Apr 7 01
[1:42pm] I drove home from Walmart, that was fun. And the rummage sale, which started at 6:00 am, I think it was a big success. I even got a few things myself. In all, including what I got yesterday, my total "new" inventory is: light green shirt (25¢), navy blue Cubscout shirt (25¢), blue Elmo Daisy shirt (25¢), cardinal red zipup jacket (12.5¢), green apron (12.5¢), four bright colored bracelets (25¢), and Grandpa hat (25¢). Pictures of some of the new stuff (I didn't bother with some of it, because some of it is boring):

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What a tasty deal!

Apr 6 01
[9:04pm] I just got back from working at the rummage sale setup. There was sooooo much stuff, you would not even believe. I didn't even know that people donated their underwear and bras and used socks. Nasssty. Whatever. If you're poor, already-worn underwear is better than no underwear at all, I guess. Also: I owe the back 50 cents because of the two shirts I brought home. Pictures:

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Good finds, good finds.

Apr 5 01
[8:28pm] The garden page.

[6:41pm] When Shaggy talks, he sounds like he's got a duck in his throat.

[6:12pm] I just spent two and a half hours weeding and aerating (spelling?) the garden that wraps around our deck. My fear of spiders has rekindled itself to a mighty Olypmic-torch-size flame. And I'm still.. you know. Not really shaky, but totally grossed out by spiders. I think I'll go take pictures of the awesome cool job I did on the garden. I personally think it's worth more than $8, maybe my mom will think so when she sees it..

Apr 4 01
[6:06pm] Porkchops are now known as pigchops and lambchops are sheepchops. And when someone kicks you, it's now known as "footslap." Heh. Anyway, I'm going with my mom and brother.. gonna go to the music store and get mouthguards because everyone hates the way I play and it's pathetic. Whatever. I cleaned my mom's bathroom. 4:00 - 5:30. Hard stuff. But now I owe her less of the $150 I owed her before.

[3:52pm] The headline was "U.S. expresses regret to China, refuses to apolo-gize." Doesn't that sound so mean and country-hickish? "You poor thing, but it's not my fault." Stupid Bush. I'm just gonna start a Stupid-Bush category and update it every second.

Apr 3 01
[9:05pm] Robbie called me his little diamond (on his ring) today. That was the nicest thing he's probably ever said to me. I just love that boy.

Apr 1 01
[12:39pm] Sorry for not posting. I was just.. not busy. Lazy? No. I guess I just wasn't interested there for a while. I am still working on that layout, bit by bit. It's not fabulous, but it's more than poop.

Mar 25 01
[8:45pm] Joaquin Phoenix is sooo hot. It's weird that his brother is River Phoenix. I don't know. I really don't know much about River except that he died of a drug overdose, but I looked him up for pictures but the ones I found were all really old and stupid. They don't seem to look anything alike, except maybe the eyes and lips.

[9:15am] Two months until I am eligible for my license! Woo! On a more stupid note: Bush tries to do something in government. All this is gonna do is increase the number of deaths for women in other countries having unsafe abortions. Stupid Bush.

Mar 24 01
[1:28pm] I drove a little bit today, and then listened to some of a sucky Cardinals and Mets (no link for the Mets) game. Earlier this morning, I saw A Streetcar Named Desire. Stanley is HOTTTT!

Mar 23 01
[4:43pm] Today is my brother Tyler's 13th birthday! Happy Birthday T-boz! Other news: I am cleaning out my room for things to sell at the band rummage sale we are having on April 6th. I hope I find some crap cuz I have $337.33 owed to the band parents to pay for spring trip. That's like almost halfway paid off too. I have to return my two unsold gold cards, the $7 that I never gave them for the extra gold card I sold, a birth certificate or passport, which I got, and parental approval of me leaving the country.

Also: I might run in this thing called Run for a Cure or something like that. It's a cancer donation volunteer deal. But that comes later. Over a month and 3 days of non-redesigning: Wow.

Mar 22 01
[4:17pm] Sometimes boys can be just the best thing. An excerpt from an email Joe sent me:

I have to tell you something. It was funny.. this will make you smile. Steve, Rob, and I were having a conversation.. Steve said, "Dang.. Becky is looking hot today." Rob replied, "Yeah she does..." And I just kind of mumbled, "Well, when doesn't she?" It was just funny.. I don't think they were serious, but I just thought I'd tell you that.. a little story to brighten your day.. Goodnight.

