 12/17 ! ....at 12:17 pm.  I see what you did there MIT.  I am so nervous goddamn it !  Atleast I will have marching band to look forward to on Sunday :) Giants Stadium here we come!

Time to go finish my awful and disgusting presentation. Night!

Sunday, December 11, 2011

My Brain Is On Fire Tonight, Fire Tonight

Inspirational lyrics brought to you by my fellow Shalomie, Daniel.

Yeah Schendt !
So yes, friday was our show at 1307! (1307 is the local highschool hang out thing that's held once a month at the church.  Live bands, DJs, dancing, acoustic lounge, etc.)  Right after school I went home to take a power-nap.  It was a pretty shitty nap since I was too busy yawning to actually fall asleep. Yuck.  But at 4, I drove over to Dan's for a final practice before our show.  The practice went well, I was kind of still out of it from my pathetic nap.  Anyway, sam and emma showed up with cookies and brownies ! You guys are the best :)  The cookies had red letters on them that spelled out "Shalom Dragon" and then random jewish symbols and chinese characters hahahaha. Oh racism. Anyway, I rushed home, found something to wear (and trashed my room in the process), then sped over to the church....14 minutes late. But hey, who's counting.  We listened to a "no profanity in songs" lecture and then went downstairs for some free pizza.  There was jalapeno pizza, which was kind of awesome, except for that fact that it made victor puke and then gave the rest of us shitty stomachs. After pizza, we had to gather in a circle, in the dark, around a candle and listen to the preacher preach.  Kind of awkward because I'm agnostic, and I was standing between Victor, who isn't religious, and Dan, who's Jewish.  Lol.  Then we had to pray, which again was kind of weird for me.  Lmao, during it, Victor made a kind of disgusted grunt, so I turned in surprise at how blatantly rude it was, but turns out it was only because he was about to puke. Whoops.

Soon, people started arriving and we had to do soundcheck. And then it was....SHOW TIME. AHHHHH.  Standing up on stage was kind of terrifying.  Thank god I had my friends standing in front of me screaming their faces off.  At one point Emma ran up and pretended to lick my bass lmao, that got me to loosen up a litttttle bit. Usually during the songs me and Shendt look at each other and goof off, but when i looked over at him during the show, he looked so serious and tense....so i looked away.  Gabe described him as looking like a serial killer.  Sarah told me I looked miserable.  All in all, it was a good show! Emma told me later that a group of guys next to her were saying how we might be their new favorite band :)  They also said that Dan was really good!


Stoner sweatshirt ?
Saturday was surprisingly productive.  I got up super early for dim sum with the fam at the Dynasty.  And by early, I mean 11 lol.  Anyway, the food was amaazzinng and of course I ate too much.  Then we went and bought a karaoke machine lol.  How random is that ? Then I went to the dentist's for a "cleaning". AKA they found a deep cavity and I had to get it drilled and filled.  Yay for Novocain that lasts for 9 hours!  So that severely sucked, and my mom let me drive us to the mall out of pity.  We went to XXI Forever, and I got myself a sweatshirt and a t-shirt that has an owl on it with the words "Whoo Loves You".  Emma says that my sweatshirt makes me look like a stoner in a good way lolol whatever that means :) But regardless I lovvee it.  It's so soft and warm! Anyway, moving on, after the mall we picked up some delicious take out and brought it home for dinner.  Somehow I managed to move my mouth and eat the food even though I still couldn't feel half of my face. Goddamn drugs. Later emma came over, and we knitted for a bit. I am so close to finishing my scarf, I can taste it!  During school the other day, Helga (old hall monitor lady) stopped me to ask me if I was still knitting lmao.  She knows me from when I took fabric arts sophomore year.  So we had a nice conversation about knitting and whatnot, and she told me I could come in sometime next week so she can teach me how to put fringe on my scarf. lmao i am such a nerd. Again, i've digressed. So after a while, Dan and Victor came to pick us up and we went to Red Mango for some delicious froyo, even though it was freeeezing outside.  Then we headed over to Dan's for to play some Taboo.  It was girls vs. guys and we kicked their asses pretty hard.  We didn't feel bad about taking advantage of the fact that they were both high, and therefore mentally slow. :) So we conquered, and then ran out of his house to victor's car at around 11:58, praying that we'd make our midnight curfew.  Didn't work out so well, but we were close haha. Got home and saw my dad jamming out on the karaoke machine, so i joined him and we sang some Guang Liang and some Lion King together. Hahaha father daughter bonding to the max.

