Sally's Blog

Apr 26, 2005 at 06:56 o\clock

if anyone acctually reads this

I doubt there is anyone that reads this anymore but I thought I would put this link on here anyway because I think it is pretty cool...it is a link to some really cool videos done by a fan of Carnivale. I love this show and if you have heard of it you should check these out....even if you haven't you should watch, its an amazing show and I hope it gets a third season.

 

Index of /carnivale/bcg

the first link on the page that this will take you to is a link to the main site which is also pretty cool, it is called "carnycon" and there is a chat there where the actors in the show occasionally show up to chat in.

The rest of the links are videos but just be warned that most of them are probably a little R rated, but nothing too bad.

Apr 22, 2005 at 04:41 o\clock

my friend

Mood: reminisant and sad...hard to explain really
Listening to: chevelle

This is gonna be long but sisnce I am pretty sure I am the only one who ever looks at my blog I guess it doesn't matter. hehe

 

I have been really thinking a lot about the past lateley...I think it is mostly because I am more on my own than ever and its kinda scary to have so many changes all at once. Anyway, I was thinking about a friend, Jessica,  I had from eight grade to 10th grade, sadly she was killed in a car accident at the end of our sopmore year. I was thinking about how happy she was and, although it was a short, and troubled like that she had, how much she cherished it. She was an amazing person and I, and so many other people she knew, miss her greatly.  I remember I was in a couple of her classes in elementary school but although we got along alway we never really were friends until our 8th grade history class. That was the most fun class I have ever been in in my life! Our teacher was an older man named Leibert Armor, and he was so funny. One time he was assigning us a paper and before he finished Jessica asked what we were supposed to write in on and he jokingly said "You can write it on a roll of toilet papaer for all I care, as long as you write it over the right topic" so a few weeks later when it was time to present she showed up with her entire paper on a roll of toilet paper and she got up there like it was nothing and unrolled it like a scroll or something and read it, she was always funny like that. Between her and Mr. Armor they always had the whole class laughing. Another time he told her if she didn't quit talking he was "gonna beat her with a wet noodle" so she told him she'd provide the noodle then, but she did't get it so the next day she showed up with a dry spaghetti noodle in a bag of cold water. So when she continued tralking he taped her mouth shut (not in a mean natured way, it was all in fun) so then she was using getures so he taped her hands to the desk. A few minutes later she had pulled it off and she was trying to throw it in the trash next to Mr. Armor just to show him she got it off, but her aim was terrible so she ended up hitting him right in the head with it. His expression was priceless and she fell on the floor laughing. Until we could drive we rode the same school bus home and that was always a lot of fun too... we had the greatest driver, me, her, my sis and one other guy were always last off and we were his favories so he would take us to McDonalds like once a week on the way home. One time she asked to see what was under this big latched door on the floor next to him and he told her to open it(the bus was going) and it was the engine so when she did it scared her nad she jumped backwards and screamed and slid across the floor...it was so funny. She used to always aim her gum for my sisters hair, but never made it, and one day she didnt have gum but had a mini rubix cube so she threw it at her, but her aim was terrible like I said, so it went out the window and hit the car next to us...we all laughed so much when she was around. The odd thing was she didn't have that good of a life by most peoples standards. She was pregnat 3 times btw. 9th and 10th grade and always miscarried and she had abussive boyfriends and a deadbeat dad. One time after she told me about her bf hitting her she just looked at me and grabbed upper my eyelashed and said "you blink too much" (that was her pet peeve) and she laughed. I asked her how she could be happy after telling a story like the one she told and she said "because if I don't laugh Ill cry and why cry when you can laugh". I was like wow, she was such a strong person and I try to think of those words whenever I feel down but it is hard for me to go by them sometimes.  A few months after that her car was found in a ditch one morning with bullet holes in it, apperantly she snuck out to see her (abusive) bf and on the way home there was an accident and she was not found until daylight. The official police rport said that she had fallen asleep at the wheel and the bullet holes were made before the accident, but I don't buy that, how could someone fall asleep after being shot at erlier that night, I think she was being shot at and swirved off the road, it was the wreck that killed her though. I am sure her asshole bf had something to do with it too I just wish they had proof to arrest his ass. There are 2 things beyond the obvious that really get to me though, I always wonder how long she was alive after the wreck, I mean was she killed on impact or did she have to suffer there alone while cars passed by above her completley unaware of her. Also we had started to drift apart when this happened so I just hope she didnt think there was a specific reason for it like I wasn't mad or anything, I thnk she was a great person, we just never saw each other really anymore. I remember I was watchig the news that night and her face came up and I was exited to see my friend on the news until their words registerd that they were atalking about an accident and not only that but her DEATH. I was shocked, I called y sis at a friends and told her but I dont think I even believed it. I went to the funeral and sat alone in the back pew, I didn't want to see my friend who was so livley a few days before laying dead in a coffin so I sat out of view. I managed to keep my composure through the service, which was packed so that just shows how much hse was loved, but afterwards I saw a friend and she came and hugged me and then we both just lost it.  That was a terribly sad day but I am glad she lived a full happy life for the short time she was here. Myself and all those who she knew will always miss her. Anyway that has been on my mind latley and I just needed to vent.

