Sneaking in Another Post...

I promised that I would post a picture for you guys, so here you go!  I guess there'll be pictures later of when I'm actually in the dress, but I wanted you to see before Saturday!

--Megan

Happy Weekend!

Hola!

I'm so happy it's the weekend... I was just about dead today and I don't know why.  I didn't even get up to watch the Royal Wedding today.  

Actually, I'm going to take this opportunity and have a segue!  

I've heard so many complaints about the Royal wedding today and the days leading up to it.  Some people had stupid reasons like it was their birthday and they wanted it to be just their day.  Another one I heard on the radio was someone didn't want to watch a bunch of privileged people get married.  Other people had more serious reasons like they don't believe in monarchy or they just weren't interested.  I'm just going to take the time and say, if you (and I don't necessarily mean you two, just generally you) don't want to take part in the hype, that's fine, but let everyone else who wants to watch have their fun and be happy.  No one's asking you to join in the fun.

Back to happy!  

Tonight I watched 'Invictus.'  It was pretty good.  It was interesting any way.  I may need to watch it again because I was busy trying to get comfortable and take extremely short naps while I could.  I'm dead...

Ezra, I have made this picture of happy things for you.  I noticed your DeviantArt journal... notice the sock monkey has not been attacked and there are no dogs that can move through walls.

Also, today I had a cupcake covered in sprinkles of different colors because it was my friend Lucy's birthday.  There were so many baked goods in English and Physics...

Hello there, Avery!  About your introduction tab, I'll make you a new one, but you'll have to rewrite it again because the information is lost already... unless you saved it somewhere else, in which case your job will be easy!  Just copy and paste :)

Have a lovely weekend, guys!

--Megan

P.S. Just kidding, I found your introduction tab, Avery!  I guess it was just floating in cyberspace just waiting to be published again :)  I don't know why it did that... computers are strange...

"...and again continued to stare at me like there was a radio active hamster wielding a burning chainsaw on my head. "

^^SUCH A GOOD QUOTE!!!

Thank you for the belated birthday!!!!!!!  ^.^  It was pretty awesome!  Me and like 6 other people (it started out with me and 2 other people, and then just kinda turned into 6 people like the day before...) went to see mean girls at the uptown theatre :)  but before that me and my friend with the super awesome fluffy hair played Portal 2 on my brand-new ps3 (yes!  my mom got me a ps3 for my birthday!!!!  The government gave us a big fat tax return and we were able to afford it and still have tons of money left!!!  THANK YOU GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!).  And then my mom sang him the love song she wrote for our cat :P (seriously almost strangled myself with my own hair at that moment!!! :S )  But thats okay i guess...

My friend Tommy gave me 2 cans of organic soup for my birthday!!!!!!!!!!  :D  I was so freaking happy!!!!!!  and my little sister did the cutest thing, she bought me 16 presents for my 16th birthday :)  one of them was the movie "tangled" on DVD!  Yaaayyy!!!!

I think I'm gonna go watch "tangled" and eat some soup.  (BTW Avery, Megan's LONTEM video from this month with the hula-hooping thing made me realize that I havent seen you in person in like two years.  how sad is that? :/ )

A Strange Occurrence and a Belated Birthday

Happy Belated Birthday Ezra! I know it was yesterday 'cause you were always a week after me. I hope you enjoyed your sweet sixteen. I also got a belated birthday gift today form my friend at work, he made me (I think) red velvet cupcakes. I can't wait to try them! :)
The strange occurrence was when I was walking home from work today. There was these 3 boys talking to a guy in a car ahead of me and one of the guys spotted me and continued to stare at me like I had tentacles with suction cups oozing green slime sticking out of my head. Right when I was about pass them, they stopped talking to their friend in the car and started walking ahead of me really slowly. I'm a fast walker, so I practically stopped until the staring guy looked up and said hey guys watch out. The chubbier one with a hat on looked at me and again continued to stare at me like there was a radio active hamster wielding a burning chainsaw on my head. I said excuse me as I passed, and the chubby guy said, "You're excused beautiful." in a low, trying to be seductive voice...
Well, that was my day, I hope you guys' had a better one!
(oh! and Megan, I think I deleted my 'about avery' thing... do you know how to fix that?)

Where On Earth Have You Been, Young Lady?!

Okay, not okay.  That gap where I should have been writing to you guys was way too long.  Not okay.

But I'm back now, so the world can return to the way it once was.  Maybe...

My last post was on March 18th.  Since then, I've gone to and returned from Chicago (I'm working on making a  video), Avery has turned 16th (quit being so old!  Both of you!), I've learned how to make duct tape shoes with Ezra (so much fun!), seen Harry Potter 7, part 1, again, but with my cousin and my sister who was making fun of all of the bald people in the movie, and... drum-roll, if that's what floats your boat... I've been asked to prom!

I don't know what I'm going to wear... for once in a bazillion years, I have the classic girlish problem of having absolutely nothing to wear (though not literally, mind you... that would be a little bit weirder...).  Do either of you have any thoughts?  I trust your fashion sense more than I trust mine.

