I'm almost a Senior? Wait, what ...

2008 Briggsy Awards:

The Most Interesting Part of This Class Award Goes to:

Story Books, hands down .. oh and then probably these movies.

Most Boring/Useless Part of This Class:

I guess all those boring/useless times must've been when i was sick ... and yes, you heard right, SICK! .. since brigs likes to think i'm just "skipping" .. oh how i would never.

The Hardest I Laughed in This Class Award Goes to:

I can't think of anything else, so i'm going to have to say the time brigs said something in a rather homosexual voice, then commented on how he sounded completely like a hair dresser, and then finally -- looked directly at joe and said " no offence " that indeed, was hilarious.

The Thing That I Learned That Will Be Most Useful to Know in the Real World Award Goes to:

Probably the fact that in time, if you want to be good at something, and if you practice something, it's true that you will in fact get better. No matter what it is. Never in my life did i think i'd be able to write a good poem, and then actually towards the end, they weren't so bad. So i'd say that, that if you want to do something, and work at it.. you will be able to do it. Oh and the fact that most highschool relationships are stupid. That you will get hurt, but its all worth it if it has made you who you are today .. weird how i got that out of a creative writing class, but yes, something along those lines.

The Best Thing About Brigs as a Teacher Award Goes to:

Brigs, seriously .. this remind me of when girl's make comments about how fat they are, or how ugly they are .. just so the boy they like will tell them something along the lines of " baby, you are the most beautiful girl i know, your beauty astounds me .. and that body of yours, is like a supermodel " ...but anyway, the best thing about Brigs as a teacher, is you get more outta his class then just how to write a poem or a story. My favorite teachers are the ones who will take the time to sit down and teach you something you'll carry with you way past your high school years, because lets be honest .. the number of poems i'll write from now until my death bed, are going to be pretty slim to none, but all the millions of small comments about relationships, and friendships, and family, and just living life .. those are the things i'll remember. and i'm sure those will be some of the things i'll still be laughing at, and still considering when i'm 90. and for that, i'll be forever greatful. so thanks, for that.

Thing Brigs Could do to Make This Class Better For Future Classes Award Goes to:

Help give more of a guide for things to write about for stories and poems, more prompt like things. Idk if there is a reason you don't do that .. but i think that would have helped. Half the time my problem was trying to think of something to write about, then actually writing it.

wait ... what?

Claim: Hair grows back darker or thicker after it has been shaved.

Status: False


., i always thought that that statement was actually true. turns out its not. also wearing a hat, will not make you develop bald spots, so guys can stop using that as an excuse. Brushing your hair too much is bad for you .. so I'm sorry Marsha, you were wrong. also lemon juice does not make your hair shiny .

Right now the main thing i am looking forward to is summer!!! I seriously don't think it could come any sooner. One of the main reasons I am looking forward to summer is to lay out, I am sick of tanning beds, i am ready for a real deep dark natural tan!! And I can't wait to sleep in !!! This last month, okay last semester .. okay all year .. has been a struggle trying to get up everyday ... and i can't wait to not have to worry about it :) Also because Heidi and I are going on a vaca to Texas, and i've never flown before and so it'll be my first time flying and i'm realll excited!! but yeah, i am definately looking forward to summmmmer :)

FAvE'S!

TOP TEN FAVORITE TV SHOWS!
1)one tree hill!
-- three words; Chad Michael Murray!
2)the hills!
--even though i believe more then half of this show is scripted .. it's nice to act like it's not and believe that living Lauren Conrad, does have a perfect life, and that money and beauty will actually buy happiness.
3)life of ryan!
-- only two words this time; Ryan Sheckler!
4)gilmore girls!
-- theres just something about Lorelai and Rory that i love .. oh and not to mention every single guy on that show is a total babe! Wheter its luke, dean, or logan!
5)jon and kate plus 8!
-- ahh! i love the eight little asian babies who are by far the cutest kids ever!
6)boy meets world!
--this should have been my number one, but it's been ages since i've watched it. this will always be my ALL TIME FAVORITE tv show .. I loooove cory and topanga!!
7)everybody loves raymond!
--i think the name says it all, this also should have been one of my top ones but i haven't watched it in forever .. never in my life have i laughed so hard when watching tv, except when i watch this show!
8)CSI!
--i used to hate this show! and then kelsi logsdon made me watch it, and now i can't get it enough..theres just something about the way they find out every little detail and solve everything, that makes me addicted.
9)rob n big!
--theres just something hilarious about the size difference between rob and big. but they are quite possibly the two funniest people together. so i love it!
10) last but not least .. deal or no deal!
-- i scream at the tv when i watch this show because people are just TOO greedy!!! and anyone who can turn down 300,000 dollars, should only walk away with 15,000 ...



