"If the whole world were listening, what would you say?"
Meep.
Apr 30, 2011
Apr 29, 2011
J42 Tact
"Why do you think tact is an important quality?"
Mostly because i have none. If you don't have tact you often end up with your foot in your mouth, usually by asking all kinds of inaproppriate questions that you didn't know were inaproppriate. Also i'm pretty sure i wouldn't lose so many friends if i had some tact....
Mostly because i have none. If you don't have tact you often end up with your foot in your mouth, usually by asking all kinds of inaproppriate questions that you didn't know were inaproppriate. Also i'm pretty sure i wouldn't lose so many friends if i had some tact....
J43 Nature
"What parts of nature do you like best?"The edible parts. i would love our nature to be like that one scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. You know when they're all in that room where everything is edible, the trees, the flowers, the grass, the river. That would be cool. Seriously tho, i like trees in the fall, and bright flowers, and sparkling rivers. Really anything with a lot of color, even multi-color sand is pretty cool to me :)
Apr 28, 2011
J41 Nosy
"What is the best way to treat meddlesome people?"
i can't stand it when people push themselves into my life or try to know everything about me. So i say meddle right back. Pry into thier lives, ask all kinds of really personal or inaproppriete questions. They'll either get the idea and leave you alone, or think you're nosy and leave you alone. So either way, they're gone, which is the whole point right?
How would you handle a nosy person?
How would you handle a nosy person?
Apr 27, 2011
J40 Favorite Book
"What is your favorite book and why?"
I love books, so this one is really hard for me, but my fave is prolly Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews. I really like the Meg Langslow series and this is my favorite book in that series. Plus my dad bought the copy I have for me. It was “just because” present, and it’s kinda special cause he got book I really love. I also like this book cause it’s one of the books I read when I’m stressed. Rereading certain books helps me deal with stress, and this is my fave of those books =)
What is your favorite book?
J39 Dull Evening
"What is your idea of a dull evening?"
Hmmm, my idea of a dull evening would prolly differ from most people. I love hanging out with my friends, but I also like staying home and doing laundry or cleaning or cooking. If I have music playing and I’m alone or its just 1 or 2 other people than I actually enjoy staying home. Of course I always have fun with my friends, and even if I don’t know the people very well I can usually still have a good time. My idea of a dull evening is one spent with my family. I know that sounds terrible, but we almost always end up fighting and I just don’t enjoy being around my immediate family very much. Even if we go somewhere, it’s usually somewhere I don’t like, simply because I don’t have much in commen with my immediate family members.
What is your idea of a dull evening?
Apr 22, 2011
Crysta
Dear Crysta,
i miss you. Yea we say hi at church and wave and everything, but we don't really talk anymore. Its sad, and i know it's mostly my fault. i kept saying "we'll get together soon" and i meant it, but life got busy and i didn't make it a priority. I'm so sorry Crysta! You are so special to me and I'm terrible at showing it.
i can see you're hurting, and I'm not close enough to really help, and i wish i was. i understand what you're feeling, i really do. I've been thru this too. i know you're worried about leaving the high school class. So was i. The singles class is so different, i can't even compare the two. But its so good! i know you'll like Justin's teaching, and you'll love Laura! Katie is awesome, and of course you're already close to Vicky-T. You'll find your place with us, i promise. It may take a few weeks but you'll see we're a lot of fun too.
Thank you for everything you've done for me! God has used you in such a huge way in my life! If you hadn't reached out to me, i wouldn't have come to South Side, i wouldn't have met these amazing people, i wouldn't be as strong a Christian, and my little sister wouldn't be saved. All that because you stepped out and talked to someone you didn't know. That's an amazing testimony of how God can use one person to affect so many lives.
Crysta, you have a plan for your life, you have goals. Don't lose that! Reach as high as you can, God will help you achieve everything you've dreamed of and more!
We need to go explore a cemetery again =) i love you girl!
Rae
i miss you. Yea we say hi at church and wave and everything, but we don't really talk anymore. Its sad, and i know it's mostly my fault. i kept saying "we'll get together soon" and i meant it, but life got busy and i didn't make it a priority. I'm so sorry Crysta! You are so special to me and I'm terrible at showing it.
i can see you're hurting, and I'm not close enough to really help, and i wish i was. i understand what you're feeling, i really do. I've been thru this too. i know you're worried about leaving the high school class. So was i. The singles class is so different, i can't even compare the two. But its so good! i know you'll like Justin's teaching, and you'll love Laura! Katie is awesome, and of course you're already close to Vicky-T. You'll find your place with us, i promise. It may take a few weeks but you'll see we're a lot of fun too.