I got tons of driving time in this weekend!  I went everywhere from Block Buster, to home, to school.  It was amazing and I felt really independent!  I think I'm ready for this whole college thing.  Too bad I have to wait another year... and I didn't apply to colleges this year... and I don't have enough credits to graduate high school at this point in time... oh well!  More time with you guys!

Well, I can't say that this was my most exciting post ever, but at least I did it now and we can move on to the next person!  I think that's Avery, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Talk to you both very soon!

--Jude

I KNOW ITS NOT MY TURN BUT I HAVE SOME SUPER-EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!! :D

TODAY IS A HISTORICAL DAY FULL OF MAGIC AND WONDER!!!!!!!!!!!


I GOT MY FIRST MLIA PUBLISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :D :D :D




It was a fairly lame one.  Here it is:

Today I was trying to get my moms attention. She wouldn't answer to "mom", or her real name, or any of her nick names. Eventually I said "yo Bon Qui Qui!" and she looked up and said "what?" HerLIA




(^^True story)


But even though its lame the point is IT GOT PUBLISHED AND I AM RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!!!!!  :D

Duct tape.

I made a rose out of duct tape.

Jude, I think that next time we hang out and are in a crazy art project mood, we should make stuff out of duct tape.  It's actually really fun :)  And it's only like $4 for a roll of it.

So I'm on spring break and I'm SO bored because every single one of my friends either a.) has a different break than me, b.) is out of town for break or c.) is busy either babysitting or being attached at the hip to someone else (those gal dang teenagers with their hormones...).  So I'm watching "My so-called life" and  making stuff (collages, duct tape flowers, etc...).

Sadly, I'm almost out of duct tape and my only color is bright orange :P  I'm hoping to get my grandma to buy me more...  yeah.

Movie Reviews!

So I watched like 3 movies yesterday (I only really remember 2) and I'll review them for your absolute pleasure!

#1: Population 436
This movie was about this guy who worked for a census bureau and went to investigate a town that had had the same population  for 100 years.  So he went there and figured out that they were really creepy and when a person was born they would have a festival and kill one person who was honored (by being hung).  And the weirdest thing was that when ever a person living there wanted to leave they were thought to have had the "fever" and were taken to the "hospital" where they cut out a part of your brain!!!!!

I have to say that this movie was really creepy and not in the normal creepy movie way. So it was interesting and it totally didn't end like I thought it was going to.  So I would recommend it to anyone who can handed some really weird things...

#2: Leap Year
In this one Amy Adams is going to Ireland to propose to her 4 year boyfriend and she ends up falling for this guy she meets that was taking her to find her husband.  As you can tell, this was a very stereotypical romantic comedy movie.

It had some really funny parts and was totally cute but it barely had any original thought put into it... So if you want to watch this movie (which I kind of recommend) you may get a little bored and become infected by the cheesy bug.

-Peace!

"It's FriiiIIIIIiiiiday! Friday!": A Rant

Perhaps you've heard the song...

I must rant about this song right now.  Actually, both the song and the video.  I cannot sleep until I do this...

So I did a Google search on Rebecca Black after seeing that video.  Apparently, she's not the one that wrote this crap song called 'Friday.'  That means I have a humongous grudge against not one, but two people.  Possibly more, depending on who really wrote the song.

Back on track!  I found out that Miss Black is thirteen years old, which raises a few questions for me.  There's a part of the video where she's waiting for the bus when suddenly her friends drive up next to her.

I'll admit, there's a possibility that her friends are older.  Maybe they met in second grade or something, but what second grader is going to befriend a fifth grader?  What fifth grader is going to wake up in the morning and think, "I think I'll make friends with a second grader today"?  There really isn't an opportunity for people of varying ages to meet each other in school until middle school-- that's when I got to know you guys better/become aware of your existence (sad, but true.  And it's because of the grade level separation).  To get to my point, Rebecca's friends are probably thirteen just like she is, so WHY ARE THEY FREAKING DRIVING?!  What is this world coming to...?

Another point I'd like to bring up is the downfall of the English language.  One of the lines is "we so excited."  Every grammar freak must be cringing every time they hear that... these younger people are learning English this way.  They must be.  Grammar is not the cool thing and it makes me cry inside.  Avery, this would be like if Ikhranhaji (I'm pretty sure I spelled her name wrong...) started talking like this, which I don't believe that she has before, unless it was jokingly.

Her voice.  I cringe at that too.  But apparently according to some internet articles that I've come across, she was asked to sing the national anthem on Good Morning America and she was fine.  There was no auto-tune to kill her performance, but then they asked her to sing Friday again and she reverted back to her nasal voice.  Maybe pop culture is twisting our views about what a voice is supposed to sound like.  Thanks a lot, bad hip-hop music....

Another one, and I'm not going to elaborate on this one because it really relates to the driving thing... what parent is going to let a thirteen year old go out at NIGHT with a group of friends by themselves?

Blah....

Okay, something less upsetting than this song.

Spring Break has officially begun!  Hurray!!!  Nine day of happy fun time!  I have two college visits scheduled at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul (which will be fun to tour, but I don't think I'll attend or even apply because they don't have any dorms and apartments at eighteen years old would be too much for me to handle on top of college) and also the University of Minnesota- Duluth (which I'm really excited about because I looooooove Duluth!)

