And I guess most people have already seen Spiderman 3, but I just saw the whole thing last night and...I couldn't watch this part. Too horrible.

Now the Awesome Thing.

Um.

Not good enough?

It doesn't make up for all that suffering and disgust?

Well, I'll just have to hunt up some extremely epic thing for my next post...:P

~Kelly~

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So I haven't posted in a bit and I'm sure you've all been hysterical with anticipation and concern for my welfare.
Please, I can explain. Take a look at what I've been up to.

1) Digging graves in the backyard by moonlight. As you can probably imagine, this is both time consuming and stressful. I don't feel much like blogging afterward.

2) Being discovered while burying the bodies. Not. Fun.

3)Beating off the starving kittens that follow me home mewing pitifully.

4)This actually happens before the beating off- my little brother making friends with the demon-eyed varmints. THEY NEVER LEAVE WHEN YOU DO THIS.

5)Getting ultrasounds. No pictures to preserve my last shred of dignity/decency. Also because I didn't bring my camera. Don't worry- I'm not pregnant. Or if I am, my baby looks something like this:

So hopefully I'm not.

6)Smelling my feet. DARNIT. Sandal weather is over.


7)Going to the Cheesecake Factory (ELLYN! I see why you love this place!!) and bringing home plastic containers of decadence.

8)Curling my eyelashes. Naturally, this takes up a great deal of my time.

9)Reading great literature.

10)Sleeping. It IS cold/ swine flu season, people! Gotta keep my immune system strong!


And with all of these non-negotiable activities to attend to, it's no wonder that I haven't blogged in forever and a half*! So many things have been neglected (see below).


I also got my learners permit (WOOT!). It cost 50 bucks and earned me the nickname 'Kelly the Puffy Whale with Really Bad Hair**' but anything to drive, right? Right.


Sayonara!

~Kelly~

*slight exaggeration

**self-inflicted

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I finished Drivers Ed in August. It's almost October and I haven't got a learners permit yet. We planned to go several times and never went and then today, we actually went, got in the door, stood in line, got up to the counter- and went home. Because apparently they don't accept the ID's that they give you as proof of who you are. The MVA demands a birth certificate, a social security card, a DNA sample no more then a week old and your left thumb. In a airtight, sterile plastic container. So we're going to go again on Wednesday so that I can FINALLY begin the NINE MONTH wait to get a real drivers license. I have a theory. All the tests and Drivers Education and waiting in line and being asked how much you weight and getting a funny look when you tell them- that's the real test. If you actually get in the car with a stoic old man to go through the obstacle course, you've already proven that you can survive in the rat race that is I95 (and adulthood) without screaming and threatening someone with a broken pencil. That's what they really want to know. And it's probably really character building. Or mind numbing. Whichever.

With relative freedom being only nine months and a bit away I've been thinking about my immediate future a bit more. If my calculations are correct I should finish highschool around the same time that I get my drivers license and then I'll be able to get a real job. I'm not sure exactly what that job will be and I'm not sure how many classes -if any- I'll be taking at the community college right away. Who knows, I might take one this spring...that would actually be pretty cool, come to think of it. When I took my English placement test over there, I'm pretty sure I scored in the highest English class and if I remember correctly, if you pass that class you've finished your English requirements to get your AA degree. So that would be pretty awesome if that's the case.
I've always thought that once I got my drivers lisence I would become a full-time nanny and that's a very distinct possibility, but another possibility has cropped up. I just might try to get a job at Whole Foods. They start you out at $10 an hour and it has really great perks, like 20% off everything- and I shop there a lot. I LOVE that store.
It's just an idea, but those are some of the things rattling around my brain right now.

