"...school's out for Summer!..."

School's out! Finally! Yesterday was my last day at school. Man, it feels good to be free. No homework, no school drama, no high school pressure, no Ms. Lowenstein! Hallelujah! Oh! Oh! Guess what? My dad (aka: the greatest guy ever) bought me a "Live and Rare" MCR CD, Life On The Murder Scene, and the Fall Out Boy "Live in Phoenix" DVD. I'm so happy! I'm definitely in for some major video watching, considering I didn't even watch my first MCR DVD. How awesome will this Summer be?!

More news: Monday's my B'day, but since I'm leaving for Vancouver on Sunday today my friends Chithenga (from school) and Miller (from before preschool!) are going shopping with me at the Jersey Gardens Mall. I'm planning on spending the bulk of my money at Hot Topic.

Hey, new subject. This morning (yes, THIS morning and yes, I realize it's 8:20) I finished reading this book called "Rainbow High". It's the sequel to the first book, "Rainbow Boys", in the series by Alex Sanchez. I first read "Rainbow Boys" in sixth grade and earlier this year I remembered it and reminded my friend of it. She said there were two books following it so I went and bought the second. Unfortunately, more than halfway through the book, my forgetful self and I lost it. Yesterday I bought it again! It was great.


"Rainbow Boys" by Alex Sanchez

This book is about three teenage boys trying to make sense of their lives in high school. Jason Castillo, the best looking athlete in the school, is trying to figure out if he's gay. Kyle Meeks is gay, but doesn't know how to tell his parents. Nelson Glassman is gay and the world knows it. And for that he pays the price of being taunted and bullied and beaten by the many homophobes in the school.
The way Sanchez sets up the characters, they are very complete. Their situations are believable and it's really an inside look at what some teenage boys really go through in life.


Of course, if I gave you a summary of "Rainbow High" it would give away the ending to RB. And I wouldn't want to do that, would I? :P So here's his site (I haven't really looked at it): www.alexsanchez.com

Well, I have to go. I'll try and post before Vancouver, but if not then I'll see you all in about 10 days! Bye!

2 DAYS!!!!

2 DAYS! OMG! MAJOR HYPER VENTILATION! OMIGOSH HYPER VENTILATION DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO COVER IT!!!

SAVY LOVES THE BEAT AND THE LUST THEY COMMAND, DROP THE DAGGER AND LATHER THE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS GERARD WAY!!!!! 

I'LL REALLY BE AT THEIR CONCERT AND IT SHOWS! SO WHY DON'T YOU GIVE ME OXYGEN BEFORE I GO!

GIVE ME A SHOW TO REMEMBER! AND YOU WILL TAKE ALL THE PAIN AWAY FROM ME! YOU VOICE AND I WILL SURRENDER! MCR IS A DEADLY LIFE TO LEAD! A SONG TO BURN ALL YOUR FANS' HEARTS! SO GREAT OTHER BANDS ARE AFRAID TO RISE AND BE! IN LOVE WITH ALL OF THESE BAND MEMBERS! SO YOU CAN TAKE COMPLETE ADVANTAGE OVER ME!

Woohoo! I can't wait! I just pray that I'm not sick because I've been sick all this week. How sucky! Well, I'm dead tired. Talk more tomorrow!

7 Days! (of nocturnal vegetation)

A WEEK UNTIL MY CONCERT! OMG! AAAAAH! Luckily, I have my outfit picked out (my black skinny jeans, my converse, my choker, and a Black Parade T-shirt) and I've gotten permission to paint my nails black, so no worries there. It's just the anticipation of seeing and hearing MCR live in MSG (though there will definitely be more hearing and less seeing).

Finally, the weekend! I can't wait to relax. I actually don't have a lot of homework this  weekend. What am I going to do with myself? Just vegetate, I guess. I'm aiming to be a cucumber..... lol :D

Well, I could certainly classify as a vegetable with my lack of brain activity this week. I seriously need to stop being nocturnal.

Life + current brain function = majorly boring post. Write more when I'm not running on sleep-deprived adrenaline. Chao.

10 Days!

OMG!!! TEN DAYS TILL MY CONCERT!!! WOOHOO!!! *hyper ventalation*

D.C.

Hello everybody! How was life without me? Boring? Yes, I know, but know you can be happy again because I'm back!