Also, I got my letter from Step-Up and I'm officially in the program!  I might actually get a job this summer, which would be so nice.  I need a job so that I can do another music tour (maybe) and also go to France (slash Switzerland slash Italy) next year.  Oh yeah, and that education thingy that's just around the corner.

Alright, I really need to go to bed now.  If you haven't noticed, my arguing skills have pretty much gone downhill since the beginning of this post.

Avery, I'll text you later about Monday, and Ezra, perhaps we shall Facebook pretty soon!

--Megan

"And I'm gonna show her life on Earth can be sweet..."

Hi, I'm a dork because I've been listening to the "Hair" soundtrack for like a week straight and singing it at random times XD  Ahhhh I'm such a theatre goon...

So theres this super weird kid who sits by me in Geometry and today he kept naming all of his quadrilaterals after me... like "on quadrilateral EZRA, angle E is congruent to angle R and line segment EZ is parallel to line segment RA" ... Awkward :/

Okay so I know that everyone on the entire planet is talking about this song, but if you havent't seen it yet, watch it, it is laughably bad XD


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

We watched it in English and spent like fifteen minutes making fun of it XD


Okay and now that you're done assaulting your ears, here's a techno remix of "Pachelbel's canon" thats actually really good :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qsJfDjt7y0&feature=related


Aiight thats all I've got to say.  Byes.

Hola!

Hello all! I have some HUGE news!! So you know that I started track and what not yesterday? Well today I went and I saw this guy who I absolutely LOVE! I've haven't seen him since last year, cause he graduated, but OMG! he's like so old and he's got a beard, and he's still so smexy! It's kind of sad cause I don't think he remembers me but I'm going to ask him tomorrow!

... Sorry for rambling but he's like super awesome.

Anyway, like I told Megan before I beefed it in gym (got like 100 bruises), and then today I kept falling all over! I wonder what's going on? And I kept getting hit the butt during dodge ball... kind of weird, right? Is my butt like a target?!?!?

Haitus Over. Period.

GAH!  Guys, I'm sorry.... it's been too long... I have no excuse other than I was beyond lazy...

Update Time!

This past weekend, I went to my grandparent's house with Shannon and my cousin Abby.  My great-grandma was there too (she was incredibly hilarious, I will not hesitate to add).  There, I discovered that butter (or rather, "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter") is basically a staple food (bleh....), my grandpa doesn't know any of our birthdays (the closest he got was my cousin's birthday and he was something like a week off, but for the rest of us, he was anywhere from a couple weeks to entire months off), making tie-blankets is beyond fun (mine is below!), and Better Than Sex cake is, while I have no comparison like the name suggests, pretty freaking good!

(Turtles!!!!!!)

(Shannon made one with Cupcakes-- not surprising :)

In other news, I get to go to a meeting on April 20th in preparation for my trip to France in 2012!  I am beyond psyched!!  12 days in France and we might just get to visit Switzerland and Italy too!  WEEE!!!!  My first experience in leaving the country and I could very well hit three other countries in one swoop!  Any way, I should probably say more about this as the date approaches, so I'll leave it at that.

I leave for Chicago in less than four weeks.  It's going to be busy for music in the next few weeks... South is doing Guys and Dolls as the musical, so there are quite a number of people that busy either performing in it or playing in the pit orchestra.  I can't remember the dates, but would this be something that would interest either of you?  We could make it a night just the three of us (or two if someone can't go).  I'll have to see if I can get the car one of those nights if we do decide to go.  After Guys and Dolls, we have a concert where we're playing with the orchestra for a couple songs.  It's going to be so cool!  We're playing Jurassic Park, Wicked, Star Trek (music from the movie and the TV show), and some music from The Muppets.  So fun!

Spring Break is coming up too!  Are you guys doing anything special?  I'm doing something like three college tours, which entails a very short trip to Duluth (sad day... I love Duluth...).

I hope you are both doing well!

By the way, we still have to figure out a day for Underwater Adventures at Mall of America... Jennifer is still interested, she just needs a date and details like that so she can tell her parentals.  I'm excited for this too!

Avery, it's finally your turn (took long enough, right?  You're probably bursting!)!

--Jude

I'm super late... :P

I know it's been my turn for approximately 1 bajillion years.  I apologize.  It's been a very hectic few weeks...

So guess who's seeing Rocky Horror again tomorrow?!?!?!?!!

Meee!!!!  :D

Me and my wonderful friend Zoe and her bf Ryan are going to the midnight showing of Rocky 'horror for like the third month in a row :)  So much fun!

Anyways confession time:  I am kind of obsessed with the new-ish star trek movie that came out like a couple years ago.

Mostly because Chris Pine is beyond shmexy XD

But also because it awakens my nerdy, sci-fi loving side XD

Okay I am having technical difficulties with a piece of technology I own, plus im mega tired, so im gonna make this a short post.  byes!

Hmmmm...

Sorry I didn't post before... I don't really have much to post about.

