spurts

During the school year, I've always had lots of homework. The extreme amounts of it started last year, and as a result, my procrastination began last year too. It always seemed like there wasn't enough time to do it all, so I'd do some of it and not worry about the rest of it until the next day. That could be a reason why a lot of my grades were so bad. So, during the summer I made a promise to myself that I would never do that again, and that if I got any homework, I would do it as soon as possible- never the day of. And of course, this didn't work out either. I have kept to that promise, and still do, but it's starting to get harder and harder to follow through with it. I have to make a choice of if I want to get good grades, or sleep. I chose good grades. We got our report cards and to my displeasure, I only had one A and all the rest were B's or C's. I cannot begin to explain how angry and worthless this made me feel. So this nine weeks, I've tried to work even harder to obtain those wonderful A's. It seems as if the teachers can read my mind, and work against it. When I decided to work my absolute absolute hardest to do all my homework, of course I recieve the largest homework loads of all time. Sure this year I'll have at least 3 hours of homework everyday, but after the first month of school, that time amount keeps increasing. Increasing to 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2.. to where it is now an average of about 4- 4 1/2 hours of homework. per night. This in my opinion, is ridiculus. There is such a thing as eating, hygiene, and sleep. If we already go to school for 7 hours, homework for 4, how do we have time for anything else? I wake up at 5 in the morning, get on the bus (sometimes i drive), school from 8.15-3.15. Ill get home at 4.20 if im riding the bus, 3.40 if im driving. 4 hours of homework, that makes it 8.20. I have to eat, use the bathroom, shower, and do chores too, so tack on another 3 hours for all that. That becomes 11.20 every single night, and the same schedule for every single day after that. Where am I supposed to get the time from? If I hang out with my boyfriend, it can't even be a long time because I have to do homework, and if I have to come home and work, it's till dark. I can't think of a reasonable reason to make all of this official. It's in my opinion, ridiculus.

Since I've met you, I've noticed things that I never knew were there before... birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights

We watched part of the Patriot in APUSH today and I noticed just how much I seriously love that movie. Besides Gladiator, it is probably one of my favorite action movies of all time. Well, the Die Hard, Bourne, 007, and a lot of other movies are up there too, but Gladiator is my favorite action movie. Favorite movie of all time though is the Naked Gun movies. Even just the name makes me laugh (yes, points for being immature haha). The order of the movies: The Naked Gun: From the Files of POlice Squad, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. These moies are based off of an old t.v. show, Police Squad! and have all of the main charachters from that show. Some of my favorite quotes from it are:
Mayor: Now Drebin, I don't want any trouble like you had on the South Side last year, that's my policy.
Frank: Well, when I see five weirdos, dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards, that's *my* policy!
Mayor: That was a Shakespeare-In-The-Park production of 'Julius Caesar,' you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones!

and

Frank: Jane, since I've met you, I've noticed things that I never knew were there before... birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights

and

[Frank Drebin is emptying out his files after being kicked off the force]
Frank: Hey! The missing evidence in the Kelner case! My God, he really was innocent!
Ed: He went to the chair two years ago, Frank.
Frank: Well, uh...
[Frank Drebin quickly shoves the evidence back into the file cabinet]

In conclusion- funniest. movie. EVER. You have to see it

the jeepers

Hi, I'm Chucky, and I'm your friend till the end. Hidey-ho!
Man! Just reading that quote from the movie Chucky: Child's Play gives me the creeps. I saw that movie when I was about 7 which is not a good age to watch a scary movie. Along with that movie I saw Stephen King's IT which was also equally horrifying. After I watched those movies when I was 7, I had nightmares for about 2 months always thinking that a doll would drop down from our fireplace into the pit. Or that while I was taking a shower that I would hear IT's voice calling from the drain and then the shower head would move around. When told to write a blog about movies that scared us, I immediatly thought about these two movies. But, since I watched them 10 years ago, I wondered if they woudl still creep me out as much. So, I went home and watched them both. Wow. I have to admit, they were still scary. Of course, not as scary as they were when I was a kid, and I didn't jump or scream at all, but I still had literal chills run up my spine when it showed Chucky's face come alive and when IT's face popped up in the sewer drain. Yup, many things change from when your a kid to when you grow up, but these movies still give me the jeepers.

roflas (rolling on floor laughing and snorting)

Yes, sometimes when I laugh, well maybe a lot of times, I snort. Yes, yes I know it's extremley unattractive and very embarrasing, but I can't help it. And I just found a website that makes it so much worse of a situation. www.dearblankpleaseblank.com. To give you an example:
Dear God,
Thank you for not creating cows that fly.
Sincerely, a person who just got pooped on by a pigeon.

Dear people with one leg,
We are now hiring!
Sincerely, IHOP

Dear person who said "The way to a man's heart is through his stomache",
Please never become a surgeon.
Sincerely, Society
Dear gingerbread man,
Gotcha!
Sincerely, Chuck Norris

I don't understand

DUAL ACTION -Instanly Kills 99.99% of Germs and Moistuerizes Without Water With Vitamin E- What? That doesn't make any sense. How can something like Germ-X be so liquidy and contain no water? And kills 99.99% germs? That seriously can't be healthy. And to moisturize, doesn't that mean to like add water? I'm just extremly confused, I don't understand. And unicorns, how do they really not exist? We have mixed species like tigons (tiger and lion), ladradoodle (labador and poodle), cippo (cat and hippo), and zeala (zebra and seal). Why have not two animals yet formed a unicorn? If the dinosaurs were once extinct, then why couldn't have unicorns be extinct? The pointy thing on it's head could be cartlidge, and that decomposes. So, scientists would find skelton of a horse and not think anything about it. I'm just extremly confused, I don't understand. And chapstick! Where does all my chapstick always go? How does it dissapear so quickly? I use it like daily, but still I shouldn't be buying new chapsticks like every month. I don't understand.

O how I love thee you delicious, lovely, starchy, satisfying earth-apple

"Earth-apple" is a Swedish word for "potato" one of my favorite items of food. Actually, I'm eating one right now. Well, actually potato soup, but it's still quite lovely and yummy. I love potato soup, potato doughnuts, boiled, mashed, cut, squished, and cubed potatos. I absolutly can't stand baked potatos though. You know how as a kid, and maybe even now, when you eat pancakes (or crepes) you always swather them in a lake of syrup? And then somebody passing by asks if you want any pancakes with that syrup? That's what I do with baked potatos. No, I don't eat potatos with syrup, that would just be gross. But, I always end up disguising the baked spud with a mask of broccoli, cheese, tomatoes, parsley, and maybe some ranch. And even after I do that, I can't take more than a few bites. The unwanted taste of that little potato creeps through all the other tastes that I'm trying to focus my attention on. It seems like the more you try to focus on something, your mind always wanders back to the thing your trying not the think about. In my case- that dang baked potato.