Peytrovya's Journal

Hello! Just a few updates on what's happening with me, if anyone cares! So, in my Social Problems class, we took a big test on a reading assignment. It was on a war-like society in South America called the Yamamamo. The test was all short answer or essay questions. The teacher gave us the whole hour plus ten minutes the next day to do it, and I STILL didn't get to the last few extra credit problems! ARG! But, I still aced it! I got 107 out of 99! YES! I got 3 points taken off on the whole thing and got the high score. The 2nd highest score he said he'd ever had on it! What I don't understand, though, are the people who were done halfway through the hour! Of course, it was that same group of girls who are always gossiping or texting under the desk. One of those girls, Tiffany, really doesn't like me lately. I noticed it in English a couple of weeks ago. We corrected part of a test in class and she handed mine back to me and gave me a really dirty look. I looked at it and saw that I had a 100 in it, but she had drawn a little frowning face in the zeros. I just kinda shrugged and passed it up to Jared. He looked at it and asked why there were sad faces and not happy faces and Tiffany said "I have my effing reasons, ok!" Wow! I wasn't sure what it was about at first. But I've noticed that when we discuss Macbeth in class it is always me, Autumn, and Melissa that answer questions, and everytime I answer right she glares at me. She does that in Social Problems to. So, my friend Andrea and I have come to the conclusion that she's jealous of me because I'm intelligent. WOW! That's kinda depressing, because I bet if she actually took the time to write down notes or read the darn stuff she might know some of it too! Instead she talks in class and parties all weekend. A couple times she's come to school with a hangover! I'm not saying that I'm all studious and always do everything right, because I don't! But I at least try! Anyways! The other person who is annoying me right now is Holly Ann. She's a junior and is 2nd clarinet. I'm first chair, and I know she feels that she should be. We are doing a clarinet quartet for solo and ensemble and the other day there was a section where I was coming in on beat one instead of two and didn't realize it. He told me, and I corrected it. But after that, any time something was little off, she glared at me! What the heck?!?! One mistake, and suddenly everything is my fault! I was so pissed off. After band, I had a lesson with the director on the song and he said I was playing everything right, since I fixed the problem with coming in early. The only thing I needed to work on were putting in more of the stacatto's and accent markings! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRGG! Plus, she always brags about everything! This year she got into State Band and she always brought it up. Everytime I sat down she whipped out her music and started practicing. She'd talk about how hard the material was. Wow. Impressive. I know that, because I went LAST YEAR! DUH! And I've been an alternate twice! The reason I didn't get in is because they try to get different people all the time. How dense can you get? And beside, if she wants to see hard music, she should see the music I have to work on for Dorian!! Jeeze! Anyways. Done ranting now.

Hello. So...finally got my computer back. It had a virus and we had to get it fixed. Now it's all better! WHOO HOO! So, anyways...I've finally picked out my vocal solo for solo & ensemble, and I am so excited about it! It's called "Now Have I Fed And Eaten Up The Rose" by Samual Barber. It is a really slow, creepy piece. The piano part is beautiful and my line is unpredictable. I'm really excited and can't wait to start working on it. Plus, my friends Megan and Brittany and I have a really cool trio. I'm excited about working on that too, because it's really hard and has cool dissenant(SP?) harmonies! YAY! Hopefully we'll make it to state again this year. It's coming up fast, though. Our solo&ensemble festival is February 23rd. In addition to the solo and trio, I've got 5 other events, too:Vocal Jazz, Jazz Band, Clairinet Quartet, Woodwind Choir, and a Vocal Duet. I'm going to be really busy for awhile! Plus, the day after solo&ensemble is Dorian Instrumental Festival in Decorah, Iowa. I've been to the Vocal Festival twice, but never this one. I'm really excited and nervous about it. Two other kids from my school are going, but they are in a different band than me. O-Well. I bet I'll still have a blast!

