042901
[4:24pm] Joe and I are taking about him becoming my fiance, along with Andrew and Will and Robbie. This is what we had to say about it. Oh, by the way, Joe's recently-ex-girlfriend is Mormon.
Joey: We're all going to all have to move out to Utah...
Becky: And become Mormons, ahaha
Joey: Oh God.. Not even funny.

042801
[9:11am] I have a few pictures for you.
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[8:44am] Dear old people who use the phrase What is the world coming to these days?: I will tell you what the world is coming to these days. Yesterday I was just sitting in my third hour class (History) taking notes on Militarism in Japan around the time of WWII, and the PA system comes on. Our principal, Dr Bob, comes on and says (with a few stutters) that all doors should be locked and that no one should leave their classroom. He doesn't say why but my History teacher knows. He tells us that they are running the drug dogs ("reefer dogs") through the school.
So we just finish up the notes and as it nears 10:10 we have nothing to do and get bored. The bell rings, but we're not allowed to leave. We stay in that room for another hour (thankfully letting me not go to Spanish) but there is nothing planned for us to do. We are left to our own devices. Kris and I have yarn to play with. That lets us entertain ourselves for the rest of the hour, along with the turquoise bowtie and cummerbund that I have in my backpack. I wear the tie and she wears the cummerbund (as a small tubetop, over her shirt.) Ah. Good times.

042701
[9:34pm] My elbow's okay now. You know what? I saw Bridget Jones' Diary with my mom and it was hilarious. Very entertaining, although I do with that the f-word could have been used in less magnitude. Magnitude. I think that's the word I was looking for. Magnitude? Perhaps I don't know what the word I am looking for is. I wish it hadn't been used so.. often. Whatever the word for that is.
[6:11pm] I punched the couch and I think I hurt my elbow. I'm not a violent person, but the kids in my neighbor, when they come calling on my brother, they don't understand that you ring a door bell once. Then you wait a while, for the people to come to the door. Not once or twice a second. Anyway, my brother's not home, so leave me alone!! Not the mention that the little kid who always rings the doorbell, he looks in one of our door windows, standing very close to it, and breathes so that there is a little cloud of fog under his nose and that annoys me too. And that's why I punched the couch. Owee.

042601
[5:31pm] I wrote a new poem today. I made up two lies to write it: a) I have been to the ocean many times, and b) I don't live in Kansas. Never have. Up until now it was Untitled, but I think its new name is now Two Lies.
Two Lies
It is not my fault that I have never been to the ocean.
Living in Kansas doesn't provide many opportunities
For such a thing.
Even though this is true
I feel as if I have already visited the sea
And have known its secrets
Oozing between my toes.
[5:22pm] I'm so bored. There's nothing to do, really. I don't think there is? I don't want to clean, but what would I clean anyway? Everything sparkles. Except down here in the family room. It's scary how stuff just lies around. The thing is, I don't wanna clean. So I won't. I really wish my friends would get online so that I could talk to them. Kris, Joe, Robbie.. get online. More specifically: Get on AIM. Now!
[6:03am] It's early. Yesterday I did $15 worth of work. Banisters, dusting up-stairs, vaccuuming upstairs, cleaning inside of the door, cleaning downstairs bathroom, vaccuuming stairs. And I'm spent.

042501
[3:31pm] I just helped my dad name our big old huge server "El Gordo." That means, "the fat one." I'm wondering if we'll really name it that, or if he was just joking. Whichever. I gotta go clean. I'm thinking about adding to today's schedule of housework, cleaning the inside of the front door. I think that's like $2. I only owe my mom $54 as of right now! I did that in 22 days, averaging a decrease in the amount I owe her of $4.18 per day.
[6:00am] One week (seven 7 days) until I leave, second hour (but there is no need for me to go to my original classes) for Belleville Illinois, where I catch a flight going to Sanford, Florida.. and then. I don't know. Side note: My lip hurts. The fat lip, where my dog punched me in the mouth with his head.. It's bruised too.

042401
[7:51pm] I wore my Harvard shirt today. I love this shirt.
[7:48pm] Which leaves me with my loose cleaning plan for the rest of the week: Wednesday: Pledge stairs, dust & vaccuum upstairs. Thursday: Clean parents' bathroom, opt. is sweeping porch. Friday: Umm.. I don't know yet. Maybe clean fridge again?
[7:42pm] Chores I've done today: Clean kitchen (sink, counters, oven range, and table) $3, mop kitchen floor ($4), clean front door windows $3?, clean sliding glass door $3, mop foyer $4. A total of $17 done today.

042301
[8:19pm] Dinner on the ship is a seven course meal. A specific dress code is required. The waiter places your napkin on your lap for you. Multiple sets of silverware. Midnight buffet. Ohhhh yeah. You're jealous now. I can feel it. I can feel it in mah bones!
[4:52pm] So. How do you like it? It took me the upwards of two hours. It's kinda fun, kinda silly and springish. Anyway. Now I'm gonna go sew. After I sew a bit, I might come down and tell you everything that I know about the cruise.. Oooh. Then you'll be jealous!
[4:32pm] This is where I share tidbits of fun with you. There will be more here, as I add it. Right.
[4:03pm] I've been thinking. It's okay if I want to take one day off of housework during the school week. Today is my take-off day. Tomorrow I'll get home and have a snack and work my patoot off on the kitchen, and maybe I'll vaccuum downstairs. Wednesday I'll dust the stairs and maybe mop the foyer. Thursday I can (think about) clean(ing) Mom and Dad's bathroom, and finally Friday I'll sweep the front porch.
[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.

042201
[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.

042101
[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.

042001
[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.

041901
[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.

041701
[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.)

041601
[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.

041301
[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

041101
[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.

040901
[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.

040801
[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."

040701
[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!
[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):
 
 
 
What a tasty deal!

040601
[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:
 
 
Good finds, good finds.

040501
[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..

040401
[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 apologize." 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.

040301
[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.

040101
[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.

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