I very much liked the thoughtful picture of Ezra, you look exactly the same as the last time I saw you. :)

I do have some good news though! You both know that I work at Kowalski's right? Well, instead of boring myself by bagging people's groceries, I get to hand out samples of chocolate!!!!! How incredibly awesome is that????

That's about it... Bye Bye :)

MUPPETS!!!!!!!!!!

PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR SOME AWESOME NEWS!!!!!!!!!!
..............
...are you prepared????

THEYRE MAKING A NEW MUPPETS MOVIE!!!!!!

I LOVE THE MUPPETS!!!!!  (in case you couldn't tell...)  When I was little (like two or three) I wanted to marry Kermit the Frog ^.^

Anyways...

Will LOVED the cookies, just so you know!!!!  Thank you so much for baking cookies with me!!!!!!!!!  It was fun :)

Avery, as you know from Jude's previous post, me and her baked cookies yesterday :)  It was amazingly fun and they turned out good, and so I gave some to my friend who was feeling sad and... yeah.

Soooo thats all I have to say...
 Oh wait!!!!  Jude, if I draw any excellent pictures that I think your cousin might like and that I won't miss too much I can give them to you to give to her.

Okay now that is all I have to say :)  bye!!!!!

Hitler Otters and Tons of Sugar!

Sorry Avery, I'm going to post this before yours... You can post your part whenever you want though!

First, I have a question... does this sea otter look a little bit like Hitler to you?

Luckily, it didn't stay this way for long...

Ezra came over to my house today and it was great fun!  We drew pictures that I will send to my cousin in college (because she needs pictures for her wall.  You're welcome to donate your artistic talent as well!  I think she'd like that a lot!).

 We at so much cookie dough... it was delicious!  Of course, we did actually bake some of it to make yummy  delicious cookies.  We ran out of regular chocolate chips, so we got regular Hershey bars and cut those up instead, so there are HUGE chunks in the cookies!  There are also a few pink and white M&Ms which are equally as good in the cookies.  I'll bring one for you tomorrow!

 Ha ha!  I have successfully taken a thoughtful picture of Ezra!

 Here's what they looked like when they were done...

 Afterwards, because we didn't have enough of a sugar high yet, we made s'mores in the oven and they turned out (to be messy) pretty well!  It's not the same as toasting them over open flames and getting them golden brown, but for the winter, they were good :)

Avery, I hope you're feeling better!  You weren't at school on Friday, so I guessed you were either on a field trip or sick at home.  I hope it was the field trip, because being sick isn't fun... field trips, however, are lots of fun!

I hope to see you tomorrow!  Ezra, thanks for the fantastically awesome day today!

--Jude

Jude Is Rather Excited for Groundhogs Day As Well :)

Hey guys!

Have you ever seen the movie 'Groundhogs Day'?  If you haven't, it's pretty fun.  I highly recommend it!

I'm glad your Valentine's day has turned into something a little bit happier, Ezra!  I'm still going to send you both Valentine's though, just because they're fun :)  I've got plans for those little Valentines!

Crazy question, but do you guys remember when we were at Jefferson and they had these white paper bags that we were supposed to decorate for Valentine's day and then handing out Valentines was mandatory?  I'm kind of glad that that part of our lives is done... Singing Telegrams are much more fun!

I'll make sure there's a picture from before the dance taken and then I'll post it here afterwards. My height will be more proportional to Jack's this time (at least I hope)!

You know, the Jesus guy never said anything about Hitler.  I'm kind of glad he didn't, because I would have been a lot more freaked out if he had said it.

I've always wanted to mess with people that talked to me on the street.  I've never had the guts to actually do it though.  I've always contemplated speaking French to them, since more people know Spanish, I'm guessing, so they'd be more likely to be confused.  Hopefully that guy didn't bug you again after that, Ezra!

Avery, your brother comes home a lot!  And in the most interesting ways too :)  Congratulations on your engagement to your brother's friend!  Can I be a bride's maid?  I'm so excited!!!

So Avery, can you go to Underwater World?  If yes, we should figure out a date.  Jennifer Maloney can go too!  Hurray!  Yikes... admission is about $20 per person... what do you guys think about that?

I hate it when you have a favorite part of a movie and there's no screen shots online... it's really annoying!  Same thing with YouTube clips...

AJ is beautiful <3 !!!!!!!

Okay, I really must go to bed now... I have to get up to make who knows what kind of food tomorrow for a trip I'm not going on... oh well.  Someone else can benefit from the money so... yeah, either way I have to be somewhere to make food.

Night night!

--Jude

Valentines Day Sulk is rapidly approaching....

...though it may be a tad less sulky this year, because me and my friend who used to have great hair are baking anti-valentines day brownies the weekend before valentines day :)

Jude, your dress is absolutely beautiful :)  I want to see pictures of you in it!!!

Also, I've never been to under water world before... I would certainly like to go! :)

OMG is the Jesus guy also saying that Hitler is alive and building bombs and hiding them in an abandoned warehouse in north minneapolis????  Because if he is, I think I've encountered that guy!!!!!

