This song makes me feel good. :)

I like her version of the song. I was going to post the original, but they don’t like it being “embeded” :S
But fine with me. I always find good covers when I look.

YAY FOR THE MARCH BREAK.

At my school we get today off as a ‘Non-Instructional Day’. So March break starts EARLY.

You don’t know how many YouTube videos I watched, trying to find the perfect Bowling for Soup video for you. I chose this one because their interruption after the “Stop. STOP. STOP!” lyrics is the funniest I’ve seen out of the videos I watched. Bowling for Soup RULEZ.

Yesterday I did a Pathfinder thing. We were supposed to meet at the Pathfinder leader’s house to uproot some of her daffodils (they’ve sprouted about an inch, more or less, above dirt level) and walk them over to the church to plant them. We worked from around 4:30 to 6:45 when the sun was going down. Only two other Pathfinders showed up, but we all had fun anyway.

At one point me and one girl were digging holes for the daffodils and we hit the mat that’s under the soil and didn’t know what it was at first.

B (the Pathfinder that was digging with me): Oh my God, what is that? It’s moving! [Pokes mat with hand-shovel/trowel/whatever-they're-called, it moves]
Me: OMG, it’s a dead body.
B: [Giggles]
Me: What if it really was? Someone just burried a dead body ou’side the church? Would you like, freak?
B: Yeah.

The Pathfinder leader burst our bubble, though by telling us what it really was. Both me and B were disappointed.

But it was okay.

After the two other Pathfinders left, the Pathfinder leader (we call her Tigger, I hope it’s okay that I say that on the internet…) invited me and my mother and brother (who also helped garden when the sun started to disappear) inside the church and offered us chocolate milk and gingersnap cookies. Which rule. I got to finish off a whole row of them from the cookie bag.

I’ve found it easier to sleep a lot lately, too because I haven’t had pop in days and gotten a reasonable amount of fresh air and on top of that, my to-do list has been lengthy lately.

Especially for school. I was supposed to have four assignments and a test due this week. (But lucky for me the test is postponed until the day we get back from break.)

I had a Student Council meeting on Monday at lunch.

Plus I had to sell tickets all lunch on Tuesday for the staff-student hockey game the next afternoon.

I walked home from the hockey game with Smiley on Wednesday, which is a very long walk. Not as long as the walk from school though, but still over an hour or so. But it was worth it, since it was such a beautiful day out. I got home by a little before 3, which is usually the time I get home by on the bus. I fell asleep for a while with my cat on my stomach, and woke up when my mom made me go to the Youth Council meeting.

After that, Thursday was really a relief.

Even though a presentation of one of my assignments plus a written response of the book, To Kill a Mockingbird were due, it was great. The teacher complimented my assignment and said it was a really unique idea, no one’s ever made masks for the assignment before.

We had been given a list of assignments to choose from last week, the last one on the list being anything the student can come up with as long as the teacher approved. I spent hours on making masquerade masks for the characters Romeo and Juliet and then ten minutes explaining how they represent the characters.

Long story short, life has been busy but fufilling lately.

Alex Violet

Today, Valentine’s Day, The Beatles, etc.

In honour of Valentine’s day on Sunday, I thought I should feature my all-time favourite love songs on my all-time favourite blog.

All you need is love is my favourite love song. Well, almost.
Can’t buy me love is actually my favourite.

I really enjoy Valentine’s day and it’s festivities. There is a Valentine’s dance tomorrow. I’ve probably said that already. I’m also not sure if I will end up going. I’ve been second-guessing my automatic “I’d rather watch the Lightning Thief or go to a Pathfinder sleepover.” The latter more so. Maybe I’ll probably just ask my mother what she thinks I should do. That works 99.98% of the time.

Also, I changed the theme of my blog today to a new one called “Motion”. Doesn’t it look cool? I loved the other one and all, but I kind of wanted to change it up a bit.

I don’t really have all that much left to say, but last night I took UndiscoveredJulie’s (YouTube) advice from one of her videos and made a to-do/goal list for the immediate future/week. I crossed 3 of them off today, but they were simple things or obligations I’d have done anyway.

Like finishing an assignment, straightening out textbook fees from last semester, returning a borrowed book, updating The List category of my blog since I finished the borrowed book, etc.

It’s made me feel fufilled, little by little. But it reminds me… I need to go update The List.

So in case I don’t post again ’till after Valentine’s, Happy Valentine’s Day!

Alex Violet

P. S. I was helping set up for the Valentine’s dance after school today and some lady who works at the school (I’m not actually sure if she’s a teacher, guidance councellor, or what) was talking to one of the teachers that runs SC. The teacher that runs SC said “Hey, ______” [insert SC nickname of mine that is my last name with the "ee" sound at the end of it]. I said hi and walked past until the lady who works at the school stopped me.
LADY WHO WORKS AT THE SCHOOL: Sorry, can I ask what your last name is?

ALEX/SELF: ______ [insert name of my real last name here]

LWW@TS: Do you have an older brother that used to go to this school?

ALEX/SELF: No…

LWW@TS: Sister?

ALEX/SELF: No.

LWW@TS: Are you from around here?

ALEX/SELF: Well, I was born in Toronto, but I’ve lived here since I was one.

