Tuesday, January 23, 2007

New semester means new classes

Yesterday as you all know, was the start of a new semester, and with that comes new classes! Hooray! I no longer have creepy scary Mr. Flanagan!

My first period changed from Government, to Health. Which I'm somewhat dreading. I'm the only senior in that class (which I suppose is what I get for not taking it my sophomore year like I was supposed to). But I think the teacher looks like she could be fun. She seems to want to have a fun time and I'm all for having a fun class. Plus, She said there's no homework. And what better than a class with no homework?! Exactly, nothing.

My second stayed the same, Still college prep English with Mrs. Peterson. Crazy microphone lady. I hate that stupid microphone but I'm really looking forward to second semester in her class. She's an alright teacher despite what I thought about her most of first semester. Considering the students she has to deal with, I'll cut her some slack. Which I should have done forever ago. Then maybe I would have enjoyed the class to begin with. (I do wish she'd leave the stupid microphone off though)

My third changed from boring old physics (I hate science! Sorry!) to Gym. Which, is about the same. But at least I won't be so bored I'm falling asleep every day in that class. There are upsides to it as well, I get to be in class with the girl I talked to all through physics, so we won't lose the beginnings of our friendship. However, a boy I've been worried about being around is also in that class with me. I'm hoping everything works out for the best though because I do still care about him. And hopefully, now that he has a girlfriend things won't be quite so awkward. (I do worry for her though. I hope she knows what she's gotten herself into!)

My fourth stayed the same. And for that, I'm grateful. Even though it's a HUGE homework class, I really enjoy it. Yesterday we played with pennies! I love the teacher he keeps us involved in class and makes it fun. Although I really suck at doing the homework and turning it in.. But yesterday I did it! Right after school! It was a miracle really!

My fifth stayed the same. American Sign Language! Two girls dropped out of the class and I'm really going to miss them. It won't be the same with 16 girls and 0 boys as it was with 18 girls and 0 boys. It rocks. I love that class. And the teacher being deaf is great! We learn so much. I love it!

Sixth is still seminary but, the two other seniors in there switched out of that class so I'm left alone as the only senior. And there's already a kid who transferred in who annoys me. Today I fell out of my chair trying to steal the ball from him! It was funny. There were a lot of new people in that class so today we took a "quiz" on everyone's name and I finished and just sat there but this kid Kyle had to say something about being done and when I mentioned that it didn't matter and that I was already done he said "yeah but I'm the one that matters everything revolves around me" so I said "oh so you're the standard and I'm better than the standard" it was great. He had zero comebacks to that. It rocked.

Seventh changed from Computer Systems whatever to World Geography. Definately NOT looking forward to that class. The teacher is super boring. But I think Amy and I got him convinced to let us sit next to each other. Which would rock. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that one.

Eighth also changed. From marketing (I loved that class!) to some stupid class with Crowther. And Amy and I sit next to each other in that class. Which is good. Because I'd probably go insane if I had to sit next to anyone else. (I know, I know sanity is over rated :-P )

Today is looking up though. I like today actually. Quite a bit. All in all, it was a great day! And I'm extremely grateful to have the friends I have. So thanks to you all! And my love goes out to each and every one of you! Thanks for everything you do with and for me!

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Undecided...

So.. I don't know.

Today was kind of stupid.

My mom woke me up to help her with the stupid camera. She couldn't figure out how to connect it to the computer so she could get the pictures off of it. So by the time I was done helping her i just came back in my room and got ready for school then sat on my chair and slept.

So then I was running late for school. Or so I thought. But when I pulled into the parking lot there were like no cars. Seriously for Hunter, it was odd. Because there are always cars in the parking lot at Hunter. So I was confused. It was like 7:28 when I parked so I was rushing to get in to class but surprise for me when I walked in the commons was still super busy. Well I decided I would just go to my class room but it was locked. So I walked back to the commons and found someone in my first. She said it was mass change day and that class didn't start until 8:30. Which irritated me. So I started calling my friends that go to Hunter and finding out where they were and eventually found them so we got to talk for a while before class started. Which was good. We haven't had the chance to sit down and actually talk for a long time. I'm glad that we got the chance to today. Although, it did sort of suck that I had been in a rush for nothing.

