23 days till my 18th birthday!

I hope everyone had a good Turkey Day! Mine was good. I actually didn't eat too much this year to the point I was stuffed... I'm just chillin' here at my grandparents house in Anaheim, home of Disneyland! It feels weird not having anything to do. I have no homework, but if I want to do these extra credit scholarship essays I could. They're due Monday. I already wrote my paper for Civics, which I have to turn in...sometime...I won't be in school on Monday so I don't know how I'm gonna turn it in. *shrugs* I wrote it on Tuesday too. I could have turned it in the day we were assigned it. I didn't think of it till we were coming down south though. I won't be at school Mon, and Tues. Mon we're going to a hearing about the proposal for a seawall and Tues I'm going to San Jose to hear the CA Supreme Court Oral Arguement day. It'll be cool. Any ways....all for now!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Man, it's been a while since I've updated...I've been extremely busy here, and I got sick again. I'm down here in Anaheim for Thanksgiving to spend Thanksgiving with my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, 1 brother and his wife, and etc, etc. My life is just getting more busy with the newest addition of me teaching a bunch of little kids how to sign a song now for a Christmas performance thingy. So Mondays I'm REALLY booked now, lunch is gone with Ocean Summit meetings, I go straight from school to Fish and Game go straight from Fish and Game to the rehersal for the kids, then I go back to the school for ROV meetings and such. It's almost a nightmare! I just can't wait until after Christmas. My life will lose a lot of things and I may even get bored with all the time I have, WHAT A NOVELTY! But by the end of January by life picks back up, somewhat, with another night class and such. I just have 3 weeks of school left. 1 week of finals and 2 weeks of normal classes! Just 3 weeks!! I can handle 21days, I hope. My birthday is coming up! The count down begins! December 21st I am turning 18! I'm going to be legal...Isn't that scary?! I get to vote in March....LoL. I'm bummed I can't register to vote to get extra credit in Civics though. I have a 108% in the class....And I'm worried I'm gonna drop below a 100% before the quarter is over. Quite frankly...I'm 23% over an A though. His grade curve is an 85% and up is an A, which is nice because a lot of people aren't doing well in the class, but I just happen to have done a LOT of extra credit in that class. All I really need to do is maintain my grades and I'm good to go. I just want to be in CSF, and that is the hardest thing to get into, atm. I can have only 2 B's and 2 A's MINIMUM. Anything below that, I'm in trouble, and it makes it even worse since I'm technically only taking 4 classes. Well, technically 5, but that's TA, which doesn't count towards CSF.

Well, I hope everyone has a GOOD Thanksgiving and forgive me for not updating in 8 days, I've just been WAY too busy. I come home around 8:30pm M, T, Th, and Sun. Wed at 5pm. Oh, don't eat TOO much on Thanksgiving!

ASL tonight. I have a physics test Thurs, an ASL test Thurs, two English quizzes on Thurs, and a Civics 30 pt quiz on Thurs. Talk about a FULL Thursday. I have a math test Tuesday. I'm goin' to Anaheim for Thanksgivin' too. Leave Wednesday and return Sat night, have the aquarium that weekend too. But that is over a week away! This weekend I have hardly ANYTHING to do, for once, and one of the final weekends for a while.

Winterball is Dec 6th and rapidly comin' up. My friend and I would rather not go, but two of my other friends want to go. It's the whole thing of dressing up. Plus one friend already bought a dress. I suggested we dress up, go out to eat somewhere pretty nice, go to a movie (dressed up), and then go to Denny's late at night (still dressed up). Winterball just ain't all that much, besides taking formal pictures. *shrugs* It'll cost $20 to go for one person to go dance for 3+ hours hours while you're all dressed up and take nice pictures. I dunno, doesn't seem worth it to me. A LOT of my other friends want me to go, but if I don't have a date, what's the point? I've been given...uh..."recommendations" in who to go with, but *rolls eyes* I just don't want to bother with it; if someone wants to go they gotta ask me or my friends have to force me into going, me and Jamie are both the same way. We're either/or, but if I go I'd have to get a dress and all, and we'd rather just hang out. I don't care if it's my Senior year and I "HAVE" to go. I'll go to prom, so why does it MATTER?! We shall see how things evolve over time!

Oh, there's this article in the newspaper too about our football game. Apparently they ended it with 1:05minutes left on the clock because it was beginning to be too unsportsmanship-like. Apparently people started crowding the fields, the football players didn't shake hands afterwards either, and a lot of other stuff. :- Guess rivalry went a bit too far this time. *shrugs* I left early and I truly don't care for the whole rivalry thing. It's just fun to tease!

Uhm...in short...This weekend was a VERY busy one for me. I made a good amount of money this weekend from my sales of my bead work, I have 2 commissions, so that's good. *thinks* We lost to Seaside, which was expected mind you. 33-14. Isn't that lovely? Or something like that was the score. This week is another crazy one, and this is one of my less busy weekends for a LONG time. This semester of school is almost over, which I'm looking foreward too! I think I'm relapsing into being sick again, and I haven't slept well in the last week, at least. I woke up at 4am this morning! I couldn't go back to sleep either. I slept for 4 1/2 hours last night. Ocean Summit stuff is comin' along and ROV is going PAINS TAKENLY SLOW, but it's moving. We HAVE to have our ROV completed by February for a local competition at the Aquarium before we go national in June. Any ways, all for now!