that is all, and p.s- this top ten thing reminded me of in middle school, when you liked someone, and you'd play twenty questions with them .. and like the first question always asked was " what's your top five" ... bahaha! oh middle school!

stupid stupid stupid.

okay, so for some reason .. my parents have turned into detectives lately .. and i have NO idea why.... i think it's because my sister brained washed them into thinking i am a horrible child, when really i am a peeeerfect little angel :)
for example .. i stayed at a friends last night in town, and they made me call from her house when i got there, asked 20 million questions, and THEN called her house this morning, when they COULD have called my cell phone, and my dad tried telling me my mom had been trying to call me so he called the house to make sure i was awake, when really i only had ONE missed call. moral to this story is they were setting me up for failure thinking i wasn't where i said i was... and also to mention i had THREE minutes left before my alarm went off and i HATE when people wake me up a few minutes before. i get SOO mad. so then, of course, i get up like the responsible young adult i am, and get to school ON TIME, for the first time, i think all semester. so i do not know why they were having a cow last night about me staying because i get up better when i'm not at home anyway... i wish they would just realize the more they tell me not to do something, i am going to do it. and the more they try and control me, i'm going to rebel.

Perfect?

first off, they have to be funny. why would anyone ever spend time with someone who doesn't make them laugh? i wouldn't atleast. so yeah, they HAVE to be funny. although sometimes i regret saying that, because lets face it, my laugh is a tad embarrassing. which reminds me also of another thing, they have to LOVE my laugh! :) ... blue eyes!!! i love blue eyes, i know its original. i also like green eyes though, but prefer blue!! I use to have an OBSESSION with long, shaggy hair .. but now i think shaved heads are sexy! so yeah, i'd go with short hair now. also, they have to be tall! most girls talk about a good bod, but i'm not really into the big chest big arms thing. I'm not saying i want a 6 foot 90lb boyfriend .. but just nice and toned. Oh and abs, yeah that'd be great :). also, they have to be a good kisser, because um yeah, if not .. weiiird! Also my perfect guy would NOT feed me all the lines such as " you're the most perfect girl for me " "blah blah blah BULLSH*T! ... thats just retarded. i hate sweet talkers, because well thats all they ever are, is sweet talkers. Because what they're telling you they've told at least 7 other girls, so when they cheat on you, don't be surprised. :] ... I actually love a good smart @$$, because i myself am very much one, and very sarcastic .. so yeah. that'd be great if perfect guy could be one too! And as far as names go, apparently i have a thing for BR names .. because ever guy i've ever dated or considered dating has started with BR. Weiiird.

basically, my perfect guy is aka: Chad Michael Murray, or Wentworth Miller :]

... i'm not really sure if that even made any sense at all, i just kinda rambled from one thing to another .. but yes, that off the top of my head is my "perfect" boyfriend! ... and also, he has to do cute things. like send me flowers, take me on dates, suprise me. etc...

well .. you see, i am completely obsessed with one tree hill, and really like to believe everything that happens in that show relationship-related basically is the exact copy of my life. So i would definatley be the people and the whole entire situation of that show. I would be Hilarie Burton .. my best friend would be Sophia Bush. and the love of my life, of course, would be Chad Michael Murray. My mom would have to be Susan Sarandon, because people have said she looks like her. But anyways, that's who all i'd have be me and my family and friends.

If only I wan't such a screw up ...

If i could change ONE thing I would go back to the beginning of high school ... and actually care about school. Freshman year after i got mono and really sick .. it was like every since then, i had no desire to want to come to school, or do my homework. Which has left me with probably the worst gpa ever ... along with a big fail in Pre-Calculus .. which i still blame partially on the teacher ... i wasn't exactly her favey! ... and now i am stuck here BOTH semester next year, because i can't graduate early ... and stuck here for probably the whole day too, because i can't do duel enrollment because my gpa sucks .. so basically if i could change one thing .. i would change it to where from day one I would actually give a darn about school ...

bad habit

ever since i can remember i've had the horrible habit of twirling my hair. i've noticed i do it when i am either bored, tired, or nervous.. which is pretty much all the time. my mom and grandma always talk about how i've done it since i was a little girl it's gotten so bad that it's to the point where i put knots in my hair and then have to basically rip my hair out, ha ... yeah talk about split ends. when i'm around my friends they always yell at me and slap my hands to try and get me to stop but it never works. lately i've noticed that i've gotten better about it .. but yeah it's pretty bad .

No really, I hate my job ...