Today I woke up relatively early for my lunch date with a friend who recently got her license! Sadly she canceled (she canceled on me last weekend too) so I guess I will hold onto her driving present for another week! Anyway, I ended up going to Panera with Mara, Abs, and Nicole.  It was really fun, and refreshing since I haven't exactly gotten to kick back with them for a while.  Well, atleast not with Abs.  I got a mango smoothie which was incredibly filling and super delicious.  In the car ride back, some awkward shit went down, but hopefully that's fixed.

Nothing else really happened today. I spent too much time doing nothing, as usual on a sunday, but then I went to DD with Nicole for some delicious mint hot chocolate. That stuff is the shit man.  We also got free donuts since they were closing :). Afterwards we just sat in my car, ate, drank, and talked about random stuff.  A good ending to a relaxing day.

Oh lol, I also have a funny story before I end this post.  So you know how I mentioned that I wanted to take a nap after school on friday before the concert? That's because I went to sleep at 1:45 on Thursday night (Friday morning) and then woke up around 3:10 and took a shower, washed my hair, and got dressed for school lmao.  When i looked at the clock it was 3:45 am and I was like WTF that's gotta be wrong. So I checked my phone and sure enough it was 3:45.  So I changed back into pajamas and slept until 6 when I was supposed to get up for school.  Lol what is wrong with me ?  My guess is that I sleep-walked and then sleep-showered. Wow I need to sleep more.

On another note, my MIT decision should be coming out this week! Shit! I am sosososo nervous.  A bunch of my friends have already gotten rejected from their reach schools, and I feel like I'm just gonna be another rejection. The tables aren't really turned in my favor. 0 people have gotten into MIT from my school. Ha. On the brightside, victor got into Rensselaer yesterday !! I am so happy for him!  Also jealous because now he is in college and can fully embrace senioritis.

Okay crap, I've written a novel.  Why are all my posts so long ?!?! Also i've neglected my mountain of work, so i'll just force myself to stop blogging now.  Good night :)

Numb.

Wow it took 9 hours for the Novocain from the dentist's to wear off.  Half my face was numb so when I laughed or smiled, my mouth was crooked.  Also when I was rinsing my mouth, the water kept dripping out because I couldn't control my face muscles, thereby being unable to close my mouth.  How. Sad. Actually it was kind of hilarious......in a sad, pathetic way.

It's 2:18 now so I'll write a nice and lengthy post tomorrow about all my crazy weekend festivities.  Such as going to the dentists and cleaning my room.  Lol jk, I didn't even clean my room.  Spoiler for tomorrow's post: Shalom Dragon. Good night :)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

The Giving Tree

"Once, there was a tree…
And she loved a little boy.
And every day the boy would come
And he would gather her leaves
And make them into crowns and play king of the forest.
He would climb up her trunk
And swing from her branches
And eat apples
And they would play hide-and-go-seek.
And when he was tired, he would sleep in her shade.
And the boy loved the tree… very much…
And the tree was happy......"



Our indoor drumline show this year is The Giving Tree.  For those of you who don't know, it's a long poem by Shel Silverstein. I just posted the first stanza on here.  For some reason, the poem makes me tear up when I hear it.  I actually like the show concept for once....but we are dressing up as trees.  Expect some hilariously embarrassing pictures in the future lol. Actually i'm blogging because i'm extremely pissed off.  But that was a nice intro wasn't it?


So miller and mike aren't doing indoor. Which i knew already, but it just felt awful to be there learning the new music without them.  Change is great blah blah, but i hate it. It's my last year, come on guys.  This is not the way I wanted it to end.  With roper, ryan, and two noobs. I can get over mike, since he's a freshman. But miller, really? I hate you so much. Good thing i've calmed down, or else this post would be a lot more angsty and a lot less PG.  So for all you first-time readers, I will spare your virgin eyes. Fuck. Guess not.


Yes that is my car getting (almost) love-tapped.  Fuck you thomas.
Looking back, the actual practice wasn't that bad I guess.  I think it's all of my stress added up that's getting to me.  Too much work, too many tests, tutoring, drumline, practicing for our show, and not sleeping enough.  I'll admit I cried a little after I got home from indoor today.  Everything just felt awful and wrong.  Also I find out about MIT in about a week! Another thing that's screwing with my mental health.  It's funny because i just decided yesterday to pick a quote from Bobby McFerrin's song "Don't Worry Be Happy" as one of my senior quotes for the yearbook.  Now if i'd just take that advice... I am so nervous for tomorrow !!! Shalomies! Ahh!! What am i going to wear !? This makes tomorrow's (today's!?) AP lit essay and AP stat test look pointless in comparison. Not really because I need to raise my grades in those classes for when MIT rejects me and I have to apply to colleges that actually see my midyear report :)  Just kidding, I should be positive.  Miller told me that obviously I'm not going to get in if I keep saying that I'm not going to get in.  He also asked me a very interesting question when I told him I was definitely not getting in... "Well, did you try your best on the app?"  It got me thinking that even if I get rejected, there really wasn't anything I could've done better.  I gave it my all, so no regrets.  And that's what really matters.  Though of course it'd be nice to get in :) Also ryan wrote to me "I hope you get into MIT or any other good college that would be lucky to have you."  Yes that was part of my notecard he gave me.  Yes it almost made me cry. Again i've digressed, and there's a mountain of homework calling my name, so i'll end it here! Good night!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Sexy Song

