TheChickenNuggit's Journal 1/15/05 Today is Saturday. Everyone is freaking out because it's so cold, and it's windy and freezing and the ground is covered with frozen rain. This morning the power went out. We decided to camp in our living room. We burned wood in the stove, we moved the couches and folded up the treadmill for more room, we closed the doors to all other rooms to keep the heat in the living room. So I brought the littler box and cat food dishes into the hall so Zaggy wouldn't be left out. My mom, dad, and I sat in the room. I asked my dad if he'd called the power company to find out how long this power outage was going to last. He said he hadn't, and he supposed it was going to last for a few days. I said he should call to make sure. He told me to call the place myself. I was too lazy to look for the number in the yellow pages. So we bustled around, getting ready for the day, and suddenly I realized that the night light plugged into the wall was mysteriously on. I went to the living room and turned on the lamp switch, and sure enough, it turned on. We all groaned and cheered at the same time. All that worrying and excitement for nothing! We turned on the stove fan and the room got a lot warmer. We turned on TV and watched the news. They were doing a big thing about the weather. The lady advised us to stay inside today and just pop some popcorn and watch movies all day and relax. So that's what we did. We popped some popcorn and checked for any good movies on today. We also discovered that it was possible to boil a pot of water by putting the pot on the top surface of the stove. Genius! So we had cups and cups of tea, and I boiled some eggs, and my dad heated a can of soup. It was great. I watched the MTV Rock Countdown while I did math homework, then in the middle of it my parents switched the channel to watch a James Bond movie. I was hooked in the beginning because there were a bunch of explosions and James Bond almost died but escaped. So I kept watching. After a while though, it really started to irritate me. The movie was so predictable. Oh my god!! He's gonna die!! Oh my god!! He escaped!! and over and over again, the same thing. Bond jumped, tumbled, rolled and flipped but he never once bumped his head or got a scrape or a bruise. Women liked him, but the one lady he liked was sassy and didn't let him kiss her. He had a Chinese lady partner, and she was fighting a bunch of Chinese bad guys. She knocked all of them over like a stack of toothpicks, except for one, who came out of nowhere and cornered her with a gun. Then Bond ran in out of nowhere and kicked him down. Bond said, "Good thing I came back." Guess what the lady says? I knew what she was going to say. It was painful. "I could've taken care of him," she said haughtily. Why does it have to be so predictable? It makes me mad! So, the story line and the dialouge sucks. Also, everything they say is so witty and so thought-out that it's really unrealistic. After almost being killed, wouldn't you be even a little out of breath? Anyway, the only good thing about the movie is that it's fast-paced and very actiony. There's a lot of explosions. Heh. Another thing is that a whole bunch of completely innocent people get killed, as if they were worth nothing. All throughout the movie. And the movie just focused in on Bond. Arrrgh! Why do so many people like this movie? I've heard about James Bond stories ever since I was born. Rant, rant, rant. Rant rant rant rant! Rant!! RANT!!!! thechickennuggit 1/24/05 I didn't have a good day today. Jeez. I just don't write here when I have a good day, do I? Anyways, my bad day was bad because I didn't get a good night's sleep. I had a Grande Caramel Mocchito at Starbucks yesterday with my good friends, so I guess the caffeine let me sleep only a few inches deep. And my cat came and purred in my face in the middle of the night, which actually was nice-- furry, warm and comforting. It was when she fell asleep and didn't purr that bothered me because then I could hear her breathing, and her stomach digesting. It was a bit sick. There were lots of little things that made me unhappy today. Here's the list: the humongous math midterm final and I couldn't figure out the easiest problem; I absolutely CAN NOT get in touch with my health teacher; the new seating chart in German class; and I guess that's it. Wow, that's not a big list. But I had Writing Club today and this club is always fun, but my friends were talking about role playing (as they always do) and I started to think again about this game. Role playing. It's all Markus can think about sometimes, he says. I think it's really sad, because it all seems so destructive. You're stuck in the world of fantasy where nothing's real, and when he goes off the computer and back into real life, it's like hell to him. I hope he doesn't get mad at me if he's reading this. I'm just using him as an example. Maybe I should just delete this now, but I'm stupid so I won't. thechickennuggit 1/26/05 News: I got a tetanus shot yesterday and it hurts my arm when I stretch; I am mad at my health teacher; the semester ends tomorrow. I've been trying to find out what grade I have in health class for quite a long time now. I think I have a C. So, I want to find out what assignment I'm missing, so I can raise my grade to an A... I'd even go with a