Christmas! Already?

Is it just me, or did it seem like to all you guys that Christmas came extremely fast this year? I'm pretty happy its here and all, but it just seems like it came too fast. It doesn't feel like Christmas this year. I guess it didn't last year either.. Living in Bend and not spending Christmas at our own house ever just makes everything feel different. Not waking up in our own house and sprinting down the stairs to our awaiting tree and stockings is something I just miss a lot. But, of course, it was fun this year too! I gave my parents some really pretty original artwork by Sarah Mikolowsky, and I made my grandparents a shadow box. This year I got a Blue Ukulele, some iTunes gift cards (and not to mention some AWESOME new music!), a gift card to Brian's House of Music in Bend, which means I can go and buy the Teal Electric Acoustic Guitar that I want to badly! Its a folk guitar, so its smaller and fits a smaller person better. The guitar I have now is a tad bit large for me, and harder to play. The folk guitar sounds just like any normal acoustic, but its thinner, and better in general for me! Plus it is polished maple wood, teal coloring, a bit smaller, new strings, glossy, and I can't wait to get it! I shall buy it Monday I think! And I cannot WAIT! Honestly, I just want to get home to Bend now. I'm in the valley now, and its great, but there is a new guitar waiting for me!! Heehee! Plus I got this REALLY cool abominable snowman hat! Its so fluffy!

Choir Concerts

Last Thursday I went to my friend Kaitlin's choir concert. It was extremely long, but she did a great job on her solo. A lot of key changes! I went to that with Kate Plotner, and after, her, Joshua, Kaitlin and I all went to cuppa yo for some delicious soft serve frozen yogurt which was great! Now tonight I'm at the Bend Childrens Choir concert. It's an intermission. I want a nap.

Decisions, decisions...

First off, it is incredibly frustrating to have a horribly itchy back, and try and focus on typing at the same time. Unfortunately, I gave my back scratcher to my friend Kaitlin. Therefore, I cannot scratch my back now, and it will remain itchy. Someone hand me a fork.

Alright. So, secondly, lets celebrate! 1. Its the Christmas Holidays! Thanksgiving just ended, now lets bring on Hanukkah, where I get to be jew-ish. HAHA! Get it? Coming up is the actual CHRISTMAS itself! Oh goodie! Happy birthday Jesus! 2. We have made it to a GRAND total of (drumroll.......) TEN WHOLE FOLLOWERS! What? Can it be! YES! It's true! Lets please get more though.

Uhm, shout out also to the Magnificent Person Of the Month (MPOM): This award is something I would like to start giving out once a month to a lovely person in my life (who know's how often I will actually remember to do that! We saw what happened with the 'word of the day.' Yeah, that happend twice. Lame.), and this fine December's award goes to the wonderful Kate Plotner! Ah yes! Another Kate! Although this mention should probably be extended from the first of November to now, because, yes, this fine lady was the driver to Portland to see the stunning Kate Nash, YES! yet, ANOTHER Kate! We are just awesome, might I add. I still daydream about that concert, and its been over a month. So great.... Anyway, Congratulations Kate Plotner! I doubt you read this! So I guess you won't really know... Shame.. But you won, good job!

Now to the actual point of the title, Decisions, decisions. I want to change the name of this blog, since I am not really writing much about pranks anymore. Its horrible, I know. But I just don't get as many opportunities now. And the people I really do want to prank, are just to slick, and get me first. I don't know what to change it too. Maybe I will set up a poll. Yes, that is what I will do! Great idea! I think I will now give myself a pat on the back. Oh, but it is still so itchy. Darn.

KATE NASH!

Two weeks ago I bought tickets to go to a Kate Nash concert in Portland. I've been nearly jumping out of my skin in excitement since then. Last night, I finally got to go! I went with some of my favorite people in the world! Kaitlin, KP, and Maya. It was the best girls Monday night out ever. We left school at 2:45, and drove to Portland. It was beautiful and high deserty the first half of the drive there, then suddenly we hit the valley. Trees popped up, and suddenly the rain was POURING. Hydroplating, trucks washing giant waves on us, and water was all over the place! Thankfully we finally made it to Portland after a long, and quite entertaining drive. There was one stoplight in Portland that we think may have been broken, because we sat there for what felt like hours! Soon enough, we made it to Nicolas's Lebanese food, chowed down on a pita as big as a large pizza, and ate many other fascinating things, like spinach somethings, and hummus, and this other thing.. Descriptive, I know. During dinner, KP looked at us and said, "Oh, and by the way we are staying in a hotel tonight," just as if it was as normal as "Go clean the kitchen Kate." That made us QUITE excited as I am sure you can imagine! Then, we were off to the glorious and magnificent WONDER BALLROOM! We arrived, found Danii, my wonderful friend from back in McMinnville, an original Odd Squadrian, and dug our way thru the crowd, searching for a great spot close to the stage. Eventually we found one in the far left corner. I didn't think it would be all that good of a spot at first.... Until Kate Nash came out on stage and started singing.... SEVEN FEET AWAY. She was AMAZING. SPECTACULAR! FABULOUS! BRILLIANT! TREMENDOUS! EXPLOSIVELY AWESOME! The whole concert was amazing, from the first loud song, "I Just Love You More" to the amazing last song "Pumpkin Soup!" Even the terrifying "Mansion Song" was performed brilliantly too, despite the freakish amount of vulgar and LOUD swearing. But hey, it's Kate Nash. She's awesome! Before she came on, a new British band, Peggy Sue, opened for her. I thought they were absolutely marvelous! Their songs were catchy and upbeat, with many different drum beats, an accordion, and some beautiful guitars! Immediately following the concert, I purchased an adorable, but far too large Kate Nash tee shirt with a bunny on it, and a copy of Peggy Sue's CD - Fossils and Other Phantoms - A high recommendation on my part. The CD was autographed by all three members of the band, and we talked, and it took all my self control not to start talking in a British accent myself. Their accents just rolled off their tongues so beautifully! After the concert, we drove down to VooDoo donuts, and bought ourselves some of the most delicious donuts I've ever tasted! I got a tiny voodoo doll shaped donut, and its always terribly heartbreaking when you have to bite the head off an edible food item that has animal or human characteristics. Soon, all of us being wiped out and knowing that yes, there was school the following morning, and it was three hours away, we drove to the lovely Red Lion hotel, where we exhaustedly lugged in our bags and suitcases and Lebanese food remains into the room. Room 240 I believe. The next morning we woke up at a hearty 5 Am, got together our things, and drove to a little cafe to buy coffee and croissants. These we enjoyed on the way out of Portland, and so began the long, tiring ride home. What a night.

Goals and Goodies!

Ok, so I've been swerving every which way lately, and I decided that I want to get everything in order.

My goals:
> Get my liscense!
> Apply for an Art School
> Raise enough money to pay for gas to go to the Kate Nash concert
> Get better grades
> Get organized
> Participate in NaNoWriMo this year and reach the 50,000 word point
> Move to our own house
(Keep in mind these are long term also.)

My goodies:
> Possibly moving?
> Kate Nash concert (Another possibility)
> Art Schools?
> Taking a class at PoetHouse! (Portfolio Design)


I really need to figure out some ways to raise money. I can only think of babysitting. Any ideas?

