omg.

ok. so this morning i noticed something strange on my sunburned arms... there appears to be the figure of a hand print on my shoulder and it is REALLY FREAKING ME OUT. it's like the devil tried to touch my arm and burned me in the process...

other than that and a little peeling of the skin, things have been going fine, i suppose. i've been working on knitting a rug lately, and i'm predicting that this project will last forever. but that's ok... at least i'll have something to do! :D

earlier today aimee and i stopped by the Barnes and Nobles and i bought an issue of Knit.1 magazine and Craft Magazine. i've been trying to get a Knit.1 mag for maybe the past year now, and now that i finally have it i'm a little disappointed; not because of what's in it (it's as cool as i expected!) but because they only had one issue at Barnes and Nobles and it was in kinda crappy condition. anywho, i'm looking forward to doing some of the crafts featured in these magazines. i kinda want to get a subscription... maybe then i'll have something to look forward to when i get the mail!! XD

howdie!

well i'm back from cabo and i return to you burnt and a little crispy... also with 2 bug bites. yuckie...

anyway, it was fun and all, except for attending those time share presentations all for the sake of a free breakfast that was promised. :/

so yeah..... i need more time to make more crafty creations!!! i have the rest of the summer to come up with something, and hopefully it'll be more than one thing. :D

up for a quickie?

interpret that title as you like.... anyway, school ended last week and all i've been doing so far is eating out and shopping. it's really lame.

it still feels like i should be going to school. i'm not in summer mode yet. i went out with my friends on the last day of school and that felt like just another day where i stay after school. i've been shopping during the day a lot and i still feel like i should be doing homework or something.

well..... tomorrow morning the family and i are going out to cabo in mexico. maybe that will help set me into summertime. :D 4 days to remove my disgusting farmer's tan.

now in TECHNICOLOR!

so this week has been quite eventful. let's start at the beginning of the week:

sunday: fun fun fun at the beach with cousins. it took forever to find parking but it was worth it. we also had to scavenge for coins for the meter, and i managed to save the day! (or at least i like to think so...).

monday was AWESOME, and i even have pictures to prove it! yay! we had a surprise party for laura's birthday. it took us around an hour to fill all those waterballoons, and only 2 minutes to get rid of them. :)

this is my sad attempt to take a picture of myself, one of three... :)

reinalyn trying to fix her camera...

it works! yay!

a kid going off with one of the balloons that I PAID FOR. i'll get him back some day...

laura, pam, and grace going off with some of the many pieces of fried chicken...

my pants after the other elaine decided it would be funny to throw a giant waterballoon at my butt...

there she is! i see you!

steven, grace, and laura with her heart balloon while we were trying to play truth or dare...

anyway, you get the idea. lot's of food, lot's of people, lot's of fun. i took a couple more pictures but they're just taking too long to upload. also, i'm really lazy. that too.

tuesday i took my anatomy final for the cat dissection, which was a lot harder than i anticipated. i suppose 70 out of 90 is ok considering that i didn't study at all.

the next couple of days were just a whole lot of nothing. except for today...

today was the last day of school for seniors, which i suppose would be a lot sadder if i had more senior friends. oh well. i didn't see as many people crying and stuff as i did last year. i guess it's cuz i was closer to a couple more seniors last year. today was just a bunch of people with their camcorders and digital cameras, capturing their every last move.

i was thinking if i should go buy a yearbook this saturday. i kinda just want to look at it. i'm not so sure how many people will even sign it. :/

next week school will be totally empty. :) i can't wait to go to graduation.

so tired...

i really want to go to sleep now. but i can't. i'm expecting an important phone call that i really don't want to miss because if i do then i'll have to call him back and then i have to go through the whole awkward thing again that happened when i first called him and then i'll get really nervous and then i blah blah blah you get the point. i can't miss that call.

i only got 3.5 hours of sleep last night because i was studying for my history test. usually when i do things like dedicate my entire night to one class to study, it always turns out for the better when i get my grade back. but not today. i studied 6 hours straight last night, and then studied throughout the 3 classes i have before history, and STILL i had a hard time on that damn test. i cannot cannot cannot cannot cannot get a C in that class. i'm so borderline i can actually feel myself being pushed off the cliff... by someone... possibly the teacher... or his TAs that grade the tests. ugh. nevermind. forget what i said.

