Mustard and Blog News

So yesterday I had a pretzel with mustard. It was a soft pretzel, and it was probably one of the best things I've eaten all week- taste wise. I don't really like mustard, except for the kind from McDonald's, with my fries. But, I always like to eat soft pretzels with mustard- the yellow kind. I think it's so good J! But, when I was scrumptiously eating my pretzel, I started to wonder what mustard is made of. So I'm going to do some research, and I decided that Wikipedia is the most reliable source.   "Mustard is a thick yellowish-brown paste with a sharp taste made from the ground seeds of a mustard plant. The ground mustard seeds are mixed with water, vinegar or other liquids, and sometimes other flavorings and spices. A strong mustard can cause the eyes to water, sting the palate and inflame the nasal passages. It can also cause allergic reactions: since 2005, products in the European Union must be labeled as potential allergens if they contain mustard.   Did you know that there was a mustard PLANT?! I bet not. So cool. We learned something new today.   Anyway, I've decided how I am going to have more things to write about on this blog. Every single day that I update my blog, I'll assign the day a letter of the alphabet. So, starting tomorrow it will be "A," then the next day "B," and so on. I'm going to start with nouns that start with that letter of the day, then once I'm done with the alphabet, I'll go on to verbs, and everything.   So there. That's how much of a life I have. I have to go to Spanish now… I hate Spanish. P.S. Enjoy the picture of the pretzel gods.

Chanel Talking

PROM P is for panic R is for race to buy the most ahhhmazing dress O is for over weight is how I'm gona look in my dress M is for memories that will last forever…   The senior prom is only 10 days away and I'm feeling the pressure!! I still have yet to find my shoes, accessories and pick a hair style. This may not seem like a lot but it is! Time is running out and my blood pressure is going up.   Other things that make my blood pressure rise is Spanish class. Every time I walk into 1A I get into a mini depression that only the dismissal bell that rings at 8:36 can pull me out of. Its only been a few weeks into the fourth quarter and I have already failed. My current grade is a 58%. The depressing part is that I'm Cuban and I cannot speak the language of my blood!!

Cinemark's Gay

Computer Situation and Other News

So I have a situation. I can't get on the computer FOREVER. Basically, I "hacked" my computer, and my dad found out because I posted a new video on YouTube that he saw. *sigh* So, I figure I will come to the media center everyday during lunch to get on the computer and type it up on Word, then email it to BLOGSPOT! I hope all my friends on Dailybooth see this and EMAIL ME AT: karenthehedgehog@yahoo.com That's the only way I can keep contact with you all :/   So in brighter news, today is finally Field Day! It's okay so far, but not like SUPER AWESOME. Who cares, it's still fun J I make no sense.   In first semester, I had the AM class of kids, and now I have PM, so I haven't really seen any of the kids that I used to teach since 2nd semester started. But, today I see both of them! I just saw the AM kids, and my favorite one, Mia, REMEMBERED MY NAME! She did think that Kelsey and Kim were my sisters, BUT WHATEV. I'm having a good day. I'll be at school until like 4:30 though, because I have a study session that is super long for my AP test. But, I get like 10 points of extra credit towards anything in class! SO YAY FOR THAT.   In sader news, my GPA dropped 0.7 L. I don't know what I'm going to do with my life.

Birthday

My dad said he didn't want to ruin my birthday. I'm not going to be on the computer for a very long time. Too late Dad, you ruined it.

Sleep and Paint

If humans didn't need so much damn sleep, we'd be able to do SO MUCH more with our time.

Maybe it's just me, because I procrastinate way too much for my own good, but I never seem to get anything done. I have 4 Chemistry labs, a benchmark to study for, and a poster to finger paint on. Oh, I also have Spanish homework.. UGH!

And, if my body didn't require me to get 8 hours of sleep to function as a normal person, I'd have them done in a heart beat.

Instead, I'll be up until maybe 10:30. I'll probably end up giving up on doing my homework and studying, because I know I'll suffer the consequences in the morning when I attempt to get up at 5:30 am. No matter how many hours of sleep I get, I'm always still tired anyway. I wake up BEFORE the crack of dawn! BEFORE sunrise! What kind of bullshit IS THAT?!