And this one time there was this guy in like a freaky african-looking robe thing with a sign written in several foreign languages who was talking to a video camera and I made the mistake of walking in front of him and he said "excuse me, young lady, did you know that America is going to be destroyed soon because the sins of white people?"  He legit said that!!!!  Instead of running, as I should have, I said "Ummm... no, I did not recieve that memo."  He said "Well, if you know what country your father is from, there may be a chance to save you..."  I said "My father is no longer alive, and I have no clue where his ancestors are from."  He looked kinda pissed when I said that, so I just ran away before he could say anything else.

Okay, Jude, here's a few pictures of AJ from Empire Records:

*sigh*
I tried to find my favorite pic of him-when theyre kissing on the roof and Corey pushes his hair back.. *girlish squeal*- but I couldn't find it :(

He's actually about a bazillion times more attractive in the movie :)

OH MY GOD I WANT TO WATCH THAT MOVIE NOW!!!!

I'm gonna go watch my so-called life and empire records 'till I drop dead of exhaustion :)

Bye!!!!!!!

Unexpected Guests Part 2

Hello!
Well, I bet you remember Megan, when in the middle of the night Adrian and his friend Mike came in and I thought that they were buglers? So I thought that my mom had come in the door (it was about 6:30) and I said, "mom?" cause she usually says hi when she comes in and I heard "ahum" in a very fake girly voice. I look over and find both of them standing there smiling at me... what a weird family I've got. But then we starting talking and I made them waffles! :) I like to be helpful. Mike was pretty funny. He was very happy that I had made him waffles and he said, "Man, I wish I had a sister!" He looked at me and said, "You know what? Lets get married, you wanna get married?" I laughed and said what about his girlfriend? He told me that they had broken up and that I shouldn't get a boyfriend and he kind of went on a rant about that... :) I love strange company!
(Sorry Ezra if you don't know any of these people)
~Peace

Dresses Underwater

This post is comprised of large pictures!  Hurray!

 First of all, I wanted to show you the dress that I ended up getting, but I only showed you the ones I found while window-shopping.  What do you guys think?

Senor Jack just needs to remember his permission slip and then we're ready to go.  I'm so excited!!!

To touch on previous subjects...

1. Avery, I would definitely love to go see the Oatmeal and squeal like a little girl in March!  I never know what to say to authors/other famous people, but maybe this time it'll be different!  I'm excited!  It looks like it's at the U of M and I'm pretty sure I know a vague way to get there.  I've taken a bus from my mom's work to the U campus, so we could probably do that.  Hopefully we won't run into the "second coming of Jesus" guy. Did I ever tell you about that?  I think I told a couple people... we can talk about this more in school too.  March 21st is a Monday (I guess this is more of a mental note for myself and for you if you want it).

2. Regarding the potential occasion I mentioned in my hand-written letter (and also the picture above, which I did not take with my camera or anyone else's camera)... Would you guys want to go to Underwater World in the basement of MOA with me sometime?  It might be kind of fun to do sometime.  If not now, maybe sometime during the summer?  I haven't been there in ages and it was so cooling to pet a sting-ray and not die :D  After we're done there, we could always wander the rest of the Mall if you're into that kind of thing.  It would be the two of you, me, and Jennifer Maloney if she wanted to come with.

3. Ezra, that's so cool that you're getting unbiased and-- more importantly-- honest feedback on your work.  That's a really valuable thing to any artist (or creator of any kind).  That should be fun!  P.S. I will check out the Gin Blossoms :)

Cool!  Can't wait to hear from you guys again!  Adios!

--Jude

I didn't ask, you shouldn't have told me...

Gin Blossoms.
They're AMAZING!
I added some of their songs to my playlist on my blog :) check it out!
It's like total happy music :) great for drawing to... if you're me, anyway.

Anyway, today I started a new quarter!!!!!!!!  Yaaayyyyy!!!!
The only class I don't like is Geometry XP  Other than that, I have Spanish 3, Interpersonal Communications (yes thats a legit class!  We get to watch "my so-called life" and stuff!), and the best English class EVER!
English we get to do creative writing and stuff which is so freaking fun and we get to write essays and since I'm a dork I love writing essays and we get to read and I'm really happy!!!!!!!!! :D

So I kinda gots this idea... I really want some unbiased feedback on some of my drawings so I think I might ask one of my grandmas crazy artist friends to look at some of my drawings and tell me what they like and what I can improve on and stuff.  So I'll be able to ask people who wont be too worried about hurting my feelings to give good feedback and who actually knows a thing or two about what theyre saying and can say stuff like "I like how you did....... but maybe you should try......... oh here you should have done.......... but I really like this part where........" instead of "I like this its pretty!!!" or "I dont like this one.  it doesnt have enough pink" or whatever.  I think I'll ask Ms. Elissa too just cause shes an artist too but... yeah.  I'll let you guys know how that goes :)

Oatmeal

Hey! I heard that we didn't have to be at school at 7:30, although it was recommended.

Anyway, OMG! Megan! This maybe a little far off but are you doing anything on March 21!?!?!?!?!
So I was checking on the Oatmeal and they're (him) are coming to Minnesota!!!
And he's coming out with a book so I thought that if you wanted to go, we could head out after school and go and see him! Here's the info. I would just love to meet him and I'd love to have someone who's heard of him (and likes him) go with me!

