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Number 5 on my to do list today is blog, so here I am! Number 3 is to write Marissa a letter. A ridiculously late overdue letter :D

I don't really need a to do list today, because I don't have anything I NEED to get done. Well, besides go to work in 2 hours. But that's precisely why I made one, because if I don't create a need for myself to do something, I don't do anything. Having these tasks written on paper tricks me into thinking it's really, really important I do it. Yeah, I'm kind of gullible.

Speaking of work, that's going ok. It's a little stressful though, I'm very worried about getting everything right, but I keep forgetting things. I was recently moved to cashier because the girl before me ended up $10 under, so they took her off and put her on probation for three months, and if she gets another write up, she's fired. :O This really freaks me out, because I'm pretty sure I've already racked up a few write ups. It's so hard to remember everything, because the registers are really old so we have to type everything in, instead of scanning it. And if you hit a wrong button you have to have a manager void it, which you get written up for, which has happened to me several times. Rawr.

Marissa, you mentioned I was back in the world of commenting, which is kind of true, ha. The thing is, girls, I let your blogs pile up in my reader until I have about 8 to read, and then I go through them, and THEN I comment. So, I don't read your blogs right away, but I do read them.

Hm. I'm not really sure what the point of this blog was, other than to check it off my to do list. Checking things off is an extremely satisfying pass time, by the way.

Anna out bitches.

Books read: 32. Still woefully behind. Marissa, I looked in our library for the Spellman Files, but they didn't have them! I'll have to go into the city library

I'm Awesome.

Why hello there. So let's dive right into my excuses shall we? So I missed a few days in BEDA. Well ok more than a few. And as my missed BEDA days accumulated, I just felt like I had already missed too many to rightly go back to finishing BEDA. I felt like I would just be trying to pretend I was accomplishing BEDA, so I told myself I'd go back to blogging regularly in May. But by then I was out of the habit of blogging, and I just didn't do it. So yeah there it is!

But I want to get back to blogging, if only so I can have some record of my thoughts for later in life. ALSO I *really* want to get back to reading and commenting on everyone's blogs, because that's what I've really felt guilty about.

A lot has happened to me since my last entry! The most important being, I GOT A FUCKING JOB. Honestly this feels like such a giant weight off my shoulders. I have been trying to get a job for over a year (admittedly I didn't really know at ALL the proper way to apply for a job the first 7 or so months though). And not to pat myself on the back, (ok, yeah, that's what I'm doing) but I'm so proud of myself! The job is at Salvation Army, and I had NO connections and NO help which is more than I can say for most of the people I know who have jobs. It was my first job interview ever, and I got it, and yeah. I'm awesome, haha.

I start tomorrow, and I'm quite nervous! I honestly don't know anyone there, and I've never been in this position before.

School is winding down, only 10 more full days. I think. I don't feel like counting. This also means exams are coming...but I didn't study until 2 days before last tri and it worked, so who am I to argue with success?

I miss all you TSR girls! I feel like everything has been crazy lately, and we haven't been posting as much! :'(

Anna out, bitches

Books read: 31 (I'm really behind! Anyone have book suggestions?)

PS: I have decided to stop using Beatles songs as titles. Not only am I running out of relevant songs, but I also feel it is less cool/original and more prententious/annoying than I thought it was

BEDA April 14

Today's theme: travel.

Here's the thing. In theory, I am in love with travel. Really. I love the idea to death. I love the idea of going to amazing new places, learning amazing new things, and meeting amazing new people. In theory, I want to travel all over the world, as often as I can.

In reality, all my experiences with travel-not that great. I hate car rides. They make me sick to my stomach, they're boring and smelly, my legs get cramps. I don't like being away from home; I always forget to pack something vital like a razor or my glasses and then I can't just, go home and get it. I often feel ill when on vacation away from home, (maybe it's a psychological thing?) and it SUCKS being sick in a hotel or someone else's house. By the time I get home I'm pretty much crying with relief.

The reason for this reality is probably because I'm doing the wrong kind of travel. I'm only 17 so most of the traveling I've done has been with my family. We drive down to Florida every other Christmas, and 22 hours in the car with my family is no picnic. Plus my dad falls violently ill while we're there EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. so at this point in my life I all but hate Florida.

I have only taken two trips without my parents, one trip down to Florida (Disney world) with my friends in 5th grade, and another trip with those SAME friends again to Florida last year. And both were fun. So come to think of it, I think my family is the main factor in my distaste for travel.

Still, I hope to travel a lot more with out my family in the future. I would love to visit Europe again (last time was in 3rd grade, I didn't really appreciate it then) especially now that I have friends there! =] Hopefully I get to go to Europe for study abroad in college 2 years from now. I really want to see California, and some southern states, and of course see all the cities in the East. And it's always been my dream as a little girl to visit Australia.