Well, on the bright side, I get to FINGER PAINT tomorrow. I'm making a video of it as well, because I promised Amanda Wright <3>

I was going to post my last 15 year old picture taken on my webcam, but for some reason, it's not working. So check out this funny ass picture of me trying to do the "blood" symbol thingy.

See you when I'm a year older :P

Outrageousness

Something happened today in my first period that made me so completely outraged. My chemistry teacher totally hates when people PASS HIS CLASS, because apparently if they do, then he's not doing is job of being a good teacher. Trust me, being a good teacher, IS NOT HIS JOB. More like being a horribly mean teacher who's sarcastic and unfair. But anyway, my ex-friend (I'm not sure how to spell his name, so I don't want to make a fool of myself) got back this homework packet today. HE GOT EXACTLY 0.01 points off. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! That's not one, a half, or zero. It's an ONE-HUNDREDTH OF A POINT. The packet was out of 10 points too. So he ended up getting a 99.99% on that assignment. THAT BLOWS MY MIND. Why not just give him the useless 0.01% of a point and give him an A?! He pisses me off.

And I thought I did really good on my Quiz because I only got 6 points off (that's so little in that class for me), but I actually got a 68%. ONE MORE POINT, and I could've gotten a C.

No one wins in that class. It's the golden rule (besides 6.02 x 10^23 g = 1 mol).

I don't really have that much to say today, because I made a new video that says all I want to say anyway.

I AM EXCITED

Wow, even though this week is going to suck up until Thursday because of the massive rain, I AM EXCITED FOR IT!

Let's just say that tomorrow's good because I have class with my best friend (Tiffany), and then the next day is good because I have class with my other best friends (Chanel, Candace, Erica). NOW LET'S SKIP AHEAD TO THURSDAY!

Even though it's my birthday and people are going to buy me things even though I specifically said not to (little fuckers!), it's going to be a good day! I'm going to wake up, put on my best "it's-not-my-birthday-face" and go to school. I get to see my best friend Tiffany in Chemistry, (not to mention Josh and Nick... but not so excited about Joe) then I get to go to Photo. Spanish always sucks. AP World has lovely Savannah in it. ANYWAY. Later on at like 6, my parents and Craig are taking me to dinner somewhere in Baltimore. Yum yum, nom nom. The only bad part is that I know I'll have to suffer massive trauma from the resturaunt's birthday crew... Then I get to go home and WATCH A BRAND NEW EPISODE OF SUPERNATURAL :D! I've been waiting as patiently as possible for the past THREE weeks. Then I go to bed all happy and pretty.

Then I wake up and get to go to school with KARLEY! AND I get to wear shorts all day OUTSIDE. It's preschool field day Friday! Yay! It'll be 75 DEGREES TOO! It's going to be a great day spent in my booth with Amanda and Maisa too! Three legged races and water squirters = PURE AWESOMENESS.

But then, I get my report card and get to go home to get yelled at.

All in all though, I TOTALLY LOVE THIS WEEK SO FAR.

Oh and also, I just finished reading Kristina Horner's blog and the word of the day is "insongnia." It means when you have a song stuck in your head, and you can't get it out. THAT IS BRILLIANT.

BYE!

Nothing

I like updating my blog everyday. Although many people don't read it, I still type like everyone's reading. But today, (tonight actually) I don't have anything to say. Nor did anything happen today.

So today is nothing day.

New Jersey Part 2

So I got a new peircing today! It happened when my parents, brother and I were at the mall and we walked by a kiosk that was advertising for free peircings if you got the earrings. So, my dad said I should get one, then we said Craig should get one, and after a bunch of apprehensiveness (is that a word?), we finally got them over with :). Craig got a diamond in his left ear, and I got a little silver ball on my cartilage on my left ear. I told Craig we needed to name them, so he named his "Shiny" while I named mine "Dancing Bull" later on tonight because it was the name of a wine we were drinking. Yeah, not weird at all...
Craig is being really paranoid about his because my mom keeps telling him that it will get infected. She's neglecting to tell him that it only happens if he doesn't clean it. She's also the reason my dad didn't get his ear re-peirced. You can still see the hole in his left ear, but apparently my mom doesn't like it. Not cool!

In other news, today was pretty good. I got $25 in iTunes money from my grandparents and a "pre birthday present" from my parents. It was "stationary" with my name on it. Hahahha wtf? My mom's been drunk all weekend, sooo...