Happy Be-Lated Birthdays to Jonas, Steven, and Base!

Happy Birthday to Kristina Chase!

Okay, I've BEEN staying busy lately....What free time I have had this week I've been beading jewelry and such. Let's start back on Sunday.

Sunday: I went and saw Matrix Revolutions, which was okay, in my opinion. I wasn't "wow'd" to say the least. The only thing I found cool was when Neo punched Mr. Smith, or whatever his name is, at the end. I thought the fight scenes in the city was TOO long, the ending was pretty corny comparing Neo to a Christ-like-figure (English has made me notice these things!), and the rest was okay, I suppose. Reloaded I liked because of all the cool special effects, such as the Twins, the story plot in both was pretty stupid, though I think there was more of a plot in Revolutions then Reloaded. So that is MY opinion of Matrix; those two brothers should NOT do another movie anywhere near like the Matrix in plot, also.

Monday: It was a minimum day at school and I still wasn't feeling all the way better so I stayed home, which many people did. I'm glad I didn't go to school; I didn't miss anything of importance. Kristi and I ran around doing errands from around 10:30am-1:30pm, about. We had to go pick up some kids in the carpool at noon at the school, and we had to go get groceries since my Mom left on Friday early morning and never went to the store. So, Kristi, my dad, and I were on the bare minimum on food. I got a new beading book on Monday too so I got out the beads and made this necklace. It's called a "square stitch" with leaves handing down, clear/white seed beads (really small ones) with blue glass leaves. It's really nice looking. I also made this other one that's called Celtic Occassion, or something like that. It's a braid pattern in three different colors that connect at the bottom and has tassels. It's really cool looking. Of course, in this pattern you DON'T actually "braid" the strings of beads, but it's just circle stitches that are reversed and such. Those colors are blue, green, and clear/white beads. Nice lookin' it is!

Tuesday: Vetran's day so no school. My mom and I went and ran errands (she came home Monday night), mainly for myself for beading. I needed to go to the bead store on Cannery Row, Monterey, to get some new nice beads. A pendant, crystals, etc. I ended up spending around $70 there, but the lady gave us a discount so we ended up paying $63, which was DEFINITELY fine with me. Then my mom and I went to Salinas to Michael's Craft Store and Wal-Mart. I ended up getting MORE beads and stuff at Michael's. I think I ended up spending around $45 at Michael's. Wal-Mart my mom wanted to get something really quick and I forgot some bead things I needed at Michael's or the bead store (Let it Bead, is the name of the store). I ended up getting a new container to hold my beads and a plastic carrying case thingy for 3 bucks (it holds ALL my bead stuff, tools (pliers of assortment), containers, everything), and more beads. I think I spent about $15 there. So it was an expensive day for me... All I made on Tuesday was an Indian American beaded basket, which I've known how to do for years, but I got to use some of my NEW beads!

Wednesday: School....Slow, fast, whatever. I found out I definitely didn't miss anything, but I DID find out some cool news. I got a 96 on my physics test, which I only missed 4 points because I CROSSED out a right answer and put a wrong one, go figure, but I DID get a right answer from SIMPLY guessing, and in physics that's nearly impossible to do! There were 16 multiple choice questions and such, and one question our teacher wrote, and the one our teacher wrote (with NO choices) I got right. I guessed 3.0m/s, and in physics, hardly anything comes out even like that, and the correct answer was 3.17m/s! He let me have the 6 points for being only .17m/s off! It was funny. I also may have a chance to go to Washington DC for free. It would be for the Student Ocean Summit Meeting in January from the 14th-16th, the 13th and 17th are travel days. All expense paid trip to go talk about the oceans of the US, protection, and the government's involvement, which is something I'm looking more and more into about a possible career. So that's cool! I still won't know for a while. Only 5 students can go, and 1 teacher (schools can go if they fulfill requirements of having participated in 1/5 categories, we're 2/5) 11 students have signed up, but we think it'll get down to the 5 Monterey Bay Aquarium volunteers. I have a good chance of goin' though. Mrs. Kiefer made me look over a 4"+ stack of information they sent to the school....It was a lot of pamphlets and such. I even took two home I really was interested in...I also signed up for National Ocean Science Bowl, or ...Science Ocean... Not sure which it is. It's basically teams compete against each other from all over the area locally, and if they win they go national, or state, and if they win at that level they get a trip to Hawaii! But it's all Oceanography based and it's in the use of buzzers and such. So that was all my excitement for Wednesday

Thursday: We had our powderpuff game today. SENIORS WON! SENIORS!! C/O 2004! Any ways, Seniors won. We have our homecoming game tomorrow night against our rival school, Seaside. It's a home game. I don't hope to win, but I at least hope Seaside isn't in the playoffs! Love you all at Seaside! Not much else happened. I blanked out on a pop-quiz today in math, but it's okay. I got two out of 3 questions, so that's about a 7/10? But our teacher drops our lowest math quiz and I have over a perfect in quiz scores. I present tomorrow in English on Hamlet: Act III. That'll be interesting...Not much else happened. *shrugs* Rally tomorrow also. I can't remember who's Queen, but King is Abdul (forgot his last name). I have the aquarium this weekend, and my Saturday is mostly shot, but it's all good! Oh, I have to memorize over 15 lines from Hamlet too...and write an essay on the lines I memorized. I have to say the lines to my teacher (not in front of the entire class) by the 26th (day before Thanksgiving), but I won't be here that day, so 25th for me!

