Linz's meaningless ramblings

Updates on yea... Meee...

So, this is a journal like thing I'm actually going to try to keep up with, since I can never seem to manage any other kind of journal thing. Knowing me, I'll write an initial entry, then write a few random things after that once a month or so, but hey, it can be a new output for my rambles. Have fun reading the Rambles of Linz (sorry to sort of steal your title, Jessica!! =P)

Tuesday, JANUARY 20th

Almost a month since the last update... Grrr.. I think I'm done for. I went a LOT longer than I expected I would though! Maybe over some other break like spring break I'll be able to pick it up again for lack of better to do. I don't know... Until then, if I have some day that I just feel like rambling about, here's the place it'll be... Also, I'll get some more penguin book quotes up every so often if I ever don't have loads of homework (hah.. hah... hah.. I go to Kerr... hence the humor in that comment...) So yea... Until then, I just hope that no one was reading this as I initially assumed, and therefore it won't make a great sadness or unfillable hole in someone to not have this updated much any more. I still love you though. ^ ^

For good time's sake:
My penguin told me: 83. Salt water: it's not just for gargling anymore! 84. Unlike horses and dogs, man has never domesticated the penguin. 85. After all, what would you do with us? 86. I'm not color-blind... It's just that everything in the Antarctic is black and white! 87. Including us! 88. Man, is my beak cold!

Friday, December 26th

Oops... Haven't updated in a fair while... =\ Okay, so now it's not even Friday any more, but Sunday... Ugh...
If you know me at all, then it'll make sense to you as to why I'm not even going to bother trying to update for each day... All I can say is I think I failed all of my finals except orchestra... Weee.. How fun... --_--' Then yea, break... Yay... How fun, so, bla bla bla onto Christmas. I get all crap presents basically. I don't mind the money I got though, that was nice, and then the only other good present was this Eeyore that Miguel gave me =))) He put a eurotuner shirt on it for me also. =P Oh yea, and Koran wouldn't give me the solo I wanted, also, some girl borrowed my instrument over the break, so I'm doing jack shit when it comes to practicing 'cause I don't like my sis's instrument and she has the normal kind of shoulder rest. I use a sponge and I can't tolerate the normal rests 'cause what can I say, I'm boney, and it hurts me on my collar bone. =\ Oh well... Stupid bitch. (Koran, that is) Yea... So... Break's going alright so far I suppose... I haven't gotten to see Miguel as much as I'd like though =\. I'm just gonna post like 20 or something things from the penguin book, 'cause I don't feel like figuring out how many I should post...

Mood since last update: Not horrible

My penguin told me lots of things!:
56. I'm so sick of being told how cute I am.
57. No I'm not. Say it again.
58. I'm going to be in a charity event. It's the waddle-thon all proceeds will go to the institute for frostbite research.
59."Waddlin' to New Orleans" is my favorite old penguin blues song.
60. If you watched nothing but documentaries about penguins, you wouldn't need a color TV.
61. Yeah, I'm in the refrigerator. So?
62. Penguins don't build snowmen. No carrots for the nose.
63. While most penguins are black and white, some are blue and white. There aren't any penguins that are black a blue, however. We're pacifists.

And with that one, I realized just how many typos there are in this book. A LOT. I'm only to 63/500 and there are at least three. --_--;;; (I'm editting them out, so you don't know, but still) Back to the quotes though.

64. Napolean's uniform was inspired by a penguin, you know.
65. Apparently, so was his walk.
66. I can fly. I just don't feel like it right now.
67. King penguins think they rule.
68. Don't call me a flightless water fowl, you featherless biped!
69. In the Chinese calender, the year 2010 is the year of the penguin.
70. Okay, it isn't. But it should be.
71. Is it night or day? I always get my months mixed up.
72. Pittsburgh's hockey team is called the penguins. Now, there's a city with class!
73. I do not look like a hot fudge sundae.
74. What - isn't getting chills down your spine a good thing?
75. After he became deaf, Beethoven could only write symphonies if his beloved pet penguin, Otto, was in the room.
76. No, really!
77. Okay, I lied.
78. For the last time, this is not a wet suit!
79. Of course penguins can't drive - we can barely reach the ground with these legs!
80. Fish for dinner? What a surprise!
81. The penguin's favorite Jackson Browne song: "Waddling on Empty."
82. Fire? What's that?

That's all folks! Oh yea! One other Christmas present I got... Explaining the background first... My sis and her friends had a lan party at my house over the summer, and they borrowed my mouse pad. And they never returned it. So yea, I've been mousepadless for a few months, and I got this mousepad that says "THE PENGUIN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORDFISH" With a pic of a penguin and a dead swordfish ^ ^ Hehe... My sis didn't get it... The pen is mightier than the sword, you know, for the slow ones. ; ) =P Also, Tony decided to look deeper to question as to if it may have any link to the movie Swordfish meaning hackers and penguins meaning the Linux penguin saying that Linux is better than hackers... I don't know, Tony. It makes sense, but I doubt they went that deep.