so last night as i was studying there was a minor earthquake going on. nothing important, a 3.something... i actually thought it was just my crappy house because my sister was walking around, and whenever you step there tends to be a shakey feeling. and then there was the aftershock, which was just there to confirm to me that it really was an earthquake. you would think that since i've been living in california for so long that i could actually distinguish an earthquake (even a minor one) from just a little shaking, but i guess not. almost during every earthquake i could have experienced here i was asleep. in fact, the first earthquake i've actually felt was not too long ago, with the typical reaction of "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!"

geez. look at me rambling on like an old lady. apologies for that. i tell you the tiredness is consuming me.

anywho. it'll be a while until i can actually post another creation of mine, just because i've been so busy and the project i'm working on right now can take up a lot of time, despite the fact that the place i got it from said it only took them 3 days to complete it. whatever. i like to take my time with these things. :)

i'm still waiting for that call!

sighous.

today was uber boring, as predicted. but that's ok, i guess. wait. not really. so much wasted time!

in 2nd period photoshop today i had 2 whole hours of nothingness, mainly because i was practically finished with the project when we began today. *sigh* i should have been knitting or texting someone. i wish i could text in class in a more secretive way. the desks in the computer class are way too big to hide my phone under. whatever. i don't evcn know what i'm being charged for texting. until my parents complain or yell at me about how much i'm texting, i guess i'll just keep texting at my normal rate (which i'm guessing is expensive, mainly because i'm super-scrooge-style cheap).

it's May, which means more graduations and birthdays. this means more hush hush secrets and more big huge surprises (kinda, but not really). i can't wait until this year is over! i feel kinda bad... i should have some summer plans set up by now (the mustang update demanded that i do something with my life). i really need to start looking for a job. it's about time i start making some money, dammit! i suppose i need a car first... but before that i need a license... but before that i need to learn how to drive... i mean, i know how to drive. i know how to drive. it's just that i'm really REALLY bad at it. i don't think i can stand failing another driving test. i couldn't stand the patronization that i endured from that instructor guy when i failed.

oh, Jon Stewart. you jest me so. Steven Colbert could never take your place! :)

it's saturday night...

and i've decided to write just cuz i'm really bored right now. i spent all of this morning helping out my sister with all her prom stuff for tonight and now that she's gone i don't really have anything to do. hohumhum....

i'm supposed to be practicing my script for english, but whatever. i don't have the attention span for that. so far i've learned 2 lines! yay for me! but not really. the whole thing's due monday, so i guess i really have to get prepared.

so i guess i'll just sit here... and blog... and listen to music... sad music... all night.... :( ugh. i was supposed to buy a bunch of t-shirts this morning so that i can make yarn out of them for my next knitting project, but i was so caught up in getting all that crap for my sister that we had no time. grr. i don't think i have time to buy the shirts tomorrow either. SIGH.

damn you imogen heap. such sad and addictive music. huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

i'm really tired. for the past week i've been staying after school every day till 5 to work on projects and birthday stuff (happy birthday, elaine!) and just to stay with friends. it was fun while it lasted but now i'm -for lack of a better word- pooped. but i guess i've had enough time to catch up on sleep. it's time to get back on track! sigh. too tired. i'll do it later. :)

ENORMOUSLY LONG entry!

i know, i know, i haven't been here in AGES, but i have a good reason! well, not really. whatever. just be thankful that i came here today! let's go over what i've done for the past 3 months or so... oh yeah. some of these pictures are really crappy, just cuz the only camera i had around at the time was my camera phone.

food! i've been really busy trying too cook new foods and whatnot. i'm trying to keep this entry as short as possible, so i'll cut back on some of the explanations for some of this food.


i made apfelpfannkuchen so i could get points in german class. mission accomplished!

i made some curry potato pierogi, but i got lazy during the process and the dough was kinda iffy...

i tried making some of Giada de Laurentis' beef and arugula pasta, which actually turned out quite nice, despite this picture...

i also tried making some sweet potato fries, which turned out really good. :)

so yeah..! i also kept myself busy with some crafts:

i tried making a halter from a regular t-shirt when i got the idea from ohmystars... it didn't quite turn out right, but i suppose it was ok for my first try.


i made some marble magnets that i saw on not martha. they look a lot better in person than in this photo...

