Hmm

I just discovered that turquoise eyeshadow looks really terrible on me. What shall I do?

"Technically," we have several songs. The one to which I'm referring, though, is "Time After Time" by Eva Cassidy.

Yeah...someone's gotta help me figure out the turquoise eyeshadow...

Dinner in a Movie

Julie & I just had a nice evening out :D Here's the play-by-play...

6:30 - discuss the possibility of watching a movie at home
7:15 - discuss the possibility of going to the dollar theater & Wendy's
7:36 - decide to see Because I Said So (at 7:50) & go to Wendy's
7:38 - run out to car in the freezing coldness
7:39 - I remember that I need my coat, so I take Julie's keys & return with coat & blanket
7:40 - Julie makes fun of me for the blanket & talks to Lindsey on the phone about going to Jack in the Box
7:45 - arrive at Wendy's
7:48 - leave Wendy's
7:53 - arrive at movie theater

We made it from home to the movie in 23 minutes...What can I say? I'm a vivacious driver.

(Don't) Let it Snow

I've counted it up, and I believe it's snowed about 5 times this winter. Last year, it snowed once. WE LIVE IN TEXAS! I used to get excited about the snow, but now I'm over it. All I can say is that when it's cold, I'd rather have snow than rain or sleet :-p

I'm starting to really look forward to this weekend. Friday night there is a little Young Adults social, but Saturday is what I'm reeeeeally excited about...Benjamin & I will finally go to our first "real" dance. I have a dress that I LOVE (and we found Benjamin a matching turquoise tie!)...so even though the dress code is supposedly "dressy casual" we're going in a floor-length dress & a tux <3 I really hope they play our song at some point, but I'm not really counting on it.

Then on Sunday there is another social, and then we're heading down to Houston to visit my parents. They are looking forward to seeing the grandpuppy again :-p I shall have interviews with my 3rd grade teacher & my 6th grade science teacher! Mom, Benjamin & I have a sushi date planned too :)

We're just hoping that Benjamin will be over his flu/cold/bronchitis, from which he has been suffering since Sunday night, by Saturday.

Julie just walked in...we're trying to decide which movie to watch:
Julie: Why don't you have The American President?
Me: Because my mom jacked it.
Julie: She jacked it?
Me: She jacked it.
Julie: *gangster style* You should pop a cap!
Me: *confuzzled look*
Julie: It's new slang.

A Crazy Collection of Quotes from the Original Adriane-Blog

I'm reading through my original blog from 10th & 11th grade, and here are some of my favorite quotes. I hope someone enjoys the humor as much as I.

OCTOBER 2003

Mr. V in APUSH, while we were playing a game about...US History:
"We're killing everybody...and we're getting more recent in our history!"
"We're wiping out women right and left!" [note: not a sexist comment...girls had been winning :)]

Conversation between brother & dad during dinner:
Cameron: I don't like life insurance...I won't get any.
Dad: Does that mean I should cancel mine?
Cameron: Well, what does it do?
Dad: It makes it financially advantageous for you for me to die.
Cameron: Oh... *smiles*

NOVEMBER 2003

addicat123 (me): which bit
addicat123: (past tense of bites)
absolutveronica (Veronica): hoho!

absolutveronica: wow
absolutveronica: that blows
absolutveronica: (present tense of blew)
addicat123: hehe, yes

StarryNight831 (Jill): I told my Mom that I broke into Markuson's office and stole my book
StarryNight831: she's downstairs sobbing
addicat123 (me): because her daughter is becoming a serial orchestra thief?
StarryNight831: yeah :-/

addicat123 (me): i have this freaking thing on my finger & it is bothering me
absolutveronica (Veronica): cut it off hehe
addicat123: but that would kinda hurt
absolutveronica: kind of yeah

In Orchestra ("playing" sleigh ride)
Markuson: wait, this is a sleigh ride...what do you think it should be like?...happy!
Ashley: *sarcastically* I am HAPPY to be here!
Jill: they know what's coming...bomb

absolutveronica (Veronica): adriane
absolutveronica: what do you have to say?
addicat123 (Me): whadda you mean?
absolutveronica:
StarryNight831 (Jill): ADRIANE
StarryNight831: HAS SOMETHING TO SAY
addicat123: hehe

DECEMBER 2003

addicat123 (me): i dont likeit
oddtiger (Heather): no it doesn't
addicat123: yes it does
addicat123: i hate that picture
addicat123: i want to print it out, nail it to a wall, and throw darts at it
addicat123: real ones...not those lil plastic ones

Some quotes from APUSH (seriously...I don't think anyone who didn't take that class realizes how hard it was...most of these quotes pertain to our groups, with whom we took quizzes & did some projects)
"If someone in your group is dropping this class, be nice. Don't threaten them."
[Mr. V]

"When was the Emancipation Proclamation proclamated?"
[Cayce]

"We should put 'D' for #3."
3) The assassination of Lincoln...
D) ...made it difficult for Lincoln to prosecute the war effectively.
[Cayce, regarding the cause & effect section of our quiz]

"OMG, you're mutating!"
[Cayce to Lalie, regarding the act of putting check-boxes next to lists]

Lalie: It's the history of your mom
Cayce: That was uncalled for

About a free-writing assignment for English...we had to "visualize"
Kathy: Adriane, are you scared of free-writing?
Veronica: she needs to be shackled to a writing prompt.

jennifer: Tell him I'm going to scalp him & rip out his teeth & use the rest of his body for a an ancient Indian voodoo ritual.