Thank you for everything you've done for me! God has used you in such a huge way in my life! If you hadn't reached out to me, i wouldn't have come to South Side, i wouldn't have met these amazing people, i wouldn't be as strong a Christian, and my little sister wouldn't be saved. All that because you stepped out and talked to someone you didn't know. That's an amazing testimony of how God can use one person to affect so many lives.
Crysta, you have a plan for your life, you have goals. Don't lose that! Reach as high as you can, God will help you achieve everything you've dreamed of and more!
We need to go explore a cemetery again =) i love you girl!
Rae
Apr 20, 2011
CD Art
Step 1: Find old CDs you don't want
Step 2: Place 1 CD in the microwave for 3 seconds, or until it sparks
Step 3: Repeat with all CDs till done
Step 4: Arrange CDs into desired shape
Step 5: Attach to wall or desired place
Step 6: Stand back and admire the original pop art you created
Step 2: Place 1 CD in the microwave for 3 seconds, or until it sparks
Step 3: Repeat with all CDs till done
Step 4: Arrange CDs into desired shape
Step 5: Attach to wall or desired place
Step 6: Stand back and admire the original pop art you created
Teddy Update
He likes playing outside!
Teddy likes looking out the window.
He loves his squeaky blue fish!
Apr 18, 2011
Best Friend
Dear Jori,
It's your birthday!! You're 20! Can you believe it? Wow we're getting old lol. i want to tell you how much i love you, and some of the amazing things i appreciate about you, but facebook is way to impersonal.... and it wouldn't all fit anyways.... i tried. So here it is:
You are an amazing, godly young lady. You bring God into all areas of your life and i know how important He is to you. You make me want to be a better christian. You are so kind and sweet, even when i know you're seriously annoyed or mad at someone. You try to always look at both sides of a situation, and treat all people fairly. That's pretty amazing right there, and you have such grace when dealing with annoying or disrespectful people.
And then there's everything you've done for me, far too much to even name, but one thing that i can never forget is you once said that you were praying for me, even before we were friends. That is incredible. i don't understand why you did that, i wasn't friendly or even nice to you or your friends. But you still prayed for me, and have prayed for me since. Jori, you make me smile, and laugh till i cry. i have so much fun when i'm with you. You've introduced me to things i've never even considered trying, and helped me fall in love with them. You've stood beside me when everything is going amazing, and you've still been there when things fall apart.
You are the best friend i've ever had, i love you more than i can say and i hope my friendship to you has been even a fraction of the blessing that yours has been to me. With you i've tried new things, laughed till i cried, found new hope, learned about life, and grown so much. You are my best friend, and i thank God for bringing us together and letting us share some of the ups and downs on this carnival ride. We have all of Eternity to be best friends, and i pray we don't ever grow apart.
This is your birthday! Go a little crazy, have fun! It's your day, girl, enjoy it!
Love you Forever,
Rae
It's your birthday!! You're 20! Can you believe it? Wow we're getting old lol. i want to tell you how much i love you, and some of the amazing things i appreciate about you, but facebook is way to impersonal.... and it wouldn't all fit anyways.... i tried. So here it is:
You are an amazing, godly young lady. You bring God into all areas of your life and i know how important He is to you. You make me want to be a better christian. You are so kind and sweet, even when i know you're seriously annoyed or mad at someone. You try to always look at both sides of a situation, and treat all people fairly. That's pretty amazing right there, and you have such grace when dealing with annoying or disrespectful people.
And then there's everything you've done for me, far too much to even name, but one thing that i can never forget is you once said that you were praying for me, even before we were friends. That is incredible. i don't understand why you did that, i wasn't friendly or even nice to you or your friends. But you still prayed for me, and have prayed for me since. Jori, you make me smile, and laugh till i cry. i have so much fun when i'm with you. You've introduced me to things i've never even considered trying, and helped me fall in love with them. You've stood beside me when everything is going amazing, and you've still been there when things fall apart.
You are the best friend i've ever had, i love you more than i can say and i hope my friendship to you has been even a fraction of the blessing that yours has been to me. With you i've tried new things, laughed till i cried, found new hope, learned about life, and grown so much. You are my best friend, and i thank God for bringing us together and letting us share some of the ups and downs on this carnival ride. We have all of Eternity to be best friends, and i pray we don't ever grow apart.
This is your birthday! Go a little crazy, have fun! It's your day, girl, enjoy it!
Love you Forever,
Rae
Apr 16, 2011
26 Senior Pranks
i was talking to a friend recently about pranks, and it reminded me of an afternoon several of my classmates and i spent looking up senior pranks. Now, my school made it very clear that if you were caught in any kind of senior prank you would not be graduating. So we didn't get to actually do any of these.... but it's given me some great ideas for future sleepovers, camp, and... well, never mind. Forget i said anything.....