Thursday, December 18th

*shrug* Finals. Orchestra we played for two hours basically. We were off in one of the choir practice rooms and Jason came by 'cause he just wanted to get outta English since he was done with his final. Then Miguel came by the room as I was going into the band room to tell Koran what I'd decided on for my solo. I'm playing... what is it... Sonatina in E flat Major by Mozart I believe. Let's hope I don't do too horribly on it! So then I tell Miguel to come listen to our ensemble, so we're all int he choir practice room, and Koran comes by after seeing Cherial in the hall (we hadn't started in like 3min 'cause we were waiting for her, but some other group asked her to help them, so she did and Koran saw her in the hall and apparently didn't like that, so she made her go back in the room then she saw Miguel and made him leave (=( I wanted him to hear our sucky-ass ensemble) then she came in a bit further and saw Jason and made him leave too. Jason WAS a distraction (he only stood there and talked) but Miguel was just in a corner waiting, didn't say a word, yet she still made him leave. I don't understand that, both of them are people with the ability to make logical suggestions, and she makes 'em leave. Jason's in symphony orch. on violin, so he coulda helped Maigen or Yoko and would have had a basic idea as to how to help me or Cherial, since he probs knows all the instruments. Then Miguel wanted to play cello, and was learning how so he has a basic idea there and then can transfer it to the viola in some ways for me and even to the violin for Yoko or Maigen, and also, since he has music theory, he knows all the clefs, so that's not a problem, it can only help him to help us with our music. And Koran kicks him out. It's not like we were getting any where without people, it would've been better to have them. Oy. Oh well.
Bio final. How horrible. I had absolutely no clue about this entire test. None. I had a strange looking answer sheet too, because without bsing my answers, merely doing what I do believe as right, I had D-A-D-A-D-C-B-C-B-C... I some how doubt that pretty little pattern was right. Also, I had one area of C-D-C-C-C-C-A-C... Hmm, doubt that's right either. It's only, you know, almost eight Cs in a row... --_--' But I'm pretty sure most of those were right... It was the body systems (mainly endocrine) and I actually knew that 'cause I'd looked through those chapters this morning. Oh well. Let's hope I at least passed the class. I would kill myself if I had to take it over =\. *crosses fingers* Then yea, we got off at 11:55. We went to CiCi's while Miguel went to Walmart 'cause he didn't wanna go to CiCi's. I didn't wanna go either, but I went any way. Didn't eat anything since I don't like either CiCi's, pizza, or buffets (strooong dislike for that place, in other words) but yea. Dia and I went to that with Ronjan, then went bowling and met up with Miguel there. Man, I finally didn't bowl absolute crap! I've been getting mid to high 60s to mid to low 80s recently. I couldn't have broken 100 more than once maayybe twice since that 132, so yea, daym I've been bowling bad. Finally I got a 94, 95, or 96 I believe. One of those, and a 105. Not bad, compared to late... Then we went over to Josh's place with Gabe, Abe, Melissa, and Jose. Miguel took me home after that around 5:30ish, and I came home, had dinner with my mom at like 7, then starting at 8 decided to watch a movie, and I was dead to the world by 8.45. LoL --_--'. Oh well, I literally know that movie by heart (I can quote about 75% of the script with accuracy about 80%. That's pitiful. I'm such a loser.) Oh well. Then yea, I woke up at like 11:30, and I'm about to go to bed now after the end of this entry at what is it... About 12.40-45ish.

Mood of the day: Wasn't horrible, except for failing my final --_--'

My penguin told me: 54. If you had to walk around on ice all the time, you'd be glad you were short, too. Not as far to fall. 55. Hey - the weatherperson said it's going to snow today! What a surprise!

Wednesday, December 17th

Meh, iono.... Just a school day with reviews and crap. Bio pak due. --_--' Oh well... =\ Rest of the day was regular, except in Spanish we kept playing dirty mash out of boredom... LoL --_--;. Then after school... Uhh... I don't remember =\ How sad. Oh yea! Went bowling and then over to Miguel's house and he put his new lights in. After that we went to Cheddars with my sis, Clint, Tony, Josh, Jose, Mike, and Gabe as a late celebration for her birthday. That was surprisingly fun, though I couldn't eat more than a cup of potato soup (even though I was starving as I had barely eaten all day) 'cause my teeth hurt like all hell from these two new wires. =\

Mood of the day: Well, I don't recall it being bad... ^ ^

My penguin told me: 52. It's nine o'clock, and time for the penguin on your screen to explode. 53. Ha ha! Made you look!

Tuesday, December 16th

Man, I forgot to turn in my geometry pak after school, so I had to convince Flores to take it --_--; Oh well, she took it saying "I'll take it because you need the grade, but I'm not sure I'll grade it" woot dee fook? Oh well, works for me if she took it ^ ^
Eh, nothing much todo this day, as I recall. Just hung with Miguel, I believe.

Mood of the day: Wasn't bad

My penguin told me: 50. Even though penguins aren't related to turkeys, we still get a little apprehensive around Thanksgiving. After all, who knows what wacky idea you people will come up with next? 51. What's black and white and red all over? A penguin with a sun burn.

Monday, December 15th

Well I got a lil' behind! It's now Friday! (Actually, it's Thursday, but I feel asleep on the couch early this evening at like 8 and just woke up now at 11:30ish. I'mma finish all of these up to Thursday and by the time I'm done it'll be Friday, but still...) --_--' Oh well. Monday was simple. Of course I don't remember it, but yea. Three months, hun. = ) Even if we had a slight disagreement / problem / arguement or whatever you choose to call it, we're still good, right? I love you so much, and I hope that we can work through everything that comes our way. I had school and bowling practice. iono much of the rest, other than half of my paks being due... --_--'

Mood of the day: Eh, wasn't bad, though it ended horribly.

My penguin told me: Okay, once and for all this is NOT a tuxedo! 49. I don't care what anyone says - Chinstap Penguins look like tiny cops!

