[3:56pm] My brother is thirteen years and one month old today. Wow. Super!

[3:28pm] I feel like I'm slackin today because I didn't do any housework besides the normal: dishes. Maybe I'll clean the kitchen in a little while. I am redesigning, and it's supergroovy. You'll see when I'm done.

Apr 22 01
[5:53pm] You should go on Napster and download Carly Simon's "Jessie." It's old but it rocks my world. My mom and I were looking at a Carly Simon CD cover or something and she said that I look like Sally Taylor when she was younger. I see it in our mouths and eyes. Otherwise, not really. Totally different skin and hair and whatnot. Anyway, I need to link this person because she linked me and it's a good old world out there. What goes around comes around and good things need rewards. Or something.

[3:41pm] We went to a different mall today and decided that I only needed one bathing suit, so we only got one. In all, I tried on 4 bathing suits, and three of them worked, but I liked the blue one the best. It's a blue tankini, with the bottom of the top tapering into a little diamond point at my bellybutton. Ultracute. It looks like this, but it's blue. By the way, did you know that today is Earth Day? I didn't.

[8:55am] Hello. I hate that I had to sort of redesign the top part of this page. It just wasn't working, turning red half down the page, that wasn't good. So I'm gonna have to redesign slightly. This one won't take as long as the other one took, because this one.. I've already got the bio down. I would like to have a links page for this new one, and better colors. I've already had this color scheme before. My very first layout — 16 months ago. So I'll be working on that.

Apr 21 01
[11:40am] I went through my stash of gift certificates and stuff. I have $15 good for any Westfield mall (there are two that I can go to), $50 for Buckle, $50 for the Limited, and $25 for Dillards. I can thank Steve, my mom, and my grandma for all of these. Some of them are over two years old. They better still work.

[10:12am] I am going shopping for bathing suits today because it is only um.. 9 + 2.. 11 days until I am going to the Bahamas!! Rock on!! Yesterday I met Homer Hickam off of October Sky. He wrote the book Rocket Boys and a bunch of others. He worked at NASA. He was rather longwinded.

[8:56am] I made Kris a sign yesterday because she made drum major. I was happy for her. I hung it up before first hour, and put little tiny balloons next to it.

[8:31am] You know what's a weird word? Nephew. I've forgotten what it means. I know it's some family member.. I'm gonna go look it up. nephew (n.) 1. a son of one's brother or sister. 2. A son of one's spouse's brother or sister. I definitely knew what that was. Stupid self. I have no nephews. Or neices, either.

[8:03am] Well, tonight's my school's prom. I'm not going, but I hope the people that are going (Will is going) act safely and responsibly.

Apr 20 01
[4:12pm] My stupid school forgot to have a moment of silence for the memory of Columbine today. We were supposed to have one at 11:21 AM, but 11:21 passed and no call on the intercom for silence. So I propose my own moment of silence, just whenever.

Apr 19 01
[8:11pm] Crystal D made drum major too, but that's not as big of a deal. I mean, besides the fact that she is THE MAJOR BAND NERD. Yes, in capital letters because she is A BAND NERD IN CAPITAL LETTERS. She plays the clarinet. I don't wanna have to listen to her. She's sooo quiet, how will she ever be loud enough for me to hear her? P.S. She talks a lot about math.

[8:05pm] Hi. I just got back from driving to Schnucks. It was partly dark! Wow. That was the first time I've ever driven in the partly-dark. In other news: My friend Kristen (who I call Kris) made drum major. Part of me wants to jump around and yell yay for her, but some of me just wants to kick her in the shins, because she's sorta deserting the band. I won't get to hang out with her as much. So sad. Ah, but happy too!

[5:08pm] Tomorrow is the 2nd anniversary of the Columbine shooting. Not so much fun, either. Also: I just banged my elbow bone against the drier door. I'm gonna have a big fat ugly purple bruise there when I wake up tomorrow. My life is just a big old bundle of fun fun fun.

[4:36pm] Everyone today was talking about how tomorrow is 4-20. If you don't know, 4-20 is known as Nation Pot Smoking Day or something like that.. Everyone was like, "Yeah I'm gonna go out tomorrow and smoke some pot.. yeah!! Rock on!!" And I'm like, "Ha. Tard. If you skip school tomorrow, you can't go to prom." But to that, they reply, "Maybe I'll do it before prom." And to that, I just say, "Oh. Whatever, dude. You're the stupid one."

