Don't Trust Eighth Graders With Fire

Aloha! (Well isn't that an appropriate greeting for this lovely COLD WINTER SEASON??)

I'm not sure what to say at the moment, but I feel like blogging, so mwah! =D

I think I may copy my friend (The Silly Observer)'s last post format... Since I just read that post, and I feel inspired to type up my own thoughts on the subjects that she touched on. =)

So what am I doing in Science? Well several weeks ago, we conducted an experiment to observe physical and chemical changes. So of course we.... ROASTED MARSHMALLOWS! With hot plates! Not kidding!! We even got to eat them!! I used to think my science teacher is a completely boring and dull with zero creativity for her lessons, but as this experiment shows, she does have a somewhat interesting side. Hehe, we even got to eat the marshmallows... My friend Kristen's marshmallow caught on fire though. Oops.
And on Friday, we had another experiment in which we observed the decomposition of water. So we hooked up a beaker of water and sodium hydroxide (I think...) to a battery pack thingy, and performed electrolysis on the solution to produce hydrogen and oxygen. The said hydrogen and oxygen were contained in syringes... And you'll never guess what my teacher entrusted us to do...
She had us light matches and light a splint, and put the flame or glowing splint into the syringes containing hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen-filled syringe made a pleasant popping noise (like a popping balloon for example) when we put the flame inside and the flame went out. As for the oxygen... Well obviously we didn't put a flaming splint in THAT. (That would have been stupid, even for us lil' eighth graders.) No, we put a glowing splint (think glowing coal, like not on fire but glowing...) in the syringe with the oxygen and kept relighting the flame.

It was awesome.
But dangerous. Who trusts psychotic eighth graders with matches? Apparently my science teacher. I was slightly frightened by my classmates, but I'm sure they were scared of me whenever I lit the matches... I'm sort of a pyro, lol.

As to The Silly Observer: Do those friends that think they're in love include me? HAHAHA

Ooooh I'm totally hooked on two K-pop songs that just came out.... I will post videos at the end.

Anyway, uhmmm.... Wow Saturday I was practicing a dance with my friends, and then I tripped and fell... My whole right side of my body is completely bruised. I limp now lol. And then of course today, I walked into a wall, releasing a new wave of pain. o.e Ouch.

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Snuggies and DDR

What is that?

Why, you guessed right; that is the elusive, always desirable Snuggie!

And why is this random picture posted here?

Someone at school (not specifying who, but his name rhymes with Dandrew Wee) decided to wear a Snuggie to school tomorrow! Since it doesn't exactly violate the dress code... He was allowed to wear it throughout the whole day!! (A teacher even gave him a thumbs up, apparently.) I fear that I see a new school trend in the coming future...

Anyway! The 87th day of school is this coming Wednesday, January 27th. I'm sure you are going "WTF" right now, but not to worry! I will now explain this amazing holiday...

The 87th day of school is obviously... On the 87th day of school. This tradition was started by my friends in 6th grade and continues to live on. (Yes, one of us actually counts all the school days from the first day all the way to the 87th one.) On the 87th day of school, my group of friends and I all decide to wear pink and dress really preppy...

Which is funny because it is the exact opposite of what we really are. Me being a weirdo that wears black all the time. But of course, this coming Wednesday, for the first time all year, I will be wearing PINK. As in, a hot pink and black skirt (yes I had to add in some black... Otherwise I would be sooo self-concious all day.) and I will also be wearing my hair in pigtails... For the first time since, like, kindergarden. (I don't have anything against pigtails, they're just not my style.)

I'm sure that when I go to school jaws will drop and I will try to hide the best I can. I hope I'm not the only one that remembers to do this, like last year. (It sucked, but I shall trudge on with the tradition!)

Hmmm... Much more to catch everyone up-to-date on. Today was the DDR fundraiser, in which all the related arts classes in one period that are supposed to have Spanish/Gym gather in the gym to play a massive game of DDR. Since most people are not quite that great at DDR or don't enjoy it... Most people were sitting, standing around, or pretending to play. But the people that were playing were REALLY GOOD. I was playing also. (No I'm not being conceited, I don't mean to count myself as "the people", haha sorry.)

Bragging time! The last song was of course the hardest, with spazztic steps and like 2 steps per second, and all the people in my group abandoned me... Yet i managed to get 4th place out of like 50 people all by myself! So proud of myself. =) By the end, I was panting.

