Henry Hudson

WaaAAAaaaHhhhHH!!! I had to present my Henry Hudson report today in front of the whole honors class and Mrs. Wright!!! That was soooo scary! Was I shaking? I know I was shaking. I felt like I was going to fall over, as in pass out! That was scarier than spiders and jellyfish!! wait. . . maybe not jellyfish. Do you know what's even scarier? What's my grade gonna be?? We all know Mrs. Wright is a pretty tough judge, and I was all butterflies!

Oh, well. Hey, at least it's done and over with, but I would sooo rather have dome it in Mrs. Jacklin's class.

I just read over that, and it really didn't make too much sense. haha. Just read it a few times and you'll eventually understand what I was trying to say.

With DDR

Guess what? I officially completed a dance on the hardest level of DDR without failing! Challenge mode! Not that anyone really cares, but since DDR is one of my hobbies and something I ttly rock at, I just thought I'd announce that to everyone . . .

Something

Something About My Peeps: (I have to call you something)
Congrats on your play, Sarah and Hannah! I'll try to come to it if I can!
(and Happy Birthday Hannah!!!!)

Something about today:
Okay, If I come to school all scratched up on Monday it's because Truman and Harlee pushed me down the hill in a wagon. At least it's just scratches, and I didn't go into the river or kill myself on the tree like Truman did haha. Or, at least we weren't lighting eachother on fire, but you'd have to be there to understand that.

Something About My Toothbrush:
Last night when I was brushing my teeth, all of the bristles came out. ??????? What is the world coming to when a toothbrush won't even stay together???????

Run On Sentances Tottally Rock!

So today I woke up at seven and went to school and during first period stage crew we built sets and it was fun but a nail has gone through my foot a couple times there and it really hurts when that happens even if you are wearing tennis shoes then in chorus we sang songs like we always do only we sang this really high one that's actually in latin and it was weird but it's still fun and third third period was theater and me and Truman and Amy and Kaitlin did a pretty awesome skit about these nerds and bullies and it was pretty much hilarious and in history and english we worked on our term projects and that was fun for a while except then it got really boring and every time Mrs. Wright walked by me I was looking at my board and she got mad at me and thought I wasn't doing anything because nothing is glued on my board right now but it will be tommorrow but today I just drew squigglies on the sides and organized the information and glued the info to the construction paper so yeah and then sixth period was geometry and that wasn't fun at all because math is stupid and we started proofs today and they kind of confuse me but I hope I get a good score on my homework because I have a freakin' A- and I want to bring it up to an A so that Tori can't bug me about it anymore because we all know she got an A and then in seventh period I had fun like always because we got to sit cross-legged on the desk like genies because that's what Mr. Rolan did yesterday and he said we could do it if we really wanted to torture ourselves so we did just to annoy him and make him think we are freaks but I thought it was really fun until everyone else sat down and I felt tall so I sat down because I don't like to feel tall even though I am and it's even worse when I'm around Greyden and Adriana and other short people because I feel like a giant and my feet look big then after that I tried out to be in a cowgirl trio for the school musical and I think I did pretty well at least I hope I did because it would be cool to have a part like that and then I came home and went to piano lessons and almost fell asleep on the couch and then went to young womens and here I am. :)

