:: 2005 25 May :: 12.29 pm

Poor Michi, he's so hard on himself because he's just not good at Italian and he's been learning it for 3 years.

I'm teaching him Japanese, sorta.

The insults at least.

Insults are good to learn.

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:: 2005 22 May :: 5.49 pm

Whee! I love drive-in movies!


My grandparents gave me my graditation present early (I tried refusing to open it, but they kept on insisting).


Prepare to be amazed. I'd like to introduce you all (though there aren't any images) to the handsome Julio the third, mah new digital camera!!!!!! He'th tho thexy!


Rawr.

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:: 2005 21 May :: 2.59 pm

Whee, I'm talking to Michi and Monika auf messenger right now.


Note to self: brush up on bavarian slang

Another note to self: brush up on german


Michi's birthday is on July 6. I think we'll have a celebration for him.

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:: 2005 19 May :: 8.43 am

Victory is mine!

I'm officially done with school as of 8:22 today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The essay for the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling was pretty easy. Just the usual "identify virtues and explain" dealy. Mwah, I'm done! I'm done! I'm done! I'm done! I'm done! I'm done!

I'm keeping the poem.


Oh, for those that I've been too lazy/forget/didn't get a hold of:

Open house is June 18
4-10 pm

Be there...or don't.

My parents are forcing me to go to the Baccalaureate dealy next week. Anybody else having to go?

Umm...moo! I'm done!

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:: 2005 16 May :: 5.28 pm

Ranting at people in German is fun.

Except for the fact that I kept on stumbling over my words in my pissed off-ness.

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:: 2005 12 May :: 9.41 pm

I just came back from the play.


Oh my gosh, it's awesome. Beyond awesome.


I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!


Good job, Rachel! I love you!

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:: 2005 10 May :: 7.57 pm

I have a thing for guys with eyeliner.


My sarcasm paper has gotten longer, Gott sei Dank. I just need to type a few more paragraphs, and find statistics about teenage insecurity somewhere.


I also need to get "Helena" out of my head.

Mrs. Decker is awesome. Totally awesome. She's more than just a hero.


Save the trees!

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:: 2005 5 May :: 4.34 pm

Gasp

Wheeze


I just took the AP German test. How many people want to group together with me and kill Pickerd in his sleep?


He deserves it.

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:: 2005 29 April :: 6.14 am

I forgot to inform the masses (aka all you guys) of another important tidbit of exciting news/information last night.

My family and I will be having a visitor hang out with us for the month of July.

Tina's little brother, Michael (also known as Mike, Mikey, and Michi), will be coming over from the lovely city of Munich!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ich bin sooooooo excited!

It's early, I'm up early, Chad is amazingly later than usual today, I'm playing with my phone already.

The couch and everything on and around it are gone from the corner, I congratulate all that took part in the mission. Chad's here!

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:: 2005 28 April :: 10.09 pm

Happy birthday Jackie!

Variety show was interesting. Dana Romero and countless others are now my heros. Some of them are marriable.

I got a cell phone!

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:: 2005 28 April :: 4.58 pm

It still amazes me totally that Dragostea din tei is so popular in the U.S. now.

A couple of people asked me if I'd ever heard of it, and I gave them the "you've got to be kidding me" look. Hell, that song was played all the time in Germany last year. How could I not hear it?

But, thanks to the growing popularity, I've been craving to hear it and dance along to it and mock it. Too bad it's lost *sigh* perhaps that's a good thing, though.

It looks like I'll be kinda busy this weekend. Babysitting on Friday and Saturday. Yay, I can earn some money for my college books!

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:: 2005 26 April :: 7.16 pm

Ack! I'm in a total Cat Stevens mood, and I don't have any Cat Stevens music files or CDs or tapes to listen to!!!!!! Dad has a record, but we don't have a functional record player. *screams in rage*

Today's been an okay day, sorry if I was out of it yesterday. There are the good days, then there are the bad.

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:: 2005 17 April :: 12.47 pm

The weather today [thus far] is smurfing awesome! I'm actually contemplating leaving the house and walking downtown...if I feel like it. Hmm, maybe I'll go to the park and sit underneath the tree and read. Or write. Or draw. Or listen to music.

Andy has informed me that Demon Hunter and a couple other bands are going to be playing at the Intersection sometime in July [I think]. Kyle, do you know anything about that?

Mum and dad'll be going to a Steven Curtis Chapman concert later on this evening. So Andy and I will have the house to ourselves for a few hours...mwahahaha!

Oh, and this is for all you treehuggers: The city wants to clear-cut some (meaning alot) of the trees in the neighborhood to make a park. When they had said 9 years ago that they'd never do anything like that. Just imagine it, the last few acres of undeveloped land. Home to birds and rodents and deer and other animals. They want to turn that land into a park, when Rockford already has enough parks to kill a cow. There will be a meeting on Tuesday in some random public/governmental place in down town Rockford. Many neighbors are going to come and protest. My dad being one of them. The official government persons of Rockford hate my dad already because he's being very vocal about the issue. A direct quote from him is, "Do you guys have money burning a hole in your pockets or something?"

So yeah, anyways, SAVE THE TREES!!

Edit 18.04.2005 21.09

The meeting is tomorrow at 7 at the City Hall. We want as many people to come, even though the damn city will probably get its way.

Hug a tree!

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:: 2005 16 April :: 7.39 pm

Tina's grandmother just had some very intensive heart surgery and will have to undergo some more next week. Please keep her in your prayers.



I spent the day today taking catnaps. I feel very lazy and slow and fat and tired. Blegh.

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:: 2005 9 April :: 7.14 pm

My grandma died this morning at 7:20 a.m.

We saw her on Thursday, and she was able to sort of communicate with us. She had thrush from the chemo that she had been on, so it was hard for her to talk. Friday she was just saying uh huh and uh uh. I knew that it was bad when mom asked her if she wanted to see her son, Ken (he lives in California), and she said uh huh.

Thank you for all your prayers, Grandma is now in a better place.

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