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Sunday, August 10"My grandma doesn't lie. Never has, never will. Told me Jordan would come back. He did. He did. And we won three more championships after that! So that's true!" I love Robbie from The Brendan Leonard Show for saying that. So, it's out with the old, in with the new. At least it is for my brand-spankin' new layout. The summer's almost over. For me, at least. Except for a couple of days before school starts again, I have no free time. Early week for band starts tomorrow, then next week my cousin's coming in, then I have four days off, then it's back to school. Yes. It's not that I hate school. In fact, I'm pretty excited for early week tomorrow. Get to see friends, catch up on what happened this summer, stuff like that. It's just...I still want a little bit of summer. Teaches me to sit on my butt for the better part of this summer. And, by the way, I renamed my blog from "Inspired: The Blog" (which is quite boring) to "Endless Dreams". I'll leave you to drool over Matthew Broderick now. And I still miss Farscape. Posted by Alison at 11:35 PM. Thursday, August 6I'm really bad at blogging. I don't know why. I just always put it off until I come to the computer one week and blog all my feelings from the past month. *sigh* I've kind of been going through a lot. Well, it would sound kind of selfish for me to say a lot, because compared to most problems, it's not that much. August is always such a busy time of year for us, mostly because this is the time of year all our relatives decide to invite themselves over. I have company coming tomorrow and we don't really know when they're leaving, and then my cousin's coming in two weeks and I can't have this thing that I've been planning for about a month with my friends, so I'm really upset. But, like I said, little things. In artistic news, I'm working on a major collage. A Farscape collage. The whole end scene from "Dog With Two Bones" (my favorite episode from Farscape). Why Farscape? I've never really mentioned it, and I don't talk about it as much as I do "The X-Files" or "Alias" or "The Brendan Leonard Show", and yet it is my favorite show. Absolute favorite. Unfortunetly, due to a crappy, crappy, programming "error" by the SciFi channel, it's cancelled. I want to know what person said, "Hmm...what should we do with our most critically acclaimed series that has brought us the most fame over the course of our run? I know! Let's cancel it and fill it with higher quality "scifi" shows like "Scare Tactics" and "Tremors: The Series"!" Honestly. And I have to say, I fell out of sync of Farscape for awhile after it got cancelled. And then I visited Farscape Fantasy and looked at some of their music videos and fell back in love with it. It's a good feeling. In spritual news, I decided to join the youth group at my Church. OK, maybe "decided" isn't the right word. Maybe "my mom and my friend's mom made us go" is more like it. But I have to say, it's a great experience. I've only gone two weeks, and it's just wonderful. We're starting on a project to do some service around the community, and it's really starting to take shape. And now every time I check my inbox on my other e-mail, I always have an e-mail from my youth group leader. It's really nice, the people there are really nice. In fact, we never really had anything at our Church until we started doing LifeTeen there. If you don't have LifeTeen at your Church, I highly recommend starting it. It's a great way to get teens to go to Church, and I among lots of other teens have enjoyed it. In social news, my best friend called me today. "Oh, I heard you're moving back," I said. "Oh, we actually already moved back," she said. "We've been here since Monday." "Seriously? Where are you?" I meant where she was living, but she said, "Well, we're driving down your street right now." OK, then. It was great! Her and her mom came over and talked to our family for about an hour or so. It was great to catch up. Random, but great. I just thank my lucky stars that I have no social life and therefore had time for her to come visit. Posted by Alison at 9:02 PM. Tuesday, July 29My good deed for the day: (Actually it was last Thursday, but I haven't blogged it until now) My mom was driving me home from driver's ed, and I've made it a habit to always look out the window as we drive. I'm not so much paying attention to the signs and road markers as I am just to the scenery, now that I've started to notice things like "Oh, that would be a good photo opportunity" or "Those clouds would make great Photoshop brushes". So I was looking at the side of the road and there was this turtle hobbling around on the road. We drove past it, but I yelled at my mom to turn around and go back to the place where I saw it. Long story short, we eventually made it back to the place and the turtle was gone. Not gone in the spiritual sense, but in the physical sense. It had made it off the road. OK, this wasn't so much a good deed as it was an attempted good deed, considering on how we didn't do much of anything. And kudos to my mom for turning around. Not just any driver would do that. On a sidenote...is it almost August already? Posted by Alison at 2:46 AM. Thursday, July 24I think I'm going to be sick. News report: Not for the easily upset stomachs. OK, I know that this happened in 2001 (I just found out about it today), but still. I am completely appalled. Completely. It amazes me that people act in a matter like this, then wonder why our world is going to hell. It completely amazes me at how completely stupid some people act, then wonder why their life isn't perfect. That poor woman. I wish people didn't have to go through stuff like this. As sarcastic and often cynical as I am as a person, I consider myself to be a pretty strong person for trying to fight human suffering. Granted, I'm only 15 and the only things I can really do are go to Care2.com and The Hunger Site and stop fights on the playground, I just feel... I don't really know what I feel right now. I'm too sick to write anymore. Sorry to those who have a bad day because of the article. I hope you learned something. Posted by Alison at 1:36 AM. Saturday, July 19, 2003When I originally was planning out this layout, I didn't expect for it to go beyond the scrollbars. I spent about two hours just trying to make the horizontal scroll bar to go away because, well, it's just annoying. And I also expected it to be done Friday night. Well, it's 12:34 AM at the moment on a beautiful Saturday morning. It works out for me. And I probably still made mistakes (if I did, please e-mail me) because I got up at 6:30 this morning to go get my drivers permit at the DMV. You have to get there early, otherwise you wait. And wait. And wait some more. We waited enough as it was, and we got there 15 minutes before it opened. But I'm not complaining. I got my permit. I'm allowed to drive (with another "responsible" adult over the age of 21). I even tried driving a little bit in the Church parking lot today, which was great until all the kids from vacation Bible school started running around and my mom was too scared that I'd hit some of them. Can't say I blame her; I had only been driving for a half hour at the time. And I love driving. It gives me such a feeling of...power, almost. That sounds so incredibly cheesy, but it does. I feel like...like I can just go cruising down a highway with the music blasting, the windows open, me only having one casual hand on the wheel as I smile at the luxury of it all, and Rotang from "The Brendan Leonard Show" sitting next to me. In my dreams, I know. But I can dream. You know what I hate? When you think you know someone and it turns out that you didn't. Not at all. I was talking to my friend online yesterday. He had always seemed like a close friend to me, although I don't get to talk to him very often because he lives out of state, but he told me something about him that completely blew me away. I'm not going to repeat it because it's not really my business to put it on the world-wide web, but I was shocked for the rest of the night. I could barely get to sleep that night. I like to think that my friends can have enough trust in me to tell me when something's going on in their life. Sometimes that isn't the case, and it really sucks because my friends are some of the most important people in my life, and when they don't feel like they can tell me (or anyone else) about something that could affect everyone's life, it makes me...not really mad. More sad. And it makes me thankful that I live in such a good home and I don't have the same problems that some people have. It makes me thankful that I made new friends this year in high school that actually knew what I was going through last year at my middle school, which was depression. I'm thankful that I have such fantastic friends and family that can help me get through things and that I can trust. Sigh...depressing first entry for a blog. But you have to start somewhere. Posted by Alison at 12:46 AM. |
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