They never got around to calling juniors (my grade) up to do schedule changes, so I'm still taking Foods II. If they get around to calling us up tomorrow I'm going to try to change it to AP Earth/Environmental. I really hope they let me change it... I have absolutely no desire to take another foods course, and AP Earth would raise my GPA so much.

Well, I have homework for algebra.. lol so I should go do it. Hope tomorrow is better than today was.

Otherwise, I'm pretty ready for school... We've done our clothes shopping which is always fun. That's the best part of going back to school, ha ha. I love wearing my new clothes. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get to go to the school and get my class schedule. I hope I get what I signed up for, but I have a feeling they never made the changes I asked for. :/ My schedule should be:

AP English III
Honors Chemistry
Honors Algebra II
Honors Pre-Calculus
Early Childhood Education (2 periods long)
Parenting & Child Dev.

I'm pretty satisfied with the classes I chose. I was thinking back on the classes I took my freshman and sophomore years and I took some classes that were a total waste of my time:

Shouldn't have taken

FRESHMAN YEAR
Earth/Environmental
Algebra I
Honors English I
World History
Teen Living
Computer Apps. I
PE
French I * Should have taken Spanish

SOPHOMORE YEAR
Honors Civics
Biology
Honors Geometry
Honors English II
Housing & Interior
Computer Apps. II
French II
Foods I

If I had known all that I know now about the classes and such, I wouldn't have taken most of the electives that I picked. I wish someone could have helped me when I was choosing my classes those years and so I wouldn't have made so many mistakes lol. Oh well, I'm just glad I know this stuff now and it didn't hit me when it was too late.

After this year, I will have all of my required courses out of the way except for one more English, which I'll just take my senior year. So basically my senior year is going to be pretty relaxed. Yay!

Well, I should get back to my English packet. Kill me now please.

Brendan started talking about some stand-up comedians a little bit ago, and then I remembered Dane Cook so I looked him up and now I can't stop watching this stuff. I love it! xD

I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Wednesday, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs on Friday. I had so much fun and enjoyed both movies! Ha, I was actually really surprised that I liked Ice Age... I half expected to not like it, simply because it was the third movie... and most of the time they aren't good, like Shrek the Third.

Now there are three movies I'm looking forward to seeing: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. Alvin and the Chipmunks doesn't come out until Christmas day though. That's too long to wait! But wow... all of these movies... there's too many of them! Ah, but anyway... I need to get back to cleaning! Allison created another disaster!

Ummm so my dad says I have to go to bed at 11 PM tonight. It's 9 PM. We're getting up at 3 AM tomorrow to go to West Virginia for the 4th of July weekend. Happy Independence Day! Safe traveling for those of you who will be doing things this weekend. I probably won't fall asleep... Megan will most likely be texting me the entire time. She's really pathetic right now... No offense, best friend! He's coming back tomorrow. You'll make it. Um, so yea. I'll keep her company until she falls asleep, which won't take long.

I'm pretty excited to be going back to West Virginia. I go there only about twice a year, so I try to make the most of it when I do go. Uhh soo oh! This year I have a camera, so I'll finally be able to take all kinds of pictures! Yay! Anyway, I'm about to freeeeeze in here, so I'm going to go curl up on my bed and watch some Two and a Half Men. Have a great weekend!

1. Purple camera
2. Purple comb
3. Purple pencil
4. Purple makeup case
5. Purple phone
6. Purple hair bow

and other random stuff... lol I have to stop. The blue iPod nano is cute too. Ahhh anyway... I don't know why I even started thinking about this. My birthday isn't until October 5th. So much longer to wait.

OH so it's almost July 4th. We're going to WV like we do every year! I'm so excited, and hopefully this year I'm going to get to take Heather with me so I won't be all alone lol. I wish I had some girl cousins. I have three guy cousins who are all the same age and about two years older than me, and now that we're all older than we use to be, they'd rather hang out with each other and leave me behind. It's sad, but I get it. That's why I hope to bring Heather with me. If she doesn't come, I'll still be able to play with Allison this year. Last year she couldn't do much so this year will be a whole lot more fun!

EDIT Something is wrong with my FanUpdate... In the comments section, peoples names aren't linking to the website they provided. I'm not sure why it's all of the sudden doing that. Can anyone help me?

I was bored with the other one, so I decided to make a new one. This is actually different from anything I've done lately. It's like what I use to do, a long time ago lol. The layout looks best in...

...what I'm using:
Browser: Mozilla Firefox
Screen size: 17"
Screen resolution: 1280x1024

So yea, I haven't been doing much lately. Oh! I dyed my hair brown. It messed up really bad the first time I dyed it, so then I called my friend Heather and she picked me up. I stayed the night with her and she tried to fix my hair. For the most part, she did, but some light blonde (almost grey) is still showing through a little. When her mom saw, she decided to give me an early birthday present and is going to make me an appointment with Heather's hair stylist to get it fixed. Heather says it comes with a free cut/style whatever, so that's really cool! I don't know when I'm going to get it done though. They had planned on not this Saturday, but next, but that is the 4th of July... so I can't get it done then. Either way, I'm pretty happy that I finally got to dye it again. That blonde was kind of getting on my nerves lol. It was too yellow!