Today was pretty good! First, I had Vocal Jazz at 7AM. Almost everyone showed up for once, so it was a really good rehearsal! And we sang "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" which is my favorite SSAA song to date! WHOO HOO! Then, in Practical Law we had this really fun debate about a case. We were working on writing Opening Statements for our mock trial, and a debate started. It was a really interesting one too! My teacher called me a psychopath twice during it though! Wack job. Then, at lunch my friends Andrea and I were sitting in his room waiting for him to come back. He had a disposable camera sitting on the shelf, so I took it and took a pictureof him as he came in. He spazzed and grabbed the camera and threw it on the ground and smashed it! So Andrea jumped around the desk and they fought over it for a bit and it got kicked across the room. So I ran and picked it up and he chased me! Andrea and I took off down the hall with it, and he was running behind laughing and telling us to come back. It was hilarious!!! And his room is right by the cafeteria, so everyone churned and was watching. But as odd as this would sound to you, in my school it really isnt! Let me give you a quick description of Sir Dassow, the wonderful Social Studies teacher: tall, white guy with a mullet. AND he lost a bet with a friend and has to grow his hair out for a year! So not only is it a mullet, but he looks kinda like the Beast from Beauty and the Beast!!!! It's so funny! And he's kind of a hippie. He's a really good teacher, too. He likes to let us do all the thinking instead of standing up front lecturing! This means debates(sometimes formal, sometimes not) and powerpoint presentations, class discussions, group activities and such. There isn't much homework...just tests, which are easy if you pay attention. Plus you get to use notes for the last 10 minutes of the test!!! So, as you can see, odd things tend to happen around him! But it's all in good fun! Plus, my school is just...odd! This could make an interesting quiz...!

Hello! I'm bored. Two days ago was Thanksgiving. I hope that everyone had lots of fun! I did. My family was all over at the house, which doesn't happen often because everyone is so busy! After we ate we played this game called Apples to Apples. It is really fun! We played for about 3 hours...but we stopped at about 11:30 because we were all getting tired and a lot of them had a good hour to drive to get home! It was a really fun day! Anyways...here's something that really pissed me off that I was too busy to write about before! I was at the first boys basketball game of the year for my school. (Pep band was amazing that night, by the way!) After pep band we went and sat down in the stands. It was packed, and we had this rather large group of Seniors sitting in the corner. We were doing cheers like "Let's Go Penguins, Let's Go! and the wave, and all that other good stuff to support our team. (Penguin. I know! Dumb Mascot, right???) I was going along with it...it was fun! But then they decided to shout "Fundamentals" whenever the other team messed up. or "You can't do that!" if they got a foul. I thought it was mean. I wasn't pissed yet though. In the 4th quarter the teams were neck and neck and everyone was getting really excited. The people behind me started to chant "Warm up the buses!" and then when we won, they sang "Na na na na na na na na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye!"(like from Remember the Titans) That really really pissed me off! By that time I wasn't cheering with them anymore. Because in my opinion, cheering your team on is a good thing. But putting the other team down...that sucks and is poor sportsmanship! Speakig of sportsmanship...my school has won the Sportsmanship Award for the past 7 years in a row! Then this group is going to ruin it! They tried to get me to do the chants and I said no. They asked why and I said that it was rude. You wanna know what this girl said to me? She's on the girls basketball team and said "So what if it's rude? They did it to us!" WHAT THE HELL KIND OF AN EXCUSE IS THAT? That is the dumbest argument I have ever heard for anything! I don't give a flying f*** if they did it first. That just means that we should be even more supporting and good-spirited and be the better people. Not sink to there level! That makes us look worse! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Now I'm annoyed again!

Which is why I want to work with animals for a living. People suck! I just don't understand how some people can say and do some things! It bothers me to no end! I can't even state my opinion on this site whithout someone sending me hate mail. But that's not the part that kills me! It's when that hate mail is so full of disdain and arrogance and without a care in the world for any other person's opinion. That person thinks that something is this way, and can't even begin to believe that they could be wrong! And the language! Is swearing a crucial part of getting their point across? Do they think that if they call me a stupid effing b**** that that will make me see things the way they do? Do capital letters and crappy grammar somehow magically make me forget my beliefs? NO! They don't! So stop doing it people! I love a good debate and would be perfectly happy to discuss my beliefs with people and to explain why I feel the way that I do. But somehow that just doesn't seem possible on this site. So far everyone who has ever sent me mail talking about how there opinion differs from mine they have been rude and condescending! I'm going to say it again....people suck! Homosapeins are by far the worst thing to happen to Earth since astroids!

