I would like to introduce you all to Sexy Sax Man.
I know, it's the greatest thing you've ever seen. There's even more videos. All you have to do is get on YouTube and search Sexy Sax Man. And let your world become just that much better.
Holly
Maggie.
Meet my two dogs, Holly and Maggie. Holly's a 4 year old beagle, and Maggie's a 1 and a half year old bloodhound-Australian shepherd mix.
A goose nest outside of Barnes and Noble! There were actually a crap load of geese in the parking lot. But geese are my biggest fear so I only sucked up enough courage to take one picture before running into the safety of the store. [Just look at those beady little eyes!]
These two picture are from the Super Bowl. We took all my dad's Packer trading cards and wall-papered the basement. The bottom picture is the Packer corner. Except for the cards that stuff is up all year. It's basically a collection of all our Packer memorabilia.
My prom shoes! They're super tall, like 4 inches. I'm pretty tall to begin with, like 5'7 or 5'8, so I'm like 6 feet tall. I'm going to be towering over everyone, but I don't care because I love these shoes. Unless my friend Blake wears heels, I think she's 5'10.
And last but not least, I leave you with a picture of a drunken Easter bunny! It was really windy today and the bunny kept getting blown over. My dad's obsessed with blow-ups, we have one for pretty much every holiday: St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and I think 5 different ones for Christmas. And our front yard really isn't that big.
Today is an absolutely gorgeous day. It just feels like spring. Spring is my favorite time of the year, I don't know there's just something about it. I think the temperature is the main reason. In central Illinois during the winter it gets freeeezing cold and in the summer it gets extremely hot. Spring is perfectly in between. It could stay in the 70s forever and I would be totally okay with that. Maybe tomorrow I'll wear my new floral shorts from Forever 21...
Despite the beautiful weather I've been feeling sort of... antsy lately. Unsettled. I'm really not even sure why. I'll go to do something and completely forget what I was going to do or why. Or when I'm actually in the middle of doing homework, reading, messing around on the internet suddenly I can't stand it. All I want to do is stand up, scream, and just go. I don't even know where. At other times I have this insane amount of frustration built up in me. I try not to, but if someone comes up to me at the wrong time I just sort of snap. It's not like I'm unhappy and just want to get away. I'm finally in a really good place after several months of depression and hermitism. I'm just restless. I lie awake at night staring at the ceiling. Not even really thinking. I just have this urge to leave.
I'm aware of how nuts I sound right now. Maybe it's spring fever? Which I just Wikipedia-ed (try saying that out loud) and that doesn't sound right at all. "Spring Fever is the name for a temporary mood typically characterized by a state of low energy and weariness experienced by many people in springtime." I'm the opposite. I have too much energy but no where to put it. I want to explore and go on an adventure. Experience things I've never done before. Maybe it's because I'm so close to being done with high school I feel like I should get a move on with my life. I feel like maybe I've outgrown where I am. I want to separate from all that I know and just start new. I'm tired of the same people, same places.
Sigh, I've got Graduation Fever and I still have another year to go. Please, dear Lord, help me.
And now after my crazy little rant, check out this video. It's pretty cool, I must say.
(Has anyone noticed how short my posts have become? That probably means there's a really long one headed this way soon. Just wait.)
It's 11:00 p.m. right now and there is nothing in the world I want more than to go to bed. But I know that I would be extremely angry at myself if I messed up BEDA. So, here it is. Today's just been one of those days. Nothing really in particular, I think I just need to have a moment of relaxation. But there's no time.
As a member of the NHS I have to put up and take down the flag at school with my partner Emily. I put it up by myself today because Emily wasn't there in the morning. But I remembered a few hours after I got home that I didn't take it down after school. And I don't know if Emily did or not. So I might possibly be in some trouble tomorrow. Yay. On top of that I had a piano recital today and I didn't play so well. I mean, I still did good, but I could have done better. I hate when I let myself down like that. I'm not going to dwell on it, though, it was just one recital compared to all the others I've done.
This week's Top 2 Tuesday is the Top 2 Songs on Your iPod. I'm going to cheat a little because it's been a while since I updated my iPod. I don't really use my iPod anymore because I only have a CD player in my car so I get lazy and don't upload my new CDs on my iPod.
1. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
I love Katy Perry, so this was hard for me. But my favorite song of hers is definitely Teenage Dream. I think that's the type of feeling everyone wants to feel when they're in a relationship, or whatever, with someone. I know I do.[I hadn't seen the music video until now. Not really a big fan of it, but it's still a good song.]
2. Green Day - Viva La Gloria!
I have been a huge Green Day ever since I was 10. I think the first time I listened to them was with my brother. Their newest album, 21st Century Breakdown, is definitely my favorite. I got lucky the summer before sophomore year. My friend's parents were taking her, her brother, and a friend of each of theirs to a Green Day concert. So I got to go. It was totally amazing. Viva La Gloria such a good song. It's all rebel-y (like most Green Day songs) and it has piano. What more could you ask for?
I think I'm failing at giving up Mt Dew for Lent, or at least missing the point. I haven't failed in not drinking it. In fact I'm doing quite well at that. But I've managed to replace my Mt Dew addiction with Crush. It's gotten pretty bad. Does that mean I have to adjust and include Crush? Maybe I will... once I've finished this 12 pack. Don't judge me.
Speaking of addictions have I mentioned my obsession with tenrecs? They are so freaking adorable. Just look.
It's too much, it really is. There's this program called Zoo Crew at the local zoo. For about an hour you learn about different animals. And then for another hour you go around the zoo doing various jobs and learning about the habitats. I did it my 7th or 8th grade year and it was so much fun. I got to hold one of these adorable little creatures and they are the most precious things ever. The one I held was really shy. The spines aren't prickly at all and their underbellies are super soft. I'm determined to own one some day.
