What's Going On Tomorrow?

Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya tomorrow
You're always a day away!

So.  Tomorrow is a teacher's meeting.  Which means all of the other homeschooling moms in my homeschool group are getting together and talking about school and other uninteresting things that we kids don't really care to hear about (but are none the less important).  This is usually the day that I don't get too much school done but I'm going to try to accomplish as much as I can so that I can enjoy my free time to talk to Muppet at the park.  Of course, since the meeting is in the morning, I can't get my stuff done and ahead before going.  Unless I decided to ditch getting any sleep.  And then I would NOT enjoy anything.  What's the point of getting stuff done and having all the time in the day when all you want to do is sleep?

So basically, I have to get all my school done in the afternoon after the teacher's meeting.  Before Zumba at Gold's Gym in the evening.  Which only sucks an hour out of my day, but still.  I'm not complaining here, though.  Just stating facts and telling you what's up (the trees and the sky and the birds...I know).

Yesterday, Como wasn't feeling well at all.  So we took the poor kitty to the vet (which is only, like, two blocks from our house).  She's feeling better today (I think, you can't ever tell with cats; they mask pain so well).  She's very groggy, but I would be too if I wasn't feeling well.

Nothing else interesting has been happening besides school...EXCEPT for Drama Club.  I'm going to be quitting the homeschool drama club that I was doing with my homeschool group because my school is dragging with two days being shot...not to mention the extra days blown because of an upcoming play or field trip.  BUT I am still going to be doing the Drama Club at the community theater.

I'm going to miss people at the other teacher's meeting, but if I'm going to teacher's meetings, I'll probably see them there.  Plus who says I can't help with drama club behind the scenes?  I could still suggest new games to Game Guy to play with the other kids.  Also, I might come back if there's a production next year...But that's a big MIGHT because I might decide to audition for something at the community theater during the time that the homeschool drama club is doing a production.  I don't even know what's happening next year for me.  But who's expected to know things a year ahead, anyways?

I Stayed Up Until 1:40...

...Because I finished watching all of the available Downton Abbey episodes!  I'm sad now because I have to wait until at least January to see the next episodes :'(  Such a good show!  But I shouldn't tell you about the show because then I would start spoiling things that are in the show.  Also, there are a few parts that might be a little inappropriate for some of the younger viewers out there and the last thing I want to do is scar my audience for life on my blog lol.

But of course I slept in this morning.  I probably would have slept longer if I hadn't had anywhere to go today.  I went to my grandparent's house, though, so I couldn't have slept til lunch time unless I wanted my family to leave me home, which I most definitely would not do.  But, anyways, I woke up at 8:34 or something this morning and told myself to role over and go back to sleep, so I did.  And then I woke up at 10:30 and ate my breakfast of glazed crullers (they're just fancy looking donuts).  I think that I may have actually dreamed about Downton Abbey last night...or at least some of the characters were in it.  Not that I really know what I was dreaming about.

Well, tomorrow I have a history quiz to do (yes, the homeschooler has homework to do this weekend), some cards that I really should write, church (not that I know if I'm alter serving or not) and Youth Group.  I'm new to the whole Youth Ministry thing at my church so I'm not sure what I'm exactly supposed to be doing.  We planned the kickoff but there was no planning or anything like that this week.  Whatever.

But I'm quitting alter serving.  I'm not sure I've mentioned this or not, but I am.  I'm not trying to encourage other people to get lazy in their ministry or whatever with their church.  It's just now, alter serving isn't my thing and it's harder for me than I think it's really worth.  I'm just done for a while.  I'm hoping maybe when things smooth out between my school and my drama clubs, maybe I'll start singing in the choir.  It might help improve my singing abilities.  But I'm still debating whether to still do two drama clubs during the week.  I think eventually I'm going to end up quitting the one with our homeschool group.  I don't know if it's worth the time to go there to goof off playing games and reading scripts and having to come home to a pile of school I still have to do.

We'll see.  God always sorts out this kind of thing eventually; one way or another.

So This Is What Happened yesterday

I went to a teacher's meeting today for my homeschool group.  It's the first one since before summer started so it was exciting to see people again.  Although, certain Drama Club people were missing (gasp).  But that's not something to gasp at.  What's really to gasp at is Z-man's (most commonly known in drama club as game guy) new hair cut.  Originally his hair was down to his shoulders...or at least the last time I saw him it was.  But now it's at a normal guy's hair length.  Which, it hasn't been that short since I can't remember.  But Muppet also has a stunning new haircut and dye.  SO PRETTY!!!  It makes me wish I were blonde.  But the only blonde I ever have is my stupidity at times lol.  And the paint color in my room called blonde.

I also got the chance to see someone I have not gotten to see in years.  Literally.  I haven't seen her since 6th grade or something like that.  But we talked some at the beginning.  Ha ha!  And she still owns chickens.  My mother always wanted chickens when our deed restrictions went up but then they decided to say that you can't have farm animals unless their so-and-so yards away from the edge of your property yadda yadda.  Basically, if we wanted chickens, lambs, goats, cows etc., etc., etc. they would be living on our dining room table.  I doubt anyone would want a chicken staring at them while chowing down on KFC takeout.