That's all I have, time to attack that homework.

Oh and sorry for missing days again....school's a bitch.

Anna out, bitches.

Books read:24

BEDA April 11

Weekly wrap-up!

My week was quite good, what with it being Spring Break and all. In fact, it may have been the best week of my life because of Wednesday. Although there were some bad things, like my mom being sick all week, the rain, and the excessive driving. Bah but I'm just in a bad mood because I have to go back to school tomorrow, really it was good!

Monday- College visits. in Ohio. 5.5 hour drive. UGH. Kenyon's campus (where John Green went to school incidentally!) was really beautiful, but I dunno, the people there were very...reclusive. Denison didn't have nearly as attractive as campus but I really liked it a lot better, more stuff was going on.
Tuesday- a haze of my mom being really sick in bed all day and stressing out trying to make the Wednesday Chicago trip work.
Wednesday- Best. day. ever. Please see my BEDA April 8 post for full detail.
Thursday- Not even really a day. I slept until 2pm due to the fact that I hadn't gotten to sleep until like 3am. Then when I did wake up I wrote the longest blog of my life, caught up on everything internet, and then started Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
Friday- Finished reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson, marveled at the talent of John Green and David Levithan, then went to see Date Night (hilarious).
Saturday- Did chores, then went to the roller derby with the family.

And there you go, so perhaps not the best week EVER, but still, no school right?
And I have been ridiculously ontop of my internet duties this week! That's all about to change tomorrow haha. ohwell.

Anna out, bitches.

books read: 23

BEDA April 10

Shopping! Something I used to loathe for years, but as time goes by (sorry I'm no Sam) I've been warming up to it.

I still do tire easily when shopping (SO much walking!) and usually end up sitting on a bench/shelf/clearance rack to rest my poor feet.

BUT I did just go to Chicago, so it's kind of mandatory to do some shopping with the Magnificent Mile right there and all. I got 2 shirts and a dress that I am very happy about, and of course the infamous color changing nail polish.

The place I spend the most is honestly Barnes and Noble, it's pretty much impossible for me to go in that store without buying something. I'm such a book snob, I mean, I go to the library frequently, but I just usually end up buying what I read anyways. I want it to be MINE. So I don't have worry about bending the spine or tearing a page. Plus, books from the library are often kind of gross. A recent one I got had like, chocolate smeared on the pages. And some very clever person realized how hilarious it would be to Sharpie out all words ending in a-s-s so it said ASS. Har, har, har, swearing is so hilarious. So yeah, I like to buy books.

I mainly get my clothes at Kohls, because they're cheap, and if you search through the crap you can find some cute stuff. Sort of.

Today I went to the roller derby with my family, which was interesting, especially after seeing Whip It. Although, the atmosphere was a lot less...loud than it was in the movie and the food sucked. But, it was fun, we were the "Killamazoo Derby Darlings" and the opposing team was the "Montreal Sexpos". So, yeah.

Tomorrow is OFFICIALLY the last day of vacation! D= I probably won't be as ontop of these blogs once school starts up...

Anna out, bitches

Books read this year: 23

BEDA April 9

Ok back to our regularly scheduled BEDA themes! Today's is "Teach us ". Hmm what can I teach you?

There's the things institutional public education has taught me, like the quadratic formula (-b+- √b^2-4ac/2a), dangling modifiers, and all the presidents of the US in order (seriously I know them all. I have a song.). But uh, these things are neither fun nor useful to know.

Really this is the kind of stuff I'm good at though, which is sweet for now, because it gets me good grades, but I have a feeling won't be very helpful in the future. What I'm trying to say is, I don't really know anything unusual or cool to tell you all.

Today is the last day of Spring Break! Now it's really just a weekend. I'm not too upset, my break was good, plus I kind of like the fact that school forces me to get up. I've slept wayyy too much this week.

In other exciting news I bought a really balling shirt in Chicago that I'll be wearing in my video Monday (Ari's birthday!) that I think you guys will appreciate. Oh and I also bought some grey nail polish which I put on last night, and this morning I woke up and it was orange! o.O Apparently it changes with heat. Mind. Blown. But I was super confused this morning when I saw it.

Anna out, bitches.

Books read: 23--- I finished Will Grayson, Will Grayson; and WOW another brilliant book from John. Best book I've read this year hands down.

BEDA April 8

**** This blog is ridiculously long and includes a play-by-play of pretty much everything that happened when I saw John Green and David Levithan. Don't feel obligated to read/comment, because it's really just for me, getting all the details down on "paper" so I don't forget.