Apr 7, 2005 at 06:24 o\clock

Stressed

Mood: stressed
Listening to: "how do you get so lonley"

I am so frustrated. I have so much going on right now I can barley get started on one thing before I have to go to the next. I am the co-captain for a Relay for Life team and the fundraiser money is due tomorrow and I havent raised a cent which means all $100 for the minimum entry,  plus the money for the doughnuts which are another part of the fundraiser, plus the money for the BBQ that night (which I won't even eat since I am a veggie) are all gonna come straight out of my pocket. It might not seem like much but I can't find a job so thats is litterally going to take every dollar I own. Then a week later I have to bake 3 items for a bake sale to benifit the tsunami relif efforts which I have no money to buy the stuff for...not to mention I haven't figured out what oven I will use since I live in a dorm. then to top off all the money stuff my car is a piece of crap! the drivers side door broke today and won't open anymore, it is making a funny clunking sound, and it keeps dying on me, not to mention I am just about out of gas! Thank god this town is amall enough to walk everywhere. Plus I have at least 2 more fundraisers for different things this moth that I will have to contribute to.

One more of many problems is that I did all this research to find out exactly what foods have products from dead animals and I found a ton of stuff that does which all seems pretty innocent. So I have been trying to cut all of that stuff out but there is so much of it I can't remember it all and I haven't had time to just sit down and make a list. Some of it though is unavoidable...like I found out there is gelatin in photo paper and in film. BLAH Problem is that I have already cut so much stuff out that I know it must be pretty unhealthy, My hair and nails are really brittle, I have to clean out my brush every day at least once...Im gonna go BALD lol.  I don't know if this is at all related but my skin is so dry that it acctually feels like snake skin, but that could be because of all the wind too and that I cant afford the Hemp lotion I usually get because it is $20 a bottle so I am stuck with generic, stinky stuff from the dollar store. I know right aww boohoo poor girl doesnt get her fancy lotion, but my skin on my thighs bleeds it is so bad.

As far as school goes I have 3 tests monday and a research paper due that I havent even started. I am makind Ds in 2 classes, and before I know it finals will be here.  Next week I will have to start figuring out how I am going to spend my summer, I am thinking about taking a couple of classes at the community college at home and applying for an intern position at the zoo. Which means that is all more paperwork to go through.

My "plan for my self improvement" isnt going so well either. I just don't have enough time for the things I listed a few days ago that I want to change.

yuck I just feel really bogged down and pressured and I won't get a break until school gets out in May.

