Over the Counter and Through the Woods

I wish that someone could make a cold medicine that could cure the common cold and wouldn't make me act like a crazy person. Let's face it, it's December and there have got to be lots of sick people out there. You just know when you see that person with the distant look in their eyes, walking slowly with a tissue in hand. They get a cough drop or hand sanitizer from their pocket and you avoid them like...well, the plague.

But soon it will all be over and we can walk the streets without fearing the wrath of the sneezing stranger.

(2, 4, 34, 65, 80, 84)

Marshmallows Make Me Melt

My instincts tell me that you are all awesome, but before we officially begin this mission I need you to prove it.
Most likely you will be able to conquer this challenge with flying colors! Make your marshmallows spell, "I love you." Maybe, you'd like to show your loved one this wonderful creation, which is fine with me, but I also need you to send a picture to coleyeverafter@yahoo.com.
Mmmm, delicious.

Most people think I'm strange but that's okay. Mostly I think other people are strange. Might it be that we are all strange?

that is where your mission begins

i can't tell you where the mission will lead you. i can't let you know how long it will take you to get there. i wont tell you what you'll have to do to complete this mission. not yet anyway. just remember to keep an eye out and check back often. the clues will be in my words...

Welcome to My Secret Fort

In a couple of hours I have to go to work. In the morning I'll have to go to school. Next year, I'll be going to college.

I think all of those things in the future are good reasons for me to take a nap in my secret fort that I built this morning and probably isn't all that secret because if my neighbors look through my window they can clearly see it. I'll take a nap in my secret fort though and I'll pretend that I'm somewhere else for just a little while. I'll forget about school and money and all those things called responsibilities and just relax.

I highly encourage you to join me.

If I Fall, I'll Laugh And Insist I Didn't

They've been telling me for years that I have to be the best to succeed. Then they glare at me with judgmental eyes as I doubt every word they say.

Oh, success! Will you ever be mine?

They say that you wont.
They say that I've wasted my life away.
They say I'm too wild and crazy.
They say I need to care more.
They say I need a plan.
They say what I've heard a million times.

They feed me poison-filled lies so that I'll be feared into doing what they say.
For a while I fell for them.....

But not anymore.

I see now that everything I want to be is a failure in their eyes. Still, I'll come back and haunt them with my happiness. I'll baffle their tiny minds with everything I do. I'll amaze the world and they'll do nothing but watch and claim that it's all because they helped me along the way.

But I'll remember.

And if I never come back to baffle their minds, or haunt them with happiness or amaze the world, then I'll still remember and I'll try every single day for the rest of my life to prove them wrong.

Oops, I Did It Again

Stupid title. Now for the rest of this blog, I am going to have Britney Spears stuck in my head. Hopefully you do too, because that would make me feel better.

So, being the kind of girl who had had pathetic crushes on guys that I never had a chance with, I vowed to give any guy who had feelings for me a chance. Unfortunately I've had to break that vow, because apparently I am not that desperate for a prom date.

I guess I've just moved on from that point in my life where I believed that any guy could be my Prince Charming in disguise. Now, I realize that some guys really are just jerks or losers. In fact, a lot of them are! And out of the guys who aren't, most of them are just not going to be right for me. And out of the guys who I actually get along with and think are cool, only one will be that Prince Charming in disguise. The chances are slim and my standards are high.

My chances of finding a date to prom are even slimmer. I think I may be the only girl in school who actually doesn't really care. Cheers for me!

Now, it's back to NaNoWriMo-ing for me. It's what all the cool kids do.

ROAD TRIP!!!!

I am going on a road trip, in which I will actually be driving. This has never happened before.



Sure, I've been on those torturous vacations where the whole family piles into the car and we have to sit with all our suitcases and pillows and snacks and ipods and whatever else can fit in the car, uncomfortably for HOURS!!!



But this will be much different. For one, I am going with my dad only. That means we will have plenty of room to put all of our snacks without them getting in the way. There will be room in that car during those long boring hours.



Secondly, obviously this is not a family vacation. It is a college road trip. I think the words "college road trip" imply that I am in fact old enough to drive. So, on this road trip, instead of staring out the windows for hours and hours, I will actually have the opportunity to drive.



Unfortunately it is a long road trip, but it will be fun. Our more fun at least.



I still need to pack, but I have a little time. Well that's a lie, but I can lie to myself. There are some important things that I would like to say.



First of all, I got a haircut. That is usually not very exciting news, but this is the kind of haircut that's exciting news. This is the kind of haircut where your friends see you and don't recognize you at first. This is the kind of haircut that takes you from being that weird girl who plays with Play-Doh at school, to that hot girl who looks like a movie star (My journalism teacher said Gwennyth Paltrow. I forget who my English teacher said.) I love my hair!

(This is probably not the best picture of me ever, but you can definitely tell how different I look with my haircut)

So that was a major change. It's can be strange to go from the weird nerdy girl to the hot nerdy girl, but looks can be deceiving. I am still weird and usually pretty cold. (That was sort of lamely funny...)

In fact, I am so cold that I bought long underwear, knee high angora socks and a sweater. Mostly because of this road trip. Our destination has a lovely chance of SNOW tomorrow. Never in my life have I lived somewhere that it snows. My purchasing of a winter coat has always been somewhat of a hassle, because I only really need it one day a year...maybe. But now I am going somewhere that it could snow in November...and I have no idea where that old coat is....yikes.

On a totally random note, today my computer decided to have some issues. For a few hours I thought that all the hard work that I'd put into NaNoWriMo would be lost because of a computer virus I managed to catch somehow. Now, it's gone I guess and I have my document saved to a USB drive just in case. I really should get working on that....

I still need to pack though. We're planning on leaving in a couple of hours and I have a lot of stuff to pack. Like every single electronic device I've ever owned and all it's chargers and such. Well, not really, but it feels like it. I should also take my math homework....and that other assignment for the college....and maybe a book....and some movies...Oh and I should buy some music for the road. Oh darn! I am running out of time!!!!

It's time to hit the road, Jack!