WOW, so ha I guess I won't get the satisfaction of saying I completed BEDA this year. Oh well.

These last few days have been crazy with downs and ups, although last night was the ultimate UP so that's what I'm going to talk about.

As I think you all know, I MET FREAKING JOHN GREEN. My mom is officially the best mom in the world because she agreed to drive my friends and I all the way to Chicago (2.5 hours...) yesterday so I could meet him. And it was everything I thought it would be plus more.

We were about 15 minutes early when we walked into The Theater Building, I wasn't really expecting to see John right away. But as we filed in, he was RIGHT THERE, sitting next to his laptop, and it was so surreal. It's like, you watch someone online for almost 2 years, and follow their tweets and everything and all the evidence suggests that, yeah, they're a real person and you THINK you understand that, but...I guess somewhere deep down I didn't really believe it until I saw it.

Anyways so yeah, there he was just sitting there 5 feet away from me being real, and I was totally thrown off. And then I realized I was staring and, being real, he had eyes, and could see me staring. I panicked, and to cover, I made the nerdfighter gang sign to him, which he returned, and then I ran for my seat while thinking "ZOMG John Green can see me, he just made the nerdfighter sign at me, that proves it!!!" Which is totally true.

And then I realized, oh my god, not only am I going to meet John Green tonight, John Green is going to meet ME tonight. o.O Which wasn't a great thought, because I (rightly) knew I was going to FREAK out and he was just going to think I was weird. Also totally true.

So then I was just nervous like nothing else, so much so that I was kind of wishing I was just safe at home watching the livestream like Ashley and Lo. Then of course I get the text from Ashley that she is watching the livestream, and I am there watching IRL and that was also kind of a surreal-awesomy feeling. So then I start shouting things trying to get Ashley and Lo to hear me on the livestream, which worked, but came with the price of almost every sinlge person there turning around to look at me whenever I screamed "HI ASHLEY!" or "HI LO!". But they were nerdfighters, so they were nice about it.

Meanwhile John and David were just kind of wandering in and out of the room eating doriotos, and THEN Wheezy Waiter shows up, and John's all "Look everyone, it's Wheezy Waiter!" and I embarass myself by actually gasping, because not going to lie, I really think Wheezy Waiter is the funniest person on youtube (which I later told him), and probably my 2nd favorite youtuber. I knew he lived in Chicago, but I wasn't really expecting to see him so that just made my night, as if it wasn't already made enough.

The actual event finally began with this pretty cheesy lady asking us about good things that came in two's (a simple introduction of John and David would have been more appropriate I think) but I shouted "Ron and Hermione!" which got a good laugh from the nerdfighters and that made me feel special =].

Then John and David came out and talked about Will Grayson, Will Grayson for a bit, I was surprised to learn they wrote most of their chapters without consulting each other, I always just assumed they had been in the same room when they wrote it.

They went on to do some readers theater from the book with Liz from sistersalad which was highly entertaining, and I plan on posting on youtube within the next few days. After that they did Q&A and I asked the first question which made me feel EXTREMELY special. Not so special that I babbled and complicated a fairly simple question (Was it harder to write a book with someone than by yourself?) but oh well.


There were LOTS more questions after that, and some very entertaining stories and moments from John and David, including the fireman story, John's willingness to steal stories, and also David gloating that his book has been a movie. David, btw, was really hilarious as well, and so far I've only read one book of his (The realm of possibility) but I definitely plan to read them all now.

My favorite question was Craig's (wheezy's) "What's the address of Frenchy's?" (porn shop). Lmao XD. oh wheezy. Which then prompted a story of how David and John went to Frenchy's to take pictures and be nerdy =]

I didn't film the whole Q&A because I was running low on memory, and I needed some for John to say hi to thesquirrelrebellion =]

So then we finally got to the book signing part, my friends who were way over this went to wait outside, and since I was number 37 and they had you go up 10 at a time, I took the oppurtunity to say hi to Wheezy Waiter. Well, bumble like a moron to him is more like it. I told him he was the funniest person on youtube and that I watch his videos everyday. He didn't really say anything back, I think I embarrassed him and/or he thought I was mentally challenged. But he was nice enough to let me take a picture with him!



After that my mom and I went to sit down while I waited for it to be my turn to go up, and during this time a brilliant nerdfighter gave John a book by the OTHER John Green, about Sasquatch, which John loved so much he announced it to the room and I found myself wishing I had something cool to give John.




