Currently Reading The Squire's Tale (The Squire's Tales) By Gerald Morris see related

I love this state in the fall/early winter. Seriously. It used to be my least favorite season, just cuz everything's all brown and dead, and cloudy days are really depressing. Heh. But...I don't know. When we started going back and forth between Mom's house and Dad's house every other weekend, there really wasn't anything better to do on the car rides after a book or crocheting gets boring than look out the window. So I do. And I still like spring better, but looking out the window today...wow. Everything I thought was brown was really gold. There's not that many leaves left on the trees, but the ones that are left are absolutely beautiful. There weren't any clouds at all, so the sky was this incredible dark indigo, with the sun all white-hard in contrast. All the shadows stood out very sharp and clear. Just looking at the grass kept me occupied for about half an hour after I finished my book. Have you ever done that? It's hard in the car, obviously, but there's so many different kinds, and they're all so gorgeous. Lol, I wanted to get out and take a ton of pictures. But we were on the interstate. >_<

This weekend was really great. We went to my dad and stepmom's house from Friday until Tuesday morning, when we went back to the town we used to live in to visit friends and stuff. A couple of my friends and I ran around at the mall for a while...LOL lotsa trick-r-treaters. Hehe. Not to mention the big Runza dinosaur running around the food court. One of my friends kept saying he was gonna tackle him next time he came around. He never did...huh...lol.

After that we went to a concert. *grin* It was totally awesome. Can't say which artist, but it's one of my absolute favorites. Not much space to mosh, but it worked. =D Hehe, really loud bass is so much fun. You can like..feel it hitting your pant legs. LOL. And it shakes everything, including you. Awful for your ears though...hmm...oh well...

And now I'm eating a Milky Way bar. ^_^.  Best candy in existence. And I'm off mudding. Or gapping. Or chatting. Or all three.

Currently Watching The Matrix Revolutions By Mary Alice, Tanveer K. Atwal, Helmut Bakaitis, Kate Beahan, Francine Bell, Monica Bellucci, Rachel Blackman, Henry Blasingame, Ian Bliss, David Bowers (II), Zeke Castelli, Collin Chou, Essie Davis, Laurence Fishburne, Nona Gaye, Dion Horstmans, Lachy Hulme, Christopher Kirby, Peter Lamb, Nathaniel Lees see related

haha ok fiiine I'm posting again! =P Stephen! lolol. You know I have been using my gap blog...

Yeah I've been lazy and not used my xanga for ages...well, first cuz we had a virus and I couldn't access xanga from the school computers, and then just cuz the gap was easier. Hmm.

I had an adventure today. Sort of. LOL! Ok...I was doing the wallaby diets, right? So it calls for two slices of bread, but there's no more bread in the inside freezers, so I went out to the walk-in freezer to get some. I left the door open, 1st cuz I didn't know there was a light inside, and 2nd cuz it's pretty cold in there and the little bit of warmth from the door is pretty nice. Ok. Well...one of the keepers was out there about five minutes before I was. She came back out, saw the door open, and was like..ooohh crud I forgot to shut the freezer. So..she shuts the door, not realizing that I'm still in there. I was like "hey!" but she didn't hear me, cuz the doors/walls are so thick. Ok. So I try to open the door from the inside handle. But...it didn't work. Apparently it's broken, but no one realized it. And remember..I didn't know there was a light. So I'm stuck in a closet-sized space about 15 degrees below freezing for 15 minutes, with no light except for this little tiny sliver by the door, no jacket or anything besides a t-shirt, and absolutely no way of getting out.
One of the other keepers finally realized I was missing and came to look for me and heard me banging on the door and let me out. That was a relief. hehe. And then we gave the keeper who shut me in grief about it. LOL! And then I went home, cuz it was like ten minutes after I was supposed to leave. I finally got warmed up after I put on my coat and drank a cup of hot cocoa. Heh.
I guess I panicked a little more than I should have. I mean...I knew that 1) the keepers had a general idea of where I was, 2) if the keepers thought I'd left for the day without telling anyone, Mom would call around until someone figured out where I was, and 3) I wasn't really alone anyway. But in the meantime, I'm getting colder and colder, I can't see anything, and no one knows I'm stuck. So I freaked. *headdesk* Pretty dumb. And now I feel like I've failed some sort of test, cuz I didn't keep my head and trust God to send someone along to let me out..."tried and found wanting" and all that. >_<

Currently Reading White (Circle Trilogy) By Ted Dekker see related

Well, I'm posting again..finally....lol

No contest news yet, except an email the other day saying that I'm still in the running and a finalist...

