1/14/04 wut up? nm here, i just felt it was time to update. i'm making all these cool cds right now. alkaline trio, alli with an i, allister, brand new, goldfinger, midtown, off by one, saves the day, starting line, taking back sunday, the get up kids and the promise ring. well, everything has been a-okay. i'm actually getting sleep at night because i've been going to bed @ like 10. finals are coming up pretty soon. about 2 weeks. last friday i went to see a taping of run of the house. it was pretty awesome. i got to miss 6th period. i went with my mom and 2 cousins. it was so cool. at the end we wanted to get everyone's autograph but we only ended up getting kyle howard's (chris), and the bartender. its okay though, cuz chris is our favorite one. lol, the show ended and i was like "kyle! can i have your autograph?" and he came over and he signed our tickets and stuff and he was talking to us. and then after i was like "can i shake your hand?!" and he was like "of course!". lol, i felt so special. we were trying to call joey lawrence but he was getting mobbed by all the workers. he heard us but i couldn't come...oh well. then i was like "your our favorite one but...shhh!!" lol. and then when we were waiting outside for the shuttle. the bartender guy walks by and i was like "michael! can we have your autograph?!" (i'm always the one to ask!) and he came over and signed all this stuff. we got back @ like 10 though. those tapings are always long, but fun. i've been to hollywood squares, reba, the jay leno show and run of the house. i was supposed to go see what i like about you but it got canceled. its ok though...i'll go some other time. well, folks. i gotta go dry my hair and get to bed. i'm kinda tired. take care. 12/28/03 hey! long time no blog, huh? well, i was surfing the internet and i wanted to see how my site was doing. i looked the pictures and i was like "wow, these are old...", so i'm gonna be posting up more pictures. not just from the webcam (i learned how to put pictures from the digital camera onto the computer, so yay). i took me a couple of days to get onto page builer. the thing wouldn't load and i was going to the java chat rooms, cuz it said that i needed to install java, and i was doing that. but it still wouldn't work. so i went to the message board and people were having the same problems and they said to take off the add blocker, so i disabled it and tada! it worked. well, i better get going i need to clean up a bit before my mom gets home. ttyl. sign the guestbook! i'll be updating more later. 08/27/03 hey everyone! sorry i haven't updated in awhile. i've been really busy. i got back from florida, the sunday before last. it was so much fun! we went to magic kingdom, mgm and islands of adventure. we also went to this amazing pirates show. it was so much fun! when i got back i finished my layout but i didn't blog. my cousin has been over since last tuesday i think. then my other one came over like on monday and they both went home yesterday, but i think one of them is coming back like tomorrow (it feels wierd not having anyone here.). they're both younger than me, but they're still cool. i always have my cousins over. they're like my brothers and sisters (except we don't fight), i'm so close to them. well yesterday i went to see a taping of reba. it was sooo exciting for me especially since i want to act on a sitcom, so i got to see how it all works and stuff. its really cool. the living room is so much smaller than it is on television. i got reba's, barbara jean's, brock's and van's autograph. they are so cool. i start school on tuesday so, i'm afraid i will not be blogging for awhile. i have a full, challenging schedule that i really need to concetrate on during the year. plus i'm playing tennis and i have girl scouts and everything. i'm so scared but i've realized that as long as i stay focused, ask for help when i need it, and study, i'll pass. so, i won't be blogging until i've gotten everything done and studied and done the things i need to do such as choirs, girl scout things, and spent time with family and friends so...yea. well i got to go now and clean things up. 08/07/03 i haven't blogged in a long time. i've been spending the majority of my online time on kiwibox. its pretty cool, go sign up! well yea. last time i blogged i was talking about big bear. it was pretty fun. i went with my mom and my three cousins. we rented a boat but it wasn't as hot as last time, so it wasn't that fun. we went up wednesday and spent the whole day thursday. we left late thursday nite/early friday morning (we left the hotel at 12 am and got home at like 2 am). yea....it was cool. well, i finished summer school! even though the class was hard and boring, i made friends. well...two girls i knew i just never talked to them during the year. they sat over by me and they're pretty kewl and then a couple of juniors and this one sophmore. everyday we would goof around, laugh, talk about crazy things, and have deep conversations about religion (lol, one guy was like "this is the religious jerry springer"). the teacher would just sit there listening to us. and the other class mates would just stare and try to get in on the