"And there was much rejoicing in the land. 'Yay...'"~Monty Python's The Holy Grail

Anyway... D.C. was awesome! If you didn't already know, Casey, my mom and I went to Washington D.C. on Thursday. It was so much fun! We saw the Freer Gallery of Art, the monument, the Capitol, Chinatown, the International Spy Museum, the house where Lincoln died after he was shot and the Holocaust museum.

Thursday: First was the monument. Casey and I were playing on these over sized vents that blew really strong air out. We looked like idiots, but it was fun :p Next, we saw the Capitol. We didn't go in, we just saw it. The Freer Gallery of Art was cool. Lots of art... Finally, on our way back to the hotel, we saw this spot where there was a huge banner and a little table with four people sitting on the grass. Behind them were hundreds of backpacks all spread out. It looked like a cemetery. When we got closer we found out that each backpack was dedicated to a student who committed suicide and the banner read "Last year 1,100 students committed suicide. Stop student suicide." It was really moving.

Friday: After Casey and I managed to wake up-around 11:00am-we went to Chinatown to eat. Then we saw the International Spy Museum. It was amazing. The unbelievable things spies do and use. It was a really big museum, but really amazing. When you walk in, you're given a cover and a mission. It's really fun and we learned about all these famous people back in the 70's and 80's who were actually spies! (ex. John Ford and Josephine Baker) Last was the Ford's Theater-where President Lincoln got shot. But they were doing repairs and wouldn't open until May. So we saw the house across the street where he died.

Saturday: We saw the Holocaust museum. Oh. My. Gosh. That is a scary place. It was all about the Holocaust when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and wanted to create the perfect race. He created an army of people who agreed with him called the Nazis and killed and tortured all Jews. He thought that Jews were "inferior" to his perfect German race. Scary. Sick. Disturbed. Unnatural. It was terrible. There was one part where they had a huge hole with hundreds and hundreds of shoes. The room was all white and completely bare except for the shoes and this poem (as best as I can remember it):

"We are shoes, the last witnesses.
We are the shoes who,
only because we are made of leather and cloth and not flesh and bone,
were saved from the hellfire"~ *name not available*


But on a slightly brighter note, let me tell you about my Amtrak ride to and from D.C. My goal was to listen to the 40 MCR songs I have on my iPod straight through without skipping anything. I got to 35 going to D.C. before Casey got bored and wanted to get a snack. Grr... Then, on the way back, I got caught up talking to Casey and only listened to 37! So close, yet...

Well, off to enjoy my day. Hope you enjoyed my unbearably long post! Bye!

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

Ooh girls just fun! That's all they want!....What?! The title started it! :(

Any way, *clears throat* guess what I did Monday! I went to Target and got some new shirts and Bermuda shorts and a skirt!

Guess what else! I went to-drum roll please-......New Jersey Gardens mall! But more specifically.....HOT TOPIC! I've been waiting to go to Hot Topic forever. But of course, the first thing my mother said when she walked in (yes, I shop with my mother, don't laugh) was "This store is definitely for troubled teens." Sigh. Well, that didn't stop her from getting this choker!

This is not my mom, by the way. All of the pictures I'm going to put up are HT models. Well, I got this choker and these awesome pants!

I am so going to wear those pants for my MCR concert! I'm also going to wear....My new converse! Woo hoo!

Yesterday was a great shopping day. I got all that stuff above and a bunch of new shirts at Old Navy.

Today my mother and I are going to get our nails done because we're going to D.C. with Casey tomorrow. Yay! So, off I go to get my shower and head to Broadway. Talk later!

p.s. If you wanted to know what MCR DVD I have (see earlier post) it's this one:

p.s.s. I'm painting my finger nails silver! (don't ask me about my toes, I'm stuck on that)

Scattered Events

I saw the cute, gay guy today! Barely caught him, almost missed him. Anyway, on to less boring news: I WENT TO VIRGIN ON SUNDAY! Virgin is an awesome store. Anything that relates to music in anyway is at Virgin. OMG. Guess what I got. AWESOME MCR AND FOB POSTERS! and on top of that... THE GREATEST MCR BAG EVER!!! Here's a pic->

Isn't that awesome?! And here's my Fall Out Boy poster->

I couldn't find a picture of my MCR poster, but I can assure you it's great. I also got a My Chemical Romance DVD and.... 2 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE T-SHIRTS!!! (I got those off their website, it's cheaper than Virgin) So I am very happy. Also, Friday is my last day before spring break and my friend, Casey, and I are going to Washington D.C.! Yay!