B. But no. She's always too busy and won't go on her computer to look at my grade for me. Then, the last few weeks of the semester, she gets sick with the flu, so she has the substitute come in. And she keeps placing substitutes in front of her desk every single day. I have no chances to ask her anything. The other day, I actually saw her in the halls, and I chased after her, calling out, "Mrs. Murphy! I want to ask you something! Mrs. Murphy!" and she turns around, gives me a really tired look, and I see that she has been sick. "Nuggit," she says, "I'm sorry, but I'm heading to a meeting." And she shuts the door in my face. Which made me mad and ruined that day for me. Then today, today was my last chance to get in touch with Mrs Murphy to raise my grade, so I stayed after school with my mom waiting in the parking lot, and I went to the PE office where Mrs Murphy goes after school because she's the cheerleading coach. There's a girl in there that tells me that she's still in her classroom. So I walk out of the PE building, into the school building, through a hall, through the commons, and get to her classroom. The door is closed and locked and the classroom is dark. There's the track team waiting in that hall for their track coach, I guess. So I ask one of the girls if she's seen Mrs. Murphy, and she shrugs and says no. So I think, I might have missed her while she left the classroom and went to the PE office. So I go outside, and see a teacher I know works with her. I ask him if he knows where Mrs Murphy is. He says she's in the PE office. So I'm sure she's in there. I go there, and the same girl that was there before sort of gave me a look and told me, "I haven't seen her since classes let out." I gave up and went back to the car. I could have sat somewhere near there so I could jump up and blurt out my question when I saw her, before she could escape. I could have. Anyway, I understand that it's not her fault that she's been miserable with the flu, or even pneumonia, maybe. But tomorrow's the end of the semester and I have a C in there and I have no more chances to raise my grade. So I get a 3.75 GPA, and my other friends get a 4.0. Okay, maybe this all is about me being jealous of my perfect friends....... .....nah. Sometimes when I complain I feel stupid thechickennuggit 2/1/05 It's been a nice five-day weekend. Busy, but fun. I went to my sister's place down south for three days and got back this morning... had a deluxe falafel yesterday and it was delicious. It's like deep fried hummus balls in a pocket of bread with chopped veggies and spicy, tasty, mush and sauce. Oh gosh I want some now. I had a chicken Grilled Stuft Burrito from Taco Bell today. Almost, or just, as good as the falafels. It's my favorite thing at Taco Bell and I get it every time I go there. Someday I will try a beef Grilled Stuft Burrito. Chicken is sooooo tasty. I must be hungry. Maybe I'll get myself a bowl of oatmeal before I go to bed. It's 9:37 now. I want to get to school tomorrow in about twelve hours, maybe earlier. Thank goodness it's a late start tomorrow! I am going to get a good night's sleep before starting off the new semester tomorrow morn. I have PE. I hope I don't mess up in PE. I don't know who is in my class there. Ugh, now I'm nervous... I need some oatmeal. Or some sort of food. Chips! Yes chips omg chips I want some chips right now. Crave... thechickennuggit 2/6/05 I finished most of my homework today! I'm so happy. It's Sunday and tomorrow is a B day. I got my grades this weekend. Seven A's and one B. At least the C turned out to be a B... but I still wish I had an A. I should have had an A! Anyways. I also got another letter from Petra my pen pal in Germany. She says she likes hip hop. And she asked me if I knew Steve Irwin... and I don't know who he is... some celebrity. I will internet-research him. I started writing a really really weird story last night. It's about a girl who goes to a bus stop, and weird things happen to her. It's just a very strange story. I don't know if I can even call it a story. But I like it. I am very very sick. My throat hurts real bad. I hope I can go to school tomorrow though. I hate missing school. A woman can't resist a man who looks good in a speedo + that's a line from a song. thechickennuggit 2/11/05 Today is my birthday! I had a good day today. I am such an attention hog. Ah, well. Amy gave me a really cute Hello Kitty notebook with a pen attatched to it, and a Hello Kitty magnetic notepad + post-its. Kristina gave me an eraseable pen with a festive boquet of curly ribbons tied on to it. Scarlett, at the last minute, made me an adorable notebook-paper card with a mini candy cane inside. And my other friends yelled out that it was my birthday during class. And I told everyone that still didn't know, that it was my birthday. Hyper, I was. It's partly because I got five consecutive hours of sleep last night. When I got home, I opened up a package from Natalie and found inside a dream symbol book! I started reading it, and I read the whole thing minus the actual symbol encyclopedia part. I read about some symbols. Then I ate tiramisu mocha cake with milk tea. Today was a good day. But I'm worried about my friend from my old school. I sent her an email asking her how she was and she sounded unhappy. She's not allowed to talk on the phone. She