Somehow (I have no idea how) my mom and I missed the calling of my number, so they were like in the 40s by the time I went up, but no big deal, cus, hello, I MET JOHN GREEN. I told John he and Hank had changed my life (so true) and he said that was very nice of me to say (I think he also thought I was challenged)and David pointed out that I hadn't said whether they'd changed it for the better or not. And then he and John signed my copy of Will Grayson, Will Grayson for me, and I got John to say hi to the squirrel rebellion. THEN I asked if I could take a picture, and they said they couldn't stop do any formal poses but you could just...take pictures. So I went behind them and my mom took this nice creeper pic of me behind David and John.

And then, since I was back there already, I tried to wave hi to Lo and Ashley on the livestream, but I wasn't sure if it worked or not, but apparently it did so Ashley has some footage of me being confused that I can't wait to see =].

Then I thought the night was so full of awesome and it couldn't get any awesomer, but I was wrong because Ashley called me and we had a very brief phone conversation, which I cut short because my friends were glaring at me and we had to start the 2.5 hours drive back (it was already 10:30pm our time). But it was awesome to talk all the same.

WOW this is a really long blog, I swear you guys don't have to comment, it's really for myself. I tried to include every detail so I won't forget, because it was probably the best night ever. I also got some pretty sweet things while shopping in Chicago, but uh, I think this is long enough =] Plus I need to go read Will Grayson, Will Grayson now.

Anna out, bitches.

Books read:22

BEDA April 5

So, today's BEDA theme is sports.

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Anna out, bitches.

Books read: 22

BEDA April 4

Happy Easter lovely followers (aka TSR girls + Sarah)! I'm feeling quite cheerful in my nice Easter sun dress and the sun shining. And let's not forget the delicious HAM that is cooking in the kitchen right now.

But today's theme is not food, it's weekly wrap-up. This is kind of hard for me, because I have an awful time trying to look back and recall things. Do you guys know what I mean? It's just seems like too laborious of a task for my mind to remember so far back...

Well, let's see...
Monday...I stacked my books. Really, that took like all of my time haha.
Tuesday...I scheduled my spring break to include the supermegafoxyawesomehot event I will be sharing tomorrow.
Wednesday I went to the girls soccer game to heckle my friend who plays goalie. ("WHO'S THAT SEXY SUPERMODEL IN GOAL?")
Thursday I sat around at home and rediscovered my love for Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-long Blog.
Friday I saw Clash of the Titans (mediocre, not recommended) and then acted completely obnoxious and annoying in Arby's with my friends.
Saturday I slept in and then did chores and decorated Easter eggs with my family.

( I totally cheated and went back to read my old Facebook statuses. Seriously. Can't remember that far back.)

So. Not a very exciting week, but still a good one. How can you not be happy the week before Spring Break? I had some very nerdy things going on that needed to be planned and plotted, that's always fun :D

Anyone else super pumped about Will Grayson, Will Grayson?

Anna out, bitches.

Books read: 22

PS: In case anyone was wondering, I DID end up getting my ACT test scores, and I got a 30 (the highest is 36). Which I am reasonably happy with, but I think I'll take it again in June.

BEDA April 3

It is so ironic that today's theme is FOOD because the only reason I chose now to blog is because my dad has taken over the kitchen and I CAN'T HAVE LUNCH. So I thought I'd take my mind off the painful hunger by blogging, and come to find that, yes, the theme is in fact food.

Food is great. Food is my friend. I love food like it were my own child. If I could, I would spend all my time with food, but this is impossible when CERTAIN PEOPLE block off the kitchen because they need to "mop" or whatever.

That being said, I am a terrible cook, which really disappoints me. I like the low-prep canned food alright I guess, but I really love like, exquisite food. So I love going out to eat at nice restaurants. Too bad I'm poor too, haha. But also, my mom is a great cook, so that helps.

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday which means my mom is going to make HAM. I can't wait. I love all the special meals she makes for holidays, Thanksgiving, obviously (mashed potatoes is like one of my favorite things EVER); but then there's also St. Patrick's Day (corned beef and cabbage), Christmas Eve (shrimp cocktail and garlic bread), and of course, Easter.

This has not helped my hunger at all. I don't remember who showed me this sight, Marissa, I think, but if you want to be as hungry as me just click here.

-gets bucket for drool- Ok, well in other news it's rainy and dark today. Boo. But it's nice in that warm-rain earthy smell kind of way. Everyone at my school has gotten their ACT scores back except me! I hate living outside our district mail. I'm quite nervous, I really want a good score!

On that nerdy note, Anna out, bitches.

Books read this year: 21

BEDA April 2

Does it make anyone else's month that Hayley G. Hoover is also doing BEDA? Because it sure makes mine.

And apparently Maureen is doing BEDA in August. No one told me this! I'm so out of the loop...