Besides that, I had a very weird confrontation with some random guy yesterday.  I was waiting for my bus at the lightrail station and this guy comes up to me and says"Are you male or female?" I gave him a weird look and said "Female?" and he gave me a weird smile (I noticed that he had cuts all over his face) and said "You stand like a guy... Just wanted to let you know that."
Hmmmmm, some people really make you wonder huh?
~Peace!

Jude Writes a Letter

There we go!  I put different pictures of the letter up because they're so much easier to read than the original picture.  Enjoy!

--Jude

MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

you guys have school on monday, and I don't!!!!  :)

Jude, that dress will look amazing :)  It's very pretty :)

I'm really glad we made up too!!!!  I hated fighting with him...
Fetal pigs?? Ewwww!!!  I accidentally walked in while one group was still dissecting their mouse and it was way gnarly :P
You had to do a whole packet?!?!!? I just had a one-page paper... double-spaced...  I wrote it in like 30 minutes.  It would have been sooner if I didn't have to deal with my schools crappy computers.

So I have a new addiction... I am hooked on Call Of Duty: Black Ops.
Yeah, yeah I know violence is wrong even in video games, but theres a thing on it where you can kill Nazi Zombies (Yes, you read that correctly: Nazi Zombies) instead of people which makes me feel a lot less guilty :)  I spent like a day and a half playing it (*cough*cough*nerd*cough*).  I would have played it longer-I would be playing it right now as a matter of fact-except it was my friend Nikki's and it only works for PS3 and I just have a PS2 and she brought her PS3 and Call Of Duty over here but when she left she took them with :(  I told Keiran and he said hes experienced the same thing and he said "It's exactly how I imagined going through withdrawl would be".  SO FREAKING TRUE!!!  AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!  I am adding "Play COD on the omni theatre screen" to my List Of Things To Do Before I Die.

Okay enough obsessing over video games.
Jude, I have some good news for you!!!!  Remember tat book about art journaling u let me borrow?  Well my mom bought it for me on Amazon!!!!  :D  YAY!!!!  So I can give you yours back the next time we see each other... Which must be soon!!!!!
I gotta go now my friend is in need of cheering up...  Bye!

MOA

Hey, today I went to the mall of america and it was very fun!

First I got this really cute shirt and this awesome necklace (that I'll wear on Monday if I don't freeze).

Then when we were about to leave I saw the mascot for underwater world (the shark thing) and I thought that it was empty so I stared at it and it's arms suddenly moved and I screamed and started running.
Then a little later after that (we had stopped for some chocolate) I saw him and he saw me. We looked at each other for a minute and then I think he recognized me and put his hands up like 'hey! I know you!' and then I ran into the chocolate store and hide.

Then the guy around the counter laughed and asked, "Are you really afraid of that thing?" I nodded and left. How scary is that?

Oh! and Megan, I finished that book!!!!! I loved it!!!!! It wasn't the ending that I was looking for, but I really liked how the book didn't follow the normal format of a romance book.
~Peace

Some Anecdotes from the Actual Weekend Part of the Long Weekend

Hello!

I have quite a few tidbits to share with you today!

Number One: The fire.

Might as well get the not-so-good stuff out of the way.  So, at five in the morning, my mom came into my room and woke me up (except not really, I was already half-awake I guess).  She asked if I wanted to see the fire.  I had no idea what she was talking about, but I followed her out to our living room any way.  The fire wasn't on our block, but it was just a block down.  We could see almost everything.  There were three or four fire trucks, an ambulance, and a news crew.  That house is completely gone now.  When my parents talked to some of the people on that block, they were told that that house was "the drug house."  The lady that lived there came outside after it caught fire and stood in her back yard just watching.  They believe that she was stoned or something like that.

Number Two: Titanic

I had the opportunity to go to this place called Bibelot (Beeble-low) and it's so cool!  It's like Patina, but Bibelot.    I decided that I want to come back there before I go to college so that I may put my college kitchen together!  Any way, we came home with an ice cube tray in the shape of Titanic and several ice bergs ^_^  We have such a sick sense of humor...

Number Three: Girl Stuff

Tomorrow, I'm going to go get my dress for sweethearts.  Hurray!  I'm excited!  Yesterday, I did a little internet window shopping with my cousin McKenna (it's her birthday today-- she's nineteen!) and my mom.  I wanted to show you the ones that I was looking at because I couldn't wait until tomorrow to show you guys the dress that I actually got.  Sorry if the pictures are really tiny and tell me what you think!

 
I think I'm leaning toward the bottom right one...

Any who, that's probably not what you expected to read from me, but here you go!

I hope all of your finals went well-- they're all done now!  We can move on to next semester now!  Hurray!  Avery, did you hear that we have to be to school by 7:45 on Tuesday to get our second semester schedules? Do you think you'll need a ride that day?  I could ask my mom if you want.

Ezra, I'm really glad you and Kieran made up :)  I don't like it when you're sad...  Also, that was the worst part of biology.  We had fetal pigs to disect, so that's probably bigger than a mouse.  I opted for the packet instead.