To explain 49, here are some pictures... They're so cute!!!!

Sunday, December 14th

Soo... Today, I wake up after like 5 hours of sleep, barely, and my dad's kissing my face saying "We found Saddam!" Scratchy beard --_--'. Then my mom's like "You should get up to get ready for meeting" It's like wth! It's 30min before we need to go! I still have a good 'nother 20 minutes of sleep, if not more! But any way, I can't go back to sleep and therefore just get up at like 5 'til 9 and go get ready, then I'm ready to leave in like 5 minutes, and I have to wait around for my mom. *sigh* So then, I have meeting and bla dee bla, the clarification for OM came in, and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, Javan, Noah, you two suck ass, I was right. --_--'. Oh well, so any way, after meeting and OM, my mom and I head over to the "Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints" as I believe it is called. In other words, the Mormon church, and watch my sis get confirmed as well as watching the rest of the stuff. It was so strange! It's the first time I ever remember going to a church with a designated speaker, as odd as that may seem. I think it is though... Well, as I said, it's the only time I remember, not that it hasn't happened before. Quakerism is very, very different. *shrug* I like it though = ). So yea, my sis is now a Mormon and a part of that church officially. Baptized yesterday, confirmed today. If she's happy, then I'm happy for her. I got Miguel and Luis to talk... = ) I'm hoping like all hell that that's a good thing, because with all of my heart I would love it for those two to be friends... They're two of the most important people in my life right now, and it'd be great for me if they could be friends. All I can do is hope though.

Mood of the day: Eh, wasn't too bad...

My penguin told me: 44. Don't tell anyone... but I've got a crazy cousin who thinks he's a platypus. 45. Look out! Our iceberg's about to get hit by the Titanic! (Another day deserving three... err, actually four, so I'mma put four on here for today! LoL) 46. Just a little penguin humor, there. 47. Yeah, well, you try swimming around in sub-freezing water all day, then see how peppy you are!

Saturday, December 13th

I was like seriously outta it today, or something. I had my mind else where when I left the house to go to Jose's concert for region. I didn't call my mom and she calls me when I'm in Ronjan's car on the way to Hightower and I'm like "Oh shit" I answer and tell her sorry for not calling her to tell her I'm leaving. Bla bla, concert, Charles is in it! =O Maryam, Jose, and Charles were the three people I knew, then in the other one we watched there was Sarah from my school, Jerry, and Jonathan. I don't know Sarah though she rides my bus, and Jerry and Jonathan I know, but only Jerry's my friend. Jonathan I've talked to a few times, but that's all. So after that we stood around and talked to Mr. Sutherland for a while and decided to go eat at Panchos. After that we went to Miguel's house to watch a movie and at midnight I get a call. Again I say "Oh shit" and answer the phone. I'm supposed to be at home at midnight every night, and here it was, midnight, I was at Miguel's house watching a movie with Ronjan, Jose, and, naturally, Miguel. My mom was calling to figure out why I wasn't home. And as I said in the beginning "I was like seriously outta it today, or something." The movie ended at 12:20 and I got home like 12:35ish. I went upstairs to let my mom know I was home, and I'm talking to her apologizing and explaining why I forgot to call both times, and my dad wakes up even though I'm talking in a really quiet whisper, and he wakes up and yells at us to hold it down and some crap. So I talk where all you can hear is the hisses of s's and such, I mean my voice was almost completely inaudible, even to me, and my dad yells again "Why don't y'all just go in the other room?" WTH you friggin' bastard! I couldn't hear myself, I'm sure my mom couldn't hear, me, and he still yells at me. More stripes, to put it in lameman's terms. Oh well. Any way, I stay up working on this waiting for Tony to get here, he does, and I get to talk to him for a while, then I stay up finishing this and at 2:30ish, I'm going to be heading to bed. It's funny. Tony knew about me and Miguel from my sister, but he says he still thinks it's strange. I asked why, and he said something like "I leave here, you're not dating, I come back, you are dating, I come back again, and you're dating older guys. Next time I come back, you'll be married!" Only thing is when he left initially, I was going out with people, when he came back for Christmas last year, I had been single for at least 6 months, and I was single for at least another 2 or 3 after that. And yes, he was correct this time, I am now going out with someone older, but who cares. I care about the person this time more than I ever did with anyone in my past, combined even, so I don't care if he's older. It doesn't make that much difference. I love him either way, and I'll admit that I do. It's good to see Tony again, either way though.

Mood of the day: Eh, except for my dad it was fine, 'cause my mom was surprisingly accepting of me and my "outta itness" today. But I still feel bad about it, because it's likely that she'll not let me do something tomorrow or perhaps even Monday for this... Oh well. It was alright either way... Meh.

My penguin told me: 41. Yes, I cry ice cubes. (today deserves three quotes, because the next two are linked together, and it's just more interesting if you see them as such.) 42. On a clear day in the Antarctic, you can see forever. 43. Of course, it's all white.

And with that, good night.

