Happy Holidays, people! I wonder, is there anyone who doesn't celebrate any holiday? We kind of don't. Like for Christmas, sometimes we put a tree up. And presents... it's not really like that. It's basically, you go to the store, point out what you want, and then Mom pays for it. It doesn't get wrapped, we don't get multiple presents, and we don't get stockings. It's depressing when everyone else is doing it. I think I will do the Christmas tradition with my kids (is it too freaky to think this far ahead?). You don't have to believe in the religious aspect of it. I've never believed in Santa in all my life. Actually, when I was younger we did get multiple wrapped presents under the tree. We also had the family Christmas party and presents from relatives. But the relatives are miles and miles away now and my cousin told me they don't even do that anymore now that my aunt sold the restaurant (where it was held)... even though it was kept within the family (my cousin owns it now... btw, total makeover there! It's amazing! If you live in MN, go to Ngon in St. Paul).

I'm going to be applying to all my colleges during this break. I'm applying to 8: Boston Uni, State Uni of NY (Stony Brook campus), UNH, U of Washington, Northeastern Uni, Rensselaer Polytech, NYU, and Umass Amherst. Phew. I've already sent off one application. Also, I got my final SAT scores today. Disappointing. I didn't improve any. My final total is 1920 (combination of my best scores in each section). And I wanted a 2100... what a difference. Seriously you younger guys, don't procrastinate on studying. I ran out of time to study because I put it off so much.

Yeah because we had a whole week off last week due to the ice storm, I have a lot of homework over break... at least in Chemistry. Fun Fun... I've been bored to death, but I'm not doing the homework yet. No no no.

My best friend from Florida is in Boston! How exciting is that?? Hopefully we'll be hanging out, though I'm worried how my parents will take it since he's a boy. My mom's like "Oh you're old enough to hang out with boys now." But I bet hanging out one-on-one with a guy was not what my mom had in mind. I'm pretty sure her idea of hanging out with boys was in groups of both sexes in public places or adult-supervised homes. Also, I can tell, since- though I haven't asked her if I could- I've told her that he's coming up to Boston and she was like, "Oh" and nothing else. She already assumed that we're not going to be spending anytime together.

Also, I wonder how we're going to do this. My house is a bore (and I'd be soooo uncomfortable with my parents around spying... with any friend really). I was thinking of the Manchester mall, but my mom hasn't let me drive there by myself, let alone during winter weather. I haven't even driven by myself anywhere in winter weather. So she'll be alongside or even be the one driving if I go there. And she's not going to think it's worth driving 15 miles just to drop me off. She didn't want me going to a friend's b-day party cuz it was held 11 miles away. So she'll probably be shopping too, meaning I've only got till she decides she wants to go home... Alsooo, we're heading there tomorrow, so she'd have recently shopped by the time I'm hanging out with my best friend. I'm gunna wait till I know what date he's going to have time to hang with me and when we've decided what we're going to do before I ask her.

Come on though, how wrong is it to keep me from seeing my best friend, whom I haven't seen in 3 years, who lives 1300 miles from me, when he's now only 40 miles away?

I might be getting a new phone. I've never cared about my cell phone before because all I use it for is to talk, you can do that with any cell phone. But my brother left his in his jacket which got thrown in the washer, and you know. So my dad started to look into a new phone and sees that there are a few phones free with a 2 year-contract. So he decided that we can all get new ones, as long as we chose one of the free ones. But when he went to order them it came up with 18$ each. It's like a fee or something, so you can't get away from it. It's either pay it, or don't get a new phone at all, no matter what phone. So now we're not so sure. But this phone I want is PINK! Enough said, I want it! We're all going with this model (Sony Ericsson w580i). It's also an MP3 player, but I don't care, I got my Zune.

Hey guys! So I am blogging even though I doubt anyone visits my site anymore since I don't even. Actually, I'm typing on Notepad right now because the internet is out (btw, I wrote this on 12/12 and posting it on 12/13 so if you see any "yesterdays" or something like that I mean yesterday from 12/12). We had this intense ice storm that knocked out everything. Our phone lines are out, our cellphone service is out, our cable is out, and our internet is out. Obviously school was cancelled today. I am bored to death. The only thing to do in my house is homework. [EDIT 12/13] So there are still a lot of places without power (not us), which totally sucks cuz that means no heat. Some streetlights are out and debris blocking the roads, according to my mom. She says we can't go anywhere, so more boredom, but at least internet and cable is back. I should check the phones. I wonder if this is serious enough to cancel school on Monday too... that would be great because SENIORS don't have to make up cancellation days![/EDIT] [EDIT 12/15] It's 11 AM on Monday and I am not in school! Yay. And the school's not even sure if we can come in on Tuesday! [/EDIT] [EDIT] NO SCHOOL TUES EITHER!! I got up "early" (before 12 is early ) for nothing. I procrastinated a lot of homework and realized before I dropped off to sleep I have more homework added because I knew my teachers were going to expect the homework that's due tomorrow to still be done for tomorrow. But now I have an extra day for that. You know, now we're down to just 5 days of school before breaktime. ;)[/EDIT] [EDIT 12/18] I felt like telling you guys some new news but I feel there are too many edits, but this is the last one. Not only was Monday and Tuesday cancelled, but also Wednesday, Thursday, and tomorrow (Fri)! A whole week off. There are still quite a few without power. We didn't lose it initially, but on Tuesday we lost it for about 7 hours, no big deal. So yeah, just last week I was thinking, "ugh I have a full school week to get through before the 2-day week then Christmas break". So, wow... and YAY.[/EDIT]

