Twilighterr: Time Flies When Your Working

HEY guys!! Time to catch up on all the bad and good, happy and sad, stressful and infuriating moments of my life. Where to start?
WELL, lets start with school, shall we? I mean, we only spend over 6 hours of our time confined in a classroom learning about stuff that we most likely won't ever use. Fun, right? Well, today when i got to school, me being a student, stood outside and talked to people and waited for people, just like all the others (I think to myself--what ever happened to being unique and doing something different?) and practically froze my fingers off. I say fingers because I wasn't cold, but my fingers were like ice. It's alwalys the fingers. I have friends who think I'm going to get frost-bite or something. I had to present a persuasive speech in first period (English Honors), and lucky me, I had to go first. My speech was 5 pages long and was about Adoption and why I believe it is a good thing, compared to the opinions of others. I was up there for about 5.5 minutes, and got thunderous applause (^___^). I'm glad I did good, because I spent almost four hours typing that thing up last night (including extra research, editing, emailing it, etc). In Health we took notes as usual, people got in trouble as usual and we got sidetracked a lot as usual. Pretty entertaining, though. In 3rd, I learned about how to use slope equations to find ratios and how to figure out MPG and stuff like that. Prettty easy. I'm also fairly confident that I aced my quiz :) Lunch was spent outside, and it was cold, cloudy and it drizzled lightly towards the end but I had pleasant conversations and warm hugs from Ru Ru, so I guess you could say it was okay. In 4th, I had to present a powerpoint with two classmates and it was on Textiles: Kitchen, Bed and Bath. My teacher said we did a great job, and the information was perfectly explained, as were our samples (hand towels, placemats, pillowcases etc.)
*Funny story on the powerpoint: I started it in school, but didn't get to finish so I emailed it to myself. I get home, I start working on it, and something happended to my computer so I had to transfer computers and start all over. Then, I finished it; it looked great. I saved, exited and tried to email it to my teacher, but I couldn't find it anywhere on the computer. I looked, my mom looked, my mom's bf looked and we couldn't find it. So I had to start all over again. Wonderful, right? But it worked out and I got a great grade, so I'm happy.
MY uncle deployed on Monday, and he's going to be gone for "6 months" but he expects 7 to a year. Which really sucks, because we won't be able to see him for a really long time, and we don't know when we'll be able to communicate. He's in the Air Force, and he's a flier, which is really cool because he works in the planes (he's not a pilot, though) but it still sucks that he deployed.
HALLOWEEN was great...I got to go running after a 7 year old and two 3 year olds, and tell them to say "Trick-or-treat!" and "Thank you; Happy Holloween!". I dressed up as a Geek, highwaters, scrunched socks, tie, sweater, button down shirt, everything. I even put my hair it two really messy ponytail/buns and I looked amazing!--for a geek, that is. My sister was a dark angel, the 7 year old (who's unaturally obsessed with Star Wars) was Darth Vadar, his little sister was Tinker Bell and the other little girl was Snow White. Adorable? Yes. Hyper? Yes. Wanted Candy? Yes. Easy to Mangage? NO. I still had fun, though.
THAT weekend, I was babysitting my 'cousin' Ian. I had him from Thursday night until Sunday afternoon. I took him to the library, we watched tons of movies, watched him play his violin, made him do bookwork, and we even took Darth Vadar and Tink in on that Saturday. Those three were bouncing off the walls like the bounciest balls on the face of the earth. Even so, still love 'em!
FORGOT to tell you that I was diagnosed with. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hypothyroidism. Did I scare you? Probably not. Hypothyroidism is basically when your thryroid (hormone gland that is in located around the front of your throat, right where an Adam's Apple would be) is underactive and because it doesn't produce enough hormones, the other hormone glands start overworking themselves to provide your body with the hormones it's not getting from your thyroid. Symptoms of this are: breakouts (which I get), you're always cold (which explains why my fingers and feet are always cold), you have a hard time losing weight (which I do), and a whole bunch of other stuff (which I have/get). Luckily, my case isn't so bad that I'll have to take hormone supplements for the rest of my life (which are ridiculously expensive). I think it might be hereditary because my mom was diagnosed with it just over a year ago; she'd had it and never knew, and now I have it, and have to make sure I'm maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
ALSO, a few weeks ago, I got a new bed; I can't remember if I talked about this or not, but it's really high. I'm 5'1.75" and it comes up to my elbow. I used to have my sister's and my dresser in my room, and she had a smaller (lower) dresser in her closet, so we switched. Now I have a new bed and a new dresser, plus the one I already have. I also moved and switched out posters all over my room and put up some Eclipse posters, and I must say, my room is looking good! Well, maybe not now, because I've got school projects and my backpacks and library books on the floor, but once I clean my room later, my room will be looking spectacular :)
I recently started a 'job' and am helping my mom's boyfriend out with some school stuff (he's a professor and teaches at multiple universities/schools like Strayer, ECPI, Weslyan) and I'm getting paid, so I'm not broke anymore :) I also got some money from babysitting Ian, babysitting Darth Vadar and Tink, and for helping out at Darth Vadar's Star Wars themed birthday party a few weeks ago.
StUfF ThAt'S CoMiNg SoOn:
I have a huge color project in 4th period (Housing and Interiors) due on Friday and I need to find someone who can lend me a hot-glue gun so I can glue fabric and wood to my project. So far, it's coming along nicely (:
I'M going to attempt to finish 6 Library books by the 11th of December, which is quite a feat because all these books are over 200 pages and I barely have time to read. As a matter of fact, I'm on page 374 of the 8th book in the BJ (Bloody Jack) series and there are 552 pages. I had promised the friend who lent it to me that I'd return it to her on Friday, so I have today and tomorrow to finish reading the last 178 pages. I'll get it done :) Anyways, the books I'm going to try to finish by the 11th of December are:
Played by Dana Davidson (234)
The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore (513)
One Night that Changes Everything by Lauren Barnholdt (242)
A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn (371)
You by Charles Benoit (223)
and
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (403)
MY 'step-sister' (Mom's bf's daughter) is turning 19 on Saturday and hopefully, she'll be able to come over (she lives in Wilmington--She goes to UNC Wilmington) and we'll be able to give her her gifts and throw her a small party.
I found out I'll be spending Christmas break with my dad in NJ. I'll be there from the 25th (of Dec.) to the 2nd (of Jan.). Now I'll be able to visit family again!!! FunFunFun!!!!! (Seriously :] )
ALRIGHTY! That's it for now. I'll update a soon as possible. If I'm not heard from in a while, be prepared to read another one of these lengthy passages. :)
-Twilighterr :]
PS. PiEcE of WiSdOm: Mistakes aren't somthing you should beat yourself up over. We're humans; all humans make mistakes. If you don't, I suggest you go get a physical or somthing because there's something wrong with you. Anyways, Mistakes are common. We make them everyday. I look at them as gateways to the unknown. You won't know you made a mistake until you made one, so learn from them and hopefully, you'll be able to use that new knowledge to your advantage. Plus, everyone who loves you will still love you even if you do make mistakes. So feel free to make as many as you want--don't sweat it. I promise I'll be supportive of anyone I know who makes mistakes. That's the great thing about friends and family--they support you no matter what. And as Al Franken said, "Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."