Geekin' Hard

Alright. I'm going to take up a post, to be a complete and total geek. I'm not posting this to be fun of, so if you intend to make fun of me, save it for your journal. I'm posting this for those who keep their bit of hidden geek tucked away inside them. Basically, I was on StumbleUpon (if you haven't heard of it, then check it out www.stumbleupon.com) and I stumbled to this website - www.minecraft.net. Basically, its a 3D game (You can play creative mode for free) where you place, and destroy loads of different kinds of blocks that are different types of minerals and ores and soils and rocks and wood and you build yourself mines underground, and skywalks above, and houses on ground. During the day its a lovely scenery, with wild farm animals (cows, pigs, sheep, chickens) roaming around, you can climb up into the trees, and swim in crystal clear water, and just enjoy the scenery. But nights -- Hopefully you spent your lovely day building a fort or shelter of somekind, because at night is when the monsters come out, and you better protect yourself. I was playing this game with my friend Kaitlin the other day. We dug ourselves into a cave, and couldnt get out quickly. Suddenly I saw something, a little glimpse of something greenish above us. It fell into the hole. Suddenly we were both screaming and panicking. Quickly I shut the entrance to the big cave, but the creature was just on the other side of two rocks. It was making the grossest gurgly noises, and we just screamed more and backed away from the computer. That was my first experience of a Zombie. There are also Skeletons that shoot arrows, and these weird things called Creepers that explode, and the spiders. You can see the spiders from a long ways off, because of their red glowy eyes. Now, it isn't the graphics of this game that freak me out. No, its good old 1990's graphics, everythings cubic and not scary whatsoever, its the noises, and the sheer surprise if you fall into the clutches of a mob of monsters. All in all, my brother Sam and I are completely addicted to this game, and we can't get enough of it. Completely obsessed. Of course. :) I really suggest you try it. Honestly.

Bending, Finding, Playing.

1. Knee is OFFICIALLY bendable! Right now on 30 degrees but every Thursday I get to add on another 30 until I have full range of motion -- How SWEET is that? I would say very. But it is SO SORE and stiff from being locked for so long!

2. Journal is FOUND! Apparently I left it at my friend Rae's house... Only I didn't figure that out until 4 weeks later.. Thank goodness it wasn't lost for good though! I missed oh so very much!

3. Playing guitar a lot lately! Bought an electric! Gold Fender with a customized pick guard, and I love it SO MUCH! And I made a sweet strap out of shoelaces for my acoustic :) Its wonderful! Any reccomendations for songs? I could use some!

So, latest news in life -- I reccomend you listen to Sara Bareilles. I just discovered her, and she is the most amazing singer in the world! Top three songs have got to be King of Anything, Gonna Get Over You, and Hold My Heart. Those are from her latest album, Kaleidoscope Heart. Look them up, and you shall fall in love.

My French teacher is a SPAZZ. But absolutely wonderful! We have learned how to say "to suck at" and "the thingy" and all sorts of interesting things. She promises if we make it to French 5, then we will be learning bad words! I can't wait! ;) Or maybe I'll just cheat and look them up. :)

English class the other day. My teacher coughs so hard she pukes. Interesting.. sort of made the class pretty awkward. She didn't spew in class, but ran out with her leaving words being, "I'm going to throw up.... Read chapter 6." Classic English teacher. Mrs. Smith.. Spewy Smith? Eh, thats sort of harsh.. Poor lady. It wasn't even my real english teacher either -- it was a sub! On her first day subbing!

Worst part is the English class reading. The independent classic reading is HORRIBLE. Huck Finn. I do NOT reccomend it. There is no climax whatsoever, and all of Huck's problems get fixed, with absolutely no trouble. Its pointless, boring, and the southern spelling of the words is absolutly impossible to understand! Do not read this if you can help it. Bores you to tears.

I'll try and write more, but due to a LOAD of homework that comes with school, I don't know how often that will be. :| MEH.

Walker!

So, after going to the doc a few days ago to get my bandages removed, I can now officially WALK!!! How awesome is that?! I'm really happy, because hey, thats a lot of PROGRESS! :D I had to completely re learn how to walk tho, just like a baby. Bend's birthday party was a huge success! Such a blast! Big load of fantastic people! Couldn't have been better!

On the downside tho, my journal has gone missing. I havn't seen it for three weeks.. :/ Which sorta worries me, cause who knows where it is and who's hands its in?? EEEEPP!!! :( I really hope i find it soon. I have a lot to write about!!!

Birthday!!

WOW! An entire year has passes since we have lived here in Bend! Ohmygosh! And, I'M 16 TODAY!!! HOLY COW!! I never thought this day would come! :O YESSSS!! Drivers Liscense after this leg of mine heals! 2 days until I get my bandages off, then 2 weeks till I get to bend my knee at a 30 degree angle and can put a little bit of weight on it! YAY!! I'm so glad this is going fast!! :) Phew! Surgery looks like its healing really well! No more swelling, no infection, just healing! No pain either! Thank goodness!

Zoom Zoom!

I'm in a wheelchair now. My friend Kaitlin and I have an open block together. Today, we spent a lot of it 'Zoom Zooming' thru the halls of our school. Basically, when I say Zoom Zoom, and she's pushing, we just go at a full run/wheel through the halls. Why do we do this? One, its quite a thrill, and two, everytime we pass someone, I think we make their day.

No worries though. My wheelchair has a seatbelt. I make sure and wear it. It wouldn't be fun to get in a wheelchair accident or something drastic. Good thing that little seatbelt is there!

Owch.

So really, after examining my x ray a little closer, the docs determined that no, my femur was not broken at all! Instead, my kneecap is broken! The bottom of it, the part that fits between my two other bones, got sheared off, and would need surgery to fix. Two days ago, I went in for surgery. They had to screw the kneecap back together, which involved rolling my kneecap out to do so. That is SO gross! Every bit of the surgery was painful. Even the part where I had to get knocked out. Of course, when I was knocked out it didn't hurt, but getting knocked out hurt, waking up hurt, (I woke up hyperventilating! Who even does that?) So now I'm sitting at home, trying to recover. The pain is awful, but its supposed to get better today. Taking a shower is nearly impossible cause we don't have a bag or rubberband big enough to cover my entire leg. So its kinda difficult, but a shower is nessicary. I feel so gross. Uhg.

Broken?