Also, I'm having an issue with rumors, my ex, and possible a lying friend. 'Nuff said.

Oh! And I actually got lines in the school play. So happy. =) My name is Dr. Krogmeyer, mwahaha!

Shout-Outs and Random Rants

Here are some shout-outs to people... See if I had something to say to you. Seriously, do that. And respond? Through text, or if it's not too personal, comment. Or call me. Or talk to me in person. (Which is possible for some, others not.) And if a person that is listed here does not read this blog, disregard it! Or you can read it and wonder what the heck I'm talking about. Or take my side. Or something, IDK. =) This is basically me just letting out stuff.

TO The Silly Observer- AJ or RJ? Because Elyse and I were talking about that and if it's RJ... Every considered that RJ could equal RRJ (as in reader response journal). So this is what Elyse said: "What if you said that you were doing 'RRJ homework'..." LOL her words, not mine!

TO Saph- DUDE omg I don't even remember who "he" is. Axel right?

TO Kendara- We need to do more of those dances. After Chinese school, maybe? =)

TO Twi- If you're annoyed by my constant talking about Michael, then just tell me! I mean, I understand. You just seem like you want me to randomly burst into a rant.

TO Val- I realize that there are other countries out there that have farm land or/and are less fortunate than we are in the US, thanks. I'm not that self-absorbed, unobservant, and shallow thanks. I mean, I'm not like Sierra. I am highly globally aware.

TO people in Haiti- I hope you guys get along and get the aid that you need to survive through this tragedy. My heart goes out to you.

TO Mrs. W in Art- I don't think people are actually willing to bid on wooden painted hearts that a bunch of 8th grade art students made. Even if the money goes to Haiti. Wooden hearts are just not that desirable.

TO Mrs. B, my principal- Why did you yell at Mrs. Maio? She did nothing wrong. TYLER was the one that flipped off on her and ran out of the classroom. Mrs. Maio was not to blame. I mean, she couldn't chain Tyler down, could she?

TO Tyler- Stop being such an a**h*** to teachers. They want to be here just as much as we do. And even if they want to be at school, they went for the job to teach. Mostly for our benefit. Just stfu Tyler. You're not cool!

TO Will L.- Accept Stayla's FB friend request. Seriously, she bothers me about it every day. I don't want to talk to you because you're annoying and weird, so just accept it and move on!

TO Aqua- Are you sure you don't like Michael anymore? I still feel horrible.

TO Michael- Okay, seriously stop blowing me off by lying. I hate liars. Just frickin tell me it to my face so I can openly blow up on you. Do you like me or not? You said you did. You said you loved me even, so what the heck is your problem? Or have you just been lying all this time?

TO Dad- Stop yelling, I can hear you.

TO Mom- I want the new Reader's Digest! FINISH READING IT SO I CAN!


Okay, I'm good. Hope that was entertaining! =)

Reuniting OMIGOSH

Omigosh! Today my best friend from 1st grade (who also moved away) called me out of the blue, after like 8 years??

Crazy!! But I'm so happy because we were such good friends. So yeah we made plans, and she's coming to my school's play in March to see me. =)

YAYAYAY!!!!

Anyway nothing else to say, so bye for now! ^-^

Grounds for Sculpture

Hello everyone... I completely forgot to mention that on Wednesday, my art class went on a field trip to Grounds for Sculpture! All the sculptures were amazing... Absolutely magnificient and (dare I say it?) MAJESTIC.

For those of you that don't know what the Grounds for Sculpture, it is, ehem, grounds for sculpture. Like, literally. It is, I believe, 35 acres of nature and art combined. Founded by J. Seward Johnson (who is also a relative of Johnson & Johnson, yes those people.), the sculptures are placed in a natural environment and meld perfectly with the nature. Beautiful trees and flowers and stuff mixed with beautiful pieces of art? Absolutely wonderful.

Seriously, go there some time. Even if you're not a big appreciator of art, you'll find this place breath-taking.

Gosh I sound like a really bad cheesy book/quote/calandar and whatnot with my amazing synnanyms for "amazing". So hey, I'll just say that the place was amazing, okee dokee?

Well anyway it was awesome (another synnanym for amazing, yes), especially since alot of my friends are in the art class and went on the field trip too. Also including a certain someone who I IGNORED for a while, but then eventually began annoying him. It was like a 45 bus ride there... And seriously, if not for my iPod, I woulda died. Everyone was so dang QUIET!