It's always weird when I hear stories about my dad as a kid. I usually hear them over bottles of wine too, which just makes all the stories outrageous. What I've gathered from it tonight though, is that my dad was a total badass at my age, and his sister gave him a bag of weed for his 17th birthday.

Also, I've noticed that behind my grandma's house, there's a highway type thing. There are ALWAYS a thousand cars on it, even right now. I just wonder where they're all going.

New Jersey Part 1

<-- Check out this outrageously scandalous picture!

I'm in New Jersey right now, visiting my grandparents.


I'm hoping we go to Atlantic City tomorrow, because it's really nice out there and we're only 10 minutes away! Plus, it's going to be a beautiful day tomorrow. But, so far, plans are eating at Red Robin or whatever that place is.


I got to leave school with Craig today, and I was home by like 11. I took Milo for a kick ass walk too. It was soo nice out. :)


We left at 1:30ish and got delayed because of traffic, and ended up at our destination at around 4:30. We had TV dinners for dinner. NOT your typical grandma.


Milo's pooped from being crazy in his kennel on the way here, also hyped on Dramamine.


Now they're drinking wine, and I'm about to go back down there.


I guess I'll hack grandma's PASSWORD LOCKED computer later tonight and maybe update some more. Or maybe not. Who knows.



I'd like to end by saying that Chanel (middle name) Vanzant makes me want to sing:
"You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are grey
You'll never know this
How much I love you
So please don't take my sunshine away"
in the most un-lesbonic way because she's just that phenomenal.

Jobs

So we have these new Child Development "passes."

When we pick the kids up, we have to have passes, of course, so that teachers won't stop us and complain about not having one and being out of class and so on. So, we had these cute little "necklaces" that we wore that said "Wildcats Preschool Teacher" to use as our passes.

But, apparently someone that doesn't attend our school got hold of one of them and used it to walk around our school one day. I'm not sure what the details were, but basically, we can't use those anymore, and now we have vests.

VESTS! And, they look HORRID. They're green, made out of the roughest material, and not very flattering. So, as we put them on, Karley said,"I look like I belong at the grocery store!" and that is when I looked down and realized she was right.

Which leads me to my next point: I need to get a job. I picked up a work permit "direction sheet" in guidance today, because my dad says I should totally get a job. I know I have to work somewhere near Arundel Mills too. So, being the freak I am, I made a list of places I'd like to work:

1) Books a Million
2) Joe Muggs

3) Bath and Body Works

4) Duclaws

5) Best Buy

6) Game Stop

Then, I made a list of places I'm going to be forced to apply to:

1) Muvico

2) TJ Max

3) FYE

Then, I made a list of places that I want to work but probably won't be able to because my age:

1) Books a Million

2) Bath and Body Works

3) Duclaws

4) Game Stop

My parents really want me to work at Muvico, just because my brother did and had a "TOTALLY KICK ASS TIME!" But no. FUCK NO. So now, I don't want to get a job. I just really need one. Does that make sense? Probably not.

Via-Phone

Guess what! I can blog from my phone. As a short update, I just wanted to say a few things.
1) I wish this keyboard was bigger
2) I wish Carley would stop leaving me in PreCalc
3) Tomorrow I have ortho, so yay for late to school
4) Friday is Grandma's, and Craig is probably taking me home early when he leaves
5) I didn't do my outline for English. I think the whole thing is bull shit.
6) I really want some coffee right now

Nuts?

My day in a nutshell:

Woke up 20 minutes late. Got ready. Poured myself coffee. Ripped my pants as I put my shoes on, and didn’t have time to change as the bus pulled up.

First Period: Did a lab with Tiffany and Josh. Too bad we messed up because Josh “put that shit on high” and the water heated up too fast and took forever to cool down. Then, we didn’t finish. My pants were still ripped.

CATS: Had a conversation with Chanel, but didn’t get in a daily dose of Cj and Caitlyn, which made my day a little cloudy. My pants were still ripped.

Second Period: There was an assembly for sophomores about class rings. Shit, I don’t want a ring, so that was a bore. Then the rest of class was a drag. My pants were still ripped.

