Saturday Speaks!

It's Saturday, making it a great day, plus Christmas is coming up. I still have a million presents to buy (and create-shh!), so it's been pretty busy in the Rankin household. It's enjoyable, though. What's really great is that I can get my share of the computer now. For some reason, Amy isn't as over protective of it. I like to believe it is the Christmas Spirit that is "haunting" her. (:

It's almost Christmas, and only a week of school to live through, thank goodness! It's great to be off for a while. Even this weekend feels good! I have barely any homework, and I'm working on it right now, so it's all good. Also, I just went to The Twelve Days of Christmas for my Math Teacher, Mrs. Yuhas. The twelve days of Christmas is when 13 days before Christmas, we follow along with the song. For instance, on the seventh day of Christmas, or seven swans a swimming, then we make seven origami swans, then give them to someone who you think needs a bit of excitement or something. You have to deliver it on secret every day, though. That is what makes it so fun. It has always been a family tradition to do it every year. So, on the very first day, I was my ultra too exciting self and insisted upon driving around the block after delivering the gift to see Mrs. Yuhas face. The expression of the first day is always the greatest. Well, this year I definitely got a good look, that's for sure. Too good, if you catch my drift.

We, my mom and I, drove around the block. When, we come around, Mrs. Yuhas and her daughter are on the porch, and as we drive by, I insist upon mom to drive slower, so I can get a good look at her surprised face. So, here we are driving slowly in front of her house, so slow we are almost stopped. I guess that's what caught their eyes, because as we slowed, they looked up.

The thing with our car is that the back seat windows, no one can see in them because of the type of glass, whatever it's called. But, however, the front seat windows aren't like that. So, I was staring at the window, and Mrs. Yuhas looks up, and whoopdedoo, she's staring right at me. I hear mom say, "look away,", but I don't. I can't because I've now made direct eye contact with my teacher. Yipee!

The next day at school, I'm freaked out about what to do, cause I can't go to math or else she's gonna be like, "hey, why were you at my house yesterday?" Well, I didn't need to worry, because she didn't say that. She said something more like this, "...". So, I'm sitting down, and we usually have a great conversation, but there wasn't anything. So, now I know she's suspicious, and she knows that I'm suspicious because neither of us are approaching the other. Wow.

But anyhow, it's even more fun, because now I have no idea whether she really suspects me or not. She could even know it is me, but I don't know, so yeah. It's so fun. I've always enjoyed doing it every year. I remember last year we did it for the coach of the football team, Mr. Selover. He is also a Social Studies teacher, and was Amy's. That's why we did it for him. One day, (it was night thankfully) he sat up waiting for me. I crouched down to put down the gift, and what do you know, the door opens and standing over me is Mr. Selover. Of course, I follow my first instinct and ran. However, I took the present with me. Since he is the coach, he is very athletic (and much more so than I), so of course he ran after me. I screamed. I screamed my head off as I ran. Luckily for me, mom was pretty close by where she parked so I got in. Mr. Selover actually thought it was Amy because of my hair, which is sorta the same color, but my voice wasn't the same, making him puzzled, which is good, because he didn't have any clue again. But, we had to go back that same night to deliver the present again because I had never let go of it.

All in all, have a good Christmas everyone! Hearts for all!

Waiting for an Email

So, I've been on the internet for who knows how long, waiting for an email that hasn't come. My team in Science has the Rough Draft (a very pretty one, if I may say so myself) due tommorrow, when we realized, Oh my goodness! We don't have an invention name! So what do we have to do? Haritha (one of my team members) is making up the name, and she said she would send it to me, so now I have to wait for who knows how long for an email that hasn't come, plus Amy is getting home soon and has a lab report to do when she gets here, so I have to be done by then. So, Haritha better hurry up and not take forever, because wether you believe it or not, I have a life, which is completely contradictory to one of my other entries.

Well, I'll just have to do my other homework while I wait. If worst comes to worst I can always call her (thankfully I have her phone number). So, in the end, I think today has been a great day. Awesome. Yeppers.