Lol yes, that is actually the name of one of our songs.  Our show is in 4 days! Ahhh!! Sexy Song is the going to be the last song of our set, in case you were all wondering, because i'm sure you were.

Thanks ryan :) 
So I'll just give a quick run-down of my post-band awards life.  Friday Ryan came up to me in school and gave me a little note card.  I made them for my section during states and nationals, so I was really shocked and happy that Ryan was sensitive enough to make me one :)  It has his awful drawing of me and my name in bubble letters on the front, and a really nice note on the back.  He gave it to me right before math so I read it during class and literally had to stop myself from bursting into tears.  Wtf ryan why do you do this to me? Anyway, after school we practiced at dan's, and went to Village for a family dinner special (one pizza, salad, soda, and penne vodka).  Yum.  Then we headed over to gabe's to watch 30 Minutes or Less which was actually pretty good.  The downside? The movie was based on a real story, which kind of weighed on my conscience the whole time. (If you don't know, the movie is about a pizza boy who gets a bomb strapped to him....in real life, the guy wasn't able to get the bomb removed in time, and it exploded.)  Watched the movie with sarah, gabe, thomas, schendt, and nolan.  I ended up sitting with nolan on the couch, which is kiinndd of weird since 1. He has a girlfriend  2. She's also asian  3. I may or may not have liked him over the summer.  Ha. Anyway, thomas drove me home, and when we were dropping off schendt at his house, nolan jumped out of his seat and dived onto the ground, pulling me with him.  At first I was like WTF are you doing!? But apparently schendt has craazzzyy parents who actually look out the window to make sure he is only driving with one person (since thomas is 17 and can't drive more than 1...technically). 


My little memory-bulletin-board.  Lots of marching band pictures haha 
Saturday was so goddamn productive I want to award myself a gold medal.  Woke up at 11 (so early!), showered, and went to Panera with my dad for a nice father-daughter lunch.  Some creepy guy with an orange beard overheard our conversation about college, and grilled me for where i'm applying, what i'm applying for, majors, etc etc.  Then he urged me to apply to Cornell.  If this isn't weird enough, then let me just tell you this:  It has happened before.  Same exact guy. Same exact conversation. Same exact restaurant.  Same exact table by the window for Christ sake.  I think it happened last spring when I was first thinking about where to apply.  But honestly, how weird??  I'm convinced that it's a sign.  I don't know what it means, but it's definitely a sign lol.  Anyway, this dude made me totally late for tutoring.  So  I sped home, dropped my dad off, and tutored for over an hour.  Came home, cleaned my room, put up posters, and went to the mall with emma and sam in search of a present for courtney.  I wanted to get her a keychain for her keys (she passed her test on Dec 2nd!) but ended up failing miserably.  Then I rushed home and went straight to another Shalomie practice.  My fingers were dead by the end of that!  Holy shit slapping the bass is so tiring. I hope i'm getting better.  Anyway, by the time we were done running through our songs a billion times, food was all I could think about.  We were all gonna go out for Indian, but i wanted to get courtney her present since I was supposed to have a lunch date with her on Sunday.  Thomas already ate, so I dragged him with me to the mall.  Felt almost bad about it haha.  After almost 2 hours, I managed to find the cutest charm at anthropologie! It's a silver locket, and I'm going to find a cute picture to put inside it.  Yeah see, it's funny because she ended up canceling on me Sunday, so I didn't need to go out of my way to get her the present that early.  Atleast I got some free tea from teavana! (Best place on earth).  After the mall, we went for some Red Mango and then to Dan's house where I basically just crashed on his bean bag.  What a busy day hollllyyy poop.  Best part? I went home and nicole texted me telling me that she and mara were going to swing by.  So at 11pm, they abduct me from my house and tell me that they are delivering donuts. Yes, donuts. At 11pm.  Eventually they drove to miller's house and insisted that I put the donut on his front steps.  Of course I was too chicken, so I asked nicole if i could throw it.  I threw it.  It bounced out of two layers of wrapping and hit the front door.  I freaked out.  Then I felt bad for littering and took the next 15 minutes working up the courage to run and collect the goods.  Doesn't sound so bad does it? ....except for the fact that the DOOR WAS OPEN.  WHY GUYS WHY.  Look ask mara or nicole, they'll tell you that I was freaking out, but in the end I ran and got the donut and wrappers.  Mara said she's never seen me run that fast before hahahaha oh dear lord.  Too much excitement for a saturday night :')


