Ah, the wonders of photoshop....

So I made this thing for a project for spanish. We're supposed to invent a product, and then write an ad for it in spanish. I kinda like it...

Hello

I haven't posted for a while. Not much exciting has happened. Lets see...this morning, it was hella cold. Last nite i was up until 1145 or so working on hw. And i had to get up at 545. So I'm a bit tired. But not as much as last year, suprisingly. Umm....I'm going to the mall tomorrow with sean and leather. Thats gonna b sweet. and valleyfest is next saturday. thats gonna b really sweet. heather's sister is coming so i might get to meet her...? i suppose. Yea, like 11 more morning rehearsals. WOOHOO! I broke another head, I might post a picture up here of my wall sometime. That's....about it. Any questions?

One other thing...

Fred Phelps is a complete dick. He's picketing valley next month because we're doing the laramie project for the school play. search for him on wikipedia, you'll see what I mean.

monday, tuesday, and possibly wednesday

Ok. Monday, I went to drumline and broke a drumhead. Woohoo!! It was really cold, and I think that might have had something to do with it. Uh...yea that was about it. We had drumline. Oh yeah, and my dad got a new computer. More on that someday, if we ever get it set up. Tuesday, nothing really happened. The best part was that I sat with Heather at lunch. Except that happens about every day. But still...Oh yeah, we also had an orchestra rehearsal tuesday nite. The twins got back late, and I walked them back to the new door after the thing. I suppose I could probably think of some stuff if i felt like it, but I don't. So...too bad. Today, I had spanish, we talked about nothing in english for 77 minutes, and I talked to heather for a while. I also had jazz band, wherein i sounded like crap, had western civ, wherein we starting watchin a video about nefertiti, and i developed some pretty bad ass callouses on my fingers. yep. tomorrows forecast: REALLY F***ING COLD. DAMN IT. I can't wait.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

I got visitor #1000 this morning at 5:42 AM. They was on aol.com, so all I know is that they were in the United States. They were on a computer running Windows XP, and they used internet explorer. They were referred from my dad's website. So whoever the lucky winnier is gets the grand prize of telling me who he is! And mabye i'll buy him a coffee!! Or post his picture up here or something! YAY!!!

Me daddy done gone bought a new computer.

Yep. More on that in a couple days. Uh, yea, sunday we went to church, unfortunatley. Bobby got a bible cuz thats what they do when they get the third grade. Kinda retraded. I think we mighta gone to panera or something...no...Nope. That was saturday. So yeah, thats about all I remember. Then today was monday, so i'll write about that tomorrow. Sneak peek though so you come back tomorrow: We got a new computer and I broke another drumhead. And more. Tommorrow at something o'clock on the lyme, 195.281. Woohoo.

Homecoming

Oh, my, god. The last couple days have been amazing. Where to start? Lets see...when did I do my last post...Friday. Morning. Ok, so we'll start Friday. I got up at 545 or something, and got a ride in from the next door neighbor, Kathryn. Pretty uneventful. The music, as far as I remember, sucked. We listened to bittersweet symphony by the verve a couple days ago. its a decent song. so yeah, we had marchmasters, it kinda sucked. after that, we put our drums in the cases for the assembly after school, and I found a drum 1 head. which is the one that i had broken. so yeah, i left it in there, and changed it at the game...more on that later. so yeah, we had school, which went normal until 6th period. we had jazz band (a music theory lesson) for 14 minutes, and technically we had 7th and 8th period too for 14 minutes, but i didn't go to them cuz i had to get ready for the assembly. yea. it was pretty sweet. our drums got to school from the stadium late, but we still made it. we played the cadences and bunco for a while, and then we just sat down and watched the assmebly. i saw tia and heather and waved at them. yep. they announced the homecoming candidates, or more like reannounced them, and i didn't know any of them , so I didn't care. their skit was kinda lame, as was the teachers. band played a bit. it was pretty cool. then we circled up and that one dude (the really awesome one who is like the drumline official fan club) danced. we played rusty, then we packed our drums into the cases and put em on the truck and went home. actually, i hung out with a few people, talked miku in to thinking it was bobby's birthday, and got her to write a card for him. and then i went home, lol. i cleaned up the haus a bit, then we went to the game. I changed the head, and it was very nice. it went wayyy out of tune that nite, but we retuned it on saturday. it was much better than the broken one anyway. i thought we did really good. we nailed the drum break. here's a pic of the band.
Yep. We won. I think the score was like 29-7 or something. It was pretty sweet. So we hung out, and I had Mt. Dew, cheese pizza, and twizzlers. It kinda sucked cuz Heather wasn't there, but it was still ok. I carried my drum head around, and when I got home, I hang it on my wall.