Love to all y'all (as my friend would say)

STEM

STEM is really getting annoying right now. It is becoming hard to do what I need to, but I can't stop working or else. This is important. We are doing ExploraVision, which is a contest where you make an invention that can be used 20 years from now. If we win (which is doubtful because of the thousands of competitors), we get 10,000 dollars and prizes per person! Anyhow, I have to go, so bye! Nothing is really happening, like usual, but that's ok.
Bye!

If Christmas Were Today...

It's Saturday, and it's without marching band. I feel sooo bored now that marching band season is over. What should I do? Here, why don't we play hours of videogames just to get some sort of excitement out of this Saturday? That gets mom mad. At least I was doing something constructive in Marching Band. But now, it's just blah. I'm so bored, I even decided to do my homework early! Which is a first for me, especially when there is my Nintendo DS sitting on my lap. Surprisingly, I have nothing to do. I did a little homework, played a ton of video games, and I just finished my German homework online right now, and I don't even want to play any more videogames because I'm tired of playing! What I would do for a lot of people and a game of Bang! or Killer Bunnies right now, or even the Great Dalmuti or Screwy Lewy. I really want Christmas to hurry up so I can have someone to play with. THAT would make my day. If only it were Christmas.....

Anyhow, my Christmas list is pretty short. Actually, it has three things on it. Videogames, Gift Cards, and, what do you know, Candy. So, there you go. Buy me a big bag of Swedish Fish and Skittles and I'll be happy all day long. Don't forget a lot of games, with all of my family members (so have fun trying to convince my mom to actually play instead of work;or work while playing, or have some work that will take a million hours to finish before she can play).

So, I'm pretty happy. Just bored. And kinda tired, but less tired than I was in Band season. That's pretty much the only up. Mom says that because I was in Marching Band, my grades were down in the gutter. The strange thing is, I've noticed they've gone down AFTER marching band season was over. Huh, will you look at that? I wonder why. Oh, I know! I'm so BORED! Some might say, "How does that happen? Wouldn't it be better?" Wrong! Before, I was always in the working habit. I worked longer, harder, and more efficiently. Now that I'm bored, I just want to get it over with! I don't care as much. Because of my "lack of good grades during the Marching Band season", my mom and dad are probably going to restrict me (yes, a very harsh word) from joining Marching Band. What they don't get is the up side of my situation and being in Marching Band. I'm so much happier there in the Band room. It's like a second home, which I can't go to because I'm not in Highschool! It's crazy, I know. So, if I don't join Marching Band, then I will be very mad at my parents, as will Megan and Abby be mad at me, because I would never be there. It's crazy, I know. A whole mess, and a whole year of dreading to wait for it. Grrr!!!

Anyhow, happy news time! So, today I have nothing to do, so I'm going to spend some quality time on my room! Let's see what mom'll think of that! Now, she can't complain about my lack of constructiveness! Yeah! Bing bing bing! Solution!

Also, I have tons of time for more video games! I've just decided that there is another video game I haven't played today! Yay! So I better go! Bye!

Home At Last... With A Computer!

Thanks to Jeffery, our computer has now been fixed! Yay! I can go on the internet...at home! At least for now, but that's all I need to know. It's actually faster than before, which isn't saying much, but you can definitely see the improvement. It's great to be able to have fun on the internet, especially since I am on it and Amy isn't! She's busy right now, so I have the computer for the first time in who know's when!

The only bad news is that cute little baby Nathan and his family are all gone! They disapeared while I was at school, so I didn't even get to say goodbye. I love them all though.

Nathan and McKenzie were so cute though! Next to each other they looked like they were a giant and elf, Nathan being the giant. It's so cute just to see them lying next to each other.

Oops, I have to go. It's time for Young Womens. We are meeting early because we are going ice skating. Yay! I've never been ice skating before, but I kinda don't wanna go because I'm kinda tired of leaving home. I know, what a homebody!

Love ya all! I'll see you in a few weeks, most of you.

Home At Last... With A Computer!