Mar 20 01
[3:56pm] A month of non-redesigning. Aren't you proud? But really I am redesigning, it's just a rather complicated (more than one page.. ha) design that will take longer than normally.

Mar 17 01
[8:26pm] I was cleaning out my AIM files; I found this. I laughed really hard.

[8:16pm] I can't believe that I'm actually watching hockey. I never watch hockey! The Blues are playing.. Calgary, I guess. I don't know, really..

[7:19pm] Happy St Patty's Day. Did you know that St Patrick was not Irish? I heard that on the bus on the way back from St Charles, where we had a band competition, which I sucked at. Then I saw my bus driver Richard at Mickey D's. Then I went home and changed, and then I had a driving lesson. I drove about 50 miles in all, and we stopped to look at some rock bluffs on the side of the road. They had a dark level running through them, it turned out to be clay. It was fun breaking off pieces of the shale. I got some new shoes.

Mar 15 01
[6:07pm] I haven't redesigned in (8 + 15) 23 days.. Wow. I almost feel like it, but you know what? I have restraint on my web skills and I know when to hold back. Plus, I have no ideas. Hurk.

[6:04pm] My birthday was yesterday. I'm 16 now. I feel.. good.

Mar 12 01
[2:07pm] I didn't have school today, so my mom made me clean. I had to clean the kitchen (including mopping, ugh) and the foyer. It's really horrible cleaning at my house because we never do it and it's SO nasty whenever we do. For example, I cleaned out the medicine / spice cabinet and I found antibiotics from 1991 in there. Ten year old antibiotics.

Oh, I made lemonade about a week ago and forgot about it, left it out on the counter. Didn't really notice it til an hour ago. *shudder* I didn't think algae could grow in lemonade.

Mar 11 01
[7:38pm] Remind me to never post the word anal again. It only brings up strange search engine results... uuuggghhh, nasty nasty people.

[10:56am] Yesterday I went to the guard competition at school. It was radical fun. (hee hee) I am planning on doing guard next year. Also, I went to a Delbert McClinton concert for my mom's birthday. I think she enjoyed it, even though everyone there was smoking and the air conditioning was blowing the smoke right at me and making me all cold and stuff. I wore a wool sweater and it STUNK (stank?) when we came home. Smoking is gross.

Mar 10 01
[8:54am] Today is my mom's birthday. Happy boitday, to the one that gave birth to me. And thanks to Grammy. :)

Mar 8 01
[3:45pm] This is an email to Joe.

        Joe,
       

[3:38pm] This is a test.

Mar 5 01
[7:40pm] We had a Bible study today at lunch. I read John 1:1-18. It's a hard place to start, according to my mom. And it was hard, too. I misinterpreted something out loud (what the "darkness" is in verse 5) (I thought it was Satan, but Will thought it was the world, and Will was right) and I felt like such a little baby in my faith. I'm quite immature with that stuff. I don't read my Bible hardly ever, but I'm working on that and that will change.

Not again. From Yahoo!: In Washington, President Bush called the shooting ``a disgraceful act of cowardice.'' I just want to criticize everything that Bush says. He makes it sound like that kid had it easy. Kids get tired of being pushed around. Yeah, there are definitely more constructive ways of announcing "Hey if you pick on me anymore, I am going to break in half," but my goodness, I think the kid knows his punishment now and Bush doesn't need to call him names and whatnot.

Mar 3 01
[7:10pm] It was a long movie, and I didn't really understand the end, but I never get Oriental movies/anime or whatever. The subtitles kinda sucked because I had to read the whole movie instead of listen and understand.

[2:44pm] Today is just go-go-go-go. I drove down highway M today which isn't very big but I enjoyed it. I went 60 mph. Heeeee.

A cinematic notice: I am going to see Jiggling Tiger, Bouncing Dragon-Monkey at 4:20. I'll let you know how it was.

Scholastic notice: In the last 3 days, I have gotten 8, count em, 8 letters from colleges. Tulane, Baker U, Rhodes, Trinity, Washington University (right here in St Louis), DePauw, and University of Miami (FL.) Why, you ask? Not to brag or anything, but it's because my GPA is 4.4 and because I'm a genius. Heh.