Yay! The crack is on the right side. If you click on the pic, u can c it better. So yeah, then Saturday morning, I got up at 545 again, which really really really sucked. I hate band. But not really. Mabye. I went to southwoods to change and have donuts, and then we got on the bus and went to Johnston. When we got there, Mancer showed up, and he tuned all our drums. We warmed up for about an hour cuz we were the first band to perform. Then we relaxed a little bit before playing. When we played, it was not fun at all. It was really windy, and our plumes were making our hats fly all over the place. My strap wasn't tight enuf, so it came off my head like 5 times and I had to fix it. It was really annoying. We sounded good, but I think we would have marched a lot better, at least I would have, if my hat hadn't been so distracting. So yeah, then we had a little bit of a seminar kinda thing, and we went back to southwoods, and went home.

I started off by mowing the lawn and stuff. It looked pretty good. Then I cleaned the house a bunch, took a shower, this part is boring, we were gonna go to promusic center and pick up my bass, we didn't have time, and sean got there.
Then everybody got there. It was pretty cool. Everybody met everybody, I met her parents, it was all good.
We exchanged flowers, and the one she gave me was really pretty. We took a buncha pictures, and she looked really beautiful. I thought that tie was pretty snazzy too...and her sister sez my hair is as long as heathers...?So it was really hot inside our house, I dunno why, so we went outside. After everybody met Bobby.
Everybody looked pretty good.
So yeah, after that, dad took us over to the restaurant, Trattoria, in the sexy minivan. It was a fun ride over, lots of funtimes bumps in the road. Not even a figure of speech. The road actually went something like ___/------\______ that. WHEE!! Yea it was pretty sweet. So we get to the restaurant, and there's like a huge buncha people from California or somewhere is sitting right in the front of the restaurant, and when we come in, they're all like, AWWWWW and OOOHHHH!! and one looked at me and she's like, sexy!! and i'm like, aallright....except i wasnt, cuz i was busy trying to get to the back of the restaurant as fast as i could. So yeah, we got there, and it was pretty tiny. They had the weirdest drink menu I had ever seen. They had RC and Mr. Pibb and 7Up and Diet RC. Pretty strange. So yeah, dinner was really fun. I had this penne thing that was kinda like lasagna, but it was cooler. And a bit more spicy. We talked about a buncha stuff, sean didn't know what probation was, or a buncha other stuff. We came to the conclusion that he had been living in a cave for the past 15 years. Still, he talked. A lot. A LOT. And he talked pretty loud, too, lol. It was kinda dark, and kinda quiet, so I didn't wanna take 2 many pictures, and the one I did take didn't turn out very well. Mostly cuz Heather wasn't in it, lol.

