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license huzzah!
2004-10-16 11:44:20
mood: happy =)
Music: The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
got my license yesterday... woot! but my car has a hole in the brake line -_- so it's in the shop until monday or tuesday... how much does that suck? oh well... I'll get over it... today I'm probably going to the mall with Kate and Tony to get halloween stuff, we're all dressing really skanky, and tony is gonna be a pimp =P it's gonna rock!
I was at Ikea for a field trip on thursday, it rocked! me and Keith and Sara had a lot of fun wandering around and sitting in every chair and jumping (almost typed humping...) onto every couch and bed. I got a cd tower, it's huge, it's like... 7ft tall, I put it together yesterday ^_^ I used a hammer! and nails! I'm handy =P but I need my dad to fasten it to the wall for me, I can't wait to load it up with my CDs, it holds 108 I think... so... only gotta buy ike... 80 more... hehe.
well, off to eat. I'm out -
mmm guitars
2004-10-10 02:05:17
Mood: meh (god, I'm so plain!)
Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers - THe Righteous & The Wicked
So, I broke the first string on my guitar a couple weeks ago, just after learning something new -_- so I didn't play for a while, and friday after school I restrung it because my mommy went out and bought me new strings ^_^ but now I can't get it back in tune! agh! I wish I had an electric tuner =( or that Sam or Sara would come over and tune it for me, cause I suck. Man... how am I ever gonna get any good if I can't even tune it?
I've been looking at guitars online cause I wanna buy one instead of always using my uncle's... I really want a fender, I'm looking at a stratocaster, cause I just like the look of them. I'm probably gonna end up buying the Fender Highway US Special Stratocaster, it's a nice guitar, and it's one of the few fenders that's offered in teal *drool* I LOVE TEAL! it's 600 though... =( gonna be saving for a while... or hopefully someone'll buy it for my for Christmas. My second choice is just a standard Stratocaster in black. I know I'll never change my mind about black, and it's only $400.
My ultimate choice though, would be a Fender Jaguar. I just think Jaguars are the sexiest guitars out there, god, I have an orgasm just looking at them! There are some on Ebay, that have been well loved (read as: used) but in pretty good condition for prices between $200 and $700.
Hopefully in the near future I'll have the money to purchase a nice guitar of my own, but for now, I'm restricted to my crappy acoustic and my impossible to tune loner from my uncle... In the meantime, maybe I'll buy an electric tuner.
In other non-guitar-related news, I've got a 3 day weekend and homework up the wazoo. My friend (and lab partner) Kate have to do this chem. project on the periodic table that I don't even want to begin to describe beyond "complicated and a pain in the ass" that's due on tuesday. I also have to go over to Anne Marie's house to work on our Spanish 4 project with the other two girls in our group, Kara and Caitlin, which is due on friday. It's a puppet show... ugh. But, our's is gonna be good if we can just get past the crappy puppets... it's gonna be a Dating Game skit =P My other project (oh yeah, there's another one....) is for Advanced Design. the class is designing packaging, all last week we took apart boxes and analyzed them and they're design and construction. My box is going to be for (you guessed it) guitar accessories (god... I'm such a poser... I've only been playing guitar for like... 2 months, and I freaking act like it's my life) So, I've got that to complete, which is pretty much done, I've made all the "prototypes", so to speak, and just have to make the final model, but I can't find my protractor! every time I have a project where I need a protractor, I can't find it, and I have to go buy a new one, and then it's lost by the next time I need it.
My last advanced design project, by the way, kicked my own ass, it was so amazing. I got a 93 on it and hte only reason I didn't get a 100 is because I didn't take enough notes on it in my sketchbook, and I didn't apply myself enough in class (when Sara and Peter sit next to me in class, I tend to run my mouth off a bit and don't focus on my art...) But anyway, it's a really neat project. We had to design a CD insert, and mine came out just plain amazing, that's all there is too it. I think it got the best response from the class. So please check it out on my deviantart account (chirusea.deviantart.com) and leave a response (it's titled Sea-Level City What Could, it should be on my front page, since I haven't uploaded anything new since that)
Ooo, Jason (my brother's best friend) is visiting from college for the weekend ^_^ it was really great to see him again. We all hung out tonight, eating ice cream, playing monkey in the middle with my dog Jake, watching the Yankees, and then The Venture Brothers (hilarious show on Cartoon Network if you haven't seen it, definitly check it out!) So it was nice to see Jason again. Speaking of college friends, it's Brian's birthday tomorry ^_^ (wait... today! it's 2am) I'm gonna call him later today (ya know... after I go to bed and wake up again) and wish him a happy birthday, and talk about prospects of me coming to visit him (cause I test for my lisence in 5 DAYS!!!!!!!) It's also Sam's dad's birthday ^_^ so he'll be getting a phone call too.