Well Lo's theme today is music, and if you've been following my blog for any amount of time you know I love The Beatles. I grew up listening to those songs (my parents love them) and even the Beatles songs I don't really like make me smile when I hear them. I mean, c'mon. It's the fricken Beatles.

Other than that I feel kind of inadequate when it comes to music. I mean, I appreciate it, and listen to it on my iPod, but I don't like, actively seek it. I've been 5 concerts in my life. I just hear songs I like, and think, oh that's nice, this song makes me happy. But I can't claim to be any sort of expert.

A few other bands I have a lot of on my iPod: Weezer, Hank Green, Pixies, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who.

Today marks my first day of Spring Break 2010, woohoo! Going out to see Clash of the Titans to celebrate. Yeah, I know, I'm wild.

Anna out, bitches.

Books read this year: 21

BEDA April 1

Blog Every Day in April, ah!

Since I'm such an awful blogger, I figure doing BEDA will be good for me. Plus, I hate being left out of things. Gotta jump on the bandwagon.

And I'm stealing Lo's themes too, because I love themes and I hate thinking on my own. So it's perfect. And here they are (copy and pasted from Ari's blog of course. I do nothing on my own XD):

1. BEDA Intro/Interviews(?)
2. Music
3. Food
4. Weekly Wrap-Up
5. Sports
6. History of Hairstyles
7. Celebrity Crushes
8. Things I Love Thursday
9. Teach us!
10. Shopping Kryptonite
11. Weekly Wrap-Up
12. Daily Routines
13. Unique skills
14. Travel
15. Things I Love Thursday
16. Collections
17. Books/What you're reading
18. Weekly Wrap-up
19. Timewasters
20. Dreams
21. Guilty Pleasures
22. Things I Love Thursday
23. Weather stories
24. Favourite Childhood Books
25. Weekly Wrap-Up
26. Quotations
27. Addictions
28. Favourites
29. Things I Love Thursday
30. End-of-BEDA Post

I'm not sure what interviews mean, so I'm just going to do the intro part. And tell you all that I have some VERY EXCITING NEWS that I will be sharing with you all in my Monday video! Ahhh so excited just thinking about it :D If you stalk my facebook/twitter you might already know.

Spring break is next week. And it's like 75 degrees out. Life is good. Is life good for you guys? I hope so :)

Anna out bitches.

Books read: 21

**because I am running out of relevant Beatles songs for my blog (as Marissa predicted, that psychic), for BEDA I'm not going to do the song thing.

Wait...

So I was listening to my iPod, and no surprise, the Beatles come on. The lyrics to the song go "It's been a long time, now I'm, coming back home". I, assuming that the title of the song would be "It's been a long time", thought it would be a perfect title for my blog, seeing as I haven't blogged in like...TWO MONTHS. But, to my annoyance, the title is actually "Wait". So there you go.

I HAVE FAR TOO MANY THINGS TO DO ON THE INTERNET. It's so true. Every time I go on I must check email, facebook, youtube, twitter, tumblr, dailybooth, and blogs. The last two often get forgotten in the process. So, sorry.

But you probably don't care if I post or not, but I AM sorry for not commenting on everyone's blogs! I just logged into google reader for the first time in a while and I have 16 new updates. I do read them. And as of today onward I *will* comment. I hope.

Life update. My new classes for the trimester (our school is weird and thinks we're pregnant or something) are alright, TV Productions is not nearly as fun as I thought it would be however. I'm desperate to get a job. If you have any advice on how you guys got your jobs, that would be very helpful.

Today when I came home from school I mixed peanut butter, chocolate chips, butter, brown sugar, and coconut in a bowl and put it in the microwave. It was so delicious that I preceded to do it a second time. Now I feel quite queasy...

Well, Anna out bitches.

Title song.
Books read this year: 19

Here Comes the Sun

Really! It's been so nice and sunny here the last few days, and I couldn't be happier about it! A girl can only take so much of gray skies.

So even though the ACT test that decides my future is quickly approaching, I can't help but be in a good mood with this sun around.

The oscars are tomorrow! I never usually watch them, but I saw a lot of movies this year, plus Lo's blog has me all excited for them. Really I hope Up in the Air wins something at least (my money is on best actor for george), because that was my favorite movie on the lists I'd say. If Sandra Bullock wins best actress I will be HIGHLY upset. I was pretty disappointed 500 Days of Summer didn't get nominated for anything as well.

Tonight I'm going to dinner with my family to Red Lobster to "celebrate my good grades", aka my mom just wants an excuse to go to Red Lobster. Hey I'm not complaining, I mean those biscuits are to die for right, Ashley?

Anna out bitches.

Books read this year: 14
Title song.