Friday, December 12th

Today was just a normal day, though Koran wasn't there so I just talked to Maigen and Cherial all period about stuff while trying to find a recording of the song we're supposed to play for S&E (Solo and Ensemble, for those orchestra(or band)-term illiterate people. =P) We didn't find one... Then bio, I turned in the pak, took the test, and got the new pak, that was about all. Geometry, bleh. Spanish was same as normal I guess. We had a short seminar (how rare for it to be short!) And talked to Jose some... Then I made Brit a card and got everyone I could to sign it as well as a few people after school and some at the bowling alley that I didn't see at school. I bowled crap. On my two free games, I think I got a 67 and 81. Ugh! Then on my league games, I got a 92, 95, and 68 I believe. Oy. It was horrible. After that, we had a short team captains meeting then I went over to Miguel's house and my mom picked me up from there. I got home around 11:30-12ish and I showed her Brit's card. Then (eve011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 (I think Kayla learned binary!!!!) As I was saying... Even though this was technically today, as it happened past midnight, I still consider it as yesterday, so I'm going to write about it as such.) Brit came home about midnight and we spent like an hour sorting some ties she got to give as Christmas presents. Then she insisted on opening her birthday presents, so we went downstairs and watched her do that. Afterwards, we went back to dealing with the ties and finally at 2 I went to bed. --_--' That was really all for the day.

Mood of the day: Pretty good = )

My penguin told me: 39. Hey - who's steering this ice floe? 40. Fraternity penguins like to see how many penguins they can fit into an upright freezer.

Thursday, December 11th

Fairly regular day... I got up, got the bus, then when I got to school I waited a lil' while for Miguel to come pick me up and I went to Shipley's with them... It looks like that's going to be the new tradition, this was day two, and they're planning to do it again tomorrow. After that I had school. What's more to say? >_< I kept trying to do work in bio, but __SOMEONE__ kept bothering me!!!!!!!!! =P Then there was geometry and I did a project in it and talked to people about stuff like Albright and the party... JOSEPH!!! I want my 100 dollars!!!!! LoL =P ; ) That was fun. Spanish was Spanish... I sat there and freaked Farheen (I don't know for sure how to spell her name =\ Sorry!!!) out by staring at random things like her forehead, the glass behind her, or the desk. That was fun, and no, I don't have problems... Fairly regular, as I said. Any ways though, I have a concert at 7:30 that I have to be at by 7, it's 5:45 now and I'm already ready to go =P. I'm nervous, but not only because I have a concert, also about something else that's not exactly related to it... I'm nervous about how bad my class is gonna sound though 'cause it seems like half the people don't know their music =\ But I'm also scared about something else. Some people know what I'm talking about, most don't. If it goes well I'll talk about it on here, if it doesn't I'll probably be too depressed to talk about it. Oh yea, and I also got to talk to a friend from the D.C. seminar. That was cool, because it was the most I'd talked to him in a while (actually... Ever... 'cause he was really shy and didn't talk much at the seminar. But he was still cool.)
It went better than I expected, though it could have gone better. Yea, if you read this Miguel, I wanna talk to you about something, so ask me what or I'll forget to say it... That's all for today I guess... The concert went okay, then I went to Taco Bell and ironically as I was inside, my family went through the same place's drive through and got food. LoL. Any way, that's all. DAMMIT! I didn't save the convo. Grr.

Mood of the day: Well, so far it's fine, but I'll tell you after the concert. That's when it will really be decided... =\...

My penguin told me: 37. The scarcity of nesting places forces penguins into a communal life. 38 This was actually pretty popular in the 60s.

Wednesday, December 10th

Today was just bleh. Everything was horrible from the start and merely got worse through out the morning, though finally by the end of the day nothing negative had happened for a few hours. Then after school we had dress rehearsal for orchestra and then had to rush out and go to the bowling games. OH YEA!!! Kerr kicked Taylor soooo bad. At least the girl's JV did. GO KERR!! WHOO!!!! =P We did great. I think, if I heard correctly, we won every singles game, and I know for fact that we won every Baker's game, so yay! We either got 12 or 13 of 13 total points I'm pretty sure. w00t w00t!! =D =P. After bowling, Ronjan, Miguel, Tommy, Josh, Jonathan and I dropped by the school to find out that the orch/band party was already over. Then we went to McDonalds and how hilarious it was. Ronjan and Josh. Two of the most perverted people, but good for a great laugh also. *shrug* Fun, fun. =P Oh well. Right now this guy, Mike or Michael I believe, is my mom's good friend's son is at my house, and he's staying the night here. Interesting person, or so it seems.

Mood of the day: Blehness. That's all I have to say.

My penguin told me: 35. Could you please turn up the air-conditioner? 36. I just flew in from the Antarctic, and boy are my flippers tired! Thank you! Tip your waitress!

Tuesday, December 9th

So, yesterday what did I do? School. Don't feel like explaining details, and then I left early to go to the dentist and have cavities filled. Yuch. I couldn't eat dinner because moving my jaw certain ways hurt my mouth like hell in the places they gave me the shots. It didn't hurt any where except where I got the anesthetic shots. Or whatever they're called. =\ But yea, then I had a bad "family dinner" like I now have every Tuesday. OH YEA! That's what I did last Tuesday. Miguel and Jose and everyone was at region, so I got a ride home from Ronjan and then helped my mom with dinner for our "family dinner." --_--'. Second week of it and we got into an arguement. Lovely, no? Oh well. Bleh happened. Sleep eventually came. That's about all.

Mood of the day: Not all that wonderful. Oh well.

My penguin told me: 33. Excuse me - are you my mom? Are you my mom? How about you? Darn it - we all look alike, even to each other! 34. Hey lady, are you my - oh. Sorry, Dad.