Anyway, so how is everyone's summer going? Mine is... well, better than last summer. I've gotten out of the house more. Hope I can keep this up!

So far, I haven't been up to much for summer. Hopefully I'll get to keep hanging out with my friends.

Uh I finally actually made something today. I haven't really been making graphics lately so I figured I'd try something else out, and I made a wallpaper for myself.

Click for actual size.

Yea I'm still playing around with it though. xD Clearly I need to keep working on this.

And guess what I have?

Three As and a B. Oh my gosh. That stupid B. You know what class it was in? Geometry. Ahem... doesn't this sound familiar? I wonder why. I hate geometry. Why can't I make an A in there? Ugh.

But anyhow. So yea, I passed all my exams. I don't know what I made on the foods exam because I never went back to school to figure it out, but as long as I know I passed, it's all okay.

Umm I can't think of anything new to share with you guys... OH. Well, I have a yummy recipe that our teacher made for us in foods class that I forgot to share... [Strawberry Pretzel Salad] Okay, so the name may make it sound a little weird, but it's really delicious. I really suggest you try it.

What do you do over the summer to keep you busy?

EDIT The results are in! I made the highest grade on my biology exam in my class. Woot! lol, but it was only a 90/100. I made a 95 on my computer apps. exam. So I guess going through it quickly wasn't so bad after all. (I only did that because I was upset.) Anyhow - yay! I've passed all my exams. One more to go.

So everyone just finished the Computer Applications II exam. I was done by 8:25 and we started at 8:10. o-o Uhhh I don't know how that happened. Somehow I'm really fast at the tests we take in here. So now we have until 11:30 (it's 9:47 now) to just sit around. I'm not sure if I am going home or not. I don't think I have a ride, so I'll sit in the gym until 2:30. This sucks.

I passed my geometry and biology exam though. That was great news. I was terrified mostly about the geometry one, and I made a B on it. Not sure about biology yet - I just know I passed.

I also got my AP English III summer reading packet. I have to read East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Not sure what it is about yet. I'll tell you how my reading goes once I get the book. xD

Ummm yup that's about it for now. Bye bye

On Friday I went home with my friend Megan. I had a great weekend! It was so fun. Friday we went to the dance concert at my school, which was pretty fun. Darrien was in it. I wish I could dance like she does lol.

Megan took home one of those fake babies for the parenting class (which I'll be taking next year) so I helped her with that thing. She named it Braden. xD Each night, it woke me up at least once. Stupid baby. I hate those - to me, they're really not like real babies. Real babies get on a schedule. These just cry whenever they want, and throw fit after fit... it was annoying.

Ha we actually went to the pool on Saturday and had to take the baby with us. It didn't cry the entire time we were there, so I was very pleased by that. It knew I'd get mad at it. > Later on that day, we went to the mall and walked around for like 3 hours. We went to Books-a-Million and put secrets in one of the PostSecret books. I've always wanted to do that. We also hung out with Heather when she finally got up there. But after a while of just walking around and getting horrible stares from people who thought it was an actual baby, we went back to Megan's.

Sunday... hmm what did we do. Oh! Well we basically hung out with Alexis and my other friend named Heather. We watched Taken at Alexis' house and pigged out. Her house was loaded with food, it was so funny, lol Taken was pretty good. For some reason I thought it'd be a horror film, but it wasn't. It's also not gorry, so that was a plus. It's just a suspense.

Yesterday since we didn't have school, me, Megan, Heather, and Jerica went to another pool and stayed for a while. I got so burnt. My face and shoulders are on fire. D: Ugh. I hate getting burnt. I hope it turns into a tan. :/

Anyhow. So yea, I had lots of fun over the weekend. Hope all of yours was great!

Oh and yea, I put up this new layout. It's really not new, I basically just changed the colors from one of my previous layouts. What can I say? I really liked it!

Today we went outside and a group of freshmen who have been sitting there lately were there, so me and my friends decided to sit with a guy Megan knows. He was sitting by himself, so why wouldn't we sit there? Once we got settled and everything, three other people who apparently always sit there sat down. I apologized for having to sit there, and one of the girls said, "Oh, it's fine!" Just a bit after, her boyfriend starts talking about how he hates when people sit at "his" table. We ignored it and kept eating. Minutes later, two girls that I know came outside. I won't say I'm friends with either girl, but I have talked to them and although they're fairly immature, I can handle them to some degree.

One girl, Becky, started screaming and cussing at us about how she's "tired of people sitting at her table," while the other one, Amy, said, "If these skanky b****s don't move, I'm going to start pouring some water on them." Of course, we didn't move. Why should we have? They couldn't make us, and it wasn't, and still isn't, THEIR table. So we stayed, and kept eating, and laughing at every remark they made. Becky kept standing there and said, "I HAVE to have some elbow room when I eat." Okay, dude, you had PLENTY of room. She's a really small girl and there was a lot of room at the table. We even kept scooting closer so she'd have room to sit down and shut the heck up. But she didn't. She called her boyfriend to tattle on us. What could he do? He has already graduated, so therefore, he couldn't really come down there and make us. Seriously.