Tomorrow is going to be a long day. First, I have to be at school at 7AM for Jazz Band rehearsal. Then I get to go out to the school forest and teach the Freshman all day. Then the band concert is tomorrow at 7PM. I really hope that it goes well. I'm not entirely sure that the band is ready. There are a lot of people who slack off and still can't play the music. Which is dumb because most of it isn;t really that hard. It's a combination of our field show for homecoming, past marching band pieces, and Halloween music! Not hard! Half of it we've done already! O-well. We'll do fine, just not as well as I would like. I'm ready, I just think that I'm going to be really tired by then. Anyways....I messed up. I signed up to give blood on Thursday at 1:00 in the afternoon. But I forgot that I have another EE field trip that day. This time with the Sophomores. Yippe! Not. I think that I'm going to have to stay after school at do it. But then I'll have to get a ride home from someone else. I guess I can see if my mom will pick me up. Hmmm....maybe. Blaaaaaaaaaaaah. I slept really wierd last night. I woke up in a wierd possion and when I got up my neck was stiff. I can't turn my head to the right very far or it hurts. It really sucked because the board is to the right in most of my classes. It was kinda difficult. I took a shower and it loosened up a bit, but it is starting to stiffen again. It hurts a lot. Hopefully it won't be so bad tomorrow for the trip. It's bad enough that it is going to be cold. I don't want to be sore to. Exspecially since I have so much to do! So...that's what's going on with me.

Hello! It's been awhile since my last post, but I've been really busy. It was Homecoming week at school, and everything was hectic! At my school we have a massive competition all week between the classes. We get points for dress-up days, powder puff, volleyball, tug-of-war, floor hockey, window painting, and float building. I was involved in all of it accept volleyball because that was only for the guys...kinda like powder puff football. SENIORS KICKED ASS! We won everything accept volleyball and one of the dress up days. I'm going to miss float building. I've been the chair person for that two of my four years, but we've won it ALL of them! WHOO HOO! Float building is the reason I haven't been on here, though, because it was every day 3:00 TO 8:00 AFTER school! Then when I got home I always had Advanced Algebra and Practical Law homework to do yet! Anyways, I just got home from the football game. We just BARELY lost! It sucked so bad! And for some reason I'm wide awake when I should be tired! Considering all the crap I've done today! Here goes: played pep band at the pep rally, did 3 rounds of tug-of-war, played the championship game of floor hockey against the juniors. After the pep ralley, the parade started. So I marched with the band for about half an hour. Then, I went and helped take apart the float. Then I went home, took a shower and came back to school and did the pep band before the game. Then I sang the national anthem and went into the band room and put my uniform on. At half time we went on the field and did our show. AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! And I have to be in town at 11:00 tomorrow to help clean up the window painting and then I'm going to the dance, and then I'm going toilet papering with some friends on Sunday night. I really, really, really should get some sleep, but I'm wired! It's like the adrenaline rush you get after going on a crap load carnival rides and roller coasters! Maybe I'll take a shower...I bet I stink from all that stuff I had to do today!