So, two nights ago I was at a fantastic birthday party, and everyone was dancing to music, and it was so funny and just awesome. I was doing the movie where its like you're pulling something and walking in place but raising your knee up and putting it back down with a lot of force. Out of absolutely NO WHERE my knee just gives out. I can feel it go 'pop, pop, pop' three times. Immediately I crumple to the ground. Then I feel it pop back. And the pain is awful. Not at first, but it builds up. And fast too. Nobody really saw what happened at first, and no one thought anything had happened, so I just tried to crawl on the couch. It was so gross, by straightening my leg all the way to where it would 'lock,' I could feel it pop. It was nasty. I am very squeamish. My best friend Kaitlin's brother Jake, was sitting on the other side of the couch and saw me tearing up and holding my knee. Kaitlin saw too. I personally find it kind of funny that the kids noticed something was wrong before any adults. So Jake goes and gets me a massive bag of ice (Like, bigger than my head massive, and I don't exactly have a small head) and Kaitlin is comforting me also. So the host sees that something is wrong, and gets his friend who has some medical experience with bones. He feels my knee, and let me tell you, it was so swollen and fat. You couldn't see it cause I was wearing jeans, but you sure could feel it. So we thought that I dislocated it, but it just went back into place, and the pain I was feeling was swollen bubbles under the skin, and by flexing and pulling back my leg, I could pop these bubbles. The popping I kept feeling when I extended my knee was actually bubble popping said the doctor guy. I was so relieved to know that nothing was too wrong. But boy did those bubbles under there hurt! So eventually KP loaded me into her car and Kaitlin, Jake, Joshua, me, and KP all went home. I gimped over to the couch, we elevated my knee, and put more ice on it. I fell asleep pretty fast, but I left the ice on when I fell asleep. I woke up around 1:30 and had to gimp over to the bathroom, get out of jeans, and into shorts. I was amazed to actually see my knee. This thing was HUGE. It made my other knee look like a little toothpick next to a redwood tree. It was amazingly huge. So I got back to the couch, put the ice on, and fell asleep again. I woke up again at 4 and my leg felt on FIRE. Not from my actual knee, but the skin did. It was burning! I took the ice off and turns out, by leaving ice on for hours on end on bare skin, you get an ice burn. Its so cold that it burns. And you can't escape it when you can't walk to get anything, and everyone else in the house is asleep. So, I just try and ignore it. Eventually I fall asleep again, and don't wake up till about 8. I go to the doctors at 9, and surprisingly, we didn't have to wait that long. We got into a room within 10 minutes, and I get to sit in the wheelchair I always wanted to be in! Only, then I wished that I could be anywhere BUT that wheelchair. So we get into the little room, and I get these really nice nurses and doctors and x ray ladies, and so it just made the experience better. So they were feeling my knee, and seeing if they could tell what had happened just by feeing. Eventually I went to get an x ray, but it hurt and grossed me out to extend my leg all the way, so they gave me a shot in my butt that would make it so I wouldn't feel the extension as much. The shot made everything loopy and move in slow motion. My eyes moved to look at something, but the rest of the scene had to catch up. So I went to the x ray room, and we took some x rays, and the lady was stern, but there was a sense of humor there so that was good. Later, after the doctors had examined the x rays, they came in and told us what had been going on. Now remember what I mentioned up above farther. I am a very squeamish person. VERY. So they start telling me "oh yeah, so you dislocated your kneecap, and it went allllll the way over there, and on its way back to where its supposed to be, it broke the end of your femur off and now that piece of bone is just floating iin there and your kneecap didn't make it all the way back to your knee." Picture me. According to my mom, my face just drained of all color 'till it was pasty. I felt so sick. And I started seeing black spots and I was about to pass out. To the point where the nurses had to put cool paper towels on my neck and forehead and I had to put my head between my knees. It was so weird! So eventually I felt good enough to get out of my wheelchair and onto the examining table. I put in my headphones to my iPod so that I wouldn't hear anymore gross doctor talk. They put a little shot in my knee to numb it before the big huge shot. That made it much better. Then the doctor popped my kneecap into place completely. Well, almost completely. I still can sometimes feel it pop a teensy bit, and that is absolutely disgusting. But that is only if I lock it. So I avoid that. Then they ace bandage me up, and put on a GIGANTIC leg brace/splint. It goes from just above my ankle, to half way up my thigh. Its huge. It keeps my knee from bending. So that the kneecap stays there and heals back in there. No wonder my knee hurt so bad that night. I broke it. Who breaks their knee? Only I could do that. By dancing, a harmless dance. I wasn't even twisting my legs or anything! It just randomly gave out. It was so weird! I felt bad, like a total party pooper. And then asking for so many things since I couldn't get up to do them myself. See, I am not the most flexible (not physically, but like mentally) person, and I'm very independent and don't like it when people are constantly doing things for me. I just end up feeling really bad! I think that I broke my knee so that I could learn to actually let people help me, and to learn to be more flexible. This is going to be a long few months. I'm just SO glad that this is starting right before the school year. Right before ski season (it starts in like 3 or 4 months) and if I'm lucky I will heal before that. I won't get to swim anymore this summer. Or bike. Or even walk. I got what I always wanted. Crutches. I don't want them anymore. Also, why do I always break the biggest bones in my body? Last time it was my Humorous (that big bone in your upper arm) and now my femur (that big bone in your upper leg)! This is ridiculous!

OK, this is embarrassing.

Well, I just really want to get on Facebook, cause I've got nothing to do. I can't even play guitar cause everyone is sleeping. :( So, I decided I would limit myself, to only checking it in the evenings, rather than staying on it all day. Only once in the evenings is not a bad habit. I think this will be a better challenge to take on. :/

Surfing?

I had the strangest dream last night! I learned to surf! I was swimming in the water to swim to my board, and a big wave came, and so I dunked under the water, and I was scared a little bit cause I couldn't touch the bottom and I was in the ocean and I was scared about sharks, but then the wave passed, and I saw another one building up, so I climbed on my board, but I couldn't stand up on it, so instead I just sat on it like I was riding a horse and tried to not fall off as I rode this insanely huge wave to shore. When I got to shore, my dad pulled me out of the waves, and we were laughing about how stupid I looked riding the surfboard over the waves and screaming, but then we were panicking cause we couldn't find my wedding veil, and I didn't know anything about a wedding, but I guess I had a veil, and I remembered that the veil is a very important part, but then we found it only slightly tattered against some rocks. I think I went out a few other times, but when I woke up, and for the whole day, I just couldn't stop thinking about it. Now I really just want to go surf! There's only a few problems with that though... I live 5 hours away from the coast, and I lack something important.. an actual surfboard. And I've got a bit of a fear of sharks... seeing as they usually tear things apart and are meanies. So... with that, I guess I won't be surfing anytime soon. :| Dang.

Day 3 - No Facebook.

Its starting to get difficult. Its not just the boredom thats killing me over here, its the thought that what if someone needs to get ahold of me for an event or something, or important information and don't have my email or phone number? I feel like I am kind of disconnected from the rest of the world... Anyways.

Today, without Facebook, I did:

Spent the morning with my friend Kaitlin
Spent the afternoon with my friend Maya
Practiced guitar
Skyped a lot
Took a shower
Watched Moonstruck
Caught a mouse (ick!)
Got invited to a party

And now I am blogging. So what a jam-packed day! All facebook free! Its so nice, even though its difficult not to stray to it.

I'm really proud! I had a bad addiction to it! Its easy to stay away from Facebook if you are camping, or away from civilization and electronics for awhile, but, when you are just sitting at home, bored to tears, and your computer is just sitting there, its REALLY difficult. But quite satisfying knowing another day has gone by and I didn't get on! I encourage other people to try this challenge!

Facebook - Buh Bye!

I find myself having a bit of a Facebook addiction, and its sucking away all my creativity, so I am seeing how long I can go without it. Today was Day 1!

Day 1 - 8/24/10 at 1:30 pm.

Lets see how long I can go without it. It's been very difficult today. I've found myself bored multiple times. Rather than retreating to Facebook 'real quick,' I built a fort with my brother, adventured to a concert for Clear 101.7, played guitar, watched Coraline and a lot of The Office, cleaned the house, and put an offer on a new house we may get! Big day, and all spent without Facebook.