After dinner, we had dessert. Me and Heather got this chocolate puff truffle sumthing thing. It was very delicious. Then we left the restaurant and waited for my dad to pick us up to take us the half mile to Hyvee hall. We saw a few guys playing guitar on the corner across the street, so we went to check them out, but when we got there we realized that they weren't...actually that good. So we just kinda kept walking, lol. Then we turned around and kept waiting for my dad. We decided that we should just go in Kyles car, so I check to make sure it's ok with my dad, and of course it wasn't, so we had to wait and endure some really annoying 7th graders party boying the car. Then I flipped them off and they went away. :-) So yeah, then we got back into the sexy minivan and went to the place. It was only like 730 when we got there, so we just chilled for a while, I say Cory, he thought Heather was a freshman, then complimented me when I told him she was a junior, alright. I just choked on my breakfast. Yay. So yeah, nothin much happened again until we got into the dance. I think I danced better as the night progressed. I think the first dance was amazed, by lonestar. Erica couldn't figure out how to take a picture, so I had to do it for her.
She figured it out right as the song ended.

So yeah, in between all the slow dances, of which there were about 4 or 5, there was a whole buncha drama. It was rediculous. I spelled that wrong again, didn't I mom? So yeah, sean wanted to know if Lynda liked him, and I already knew she didn't really, but I didn't wanna hurt his feelings, so I pretended to go ask, and then we told him, and he didn't get it, and we told him a couple more times, and he still didn't get it, and then Lynda told him, and I think he mighta started to get it. While this is going on, we find out that Erica actually does like Sean. So we tell him he should just dance with Erica and then everybody would be happy. We told him, 2 chicks in one night, man, thats not a bad thing to be dealing with. But no, then he wanted to know why Lynda didn't like him like that. She couldn't figure it out, so Sean pretty much stuck with her right to the end. So yeah, at about 10 or so, I think, Sean starts trying to get me to ask Heather out. He told me that her sister and everybody had told him that I should. So i told him, when you dance with Erica, I will. But then I realized that was never gonna happen. Unfortunatley for her. I also think I might have been spelling her name wrong this whole time. If so, sorry. So newa, he's like, ask her now! Ask her now! for like 10 minutes. And it started getting really annoying. Eventually it got to the point where we were standing right in front of them, and hes chanting, and Heather's like, what are you guys talking about? So i'm kinda muttering a bit, and then I'm thinking, well shit, I can't put this off too much longer...and i asked her. and she sed yes!! again!! YAYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So sorry ladies, dan is now taken. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Yep. So then i went to get a juice or sumhing, and sean tells me that as soon as I turned away, she started jumping up and down and stuff. EEEEEEEE!!! Yep. So yeah, I was pretty psyched. So we kept dancing, and we got our pictures taken, and on the last song, she forgot her shoes at the table so she just stood on my feet. :-) It was pretty sweet. I just wish I had gotten a picture of that one. I had a helluva time. Aaand...so yeah, I was bummed when it was over...they played sexyback twice, which really pissed me off. OOOHHH yeah and the glow sticks....apperantly they were leaking all over the floor or sumthing so Mr. Phomvisay comes up to the DJ Booth and sez, Hello, we've had an accident with the glow sticks, so could you please bring them to the exits? And everybody just starts chucking them at him and at the doors and stuff. It was really friggin hilarious. What else did I forget to say...oh yeah, Tia and Kyle ditched each other, that was kinda too bad. Umm yeah i think thats about it. At the end of the dance we got our picture taken by sum dude.
I don't even know who a few of those people are, lol. Like the pair in front, and the person on the right, no clue. But yeah, then we went outside, and took tia home, and me and heather listened to sum music in the back seat, and we got to there house, and I had to tell sean to walk lynda to the door, and we did, and it was really awesome. On the way home, sean was trying to figure out why lynda didn't like him, and he was like, it's not like I didn't talk to her...and it was everything I could do to not crack up. But yeah, we took him home, and that pretty much concluded the homecoming activites. And then sunday happened. But i'll write about that later. Amen. :-D

More soon...

I don't have time right now to do the really big post as promised, but I can tell you that homecoming was amazing. And our downstairs computer done gone died. So I'll be using the laptop. So it might take longer. Sorry. Keep waiting.