I don't have much of importance to say today. Just thought write a few things about what's been going on with me. School is going pretty well. My classes aren't hard...yet! Although a few of them are kinda boring. EE trips are starting soon. I'm not the biggest fan of going on trips. I'm not a very good teacher, but I love doing all the background stuff like planning the trips, doing classroom observations, and all the paperwork. Don't ask...I'm wierd like that! Also, I don't like missing all that school! Us EE Counselors miss a lot of school for these trips! And I hate having to catch up on all the work in the classes that I miss! Anyways, band is interesting. We've had 4 performances already and it's only the second week of school! And there are two more this week already!!! And we are starting to prepare for the Homecoming parade, pep band, and field show that is coming up really soon! Then we immediately start Concert Band. We've got three concerts before Christmas: regular Christmas Concert, Pep Band/Indoor Marching Band Concert, and the Jazz Concert. For the Jazz Concert the Jazz Band and Vocal Jazz group both perform. And I am in BOTH! So no rest for me!!! Oh yeah...which reminds me...Jazz starts up next week. Jazz Band is ever Tuesday morning at 7AM and every Thursday at noone. Then Vocal Jazz is every Tuesday at noon and every Thursday and 7AM. Not to mention that I have Math League to be at on Thursday during lunch. Two places at once! ARRRRGGG! And then I'm going to have trip meeting with other counselors and with teachers at random times, Plus doing classroom observations! Then NORMAL classes and homework! I'm going to go insane by the end of this year! Oh yeah...and I've got all these college applications and scholarship applications and bla blah blah blah blah! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! Someone, anyone, HELP ME!!!

So, my cat Faye is a terrible mother. She took all of her kittens except two and hid them. She won't care for the two she left behind. So now I'm bottle-feeding them because they aren't old enough to be weened. I don't get her. O-Well. I kinda like bottle-feeding kittens. I've had to do it twice in the past. Ine time because the mother died giving birth because of the last kitten born was a breech. So there were FIVE kittens to feed and only ONE me! The other time it was only the one kitten...my Stacatto! When you bottle-feed kittens they grow and and become very friendly towards you. It's wierd though. Stacatto hates EVERYBODY except me! She exspecially hates my dad(LOL!) The only problem with this is that I have to go to school. The other times that this happened was during the summer. The kittens have to be fed every 4 to 6 hours. If I feed them at 7:00 right before I leave for school they will have to be fed again around 11. They could go till about 1:00 I suppose, but I won't be home untill 3:30!!! I don't no what to do. They are going to be hungry for awhile, because hell will freeze over before my dad gives a crap about any animal other than his dog! And my mom will be at work. So I guess the kittens will have to be hungry for a little while. It shouldn't hurt them. They are healthy and have had about awhile nursing off their mother's milk that allowed them to gain enough of the nutrients they need to build up their immune system. So they should be fine. I hope. I'll tell you later.

I think that it is great that people have pride in themselves. The fact that they aren't afraid to tell the world that this is who they are and are proud of that is a really good quality to have. It will help them out in life tremendously. However, when one's self pride puts other people down, it becomes a bad thing. There is a very thin line between self pride and arrogance! And all these quizzes I keep seeing like: "Ways to piss off an EMO" or: "Calling all EMOS" and "Preps RULE" are really crossing the line! The fact that they are proud to be Emo/Prep/Goth/Jock.Nerd/blahblabla is perfectly fine. But reading these quizzes I keep noticing stuff like "preps must die" or "emos should go to hell" And basically by writing that, the person is saying that they are better than everyone under that particular label! That is a case or misplaced pride! No one can ever say that ALL emos are the best or that ALL preps are stupid. You can't ever know that until you personnally meet every one of them..which is impossible. Every "prep" or "emo" is different. Yes, they may have certain characteristics that make them fit under that label, but they probably have other characteristics that put them under a different one too! Just because they fit one label more than another doesn't mean that they fit the stereotypicall behavior associated with it! For instance, not all emos cut themselves, which is a common though among preps. And not all preps are haughty and disdainful...a common belief of emos. The world doesn't work that way. Things aren't in black and white. We have to learn to look at a person for who they are...not by what society wants us to believe!

