16

1. As of yesterday I am sixteen.

2. It really stinks when only two of your friends remember your birthday.

3. It really, really stinks when you know as almost-fact that one of those friends only knew because of facebook birthday updates. 

4.  I'm hopelessly obsessed with The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. 

5. Like, crazy-sick-obsessed. 

6. Like, more-than-the-Hunger-Games obsessed. 

7.  I'm so excited for the final concluding book in september that I can hardly stand it.

8. The book is titled Twelfth Grade Kills.

9. That title really suggests something scary in store for Vlad. 

10. I don't want Vlad to die!!!

11.  I dunno if I'm Team Meredith or Team Snow.

12.  I keep on thinking Team Meredith.

13.  Speaking of Meredith, I bought shimmery mascara.

14. I'm scared to wear it.  Maybe to homecoming though.

15.  I kinda doubting I'll get invited to homecoming, which scares me.

16.  So now I'm scared that I'm getting older, that Vlad will die, and that I'll be pummelled to a pulp in highschool next year.

Gotta love being sixteen.  Such a lovely, pessemistic year. 

list of fictional crushes

...cuz my brother asked me to.

1. Ronald Weasley. 

'Nuff said.

2. Draco Malfoy

But only after book 6; before that he was a total jerk.

3. Peter Godfrey

Well, this was before the advent of ANOTHER character...

4. Edward Elric

Yup, totally pwns the more famous Edward Cullen

5. Fang

Okay, if you're a teenage girl and you've read maximum ride, you are LYING to yourself if you haven't had a fictional crush on Fang.

Yup.  I'm a FANGirl.

6. HL

Okay, so this was who pwned Peter. 

Poor Peter.

Shocked yet, Neddy?

To be continued. 

vampires non-sparkly style

I've been reading, okay, have read many times, the Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites.  I believe my fourteen-year-old brother views it as far too gross and far too girly, all at the same time.  Aparently, I am dead to gross descriptions of the blood-drinking of teenage vampires.  But whatever.  For all we know, I am one. 

So there.

Additionally, isn't the cover awesome?  How the title's on the back?  And the black/white art of Vlad?

My only real complaint is that the plotline/writing style aren't the best.  But that doesn't mean I don't love it... 

less annoying than bella

I wish Bree wouldn't have died.  She was my favorite character even back when I read Eclipse, way before The Short Second Life came out.  Okay, I liked Alice and Jasper too, but still.  

Reading the introduction, I think Meyer wished Bree's story would have ended differently, too.

And Diego...oh, Diego. 

dazed

I just read books one and two of the Hunger Games triology, and I must say that they are really something.  For one, Collins has an excellent writing style and original ideas. 

At first, I wasn't huge on the first books, but I just kept thinking, and thinking, and thinking about it... and then my mum got me the second one, so of course I had to read it, and what did I learn but *SPOILERS*  there IS a fullfledged rebellion taking place by the end of the second book, and since that's what I wanted to hear from the first book, I nearly punched the air and screamed.  (I didn't.)

Also---Gale or Peeta?  I dunno.  Gale is probably the cockier of the two, but they're rather similar, and somehow all the characters seem sort of flat to me; I'm not sure why.  Except for Katniss, of course; she is the strongest female protaganist that anyone has seen for a long, long time.  Actually Haymitch has probably more personality than Gale or Peeta, IMO, but maybe I'm just not digging deep enough.

Also, the rebellion?  They oh-so-totally need that rebellion, but I have no idea how Collins is going to conclude everything in just one more book!  How is she going to show the aftermath of the rebellion?  An epilogue?

And one more thing.

DISTRICT 13.
 

I'm alive... oh... I'm alive, really really!

HEY.  So I totally haven't updated this, but I have an excuse I've been too sick to even go running for like TWO WEEKS now.  Torture.

So let's do the facebook thing (what's on your mind?)

And it's too long to post on facebook.

So,

1.  I got into all the classes I wanted to get into next year at my new school

2.  Which means I have AP pre-work during the summer

3.  Which thankfully isn't that hard, if confusing

4.  Whoa.  Was the above confusing?

5.  Speaking of confusing, I've entered twilight territory TWICE in the past week

6.  Edward's volvo in the New Moon movie should be silver, not black.

7.  That shouldn't bug me, but it does.

8.  Someday I will finish my book and when the movie is made, I'll insist they don't make major mistakes

9.  But before making movies I at least need to do theater

10.  THE MUSICAL THEATER TEACHER AT MY NEW SCHOOL USED TO BE ON THE CAST OF THE CHICAGO PRODUCTION OF "WICKED!"

11.  Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks!