Wait for it....

there's going to be a hugemungus, ginourmus post tommorrow. Or more likely, sunday. What with the game tonight, Johnston tomrrow, HOMECOMING tomorrow night, and my dad got a new mandolin (electric 5 string...its sweet....) and we'll see if pro music center finished my bass, and we're gonna get like 5 stands (the current stringed instrument count is up to 8 or so), there's gonna b a lot to write about. and many photos, too. yay! c ya'll 2morrow.

TGIF

Yeah. I forgot to say yesterday that I was in the homecoming parade. Yesterday. For band. It actually didn't seem as bad...with 32 pounds of drum....as it did 2 years ago...with...mabye 15 pounds? It was also a bit shorter this time, but still....
Yeah, after the parade we (Me, sean, miku, emily, matt, ben, aaron, melanie, that polish exchange student chick, and travis (who tripped on a fire hydrant and fell on his face while carrying a bass drum earlier (ow))) hung out at the stadium and ate hot dogs and stuff. Then we went up to the playground to play block off. That was fun. And not quite so x rated as the last time, lol. Actually, yeah, I guess it was. There was this little kid...who's hand kinda....seemed to be gravitating towards my naughty bits. And aarons. And seans. But i was first, lol. I think it might have been because I had stolen his bike thing. That was pretty sweet 2. So after a while, Miku, melanie, emily, and the polish chick leave, which leaves me, travis, sean, matt, and aaron. and then like 5 minutes after the other chicks leave, anna comes along. so i ride her bike around a bit, too. and then we played frisbee. and sean got pretty good at catching after a while. still needs to work on throwing, but w/e. lol. so yeah, then i went home and wrote that report from my last post...everybody still needs to get a facebook. And band is playing at the assembly (at least drumline is, I dunno about everybody else) and of course everybody is playing at the football game. so i'll c u there.

School food sucks....so I wrote a paper about it.

I'm actually pretty proud of it. Perhaps I'll turn it in to the school board. But probably not. lol

It was for speech comp, so we had to do a summary of the article, and then a response, which is the good part.The last part is the original article. Tell me what you think.

Summary
This article discusses the poor quality and nutrition of food in many of the nation’s public schools. It talks about what needs to be improved, and what needs to be done about it. Many schools receive food that is already prepared and covered with breading or glaze, and all the schools have equipment for is reheating the food. They do not have a way to actually prepare food, they just heat it. Since the food isn’t very good, students buy snacks and pop from vending machines, which isn’t healthy for them. This diet contributes to the well publicized obesity problem in the United States. Some school districts are taking steps to improve their food and bring in healthier vending machines.
As the authors say, “changing school food takes time.” It gives an example of a restaurant owner trying to help to improve the food. The district declined. This all happened over 10 years ago, and they are just now starting to fix the problem. This is a good scenario, too. Many schools are not even doing anything about it, and continuing to serve bad food, or even changing the menu, but still having bad food.

