Cookies

• So I've been baking some cookies to take to Quiz Bowl. And I want to decorate them with icing so I can practice my (nonexistent) decorating skills. I've long given up on the whole personalitizing cookies for each person. Considering that I don't know who'll show up and sadly, there's a couple people I don't know their names, and...yeah. But I baked cookies with my mom, and had fun bonding. That never happens. We normally end up arguing.

• She gets to see Maya Angelou tonight, which makes me jealous...sigh.

• Question: If someone is born in Bora Bora, then moves to Mexico, then moves to the US, then back to Mexio, then finally to the US again, what nationality are they? Are you only the nationality of the country you're born in?

• I wanna see Emaline's haircut!
  

Of all the things I could be doing

I'm eavesdropping on my parents and uncle talking. And I can't get into the details because there's something about a relative that's a family secret and blah blah blah. I'm honestly surprised I haven't told anyone yet. I have the biggest mouth known to mankind. Unless there's Bigfoot's cousin out there somewhere, Bigmouth. Then, I guess I'd be second.



Anyway, I'm in love with this necklace I found that some beader made and posted it on a beading site. I just wish I knew how to do this. But, I'm learning. Beading, and cake decorating are my new hobbies.



Does anyone think it's ironic that a girl who's a self proclaimed feminist loves such domestic things like baking? Oh, and I shave my legs. I suppose I'm obeying what society demands of women and shit. Too bad I just don't want to look like my good ancestors the Neanderthals.

Belief, Religion, & All that Jazz!

So, this entry has been sparked by yet another argument with my mother about church.

I am not a fan of church.

I'm jealous of all those people that can be so crazy devoted to a religion. (Well, except the terrorist/Muslim extremist types)

I just sometimes wish I could believe this things without doubting everything and sleeping during Mass and such.

I mean I can't even remember to stay away from what I gave up for Lent! (unless I'm around awesome people that are remembering)

I think the worst part of all is teaching little kids about Catholicism, but then not believing most of it myself. I feel like such a fake. I'm so detached from it, I could be teaching them math. I think I believe more in Elizabeth I and Gloria Steinem than the Apostles and Saints.

I wish I had the devotion I had when I was in 6th grade, before I turned into a bratty, sarcastic teenager. Maybe, if that happened, I wouldn't want to convert to Judaism or go Buddhist.

Okay...so I was blog hopping and...

Here's some stuff that struck my fancy. You may not agree. I have weird taste. :P

Mhmmm...chandeliers. I love them. Plus, hey this is a cool angle.

It's so awesome and mysterious and misty. It's like a really cool picture of Culver with fog.

Books. Pretty colors. Perfection.

Jason Segal = Love
Plus the photographer that came up with this concept...

I'm BACK....with CAKE and CAPS LOCK

From the grave, to answer Andrea's question.

So, either I've been too busy or too lazy to blog lately (HINT: it's lazy) and so all these ideas have been bubbling up in my head. And I think I wanna write a story. Not necessarily like novel length, but something not like two pages long either. I'm just so sick of reading books and being "oh, this should totally happen!" And then it doesn't. Or I'll just get a totally great idea for a book. So this next part's in all caps. Because I'm cool like that.

I'M GONNA WRITE A STORY. BEING SICK FOR TWO WEEKS HAS GIVEN ME SOME GOOD IDEAS.

OH!!! AND I'M 16 AND TWO DAYS! YAY! OBVIOUSLY MY BIRTHDAY WAS TWO DAYS AGO, AND IT HAS EFFECTIVELY BANISHED MY DEPRESSION! (for now...dun dun dundun)

And, I've been beading a lot. I think I'm gonna make that my new hobby, jewelry making. Unfortunately, it may end up making me broke and with an excess of jewelry. And then all my friends will get jewelry (probably poorly) made by me. Well, they'll live. It's fun. AND PRETTY!

Oh, and I got a cake decorating kit. So I'm gonna be baking more. Hopefully not eating it though (I'm trying to be healthier). So, Quiz Bowlers, prepare yourself. I think making cookies would be easier. OH! With specially piped cookies for everyone with their names on them. That'd be damn cool. SWEET!

Well, now I'm either going to write a manifesto, or a love story. And you know it's the latter. Because I'm a sucker for that stuff. Oh, and it'll be a mystery. Like Stephanie Plum books. Cuz those are amazing.

so... check out the website for it. Sorry, it was random, but I felt a need to make a hyperlink. And be cool like Andrea with the bus one.

hmm...so I have creative endeavors to pursue! Yay! ¡Nos vamos!

Okay. So Not in Need of a Shrink

I think it was PMS. Or my generally nutty self. I don't know.

I still have some art to do. It's so wonderful and smudgy and charcoaly. But I'm a little afraid to finish. What if it doesn't turn out as great as it is in my head? It probably won't. But I love it, and I love just the getting messy. It's like fingerpainting. Only maybe a little more sophisticated.

Regardless, I'm pumped for Quiz Bowl tomorrow. I just hope I can sleep tonight. I always like Tuesdays and Thursdays for Quiz Bowl and seminar. But now I get to like Monday for once too. Now that's really awesome.

I think I was wrong...

Okay. I take it back. I do need that shrink.