1 Alarm Clock Mayhem
Set alarm clocks to go off about 2 minutes from each other...hide them all around the school...in lockers, bathrooms, ceiling tiles, vents, ...
2 Sleepover
The entire senior class camps out in the front yard of the school....and sleeps in.
3 Letter Men
Everyone needs to get a t-shirt with a letter (or number) on it - you can make them with iron on decals. Just one big letter. Different colors, different styles, on the front or back. Throughout the day, stand near people making words in the hall...snap photos. So letters D, O, R, and K can run next to principal and quickly snap photo. They can't exactly make the whole class change, but they can however ask you put your shirt on inside out...so as a precaution, put another letter on the otherside...
4 State Flowers
In most states (check yours) it is illegal to dig up the state flower (or sometimes tree). So if you plant the state flower in the shape of your class year, then they cannot legally dig them up.
5 Tiny Bookmarks
Create thousands of tiny bookmarks saying something like Class of '0? - Senior Prank; or Class of '0? was Here. Put them in thousands of books in the library ... 10 years later people will still be finding them.
6 Parking Problems 1
Seniors, park your cars in a circle around the school...so close together that a person would have to climb over a car to get to the building.
7 Parking Problems 2
Seniors, park your cars in a maze shape nice and early making the faculty navigate through.
8 Swap for Diploma
Have everyone slip something into the principal's hand when you shake hands at graduation. Examples: a marble, a bouncy ball, a cigarette (if he smokes), a penny, a fortune cookie fortune, ..
9 For Sale By owner
Put real estate ad in newspaper offering the school for sale.
10 Cement Year
Dig a hole in the grass the shape of your year...then fill with cement.
11 Dixie Cups
Purchase 700-1000 paper dixie cups. Fill them up halfway with water. Flip them over and put them throughout all of the hallways. They will be hard to get off and once they're removed the water will come out!
12 Doorknobs
Rub Vaseline over the doorknobs so that when the bell rings everyone's hands will be slimy for the rest of the day. If your hand rails are yellow; get some mustard from the cafeteria and use that.
13 Tire Flagpole
Drop a bunch of used tires over the top of the flagpole.
14 Photoshop
Edit some photos of the principal to be funny - include your class year...distribute in bulk.
15 Saran Wrap
Get a bunch of rolls of saran wrap and wrap your principals car in a thin layer during school. When he/she gets out, they will not know what to do.
16 Used Car Lot
Turn the faculty parking lot into a used car lot, complete with balloons, salesmen in suits, window stickers, and soap drawn prices - if possible, get giant blow up animal.
17 Post-it Note Mayhem
Come in early enough so this will work- If there is a certain hall in your school, get a whole bunch of post-it notes and cover that hall with them entirely. Write a message on a few so people will stop and look at them, even spell out something on the floor. Then, around school, have various post-it notes labeling: Class of 0?- Post-it Bandits
18 Class Relocated
On a nice day, move all chairs outside in class size groups. Post a room number on each group. Inside, on the door of each classroom post note like "Class relocated to the flagpole". Report to class..outside.
19 Rubber Duckie
Put hundreds of Rubber Duckies in the school pool or a fountain, or on a pond.
20 Zip Tie/Cable Tie fun
Get a ton of zip ties(pretty cheap in bulk.) Get every desk, chair, or other mobile object and zip tie them to something that is solid and can't be lifted(i.e. a post, hand rail.) In my school the little rail on the second floor has a chain link type fence. Make sure to pull the zip tie as tight as possible to make for harder cutting off. If your really into it move on and get everyone's locker too.
21 Delivery
Order items from take out several take-out restaurants to be delivered to you at school - prepaid with credit card.
22 Anyone Got a Snow Machine?
If not...rent one. Snowballs on the front lawn!
23 Letters to the Staff
Send letters to the faculty and staff (at home addresses - look them up). Have the return address label be something funny...that may have a spouse or kid scratching their head. Add letter inside stating that your class shall not be forgotten. Return Address Possibilities: National Association of Overprotective Parents, Parents Wanting No Drama (PWND), The New Kakistocracy (kakistocracy means government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens)....
24 Marching Band
Get the marching band to do a special number...at an event or just during class...perhaps some rock music...hip hop
25 Bouncing Halls
Buy thousands of bouncy balls-of all sizes- and distribute them to many seniors. During a planned time period-Like between the first two periods so they will be there all day-dump them all over the halls and stairwells.
26 SNOW
Buy 40 pounds like 400 gallons of sodium polyartulate (fake snow) add water and it poofs up. put it all over the school. it is not wet but feels like snow.
