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!

Work and Play

So, I keep realizing similarities in my feelings towards working and the feelings I had for soccer during the few months a couple years ago that I actually played soccer.

First of all, for some strange reason both of them make my knee hurt. Working as a cashier and playing soccer don't really require the same physical actions, so I have no idea why this could be but it is. Soccer does take the win though on this down side, because while soccer made me tired and sore, it also made me feel good. Working just makes me really tired and really sore.

Also, there's the whole, "I-have-no-idea-what-I'm-supposed-to-be-doing-but-I'm-supposed-to-be-doing-something-so-I-will" thing. You know when you're thrown into a situation and no one has fully explained anything, but they expect you to do it anyways and hopefully get it right. Yeah, soccer and work are kind of tied with that. You think it may be important when playing a sport to actually know the rules. Likewise, it may be important when serving hungry customers, to know how to serve hungry customers.

In the end, I can't tell if I really love work, or if I really just hated soccer. It's so hard to tell really.

Oh, Computer

Currently, I'm having issues with my computer hating me. I tried to open Word and it wouldn't open. I tried opening it again and it opened but had issues when I tried to open my document. The third time it opened my document, but when I clicked on it to start typing it immediately crashed. Hopefully, the fourth times the charm.

In other news, I'm an evil genius. I have a couple of elaborate and hilarious plans that I'm very excited about. One involves an expensive haircut and a wig though, so I don't know if that will work out well. The other involves going to the midnight premiere of the new Twilight movie. I can't reveal any details because that would ruin my plans, but they will be awesome!

On the not so awesome side, a person dressed as a drop of blood at school to promote our blood drive walked up behind me and started dancing. I was terrified.

Words!

22 pages. 10,087 words. It was officially the longest thing I've ever written probably about 15 pages ago. I feel incredibly accomplished. Thank you, NaNoWriMo, for giving me a challenge, that is challenging, yet fun and goal that I might actually be able to achieve.

In addition to my amazing writing skills, I worked tonight and right about the time where I usually feel miserably tired and like an evil dinosaur that wants to rip every one's head off and just go home and go to sleep, well instead I felt alright. Thank you, time change!!!!

More importantly I met an old man today who told me some very important information. The longest word is "smiles" because there's a mile between the two "s"s. Thank you, old man!

And now it's off to sleep, because I just want to have strange dreams. Like the one about my friends' baby sister and me being covered in glass that I had last night. So. Freaking. Weird!!!

One Of The Best

So, let's just take a moment to consider how awesome I am.

Who else is awesome enough to have a sparkly non-functioning microphone that they can use to lip sync along with songs both great and embarrassingly bad? That's right. There's no hair brush singing for me! I have a glittery microphone.

Also, how many people do you know who actually appreciate being called crazy. I mean, I'm strange. I'm unusual. I say things that don't even make sense to myself. So, call me crazy! It's just like saying that I'm being myself.

I've currently written 7,490 words for NaNoWriMo. I'm so going to get to 50,000!!!

Tonight I'm watching Sailor Moon. Tomorrow, I'm reading Aristotle.

I'm seriously considering going to the midnight premiere of the new Twilight movie for the soul purpose of annoying Twilight fans by rooting not for "Team Edward" or "Team Jacob" but for a really lame character that no one likes. That's just the kind sort of person I am.

Today, my friends and I were talking about scholarships at lunch. One friend said to the other, "You know you're sister can get a scholarship for being left handed." The other friend said, "I didn't know that." Both the first friend and I thought that she meant she didn't know her sister was left handed. I pointed out how ridiculous it was that we assumed that the left handed scholarship was common knowledge.

Also, today, before my sister got home from school I taped a sign to the back of her closet which reads "Narnia is down for maintenance at this time. Please try again later. Sorry for the inconvenience. -Aslan."

Do I really need to go on? I surely could, but it may seem a little self-centered. (That's an understatement. It's a form of satire. Yay, English!)

I'm so awesome.

Lots of Things To Do

I have a lot of things to do this month but all of them are very exciting. Okay, that's a lie, but there is still a lot of fun things going on this month.

First of all I'm participating in NaNoWriMo. Basically, I'm attempting to write a 50,000 word novel by the end of this month. So, far I'm off to a good start. Currently I have 5, 657 words. I don't exactly expect to continue writing at such a quick rate, but still I'm doing good.

Second, I'm going on a college visit this month on the 15th through 17th. It will also be a short road trip and break from school, so that will be awesome. I'm very excited for it.

On the 14th, there is a work call for my school's musical. I'm very excited to finally start working on it!

This month, I also plan on finishing the first half of the math class I'm taking at home.

Also, I'll be looking for lots of scholarships so I can go to the colleges I want to go to.

There's so much more, but basically, every second that I'm not doing something school or work related, I will be writing or sleeping.

It's going to be a long month.