So today was my first day back to school...as a Senior! It was a pretty interesting day. Lots of good things happened, with the exception of a few crappy classes. My English 12 class is full of people who are either stupid, lazy, or both. The few that aren't I simply don't like! Also, I have Advanced Algebra 1st hour. It's a small class with only ten people in it...two of which are good friends of mine. Don't really know or like the rest though. The other crappy class is Computers. There are only 2 seniors in the class...one is me! The other 20some kids are mostly Freshman with a few Sophmores and a Junior! Computers is a class normally taken Freshman year, but with Band/Choir and all the other classes I never had time! So, I was sitting in there and the teacher did her little speach about expectations and blah blah blah and then we set up the stuff we would need on the computers. We had to have our folders just right so that when we saved out assignments the teacher can find them easily to correct them. It took me all of 5 minutes to create all the folders and crap that she wanted. But there are a bunch of computer illiterate kids in the class! She spent ten minutes explaining the different drives on the school computers and how they are used and how to create folders and other dumb crap! That's beginners crap! I'm going to be bored outta my mind, but if I don't take the class I won't graduate! AAARRRRGGG!!! O-well. I;ve got other cool classes. I've got Environmental Education, Band, Independant Choir, Practical Law, Psychology, Advanced Chemistry, and Social Problems to make up for all the crappy classes! Only problem is, I don't have a study hall and almost ALL of my classes have lots of homework! And a fair few are pretty hard...Advanced Chem/Algebra are going to be difficult! But I'll do well enough! And, wouldn't you know, first day back and our band director tell us we have 3 performances this week! A volleyball pep band on Thursday, a football pep band on Friday, and a parade on Sunday! So we immediately picked out the songs for the pep bands and played them, tomorrow we are going to run through them again and then go outside and march. And the Freshman have never done pep band before! At least they got the music at the end of last year! So it should be interesting! Anyways...I'll shut up now. I think I'm rambling! I've got Algebra Homework to do anyways!!!

My cats have gone insane! I was on the computer and I heard a kitten crying by the door. I went outside thinking that for some reason Faye must have decided she didn't want her kittens where they were hidden anymore and was moving them. Sure enough, I open the door and there is a gray kitten sitting on the steps with............Stacatto??? That's wierd, I thought, Stacatto doesn't like Faye's kittens. She hisses at them and faye(thankfully that's ALL she does) I picked it up and it freaked out and bit me and started hissing! WTF? Fay's kittens like me! This gray kitten is NOT Faye's...it's bigger and running around. Faye's can't walk yet! But it CAN'T be Stacatto's because she had kittens a couple month's ago. It was her first litter and she the kittens didn't make it. She couldn't have had another one, because she was in the house when she had her litter and I didn't let her back outside for a little while after the kittens died. WTF WTF WTF WTF!?!?!?!?! The only other female cat I have isn't old enough to have kittens, and I would have known if she was pregnant! There's no way I could have missed that...out of everyone in my family I'm the first one to notice these things! So I'm at a loss as to where this kitten came from! It's well-fed and healthy, but I don't get it! Stacatto doesn't seem to mind it to much, but she doesn't really bother Faye going by it either! If it was her's I'm SURE she'd chase Faye away. Like I said, they don't like eachother that much. AAAAAHHHHHRRRRRRGGGGG!!! O-Well. I'll see if I can sort this out in the morning when I can see what I'm doing. In the meantime I've got the little kitten all safe and sound. Even though it is terrified of people! Here's another cat I'm going to have to warm up to. Can't have freaked out cats around...I'm pretty sure my dad wouldn't like that! Well, later then!......

Hello. WOW! I am so bored! School still hasn't started here and I've got absolutely nothing to do! And my sister just left for work and I've got to babysit her son. She is really starting to get on my nereves. She didn't even ASK if I'd watch him, she just left! WTF? Not that I mind, I love her son to death and would have said yes anyway, but that isn't the point! What if I had to do something or go somewhere? It would have been nice of her to ASK for once! Yeah...anyways. The kittens are adorable! Soon they'll be old enough that I can distinguish personalities and can start naming them. Not that it matters much, but I try to make the name fit the cat. But it's getting harder because I've had SO many pets and hate re-using a name, so the names are getting pregressively strange! But I like that! Well, I've got nothing much else to say.