Monday, December 8th

Eh, I've already forgotten what happened yesterday, but basically I went to school, took a bio test, uhhh, and yea, worked in Spanish for once, as well as bio and geometry. I scared Jeska. She's not accustomed to me actually doing work =P. Then, after school I had bowling as normal, coach wasn't there, but Josh and Samantha's mom took place of him. I realized that my dress rehearsal for the orchestra concert is the same day as my bowling game. Bleh. Then I went to Miguel's house for a little while, and came home and went to eat, reluctantly, with my rents. Ugh. Didn't work out well. But whatever. I got a lotta homework done, and then watched the Lion King (which is like one of my fave movies =D=D) on my comp. =P That's about all...

Mood of the day: Pretty okay

My penguin told me: 31. Penguins have over a hundred words for snow, but you can't use any of them in polite company. 32. Hamlet was originally written with a penguin playing Horatio, but Shakespeare chickened out and it at the last minute.

Sunday, December 7th

Okay, so I guess I was right. Write, write, write, never write again. Almost a week has passed, but I'm going to insist that I don't miss an entire week except for maybe reasons of being out of town. I'm going to try to put updates on for each day (and at least say what my penguin told me,) but it may be difficult as my memory is horrible. And for today, I went to the San Jacinto High Rollers' Toy Run with my mom for a few minutes and gave a donation. If I feel like it later, I'll explain that. Then I went to meeting and yea, that was meeting. That's about it. Then drove back by the Toy Run to see the last few bikes leaving the parking lot and went home. Looked up some stuff for Miguel, then went to Guitar Center with Luis and saw him buy an electric guitar for his birthday/Christmas present. I don't know if I've ever seen that boy so excited. It was scary. But any way, I go over to his house after that and though it's okay for a good while, like the typical legend has gone recently, I got depressed while over there. And yea, that buggered him and made him depressed. Any way, so when I'm leaving my mom brings up the topic of prom dresses with his mom since she works in that line. Then I leave, get here, and here I am now. Typing this. Isn't this interesting.

Mood of the day: Eh. Depressed right now. Otherwise it was okay

My penguin told me: 29. For some reason, macaroni penguins are afraid of cheese. Go figure. 30. The penguin olympics has some interesting events, like the high-flop, the long-flop, the 100-yard waddle, and the penguin-tathalon.

Saturday
Well, in the morning went to Le Peep for breakfast with Pat, Chris, Brit, and my mom. Then went to see Master and Commander at Tinsletown with them, meeting my dad there. Pat and Chris didn't like it, so they left in the middle. Then my family finished watching it and left to go home, bla bla bla happened (nothing important, in other words) and then I went over to Miguel's house and spent the evening there. My mom picked me up, I came home, and went to sleep.

My penguin told me: 27. And that's just the summer Olympics! 28. No matter what hemisphere you're in, thunderstorms are just as cool.

Friday
For once, I can remember!!! I was really depressed (oh, and guess what, I was at school again!) But any way. I was depressed in the morning, then every time I'd begin to feel better, I'd just get more and more depressed, then I'd feel better again, and I get more depressed than before. It was annoying. By the time I got to the bowling alley for Friday league, I was really ready to cry. I just wanted to cry, and for like 30 minutes I was forcing myself not to. I don't even know what was making me feel like that. =\ I felt better after playing my games. I bowled a 103, 117, and a cratapular 78 I believe it was. Last week that I bowled I got a 107, 132, and 76 I think. The 76 was the first game though. But oh well, 132, NEW HIGH!!! I need to beat that now though. I like having my own ball (that 132 was with it =D) 'cause it's just something different. Then if I try to use a 10lb ball from the place, it's soooooooo light and easy to bowl with. LoL, it's good for picking up spares in my opinion. Any way!
So I was rather depressed again after bowling for some reason, it was just another up and down. And finally I got so depressed that I just went into the bathroom at Josh's apartment complex's rec center and wiped my tears then called Luis so I could talk to someone and feel better. Then yea, I did, but after going back out, I got immediately depressed again, and yet again it was more than initially. I just felt crap, but I worked some stuff out and felt okay by the time I went to sleep, though I still felt pretty crap.

My penguin told me: 25. I'm not fat. I'm retaining blubber. 26. It's estimated that there may be as many as 100 million penguins in the world. We should have a convention!

Thursday
School, again. It seems to happen too much. Hmm... Yea, I know something happened this day, but I can't remember what again. Hah. That's so sad. Someone could swear I took like tons of drugs to kill this many brain cells, but no. It's just Jeska hitting me on the head making me lose all of them! =P BLAME HER!!! Oh one thing is I tried out RS2. LoL, I'm such a loser. It's confoosling!

My penguin told me: 23. You don't know diddly about "peer pressure" until you live in a colony of ten thousand. 24. The rumor that some penguins reached as far north as California and formed a ground called "The Beach Boys" is completely unfounded.

Wednesday
School, then the bowling game. Well, my ankle didn't hurt, the medicine helped, and also I changed the way I bowled so it was alright. Man, we all played crap at the game! And our team captain can't come to any games for ages 'cause of her rents for some reason. =\ And yea, other than that, what did you expect, I forgot!

My penguin told me: 21. By the way, the walrus wasn't Paul. 22. Laundry day is easy for penguins. There's not much color sorting to do.

Tuesday
School. That's about all I remember. --_--'

My penguin told me: 19. In 1963, a penguin named Theo attempted to waddle around the world, starting in New York City. He just made it to Cleveland. 20. It's the walrus! Run!