[8:24am] Oh it was sooo much fun! I'll explain about it later, I'm gonna play with the dog. I also hafta have a driving lesson and go birthday shopping for my mom today.

Mar 2 01
[6:08pm] I am watching Forrest Gump. I love that movie. And in 20 minutes I am going to the Talent Show at my school with Kris and her mom. It'll be fun.

Mar 1 01
[8:45pm] Another example of our immense sophomore maturity: We were talking about legal terms in English class because we're reading Twelve Angry Men. At the mention of subpoena, David Rodriguez began giggling.

Feb 28 01
[6:28pm] We're like done with February. It feels weird. I'll be 16 years old in 2 weeks. Fourteen days. Wow. Hey, wanna know how mature I am? Victor K farted in Spanish class today, and I cracked up. The whole class was silent and then.. the sound of a small and distant foghorn. I looked toward the honk's origin, and Victor's ears were red as a tomato. I laughed so hard.

Feb 27 01
[8:49pm] I recently got the Style Channel, and I was watching a show called Shabby Chic (which the host woman would NOT stop saying and it quickly grew tiresome and irritating.. "shabby chic".. "isn't that's a particularly shabby chic thing to do".. "that color spectrum is so shabby chic". Ugh. Anyway. The show was about vintage clothing. The women on the show were like "Oh that's so gorgeous!" And I would reply (to my TV set), "Are you out of your mind?!?" Whatever, I've got to go to bed. I'm getting shaky-tired.

[7:05pm] Boys were weird today. This big 6'3" 300-lb guy, Eugene, he looks mean, but he's really just a big nice teddy bear.. At lunch, he put his arms around my shoulders and sang the Bodyguard song, I Will Always Love You. And then on the bus, Greg asked me, "What does a girl like you do on a Saturday night?" That's a weird thing for him to ask me, I don't know. Sit at home and watch HBO or sleep or whatever. I'm a church-going gal.

Feb 26 01
[3:11pm] Argh. Consummation.. having it over with. Knowing that it's over. Not being able to whine about Gore's unfair loss anymore. That sooo sucks.

[6:28am] I am very tired. I am going to try and be a good girl today and not make girls cry and not yell at my fellow band nerds. I will not screech at Kate for talking about the same five topics over and over (basketball/practice, Kyle, Wendy, track, family.) I won't get frustrated by her backwards 1800s-esque views. I won't hurt anyone or let anyone hurt me today.

I dreamed I was me, only I was writing (with a pen and paper, actually a little brown book) a story about an old man in prison. He had done something foolish with the jail and he had sat down to tell about it. I woke up remembering these words: "Okay, what do we got now? We have one old man, a little brown book and a lotta time. A lot of time."

Feb 25 01
[8:13am] 17 days til my birthday. I am reading A Confederacy of Dunces, which is an odd name for a book that makes me carry around a highlighter to mark all the words that I don't know, and when I'm done with the book (it'll be awhile, the book is 416 pages long) I will look them all up and thus improve my vocabulary.

Feb 23 01
[7:12pm] Kate and I argued today about whether it's right or wrong for a girl to ask a guy out. I think it's perfectly fine. She says "It's just wrong." Jesse and JJ and Ben all agreed with me. Kate and Sarah, (you'll have to pardon me if this next part sounds judgmental or close-minded, but) they're just old-fashioned idiots.

Feb 22 01
[5:41pm] Today was Will's birthday. Today I made a girl cry. I didn't really mean to. I'll tell the story sometime.

Feb 20 01
[9:01pm] Yes, there will be more tomorrow and the day after that, but I really have to go to bed. Rest my heavy brain, wash my face. Let my back have some R&R. It's sore.

[8:56pm] I redesigned because the last design was gutter sludge. *grin*

[8:51pm] Friday, in Spanish, Steve told me (jokingly) he loved me and he asked me to go out with him. I didn't answer, I pretended to be too embarrassed to speak. That's how he knows me. Easily embarrassed beyond speech. So I then pretended to be enthralled in my Spanish homework while listening to him loudly telling Jon, "I told Becky I loved her and I asked her out but she did not answer. Why do you think that is, Jon?" I could hardly hold back my secret smile.

You see, I used to have this massive heart-attack crush on Steve. Since like late 7th grade. It ended late last year. That's like 3 years. I don't know. I hope another one isn't developing, hiding under the skin like a blush, waiting for an opportune moment to jump out and embarrass me more.