OK...last night something creepy happened. Somewhere between midnight and 1:30 I was in the living room watching TV and a car was going by. Well, I live out in the boonies, so cars don't go by that often to begin with, and even less at that time of night! Well, it was going kinda slow so I though it was my brother coming by after work(he comes to my house around noon a lot of days and works on cars with my day then goes to work at 5pm, so sometimes he comes back here at night before going home) So, anyways, I went into the kitchen to see if the car was pulling into the driveway, but it just went by. The creepy part was that when the headlights flashed into our yard I saw this person duck behind my dad's truck!!! Well, I freaked! If the guy hadn't have hidden I wouldn't have thought anything of it, just that he was one of my dad or brother's many buddies working late out in the shop! So I turned the kitchen light on and went and woke my dad. A car took off from the far driveway right as my dad was going outside! We called the police, but they didn't find anyone. CREEPY! There was no signs of a guy, and my mom thought I was making it up because she didn't see or hear the car! It took me forever to fall asleep last night after that. And I'm all jumpy tonight, too. That's why I'm sitting on the computer. Anyways...thought I'd share my freak-out moment with you guys. Well, to whoever it is reading this!!! BYE now!

This is annoying. There are so many people over here today, and I don't like half of them and don't even know the rest. It's really annoying! I'm in the mood to be alone, so of course there is someone near me at EVERY moment! And there's this hot air balloon show/air plane show that everyone is going to go to. My dad will probably be annoyed if I say I'd rather stay at home. That's how he gets every Friday when I stay home from the races. (my brother races a pure-stock at a big race track about an hour away) But I HATE racing! It is so oring to me! And my family things I'm pretty much a freak, because everyone in my family loves races and stuff like that. But I find it boring. So I stay home and dad gets pissed at me. O-well...it's not like my dad and I ever really talk anyway, so I'd rather him be annoyed with me that spend 6 hours on a Friday night bored outta my mind!!! So...blah blah blah. That's my day.

Hello there...to anyone bored enough to read this! This doesn't really have an importand subject. I'm just going to talk, because I am bored out of my effing mind!! So, anyways! School doesn't start until September 4th, and for some odd reason I can't wait. It's my Senior year, so I'm going to have a blast! Registration was Wednesday, and I went to get my forms, schedule, parking permit, pay for random stuff like lunch/instrument rental and blah blah blah. I got my schedule and found out that I have Advanced Algebra right away in the morning! DAMN! I hate math with a passion, and I do belive it hates me right back! O-Well. I'll survive. I'm really hoping to get a B in it, but it'll take a lot of hard work. It's true what they say...those who suck at Geometry are usually better at Algebra and vice versa. Well, I was better at Geometry! I got a B- in that, but I only passed Algebra my freshman year by 2%! EEK! That's why I didn't take Advanced Algebra last year like most of the Juniors...I was putting it off, in the hope that I wouldn't need to take it. But, alas, the college I want to go to requires a minimun of 3 credits of Math as well as 3 credits in Science and 4 for English and 4 for Social Studies. I got the rest down...exspeciall Science. I've already got 6 credits for that and by the end of this year I'll have 2 more! I'm excited about some of my other classes though...Practical Law in particular. I've heard that it is a really interesting class and the teacher rocks, so yeah! I've got two other classes by him, too. Social Problems and Psychology. Those should be interesting tooo! Any class with this teacher rocks! And I don't have a gym class this year! HIP HIP HURRAY! HIP HIP HURRAY! I hate gym! I pretty much suck at ALL sports. The only things I was ever good at were floor hockey, badmitton, archery, riding bike, and frisbee golf. And we didn't do any of those things for long. Most of the year was devoted to basketball and volleyball. And then there was cross-country skiing! WOW DID I SUCK AT THAT! The only good thing was having my best friend Amanda in my class because we'd mess around in the back and be falling all over the place! It was great!!! LOL! Anyways...enough of that! My sister is hosting a German study-abroad student for 3 weeks in October. She can't wait, and is driving me bonkers because that's all she talks about! I talked to her on the phone for about 2 hours last night while her power was out, and most of the conversation was about that. We did talk about his book she's reading though. It's a trilogy that just came out called the Portal. It's by this guy named Gothis Arcane or something. But the cool thing is that the guy is her boss! He's using a suito name! That's so cool, because the book(s) sounds really interesting and unique too. Well, I can't think of anything else to type right now. Thanks for taking the time to read all this...I kinda droned on a bit! Sorry if I bored you!

