much ado about nothing
I noticed I hadn't posted for a while, so I figured I'd kill some time and chatter for a while.
First off, I posted a while back asking for suggestions for a history day project, and your ideas all helped me to make a list, and then slowly narrow it down a little at a time. Now that my first dead line is next Monday, I think I've finally settled on a topic, which is going to be the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France, in the 1500's. There's both conflict and compromise, and it should be interesting with not-too-hard-to0find info. Anyway. Thanks for all your ideas, they really helped a lot, especially to get me focused. I suck at picking topics to write about, and it takes me forever to even just get started.
Ok. A little more recently I asked for suggestions on a home-made Christmas present, and as of now I think I'm going to make a Christmas mix CD and then maybe add some other cute thing (like the fortune cookies, or a little personalized stocking) to make it more "special". Thanks for all the ideas on that, too!
On to life. My birthday is in a week and a half! YAY! And it's snowed again in the past few days, which makes it GORGEOUS out there (which even makes up for the awful traffic... almost). And Christmas is slowly coming up. I LOVE December. I think the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is my favorite of the year.
Today I went to volunteer at an organization that sends Christmas presents to children in under-developed countries. It's called Operation Christmas Child, and what they do is ask people to put together a shoe box for a little eboy or girl ages two to fourteen, and then drop it off at a drop-off site. As volunteers, we check that the collected presents don't have any inappropriate things (liquids, because they may spill, and then knives/toy guns/whatever). It's so much fun! You get to look through the shoe boxes and see everything that the kids is going to get... my favorite volunteer opportuinity of the year (except the mission trip).
Anyway. Me and a friend ended up going with the little kids (ie the little crazies that I peer minister) because we couldn't go the day our age group went. It was all fine until the bus ride. Seriously. All I can say is BOYS! See, my friend and I sat at the back of the bus with the boys to "chaperone", kind of, since we are peer ministers, and we figured if we were there we should help out. As soon as we pulled out of the lot on the way home, the rubber band war started. They had HUNDREDS OF THEM. I never got hit, thank God (mostly because I told them if they hit me they would really regret it), but other kids did, and they didn't like it. Luckily, we got it quieted down after a while, which is when target practice ended and art class began. As in, one kid started drawing certain male body parts on the windows of the bus. Others, obviously, started doing it too. Some of the boys erased the drawings, too, though, so it was about a half-and-half deal: half drawing, half erasing. This obviously resulted in wrestling. And traffic is awful, which is why it took a freaking hour to get home. *sigh*. It was kind of fun, though. Boys are funny.
Ok. That was long. LOL!
Oh, except...
Gossip Girl... how much do I love this show? And it's just getting better and better! I love Serena, I love Dan, I love Jenny, I love Chuck, and I LOVE Blair! And Cotillion!!!
I like the adult stuff, and, ooh, does this mean the Humphreys are getting a divorce? I hope so. Out with Allison, in with Lily. And she dumped him for money. And didn't even sound sorry about it... or about him finding out!
Serena and Dan are adorable.
Nate is a jerk.
Aw! I love Chuck/Blair. And he really does like her, in his twisted way. I can't believe he's leaving! Poor angsty rich asshole! I hope they get married and have two vain, selfish little kids!!
First off, I posted a while back asking for suggestions for a history day project, and your ideas all helped me to make a list, and then slowly narrow it down a little at a time. Now that my first dead line is next Monday, I think I've finally settled on a topic, which is going to be the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France, in the 1500's. There's both conflict and compromise, and it should be interesting with not-too-hard-to0find info. Anyway. Thanks for all your ideas, they really helped a lot, especially to get me focused. I suck at picking topics to write about, and it takes me forever to even just get started.
Ok. A little more recently I asked for suggestions on a home-made Christmas present, and as of now I think I'm going to make a Christmas mix CD and then maybe add some other cute thing (like the fortune cookies, or a little personalized stocking) to make it more "special". Thanks for all the ideas on that, too!
On to life. My birthday is in a week and a half! YAY! And it's snowed again in the past few days, which makes it GORGEOUS out there (which even makes up for the awful traffic... almost). And Christmas is slowly coming up. I LOVE December. I think the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is my favorite of the year.
Today I went to volunteer at an organization that sends Christmas presents to children in under-developed countries. It's called Operation Christmas Child, and what they do is ask people to put together a shoe box for a little eboy or girl ages two to fourteen, and then drop it off at a drop-off site. As volunteers, we check that the collected presents don't have any inappropriate things (liquids, because they may spill, and then knives/toy guns/whatever). It's so much fun! You get to look through the shoe boxes and see everything that the kids is going to get... my favorite volunteer opportuinity of the year (except the mission trip).
Anyway. Me and a friend ended up going with the little kids (ie the little crazies that I peer minister) because we couldn't go the day our age group went. It was all fine until the bus ride. Seriously. All I can say is BOYS! See, my friend and I sat at the back of the bus with the boys to "chaperone", kind of, since we are peer ministers, and we figured if we were there we should help out. As soon as we pulled out of the lot on the way home, the rubber band war started. They had HUNDREDS OF THEM. I never got hit, thank God (mostly because I told them if they hit me they would really regret it), but other kids did, and they didn't like it. Luckily, we got it quieted down after a while, which is when target practice ended and art class began. As in, one kid started drawing certain male body parts on the windows of the bus. Others, obviously, started doing it too. Some of the boys erased the drawings, too, though, so it was about a half-and-half deal: half drawing, half erasing. This obviously resulted in wrestling. And traffic is awful, which is why it took a freaking hour to get home. *sigh*. It was kind of fun, though. Boys are funny.
Ok. That was long. LOL!
Oh, except...
Gossip Girl... how much do I love this show? And it's just getting better and better! I love Serena, I love Dan, I love Jenny, I love Chuck, and I LOVE Blair! And Cotillion!!!
I like the adult stuff, and, ooh, does this mean the Humphreys are getting a divorce? I hope so. Out with Allison, in with Lily. And she dumped him for money. And didn't even sound sorry about it... or about him finding out!
Serena and Dan are adorable.
Nate is a jerk.
Aw! I love Chuck/Blair. And he really does like her, in his twisted way. I can't believe he's leaving! Poor angsty rich asshole! I hope they get married and have two vain, selfish little kids!!