Monday, December 1st

4am. Kayla. Pouncing. On me. On noisy things. All the way until 7am. How fun. Every five minutes. Something new. Awoke me. So fun. I love that cat.
School today. Orchestra, bio, geometry, Spanish. Nothing special, though I realized I have more work done in Spanish than I thought I did! =D LoL, then after school, I went to bowling practice. Oww. My ankle hurt again, but it wasn't as bad! I don't know if I'mma bowl on Wednesday, I'll probably just tell Diane (team captain) that if she wants me to be in a Bakers game and a regular game, to put me in first straight game and then whatever I earn for Baker's I'll do. I can't bowl for a long time. I bowled in three Baker games today, meaning six frames for me, and before that I bowled maybe three or so practice frames, plus about five practice frames during the Baker games. That's about 15ish frames, and it hurt to sit down without my ankle being elevated. So I guess if I bowl about two practice frames on Wednesday and then the first game and rest during the second game, because if I'm off of my ankle for a while, it's okay, and it doesn't hurt much, though it doesn't take much to hurt it again. =\ Then I can bowl in the Baker games, and max, if I do wonderfully (hah) and I'm put in all three Baker games, that'll give my six frames, which will probably be the limit for my ankle for the day. Let's hope Diane understands and listens to me. --_--'

Mood of the day: School. School is a mood, an adjective, a noun, a verb. Everything. Adverb, if you so wish, even.

My penguin told me: 17. That goes for top hats too, buster! 18. Is that an egg or a snowball?

Sunday, November 30th

I went to meeting today then to this place called Lucia's Garden and bought some more Christmas presents. =P How fun. --_--' I hate shopping... =\ Oh well, at least it's over with! =D I also went to the gym after getting home and all... Bin called me during lunch and dinner. He's so kind. --_--' He wanted me to read him another bed time story, but he wanted me to read him Cat in the Hat. Instead, I read him the story of the Teletubbies. =) Okay, so he hung up on me and called me back and I finished the Teletubby story and then read him the Cat in the Hat. TUBBY TUSTARD!!! Tomorrow: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! I'm bored, therefore I'm becoming like Jeska and making fun of Bin.. AHH!

Mood of the day: Good... Though it would've been better if I'd seen Miguel =\

My penguin told me: 15. Penguins have a moral code - but we do have a tendency to see everything in terms of black and white. 16. No bow ties! You've seen too many cartoons!

Saturday, November 29th

I really cannot remember what I did yesterday, though I remember that at night I talked to Bin and read him a bed time story at like 12-1 in the morning until he hung up on me and then I waited an hour and a half for him to call be back and he never did. ='( WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL BACK TUBBY TUSTARD???? (AKA, Bin) (LoL, ignore me...) OH! I'm on the phone with him and he told me what I did yesterday. I went to Gladys's new house. It's really nice = )

Mood of the day: SAD, 'cause BinBin didn't call me back!!!!! *cries to make him feel guilty* Okay, so maybe not, but the day was good = ) Except that lil' part, BINNY.

My penguin told me: 13. We were the inspiration for nuns, you know. Think about it. 14. Hey! You're dripping on me!

Friday, November 28th

Eep! I almost missed a day! Almost.. =P It may be Saturday, but I'm still doing one for Friday, so it's alright. =P
Yesterday, my basic day was: Wake up relatively early, do homework for several hours. I get a fair bit done, and then I was supposed to have my mom drop me off at Miguel's house, but he ended up going to work and was on his way home at the time that a ride was available to me. I needed to be at the bowling alley for league (even though I wasn't gonna bowl on this ankle, I wanted to watch Dia(na), my partner, play) so Miguel told me to meet him there. I got to the bowling alley at like 2:15, 2:25ish, and league doesn't start until 3:30, but Coach gets there at about 3. I sat at a table in the food area for about 40 or so minutes, until I noticed Coach. I said hi to him, he asked about my ankle, I tell him the story, then I turn around and Miguel's standing there. >_< We go to drop off the Rodeo at his house, since it needs to be there for some reason, but his sister doesn't want it right then, so we go back to the alley for a while, but only two people from Kerr (Cassidy and Samantha) are there, then there are about two other teams from other schools. Three teams of ten, and Miguel and I are there, but neither are bowling because I'm injured and he doesn't have the money. So, since Ronjan doesn't seem like he's coming, and Dia isn't there by the time they're supposed to have started, Miguel and I decide to leave and go over to his house. We spend the rest of the night over there, yadda yadda yadda.
I get home at 11 something and talk to my mom about the scrap book she's doing for my grandmother. I get to see a bunch of baby pics of my sister and several of me. =P I was so cuuuute! I'm not sure what happened, but oh well. ^ ^ =P. Then I fall asleep on the couch and my mom leaves me there! =O.

Mood of the day: Pretty good 'cause I got to be with Miguel the whole day, though sitting at the bowling alley for 40 minutes wasn't exactly my idea of fun. =P

My penguin told me:

Thursday, November 27th (THANKSGIVING!)