LWW@TS: That’s funny, because you really remind me so much of someone- a boy who used to go to this school who had the last name _____, too. [LWW@TS squints/smiles and points at me a couple of times then walks away.]

All I was thinking was, is this really even possible?

The only relatives I have in my town are the ones I live with. No one in my family who could possibly have the last name that I do (dad’s side of the family) should be living or have lived in ____ [name of my town] recently. (Other than me, my brother, etc.) (They all live in little pockets sparsed out over Canada, if you’re wondering.) My dad was also adopted by his stepdad (who had my last name) so anyone who could resemble me with my last name in my town would be really, really strange, since I don’t have roots here.

My conclusion is that LWW@TS is a time-traveller. My last name isn’t even really that common… I think? Well, I’ve never heard it before on anyone else… it isn’t like Jones or Smith or something…

Wow. Long “P. S.” Maybe there was no point in even including “P. S.” … oh well, too late, I’m not changing it now…

Alex Violet

What’s UP!!

The Saints won!

Not that I’m football-crazy, I actually watched the first hour or so of it then got bored and changed the channel to like, What Not to Wear or something like that.

But the Students’ Council was talking about it at lunch today in our Monday meeting. (We have meetings at lunch on Monday and after school on Friday.)

I got my hair done like a more-modern-less-mullet-like-and-neater version of Joan Jett’s in this video here ^ yesterday. Also, my bangs are lovelier and my layers less-mullet-like. I really cannot stress “less-mullet-like” enough. I’m thinking I’m going through a rock-and-roll phase. If you want a visual, my hair is supah-thick and brownie.

Speaking of the Students’ Council, I think I might’ve mentioned the life-changing camping trip (that was the most overwhelmingly beauteous and fantastical sunset I have seen in my life, and I think I’ve seen more than the average person) we had at a provincial park sometime in the fall.

I guess field trips like these are referred to as “Students’ Council Bonding Activities”, and we’ve got another one coming up sometime.

There’s no definite date or anything for it, but some Friday, (but not this one since there’s a dance from 7pm-11pm, and unlikely the one after that) after our SC meeting, we’ll hop on a bus to the nearest town/city with LASER TAG!!!!

J’adore laser tag. I was talking with Smiley (BFF) about it after the meeting (she’s not on Students’ Council) and about how excited I was about LASER TAG (!!!!) Then she kept calling me a geek and a nerd, things like that. (The whole ‘no-offence’ matter is implied, she knows I don’t get easily offended.)

I said about how on the date of my thirteenth birthday I went laser-tagging in Edmonton.

It was awesomazing. For serious.

And of course I get “nerdy!” and just laugh. It sounds nerdy, I guess, but I’m not one of those kids who plays Dungeons and Dragons every Saturday night at that store that sells board games and expired Ritz chips. I also don’t regularly read comic books and I don’t particularly excell in mathematics… I don’t have braces or wear glasses, either. And if I did wear glasses, then I wouldn’t even be ashamed of wearing the Harry-Potter variety of glasses. Because I’m AWESOME.

It’s not that I’m trying to stereotype, just poke fun at stereotypes.

I am quite intellectual even though I’ve had chess explained to me about twice and don’t know anything more about it other than that the pawns are insignificant, the Queen can move almost anywhere, and DON’T ACCIDENTALLY KNOCK OVER THE KING! or you are doomed.

I did try to read Lonely Planets, Lord of the Flies, and Great Expectations before anyone’s made me read them for school… I didn’t finish them though. But I read The Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe (in 4th or 5th grade, I loved it), and since the start of summer I’ve read every book you see listed on my “the list” page. (Upper right button.) Ghost Hunters is one of my favourite shows. (Gosh, I almost typed shoes…) I am intrigued by outerspace and history and the Meaning Of Life and honestly believe I am a genius. I read TONNES of historical fiction novels which I did not realize until history class felt like review for me since I kept reference to these historical fictions. AND I appreciate Shakespeare.

Yesterday I was watching Meet the Robinsons on DVD (all-time favourite movie besides The Lion King) and there was a special feature that mentioned and described several of the Great Inventors that have Changed Life As We Know It. (Including: Wilbur and Orville Wright; Galileo; the Real Guy Who Invented the Telescope; Alexander Graham Bell; etc.) I found myself finishing the narrarators sentences and such about how Galileo wasn’t the real guy who invented the telescope and where the First Flight took place (a place called Kitty Hawk) and that the last, most AWESOMAZING of all mentioned inventors was Walt Disney.

What I did learn is that apparently that big building in Orlando that is Disney and looks like a hugenormous golf ball is actually an inventing and research firm thing. (For serious!)

Which inspired me.

Needless to say, Walt Disney is my new role model. Aside from the whole Disney-uses-sweatshops thing.

I’d better rap it up about now, this entry is longer than I thought it’d be.

I apologize for the repetitiveness and the wierd teenager-speak. It’s the language I speak when I ramble.

I hope you enjoyed this surprise entry aswell since I haven’t really had two entries for two days since about the summer.

Then I noticed that after I get a new entry, I get more page views (like, 5 after the last one and one today even though this isn’t technically posted yet) and every so often, a comment.

Better roll with this miniscule internet fame while I can, right?

The Awesomazing,

Alex Violet.