Then we went to seminary and I finally drew a picture I've been promising someone to draw for them. It sucks royally. But it's done. And I sort of like the one of the cow! Yup yup! A Cow! And a penguin! That's the extent of my drawing abilities.

Then came the academy classes. Which was alright except I forgot an assignment at home and of course, today being the last day of the classes, I couldn't do anything about it so I drooped back into my grumpy no fun mood. Good thing Amy was there. Especially today. I am so grateful to have a friend like her. She knows when to stop questioning and when to leave things alone. I love her to pieces!

Then we had to go down to the career center and talk about our trip to San Fransisco and Amy and I decided we were going to do the job shadow day. Which was super fun last year! And we talked about room assignments for our senior trip and Amy and I are definately rooming together. Which is good. I'm super excited for that.

And another plus, I've finally decided who I'm asking to Sweethearts! Woot! And how I'm going to ask them. It's going to be awesome. I'm excited for it.

Anyway, so after school I had to go take a math test. But on the way I was stopped in the hall by "baby Tyler" who was telling me that Sydney was having a major issue and needed me. Which was odd because normally I'm not at that school on B-Days. So I walk into the debate room and find Sydney having a panic attack on the floor. It was scary. I've never seen her freaking out so much. Which is odd because we've been friends since 3rd grade at Mill Hollow. Hah. Great times.

So anyway back to this math test. I was super stressed about it all day because I haven't done any of the assignments from this chapter. But, it was all multiple choice and I didn't do too poorly on it. In fact, I got the 2nd highest score in the class. Which rocks. Because it brought my grade up from a C+ to a B+. Which was good. Especially for this term.

So after my test I went back to the debate room to check on Sydney and she was doing much better but I decided not to leave just to stay and have fun with Tyler and Angel and Sydney. So I stole Sydney's ipod and sang a bunch of my favorite songs and blocked out everything. It was good. And, seeing Sydney do Tyler's hair in pigtails was a once in a lifetime experience I'm glad I didn't miss out on. And then I came home. And it's been good.

Anyway, Nathan said something in one of his posts about posting a memory once a week. So I decided I'm going to start that today.

And my memory of the week comes from 3rd grade. The summer after it actually While we were at Mill Hollow. Sydney and I were hiking down this trail and there was a HUGE rock in the middle of the path. So I moved to get out of the way and Sydney just kept walking so I was like "Sydney! Watch out! There's a rock!" and she said "What?" and I said "Watch out! There's a rock!" and She again didn't hear me and said what and was now looking at me so I said "watch." and she smacked face first into the ground. Which wasn't funny at the time but is now absolutely hilarious to me. So after she got up and we made sure she was okay we were laughing about it and I was making fun of her and karma came back to bite me in the butt and I fell down the side of the mountain.

Moral of the story: If you want to warn your friends about a rock and they trip over it anyway, don't laugh at them. You might just fall down a mountain.

I love that story though...

Monday, January 15, 2007

Weekend

So, I totally loved my weekend. It was awesome.

Friday I finally got my room clean and in turn, got ungrounded. Which was amazing. Then I just had work. And accidentally yelled out something to the effect of i hate my manager.. which is true. But I felt bad.

Saturday was amazing! I got to sleep in. Which hasn't happened very often lately. When I finally got out of bed, my sister and I watched part of Mona Lisa Smile. Then we went sledding. It was so fun. Although I did wake up a little sore this morning. Then Dave, My dad, My brother, and I all played risk together. Dave and I ended up forming an alliance and winning together. It was fun.

Then Dave and I went to Sydney's house for a "date night" that really was more like hanging out for Dave and I but it seemed like a whole lot more of a date for Angel and Derek. It got kind of awkward though... enough said.. Those who know what I'm talking about, know. Those who don't, ask and maybe I'll tell you.