I emailed a whole bunch of people looking for info on it, only got a response from one person, and she said the picture they had posted as hers wasn't hers...O_O...hmm...no clue there. Some of the people they had pictures from though...(hopefully, unless its all crazy...) I mean..I emailed a meteorologist in Antarctica who submitted a picture of a skua...craziness...

Apparently we have to buy something in order to win. >_<  Not a good sign. Oh well.

School is great...had GDE (not GED) tests the other day, reading and writing. Easy, but I really would rather have been sleeping. *nods*  Experiential Learning started too...I'm really enjoying that class. 'Course...the first thing they had me do was spray all the gunk and dead hay out of the tortoise pens. >_<  LOL. It wasn't that bad though. Not like you actually had to pick up the crud. *shudder* I raked the leaves and stuff out of their outside cage too. BTW, did you know that tortoises really don't like going around things? They'll try to go over it, push it out of the way, or wait for it to move. I was scooping leaves and stuff into a plastic bag outside, and a tortoise just kinda plowed into me. And of course, I'm sitting down on the front of my feet, not particularily balanced. The stupid thing knocked me over. LOL! It wasn't so funny at the time, though. There were a bunch of people there with their little kids, cuz it was a really nice day and the zoo was kinda busy. And this big turtle-ish thing just knocks me over. hehehehe. Oh well!
Mostly its just doing diets and things though. I really like that, cuz its like cooking, only ubereasy. ^_^. You just have to chop up a bunch of stuff, but they're animals, for pete's sake, and they don't care what it looks like. Hehehe! *egrin*

Ok! I'm off mudding. ^_^

Currently Listening Superman Returns Little Secrets, Power of the Sun see related

Wow. Ok. Way too much adrenaline going right now...*shiver*giggle*

I...entered an online photography contest the other day, one with a $6,500 prize...and I just got an email, about 15 minutes ago...I'm a finalist.

Yeah. I'm really trying not to get my hopes up too much...I mean...theres like no possible way this is for real. I'm an amateur, this is my first contest...yeah. No way.

But...Mom and her boyfriend are gonna check it out tomorrow to see if its really legit...and...maybe...

I don't know. I really really hope its legit. But if not...oh well. And if it is...well, I'd really like a new camera. One with a real micro setting, and a good zoom....

Here's a link to the picture, if anyone's interested...(yup, its the same one I used in E's siggy lol)

http://www.geocities.com/ownedbycatz/100_4306.jpg

Oif. I'm all shaky.

Currently Reading Troubling a Star By Madeleine L'Engle see related

kk I'm not even going to try to catch up on the time since my last post. Nothing of real significance has happened...so bwaha.

Today...was long. Very long. But awesome. *nods*

Got to school...went to sign in, and my social studies teacher and our secretary/do everyting person were standing there talking, and they look at me, and one of them is like..."She'd work...ask her." So I'm like...O_o and I finish signing in and go to check my email and stuff cuz I had a few minutes before I had to be in my advisory group. LOL. So my social studies teacher nabs me and tells me about this job thing that they had after school stuffing folders for this girl who's about to leave on a trip for Antarctica (which is slightly ironic..I just started Troubling a Star yesterday...) and pays $5.00/ hour. So I'm like..sweet! I'm not doing anything else..why not. So I made a few bucks after school today, and I have a little bit of a blister on my thumb from the scissors I was using to chop strips of stickers into pieces with 5 stickers to put in folders. Whoo.

Oh, and during school we had a pizza party, provided by the Entomology department of the university cuz we were cool at bug bash. ^_^ They ordered 29 pizzas...it totally rocked. Except the pizzas came like an hour late. So we're all wandering around looking cool and being hungery. They finally got there though....we hauled them up from the zoo gates to the school in little red wagons. Hehehe!

After we finished the Antarctica paperwork stuff, I went to a massive "Meet you at the pole" rally. It was soo amazing. There were about...ohh...*thinkthinkthink* 2,000 teenagers there. There was a short concert, complete with mosh pit. THAT was moshing the way it was meant to be. Picture about 300 teenagers up front, all jumping around, singing at the top of their lungs because its so loud that you can without worrying what the person next to you is going to think, and all for the glory of God. I kept looking around and going...this is my family. Wow. It was completely awesome. But...it kinda made me sad, because there's no chance for me to get a pole thing started this year. I still haven't found any other Christians at Zoo school...I'm seriously beginning to think there aren't any. I've made my viewpoint clear, and done a little witnessing, but it doesn't seem to have made a difference yet. At least I have the last two years to remember.

And...I'm going to bed now. Whee. *waves* ttfn.