holy crap I've written a lot, I guess this is what happens when I don't write for a while ^_^ and I've only talked about things that have happened in the past couple days. Ok, here are some final thoughts
-my parents got me a cell phone since I'll [hopefully] be getting my lisence soon
-I highlighted my hair, and it looks good
-I test for my lisence on Friday
-school pictures are on Friday (confliction of events! ah!)
alright, that's it for now... I'm out -
sad
2004-09-19 00:52:45
mood: sad
music: radiohead - no surprises
radiohead makes me sad... they're music just makes me depressed... I'm gonna sulk now -
rantage
2004-09-14 15:39:21
Mood: FUCKING PISSED
Music: The Cranberries - Salvation
Alright, so I get home, and my friend and neighbor Ashley, instant messages me and says "I have to tell you what happened at school today" but first a little background. Last halloween, This Girl, Mackenzie Gill sprayed shaving cream in Ashley's eyes, so Ashley bitch slapped her, the next day at school her oldest sister, Amanda Gill (senior when we were sophomores) went up to Ashley in the hall and tried to strangle her by picking her up by her neck. She has another sister, Molly Gill, in our grade, who is just a complete Bitch. Just one of those popular Bullies. Also, Mackenzie is in the same gym class as me and Ashley
So anyway, when Ashley talked to me, she was like "me and molly gill got in a big fight today, about mackenzie. I guess mackenzie told molly that I threatened to beat her up or something, so now molly is saying that if I ever go near her sister or threaten her or anything, then she's gonna beat the shit out of me. And Sarah (friend of ashley's) told me that Sam Malone (another popular bitch) said you're the one who told on me too Molly. But I know you wouldn't do that, and I bet it's just all shit that Mackenzie made up"
so here's the deal, Ashley's gonna beat up Mackenzie, and I narked on her... yeah... that's so totally not us. I would never nark on ashley, especially for wanting to beat up mackenzie. I woudl encourage it. So tomorrow, I'm gonna have a little heart to heart with Mackenzie... I'm going to be very polite about it, no point on giving her ammunition to take back to big sister. I'm just gonna say that I don't know how this thing got started, and I dont' wanna know, but what I do know is that when a rumor goes around like this, and it escalates to someone being threatened, it's up to the involved parties to set things straight, and I don't know if she sincerely thought that that's what happened, but ashley never said anything of the such, nor did she imply it, to you (Mackenzie), me, or anyone else. Also, me and ashley are juniors, 16, we're more mature and responsible than beating up freshmen and tattling on our best friends. We have a lot more self-control than that. we're also more mature than starting rumors and telling our older siblings to beat up people we have petty rivalries with.
God, I'm so pissed off, I'm gonna go beat something. >:O
I'm out -
wow...
2004-09-05 20:48:13
Music: Modest Mouse - The View
Mood: Shocked
be prepared for the saddest story ever!
alright, so my dad and his best friend Billy (aka Big Guy) and their friend Hank, and his wife Lisa went out to our house in Block Island for the weekend. They were having a great time, Friday night they ate a 10lb lobster for dinner, and they both caught some big fish (blue fish I think) On saturday, they went out fishing again, first my dad and Big Guy both caught 35'' Striped bass! that's almost a 3 foot fish! and there are 2 of them! it was my dad's first striper (or... his first big one) they were both so happy, they got some great pictures. Big Guy kept saying "this is such a great day" or "this is the greatest day ever" things to that effect. So thye go back to the house and do whatever it is they do to have a good time, and my dad went up to bed, and left Big Guy downstairs, he was still reading, or watching tv or something. The next morning my dad came down for breakfast, and Big Guy was still asleep on the couch. So my dad went over to wake him, "Billy" he said a couple times, then he shook him. He was cold... Billy "Big Guy" Hood died in his sleep on September 4th 2004...
my mom left work after only being there for 10 minutes to fly out to block island and console my father. It was so sudden, no one knows what happened, most likely a heart-attack or brain aneurysm or something like that. The coroner, and police came to the house, and sent his body off on the 11:00 ferry to the mainland, and will be autopsied on Tuesday. My mother called me at my aunts, where I was petsitting for the weekend, around 5:00 and told me she was driving back from Point Judith (where the ferry lands) with my dad, and that something had happened in Block Island. When she told me the news, I was just shocked. How could this happen. He was only 45... my dad's age, less than a year younger than my mother... My mom dropped my dad off at home, and picked me up from my aunts. When I got home and went upstairs to see my dad, he just cried and hugged me.
It really scared me, my mom could have just as easily called and said it was my dad who died. Big Guy appeared healthy as an oxe the day before... and now he was dead... Stuff like this really makes you think.
Rest In Piece Billy Hood. 1959-2004
In other, less depressing news, my uncle said he had an electric fender guitar and amp I can borrow for as long as I like. I'll probably end up buying my own though, Chris said I could use his debit card to buy it online. and school starts on Tuesday o_O eeks! It feels like summer is gonna last forever... but there's only one more day. I'm not in the least bit anxious to go back, but I know the school year will just fly by, as it always does.
I'm out
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