Melanie's Weekends

Weekends may be the most awesome things ever created! I wake up on Friday mornings, and I'm like, "Yes! I am so happy to get out of bed and I will do it willingly bacause I know today is going to be awesome!" Well, maybe I don't say that exactly, but I do think it. Fridays are great bacause they have all the fun of school without the learning. In chorus, we get to sing fun duop and oldies songs. In theatre we play games, and I especially love science, because we basically just hang out. Last Friday was fun in science, because, while everyone else played a painful version of "rock, paper, scissors," I had fun watching Truman attempting to do yoga on the desk.
When the bell rings to go home, I'm almost sad. Amost, that is, :)
Most Fridays I walk home from school with Celene, and sometimes we hang out and make snow cones. Lately, we've been practicing a song on the piano which we are getting pretty good at. Since I'm better at piano, (No offense, Celene, but I have had lessons,) we were thinking that she could figure out a way to play it on her French Horn while I accompany on the piano. That would be pretty cool. I wonder if anyone has ever attempted to play "If We Hold on Together," on the French Horn? Probably not, there aren't very many people who play French Horn. Seriously, there's only like two of them in the school band. And anyway, if we just can't figure it out, then we'll just sing along to the end credits of The Land Before Time.
Friday Nights, I play night games with my eighth grade friends, usually. We play some pretty intense games of Truth or Dare. "Tori, I dare you to lick the tree!" Yeah. We play G-rated truth or dare most of the time.
Saturday mornings I sleep in until about nine thirty, and then hang around the house until maybe noon or one. After that, most of the time I get together with friends, either I hang out with Celene, like yesterday, or I go play soccer at the school with the eighth and ninth graders. I can't play soccer at all, just so you know.
Saturday nights are the best, in a really nerdy sort of way. I write and read in my room while listening to Show Tune Saturday Night on 106.5 F.M. Then, at eleven, I always get a glass of milk and sit on my super cool couch to watch a replay of doctor who seasons one and two on channel eleven. After the forty five minute episode, I go to bed. Well, sometimes I stay up even later and watch a chick flick or have a dance party in my room. Through that, I discovered how painful hard surfaces such as desks and lamps can be, how cold it is when you spill a glass of ice water on your foot, and how high I can jump when I see a spider.
Sunday mornings I'm just about dead, and yet I always attempt to make myself breakfast. I can't cook at all. This morning I felt a little bit sick while I was eating the omlet I made, and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it! I think maybe I didn't cook it long enough or something. I get ready for church and am usually ready in time. When I get home, I come back into the computer lab to do research or blog or whatever.
At about six o' clock on Sunday nights, I go to my grandparents house and we have dinner and play games. I enjoy playing apples to apples with my family, and my brothers and sisters are constantly on the Wii.
Then, I have to go to bed at a decent hour, sadly, and when I wake up in the morning I usually sleep through my alarm. I tell myself, "I am NOT willing to wake up bacause if I do I will be tired all day!!"
Then, it's Monday. Then what do I think? Here we go again.

Mel Reviews: "Get Smart"

Today I went to see "Get Smart" with my friend Celene. I wasn't as impressed as some people were.
While parts of it were funny, other parts were just unnecessary. If you watch the movie, you'll find a few examples. What really bugged me is, hello! They were on a secret mission, not a honeymoon! I've always been a fan of movies with a good love storyline; but what annoys me most is when it's totally obvious that something's going to happen. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that they're going to hit it off at the end.
A good, and one of my favorite, examples is; "Around the World in Eighty Days". In the end, you have a feeling that Phillius Fogg and Monique Larouge would somehow fall in love, because they hinted it. But Phillius wasn't being a freak and staring up her skirt and being nasty like that. Now, who would you want more? Matt or Phillius? I would take Phillius any day.
It was a hilarious movie overall, and I thought Anne Hathaway did a great job as agent #99.
Would it be worth to see in the regular theaters? No, but $1.25 is worth it, so go catch it in the dollar theatres or rent it from the red box, or you'll be missing out on a lot of great laughs. And did you know that laughing makes you healthy??? :)

Sesame Street

When I was three years old, I sat in front of the TV every morning before preschool to watch Elmo's world and Oscar's little worm, Slimey, who I thought was the most adorable thing in the world.

Now, I watch Sesame Street with my little sister on a Friday afternoon and I'm amazed at what I'm seeing. What happened ot the Sesame Street I knew as a toddler? Parents and scientists have got in on the act and tried to make the show "Appropriate" for their children.

Things they have changed about Sesame street since I last knew it:



1. Parents were concerned that Bert and Ernie were a gay couple, so the producers were deciding what to do. They've seperated Bert and Ernie, rarely showing them together now, if at all. They were thinking about diagnosing Ernie with Cancer. How sad is that! Imagine, if you were a mother, and your kid comes up to you and says, "Mama, why did Ernie die?", "Well, the public thinks Bert and Ernie are gay, so they had to kill one of them." And do you seriously think the kids care? They're not gay, they're PUPPETS!



2. Cookie Monster, who always sang "C is for Cookie," is no longer allowed to sing that song. Why? Bacause it makes children want to eat cookies. This is unhealthy, so they had to teach cookie monster that cookies were a "sometimes" snack. And now, let me present to you . . . "The Veggie Monster!"

"V is for Veggie, that's good enough for me . . ."

That's retarted. I'm sorry, but it just is.