Tell Me Why

...iMovie is trying to ruin my life. In an attempt to make up for no video, I decided to write on my much neglected blog. Sorry about that by the way. But really, I've had nothing to say.

This title doesn't exactly express how I feel right now, but there isn't a Beatles' song titled "IMOVIE DELETED MY VIDEO RAWRRGGGG!"

Anyways. It's exam week, just for a little added fun. I have not studied at all, which is pretty unlike me. My sickness has not gone away either.

But on the plus side the film festival was a success! Our video didn't win anything, but I did get pulled for the Q&A (which no one told me I had to do) as the director, and some people I didn't know asked me about the video, which I found flattering. I was incredibly nervous and babbled into the mic like an idiot while fidgeting with my necklace, but overall, fun.

Anyhow, I'm sorry to the TSR girls once again for not posting, but also for being kind of distant this week. I've been filled with this unwelcome apathy lately. I hope it goes away soon.

Anna out, bitches. (no matter how inappropriate this is, I refuse to stop)

Books read this year: I think...it's 12?
Title song.

I'm Only Sleeping

....like 11 hours a night. Seriously, it's bad. No matter how determined I am at night, I just can't seem to make myself get up in the morning before 10. And then I feel lazy and unproductive...

So today is a snow day, which might lead one to believe that I have a nice opportunity to film this ridiculous challenge Ari gave me. WELL YOU THOUGHT WRONG! My mom teaches at the school I go to which means she is home ALL DAY too. Rawr fingers crossed that she goes to the store so I can at least film my normal video.

But speaking of my mom (don't go there), yesterday she made some really delicious brownies. The smell lured me into the kitchen, but to my disappointment, she had already started washing the brownie mix bowl and spoon, leaving me nothing to lick (seriously, don't go there, I WILL beat you).

My mom, seeing my sadness, said "Oh, I'm sorry." Then she took a spoon out of the drawer, scooped out a big chunk of uncooked brownie mix from the pan, and handed it to me. "Here." I love my mom.

Oh and I bought Percy Jackson and the Olympians at Barnes and Noble yesterday, because I liked the movie, and on the back where the price is, it says "$7.99 US / Priced higher in Canada" Hahaha wow thanks a lot Canada. I love the way it doesn't even tell what that price is, just that's definitely going to be higher.

Oh and I have officially sent out ALL my letters for the TSR girls! Win!

Alright, Anna out, bitches. (Marissa if you're not going to use it, I am. That was a good suggestion, dammit)

Books read this year: 11
I recently purchased these shoes. What do you think?
Title song.


PS: I have an interview tonight! For my video for the festival, I'm kind of nervous I've never been interviewed before. I suppose now I'll have a million adoring fans....sigh life was so much simpler when I was just one of the little people. XD

Your Mother Should Know...

Wow there are just so many endless possibilities to completing that sentence, I simply don't know which to choose!

I wasn't going to blog today, but then Marissa pimped me out on her blog, and I felt I should ha. Well to be fair she pimped out all the blogs she follows. She's just a pimp like that. Anyways I felt pretty good after reading the nice things she said about me, and after watching her recent video (really pretty inspirational) I had the urge to blog.

My week has been been pretty average so far, apart from pretty much giving up in Spanish and thus my grade droppage in there. Tomorrow, we have to do a project, in which we make something in front of the class and explain how to do it in Spanish. My friend and I decided to make no-bake cookies, thinking it would be easy and delicious (like your mom), turns out we were pretty wrong though. Apparently they have to be made over an open flame. So instead we made them last night and are mixing paper ingredients in front of the class. Mmm paper.

I should probably go memorize the things I'm suppose to say for that. Pero, no queiro hacerlo.

I missed LOST last night, which is kind of upsetting. And there's not even a oceanic six recap posted for me to watch. Sad face.

OH I wanted to apologize to the TSR (man linking takes EFFORT) girls for not being more...social. Well as social as one can get on the internet. I mean, I often miss your tweets and stuff and I never get on skype anymore. I just always have to get offline and go do homework or something. But it makes me sad, because I really do want to talk to you girls more. So if you get a random FB chat from me, don't be alarmed.

Hm I have waited until the end of the blog to name this, hoping the perfect song would jump out at me. It didn't really work...eeny meeny miny....

Haha ok I choose that one, just because it's hilarious. Seriously go listen to it people. It's one big "yo momma" joke.

Anna

Books read this year: 9 (about 3/4 done with Catcher in the Rye)
Title song. (hilarious, go listen.)
I don't really like these shorts exactly, but for some reason they remind me inexplicably of Zoey Deschanel. (click on the picture of the girl wearing them, I think you'll see what I mean.) So I thought I'd link them. Marissa is going to Forever 21 soon. I am jealous.