My brother just came back last night from Washington for Christmas vacation. Now my bathroom will get gross. But this has made my mom happy and she can get off my back. Seriously, she has been in the bitchiest mood since we came back from Seattle in September and she has been taking it out on me... every. single. day. Thursday was like the first day I escaped from being screamed at for something, anything, since September.

My dad has been getting on my last nerve too. He keeps calling me selfish for wanting to chose my own college even if the tuition reaches 30-35k (now, this is before finanical aid and scholarships). He's only willing to let me to go University of New Hampshire or my brother's college because he can pay in-state tuition. If I go to Washington, then my brother and I would both live there, and since my dad wants to move out of the Northeast anyways, my parents would move over there too, and thus can pay the in-state tuition. Anyways, so he's limiting my choices to those two colleges, both of which I don't want to go to. And you know what? He is willing to spend 30k, just not on my college education but rather on himself. He already has. He spent 30-40k to have his teeth done, I think. His teeth or my education??? Hmmmm... How about he waits until he can stop spending so much money on himself before he calls me selfish for wanting to pick my own college?

Also another thing, he won't let me get some speakers for my Zune for Christmas. Yet, he just went out (actually ordered online) and spent $90 (so he says, you can never trust him on telling the truth) on a second GPS. Why the hell do we need two? He's such a selfish jerk and I'm sick of him. I'm picking my own college no matter what and he's not stopping me from doing anything I want. I am almost an adult and I've always been responsible all my life; I know what I'm doing. If he has a problem with that then he can either deal with it or not deal with me because I will be out the door.

I will make time this weekend. Promise ;) I wanna switch to Wordpress though, freakin' Cutenews. Ugh!

i need more.

i hope college isn't as busy as this.

Hey guys, so, the quarter ends next Wednesday, the 29th. By then, my make-up would have to be done (yes still working on make-up work), so maybe you guys can see more of me? But probably not until after the morning of Nov 1 once SAT IIs are over.

I'M GOING TO FAIL THE CHEM SUBJECT TEST. I haven't taken chem since sophomore year. I mean, I'm taking it right now, but we've only done 4 units so far, and yeah, I still haven't exactly learned those. I got a 49 on the unit 3 test. The unit 4 test is tomorrow, so ah! My AP chem teacher is like totally slacking this year, I feel like I have my old Honors Chem teacher again. Except she didn't slack, she just sucked at teaching. At least she gave notes. All my AP Chem teacher does is talk, and I can't get it all down before it leaks out of my head and it's chaos. My brother and a friend said that he wasn't like that last year. WTF??? Chem is quite possibly my worst subject (or tied with History), and this is the year he decides not to bother? UGH!

This week might quite possibly kill me. And it's all Chem. The only makeup work I have left is Chem, and he springs it on me all make-up is due on Friday, not the last day of the quarter. I really needed that weekend to finish it, but now I won't have it. I have to study for the test, so I can't do it tonight. Tomorrow, we have this ridiculous Chem lab report. I haven't had the time to look at it yet, but apparently the calculations and questions are impossible. I don't even know what else we're suppose to include in our lab reports! He just said, "So yeah, this lab is the FULL lab report." What is a FULL lab report?? I haven't even done any kind of lab report... they're all my make-up work. Yeah, my brother said that full lab reports can take up to 5 hours to do. So that's just great. There's no way I can get to doing my make-up work until Wednesday night, then. Which leaves me with just 2 nights! Unbelievable. And I just can't get the work done and be finished, I've got to make-up the test too.

On top of all this, I have the worst grades of my life. I've just been too busy and too tired, especially, to study for the tests in my classes. I have a 72 in AP Physics!!!! Last year was the first year I've ever recieved a C, and I was so upset at my 78. And now I nearly have a D. Actually, I'm doing worse in Chem, so maybe I might actually have a D in there, once my make-up work is submitted. I'd probably kill myself. And people say the first quarter of senior year is the most important for grades, too. I'm not going to get into the colleges I want now. All because my parents made me go to Washington cuz my stupid brother needs to settle down in college. What the hell, basically my future education was sacrificed so HE can have help settling down for college, which he already got accepted to.

Lol, so I probably bored you-and maybe confused you - with my school-college blog. You'll probably see more of these though ha. Up until I guess Feb something is the latest application due date for me.

Anyways visit Melissa!!