i knit this scarf from ohmystars, which was really easy, but took WAY too long to do... i'm never going to knit a scarf again; i don't have the patience.


ta da! i sewed up this knitting needle case. now i finally have somewhere to put all my dpns!

speaking of dpns, i actually did use them for a project once, but it turned out horribly wrong. so right now i'm looking for a new project. yay!

hey there!

yeah you! it's been a while!

around a week ago i finished knitting my fingerless gloves, and although they remind me of hobos, i really only knit them because they were so darn easy to! (pattern courtesy of oh my stars).

so here it is:

i suppose they would look better with my hands inside them, but it would have been really hard to take the picture.

i really want to go to Michaels sometime this week, but unfortunately i have no money to spend. it's been this way since Christmastime... i basically spent all my money on gifts before Christmas, and after it i spent it all on me. on Christmas i got $30, which i spent the week after, forgetting that i needed a new backpack. it would have been just enough to to buy one, but i was caught up in the spending spirit when i visited the mall. i really need to retire my old trogdor bag-- i've been using that for three years now, and i know everyone is tired of it. whatever.

now that second semester in school has started, my second period class has changed from keyboarding to Photoshop (finally!). it's a lot harder, but atleast i left that godforsaken class once and for all. i can never remember all the shorcuts and techniques that we learned in PS the day before (resulting in very bad quiz grades), but it is still better than the class i had before. :)

what i have been trying to do

since i started this blog was to upload pictures of my crafty creations that i make in my spare time... so far i haven't had enough time (or knowhow) to do this, but now i have time!

about 2 weeks ago i started making kanzashi flowers out of the spare scraps of cloth i have left over. it was really easy, thanks to various sites like one hour craft (which i am kind of addicted to right now). so here's what i made:











this is the first couple i made... kinda crappy, but i guess it's pretty good for my first try.












these are the next two i made. getting better...












this is the next one i made, and it's starting to look good.












these are the last ones i made. they look a lot better, but sorry for the crappy pictures. it was too dark, and the flash was too bright. anywho, i actually starched the fabric when making these two flowers, making it a lot easier to deal with.

later on i shall post more pictures of my craftiness, just so my blog looks a little more interesting. i should start to knit again cuz on some occasions i have a LOT of spare time.

looking outside at the falling leaves and crazy winds,

i wonder why all this is happening now rather than in september or october when it should have. according to www.weather.com, winds here right now range from 13 to 19 mph. hmmm... i can hear my house breaking apart from the inside. dang. this house is old. some of the shingles from the roof are actually falling off, thankfully just into the backyard and nowhere else. when the bathroom door is closed, i can feel the wind rushing through that little gap between the door and the floor; we like to keep the bathroom window open for obvious reasons.

i hope everyone had a very pleasant holiday season. :) christmas and new years was pretty cool i guess. the younger part of our family spent time playing board games [which you would think is pretty lame, but actually turned out fun]. i had fun engorging myself with holiday food and unwrapping presents and whatnot.

today is the last weekday of summer break before i return to school, and i still have not finished my homework. how could i? i need more lazy time, dammit! i actually did get a video camera for christmas, but i have yet to understand how everything works [the owner's manual has very BAD english]. i actually recorded something today, but it took me forever to find out how to view what i recorded. now only a couple hours later, i can't even remember how i did all of that. oh well. there's always time for it later... on the 15th we have a 3 day weekend. :)

BAMMM! hit with the holidays!

only a few more days until christmas, and i'm not even done with presents. dang. i was supposed to bring cookies for my friends that i didn't make presents for. i baked them, but they turned out looking like crap. like literally crap. they were supposed to look like chocolate kisses but ended up looking like poo (swirly anime style). gross. i was too embarrassed to bring it to school. oh well.

so my parents have been asking me what i want for christmas. after asking for and getting a very cheap present last year (a little less than $20), i decided to go all out this year and ask for a video camera. and why not? i mean, except for the exuberant price... what i really want to do is just record all my precious moments with my friends... *aww* i probably won't get what i asked for, but atleast i know i tried :)

if i don't get a video camera, then what i would want is a backpack. a really plain one, like those small jansport ones. i should retire my old Trogdor one... i've used it for 3 years now and it's getting really bad. plus, i should be honest now, i haven't really gone on www.homestarrunner.com in the longest time. i've kinda grown out of that humor, plus my computer freezes a lot when watching videos.

GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

i am tired. so very, very tired. it's not that i did a lot, it's that i barely did anything and now i have a lot to do. ehhh.. i'll talk about this later.

This morning was freakin' freezing. our car was frozen at the top and on the windows so it took a lot of energy trying to wipe that ice crap off. ugh. anyway, today should be a really busy day for me. during lunch we have the Halo Halo cabinet Christmas party thing and i have to pick up my gingerbread house from german class. after school aimee and i have to go to the post office or LBC or whatever to mail a bunch of stuff my mom has to send to the Philippines. i also have to go to michaels to buy a shirt and some paint so i can put a giant L on it (woot! HALO HALO!). once i get home i can finish off Christmas gifts and bake some cookies. mmmmm... cookies. wait. i'm getting a little off topic...

nuts. i still need to buy some presents... and i was planning on giving them out tomorrow! ugh.

terrible planning + procrastination = STUPID ELAINE!

dang. i'm talking to myself again. just ignore it; talk amongst yourselves...

Christmas is only a few days away! i can't believe it. i didn't even put the lights up yet around the house. oh well. i'll get to it sometime this week.

i can't wait until this week is over. i can't stand school right now. too much to do. this is the only class i have where i can relax and i don't think i can relax here cuz i hate this class. dear god i hate it so much. ugh.

this weekend laura has been talking a lot to me about possessed dolls. now i'm really paranoid about it. thanx a lot, laura! man, cuz of that i couldn't stand being alone at home last night. there's too many dolls in my room!! AHH!!!!!

yesterday i went to reinalyn's birthday party and it was pretty cool just chilling and playing around. she has a freakin' huge house, and we had a little dinner party thing going on since there was a lot of food and only five of us. there were candles, dinnerwear, and even classical music at one point... it was very classy until we started making fun of jackie. poor jackie. ohh well.

i missed uncle's birthday dinner last night so i could stay at reinalyn's shindig, but that's ok. i had a load of homework anyway, and i had to print out some pictures of reinalyn's new look. MAKEOVER TIME!!

yesterday morning i had another driving lesson, and this time i drove on the freeway. it was something that proves i will never be a great driver... i drive too slow, and the instructor was yelling at me to go faster on the freeway, and i panicked and hit the breaks a couple of times. pshhh. that's what he gets for yelling at me. you mess with me and it'll risk your LIFE! haha. he did deserve it... i thought that would be the last of my lessons with that guy, but my mom asked him if i could take a couple more. WHY?!!

grar. i know you probably can't stand reading these long entries about my boring life. if it makes you feel better, i feel the same way about you! anyway, this is annoying me. this class is a waste of my time. i could be catching up on work i need to do instead of pretending i'm doing work in here.

chuhhhhhhhhh. this is my new "whatever" noise. it'll replace gruhhhhhhhh and nmhnmmuhhhhh for a while now. chuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgh.

it looks like i'm gonna be busy this weekend too...

it's gonna be freakin' crazy for me.

today i have to go to the park with elaine and mindy for our english project and later go to mindy's house to work on it some more. i might go late on saturday to work on it again with the whole group....

saturday morning i have to go to sally's house to work on the math project. i also have to work on and finish christmas presents and various birthday presents. i need to go shopping!!

sunday i'm going to reinalyn's birthday party where we'll share precoious moments *aww*.

yesterday i went to madrisse's house to work on the english project, but instead we kept going off on "tangents" (as madrisse likes to call it). it was fun anyway, wasting time. we listened to a lot of music and watched America's Next Top Model. eventually we went over the script for the project. eventually.

i've done too much this week. that's how you know you've done more than you can handle-- you feel like you're a day ahead when you're really a day behind. i feel like it's saturday. so why the hell am i at school? (if you couldn't already tell, i'm im class right now).

this weekend's gonna be crazy.

i've been really tired lately. i've had too many strange dreams... some of you may know what i'm talking about (gross!). what i hate most is dreams where people die. they make me nervous. anywho, because i've been having really strange dreams this year, i've been really looking into them to find out what they mean. it's really perplexing.

elaine has been telling me a lot lately that she's gonna make me a MySpace. ewww. i suppose it's more convenient for contacting others since everyone has one, but that's kinda the reason i don't want one; EVERYONE HAS ONE. it's too conformist for me. gah.

