Learning

       It's been decided, I'm going to attempt to learn to play guitar. We've had this old one sitting around our house forever and I've always thought it would be super cool to learn. We'll see how this goes since I intend on learning internet style. Won't be easy but will certainly be interesting! Adios! Tan lines, be careful of them.

Short

               My hair is up in a really high bun from marching. I feel like one of those girls that wears really high buns. This is strange... Adios! Keep hair ties on hand, you never know when one might snap.

The Art of the Hug

       I'll admit it. I am an awkward hugger. I feel like everyone took some kind of hugging etiquette class that I was in the bathroom for. I'm getting better at hugging since apparently the girls my age like to hug each other in greeting (seriously, home coming was hug crazy!) I just never know which way we're going, if it's gonna be a one armed or two armed kind, what you do when you're sitting and the other person standing tries to hug you. Don't get me started on when people do the one armed extension so you can't tell if they want a hug or a handshake. We need to just announce these kinds of things!! My name is Nicole and I am going to give you a hug now. How about that, it'll be a thing.
 
       I've got some new plans! So, I've got a fun camera and a fun editing program so I think I'm going to start vlogging. I might tonight if my parents go upstairs since I don't want them to think I'm going insane sitting in my room talking to no one. I'm also going to be playing a flute piece for a composer friend of mine so once that's up, I'll link to it here. Yeah, I play flute. Don't you? Adios! It's hard to type with tape on your fingers.

Annoyance

          You know what I'm not a fan of? Google+! I'm trying to do Youtube stuff and it's all 'No! Sign up with me pleeeaaase!' Yeah, no. If I wanted to sign up with Google+, I would sign up with me! Don't make me sign up with this sight just because. Sigh. Adios! Read the fine print.

Busy

              Homecoming weekend= super duper busy! Got a parade in the morning, dance tomorrow, all kinds of fun stuff! Not sure I'll blog much till Sunday afternoon. Adios! Be honest.

Procrastinating

     Okay, it's official. I seriously hate the book The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell. At first I was kind of like, oh yeah, she has an interesting way of writing. I like this! Yeah, how I naive I was back then. Now that I have to do a book analysis on it and find her thesis, I'm not too keen on this book anymore. Well, I wasn't keen on reading about Puritans and her random tangents about Kennedy in the first place but whatever. I'm really just procrastinating right here because I don't want to write this thing. The paper is sitting right next to me staring me down. Gah, I need to since it's due Friday. And my parents have their movie turned up really loud in the other room so I won't be sleeping. Sigh. Adios! Tissues are essential to success.

Excuse for Delicious

             I wanted to do a page in my Wreck This Journal this evening so I flipped it open. One of the first ones is something along the lines of fling thy coffee here. I'm not a fan of coffee so I decided to make a butterbeer latte instead for flinging. They're delicious, what can I say.

               I feel like I've mentioned my latte before. Oh well, if you didn't read that one, it's made with milk, cinnamon, butter, and brown sugar all boil and melted together into deliciousness. I believe I have a link to the actual recipe on here somewhere, I certainly did not make this up myself!

               Those splatters were my doing, however. There are more but I couldn't get them in the shot. Ah well, alls well that ends well. Adios! Netbook keyboards and laptop keyboards are not good for the fingers.

Thursdays Suck

I am going to be so sore tomorrow from golf! Oh jeez, tonight was long and very cold. Thank you cold front! Adios. Always bring the jacket.

September 11

 
               This is how I spent my evening, coloring this and watching Face Off. Anyway, today I heard what I'd say is the most moving 9/11 talks in class out of all the 9/11 things we've ever done. I'm not saying that it isn't important to remember this day, because I truly believe we do need to honor the memory of all those people who died in the attacks. But, in the classes I've had recently, we've either a) briefly mentioned the subject and gone about our business or b) watched the same old same old clips we've seen the past ten years. That doesn't inspire much emotion aside from annoyance into most students which I think should not be the reaction!!
               This was different, though. My history teacher spent most of the class today talking about his cousin's experience getting out of the tower. I'm not going to go into anymore detail than that. The way he told it though, I got a sense of what it was really like for the victims for the first time. The only thing I really remember about 9/11, having been five at the time, was watching some of the footage on TV and wondering why we were watching he same show over and over again. Needless to say, it didn't have a big impact on me. But my heart really does go out to everyone that lost loved ones to the towers. Two morose posts in a row, eesh. Adios! Count thy blessings.

Suicide Prevention Day

     I forgot my yellow today! If you didn't know, today is Suicide Prevention Day. I felt this was a worthy cause to support since there are so many people each year that takes their lives so early. It really makes me sad, seeing and hearing about these people, because they had so much life left to live! And they leave behind just leave behind so many people! Please, if you're considering suicide, get. some. help! I know that writing love on my arm and wearing a certain color isn't going to make a huge difference in the scheme of things, but I at least hope there are some people helped today. Adios! Pens, they're useful indeed.

Come On Fall

               I love fall. Fall's always been my favorite season! The changing leaves, bon fires, football games, sweatshirts, all that jazz. This weekend has been just like fall and it's been amazing. Tomorrow's supposed to be back in the eighties though. :P Grr, let's be done with this hot weather! It's been hot for waaaaaay too long now! I hope we get some nice temperatures back. Adios! Computer screens: careful of them.

Lunch Post

          Eating and writing, two of my favorite past times shoved together to make this post today. I'm not eating anything too glamorous in case you were wondering. Just some pasta with meat that tastes kind of weird after being reheated.

          There I am! Right in the middle of eating some of that nasty beef. Oh well, I'll eat it anyway. I think being in band and golf at the same time has increases my food intake abilities. I'm generally up for eating at any given moment, but lately I've felt hungrier more consistently. And on top of all this, none of my pants fit anymore! They're long enough and fit great in the legs but are way too loose up top. I feel like I'm saggin' all the time (for real, who do guys do that?! I feel like my pants might fall off at any given moment!) I'm going to get back to eating now. Adios! Waft, don't sniff. 

Sugar High

              Good gosh I am not getting to sleep tonight. I had a giant soda coming back from our golf match today (it was a super rough match, I needed me some Dr. Pepper) then my dad brought me another and a giant Milkway when he picked me up!! I learned last time too much Dr. Pepper on the way home would keep me up till about midnight. Can't wait to find out how late I'll be up tonight! I bet you don't really care so here's a kitty picture. Adios! Hills, avoid them if at all possible.

Excuse My Errors

             What up late night post? Ha ha, it's not really that late. It's just late for me since I have to get up early all the freakin' time for this school thing which means I must go to bed early. Midnight is friggin late. I'm gonna be awake so long tomorrow night it isn't even funny. But, seeing as it is only half past midnight-ish, I'm going to count this post as a September 2 post no matter what the time stamp tries to say!

            Here in the ever lovely mid-west we've been getting some spin off action from Isaac down south. Now, I've got nothing against a little rain up in here (I really need to not type when I'm tired...) but this is just making my allergies flare up way too much. I've been hacking up grossness the past three days. Who wants to hack up grossness?! There is just way too much pollen in the air right now. Curse my allergies!! I need to go to bed soonish. Adios! Talking dolls, even if they are battery operated, are creepy and shouldn't be trusted.

Fidgety

              I entered a writing contest today and I don't think I've ever been so nervous. Waiting for my submission to come up has literally given me hot flashes all evening. I'm still a little convinced that it didn't get entered right since I didn't get the notification that it had been accepted. Le sigh. Adios! Drink lots of water.