conversation. good times. we still all talk online and stuff though. on sunday i'm gonna b leaving for florida. we have a....i think 8am flight so we have to leave the house at like 6:30 or something. we're meeting at my house and then going. i'm excited. i hope its not like 2 years ago where it was all gloomy, but humid. it'll be fun though. ugh...i have a tooth growning in the back of my mouth and it HURTS! it makes my whole mouth hurt. well...i don't think i'm going to be blogging for the next week (i get back next sunday). i was trying to make a new layout but...i don't think thats gonna happen. i'm sorry. this layout is getting annoying now. yesterday i saw Freaky Friday with my friend. it was good, i'd see it again. i think we're gonna try to see it in florida. well, i gotta go now. ttyl! 07/25/03 i just woke up so i felt like blogging! i have so much to do today, i have to clean my room (i actually want to clean my room...i think its the hungarian in me, my room is usually always clean). my dad went to work today, so its just me and my mom. we have to get ready for our yard sale. we have a lot of stuff, which is great. lol, right now i have on a pore cleansing mask, which means no webcam pic :P. its okay, i'm ugly anyways. i think its time for a new, colorful, layout! my layouts are always grey like so...i need more exciting layouts. i now know how to use psp7. i've learned from different tutorials at different sites. they're really helpful to me. well, there's not much to say right now. i wanted to call my friend yesterday, whom i haven't really seen all summer due to our busy schedules, and see if she wanted to go to the movies or something, but i think she'll be leaving for vegas on vacation in a day or two, so shes packing probably (her whole family are coming to california first and then they are all driving to vegas together, i wish my family could do that). well, thats pretty much it for today. i'm gonna try and start making the new layout soon. but for now tt4n!!! stephanie 07/24/03 i wish i had grey matter...its okay though...its so hot! i just finished cleaning the big bathroom...now i have to clean the little one and i'm tired. i already cleaned downstairs. i watched friends tonight (of course it was a re-run) i'm going to watch that thing about Matt LaBlanc. He cannot leave the show, if thats what he plans on doing! he makes it all funny (well, him and pheobe. if they weren't on the show, it probably wouldn't be my favorite show!). i wonder if lisa kudrow is really...like that. she acts exactly the same in 'romi and michelle's high school reunion' i love that movie. well, next week is my last week of summer school! i'm so excited. i'm not going to be there for the last two days though. i'm going to big bear...i know, i know, i just got back but, my mom made reservations, but this time i'm going with my mom, my cousin and maybe my grandma. i hope my grandma gets to go. this is my last trip until agust 10th, then i go to florida! whoop woop. i'm going for like...8 or 9 days or something...well, i get back on a sunday and on tuesday i go to arizona. its sooo hot in arizona though (its also hot in florida too). you know whats crazy? my friend and i, who aren't going together, are going to be in floriday at the same time. we are both leaving on the 10th. i thought that was pretty wierd. and i think a girl from my summer school class is going to florida, but i don't know when exactly. i'm craving tuna and crackers. gotta go now and clean the other bathroom, then my room...then vaccum. stephanie 07/21/03 i made a layout! go me. its my first layout that i did in psp7. its kind of plain but...at least i know how to use psp now! well, i got back from big bear a long time ago (thats where i left off). it was pretty fun. i didn't know it would be so hot up there! its a mountain, shouldn't it be cold up there? i went over spring break and it was cold. this time it was hot and sunny. our suit was overlooking the lake, we had a pretty view. we rented a boat and i got to steer it! go me. i was pretty good, it was my first time. i didn't get a tan on the boat. but then later on my cousin and i laid out on the dock, it was cool cuz it felt like we were on a boat, when a boat came and docked. i got a tan then though. we went swimming a couple of times, but eww, we noticed how you couldn't even see the bottom of the pool (and there were little kids in it) but u could see the bottom of the jacuzzi (which had no kids in it) and when we would be swimming, there would be warm spots, huh...that was wierd. we also played pool and went into town but it was too hot to stay there. there was also a karaoke night, we were gonna sing, but the songs we wanted to sing wasn't in the book so we were just like...whatever. today i started the cabbage diet. i'm getting a headache... today is fruit and soup day. the soup is bleh...gotta go now, i'm going to the store with my mum. stephanie 07/10/03 summer school is half way over. today we took the final, it was a tad difficult but, i thought it was gonna be harder. i didn't study at all last night, due to the fact that i went to knott's berry farm. omg, i was on the dinosaur ride and it usually