Tuesday, December 28, 2004

one and one and one

back! and now, for something called sleep.

is three

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

she's an extraordinary girl

merry christmahanukwanzaka to you all!

i'll be back wednesday. probably tuesday.

[gone]

in an ordinary world

Monday, December 20, 2004

don't it feel like sunshine after all

today was exciting! only not.

so i had to wake up at eight so that we could go to the bank, pick up my birth certificate and social security card, and then go get my replacement permit.

or at least, that is what was [supposed] to happen. but no, we spent a while looking through the safety deposit box, only to find that apparently i had fallen off of the face of the earth because my papers were gone. but not really, they were at home. my mom had said "oh, they are in the box". i told her that she took them out for the first time i got my permit... *shrug*. so then we go home, get them, wait at dps, etc ect, boring boring boring.

then i go with my dad to run errands, and we were having a pretty good time, especially considering i was losing my voice. and he promises to take me driving later today, because my mom said i can't get my license next month (january 18th!) if i don't get more behind the wheel time.

yeah... so i got home from the movies with danielle (+fun), and my dad... has apparently forgotten me... in leu of my brother, who he has to take to the doctor (not his fault, but still). but no, after that he has to go do other things that he [forgot] about.

[le sigh]

oh well. i am just complaining about nothing, really. i dunno. mood swings much...?

the world we love forever gone

Sunday, December 19, 2004

where did he come from

random post action! nothing like a heaping dose of boredom to start off the day, eh? who loves the break? i do! so...

yeah... enough spasticness. for now, at least. so i am sitting here, looking out the window, seeing the beautiful blue sky, and thinking "it reminds me of lemonade." why would a blue sky... remind me of lemonade... you ask? well. i have absolutely no idea. it just does.

you know what else reminds me of lemonade? lemons. only they don't taste as good. but they are more fun to throw then lemonade, i suppose. they make more of a *thump* than a liquid *sploosh*

hahaha, *sploosh* reminds me of windwaker. i haven't played that game in forever... i haven't played a lot of games in forever. including FFCC!!! *glares at leif*

trevor and harry keep laughing at me when i bring that up. it scares me. a lot. not that they don't scare me a lot to begin with ;)

yeah, so.. i haven't gotten my brother's gifts yet. plan on doing that today. mall + holiday crowd = soooo much fun *facetious*

oh well, we will make it fun! this post is really going nowhere.

i just wasted more of your time. bwahahaha.

um... yeah...

where did he go

Friday, December 17, 2004

i backed my car into a cop car the other day

yay! schools out for the holidays. it's happy x a lot! if only i didn't have this god awful cold. oh well, life goes on, and we'll all float on ok... ;)

i leave tuesday (i think tuesday, if not, then monday) for louisiana, and i'll be gone for a week. nothing like the craziness that is a bunch of drunk relatives to get you in the holiday spirit! it will be fun. it always is.

sometimes i wish i could just stay there... life seems to move so much slower. sometimes you can just sit around and not feel like you're slacking, sometimes you can just decide to go watch the sunset over the lake and you can. i love louisiana. i was close to being born there, actually, but my parents had moved here not long before i was born. nick was born there. i dont know what it is, but when i'm there it just feels like i'm at peace. because, i guess, i am at peace.

if i don't talk to you all before then, i hope everybody has a very happy holiday, whatever your holiday might be.

well he just drove off, sometimes life's ok

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

check my vital signs

so... updated today! thanks to the bugging of a certain red-haired one...

i had my art final today. my teacher likes me again. she is such a flake, but isn't really that bad i suppose. she does know what she's doing. the only thing is, sometimes that scares me.

gwar (oo look kirk, i'm a girl and i said gwar, boo-yah), i have history and french tomorrow. can you say death in test form? not french so much as history, except for the listening. i hate that stuff. gwar.

and... er... it's cold outside. i don't know if that's good or bad. not that it matters, eh? we're inside taking finals.

that makes me mad. finals... wade brought it to our attention today in precal that we, indeed, are one of the only schools in texas that does not exempt finals (excepting seniors spring semester). we decided they should reward us for trying hard and getting good grades, and that if they let us exempt our grades would go up because people would have more incentive.

i would send them another email, but they probably have me on some list with a title like "students whose emails to you you should delete because they make us look bad". the only downside of emailing those people was all the attention i got from school administrators... all "good job arden!" and the such. for those of you who don't know what i'm talking about, ask me some other time when i feel like explaining.

aren't you glad i posted something you might not've understood? of course you are. it beats studying, doesn't it. ;)