Let me clarify, that my real start of this was yesterday, 8/23/10 at 10:03 pm. I only got on today to set my status as something like "Kate Kennedy... is seeing how long she can go without Facebook. Goodbye." and to wish a friend Happy Birthday. Now, I am gone for good. Well, as long as I can go. I took it off my bookmarks, off my iPod, and blocked email/iPod notifications. I am off the radar. So long!

Adventure!

So tonight, late, about 9:10 pm, my brother Sam and I heard music from our house. It was distant, but hearable. At first it sounded like music coming from a house down the street, and we thought someone was having a party. Then my dad said, 'No, thats coming from a concert down at Old Mill.' So then we drove down to Old Mill to check it out. When we got there, we heard absolutely nothing. It was silent. But we saw a lot of cars driving away, so naturally, we thought the concert had just ended and people were leaving. So we drove home, and we heard the music again. So I said, "Yeah, I think it is a party." and then my mom said "Maybe it is coming from Cascade (the middle school by our house)." and she told us to go walk down there and check it out if we wanted. So we started walking. Now, to get to cascade from our house is about 10 minutes. So we got there... and it was dark, and sorta creepy, and nothing was going on at all. But we definitely heard the music louder. So we kept walking. We hopped this tall fence, and started walking through all this land. Past Cascade, then Past 7 Peaks (Another middle school) and we did some trail creating of our own. We leaped over sagebrush, got poked by a lot of prickles, climbed a few more fences, crossed a unknown busy street, that in daylight I probably would know. Then we finally heard the music loud and saw lights. And a stage. But in the distant. We slid down this big dusty hill, and finally got there. Standing in the parking lot, I realized where we were - The Bend Athletic Center - about a 20 - 25 minute walk from our house if you count all the bush whacking and trail making. Everyone was leaving, right as we got there the concert ended. There must have been 300 people there. I think it may have been a paid concert, so when we saw a gate open, and no one gaurding, we snuck in. There was this one guard there that was looking at us like we were young ruffians and didn't belong there. Out of no where, my brother says just loudly enough for the guard to hear, "Mom? Dad? Where are you guys?!" and I was just dumbfounded. He thought of that by himself! I always thought him to be a goody two shoes, but his rebellious side just shined. I am so proud of him! He's learning well. :) So we get past the guard, and into the concert, and there is a LOT of litter on the ground, and a big stage with lights and such all over it, and it was so cool! Then we left to go home after about 5 minutes of exploring. We took a different route, but it was pretty adventuresome also! Keep in mind, all of this is being done in the black of night! So it was creepy just climbing through unknown forest! AHH!

Puke.

So yesterday, I was downtown with my friend Nicole, and we were having a swell time! We were walking and talking and decided to go to Cuppa Yo, which is a frozen yogurt shop that is freakin' delicious, and so we walked the long, sweltering hot walk there. Now I know that I was probably getting pretty dehydrated in the hot sun, and wasn't thinking about it then. So then, I had already eaten a HUGE lunch that day. A avacado/chicken sandwich, a bowl of instant oatmeal, and a bagel and a piece of chocolate so I was already freakin' bloated. So then we get to Cuppa Yo, and I can't resist so I get this HUGE thing of FroYo and cover it in toppings of snickers, and heath bar, and strawberries, and rasberries, and chocolate syrup. And I eat ALL of it. And it was BIG. So then we walk all the way BACK to downtown, and I am so full, like its painfully full, and I just kinda wanna throw up so I would feel better, but also not cause barfing is like the thing I am scared of most in the whole world. So we walk through downtown, and get a big thing of water, which I chugged far too fast, and made it all worse. Then I start getting that feeling where you know that you are going to probably throw up, and you feel the sweatyness on your face and you get overly hot, and dizzy, and light headed, and super nauseous, (spelling?!) and knew, I was going to barf. So I'm in the middle of downtown, and I get up real fast and go lean over a tree cause I feel it, and I do a few dry heaves, but nothing come up, and this guy walks past and says "gee, I didn't think I was THAT ugly!" and I didn't hear him but Nicole did. I sure hope he said it jokingly! So I am like FREAKING OUT cause like I said, I HATE barfing with a fiery passion.

So then I finally get my strength back enough to try and stumble to the garbage can on the end of the block. Im like 7 feet away from it and a few big dry heaves come and I cover my mouth with my hand cause I think its about to come up, and some people walking by were like, "uh oh! you can make it!" and like trying to be all supportive. Then I am leaning over the trash can, but nothings coming up, and I am starting to feel a little better, and a girl from my school walks by and says, "Its alright! Everything is gonna be alright!" kinda jokingly like shes trying to make me feel better, and I yell back, "I'll be alright! I just ate way too much!" but the yelling does me no good so I let my head drop back to the garbage. But nothings coming out. Just burps. Lots of them. Finally I feel like I'm not gonna puke, and I sit down against against a tree and try to get my mind to stop spinning, and all the while my friend is just kinda standing there like, "uhh this is so embarrasing.. what am I supposed to do! ahh...!" and I felt so bad! Good grief it was SO embarrasing!! Uhg! Ha ha but it makes a fantastic memory! HAHAHAAHAHA! Stupid food.

Day at the Lake!

So today, my family and I and my grandparents went to Sparks Lake. It was a beautiful day of a lovely 73 degrees! Absolutely b-e-a-u-tiful day! We packed everything up onto the car (4 bikes, 3 inner tubes, and 2 kayaks) and drove off. Well the bike bringing was a bust. No bikes were allowed on the trails.. so that was pointless. Although they kayaks were fun! I was the first out on the kayaks, and I paddled out to a little island out in the lake. It was made completely of big rocks jutting out of the water. I docked the boat and climbed ashore. It was so pretty out there! Absolutely amazing! Eventually after exploring the island, I got back into my kayak and paddled away. Then I came back and ate. And had snickers bars. Oh yum! Wow, isn't THAT exciting. Heh heh.. Now the water in the lake is absolutely FREEZING. But I had been sitting in the sun for a while, widdeling away at a stick I had found, and was extremely hot. So i decided I was gonna jump in. I climbed out to a high rock that led to deep water, and was spazzing out cause suddenly, I didn't really want to get in that freezing water. But now this other lady on the other side of the little inlet of the lake that was kinda like a swimming hole was watching and cheering me on along with my brother, so I knew i couldn't back out. I counted down and jumped. Longest jump of my life. Well not really that long, but I sure had enough time for a lot of thoughts to go through my head. "oh noooo, here it comes! its gonna be cold! crap why did i jump!? ahh! THATS SO COLD!!!" and then i was in the water, and it was over my head. My head hurt so bad from the cold. It was so freakin icy! but once I had gotten over the brain freeze and eventually emptied my nose from all the icy lake water that had shot up it, it was really fun, and my body was so numb that I didn't even feel the cold! So i did some more rock jumping, and my bro jumped in, and it was all good! Finally it was time to go. I fell asleep partially on the way back, and now I am nice and clean, and know that Sparks Lake, is a SUPER fun lake to go and explore!

New Layout!

Don't be confused! This is still the one and only Kate Kennedy's blog! Pranks R Us! Just got a new layout! I like this one! Not as... Green..

And Life Moves On.

Drama, drama, drama. I'm done being involved with it. Yes, I know its very VERY difficult to avoid it unless I decided to be a hermit up in the hills, and I think that I am far too social for the hermit idea to work out, but there MUST be a way to avoid MOST drama. Drama at home, drama at school... what other drama is there? Driving drama? Yes, I will attempt to avoid that too.