Lunch: Couldn’t get into media for computers, so I went to the Computer Lab with Savannah and Kelsey. Kelsey bought me cookies and a lollipop from Disney World. She’s the best. Then, I printed Chapter Questions, and went to the Art Room to see Chanel and Caycee. Lunch ended, and my pants were still ripped.

Third Period: Spanish. I hate that class. I hate that teacher. I was tired. My pants were still ripped.

Fourth Period: Notes. Got an A on the extremely easy and generous quiz from Yuscavage. Turned in Chapter Questions. My pants were still ripped.

After School: Walked to my bus in the pouring fucking rain behind all these melodramatic people who are deathly afraid of stepping in puddles and shit. Got home, had to walk Milo in the rain. Had to dry him too, which is a pain in the ass. Did stupid homework. Not finished. Don’t want to finish it. I’m too tired. But, I changed my pants and ate my last twizzler.

And so now I’m sitting here realizing how fucking annoying my brother is. I wish he’d move the hell out already. But I’m not that lucky. Today sucks.

Awkward Situations and First Period

So I just signed into YouTube, and I noticed I had a new personal message. I go to look at it and it says,"Love in 90 days! Check it out!" So I click. Then this video starts to play:



If you don't think that's creepy, there is something seriously wrong with you. However, I found the video to be kind of.. right. So now I've decided that tomorrow I will try her moves on someone random. That shall be interesting.. and awkward.
Speaking of awkward, I hate awkward situations. I HATE THEM! And today, unfortunately, I found myself in one. I'm not going to go into detail, but let's just say that me in an awkward situations equals me banging my head on a wall. Yeeeeeah, that's all I'm saying.

But, enough with awkwardness, and on to first period. I had English this morning, and I told Louisse that I started a (this) blog. Then, I wrote the URL all fancy like, and told her to look at it. Then, Carly took it and read my blog from her phone. You could tell she was totally impressed because I'm fucking awesome and all. Then, throughout class when things came up, I would find myself or Carly or Louisse saying,"you/I should blog about that!" So then I made a list. The list is:
1- Mathers (my teacher) is a sexist racist
2- Ryan Pfisterer makes fun of me too much
3- Ryan and Corey are gay with charades
4- Joe smells like old grandma
And now I'm here, about to blog about them.
1- Mathers is totally sexist. She hates all the girls in my class, (except for Erin, but that's because she's black). Which leads me to my next point; she's racist. She hates all the kids in my class that are NOT black. Which means, all but 3 people. So unfair! And it gets better, because Mathers is a white woman. WTF. Homegirl's got issues.
2 and 3- So Ryan was making fun of me today. And whenever I'd make some outrageous hand movement he'd mock me and giggle. Teheheh, not funny! So, I noticed him and Corey talking across the room. And I asked,"Are you guys, like, playing charades?" And Ryan giggled again and was like,"Yeah!" Then, this extremely strange, yet entertaining, game of charades happened between the two of them. Let's just say there was blown kisses, and self-inflicted butt smacking involved.
4- Joe smelled like an old grandma because I used a rolling perfume bottle Louisse had, and rolled it all over his hoodie. Then I continued to shake the bottle for more drops to come out. I'm not sure if he noticed or not, but he did turn around and laugh and smile and say nothing. It was weird. But the perfume did smelled good, so I was doing a good deed.

And in other news, Caycee made me an Easter basket because she's the most awesomest, amazing, best, prettiest, funniest person EVER <3

Trouble

Before I embark on my journey of blogging about trouble, I have an Easter Update first. I made a video yesterday about my Easter, and it was the first video with an intro. I made the intro, I kind of liked it, but after reading what Caycee and Creapo had to say about it, I kind of, sort of LOVE it now. The audio is always messed up in my videos though, I need to work on it.




