School

What an ugly word. Anyways. As you probably already know, school is back on. It actually has been for a week now. At the moment (okay, not really ... I'm kinda typing right now) I'm studying for two tests tomorrow. Uggggg! And what makes it worse is that both are in classes that I'm not good at (Socials and Biology). Which means I have to study even harder. Bah. You may be asking what I'm doing here, at the computer, when I should be studying. Well, I'm printing out some things to help me. And there's a lot of pages so it'll take a while. But, back to school. The teachers are really anoying me because they can't seem to say the word "strike". They keep refering to it as "the break". It makes me think that they're ashamed of what they did. Which makes me wonder why they did it in the first place.
My papers are finished printing so I'll go study now. I'll probalby finish this another time.

My crazy weekend

Okay, I've actually had a "weekend" for the past 2 weeks. But I'm just going to start at this past Thursday (Oct. 20th). My day started out with my alarm going off at 7:20 because I had to go babysit. I had to be at their house at quarter to 8, but when I looked at the clock, after eating and having a shower, it was that time. I hadn't even done my hair yet when I litterally ran out the door. Anyways, I had been at their house for about an hour and a half when my mom called. She said my sister was cleaning the bathroom and found my insulin pump sitting on the counter. I realized that in the rush of getting out the door and trying to get to their house, I had forgotten to get wired back up! AAHHHHH! My mom was freaking out. So I had to get Aaron to put his shoes on and then we had to walk all the way back to my house (ok, so I live like 2 minutes away, but with a little kid...it takes like 5), do a blood test (which, oddly, I was normal) and then hook my pump back up. It was a very hecktic morning, and the fact that everybody was making fun of me for forgeting it only made it worse =(.

That night, I went to one of my friends' (Jenna) birthday party. Her birthday was in June but she decided to have her party now. Kinda strange. I, actually, really shouldn't be talking because I'm planning on having my 16th birthday party now and my birthday was in April. Anyways. It was really good. We started watching the Notebook around 2am (it was a sleepover) and didn't end up going to sleep untill 5:30 or so. We slept until 10:30 (so we got a grand total of 5 hours of sleep that night, which isn't bad considering we were planning on pulling an all nighter ... didn't really happen) and then got up and had breakfast.

That night (Friday) I went to youth, which was Bible Study, and didn't get home untill 11. I was so completely wiped out, especially seeing that I didn't have a nap or anything. Bible Study was pretty awsome though. We talked about cliques and about how we need to get rid of them. It was good. So, I went to bed at 11 and woke up at 7 (a little better, but still not enough). I went to Stephanie Wall's house because herself, Carrie and I were going to make some money by cleaning Steve's dad's house that he built. The owners are moving in tomorro (Monday) so we had to make it spick and span for them to live in. I tell ya, that was one dirty house! We started cleaning it at 10 and ended at 5. That's 7 hourse of cleaning. Crazy! It was actually really fun. Who knew you could have fun while making money?!?! Haha. Just kidding. We (my parents and my sister came) stayed at the Wall's house for the awsome game (hockey) (which we won for those who don't watch). I wen't to bed yesterday around 10:30 and woke up this morning at 7:30 so I could go to first servise. So, now, here I am. Kinda tired and writign this. That's my weekend for ya.

Oh yeah. The one thing that made this weekend bad was knowing that there is a very good chanse that I will be going back to school tomorrow. Uugggggg... I so don't wan't to go back. I have to much homework to do. On that note, I should go.

Cell phone

I've finaly done it! I have entered the crazy world of cell phones. I got my very own cell yesterday. No more of this sharing with my sister stuff. That didn't work out so well. We used to share this huge fat ugly phone, and she always had it. So, really, we wern't sharing. She had a cell phone. But now, we both have one. It's so exciting! We origianally went into the store to change our number to a different phone (my brother just got a new cell so we wanted to upgrade ours to his old one), but then the sales clerk said that our plan was over and we could get a bran new phone for free! My mom's like "Okay". So while we were at it, she just got another one and paid for a new number. So, me and my sis have the same phone, just different numbers.

So, I've always wanted a flip phone (just becasue they're so much fun to play with!), but they were only 3 year plans. We only wanted a 2 year plan so the phone that we could get with that was not a flip phone =(. But it's all good. I've actually come to like this phone more than I would have a flip phone. Anyways, this phone is so cool. It's a camera phone (which you can also take videos with). It also has a flashlite on it! It's so crazy! There's only 9 buttons, because there's 2 numbers per button. So wierd. Ok, I feel like such a geek. I'm still trying to get used to the fact that I have a cell phone.