Megan wanted ice cream, so I went with her, and then Heather followed. Finally Becky sat down while she and Amy happily ran their mouths.

It's just like, SHUT. UP! Do I NEED to say it again? I shouldn't have to.

I have a class with Amy next. I'm curious to see what she has to say to me, if she says anything at all.

Anyway! So Saturday, Heather, her boyfriend, and I had plans to go to the lake. Actually, other people were invited. There were at least four others, but they all backed out... which then left just me, Heather, and Cruz. So Saturday morning came around, and Heather and I got up at 7 am. Cruz came over around 8 am, and we looked at the weather for where the lake is, and it was calling for thunderstorms. Darn it. So needless to say, we didn't go. But that's okay I suppose. We may go Tuesday after school since it should be very clear and pretty warm. We didn't do much the rest of the day, but after hanging out at Cruz's house for a while, we went back to Heather's house and started watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I fell asleep not even five minutes into the movie. I slept for two hours, and then we didn't finish the movie because Cruz left to go to work. I really wish I could have stayed awake, because I had heard it was a good movie. I don't know... maybe I'll watch it sometime soon.

lol so anyhow. Heather and I were sitting there with nothing to do, so we went to her sister-in-law (Esther's) house. We watched Horton Hears a Who! for the second time this weekend.

This entire time, I was texting an old friend, Jennifer. She started being home schooled in 9th grade, so we really drifted apart... After we left Esther's house, we went to Jennifer's house so I could pick up my new monitor that she said I could have.

HP vp17 17" LCD Monitor

We stayed there for 45 or so minutes, then we had to get back to Heather's house since it was getting late, and we didn't do much the rest of the night or today.

But now I'm home, enjoying my new monitor while browsing around on Heather's Myspace (since I'm not allowed to have my own), and looking forward to going to the lake Tuesday. xD Maybe I'll get a better tan.

Oh well, Happy early Mother's Day then. What are you doing for your mother? I don't have money - I never have money - so I can't get her anything. I could make something, but I'd have to buy the things to make it. Happiness is expensive hahah. Ummm oh Allison's birthday is on the 12th of this month. She'll be two years old! I wish she'd hurry up and talk. It's really annoying hearing her say random words, and not wanting to say anything else. She does say "daddy" a lot... but she won't say "mommy." Maybe she'll learn it in time for Mother's Day.

Well that's about it.

Oh wait! We got progress reports yesterday. We get report cards every 9 weeks, so I'll get them at the end of this year. But progress reports come out in between that so we know we need to start doing better before report cards. I'm making all A's! Wahooo! If I make straight A's on this report card, it'll be the first time I have since 6th grade. I always make A's and B's, and usually it's just one B which makes me so mad. Soooo I really hope I can make all A's. (: Wish me luck!

So I stayed home today. I didn't feel like going to school. I just needed a break lol. And now I need to go clean... yay. Cleaning on my small break. Oh well. My room's a mess, I should be happy to clean it. Hurricane Allison came through and created a disaster. Goodbye!

Lately I've been playing Sims 2 on my computer, so I haven't done anything else. It's really addicting. I can't help it. I'm really enjoying it, so who knows how much longer my addiction will go on.

Umm... oh, yes! I saw "17 Again" yesterday. It was an excellent movie. Not much time to go into what made it so great - you'll just have to go see it.

Now I'm going to go back to reading CNN news. That's what I do when I've finished my work. Blah.

[EDIT] Look what I just found: LOL! That was when I was 13 years old. I think it's safe to say I have improved a lot. lol oh my gosh. Look at those colors! All of those brushes! What was I thinking? [/EDIT]

Layout inspiration from this theme, which was created by lemichaelporreca, someone on Lights MB. Oh, and speaking of which, if you decide to sign up for Lights, my username is Katlyn, as always. Look me up on there. Also, as your referrer, choose crimsontears.

Anyway.... I don't know why I decided to use Milo Ventimiglia for my layout. I guess I just looked over on my wall, saw something I tore out of a magazine, and was like, "Hey... I wanna use Milo." So there ya go.

So I don't have school tomorrow. Yay. Didn't have it Friday either. OH I JUST REMEMBERED... HAPPY EASTER! lol wow. Did the Easter Bunny come? He came for me, on Friday. I got a big chocolate bunny, some stuffed animal bunny, and some candy. I always get those. Hehe. Ummm oh, yes, back to not having school tomorrow.

It's our Spring Break. We got Friday off because it was Good Friday. Monday is the only day we get for Spring Break because our county is stupid. The rest of next week was suppose to be Spring Break, but two days we got snow (understandable, sort of) but the other two there was no snow on the ground but apparently ice? Where?! So yea. We can't make it up at the END OF THE YEAR, which would be better. We have to make it up over our entire Spring Break. A lot of my friends had stuff planned, and they couldn't cancel them, so they'll miss all of this coming school week anyhow. Lucky. I don't do anything over Spring Break except sit around... like any other normal day but still. I want my Spring Break.