My dear mommy made this soup stuff, and made me eat it:
Mom: here, eat this
Me:*takes bite* what is is?
Mom: it tastes like cream gravy & has potatoes in it
Me: ew, it has mushrooms
Mom: yeah
Juliane: *comes in & sees my predicament* it has mushrooms in it, dont eat it!
Mom: it just gives it flavor!
Me & Juliane simultaneously: I know!

I was laying on the couch and my cat kissed my nose till I fell asleep. lol, I slept for about 1 1/2 hours. Now I've gotta read 110 pages!
Cameron: *walks in the door, having gone somewhere* Here's your phone
Me: ok thanks
*time delay*
Me: wait...how did you have my phone?
Cameron: I asked you if I could take it while you were asleep and you said yes

The orchestra final consisted of watching a movie called "Handel's Last Chance" and answering questions on it.
Mr. Coatney: Its not hard
People: duh
Mr. Coatney: The freshmen had trouble with it though...but that's cause they're morons

JANUARY 2004

Me: where's the coffee pot
Mom: eh, I got rid of it
Me: but I neeeeed it
Mom: you dont need coffee...we have wine

In orchestra we watched a video of "Bacchanale", one of the pieces we are playing for Chicago. The choreography was awful...mostly a bunch of men doing a spastic assortment of pilates and ballet. It was scary.
Ashley: are you ok?
Me: ur...I will be
Ashley: are you sure?
Me: after some therapy

Mr. V: Grant's presidency was a joke...But he got throat cancer, so he paid.

Mr. Coatney: ...I say sucks and crap too much dont I?
Jennifer: my mommy said that's a bad word

TAKS Field Test today. It was stupid...all about war...very depressing.
Apparently, many people bs'ed their essay sections. Grrr, had I known that I might not have missed some of precal. O well.
addicat123: so what exactly did you do for taks?
absolutveronica: well, I actually did the multiple choice and short answer
absolutveronica: I didn't stress about them though
absolutveronica: and then when it came time to do the essay
absolutveronica: I said to myself,
absolutveronica: "this blows"
absolutveronica: and proceeded
absolutveronica: to write
absolutveronica: a short introduction about how people who ask you for help on their problems are stupid and can't decide for themselves,
absolutveronica: and that you should tell them that,
absolutveronica: or sing White Town - Your Woman
absolutveronica: (and that's when I recited lyrics from the song)
addicat123: well, i actually wrote an essay
absolutveronica: hehe

FEBRUARY 2004

Quotes from Mr V that Cayce & I found humerous:
~ "The frontier is unforgiving. If youre a dork you die. Thats how it is - dorks die, decent people live."
~ "You can find a lot of nasty old men [on the internet] who want to meet you & date you."
~ "The old frontier was very nice...you survived & dorks got killed."

My Away Message: There is no spoon.
LadyKarem: ADRIANE IM SO PROUD OF YOU!
(inside joke from APUSH)

Mom: I had to cancel my DSL
Me: why?
Mom: because they never gave it to me

Last night I fell asleep accidentally. My last words were kinda disoriented
chazbond007: ...
chazbond007: your sleeping
chazbond007: well if you wake up tell me
*24 minutes later*
addicat123: hey im gonn go to slep
addicat123: so later i ccanuoul overhoognihyd; goodnight

Yesterday...
IheartEAPoe: entertain me!
addicat123: hehe ok
addicat123: turn your phone on
IheartEAPoe: it is
*i call ashley's phone*
IheartEAPoe: youre such a moron
To fully understand this, one must know that after school waiting for solo rehearsal, i confiscated ashley's phone, changing my name setup in her phone book & setting a personalized ringer for myself. All was done without her knowledge.
Tonight...
IheartEAPoe: adriane!
addicat123: ashley!
IheartEAPoe: entertain me again!

MARCH 2004

addicat123: ok here's my plan
** addicat123: tells plan **
absolutveronica: that's a crap plan
absolutveronica: no offense :-p

Crazy APUSH Quotes:

Mr V: Please dont highlight his hair

Student: Can you change the due date to Monday?
Mr V: Neil, I dont want to hear it. You are beyond a senior. You disgust me.
Student: You disgust me too, Mr V
Mr V: I'm sorry

Mr V's thesis on buying on credit:
There's nothing wrong with buying on credit. There's nothing wrong with occasionally eating a piece of pie. If you eat a whole pie, each day, every day, theeeen you've got a problem. What a great life as you wobble around from place to place.

