seems to be a bit of a theme with me :P

1.) Do you have kids? no but I have dogs, a 16 year old border collie and a 10 year old greyhound. close enough :P
2.) What's your favorite type of food? Italian
3.) How many people have you been with? I'm fifteen. not many :P
4.) What's your longest relationship? uhhh...two days in fourth grade
5.) What are your goals in life? graduating high school with a 4.0 is the only one I can think of at the moment. and hey, it's not that unrealistic, I already have a 4.0 (never mind that school doesn't start until Thursday)
6.) What's your dream car? limo haha
7.) How many children do you want? two but I'd rather adopt because childbirth looks waayyy painful
8.) Do you want to get married? sure :)
9.) Do you get along with your parents? sometimes...
10.) Do you like indoor or outdoor activities? depends. I love swimming but hate running, and love reading but hate doing science homework :P
11.) What's your favorite music? I don't have just one favorite song, if that's what you mean.
12.) What was your best subject in school? hmm...Orchestra. it used to be math but now that I'm starting trig it isn't!!
13.) Would you rather talk, email or text? talk because then you can see the other person immediate reaction
14.) What's your dream car? this question sounds eerily familiar...
15.) What's your favorite store? one with food in it <3
16.) Have you ever been skinny dipping? "I used to go skinny dipping but now I chunky dunk" hahaa
17.) Do you like animals? yes
18.) Do you like video games? no
19.) Do you plan on going to college? yes
20.) What's your favorite kind of flower? one that doesn't have bugs on it :P

random questions

1. Where were you three hours ago?
sitting at home, reading

2. Who are you in love with?
no one

3. Have you ever eaten a crayon?
not a whole one :P

4. Is there anything pink within ten feet of you?
yep. the book serafina67 that I'm reading

5. When was the last time you went to the mall?
Sunday

6. Are you wearing socks right now?
it's summer, so, no.

7. Do you have a car worth over two thousand dollars?
haha, no

8. When was the last time you drove out of town?
Sunday

9. Have you been to the movies in the last five days?
yeah I went to the new Harry Potter yesterday, it was pretty good :)

10. Are you hot?
ha, no.

11. What was the last thing you had to drink?
milk - little kid habits ftw!

12. What are you wearing right now?
:o a skirt! and this shirt I got on Sunday from Hollister that smells reeeeally good x)

13. Do you wash your car or do you let a car wash do it?
I let the car wash do it for Mom hehe

14. Last food you ate?
left over pasta from last night's dinner with this weird orange turkey sauce from like a week ago, and two chocolate chip cookies! :D

15. Where were you last week at this time?
I have no idea, does it seem to you like I have that good of a memory??

16. Have you bought any clothing items in the last week?
yep

17. When was the last time you ran?
last night at karate and yesterday when I walked Magnum. that dog seriously never slows down!!

18. What is the last sporting event that you watched?
Game 5 in the NBA Championships. wooooo, Lakers!

19. What is your favorite animal?
wolves - Go Wolfpack!

20. Your dream vacation?
I'd love to go to Europe, but I also want to visit all 50 states

21. Last person's house you were in?
mine :) and Jamee's :P

22. Worst injury you've ever had?
I cut the inside of my right thigh open on that bit of the bike that holds the chain when I went down a sledding hill a little too fast :P I still have the scar

23. Have you been in love?
no

24. Do you miss anyone right now?
yessss *sniff*

25. Last play you saw?
the senior class project was the Dark Knight as a play, which was actually really cool

26. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
uhhh...

27. What are your plans for tonight?
sleep!!

28. Who was the last person who sent you a MySpace message or comment?
I don't have a MySpace

29. Next trip you're going to take?
uhh...to the bathroom?

30. Ever go to camp?
Only those little day camp things that Parks and Rec does in the summer

31. Were you an honor roll student in school?
am one, thank you *polishes fingernails on collar*

32. What do you want to know about the future?
LIKE OMG WHEN IS JED GOING TO STOP BEING SUCH A DORKFACE?!?

33. Are you wearing any perfume or cologne?
at the moment, no. but I love that warm vanilla sugar stuff from Bath & Body Works

34. Are you due sometime this year for a doctor's visit?
aha, yyyeah probably

35. Where is your best friend?
which one? I've got about seven :P

36. How is your best friend?
probably dying from this heat just like me!

37. Do you have a tan?
ha, no

38. What are you listening to right now?
Charlie the Unicorn :P

39. Do you collect anything?
business cards, necklaces, friends, shiny rocks :D

40. Who is the biggest gossiper you know?
prolly me :P I talk more than most people I know hehe

41. Last time you got stopped by a cop or pulled over?
well I've never gotten pulled over when driving, but in like May or so my stepdad got pulled over for doing 62 in a 35 zone :P