says she's in big trouble. She doesn't tell me what. It sucks how I can't talk on the phone to talk or to make plans to talk face-to-face. I hope she's okay. Happy and worried and happy and worried thechickennuggit 2/22/05 Today is a Tuesday. Not a Monday. Yesterday was President's Day. I had an interesting weekend. I got my very first babysitting job, taking care for Amanda's little brothers aged 3 and 6... got $20 for it!! Very good! And then I hung out with Amanda after the job, then came over again the next day, played with her dogs, went bike riding, ate, played a video game, then came to my house, talked, slept, ate, went to Skate World. At skate world we saw all these little eight and ten year olds flirting with each other. I felt so old, like eighty-year-old old. We were the oldest ones there, almost. And we also saw Lara who I knew from my old school. We rollerskated together. Fun. Today there was Book Club, and that was fun, too. We had cookies and milk. It was like the club of geeks... talking about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... nothing wrong with that. But, lol. I'm going to read that book. Everyone loves it. I hope they don't screw up with making that movie. I picked out my classes for next year. My three electives are: German 2, Writing Workshop 2, and Health Science/Medical Terminology. Can't wait for sophmore year. My GPA is ranked 100 out of 841. thechickennuggit 3/4/05 Hey! It's 3-4-5 today. I'm in Focus class right now, typing up my resume. It's an Apple "eMac" computer. I hate it. The one thing I like about apple comps are that the buttons are all shiny round and pretty like jewels. Beautiful! I've been really sick. I'm getting over it now, but on Monday to Wednesday I had a ridiculously fever all the time, and Advil only took it down to just a tame fever. It sucked. It felt horrible. But I'm better now. I don't have the bad fever+headache, but I have a runny nose and a sore throat. Everyone is sick at school! I guess it's the flu. This site is making me a little bit mad because I'm running out of space, bandwidth, whatever it's called, so when my friend goes to my art page the site goes down for an hour. I need to find a place to store my images. I've fried freewebs, but that place is annoying. I love Geocities. I just wish it would give me more space. Maybe I should upgrade it and start paying for this? Then there'd be no ads. And I get 25MB of space, 5GB of bandwidth. $5 a month. If I pay $9 a month, I get my very own domain like www.thechickennuggit.com and a new email like webmaster@thechickennuggit.com. Isn't that awesome? I'd probably just get the $5 a month one, because I don't have a need for the domain and email thing. Meh. Someday, someday, someday I will get a real website. For spring break my dad, sister and I are going to Colorado to see my gramma and grandpa. My sister refuses to drive because she hasn't driven in a while, and my dad can't drive the whole time. So they said that I should get my permit before spring break so I can drive part of the way to Colorado. We're going to be driving in my dad's car, which has a stickshift. Shudder. Must go to next class. I didn't get to finish my resume, but oh well. thechickennuggit 3/9/05 Today was a good day. I woke up at 6 am to get my driver's permit test, and got there, then I saw that to get my permit I needed my social security card... which I didn't have. My dad could have driven me home but he would've had to drive me right back to school, so he dropped me off at school really early. I had PE. I went into the locker room and talked to Chessica who was also insanely early to school. Then we went to the gym and we jogged, skipped, buttkicked, highkneed, slid, kareokied, ran, stretched, crunched, pushupped, strained, then we did the "fitness" activity. And this time I didn't feel nauseous and my face didn't go red. I was wearing my brand new peach shimmer scented clear gel platinum Secret brand deodorant, and I was wearing my good-attitude necklace of carnelian, green aventurine, and clear quartz. Maybe those helped me. The fitness activity was actually fun. I was in a group with Markus and Jessica. Then, we played pickleball, which is like four-player mini-tennis with wooden paddles and a whiffleball. I was a team with Markus. We won! I was so proud. Jessica was not playing pickleball; her PE class was doing weight training and she enjoyed the bench press. To tell the truth, I have never experienced the bench press. I would probably die. Anyways, after school I had PE make-up because while I was sick, I missed a few classes. There were about 25 people. The teacher was Mr. Chokino...? I think. And we actually had PE outside. It was nice. After running three laps around the huge track, we played soccer for the whole time. I hadn't played soccer in such a long time, so it was nice playing it. But. Mr. Chokino separated girls from boys, so there were two games going on. The boys got the big soccer field and an actual soccer ball. The girls got a sort of field, and a flat yellow rubber ball. This was not a yellow bouncy ball like the ones at recess. This was a yellow rubber ball like the ones toddlers play with, inside. It sucked. But, but. I scored two points. My team lost, two to four. Ah well. Luke, in my Global Studies class, played his guitar. It was so great. I wish