So after I talked with her a while I felt obligated to meet and get to know Muppet's friend who, for safety precautions, will just go by H for the time being.  H kind of reminds me of the shyer version of Muppet.  She has plenty of siblings of whom I don't remember all their names.  But a couple of them came over to our little friend group (Muppet, H, and I) and drew random doodles in my doodle book.  H preceded to draw strange and cute creatures in my doodle book while I demonstrated what Cosmo Pluff from my new DS game looks like.  We mostly talked and listened to Francesca Battistelli, of whom H has both CD's of so we both knew what we were singing.

After the teacher's meeting ended we left H to go to our History co-op at the community college.  We discussed our history questions and answers after eating our lunch in the lunchroom there.  During this time my older sister went to her class and my brother read a random book.  So they were both preoccupied.

After history co-op we all went to Rita's to eat Italian ice.  Everyone except me seemed to have gotten mint chocolate chip, I choose lemonade because I felt very warm and sticky from the heat.  Also, lemons supposedly relieve stress.  Or at least smelling lemons does.

We went home and I finished up my history and TLP for the day and we went to Zumba...at Gold's Gym.  We have memberships now which is great because LA Fitness basically abducted all the fun out of Lifestyles.  Gold's Gym has a much warmer feel to it than Lifestyles does.  Maybe it has to do with the colors being so warm in there, but it just seems like a nicer, bigger, happier place than Lifestyles was when the LA Fitness stuff was taking over.  The instructor is pretty easy to follow and she has a great choice in music too.

Overall, yesterday was fun.  But now I'm a little sad because Muppet is going to California for a while.  But she'll be back soon enough.  In the meantime, next week is the first day of Drama Club.  So I'll be having fun with H that day.  But, unfortunately, I'm going to be quitting our homeschool group's Drama Club for a while because I'm already going to be using all of my leftover time to do the drama club at the community theater.  Plus, Drama Club isn't even going to be doing any performances of any sort for a while.  I'm not going to miss Muppet there because I'm already doing school with her plus we'll probably have a good share of opportunities to get together this year anyways.  I'll see the rest of Drama Club at the other teacher's meetings.  I'm sure I'll join it again eventually, but I don't have the time to do something so committing of my time right now.

Well, as for school...

Bleh.  And it's even more irritating that my science (later on) looks like another math book.  I think they pay people to sneak in uninteresting subjects into other uninteresting subjects to make the beholder even more uninterested.  Might I use uninterested once more?  I thought not.

Well, on the subject of words, I think it's stupid that my Total Language Plus book would give me two words that I think most people should know: indubitably and commiserate.  Like, seriously, I'm reading the Scarlet letter, I'm certain there are plenty of other unknown words to use...Like phantasmagorical!  I just had to look that one up.  Look, the definition is:

"A series or group of strange or bizarre images seen as if in a dream"

I gave that one to you on a silver plate just in case you don't feel like looking such a large word up.  My school is a lot of reading right now.  I'll be getting into writing essays, papers or what not later.  I don't mind writing papers very much.  I love to write.  But the only reason I don't like writing for school is there are so many boundaries.  Most of them I understand and they do make my paper look professional but sometimes I think that too many rules boxes you in along with chaining up your creative use.  The best papers, books, or essays are the ones that look like the person enjoyed writing them.  If the author enjoyed writing that document, then the enthusiasm really shows in their work.  I can re-read things I've written and tell when I was bored with my idea and wanted to stop writing.  I can also tell when I loved writing a specific part so much that the details are vivid and the colors are clear and the emotion is beautifully shown.  I love to write because I love showing people my thoughts bright and clearly as if they were thinking it instead of me.  I love the kind of books where you can just picture everything as if in a movie but even deeper because then you can feel what the other character is feeling.

That's part of the reason why all of those books with the winding and confusing words aggravate me.  I read slowly to begin with and it's even harder for me to have to stop for every sentence and think about what it means.  Which is okay to a point, but if I'm sitting there for an entire five minutes and still don't get it, it's a waste of time to read.  But I do like to stop while reading books and just reflect on everything I've read so far.  Just be in the moment with your favorite characters.

I think I've blogged enough about writing.  If I don't stop now, I'll never stop writing about writing and books and writing books.  In fact I probably could write a book on writing books!  I should stop before you get too confused and decide to read some other person's blog.

So apparently Taylor Swift is making a new album called Red.  The lead single (according to often inaccurate Wikipedia) isn't as good as some of her other songs.  Well, I don't really care because how good a song is is a complete opinion.  But I haven't heard anything new lately so I don't know what her new stuff sounds like.

I was thinking of posting music since that's something I haven't done in a while.  There's this one song by J.J. Heller I like but it's not on the album that jesusfreakhideout shows.  I was going to look it up but I think I forgot what the title is.

Well this post has been long enough.  So bye-bye kitten pie!