Well, other than my usual ranting about MCR, we had student appreciation day today. I was invited. We had pizza and soda, it was really fun. Only 50 kids out of the 240 7th and 8th graders in our school were invited. Crazy, right?

Well, well, what do I have to talk about? Friday I have a YPC concert to sing in. We're singing Give Us Hope, When I Sing, Walk In Jerusalem and Beauty In A Moment. You can listen to Give Us Hope and When I Sing at www.ypc.org/songs.

Oh and there's a great band called Breaking Benjamin and this is one of my favorite songs of theirs:

Diary of Jane


Breaking Benjamin-Diary of Jane

If I had to
I would put myself right beside you
So let me ask
Would you like that?
Would you like that?

And I don't mind
If you say this love is the last time
So now I'll ask
Do you like that?
Do you like that?

No!

Something's getting in the way.
Something's just about to break.
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
So tell me how it should be.

Try to find out what makes you tick.
As I lie down
Sore and sick.
Do you like that?
Do you like that?

There's a fine line between love and hate.
And I don't mind.
Just let me say that
I like that
I like that

Something's getting in the way.
Something's just about to break.
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
As I burn another page,
As I look the other way.
I still try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
So tell me how it should be.

Desperate, I will crawl
Waiting for so long
No love, there is no love.
Die for anyone
What have I become?

Something's getting in the way.
Something's just about to break.
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
As I burn another page,
As I look the other way.
I still try to find my place in the diary of Jane.


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Movies, Operas and Songs, Oh my!

Hi people! I'm happy to announce that I officially have every MCR song on my iPod! Of course only true MCR fans can appreciate this accomplishment, but still, it's something! I'm actually listening to them right now. Let's see... I'm listening to Demolition Lovers. Great song.

Today my friends from church and I went to see Horton Hears A Who. Oh my gosh. That movie was SO funny! My friend Caitlyn and I were dying laughing. Carrie hardly laughed until the very end. Then she burst out laughing! It was hilarious, she was so loud! She said she didn't want to be kicked out so she held it till the end of the movie (she's been kicked out of a movie theater 3 times for being loud). My 2 favorite characters were Katy and JoJo. JoJo was the mayor of Whoville's only son. He never talked but he was really smart. He was the typical teenage kid who was disinterested in everything, especially in what his dad had to say. Katy (correct me if I spelled her name wrong) was one of the kids Horton hung out with. She was so weird! It was hilarious! At one point in the movie, after Horton told the kids about Whoville, all the kids picked flowers and pretended to have worlds on them. This is so funny:

Katy: "In my world every one is a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies."

Horton: "That's beautiful Katy."

Katy: "Aaah...." (scoots off into a bush on her butt)

Seriously! That's what happened! It was sooo funny!

This is Katy:

So anyway, life has been going pretty slowly. I went to see Candide at the City Opera on Friday. It was so funny! It's about a girl (Cunagonde) and a guy (Candide) who fall in love and then get separated and go through a bunch of unfortunate events, but finally get together again. It's really funny, I suggest you go see it.

Sorry, but I'm really out of ideas today. Talk to you when my brain is more awake!

Woo Hoo! MCR here I come!

My gosh! I almost forgot! The most exciting, amazing thing happened! I GOT TICKETS TO AN MCR CONCERT!!!!! You don't know how ecstatic I am! I'm going to see my favorite band in Madison Square Garden! Right where I live! The tickets went on sale 3 days before i got mine and the only seats left were the ones at the very top, "up in the heavens" as they call it. My mom said, "You won't be able to see them, you'll be so far up." and said "I DON'T CARE!!! I LOVE MCR!!!!" I feel terrible that I missed the date the tickets went on sale. My place as a true MCR fan was threatened. I can't wait! It's on May 9th. I know all the words to all the songs on their latest album, The Black Parade. I wonder if he'll be cute in person as he is in his pics. Sorry, just thinking out loud. You know, if you can somehow here me. Anyway, I can't wait and I'll give you updates on any news that comes up. See ya!