Response
I agree with a lot of this article. It makes many very good points, and I can relate to a lot of it. The food here at Valley isn’t exactly what you would call steakhouse quality. I think it was actually better last year. Common menu items include chicken bites, chicken bites with sweet and sour sauce, rubbery pancakes, and pizza. While some of this food isn’t that bad, it isn’t very good either. There usually isn’t much selection, and when there is, it is often two good items in one day. The other day, they served pizzatas and grilled cheese in the same day, so I had to stock up on good food while it was still there. It also looks like they might try to be cutting costs on the low quality food. Usually there is tomato soup with the grilled cheese and also several different kinds of fruit and other sides available. This time, it was just grilled cheese and burned broccoli.
The food can lead to a chain reaction. The food is bad, so students buy snacks like ice cream and chips, and this makes them unhealthy. As Texas Education Commissioner Susan Combs says, “We’re killing our kids with the food we serve.”
One problem is with the staff in the kitchen. They get low pay, and they are not trained very well. The equipment in the kitchen is of poor quality, and not designed for actually preparing food-just heating it.
Another problem is the serving sizes. According to the West Des Moines nutrition service food guideline (available at http://wdmcs.org/district/nutrition/guidelines.pdf), high school students receive the same amount of food as elementary school students do. It is extremely unlikely that a senior in high school would want the same serving size of food as a first grader. Both elementary and secondary lunches include just 2 ounces of meat or meat alternative (what is meat alternative?), 3 servings of grains/bread, and 8 oz. of milk. Elementary lunch includes ¾ cup of fruit/vegetables, and secondary lunch includes a full cup. This is the only difference between the two types, and yet they charge 20¢ more for secondary lunch than for elementary lunch. It might just be me, but I think they are just trying to leave us hungry, so we will buy food from the vending machines, so they get more money, with which they keep serving us food that is more than a little sub par.
I think we could solve this problem in a few relatively simple steps. First of all, the basic thing that is needed to improve lunches at all is money. An average lunch at a decent restaurant could cost anywhere between about $5 and $15. Junior high and high school lunch is $2.05. The lunches cost about a dollar to produce (according to this article), so the schools make about $1.05 from each lunch served. There are about 1900 students at Valley, so every day, the school makes around $2000 from lunches. This is nearly $360,000 every year. I don’t understand why this isn’t enough to improve the school food, but if we jacked the price up to $3.00 or even just $2.50, the school would make between $496,000 and $667,000. With this money, they could hire better cooks, get good, high quality, fresh food to actually prepare and cook on site, and redo the menu to include more healthy food, and also bigger servings.
I doubt that Valley or the West Des Moines School District will do this while I am still in the area, but it is always something to shoot for. It would also be a good idea for restaurant owners to consider building more restaurants near Valley if real estate becomes available, because until the food there changes, people are always going to want good dining alternatives.
Article
For Jorge Collazo, executive chef for the New York City public schools, coming up with the perfect jerk sauce is yet another step toward making the 1.1 million schoolkids he serves healthier. In a little more than a year, he's introduced salad bars and replaced whole milk with skim. Beef patties are now served on whole-wheat buns. Until recently, "every piece of chicken the manufacturers sent us was either breaded or covered in a glaze," says Collazo. Brandishing the might of his $125 million annual food budget, he switched to plain cutlets and asked suppliers to come up with something healthy--and appealing--to put on top. Collazo tastes the latest offering. The jerk sauce isn't overly processed and doesn't have trans fats. "Too salty," he says with a grimace. Within minutes, the supplier is hard at work on a lower-sodium version.
A cramped public-school test kitchen might seem an unlikely outpost for a food revolution. But Collazo and scores of others across the country--celebrity chefs and lunch ladies, district superintendents and politicians--say they're determined to improve what kids eat in school. Nearly everyone agrees something must be done. Most school cafeterias are staffed by poorly trained, badly equipped workers who churn out 4.8 billion hot lunches a year. Often the meals, produced for about $1 each, consist of breaded meat patties, french fries and overcooked vegetables. So the kids buy muffins, cookies and ice cream instead--or they feast on fast food from McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, which is available in more than half the schools in the nation. Vending machines packed with sodas and candy line the hallways. "We're killing our kids" with the food we serve, says Texas Education Commissioner Susan Combs.
As rates of childhood obesity and diabetes skyrocket, public-health officials say schools need to change the way kids eat. It won't be easy. Some kids and their parents don't know better. Home cooking is becoming a forgotten art. And fast-food companies now spend $3 billion a year on television ads aimed at children. Along with reading and writing, schools need to teach kids what to eat to stay healthy, says culinary innovator Alice Waters, who is introducing gardening and fresh produce to 16 schools in California. It's a golden opportunity, she says, "to affect the way children eat for the rest of their lives." Last year star English chef Jamie Oliver took over a school cafeteria in a working-class suburb of London. A documentary about his work shamed the British government into spending $500 million to revamp the nation's school-food program. Oliver says it's the United States' turn now. "If you can put a man on the moon," he says, "you can give kids the food they need to make them lighter, fitter and live longer."
Changing school food takes time. More than a decade ago, when local restaurateur Lynn Walters lobbied school-board members in Santa Fe, N.M., to provide kids with --healthy alternatives to soggy pizza, they refused. So Walters and parent volunteers began an in-school cooking class. Armed with an electric griddle and a bag of fresh produce, they taught fractions using measuring cups and discussed nutrition over bunches of kale while concocting such lunch alternatives as spinach fettuccine and black-bean tostadas. The teachers loved it; so did the kids. But getting the entrees on the school menu was another challenge. The school kitchens there, like many around the country, were equipped to reheat food, not to prepare it. "I was passionate, but I was ignorant of the realities" the school was facing, says Walters, who got a grant to buy knives so the school cooks could at least peel and chop fresh fruits and vegetables.
Changing school food will take money, too. Many schools administrators are hooked on the easy cash--up to $75,000 annually--that soda and candy vending machines can bring in. Three years ago Gary Hirshberg of Concord, N.H., was appalled when his 13-year-old son described his daytime meal--pizza, chocolate milk and a package of Skittles. "I wasn't aware Skittles was a food group," says Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, a yogurt company. So he devised a vending machine that stocks healthy snacks: yogurt smoothies, fruit leathers and whole-wheat pretzels. So far 41 schools in California, Illinois and Washington are using his machines--and a thousand more have requested them. The schools don't make as much money. Kids spend about half as much on granola bars as they did on Fritos. But, Hirshberg says, "schools have to make good food a priority."
Some states are trying. California, New York and Texas have passed new laws that limit junk food sold on school grounds. Districts in California, New Mexico and Washington have begun buying produce from local farms. Las Vegas parent Terri Jannison says real change can be incremental. After three years of lobbying, the cafeterias there now sell reduced-fat muffins. The soda and candy in the vending machines have been replaced by juice and beef jerky. Doritos were banned, but then replaced by baked Doritos. "It's not perfect," says Jannison. But it's a cause worth fighting for. Even if she has to battle one chip at a time.