But I'm totally, and utterly sick of it. So I think I'm just gonna avoid it. And somehow I will figure that out. And you know what? Its really not the end of the world, even though at times I did think it was. If it doesn't kill you it will make you stronger. And revenge isn't any good way to handle anything, although it may be the most funnest choice, its not the smartest, cause it will come back and bite you in the bum. I recently learned that forgivness is better, thanks to one of my closest friends. It works a lot better. As quoted by Mahatma Gandhi, "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." Basically, if we just take and eye for an eye, then everyone just ends up unhappy and frumpy. Not anyones favorite two things.

I recently learned that rather than blow up and be a 'crazy person,' just write it down whats bothering you. And so I've been practicing that. So that is nice. Arguements cool down and are MUCH easier to just avoid all together. In fact, since I got back from camp last friday, everything about life here in Bend has generally just rocked, besides the fact that KMD is gone for SO long. Come back friend.

Oh my, I write so little on this blog lately. But when I do, its a lot huh. Ah.. maybe it all just piles up into a big jumbled mess in my brain, then it all spills out, and voila, I can think again. I'm ready to get more info into my brain now, thanks! By the way, just a little selfish moment here, I want more followers. How do some people end up with SO MANY followers, and then there are just these little blogs filling in the cracks? So confusing. I like these little ones better.

Happy Living!

Obsessions... and collections.

My Obsessions:

> Lily Allen, Kate Nash, Lenka, Regina Spektor
> Food
> Magazines
> Harry Potter
> All music
> Memories
> Friends
> Family

My Collections:

> Magazines
> Books
> Harry Potter stuff
> Pencils and Notebooks
> Bags
> Clothes hangers.... I don't mean to collect them, they just all end up empty in MY closet!
> Prank Equipment (well no duh!)

And sometimes I will go to Target, buy a lot of cheap junk/comfort food, and hoard it away in my room... but is hoarding really collecting? I don't think so. Because I don't "collect" food, i just "hoard" it...

So how's life for you all? Good I hope! Hope your all hanging in there. Only a few more days of this school year! Can you believe that it is almost over? Today is my brothers birthday and I am SO excited! We got him some pretty sweet presents, and I made him a gnarly card! We got Ida's Cupcakes for him and we are all going to celebrate tonight! He's 12! :O When did that happen? Next year, ONE YEAR, he will be a TEENAGER! HOLY FREAKIN S WORD! Well anyways...

Finally the drama of Freshman year is cooling down and coming to a stop. I'm not entirely pleased with how everything turned out, but I am happy again, and thats what really matters? I wish I could help one person though. But if I even try to talk to them, or anything, I just get put down. I know I should feel anger toward them for what they have done, but I just can't. I feel more.. forgiveness I guess. And I am a person that just, likes to help other people. Its hard for me when I see someone who looks like they may be in need of help, and I just can't help them. I guess I ought to just cut them loose, and let them sort it out, and their close friends help them out. I don't know. I'm not a wise wise person. Sometimes I am, but right now, Im more.. confused.

NEW YORK! I get to go to New York in October!!! Do you KNOW how excited I am?! I've never been there before, and that is the place I've wanted to go to the most! I just absolutely LOVE all the Broadway shows, and lights of it that I see in the movies, and I can't wait to go and experience it for myself! Its going to be so great! Just me and my mom! It will be amazing! Eating primarily street vendor food, seeing shows, experiencing the museums (MOMA and Museum of Natural History), exploring Central Park, and what I personally cannot wait for, is to re do my version of "Thats How You Know" from Enchanted in Central Park. My own little happy place! I want to see the EXACT place where Giselle climbed out of in the movie Enchanted. I need to see that. Smack dab in the middle of Times Square. Oh yes, that will be the day. And this summer I get to go to Disney Land with my youth group, and then in 2 summers, my family MIGHT get to go to France for 2 months!! AHHH!! I've never left the U.S so this is BIG! And I will get to visit our French exchange student, Josephine! :D Woot woot!

Well, I think I shall go explore the many pages (News feed, profile.. and thats about it..) of Facebook. Have a nice day world!

I Could Say...

I could say that I'll always be here for you
But that would be a lie and quite a pointless thing to do
I could say that I'll always have feelings for you
But I've got a life ahead of me and I'm only 22

Since you've gone I've lost that chip on my shoulder
Since you've gone I feel like I've gotten older
Now you're gone it's as if the whole wide world is my stage
Now you're gone it's like I've been let out of my cage

You always made it clear that you hated my friends
You made me feel so guilty when I was running round with them
And everything was always about being cool
And now I've come to realize there's nothing cool about you at all

I do like this song. It's SO catchy. You ought to look it up. By Lily Allen by the way. My dad says her voice is like butter... whatever that means. But her voice is beautiful. Kinda creamy. Ohhhh.. butter is creamy.. thats why. HA! I get it. Anyways, look up this song. Its beautiful.

System Shut Down. Please Restart.

Restart. End of the year WILL end fantastically and with a HUGE BANG! Its going to be great! No matter WHAT happens I WILL make it great and have my great friend Kaitlin help me! In fact, I am going to have ALL my friends help me make this last 5 months AWESOME. Lets start by restarting my system.

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Hello, my name is Kate Ellen Kennedy.
I love to sing, laugh, write, have deep conversations, listen to music, draw, do anything artistic, and eat.
I love my life. Sure, a few little bumps in the road can make you hurt a little, but I know that I have gotten much stronger and more mature this year. I feel a lot wiser. And like I have become a completely different person from last year. Last year, I was kind of crazy. I have basically the same sense of humor. But I didn't know stress or what tough was. And I think I have a better clue now. But I got through it, and I feel a lot better. Tomorrow night is the Tri-Schools Dance. (Reminds me of the "Tri-Wizard Tournament..." YAY!) I will dance away all my troubles. Everything will go RIGHT as they have this week. This has been a fantastic week at school. I cannot wipe the stupid grin off my face. Thanks Jane. ;) Your amazing.

Much love, The cheery, new, wiser, yet cretinous Kate Kennedy. Talk to you all soon.

The Latest!

So I decided to do something. I wrote myself a letter, addressed to my future self, and I am gonna open it years from now, and then write my next future self another one! And just keep going all my life till the end when I can look back and see all the things that happened through out my life. I am also keeping a journal, but I have been doing that. Its fun to go back and read some of the stupid things that you write. My favorite entry is in kindergarten, "I hate mushrooms." Oh wasn't it great when that was the worst thing that was happening in your life? Being forced to eat your mushrooms. Those were the good old days. But everything is better now. Although lately it seems as if everyone is growing up ahead of me. Its a tad bit annoying. I'm not gonna list all those things, but there are quite a few! Its very annoying. Although, I don't want to grow up all the way and become a serious adult to fast, I do just want to be treated like a 15 year old, not a 7 year old. ;) But I like being a cretin. Its fun. Oh guess what! I am, once again, in Freshman Acadamy typing this up. My teacher gives us assignments that are supposed to last the entire class period, but they are really easy for me (learning word, powerpoint, and excel! :P) and so I just finish them in about 20 minutes then have the rest of the class to just go on the internet, blog, play bubble shooter/uphill rush. Its a great block to just kinda hang out. Its nice just to stop worrying about all the stress of other classes and let it out with a nice game of bubble shooter. That sounds quite lovely. I am not a fan of excel. Nope nope not one little bit. Blech! I wish I had a remote to stop time or fast forward or something like that. But then I remember the movie, Click, and I decide, nope I do not want one of those remotes. That movie made me start crying SO hard at the end. I am not gonna give anything away, but that movie, goodness I just bawl my eyes out. Its so sad! OH MAN! A girl in my class just went out to her locker and came back with cookies and gatorade. And they are not for sharing and I am hungry and that cookie is deliciously huge and looks warm. (drools a little...) I just love food. I am a never ending food disposal. Anything you put in front of me I will eat. Great.