My sweat awsome cell phone.

Going to Indonesia

It's been almost a year now since my cousin Julene and her family (her husband, Chris, and two kids, Tehya and Paeton) have moved to Indonesia as missionaries. They have finally finished at language school, learning how to speak Indonesian. They will be moving in a few days to their new "home". Ever since they left here a year ago, I have been planning to go there and visit for a while. Well, now I think that it's actually going to happen! This excites me so incredably much. I have a chance to g0 there in March (durring spring break). The only thing is that I'm broke. And my parents are making me pay for this myself (which I'm totaly fine with). So I need to find a large amout of money somewhere before March. What makes that hard is that I don't have a job! So, I'm helping my mom out on Wednesdays with Alpha. This gets me $25 every Wednesday, but Alpha is only a 12 week program. So that only gets me $300 (which, by the way, about $100 of that goes to my parents because of all the money I've borrowed!). So, I've also started to babysit a little more. My sister and I kinda share this job. If he (Aaron is his name) needs to be looked after durring the day, when I'm in school, then Larissa babysits, but when I'm home, I get it. It's not really a schedualed thing, it's more like she calls and we go. But it works. So, right now, I'm not doing too bad. I'm making money, and trying so incredably hard not to spend it. I'm really starting to look forward to March now. It seems like so far away though. augggg...so frustrating. Oh yeah! I'm also collecting pop bottles. Right now, I've got like around 10 bags sitting in my garage! I'm just kinda ask people if they get money back for their bottles (they usually say no), and then ask if I can have them. It works, I'd say, about 90% of the time. It's great! But yeah. Those take a while to sort. So I think that I'm just ramabling now. I'll stop and let you get on with your day ... or night.

Aaron (the kid that we babysit)

A few of my bags of pop cans.

Me working the dishwasher at Alpha.

A Little About Me...

I'll expand on what I wrote about yesterday. I was born on April 28 and have grown up in Walnut Grove. I have lived in the same house my entire life with both my parents and my three siblings. I have two brothers, Nathan (23) and Darren (21), and two sisters, Larissa (18) and Chelsea (22) [my sister-in-law] whom is married to Darren. I am, as you can tell, the youngest at 16. I also have two cats, Tabby and Diddle.
When I was 9, I was diagnosed with diabeties. This has been one of the hardest parts of my life, but it just recently got a little easier about a month and a half ago when I recieved an insulin pump. Now, instead of doing three shots every day, I do one shot every three days. It's so much better.
I love basically any kind of art. Most of all, drawing and painting, and photography. I also love music. Listening to it and singing it. If I can find a really good book, I'll pick it up and won't put it down untill it's done; ok, I'll put it down but it will only take me two or three days to finish it.
Hmmm...what eles could I say? I love to hang out with my family and friends. Darren and Chelsea come over every other Sunday to hang out with us (and eat our food). Thats one of my favourite parts of the week.
When I graduate hight school, I plan on becoming a hair dresser. What I really want to do is open up my own buisness from my house. But, of course, I will have to have a house to do that. So that will have to wait untill I move out on my own, or get married (which will be a while). So I will probably start out in a salon. Which, by the way, I have never stepped foot into one. Hard to believe. I know. My hair dresser works out of her house and pretty much always has.
Once I have lots and lots of money (which will never happen), i want to travel. A few places I would like to go are Indonesia (my cousin, Julene, and her family live there), Africa, Germany, China, and some other places that I cant think of at the moment.
Keep coming back to this blog, and you just might find out a little more about me.

I'm here!!!

Wow. I can't believe that I'm doing this! My good friend Angela told me that I should definatley start one of these things. And since two of my siblings and three of my cousins have one, I figure, why not. So here I go. I should probably warn you ... I'm a horrible speller, so if I spell something wrong, ignore it. And I will deffinatley not be writting a whole lot.
So I guess I'll tell you a little bit about myself. I'm sixteen years old and am in grade 11. I am the youngest of four (puls one) kids and am the only one left in high school. My best friend also happens to be my sister (Larissa) whom is two years older than me. I am diabetic and have been for about seven years. I am five foot seven (and a half). I have (at the moment) auburn brown hair and green eyes. I am very artistic and love to do anything that sounds artsy. Some of these things include drawing, painting, music, photography... and the list goes on. I think thats about it for now. I'll try to write often, although no promises.