~Kelly~

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

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I'm reaaally thinking about deleting people from my friends list who are no longer posting. It just makes things easier for me. So if my friends list is suddenly much shorter, that's why. :) And if I accidentally delete you and you ARE still posting, feel free to scream and rant at me. :P

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The brother whose picture is in my last post happens to be a boy scout, and as a member of that sacred group of scrawny adventurers he is required to camp out a certain number of nights. So this last weekend was one of those camping weekends and he and my mom went off to the woods with their group and I had the house to myself. Sort of. Except for my dad and my brother. So mostly. It's was nice, let me tell ya. :) THREE nights with no "Kelly! What are you doing? Can I come in? I want to tell you something. I CAN'T tell you through the door. [kick kick kick] Let me IN! I want to TELL you something!" or tuneless humming just because he knows it drives me bonkers or ANY annoying little brother behavior. B.L.I.S.S. :P

And on Saturday night I had a fun little impromptu daddy-daughter date night. With the absence of my mom there was also an absence of dinner, so my dad and I went to this huuuuge mall about a half hour from our house. Cause we felt like it. It's got an Imax theater, how's that for cool? If we'd left earlier, we probably would have seen something but it was not to be. Something else that was not to be- P.F.Changs. There's another one nearer to our house, so hopefully we can try again when there isn't a forty-five minute wait. >.< Instead we went to Panera Bread (also in the mall) and it was soooo goooooood...I got the chicken ceaser salad and a no doubt high-fructose-laden frozen caramel coffee...confection. It was also delish. And we watched a bunch of episodes of The Mentalist. I wonder if Kev and Mom can go camping again this weekend...:D


If you've seen the movie 'Penelope', you probably remember the Reese Witherspoon character whipping around on her awesome Vespa. I'll say it right now- I LOVE VESPAS. I want one. If you could drive them in the rain, I would buy one instead of a car. Even their name ('Vesspaaaaa') sounds so much cooler then 'moped'. Psh. Who wants something called a 'moped'? Seriously.
That said, I laughed (albeit at myself) when I read this excerpt from this stupid blog (called 'Stuff White People Like):
'As it stands, every single white person on earth either owns, has owned, or is dreaming about owning a Vespa Scooter.  And why not?  They are Italian, feature vintage design, low emissions, make the rider look more sophisticated, and they carry a little bit of risk. In fact, were it to have a liberal arts degree and a steady income,  a Vespa scooter would possesses every important quality that a white person looks for in a spouse.'
Well...it's sort of incredibly true...:P
I can just picture myself on one of those babies, can't you? With my awesome vintage chic skirt and big sunglasses and ballet flats...they might just push soft-top Jeeps down to my SECOND all-time-favorite vehicle. :P

Enough rambling for now, I guess. :)

~Kelly~

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Today I

got up kind of late

and didn't run because I still need shorts to run in

and hunted down some shampoo because I think I'm allergic to the kind I've been using

and did ALMOST ALL MY SCHOOL BEFORE NOON!!! *amazement*

because I was going with my older brother to take pictures of my younger.

and we did.

and wasn't that interesting.



That's the brother.

Yeah.

The above picture was taken while I was in Kentucky, and he was goofing off but he was comfortable with the camera. When we went with my brother to take pictures he got...awkward. He sort of has two 'picture' modes- awkward and goofy. Neither really work well for portrait style pictures.

So every time Eric told him 'cross your arms', his shoulders would jerk forward, his back would arch, his chest would concave and he would grip his ribs with his hands, et cetera, et cetera, until he looked like a poster child for the NSPCC.

The same or something similar  went for just about everything we tried to do. I should note that Kev's got legs up to his eyeballs and weighs about sixty pounds, so when he looks awkward he looks awkward. There's no room for tensity or oddly placed limbs. Generally he looks something like Puddleglum from The Silver Chair. And then the sun was hurting his eyes, apparently. So we got a lot of squinty eyed, slumping shots.
But it was fun! I really love photography, even when the subject is a bit difficult (:P) and it's really awesome helping my older brother, who's got all sorts of cool new equipment to break in. :)

Oh yeah, and I don't usually check out this site, but for some reason I did a few days ago, and they've got quite a lot of extra long skirts over there, Pretty cool! I'm seriously considering buying the 'Perfect Jean Skirt'. :)

Ciao for now!*

Kelly

*K, this might be a bit corny. :)

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Love it! And for the low, low price of $98!! :P


And now...I'm saying right here that I am going to get up at 5:30am every morning and run, whether I feel like it or not.

