Happy Mother’s Day Everyone!

Even though I’m pretty sure most of ‘us’ aren’t parents, happy Mother’s Day! I still have homework to do (Procrastinating on my part) and I’m pretty sure we’re going out to dinner later, but… yeah.  

I played Just Dance 2 last night. It’s awesome and addictive, except you get tired easily and the buyable content (like actual songs that are relevant) is expensive… 3 dollars a song. Okay, so it’s 300 WiiPoints, but it loosely converts to 3 dollars. There are three songs I want (Crying Blood by VV Brown, Nine in the Afternoon by Panic! at the Disco, and American Boy by Estelle/Kanye West), so that would cost 9 dollars in WiiPoints, and that’s ridiculous. Besides, I’d have leftover WiiPoints for 3 times because they only sell them in groups of 2000. So EA, you’re less of a concern on my ‘stupid video game company’ list right now.

And today is YoVille’s 3rd anniversary. It’s a Facebook game that’s like what The Sims online would be like, I guess. I used to play it before I had the Sims. But yeah, they usually have a lot of good stuff on ‘sale’ so I’ll be on that for a little.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! If you celebrate it, anyway. And Happy Passover, if anyone celebrates it.

I’m going to my Aunt’s house for dinner with the family today.

-The next part of the post talks about acne. If you're grossed out by that stuff, then you know what to do.-

And I gave up chocolate and McDonald’s for Lent. My face has like no acne now! I mean, there are still acne scars (I learned this from a commercial from TeenNick ) but my face looks less like a pepperoni pizza now. But my Mom bought a lot of chocolate, not including the Dove Chocolate bunny I got for Easter, so… yeah. We’ll see how that turns out.

Resolutions

I guess it’s never too late to make a New Year’s Resolution. So here are mine:

• Eat healthier.

I know I’m not going to become a vegetarian or someone who only eats all natural foods, but I could make some changes to my diet. Like instead of having PopTarts for breakfast, I could try eating cereal? Now that I think of it, it sounds more appetizing than eating the same psuedo-cinnamon-square everyday. PopTarts are only good for eating quickly, and if it’s a one of those nice, luxurious flavors, in my opinion. I’d rather have the chocolate chip cookie one than the ‘cinnamon’ one. And when I go to the mall, I could order healthier sides at the Chinese Food place. I’m going to McDonald’s less, but Lo Mein isn’t that much of an improvement. As long as I burn off the fat, that’s what matters, right?

• Drink more water.

Every time I hear someone say that people are supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day, I always say that I’m going to do it, but then I forget about it. I’m not saying I’m going to drink 8 glasses of water each day this year, but just more.

• Sleep earlier.

Self explanatory.  

• Exercise more.

For vain and health reasons. I don’t think I’m fat, but I’ve been told that I look a lot like my uncles from when they were my age, and… they’re not exactly skinny now, so I don’t want to follow that path, too. Besides, my jeans are getting tighter and all of those trendy teen stores make all of the medium shirts small, so shopping would be more convenient if I lost some weight.

• Procrastinate less/Study more.

Once again, I know I won’t magically become some MENSA member who scores a 2400 on his SATs and graduates Harvard and Yale at the same time. But I just want to get all A’s and B’s. I have some motivations behind this. A single income household paying for 2 kids to go to college at the same time is going to be hard, and I want to get as much scholarships as I can to save on tuition and stuff. I want a high GPA to show all of those snobby kids (Like the class president, if any of you remember) that you don’t need to be good in math and science only to succeed. I want to show the private school that I used to go to that you can do well in life without playing a sport. I want to make my future family’s life easier. You get the idea. And I could achieve this by… studying more! Like for the biology quiz and Spanish test I have Monday! :/ Oh, and I don’t want to be in classes with people who don’t want to learn.

• Be able to look forward to something.

Right now, the only things I can look forward to, honestly, are new Heart Legacy posts, Friends,Boy Meets World, Roseanne, The Nanny, and How I Met Your Mother episodes, and Tumblr. I appreciate other things, but those are the only ‘real’ things that make me forget about everything else going on. So I just want to look forward to something that’s not on a screen, I guess.