42. Have you ever drank your soda from a straw?
ewww, soda :x

43. What does your last text message say?
hey *wags finger* nunya

44. Do you like hot sauce?
no

45. Last time you took a shower?
last night. I dunno why, but I like to take warm showers in the summer and cold showers in the winter, meh

46. Do you need to do laundry?
omigoodness yes

47. What is your heritage?
German, French, Nowegian, Swedish, AMERICAN

48. Are you someone's best friend?
I like to think so :)

49. Are you rich?
only in friends <3

50. What were you doing at 12am last night?
sleeping, duh.

mud

I love riding my bike through unexpected mud puddles. They leave such lovely brown stains on your pants and back.

Allie's bit to say

*Jamee wave*
my friend-person/life support system Allison would like to say a bit:


Hello ...

I just finished watching an overly cliche and predictable movie, but it ended happily ever after.
Must all fairytales and "happy stories" be predictable???

Of course you know that Prince Charming will come into play eventually, but I am doing my best to convince a certain friend (*ahem* BRIANNA) that this is okay ... that even when cliche life can still leave you satisfied : )

Like chocolate fudge and sunsets and valentines with lace from nobody in paticular and happily ever afters ... life IS good, and that's okay : )
All right, enough philosophy for one night ...

Allie

Dunadan!

Just out of curiousity, I took the Ringer Obsession Test again to see how well I'd score. I'm a dunadan :D if you don't know what this is, PLEASE do not even bother commenting!

sunburns

Have you ever gone on a science field trip? You know, one of those ones where you go waayyy out in the middle of nowhere to look at how the landscape was affected by a glacier 80,000 years ago. And of course you have to hike about a million miles to get up to the remote glacial feature, so that you can draw it with your absolutely stunning artistic skillz that are completely comprehendable to people who aren't you, and then you get to hike back down to the bus, which is parked about three miles away from where it dropped you off. And the whole time the sun is shining, and you're wearing a tank top and shorts, and carrying a backpack full of all the stuff on your teacher's list of necessities. And all this hiking and drawing and fun lasts about five hours (because the school day is seven and the bus ride was an hour both ways).
Yeah, so I went on one of those amazing field trips on Wednesday of this week, and guess what this genius forgot to do - put on sunblock.
I'm sooooo burnt. My new names at school these past two days have included not only the originals Lobster and Tomato, but also Heinz ('cause I'm as red as ketchup, apparently), Genius (for forgetting sunblock when I've lived in Montana for eleven years), and some other ones that I don't care to repeat.
But seriously, the skin on my shoulders is so badly burnt that the skin is cracking, and I can't move my right shoulder past neutral position or it stings like ****. My left shoulder isn't as bad, however, because the nerves are so dead I can hardly feel anything there at all. Although I can feel it when all the lovely people at school decide to see how I'll react when they hit me to see if it'll leave a mark.
Ahhh, I love them to death.
Well, actually, I do...just not when they do that *scowl* I'll really miss them when the year's over, which is only in less than two weeks (!!).
Anyways, yeah, I just wanted to share how stupid I was :P don't ever forget sunblock!!