Wow. I was at my Aunt Echo's house today, and met one of her friends named Jiselle. I've actually heard about her before and was a little anxious about meeting her. Because I had heard that she was a devout Christian, and I'm completely Athiest...so I wasn't sure how this would go. And sure enough, right from the get-go I hated her. Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying that I have any thing against Christians or people who believe in any other religion. I have no problem with religion, I just don't believe in it. No, my problem with Jiselle was that she was so narrow-minded. She was so set in her ways and so strict about her religion and God that she couldn't accept anything else. While I was talking with her, there was a thing on the news about Harry Potter and she just went off about those books should be banned because magic is satan whorshipping! Well, I totally don't agree with that, and I started to say so, but she cut me off. She said that it was God's will magic goes against the Bible. So we got to talking about other stuff and about our opinions, and any time I said something that varied even the the slightest with the Bible, she would get this angry look on her face and counter me by saying that it's the will of God. She presented no reasons besides "the Bible says so!" I just can't stand that! I mean, yeah, it is great that there are people out there who use the Bible and its teachings to enrich their lives and the lives of others. But I don't think it is right to look down upon something because the "Bible says so!" SO WHAT? Yes, the Bible does say that Magic is wicked, and therefore I understand how people could think that Harry Potter was sinful. But in my opinion, it isn't. Because those books really aren't doing ny harm in the world! In actuality, they do far more good than harm! This series of books has touched so many people and gotten so many people all around the world interested in reading which broadens the mind! Besides the Bible, no other book has EVER reached so many people! But anyways...the point of all this! The real reason I couldn't stand Jiselle is because of how narrow-minded she was. I'm glad that she lives her life according to the Bible. It teaches many good things. But I hated that she was so focused on it that she couldn't accept anything else. She felt that nothing else could be right and that any other lifestyle was wrong. I simple can't accept that!

OW OW OW OW! I was helping my dad stack firewood so it'll dry for winter earlier today. I picked up a log off the pile, and a whole bunch came crashing down with it right on my foot. It hurt. And when I got in the house and took my shoes and socks off, the toenail on my big toe was broken down to far and was bleeding. That was this morning around 10. It's 6 now and my mom and I just got home from the store and I looked at my toe and it's purple! This sucks! Now I have to limp around because it hurts to walk on it. People were giving me funny looks in Wal*Mart, and this time I didn't even do something stupid to deserve it! Now I'm crabby.

YAY! My cat Kimber had her kittens! I'm not sure how many yet, I have to find them first! All of my cats live outside on the farm. So every time one of the cats has kittens, I have to search the barns for them. They are usually up in the hay loft somewhere, though. I'd go out there right now, but it's storming, so I think I'll wait a bit. I'm excited thouhg! It's been awhile since we've had kittens. Staccatto had a kitten about a month ago, but it was sickly and didn't make it:( But I'm pretty sure Kimber had at least 4, she was so fat! I can't wait...I hope that they are different colors though. Right now all of our cats are black, gray, or tabby. I'm hoping for a white or orange one!

So I got my package from the Indian Tribe today. (Yeah, in case you didn'g know...I'm 1/2 Native American and officially registered in my tribe, so when I turn 18 I get money from them) In th epackage I get every month is the reservations official newspaper and information on my personal status with the tribe. I was looking at my status pages to see how much money I have(10,570!!) and started talking to my mom about college and saying that this was only going to pay for one year, if that. Then my dad turned to me and said not to waste that money on college. I should invest it. I asked him why it would be a waste, and he said "you're just like your sisters! You'll go, spend all that money, and then drop out because you can't handle it!" When I told him that I'm different and am going to college, he rolled his eyes and said "fine, well I'm not wasting any more of MY money, so you can pay for it yourself!" That's so bogus! Just because my brother never went to college and both my sisters dropped out, does that automatically peg me as a failure too? I am NOT them! I don't care what he says. I'm gonna make it, because I know what I want. I've known for years what my passion is. So now it's just going to be harder. I don't know how the hell I'm going to pay for it, but I'll find a way. I'm going to prove him wrong, the jack-ass. He'll see!