And maybe now I'll be accountable and actually do it. :P

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As I write this, I'm lazing on my bed, listening to 'Cranford' on my mom's iPod (because I haven't got one of my own- hows that for pathetic) and thinking how I really should take a walk or do my math or something. I really should. Only I don't want to very much. Because in order to take a walk, I first need to take a shower, and I can't do my math unless my mom gets off the computer. Isn't life just too desperately difficult? Really. I don't know what it's about sometimes.
Anyway, I thought I'd jot down some of the things that have been up lately.

-I had my first plane ride
-Which was to Georgia
-Where I stayed for nine days
-By myself
-And then when I got home, like two weeks later my whole family went to Kentucky
-And then to Deep Creek
-And then Kevin turned twelve
-And he bought a Wii
-Also, I've stayed up QUITE late twice the last couple of days. One night my sister dropped my little brother off around nine pm and didn't leave until after seven am the next morning! We stayed up all night talking. And then she came over another night and she, my mom and I snuck out to Donut Shack and stayed out till past one. Fun times. :)
-I have an infected toe. It's nasty.
-I think I'm going to learn to ski this Christmas. WOOT!
-I've gained about eight thousand pounds from vacay-style eating. Ug.

Hm. All for now. Incidentally, I did do my math. :P

ETA: I wrote most of that in my notebook, and then typed it up on here. which is why i was on my bed. I don't have a laptop, unfortunately. :P

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YES! Another awesome song to replace 'Feeling Good', since David Hasselhoff officially ruined that one for me. And seriously, how cute is he? :P

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Hi everyone!

I know I said I would post pictures from New York right away...and that didn't happen. But as it turned out, there weren't any pictures. Long story short, I didn't bring my camera. :(
Still, Phantom of the Opera was more then a little bit mind-blowing..and then I babysat these kids who know all the songs and own the movie...more about that on another day, though, cause I've got something else I want to talk about.

I've always been verrry sensitive to critique. Like, if someone reads something I've written and they don't immedeatly go blind from the sheer perfection of it all, I want to kill myself. Well, not kill myself. But never, ever write again. Generally my writing is in the form of stories, but I recently went on this poetry kick and now I'm poetry-obsessed. I ended up writing about three poems and wanted some input- because one really good friend read them and said he liked one but...but...he would never say he DIDN'T like them.
I am not a true artist. I refuse to continue on in my pursuit if it seems futile, despite  Emily Dickinson.
So I did it. I got a true poetry scholar's input.
It was absolutely accurate.
I haven't actually read everything he said, because just staring at the words '...you're running it into the ground...' was enough pain and realization.
I am no writer. I couldn't put into words what was wrong and it was staring me in the face!! I ran it into the ground.
Eventually I'll go back and read everything they said but for now I'm just deleting my poems off my goodreads and editing the life out of them. Well, not the life. Just the extra junk that was stifling them.

~Kelly



Oh yeah, and guess what? I'm starting drivers ed tonight!!

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PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!!!!
ON BROADWAY!!!!
OMG!!

Yeah, I'm pretty excited. I'm going on Wednesday (THIS Wednesday) to New York...WOOOOOTTTT!!! I'm bringing my camera, so I'll take loads of pictures and post them here and on my Flickr stream. Which reminds me, the picture thats at the top of my page right now (as well as a bunch of others) is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/squiggles93582/ .
That's all I have time for right now, but I'll post again soon!

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We were supposed to go to the beach for a few days this week, but my Pop Pop has shingles in his eyes, so my gramma had to stay home with him. So we didn't go. But we did some other reaaaaally fun things.

1)Tuesday night  my mom and I went to a French restaurant. We'd been planning on it since my birthday and it was super cool. The food was delish. Then we got some yummy frozen yogurt and strawberries for desert and were going to walk around the harbor a bit, but there was a lot of dark clouds and summer lightening (plus we were stuffed) so we went home and watched the first half of Pride and Prejudice. We're going to watch the second half tonight.
2) We thought about going to the Spy museum Wednesday but decided it was too pricey since my mom doesn't feel comfortable driving into DC. Plus my little brother (who's been a bit of a brat lately) was throwing this major 'I-don't-wanna' fit. My Dad's going to take me sometime. Instead we suprised my brother (like, literally, we were walking into the theater before he realized we weren't going to the Spy museum) and went to this movie at the Science Center:
We saw it at the IMAX theater and it was SO COOL! It was the first real movie I'd ever seen in a real movie theater! :P There were only about twelve other people in the whole place, so it was partly awesome and partly awkward because only the two people in front of us and the three behind us laughed, so we were like the cut-ups. There was this family of about six people two rows in front of us that didn't laugh once. The party poopers. I liked it! I liked it more then the first one, partly because of this guy:
who was HILARIOUS!! You just have to watch it. He had this lisp and stuff...awesome. :P
There were a lot of other really well known people who made cameo appearances.
Jonah Hill....
was in one of the best scenes in the movie, or at least the most memorable.
Mindy Kaling had a tiny role...

