Rain! Rain! oh, for the love of God, don't go away!

It's 60-ish degrees outside and I am jubilant! This morning, I was waiting for the bus, and there were birds singing! And today, on the way home, it started RAINING! Not SNOWING! Huzzah! My mood improves in direct relation to the temperature outside. As far as I'm concerned, the warmer, the better. If I can be anywhere, not wearing a stitch of clothing (not like I actually do that, but for the sake of arguement...), and be perfectly comfortable, then the temperature is perfect. Aaaaanywaaay. Other than the fact that I am about to drop from sleep deprivation, I am a very contented little girl. I think I'll go take a nap now, in my less-than-perfectly-comfortable but still pretty dang nice room. Arrivederci.

Bored, cold, sleepy, and preservative-filled.

I'm such a bored, bored little monkey....And I can't feel my hands or feet. It's like 64 degrees in my house, and I'm freezing. So yup...right now I'm babysitting my 4 youngest siblings and eating pizza rolls and watching A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (aka: the absolute worst show ever.) It's...drab. The pizza rolls are yummy, though. Full of preservatives and trans fat, but yummy. Sigh. Anyhoos, right now about the most exctiting thing in my life is dance for the musical...and sleeping. Oh, the joy of it all...I'm really tired. And I still have to finish up some history homework. So I think i'll go now...byes.

I want it to be spring...

It's snowing AGAIN. It makes me cry inside. All the plain, drab, cold whiteness...nothing interesting to look at...the grey skies... :[
I can't wait for Spring. I remember when I was little, at our old house, we had crocuses and lilies of the valley growing in our front yard, and I would always look forward to those sprouting during the spring. I even made a little tally chart to mark how many had sprouted, bloomed, etc. I loved those flowers...we also had a little red-bud tree in my garden, and I would climb it as soon as it got warm and read Harry Potter books in it. Most of my childhood was spent outside, in my yard and the neighbors', running around barefoot and climbing over fences and trees...ah, good times, good times. Anyhoo, that was enough reminiscing for one post. Bottom line: IT NEEDS TO BE SPRING!

Gots me some catchin up to do...

I'm so sorry, my darling blog, I have gotten a Facebook and neglected you!!! I will set things right in the universe. There is a great disturbance in the Force... so anyways, summary of my life since Thursday!
Friday:
We did singing Valentines at school, which was so much fun. My feet were nearly bleeding by then end of it from running around all day, but still. Uber exciting. I had a solo in several songs, which made me very happy. One downside, though, is then having "Ain't no mountain high enough" stuck in my head since...
Saturday:
VALALALAENTINES DAY! Actually, I usually hate Valentines day. It's so...so....pink. And fluffy. And mushy. And filled with gift-giving obligations. But this one, probably because I actually HAVE a "valentine" this year, wasn't too awful. I got my boyfriend the first things I saw when I walked into Border's (A Beatles photo book, and the Rolling Stone Encyclopedian of Rock and Roll) plus the conventional I-Love-You mushy poem, which he liked. So that...relieved me of gift-related anxiety. He gave me this picture of the London skyline against a sunset, which now adorns my walls and makes me want to go there, and this picture holder thing with my name on it. And chocolate. I loooooves me some chocolate... So yeah. Then we went to Laughing Planet for dinner and played Scrabble and went to The Chocolate Moose (IT RE-OPENED YESTERDAY!!!! I'M SO HAPPY!!!!) and then dropped by Rhino's for their Valentine's day concert. Much fun, much fun.
Today:
Had dance rehearsal from 11 until 3. It was really really fun and frolicky, but now my feet hurt and my quads hurt and I'm sleepy. So Imma go and sit in bed and do Geometry homeowrk and eat my chocolate! Wheee! see yas.

Holy Oh My Gracious Mackeral Cow, this is the most amazing thing ever!

Snazzy stop motion animation+ fishy socks+ pretty germanish song+ overall cuteness=me being a very happy you-tuber.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY&eurl=http://louisvilleportraits.blogspot.com/&feature=player_embedded

Whee!

My platypus had a first name, it's T-H-E-O-Dore!

I haven't been able to be computery lately because I've had a crapload of stuff... on top of being sick with a cold, which sucks in itself, I've had to dance for musical rehearsal, and goodness GRACIOUS do my quads hurt something terrible. I really shouldn't complain, though, because we have to do lifts and dips and stuff, and I'm on the verge of breaking my partner(s). I'm sorry Sam and Gray, wherever you are. So yup. I also have to construct a Roman Senate house for Latin, due Friday of course. Life sucks. Oh, and apparently I should be more "assertive".
Eh? I'm not entirely sure what that entails. I'm more...passive-aggressive. Or just passive. Or just aggressive. I don't know. I get mood swingy. Ok, gotta go and snap my leg muscles now...bah--

happyhappyhappyhappy emily!