1 Alarm Clock Mayhem
Set alarm clocks to go off about 2 minutes from each other...hide them all around the school...in lockers, bathrooms, ceiling tiles, vents, ...
2 Sleepover
The entire senior class camps out in the front yard of the school....and sleeps in.
3 Letter Men
Everyone needs to get a t-shirt with a letter (or number) on it - you can make them with iron on decals. Just one big letter. Different colors, different styles, on the front or back. Throughout the day, stand near people making words in the hall...snap photos. So letters D, O, R, and K can run next to principal and quickly snap photo. They can't exactly make the whole class change, but they can however ask you put your shirt on inside out...so as a precaution, put another letter on the otherside...
4 State Flowers
In most states (check yours) it is illegal to dig up the state flower (or sometimes tree). So if you plant the state flower in the shape of your class year, then they cannot legally dig them up.
5 Tiny Bookmarks
Create thousands of tiny bookmarks saying something like Class of '0? - Senior Prank; or Class of '0? was Here. Put them in thousands of books in the library ... 10 years later people will still be finding them.
6 Parking Problems 1
Seniors, park your cars in a circle around the school...so close together that a person would have to climb over a car to get to the building.
7 Parking Problems 2
Seniors, park your cars in a maze shape nice and early making the faculty navigate through.
8 Swap for Diploma
Have everyone slip something into the principal's hand when you shake hands at graduation. Examples: a marble, a bouncy ball, a cigarette (if he smokes), a penny, a fortune cookie fortune, ..
9 For Sale By owner
Put real estate ad in newspaper offering the school for sale.
10 Cement Year
Dig a hole in the grass the shape of your year...then fill with cement.
11 Dixie Cups
Purchase 700-1000 paper dixie cups. Fill them up halfway with water. Flip them over and put them throughout all of the hallways. They will be hard to get off and once they're removed the water will come out!
12 Doorknobs
Rub Vaseline over the doorknobs so that when the bell rings everyone's hands will be slimy for the rest of the day. If your hand rails are yellow; get some mustard from the cafeteria and use that.
13 Tire Flagpole
Drop a bunch of used tires over the top of the flagpole.
14 Photoshop
Edit some photos of the principal to be funny - include your class year...distribute in bulk.
15 Saran Wrap
Get a bunch of rolls of saran wrap and wrap your principals car in a thin layer during school. When he/she gets out, they will not know what to do.
16 Used Car Lot
Turn the faculty parking lot into a used car lot, complete with balloons, salesmen in suits, window stickers, and soap drawn prices - if possible, get giant blow up animal.
17 Post-it Note Mayhem
Come in early enough so this will work- If there is a certain hall in your school, get a whole bunch of post-it notes and cover that hall with them entirely. Write a message on a few so people will stop and look at them, even spell out something on the floor. Then, around school, have various post-it notes labeling: Class of 0?- Post-it Bandits
18 Class Relocated
On a nice day, move all chairs outside in class size groups. Post a room number on each group. Inside, on the door of each classroom post note like "Class relocated to the flagpole". Report to class..outside.
19 Rubber Duckie
Put hundreds of Rubber Duckies in the school pool or a fountain, or on a pond.
20 Zip Tie/Cable Tie fun
Get a ton of zip ties(pretty cheap in bulk.) Get every desk, chair, or other mobile object and zip tie them to something that is solid and can't be lifted(i.e. a post, hand rail.) In my school the little rail on the second floor has a chain link type fence. Make sure to pull the zip tie as tight as possible to make for harder cutting off. If your really into it move on and get everyone's locker too.
21 Delivery
Order items from take out several take-out restaurants to be delivered to you at school - prepaid with credit card.
22 Anyone Got a Snow Machine?
If not...rent one. Snowballs on the front lawn!
23 Letters to the Staff
Send letters to the faculty and staff (at home addresses - look them up). Have the return address label be something funny...that may have a spouse or kid scratching their head. Add letter inside stating that your class shall not be forgotten. Return Address Possibilities: National Association of Overprotective Parents, Parents Wanting No Drama (PWND), The New Kakistocracy (kakistocracy means government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens)....
24 Marching Band
Get the marching band to do a special number...at an event or just during class...perhaps some rock music...hip hop
25 Bouncing Halls
Buy thousands of bouncy balls-of all sizes- and distribute them to many seniors. During a planned time period-Like between the first two periods so they will be there all day-dump them all over the halls and stairwells.
26 SNOW
Buy 40 pounds like 400 gallons of sodium polyartulate (fake snow) add water and it poofs up. put it all over the school. it is not wet but feels like snow.
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