The Fool on the Hill

...would be me.

Well I deleted my post from yesterday, because I decided some things are too personal and I probably shouldn't broadcast them on the internet. I always think it's stupid how people get upset that people know things about them, even though they're the ones that put it out there for everyone to see. But the truth is, it's pretty easy to get sucked into it.

Yesterday I was just feeling down and had no one around to vent to, and my blog seemed perfect. But I now realize that was a bad decision. But thank you to Lo (for some reason no matter how hard I try, I can't get to your blog to link you Lo...=[) and Marissa, your comments were all I needed =] A little feedback.

Anyways today I am posting a video for TSR and FAS. Ambitious, I know.

Phew, all this linking is making me tired...

Anna

(again, no hankrolls, I promise.)

Books read this year: 9
Title song.
I really love this dress.

Good Day Sunshine

Today's title is both true and not true, it is definitely a good day, but the sunshine, not so much. It doesn't matter though, there's sunshine in my mind!

First I would like to take note of the fact that yesterday my awesome friend Sarah turned 17. She blogs too, go congratulate her on being able to see R rated movies and drive after midnight!

My mood has improved greatly in the last day thanks to one email. A music video my friends and I made about a month ago was selected for our local teen filmmaker festival! I'm so incredibly excited about this, it's going to air on our local access channel and everything! I'm fairly certain everyone who reads this has already seen it, but I'm going to put it here anyways :)

My friends, particularly Jori and Rachel, were absolutely amazing in it, and they were all so great during the filming process. It's really hard to go all out in front of a camera without being self-conscious, but they did it beautifully and the result was fantastic. And it's also pretty awesome that they all agreed to do it, and went along with everything instead pointing out how stupid the whole thing seemed at the time.

IN CONCLUSION, I can't believe how lucky I am to have these people as friends =].

So yeah, life is good, and it doesn't hurt that we have a snow day today! I'm off to write all you squirrel rebel's letters now!

Anna

I would like to take a moment to swear on a Bible that none of the links in this blog are Hankroll's.

Books read this year: 9
Next I want this shirt from Threadless.
Title song.

Carry That Weight

Marissa commented on my last blog saying I would run out of Beatles songs eventually. But never fear. I have 203 Beatles songs on itunes, so by the time I run out, I most likely will have given up blogging.

The snowcoming dance last night was fun, I'm glad I went, but I wish I had gotten to spend more time with my friends. They are just so awesome, going to the dance because I asked them too. Sometimes I forget how amazing they are :]

Speaking of which, some of my favorite people in the world are going through not fun times right now, including the TSR girls who didn't have a good month and some IRL friends who probably don't want to be mentioned. Anyways, my heart goes out to all of you and I really hope things look up.

Now on to a very serious matter that has been a big part of my life this week. I am of course talking about Marissa's continuing pwnge of me in the Hankroll competition. Somehow she ALWAYS knows when it's coming and I never do. But this is all going to change one day....I WILL get you.

This weekend has been a nice break from a pretty hetic month. Unfortunately, breaks are temporary and I should probably get back to reality and do my homework. There's always something I should be doing, always something weighing down on me. And I've recently realized it will probably be like that for the rest of my life...which is kind of depressing. But it's just something everyone has to come to terms with I think.

That cheery note seems like a good place to end this.

Books read this year: 8 (finished Da Vinci Code, meh. Catcher and the Rye next!)
I need these shoes.
Title song.

PS: Today I am totally watching Puppy Bowl VI. Have you guys seen it? It's on Animal Planet all day today.

I'm Happy Just To Dance With You

I've just now decided that all of my blogs' titles will be the name of a Beatles song. Clever, no? No? sigh...

So yesterday something happened that never has before--I got asked to snowcoming. Which is kind of pathetic that I have literally never been asked out before this but, whatever. Anyways he is a perfectly nice boy, but although we talk on facebook and we're friendly IRL, I don't really know him at all. And so I was really surprised when he asked me.

I don't know why, but my instinct was to say no. My friends and I had been planning kind of a movie night, so that's what I told him, that I already had plans with my friends. But I really regreted it all through math class, and totally missed the lesson thinking about it. Then in Spanish, my friend, who really is amazing, convinced me it would be ok to tell him I changed my mind and go.

So that's what I did! Even though I kind of feel like a jerk now, because he looked kind of upset when I said no and then I was like, oh jk.

But now I have like my first real date, and I have mixed feelings about it. I mean, it's kind of awkward, I don't know what to say to him at school at all. I feel like I should talk to him more now. But what on earth do I say? And to tell the truth I'd almost rather hang out with my friends and watch movies...at least I know what to expect from them.