I could make beautiful music like that... I wish I had musical talent. The one musical talent I have is piano: I can play any tune I hear, by ear. I wish I could sing, too. I wish, I wish... I advertised the link to this website on the Global Studies white board, and the English white board. I have to advertise it in all my classes! Yes!! Cogito ergo sum. thechickennuggit 3/12/05 Today is Saturday. Yesterday there was no school but I went there at 7am because I was in SHOE club, volunteering for the Green Schools Conference. At first I was grumbly about going because it was so early in the morning. But it turned out to be a lot of fun. I got a free T-shirt, size M not size S but oh well. It's red and it's really soft. Good quality. A bunch of grade schoolers from other schools came, and did activities like paper making and learning about recycling. I kind of helped the kids paper-make. It was like baby sitting; I just assumed they knew what they were doing, and just stood by and watched them, until the other volunteers came and pretty much did the job for them. I made my own green paper. It's circle, and it's embossed with a butterfly. So pretty. There was also free food there, sort of like cafeteria food except fresher and 100 times better because the place was full of organic hippies who opposed unhealthy greasy pizza. So great. I ate three apples. That's a record for me. Two gala apples and a granny smith. Of course they weren't that big. Ohhhh, they had such good sub sandwiches... I'm going to add to the "About me" page, adding my opinions on common controversial topics, blah blah blah. It's going to make me sound like a hypocritical idiot who barely knows what she's talking about. Oh well, it was fun to write, although it made me feel stupid sometimes. Here's a review on the Liquid Ice mints that TV keeps advertising. I bought some, Peppermint (blue) flavor, for $1.69 (pricey!!). The lil' container is so adorable. I popped a teeny blue mint in my mouth, and it tasted really good! The flavor kept coming as the thing melted into a sort of blob that didn't pop. It's really not like ice. It is liquid, but there's nothing icy about it. I think a more appropriate name for it is "Minty Bath Oils for the Mouth" but that sounds unappetizing. Anyway, the blob stayed in my mouth, tasting really good, but it just stayed there for so long and didn't disintegrate... so I finally popped it. And all the liquid came out. And suddenly I had a strong pepperminty feel all over in my mouth, which wasn't completely pleasant. But my breath probably smelled good. So: It's not worth the $1.69 in my opinion, but if you have the money and you collect mints, it's an interesting experience. Greenday sold out worse than Good Charlotte thechickennuggit 3/17/05 Okay, that's not fair. Greenday did not sell out. They have always made the same poppy and throw-away music (except for a few songs). They just caught everyone's attention this time by dissing Bush, and everyone likes dissing Bush. Ahhh St. Patricks day. I made sure I laid out some green clothes on the floor last night so that I wouldn't forget to wear green this morning. I had a pale green shirt with embroidered white beads. I still got pinched though. A girl in my class forgot it was St. P's day, so she had no green, and she got pinched, and she showed me how hard she got pinched. It hurt, sure enough. OMG OMG OMG today was the last day of school before spring break. I was kind of sad but hysterically excited. I can't wait to go to Colorado. We're leaving on Saturday (today is Thursday). It's going to be like a 24-hour ride there, driving all night, switching drivers. My dad and I eagerly stayed up one night a few days ago, on the library website, putting holds on books on tape/CD. We got about five books. My dad said he wasn't intrested in listening to my juvenile fiction books in the car, but I'm not sure if I'm interested in his non-fiction books, either. My dad wanted the books on CD's. I wanted books on tape. In the end, we both picked out a couple books that we wanted, and got CD's only when they were available. The car doesn't even have a CD player. That's why I didn't want to get CDs. But he was saying we could take an actual CD-player sterio into the car, running on batteries. I said it wouldn't work. So we tested it a few days ago. The CD wouldn't even load. So that idea is out. I don't know what we're planning to do with the CD books. Goodbye, goodbye for a week... thechickennuggit 3/25/05 I'm back from Colorado. I have tomorrow and the next day (Sat and Sunday) to do my homework. Today, I finished my math homework, which turned out to be really satisfying and kind of fun : ). But, I have a bunch of other stuff! Right now I have an N in English class and C in Writers Workshop. Heh. Bad grades in my two favorite classes. So I have to do assignments for those classes. Darn. Yeah, I love the classes, I just hate the homework!! I've started to really like the dress-up stuff on the internet, like Gaia Avatar Creator and Dollz. I love making cute outfits. 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This is "Inside Out" by, I think, Eve 6. It's a great song. I love Eve 6's songs! I know only two songs by them, and I love both. Someday I will get to know more of their songs...
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