Frisbee and Other Things

Just got back from playing Ultimate Frisbee with my youth group, and I must say I do not go to show off my mad frisbee skills. Rather just the opposite. I stink at frisbee okay? I normally avoid being passed the frisbee at all costs. I mean I could probably catch it (sometimes) but my throw is so awful they'd probably kick me off the team immediately (and they'd probably be justified). But hey it's all just for fun, (at least it is most of the time hehe) so I go anyways just for something to do.

Besides that, not much else has been going on this weekend except Friday night I did go to a back to school party at church which was pretty fun. The only problem there were so many kids (they way outnumbered the youth) that it was hard to talk over the din of balloons being popped, kids screaming for more food, and loud thunking noises that could have been someone getting hit over the head with a golf club. I'm just not sure....=] It was still fun though. Now, alas, the weekend is over and tomorrow it's back to the horrors of chemistry and algebra 2 and all those other awful things designed to torture innocent teenagers....ha. Piano starts back on Thursday too, so I should be pretty busy....

Later

Narnia

While we were visiting family two weeks ago, my cousins and siblings and all of them decided they wanted to go see Prince Caspian. Now I wasn't necessarily opposed to this since I had never seen it and kind of wanted to, but I kept dropping subtle hints about seeing the Dark Knight again instead and maybe seeing Narnia later. Well either no one picked up on my subtle hint dropping or I just got totally ignored, but anyways we ended up going to see Narnia. Soo here's my little review for it...And before you read it be warned that there might be a few spoilers in there. So if you haven't seen it, then I suggest you don't read on. But otherwise keep on going.....

First of all if you walk in the movie expecting it to be just like the book, then I suggest you walk right out again. It was nothing like the book (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) and many of the scenes I was sitting there thinking, "Huh? Where the heck did that come from?" But don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed it. The acting was great, the effects and music tremendous, and the story was pretty interesting. The problem was there wasn't enough of it. There were so many fighting/dueling scenes (a heck of a lot of violence for a PG movie) that it was hard to remember if there even was a story in the first place. Okay a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point. Besides all this Aslan, the great Lion who represents Christ (particuarly in the first movie), hardly got any screen time at all. And when he did get some screen time he didn't attack or do anything exciting at all. Instead of defeating the Telmarine soldiers by jumping on them or something ferocious like that, he made the waves of the sea rise up and swallow them. Pretty cool to watch, but still. And last but not least, what was up with that Prince Caspian/Susan romance? Sorry I just that was a little odd...Anyways the bottom line is the movie was good, but not nearly as good as the first. Hopefully the next movie will get back to old form...

School

Well school started back yesterday, and after today I feel like I've already done a whole weeks worth. Okay a bit of an exaggeration, but it does take a while to get used to all of it again. And I think it's hard now. Wait till Algebra 2 and Chemistry start to get hard.....hehe I already have enough of a time of it with French pronunciation. I mean seriously how do those people talk over there without injuring their voices? Half of their words are pronounced in the back of your throat. Very wierd. And what's even wierder is hearing me trying to do it like they do. You would probably get your laugh for the day hearing that....

Besides the horrors of French, the literature questions are turning out to be even worse than I thought. Not that the reading part isn't interesting (I'm reading The Scarlet Letter at the moment), but it's those dang questions that drive me up a wall. I mean how do I know how a certain series of dialogue fits into the author's "over-arching purpose"? I never knew the man, so how do I know what his purpose was? Not to mention my mother is a real literature/English buff, so she's content to pick out meaning from every syllable all day. haha. I guess I should stop complaining since that's just the way things are. I mean the only way I'd be happy with literary questions is if they were yes or no questions.

Well that's the end of my school tirade; for now at least......=]

Not Too Fun

I woke up Tuesday morning with an extremely sore throat. It was so sore it had even been eeking into my subconscious because I think I dreamed about it. Anyways, I was kind of worried cause the last thing I wanted was to be sick. But since I had run my fan the day before (which was probably covered in dust which I am extremely allergic too), I decided that it simply had to be allergies. But just in case, I took all the precautions. I gargled in salt water, kept an ice pack on my throat (which made my neck really red for a while), and even ate some honey which I wouldn't pick to eat over dirt. However, the pain still persisted so badly that I was pretty afraid that I had strep. So if it wasn't better the next day I'd have to go the doctor and get antibiotics shoved down my throat....Great. But hey the medicine would probably be nothing compared to the honey...

The next day I decided that it couldn't be strep, because my throat already felt better. Did the rest of me felt better? Not so much. Let's just say I felt like crap for the whole day. I had a whole bunch of congestion trapped in my chest, I had the energy of a snail, and I was all light-headed and woozy. But all that was nothing compared to what I felt later in the day...

It all started when I decided to take an olive (or something like that) all natural pill that was supposed to help colds. Now I'm wierd in the sense that I have a really hard time swallowing pills, so in the process of getting this long pill down I had to drink several cups of grape juice very very quickly. Then after I finally got it down I decided to eat half of a green banana. I really should have been thinking a little harder before I did all that....