time waster

1. What color is your toothbrush? purple, blue and white
2. Name one person who made you smile today: my friend Cameron
3. What were you doing at 8 am this morning? sleeping! it's Saturday!
4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago? waiting outside TJMaxx for my sister to be done.
5. What is your favorite candy bar? Almond Joy or Mounds
6. Have you ever been to a strip club? no, but I think it'd be an interesting experience ;)
7. What is the last thing you said aloud? "how do they all know the dance?!?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k
8. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? chocolate!
9. What was the last thing you had to drink? water
10. Do you like your wallet? yeah, but I wish it was a little stiffer. haha
11. What was the last thing you ate? a brownie <33
12. Have you bought any new clothing items this week? no, I've only been shopping for moms day.
13. The last sporting event you watched? like live? Idk probably that last football game in October :P but I didn't watch the whole game...or any of it really...I was occupied ;)
14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn? can't have popcorn 'cause of the braces :'(
15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to? my friend Cameron
16. Ever go camping? ya. too many bugs for me :P
17. Do you take vitamins daily? no
18. Do you go to church every Sunday? negatory...
19. Do you have a tan? haha no I burn not tan ;P
20. Do you prefer Chinese food over pizza? no way! Chinese is good but pizza's amazing!!
21. Do you drink your soda with a straw? I don't drink soda
22. What did your last text message say? Idk. probably something not worth repeating :P
23. What are you doing tomorrow? pampering my mom :P
24. Favorite hang outs? Idk. my room, probably.
25. Look to your left, what do you see? this week's kaleidoscope
26. What color is your watch? I don't wear it, but silver
27. What do you think of when you hear the word Australia? fake-y sounding accents, 'down under', sheep, Aboriginies (?), the Great Barrier Reef, marsupials, dingos...
28. What is your birthstone? Idk something blue
29. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? depends on if it's winter or not :P but I only go like once every two months or so
28. What is your favorite number? 129
31. Who's the last person you talked to on the phone? my stepdad Tim
32. Any plans today?today's pretty much over. I'm going to finish on the compy then eat dinner, watch a movie and go to bed :)
33. How many states have you lived in? three
34. Biggest annoyance right now? hmmm...I'm in a good mood, let's not get into that :)
35. Last song listened to? Smack That, goooood song
36. Can you say the alphabet backwards? of course I can!
37. Do you have a maid service clean your house? ha!
38. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time? flip flops or my brown flats
39. Are you jealous of anyone? yep, sad to say
40. Is anyone jealous of you? Idk
41. Do you love anyone? yes <33333>
42. Do any of your friends have children? yeah a few
43. What do you usually do during the day? school
44. Do you hate anyone that you know right now? no but there are a few that I strongly dislike!!
45. Do you use the word 'hello' daily? yesss
46. What color is your car? well my mom's is blue-ish and Tim's is a weird tan color. mine's clear.
47. Do you like cats? NO
48. Are you thinking about someone right now? haha, yeahhh.....
49. Have you ever been to Six Flags? no but I wish
50. How did you get your worst scar? bike wreck :P
~Brianna

my poem

We're in the middle of a poetry unit in my English class, which made me think that I want to share this poem that I wrote during last year's poetry unit:



Leafy trees, lush and green,
Set the stage for the jungle scene.
Off to the right, a contented purr.
Out of the forest cometh the predator.

Breathing deeply, scents flood his nose:
River water, droppings, and wild rose.
Prowling stealthily between the trees,
Panting in the heat of eighty degrees.

Sliding into the water, powerful strokes,
Propel him forward past the poisonous oaks.
Past the monkeys and the bright toucan birds,
Past the sprawling ant hill and the wild boar herd.

Powerful legs in fluid motion,
Swimming peacefully past the jungle commotion.
Hear the birds in the trees, their song melodic,
Here the tiger blends perfectly with the jungle exotic.


I fully realize that it's not great but it's probably the closest thing to word art that I've done, so please just be appreciative :)

my letter

When I was in sixth grade, I had a puppy-love fling with this kid named Brian. Of course it wasn't the best thing that's ever happened because we were only sixth graders, and in the end we weren't speaking. He disappeared in the middle of seventh grade, and I heard he moved to Oregon. Recently, though, he's been around again and a while ago I felt like writing a letter to him. At the time, I'd felt like using big words, as you'll see. Enjoy!
Most kind and emphatic Sir,
While in yesteryears I was utterly convinced that within the cavity set aside for such, you were in possesion of an ebony heart - if, indeed, one at all - I have revisited and explored those adventures in which we both took part, and upon reflection have decided that this party was most at fault.
If at any one point in the procedures had I but withdrawn and examined the situation, a whole bit of unnecessary and unlooked for suffering could have been allievated and prevented. Most unfortunately, such a fanciful proposition was never entertained and therefore did not come to pass. However, I feel rather pompous to be able to disclose that in retrospect I have arrived at various happy outcomes for all unpleasant encounters between these two parties. Said solutions require more time and space to divulge than available, but rest easy - if ever the desire to know of these solutions is felt, all one need do is inquire; I shall be more than happy to terminate such worries.
Moreover, if unsatisfaction with the current labyrinth unknowingly entered when thou returned from mysterious departure should arise, do not feel encumbered by such trifles as unseen society boundaries. Approach with openness and humility, with naught but truth on yonder lips, and the snowy cloth shall be welcomed and accepted. The following conversation shall be as friendly as I can find it within my own ebony heart to endure.
The purposes of such correspondence this day are to express the satisfaction felt on my part that I am revived, whole and sound (as much as any of our race is fit to be), from the incidents occurring in the sixth year of our formal education, and to extend a hand not unlike that extended to the oppressors in the year of our country's freedom.
For the experiences and wisdom gained of this all, I remain your loyal servant.
;)

exclusion and such

One of the reasons I really like my high school is because we don't have many cliques. I know that sounds corny and cheesy to say so, but we really don't. I mean, of course we have certain areas of the lunchroom designated for certain groups - the stoners in one corner, the wrestlers in another, and the football players by the candy counter - but as a whole people are mixing without too much thought put into what they look like when they talk to that person, as is stereotypically teenager to think. There are lunch tables with guys dressed all in black, girls in frilly pink dresses, guys in football jerseys, and girls who always carry around books for extra reading, all sitting there talking unconcernedly and laughing at whatever ridiculous thing our vice principal has just done. I myself am friends with people from every afore-mentioned stereotype (which isn't to say that my friends fit into only one specific stereotype but you know what I mean). (And I'm only referring to lunch so much because that's when we have the most free rein, obviously.)