Ed Helms, same:

AMY ADAMS!!

Who is wonderful, by the way.

And loads of others. And don't hate me, but I just can't learn to like Owen Wilson. Maybe because I keep seeing him oppisite people like
Steve Coogan:
Who had another one of the best scenes of the movie. Squirrels and things. :D

3) I GOT A DAY OFF WORK!! yay! Of course, I'm pretty much broke right now but it was nice anyway. :D

Toodles!
Kelly

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 So i thought i'd share a little mini-drama-in-the-life-of-me with you all...
I generally get to my job between ten and ten thirty- when you can't drive yourself, you're never totally sure when you're going to arrive- but this morning...I was staring at my alarm clock thinking, It can NOT be six-thirty already..... and that I probably should have gotten to bed before two-thirty am. Then I closed my eyes, opened them- and it was ten thirty-six. My eyes fell out of my head. It had to be some cruel joke. It wasn't. I did find out though, that it's possible for me to get to her house in forty-five minutes, provided I skip breakfast and hyperventilate a lot. Lesson learned though- when I have to get up the next morning, either get to bed by midnight or don't go to sleep at all. >.<

Best Book Ever:
Just read it a few days ago and I wrote this right after I finished...
Fabulously wonderful. Can't say it's one of my favorite books yet, as I need to read it a few more times but I adore it, and it's going to be. The main character, Cassandra, reminds me a lot of myself, only much improved. More intelligent, more educated, immeasurably more articulate, witty and charming without being elegant or cultured and a marvelous writer- my diary bears no resemblance to her's in the slightest sense. I will eventually write a report of sorts on this book and post it as my review, but for now let me say that the ending made me mumble "Oooooh NO!" and limply drop the book on the table. It frustrated me that she could end any story with romantic elements to it so realistically. I respect her for doing that though, because even though it was ambiguous, such is life. I'm glad she didn't tie it all up in a pretty bow. Or rather, I'm trying to be.

She really is a spectacular author and I've ordered some more of her books. :)

Current Favorite Song:
Oh! this reminded me that I haven't put my playlist back on since I changed my template...it's
Fidelity by Regina Spektor. For right now. :D

Other Favorites:
This skirt, from Old Navy...
This lipgloss, so scrumptious!
This cd, never gets old...:D

That's all for now! Thanks for the comments! I'm sooo glad to be back!! :D

~Kelly

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And determined to get back into blogging! I got a Nikon d40 a month or so ago, so I'll be posting lots of pictures, most likely. :P
So lets see...what else has happened lately...I went to Six Flags for homeschool day, first time. It was AWESOMENESS!!! The Batwing is the best ride ever!!
Yesterday we took a little day trip and walked around this little town...and I found the perfect house. The house I want someday! It was crazy, because I had just been talking about how it was so cool in old books and movies, when they would name their houses/estates- Pemberley, Roselands, The Oaks- and how I wanted to someday own a house that was worthy of it's own name. Well this house was already named! It's called Wickersham. How cool is that? It sounds vaugely Austenien...:D
Can you see the design on the side?


So that was our trip! It included one of the absolute best BLT's I've ever had. :)
Oh yeah, and here's my photobucket and flickr photostream, in case anyone's interested:
http://s701.photobucket.com/albums/ww20/squiggles_K/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/squiggles93582/

That's all for now, but I'll post again soon!

~Kelly

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Changes around here. Very time consuming.

