So what has been happening recently? I'm in pit orchestra. Fun fun. I have exams tomorrow. Ugh I hate the sound of that. But its really not that bad since we get a half day and all. I'm just so sick with my classes and I can't wait for them to be over. Then I get new ones. To learn to hate that is. Ick.

Happy New Year! What fun last night was. I actually slept from 5:00 to 11:00 so I'm not that tired. I went to a good party, but I had to miss another party. :( I wish New Years was twice in a row. Then I could be seriously sleep deprived!

Its freezing raing over here. My driveway is an ice rink and my dog's bowl was frozen to the ground. Crazy.

I haven't written anything in forever. Today I had a BTW. (behind the wheel) It was terrible-we had to listen to the top 106 country songs of 2004 on the radio, only it was early in the morning so the station was at like song 100. I can't stand country music. The whole sound of it I just find extremely irritating. I'm trying to decide whether I dislike hip-hop or country more. I think country gets on my nerves more.

I did well though, I got good scores on my driving and the instructor even said I was good. Yay! I'm finally a good driver. I hope I pass my test though...it only takes one dumb mistake (like forgetting the speed limit or cutting someone off)

Yeah so now what? This week has been so busy...Orchestra concert followed by Nothing followed by running to Janna's house and watching a pathetic number of movies followed by Rebel Cows followed by today.

I went to my OTHER grandparents house. What a blast. I am sick of eating food now and I really miss running even though I did it two days ago and it is getting really uber cold. So thats that.

We played Balderdash and one of the words was "fartlek" and I knew what it meant because of soccer last spring. That was awesome. I feel smart. Can't wait to tell my soccer people.

I bet I'll do lots of stuff this weekend. At least I hope. I don't know what but I might go shopping like all those crazy people out there.

I really would like to change this journal to...blue. I think I will.

So today was Thanksgiving and I was just at my aunt and uncles house with relatives and all that great stuff. We played some good old fashioned Scrabble and Monopoly of which I love. So nothing especially exiciting happened until...

I was outside because I heard that some cows busted through the fence from the dairy farm nearby and I wanted to see them. There they were in the yard, at least ten of these massive Holsteins and they were hyper. I mean all of a sudden they started charging and I freaked out and jumped on top of our car beacuse I didn't want to be trampled and well I got the crap scared out of me frankly. Lucky they went the other way or else the newspaper headline might be "15 year old Girl Killed by Runaway Cows on Thanksgiving" Its so weird it just might have been able to happen.

What is it with me and crazy animals? Maybe I should rename this webjournal "Rachel's experiences with Maniacal Anmials" or some equally fitting title.

So Odd.

 

So yeah. I was walking around today with a limp my legs hurt so much. And sometimes my knees would just buckle under me. How pathetic. I bet this is how super fat people feel because they have all those knee and leg and feet problems I hear.

BUT I AM GONNA RUN! Yes. I building my strength. I will overcome.

I totally stole this from Janna.

1. what is your name? (must not contain: a, c, g, h, s, j, u, r, n):
el.

2. what time is it? (you CANNOT use numbers):
Time to type.

3. what school or job do you go to? (you CANNOT
use proper nouns):
That one school with the brick walls next to the really really ugly school with no windows.

4. how are you feeling right now? (must contain at
least 6 letters)
Supercallifragilisticexpiallidocius. That enough?

5. how old are you? (cannot be in terms of years):
A decade and a half. That good?

PREFERENCES/FAVORITES:

1. where's the perfect vacation place? (cannot be in the philippines)
The woods. No kidding.

2. favorite musical artist? (must be outdated):
The Spice Girls....that's outdated! Now the Beatles are just timeless....

3. favorite book? (must contain at least 400 pages):
Haha. Was that supposed to be hard? Gone with the Wind. 959 pages. Take THAT! (hard choice between that and The Lord of the Rings, 1137 pages.)