• Make a friend.

I want to have a friend that I can go to the Apple Store and take random Facebook album pictures with. I want to have a friend that will accept me for my complaints, rants, and problems. I want a friend who accepts me for my neuroticness and clinginess. I want a friend who I could sit at lunch with and have my own table with. I want a friend who’ll leave inside jokes on my Facebook wall. Yes, SS already does all of these (excluding the Apple Store part ), because we’re twins, but… I want a new friend. I have some, but none who I’m this close with. Maybe someone in my school who’s my age and a boy? The only friends I have now are girls and not in my grade. So that complicates some stuff.

 

So, there are my resolutions. Will I follow them? Probably not. But hey, it’s worth a try.

The R Word

What word can summarize my transient (Thanks, SAT Prep) winter break? Regret!

I don’t know where things went wrong. Maybe it was sleeping at 3 every day. Maybe it was not doing my homework during that blizzard, or when I came home. Maybe it was checking the online gradebook, and still thinking about school so much. But my biggest regret was yesterday.

I’m just going to warn you right here. The next part of my blog post is extremely bratty, so feel free to leave now if you think you can’t handle a bratty teen.

Friday, I slept at 5 AM. Well, 5:20. I know, that was a really stupid decision on my half. But I’ve done it before, and this week I slept at 3 most days, so I figured it wasn’t a big deal. I was wrong.

Saturday, I woke up at 12 PM. After a few minutes of relaxing, I went online. My parents told me I shouldn’t stay on too long, because we had relatives visiting New York City, so we had to visit them. I got angry, because I thought they would be adults who are at least 3 times older than me, talking about things I don’t care about, and treating me as a child. I was right, but I’ll explain that later.

My parents didn’t listen to my argument and just said ‘But their entire family of 5 is here! And they’d be sad if you didn’t visit. Plus, we’ll do whatever you want after.” I thought since it was their whole family, I probably should visit. And the last sentence sounded tempting, too. So we got dressed and went to NYC.

But there was traffic. For those of you who haven’t been to NYC, just think of it as driving around your block 20 times at 5 miles per hour. I got nauseous. And my parents had the radio on really loud, so I turned my MP3 on really loud, so I got a headache.

When we saw them, we just sat in their hotel room and talked. My parents and (I don’t even know how I’m related to them, to be honest, so I’ll just say my Aunt and Uncle for convenience) aunt and uncle just gossiped about other family members, for most of the time. My aunt and uncle didn’t even care that we were there or ask SS and I the usual ‘how’s school?’-esque questions.  And at the last minute, their 3 kids (Who are in their 20’s) came and said hi. I felt annoyed, but we left, so I could care less.

When we went home, I felt sick, so I just turned off the laptop at 10. I just went upstairs and lied down in my Grandma’s bed, because her room has a TV. But I felt even more sick from that (The show I was watching was George Lopez, if you’re wondering. ), so I just turned it off and went into my bed. I felt even more sick, and then I… I’ll spare you the details, but the next part involved me kneeling in front of a toilet. Then I just went to sleep, because I was convinced I was sick and there was nothing to do besides sleeping.

Then… at 2:30 AM, I woke up. SS was going to sleep. After talking with him for a few minutes, I realized I felt okay. Like, not sick at all. And I was annoyed. If I just drank some Gingerale or tea, I could’ve felt better, and spend the last ‘full’ day of my Holiday break better. And some websites that I go to had a lot of New Year’s Day specials (Like Farmville and GPXPlus [Yes, I’m a nerd. ]), so I missed out on those, too. BECAUSE. I. DIDN’T. DRINK. TEA. Ugh.

So as you could tell, I’m in a bad mood.

I really hope there’s a huge snowstorm tonight.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you have a great 2011. And for those of you that are in school, enjoy your last weekend before break ends. I hope there’s a snow day. The blizzard last week should’ve been this week.