Tyre, Peg, and Sarah Staveley-O'carroll. "How to Fix School Lunch." Newsweek 146.6 (2005): 50-51. MAS Ultra - School Edition. 12 September 2006. http://search.ebscohost.com.

*cough*danwantsan80Gipod*cough*

Wow. So yeah, Apple unveiled the new line of ipods today. Or recently. I just saw them today. They're pretty sweet. I don't really feel like listing all the specs and stuff, but i'll tell you that the new 80G ipod video holds 20000 songs. Which is, like, 55 1/2 days of music. Which is like, now until....around 6 AM on november 5th. or thereabouts. so yeah, i want one.
school was kinda ok and kinda boring today. spanish sucked, english sucked, lunch was good. i sat with heather and everybody, and then this is really cool...heather came and watched jazz band. which was really nice. i can't wait until saturday...i ordered the flowers today. i'm not gonna say what they are or how rediculously expensive they were...in case heather reads this. in which case, hello heather, how are you? lookin forward to homecoming...but she probably wont. hahaha. uh....yea my moms yellin at me again. ciao.

MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE...

...thank you.

9/11

So. "happy" september 11. Ummm, i'm gonna do something extremely different and try to be completely serious. After I say this: BLAST! WHY WILL MY COMPUTER NOT SEE MY IPOD!?!?!?!?!?!? EH??? Thank you.
Ok. So, I was in, like, 5th grade when it happened. The planes hit when I was still at home, but I didn't find out about it until I got to school. My teacher had the tv on. At first I didn't know what the building was, because I wasn't all that well travelled. I knew it wasn't supposed to look like that though. So then school starts, and the asshole principal who was a complete psychotic whore or something vies the teachers an order to turn off the tvs and not let us use the internet because SHE DOESN'T WANT US TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. W.T.F???? Yeah, so I kinda got a vague idea in ELP cuz I was on the internet. But then, of course, she comes in and bitches us off. We shoulda fought back. That was completely rediculous. But yeah, then they had 9/11 on the news 24/7 for like a month after that. So, RIP to everybody who died that day, and to everybody who has died since then...from....smoke inhalation. I guess.
PS: I am now going to be posting all my pictures on my facebook. Just search for Dan Kristan on facebook. If you don't have a facebook, then that must mean your not cool enough to see my pictures. haha.