Now, I'm not really a gay rights activist or anything like that. But this video showed up in my tumblr feed today and it's amazing. I really wanted to share it with you guys.
Well, I really planned on talking more, but I've been gone all day long and I have some ACT prep stuff my English teacher assigned that I really need to do. ACT, gross. I'm trying not to stress about it though. I do better if I just show up and do. The more I worry and freak out the worse I do.
HE'S DONE!!!! Whew, he's finally done. It took us eleven days to do it, but we did. For ten days straight we stop with Spanish lessons and just spend the whole time working on our pinatas. But that's just our Spanish teacher being super optimistic. The Spanish 1 and 2 classes have to have theirs finished by 5 tonight. We have the rest of the week to finish. The seniors finished their pinata yesterday. They made Kevin from the movie Up. My friends Alex and Hailey are making Otto from Rocket Power. They're almost done, so I'm going to help them tomorrow. My friend Rachel is making Baby Peach. I'm sooo excited to have it done, you can not believe. Except now we can't decide who gets to keep him. I think we'll probably just settle on the old names in a hat dealie.
So you know how I had that one guy friend who wasn't talking to me any more? Well I guess he is now... I was walking to band and he tapped my shoulder. Yeah, I fell for the whole tap the other shoulder when the person's actually on the other side thing. I do every time, without fail. And then he just starts up a conversation. Like the fact that we haven't talked in almost a month didn't actually happen. So, I guess that's that. I'm never going to pretend to understand the way guy's brains work. But whatever, I'm just happy to have my friend back. Unless he still likes me... I'll deal with that one when it comes.
I think Clay Matthews has the biggest biceps I've ever seen
You may or may not have heard... But the PACKERS ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!! You can not believe how incredibly stoked I am. I AM SO EXCITED! My dad and I are huge Packers fans. It's also the day before my birthday. If the Packers won the Super Bowl I would be content with no presents for the next two years. So naturally we're going to have a big Super Bowl party. My cousin Michael is the only other Packers fan in the family, but whatevs. They'll come anyways, free food. (I completely understand that some could care less about football, but I love football so this addition was necessary.)(Also I live in Illinois, the land of the Bears, so this is a huge, huge deal.)
My cousin Michael is, I think twenty-eight, and he and his girlfriend Shannon are expecting a baby. The baby's not due until July so they don't know yet what the sex is. (I'm hoping for a girl, I was the last girl to be born on both sides of my family.) After they left on Sunday my parents got a call from Michael and he asked them to be the baby's godparents. I think my dad cried. He and Michael were really close when Michael was really young. He used to babysit for my aunt when she was going to college. Just thought I'd share that little bit of news with you. :)
Oh, and just for a laugh here's a video of my dad celebrating the Packer's win last Sunday. (My cousin Michael's the one yelling in the background.) (Oh, and sorry for it being sideways. I took it on my phone and I can't figure out how to flip it.)
I'm having a crisis. Okay, that's dramatic. More of a mini-crisis. You see, last semester I had a P.E. class with one of my guy friends. I'll be completely honest, at one point, last year, I used to like him. You know, like like him. But notice I said last year. Now I have no clue how he felt about me last year. But this year we both suffered through P.E. together, so we sort of bonded over that. I mean we were really close. I'm pretty much confident that he liked me.
On the bus to bowling I was sitting in a seat with him and I heard his friends talking behind us. First I was like yeah, yeah whatever. But then I heard my name. They were talking about his poem that he wrote about someone with blue eyes. In my mind I was like, oh crap, I have blue eyes. And then they were like wait, Kate has blue eyes. Now this whole time I'm pretending that I can't hear a word they're saying and praying that he doesn't either. Which, who am I kidding? If I could hear them he most likely could, too. It didn't really come as a shock to me. I'd kind of been suspecting it all along. We'd hung out a few times and went to a play and stuff like that, but he's never openly said anything.
And that's basically how the semester ended. Which I'll admit, I probably should have brought it up. But I was kind of scared to. I used to like him, but I don't any more. I couldn't think of any way to bring it up to him without being like, "Oh hey, do you like me? Cool. I used to like you, but I don't anymore. Can we still be friends?" Laaame, and kind of bitchy. Which wouldn't have been surprising coming from me, but I still couldn't do that to him. Now we've been back at school for a month and I'm pretty sure he's avoiding me. Not pretty sure, really sure. We haven't said one word to each other. We only have band together, so it wouldn't be that weird, except for we were so close. I'm currently trying to think of a way to talk to him, but it would probably result in the aforementioned conversation.
And now that I've composed a blog completely about boy troubles...
My New Year's Resolutions! I know they're kind of cliche, but I love setting goals for myself. Can't help it.
Be more regular in workout schedule. I know the typical resolution is to get fit! and exercise! and eat healthy! But I think it's important to do that anyways. I just get kind of lazy and don't run as often as I should.
Blog more often. I tend to be in the state of mind, Oh I'll do that later. Tomorrow sounds good. I just got done doing a lot of homework! I really like to blog, I do. I just get lazy and forget how much I like to.
Stay true to myself. Last year I ended up doing some things I'm not so proud of and compromising my values and beliefs. It's so easy to get caught up in the moment, but then you look back and fell like crap. I tend to blame it on the people I used to hang out with, but I know it all came down to me. I need to be stronger in my convictions and true to myself.
This video is so cool. My Physics teacher showed it to my class because we're going to be doing the Rube Goldberg project. Basically they give you a task to accomplish by making a machine.
And now I'm going to try to make a dent in the novel I have to write a research paper on. Oh joy.