Later in the day I was lying on my bed watching TV (something I don't really do unless I'm desparate for entertainment), when I suddenly felt these wierd, sharp stabs in my stomach. I tried to ignore them, but that didn't help too much because they kept getting worse and worse. Pretty soon I felt like a heavy weight boxer was laying into my gut, so I got up and stumbled downstairs. And I do mean stumbled. My stomach hurt so bad I could hardly stand up straight (and that's no exaggeration). By the time I made it downstairs, I was hurting even worse (if that were possible) and the pains were horribly constant. They wouldn't let up a single inch. So while I writhed in pain on the couch my panic instincts kicked in (as you might know I am very prone to panic attacks, which I'm sure did not help my stomach pains any). It didn't help to imagine the obituary headlines, "Girl dies of stomach ache brought on by olive pill and an over excess of grape juice." By this time I was in so much pain that I seriously debated screaming at my parents to call 911. However, after some deep breathing and lying prone on the couch for a few minutes, the pain subsided. Thank goodness for that. I think I'd rather be hammered on the head than have that happen again.

Luckily I'm feeling much better today. Just a little bit of a hacking cough (which sounds a lot worse than it feels) plus I'm a little woozy. But other than that I'm all cured. Just in time for school on Monday.....Darnnn =]

Back

Well we made it back from my grandparents house yesterday, and I must say I'm very glad to be back. It was a fun trip of course, just pretty tiring. Let's just say I spent about half of the week trapped in interminable games of the game Trouble. You see one of my cousins (who has a tumor that affects her looks, seeing, hearing, thinking, and all that) really has a thing for Trouble plus hanging out with me. She's a particularly hard person to discourage, so I spent a lot of the time entertaining her which can be pretty exhausting I'll say that. I still enjoyed it though and I still got to hang out with my other cousins some which was very fun. Just never ask me to play a game of Trouble with you, okay? =] On their last day there we had an early surprise birthday party for my dad. I'm not totally sure if we surprised him or not (it probably wasn't very hard to deduce what we were planning) but it was still a pretty great time.

Now that we're back, my mom is getting ready for school which starts next Monday. I can only say that I'm pretty worried about this school year because of the amount of subjects I'm taking. Chemistry, Algebra 2, French, a whole bunch of literature, American Civics/Government, and quite a few other things. So it won't be an easy year that's for sure. I'm also pretty bummed out because I love science and hate math, and unfortunately Chemistry has quite a bit of math involved. I mean come on. I get enough math as it is. Why does it have to invade other subjects too? Oh well. No point complaining about what I can't control....

Off Again

Tomorrow we're going back to my grandparents house (yet again) to see them as well as my aunt, uncle, and 5 cousins who are visiting in that area (the 6th cousin is married). Soo though I enjoy vacations, I'm kind of relieved this will be our last one of the summer seeing as how it feels like we've been traveling like crazy. Also since my mother's driving we'll be lucky to get there by 10:00....the next day. Okay just kidding she's a good driver. Just not as fast as my dad I guess =] So anyways if you could pray for safe travel for us that would be great. Hopefully I won't get too claustraphobic trapped in the van with my brothers. There's a reason no one wants to sit in the middle seat....On top of that I can't read in the car for very long (unless you want me puking over everything) and I can't even go to sleep for some odd reason. So it's bound to be a very boring trip. Oh well. I'll survive....

Ttyl

Yesterday

Yesterday was a pretty interesting day. First of all I had to (along with my brother) go feed my neighbor's lizard. Well we also had to feet a cat, but the cat really doesn't capture as much of your attention as our reptilian friend does. Let me tell you I do not like lizards (or reptiles) of any kind so I'm surprised I agreed to this job in the first place. I will never understand the appeal of owning such a strange animal that stares at you out of menacing, beady little eyes all the time. Anyways it wasn't the feeding part that worried me. It was the taking it out of its cage part. Looking at that long, creepy thing was bady enough and the last thing I wanted to do was actually touch it. However, what had to be done had to be done so seeing as how my brother wasn't touching it until I did (some brother) I put on some gloves and reached in and grabbed the thing. Luckily it was pretty lethargic and didn't try to bite my head off or anything. However I got it on the floor as quickly as I could and hoped I wouldn't be contaminated by the creature in some way.

After we were done feeding it, I finally convinced my brother to pick it up to put it back in its cage cause I certainly wasn't touching that thing again. Not only do you have to get a pretty firm grip on it, but also its tail is really really long so you have to do some maneuvering to get him to fit back in the cage. I thought I might as well let my brother do that part. That's what they're for, right? =]

After that little ordeal, which we had to repeat for thankfully the last time after church today, I got to go the mall (the only place around that has a bookstore) and get that vampire book I wanted. I'm still working on it, and I would have finished it sooner except for the fact that I'm trying to savor it because it's the last book in the series. The savoring thing isn't working too well though cause I'm already on page 500 something. It is quite good I'll say that and at the end of the 2nd part I about died of shock. Some authors just know how to throw wierd plot twists at you at the right moments, okay? =]