Avril Lavigne is releasing her new single, What the Hell today. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I know that some fans have been waiting for today for a while. Especially considering that she’s delayed her latest album for months, which turned into years.

And for shameless self promotion, there’s a new chapter of The Timbersons. 

Anyway, enjoy your 2011!

And here are some appropriate emoticons for the occasion.

   

Let it Snow

In NJ, there was a blizzard Sunday. That meant I couldn’t really do anything fun yesterday (Like going to the mall). But I got some homework done. Now I just have to read Lord of the Flies.

It’s amazing how much atmosphere can change things. I felt so ambitious last week, when there was no snow and it wasn’t that cold. Now, with the 20+ inches of snow, I just want to stay inside in my pajamas all day. Maybe I’ll go out and do something later.

I was on IGN and read the Late Night review there. Is it really that hard to get the LN features in pre-LN towns? Then again, I haven’t even played in Twinbrook yet, and I’ve had Ambitions since July. xD That’s what happens when you try to play a legacy in high school. I’m getting closer to finishing, though!

Happy holidays and stay warm!

Happy Holidays… Again

I felt like I should make another post right now. During our party. I hope you’re all having a great day/night/weekend. So far, I am. There’s a lot of chocolate desserts at my house and I plan on devouring those eating them in a civil manner later. I should probably be with my family right now, shouldn’t I?

And to amuse all of you, here’s a fun little Santa website: NORAD Santa Tracker. I think it’s ran by the military or someone official (North American Aerospace Defense Command), so it’s pretty cool that they care about giving kids something to look at. Or it’s a waste of tax dollars. However you want to look at it. Did Santa visit you yet? … I’m too old to be amused by this, aren’t I?

‘Santa’ visiting NYC. Thanks, NORAD!

And yes, I know Santa isn’t real. I just believe in the… image? Like God helps people with gifts, or something.

Happy holidays, and stay safe!

Merry Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas Eve to my fellow Christians. Happy holidays to non-Christians. And enjoy your day if you won’t be celebrating anything.

Tomorrow, my family is having our party. I probably will go to the mall to just browse for no reason, or do my homework, because the party is at night, so yeah.

I hate how I had like a whole list of LiveJournal Sims legacies I wanted to read, but now I can’t find any of the ones I want to read. I had like a handful of interesting ones, too. Okay, so the founders looked pretty. And they were Sims 2 legacies. I remember I started reading Sims 2 legacies in 8th grade when I was depressed-ish, and they gave me something to look forward to when I came home. But… I finished reading them in like 2 weeks, so for the past 2 years, I’ve been trying to find legacies that last for more than 5 generations and update often. Oh, and sometimes for added funsies, the legacy author’s PhotoBucket account will run out of bandwidth, so there will be chapters of just that ‘You need more bandwidth, upgrade to PhotoBucket Pro now!’ message. :/ So Sims 2 legacies remind me of 8th grade, and some of my better memories of it… which were spent online. Anyway. I’m going into flashback mode, so I might as well tell a story from *gasp* 2009!

So the powers that be at my middle school somehow decided that letting 8th graders pick out their own roommates would be a good idea… for an overnight field trip. SS and I were new-ish… look, it's a complicated story that I’ll explain later, but all you have to know is that we didn’t really have friends because we were new and then our old friends became jerks. So we needed to fill out a sheet with who we wanted to share a room with, and they said they would split up any ‘problem groups’. SS and I just assumed any ‘popular’ kids would be split up, so we just left our sheet blank (Well, with our names, but 2 empty slots). So then…. we got partnered up with that guy. You know, the one kid everyone unanimously hates, for an actual reason. He’s a jerk, who has real issues. But yeah.