Sunday was slum-day.  I did nothing.  End of story.  My best achievement was probably doing my laundry.  Also I stayed up until 3 am monday studying for a test I didn't even have. Ha. 


Today (monday, technically tuesday now! I'm so funny!) I did nothing. Knitted alloottt. Lol.

Okay I need to seriously catch up on some sleep so I'll end it here.  Nighty!

That's my old bike!!! My sister is learning how to ride !

Friday, December 2, 2011

Bittersweet

Today was band awards.  Well, technically, last night seeing as how it's past 1 am again.  Sarah pointed out to me the other day how all of my blogs end with a "goodnight!" or "oh crap it's 2, night" etc.  And she's right. But again i'm getting off topic, this time before I even got on topic.

Dinner before awards (look mara got bangs!)
Maybe I should give a quick run down of my day before I get to band awards.  So today I had a ridiculously hard time waking up for school.  Ended up being late. Again. It's my 6th late in the past 2 weeks. And tomorrow i'm skipping, so that means I have either 2 abscences or 6 lates left before I lose credit for the marking period!! ...and we are only 2 weeks into the marking period. But honestly Brem is ridiculous.  If I walk in 20 seconds after 7:10, it counts as late.  Tragic.  Anyway, school was busy.  I went around shooting videos of marching band seniors for the video I made for marching band awards.  Each senior had to say pick a favorite band memory and share it.  Some people were just complete jerks and told me they hated marching band.  Haters gonna hate, but the video was a success, so they can stick that up their asses.  Uhh anyway, during classes I worked on my CMU essay lol.  Today our lesson got canceled, but Mr. N said we could go down and practice in the band room if we wanted 5th period.  So I said i had a lesson, and just sat there and wrote my essay hahaha...and ended up not finishing it.  After school I was stressed as hell and ran around like crazy trying to finish editing the video (stayed up till 3 on wednesday) and getting ready for awards.  I also managed to cancel tutoring with Neil today because that would've just killed me.  But the good news?  We were only 15 minutes late to awards, and I finished the video!  Sadly I didn't get any pictures from tonight, but I'll rip some from facebook once they're up.

Here's the vid, entitled, Hey, Remember When?




......bottom layer is a drum, how sick?
Dinner was good, and the cake was AMAZING.  Well, the taste was yummy, but the decorations and size were just ridiculous. The awards were so bittersweet!  It felt nice hearing all about our season again, but I was so sad it was over.  4 years.  Probably the best decision I ever made in high school (next to quitting swimming lmao).  I'm really going to miss it! Okay I can't drag this out because I really need to go to sleep.  So we got Itkor a silver cowbell with our names engraved in it, a Kalimba with "NPHS Drumline 2011" wood-burned into the back, and a t-shirt with a picture of Drumline (the movie) but I photoshopped Itkor's face onto Nick Cannon's body lolol.  No, Itkor is not black.  I think he really liked his gifts though, but somehow it was really awkward this year and he didn't give us the handshakes that we usually get :( . Gabe got up at the podium and gave the most hilarious speech about James.  Not sure if you can call it a speech really, since it was just random talk, but nonetheless fantastic.  He got James a huge bag of McDoubles and made James eat them while he talked about his memories of James and how he was going to miss him.  It was adorable! Gabe is such a good people-person.

On a side note, I wore my first pair of real heels today!  They were murdering my feet haha.  It felt amazing when I finally took them off.  But when I wore them I felt so goddamn tall.  It was absolutely fantastic.

Lolol I'm skippping 0 and 1st period tomorrow so I can avoid the health test (on the reproductive systems, yay!) and the AP Psych test (lol I don't even know what it's on).

But you know why I feel totally okay with skipping?

....Because I finished my Carnegie Mellon App!  Submitted it 8 minutes before the deadline lmao.  Asian Albert did 10 minutes.... I beat him.

So goddamn stressful.  I better not do this again to myself for the December 31st deadline....dear lord.

Anyway, time to sleep! Shalomie practice tomorrow! Our show is next friday! Lol so much enthusiasm in this paragraph so far.  Good night!