Mr V (on assigning projects due right after spring break): I am the devil incarnate

While jogging...
Cameron: I dont want to wear myself out, so I'm just going to stay back with you

APRIL 2004

Mr V: *in slow, patronizing tone* Jee, another difficult question, taxing your very ability to think and reason.

Cayce: We're workin' on it!
Carli: You're NOT working on it. You're talking about becoming president of the United States.

Carli: *reaches*
Cayce: Nooo! My septor!
Carli: They're highlighters!

If I Were You...

You wanna know
Were we go from here
So many roads
But none that seem clear
Is what we have enough
To last a whole life through
Who know, baby who knows

So you're asking me
What do we do
Cause time moves so fast
And the chances seem so few
Is it too much to think
That we could have it all
Who knows, we may never know

But if I were you I'd promise to
Live life for all it's worth
Take all that you've been given
And leave your mark upon this earth
Trust your heart to show you
Everything you'll ever need
And if I were you
I'd fall in love with me

So hold me close
I'll kiss away your fears
I won't promise the moon
But I promise to be here
And what if together
It gets better every day
Who know, baby who knows

But if I were you I'd promise to
Live life for all it's worth
Take all that you've been given
And leave your mark upon this earth
Trust your heart to show you
Everything you'll ever need
And if I were you
I'd fall in love with me

Ze Weekend

...was spiffy :) Benjamin & I had a fun double-date with Jill & Matthew...we found a really good sushi place, we watched a couple of really ridiculous movies (Is it just me, or have movies gotten dumber since I stopped watching so many?), and the guys surprised us with flowers <3

Now Monte is falling asleep in my lap. He is probably rather tired, as he could not get over the fact that he had company over yesterday. He went virtually crazy as he demanded & received lots of attention. The consensus is that he is quite a cutie :-p

Mourning the Fishy

Yesterday, Benjamin's white fish (name unknown) died. He will not be flushed immediately, though, as a proper mourning period is in order. He was a good fish, and we are sad to see him go.

On a slightly more hilarious note, we watched a video in Ed Psych last night, which elaborated on Kohlberg's 6 steps in moral development. In the video, a doctor was conducting an experiment which involved giving electric shocks to a student (the "learner") when he answered questions incorrectly, as asked by the "teacher."
Doctor: When you get a question wrong, you will be punished with an electric shock.
Learner: Are you sure this isn't dangerous?
Doctor: Although the shocks may be extremely painful, there will be no permanent tissue damage.
Class: *partially laughing, partially dumbfounded*
Time passes
Teacher: That's wrong...15 volts. Excuse me, sir...how long do I hold the lever down?
Doctor: That's for you to decide...you're the teacher.
Teacher: Wrong...30 volts.
Time passes.
Teacher: Wrong...120 volts.
Learner: Aaaah!!!
As it turned out, the guy wasn't really getting shocked...Kirsten was able to tell me this about 5 seconds into it. Ergo, I was able to laugh along with the unintended humor of the low-budget video without feeling like a terrible person. The experiment was really on the teacher-dude :-p How's that for a twist?

Aaaaand, today was my first day of tutoring 3rd grade! All in all, I think it will be a positive experience...a little crazy at first, but I'll soon settle in. Hopefully I'll have my own class in about 2 1/2 years! Wow, that'll be nuts :)

Tomorrow (errr, today) we'll have breakfast with Megan & her boyfriend, and then dinner and stuff with Jill & her boyfriend. Should be fun!

Ben is in Trouble

This is not how our relationship works, by the way :)

Emailing back & forth...
Benjamin: what's wrong with that? ;-) *ducks to escape your slap*
Me: *slaps twice so you can't avoid the second one* :D
Benjamin: *ninja dodges all attacks, and launches a hug-n-kiss counter-offensive* There, take that! ;-)

In the spirit of having a Grammar exam...

...here are some quotes!

Professor: We're starting with the big picture, and we'll get more specific, so the limits to fun are endless!

Discussing something about the use of the word "sir"...
Student: But if I were talking to the professor, I'd put "sir" at the end
Professor: And as soon as you said "sir" I'd stop paying attention

We were feeling worried about this grammar stuff we're supposed to know...
Professor: Are there any other exercises you're finding annoying?
Class: *silence*
Professor: ...or are you just generally annoyed as a class?

Public Service Announcement for Julie: I want YOU to not comment annonymously! *imagine pointed finger and unproportional patriotic top hat* <3

In the spirit of having a Musicals paper due...

...here's some humorous stuff from last class.

Watching a clip with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers dancing
Professor: Once again they'll dance. She'll try to push him away, but eventually she'll fall for his charms, they'll have metaphoric sex and post-coital bliss, and she'll end up crying again because she thinks he's married to her best friend.
Dance, Dance, Dance
Professor: *makes some more commentary that I find humorous*
Dance ends, Ginger sits down, Fred offers her a cigarette
Professor: Aaaaand, there's the cigarette after sex.

Julie & I do not know what "major & minor oppositions" are. Neither, it seems, do other people. "Sad days."