But what I'm mostly wanting to vent about a bit is that fact that my homeschool friends, who pride themselves on being so anti-stereotypical (?), are more stereotypical in this respect than are my public school friends! They're actually more exclusive in their groupings, which was a surprise to me when I first realized that. And none more so than the two I hang out with most. They have reeeally high standards and thankfully I meet them, because if I didn't I'd be missing out on friendships with two really awesome people. But for those poor unfortunate people who don't meet their standards, well...let's just say they're not part of the group. I feel sorry for the people that don't have groups, or that are afraid to mingle between different groups.

I really hope I don't come as excluding, because I try not to be.

18 boy, 14 girl, ACK!

YOUR BOY SIDE:
[x] you love hoodies
[x] you love jeans (couldn't survive without them)
[x] dogs are better then cats
[x] its hilarious when people get hurt
[x] you've played with/against boys on a team
[x] shopping is torture (depends on what kind)
[] sad movies suck
[] you own an XBOX
[] you own a Wii
x] you played with Hot Wheels as a little kid
[x] at some point in life you wanted to be a firefighter
[] you own a DS PS2 or Sega
[x] you used to be obessed with Power Rangers
[x] you watch sports on TV
[x] gory movies are cool
[] you go to your dad for advice
[] you own like a trillion baseball hats
[] you used to/do collect football collector cards
[x] baggy sweatpants are cool to wear [sometimes]
[]its kind of wierd to have sleepovers with a bunch of people
[x] green, black, red, blue, or silver are one of your favorite colors
[x] you love to go crazy and not care what other people think (sometimes)
[x] sports are fun
[x] you talk with food in your mouth
[x] you sleep at night with your socks on
[x] you have fished at least once
TOTAL= 18

YOUR GIRL SIDE:
[x]you love to shop (sometimes)
[x] you wear eyeliner
[x] you wear the color pink
[] you go to your mom for advice
[x]you consider cheerleading a sport
[] you hate wearing the color black
[x] you like going to the mall
[x] you like getting manicures and/or pedicures
[x] you like wearing jewelry
[x] you cried watching The Notebook
[] skirts are a big parts of your wardrobe
[] shopping is one of your favorite hobbies
[] you don't like the movie Star Wars
[x] you are/were in gymnastics
[] it takes you around one hour to shower
[x] you smile alot more than you should.
[x]you have more than 10 pairs of shoes
[x] you care about what you look like
[] you like wearing dresses when you can
[x] you like wearing body spray/purfume
[] you like high heel shoes.
[x] you used to play with dolls as a kid
[] you like putting makeup on others
[] you like being the star of almost everything
[] pink is one of your favorite colors.
TOTAL= 14

yay for...

YAY for people who have enough time on their hands to come up with stuff like schizophrenic smilies:
:(:
<3

Bunny Tracks

I just ate the most amazing ice cream ever. It was vanilla ice cream with chocolate swirls and peanut butter-filled chocolate cups. mmmmm <333

religion

It's a big thing in some people's lives. So much so that they dedicate their lives to what they believe is right. They form their views of the world based on what they read in the Bible, or the Torah, or whatever. (And of course this is all based on what I've personally experienced.)
But none of this holds true for me.
I come from a very religious family, but I prefer the scientific explanations of events, rather than simply trusting. Some people may say that science has strenghthened their faith, but for me it's become more of the opposite.
So the problem I've been encountering lately is: I'm being limited by my belief.
Now, I know for a fact that someone who has faith would not be limited in this situation because it was specifically stated that they wouldn't be. I really want to take part in this something but can't because I don't have the same religious beliefs. And that just really.....isn't fair. Why should I restricted just because I'm not the same?


http://www.joyfulbirthclasses.com/picts/bigstockphoto_Couple_In_Love_73114.jpg

antidisestablishmentarianism

I love saying that word :)

normal and weird

Y'know that evitable point in a conversation where you're talking to a person, and you say something that you think is really clever and witty but the other person just stops and looks at you and says, "You're weird"? I hate those times, and here's why:

Weird does not exist.

Think about it. Everybody, as a whole, is normal and everbody, as individuals, is weird, so that basically means that weird is the definition of normal. But normal does not exist because everybody is weird! So weird doesn't exist either.

*beams* Brilliant, really.

hehe

And that's what I think :)