Ouch Charlie.... that really hurts!

Have you seen that video, "Charlie Bit Me?" If not look it up. Its on youtube. Its basically a little boy and his baby brother, and the little baby is named Charlie, and the older brother sticks his finger in Charlies mouth and the boy laughs and pulls it out. Then he does it again, as if he didn't learn the first time, except this time Charlie bites down hard and the little boy is actually in pain.

The first time hurt a little, but it didn't learn its lesson, and it just put themself in that situation again, but the next time actually hurt, and it was harder to get out of this one.

Will it be able to get through this. To persevere through? Will I be able to get through this?

Words hurt.

February 7th

This is an important, VERY important day. Because it is Thea's birthday. Woo!!

Sitting in History

We're done with our history project two days early. YES!!! We as in me and Thea. So, because of our unusually fast knack of finishing stupid history projects, we sat back and relaxed. Well i wouldnt exactly say relaxed. We actually got really stressed out. We played some intense games of bubble shooter (www.bubbleshooter.net) and actually BEAT the game. I bet you didn't think that you could actually beat it, huh? Well guess what buddy, you CAN! And we did. Thea says that she beat it first, but that was just today. I have beat it more times than I could even count. So HA Thea. We decided that not beating bubble shooter is the cause of war. I bet that its also the cause of global warming and world hunger. Thats what I bet. So then to make everything better, we were jamming out to Lily Allen! Oh how I love her music! Especially the songs Flowers and Butterflies (code name), Who'd have known, and Everyone's at it. Those are great songs. Oh and Him. Thats a good one too. Then at the beginning of the class period, like maybe 20 minutes in, I got really bored and texted Annith, and we both got out of our classes and she told me the Mango (its capitalized for a reason!!!) story, and then we saw a cool poster and we wanted to see who made it, but the name was written on the back, and then Annith accidentally tore it off the wall... it was really funny, because then a kid came by and said "Annie what did you do this time?" It was great. But then we found out who made it and it was all good. :) And we saw a picture of Finland, and found out that it looks like a lady with one arm. So that is our new greeting toward each other. It kinda looks like we are mental. But hey, so what?
And another good news for ya! Its all better now. Everything that has to do with Bend, Oregon. Not necesarilly McMinnville stuff, but Bend is good. We are good. I was just making stupid assumptions. I'm sorry for that. Assumptions really stink. Thats probably why they start with "Ass"(umptions). Oh ha ha ha, la de da de da! I cracked myself up! But yeah, me and Annie "went to the bathroom" (got out of boring classes) and you know, time really does fly when your having a good time. Because suddenly 20 minutes went bye... I must've realllllyy had to go to the bathroom. Annie said that I should just tell my teacher that I was having a problem. But you know. 20 minutes? I don't think so. Thankfully, when I walked back in I was reallllly quiet about shutting the door, and the teacher didn't even notice and I got away with it! Phew! Oh! I just could have said that I ate a LOT of food yesterday and thats why I was in the bathroom for so long! ahahahahahhahah!! Actually I spent the day yesterday feeling rather sick. Kinda pukey. But i didn't barf. Phew! Thats like my biggest fear. Like bigger than death. or beetles. Or spiders.
Then Saturday night, Kaitlin spent the night, and they (kaitlin and josephine) spent their time talking to me in my sleep. I guess the first time that I fell asleep, they came up and talked about the most random things. I dont remember nearly any of this, due to the fact that I was asleep, but Kaitlin said that she put her hand on my back and then made it feel like there was a spider crawling up my back, and then i guess i started swating at it. Oh dear me. Then i woke up. Then I fell back asleep and they turned off the light and I guess i really wanted it on, and so as they said it, i got up and then frantically turned on the big light, not just the lamp, then collapsed on Josephines suitcase. I never woke up during this. Apparently, later in the night, I had a really deep conversation with Kaitlin. I only remember what Kaitlin told me I had done. Thats it. But I guess it was really deep. Ha ha ha! I wish I was awake so that I could remember it and talk about it more. Oh dear. Well kaitlin recorded parts of it with her phone. Man, these posts sure do get long!! Well, historys almost over. But I am coming right back here cause I have stupid old freshman acadamy class next. Meh! Byee!

Ever So Confused!

I whip out my phone.
I must tell my friend that something funny has happened.
I scan through my contacts until i reach the name i need.
I press the button.
I begin to type out my message.
But then I remember,
What happened yesterday.
At the mountain.
That awkward conversation.
Just normally talking.
Then a statement that hurt.
Not a bad pain.
Just like a tiny sliver that sticks out.
But its enough to hurt,
When it is sent by one of your best friends.
The conversation just ends with,
"Oh thats unfortunate for you."
"Yepp."
"Sorry about that."
"Yeah..."
And it ends there.
Now its today.
I text her.
But theres no response.
Later i try again.
Nothing.
Again?
Zip.
Eventually I confront the problem striaght up.
But that is after people are telling me that they have been texting back and forth.
Still nothing.
Is her phone dead?
Am I being ignored?
Why is there this tension between friends?
Oh please not again.
I could not go through this again.
Not after the Fall and Winter.
Back home things arent any better.
I go back next weekend.
But I dont know who I will see.
I know I will see the people.
But I don't know if I will really see them, or just shadows of what they were.
Its all changed.
Its all different.
I doesn't need to be.
But one bad choice changed it all.
I am out of the loop.
At the sleepovers.
They converse about people who i have never heard of.
At their school.
And I try and tell them about my friends, that they have never met.
Its like an invisible wall blockaded between us.
We can only really talk about past memories.
And memories can run out.
We can just keep talking about them.
But nothing new has happened.
And now bad memories are attacking and slaughtering the good ones.
Because of that one single bad choice.
Everything will be different when I go back.
And school tomorrow.
How will i confront my friend.
Who hasn't responded.
That doesn't make them a bad person.
No, not at all.
It just leaves me wondering.
What have I done?
I don't recall saying anything offensive.
Am I just too immature for her taste?
Since when was there a race?
Does she want to get wrinkles first?
Too me, i would pass.
I dont see the rush to grow up.
I think.
And think.
But I cant think of anything that i have done.
So i sit in silence.
Staring at my phone.
Nothing.

Josephine!!!