And now I feel like I'm in 7th grade since I just spent 5 paragraphs disecting that. Sigh.

Books read this year: 7
If I could, I would wear this dress to the dance.
Title song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgNM1_3Tx9A

Bullying

So I should definitely be going to bed instead of blogging, but I was just thinking about a topic that got me so upset I had to write about it. I can't rant about this stuff at school, because I know my friends would just gang up on me and shoot me down. (I love my friends, but this whole "shoot-people-down-without-even-listening-to-them" thing gets less amusing after the 100th time.)

If you don't like it when people rant in blogs, well then I suggest you move along now.

So recently at our school the senior boys have taken to messing with the freshmen. At lunch, they drive them out of the tables and then when they move, they actually throw garbage at them. But the worst part is everyone (I mean EVERYONE, even people I really like and the teachers) thinks it's absolutely hilarious. Am I the ONLY one that sees this as bullying? I mean, freshman year was a really crappy year for me, so I don't think those kids actually need someone to make their life miserable.

But this isn't even really about the freshmen. I mean, it is, kind of, I really wish the senior guys wouldn't do that. Maybe the freshmen ARE really shallow and deserve it, and maybe the bullying doesn't even bother them.

No, what gets me the most is just the fact that everyone in the school looks up to these arrogant, attention-whoring assholes. They are like Gods. They can do no wrong. Even the teachers love them.

Seriously, if someone tells a story and mentions one of these guys, that story is automatically guaranteed a laugh.

Like, normally, if you tell a story in which so-and-so told a really sexist joke, a normal reaction would be: "Wow. That guy's an asshole." But if you replace that name with one of the names of these revered senior 'popular' guys a normal reaction would be: "OMG I can't believe he did that, that is TOO funny."

We like to pretend it's not true, but it is. And worse, I'm no better because I don't do one thing to stand out against this. If I did, I would be hated by the entire school. That's not even an exaggeration. And I really kind of hate myself for not being brave enough to stand up for my principles, but at the same time I know I never will.

If you guys have ever read Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot, I really think the situation at my school is similar to that. I only wish the endings could be the same.

RAWR, sorry I'm so angry but really, it pisses me off. And it's hard to believe I am the only one who sees these guys for what they are, but that's the way it seems.

--Anna

What has 2 thumbs and doesn't want to write an essay?

-points to self with thumbs- This kid. Haha oh man, The Office...if you guys don't watch that show, you should. Speaking of you guys I have 3 followers now! Yaaaaay, helloooo Marissa, Sarah, and Ashley! Btw Marissa I noticed that I chose a layout that was exactly the same as yours but a different color...sorry about that haha.

Anyways yeah, I'm avoiding this ridiculous essay that's due tomorrow in AP Lit. I didn't even read the book (Heart of Darkness) so I don't really know how I'm going to pull this one off. Don't get me wrong I TRIED to read it. I tried to be reasonable. But HoD wouldn't have it. I probably would have finished this essay 2 days ago if my writing strategy weren't "write one sentence, take a 30 minute break".

So my weekend hasn't really been eventful, although it was a welcome escape from last week, which kinda sucked. I'm starting to realize Junior year isn't nearly as fun as Sophomore. With all the homework, and parents and teachers demanding we decide RIGHT NOW what we're going to do with the rest our lives I might just decide to drop out of school. Not really, but I am feeling pretty pressured.

Ok well it's been 30 minutes, which means it's time to go write another sentence.

-Anna

Books read this year: 6

And I really want (need, really) this shirt.

I give in.

I'm blogging. It's for real. I probably won't keep it up but after 6 months of reading others blogs, I just decided to give it a try. I probably suck at it already. For instance, HTML has always confused me. I wish Dane were here. That was a FAS reference that was so long ago I'm sure no one got it.

Anyways, I've read enough blogs that I know the general idea of what makes a good one. 1. Drama 2. counting things. Well I'm not really feeling the drama today, so I'll try to think of something to count. Ah, well I'm trying to read 75 new books this year, so I'll go for that. See bottom of page.

On that subject, I am currently reading The Da Vinci Code and next I think I'll read Catcher and the Rye in because I've never read it and everyone is talking about it in lieu of J.D. Salinger's death. Plus a bunch of people I really respect love it (John Green, Hayley G Hoover, Marissa), so I'm looking forward to reading it!

Well that was sufficiently boring and self-indulgent, I think I'll wrap this up and get the much anticipated counting now.

-Anna

Books read this year: 6

Oh and also I love that Hayley puts a link to nail polish at the end of her blog, it's really gotten me into nail polish. I think I'll just put my own little link in here for uhhh... these boots. I'm not really a shoe girl, but I really want these boots. (the grey)