i'm doing really bad in math analysis. i have a C! it's really sad. i've gotten C's on the last couple of tests, and i always do bad on quizzes. Damn those quizzes! it's not that it's hard or anything, it's just that i can't really remember everything that i need to. Christine demanded that i get an A on the next test. yeah. i don't think so. i actually thought i did well on that last big quiz thing, but i looked at it later and i got another C. ugh. this is what i get for trying NOT to cheat.

hmmm. i kinda forgot what magnanimous means.... let's go and see! so Dictionary.com says:

1.
generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness: to be magnanimous toward one's enemies.
2.
high-minded; noble: a just and magnanimous ruler.
3.
proceeding from or revealing generosity or nobility of mind, character, etc.: a magnanimous gesture of forgiveness.

hmm... i'm not sure if that all applies to me. i'll let you guys decide.

so i guess it's been a while...

since i last updated this thing. a lot of stuff has been going on with me, and i know i'll be really busy this month.... too much stuff to do!!

-friday: TRY and go to Battle of the Bands
-saturday: go to Sally's house to work on project
-sunday: driving lessons, then go to Janet's house to work on another project
-monday: *drool*
-tuesday: finish shirt needed for club picture (or is that next tuesday? oh well)

so as you can see, this weekend's packed. let's take a look at next weekend:

-friday: TRY to go to the christmas party
-saturday: FINISH CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!
-sunday: Reinalyn's birthday party

so yeah... i know christmas presents will take a while cuz i'm making most of them. for the ones i'm not making, i still need to go out and buy them.

ugh.

I was going to post some pictures today of my friends, Halo Halo Hip Hop, and my latest knitting projects but heute ist sehr traurig fuer mich und fuer die Schule. Ich bin sehr gestoert im mein Kopf. I kinda don't want to explain it right now. I'll try and post pictures next week.



i am so sick of cars.

the weather is changing...

and i know this because i am sick. Also because the temperature on the thermometer on my fish's tank is significantly lower than it was a week ago. So what does this mean? It means i can knit more stuff without feeling like I'm a weirdo. I'm planning on knitting a lacy scarf once i'm done with my cable purse. which reminds me- i have to stop spending money. Lately I've been spending a lot of my birthday money on yarn and other stuff. i have to make sure i put my money in a place where i could just forget about it- that way it will eventually accumulate to something i could spend instead of something i'm just holding on to like my coin jar. Why is coinstar so expensive anyway?

I went to the football game last night when we played covina. yeah... we lost 7 to 41. If i were a football fan and if i even remotely supported our team i think i would have cried. Since Grace couldn't go with me i ended up hanging out with Jessica and a couple of her friends. It was ok, although most of the time i wasn't really sure what was going on. Atleast the halftime show was ok... i don't want to say anything bad about it because i know they probably put a lot of hard work into it... but i should say that the other team's band was pretty loud, even if they were small and scattered around the seats. maybe they DID have hidden microphones...

Anywho, my classes have been ok so far. I mean, besides the usual ton of work i get. I'm actually studying for the tests this year instead of just glancing at notes 10 minutes before. That's good, right? This year has been a lot harder than the past two and i guess now i have to believe it when the older students told me that junior year would be the toughest year in high school. hmmm... maybe it's not that hard and it's just the laziness of summer trying to push its way back in. If it is just laziness, then i have to make sure that it stays out for a while- i have 2 projects coming up, and i know there is more to come.

the first official post here!

i kind of have to make this one short though. right now i'm in keyboarding class. i hate this class. god i hate this class. so why am i taking it, you ask? mainly because we're required to have atleast one computer class during high school. i decided to take the easiest A that i could get here, which was keyboarding. when i chose this class though, i forgot that i had taken it before in eighth grade... so i guess that was my fault. but anywho, i suppose it's not too bad because it gives me free time to surf around the internet every day.

lately i've been looking for good knitting patterns online. i have to make sure somehow that it works... last time i got a pattern online for a bunny plushie that i tried to make twice, but both times they ended up looking like some sort of rabbit-armadillo hybrid. yesterday i knit a really simple bookmark; maybe later i'll post a picture of it. i was planning on knitting this lacey one that i saw online, but i didn't know what the hell they were talking about in the instructions. i really need to learn some of the more complicated stitches so i can knit better stuff.

see? i told you it would be short. but anyway, bye for now! :]

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