12.  I did not scream the above out loud during my meeting with a member of the school staff

13.  Or at least not loudly

14.  I just got a copy of  The Hunger Games

15.  Gale or Peeta??

16.  DON'T ANSWER THAT!

17.  Is is wrong that I really, really am more excited to read the Chronicles of Vladimir Tod than The Hunger Games?

18.  Is is wrong that I'm even going to read the Chroncles of Vladimir Tod since I'm NOT a thirteen-year-old boy?

19.  Too bad I don't have any friends except the imaginary ones like Ron, Harry, and Vlad to invite to my 16th birthday party

20.  Is there such thing as sweet 17?  So can I do it up then?

21.  And most importantly, can I please oh please get better so I can go running again?

20Q

DO YOU HAVE A MACBOOK?
No, I have a PC.

DID YOU KNOW THAT LIPSTICK IS DYED WITH A TYPE OF BUG?
Yes; that's why I don't wear it. 

DO YOU WEAR MAKEUP?
Very little.  Lipgloss, cuz that's not made of bugs. 

DID YOU SEE ECLIPSE YET?
No, not yet.

IS THAT FIRE REAL?
No, it's fake; but don't touch it because while it won't burn you it's still probably hot.

WHY DO YOU NEVER EVER EAT SNACK?
It might have gotten in contact with chocolate. 

WHY CAN'T YOU EAT CHOCOLATE?
I'm allergic.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU EAT IT?
I get really sick.  Like the flu, but more painful.

CAN I TELL ALL THE OTHER KIDS THAT YOU'RE ALLERGIC?
Hey, you didn't ever ask me that one!

DID YOU KNOW YOUR EARRING IS KINDA SIDEWAYS?
No?  I guess I should fix it.

DID YOU LIKE THE PENGUIN BRACELET I GAVE YOU YESTERDAY?
Yes, it was very purple!

WILL YOU OPEN MY WATER BOTTLE?
Sure.

WILL YOU OPEN MY WATER BOTTLE?
As soon as I finish this other one.

WILL YOU OPEN MY WATER BOTTLE?
As soon as I finish these other two.

CAN I HOLD THE SIGN?
Sure, that way I don't have to!

CAN WE SIGN YOUR SHIRT NOW?
Sure, let me kneel down to you all's level...

DO I HAVE TO WEAR MY NAMETAG?
Yes.

ARE YOU ACTUALLY GOING TO MAKE ME WEAR IT?
No.

DO I HAVE TO GET WET IN GAMES?
If I can help it, no.

CAN WE ALL TICKLE YOU?
No!  But I know you all will do it anyway...

...

As you've probably already figured out, I was a VBS leader for the past week.  Of course, I didn't have a lot of trouble until the last quarter-hour of the last day, when I had a kid picked up early during closing ceremony and I couldn't find his take-homes.  Of course, I couldn't make it up to the stage with the rest of my group, so once I found aforesaid hand-outs I stood by the side and watched my group.  One was talking to the other leaders during performance, which I wasn't overly worried about.  Next thing I know she's gone and some little girl is being carried outside.  Then I go into complete panic mode and I realize that one of the camper's I'M in charge of. 

Time for evasive action.

I run across the church, way too fast, hoping nobody will care.  I don't have the greatest tract record, you know.  I practically lunge out the door, and onto the grass, where a conglomeration of leaders and parents are clustered.

"IS SHE OKAY?!?!"  I'm so nervous I'm nearly crying and totally freaking out.   

Everyone looks pretty conserned, but she's coming to.  Her mom says she did this back in April.  Talk about nurse's offices and doctors and since you're the leader, what did she eat, so I can tell the doctor?

"Um, chocolate grahm crackers.  And licorice.  And froot loops (wow this is starting to sound bad).  And fishy crackers.  And sugar gummies.  Did I let her have too much sugar?  OH and she had pretzels and marshmallows and crackers in Bible Adventure..."  Kill me now, I obviously let the kid have way too much sugar...

"She also had a smoothie for breakfast..." her mom says.

I get sent back to watch the other kids, but I'm in complete panic mode.

What a crumby way to end VBS, huh?  Went out with a bang...

the story of my life.  I think I'll just blame my imaginary nemisis Steve.