Then today, I had to work. So I didn't get to go to church but I did leave work early to go to a surprise party for my friend! after my boss made me cry because he hurt me so bad. He like.. pinched my shoulders somehow that hurt really bad. I don't know it sucked really bad though. I was laughing though. Because I thought it was funny that he hurt me. but crying cuz it really hurt.

I had a lot of fun there. But only because I dragged my friend Andie along with me. She knew the guy so it wasn't a bad thing. But we laughed and talked about old times then went back to her house and looked at her old yearbooks. I laughed so hard when we went through her 7th grade. She had drawn hearts and stuff all over this guys face. I looked at it and just busted up. Hilarious really.

However, then I got home. And started talking to my cousin on MSN. Which really put a damper in my spirits.

Currently in the conversation we're talking about a boy I used to like and just barely got over.

My oh so sweet cousin says:
omg he thinks he can kick my *butt* w.e
Steph says:
oh my heck Kayla
Steph says:
why don't you just quit talking to him if you don't like him so much?
Steph says:
there is no law that says you have to talk to him you know
Super sweet cousin again says:
um ok your just mad kuz he dotn like you hahah

That kind of irked me. Because she doesn't know anything about his feelings toward me or my feelings toward him. I hate it when she assumes she knows everything about my life.


She's so nice! says:
at less when im around my family i dotn act liek a cry baby
Steph says:
excuse me?

Then she goes on to say that she won't mention any names and says "*steph*"

And this is the part that really got to me.

Steph says:
If you hate me so bad why do you want to talk to my friends? That doesn't make sense to me at all.
hell is a place called home says:
um yeah i do hate you and if there was a stronger word i woudl use it

That's the point where I started to cry. I know I'm not exactly the best person in the world, but I try so hard to be nice to her. My cousin Char and I have always been really close and we used to really leave everyone out of our lives but recently, I've been inviting Kayla to join us so she didn't have to just sit with the adults every time we did anything together as a family. But I guess that was just an awful thing for me to do.

Anyway, it gets to the point where she apologized because her mom made her. And she made sure I knew it was because her mom made her.

Then her mom started talking to me. Telling me I need to keep my friends out of her daughters life and blah blah blah when her daughter is the one who BEGGED me to let her talk to him. And who continuoulsy starts conversations with him even though he's not always nice to her or anything. And then my aunt started telling me that I need to own up to my mistakes and apologize for what I did. And I'm still not even sure what I did exactly.. My cousin was complaining about my friend so I told her she didn't have to talk to him. Where is the harm in that? Seriously?

And my aunt told me that I didn't need friends on the computer to be cool. She assumed automatically that any friend I have isn't a person I know in real life. I was irritated. And crying.

Bleh! I want to disown my extended family.

But I was super happy at what the guy we were talking about said to her:

I know more than enough to figure out that you take joy in degrading and tormenting others. you act tough because you are weak emotionally. you wage war through the psyche because you know that's where it hurts the most.

And what he said to me:

just so you know
she doesn't hold a candle to you

yeah. But, I'm almost 100% positive my aunt will tell my grandma what a horrible person i am because I got in a fight with her daughter and then my grandma will hate me forever (not that she doesn't already) and yeah. It's just going to suck. a lot.

Yeah.. My family sucks. oober much.

Monday, January 08, 2007

Ugh

Today has been.. interesting to say the least. I've been grouchy and cranky all day. And I think maybe writing about it will help.

It all started off this morning. My mom got me out of bed super early to tell me that I needed to help my dad get all his junk out of my truck. And I didn't want to. So I decided just to let my dad give me a ride to school. Which was fine. I was ok with all of that. Just irritated that he couldn't get his junk out of my truck without my help. He got it in there without my help didn't he?