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If you read my entire entry I'll give you a  lolcat picture that will dissolve you into a pool of helplessly laughing jelly, k? K. So I haven't been posting much lately and I don't really want to go into that...suffice it to say that I've been very busy and more then a little unbalanced in my lifestyle lately and blogging hasn't been a top priority. But it's going to become one again because I've really missed all you guys! I've been thinking lately about the fact that one day I'm going to have to give account of every idle word I've spoken- and trust me, there's going to be alot of them! And since I know that I've already accumulated quite a list of idle words ('Yongle Diadan' has nothing on me) I definitly don't want to add anymore! I don't think it's possible to never speak an idle word but there are so many silly or downright idiotic things I say- the sort of thing that you immidiatly want to take back- that I wonder how seriously people are taking me. So  I'll be thinking a bit more about what a write and say and hopefully I'll be posting more. So thanks for reading all of that stuff and here's your pic! :)

And another!

K that's all!

Cleo

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kay, this is a new template I'm trying. I know it looks really boring right now but there's a pic i'm going to put in the corner. Can you guys see my entrys??? Cuz I can't and it's driving me crazy!! I know they aren't deleted I just can't see them on my blog.

Well, later.

Cleo

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Sure, it seemed SO easy. Just write about your daily experiences. Hah. Sure. Right . Whatever. I think of great things to blog about but there's never time when it's new and when it's old, who wants to hear about it? I mean, I could tell you about how it snowed...three days ago. But I barely even remember what the front yard looked like when it was covered with a fresh blanket of snow. Now it's patchy and ugly and wet. Yech! I'm falling asleep while I write this. I had a productive day  today and you know what those can do to ya . So I guess this is it for now. Sorry that these posts are so short, I'll try to do better when I'm 14 ;). For now though, I'll...I....want....to do....is...*snore*

Cleo

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I really wanna do this tag that Erin did but it has 26 questions so I'll do my best.

A- Avalible or Married? Excuse me while I wipe away tears of extreme hilarity. OH, and I love they way you phrased it 'AVALIBLE or Married'. No, to both questions.

B-Best Friend? Bailey!!!!

C-Cake or Pie? Definitly Cake

D-Drink of Choice? Welchs White Grape and Peach juice, or else Dr.Pepper Berries and Cream

E-Essential item? Toughie.....I'd have to say lip-gloss. No comments on that, please.

F-Favorite color? Purplish Blue

G-Gummie Bears or Worms? Worms, esp the sour kind!!!

H-Hometown? Seacret. Ha Ha.

I-Idulgence? Man, there are so many! My favorite is wearing my pajamas all day!

J-January or Febuary? What kind of a question is that?

K-Kids and Names? Well, I don't have any kids, but I do have favorite boy/girl names. Natalie and Nathaniel!

L-Life is incomplete without? I think just about anything I have would make my life incomplete if it weren't there.

M-Marrige Date? Couldn't you think of something else for M? Like M&Ms or Skittles, in which case, M&Ms

N-Number of Siblings? 5

O-Oranges or Apples? Oranges, if I don't have to peel 'em

P-Phobias/Fears? People being mad at me, large rodents with long tails, becoming termially ill, throwing up on a bus.....

Q-Favorite Qoute? can't pick just one

R-Reason to smile? Well, my current, worldly (not of eternal value) reason is that my mom is letting me eat dinner in front of the computer.

S-Season? Autumn

T-Tag three people! How about the three people who read this blog :P

U-Unknown fact about me: I eat Chex Mix. Hey, that was unknown by y'all until now!

W-Worst habit? Biting my nails

Y-Your favorite food? I don't know

Z-Zodiac? No offense if you do, but- who cares?

Is it just me, or does this tag have a stutter....

Oh, the qoute for today is actually an original from my little brother. It's so rare that he says anything cute these days (like once in a purple with pink polka dots moon rare) that I thought it was blog worthy. What happened was, he was messing around on the keyboard and this message popped up saying he'd activated StickyKeys. He explained to me in his best condesending voice that that is when the keys get all hot and sticky and burn your fingers. And I contained myself until I was by myself and then I busted a gut laughing. And now he's saying that he KNEW what it was, that it was when you press down a key it won't go down. So, yeah, he's quite the computer expert.

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