Well, well, well. I adopted their name, doesn't mean I adopted their culture, nor does it mean I like their culture in the least. That's the Aldridges, I mean. Ugh. Wake up relatively early for a vacation from school to go to my aunt's house in Baytown. Bla dee bla, we get there, make appetizers, my ankle kills me more than normal, the rest of my family arrives, we eat, we watch the crazy but ultimately overly brave Hannah (my cousin's daughter) go swimming in my aunt's back yard pool, we come back in, my aunt diagnoses my ankle as being an inflamed tendon, suggests I take Aleve for it, so my other aunt (the one who the house belongs to) brings me a pill of Aleve, I take it, then as my mom, aunts, and cousin's relatively new wife go do girl talk while my grandmother, sister, dad, uncle, cousin, and I go to watch a movie about Winston Churchill. Interesting. And that was a very long run on sentence. Bla bla bla, the day happened, and there's not much more to say. Plus my phone is annoying the hell outta me because it won't allow me to send any text messages, saying the SMS is blocked. What the bloody hell? (And I'm sorry, but I've been watching too many movies with some sort of English link recently. Plus bloody is a bit cleaner than many of the alternatives, at least in words.) I don't know what's up, but if anyone knows anything about the Sony Ericsson, T68i, and has any idea why my phone is being so friggin' retarded, then please, tell me, and explain how I can fix it. I've turned it on and off about seventy-two times, I took the battery out even, I've sent many random messages to random people, and nothing works! Help me, someone!!!

Mood of the day: A day with the Aldridges isn't always the best, though today was better than the time that my aunt said one of the most, if not the most, insulting things I've ever heard in my life, which bothers me too much to state here. But eh, the day was better than I expected, and I don't feel like putting up any details really. Oh yea, and aren't you proud, I've kept this up for almost a week, even if my final updates to the day have to be made the day after, I'm still getting an initial entry, just ending the sum of the day at a later time. Oh, and just wait until school starts. I'll never have an entry again.

My penguin told me: 11. Young penguins living near Australia must undergo a ritual that prepares them to enter the tribe as an adult. It's called the "waddle-about." 12. Who's for seafood?

Wednesday, November 26th

The day has hardly begun and already it's sucking ass. I did homework today for I could go do shite with Miguel and folks, and I called my mom to make sure I could go. She says no, because yesterday she told me I couldn't go any where the rest of the week before I did some of my work. I told her that I had done my work, but she claims that she told me I couldn't go any where before she SAW my work. WTH! She's not gonna be home until like, knowing her, about nine or so tonight, if not later, and I have to be home by midnight so that'd give me what, 2 hours with friends? Thirty to convince her to let me go and another 30 of travelling time. Also, Miguel can't drive after it gets dark, so that's not gonna work. Today we were planning to see the Italian Job with every one (yea, again for me, but it's a good movie, so I don't mind... 'Twould be the third time, second time this week) and do some other things. Looks like I can't do that any more. I'm going to just go to my room and cry the rest of my day away. I'm trying so damned hard not to make more stripes, and I think I'm beginning to fail. I haven't done anything yet, but I'm not likely to be able to stop myself.
I managed to keep myself from anything, but while I was feeling the most pitiful about myself and had come down to merely sitting in front of a mirror staring at my sad being and crying, I hear someone at the door. My knight in shining armour (or a Kerr band shirt, but close enough), Miguel, is there. Though I can't bring myself to tell him what's wrong, he does make me feel better, and I realized that especially on this day, but usually whenever I'm being held or just hugged by him, I feel so small and so young like a little child. I feel like to him, I'm the only thing that matters, and it makes me feel important and needed, and loved. And when it comes to that feeling, all I feel is love for him, and nothing else matters. My problems all fade and become insignificant while all the good things around me shine down, and all I can think about is me and him and how much I care about him. And no, I don't care if I sounded sappy as hell right there, it's all true. ^ ^
Okay, so after he came over and cheered me up for like two and a half hours, we went to Maaco with Ronjan and then picked up some food at Taco Bell, then came back to my house to watch The Italian Job on iControl.

Mood of the day: Even worse shite than last night. It all sucks. By the end, though, I was still depressed, but I was happy at the same time. I care about Miguel so, so much. Thank you for being there for me, I don't ever want to lose you.

My penguin told me: 9. AVALANCHE! 10. No, just kidding! Hey! Stop hittin' me!

Tuesday, November 25th

Meh. Today was okay overall, I suppose. Started out having to wait for the plumber people to come and replace our water heater (yay! I can finally have a hot as opposed to merely luke warm shower. How nice.) Then I went over to Miguel's house for a few minutes before going to Jack in the Box and then over to the Rec Center at Josh's apartments. That was fun but my ankle started hurting, oh well.
Since Ronjan was my driver tonight, I got home really early and watched most of the Italian Job for a second time with my parents on iControl. Then I had two little arguements about things with people, one being with my mom over my ankle because she adamantly refuses to take me to the doctor and yet it hurts so damned much. Let's just say the two combined turned into some more pretty little stripes. Again, sorry bro, but I can't help it.
I talked to Luis for about fifteen minutes before going to sleep. I'm so happy that things are beginning to arise to a somewhat normal level with him, no matter how slowly it may be coming about. He made me feel a little better, but I still feel terrible. Oh well. Good night all. Oh, and aren't you proud? I've managed to keep this up for four straight days! Let's see when the first day I don't manage will be. (Probably tomorrow, knowing me. Heh. Stupid Lindsey.)

Mood of the day: Fair overall, not so great in the beginning, good in the middle, and absolute shite right now.

My penguin told me: 7. Okay, so the penguin actually said "WAAGHKHH!" but Einstein knew what he meant. 8. I don't care what Bugs Bunny says - Penguins is NOT practically chickens!