stops during the ride (i don't know why though...) for about 3-5 minutes...well, it stopped for about 10 minutes before the worker came and said 'everyone out of the car and walk this way', so we had to get off and exit the ride...that was a little strange. so we are on our way to another ride when we notice boomerang, perolis plunge, and accelerator wasn't running....so we asked someone and they said that they power went off and it should be up shortly. then some other people come and that the log ride and montezuma's revenge was closed. so we were waiting around for awhile and then we saw bomerang and other rides be tested. the park was finally up. i didn't want to go on any more rides because i was starting to feel sick (which is weird because i love to go on scary rides) and i didnt want to be stuck on one just in case the power went out again. but yeah, it was fun. i got back around 12am i was so nervouse that i would fail the test and i ended up getting a C on it. i have a C in the class now so...at least i'm not failing (i'd rather have an A or B though...i'll try next semester. tonight i'm going back to the school so i can meet, guess who?! Chad Michael Murray. we asked them today and the security said he'll be back around that time. my friend and i are going to try and get a preseant lol. eww...but i think he's playing prince charming and hilary duff is playing cinderella...chad michael murray is 22 and she's 15... i find that kind of gross, even if he is playing a high school student when she is actually a high school student...but whatever. when we went to the trailor lot, there was no one around it was so creepy. even if they are doing a night scene, should the staff be there? i don't know, it was deserted though until we saw the one security man just sitting there looking like he was half asleep, lol. i won't be blogging for a couple of days because i'm going on vacation...i need to know who i really am...nah i'm just playing (but i really am going on vacation). well, i g2g now, i have to pack, visit some websites, IM people and stuff so...yeah stephanie 07/08/03 yay! thanks to meredith, i learned how to make everything appear in one frame. i was trying to find the code all over the internet yesterday. whoop whoop. well, i'm going to make a button, but the psp7 is on my mum's computer and its broken. i'm trying to see if i can get the program onto my computer. ugh... today i did volunteer work...i was so tired all day today. i volunteered for two hours, those were the longest two hours of my life. i like volunteering and everything but...not when i'm tired. i went to summer school today and was freezing in the classrom, ugh...it is seriously not summer in there! they are filming a movie at my school, isn't that exciting? "A Cinderella Story" and guess who its starring? lizzie mcguire's hilary duff. my two friends and i got to meet her last wednesday. while they were shooting a scene during snack, we were all looking from the window in the hallway door that leads to the outdoor hall and when a worker walked in i would be like "where's hilary?...can i meet her?!" and one guy was like "she's not in this scene, in fact...she won't be here until 2pm" so we decided to come back at 2 since summer school gets out @ 1pm. one of my friends gets out at 10 instead of one, so he went to the store and got some poster board and markers and met us at my other friend's house. we made two posters: one saying "we love you hilary" and the other saying "can we have your autograph?". so we went down to the school and went to where the trailors were and asked one of the security guards if we can meet her and he was like...i think she's in her trailor and we asked when she would come out and what other famous people has he met and if this was a cool job and stuff. he said that probably won't be able to meet hilary and the chances of getting her autograph and stuff were really low. well like...10 minutes later we were still waiting and i was just looking at trailor and then i see a door open. guess who comes out?! hilary duff. i was like "omg...omg... you guys, you guys its her...its hilary" and they were like where? and i pointed her out while she was walking in the other direction. i was having a heart attack i couldn't talk and then finally i was like "hilary....hilary!" and we held up the signs and she turned around and read them and she was like "hold on..." she went behind the trailor and we were like "omg! thats actually her" and then she came back and walked towards us and was like "hey guys! how are you?" and she gave us her autograph and we each individually took a picture with her and then all together (i would put them on the site but the scanner is hooked up to the broken computer). we asked her where she lives and she told us the valley. i don't really remember what we asked her. lol her guard was really funny, he was doing this impression of this gay guy, lol. well yea...today they filmed the pep ralley scene (home of the fighting frogs!). yeah. well i g2g now...someone told me that we had a test tomorrow in summer school.... Stephanie 07/07/03 *sigh* I finally finished the layout and I'm back up! whoop whoop! This took me a