So I went into my first period. American Government. I've hated that class from the very first time I ever set foot in there and my teacher said something about me having really nice legs. Can you say creep?! So anyway, today I walked in. Before the bell rang mind you! WAY before the bell rang. And my friend Courtney was there. So we got to talking about our weekends and how I hadn't worked at all on the project we're supposed to be doing together. And all the time the stupid teacher was just giving me death glares. And then he had to open his stupid mouth about how I should be using this time to do my assigned work for the period. And the bell hadn't rung! It set me off. I started yelling at him.. Something to the effect of the bell hasn't rung and you have no control over me until it does so. I don't have to be doing the assignment until after the bell rings and even then if I didn't want to he had no control over me doing it he could just strongly reccommend it.. probably wasn't the right thing to do. But he was seriously irritating me. So when the bell rang he immediately set off about how now I only had 10 minutes to do my stupid self starter that was all of 5 stupid opinion questions. Cuz it totally takes forever to form an opinion on a question? UGH! So I finished that and the assigned work for the day and I was reading a book. Something I thought was a valuable way to pass the time. At least I wasn't sleeping like half the rest of class. But apparently that wasn't good enough. My teacher came over and had to tell me that I was capable of much better work and yadda yadda yadda... I yelled at him again. Not a wise move. But oh well. I did the stupid work and presented it to the class. Because apparently that's what better means. Is that I can stand up in front of the class and tell them all about state and federal income tax from what i read in the chapter. I hate that class. I hate the teacher. And I'm SO glad I only have 3 days left.

Then comes English. Which is actually one of my favorite subjects. But today I just had absolutely no motivation. We had to take a vocab quiz that I didn't study for at all. And the girl who corrected my paper did the subtraction wrong for the number I missed and gave me extra points. That I failed to point out to the teacher. But maybe I will someday. (Hah! Not likely!) So anyway, Courtney and I went to the library to work on our powerpoint presentation. More like I sat there while he worked on it. I was seriously just.. I don't know. Irked about everything. AHH!

At lunch Angel and Tyler came over to our table and were talking and trying to convince Sydney that we should all leave and go to tyler's house and sluff our thirds. Which did not go over well with me. I had a test in my third today so sluffing would not have been a wise idea. So then they decided that instead of going to Tyler's house we were going to go find Derek. Which was the most retarded idea Angel has ever had in her life. That and letting Sydney tell him she liked him.
Then comes Physics. Which wasn't bad actually. I took the test (open book! yay!) and then I went to sleep after finishing my book (a really good book I'm glad that the boy I like reccommended it!) Hooray. Sleeping through that class is the best. So no complaints there.

Then I went to stats. Which I actually enjoyed for the most part. Michelle and I just talked the whole time not doing our assignment. Which I'll regret tomorrow night when I have to do it all.

Then I came home. And I seriously don't know what is wrong with me. But everyone in my family was irritating me. My mom made up a new chore chart. And I yelled at her for putting me on dinner duty on wednesdays when I have mutual. Then I felt bad and she was just apologizing and it sucked. I hate making my mom feel bad.

So I came back into my room and sulked. While watching a movie. a SERIOUSLY long movie. (Pride and Prejudice. I'll have you know I finished the whole thing!)

Then. Stupid Steven's Henager college called to change the stupid appointment they made with me for tomorrow that I don't even really want! And my brother was yelling at me as he opened my door while holding the phone right next to his mouth. So I yelled at him. And then felt immensely stupid when I picked the phone up and it was a college. Yeah. smooth move for me.

Then I had to go up for dinner. And I noticed I had mail. So I was sitting at the table opening my mail and my dad asked me to go get his laptop bag. To which my response was "what do you need it for it's dinner time?" and he just told me to go get it. Which irritated me. He doesn't allow me to do anything while I'm at the dinner table but he wanted his laptop! So I threw my mail at him and stormed downstairs to get his dumb laptop bag. And all he said to me was thank you. And as stupid as this sounds, that just made me more mad! He could have at least gotten mad at me for throwing stuff at him! So i hurried and ate dinner and stormed back down into my bedroom. Where I've been hiding all day.

And now, as I'm writing all this, I'm frustrated for letting my temper get the best of me. And I just feel stupid for everything I did today.

Thanks for my friends who just listened to me whine and complain today and offer to be of assistance. And for just talking to me. Even though I was probably being an insufferable brat. I heart you all oober much <3!

Bleh.. being cranky. is no fun. I hate it.