Have a good Monday off, guys!

Love,
Jude

finals day!!!

dang it my advice wasnt taken :(

Well today I have finals (again) but I only have one final (acting) because I TA for the other class I was to hae a final in today, so it shouldnt be too bad.

Yesterday I actually forgot I had finals until I got to school O.o
I had Bio and History.  History was ridiculously easy, and I crammed for Bio right before I took the actual test so I don't THINK I did too bad....
I did a scene in acting yesterday.  I was a really mean nun :)  But no one said I looked like a nun... Here's what people said I looked like:

my friend Aaron: a person with sex hair (!!!  SO not nun-ish!!!)

Kieran, my friend who used to have amazing hair before he brutally murdered it: A homeless person

Hanthon, my favorite person in the universe: A pedophile

So I guess the nun costume didnt really work out too well....  :P

Okay so I typed the first half of this this morning and am now finishing it, so UPDATE!!! my final was easy, I got As on the ones I took yesterday, and life is okay right now :)

Except that they were dissecting mice in bio today :(
It was so sad!!!!!!  There was a cute little mouse on its back with its feet up in the air and it was all dead and stuff... I wrote a paper instead.  I learned a lot about mouse anatomy :)

Nothing exceptionally fantastic has happened lately.  Me and my friend who used to have cool hair got into a fight, but we made up... I re-discovered my love for Jump 5 that I had when I was like eight or something... finals, boring teenager stuff, blah blah blah :P

just so ya'll know: video has officially killed the radio star.

on that note, I'm gonna go snack.  Bye!

Of Shows and Teachers

Yay! My advise was taken!

I haven't been watching American Idol because like where did all the GOOD people go? I liked it when Paula and Simon would argue and in the background you'd see Randy talking about dogs and yo, how great was that? But now they've got this old guy (who looks like someone burnt his face and then ran it over) and then they've got Jennifer Lopez (and I'm not the biggest fan of her...) but anyway, why? Was it actually good?

Oh! And today, my teacher was SO pissed! We were taking a test (and he's awesome so he lets up listen to our ipods during class) and this guy named Thomas started singing. But it wasn't the good kind, it was totally tone deaf and very hard to sit through. After being told off by the teacher (Mr.Simons) he was quiet for a while but then he let out the LOUDEST fart ever! Everyone in the class started cracking up and Mr.Simons just started yelling at him telling him how everyone knows that he's dumb and that he needs to stop goofing off and how he knew that he was going to fail. How sad!
~Peace!

Adrenaline is the Same as Butterflies

Thanks for your advice, guys!

Ezra, normally I'm like you and I find it very romantic when the guy asks the girl-- it's the cutest thing in the world, especially around the time when they're advertising for dances (at least at South it is.  I can't speak for other schools).

However, I think I'm going to take Avery's advice this time.  I think I'll ask him tomorrow :)  I'm kind of excited. I'm getting an adrenaline rush just thinking about it...

I'll tell you how it goes!

Thanks again!

--Jude

P.S. Do you guys watch American Idol?

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

DO  NOT TAKE AVERY'S ADVICE!!!

(No offense Avery...)

I may sound old-fashioned, but you should NEVER ask a boy out first!!!!!!!!!!  NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd go the way of dropping not-so-subtle hints.  Or wait till he asks you.

Also, don't worry about the dream thing- it probably is just some deeply buried fears that are surfacing in your subconscious in the form of dreams.

That's all :)

In The Advise Corner

Hello!
Well, to start off with you're dream, I personally don't know much about dreams, but I would
think that if you had dreams about killing people you know would be that you were keeping
something bottled up and you wanted to release it (I guess for you killing :))
But if that didn't help, I recommend going to here! It's always helped me with my wacked up
dreams!

#1. First of all, I think that the person you were talking to was a big jerk. Why go to your sister
to tell you to stop talking? Who does that? But anyway, I think that you should subtly start
talking about something else and if the other person goes back to the first subject, then it's
safe to say that they want to keep talking about that certain thing.

#2. I think that girls today have a tendency (not that I'm saying you do) to wait to be asked while
it's a really big deal to ask anyone out. Regardless of what gender you are. I think that you should
ask him and it might just be that he can't go, and didn't want to get your hopes up, or the fact that
he's spacing out (a lot... haha) But anyway, go ahead and ask him!

~Avery, peace!

Jude the Questioneer.

Hello Ezra and Avery!

So a couple nights ago, I had a recurring dream.  Scratch that, I had three bad recurring dreams thrown into one.  It was really weird, because it was episodic and I haven't had those particular dreams in years... I'm surprised that they were still familiar.

I waited too long to write this to remember exactly what happened in the dreams, but they involved the brutal deaths of Jack, my dad, and some lady that I didn't know.  It's not that I desire these events to happen-- that would be twisted, and if that ever happens, please send me through the post office to a mental institution in bubble wrap (bubble wrap is crucial.  That'll keep me happy for a while until I get to the institution).  I don't know how my brain came up with these dreams.  Are either one of you knowledgeable about dream stuff?