Happy Sewing Machine Day!

Yeah, that doesn't have much of anything to do with anything, but watever. Actually, I do need to sew some badges onto my uniform...cuz i lost my old one...but i'm actually gonna glue them on or sumthing. So yeah, I got a facebook. Woohoo. And...lunch yesterday wasn't too bad. I need to think of more stuff to talk about before homecoming though, lol. Uh...we went to church...it was kinda lame...thats about all i've got.

This is fun...

Yeah, so I'm in school right now. In english. We just wrote an essay about a successful thing we did in school. Ummm...yeah. Lunch was crap. Cheese and meat product on a bun. It was free cookie day though, so that was cool. I feel like I should be doing something useful...we're going to HuHot tomrrow. I think i've already sed that. Its gonna b sweet. Come if ur under the age of about 18...and live within a few dozen miles of huhot. I hope we don't get kicked out of guitar center this time. I think i already sed that too, didn't i...
Yeah i think i'm gonna listen to music...we listened to sum string cheese on the bus.
OOHHH i got school pictures. They're ok...but my hair's all poofed out on one side. It kinda sucks.
One more thing...mr. garmoe is an ass.
the end

I had a dream...

Ok. It was really weird. They turned valley into a casino or las vegas or something. On the way to spanish last period (which is actually 2nd period,) I stopped by the ice cream stand (which doesn't exist) to get some ice cream. The lady asked what i wanted, and I said I didn't care. So, she gives me a really weird ice cream bar. It's vanilla ice cream, with gin and tonic mixed in, dipped in chocolate. So yeah, I had summat, and then I couldn't find my spanish class, and the security guy and his dog on the third floor of the next hotel over told me it was back in the lobby of the hotel i had just come from. So I was like 5 minutes late...I don't remember what happened after that. But yeah, it was weird.

HUHOT-SATURDAY-LUNCH-1200-BE THERE. OR I VERY WELL MAY...FEEL SORRY FOR YOU. damn censorship laws.

Ima go look at gadgets at popsci. peace

We'll keep it like this for now

Yeah, so I fixed the colors and i think it looks pretty good for now. It probably won't take effect for a few days...it didn't before...but yeah, be lookin for that. Why does my mom read my blog? I can't say anything. I'd make a different one, but she'd find it. Friggin stalker.

So yeah, here's what i can say. John Cowan is a really good singer. And a decent bassist too. Thats all i can say.

Cookies taste good as well. I'm probably doing something wrong eating it though. Oh yeah...i'm supposed to be practiceing for ALL STATE. Without the MUSIC. Which I DON'T HAVE. Because it's not at the haus. MOM.

Buy me a cake

That was officially my earliest post since june, and possibly ever. Wah-friggin-hoo. Also, if anybody under the age of about 18 wants to go to hu hot for lunch on saturday, we're gonna b doing that...yeah. Lemme know. Cuz last time we tried this, there was only like 4 of us. It was kinda lame. we got kicked outta guitar center though...that was fun...

You know its too early when....

the friggin paper isn't here yet. It's really cold. And...we're going o trattoria for dinner. For homecoming. Thats all I know up to this point. Im thinking we're doin pictures at my haus...but I still have a while to figure that out. Um....Yeah, we got like a week and a half. And I still haven't ordered flowers. Cuz I dunno wat color heathers dress is. Cuz she hasn't gotten it yet. lol
Lets c. Theres a new sbemail. Kinda dissapointing actually. And....steve irwin is still dead. And my letters are still purple. Me and bobby are flying from ny to london in flight simulator. It's early out today. Yaayy. But I have an hour and a half of spanish. And speech/comp. and western civ. Booo. And jazz band. yay! OOHHH i have to get my copy of take the a train. brb
I can't find it. Poo. And apperantly some princess in japan had a boy. Hoorah. Theres some pretty sweet gadgets on popsci.com. I was checking summat out last nite. Yeah...