Word spread that we were stuck with him. And some jerks (In case you haven’t noticed, I’m trying to censor myself because it’s Christmas Eve and all) jokingly asked us ‘So, who’s your roommate?’ and stuff. Repeatedly. Like, okay, MYOB much? And my ex friend asked ‘Who are you sleeping with?’. I mean, gay jokes were never funny, it’s okay to be gay, and sharing a room =/= sleeping with someone! Besides, if those roommates were, um, friends with benefits, then my ex-best friend would’ve been practically married with his best friend (AKA my replacer from my uber rant last week [I need a separate page explaining everyone in my life, don’t I?]), and their two other roommates. I’m not even kidding when I say that Replacement Boy is co dependent with Ex best friend, and he’d literally just follow him around, agree with him on everything, and so on. But yeah, ex best friend was just annoying and hypocritical.

So then, the day after, apparently some people were perceptive enough to realize that SS and I are brothers, so we probably would share a bed, which means they would have their own bed, and since we were quiet, it would be like having a room to yourself. And people started asking if we shared a bed.

Yes, we did. But so this won’t end up screenshotted on The Mare’s Nest or something, we share beds for vacations and sleepovers and stuff. I’m pretty sure anyone who is middle class and has a sibling has done this. But yeah, once I said yes, they started going like ‘Aw, man. If I knew that, I’d room with you guys.’ . So technically, everyone wanted to sleep with me at 8th grade. (Forgive me for the horrible joke ). So I guess we have potential (possibly rich? ) roommates for the next overnight field trip. Okay, so I’m somewhat gold-digging, but then again, so are they. And maybe that one field trip could become a genuine friendship? Ugh, there’s no way I can phrase this without making it sound like I’m sleeping with people, or turning a 1 night stand into a relationship.

But yeah, people were nosy when they didn’t have to be.

 

Then, a few months later, there was the school dance. People started asking others out, and then nosy people asked others who they were taking to the dance. I found this annoying, because the dance already bothered me enough. There were some people who didn’t even begin puberty yet, and others could pass off for high school seniors, and they were supposed to dance together? But yeah. People couldn’t mind their own business, and awkwardness occurred. That sentence could describe high school.

 

Wow, only I could turn a ‘Happy Holidays!’ post into a rant about myself. o.O 

So Happy Holidays, and don’t drink and drive!

Vacation!

I’m finally on vacation! Even though my school keeps making it shorter each year, my (small) holiday break is really appreciated. I only have to read 1 chapter of Lord of the Flies and do some assignments with it, and do ~60 vocab flash cards for SAT Prep.

I won’t be mundane so I’ll save you the extremely boring details of my week. But I’ll just focus on some key points:

- My grades are getting worse. Actually, I’m not sure. The classes I’m doing bad in (Biology and APUSH), had major assignments this week so that could help or hurt my grade. The classes I was doing borderline-okay in (Spanish 3 and SAT Prep), are getting better… slowly. The classes I actually was doing good in (English and Geometry)… well…. . English; my teacher is being… lazy, and he’s not grading that one essay from last week. But he put it on the website, but since he didn’t put the actual grade yet, it’s 0 out of 100, so my average went down. :/ And in Geometry, I understand the lessons, finish my homework in class, and get As on quizzes, but I’ve been getting Bs on my tests. And my average is slowly going down. I don’t have any grades in Photo yet, but I’m behind on projects, so that’s not a good sign.

- This week, I started to think about my life. Like, what have I done this year? What am I doing with my life? I think I’m socially failing as a teenager. I’m not one of those loud social people who talk with everyone in the hallways, and I don’t sit with people at lunch, hang out with people outside of school, or go to parties. I don’t date yet (My personal rule is it’s not dating if your Mom has to pick you up from the mall. And it’s not a romantic kiss if 600 people are watching you in the hallway), and I don’t have a part time job. I know life isn’t about doing what all the cool kids are doing, but it makes me feel like I’m wasting my time. If school’s the only the only real commitment I have, and I’m not doing so good there, then what does that say about me?

I’m kind of scared of Holiday break, in a way. If I spend it incorrectly, I’ll regret it for the next few weeks, but I don’t know how I want to spend it. In my basement, relaxing? Around town, shopping? At my desk, studying? Okay, so definitely not the last one, but you get my point.