And just if you were, ya know, wondering, no I did not sit with HIM. He sat with his friend Laura, which got me a little jealous, but like, whatever, she's my friend too.... And she texted me using his phone, which pissed him off because then we started talking about him. (We changed his name to Roger-Fabio. =])

But enough about him! He's a party pooper!! Especially since he looked kinda sad the whole trip as soon as he realized I was there, hehehe. But ANYWAY!

Ground for Scuplture. Mhmm, loved it! We spent the whole school day there (so that was about 6 or 7 hours). We packed our own lunches, etc. It was FREEZING and we were outside the whole time, except for lunch when we went inside and raided the cafe and giftshop. I feel so bad for the employees working there, imagine about 80 little 8th graders running around and eating and talking with their mouths full.... So scary. (Oh and no there aren't 80 kids in my art class, my school has two periods of art class, so 40. And then the other 40 were the art students from our rival school across town, so it was all BLEH TENSION RIVALRY RAWR!)

At the gift shop, I bought a pretty red tiger eye stone necklace. With my uhm (mom's) money. She didn't specify what KIND of emergancy to use it for... Right?

This is sort of like the one that I bought. I'm wearing it right now, in fact! =)

Anyway, here are pictures of some of the sculptures I loved the most.

This one is actually really tiny and was hidden among bushes on a trail through these trees next to a treehouse type building. I loved this one, because it was so perfect, and TINY!

This one we walked by, and since it is winter, the trees around it had no leaves and such. The water was also ice, and some snow that refused to melt still lay around. This one is really impressive, because it's huge, and when you walk past a dense area of trees, this one is like BAM all of a sudden there!

This one is a life-size recreation of a famous painting, but with a few tweaks. For example, if you look closely, one of the members of this party is actually a sculpture of J. Seward Johnson, who of course, was not in the original painting.

So, that concludes my enormous novel of a post! Since you have only seen 3 out of around 250 sculptures from the Grounds for Sculpture here, I really recommend that you look some up. Or even better- take a trip to the Grounds for Sculpture! Even if you live far away, the trip will be worth it. =)

I really do recommend that you go during spring or summer. Or fall. Anytime besides winter, because it's mostly outside and YOU WILL FREEZE TO DEATH! And also, there are some fountains and special sculptures that only go out in the spring/summer. I missed those. =( Hopefully, you will not! Adios for now!

Broken Hearts Suck

Yeah because I'm such an idiot, I decided to type a whole post about the idiocy called BREAK UPS. And the suckiness and how it's nearly impossible to continue being friends with a guy who breaks your heart. And not only THAT, but when you try to convince him out of it, and you tell him that you love him, and he's just like, "Yeah." and nothing else, that really hurts, especially if you've been going out for four months. And how even though he knows he completely DESTROYED your heart, he continues to live life happily, which is not possible for you, who has been utterly DESTROYED AND HEART BROKEN. I mean, when you're willing to risk loving someone and giving them the power to hurt you ALOT, you also trust that they WON'T. But of course they hurt you and stomp and stab your heart and then you start writing a huge post about it and then it starts sounding emo.

Hyothetically.

And I mean typically boyfriends and girlfriends kiss in about a week or so, but when you aren't given any opportunities to because of your psychotic parents and his psychotic schedule, you expect him to be understanding and wait, because hey, aren't you waiting for him now? And the thing is, maybe he doesn't love you as much as you do him if he's not willing to wait for you. Or maybe he is and you've been slowly hurting him, hence making him uncaring, though really he hurts too much. And anyway, so you expect him to be understanding, and I mean, he should understand that you wanna kiss him, but seriously kissing at school is kinda weird and sorta skanky and you obviously expect him to understand that.

Which, unfortunately, he doesn't.

And what hurts the most for you, after you break up with your boyfriend which is now your ex, is that you see him everyday and the sad part is that you still love him and are still willing to let him take you again, and take the risk of letting him break your heart AGAIN.

It's all theoretical.

Break-ups Suck

Apparently it's better being "just friends"... Ugh, and "if that doesn't work out, maybe we can just go out again". Direct quotes.

Uh huh definitely. Some people are a tiniest bit naive. Not naming names.

That's okay though... I'll make sure being "just friends" "doesn't work out". I have plenty of opportunities this week actually! ;)

I was crying all day... But I'm done crying, and time to bounce back and get to work!