WeeeeeEEEEEEEEeeeeeell, the past couple days have definitely been more eventful than my whole last week combined. for one thing, it was WARM!!!!! ALL THE SNOW IS MELTING AND THE WORLD SMELLS LIKE WATER AND CLEANNESS AND I CAN GO OUTSIDE AND NOT GET FROSTBITE AND I CAN TAKE WALKS IN THE WOODS AND I AM SO EXUBERANT! WHEEEEEEE!!!!!! I loooooOOOOOooooove warm weather...I just want it to be tangible so I can give it a big hug. So yeah, I also had ISSMA today. I had my solo at 8 this morning, and despite being initially panicky and sickly and dramatic, I got a gold medal and I think I did pretty well. Plus, all this ISSMA-ing has given me a legitimate excuse to spend long amounts of time with Brian, who was accompanying me. Bwahahahaha. But then our choir's 2 ensembles got silver medals, which pissed me off. I can understand why our first one got a lower score, because none of the basses knew their parts and came in late, but the second one...I thought we did really well! So I am silently crying over this. Pah. Ah well. c'est la vie...I don't think ANY of my ensembles have gotten a gold since like the 5th grade. Actually, scratch that, my trio from last year got a perfect score...but other than that, none of my full-choir ensembles hae ever done particlarly well. It's unfortunate. So now I have a bevy of unsightly silvers tainting the beauty of my loverly gold medals...(dramatic pose).
Weeell, I haffa go now...my brother's having a massive party with all of his 8th grade class over, and I need to go DJ and make sure no one is making out in the basement...woohoo!

Call 1-800-USA-ARMY today.

I can't think of a relevant post title. So I just wrote what it says on my mousepad...
I haven't been up to much lately, other than singing...singing a lot...We've had practice for the musical after school every day now, and ISSMA's coming up on Saturday (*PANIC*). Oh, and I've just written the first decent song I've penned in months. I'm pretty happy about that. Um...there's not been a whole heckuva lot happening, except that it is OBSCENELY COLD outside. I didn't realize it was a 2-hour delay for school today, so I waited for my bus for 20 minutes in that stupid, frosty bitterness. I was not a happy camper. And now I smell like a goat, because Artemis and Flower jumped on me when I went to feed them. Nyar. WeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeell.....unless a chasm in the floor opens up below me, swallowing me into its flame-belching depths, there's nothing else to report. Oh, just a random thought: it's really fun to have conversations where one person is speaking Japanese and the other is speaking German. It sounds really funny. Hee.

Hand-flapping, knee-slapping grood times

I recently got back from my youth group retreat at St. Meinrad monastery. It was really fun. Most of us in the group have known each other since 4th grade or even before, so I think it's cool that we still interact and have seen each other grow and change over the years. I myself am SO drastically different than I was in, say, 5th grade. Back then I was convinced I was highly superior to basically every one else. I was a total prissy know-it-all. AND I hated guys. (*GASPFAINT*). It's really funny, because I'm good friends now with some of the aforementioned guys who I would throw rocks at all those years ago...silly silly little Emily. Aaaaaaaaneeeeeeewaaaay:
The retreat was basically us alternating between prayer-ish things (and that whole "Theology of the Body" talk...=P) and hanging out, being fairly silly. I was sooooo hyper throughout all of it. Emily+Donuts+Chocolate Milk+Cookies=One heckuva scary time. We got to chill out at this coffee bar for like three hours our first night there, and let me tell you, Benedictine monks make some pretty awesome frapechinos (sp?). Some other highlights of the trip include: Me drinking the "Gracey Goodness" and being terrifyingly exuberant afterwards, dolls with red eyes making us shrivel up, "Lightbulbs" (*giggles*), purple hats, "Jacques and the Unisex Bathroom" (but only Jen and I know about that one, I guess), that one allegedly "cute" monk, scandalous Valentine's day ideas, and Sara and I annoying the crap out of everyone with show tunes. Oh, yes, and during the vespers and morning mass, the music was sooooo pretty. Seriously, if we had some tenors like that in OUR choir, I would be the happiest little bug alive. It made me feel all warm and hand-flappy inside.
So yeah. It was a lot of fun. A lot of stupid, random fun. That's what I live for...Who knew Catholics could be this crazy? Hahaha. Only now I'm really sore from trying to sleep on a bus for three hours. Nyeh.
Okaaay, I guess the Steelers just won the Super Bowl. Woot? Nyar? I really don't care. I must say though, the halftime show made me even more hand-flappy than the singing monks. It was epic. X] WeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeell, arrivederci for nows.

Oh my GOSH I just realized that it's February. GASP.