[edit] i made a quiz! i am such a sheep. *baaa*

i know i'm still alive

Monday, December 13, 2004

it's chirstmas time

if there's one thing i love about the newspaper (besides the comics, of course), it's the letters to santa that come out this time of year. i love them so much, that i've decided to share some with you! some of them are so sweet you just want to find that child and hug them. things like, "i want homes for the homeless and more hospitals so everybody will be well". they almost bring a tear to your eyes! but everybody knows that the newspaper just puts those in there so it doesn't seem like it's trying to make fun of grammatically challenged small children. which it is. here, i'll show you. [note: all spelling/punctuation/capitalizations were written that way in the letters]

letter #1
Dear Santa Claus.
I want you to go to Hyouxten texas. I Lick your gifs and efs and pesets whtwat for cresemes is a pool.
Love
*insert girls name*

i have decided to withhold names for their safety, by the way. so, while i understand that this cute little girl is in elementary school... i mean, seriously now. people wonder what's wrong with the nation today? children are making up words! our president (and people like me) must set an awful example for them. so far, i have figured that lick = like, gifs = gifts, efs = elfs, pesets = presents, and whtwat... i still am thinking on that, though i'm sure it's something like what i want. i do like the way she spelled cresemes though. it's cute.

letter #2
Dear Santa,
How are you doing? How are the reindeer? And I want Grang Theft Auto San Andres. I really hope you bring it to me. I have been a good kid almost every day. And how is Mrs. Clause? And I also want the three Egypition God cards. Can you wake me up so I can meet you"
Love,
*some little boy*

this one is really not that bad, considering he is in elementary school. the one thing i am going to mention is the whole "grang" theft auto. they should not sell games like that to little boys! especially ones who can't spell grand right...

letter #3
Dear Santa Claus
Thank You for all that Playdo! Can You ask God for my mom to Have a Baby? I Hope my wish comes true and my favorite Carikter is Santa.
Love,
*some kid with a unisex name*

this one made me laugh. one, this kid gets props for liking playdough. and their random capitalization was interesting. i love it when kids are unsure of how to do things (like capitalize just the first letter of the sentence and proper nouns!) so they just kind of make the rules up. and the bluntness of children always makes me smile.

which reminds me of something interesting i read the other day in the paper. lying is a good thing! this made me very happy. apparently it's a sign that children are developing correctly and realize other people's emotions. think about it; you only lie because you have the ability to read other people. you wouldn't lie to your parents if you didn't realize it would make them mad, now would you? of course not. that's some doctor's point. i think it's a good point, too.

it also talked about how kids wouldn't lie if their parents didn't encourage it, but they do. when kids say stuff to a person's face, like, "that makes you look ugly" and such, their parents scold them and tell them not to say things like that. so we are stuck in an endless social cycle in which lying is taught and then reprimanded after we've passed the point of return.

what a crazy world.

in the city

Sunday, December 12, 2004

i've been watching

ok.. so it's sunday. i can handle that. or i should be able to, right? finals... not until tuesday. tomorrow i have no dance because of demonstrations... no homework because of finals.. i can study then, right? and get everybody's gifts together. i can handle it. so today, i just have to do that history stuff.. and some art, so i can prove her wrong...

well. i am screwed. but what else is new, right? i have decided that i have slacker syndrome. there is no cure! maybe now i can claim mental instability and get out of some work... everybody knows i'm usually mentally unstable anyway, right? and if they don't, i could just act really crazy... lord knows i do that a lot...

so this post will have a point! and if it doesn't, i am blaming you.

we will survive finals, and we will go on to lead happy lives! that is what we were taught to believe. we were also taught the pythagorean theorum. and those are all lies, by the way. how do we know it's true? we DONT. we just pretend it is because that is what they tell us to do. then we're all going to graduate, and in college they'll tell us our teachers were just messing with our heads, but we shouldn't tell anybody because it's a tradition or something..

see!!?!? it's all an evil conspiracy.

i told you there was a point to this post.

i've been waiting

Saturday, December 11, 2004

today is gonna be the day

happy saturday! five more days of school!? can we handle it!? probably not. c'est la vie, n'est pas? well. it is 11:40-something in the morning and i am rather bored.

i have three yearbook stories due thursday! dave is so definately not crazy... mwar. i am beginning to think that maybe waiting until this weekend to start studying could've quite possibly been a bad thing. but i suppose there's no changing that now, is there. so, i guess, as usual, i will be going crazy all week. oh well. that seems to be how i do everything. and afterwards, it just feels that much better.

added note! you should go see a christmas carol at 7:30. at spring woods. be there or be [ ]

that they're gonna throw it back to you

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

and now, for something completely different

well, i, convinced that my days have been rather boring and filled with nothing important, have not updated really recently. katherine pointed this out to me, and i told her why i had not updated. then she declares that i have very interesting going-ons in my life, whether i realize it or not. so she wrote an update for me.

before you read: know that these are the views of katherine pretending to be me, and do not represent my own views.