Monday, November 24th

Still trying to make as many entries in here as possible just to remind myself to keep up with it. So, it's less than an hour later than I woke up, so my day hasn't been extremely eventful yet. I got to see and talk to Gladys (my house keeper/second mom, for those of you who don't know) for a little while about the flood here a week ago and how her house got flooded. Aslo got to tell her about the party and a few other things. Now I'm talking to Bin and Jeska online, and Jeska is telling me about how much money I should be getting back...:

peek a bo0oz: you"re getting back 21
UNknownWHiTEgirl: okies
peek a bo0oz: or 22
peek a bo0oz: iono
UNknownWHiTEgirl: 21.7349? =P
peek a bo0oz: lol
peek a bo0oz: how did you know?
UNknownWHiTEgirl: I'm psycho
UNknownWHiTEgirl: I mean
peek a bo0oz: so smart ^-^
UNknownWHiTEgirl: err
UNknownWHiTEgirl: psychic

o_O Hehehe... =P

Good day, except for the fact that when I went to bowling team practice my ankle hurt so much that it managed to bring me to tears. How fun. =( My ankle hurts so gawd damned much.

Mood of the day: Not much to base it on, but so far good 'cause I know I get to see Miguel today. Ended fair, but my ankle was killing me soooo much... =\

My penguin told me: 5. "Born to Waddle Really Fast" is a little-known penguin song by Bruce Springsteen. 6. Penguins were responsible for some of man's greatest achievements. For instance, Albert Einstein actually got E=MC� from a penguin.

Sunday, November 23rd

Basically just in the hopes of actually udating this more than once a week or month or so, I'm going to start an entry for today. All I did was go to meeting (or for those rather unfamiliar with me, church as normal non-Quaker people typically call it =P) and stuff... Also bought my Miguel a early Christmas present. It would just be a regular one, but he really needs it right now, not in a month when it's actually Christmas. I don't know how the rest of the day will progress. Hopefully I'll see him to give it to him! =X I hope....
Okay, so I did get to see him, and to give him his present, which was a charger for his phone that has been dead for like a week. =P Well, that was just an early Christmas present that he really needed, so now he never has an excuse to have a dead phone, because the charger works in the car OR in the wall. Unless the power goes off and his car battery dies (let's knock on wood to hope that never happens) for days and his phone finally dies and he still has the power off and battery dead and has no friends willing to let him borrow a plug or car, then he has an excuse to have a dead phone, but other than that! NO. =P Oh yea, so I got to see him, and we went to see Radio with my 'rents then I wasted his gas money to make him take me home instead of going with my parents. =P >_<

Mood of the day: happy so far, but tired since I went to sleep at about 4:30 last night and had to get up at nine for meeting. Ended happy too, since I got to see my Miguel =P

My penguin told me: 3. Penguins are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants. 4. Emperor penguins rule!

Saturday, November 22nd

Today was GREAT!
We held a surprise birthday party for Andrew at my house. Jessica, Linda, and I planned it for hours and hours over all (and you wonder why we're all behind in biology, the only class all three of us have together where we can talk, since we can't really talk to eachother much in orchestra... =P Oh the irony!!!!!)
During bio, we planned out who to invite, all the things to buy, when to tell people about it, how much money things would cost, and just a bunch of things. It was so fun to get our minds off of the stress of the class. We planned to have it at my house, because, well, you know Asian parents... (eep!!) Luckily my mom was a great factor working to the party's success. Not only did she allow it to take place at my house, with a bunch of people she doesn't know, with no parental supervision, but she also altered her plans last Tuesday so Linda, Jessica, and I could go shopping to buy all the things to prepare for the party... But, well, things happened, and that couldn't work, and my mom was alright with it. =) Then, she was willing to alter her plans on Wednesday in case they could do it then, which they couldn't, so she was willing to wake up earlier on a Saturday morning to go pick up Jessica and Linda from their houses and to take us to Walmart to go on a party shopping spree. She was willing to wait for Jessica to get ready, and willing to take us shopping and wait for us to finish and all. She was just really supportive overall... Now, talking on a past topic of Luis issues to Jean, I've gotten all lost in my story, so I might leave out key bits that make future parts confusing or I will put in things I've already said since I don't feel like reading this all again... >_< I'm lazy =P
Linda couldn't come, so me and Jeska went to do the shopping. We got everything bought (including a cake saying "Welcome Baby" with two little blocks in icing and a baby Pooh and baby Tigger on it = ) heheh... Then we had the guy write "Just kidding Happy Birthday!" =P)
Any ways, to jump around a bit, the people that came were (naturally) Jessica, me, and Andrew. Also, Joseph, Vincent, Bin, Charles, Hunter, and Edgar. Vincent had to leave before Andrew even got here though because Andrew decided to get here an hour and 15 minutes after he was supposed to. =P
During the day we had great fun. I'm too tired as it's 2.30 on Sunday morning to describe all the details. I'm sure you'll find something about it in Jessica's diaryland site =P. Probably is prettier than mine also. =P

Any way, after the party, Edgar, Charles, Hunter, and Andrew helped me clean up then they all left and within fifteen minutes of the last two fools exiting my house (those fools would be Edgar and Charles... Don't worry, I still love ya both. =P O=) hehe) Miguel came over and picked me up and I spent the rest of the night with him chilling over at his house... = )

That was my definition of a great day.

Mood for the day: Very happy, but very tired.

I have this book called "500 Things My Penguin Told Me" so I'm going to make a quote every time I post something on here from it. Starting now.
My penguin told me: 1. Man, are my feet cold! 2. Strangely enough, penguins can't ice skate.