Apr 3, 2005 at 05:58 o\clock

carnivale(the best show on TV)

Mood: bored
Listening to: Country

I was just watching the season finale of carnivale on HBO(again) and I seriously think that might be the only show on TV right now that is worth watching. It acctually makes you think, its not just some cheap FOX reality show like everything else. Everything has deeper meaning than it seems at first glance, even the opening credits. This season finale though was GREAT I really hope HBO picks it up for another season. I was really disapointed that Tim Dekay's character died, he was one of my favorites. All the actors on this show are amazing. It doesn't hurt that they have some pretty good looking guys on it too, but one thing I love about it is even though they have some very good looking actors and actresses they really don't use any kind of sex appeal at all. Well exept that a couple of em are strippers but still they are shown more as strong women than strippers.  I hadn't heard of any of the actos before although now that I look back I have seen some things with them in it I just didn't really notice that particular person. Anyway I think they are all great but I especially like Tim Dekay(maybe kiiled off now), Nick Stahl and Clancy Brown who is not too bad looking for an older guy and I think the other two are really cute too. I will be so mad if HBO cancells it :(. Anyway if anyone hasn't seen it I recomend you find out what happened the first season(hbo.com) or you will be totally confused and then starting on April 4th or 6th  I think you should watch this season. Its my favorite show, I was like obsessed with friends when that was still on but this show is 15 times better, although it is in a totally different category.  It is great. Watch it.

Apr 2, 2005 at 04:58 o\clock

TIRED OF BEING THIS WAY

Mood: depressed

I am so tired of feeling so lonley and ugly all the time...seriously I don't think I have ever looked in the mirror and thought I look good today.  I think all the promises I made to myself are only making me feel worse but I have to follow through with them ti feel better. I am a really boring person too but I have changed so much on the inside since college began so I feel like this new fun me is trapped inside the old boring me. Problem is if I just suddenly change people will think I went crazy or something and I don't know how to gradually do it.. BLAH I don't feel like even thinking about al this anymore.

Apr 1, 2005 at 07:06 o\clock

my day

Mood: mellow
Listening to: country

Lazy people have really been bugging me today Not that I dont have my share of laziness. For example my frined was all mad because I am making an A in the class she is failing, I think she is trying to play the race card since she is the only black person in the class but thats not the case, its her laziness, she told me that she didn't know why she was failing since she had done almost all of her journals that we have to turn in every week and she had come to ever single class, thats her perspective of it. Actually she has missed 3 classes and even though she has turned in a lot of journals (which don't count for much) she told me the other day he e-mailed her saying that she needed to go in to more detail in them because she was recaping the class and not telling her thoughts on the lessons and I believer her words were "I don't give a shit what we do in there so I'm gonna keep writing them how I want to". Also we have taken 2 quizzes in there and she didnt study for either of them and she bombed them both. And she can't understand why I am passing and she isn't, its because I study and show up to EVERY class and acctually participate when I am there! Then in one of my classes the prof. passes around an attendance sheet everyday for us to sign and every time someone who doesnt have anyone in arms reach of them gets lazy and decides to stop passing it so i totally forget and walk out of class without getting credit for being there. I was at the store and this guy is looking for a space to park even though there are like 4 cars in the entire lot he apperantly wanted a front space so this other man starts backing up (in a front spot) and I let him back out more just to be nice than to get his spot, Apperantly I didnt realize this guy needed this parking spot for whatever reason and I start to pull in and suddenly he comes flying in from the wrong direction and cuts me off...I came inches from hitting him! I didn't mind losing the space I just was mad he was to lazy to park to spaces down that he would risk a wreck to get the spot. Anyway lazy people bug me today lol.

 

On to other things...I was pretty good today. I messed up a little as far as all my promises to myself that I made yesterday but for the first day it wasn't too bad all in all.

good things I did:

1. I gave myself a french maicure and pedicure.

2. All I ate was a veggie wrap, but it did have ranch dressing on it, And a nutrigrain bar and a diet cerry limeade.

3. I worked out for an hour this morning, I did 30 min.   cardio and 30 min strength.

things that didnt go so well:

1. I opted for jeans and a t-shirt this morning  I probably shoulda picked today as a day to dress nicer.

2. I didn't really talk to any new people(or much of anyone at all for that matter)

3. didnt really make much progress as far as guys but I won't dwell on that too much yet

4. failed my zoology lab practical