Josephines here! She is the foriegn exchange student that we are hosting for 3 weeks! She came on sunday night and just to let you know, shes AMAZING! Her accent is brilliant, and she speaks very good english! In P.E class today, we were playing Badmitton, and she was REALLY good! And then I was also playing with Riley, Micaela, and Nicole too, and we were laughing a lot! And now Micaela and I, well we are always battling to see who can get out first, since we are playing it rotatingly. Ohh, good word... :D But it was the best P.E class ever! My foot hurt really bad from doing some radical ninja moves down 7 stairs last week, and it still hurts and I might have to go to the doctor! MEH! But I was able to get around my foot and still have a great time! Best class ever! Besides theater arts. Thats a prettttty great class due to the awesome people that are in it! (And their nose blowing dancers... cough cough... you know who you are!!!) WOOT OWOT! But sadly I only have 2 good classes out of all 6 of them. The stupid classes are Math (GAG! Thanks Maya and Annie for rescuing me!!!) and Science, which can be fun, but it depends on the experiment. And then I have history, and there are some fun people in that class (Thea, Hayley, and Maya!!) and we all have a great time calling my History teacher who just grew a beard, "Beardy, Ryan from the Office, or Dundledort, which he thought was Voldemort cause we called him that once too, but he mixed Dumbledore and Voldemort together. I quite like the name Dundledort! Its fun to say! Hahahaha! YAY! Five more minutes of class! Oh yeah, and I have stupid Freshman Acadamy too! Oh YAY, lets learn about TYPING! My FAVORITE subject. Shoot me. This friday the whole lot of my friends and I and Josephine are all going Roller Blading and I am really excited too! Although I will probably fall on my rear a lot. I'll just wear a pillow maybe. Unless Freddy comes. Then I wont. But I don't think he is coming. Loser. Probably scared he will fall on HIS rear. That'd be great. HA. HA. HA. And then Wednesday, we are all coming back to my house then going to the Mr. Thunder pagent, and I am realllly excited for that because I saw the boys dance at the Battle of the Sexes assembly. Ohhh and I had the most amazing conversation via texting with my great friend Kaitlin. I would just call that texting conversation, "Experimentation." If only you could see those texts. I was gonna die laughing. And we were on opposite sides of town. AHHAAHHA.

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter everyone! It's gonna be a great day! And later tonight, Josephine, our French exchange student comes! We are gonna pick her up at the Redmond airport at 9:00!! I am so excited! She is staying for 3 weeks and it gonna be totally awesome! She will shadow me in all my classes and so everything with me! It's going to be so fun!
So two nights ago was the 80's dande at Summit, and it was soooo fun! I got ready with my amaaaazing friends Kaitlin and Maya at my house and then aye cheese fondue followed by chocolate fondue! Then we went to the dance and met up with Annie, Coleman, Rae, Leigha, and Hannah! It was so great! Even though Kaitlin(NEWBIE!!) and Hannah won! Uhg! I came in 3rd and Annie was 4th. It was really funny! Haha! Then after the dance most of is went to Hannah's house for a big fun slumber party, but then we all went upstairs to go to bed, and I got there last, and Hannah already got the top bunk, and Annie and Kaitlin got the bottom, so I decided that I would just sleep on the edge of the bottom bunk at the foot of the bed. But then there was no more blankets so I pulled up a fuzzy rug and covered myself with it but it was small and I had to scrunch up. Then Kaitlin and Annie couldn't stretch their legs out so Annie went to the top bunk with Hannah and I moved to annies spit and we were all good! Oh and at the dance we had the most amazing dance moves for the song TiK ToK! It was preeetyy great! And now it's Easter and this weekend has rocked! Woot owot!

Stuck in here.... Again.

Here I am, stuck in stupid old freshman acadamy, once again. We are supposedly learning how to make power points, (Oh wait, I learned that in 4TH GRADE!) but I finished within 10 minutes of him explaining it to me. I said I had to go to the bathroom earlier, so that I could see if I could catch my friend Annie and see if she was running in the halls for P.E yet, but she was still stuck in the gym. Aww Poo. I was going to tell her, "Woot owot! The dance is THIS friday, not NEXT! Can you belive its so soon! Ahhh I am so excited, we need to get 80's clothes!!!!" But no, she was in there sitting on the bleachers waiting for Mr. Wilkins to call attendance. Curse you Annith if you are reading this. HAhaahahaah. So anyways, do do do.. what to blog about. Well, I havn't really caught you up on much lately, ever since the maniquin heads. :D Hah, that was fun. So... I went skiing with my friend Kaitlin about 3 weeks ago, and it was really funny cause she was a snowboarder, and so she hadn't been up for a while, and we went on some rather largeish jumps, and we just got to the top, and didn't jump, but slid down them, but she didn't exactly stay on her snowboard. She ended up on the first jump sliding down penguin style, and on the second, on her back with her arms and legs in the air. She said that the people on the lift were cheering for her. HAhahahah I wish that could've happened to me! But I ski.. Yeahhh... (Pssstt.. skiing is better.... ;) Well, unless you hit a secret ROOT by a TREE WELL..... HINT... HINT....) So then a few weeks ago was the tropical tango dance, and it was WAY fun! I went with Annie, Kaitlin, Maya, Hannah, and Riley, and we met up with loads more people when we got there, and we were all singing along and dancing and it was really fun! Then chubs asked someone specific to dance... but she said "no, I have to stay with my friend," (the friend was me) and he looked all sad and now whenever he sees her in the halls, he looks all forlorn and dissapointed. But it was pretty funny. Then this sophmore with this huge mountain man beard kept staring at me through the whole dance! It was SO weird. He does that at every dance I have been to except for the Glow Dance, but that was like two weeks after school started and there has been a lot of dances since then. And it has been really weird and I am about to the point of maybe telling him off at the next dance which is THIS FRIDAY!!! Apparently is theme is "80's Lazer Dance" Oh yeah, makes SO much sense right. Cause Lazers and the 80's go RIGHT together.. yeah, no. But I don't care! The dances are my favorite part about High School! Maybe sleepover after it? At my new house!!!!! YES!! Haha, my family and I just moved into our new house and it is SO nice and its not the crummy rental and I LOVE IT! My room is the warmest room in the house which is a good thing because I am always cold! And its SO colorful! So Annie and I hung out at the beginning of spring break, and we decided to make a club that took place usually in my neighbor hood, becuase there are all these little forts and a pool and a pretty pond in it that we could hang out at, and its called, Xim Chaos! It stands for eXciting Individuals Making CHAOS! XD I love it! (Thanks Annith! HA) If you would like to learn more about this fantasticly amazing club, please go to www.ximchaos.blogspot.com for more information. :) Its gonna be totally awesome!!! Lets see... what else has happened. Holy mackeral! This is a LONG post! Maybe I should stop and just start another one. :) TTYL!

Baker. UHG.

I AM IN BAKER.
Dusty, tiny Baker City. My G-Dawg Grandpa is here in this town that is falling apart. That is the only good thing about Baker. He owns a store thats named after the family, Kennedy's East Side Grocery and its kind of like a 7 11 but smaller and not a chain store. Usually we get to work in the store but he is sick this weekend so we arent really. Today, in the back, there were giant heaps of empty beer and pop bottles and cans, and i had to sort through them and put them into their different boxes, and let me tell you, there are A LOT of different types of beer and pop, and with a mixture of beer, pop, and ciggarettes stuffed into empty beer cans, well that jut isnt the best smell. In fact, i was gagging and coughing most of the time and it just was not that great. I think i will smell like a mix of those three disgusting things for the next few days. Blech.

I am sitting in the hall way at school. I am so bored. Gahh!

A LOT have fun has just hit me SQUARE in the face.