Right now I am currently employed at Carl's Ice Cream, 1700 W. College Avenue, Normal IL. Of course you assume that I am probably a high school student, or maybe even a college student, trying to make a little extra spending cash. Well that's who I was, 50 years ago, when I first started working at Carl's. But now I am 66, and trying to figure out how I am still alive, because for the past 50 years I have wanted to kill myself everytime I walk into the building. You see, this job would be a lot better if everyone and their mom .. no really, a woman name Christi, and her mom works there also .. but anways, if everyone and their mom wouldn't take my hours all the time and leave me with the crappy ones. You might wonder to yourself whether or not I am married, or have any friends ... but after about the 5th saturday night I had to work, my social life fell to a an all time low. Okay, I may have over exaggerated this time ... because in High School and College it was fine .. i mean who honestly goes out before 10 anyway? .. but once you hit adult-hood .. no one stays up past 10. It's rediculous. If you want to know what I do at my job, the answer is nothing. Why you ask? because half of the year is Winter .. no one goes out into negative degree weather to eat ice cream. Few do .. and usually they smell. Which makes the job that much more enjoyable. The only good thing about the job, is that you can eat ice cream any time you want ... so then that way, you get sick of it and will never eat it again, the plus side to this -- you won't get fat :). ( well, hopefully). Anyways, this job sucks. And 8 dollars an hour at age 66 is never ever worth it.


the end.

oh childhood toy ...

When I was little I use the most amazing toy room, with Barbie houses, play kitchens, chalkboards, little tables, and basically every game you could think of. Okay so in reality, all my toys were in the storage room of our basement, it was cold concrete floor, concrete walls, and to get a game you had to crawl through tons of boxes and dig through shelves. Besides that though, it was pretty sweet. I did have quite a bit of toys, but I think my favorite one would have to be....( to be continued)

Dear Kid -
First and foremost I want to just go ahead and let you know... I hope that for you, life always makes sense. And then I want you to know, it probably never will. If you happen to be a beautiful baby girl, I'm just gonna go ahead and inform you -- boys ... they're all stupid. And if you are a handsome baby boy -- girls, they're also all stupid. Besides your mother of course. Anyways, if you care to know anything about me .. you should know I'm the greatest person you ever meet. I usually like to think I'm good at advice, but chances are I suck at it. Growing up me and my friends went through a lot ... and I hope you never have to go through some of the things we did. But if life throws you some of them awful curves, I hope you have the most amazing friends to experience them with you like I did. Friends, are everything. Remember that. Relationships, are incredibly over-rated in high school ... and if you ever ditch your friends for a "significant other" I will some how find a way to make sure you are put in jail ... or maybe just ground you. Mainly I just want you to do what makes you happy ... as long as no illegal substances are involved. Which also reminds me ... if I am ever called in the middle of the night and woke up by a police officer, I will tell them they have the wrong number. Okay okay, so maybe not the first time .. but the second time -- thats a promise. Basically kid, just live your life. Never lose sight of your faith, hope, or strength -- and you'll survive. Know that everything, and I mean everything happens for a reason. Always keep a smile on your face, and never be ashamed of who you are, or where you come from (cause thats me of course). And last but not least as Lauren Conrad and Boy Meets World use to say .. " Life's tough, Get a Helmet "


love,
yo momma.

Dreaming

I remember in middle school before the state tournament for softball, I'd have dreams the week before about going to the tournament and messing something up. I remember one where Katie, Emily, and I decided to go shopping in between games, and when we got back to the park, we we're already playing and our coaches said the rules were that we couldn't enter the game since we were late. I remember us looking at the scoreboard and we were loosing with like a inning left. I then woke up, angry that I didn't know how the game was going to end. I was so scared that was really going to happen when we played that I wanted to know the outcome. I think if I going to finish that dream that it would have turned out that Katie, Emily, and I got to enter into the game, and made some astonishing plays to win the game for our team. I mean after all, it was only a dream.

FEAR!

Growing up most kids are afraid of the monster in their closet, the boogyman under the bed, the dark, being home alone, etc. I, on the other hand, feared storms. I remember like it was yesterday, I was in kindergarten. My teacher told the class that we were having a tornado drill and we needed to go out in the hallway. Soon enough it was clear, it was no drill, it was the real thing. My mom came to the school with my cousin to pick me up before it got too bad. When we got back to my house my dad and sisters were standing at the door with my aunt, and dad finally told us to go to the basement. He could feel the door pushing on his stomach as he stood against it from the high winds. After being down there for a couple minutes my mom decided to go upstairs and get the animals. As she was getting the dog and cat from the garage, she noticed our front porch had been torn off the house and was laying in our front yard, she called my dad upstairs to look. Finally after it was all said and done, we all came upstairs to find the roof and pillars of our porch laying in the front yard. Ever since i've been terrified of storms.

A poem is a creative piece of writing. I think a poem is a way to express how you feel, or how you want to feel. Most people use poetry to get their thoughts down on paper. A poem can be very serious, or very funny. Poems also can be a way to tell a story, that has happened, or that you want to happen. When I first started reading poems in gradeschool I remember thinking a poem was something that had to ryhme, was very short. I've realized that a poem is way more than just words that ryhme.