while. I've been really busy lately. As you all probably know from my 'message' section up there that I was in a pageant. I was running for Miss Jr. Teen (-city-). It was a lot of work, but it was also extremely fun. I made new friends, gained experience and stuff. I don't know how they got my name and address to send me a letter saying that I could be in it. Well, I went to the orientatation at this hotel and they showed a tape on the whole pageant thing. Then they interviewed us and said that less than half of the people would be able to participate. They called a couple of days later to tell me that I have been accepted. I was like "oh wow how cool!". So then we had a training a couple of weeks later and thats where we learned how to walk and stuff and learn more about the competitions and stuff. Then later on that day we had a 'get acquainted party' that was just for the girls. It was held at the hotel and there was music, food and if we were participating in Miss Photogenic, we would have a photo session. It was a lot of fun and exciting. I met so many people, I don't even remember everyone's names. Then the Friday before the pageant we had an interview with the judges. Mine was held around 7 PM. I was waiting outside with some other girls and the lady who timed it (she was pretty cool and funny). She went inside and came back out and she told us that the judges would be eating in front of us while they interviewed us which was pretty funny. The interview went good. I spoke loud, had a lot of self-confidence and I was being myself. Then a couple of weeks later (aka last week) was the day of the pageant. In the morning we had rehearsal. It was held like 40 minutes from where I live. We would have rehearsal and then we would have to come back in 2 hours for the pageant. If I went home and came back, that would only give me an hour to get ready (hair, makeup, etc.) to my mom and I got a room at a hotel close by where I can get ready. Well, on our way to the rehearsal, we got lost and we were like 10 minutes late, which is bad because if you were late you would be disqualified and so I was like "mom!!! we're gonna be late where is the place??!" I was about to cry and stuff. But then we found it. I went inside and they were already rehearsing the walk. We all went on stage and practiced one by one, each row. Then we voted for Miss Congeniality. Then we left and my mom and I went to In-N-Out. We checked into the hotel and then my cousin came and did my hair and makeup (I had corn rows). I practiced walking and stuff and got dressed for the casual wear competition. Then me, my mom, my cousin, my aunt and my grandma headed to the school (the pageant was held at a high school). My cousin and I went into the back room (she was my female helper who made sure everything was going okay). She finished my makeup. Then it was our time to get behind the stage. They would put like 4 or 5 rows back stage at a time and one row would go in front of the curtain at a time while the other ones were behind it. Oh...the feeling of being next was so scary and exciting....yeah. When we were all back there we were just practicing our walk, and smile and panicking. It was our turn to go on and we went and I was smiling and stuff. It was my turn to do the modeling routine. When I came back in place, I didn't remember anything that happened. I realized that I didn't hear anything of what he said (Stephanie enjoys blah blah blah--thats what I heard). Then I went back in and got ready for the formal competition. I thought this one was going to be even scarier because I'd have big heels on and the dress and everything. We went on and I wasn't that nervous. I almost fell though but after, I was talking about it and everyone said they didn't notice, which was good (I didn't trip or anything, it wasn't that big). Then I was in the dressing room for like an hour before I would go back on so my friends from school came back and they told me how I did and telling me about everyone's answers that they gave during the thing (I didn't hear all of them since I was backstage, but I got the DVD so when I get it, I'm going to watch it). Some of them were funny (some girl said "melancholy, because I'm always happy" um...thats not what melancholy means...). Then I had to go back on so when they announce the winners, everyone will be on stage. We all stood in one big half-circle and they announced the winners. They rest of us left the stage. It wasn't that big of a deal to me that I didn't win. I was just happy I competed in it. I just remembered that there will be other pageants that I'll get to be in (once you're in one, they send you applications to be in other pageants with other companies). I already got an application to be in Jr. Teen California Miss or something like that...I can't be in it though because I'll be on vacation the day the pageant is on...its okay though...its too soon to be in another one! I'm not rich ya know (well, that doesn't matter because you get sponsors anyway). Well I gotta go now. I have a Girl Scout Meeting soon that I should get ready for. Then I have to come back here and do homework...ugh, I hate summer school....SUMMA SKOO! Stephanie |