I have some other questions for you guys too.

1) How do you tell someone that you're ready to change the subject in a conversation?  I was talking to one of my sister's friends on Facebook and we got to (passively) talking about ways to get to sleep (because she has insomnia or just doesn't like to sleep).  In order for me to stop talking to her, she had to go to Shannon and ask her to ask me to stop talking to her.  I didn't really know what else to say to her, so I kept going with the last topic we had started.  None of my suggestions were pleasing to her and I really wanted to help.  How would you handle a situation like that?

2) So there's this dance coming up and I kind of want to go, but I haven't been asked yet.  Tickets for it went on sale today, but the huge poster has been up for a couple weeks at least.  Should I wait for him to ask me or ask him myself?

It's so different asking advice!  I'm terrible at coming up with questions...

Avery, it is your turn!  Ezra, I'll talk to you hopefully sometime soon and Avery, I'll see you tomorrow!

--Jude

I drew a pretty flower!!!!! ^.^

Okay sooo for the past week or so in Biology when I'm supposed to be taking notes, I've been drawing pictures instead :P  And yesterday I drew a rose that I am extremely proud of :)  Here it is:

I drew that!!!!  :D

That's all :)

Who am I?

Today, I had a personality test (at school, so it's official) and I'd love to share it!

Understanding you, AVERY
People like you are usually imaginative, creative, and sensitive. You are a private person, and take your time to get to know people and to let others get to know you. You probably have a small group of close and trusted friends, and are generally cautious about jumping into new social situations. People describe you as thoughtful and empathetic, and you will try hard to please the people you care about. Outwardly quiet, you have strong feelings and opinions, especially about the way people should treat one another. You are very committed to your beliefs so you may have trouble backing down or compromising your ideals just to get other peoples' approval. You can be somewhat of a perfectionist. People sometimes disappoint you and since it's hard for you to stay objective, you may often get your feelings hurt.
You may love to fantasize about the future, and probably enjoy creative activities like writing, reading, music, and art. You tend to be organized, efficient, and inventive about getting your work done, and are a responsible and respectful person. Since you like to have a plan of action, you may get flustered by sudden changes and need plenty of time to adjust to or prepare for new experiences. You like spending time alone and while you may like doing things with your good friends, you are typically not the one who initiates social activities. Since you are a good listener, people trust you and are often amazed by the original insights you have about others. You naturally look below the surface to understand the deeper meaning in every experience and interaction.

I'd say I'd have to agree!

Ke$ha Looked Like a Man Last Night...

Well, she did... I was with Jack's family and she was performing in New York, but when we looked at her, she looked too masculine to be the Ke$ha that I've seen on the CD covers in music stores...

I did some Google searching for you.

I guess "Fear of Driving" is a form of Agoraphobia, which is a fear of open spaces.  I didn't think that that made sense though, because you said that you're afraid of going more than 10 miles an hour and getting into an accident.  Plus, you talk about running away to Florida or some other warm climate all the time, so open spaces doesn't match up...

So I went to a couple message boards because there were other people that are scared of driving like you are.  Most of them were new drivers.  Some of the advice that other people gave was to stick to non-busy roads as long as you can while you're still practicing.  That way you can get practice moving at a slow pace and you can get used to what you're supposed to be doing.  Slowly but surely, you'll convince yourself that it's okay to go a little faster and use a more busier road.

As for cell phone use, I couldn't agree more!  I absolutely hate it when I see the drivers of cars using their phones.  I always give them dirty looks as I pass by them (when I'm not driving, that is).  It's just like, "Thanks, I now see how your priorities are aligned... business and chatting above babies and other people..."

Same for drunk driving!  I can only think of one instance where I might have been in the presence of a drunk driver.  My family and I were coming home from...somewhere... that's beside the point.  Any way, we were coming home on the highway and we noticed this guy weaving in and out of traffic, going really fast and going over the dividing line like nobody's business.  It finally came to a point where he drove up next to a guy and started to veer over into his lane, almost crashing into him.  Luckily, that guy was awake enough to slow down, honk, and get out of that maniac's way.  It was really scary.  Mom called 911 and we were asked to follow him as closely as we dared and to stay on the phone.  We did that, and later, they told us we could stop following him and go home.  That was still one of the scariest things though...

Ezra, you don't have to be afraid of driving.  You've taken the class, you did a little behind the wheel... you know what you're doing and you're in control.  Maybe next time you go out and practice, you could bring a CD of the Grateful Dead or The Eagles to play while you're driving and maybe that'll put your mind at ease and you'll realize that driving isn't as scary as you thought.  It'll get better :)

Here's the website where I got the bulk of my information: Click heyah!

Happy New Year, guys!!!  Did you make it to midnight?  What are your resolutions, if you have any?

Avery, it was so much fun hanging out with you a few days ago!  All of those games of life, and Cloverfield, and albinism, and horoscopes... it was great fun!  We should do that again sometime.

Okay, this is a really long post, so I'll stop here, because this is all I really wanted to say.  So Happy New Year again, and I'll see you... well, Avery, I'll see you Monday because school starts, but I will talk to you both pretty soon hopefully.

--Jude