n2m, u?

The title of my blog derives to the common AIM response to the ever general "Whats up?"
I tire of this response, so I shall deliver this one instead.

You: Hey, whats up?




Me:














I got a flipping CANINE COMPANION!!! My long awaited friend is 2 years old, extremely laid back, very obedient, and has been christened "Luigi".


I am thouroughly enjoying my senior year of high school, with the exception of the looming thoughts of graduation separation from my friends. Other than that, it's really great. I've kept busy doing lots of homework. As you can see, I'm faithful to take notes in class,





























and my typing skills are being put to good use in the new computer lab.

I'm taking a class this year called "The Christian Home". Last year, my classmates were each given 2 options for the next year's classes: Physics, or The Christian Home. Given the extremely intimidating nature of Physics, most of them opted for The Christian Home as a way to avoid difficulty. I definitely did not want to take Physics, but I can honestly say that I chose to take The Christian Home because I really wanted to take that class. And it is my favorite class that I have right now. Not because it's decidedly "easier" than my other classes, but because it's proving to be very useful. I will, at some point in life, be a co-founder of a "Christian Home", thus I find the class to be applicable. Some of my classmates don't enjoy the class as much as I do. However, I am seriously enjoying it.

In The Christian Home, we are currently working on a project that we will also get credit for in our Consumer Math class. The point of the project is to learn how much goes into planning a wedding, and to attempt to plan a hypothetical wedding (to a non hypothetical classmate) on a budget of $10,000. This sounds like a reasonable amount of money to get the job done. Then again, I know very little about wedding planning.

I was assigned to a humorous partner who slipped a paper ring on my finger while the project was being assigned. A volunteer who happened to be in the room at the moment handed out random "ring making" materials to the rest of my classmates, who found this to be a funny idea and wanted to copy it. Thus, other rings were made. And hence, my partner made a new ring (and an earring consisting of a bent up paperclip, 3 beads, and a unicorn) to 1up them.

*insert mario 1-up sound here*

Well being the scatterbrained little girl that I am, I took off my ring for 2 seconds the following morning and forgot to put it back on. And being the never-pass-up-humor type of person my hypothetical fiance is, I heard about it all day. Especially since I was the bearer of the original creative thought that was the Christian Home Wedding Project Engagement Ring, and every other girl in my class was wearing theirs.
Note to self: when you get engaged for real, do not take off your ring.

Outside of school, I've been able to spend a decent amount of time with my friends regularly seeing as I now spend every monday night at Kay's house (SICKKKK) so I can go to her youth group, which incidently consists of my close friends. This is a pretty awesome addition to my final year of high school. I'm gonna miss them like craziness and I'm not even willing to tap into that rant at present...

And lets see... I'm listening to the new Relient K album because they are my favorite. I also got a free Hellogoodbye shirt because I ordered one, they sent the wrong one, then told me i could keep the wrong one as they sent the right one. Free. Shirt.


I am also waiting patiently for a usb cable that connects to my new cell phone (which is super). I got a sony ericsson z750a, pictured here:

I love this thang.

















I accidentally threw it across my room upon my first morning with it. Yes, it is possible to ACCIDENTALLY project something across a room. I use my phone as an alarm clock. Thirty seconds after consciousness has BEGUN to flood back to me is not my most coordinated time of day. After turning off the alarm, I closed my phone and attempted to place it back upon my windowsill. Attempted. At this, the phone slipped out of my hand at the most precise moment of arm rotary; the point in rotation where it could develop the most velocity in mid air. Thus, I accidentally threw my one-day-new cell phone across my bedroom. It landed in a soft spot on my computer case, which was covered in assorted electronic chargers. My phone landed within the 6 inch circumference of space in my room where it would NOT have shattered upon impact. I literally said thank you to God aloud. What a silly thing, but He's still looking out for me. Thank God He does, too.

But yes, about the cord. I ordered it. I waited a week and a half. It finally came. I was ecstatic. It was wrong. It didn't plug in.
....
So my mom ordered the correct one off the internet. A week ago.

So I am still waiting. asjdfl;akfjasldfasdfalsd.
patiently.


And that's about all thats new for me! I should start sending this to people...

FIRSHT DAYA SCHOOL!

Today was the first day of school! Hip hip hizzah!!
I had been apart from all my friends this summer (by my own admission, withdrawing into the deep, dark, damp forests of Maine for at least 4 weeks). I got to go and hang out with my best of buddies, Kayleigh, when I got home from Maine for a few days so we could say that we had spent SOME time together during the summer. I went to her youth group and got to see my other valued friends which was also quite nice.
And today, I got to return to my stomping ground of three years, emerging at the top of the food chain. Yes, I am a senior in a small private school.
Hear. Me. Roar.
Also, I am now the only one of my clan attending my school, as my siblings will now be homeschooled. I will miss seeing their flowing manes bounce about my hallways, but I wish them the best.
Anyhow, I was aptly thrilled to be in my circle of friends again. Walking into a room and seeing a group of familiar faces light up at my entry was possibly the highlight of my year so far. I've been seriously blessed with the friends I've made at this school, I'm going to miss them when I leave them all.... ANYWAY!
Being a senior (with a vast majority of my friends belonging to a lower grade) seems pretty good so far in the way of lunch. As most of my classmates can drive (I am the youngest in my class, thus I cannot yet drive alone) and have acquired the senior privilege of off-campus lunch, almost every one of them took advantage of it on this fine day. Since they were gone, they have yet to find out that another senior privilege that has been lovingly bestowed upon us 2009'ers is the right to be first in the lunchline. I didn't know this was going to be put into effect myself, until I sat among my underclassmen friends, waiting to be told to fetch lunch. The teacher in charge then stated that this year, seniors would get in line before underclassmen.
Boo, ya.
Seeing as the rest of my fellow seniors were out acquiring fast food which they would have little time to consume by the time they returned, the teacher might as well have said "Crystal, please arise and be fed with chicken nuggets and fries, unhindered by the inconvenience of standing in line. Go on now, the rest of the school will just watch you until you come out."
And that they did. With baited breath and a growling gut. I didn't make them wait long. I'm not evil. And plus, I didn't want to be finished with my food long before my friends even returned to the table. I stalled so that we could eat at somewhat the same pace.
I don't really want to go out to lunch with my class, so I hope this becomes a trend.

Also, I got my favorite teacher for two blocks, every day.
I know this is going to be an awesome year, and I'll work to see the good in every day and enjoy every second of it. After all, it is the end of life as I know it and another fine excuse to say farewell to all I've grown accustomed to.
Might as well enjoy it while it lasts.