By the way...

This is the bass I was gonna get.

And has anybody else noticed that the title letters are now purple? I changed em a couple days ago but it didn't seem to do anything...until now...if anybody knows the html color codes, lemme know...cuz im not really diggin the purple...


Yeah i know the link doesn't work. I'll fix it later.

UPDATE: I fixed it.

STEVE IRWIN=DEAD!!!!

NOOOOO!!!!! DAMN YOU, STING RAY!!! Sorry. I hardly ever watch that show anyway. O well. lol
So yeah, I don't especially wanna go to school today. It is the best day of the week though. My only real classes are geometry and biology. And I have lunch with heather, lynda, sean, and tia...at which we will discuss the dinner situation for homecoming. woohoo. Uh, i cleaned a whole buncha windows this weekend. Good times. I gotta clean the insides upstairs....i'll get around to that sumtime. The 3 day weekend was nice tho. I think the rents owe me about 50 bucks or so. AND there was this really sweet bass...that I was gonna get...but it the bid ended at like 920 in the morning....and we thought it was PM....and we couldn't find the buy button...probably cuz it ended at 920...in the morning. O well. I have no fewer basses than I did before. Actually, the old one is in ye olde shop cuz the tuning pegs were falling off. Not ye olde guitar shop. There actually is a store in town called that. Im talkin pro music center. yeah...

It's raining.

I hate homework. I love rain.

Meet snippy

I got a new pet scissor. His name is snippy. Yay!!

adopt your own virtual pet!

What was that?????

Oh. My. God. Dowling. Beat. Valley. 24-14. I think I'm going to cry. So yeah, I'm pretty pissed. That's the first time Valley has been beat in this new stadium. Um...yea. So we marched yesterday at the game...and then I had to help clean up the stadium after the game. Holy crap, you have no idea how much garbage there is. It's rediculous. So yea, we were there until about midnight. My leg cramped up kinda bad...I dunno why. I chugged a mountain dew....And I lost my voice. I dunno why. I was only screaming for like 10 minutes. Huh. So yeah, I put in a 19 hour day yesterday. I should sleep later, but I can't. My eyes are bugging me. It's kinda pissing me off. F***ing allergies.

I got all my songs back. Thats a plus. Now I have to work on getting more songs. I've got a list of 28 songs i wanna get...and I can only get 3 a week. So I'm pretty much set until...Christmas. Or something. I'll find more songs newa. Uh, good song, Reach for the Sky by Social Distortion. Good stuff.

Lets see, homecoming is in 2 weeks. We still haven't decided where to go. First we were gonna all eat at my place, but we decided not to, cuz we'd have to do dishes. I kinda wanna do macaroni grill, heather was saying something about biaggis, lynda wants to do cheesecake factory, and I think sean mabye sed something about cosi cucina. I think they need to have more restaurants downtown. So yeah, we gotta figure that out. And...they got dresses. I forgot to ask what color heather's was. She's really shy...and I couldn't think of anything to say...besides, i'm gonna go get something to eat...lol. Hopefully she'll loosen up a bit by homecoming. O man, I can't wait...

Um, so yeah, schools been happening. We marched the halls yesterday, that was hella fun. Um, the rest was kinda just school, u don't really need to hear about it. Drumline party at caleb's yesterday...that was pretty sweet...watever.

Yeah, i'm gonna try to go back to sleep. Either that or look for the ipod charger. Tell me if you've seen it.

Uh....when did I post those?

Lol, I tried to post them, but the computer wouldn't wake up. So it posted them twice. Go figure. Bigger post coming later...