So, after we moved to Bend, it was really, REALLY hard to make friends, so then one day, I met a girl named Elle Moore. That was GREAT! She introduced me to her friend Kenzie. Kenzie and I had drama together. That was great. So then there were two other girls that were friends with Kenzie that were also in my Drama class. One of them I had kinda met before, her name was Annie (Psssttt... I don't like code names. I always mess up and forget... heh heh...) and then I also met Maya. Now, this was a good choice in friends, because I could not stop laughing after I met them. Now, they had this huge group of friends that I met from them. So now, I don't sit alone at lunch anymore, and I spend all of lunch discussing Harry Potter, laughing, and its SO fun!! So now, I usually eat with Annie, Kaitlin, Riley, Coleman, Sarah, Hannah, sometimes Maya, hmmm I feel like I'm missing someone.. But maybe I am not. But if I am then I will feel bad.. GAH!! But I am really excited for tomorrow night because we are having a movie night! WOOOOTT!! We are going to watch 50 First Dates. I have never seen it before I don't think. But maybe I have heard of it. Right now I am sitting in my Freshman Acadamy class. Basically, thats a class where you feel like shooting yourself. I should be typing on Microsoft Publisher right now, but hey, we only have like 27 minutes left of class and there is SO much extra room on my brochure. Plus I am almost done. I hate Microsoft. They make boring programs. I like Frame By Frame. Thats a FUN app. Ha ha ha, wait, you don't read my blog to hear me complain. I will stop now. But, trust me, you would want to shoot yourself. I am only getting away with typing this right now because my back pack is hiding the screen, and I am typing fast so it seems like I am typing on my brochure. Which is mostly done. :D Well, this is better than history class! Also GUESS WHAT. My math teacher told me the other day that he entered me into a math competition, and I really wanna win a prize, but I really dont wanna take a timed math test on Wednesday because to me, that just doesnt sound like a load of fun. In fact, it sounds about as fun as pooping your pants. Now THAT doesn't sound like fun does it? So I am debating on doing it. I know that if I do, I get to miss a full day of school, but I do and don't want to do that. I mean, now that I have some friends here (That are by the way, kinda the BOMB!!) I don't really want to miss out on school, but I do want to miss History, Science, Math, Frosh Acadamy, P.E... wait no, FREDDY! AHHAHAHAHA. Oh and I don't want to miss out on Drama. Because Annie and I draw some PRETTTTTTY radical pictures on there. WHAT IS THIS RUMPUS!! Oh yeahhh..

FINALLY! A PRANK!!

Oh yes, I have really done it this time. Yesterday, my friend Annie and I were at Old Navy, and I was in a very good mood. My mum and brother were there too, and they are a bit pranksterish too, but mainly just either support, or try not to support but still do support me (MOM!) You know those creepy commercials for Old Navy that have those weird talking maniquins? Well, there was a whole slew of them there in the front of the store. At first, I was just posing with the teenage guy ones as if I had a boyfriend, but then, I found out that their heads could come off quite easily, and soundlessly. And you know, I couldn't just LEAVE knowing that those heads could come off SO EASILY. So, naturally, I had to you know, rearange the heads of that big group of people. The two guys that I pretended were my boyfriends, well, one of their heads went on a little girls body, while that little girls head went on the boyfriends body, and the other guys head, uhh, I actually forgot.. I think it went on another little girls head.. or wait! It was an African American guys head, and it went on a white guys body. I had a BIG ol' head sitting on a little girls body too, and oh my goodness it looked SO funny after the deed had been done! I will probably post pictures soon, but I have to get them off my mum's computer, which right now is shut down! In the morning! I don't think I will be going to school, because I am down with a nasty cold. In fact, I ought to be asleep right now, seeing that it is 12:07 AM, but I woke up and couldn't breathe through my nose, so that obviously isn't going to happen! Sleeping I guess just isn't my thing right now. So I guess blogging will be!

Word of the Day!

Well here you go! Your word of the day!

Anadromous: This means, "of fish, migrating up rivers from the sea to spawn in fresh water." Now your DARE OF THE DAY:

D.O.T.D: Use this word in your next essay for school. I don't care how, just USE it!

Anyways, I decided, that I honestly haven't done any pranks lately, and I might need to do that. My brain is slowly withering up because of the lack of pranks. If you could just notify me via comment, or email, then please do so, well, that is, if you have a good prank to share. As of now, I am reading the book, The Pocket Guide For Mischeif By Bart King I believe! It has a lovely history of pranks, with some side notes and information on the sides. Quite interesting. But as I was saying, maybe I will not always post my pranks, but just list off what's on my mind, what is bothering me, things the world should take place in. Actually, that sounds a bit too smart for my taste. Maybe just funny school stories and "stuff" like that!

Peace,
~Kate

Fiduciary.

I decided that I would post a word of the day. Todays word is "Fiduciary." Here is the prounounciation, (fi·du·ci·ar·y). Well that is how dictionary dot com say's it. I would say you could pronounce it like, (fah-doosh-ee-airy). See, that was easier. I heard this word today and thought I ought to post it for the world to discover.

Fiduciary (noun), 1.) Law. A person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.

DARE OF THE DAY: I, Kate Kennedy, dare you, ________________, to use the word "Fiduciary" in your average talk today. TODAY. If you do not fulfill this task, then I will have to shun you for the rest of your life, but I probably won't because I won't know if you did or didn't use it. Please comment if you did, telling me what senctence you used it in. That would be cool! Well good luck.

P.S. Are YOU a FIDUCIARY person?

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Once upon a day, there was a ... / Write for Ten

Recently, I have found a deep love for writing, and have found a few sites that have helped me and timed me to get a story written down and done. The one shown below was written in ten minutes. I was immediately stopped after that ten minutes. You can go to, http://writeforten.com/ to write your own ten minute long story, or go to http://writeforten.com/posts/282 to read this story and post a comment! Enjoy

Once upon a day, there was a light wind rustling the trees. It was a cool summer evening, and Micaela and Johnny were outside playing. It had been raining for weeks and weeks, and it had finally stopped. There was a lot of mud and new treasures buried in the mud to be discovered. Micaela ran over to the tall oak tree that had a dirty old tire swing hanging from one of its sturdiest branches. The rope was caked with dirt from many grubby hands grabbing it over the years. Johnny, who was Micaela’s younger brother, was squatting over in the mud, humming to himself as he picked up some worms, and put them in a jar to keep as pets. Micaela didn’t object to this, she remembered the good old days when she found that big snail and did the same thing.
She knew that Johnny’s worms would probably die, but usually, Johnny kept good care of his pets. He put loads of dirt into his little glass jar, then plopped the worms in there, and dumped a few more plastic shovelfuls in there on top of them. Then he screwed a lid on that had little holes delicately punched into the top.
Micaela and Johnny were siblings, but they were the best of friends. Johnny was in 2nd grade, and Micaela was in 6th. Although there was a gigantic age difference between the two, there was just something about them that repelled quarreling.
Micaela didn’t have many friends at school. In fact, she had none. She was a bit of a wall flower at school, who filled up the margins of her notebooks with fantastic drawings of other worlds and other creatures. But no one ever saw these drawings except for Johnny, because no one really took the time to come near her. Johnny though, appreciated these drawings more than anyone else. He would imagine that they were real, and that if they went outside into the mud caked lawn, and out to the big oak tree with the tire swing, then they could climb up the wooden ladder up to their tall club house high up in the trees, and see these brilliant worlds for themselves.