4. favorite junkfood? (must come in at least 3 flavors)
Awww....must be Skittles. I could eat those all day.

5. favorite spice (you must also state at least 3food/drink items in which the spice is used):
Cinnamon. Cinnamon rolls, Apple Pie, and umm...Cinnamon Graham Crackers! Yeah!

6. favorite country? (you must be able to name the capital and a natural landmark)
United States, duh. The only other one I have been to is Canada and I think the US pwns Canada slightly. Oh yeah, Washington D.C. and the Grand Canyon.

7. favorite food? (must be filipino food):
Erm....Dunno any Filopino foods...WAIT! Rice.

8. one of your favorite movies? (you must also state one of the characters of the movie and a memorable line they said):
LOTR ROTK! Yeah. Memorable line: "What say you?" (I love how he says that!) I can spout some more if ya want.

9. state another memorable line from that movie..
Wow. I didn't read ahead either! Ok, how about this: "I am no man." Love how she says that too!

10. last movie you saw? (must be on t.v. like HBO or Star)
I don't have HBO or Star...but the last movie I saw on TV was *gulp* LOTR FOTR. Now I feel just nerdy lol.

11.favorite holiday? (must be celebrated by all)
Umm...I can't think of anything that is! Holidays are rather national aren't they? How about New Years.

OTHERS:

1. who is/are your best friend ? (must be the full name ):
Full names? I'm screwed. I can't remember any middle names. Except I know Sara is Barbara Davis!

2. who is a celebrity you wish to be your friend? you must state the month and day of his/her  birthday)
The only celebrity birthday I know is LL Cool J! He has the same birthday as me! January 14th!

3. name a person who irritates you (you must also state his/her friend ):
People who irritate me have no friends.

4. adjective most used to describe YOU (must not contain the letters: j, v, g, z, k, x, q, o, p)
Weird.

5. phrase you use often (this must be an original phrase and not copied from a movie, book, or another person)
LAT. (means Laughing at Timmy)

6. phrase you hear often (must have been said by a relative):
These people are UNBELIEVABLE! (My dad ALWAYS talks about his employees and how stupid they are)

Wow. So I started winter running club a couple days ago. Everything was fine, I was running pretty good and all and then I got really dizzy so I stopped and because Janna is AWESOME we walked back to school together. The weather was really good though. She is so nice to put up with my not in shapeness.

Today we ran to Janna's house. That was good. I felt a lot better than I did yesterday. But my legs hurt a lot. That will go away soon though because it did during soccer. Read my posts back in March if you wanna know the gory details. (And I know ya wanna!)

So. It's a rainy, cold, look I can see my breath and there's no more pretty leaves kinda day. Great. Oh yeah, throw a decapitated rabbit and a freakin pile of homework and what do you have? Today. But I like it. There must be something wrong with me to like such a day where I have a headache and its all disgusting out but I really do. Actually, I like the rain.

Today is the kind of weather where you walk home from the bus stop and when you look in the mirror, you're all pale because it was too cold to work up a little blood in your cheeks, but when it's any colder, you get all flushed when you walk inside for some reason. I have found a happy medium.

You wanna know about the decapitated rabbit I suppose? There's not much to this story. On the side walk to the bus there was a rabbit's head lying right in the middle of it. No body. Just a head. I wonder what sick kid did that. Lots of kids leave near me, a lot of them are younger too and might be permanently disturbed if they saw that. I would be if I were a little kid but I've seen too many gore packed movies and roadkill to even care any more I guess.

So I was with the driving instructor, driving down the highway. All of a sudden she's like "PULL OVER!". There was a cop car with its lights on and siren and everything coming from the opposite direction. Then I go back on the highway and there's another..and another...and another...lots of cop cars going super fast in a chase. When we went back to where all the cars had been going, there were two vans, completely totaled. Lots of cop cars, a detour and such. Crazy. Had we been 3 minutes later and we would have seen that crash. (or been in it) Wow.