Now; the thing with trouble.
I seem to always find myway into trouble. Or maybe trouble finds me? Either way, trouble and I are like a disfunctional couple- I want nothing to do with him, but he wants everthing to do with me!
Don't get me wrong, it's not like just today I've been experiencing trouble, but the past Spring Break as well. But, we don't have time for all of that, so I'll just talk about today.
I woke up and my mom opened the door to my room to let Milo in. Little did I know that she was actually in my room when I mumbled,"Ergh, Milo get the fuck out.." She didn't say anything about it, but believe me, it will come back to bite me.
Then, I finally got up and decided to call Tiffany. We were talking then Chanel asked for Chapter Questions. So I said bye to Tiffany for now, so I could work on them before my shower. So I finished the questions, and I went to get the phone to call Tiffany. There was no dial tone. Okay, I hung up and tried again. Nope. No dial tone. THERE IS STILL NO FREAKING DIAL TONE. And I know my mom probably tried to call me, and they're going to be pissed and not listen to me when I say that I have no idea why it's like that. Because, it's always my fault, and I always get in trouble.
I realized something during the Chapter Question frenzi as well. I could maybe be finding my way to trouble with all the plagerizing being done. However, when I think about it, either way I'm in trouble. Either I don't do them on my own, and copy, and get in trouble for that. Or I do them on my own, totally give up, and I'm in trouble again! Lose, fucking lose.
And, I drank a lot of coffee this morning. Dad says,"One cup a day!" but I digress. I drank maybe four cups, and didn't eat anything. MY STOMACH IS KILLING ME! Literally, KILLING me. This sucks.
Finally, as I come to a close, I would like to warn everyone about trouble. He is not to be messed with. Once he finds you, he's captures your scent, and you never get away. If you are experiencing intense trouble, feel free to talk about it with me. I come to find that letting this all out makes me feel better. That's all.

Easter Sucks!

*omg yay it's Easter! baskets! peeps! hollow bunnies! family time!* NOOOOOOOOOOOOO


Easter sucks ass.

This Easter, I was supposed to travel to Philadelphia with Dad at the wheel, Mom sleeping in the passenger's seat, and Craig sitting next to me texting. It's the last game of the season for the Philadelphia Flyers who clenched a playoff birth earlier last week. We would've gotten there, ate some hoagies, or some Philly Cheese Steaks, and taken some pictures (I COULD'VE GOTTEN GREAT ONES FOR PHOTO!). We would've had a kick ass time, and I would be one jersey richer right by the end of the day- which is good considering I don't have a Flyers jersey anymore.


But no. No, no, no. My dreams, hopes, and aspirations were all crushed thanks to this stupid holiday. You see, we got the tickets back in November, and my dad told us about them on Christmas as a gift. But little did he know that it was on Easter Sunday. So, after realizing this AFTER 5 MONTHS, he decides we can't go. The traffic will be horrible, and it would take all day to get there and back. Think about Milo! Melanie would have to go home sometime right?


To sum all my anger up, we're not going to the game because my dad doesn't want to struggle with traffic. This would happen to me.

Dear Philly, I'm sorry I will not be there today. My deepest regrets.

Out There

Story One: Chanel

Chanel's mom said that strange things happened at the mall. Today something strange did happen to her at the mall. A man with vulumptious lips uninvitedly approached a young, unexpecting Chanel. Not only was he unwelcomed, but he was also intruding in her personal life, aka buying new skivies. What was she to do? If you're rude, a bitch gets hit. If you're too nice, a bitch gets raped. If you use the name Kiah, a bitch gets followed. Life lesson- learned. That is all.

Story One: Karen

While turning a sharp corner at the commissary, Karen found herself in the frozen food section. Inside their glass containers, the bags of frozen poppers, pretzels, and fried rice stared at the young face Karen wore that day. A spunky asian women opened the door to one, unleashing the cold air. As a shiver krept up Karen's back, she also felt a stare on it aswell. The asian lady started to look and try to grab her attention. What was she to do? Karen politely smiled as the lady asked her to reach "that box of shrimp at the top no, no, that one. yes. thank you." Her good deed was accomplished for the day. That is all.

Karen

Bird vs Worm

Over the Spring "break", I had a homework assignment in Photo. Our assignment was to take twenty pictures with our digital camera from both a bird's eye view, or a worm's hole view. After seeing the sample pictures provided to us, I was instantly excited because they were pretty swell looking.

During that class, I took picture with the analog camera and went out with Brianna to capture the essence of life. She took her digital to start with the homework. She took one of me standing on the top of the cafeteria/end-of-ghall stairs, from a worm's eye view. Ahalt said she liked it, so I figured this wouldn't be so hard, right?

Wrong. I went out today to take pictures, and I got two good ones, shown here. Who would've guessed I was incapable of completing this assignment the right way?