Today I wore a wonderful shirt that supported driving while intoxicated. I am all for drunk drivers and vehicular weapons as you all know, my fans. Some asinine simpletons noticed it in my English class during the Inquisition (where they didn't even question me!) That made me really sad, but I am so lucky to have a friend like Katherine to cheer me up with her overwhelming awesomeness.

Bernard, on the other hand, is such a pathetic loser-brain. He is so mean to me and pokes me all the time. Also, the magnificent Katherine has pointed out to him many times the horrid urine stains that deface his backpack, but, sadly, he has yet to do anything about this. I wish he would listen to better music too, like Dashboard.

Then Katherine, Bernard, and I were walking to the haven of goodness that is the orchestra room when nothing exciting happened. Not once. However, I did take the covers off of my cell phone, leaving it totally naked. This made for some hard-core phone porn that I am 250% positive Bernard was ogling at. He is such a pervert. Great boyfriend. He is such a great boyfriend.

This has been an Arden-blog-update from the view of Katherine.

Sunday, December 05, 2004

finally! new york thanksgiving pictures. or a few, at least. enjoy!

this was where we watched the parade, on the corner of 51st and broadway. i think i got some nifty perspective on this one. turn your head to the left side to see it right, too lazy to rotate it.

sandwich at a deli! it was hard fitting that in my mouth. but i did it.

me at the parade! i am so sadly no photogenic. this was actually about two hours before the parade started. we had to get there early to get good spots... >_<

this was the crowd at the thanksgiving day parade. that sign near the middle says "no standing anytime". i thought that was funny.

a nifty little hotdog cart that i saw from the bus we were on. it reminded me of lucky dog carts in new orleans.

this guy was playing sad patriotic music outside of ground zero. you can't see it, but there was a flag wrapped around his flute

sad... this was at ground zero. you have to turn your head to the left, i was too lazy to rotate the picture. but that large cross on the right was actually the only piece of the building left standing. that cross (small on the upper left) was laced into the grill surrounding ground zero.

this was during the macy's thanksgiving day parade. i like the banana costume. and the pinapple is cool too... the strawberry is way to unrealistic, though

these were the cheesecakes we got at carnegie deli. i bet you can tell which one's mine

i'd reach for the stars

heard of death by chocolate?

this is death by homework. it's like our own little private level of hell. on the outskirts, because in actuality it really probably isn't as bad as we think it is. but still. it is incessant and senseless.

so now... i feel like i'm on overload. my mom told me this earlier this week, too. not with the expected sympathy, of course, but with some nagging about how i also had a ton of chores to do.

then today she yelled at me because i was cleaning my room and told her that i might be up late tonight again doing homework. to which she told me that no i wasn't i was going to bed at 11, and how i had since monday to clean the entirety of my room out (and the few of you who've seen it know, my room has lots of crap in it), she wasn't going to be sympathetic...

oh well. i finished my room already. now i just have some smallish mounds of homework and a large sketch of hundreds of hats to complete! joy of joys.

sidenote! i'm not grounded any more. +good

but i can't find my arms

Thursday, December 02, 2004

and she cried in the silence

i've been doing some thinking the past few days. which i guess is a good thing, because i realized i haven't really been with it for a while. kind of on autopilot, i guess. i don't really have incentive to do a whole lot of thinking either, i suppose, as it has been putting me in a bad mood.

this doesn't make a lot of sense, does it.

maybe not to you. i don't think it makes much sense to me either, really. i guess... well, a bit. it makes sense a little. i used to want to make things, to write, to play, to... just do stuff. recently i just haven't had the spirit to. that might be why i've been in such an ick mood lately, i guess.

i think another one of my problems might be that i don't really talk with people as much as i used to. i mean, sure, i talk to people, but not with them... if that makes any sense. i've been having some trouble being open lately. there's always been some trouble with that for me, but usually there's somebody i can rant and rant to or talk things out with.

well. i am feeling a bit better. and also, i'd like to apologize to those of you who i've been... so upset with. it didn't really make any sense. and i'm sorry. i really don't mean to be this way. i don't know what's happened to me.

of her mind to be heard

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

i don't believe that anybody

meh... i haven't really been feeling quite like myself lately. real out of it and the such. so i am sorry if i've seemed distant and the such. i don't know...

hopefully i'll be back to sort of normal (i don't think i've ever really had a normal) sometime soon.

maybe i should put something else in this entry so it has a point...

um..

not much else really, i guess. stupid weekend is going to be busy... and i can't do anything, and it makes me sad.

feels the way i do about you now