Happy Holidays!

Back?

This week, I had like no homework. And, I spent it by…. relaxing. :o Not even blogging. I felt like I needed a break, because November was really stressful because of 2 long weekends and the first quarter ending at our school, so we were overwhelmed with assignments. And with the holiday break coming up, teachers are going to overwhelm us more. So, why not just use the rare free time I have, right? :P

Apparently, this weekend already supported my thoughts. I have homework in half of my classes, though to be fair, only two of it is specifically for Monday. My history outline is due Wednesday, but I’m going to an animal shelter with a club Tuesday, so I need all the time I can get. And my biology lab packet is due Tuesday, but I also have two quizzes Tuesday, so I can’t finish that, either. And did I mention I might go to NYC tomorrow? Honestly, once this semester ends, my weekends will probably have less homework. My SAT Prep class makes me do like 20 vocabulary logs plus a quiz every week. And this week, I have 3 assignments to do along with the vocabulary, so… fun. I realized I should’ve start earlier, but I make bad decisions when it comes to things like this.

Happy Holidays! If I have any free time, I’ll probably be watching my favorite holiday movies:

• Home Alone
• Home Alone 2
• Marley & Me (I know it’s not a real holiday movie, but I like to pretend it is :P)
• Christmas with the Kranks
• Most family movies like Cheaper by the Dozen (1 & 2), Yours, Mine & Ours, and The Pacifier
• Oh, and Are We There Yet?

Okay, so I just completely changed the meaning of holiday movies, but to me, the holidays are about spending time with loved ones, and worrying about psuedo-problems, like who sleeps on the couch, and what Best Buy’s return policies are.

Holiday Shopping

So, with the holidays coming closer and closer, gifts are a big part of the experience. And with my family being vague with their interests, it’s hard to shop fo them. I understand holidays are about being selfless and giving to those in need, but it’s hard to be generous with…

• My Father who is vague about gifts. He doesn’t really have hobbies, or at least none that I know of. If he was a Sim, he’d have the handy trait because he likes to watch HGTV and DIY and stuff. He watches Two and a Half Men, but those season DVDs are expensive for a teenager who doesn’t have a job. Especially considering that FX usually has reruns of it on, so yeah.
• My Mother who says ‘You shouldn’t have gotten me anything! No, really!”. I usually just buy her gift cards or shirts, but I want to get her something more this year. Maybe a lotion/candle/sanitizer thing from Yankee Candle or something from that tea specialty place. I went to a tea specialty place and saw this Arabic CD, so I might get her that (We’re Armenian, but my Great-Grandparents went to Syria as a result of Diaspora from the Armenian Genocide… so my parents grew up there and stuff so yeah) .
• My Grandmother who does the same things as my Mom. Except she feels guiltier, because my cousins/her grandkids, who have part time jobs and do a lot of spending don’t get her anything, but I try. My Mom said she saw a shirt from Macy’s that was nice, so we’ll(Did I mention SS and I do joint-shopping?) probably get that.
• My Brother… who, while I know his tastes, it’s like shopping for myself, so I don’t want to buy myself a gift. Like, just something he can use, not for myself. We don’t have time for video games (D:) and clothes, we share. Ooh, I just had a great idea! I can’t say it because he reads this blog, so yeah.

I mean, I love them, but sometimes I just want to give them one of those ‘Here’s a free hug/raking/shoveling coupon. Expires 12/20/11.’ kind of thing, you know?

Gifts.com is helpful with their personality profiler, but I dislike how you have to buy everything online because the stores they’re in are too far away. And my Mom gets the mail before I come home from school, so she’d probably notice if she mysteriously got a perfume set thing that was shipped to myself. :P

I want Late Night for Christmas, but I don’t want to support EA. But then again, a lot of you anti-EAers caved in… so yeah. :P My brother saw a graphic T shirt maker which he said he’d buy me, but I know I wouldn’t use it at all, or after once, or something. :P

I should add a Holidays tag, shouldn’t I?

Have you done your holiday shopping yet?