All for now, since this is SO long!

I've been so busy lately that I haven't had the time to update! Thursday....ASL Class went well on Thursday. I was having to study for my physics test that's why I couldn't update on Thursday. I spent a lot of time studying, so I hope I did all right. *shrugs* We'll see. Friday, I slept till about 8pm and such, and I was tired and such. I'm still sick and all, but I'm getting better, slowly. Our football team lost yesterday 10-0 to the team that is #1 in league now. And some other stuff...yaddy-yaddy-yaddy. I dunno, this world has been a blur lately since I've been sick and so busy and such. Minimum day on Monday and no school on Tuesday. I may not even go to school on Monday. So...*shrugs* Any ways, all for now!

Man, where was I yesterday? Oh wait, that's right, I was out cold...I'm sick! I've got this nasty cold...it sucks! Yesterday I left school right after 4th period, got some lunch on the way home, and went to bed. I slept from 4-6pm, got up did ALL my homework, which was a good amount, and went back to bed. I didn't even go to ASL that's how sick I felt and such. I did go to school out of necessity, which was a good thing I went too. Yesterday it was a head cold, today it's just a normal cold. Oh well. Went to Fish and Game today, again. I got almost 5 hours done this week! WooHoo! Just 70 hours left...LoL. As for being sick...I've been keeping up on homework fairly well. I think it helps when there's no one on-line really to chat with. Less distractions and such. Tomorrow I have to go to ASL and I have a physics test on Friday, so...*shrugs* Do some cramming in their. This day has felt long...where have I been today? I feel like I'm missing part of my day...Like seriously, I can't remember part of the day from when I came home from fish and game to before dinner, that's just bizarre, or maybe I'm jumbling things together, who knows...Lol. Any ways, I must go. Bed time!

I got an 87 on my math test and we're having a retest on Wednesday since our class average was about a 54% and 1st period was a 47% and about 20 people missed the test total from both classes. It was QUITE sad. I don't have to retest, but I want to. Just see if I can get over a 90 on the test. *shrugs* If not, so be my 87.

I'm getting sick. *sighs* Let's hope it stops at this point. Bad sore throat, head's foggy, no energy, nose running, but no coughing or sneezing or anything. It's gettin' COLD here too...suppose to be frost tonight. With the frost and rain on Friday and some rain today, it feels like fall, but that means SICK SEASON! A lot of people are getting randomly sick. *shrugs* Oh well. Next week will be a NICE week. Minimum day on Monday so I get out at noon, and no school on Tuesday.

Well, I must go. Wanna get to bed early and such. Hasta

Oh, Oh, Oh...we won our football game yesterday. Isn't that weird?! We're 2-1 in league, and we've WON 3 games this year! I think our total is up to 3 at least. We won 3 games this year when in the last 3 years we only one 1 game. My dad pointed that out to me today. I can't believe we won again...It's a definite shocker!

Aquarium today was okay. Wasn't boring, wasn't busy, just slow. *Shrugs* Not much else. I gotta study for my civics quiz, which should be test, that is tomorrow. I know MOST of the amendments, but there's a few I'm not sure of. I also have this stupid English grammar thing to do too. I don't get how we're gonna get done with all the grammar teams if there's 10 of them and we have only 9 weeks in this quarter, really only 8 weeks. Last week is finals. *shrugs* Who knows...Least I know when to underline and when to put quotes around something.

Any ways, all for now!

Man...SATs...my poor brain felt PICKED afterwards...I also started to zone the last two 15 minute parts. I was had 3 English sections in a row, so by the 3rd one (the first 15 minute part) I started to zone while reading the passage. Oh well. *shrugs* The last half hour for some reason felt like the hardest...And it didn't help since my brain died on me and I the math section last and it was shameful...LoL. Oh well. I just hope I did well, that's all I care about! It was funny being with a bunch of my friends before the SAT started and even during (a lot of us were in the same room). It was interesting hearing what everyone did on Halloween, or didn't do and such and how a lot of people were gonna go out tonight and such. Tonights Fright Night at the high school (lock-in with dancing, games, and scary movies all night). I slept 4 hours when I got back from SATs and I'm falling asleep now...It was COLD at Seaside HS today. About froze to death waiting in line for a half hour and such in the shade. But it's all good, I'm just glad I have SATs behind me now! I have the aquarium tomorrow. All for now!