No offense.. well, yes offense. It's stupid to smoke pot. Why? Well, in eighth grade in Home Ec, Miss Ivy taught us that "if you're a young man and you smoke pot, it can keep you from forming correctly. And if you're a young lady, it will mess up your baby-making parts. If you are pregnant when you smoke pot, your baby can be born genderless." Woo. And that's why I'm drugfree and proud to be.

Now that everyone thinks I'm uptight or whatever, at least you know my reason-ing for wanting to be this way. I'd rather be "uptight" than have genderless babies, when the time comes. That is not for now either. Gosh, my morals are just so showing today.

[4:28pm] Well, I owe my mom only $73 right now. I was vaccuuming, but I couldn't finish because the bag is full and I don't know how to change it. I won't risk an explosion-of-dust disaster until my mom gets home. Then I'll finish up.

Apr 17 01
[7:37pm] I've been working working working to pay my mom back for half of Spring Trip I owe her 90 bucks right now. I was cleaning out the fridge earlier. But I had to stop: a) because it was toooo nasty to continue, b) I smell so nasty bad, c) I had to go to the dentist.

At the dentist (whom I have been going to since 1st grade -- nearly 10 years) I hear the same sounds that I always hear. Drills buzzing, sucky-tubes sucking, an old man snoring.. Wait. I hardly ever hear an old man snoring, especially in a dentist's office. But, yes. There was an old man snoring in the next room over, and when they let me brush my teeth after they took the wire off, I took a peek in the room. There was a man in his late 50s with a red plastic-rubber facemask thing over his nose. It was hissing and he was snoring. Weird.

Anyway. My teeth will hurt tonight because I have only one elastic chain over all my teeth. My teeth will come together tonight at maximum velocity and crash together and I will cry. (Not really, I will just take Tylenol.)

Apr 16 01
[7:41pm] Kris and I are writing songs. We have already written one called (The Day I Fell Off the Roof of My House On My Head and) That's When I Met You. Robbie likes it and wants maybe for Spider (the band that he is in with Joe, Chris, and Steve) to put music to it and play it.

Apr 13 01
[8:40pm] Yeah, also I just got finished watching "True Life: I am a Cheerleader." It makes me want to be on the squad, but.. naah. No. Not naaah. I really want it, to be beautiful and ambitious and kind and caring and cooperating as they are. But I am not the same kind of girl as they are. We are just different, like chickens and geese.

[8:35pm] Sending a big huge thank-you to recently.nu, for linking me, along with a big huge question mark, which means, "How did you ever find out about me?" And now that I know about you.. And I'm sharing it, the two people that come to my website, can know about you too!

[8:51am] I change the title of this page partially. From "*i'm a lovely red flower" to "*we are just interstellar waffles." This is an attempt at getting some more weird searches on search engines to find me! I have a list of some other strange ones:

• She looks like a school girl
• A confederacy of dunces
• Bodyguard song
• Shabby chic
• Seashell algae
• I am in control
• Just for a laugh
• Poetry about gangstas
• I'm gay (I'm not.)
• Ate too much stomachache

Apr 11 01
[5:54am] Ahh! Early! But I got a chance to see that the birds that nest in our front porch are back. More little birdies to poop on our porch. Ah, well. I guess the miracle of life makes up for that.

Apr 9 01
[4:49pm] If that wasn't a "warning" crap day, I don't know what is. I woke up this morning and felt a little weird, but blamed it on getting up earlier than normal. Then on the busride to school, just as the sun was coming up, it felt like someone dropped a big smooth stone into a lake, where I was. But I shook it off. And it happened, what the weird feeling was about, but I'm not saying it here.

Apr 8 01
[8:23pm] Ja Rule really cannot sing. He's a good rapper, but.. ugh. Don't sing, stupid, you sing like you have no head and your neck is just gurgling ugly stuff.

[6:10pm] Blaaah! I wanna go to Bahamas! Lemme see. 22 + 2 = 24 days until I leave. I leave school on the 2nd of April at 9:15 am. YAY!

[1:02pm] I just finished watching an edited version of Silence of the Lambs. Everyone said that it is sooo freaky and scary. Yes, freaky. Scary, mmm, only somewhat. Ha! "I'm having an old friend of mine for dinner."

Apr 7 01
[7:14pm] Pictures of our new GMC Yukon XL. He's a beauty truck.

[2:04pm] Don't I just rock the house?? Okay anyway. HAM! is named after band writing assignments in which Joe and I would write "Ham!" at the bottom of our paper. (Robbie and Steve would write "Sheep jousting." I don't know why.) This isn't a writing assignment, but I am tired of "Notebooking" and I do like HAM!